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Unmarked NYPD minivan hits and kills woman lying on NYC street
The plainclothes officers were driving the undercover Toyota minivan northbound on Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York when they struck the unidentified woman at 6:10 p.m., sources said.
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Florida suspect arrested for allegedly planning to bomb NYSE: ‘I feel like Bin Laden’
A Florida suspect was arrested for allegedly planning to bomb the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) this week, according to disturbing court documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
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Disgraced NYC urologist Darius Paduch sentenced to life in prison for ‘perverse and pervasive’ sexual abuse of male patients — including minors
"He used his position as a renowned urologist at prestigious hospitals to sexually assault vulnerable patients, including children, to gratify his own sexual desires."
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NY coalition proposes first-in-the-nation cap on hospital clinic bills
A broad coalition is backing state legislation that would impose a first-in-the-nation cap on medical bills -- aimed at New York's hospitals that own or house outpatient clinics and charge higher rates than doctors who practices independently.
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NY’s $7.7B in handouts for film industry come under scrutiny
Empire State Development CEO Hope Knight defended state incentives like the Film Production Tax Credit even after a damning independent analysis found the nearly $700 million yearly expense to the state only returns about 31 cents on the dollar.
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New NYPD boss Jessica Tisch willing to shake up ‘status quo,’ put ‘substance’ over ‘palace intrigue’
New Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, during a Post interview, stressed that she's all about "substance" -- not "palace intrigue" -- and is willing to upend the "the status quo" to make sure all New Yorkers feel safe.
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Union head repping 300K NYC workers urges Trump to overrule Hochul and kill congestion pricing: ‘Stop it!’
Upset with Gov. Kathy Hochul, Harry Nespoli, the head of the umbrella group representing 300,000 New York City's municipal workers is urging Republican President-elect Donald to kill the reviled $9 congestion toll to enter Manhattan.
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NYC public school students can forget about snow days again this year with remote learning plan
Big Apple students won’t be given the gift of a day off if wild weather hits the city this winter, the new schools chancellor confirmed on Tuesday night.
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Lifetime parolee who shot NYC cop was cut loose by judge despite DA’s pleas, multiple arrests
Three months before he was shot dead by a wounded cop, Gary Worthy was cut loose by a Queens judge despite prosecutors asking that the career criminal be jailed.
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Rudy Giuliani still defaming election workers even after he was ordered to pay $148M judgment: lawyers
Former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani can’t stop defaming two Georgia election workers he already owes a whopping $148 million, their legal team claims in a letter to a federal judge. Attorneys for the election workers who sued Giuliani are now asking that the embattled former mayor of New York City be held in contempt...
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NYC pol wants to ban disposable vapes in latest e-cig crackdown in bid to wipe out underage usage
Council member Julie Menin (D-Manhattan) is introducing a bill Thursday that will make selling all disposable e-cigarettes to adults and minors illegal in the city, The Post can exclusively reveal.
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Sprinting screwball slashes NYC tourist in latest random violence plaguing Big Apple: sources
A deranged nutjob slashed a Danish tourist in the face in an apparently random attack on the Upper West Side Wednesday morning, according to sources. The screwball was caught on camera dashing after the 55-year-old victim on West 86th Street off Columbus Avenue around 10:40 a.m., before he came up from behind and slashed the...
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Drinking in turn-style: Check out these underground bars located in the city subway
There's no MetroCard necessary to visit these subterranean watering holes.
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NYC fire tears into historic 12-story building in Soho: FDNY
Thick plumes of smoke were spotted bursting out of the roof of a historic 12-story building in Soho early Wednesday afternoon.
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Adams names sanitation boss Jessica Tisch permanent NYPD commissioner
Tisch, the city’s sanitation commissioner and an NYPD veteran, will start her new job Monday, the mayor said.
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Hero cop who gunned down violent career criminal after getting shot wheeled out of NYC hospital to rousing applause
The hero cop who gunned down a violent career criminal despite being wounded in a wild Tuesday night shootout was wheeled out of Jamaica Hospital to a rousing applause from more than 200 of New York’s Finest. NYPD Officer Rich Wong, a seven-year veteran of the force, took a bullet in the thigh from ex-con...
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NYPD classes canned over migrant crisis budget cuts to be reinstated — adding 1.6K cops by next fall
Mayor Eric Adams will reinstate the next two NYPD classes — adding 1,600 cops to the ranks by next fall — after they were axed by painful budget cuts to cover the migrant crisis, The Post has learned. The long-awaited infusion of rookie cops to the nation’s largest police force will add officers to its...
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Venezuelan migrant with links to Tren de Aragua arrested in robbery of Manhattan prosecutor after she caught him masturbating in her home
A Venezuelan migrant with links to Tren de Aragua has been arrested for allegedly robbing one of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecutors in her apartment after she busted him masturbating, police sources told The Post Wednesday.
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Mom and baby killed in Connecticut drive-by shooting: ‘Horrible, absolutely horrible’
Jessica Mercado and her baby Messiah Diaz, both of Springfield, Mass., died from their injuries.
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Ct. mom left 4 young kids home alone with moldy food and human feces on floors: arrest warrant
“I had difficulty standing in the bedroom for longer than a few seconds because of this smell,” the office reportedly wrote.
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Feds can’t use Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ jailhouse notebook that allegedly included writings about finding ‘dirt’ on 2 accusers: judge
One of Combs’ lawyers called the feds' conduct “outrageous” and claimed their actions violated attorney-client privilege during the hearing.
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Homeless ‘lunatic’ shoves New Yorker, 76, after threatening others with ice pick: cops
“All of a sudden I hear this screaming, and he pushes me, and I fell right down on the road,” he recalled. I've got bruises on my knees and my elbows.”
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Defense shows Daniel Penny saw the humanity in everyone on the F train — not just Jordan Neely
This week, Daniel Penny was finally portrayed in court as a peaceful, compassionate man hardwired to intervene on behalf of strangers in peril.
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Queens neighbors beg NYC to shut down suspected brothel operating across from science museum
Angry residents in Corona, Queens are demanding that authorities padlock a brothel brazenly operating on a block across from the New York Hall of Science museum, a major tourist destination for families.
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Adams pushes Albany for action on taking troubled homeless off streets involuntarily after deadly Manhattan stabbing spree
“Everybody said I was inhumane, that we just want to institutionalize people,” Adams said. “Well, this is the result. This is the result of not taking actions and ignoring people who need help."
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NYPD cop shot, robbery suspect dead after exchanging gunfire in NYC: sources
A NYPD officer was shot and wounded and a robbery suspect was killed in an exchange of gunfire at a Queens shopping mall Tuesday night, according to police sources.
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NYC’s shiny new trains sidelined just one month after their debut — and it’s not clear when they’ll be back
The Metropolitan Transit Authority sidelined Staten Island’s newest train cars just one month after their debut — and it’s not clear when exactly they’ll be back on the tracks. Five shiny, new blue-and-silver R211 cars are sitting in the yard of the MTA’s Clifton Maitenance shop because of an issue with signal systems that was...
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Mad stabber’s victims — construction worker, fisherman, mother — mourned after random NYC rampage
The three innocent New Yorkers slaughtered by a knife-wielding madman while going about their daily lives were remembered Tuesday as a a kindly construction worker, an avid fisherman and the mother of an 8-year-old boy. The shocking Manhattan stabbing spree allegedly carried out by Ramon Rivera, 51, in broad-daylight Monday left people who knew the...
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Mayor Adams praises Hochul on congestion pricing, insists NYC safe from Trump blowback
Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday hailed Gov. Kathy Hochul for resurrecting the city’s hated congestion pricing plan — and insisted the Big Apple is safe from potential blowback by President-elect Donald Trump.
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NY judge tosses suit accusing NYPD’s top uniformed cop of sexual predatory behavior
Judge Nicholas Moyne dismissed the case brought by former NYPD cop Tabatha Foster against Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, which accused the chief of forcing her into an abusive yearslong affair.
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