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Open-air sex market is exploding in Brooklyn as hookers openly sell themselves along the Penn Track: pol

NYC Councilman Chris Banks pleaded for a law enforcement crack down on prostitution in East New York akin to operations along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens.

Here's what NYC marathon runners can expect on race day as defending champs look to repeat

Competitors will be treated with ideal running conditions as forecasts indicate the New York area will experience sunny skies and 45 degrees at 8 a.m. with a high of 59...

NYC trash complaints have soared — Brooklyn neighborhood is the worst offender: 'It’s demeaning'

"Just looking down any street, or any corner, there’s going to be piles of trash, and they’re going to stay there for days, because it seems like trashmen aren’t picking...

NYC's longest-serving tour guide once took this 'Friends' star around -- and received more looks than they did

As New York City's longest-serving tour guide, Joyce Gold has become a local celebrity -- more widely recognized than the stars in the Big Apple.

Brooklyn fish pond is back just days after FDNY destroyed original aquarium: 'We are not giving up'

The neighborhood's beloved sidewalk fish pond was resurrected this week -- in an act of defiance that comes just five days after the city cemented over the original and left...

Man berates Jewish customer who was getting breakfast with his kid at kosher cafe in NYC: 'Hitler was onto something'

A man berated a Jewish customer enjoying breakfast with his infant inside a kosher cafe in Brooklyn, where he described all Jewish people as "evil," and claimed Adolf Hitler "was...

Yankees-loving Brooklyn pizza joint turns away Dodgers World Series reservation: 'No crotch bumping at Lucali!'

“Um, yeah that’s not happening," owner Mark Iacono said.

NYPD officer struck by car during stop, one cop fires weapon: sources

The cops tried to pull over the vehicle and when the officers approached on foot, the driver sped up, striking one of them, police said.

Baseball fans flood Dodgers' old stomping grounds in Flatbush to pay respects ahead of Yankees World Series games

The ghosts of "Dem Bums" still linger in Brooklyn. It's been decades since the Brooklyn Dodgers left the subways and New York City for the highways and Chavez Ravine in...

Grief-stricken NYC mom laments shooting of 15-year-old son as 5 teens are fatally shot in less than a week

Tristan Sanders – the fourth teen fatally shot since the spurt of violence began Thursday – was mortally struck in the chest around 7:20 p.m. Sunday on the grounds of...

What do Pixies have planned for their ambitious 2025 tour?

The indie icons will get loud at Brooklyn Paramount on July 15-16.

 Four teens fatally shot in 4 days as youth violence engulfs NYC

The teen was blasted in the chest around 11:45 p.m. Saturday outside a building on Auburn Place within NYCHA’s Walt Whitman Houses in Fort Greene, cops said. 

'Star Wars' actor Oscar Isaac lists charming NYC penthouse for $4.5M

Oscar Isaac is letting go of his chic Brooklyn penthouse, putting his sprawling four-bedroom, three-bath duplex on the market for a cool $4.5 million, The Post has learned. The famed...

Cop sons of hero NYPD detective killed on 9/11 save shooting victim from dying on NYC sidewalk

The pair, who each served in the Marines, used their combat training to stop the victim’s profuse bleeding, their mother and retired NYPD cop Kathy Vigiano told The Post on...

I was paralyzed a decade ago while suffering from rare disease — here's how I run the NYC Marathon

Michael Ring is preparing to toe the line at Sunday's TCS New York City Marathon, a 26.2-mile course he knows all too well but takes him twice as long to run.

'Very bitter' NYC ex-pol takes extraordinary step in feud with fellow Dems: 'Definitely inappropriate'

"I never feel it's productive to have intra-party fights before an election," said state Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs.

Brooklyn street renamed after decorated NYPD cop gunned down during botched 2011 robbery

Officer Peter Figoski, a 47-year-old single father of four daughters, was fatally shot in the face in December 2011 by a remorseless ex-con who was hunting for drugs in a...

Inside NYC's priciest 'slum' — an apartment building boasting nearly $4K rents filled with 'mold, rats'

Multiple residents of the battered Bushwick site on Starr Street say they are paying nearly $4,000 a month to live with rat feces on the countertops, moldy ceilings and leaky...

'Unprecedented' wave of dead bodies wash up in Jamaica Bay area in past year; residents concerned

Jamaica Bay is quietly earning a reputation as the Big Apple’s version of the Bermuda Triangle -- with at least eight dead bodies discovered in and around the area over...