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An NYPD officer slammed a man head-first into the sidewalk outside an Upper East Side Mexican restaurant — as onlookers waited in line flouting social distancing guidelines, a new video shows. The half-minute clip, which was posted to Twitter, is the latest violent confrontation with cops over lockdown rules and happened Saturday night as quarantine-fatigued...

A fire tore through a store in Harlem Sunday night, hours after a blaze took the life of a 57-year-old man in Queens, authorities said. The Harlem inferno erupted at 7:35 p.m. in a two-story building on West 125th Street near Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard occupied by Lazarus, a children’s clothing store, officials said....

New Yorkers of the Jewish faith may be able to celebrate the major holiday of Shavuot in synagogue — albeit in a limited capacity with social distancing — during coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. The governor said he will likely issue guidance Monday or Tuesday on ceremonies for Memorial Day and Shavuot. Cuomo...

Sen. Chuck Schumer wants the feds to take the gloves off and knock out scammers peddling phony coronavirus cures. With bogus remedies like music therapy, high-dose vitamin C injections, and Chinese herb concoctions infecting the market, Schumer said it’s time for the Federal Trade Commission to take a hard line and slam the scammers with...

Mayor Bill de Blasio went on the defensive Sunday when grilled about the nearly 200 percent spike in city shootings last week. Hammered about the alarming new NYPD statistic — exclusively revealed by The Post on Saturday — de Blasio fired back to Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that “crime has been going down overall...

A brute was arrested after he bashed his girlfriend in the head with a piece of wood that had nails sticking out of it, sending her to the hospital in critical condition, police and police sources said Sunday. James Fitzgerald, 53, was busted on an attempted murder charge around 6 p.m. Saturday just moments after...

US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to raise taxes on the rich — just not pay her own. The Democratic socialist congresswoman from The Bronx still hasn’t paid a 7-year-old tax bill leftover from a failed business venture. AOC had founded Brook Avenue Press, a publishing house that sought designers, artists and writers from urban areas...

A xenophobic straphanger hurled anti-Chinese vitriol at an Asian woman on a subway in Manhattan, but the victim managed to snap video of her attacker, cops said Sunday. “You f—–g Chinese don’t speak English,” the hate-fueled woman hissed at the 36-year-old victim on a southbound F train at the Delancey Street station around 7:45 a.m....

Another two of the Empire State’s economic regions are on the verge of reopening, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday, as an additional 139 New Yorkers succumbed to the coronavirus. Western New York and the Capital Region have fulfilled six of the seven criteria — measuring hospitalizations, death rates, available beds, testing and tracing — to...

Ron Jeremy’s wood can’t stay erect, the city Parks Department told The Post on Sunday. The porn actor, who’s nearly 70, had been fighting to save a tree outside his former childhood home in Bayside, Queens — tweeting out a plea for help Saturday. “This tree was planted by my dad the day I was...