By Priscilla DeGregory on Apr 20, 2021 09:01 pm
The owners of an Upper West Side apartment where an elderly man's dead body was decomposing for two weeks say police won’t let cleaners in to fumigate the pad — so now they’re suing to clear the air. The owners of the West 72nd Street unit filed the suit against the NYPD in Manhattan Supreme...
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By Joe Marino, Steven Vago, Tamar Lapin on Apr 20, 2021 08:53 pm
New Yorkers gathered and marched across the city in droves on Tuesday evening to celebrate the conviction of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd. Cheers and car honking erupted around the Big Apple — from Harlem to Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn — as the guilty verdict came down. “I was...
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By Bernadette Hogan on Apr 20, 2021 08:43 pm
The top Democrat in the state Senate, Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, said Tuesday she will not make a run for governor in 2022 against a scandal-scarred Gov. Andrew Cuomo. "No, I’m not planning a run for governor," Stewart-Cousins (D-Westchester) told reporters when asked during a remote press conference from her Albany office. Stewart-Cousins numbers one...
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By Kevin Sheehan, Craig McCarthy on Apr 20, 2021 08:38 pm
An Asian NYPD detective is suing a man who was allegedly captured on camera spewing racist slurs at the 16-year veteran. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court Tuesday, says Terrell Harper harassed him repeatedly during a demonstration on March 11, calling the cop a “goddamn cat eater” and asking if “he can see right?”...
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By Georgett Roberts, David Meyer on Apr 20, 2021 07:27 pm
A veteran MTA cleaner was hailed as a “hero” after alerting cops to an out-of-state straphanger with a gun while she cleaned a Lower Manhattan train platform. Ivette Leonetti, 54, of Brooklyn, was mopping the platform at World Trade Center/Cortlandt Street station on Monday when she noticed the man sitting on the platform bench had...
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By Gabrielle Fonrouge on Apr 20, 2021 07:08 pm
The lawyer representing a teenager who was raped by a classmate at New Rochelle High School blasted the school for attempting to blame the student for the sexual assault. Attorney Andrew Buzin said Tuesday it was "incomprehensible" that a school would try to cast blame on a girl for being violently attacked even after the...
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By Nolan Hicks, Bernadette Hogan, Carl Campanile on Apr 20, 2021 07:08 pm
New York elected officials greeted the trio of guilty verdicts against former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin with relief Tuesday — while the Big Apple braced itself for waves of possible protest following the trial's end. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray — the first mixed-race family to occupy...
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By Rebecca Rosenberg on Apr 20, 2021 05:11 pm
An alleged rioter from Brooklyn surrendered to the FBI Tuesday morning after telling investigators he breached the US Capitol because he wanted to be “where the action was,” court papers allege. A tipster identified Dovid Schwartzberg in photos and video wearing a red “Make America Great Again” cap and black face mask tucked under his...
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By David Meyer on Apr 20, 2021 05:05 pm
The MTA borrowed $2.9 billion to cover operating expenses during COVID-19 — and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says that added debt could force officials to shrink or delay their $54.8 billion plan to maintain, upgrade and expand the transit system. “The MTA's mounting debts and devastated revenue make it unlikely that it can afford all...
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By Craig McCarthy, Nolan Hicks on Apr 20, 2021 04:51 pm
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to curb the surging gun violence in NYC is to try out the failed policing strategy from last year — but this time, with 100 fewer cops. The NYPD will reassign 200 cops to areas where the Big Apple has seen the highest rates of gun violence as part of...
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By Larry Celona, Tamar Lapin on Apr 20, 2021 04:44 pm
The NYPD on Tuesday braced for a wave of protests that were planned across the Big Apple before the verdict was reached in the Derek Chauvin murder trial. Several demonstrations were already set for Tuesday evening in New York regardless of the verdict, including gatherings at Barclays Center and Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn and a march in...
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By Selim Algar on Apr 20, 2021 04:38 pm
NYU will join Columbia University in requiring students to get COVID-19 vaccines before next fall, officials said. “[New York University] intends to require vaccinations for all NYU students returning to campus in New York City and other U.S. sites for the fall semester, while accommodating medical and religious exemptions,” the school announced in an email....
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By Tamar Lapin on Apr 20, 2021 04:17 pm
Say it ain’t snow! Parts of New York could be socked with up to half a foot of snow overnight into Wednesday morning, officials said Tuesday as the Big Apple basked in summer-like weather. The National Weather Service on Tuesday issued a hazardous weather outlook for large swaths of central and western New York ahead of...
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By Larry Celona, Nolan Hicks, Kevin Sheehan, Bruce Golding on Apr 20, 2021 04:08 pm
Mayor Bill de Blasio finally realized that defunding the police didn’t work out as he hoped — and has now ordered the NYPD to make Midtown Manhattan safe again so workers will come back after more than a year of pandemic lockdowns. At least 80 uniformed officers and supervisors are expected to flood the area...
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By Rebecca Rosenberg on Apr 20, 2021 03:42 pm
A Jersey Shore bookmaker admitted Tuesday to operating his own illegal lottery that netted him about $250,000, officials said. Edward O’Neill, 54, appeared in US District Court in Newark, where he pleaded guilty to managing an illegal gambling business and failing to report the earnings on his taxes, according to prosecutors. As many as 8,000...
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By Kevin Sheehan, Lorena Mongelli, Reuven Fenton, Kate Sheehy on Apr 20, 2021 03:38 pm
The suspect in the deadly shooting at a Long Island Stop & Shop was nabbed Tuesday afternoon — hiding out in a building about 2 miles from the murder scene, authorities said. Disgruntled grocery-cart worker Gabriel deWitt Wilson, 31, evaded cops for about four hours before being caught as he tried to flee the building...
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By Gabrielle Fonrouge on Apr 20, 2021 02:56 pm
The distraught mom of the Long Island Stop & Shop shooting suspect cried to The Post on Tuesday when asked about her alleged killer son. "That's my baby!'' said Wanda Wilson, 53, sobbing. Wilson's son, Gabriel deWitt Wilson, 31, is wanted in connection with a late-morning shooting that left a 49-year-old worker dead and two...
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By Reuven Fenton, Sam Raskin, Natalie Musumeci on Apr 20, 2021 02:43 pm
It’s reefer madness in Manhattan! Hundreds of weed-lovers turned out to Union Square Park on Tuesday to score free joints at an event offering the newly legal drug to New Yorkers who've received the COVID-19 vaccine. Any adult aged 21 and over was able to snag a pre-rolled doobie at the 4/20 "Joints for Jabs" event — as long...
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By Craig McCarthy, David Meyer on Apr 20, 2021 02:16 pm
A viral video shows police in Perth Amboy, New Jersey telling a group of teens they need a license to ride a bike in the town -- before confiscating their bicycles and arresting a member of the group.
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By Amanda Woods, Tina Moore on Apr 20, 2021 01:52 pm
A pair of thieves were caught on surveillance video pulling a gun on a Manhattan parking garage employee — and then driving off in a BMW and Mercedes, police said. The two men entered the garage on West 181st Street near Audubon Avenue in Washington Heights around 8 a.m. Sunday — one of them shown...
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