New York City, New York | featured news

The NYPD shut down an Orthodox school in Brooklyn on Monday for violating city and state social distancing restrictions. Police said there were about 60 people inside Nitra Yeshiva at 841 Madison Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant when cops showed up before noon and started to clear the building. “All they did was go to the school...

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday raised the possibility of remote learning continuing into the fall instead of reopening the city’s public schools from their coronavirus-induced closures. “Plan A is, unquestionably, open the schools as normal because that’s what’s in the interest of our kids and our families,” de Blasio said during his daily coronavirus...

It will take New York City at least four years to recover from the coronavirus’s economic devastation with employment expected to return to pre-pandemic levels by 2024, according to a blunt new analysis by the city’s Independent Budget Office. The IBO projects that the Big Apple will continue to shed jobs through 2021 — though...

Shootings in the Big Apple almost quadrupled last week — with victims of the recent bloodshed accounting for nearly 12 percent of the total number of people shot so far this year, data shows. In total, 37 people were hit by gunfire in 31 separate shootings between May 11 and Sunday, compared to 10 victims...

A Bronx nursing home has dramatically raised the death count of its residents from the coronavirus — after The Post reported allegations that it had substantially low-balled the tally to the state. Staffers at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale have been crying foul because according to state records even as of Sunday, the facility has...

Migratory birds are flying thousands of miles to the Big Apple — only to smack into a glassy Upper West Side condo and fall dead, according to bird advocates who tallied 28 fatalities in a single day thanks to the Central Park-adjacent building. Upper West Side luxury condo Circa Central Park and its see-through facade...

Caruso-Cabrera, the former CNBC anchor running to unseat AOC in the 14th congressional district Democratic primary, laid out her policy positions in her 2010 book, “You Know I’m Right. More Prosperity, Less Government.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio has not seen ESPN’s popular docuseries “The Last Dance,” but he has been binging Showtime’s “Billions” with wife First Lady Chirlane McCray amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I have not seen that series,” de Blasio said during his daily coronavirus press briefing when asked if he watched the finale of the ESPN...

The coronavirus test that Gov. Andrew Cuomo took during a live press briefing has come back negative, he announced Monday.

You can kick someone else’s balls, you just can’t touch them, says Nassau County’s top public official. County Executive Laura Curran — standing in front of a couple tennis players on a court while talking about how to stay safe enjoying the sport amid the coronavirus — dished out the sage advice during a hilarious...