The Lower East Side condo owner who cut his apartment in half horizontally to rent bizarre pint-sized units to 11 desperate tenants wasn’t the only enterprising landlord in his building. The city Buildings Department issued 10 violations to Jing Ya Lin, the owner of unit 701 at 165 Henry Street, after a tip from the...

A man tried to escape from a bail bondsman at criminal court, but was nabbed outside and brought back, police said Saturday. The 25-year-old man was at Manhattan Criminal Court on Centre Street when he slipped away from a private bail bondsman around 2:30 a.m., officials said. NYPD officers helped catch the fleeing criminal, though...

A Queens man was arrested after he stabbed another man the eye with a stolen knife outside a Brooklyn bodega early Saturday morning, officials said. Terrell Herring, 28, went behind the counter of a store on Broadway near Dekalb Avenue in Bushwick at about 1:40 a.m. and grabbed a knife, according to police. Herring then...

The person of interest who sparked an evacuation in Lower Manhattan in the rice cooker subway scare has been apprehended, cops said Saturday. The arrest unfolded around 1 a.m. in the Bronx, where police also took a shopping cart into evidence, cell phone video shows.  Responders were originally called to the apartment on Rev. James...

A 6-month-old infant who was with her mother in their Bronx home on Friday evening lost consciousness and died, police said. The baby, Charlie McCall, was awake and well with her mother at their home on Jefferson Place near Clinton Avenue in Morrisania soon before 9 p.m. when it suddenly passed out, cops said. The...

A child was found dead in a locked, hot car in a New Jersey commuter rail parking lot on Friday, police said. The kid, whose name and age were not released, was found lifeless by medics Friday afternoon in a Pennsylvania-New Jersey rapid transit system parking lot in Lindenwold, authorities said. Temperatures in the area...

Cops like NYPD suicide victim Robert Echeverria keep their mental health struggles a secret for fear their bosses will take their guns away — and demote them to a desk job where they’ll lose their overtime pay, his sister told The Post. “I offered my brother $500 to go to a private psychiatrist,” Eileen Echeverria...

The real estate market in New York has never been this tight. A Lower East Side condo owner turned his small apartment into a mini-village — by converting it into an illegal duplex with 11 sub-units that had ceilings as low as 4 ¹/₂ feet high, officials said Friday. The illegal micro apartments at 165...

A deputy director with Chirlane McCray’s embattled $1 billion mental-health project ThriveNYC admitted in an e-mail that her group “mishandled” a seminar allegedly scuttled over its ties to Blue Lives Matter. The training session was for first-responders and supposed to feature counselors from the costly initiative founded by Mayor de Blasio’s wife. But Thrive pulled...

A judge rejected the National Rifle Association’s first bid to be in the room while the state Attorney General’s office questions ex-NRA president Oliver North about how the non-profit organization spent its money. The NRA filed the emergency petition Friday asking a judge to issue a temporary restraining order to stop the AG’s deposition of...

Mayor Bill de Blasio has repeatedly touted the “grassroots” nature of his quixotic presidential campaign but nearly 70 percent of his donors are tied to a single union — the powerful Hotel Trades Council. The 40,000-member HTC is the only union that’s endorsed de Blasio’s long-shot 2020 bid. The June 5 endorsement came after his administration’s...

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo made good Friday on an agreement restoring the state comptroller’s pre-audit powers over economic development projects tied to the state and New York City university systems — following corruption scandals that led to major convictions, including that of former top aide Joe Percoco. The agreement empowers Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s office to oversee...

ALBANY — Advocates for child sex abuse victims say Gov. Andrew Cuomo is dragging his feet on signing education legislation that could decrease future child sex abuse cases. “Erin’s Law” requires at least one hour per school year to teach kids in kindergarten through eighth grade about abuse and how to report it. A 2015...

Labor leaders and a close ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo dueled over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s bombshell examination of its soaring overtime tab Friday, trading barbs over the causes of the agency’s runaway labor costs. The furious exchanges between the president of the MTA’s largest union, John Samuelsen — a non-voting board member — and...

A Manhattan federal judge has ruled that a Muslim former member of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s protective detail can continue his lawsuit against the city for failing to promote him, according to documents obtained by The Post. Detective Abdelim “Abe” Azab filed a $7 million suit against the city last year, claiming he was repeatedly...

The suspect wanted for Friday’s rice cooker bomb scare is a 26-year-old West Virginia native who is facing charges in his home state for allegedly sending bestiality videos involving a chicken to a minor, law enforcement sources told The Post. Cops believe Larry Griffin II, of Bruno, is the same man caught on CCTV leaving...

An official autopsy shows that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself by hanging, authorities said Friday. The 66-year-old pedophile died in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan last week, according to findings by the city Medical Examiner’s Office. The multimillionaire was being held on federal sex-trafficking raps that could have sent him to...

The state comptroller will audit conditions at the city’s special education schools — after a series of Post articles exposed harrowing conditions at a Queens facility for disabled kids last month. State officials sent schools Chancellor Richard Carranza a letter Tuesday asking for the Department of Education’s compliance with the probe, slated to launch at...

Lt. Brian "Sully" Sullivan was 54 years old. He died after suffering a heart attack in his Orange County home early Aug. 10. He had just finished a day-long tour, during which he responded to seven emergencies and a kitchen fire, officials said.

A Florida man who says he was sexually abused decades ago by two Brooklyn rabbis — one of them accused serial molester Rabbi Joel Kolko — has filed suit under New York’s new Child Victims Act. Alleged victim Baruch Sandhaus claims the rabbis “would inappropriately touch” his private parts on various occasions between 1978 and...