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A family in Westchester is outraged after they were asked to remove a banner on their home that was intended to support the Black Lives Matter movement, a report said. Avisia and Dan Brown told WPIX they were given a notice of violation from the buildings department for the white banner which included a quote...

A career criminal with more than 100 arrests to his name was busted for cruelly shoving a 92-year-old woman into a Manhattan fire hydrant — leaving his victim too scared to walk alone in her own neighborhood. The injured elder, a Bronx native named Geraldine, spoke to The Post on Tuesday after cops arrested convicted...

The NYPD released a pair of police videos from the George Floyd protests in Brooklyn where a cop pulled down a protester’s mask — as he stood with his hands in the air — and pepper-sprayed him in the face. The two videos, each nearly 15-minutes long, show the officers making their way through the...

Homeless-related problems on the subway have more than halved since the MTA began closing the system down every night amid the coronavirus crisis, The Post has learned. MTA stats show a daily average of just 1.8 homeless “incidents” — which include delays and complaints related to vagrants — since Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s nightly shutdowns began...

A New Jersey police department used federal funds to pay a barber to temporarily set up shop in its station house to give haircuts to officers amid the state’s shutdown of personal-care businesses, a report said Tuesday. Paying customers also were allowed to use the Woodbridge Township cops’ makeshift set-up in a section of its...

"If this was a union with a white labor leader and with a mostly white membership, Speaker Corey Johnson would have called me to discuss his plan," charged Floyd, who is black.

The death of a black man found hanging in a Manhattan park was ruled a suicide Tuesday, the city’s medical examiner said.  Dominique Alexander, 27, was found hanging from a tree with a rope around his neck on Cloister Path in Fort Tryon Park around 6 a.m. on June 9 in Upper Manhattan, police said. ...

Federal prosecutors have dropped their charges against a homeless man accused of torching an unmarked NYPD car in Brooklyn — after his defense attorney said they had the wrong guy following a “half-baked investigation.” Michael Rodriguez, 32, was freed Monday after a federal judge officials dismissed the charge against him. He could have faced 20...

Five years ago, the City Council — including a young Corey Johnson — pushed the de Blasio administration to hire more cops and voted virtually unanimously to expand the Police Department by 1,300 officers. That was then. Johnson, now the Council’s Speaker, said Tuesday that 2015 vote was a mistake and he backs efforts to...

Broken-up legal duo Cellino & Barnes said their new and separate law firms would be open within the next few months, after The Post exclusively reported they finalized their divorce Monday. The Buffalo personal injury lawyers Ross Cellino Jr. and Stephen Barnes — whose firm had the ear-worm jingle “Don’t wait! Call 8!” — said...