A Brooklyn courtroom Thursday heard notorious Mexican kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in action, listening in on a phone call where he can be heard coordinating a cocaine deal with a member of a Colombian guerrilla group. “Tomorrow I will send a technician over there to see it,” Chapo insists on the call, which was...

The city has agreed to a $2 million settlement with the family of a mentally ill woman who was shot to death by police in her Bronx apartment in October 2016 while wielding a bat, court filings show. City officials said they settled the civil suit with the family of Deborah Danner based in part...

Albany legislators who are about to become the highest-paid state lawmakers in the nation claim they’re getting a raw deal because they’ll have to limit outside income and give up most of their “lulus” — bonus pay for leadership posts. Base salaries of legislators would jump from $79,500 to $130,000 by 2021 under a plan...

A woman was raped by a stranger after falling asleep on a subway train in Brooklyn, police said. The 25-year-old Brooklyn resident told police she was riding the F train around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday when she drifted off — and awoke sometime later to find the man sexually assaulting her. The victim got off the...

A massive wave of online bomb threats aimed at extorting bitcoins swept across New York, much of the US and Canada on Thursday, leaving several big cities on edge and investigators hunting for the source, according to officials and reports. The emails — some bearing the subject line “Think Twice” — popped up in US...

City Hall is quietly orchestrating a campaign to pressure a federal judge not to place the Housing Authority under federal receivership — warning that that would result in “pushing longtime tenants out of their homes.” “Under President Trump — who attempted to zero out the budget for public housing — direct federal control would be...

Mourners packed a Brooklyn funeral home Thursday to say goodbye to their fallen brother Faizal Coto, killed in a road-rage attack on the Belt Parkway. Leone Funeral Home in Sunset Park was too small by half to hold the throngs, with hundreds packed inside and an equal number overflowing onto Fourth Avenue under light snow...

Good Samaritans rushed to bring a woman to safety after a stranger shoved her onto the subway tracks Thursday morning, according to police and witnesses. The woman was standing on the uptown 4- and 5-train platform at Union Square subway station around 10:45 a.m. when a stranger pushed her — sending her falling onto the...

Ray Donovan really has come to New York — but the only thing he’s fixing is the drug epidemic. The Justice Department on Thursday announced the name of New York’s new state drug czar — and it’s a name he shares with the fictional Showtime series tough guy played by Liev Schreiber, whose character is...

Police on Thursday busted the hate-filled rider who fractured a woman’s spine during an attack on a Queens subway, authorities said. Allasheed Allah, 54, was arrested Thursday morning and charged with assault as a hate crime and aggravated assault as a hate crime for the Nov. 30 attack, police and sources said. He was nabbed...

The NYPD commissioner on Thursday defended his cops’ handling of the chaotic fracas at a Brooklyn benefits center that saw a baby torn from his mom’s arms — adding that policy reforms are on the way at the Human Resources Administration, whose guards were also involved. “Cops have difficult jobs. They’re challenging,” top cop James...

This Brooklyn “dollar van” ride turned into a commute from hell. A new viral video shows terrified passengers aboard a packed discount bus screaming and pleading for their driver to “stop” the vehicle, as the reckless motorist leads police on a wild, high-speed chase through the streets of Flatbush. “Stop the bus and let’s get...

A subway rider made a citizen’s arrest of a violent straphanger who repeatedly kicked a passenger on a Brooklyn subway train and hurled a racial slur at the woman. Anna Lushchinskaya, 40, was charged with felony assault following the wild Tuesday morning incident around 8 a.m. aboard the D-train in Sunset Park, the NYPD said....

The newly engaged couple whose tale of losing their engagement ring down a Times Square utility grate went viral has been reunited with the sparkler – and the big-hearted NYPD cops who found the piece of jewelry. The emotional moment happened on the “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in an episode set to air Thursday afternoon....

A massive blaze ravaged six Queens businesses early Thursday — causing a restaurant building to collapse — and injuring 12 people, officials said. The raging five-alarm fire broke out around 2:15 a.m. inside the New York Style Eats diner on Queens Boulevard near 42nd Street in Sunnyside, according to the FDNY. Video posted to the...

A Brooklyn man has been busted for allegedly leaving death threats on a female US senator’s voicemail. “If I see you on the streets, I’m gonna f–king light you up with f–king bullets,” David Brogan snarled in a message to the unnamed lawmaker, according to Brooklyn federal-court documents. “I value the God-given right to life,”...

A chromed replica of Wall Street’s iconic “Charging Bull” is headed to the auction block. The statue is being auctioned off along with other goodies once owned by by the disgraced late military contractor David H. Brooks. The Long Islander died in federal prison while serving time for insider trading. Some of his former possessions...

Lots of guys have a wingman — but when married mayoral donor Jeremy Reichberg tried to impress a lady, he had NYPD brass and a police chauffeur at his beck and call, according to court testimony Wednesday. In 2014, Reichberg got a sergeant to drive her to and from a nail salon on Church Street...

Leaving MS-13 is a lot harder than joining it. An unnamed member of the notorious gang tried to quit — but in January his former fellow gangsters learned he had inked over his distinctive MS-13 tattoo — and surveilled him in Jamaica, Queens, for months planning a hit, prosecutors said in court papers Wednesday. Luckily,...

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was so touched when an associate gave him a helicopter that “his little eyes were actually shining,” a cohort-turned-canary testified in Brooklyn court Wednesday. Federal witness Jorge Cifuentes recounted for jurors how he purchased the “small” chopper, a blue MD 520N, for the pint-sized accused Mexican drug lord in 2003. Cifuentes...