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New York is getting lapped on restaurant reopenings by a city that can’t even do pizza right. Chicago has released a 13-page list of guidelines for how its eateries can safely resume on-premises service amid the coronavirus pandemic, while Big Apple Mayor Bill de Blasio remains short on answers. The Windy City issued the pointers...

A slew of businesses that have reopened in Brooklyn’s Borough Park — some in apparent violation of shutdown orders — are allowing customers to pack their stores as if the coronavirus pandemic never happened, The Post has learned. Some of the stores have attempted to mask their operations by covering their windows with butcher paper,...

A Queens crook threw a 61-year-old woman to the ground and took off with her purse, disturbing new video shows. Surveillance footage released by cops early Wednesday shows the suspect approaching the victim from behind around 7:25 a.m. May 19 on 97th Avenue near Brisbin Street in Jamaica, grabbing hold of her purse — and...

A homeless man was busted for swiping $11,000 worth of personal items from the Brooklyn hotel room of a Texas doctor in town to help with the battle against the coronavirus, police said. Ronaldo Lewis, 29, was busted at 7 p.m. Tuesday after a tipster recognized him from photos in the media. He was charged...

More than 100 million pixels will be darkened at 9 p.m. at 46th Street and Broadway and the corner of 47th Street and Seventh Avenue to send a message that more federal support is needed.

Viral video shows Christian Cooper — the black man falsely accused of “threatening” a white dog-walker for simply asking her to leash her pup in Central Park — geeking out over his obsession for birds, especially rare ones. In the 17-second clip, which garnered more than 7 million views on Twitter as of Wednesday morning,...

Maybe he hit snooze. The city’s hospitals chief was caught on live video rushing to put a shirt on Wednesday — 20 minutes after the mayor’s daily press briefing was scheduled to begin — in the latest apparent flub for the de Blasio administration, which has come under fire for being unprepared to reopen the...

A pervert grabbed a 9-year-old girl’s buttocks in Central Park and then tried to pick her up — but she was able to get away, police and sources said Wednesday. The man, depicted in a sketch released by cops, approached the girl and grabbed her backside over her clothes around 3 p.m. Monday at East...

He’s London’s “Train Daddy” now. Andy Byford, the popular former boss of New York City’s subways and buses, will take the helm of London’s transit agency, the city’s Mayor Sadik Khan announced Wednesday. “I look forward to working with Andy as we build a greener city with clean and environmentally-friendly travel, including walking and cycling,...

Mayor Bill de Blasio talked at length Wednesday in response to a question about his plan to reopen the city's restaurants and bars.