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Two married NYPD detectives who heard a loud bang while driving in the Bronx with their 2-year-old baby on the Fourth of July were shocked to later discover part of a bullet lodged in their car door, the wife told The Post. Stephanie Eiel, 39, who is assigned to school...

Families were still scrambling Tuesday for seats to New York City’s free summer program for school kids after the initiative re-opened for the season with extra capacity. More than 30 families were turned away in Brooklyn Tuesday morning despite being assigned a site for the popular “Summer Rising” initiative. “I...

The more than 50 people shot over a bloody Fourth of July weekend in the Big Apple included a beloved Bronx neighborhood “grandfather” gunned down by stray bullets. John Edwards, 62, — who was known as “Grandfather of the Block” in his Belmont neighborhood — was among the at least...

An NYPD employee was assaulted on a subway in lower Manhattan by a maniac who shoved her into a pole violently enough to fracture her eye socket, police said Tuesday. The 53-year-old civilian worker had boarded the southbound No. 4 subway at the Fulton Street station around 11 p.m. Monday...

The powerful SEIU 1199 union is throwing its electoral weight behind City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera in the crowded Democratic primary to represent the newly drawn 10th Congressional District straddling lower Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn, The Post has learned. “It’s a huge get for Carlina Rivera. On the other hand, it...

A Staten Island mom was arrested for allegedly assaulting a safety agent at her children’s school Tuesday morning, police said. Aleena Abrams, 43, was charged with one count of assault after she allegedly grabbed the 35-year-old man in a “bear hug” and threw him to the ground at I.S. 49...

Morningside Heights residents kvetched about the full-time return of alternate side parking this week as New York City returned to twice-a-week street sweeping following a two-year pandemic hiatus. “It sucks man,” said Ricardo Sinclair, 43, an electrician who commutes to Manhattan from Poughkeepsie. “During the pandemic, it was good because people...

A bit of double trouble may have been just what congressional wannabe Suraj Patel needed to double his pleasure. Patel says he raked in more than $1 million in recent months — almost matching the money he raised during the entire 2020 election cycle, when he last ran against veteran...

Fat, weak and slow is no way to become a cop — or is it? The NYPD dramatically relaxed the fitness requirements to become a city cop amid a record wave of retirements that has the brass desperate for warm bodies to fill the ranks, The Post has learned The...

Surveillance video captures the moment a Manhattan bodega worker allegedly stabbed a customer to death after the enraged man came around the counter and attacked him over a bag of chips. The worker is first seen on the shocking video tending to customers from behind the counter at the Hamilton...

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani underwent heart stent surgery Tuesday to open up two clogged arteries, his son, Andrew, and radio partner Maria Ryan said. Giuliani, 78, had been feverishly campaigning around the state for weeks on behalf of his son Andrew Giuliani’s bid for governor, which ended in last week’s primary...

The Catholic Archdiocese of Brooklyn is offering a $50,000 reward in the case of the bejeweled tabernacle shamelessly stolen from a Park Slope church over Memorial Day weekend.  Bishop Robert Brennan on Tuesday announced the hefty reward for information leading to the return of the holy item stolen from St....

The partner of former Yankees and Mets pitcher David Cone has been accused in a lawsuit of starting a fire at the couple’s Manhattan apartment in a bid to land a role on “The Real Housewives of New York City.” The blaze broke out inside Cone and partner Taja Abitbol’s...

The show isn’t over just yet for this cabaret owner.  Financially beleaguered jiggle-joint proprietor Robert Gans filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday to save his at least 11-property portfolio from falling to lenders.  Gans’ holdings include the Manhattan adult entertainment establishments Executive Club, in Hell’s Kitchen, and Chelsea’s Scores New York,...

Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday announced the second Big Apple crackdown on paper license plates and so-called “ghost cars” in as many years, charging that phony tags are used by scofflaws who commit other crimes. “When you see people using these paper plates, many times they are doing something illegal....

A man was stabbed to death while sleeping on a park bench in Manhattan, police said. Police responded to West Street and Christopher Street in Hudson River Park at around 4:40 a.m. Tuesday and found the 34-year-old with a gash wound to his stomach, cops said. EMS took the victim...

Donald Trump is definitely running for president again in 2024 and will easily win the Republican nomination and retake the White House, his self-proclaimed “secret adviser” claims in a provocative new book. Dick Morris, a veteran political consultant who advised Bill Clinton for years, says he served as an unpaid,...

New York City hotels are taking a hard line on firearms in response to the controversial US Supreme Court decision striking down century-old state rules on carrying concealed weapons.   Supporters say keeping guests from packing heat is key to bringing the New York City hospitality sector back to life amid...

One of Mayor Eric Adams’ aides was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday morning while scouting a location in Brooklyn ahead of a planned visit by Hizzoner, law-enforcement sources told The Post. The aide, a civilian member of Adams’ advance team, was mugged by two men who approached him near the intersection...

Joey Chestnut laid a brutal headlock on the animal rights protester who stormed the stage during Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest –because he didn’t want to drop the franks in his hands, he told The Post Tuesday. In an interview the day after he inhaled 63 hot dogs at the annual Fourth...

More than 50 people were shot in the Big Apple over the Fourth of July weekend — including 21 gun violence victims on Independence Day alone, according to police. The count of 52 shooting victims between Friday through Monday marked a 62.5% increase from the same period last year, when...

Two men were killed and a third was wounded during a gunfight inside a Brooklyn deli — one of at least 14 shootings to break out in the Big Apple on the Fourth of July, police said Tuesday. Video obtained by The Post shows bullets flying in the Raspberry Deli...

Joey Chestnut acknowledged Tuesday he “doesn’t feel too great” a day after hoovering up 63 hot dogs while cruising to victory in the annual Nathan’s Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest — but downplayed the post-binge bloat, saying it’s similar to the routine soreness other athletes experience. “I probably smell like...

Nothing drives frustration like keeping a car on the street in NYC. Alternate side parking has been the scourge of city drivers for the better part of a century — and it’s about to get a whole lot worse. NYC has opted to reinstate two-day-a-week ASP on July 5, after...

One person was killed and at least 12 others were injured in a spate of shootings across New York City during a bloody nine-hour period on Independence Day, police said. Only the borough of Staten Island was spared from the stretch of violence that began at around 3:10 p.m. in...

Two Long Island beaches reopened Monday morning for the busy Fourth of July holiday after officials were forced to close them to swimmers the day before when a shark attacked a lifeguard. Smith Point and Cupsogue beaches in Suffolk County reopened for swimming at 10 a.m. after lifeguards gave the...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has scrapped an executive order issued by predecessor Andrew Cuomo that sought to prevent state-funded service providers from paying “excessive” salaries to executives. Cuomo’s 2012 edict capped executive salaries for thousands of not-for-profit providers at $199,000. Salaries could only get bumped with a waiver or approval from...

Gunfire erupted outside the Dior Boutique in the swanky Manhattan neighborhood of Soho on Monday — wounding a cop’s boyfriend, law-enforcement sources told The Post. The 27-year-old victim was sitting in a gray Toyota Camry in front of the high-end Dior New York Soho shop at 105 Greene St. when...

A man was shot and critically wounded walking across a Queens street in broad daylight on the Fourth of July, police and police sources said. The bullets flew at 208th Street and 116th Avenue in Cambria Heights around 3:10 p.m., leaving the victim, in his 30s, with a gunshot wound...

Rep. Mondaire Jones’ new Brooklyn neighbors fumed Monday about the “carpetbagger” broadcasting that he will barnstorm the country if he wins his Democratic primary— a planned multi-state “mission” he revealed even before moving to the area he is seeking to represent. Jones, whose current seat covers most of Rockland County and part of Westchester,...