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One person was killed in a shooting Saturday night in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood in Brooklyn. Police say they received a 911 call reporting a male shot outside of 101 Lincoln Road just before midnight. Officers on scene found a man with multiple gunshot wounds throughout the body. He...

The 2026 Puerto Rican Day Parade steps off in Midtown Manhattan on Sunday, amid a busy weekend in the city.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The borough’s Community Boards will hold several public meetings next week, with residents getting the chance to weigh in on playground improvements, commercial waste zoning, and upcoming transportation projects. Here is a listing of the upcoming public meetings, provided by representatives from t

Saturday morning on the East River turned tense when a seaplane went down in the water near the Throggs Neck and Whitestone bridges, triggering a major water rescue and a swarm of emergency boats. Firefighters and other city agencies raced to the scene, pulled two people from the aircraft onto an FDNY vessel, and said

A bipartisan majority of NYC Council members is demanding Mayor Zohran Mamdani seize privately owned property in order to save a piece of Manhattan history tied to the Underground Railroad, The Post has learned. Councilman Harvey Epstein (D-Manhattan) fired off a letter Tuesday to Mamdani signed by 31 other members urg

Two people, including a fisherman, have been rescued, and crews are looking to locate another that was trapped on a reef when water started to rise at a Connecticut beach.

A Brooklyn jury has hit the City of New York with an $18 million verdict in favor of a man who says he was sexually abused while a student at P.S. 15 in Red Hook in the early 1970s, according to the law firm that tried the case. The jury in Supreme Court of Kings County found the city acted recklessly in how school off

Months after announcing plans to shutter hundreds of restaurant locations this year, including a restaurant on Staten Island, Papa Johns International is making significant reductions, according to a recent report. The pizza chain has closed dozens of locations across at least 17 states in 2026 so far, revealed an anal

A late-night fire tore through a bakery in Bensonhurst on Friday, jolting one of the neighborhood’s busiest commercial strips and drawing a major FDNY response to 1476 86th Street. Firefighters battled the flames well into the early morning before getting the blaze under control, and officials said there were no injuri

The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America publicly rebuked Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday after the NYPD moved to add roughly 580 uniformed positions this year. The organization says the hires roll back the mayor’s campaign vows to keep headcount steady and warns the expansion will cost the city