Gov. Cuomo managed to get his controversial overhaul of the state’s election laws and campaign-finance regulations included in the sprawling $177 billion budget, effectively ending a court fight that had tied the proposal up for months. The overhaul will make it significantly harder for third parties to maintain their lines on the ballot, including Cuomo’s...

A 62-year-old security officer at a state psychiatric facility who had coronavirus has died, marking the first COVID-19-linked death among members of the union for state corrections and police officers. William Plantt, a Brooklyn resident who worked at the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center in Manhattan, died on Thursday night, according to a release from the...

JPMorgan pressured its traders to come into work despite a coronavirus outbreak on its Midtown trading floor, a new report alleges — and now nearly two dozen traders are sick and another 65 are in quarantine. In just three weeks some 20 employees on one floor in the investment bank’s Madison Avenue headquarters have tested...

Federal authorities are slow-walking $325 million in desperately needed aid for city public hospitals to cover coronavirus expenses, Sen. Chuck Schumer charges in a letter obtained by The Post. “New York City has followed the steps outlined by FEMA, Congress has more than doubled the size of the Disaster Relief Fund, and yet the City...

Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a special thanks Friday to President Trump and the commander-in-chief’s senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, for making good on a promise to get 200,000 N95 masks to city hospitals amid the coronavirus pandemic. De Blasio, speaking during a press briefing on COVID-19, said that he was on a phone...

Big Apple food pantry providers are calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio to match the $25 million in emergency funds that Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed to include for them in the new state budget, saying they’re facing unprecedented demands because of the coronavirus pandemic and also need the city’s help. “There’s no time to waste,”...

By Friday night, the bruised Big Apple had its biggest spike in coronavirus cases and deaths in a single, 24-hour period since the outbreak hit New York last month. A staggering 6,582 additional people tested positive for the deadly bug since Thursday evening, bringing the city’s total confirmed cases to 56,289. Another 305 New Yorkers...

Former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will be sentenced in June for his most recent conviction in a corrupt kick-back scheme — despite the disgraced pol’s attempts to delay the hearing. Manhattan federal court Judge Valerie Caproni set a June 25 sentencing date for Silver, who is facing time for wire fraud, extortion and monetary...

A Deputy Chief Inspector with the FDNY has died from the coronavirus, fire officials confirmed Friday. Syed Rahman, a 22-year veteran of the fire department, was part of the clean-up at ground zero after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, according to a GoFundMe for his family. Rahman died Sunday at the age of 59. He...

This hail mary from New England Patriots’ owner Robert Kraft has earned a cheer from New York’s biggest Jets superfan. “I don’t like his team. They’ve been beating us up for quite some time. But Kraft is just a wonderful guy, so I’m not surprised by his actions,” said Jets superfan Ed Anzalone, aka Fireman...

Mayor Bill de Blasio warned Friday that the Big Apple needs an influx of medical supplies and an additional 45,000 healthcare workers in order to get through the fight against coronavirus in the coming days and weeks ahead. “This Friday afternoon we are beginning a race against time as we prepare for next week,” the...

The NYPD has partnered with three health care groups to provide free coronavirus testing to all cops. Officers who are showing symptoms similar to the pandemic COVID-19 will be able to visit one of 74 locations in and around the Big Apple, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea wrote Friday in a department-wide email. “This comes at...

Nadia Zevallos says she was driven out of the American Dental Center in Union after complaining about the rampant party culture promoted by her supervisor Lilly Almeida, according to her Union County lawsuit filed Thursday.

The Sergeants Benevolent Association was making its way to every precinct, housing bureau and transit district to deliver 80,000 bottles of hand sanitizer and 500 galloons of bleach.

The release follows Trump administration coronavirus coordinator Deborah Birx saying Thursday that she could tell by the US increase in new infections that people were not universally abiding by requests that they stay home.

Hundreds of mourners on motorbikes flouted the ban on large crowds and swarmed the streets outside a Queens funeral home Friday — while two NYPD cops even directed traffic, The Post has learned. The streets were filled with the high-speed funeral procession at about 10:30 a.m. at the Leahy McDonald Funeral home at 111th Street...

Suffolk County District Judge Robert Cicale pleaded guilty in September to second-degree attempted burglary, a felony, for breaking into the home of a 23-year-old woman who used to be the pervy judge's intern on separate occasions and stealing panties from her laundry hamper.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state would assist the coronavirus-stricken NYPD however possible Friday, as the pandemic has sickened nearly 20 percent of the force. “That’s a problem. That’s a problem in the NYPD, that’s a problem in the FDNY, it’s a problem all across the board,” Cuomo told reporters during a press conference at...

Queens continued to top the five boroughs with the most coronavirus cases at 17,832 as of Friday morning.

Arlene Stringer-Cuevas, a former city councilwoman in the 1970s and mother of Comptroller Scott Stringer, passed away Friday morning from complications of the coronavirus. She was 86 years old. The comptroller announced his mother’s death on Twitter Friday, saying it’s a “heartbreaking moment for me, my wife, and our entire family.” Stringer called the Bronx-born...