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Shocking video captures the moment a woman fell from a Bronx fire escape while tussling with a man through a window — all part of a wild incident that later ended with the guy killing another person, police and sources said Monday. Cops at first said 35-year-old Erica Morel just fell from a third-floor fire...

The families of New York’s public workers who gave their lives fighting the coronavirus will receive death benefits from the state and local governments, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday. “I feel a grave responsibility to our frontline workers, our essential workers who understood the dangers of this COVID virus, but went to work anyway, because...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday sank Staten Island’s bid to begin its coronavirus reopening ahead of the other four boroughs. “I understand the Staten Island mentality. I love Staten Island and I have a lot of friends there,” said Cuomo. “But it’s not a place unto itself for this purpose.” Arguing that the borough has...

A band of hooligans stole five golf carts from a Brooklyn golf course to go on a joyride and vandalized the course, along with a fleet of other carts, causing $100,000 in damages, police and a staffer said. “It looks like a tornado hit the course,” Richard McDonough, the director of golf operations at Marine...

Memorial Day was a washout for Big Apple beaches — and it didn’t even rain. The typical massive crowds that flock to local shores never materialized over the holiday weekend, as beaches opened for the first time since the coronavirus lockdown, albeit with strict social-distancing restrictions and no-swimming rules at city-owned sites. “We had more...

A Manhattan woman says her dad died from coronavirus in a Harlem nursing home because it failed to implement basic health guidelines including not stopping loved ones from visiting the facility until the day after her father’s death, according to a new wrongful death lawsuit. Kim Williams says her dad William Oliver died March 15...

Hamza Deib’s family was forced to close its restaurants when business dropped by 90 percent during the coronavirus pandemic — but that didn’t mean they stopped serving others. Deib, 28, his brother Anas and their seven other brothers and sisters have been cooking and donating meals to the community throughout the crisis — largely out...

Several beach-banner planes at the Jersey Shore targeted Gov. Phil Murphy and his Pennsylvania counterpart apparently over their coronavirus lockdown stances during the holiday weekend. “Resist Murphy,” one banner read as it was flown about Sea Isle City, according to a tweet with a photo Saturday. Another plane banner flown over Wildwood on Sunday said,...

Video released by the NYPD Monday shows a gunman on the back of a motorcycle pull out a gun and fire several rounds at a teenager in the Bronx, striking him twice in the leg, according to police. The two men on the bike were driving past 2418 University Ave. around 10 p.m. Friday when...

Forget Trader Joe’s — long lines are snaking around the corners of Big Apple bicycle stores as transit-averse New Yorkers seek a safe way to get around during the coronavirus crisis. “The line is constant,” said Larry Duffus of Larry’s Freewheeling bike shop in Harlem as 10 people waited outside Monday. “For the past two...