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Republican who ran for NYC mayor backs Eric Adams, urges Trump to step in to help clear slate
Fernando Mateo, a Republican candidate for mayor in 2021, is backing Eric Adams's re-election for mayor and appealed to President Trump Sunday to persuade Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa to drop out.
Sun, 06 Jul 2025 18:59:29 -0400
Filthy, cramped conditions at $75M, NYC-funded animal shelter persist a year after Post investigation
Many pooches are still lying in their own filth and crammed into too-small cages at a $75 million city-funded animal shelter in Queens roughly a year after The Post exposed horrific conditions there.
Sun, 06 Jul 2025 18:49:13 -0400
NYC voters torn over Zohran Mamdani’s big plans to hike taxes on wealthy, corporations: poll
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani's tax the rich proposals to fund his spending plans gets mixed grades from likely general election voters despite widespread agreement that New York City is struggling with an affordability crisis, a new survey claims.
Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:35:11 -0400
Nine brainiacs from NYC Catholic HS join ‘Millionaire’s Club’ as students rake in nearly $11M in scholarship money: ‘Really inspiring’
The teen geniuses were each awarded more than $1 million in merit-based grants -- much of it from a plethora of prestigious schools, including Ivy Leagues -- for a staggering total of $10,799,476.
Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:19:17 -0400
Over 60 UFOs reported zipping over New York skies in the first half of 2025
In June alone, the Empire State saw six separate incidents, continuing a trend of unexplained aerial activity across the Empire State.
Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:18:19 -0400
Controversial push to develop former tony LI country club could finally get OK after almost a decade
New Jersey developers Robert Weiss and Efrem Gerszberg have been battling local towns for almost a decade to build on the roughly 117-acre property that used to be the Woodmere Country Club in the town of Hempstead in Nassau County.
Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:52:17 -0400
NYC beachgoers unfazed by latest spate of shark sightings: ‘We surf with the sharks’
Sun worshipers at a Big Apple beach where sharks were spotted disturbingly close to swimmers over the July 4th weekend weren't impressed --- or overly worried.
Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:46:32 -0400
Diddy got a standing ovation from inmates after court victory, lawyer says: ‘Maybe it’s your fate in life
Sean “Diddy” Combs got a standing ovation from fellow inmates when the music mogul returned to jail after winning acquittals on potential life-in-prison charges, providing what his lawyer says might have been the best thing he could do for Black incarcerated men in America.
Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:17:46 -0400
Freddy the beloved NYC bodega cat is killed by dogs as their female owner, pals ‘cheered’: activists
The pit bulls' owner and pals then smoked, danced and ate food while taking photos and mimicking the grisly scene, Cat Collective NY told The Post.
Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:16:50 -0400
Murder probe launched into body found during search for Brian Tarrence in Turks and Caicos
Cops on a Caribbean island where a Manhattan man disappeared during a romantic getaway with his wife have launched a murder probe into a decomposed body suspected of being the missing man.
Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:08:53 -0400