City retailers are feeling national downturn in employment
The city is weathering a national retail downturn. Brick-and-mortar retail stores employed 343,400 workers in the city in March, up 0.4 percent from the previous month and rising 8 percent since March...
View ArticleCommish sends memo after finding surprises in department’s toilets
It was a crappy thing to say. City Aging Commissioner Donna Corrado raised a stink when she scolded staffers for failing to flush in a department-wide email. “If you have a bowel movement — flush the...
View ArticleTroopers are handing out traffic tickets at astronomical rate
They’re super troopers — at least when it comes to slinging traffic tickets. State Police officers doled out 14,542 summonses to New York City motorists in the first four months of this year — an...
View ArticleCuomo ‘swooped in like Batman’ at Times Square crash
Gov. Cuomo swooped into Times Square “like Batman” minutes after Thursday’s fatal rampage there, irking NYPD brass. “The governor was there almost instantaneously. It was outrageous,” a senior...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner’s world is about to get much smaller and sadder
Anthony Weiner had the look of a haunted man. “I appreciate you doing your job,” he told a small pack of reporters, through clenched jaws, Saturday afternoon as he left the Union Square apartment...
View ArticlePence lauds Trump in speech to college grads
President Trump has set an “example of leadership of perseverance,” and has already built a record of rolling back regulations and expanding school choice, Vice President Mike Pence said in a...
View ArticleCharity whose rabbi sought to deregulate circumcisions sues city
A Williamsburg charity is suing the city for not getting a tax break in what insiders say is mayoral payback for its rabbi’s role in the circumcision controversy. The city wrongfully revoked a...
View ArticleSenators who skip out on meetings rake in thousands in stipends
At least four state senators who collect tens of thousands of dollars in leadership “lulus” regularly skip meetings of the committees they’re supposed to be helping to run, The Post has learned. Queens...
View ArticleWoman paid teen for sex, let him booze and smoke pot
A Florida woman paid a 15-year-old boy to have sex with her over a dozen times, forking over as much as $300 for each sick session, police said. Port St. Lucie cops busted 38-year-old Rebecca McGraw on...
View ArticleObama talks Manchester attack with Prince Harry
Former President Barack Obama discussed last week’s terror attack in Manchester, England during a meeting Saturday with Prince Harry in London. Obama and Prince Harry also discussed military veterans,...
View ArticleWeiner lists swanky duplex where his life fell apart
Anthony Weiner’s unit is up for grabs. Weiner, 52, and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin, are moving out of 1 Irving Place by the end of June and their “very stylish and unique” duplex is on the market....
View ArticleState commissioners use ‘acting’ title loophole to keep salaries
Who knew acting could be so lucrative? Half a dozen state commissioners have kept their temporary “acting” titles to circumvent a state law that caps commissioner salaries. Anthony Annucci pulled down...
View ArticleDe Blasio botches paperwork for his rental properties
It’s Mayor de Blasio’s signature move — failing to follow bureaucratic rules for the two Brooklyn buildings he owns. He’s been unable to register the two residences he rents to tenants because his...
View ArticleTrump’s typo is now on someone’s license plate
One state driver has a license to covfefe. A New York motorist bought a “COVFEFE” vanity license plate a mere 71 minutes after President Trump tweeted the nonsensical noun just after midnight...
View ArticleNew Yorkers are living longer, happier and healthier lives
The Grim Reaper has been kind to the Big Apple. New Yorkers are living 1 ¹/₂ years longer than a decade ago and nearly nine years longer than 25 years ago, city Health Department data show. City...
View ArticleAssad says worst of Syria’s war is ‘behind us’
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad — blamed in horrible attacks on the civilian population — believes “the worst is behind us” in his nation’s six-year civil war because government troops have retaken...
View ArticlePrincipal pressured teachers on vote to join school program
The principal of a Queens middle school twisted teachers’ arms to vote for joining a pet program of Chancellor Carmen Fariña, and launched a revenge campaign after peeking at the secret ballot, a probe...
View ArticleThree-quarters of city’s subway lines plagued by chronic delays
Three-quarters of the city’s subway lines are plagued by chronically late trains, and five lines are late more than 50 percent of the time, according to MTA data for the first three months of the year....
View ArticleUFT scores big as school spending rises
There is one clear winner as school spending costs rise each year: the United Federation of Teachers. No group in the city has amassed more political clout than the teachers union, which has scored a...
View ArticleDOE rewards teachers and retirees as student performance lags
The city’s school system gets little bang for its buck. While per-pupil spending has skyrocketed, student performance has hardly budged — and in some areas has slid — according to standardized...
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