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There’s a cool ride at Barclays Center that’s impressing even NBA players. The Brooklyn Nets’ new home is the buzz of the league because of its one-of-a-kind $4 million elevator and parking system that transports team buses and players’...   Full Story

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  • Gramps ‘killed’ granny

    Gramps ‘killed’ granny

    A churchgoing Guyanese grandmother was allegedly slaughtered in Brooklyn yesterday by her husband — who nearly sliced her head off before the horrified eyes of their 4-year-old grandson, sources said. Hazel Robinson, 51, was butchered...  

  • Woman, 51, slashed to death in Brooklyn

    Woman, 51, slashed to death in Brooklyn

     A woman was found dead today inside a Canarsie home after cops responded to a call for an assault, sources said. Hazel Robinson, 51, was found slashed in the throat around 11:45 a.m., with what police called "severe injuries to her...  

  • Former NYPD cop serves only one night in jail for filing a false report

    Former NYPD cop serves only one night in jail for filing a false report

    An NYPD cop who claimed that a Brooklyn man tried to run him down in a driveway — only to be exposed as a liar by crystal-clear surveillance video — resigned from the force, but got only a wrist-slap jail sentence, The Post has...  

  • Fire claims students' artwork

    Fire claims students' artwork

    Devastated seniors headed for graduation at the Pratt Institute lost dozens of pieces of artwork in a four-alarm inferno that tore through the Clinton Hill campus’s historic Main Building yesterday, injuring three people. “It’s just...  

  • Cops hunt hit-run driver that seriously hurt teen in Bay Ridge

    A teen was struck by a hit-and-run driver in Bay Ridge, cops said. The 15-year-old boy told cops he had the light while crossing the intersection of 78th...  

  • ‘Wrong man’ jail suit OK’d

    A $150 million lawsuit filed against the Brooklyn DA’s Office by a wrongly convicted man can go to trial. Jabbar Collins — who served 15 years in prison for a...  

  • Hotel for BAM and Barclays

    Hotel for BAM and Barclays

     A growing cultural district that includes the Brooklyn Academy of Music has become such a tourist draw in recent years that it’s finally getting its own hotel, The Post has learned. Developer Second Development Services, whose...  

  • Mobster’s brawl halted

    Two brothers of a man murdered during a Mafia-engineered home invasion robbery angrily confronted a Bonanno wiseguy outside a courthouse today and FBI agents...  

  • Jury clears driver of thugs in slaying of NYPD Detective Peter Figoski

    Jury clears driver of thugs in slaying of NYPD Detective Peter Figoski

    The man who drove a crew of bandits to rob a Brooklyn drug den — culminating in the fatal shooting of a decorated NYPD officer — was cleared of burglary and murder charges yesterday. The Brooklyn jury verdict after a three-week trial...  

  • Brothers of murdered man confront Bonanno wiseguy outside court

    Brothers of murdered man confront Bonanno wiseguy outside court

    Two brothers of a man murdered during a Mafia-engineered home invasion robbery angrily confronted a Bonanno wiseguy outside a courthouse today and FBI agents intervened to prevent them from assaulting the mobster. The incident came...  

  • Cost of cop-killing Ronell Wilson trial, man who impregnated jail guard, could cost taxpayers even more

    Cost of cop-killing Ronell Wilson trial, man who impregnated jail guard, could cost taxpayers even more

    Get out your checkbooks, taxpayers. Defense lawyers for convicted cop killer Ronell Wilson today said they may ask a judge to move the retrial of his re-sentencing trial — where he faces a possible death penalty — out of Brooklyn...  

  • Ex-FDNY EMT sentenced to 89 years to life in prison for 5 Brooklyn sex assaults

    Ex-FDNY EMT sentenced to 89 years to life in prison for 5 Brooklyn sex assaults

    A former FDNY EMT was sentenced to 89 years to life yesterday for sexually assaulting five Brooklyn girls and women – as relatives of the victims yelled out their hatred of the remorseless rapist. Angus Pascall, 36, was convicted last...  

  • Firefighters battle four-alarm blaze in Brooklyn

    Firefighters battle four-alarm blaze in Brooklyn

     Firefighters battled a four-alarm inferno in Brooklyn early today, authorities said. The fire began shortly before 1:30 a.m. in Cypress Hills at a three-story brick building on Ridgewood Avenue near Chestnut Street, according to an...  

  • Snitch cooperating in federal drug probe gunned down

    Snitch cooperating in federal drug probe gunned down

    An informant aiding the feds in a New York drug probe was gunned down after he left a nightclub in Brooklyn last month, The Post has learned. The murder appeared to be a professional hit, law-enforcement sources said — and the killing...  

  • Fertile waste

    In an ambitious move to boost the city’s dismal recycling rate, the Bloomberg administration intends for the first time to collect and compost food waste,...  

  • Teacher who wished 'death-by-drowning' on students puts her foot in it again

    Teacher who wished 'death-by-drowning' on students puts her foot in it again

    She pushed her luck.  A Brooklyn teacher, who was dissatisfied with a court-ordered reversal of her termination in exchange for a two-year suspension without pay, was reprimanded by a judge this week for her contrite attitude over...  

  • 2nd stab at prison

    A reputed Gambino crime-family associate involved in a knife fight at Brooklyn pizza hot spot Lucali may be back in prison after a judge ruled yesterday that...  

  • Fort Greene father and accused pimp pleads not guilty

    Fort Greene father and accused pimp pleads not guilty

    Now he's an alleged Pimp Daddy on the Dole. Father of four William Thomas -- a Fort Greene, Brooklyn stroller dad who looks far more Yuppie than Pimpy -- pleaded not guilty today to a new indictment charging him with running brothels...  

  • Brooklyn prosecutor avoids jail after pleading guilty to assaulting EMT

    Brooklyn prosecutor avoids jail after pleading guilty to assaulting EMT

    A contrite Brooklyn prosecutor has taken a no-jail guilty plea today to drunkenly assaulting a female EMT worker in a moving ambulance last fall, telling a judge that he feels, "absolutely horrible and devastated," but remembers...  

  • Boy, 13, critical after being struck by van in Brooklyn

    A teenage boy is fighting for his life after being hit by a van in Brooklyn, authorities said. The 13-year-old was crossing against the light on Park Avenue...  

  • Armed suspect shot by cop in Brooklyn arrested, charged with weapon possession

    The armed man who cops shot in Brooklyn after he turned his gun on officers was charged with weapon possession, police said. A sergeant and three officers...  

  • Cops fume: Jury valued killer over Figoski

    Cops fume: Jury valued killer over Figoski

    The tough Brooklyn cops who patrolled the mean streets of East New York with slain Detective Peter Figoski spoke out yesterday to condemn the watered-down verdict given to the evil thug who gunned down the decorated officer. Lamont...  

  • Gropez even 'ogled' a child: Accusation he made creepy comments on 14-year-old intern

    Gropez even 'ogled' a child: Accusation he made creepy comments on 14-year-old intern

    There’s a creepy new accusation in the sexual-harassment probe of Assemblyman Vito Lopez — that he even leered at a 14-year-old intern and made comments about her sexy attire, sources told the The Post. “He made comments about a 14...  

  • Fatal fall on Brooklyn tracks

    Fatal fall on Brooklyn tracks

    A Crown Heights woman died yesterday when she fell off the platform at the Utica Avenue/Eastern Parkway station into the path of an incoming No. 3 train, authorities said. Sheila Watkins, 47, who lived on Lincoln Place, was standing...  

  • Beloved Bay Ridge bakery 'Leske's' expands to Park Slope

    How sweet it is on Fifth Avenue! Leske’s Bakery has been a Bay Ridge favorite for 51 years, and the confections king today expanded operations by opening a...  

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    View and sort the report cards of NY Schools...  

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