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Lockdown-weary New Yorkers ditched the distancing to get social this weekend.

A fiery Harlem homicide scene came with an extra surprise for first responders: a crazed, naked guy guarding the door, police said. The 31-year-old nude dude was blocking the path of cops and firefighters who arrived at 409 East 120th St. around 4:20 a.m. to find a man with multiple stab wounds inside apartment 9G,...

New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is demanding a federal probe of Gov. Cuomo’s handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes. Her call came after a new report showed the state quietly altered the way it publicly reports nursing home deaths from the virus. In early May the state stopped counting nursing-home patients who died from COVID...

When Richard Guasto died of complications from the coronavirus after his stay at a Long Island rehab facility last month, his grief-stricken family blamed China — and now they’re suing the country. “It’s just not fair,” said Guasto’s son, Richard Jr. “He was a relatively young man. This should not have happened to him.” The...

Eighth-graders at a pricey Upper West Side private school had their scores on a high school admission exam canceled after a top official was accused of giving some students answers, The Post has learned. Rodeph Sholom School, a nursery-to-8th grade campus that charges up to $53,000 in yearly tuition, plus synagogue fees, has also been...

Famed photographer Peter Beard is gone — but hotter than ever. Just a month after his mysterious and tragic death on Long Island, Beard’s iconic images of African wildlife and other subjects will go to the auction block. The 82-year-old photographer — who partied with Mick Jagger, palled around with Andy Warhol and discovered supermodel...

Horse and car racing will resume in New York next month — without spectators in the stands, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday. All tracks statewide — from Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, Belmont Park in Long Island to upstate’s Saratoga Raceway may reopen June 1, the governor said at his daily press briefing in Albany. “If...

A cocktail is just what the doctor -- and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy -- have ordered.

The city has finally halted payments for idle school buses — potentially saving taxpayers $600 million. “We’ve stopped paying out busing contracts,” Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza told a parent advisory committee Thursday. The city Department of Education was expected to pay nearly $200 million a month in April, May and June on bus company contracts...

State health inspectors descended on the Hebrew Home in Riverdale and tested residents for the coronavirus after The Post reported the home had many more deaths than the official state count.