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Family of slain NYC hero fights cop killer’s parole every two years: ‘We’re forever in our life sentence’
The state is poised to spring a cop killer from prison — the 42nd in the past seven years — as the officer’s family fights to keep the career criminal behind bars, The Post has learned. Police Officer James Whittington was off-duty in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on Oct. 30, 1982, when he encountered felon Mitchell Martin, who was armed and fighting with a woman. Whittington chased after Martin while trying to arrest him before Martin fatally shot the police officer at close range. Man, 24, miraculously survives 120-foot jump off Brooklyn Bridge Martin was sentenced to 25 years to life and has been in...
This 30-year-old won the NYC housing lottery and pays $1,000/month for a luxury 1-bedroom apartment—take a look inside
Nkenge is a native New Yorker, born in the Bronx and raised in Harlem. While growing up in the city, living in a neighborhood like Manhattan's Flatiron, where the current median rent is $5,394, seemed like a distant possibility for the now 30-year-old content creator. But Nkenge's dream became a...
Man critically injured in early morning Manhattan stabbing
A man was seriously injured in an early morning stabbing in upper Manhattan, and detectives are searching for the assailant. Police found a 34-year-old man stabbed in the stomach near the corner of Dyckman Street and Broadway in Inwood.
Video Shows Serial Groper Trying To Drag Woman Behind Garfield Church: Investigators
Michael Hernandez, 25, of Ridgefield Park is seen following and then running up to the victim outside Praise Assembly church at the corner of Main Street and Banta Avenue shortly after 12 noon May 8, investigators said. He then grabbed her by her neck and backpack and unsuccessfully tried to...
Father of NYC menace ‘Ice Pick Nick’ grateful son is behind bars: ‘Saving his life’
The father of the East Village madman known as “Ice Pick Nick” is grateful his son is behind bars — for his own safety and that of his neighbors, he told The Post. “Being locked up is just saving his life,” Nicholas Babilonia Sr., 66, said days after The Post reported on his son’s decades-long reign of terror in the community and his recent, long-awaited arrest. “Maybe just leave him there till he fixes himself up.” Nicholas Babilonia Jr., 45, was finally sent to Rikers last week for allegedly threatening a person on Avenue C on May 10 with a...
Jerome Avenue Post Office Finally Reopens
The post office branch located at 3464 Jerome Avenue in Norwood reopened on May 2, after being closed for around one year. Google also lists the post office as reopened. As reported, a mobile unit parked outside the post office had been serving customers following confirmation from USPS last year that there was a raccoon infestation in the building.
Mother and son DOE employees scammed NYC school for kids with disabilities: probe
A mother and son duo employed by the city Department of Education scammed a Manhattan public school for kids with disabilities out of nearly $8,500, investigators found. Marlene Delgado, 62, is a school secretary at PS M169 on East 88th Street – a K-12 school for 305 students with special needs. She approved payments to her son, Nicholas Koukaras, 36, a substitute paraprofessional, on 55 days when he did not sign in or show up, the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools says in a newly-released March 23, 2023 report. Delgado, who was responsible for processing payments for subs, also credited her son...
Iconic NYC steakhouse sneakily displays ‘A’ health rating — when it earned a ‘C’
It’s a high-steaks scandal. Iconic Big Apple Theater District steakhouse Gallaghers has been displaying an “A” health rating on its storefront while online city records show it earned a “C”— and some customers now have beef with the pricey eatery. During its most recent reported inspection in May of last year, the white-tablecloth restaurant was found to have “filth flies” and workers with “inadequate” personal cleanliness such as untrimmed fingernails, according to online city Department of Health records. The inspector also reported the eatery — which sells prime rib for $78 a plate, and filet mignon for $67 — had kitchen surfaces that...
Kingsbridge Heights: Infant Hospitalized after Reported Seizure at Kingsbridge Heights Community Center
A 3-YEAR-OLD CHILD attending Kingsbridge Heights Community Center (KHCC) was treated on scene by EMS personnel for a reported seizure on Friday afternoon, May 17, and was later transferred to Montefiore Medical Center, city officials said. The NYPD and FDNY/EMS said they were alerted to the incident at the center’s...
Kingsbridge Heights: Lawyer for “Fentanyl” Daycare Owner: “She’s not a Monster”
Editor’s Note: The following is an extended version of the story that appears in our print edition dated April 18-May 1, 2024. Bronx daycare owner, Grei Mendez, appeared in Bronx Criminal Court on Tuesday, April 9. Facing various State charges, following the unintentional death by fentanyl poisoning of one-year-old Nicholas Feliz Dominici at Divino Niño Daycare Center in Kingsbridge Heights on Sept. 15, 2023, her defense attorney alleges she’s not a monster.
Man, 24, miraculously survives 120-foot jump off Brooklyn Bridge
A man miraculously survived a 120-foot jump off of the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, police and sources said. The 24-year-old splashed down into the East River around 1:30 p.m., police said. Anti-Israel protesters are disrupting our way of life and have to stop causing chaos He was still conscious when an NYPD Harbor Unit in the area pulled him out of the water, according to police. Controversial CUNY Law grad now at helm of radical group gets cuffed at NYC anti-Israel protest — and defiantly grins when freed CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR METRO DAILY NEWSLETTER He was brought to Pier 16 in Manhattan and taken by EMS to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, cops said. Photos from the scene show the man being taken away in a stretcher with a brace around his neck. The investigation is ongoing, cops said. For the latest metro stories, top headlines, breaking news and more, visit nypost.com/metro/
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