Three shootings in Brooklyn and a stabbing in Queens left four people hurt in separate incidents overnight, police said. None of the bloodshed proved fatal. In the latest Brooklyn shooting, a 37-year-old man was shot in the stomach outside Gravesend Neck Road, near McDonald Avenue in Gravesend, shortly after 2:30 a.m. Saturday, authorities said. The … Read more
A Manhattan developer that Attorney General Letitia James indicted for stealing two Harlem brownstones worth $4 million is now off the hook after a state appellate panel found the embattled prosecutor lacked jurisdiction to take the case. Under the law, James wasn’t permitted to pursue deed and mortgage fraud charges against alleged conman Joseph Makhani, … Read more
A prosecutor for soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is trying to help spring from prison a murderer he helped send away a decade ago – a move critics say is only possible in the Big Apple’s woke “Bizarro World.” David Drucker wrote a letter to Gov. Hochul’s Executive Clemency Bureau seeking leniency for rapper … Read more
It was like a scene out of a real-life, and nightmarish, Popeye cartoon. A Manhattan woman on her way to jury duty was hurt in the subway when a maniac dropped a heavy, foot-tall plant on her head. The victim, 63, was entering the station at East 51st Street and Lexington Avenue in Midtown on … Read more
Mayor Adams is sticking to his promise to keep the city’s Gifted & Talented program alive, but vague entry standards and shifting rules have left some parents of soon-to-be kindergartners frustrated, The Post has found. “I’m concerned that the rules keep changing,” said Sumayya Ahmad of the Upper East Side, who hopes to enroll her … Read more
He’d already lost his community and country — so things couldn’t get much worse for the weeping Ukrainian boy crossing the border to escape the war with Russia. Until an enemy soldier spotted the child’s tears, pointed a gun at the 12-year-old’s head and threatened to shoot him if he didn’t stop crying. The terrifying … Read more
This lap dance was a gold-medal performance. A commemorative “challenge coin” was made to mark rookie NYPD officer Vera Mekuli’s infamous caught-on-video lap dance for a married lieutenant at the 44th Precinct’s 2021 holiday party. One side of the coin says “NYPD XXX-Mas Party 2021” and “Cumming home late” with an image of two women … Read more
New York stoners will soon not even have to leave their homes to get high on marijuana. State regulators unveiled new rules Friday allowing newly licensed retailers to make home deliveries of weed and THC-infused edible products — even before their shops open for business. Customers can place online/phone orders only — cash payments to … Read more
A Manhattan judge partially lifted Madison Square Garden’s ban on a law firm that’s representing a hockey fan who was sucker punched at the New York venue. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank issued a temporary order allowing the five lawyers of Greenberg Law PC to enter all MSG venues – except for the historic … Read more
The tiny white coffins of the two little Bronx brothers allegedly killed by their mother were placed side by side at their funeral Friday — a heartbreaking sight for family and friends mourning the “angels.” Sean Macnair, a neighbor, broke down sobbing as he recalled trying to resuscitate little Daishawn Fleming, 3, who was killed … Read more