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Business is booming — for burglars. Break-ins are up 38% in the Big Apple over the past month, compared to the same period last year, as shops, spas and bars that remain closed because of the coronavirus provide easy pickings. In one recent heist, a crook broke into a Queens flower shop through a broken...

She’s getting back on track. President Trump has tapped MTA transit chief Sarah Feinberg to rejoin the board of Amtrak. Feinberg, 42, has served as the interim president of MTA New York City Transit since March 9. She was previously an MTA board appointee of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Before coming to New York, Feinberg worked...

He made them an offer they didn’t want to refuse. “Sopranos” star Joseph Gannascoli, who portrayed wiseguy Vito Spatafore on the iconic HBO series, hit up a Brooklyn nursing home Monday to pick up his 104-year-old aunt after she beat the coronavirus — and made sure the staff that cared for her was well fed....

A 49-year-old man was killed Monday when he was pinned between two delivery trucks while trying to transfer items from one to the other at a school for Jewish girls in Queens, cops said. The two rental Ryder trucks were at 124-50 Metropolitan Avenue trying to make the transfer around 5 a.m. when the driver...

As new coronavirus cases continue a downward trend in New York City — and after almost two months on lockdown — quarantine-fatigued residents are looking ahead to when the Big Apple can finally start to reopen.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo has set seven benchmarks each region must meet before they are permitted to start his four-phase...

The city Department of Education has agreed to pay more than $1.1 million to four educators after it allowed a Queens principal to torment three black teachers — including saying one “looked like a gorilla in a sweater.” The payout will go to the three teachers at the Pan American International High School and an...

Brooklyn federal prosecutors want an ancient artifact known as the “Gilgamesh Dream Tablet” returned to Iraq — where it was looted years ago before being sold to an unwitting Hobby Lobby for the arts and craft chain’s bible museum. Brooklyn US Attorney Richard Donoghue’s office filed a civil action Monday asking that the $1,674,000 artifact,...

East New York, Far Rockaway and Flushing are among the neighborhoods hit hardest by the coronavirus in New York, according to a new trove of data released Monday by the city Department of Health. ZIP codes within those areas topped the city in deaths per 100,000 residents, the data shows. The 11239 ZIP code, which...

In a hopeful sign in the city’s fight against the coronavirus, the hard hit Department of Education did not record a single new COVID-19 death for the first time in six weeks, officials said Monday. The agency has provided weekly updates on DOE COVID-19 fatalities reported by relatives and friends of victims. The department reported...

Twin brothers Miles and Quincy Eby had the misfortune of their 14th birthday falling during the coronavirus pandemic and with just about everything closed, and stay-at-home orders in place, there wasn’t much they could do to celebrate.  But instead of spending the day at home sulking, the teen musicians from Englewood, New Jersey decided to...