Subway riders can now read free books on their commute

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Subway riders can now read free books on their commute
Bored commuters accustomed to cursing the MTA for shutdown track work finally have something to be thankful for: The agency is now offering free wireless access to classical and modern literature. The Subway Reads program, which Gov. Cuomo unveiled Sunday, will let straphangers check out five free “e-shorts,” including Lee Child’s “High Heat” and Edgar…

Cuomo shows off ‘vulnerable’ shark species he caught
Gov. Cuomo landed a big one while fishing off the South Shore of Long Island on Sunday, tweeting out a photo of a 154.5 pound thresher shark. But not everyone was thrilled, as thresher sharks — although legal to catch — are listed as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature….

NYPD recruits record number to East Harlem kids program
Gang busts, drug arrests and shootings are all-too-common sights for kids in East Harlem — and the experience can ignite a lifelong fear and distrust of the police. The NYPD is increasing its efforts to shift that negative view this summer, recruiting a record number of boys and girls to its educational Explorer Program in…

Schumer calls for creation of firefighter cancer tracker
Sen. Charles Schumer intends to help create the “first-ever” national firefighter cancer registry, he announced Sunday as he singled out one of the lesser-known dangers faced by New York’s Bravest. Smoke-eaters can experience up to double the likelihood of contracting certain cancers, the Democrat said outside of Engine 39 and Ladder 16 in Midtown. “What…

Critics slam de Blasio’s latest answer to charter school reform
It’s supposed to be the de Blasio administration’s answer to charter schools, but critics claim the city’s much-ballyhooed PROSE program is just a flawed knockoff. The Department of Education has trumpeted the rapidly expanding Progressive Redesign Opportunity for Schools of Excellence initiative, which purports to relax strict union rules to allow for sorely needed reforms….

‘Topless Parade’ participant gets punched in throat by leering man
Warning: Graphic language The Big Apple’s ‘Go Topless Parade’ got handsy Sunday, when a leering bystander allegedly stalked a bare-chested woman he’d been harassing through the sea of nipples — and punched her in the throat. The attack unfolded at the corner of 47nd Street and 2nd avenue, after the near-nude woman spit in the…

New Yorkers these days aren’t having much sex
We’re the city that never sleeps­ . . . with anyone. Big Apple denizens have gone from the digital age back to the Victorian era when it comes to sex, with more adults — even young ones — remaining abstinent, a Post analysis of city Health Department data shows. Nearly a third of all of the city’s…

GOP wins approval for ‘Stop de Blasio’ line on election ballot
City Republicans have won state Board of Elections approval for a new “Stop de Blasio’’ line on the November ballot that will allow voters unhappy with Mayor de Blasio — and perhaps Donald Trump as well — to back their two Assembly candidates without having to vote the GOP party line. New York County GOP…

Dante de Blasio shaves his ‘signature’ Afro
Mayor de Blasio must be crying on the inside. A little more than a year after Hizzoner swore that his son, Dante, would never cut his signature Afro, a photo emerged Sunday showing the teen with a new ’do. The picture was posted to Twitter by de Blasio press secretary Eric Phillips and shows the…

Hospital patient saves life of Staten Island cop
A rookie cop was attacked by a prisoner in a Staten Island hospital on Sunday — and then rescued by the patient in the next room, authorities said. Dante Martin, 36, had been under guard at Richmond University Medical Center after being arrested on harassment and weapons charges on Thursday. At around 9:20 a.m., after…

Anthony Weiner sexted busty brunette while his son was in bed with him
This is baby-sitting — Anthony Weiner-style. While his wife, Huma Abedin, travels the country campaigning for Hillary Clinton, the disgraced ex-congressman has been sexting with a busty brunette out West — and even sent her a lurid crotch shot with his toddler son in the picture, The Post has learned. The stay-at-home cad shot the…

NYC needs to wise up against Zika: Pataki official
Zika could cause major problems in the Big Apple if city health officials don’t start discouraging people from traveling to hotbeds in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, according to a former New York state official. Betsy McCaughey, who served as the lieutenant governor during George Pataki’s first term in the late ‘90s, slammed the…

Man struck by unlicensed driver in critical condition
An elderly Brooklyn man was clinging to life Saturday evening after being hit by an unlicensed driver in Borough Park, authorities said. The 67-year-old victim was crossing 43rd street between 12th Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway just before 6 p.m. when he was struck by a minivan backing into a parking space, according to police….

Firefighter vet with Alzheimer’s accused of pocketing cash
A veteran Long Island firefighter with Alzheimer’s was publicly shamed and banned from his volunteer department after absentmindedly pocketing cash during a local fair, his family claims. John BaRoss Sr. responded to alarms for the Greenlawn Fire Department until he hit age 75, and he kept volunteering until three years ago, when he was 80…

Subway cricket prankster ‘likely’ to face charges
Zaida Pugh, the publicity-mad performance artist who unleashed a plague of insects on a crowded subway car, is “likely’’ to face charges, police sources said Saturday. Cops would not comment on specific charges, saying they’re still investigating the cricket chaos on a D train Wednesday. Pugh admitted staging the disgusting stunt, which included her urinating…

Woman roams building naked, declares ‘war’ on residents: suit
A Greenwich Village woman scatters garbage throughout her West 11th Street building, roams the halls naked and terrifies neighbors with nasty notes, a lawsuit charges. “She has now begun to use the elevator as her trash receptacle . . . She has become most unpleasant and has sort of declared war on us,” lamented one resident, according…

Couple want to pay rent at 1999 price: suit
A Manhattan couple wants to party — in their apartment — like it’s 1999! Kirill Nikonov and Kaimi Huang want to pay just $199.15 a month for their ­Orchard Street pad — the 1999 price — because that’s the last time the landlord registered tenants for the rent-stabilized space. That price for the Chinatown pad…

Girl fights off attempted kidnapper at US Open practice
A brave 11-year-old girl fought off a man who tried to grab her as she watched a US Open practice match with her family at the National Tennis Center in Queens on Saturday afternoon, police said. The abduction attempt took place at around 3:45 p.m. when the man snuck up behind the girl, grabbed her…

Off-duty correction officer hospitalized after brutal crash

Man choked, sexually assaulted woman in Riverside Park: cops
A Bronx man was charged Saturday with choking and sexually assaulting a woman in Riverside Park. Anthony Camilo, 26, met his 24-year-old victim on a southbound F train, and offered to get the woman a ride home, police said. The two made their way from the subway to Riverside Park around West 70th Street. There…

Middle school principal goes viral with her inspiration
Nadia Lopez was ready to quit. She couldn’t fall asleep without a pill, or function without coffee. Stress triggered an autoimmune abdominal disease that felt like her insides were burning. Four years earlier, Lopez had founded Mott Hall Bridges Academy, a sixth-to-eighth-grade middle school in Brownsville, to tend to kids in a dirt-poor, violence-plagued neighborhood….

Lawyer referall site wants litigators to pay up for good ratings: suit
A Kentucky litigator is fuming over a New York Web site that gives some lawyers a bad name. Lawyer.com, a legal referral site, provides high rankings only to attorneys who pay to be on the site, claims Alex R. White, who is suing over his own bad listing. Lawyer.com “publishes negative and misleading information about…

Firms hired by de Blasio earned at least $10M from campaign and non-profits
It pays to be an “agent of the city.” The political-consulting firms that helped Mayor de Blasio get elected in 2013 have hauled in at least $10.6 million from the mayor’s campaigns and charities over the past six years, a Post analysis of public records shows. BerlinRosen, which was co-founded by p.r. gurus Valerie Berlin…

Candidate’s former web address now home to German sex-tip site
He’s not that hard up for votes! The Web address Harlem politician Robert Jackson used to run for Manhattan borough president has been taken over by a German company promising to fix readers’ sexual-performance problems. The site jackson2013.com pledges to “show you exactly what you need to do to in bed to [last] longer” and…

Holocaust survivor set to marry 39-year-old Russian beauty
Holocaust survivor Jack Garfein celebrated his 86th birthday on July 2 in his Upper West Side apartment surrounded by friends, eating chocolate cake, sipping champagne — and getting engaged to his 39–year-old girlfriend. “I just told her ‘I can’t live without you. Will you marry me?’ ” Garfein told The Post. “She said, ‘Of course I…

Hustlers are selling EpiPens online amid 600% price hike

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