An obese Bronx man who leaped in front of an oncoming No. 2 subway in an apparent suicide bid yesterday was knocked back onto the platform where he slammed into a woman, authorities said. "I heard a scream and then a crunching sound,"... Read Full Story
This sanitation worker cleaned up a little extra trash. A street sweeper used his broom machine yesterday to chase down an alleged shoplifter bolting from...
A Bronx man is charged with trying to commandeer a subway train -- using a screwdriver. According to a grand-jury indictment announced yesterday, 42-year...
Former state Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. launched a counterattack against Gov. Cuomo and state officials who are planning to yank Medicaid funding from his South Bronx health clinics, vowing yesterday to haul them into...
ALBANY -- Disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada's Soundview Health Network will be booted from the state Medicaid program Sept. 8, effectively shutting down the 30-year-old, Bronx-based health clinic, officials...
Plinio Ayala is saluting scores of returning veterans by helping them come home to jobs. Ayala is president and CEO of Per Scholas, a Bronx-based nonprofit that has launched a program for 100 vets who are home from Iraq and...
A enraged man stabbed his wife to death yesterday in University Heights, cops said. The 38-year-old victim was in an argument with her husband around 5:55 a...
Police arrested a knife-wielding father for assaulting his girlfriend and holding the blade to his baby's neck in Parkchester yesterday. Russel Rivera, 30,...
Defiant former state Sen. Pedro Espada yesterday accused Gov. Cuomo of trying to prejudice jurors in the disgraced Bronx pol's upcoming criminal trial by publicly threatening state action that could shut down his Soundview Health...
Bronx court may prove good as gold for DSK's accuser. Hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo immediately improved her chances of winning a multimillion-dollar suit against the French horndog simply by choosing to go after him in Bronx Civil...
She wants to clean out his monetary fund. As the criminal case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn stands on the verge of collapse, the hotel maid who accused the former IMF chief of sexually assaulting her filed a civil suit against...
The mother of the teen who drowned in the Bronx River last year while trying to save another teen has sued the city for negligence, arguing that it failed to...
A trio of bank robbers led New Rochelle cops on a wild high-speed chase into the Bronx, where the stickup suspects crashed before being nabbed by cops, police...
LOS ANGELES — Paintings, sculptures and other collectibles that once belonged to Tony Curtis are hitting the auction block. Darren Julien, president of Julien's Auctions, says original artwork by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Henry...
The city has fired a veteran teacher from her $69,901-a-year job after learning that she enrolled her son in a Bronx school that shared a building with the one...
An illegal, smokable drug dubbed "spice" is starting to show up on city streets -- and authorities want to nip it in the bud. Peddled under names such as...
A Bronx blaze took the life of a 64-year-old woman yesterday, authorities said. The fire broke out just before midnight Sunday on the sixth floor of the...
A thug is wanted for robbing a subway booth clerk in Baychester in The Bronx, police said. The suspect pushed the woman into the booth at the Baychester...
Disgraced and in dicted former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada's Soundview Health Network will be stripped of some $10 million in Medicaid funding this week because of repeated violations of state law, The Post has learned....
Begging for cash on the subway might get you a few nickels, but on the Internet, the cash just rolls in. When sixth-grade English teacher Elianna Lippold-Johnson was told she had only $110 to spend on school supplies for her...
At age 15, Luis Castillo lived every city kid's dream -- he became a batboy for the New York Yankees. From 1998 until 2005, he ran errands for A-Rod, caught warm-up pitches from Andy Pettitte and David Cone, and partied with Ruben...
ALBANY -- Indicted former Bronx pol Pedro Espada was very generous with his state Senate staff. Espada spent more state taxpayer cash on his employees in the last three months of 2010 -- an as tounding $749,803 -- than any other...
You can be as bad as you want to be, and still live to a ripe old age, if you have the right genes, a study shows. Researchers at the Albert Einstein...
A Bronx elementary school was abruptly shuttered yesterday and slated to move to a new building after city officials found dangerously high levels of an...
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St. Raymond forward Daniel Dingle, one of the top rising seniors in New York City, has trimmed his college list down to seven, according to his brother and AAU coach with the Long Island Lightning, Dana Dingle. The 6-foot-7 wing lists Arizona,...
Russell Robinson admitted to not being quite ready for his first professional experience. He has grown as a person and a player since then. The Bronx native and former Rice star was just coming off winning a NCAA mational championship as senior at...
Peter Wehye noticed a difference in Rhamel Brown the moment he laid eyes on him this summer. The former East New York Transit Tech forward had finished his first year playing basketball at Manhattan College and was back for a second season with...
Jesse Roth and Pedro Alvarez couldn’t be more different. Alvarez is an extraordinarily built major-league third baseman with the Pittsburgh Pirates who hails from Washington Heights whereas Roth is a New Jersey native with a wiry-strong build and...
Team SCAN made a major impact on the AAU circuit in July, winning tournaments and getting its players recognized by major Division I colleges. Star players Chris McCullough and Conrad Chambers hold offers from elite basketball programs from across...
Sal Annunziata had simple goals for his summer with Team New York’s loaded Scout team: earn a starting spot. Still not fully recovered from a torn ACL, the former Fordham Prep slugger wasn’t sure what he was capable of. “I was curious to see what...
If there was any doubt why the capacity crowd made the trek from Dyckman Park in Inwood to Gauchos Gym in the South Bronx then waited out in pouring rain for up to an hour, it was obvious in the game’s opening minute. Milwaukee Bucks standout...
READING, Pa. – Gerard Carty felt slighted. He felt disrespected. The Eagle Academy guard thought he did enough Thursday at tryouts for Hoop Group Elite Camp Session III to earn a spot on a team in NBA East, the higher level of the event’s two tiers....
Robert (Surrob) Negron’s legacy lives on through more than his famed collages. The legendary streetball photographer died last June from a heart attack at the age of 46. His brother Willie, a long ime coach on the New York City streetball circuit...
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — When practice ended for Daniel Dingle’s teammates with the Long Island Lightning, it began for him. Extra running. Skill work. Agility drills. Ninety minutes after his friends left the gym, he still was there. And he couldn’t...
READING, Pa. – Tommy Rivera went from a three-hour car ride from New York City right to the court Thursday at Albright College. His legs were tired and...
READING, Pa. – Fadil Yacoubou understands the resource he has in his older brother. Achraf Yacobou is coming off a season in which he was named the co-Mr. Basketball in New York with Mount Vernon’s Jabarie Hinds and led Long Island Lutheran to the...
READING, Pa. – Fran Fraschilla’s son Matthew is participating this weekend at Hoop Group Elite Camp Session III at Albright College. But that’s only the peripheral reason why the former St. John’s coach and current ESPN color commentator is here for...
READING, Pa. -- Bob Mackey has gone by many titles in his basketball life. Working at Hoop Group Elite Camp however has earned the Christ the King girls basketball coach a single name around the staff: Superman. “He’s a jack of all trades,” Hoop...
READING, Pa. – There was a time when Larry Graves and Myron Hickman weren’t inseparable and even adversaries. The two St. Raymond rising senior guards went to rival middle schools and played on different AAU teams growing up. Graves was a member...
READING, Pa. – It was bad enough for Carlos DeJesus that he couldn’t play basketball. But the fact that his mother, Miguelita Valerio, was still in the Dominican Republic tugged on his heart. His only connections to her were phone calls and a silver...
Shequana Harris hasn’t been feeling like herself of late. The Murry Bergtraum rising senior guard has been playing through an ankle injury with her Gauchos Elite travel team. “She was battling it,” coach Earl Elliotte said. Harris had a return to...
KISSIMMEE, Fla. – By this time of the summer, most AAU teams are almost tired of each other after months of games and practices against the same faces. The New York Gauchos 17s aren’t one of those teams. The group that reached the semifinals at...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Jaywana Bradley has high expectations for Jenny Ramirez this winter – perhaps unrealistic ones. The Long Island Lightning Dingle...
Whenever Saniya Chong is tired, whenever she’s frustrated or in pain and wants to give up, her thoughts turn to her brother Andrew. The oldest Chong sibling is her battery. “Andrew really inspires me to keep going,” Chong said. Chong, one of the...
KISSIMMEE, Fla. – The New York Gauchos added national Class of 2014 prospect Dakari Johnson. They may be better served without the talented big man with Brooklyn roots, as the underdog. For after an impressive 3-0 mark during pool play, the Bronx...
Kalijah Terilli got an early look into what it might be like to play women's soccer at the University of Pennsylvania and she couldn’t have been more...
Dyckman hyped the Ooh-Way-Team Nike showdown as the streetball Game of the Decade. Really, it was a rerun – for Big East fans at least. Dwight Hardy and Corey Fisher, Bronx products and adversaries the last two years, combined to lead Ooh-Way to a...
The next step in Williams Jerez’s journey to the major leagues has begun. The Grand Street Campus star center fielder, a first team All-City selection by The Post, signed for slot money – believed to be around $443,700 – with the Boston Red Sox and...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. – New Heights’ 16U team is an impressive collection of talent, a mixture of public school firepower and Catholic school precision. There is South Shore’s Terrence Samuel and Shamiek Sheppard, Pathways’ Jordan Washington,...
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