Schumer: It makes no sense that terror suspects can buy guns
Sen. Charles Schumer vowed Sunday to make a renewed push for a bill that would prevent terror suspects from legally buying guns and ammunition. “If you are on a terrorist list, watch list, right now in...
View ArticleI was punched in the face with a candy bar while waiting for subway
A Bushwick artist waiting for a train home Wednesday morning was punched in the face with a chocolate bar and had it shoved down his throat, police sources said. Ian Sklarsky was waiting for the...
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The Bronx Police released this sketch of a suspect in a Bedford Park subway groping. In the early-morning hours of Nov. 29, a 22-year-old woman dozing aboard a northbound D train awoke to find a...
View ArticleThese Jets cheerleaders are making December even hotter
These Jets cheerleaders heated things up during Sunday’s 30-8 win against the Titans at MetLife Stadium — and their short-skirted holiday ensembles couldn’t have been better suited for the day’s record...
View ArticleManhattan Democrat praises Donald Trump
A Manhattan Democrat praised Donald Trump Wednesday at, of all places, a hearing of the City Planning Commission on zoning issues. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer was criticizing “poor doors”...
View ArticleNew York will be granted record-warm weather this Christmas
The Big Apple is heating back up, with temperatures expected to top 70 degrees on Christmas Eve. After a cold weekend, temps will begin a climb on Monday to 56 degrees. Rain is expected Tuesday, the...
View ArticleProtesters blast ‘racist’ Donald Trump outside Trump Tower
Some 150 protesters took to the Midtown streets Sunday to blast Donald Trump as a “racist.” “I’m against everything that he represents. I’m amazed that he has gotten to the point he’s gotten to,”...
View ArticleSchumer wants feds to more closely comb social media for radical activity
Sen. Charles Schumer on Sunday demanded that federal authorities more closely comb social media for hints of radical activity. In touting his proposed Combat Terrorist Use of Social Media Act of 2015,...
View Article93-year-old woman smoked near oxygen tank, dies in fire
93-year-old woman dead after her cigarette sparks fire A 93-year-old woman who infuriated neighbors by chain smoking in her apartment while also using an oxygen tank died when she fell asleep and set...
View ArticleDe Blasio wants to shrink city apartments into walk-in closets
Thousands of tiny apartments the size of glorified walk-in closets will set a new standard for cramped New York City living under a plan that would end how small homes are required to be, city...
View ArticleHoverboard bursts into flames inside a Brooklyn apartment
A brand new hoverboard burst into flames inside a Brooklyn apartment complex Tuesday, fire officials said.
View ArticleBratton tells women to ‘buddy up’ in cabs to prevent driver assaults
Big Apple women should think twice before getting into a late-night taxi by themselves — as sexual assaults by drivers are on the rise, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton warned Tuesday. “One of the...
View ArticleFinding weed is easier on the street than in dispensaries
There’s more pot on the street near Union Square than at the city’s first medical-marijuana dispensary, weed buffs said Wednesday. Colombia Care, which opens Thursday on East 14th Street and Third...
View ArticleDeranged slasher also sliced a woman on New Year’s Day: cops
The deranged man who slashed a 24-year-old Whole Foods employee in the face on Wednesday also sliced another young woman on New Year’s Day, Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said Thursday. A 28-year-old...
View ArticleSchumer: Hey NRA, put your money where your mouth is!
If the NRA really wants to enforce existing gun laws, it should back President Obama’s proposal to hire more federal agents to assist in background checks, Sen. Charles Schumer said Sunday. “My...
View ArticleMaids, athletes and inmates dream of $1.5B jackpot
Powerball tickets were selling at a furious pace in the Big Apple on Tuesday as the chance at $1.5 billion had housekeepers dreaming of their own maids, homeless people dreaming of a roof over the...
View ArticleJudge doesn’t buy ‘scam’ witness’ sick daughter excuse
The Queens man who bolted from court Tuesday before he could enter a guilty plea expected to implicate City Councilman Ruben Wills in a corruption scheme got an earful Wednesday from an angry judge who...
View ArticleIt’s still looking a lot like Christmas on Brooklyn sidewalks
Dozens of discarded Christmas trees are littering a Brooklyn neighborhood — nearly three weeks after Santa left town. Residents are outraged by the cast-off conifers piling up in Brooklyn Heights, even...
View ArticleCuomo, de Blasio tout $15 minimum wage at MLK tribute
Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio joined a 20-block march in Harlem on Monday to demand a $15 minimum wage following a Martin Luther King Jr. tribute at which the governor described the civil-rights icon...
View ArticleMark-Viverito: Critics just have to deal with Central Park stable plan
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito said Tuesday that critics of the city’s plans to convert a maintenance building into stables in Central Park should just accept that the city has the power to...
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