The Barnard college freshman who was knifed to death in Manhattan's Morningside Park on Wednesday was scheduled to play two rock shows at venues in her native Charlottesville, Virginia, during winter break, a club manager told the Post.

Zymere Perkins’ mom admitted Thursday she initially lied to cops about her son’s murder to minimize her culpability. On Sept. 26, 2016, Geraldine Perkins, 29, passively stood by as her ex-boyfriend, Rysheim Smith, 45, allegedly beat her 6-year-old with a broomstick handle then left him to die. Smith allegedly left the apartment for 2¹/₂ hours,...

A Queens woman pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter on Wednesday for fatally shooting her boyfriend in August 2015 and then setting his body on fire. Dawn McIntosh, of Astoria, Queens, faces up to 24 years in prison plus five years of supervised release when she returns to court for sentencing next month, according to the...

New York City is booming, with the outer boroughs leading all counties in the Empire State for increased economic activity and production, according to new federal data released Thursday. Staten Island ranked first in the state’s 62 counties for the amount that its gross domestic product shot up between 2017 and 2018, 7.8%, from $13.46...

Lax discipline at a top city middle school enabled the sexual abuse of a teen girl last month, her irate parents told The Post on Thursday. The father of an eighth-grader at Marie Curie Middle School in Bayside said a classmate sexually harassed her beginning in September — relentlessly asking her to have sex and...

Mayor Bill de Blasio has “mixed feelings” about a new executive order signed by President Trump that defines Judaism as a nationality — and not just a religion. The Trump Administration claims the new order will help fight anti-Semitism on college campuses but hizzoner said he worried about “free speech” rights. “I have not read...

A Manhattan woman has filed a lawsuit claiming a creepy former NYCHA staffer slid into her DMs — and then showed up in her apartment where he asked her to pull down her pants. Jennifer Calcano told The Post she had no idea the man messaging her on Instagram did repair work at the Upper...

The Jersey City killers were repeatedly seen attending an anti-Semitic Black Hebrew Israelite church in Harlem, The Post has learned. The superintendent of the building that houses the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ said he immediately recognized photos of David Anderson and Francine Graham in news coverage of their Tuesday rampage. “I’ve seen...

Michael Bloomberg says he feels like a billion bucks. The former New York mayor’s campaign released a report from his doctor Thursday that described him as “a 77-year-old man in outstanding health” with “no medical concerns, present or looming, that would prevent him from serving as President of the United States.” The report acknowledged that...

A member of the city Sanitation Department’s police force was given a three-day, unpaid suspension after he copped to using his parking permit for his personal car. Twenty-year Sanitation Department vet Carlos Rodriguez admitted to using a city-issued placard — intended for agency cruisers only — to plop his own car in a no-parking zone...

The heartbroken family of Tessa Majors mourned the slain Barnard College freshman as “very special” in an emotional statement released on Thursday. “We lost a very special, very talented, and very well-loved young woman,” read a the family statement released through the office of the teen’s father, author Inman Majors. “Tess shone bright in this...

A ring of companies behind a magazine subscription scam was ordered to pay more than $16 million in restitution and fines, the New York Attorney General’s office announced Thursday. Orbital Publishing Group, Inc. and other connected New York and Ohio-based companies were sued by the AG’s office in 2015 for mailing out millions of deceptive...

The threesome "all stood together, which created a wall, [and] would not move, aggressively blocking pedestrians trying to walk by," near West 49th Street and Sixth Avenue around 2 p.m., one source said.

Two more of the MTA’s fingerprint-scanning time clocks have been found smashed in apparent acts of sabotage in the last week alone — and now the agency’s watchdog wants to install surveillance cameras to keep an eye on workers. MTA Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny announced the latest vandalized clocks — the eighth and ninth in...

Students at both Barnard College and nearby Columbia University were on edge Thursday in the wake of the murder of Barnard freshman Tessa Majors inside Morningside Park. “It’s just so shocking that it happened so close to campus,” said Camila Vicioso, a 20-year-old Columbia freshman. “She was just walking in Morningside Park, not even that...

City taxi regulators are requesting that licensed hacks ask passengers whether they identify as he, she, they or ze, according to an "inclusive language tips" email-blasted to drivers Wednesday morning.

The FBI is investigating the Jersey City slayings as a “domestic terrorist event” based on the killers’ apparent hatred of Jews and cops, officials said Thursday. “We believe the suspects held views which reflected hatred of the Jewish people as well as hatred of law enforcement,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said. Grewal cited...

Santa Claus is coming to town — via the East River? Several eagle-eyed New Yorkers spotted the jollier-than-usual old elf taking a watery spin around Manhattan Wednesday morning. In videos posted to Twitter, tweeters were shocked to see Kris Kringle, sans reindeer and sleigh, making a leisurely trek near the Brooklyn Bridge. “Santa????” asked a...

An alleged narcotics dealer tossed a handful of deadly fentanyl powder at a cop investigating a Bronx drug packaging mill, authorities said Thursday. Members of the New York Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Strike Force burst into 304 Willis Ave. with a search warrant on November 7. They found seven alleged dealers in the apartment surrounded...

A makeshift memorial was set up Thursday morning at the scene of the Jersey City slaughter -- and includes calls that two victims' "blood should be avenged."