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The NYPD said it found no criminality by Shake Shack workers in connection with the hospitalization of three officers who drank milkshakes they believe may have been spiked with bleach, a police official said Tuesday. “After a thorough investigation by the NYPD’s Manhattan South investigators, it has been determined that there was no criminality by...

The courthouse union boss who’s under investigation over allegations of racial discrimination was once accused of referring to three black judges as “monkeys,” The Post has learned. The claim is contained in a 2017 suit against Dennis Quirk — the longtime president of the New York State Court Officers Association — and the state court...

Three NYPD cops were hospitalized Monday night after drinking milkshakes from a lower Manhattan Shake Shack they believe may have been spiked with bleach, law-enforcement sources said. The officers immediately noticed a funny taste when they sipped the drinks from the chain’s location on Broadway near Fulton Street shortly after 9 p.m., the sources said....

The block bearing Bedford-Stuyvesant’s massive Black Lives Matter mural will become a pedestrian-only plaza for the duration of the summer, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday. “Fulton Street in Brooklyn will share the message that #BlackLivesMatter all summer long,” Hizzoner posted on Twitter. “We’re making the block pedestrians-only and working with the MTA to coordinate nearby transit.”...

Slain Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors’ parents blasted the teen involved in her murder for his “complete lack of remorse” in a statement read Monday as he was sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention. Assistant Corporation Counsel Rachel Glantz read the heartbreaking letter shortly before Judge Carol Goldstein handed down the term — the...

A gate at a closed Williamsburg playground was welded shut Monday to keep out those who repeatedly cut the lock to get in during the coronavirus shutdown — only for a bolt cutter-wielding mob to let themselves in hours later. The welding by city workers at Middleton Playground infuriated parents, who say the playground should...

Cellino & Barnes — the personal-injury law firm with the famous, annoyingly catchy “Don’t wait! Call 8!” jingle — is officially kaput after a three-year, knock-down, drag-out legal battle, a source close to the case said Monday. It was unclear who would get the rights to the former Buffalo firm’s commercial ditty, which includes the...

The MTA is warehousing its newest subway cars indefinitely — while officials pursue a probe into a series of dangerous malfunctions, the agency said Monday. “We will not compromise one inch on safety and will not return the fleet to service without certainty and validation that all cars are fit for passenger service,” Interim Transit...

The Department of Education announced 3,608 new placements for its embattled gifted-and-talented programs Monday. Officials said 60 percent of eligible kids were given offers for next year – down from 65 percent this year. Critics have called for either a retooling or outright abolition of the accelerated programs, arguing that they promote racial separation in...

Coronavirus locked-down New Yorkers aren’t waiting until Independence Day to light up the skies, according to city data that shows a massive 4,000-percent surge in firecracker complaints during the first two weeks of June. The city’s 311 system clocked 849 fireworks grievances from June 1 to June 14 compared to just 21 during the same...