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A Manhattan tenant accused of annoying neighbors by chain-smoking in her apartment during the coronavirus lockdown can continue to light up for now, a judge ruled Thursday. The owners of the Yorkville apartment building filed suit last month, asking a judge to intervene in a dispute between tenants Deborah Schevill — who allegedly smokes around...

This sure wasn’t snail mail. A Bronx resident received a scaly surprise shipment Friday — an 8-foot python, police said. “A #Bronx resident left his house this morning to find this unexpected ssssssneaky visitor by his mailbox. #ESU was quick to respond and Detective Otero took control of the 8 foot python,” the tweet read....

A New Jersey official reached a $1 million settlement with the state and Gov. Phil Murphy’s campaign over claims that her rape allegations against another campaign staffer were mishandled, according to a report. Katie Brennan’s January 2019 lawsuit claimed that her assault allegations against Murphy’s campaign advisor Albert Alvarez, which she made volunteering on the...

Coronavirus has taken 24 percent off the MTA’s ovetime tab — except at agency headquarters, where OT spending is $4.4 million over budget. The $18 billion-per-year agency has paid $333 million worth of overtime through April of this year, compared to $437 million over the same period in 2019, according to newly-released agency documents. In...

ALBANY — The state’s top coronavirus test lab is so overwhelmed by the mandated coronavirus testing in nursing homes that they’ve told counties to stop sending them shipments, The Post has learned. Officials at the embattled state Health Department’s Wadsworth Center in Albany notified multiple county health officers they have reached capacity and are struggling...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced that the state’s state-at-home order, which had been set to expire Friday, is being extended until June 13.

A father who told police that muggers stabbed his 6-year-old daughter on a Lower East Side street is now accused of making up the story — and of turning the knife on her himself, police sources told The Post. The dad, Jia Pan, 55, has been charged with attempted manslaughter, reckless endangerment, assault and endangering...

A teen was shot dead in revenge slaying for his alleged role in the beatdown of a 15-year-old girl to steal her Air Jordans, Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said Thursday. The 16-year-old Tyquan Howard was shot in the stomach around 1 p.m. Tuesday outside a building on St. Johns Place near Rochester Avenue in Crown...

A Long Island man’s home security system captured the bangs of gunfire as an NYPD officer gunned down his “best friend” near his house on Tuesday, the man told The Post. The first bang is heard on the recording at about 8:06 p.m., right around the time investigators believe 26-year-old rookie cop Errick Allen opened...

Bipartisan calls for probes of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s widely-criticized policies towards nursing homes amid the coronavirus are “gratuitous politics,” Cuomo said Thursday, while clearing a fifth New York region to slowly reopen. “I would like to say that we are enlightened enough, where this is going to be a period where we don’t play gratuitous...