Public Advocate Jumaane Williams has withdrawn his nomination of a left-wing activist and tenant advocate to the City Planning Commission. Last month, Williams formally recommended Cea Weaver for the appointment to the agency — but in a Feb. 19 letter to Council Speaker Corey Johnson, he wrote, “I hereby ask the City Council to withdraw...

New York state’s embattled health commissioner refused on Thursday to say who in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration ordered that the number of nursing home residents who died of COVID-19 in hospitals be kept under wraps. During a virtual budget hearing, Dr. Howard Zucker was questioned by state Sen. Tom O’Mara (R-Elmira) about why he “stonewalled”...

Nearly a dozen alleged members and associates of a violent New York street gang were busted Thursday — including a pair of crooked correction officers accused of helping smuggle sheets of K-2 into Rikers Island. The 10 new arrests are part of a superseding indictment filed in Brooklyn federal court naming a total of 45...

Police have arrested the woman suspected of shoving a 54-year-old housekeeper onto elevated subway tracks in the Bronx earlier this month. Luz Sanchez, 29, is accused of shoving Rosa Galeas onto the tracks while the victim waited for the subway at 174th Street station at around 7:50 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9. The arrest comes...

A New Jersey school district voted this week to become the first in the state to require an African-American history course for graduation. The Cherry Hill school board voted 8-0 — with one abstention — to mandate the class for their roughly 11,000 students, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Momentum for the move accelerated after...

The reviews are in: remote learning is “boring.” And it’s also “weird,” students told Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of Education Chancellor Richard Carranza during their visit to a Bronx middle school on Thursday. Hizzoner and his schools honcho got an earful when they visited the Leaders of Tomorrow school to mark the partial...

New York City’s hospitals were woefully unprepared for last year’s nightmare surge in COVID-19 patients due to a lack of planning from the city, the state and the facilities themselves — especially when it came to deciding who lived and who died, according to a new report. When precious resources like ventilators and oxygen cylinders...

New York City has a surplus of COVID-19 vaccines this week after delayed shipments finally arrived — so it’s ramping up hours and doubling the number of appointments at some inoculation sites, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday. The shipment that was supposed to be delivered to the city last week got delayed due to...

New York Attorney General Letitia James is mulling a request to launch an independent probe of sexual harassment claims leveled against Gov. Andrew Cuomo by a former aide. James is “reviewing” a letter sent to her by five female Republican state senators requesting an “immediate appointment of a Special Prosecutor” to review Lindsey Boylan’s accusations...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez growled on Twitter on Thursday about the NYPD’s new robotic dog, which was tested on her home turf in the Bronx this week. “Shout out to everyone who fought against community advocates who demanded these resources go to investments like school counseling instead,” the New York Congresswoman tweeted out. “Now robotic surveillance ground...

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday distanced President Biden from his past assessment that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the “gold standard” of COVID-19 management — and she said allegations of sexual harassment against the New York Democrat should be investigated. Psaki said it was important to recall that Biden said positive things about...

New York state’s embattled health commissioner on Thursday publicly pleaded with his critics to tone down their attacks on him and Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the cover-up of the COVID-19 death toll among nursing home residents as he continued to insist he did nothing wrong. In prepared remarks delivered at the start of a joint...

NYPD Chief Terence Monahan will serve as a senior adviser at City Hall after he retires as the department’s top uniformed cop, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday. Monahan, 59, will work with the mayor and new Big Apple “recovery czar” Lorraine Grillo as de Blasio’s senior adviser for recovery, safety, and planning, the mayor...

A man carrying a bouquet of flowers strolled into a Bronx cell phone store — shoved an employee and then ripped off $16,000 from an unlocked safe, police said. The crook entered the Boost Mobile store on East 170th Street near Walton Avenue in Mount Eden around 12:20 p.m. Monday, carrying the yellow flowers as...

Former President Donald Trump’s tax returns and related records have been turned over to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office as part of a criminal probe — after he lost a protracted battle to keep them under wraps. “Our office obtained the records on Monday,” said Danny Frost, a spokesman for Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr....

A substitute teacher and her 11-year-old son were found dead in a New Jersey pond, authorities said. The bodies of Warda Syed, 35, and her son, Uzair Ahmed, were found late Tuesday in the upper pond section of Grace Lord Park in Boonton, the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office said Wednesday. Syed’s 6-year-old son, who was...

Suffolk County police said the unidentified worker was "leveling out the bottom" of a grave at Washington Memorial Park in Mount Sinai when the grave gave way around 8:30 a.m.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo trotted out a top aide on Thursday to defend his administration’s handling of nursing homes amid the COVID-19 pandemic — shortly before the state health commissioner faced a grilling on the subject by state legislators. Cuomo’s press office released a 1,700-plus-word statement by former secretary to the governor, Steven Cohen, that largely echoed...

There is no evidence yet that the new strain of coronavirus that has emerged in New York City is affecting the Big Apple’s COVID-19 caseload — but it remains a “variant of interest,” health officials said Thursday. City Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi said during a City Hall press briefing that there’s no evidence “at this point”...

Mayor Bill de Blasio is calling for an independent investigation into what he called the “really disturbing” sexual harassment allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo. De Blasio said Thursday that a probe into claims by former Cuomo aide Lindsey Boylan needed to be conducted by “some individual or entity that is not compromised” or “dominated” by...