A 5-year-old boy was fatally hit by a school bus Sunday in upstate Kiryas Joel, according to reports. Little Efrayim Yaakov Lebowitz was struck near Forest Road and Seven Springs Mont Road in the predominantly Hasidic Jewish village in Orange County, The Yeshiva World reported. First responders rushed to the scene and tried to resuscitate … Read more
Two tourists from Sweden were among at least three straphangers robbed in the city Christmas morning, police said. The targeted foreigners, a 30-year-old woman and 31-year-old man, were standing on the southbound R train platform at 25th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, around 9:30 a.m. when a male crook approached them, “simulated a firearm” and … Read more
At least seven people were killed by the violent winter storm in and around Buffalo, New York, and the death toll was expected to rise, officials said in a “sobering” Christmas morning media briefing. The grim update came as first responders were working frantically to clear main roads to assist rescue and recovery efforts and … Read more
The NYPD Bomb Squad rushed to JFK Airport on Sunday when customs agents found a box that contained a grenade, police and law-enforcement sources said. The weapon was later found to be inert. The emergency call came in around 9:45 a.m. when US Customs and Border Protection agents in Building 250 — a mailing facility … Read more
An MTA worker was hit in the face with pepper spray on Christmas morning in Harlem, cops said. The 37-year-old victim was operating a northbound No. 2 train as it pulled into the 135th Street and Lenox Avenue station in Harlem around 3 a.m. When she opened the train’s window, a man sprayed the substance … Read more
A 45-year-old man was shot in Queens early Christmas morning, cops said. The victim was struck in the left shoulder in front of 35-20 103rd St. in North Corona around 2 a.m. He was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital and is in stable condition. A 45-year-old man was shot in Queens.Seth Gottfried for NY Post The … Read more
An NYPD Officer was stabbed in the arm on Christmas Eve while responding to reports of a person in need of medical assistance, police said. The officer, identified by Mayor Eric Adams and police as Officer Lin Zhen, was stabbed in the arm around 5:45 p.m. after he and a partner responded to the distress … Read more
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who has not been seen for days amid a historic storm battering the region, was spotted attending Christmas midnight mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan on Saturday night. When probed by The Post on where he had been for the past couple of days, Hizzoner quipped he’d been … Read more
A New York-bound JetBlue flight from Barbados was jolted by more than the drastic temperature drop Saturday evening — when the plane was forced to evacuate at JFK International Airport due to a “smoking laptop.” The aircraft had just rolled into Terminal 5 when an airline worker noticed the overheated computer, the Federal Aviation Administration … Read more
A Rhode Island man found himself in a sticky situation at New York’s JFK airport — after he was busted trying to sneak a disassembled gun through security in jars of peanut butter, officials said. Transportation Security Administration authorities said that an officer found parts of a .22 caliber semi-automatic handgun wrapped in plastic and … Read more