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The city’s latest statistics for its daily coronavirus indicators are “a reminder of how much we have to stick to the plan,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday as hospitalizations and the number of patients in intensive care units spiked. “Today is a mixed bag,” de Blasio said of the stats, which have a two-day...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced more reopening measures Tuesday including a loosening of coronavirus restrictions with regard to hospital visitors and allowing small Memorial Day gatherings of up to 10 people as he said Albany can also start getting back to normal.

City shootings are up this year — and parolees are increasingly on both sides of the violence, The Post has learned. Nearly one in five people suspected in shootings this year was out on supervised release, while almost one out of every seven victims was also a parolee  — both increases over last year, according...

So there is one silver lining … The MTA will “be better” for going through the “experience” of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday, citing cleaner trains and efforts to get the homeless out of the subway system. At a briefing in Manhasset, Cuomo was asked whether he would direct the Long Island...

A blaze on the roof of an Upper East Side high-rise sent massive plumes of smoke billowing into the air Tuesday afternoon, according to fire officials and photos. The fire was reported just before 2 p.m. at the 21-story building on East 66th Street near Third Avenue, fire officials said. Smoke can be seen pouring...

A popular muralist who has gussied up plywood boards on a shuttered Manhattan shop plans to give the works to charity when the store reopens -- if thieves don't pick apart the work first.

Employees of fashion mogul and accused sex trafficker Peter Nygard allegedly destroyed evidence on their computers and “cleaned up” records on the same day the FBI raided his New York office and California home, his accusers charge in a new court filing. Lawyers for Nygard’s alleged victims, who have accused the 78-year-old Canadian businessman of...

Sean Stanton, 58, of the Upper West Side, was driving an orange 2003 Suzuki motorcycle north on the parkway, just past West 120th Street, around 8:30 a.m. April 19 when he struck the right rear bumper of a black Lexus sedan, according to police.

City health workers have begun delivering free methadone to opioid addicts amid the coronavirus crisis — sparking outrage from officials who called it “disgusting” and a “recipe for disaster.” The program was announced Tuesday by the city’s Health Department, which said it began with a “soft launch” last month and was expanding the initiative by...

City building inspectors are running speed trap-style operations to catch contractors violating a coronavirus ban on “non-essential” construction work — and to slap homeowners with maximum, $10,000 fines, The Post has learned. A Department of Buildings inspector spent at least 45 minutes Tuesday morning staked out at the intersection that leads to the ritzy Douglas...