Road-rage incident leads off-duty cop to fatally shoot man

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Road-rage incident leads off-duty cop to fatally shoot man
An off-duty cop shot and killed a 37-year-old man early Monday after a road-rage incident in Brooklyn, law-enforcement sources told The Post. The cop, a three-year veteran assigned to the 79th Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant, was driving at about 12:15 a.m. when he got into a beef with the other motorist in Cypress Hills, the sources…

Sanders delegates shocked they need cash for DNC trip
Some of Bernie Sanders’ 1,831 New York delegates can’t scrape up enough cash to attend this month’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia — so they’ve turned to crowd-funding Web sites to raise the cash. “The cost definitely was a surprise,” said Jessica Frisco, 23, a delegate from the Upper West Side. “People are freaking out.”…

Cuomo closely tied to operative indicted for bribery: report
Gov. Cuomo has been far closer for far longer to now-indicted Buffalo-area Democratic power broker Steve Pigeon than the governor himself admits — or that many in his administration realize — sources tell The Post. Cuomo was so close to Pigeon — charged last week with nine felonies in connection with the alleged bribing of…

Cuomo pal ran payoff scheme at elderly mom’s home: source
ALBANY — Like a scene from “The Sopranos,” a political operative busted by the state Attorney General’s Office held secret meetings at his elderly mother’s house and had a campaign worker paid with grocery bags stuffed with cash, a former upstate prosecutor told The Post. Steve Pigeon — a Buffalo-area Democrat — had a waterfront…

Cops look for stairwell perv who assaulted 6-year-old girl
Police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a 6-year-old girl in the stairwell of a Lower East Side apartment Saturday night. He walked through the apartment building on Henry Street around 8 p.m. and approached the young girl in the first floor stairwell, exposing his penis to her before rubbing it in her…

NYPD corruption scandal cops will keep pensions
At least eight cops linked to the ongoing NYPD corruption scandal will get to keep their lucrative pensions, thanks to a little-known law signed by Gov. Cuomo four years ago. Under that law, cops with more than 20 years of service who file for retirement are guaranteed their pensions, as well as about $12,000 more…

Motorcyclist dies after taxi crash
A motorcyclist died Sunday morning after crashing into a taxi while driving north on Buffalo Ave. near E. New York Ave. at around 1:22 a.m. cops said. The driver, a 52-year-old male, was driving a 2000 Kawasaki motorcycle “at an apparent high rate of speed,” police said, and had trouble turning a curve in the…

Rikers Island guards to receive shotgun training
The city’s Department of Correction was supposed to be kindler and gentler under Mayor de Blasio, but its Emergency Services Unit is now using pellet-firing shotguns on Rikers Island as part of a new training program, The Post has learned. The Kel-Tec shotguns — which can also fire regular ammo — are a stark departure from…

‘I can’t believe it’: Couple found dead in apparent murder-suicide
A man and a woman were found dead in their Brooklyn home Sunday evening in an apparent murder-suicide, police said. Officers arrived at the Bushwick apartment at around 5 p.m and found Elizabeth Thompkins, 23, with gunshot wounds to her head. Her boyfriend and the suspected shooter, Christopher Pickering, 37, was found with a single…

Broker charged with DWI after car flips off road into golf course
A drunken real-estate agent lost control of his sports car and crashed into the tony Maidstone Club golf course in East Hampton — landing the car in a crumpled heap near the eighth hole, police said Sunday. Kyle Rosko, 33, a Bridgehampton-based broker for Douglas Elliman, was speeding eastbound in his classic Mercedes-Benz coupe near…

Rain expected to hold off in NYC — until the fireworks start
The Fourth of July weekend will bring plenty of fun in the sun — but watching fireworks might be a different story. There’s a slight chance of light showers in the five boroughs Monday evening, just as the annual Macy’s fireworks display kicks off along the East River. “When we head into the fireworks, we…

Man sustains life-threatening injuries in Brooklyn shooting
A man in his 30s was clinging to life Saturday night after he was shot in Brooklyn, cops said. The victim was blasted in the torso and arm during a dispute with another man on Chauncey Street near Malcolm X Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 11:45 p.m., cops said. He was rushed to Kings County Hospital…

Woman fights off would-be rapist by flinging purse at him
A brave woman fought off a pervert who attempted to rape her in Brooklyn early Saturday, cops said. The 23-year-old victim was walking on Seventh Avenue near Garfield Place in Park Slope at 4:40 a.m., when the sicko came up behind her, pushed her to the ground and began to pull down his pants. The…

Man killed after plowing BMW through home
A speeding BMW barreled through a metal fence and struck a home in The Bronx on Sunday morning, killing the driver and nearly hitting a woman and children nearby, cops said. The driver was zooming around Williamsbridge at about 6 a.m. when he struck several vehicles and then the house at 784 S. Oak Drive,…

Family offers $50K reward to help catch pizzeria owner’s killer
A $50,000 reward has been offered by the heartbroken family of Louis Barbati, co-owner of Brooklyn’s L&B Spumoni Gardens, in hopes of flushing out the thug who fatally shot Barbati outside of his Dyker Heights home Thursday. “The family would like to see whoever is responsible for this arrested as soon as possible,” a spokesperson…

Rapper Rob Base’s cousin shot dead in the Bronx
A relative of hip-hop artist Rob Base was shot dead in a Bronx playground, cops said Saturday. Ryan Ginyard, 24, a second cousin of Base, best known for his 1988 classic “It Takes Two,” was blasted in the stomach inside the Mount Hope Playground at about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday. His mother, Lori Ginyard, doesn’t believe…

Man dies after jumping off UWS building
A 45-year-old man told his wife he was going to the fourth-floor roof of their Upper West Side pad because they were locked out Sunday– but then jumped to his death, cops said. The man plummeted from the roof of 123 W. 88th St. at about 1 a.m., police said. “He told his spouse that…

Mourners say farewell to Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel
Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel was remembered at a funeral service on the Upper East Side Sunday as an eloquent witness to inhumanity who kept alive the memory of 6 million Jews exterminated by the Nazis. “This is really the double tragedy of it — not only the loss of someone who…

8 men rescued from sinking ship near Staten Island
A holiday weekend fishing trip nearly turned deadly for eight men when their boat was swamped by a wave and sank off the coast of Staten Island Saturday. Two crew members and six fishermen were aboard the “Karen Ann’’ charter boat, at a lighthouse about five miles off the western tip of the Rockaways, when…

Man says he’s wrongly pursued for selling NYPD patches on eBay
A former cop-show extra who sells NYPD and FDNY patches online says the city is wrongly playing legal hardball with his eBay business. Eliot Sash, 59, who has appeared on “Law & Order” and “NYPD Blue,” has been selling cloth patches and other city-related memorabilia, such as gold pins with precinct numbers, on eBay since…

Cyclist killed in hit-and-run
A 35-year-old bicyclist was killed after getting struck by a car in East Williamsburg early Saturday morning, police said. The cyclist was driving east on Grand Street near Manhattan Avenue when a black Chevrolet Camaro struck him, knocking him off his bike and causing severe trauma to the body, cops said. The driver fled east…

Champion hot dog eater gets her buns ready to defend title
You have to get your buns in shape if you’re a champion hot dog eater — and Miki Sudo has her preparations down to a science. “This is something I take seriously. There’s no playing around,” said Sudo, 30, a Manhattan native who has won Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest the last two years and…

Columbia student rescued from Hudson River after going for swim in thunderstorm
A drug-addled and naked Columbia University student needed to be rescued from the Hudson River Friday night after taking an evening swim during a severe thunderstorm, police sources said. The unidentified 24-year-old man, who has a psychiatric history, was spotted about 60 feet from the West Harlem Piers, about 10 blocks from Columbia University, sources…

I’m living like a college student at 44
Forget partitioned apartments, Craigslist roommates and Ikea furniture. Increasingly, New Yorkers are turning to slick, luxurious communal-living setups. In the dormlike buildings, adults well out of college share kitchens, living rooms and bathrooms, and everything from toilet paper to coffee to a cleaning service is included in the rent. “All the little stuff that you…

State tax-break program has drained $50M, created few jobs
ALBANY — A tax-break program promoted by Gov. Cuomo to boost the state’s economy cost more than $50 million but produced just 408 jobs in its first two years, according to a report released at the start of a holiday weekend, three months after it was due. That comes to $122,549 a job. Start-Up New…

Daily Blotter
The Bronx Police have arrested one of two men who allegedly killed a driver and wounded his passenger in Wakefield, ­authorities said. Jonathan Jay, 32, known on the street as Platinum, was arrested Thursday, cops said. The second suspect, Edmond “Slim” Sheldon, is still at large, ­investigators said. The driver, Lionel Samuel, 55, was fatally shot…

Bernie fans sue to block Cuomo from repping NY at convention
New York delegates for Bernie Sanders filed an emergency lawsuit Friday afternoon asking a judge to block Gov. Cuomo from representing the state at the Democratic National Convention — saying Clinton backers appointed him in a sham vote. The 22 Sanders supporters say they weren’t allowed to cast votes or put up their own candidate…

Authorities find $15M worth of drugs during heroin ring bust
Authorities busted a massive heroin ring in the Bronx Thursday, arresting nine people and confiscating $15 million worth of drugs, officials said. Members of the state’s Drug Enforcement Task Force along with investigators with the city’s Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor entered a three-story home in University Heights where they reported finding 140 pounds…

Porsche driver busted in fatal Queens hit-run
Cops nabbed a hit-run driver whose Porsche fatally struck a young woman in Queens, authorities said. Irene Lee, 56, was headed west in the sports car on the Horace Harding Expressway in Elmhurst at about 6:30 p.m Thursday when she lost control, cops said. The Porsche then jumped onto the sidewalk, striking a 21-year-old woman…

Homeless poop pervert says ‘God did it’ after arrest
The pervert who attacked two women with feces on the Upper East Side was captured Friday in a Brooklyn homeless shelter where he had been living, police said. Cops brought Ekwan Hill, 42, to the Special Victims Unit in East Harlem, where they said he admitted that he was the man seen in a video…

Court nixes student’s suit against HS teacher for sex abuse
One of the young female students sexually assaulted by her teacher at Brooklyn Tech lost her bid to sue the city Department of Education in state court over the disturbing relationship, according to new court papers. The Second Department appellate decision, issued Thursday, found that the teen, identified only as N.N., missed deadlines to file…

Man wrongly convicted of murder sues city for $30 million
A Queens man who spent more than eight years behind bars in a homicide case involving disgraced NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella is now suing the city for $30 million over his wrongful conviction. Carlos Davis was just 18 years old and about to become a first-time father when he was arrested by Scarcella for the…

Movie reveals torment Captain Sully faced after Hudson miracle
Leave it to Clint Eastwood, a director who never met a hero he didn’t torture, to turn the story of a steely and sane American icon into something tragic and controversial. The trailer for Eastwood’s upcoming movie, “Sully,” which opens Sept. 9, gives a first glimpse of a silver-haired Tom Hanks portraying Capt. Chesley Sullenberger,…

Family behind Shea Stadium tangled in claims of sex abuse
The granddaughter of Bill Shea, the 1960s guiding force behind the Mets and Shea Stadium, is allegedly threatening to besmirch the family name in an effort to extract $1 million from her mother and brother, a new lawsuit reveals. Shea’s daughter, Kathy Shea Anfuso, aired the sordid family feud in a lawsuit Friday claiming she’s…

Teen berates cops after getting drunk while babysitting at beach
A teenage baby sitter got completely bombed during a beach outing on Long Island with four young kids in her care — and then went full potty-mouth on the cops who had the nerve to place her under arrest. “So what if I had a few drinks? That’s what people my age do, you f–king…