Connecticut officials reported zero coronavirus deaths Tuesday for the first time since March. The good news came as Gov. Ned Lamont announced he would be pausing Connecticut’s third phase of reopening, “erring on the side of caution” after seeing spikes in cases in other states. Bars will remain closed and indoor gatherings will be limited...

This hospital has a lot of wings. St. Barnabas Hospital has built a hive for hundreds of thousands of bees on its roof — but the Bronx infirmary says the insects are nothing to bee afraid of, and could actually provide some sweet relief for the local community. The Belmont hospital unveiled the bee colony...

The new head of the NYPD’s Community Affairs Bureau said the city needs community “buy-in” to stop the shootings that have rattled Gotham for weeks. “We have to have buy-in from the community,” Assistant Chief Jeffrey Maddrey said at police headquarters in One Police Plaza Tuesday. “The community wants to us to go out there...

Ghislaine Maxwell should be kept on suicide watch at her federal lockup in Brooklyn because her case is too explosive to risk her killing herself behind bars, a former warden of the jail told The Post Tuesday. Cameron Lindsay, who served as the warden at the Metropolitan Detention Center for three years, said he wouldn’t...

A top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo is getting hammered on Twitter after engaging in snarky social media attacks against critics of the administration’s controversial nursing home policy during the coronavirus pandemic. Cuomo senior adviser Richard Azzopardi struck back on Twitter Tuesday after upstate Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik and others scoffed at a state Health...

Nearly two dozen elite private schools in New York City are listed as having received millions of dollars in federal bailouts meant for small businesses struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to data released by the Small Business Administration. At least 23 schools were listed among about 600,000 recipients of forgivable loans under the Paycheck...

Police falsely accused an innocent woman of robbery when they splashed her face across an online wanted poster that is still being circulated months after she proved her innocence, according to a new lawsuit. Vanessa Adames says the post — which features separate photos of her and three other people — went up on the...

A Brooklyn water main break flooded basements in a row of brownstones in Park Slope with up to five feet of water and turned the neighborhood into an ankle-deep lake Tuesday morning. The pipe burst on St. Johns Place near Fifth Avenue shortly before 10 a.m., forcing firefighters to cordon off the street for several...

A Jersey City man died on July 4th when a firework he was holding exploded into his chest, officials believe. The 33-year-old man, who has not been identified, was “struck in the chest by a firework” around 1 a.m. Saturday outside a housing complex on Fremont Street, a spokeswoman for the Jersey City mayor’s office...

A stray bullet zoomed into a young girl’s Harlem bedroom on the Fourth of July as one of the dozens of gun battles logged that night raged outside, cops said. Multiple people fired off several shots around 3:20 p.m. on the holiday, striking at least three vehicles and the front doors of two first-flooor apartments...

City bus drivers are being directed to open windows and hatches on local routes to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, according to internal documents. “Bus operators are permitted to operate local buses in service with windows and roof hatches open in order to increase ventilation when weather permits,” according to a June 23 internal...

The NYPD is probing whether two men killed in a hail of bullets inside a Bronx apartment building hallway were murdered as revenge for the fatal drive-by shooting of a dad walking with his 6-year-old daughter, police sources told The Post. A pair of gunmen cornered Joel Baba, Eghosa Imafidon and a third man in...

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday offered no concrete answers to address the recent wave of shootings plaguing the Big Apple — as he dodged questions from every major city newspaper. “[There’s] a lot we need to do to provide more and better options, particularly for young people in Harlem, in Upper Manhattan,” de Blasio...

Oh deer. The city is giving its pricey Staten Island deer vasectomy program the snip for the rest of the year due to Parks Department budget cuts. The $6.6 million program, now in its fifth year, was designed to trim the borough’s randy deer population by sterilizing bucks — but will now be put on...

A Connecticut teacher who disappeared on his 50th birthday while quarantining over COVID-19 fears has been found dead on Long Island, police said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday he won’t fire NYPD Police Commissioner Dermot Shea — despite a city councilman’s calls for the top cop’s ouster amid a weekend pierced by gunfire. “The answer is no,” de Blasio said when asked if he was considering making changes to NYPD brass. “And the reason is that this...

A plan to expand bus lanes, bike paths and sidewalks across the Big Apple has been stalled amid the coronavirus pandemic and the city’s budget crunch, The Post has learned. The “streets master plan” hatched by City Council Speaker Corey Johnson now faces “COVID-19 delays,” according to budget documents released by the city last week. Amid a...

Childcare centers across New York City will be able to reopen as early as Monday. The city’s Board of Health voted Tuesday to OK the measure that would reopen more than 3,000 city-regulated centers that had been shut due to the coronavirus pandemic. “The Board of Health is looking at the data, looking at the...

Cops are looking for a perv who attempted to rape a woman inside her Queens building this week. The 37-year-old woman was returning to her Ridgewood home at Gates and Cypress avenues around 8 a.m. Monday when a stranger followed her into the building, authorities said. Once inside, the man shoved the victim to the...

A gunman opened fire outside a Brooklyn apartment building just moments after a child walked inside, disturbing new video shows. The footage, released by police Monday night and captured around 12:45 a.m. Friday, shows an adult, followed by a small child wearing a red hat, walking into the Sheepshead Bay Houses on Avenue W near...