Brooklyn A Crips gang member who had been shot twice before — including one occasion in which he took seven bullets — was gunned down in a Mercedes-Benz early Tuesday, cops said. Ernest Brown, 33, was sitting with his girlfriend in the car at Halsey and Patchen streets in Bedford-Stuyvesant at about 1 a.m. when…
Pregnant city woman cancels trip to Miami over Zika concerns
An Upper East Side woman who is pregnant with her first child has canceled a trip to Miami next week out of fear of contracting the Zika virus. “I can’t go and take the chance getting bit and have a baby with microcephaly my whole life. It’s just not worth it,” Morgane Benarro, 27, told…
Meet NYPD’s soon-to-be commissioner James O’Neill
They call him JPo — for “Jimmy Police.” “He’s a cop’s cop,” one high-ranking officer said of longtime NYPD veteran and soon-to-be Police Commissioner James “Jimmy” O’Neill. “He’s one of the fairest bosses I’ve ever known. He treats everyone exactly the same even though he’s a chief. He doesn’t care if you’ve got four stars…
New Yorkers say de Blasio stinks at handling corruption: poll
Fighting corruption is not Mayor de Blasio’s strong suit, according to more than half of the New Yorkers who responded to a recent poll on the subject. By a 2-to-1 margin, voters said they don’t like how de Blasio is dealing with the issue. The Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday found 56 percent said they…
NYC firefighters get 6 percent pension boost
ALBANY — Firefighters and fire officers who retired over the last 12 months will collect pensions averaging $119,866 a year, according to data released Tuesday. The Empire Center, a government watchdog, said its analysis of 15,556 former FDNY members determined that the pensions of new retirees — which already exceed six figures — would be…
Cuomo launches plan to battle Zika in New York
Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday announced his battle plan to combat the Zika virus in the Big Apple and elsewhere across the state — including orders to put mosquito-killing larvicide into the stagnant puddles of water found strewn throughout the city’s subway system. The governor’s decision to batten down the hatches comes just two days after…
Police union ruins Mayor de Blasio’s breakfast
The city’s largest police union ruined Mayor de Blasio’s first cup of morning java, staging multiple protests Tuesday — including outside his favorite Park Slope coffee shop — calling on Hizzoner to give cops a hefty 34 percent pay hike to offset ever-rising cost of living expenses in the Big Apple. “We want him to…
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton resigns
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton is leaving the NYPD — for a cushy private-sector job with a firm with close ties to the Clintons, sources told The Post on Tuesday. Bratton will be replaced by Chief of Department James O’Neill, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced. Bratton will officially leave One Police Plaza next month, with O’Neill…
Bookkeeper gets jail time for looting $1.3M from comatose boss
A former bookkeeper who admitted to stealing more than $1 million from his ex-boss after she fell into a coma was sentenced Tuesday to three to nine years in prison. Christopher Myles siphoned $1.3 million from the personal and business accounts of Lorenza De Azcarraga, the president of Central Park Realty Corp., after she suffered…
Cross-dressing bank robber says he was packing a water gun
A cross-dressing man who donned a dress and brassiere during a Staten Island bank robbery admitted that he was armed during the alleged crime – but with a “water gun,” new court papers show. Jordan Wise, 24, allegedly told feds he used the toy to hold up Santander Bank in Stapleton last Monday — while…
NYC’s last milk plant to lay off 273 workers as closing nears
This cash cow has run out of milk. Elmhurst Dairy, New York City’s last running milk processing plant, has reached its expiration date and will cease all operations by Oct. 30. The red farmhouse and silo logo has been an ubiquitous symbol in Big Apple bodegas and grocery stores for nearly a century but after…
Collie leads a dozen cops on chase at Newark Airport
A collie named Garp escaped his handlers at Newark Airport on Tuesday morning and led more than a dozen PAPD cops on a 45-minute chase — then got stuck in the mud and had to be rescued by two officers in a rowboat, sources said. The canine caper commenced at about 8:05 a.m., when Port…
Scott Stringer flouts assigned seating to avoid de Blasio
Sitting next to Mayor de Blasio wasn’t an option. Comptroller Scott Stringer ignored assigned seating at a meeting of the state Financial Control Board Tuesday by taking a seat next to Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris, rather than De Blasio as was scheduled. As De Blasio sat stone-faced never looking at Stringer, both Shorris and Stringer…
Killer pit bull’s owners want due process before he’s put down
Before they put this vicious, mass-murderer dog down like, well, a dog, a lawyer says he should have his day in court. The Staten Island pit bull, named Caesar, killed a chihuahua, a maltese and a cat — but his owners argue he has rights, too. “There really is a major constitutional issue here,” said…
Cops accused of running down groundhog with golf cart
TROY, N.Y. — Authorities say they’re investigating reports that two police officers used a golf cart to purposely run down and kill a groundhog during a tournament hosted by an upstate New York police department’s union. Officials in Troy said Monday that witnesses reported seeing the cart drive over tee boxes and onto greens at…
Brooklyn car shooting leaves 1 dead, 1 injured
A gunman opened fire into a double-parked car in Brooklyn early Tuesday, killing one man and wounding a woman, police said. The pair was sitting inside a 2007 Mercedes-Benz on Halsey Street near Patchen Street in Bed-Stuy at about 1 a.m. when the gunman approached and began firing, police said. Ernest Brown, 33, who was…
De Blasio is unpopular with staffers — and the polls prove it
Here’s a “teachable moment” for Mayor de Blasio — his poll numbers are a big fat F. Hizzoner flunked a new Quinnipiac University survey with a 42 percent job approval rating — as his staffers say he is a condescending boss who lectures his underlings like school children. When de Blasio isn’t giving instruction in…
Ex-HS basketball star faces charges for allegedly shooting rival
A former high-school basketball star could get up to 25 years in prison in the shooting of an old court rival if he’s convicted by the Brooklyn Supreme Court jury that got his case on Monday. Davontay Grace, once a hoops guard at East New York’s Jefferson HS, has been charged with the attempted murder…
De Blasio backtracks on ‘historic’ rescue of probed hospital
Now that the deal is under investigation, Mayor de Blasio is changing his tune on his “historic” rescue of Long Island College Hospital. The mayor said Monday he did the best he could with the shuttered Brooklyn hospital in face of “economic realities.” “The more we looked into what could be achieved and how would…
Long Island broker defrauded ailing widow of $427K: suit
It’s not hard to see that Hank Mark Werner might be the worst stock broker in the US. The Long Island broker defrauded an elderly, blind widow of $427,000 in commissions and losses for three years, according to a suit from a Wall Street watchdog. Werner, who’s based in Suffolk County, churned the account of…
Ex-Venezuelan narcotics officials face drug-trafficking charges
Two former top Venezuelan anti-narcotics officials have been charged by federal authorities in Brooklyn for their alleged roles in an international drug-trafficking scheme, according to an indictment unsealed Monday. Néstor Luis Reverol Torres, 51, the ex-general director of Venezuela’s National Anti-Drug Office, and Edilberto José Molina, 53, the former sub-director, allegedly aided cocaine runners who…
City names new chief digital officer
The city named a new chief digital officer on Monday — landing the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s former tech guru for nearly $140,000 less than he was making. Mayor de Blasio announced the appointment of Sree Sreenivasan, who oversaw a 70-person team that expanded the museum’s digital efforts. Sreenivisan made $328,900 before stepping down in…
Radicals ‘occupy’ City Hall Park calling for Bill Bratton’s head
A group of self-proclaimed radical organizers planning to occupy City Hall Park drew roughly 50 supporters Monday afternoon, vowing to add hundreds more for an overnight “encampment.” The Millions March NYC, which shares some common goals with the Black Lives Matter movement, demanded that Mayor de Blasio fire Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and deliver reparations…
Man still waiting for insurance payout after neighbor’s explosive suicide
A Long Island man whose neighbor killed himself in a fiery propane explosion two years ago says he’s being jerked around by his insurance company because it will pay to cover only a fraction of the damage to his home, a new lawsuit charges. The massive 2014 blast sheared off the back and roof of…
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Brooklyn Police are looking for a man who allegedly burglarized two homes in Bushwick. The robber made off with a 33-year-old man’s cellphone after standing on a bucket to gain entry to the victim’s residence near Jefferson Street and Wilson Avenue on July 3 at around 7:30 a.m., cops said. The thief removed laptops and…
Man dies in fall from famed off-Broadway theater
A man jumped to his death Monday from a building that houses an off-Broadway theater, police said. Andrew Hinojosa, 32, plunged from the Stage 42 theater building on West 42nd Street between Ninth and Tenth avenues and crashed onto a fourth-floor deck at around 7 a.m., according to police. He was pronounced dead at the…
Minority charter students are outperforming public school kids
Minority students at city charter schools significantly outperformed their public school peers on 2016 state math and reading exams, according to an advocacy group’s analysis of recently released city figures. Black and Hispanic charter school students were twice as likely to be proficient in math than their district school counterparts, and 50 percent more likely…
Teen crashes SUV she stole from her mom
Four teenage girls were taken into custody Monday afternoon for fleeing Manhattan in a stolen SUV through the Holland Tunnel before crashing in Jersey City, NJ, police sources said. A PAPD cop tried to pull over the 15-year-old driver, who was behind the wheel of the Nissan Pathfinder, at the Canal Street and Varick Street…
Cop who was paralyzed while chasing suspect promoted to detective
A veteran NYPD highway cop who was paralyzed from the waist down in 2007 while chasing a reckless motorcyclist in The Bronx was promoted Monday, along with nine other cops who also suffered life-changing injuries in the line of duty. Keith Winchell was promoted to detective nine years after the crash, which nearly killed him…
Bratton wants ‘racist’ cop to return his medals
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Monday that he will write to a cop who posted racist online diatribes — to ask the officer to return any medals and commendations he received from the NYPD. “I understand one of his Facebook entries was that he was very desirous of returning his various medals and commendations to…
Two pedestrians killed in Brooklyn hit-and-run
Two pedestrians were killed when a hit-and-run driver plowed into them in Brooklyn early Monday, authorities said. The victims, identified as Delman Maldonado, 41, and Israel Turcios, 56, stepped into the roadway at Fulton Street near Chestnut Street in Cypress Hills when the speeding driver hit them shortly after midnight. The driver, in an Acura…
Comptroller weighs in on de Blasio’s nursing home scandal
City officials missed multiple opportunities to protect a Lower East Side nursing home from being developed into luxury housing – including weeks before the property was sold, a new report found. Comptroller Scott Stringer said community residents notified the administration about the pending sale of 45 Rivington House in December 2015, but that the sale…
Bratton: No apology to official who said cops roughed him up
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on Monday refused to issue an apology to a Bronx state assemblyman who claims he was roughed up by a cop when he tried to intervene in a street dispute. Assemblyman Michael Blake told reporters Monday morning that he expected Bratton to apologize for his officer’s actions. But “there will be…
Luxury condo residents sue over broken promises
The residents of a Midtown high-rise were promised a building of “premier luxury caliber” — but all they got was a crumbling, leaky mess, a $67 million lawsuit charges. When The Alexander was being built on East 49th Street near Second Avenue in 2008, its developer promised amenities like an Equinox gym and roof decks, as…
Man found dead under bed: cops
A man was found dead under his bed in Harlem on Sunday morning, according to police. Cops say Robert Pryor, 70, was discovered around 10 a.m. at his apartment on West 135th Street. “He’s a gentleman and a good family man,” said one of Pryor’s neighbors. “His son is deceased, a few years ago. Last…
Firing range owned by Holland Tunnel gun nut shuts down
Thieves ripped off everything but the kitchen sink — and the guns — from the gun range owned by one of the “Kooks of Hazard,” who were arrested last month near the Holland Tunnel with an arsenal of weapons, a close friend told The Post. John Cramsey’s Higher Ground Tactical in Emmaus, Pa., was closed…
Dems slam Cuomo for snubbing de Blasio repeatedly at DNC
Prominent state Democrats are accusing Gov. Cuomo of directly contradicting Hillary Clinton’s message of party unity by bringing his escalating war with Mayor de Blasio to the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia. One senior Democrat told The Post that Cuomo’s repeated snubbing of de Blasio at the convention had also “backfired on the governor’’ and left…
Google staffer admits to slashing after letting friend take the fall
A Google employee who let his friend take the fall for slashing a woman in the face with a broken bottle outside a Manhattan nightclub has finally come clean, The Post has learned. Oliver Vidinovski had stood by as police arrested and charged his friend, Jonathan Zhukovsky, for attacking the unidentified woman outside the Cielo…
Judge reverses 2004 ruling that Jose Ramos killed Etan Patz
A Manhattan judge has dealt a legal blow to the man charged with killing Etan Patz — by clearing another man who had already been found responsible for the crime. Supreme Court Justice Joan Kenney has reversed a $2.7 million civil ruling issued in 2004 that said convicted child molester José Ramos killed the 6-year-old…
Drunk man goes on joyride in stolen ambulance
A drunken man stole an ambulance left idling outside a Bronx home during an emergency call — and took the vehicle on a joyride, crashing into several cars, cops said Sunday. Juan Delo Santos, 21, ran up to the emergency vehicle at around 6:30 a.m. Saturday as it sat near the corner of Webster Avenue…
Schumer raises stink over FDA recall delays
Sen. Charles Schumer said Sunday it takes too long for dangerous food to be taken off shelves, and demanded that the FDA rework its recall guidelines. New York’s senior senator was particularly peeved that a 21-state E. coli outbreak linked to tainted flour began in December — but the recall wasn’t issued until May. “Thousands and…
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The Bronx Police are searching for two suspects in the theft of a pet rabbit from a home in the Crotona Park area. The crooks entered the apartment in the vicinity of Crotona Park East and 174th Street through an unlocked front door at about 6 p.m. on June 27, police said. Once inside, they…
Rikers officers applaud alleged crooked cop’s arrest
Rikers correction officers stood and applauded when one of their own was arrested during roll call recently for accepting bribes to provide cigarettes and oxycodone pills to an inmate, city Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark Peters said Sunday. “We arrested her during roll call one morning this week and as we took her out of…
Cops searching for rabbit-stealing suspects
Police are searching for a duo who stole jewelry, a passport — and a pet rabbit — from a home in the Crotona Park area in The Bronx, cops said Sunday. Two men entered the apartment through an unlocked front door in the vicinity of Crotona Park East and 174th Street about 6 p.m. June…
Woman fights off would-be rapist
A woman fought off a creep who tried to rape her in Greenwich Village, police said. The 20-year-old woman was walking south on 5th Avenue towards west 8th Street near Washington Square Park when the man struck up a conversation at around 4 a.m. on Saturday. The two exchanged names, but when the woman attempted…
Ex-cop kills himself after car chase with dead wife in trunk
NEWARK, N.J. — A former police officer killed himself Saturday night after a highway chase with state police, who later discovered the body of the officer’s wife in the vehicle’s trunk. Franklin Osgood, 61, a former police officer in Providence, Rhode island, was pronounced dead at about 11:30 p.m. at Hackensack University Medical Center in…
City can’t just ship troubled kids to Bellevue: officials
The city’s practice of shuffling troubled kids from a city-run foster-care center to Bellevue Hospital — where many are sedated — needs to be scrutinized, elected officials said Sunday. “It’s a disturbing story, so we’re going to have to find out what’s going on,” said City Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Queens), after reading about the questionable…
Bratton, de Blasio ‘freaking out’ over increase in crime: author
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and Mayor de Blasio were “freaking out” over “a large and very worrisome crime increase in the first half of 2015,” a policing expert and author said in an interview Sunday. Heather MacDonald, author of “The War on Cops,” said the city’s top cop “summoned the resources at his disposal and…
Six trucks go up in flames in suspected arson
Seven tractor-trailers erupted in flames in Brooklyn early Sunday, and investigators suspect arson, police said. The cabs of the 18-wheelers burned in various locations in East New York beginning at about 2:30 a.m., cops said. All the fires were extinguished without injury. Ricardo Caballan, owner of the Jahali company, said all the trucks were working…
Sauce feud at Rao’s heats up tension in the dining room
The legendary Italian restaurant Rao’s is known for its warm, clubby feel, but lately there’s a chill in the dining room — and it’s not the air conditioning. Regulars say that since Frank Pellegrino Sr. filed a lawsuit against his longtime partner Ron Straci on July 15, the tension in the tiny dining room has…
Creep taunts cops on radio with bogus call of police shooting
The NYPD is being harassed by calls over an unauthorized police radio. The anonymous creep has been transmitting nonsensical noises, bogus calls about a cop being shot, and taunts and threats against the duty captain of the Manhattan South precinct, according to police sources and recordings of the transmissions. At around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, calls…
Agency kicks the naked Times Square model to the curb
Now it’s his career that’s flapping in the breeze. Krit McClean was dumped by Ford Models last week after the 21-year-old’s naked jaunt through Times Square made headlines, according to a source close to McClean. “Some agents weren’t comfortable with what happened and they thought it was a bad image for the company,” the source…
This summer is making the subway a mosquito hotbed
The subways are swarming with skeeters. The warm, wet summer and mild winter created a bumper crop of mosquitoes — and they’re breeding in the stagnant puddles of the steaming underground and sucking straphanger blood. “I just wanna get home, I don’t wanna die on my way,” said Shayna Andino, 18, who claims she’s been…
Bronx pol’s campaign petitions riddled with fraud: opponents
Bronx Assemblyman Marcos Crespo’s 2016 campaign petitions are riddled with fraud and should be thrown out, opponents charge in a court complaint. The legislator and Bronx Democratic Party chairman filed petitions that included multiple duplicate signatures, voters who did not live in his Assembly district and signatures from voters who said they never signed the…
‘Racist’ pianist sues critic who says she should ‘drop dead’
NYPD probing bogus police stop staged to help man propose
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