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Charter schools want NYC to share its ‘Do-Not Hire’ list of pervy teachers
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A charter-school advocate wants to close a loophole that allows predatory teachers fired by the city Department of Education to land classroom jobs in charter and private schools.
Photog injured in scuffle with ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcaster Alex Cooper’s entourage: suit
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A self-described "fervent fan and admirer of" Cooper, shutterbug Olivia Wolf is now suing over a back injury she says she suffered in the incident.
Sloth’s visit to NYC tattoo parlor Haven Studio sparks city fine, denials from business
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The Dec. 8 visit at tattoo parlor Haven Studio brought the business a $500 penalty, while wildlife exhibitor Larry Wallach was issued a summons.
Ex-NYC prosecutor teaching at Catholic school charged with raping 13-year-old girl
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The alleged abuse took place “on multiple occasions” between April 18, 2022 and April 7, 2023, when the victim was in 7th and 8th grade, the complaint states.
Hurricane horror show: Record 13 ‘canes, 25 tropical storms predicted for 2024
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NOAA warned that there could be between four and seven majors hurricanes with powerful winds exceeding 111 miles per hour that could damage homes.
Homeless creep who punched Steve Buscemi also assaulted NYU student headed to final exam
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“I was drinking iced coffee and he just walked up to me and was like, ‘What’s up?’ and then punched me in the face,” recalled the victim.
NYC prep school’s antisemitism report admits faculty blamed ‘wealthy, influential Jewish parents’ for tension
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“People have lost confidence, there is no morality clarity, there is a pervasive anger and it is all driven by an erosion of trust,” one frustrated Jewish Collegiate parent told The Post.
Basement tapes: VHS making return as Gen Xers turn cellars into mom-and-pop video stores
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A pair of VHS aficionados have transformed their basements into their own private mom-and-pop video rental shops -- with thousands of tapes, neon lights and more.
NYC lawmakers hopes to create interagency squatter task force: ‘Homeowners living in fear’
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City Council members hope to crack down on squatters in New York City by creating a multi-agency task force to more quickly boot illegal occupants.
50 shades of gray hair: Baby boomers use BDSM to spice up bedroom
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Baby boomers are experimenting with "Fifty Shades of Grey" — and not just their hair color.
Late Sandals Resorts founder’s son allegedly waiting for dad’s beneficiaries to ‘die’ to avoid paying them: source
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Adam Stewart is allegedly delaying payouts of between $2.5M to $20M each to the remaining beneficiaries, as he is "waiting for the [seven others] to die," a source said.
Tax woes plague NYPD liaisons in highly-touted foreign posts
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The NYPD has been forced to close several of its highly-touted foreign outposts -- launched after Sept. 11 as a bulwark against terrorism -- because of tax troubles, The Post has learned.
Fatphobia: 360-pound NYC waiter sues Paramount after being shunned from ‘Mean Girls’ party
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Joseph Sacchi, a classically trained tenor who stands 6-foot-2 and weighs 360-pounds, says the Jan. 8 reception would have netted him a $770 tip.
High-profile TV shrink wife secretly bugged $4M Greenwich mansion to spy on ex’s calls before ugly divorce: lawsuit
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Marital mind games in a Greenwich, Conn., divorce have sparked business intrigue in the Big Apple.
Whistleblowing ex-NYPD sergeant jailed for 6 months on minor assault charge being housed next to a cop killer
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He was once a NYPD whistleblower cop — and is now a Rikers inmate.
Woke $63K-a-year NYC school that boasts about its commitment to DEI targeted by hateful anti-Israel graffiti
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An upscale NYC private school was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti in at least the fifth eyebrow-raising incident around race or religion to hit the campus in the last decade.
Assistant beheaded tech CEO so French girlfriend wouldn’t leave him, lawyers claim
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A tech CEO’s personal assistant claims he beheaded his boss in a crime of passion, his attorney argued Friday.
Five-year-old boy born without left hand ‘glowing’ after recieving ‘Iron Man’ bionic arm
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Jordan Marotta of Dix Hills, L.I., achieved superhero status this week.
Violent homeless man on parole for assault nabbed for punching woman, 72, in random NYC attack: cops
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Mouhamed Diallo, 29, slugged his 72-year-old victim in the back of her skull as she walked at the corner of Fourth Avenue and 96th Street in Bay Ridge around 4:50 p.m. Sunday, May 5, authorities said.
City Hall slightly lowers lifeguard standards as summer staffing shortage looms
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Lifeguards who have failed to finish the 300-yard timed swim — one of the final and most grueling requirements — will now be able to man the stands at the city's shallow-water pools.
Life’s a beach riding to The Hamptons on Blade’s new $200-a-seat luxury bus
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A swanky new bus service from the company that brought Big Apple elites $1,000 helicopter trips to the Hamptons kicked off its first weekend of rides Friday — with passengers including a reality TV star, a CEO and a nightlife promoter.
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul calls Trump supporters ‘clowns’ in ‘basket of deplorables’ moment
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Hochul’s comments immediately drew a wave of criticism, with some comparisons to Hillary Clinton’s infamous 2016 comment calling MAGA faithful a “basket of deplorables.”
Memorial Day Weekend forecast: New York to swap sunshine for showers
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It'll be a mixed bag for New Yorkers this Memorial Day Weekend.
East Hampton dishes latest blow to Zero Bond, Mayor Adams’ favorite club, in war over outpost plans
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The village of East Hampton passed a new law that critics say is designed to keep the club Zero Bond — a star-studded favorite of Mayor Eric Adams — from opening in the sleepy upscale community.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul calls Trump supporters ‘clowns’ in her own ‘basket of deplorables’ moment
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The comments reminded some of Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's infamous "basket of deplorables" comments from a New York fundraiser in 2016.
2 dead, 1 injured, in early morning Bronx shooting
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No arrests have been made while police investigate a motive for the deadly shooting.
NYC families on 3-K waitlist fuming at lack of clarity from the city
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Thousands of Big Apple families have been waitlisted for the city's free 3-K program -- and many are fuming at what they say is a lack of clarity about the future of their toddlers' education.
Bryan Kohberger’s lawyers call surprise witness in attempt to poke holes in evidence that he was at grisly University of Idaho murder scene
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Public defender Anne Taylor grilled the witness about about cell tower data he had gathered as part of the investigation into the November 2022 murders.