DOVER, N.J. — More than 100 people are homeless after a fast-moving fire ripped through the business district of a New Jersey town, destroying multiple businesses. Firefighters remain on the scene Tuesday hours after the blaze broke out in the basement of a luncheonette in downtown Dover Monday afternoon. The fire, fed by natural gas,...

An explosive device was found Monday in the mailbox of billionaire George Soros’ New York house, according to police. An employee at the Katonah home opened a package that had been placed in the mailbox and found the device, Bedford Police said. The employee placed the package in a wooded area near the home, which...

The 104th Precinct in Queens began neighborhood policing Monday, and Midtown North will start using the strategy Tuesday, officials announced. They are the last two precincts to employ the proactive tactic designed to let officers get to know the people in the community and their crime-related problems. Crime is down 8.3 percent and shootings have...

Keep your friends close — and your guns closer. Brooklyn thugs have been stashing their pieces at downtown construction sites while they go to court nearby, according to Borough President Eric Adams. In explaining a recent spate of daytime shootings in the area, the cop-turned-pol said gangbangers are carrying guns to court and parole dates...

If the lucky ticket is bought in the five boroughs, state officials and City Hall will score at least a $115 million payday. If all the money was delivered to the embattled New York City Housing Authority, it would be exactly enough to overhaul the Gun Hill Houses, home to 732 apartments in The Bronx....

New York descended into Mega Millions mania on Monday, with hopefuls making a mad dash to snap up tickets ahead of Tuesday night’s record $1.6 billion jackpot drawing. “I got the winner right here! This is the one!” exclaimed Long Island Rail Road train conductor Dana Rizzuto, 49, of East Islip, LI, as she forked...

New Yorkers were dreaming big about what they’d do with the Mega Millions jackpot — but they should dream bigger. Season tickets for your favorite team? No, just buy the team. For $395 million, a long-suffering hockey fan could buy the New York Islanders and see if they could run the team better than the...

However contagious lottery fever may be, it’s best to keep it out of the workplace, experts recommend. “I know it’s the way of the world and it’s good for camaraderie, but I don’t like office pools one bit,” said self-professed “Lottery Lawyer” Jason Kurland, who has advised various winners. “If they’re not done correctly, they...

A firefighter claims his dreams of being on an elite FDNY rescue squad were crushed when his co-workers began suspecting he is gay. Jason Johnson, 40, a former National Guardsman, says in his Manhattan federal lawsuit filed Monday that he made it to a Special Operations Command unit in 2016, only to be kicked off...

A New Jersey 19-year-old was killed in a game of Russian roulette with friends, according to police. Diquese Young — who was Woodrow Wilson High School homecoming king — died last Tuesday after he accidentally fired the gun at his own head while at a pal’s home in Camden, the Gloucester Township Patch reported. The...

She had a bun in the oven — and her bakery bosses fired her over it, according to a new Manhattan lawsuit. Former Clinton Street Baking & Co. Restaurant hostess Yadira Maria says in her suit that she began working at the popular down-home bakery eatery in January 2016, earning minimum wage, plus tips from...

The weeping mom of a man fatally punched in Queens by a Wake Forest University basketball coach says prosecutors are blaming her son for his own murder. “Your son was drunk and rowdy — he deserved it,’’ grieving mother Donna Kent said she was basically told during a disturbing meeting with prosecutors over the death...

They’ve seized the reputed sex dens of upstate cult Nxivm, but now prosecutors are also looking to keep the cash they found secreted inside. The government Monday filed papers saying they intend to pocket the $515,577 discovered earlier this year if they win their criminal case against the Svengali-like leader Keith Raniere and his litany...

For the second time in two weeks, Mayor de Blasio has canceled his recurring Monday night interview on NY1’s “Inside City Hall,” citing an ongoing strike by union workers of the channel’s parent company. Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has been on strike for more than 18 months against Charter Spectrum....

This case could go up in smoke. The NYPD cop who busted ex-NBA player Sebastian Telfair for pot and weapons possession last year admitted in court Monday that he never saw a burning marijuana cigarette inside the retired athlete’s car — meaning there was no basis for the ensuing search that also uncovered a trove...

The Bronx bodega owner who shot dead a robber is not expected to be charged, police said Monday. The 43-year-old owner of the J Market on Morrison Avenue in Soundview, identified by law enforcement sources as Jin Jie Chen, was questioned by police and later released following the 10:30 p.m. Sunday incident at his store,...

The de Blasio administration on Monday sided with landlords over small business advocates by opposing a bill that would institute a form of commercial rent control. Testifying at a packed City Council hearing, Gregg Bishop, the commissioner of the Department of Small Business Services, said the left-leaning administration has serious reservations about a measure being...

The nation’s largest jail officers union plans to sue New York state so it can use pepper spray at a troubled Bronx juvenile center. The Correction Officers Benevolent Association claims regulators played fast and loose with state laws to prevent them from using the non-lethal deterrent at the Horizon Juvenile Center, where scores of officers...

She’s the one with a foul mouth. The Brooklyn sergeant accused of stuffing her dirty panties into an underling’s mouth called his penis small — and subjected him to a raunchy rant about her wild, dildo-centric sex life, according to a complaint. Sgt. Ann Marie Guerra, 38, allegedly humiliated Detective Victor Falcon by telling him...

New York City Transit President Andy Byford unveiled a crackdown on subway vagrants Monday — directing station managers to remove homeless people who take up multiple seats and make a mess. “There is a fundamental difference between someone coming in to keep warm and sitting on a seat and dozing off, I don’t really have...