Former NYPD Deputy Chief Inspector John Downer, who joined the force in 1941 and served more than 30 years, died this month at the age of 104, The Post has learned. Downer died on Feb. 14 and was mourned at a funeral on Thursday at St. Margaret’s Roman Catholic Church in Ridgewood, Queens, the NYPD...

A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot in Brooklyn Friday evening and police believe he may have been an innocent bystander, sources said. Samuel Joseph was struck in the face, neck and chest inside his apartment building in Flatbush at about 5:45 p.m., according to police. He was rushed to Kings County Hospital and pronounced dead,...

The blame game over the loss of an Amazon headquarters in New York reignited on Friday — a week after the e-tail giant pulled the project because of local opposition. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office took aim at a segment of the labor movement that fought the Amazon deal that would have provided at least 25,000...

Tracks all across the subway system are littered with dangerous debris that could potentially injure riders and people on the street — and MTA brass has long ignored warnings that the messes could cause a tragedy, agency workers told The Post. The clutter includes old pieces of wood, sections of metal rail, fiberglass and metal...

The Hells Angels are dumping their infamous clubhouse on the Lower East Side — selling the building that had been their headquarters for half a century to a developer. The clubhouse at 77 E. Third St. — aka the “Church of the Angels” — is being sold to East 3rd Street, a New York limited...

A man allegedly shot and killed his sister’s boyfriend in Brooklyn on Friday, sources said. The suspect shot his 23-year-old rival in the stomach and arm when he opened fire in East Flatbush at about 5 p.m., according to police sources. An unidentified driver took the victim to Brookdale Hospital, where he died. The boyfriend’s...

The mother of a young woman fatally gunned down outside a Flatiron club tearfully recalled her daughter’s death Friday before her killer was slammed with nearly four decades in prison. Party promoter Dalone “Smack” Jamison was hit with 39 years behind bars for the death of Walikque Faussett on Oct. 12, 2015. The victim’s mother,...

An airport baggage handler has been convicted of smuggling large amounts of cocaine through Newark International Airport to be sold in New York City, prosecutors announced Friday. Tyrone Woolaston — who worked for a commercial airline — was found guilty by a jury of smuggling at least 5 kilograms of cocaine stashed in suitcases out...

Two reputed MS-13 gang members accused in the broad-daylight fatal shooting of a rival on a Queens subway platform were ordered held without bail Friday. Tito Martinez-Alvarenga, 19, and Victor Lopez, 20, were both remanded at their arraignments in Queens Criminal Court on charges of second-degree murder, gang assault, kidnapping and criminal possession of a...

Rep. Nydia Velazquez sent out a fundraising email boasting that she’s fought to wrest power from “old white men.” But there was a problem with the pitch: Some of the people she’s soliciting for donations to her re-election campaign are … old white men. “When I was first elected to Congress, I ran against the...

WASHINGTON – Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a second trip to Washington in as many weeks Friday to plead for relief from the GOP tax plan, which he panned as a “gross injustice” that unfairly targets New York and other high-tax states. “It was a declaration of an economic civil war between Democratic states and Republican...

The Rikers inmate who called Mayor Bill de Blasio during his radio show to gripe about prison conditions told The Post Friday that he’d been trying to reach Hizzoner since a fire left inmates at a federal detention center in Brooklyn without heat during a cold snap. “I saw the city delivering blankets to MDC...

A middle-aged Manhattan pharmacist who swiped millions of dollars from Medicaid to fuel her extensive plastic surgery copped a plea deal Friday. Hin Wong, 50, pleaded guilty in Manhattan Criminal court to first-degree grand larceny for running a massive HIV pill scam. She agreed to forfeit $3.6 million as part of her plea bargain, which...

The MTA’s new fare payment system will be called OMNY – short for One Metro New York – and agency employees will test out the new contactless cards starting next week, according to a memo sent to workers. The pilot program being offered to MTA workers is the first major step toward the agency’s move...

Double vision! The conservative group that ripped Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on a Times Square billboard for opposing Amazon has doubled down by adding a second billboard. “That’s freedom of speech. That was our right that was given to us even if it is wrong and toes a line,” said a Staten Island resident walking by...

Authorities arrested the arsonist who set Macy’s merchandise on fire inside the dressing room of the Staten Island mall store after he returned to the location on Friday morning, police said. Brian Pierre, 22, was charged with arson, burglary, criminal mischief and petit larceny for Saturday’s arson — when he allegedly lit $200 worth of...

Mayor Bill de Blasio has gotten into a strange fight with the city’s Board of Elections, which is suing the city to block its translators from being placed inside poll sites for Tuesday’s special election for public advocate. Speaking on WNYC radio Friday, the mayor said communities “have been begging us” to provide interpreters beyond...

The Port Authority is a hotbed of racism run by a “white-shirt mafia,” a new lawsuit charges. Two Hispanic PA police officers claim in Manhattan federal court papers that no one is safe from the agency’s racist and misogynistic white male bosses. Officers Daniel Espinoza and Victor Rosado say they have heard their supervisors call...

President Trump on Friday said he was “surprised” that Robert Kraft was busted for patronizing a sleazy massage parlor in Florida — but emphasized that his billionaire buddy “has denied it.” The 77-year-old alleged horndog faces charges of paying for sex at a massage parlor in Jupiter staffed by victims of human trafficking, who were...

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s lawyers are asking for a new trial — following a bombshell article claiming multiple jurors in his recent trial regularly flouted court rules by reading news reports and social media posts about the case. The Mexican drug lord’s attorneys on Friday alerted Brooklyn federal Judge Brian Cogan that they plan on...