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A Brooklyn man is suing a borough nursing home for giving his dad a fatal case of coronavirus. Marc Dupervil claims that his already ailing father Frederic Dupervil contracted COVID-19 and died April 1 from it because of Linden Center For Nursing and Rehabilitation’s “failure to take measures to protect” his dad from the coronavirus,...

An ex-NYPD detective says he was fired on trumped-up public masturbation charges just weeks before his scheduled retirement, according to a new federal lawsuit. Robert Francis, 49, a Jamaican immigrant and US Army veteran, said his termination followed years of discrimination and harassment within the ranks of the department, starting with his transfer to the...

State Sen. Brian Benjamin (D-Manhattan) introduced a bill Tuesday that would add falsely reporting an incident to hate crime-eligible offenses. The list of eligible crimes currently ranges from murder to assault to criminal mischief, among others.

An Albany prisoner allegedly ran an extensive prostitution ring from his jail cell with help from a female accomplice, federal authorities said. The alleged pimp, Christopher Thomas of Colonie, worked with the 22-year-old to recruit women from neighboring states under the premise that they’d make $1,000 a night having sex for money, according to court...

Maura Regan is an acute care occupational therapist at NYU Langone’s Rusk Rehabilitation who went from having a full caseload of neurological patients to treating COVID-19 recoverees when the pandemic hit.

You don’t need a college degree to smell a bait-and-switch. Students at SUNY’s Stony Brook University applied for what they thought were paid positions with the state Health Department as coronavirus contact tracers — only to be told after the fact that the gigs are uncompensated. “The New York State Department of Health is hiring...

They packed the afternoon with virtual Zoom hearings and sparsely attended committee meetings in the Capitol building, under the state’s 10-person gathering limitations.

A Brooklyn man accused of attacking a woman so viciously that he left her in a vegetative state had been charged in two prior assaults this year — but was twice freed without bail, The Post has learned. Frankie Harris, 38, allegedly put a 64-year-old woman in a chokehold for three minutes, pulled her to...

Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday NYC remains on pace to begin its coronavirus comeback within weeks if not days, but kept tight-lipped on details, to the frustration of both business owners and elected officials.

This would-be thief messed with the wrong bodega. A Brooklyn convenience store clerk fatally shot a knife-wielding robber in East New York, cops said Tuesday. The botched robbery unfolded just after 11 p.m. Monday when 25-year-old Edwin Candelario walked into the Rose Family Grocery Store on Glenmore Avenue and pulled a knife, according to cops....