A family in Westchester is outraged after they were asked to remove a banner on their home that was intended to support the Black Lives Matter movement, a report said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Homeless-related problems on the subway have more than halved since the MTA began closing the system down every night amid the coronavirus crisis, The Post has learned. MTA stats show a daily average of just 1.8 homeless “incidents” — which include delays and complaints related to vagrants — since Gov.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The death of a black man found hanging in a Manhattan park was ruled a suicide Tuesday, the city’s medical examiner said. Dominique Alexander, 27, was found hanging from a tree with a rope around his neck on Cloister Path in Fort Tryon Park around 6 a.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Broken-up legal duo Cellino & Barnes said their new and separate law firms would be open within the next few months, after The Post exclusively reported they finalized their divorce Monday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
He’s the man with no plan! New Yorkers are already pouring into the streets for drinks, eats and protests but Mayor Bill de Blasio still won’t say when New York City’s reopening will reach Phase Two — or detail other key plans for summer heat relief, business operation and transportation.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A black bear was caught on video romping through the streets of White Plains in Westchester County early Tuesday. A local TV crew first spotted the bear as it was strolling through parked cars in a parking garage near the City Center.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday refused to say whether the city would hit Phase Two next week — because he wants more information on whether the coronavirus has spread as a result of recent protests.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The US Open tennis tournament will be held this summer in Queens — without fans in the stands — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday, a step back towards normalcy amid the turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Police have collared the heartless cur who knocked an elderly woman to the ground in a random attack. “Thanks to the outstanding work of @NYPDDetectives, this suspect has been apprehended,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea tweeted Tuesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
He once likened the threat of coronavirus to seniors to “fire through dry grass,” but Gov. Andrew Cuomo still won’t say who came up with his administration’s controversial policy forcing nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients and how many of more than 6,000 resident deaths to date came as a result of it, according to a...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe NYPD released a pair of police videos from the George Floyd protests in Brooklyn where a cop pulled down a protester’s mask — as he stood with his hands in the air — and pepper-sprayed him in the face.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A New Jersey police department used federal funds to pay a barber to temporarily set up shop in its station house to give haircuts to officers amid the state’s shutdown of personal-care businesses, a report said Tuesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Five years ago, the City Council — including a young Corey Johnson — pushed the de Blasio administration to hire more cops and voted virtually unanimously to expand the Police Department by 1,300 officers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s threat to rein in the free-speech rights of the city’s police unions is little more than “bluster” and is “legally baseless,” experts on the First Amendment said Tuesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The NYPD must now publicly release body-worn camera videos in the wake of all high-profile incidents, under reforms announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday. “When people see this kind of transparency, it will build trust, there is much more to come in the weeks ahead,” de Blasio said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Members of the NYPD’s disbanded plainclothes anti-crime unit will be reassigned to uniformed patrol duties “effective immediately.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe chains were cut off of three gates at Midwood’s Kolbert Playground with an angle grinder.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe unidentified woman was riding her bike at Fifth Avenue and East 59th Street just before 9 a.m. when the BxM10 bus hit her, police said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Police Benevolent Association and Detectives' Endowment Association tweeted that three cops were intentionally poisoned at the eatery at 200 Broadway on Monday night.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe mother of Thomas Valva filed a $200 million federal lawsuit Tuesday, claiming Long Island courts, school officials, and social service agencies failed to protect the boy from his abusive ex-NYPD cop dad before the youngster froze to death in January.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A career criminal with more than 100 arrests to his name was busted for cruelly shoving a 92-year-old woman into a Manhattan fire hydrant — leaving his victim too scared to walk alone in her own neighborhood.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
"If this was a union with a white labor leader and with a mostly white membership, Speaker Corey Johnson would have called me to discuss his plan," charged Floyd, who is black.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFederal prosecutors have dropped their charges against a homeless man accused of torching an unmarked NYPD car in Brooklyn — after his defense attorney said they had the wrong guy following a “half-baked investigation.” Michael Rodriguez, 32, was freed Monday after a federal judge officials dismissed the charge against him.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
"I think we’re going to be forced to do difficult things," NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said. "We certainly get that."
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe GOP-backing husband of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Democratic primary challenger has been pumping money into a Super PAC intended to end the freshman firebrand’s congressional career at one term, campaign records reveal.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Long Island Rail Road’s TrainTime app now provides real-time information on how crowded each train car is before you board, officials announced Tuesday. “Prior to the pandemic, we were faced with record ridership, and knew we needed innovative ways to manage crowding on our trains,” LIRR president Phil Eng said at a press conference...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareALBANY — State Senate Minority Leader John Flanagan announced Tuesday he’s retiring early from the upper chamber of the Legislature, effective June 28, for a private-sector gig. “Several months ago I announced that after nearly 34 years as an elected official in the New York state Legislature that I would not be seeking re-election in...
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBernardo Ramos was busted Monday and charged with attempted rape, sex abuse, forcible touching, unlawful imprisonment and assault, authorities said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe head of the city’s coronavirus tracing program repeatedly dodged questions about why people who test positive for COVID-19 are not asked if they attended the mass demonstrations throughout the city over the death of George Floyd.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The 92-year-old woman who was shoved into a fire hydrant in a random attack on a Manhattan street last week told The Post Tuesday that the ambush has taken a psychological toll on her — and she now fears walking alone in her neighborhood.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share