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The bandit clipped the front gate and shattered the glass door of the Gabby Pets Discount Shop on Grand Concourse near East 183rd Street in Fordham Heights.

The writing was on the wall. The University of Connecticut student accused of killing two people and injuring another scrawled bizarre messages on the wall of his off-campus apartment about being “upset” and also referenced the Sandy Hook massacre. “I’m not angry… I’m upset,” read foot-tall letters scribbled over a door in accused killer Peter...

Get this guy a calendar. Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday finally unveiled his plan for reopening New York City, but it was nothing more than a vague rehash of the state’s guidelines issued weeks ago — and with no firm dates. “You can expect it to be in the first and second week of...

The white woman who called cops on a black man in Central Park during a now-viral encounter should be investigated for falsely accusing the birdwatcher of threatening her, Mayor Bill de Blasio suggested Thursday. “I think there’s a very valid question about calling the police for any false claim of a crime,” the mayor said...

Cops were called to Bronx River Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard for reports of motorcycles carelessly zipping through Soundview.

Mayor Bill de Blasio sounded less than enthusiastic about telling New Yorkers to get back on the city’s subways and buses when New York starts reopening from its coronavirus lockdown. “For the next few months people are going to make their own choices,” de Blasio said when asked how people would actually get back to...

One of the victims in the Gilgo Beach murders now has a name — 20 years after her disappearance, police said Thursday. Suffolk County police revealed that Jane Doe #6 was Valerie Mack, who went missing in 2000 when she was working as an escort in Philadelphia. Mack, who also went by Melissa Taylor, was...

The cash-strapped Port Authority paid its workers nearly $1 billion last year -- $152 million more than it paid out in 2018, according to a new report.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo recruited a pair of Brooklyn superstars Thursday to promote coronavirus testing, social distancing and the use of common-sense precautions, including wearing a mask: Rosie Perez and Chris Rock. Perez and Rock — both masked and gloved as they took the podium, taking them off to speak — joined Cuomo at his press...

A shotgun-wielding Suffolk County man took potshots at his dad and cops from inside his home while the officers and his pops talked in the driveway, police said Thursday. The gunfire erupted on just before 8 p.m. on Wednesday when officers arrived at Manor Lane house in Jamesport for a domestic incident, according to Suffolk...