A deli in Queens gets New York City’s first A for food safety. The city rolled out its new system of awarding letter grades to restaurants Wednesday. Health Commissioner Thomas Farley presented an A to Spark’s Deli in Long Island City.... Read Full Story
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — A state judge is expected to rule on whether the New York Lottery can award a contract to a Malaysia-based company to operate 4,500 electronic slot machines at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens. The sole remaining...
The city will shell out more than $7 million to settle the civil suit arising from the fatal police shooting of Sean Bell. A Brooklyn federal judge signed off on the deal yesterday, closing the final chapter in the racially...
Buy me some peanuts and Dulcolax. Stadium food is not just grossly overpriced -- it may even get you sick, according to a study of health-code violations at the nation's 107 professional-sports venues. Nearly a third of all...
Two men accused of plotting to blow up the fuel tanks at JFK Airport were a couple of boastful losers who lied to each other to make themselves seem important, a defense lawyer said yesterday. "This talk is the kind of trash you...
A noted Belgian photographer yesterday focused his anger on a flight attendant on a plane to Kennedy Airport and then made a "terrorist threat" against the...
Next stop: riders' wallets. The MTA's 2011 fare plan sounds the death knell for one- and 14-day MetroCards and increases tolls for bridges and tunnels -- the major ones by 50 cents and the minor crossings by a quarter. And...
The NYPD has found a foolproof way to keep cops from "fixing" traffic tickets for relatives and pals. The department has installed a new computer system to...
The city's 10,000 worst-polluting buildings will have to clean up their act -- perhaps by using cooking oil! -- under legislation announced yesterday by Mayor...
Last summer, Rachel Guzy, a teen camp counselor in Queens, sprang into action when a school-bus driver collapsed and a load of kids were still on the moving vehicle. In October, she was awarded a New York Post Liberty medal in the...
A recent immigrant from Pakistan working at a New York City gas station has been shot and killed. Police say Nadeem Khan was fatally shot while working the overnight shift at the Mobil station in Flushing, Queens, early Sunday...
A cold-blooded killer shot a member of the Hell's Angels several times in the head early yesterday, then stomped his face so hard that he left bloody...
A Queens firehouse is feeling the heat after one firefighter viciously attacked another at the station and their lieutenant allegedly ordered a coverup. In...
That's a lot of change. A Europa Café cashier has been charged with siphoning off more than $72,000 over nine months -- by ringing up customers' orders wrong and then pocketing the difference, authorities said. Aicha Moubarak,...
A Queens man with tooth decay says he got a kick in the teeth from Trident Xtra Care gum -- when it failed to live up to its promise of "strengthening and...
A 25-year veteran FDNY firefighter who lost an estimated $2 million in pension benefits after his firing for using cocaine deserves a less severe penalty, an...
A 90-year-old grandmother was injured today when a school bus struck her as she walked home from buying milk and cookies at a Queens store. Beloved neighborhood fixture Amelia Reno was just yards from her Briarwood home around 9:30...
Allegations of predatory lending, forged documentation, falsified mortgage info and missing records have dogged Rep. Gregory Meeks' private lender for years, The Post has learned. State officials have investigated Queens real...
Get set to bare all at airport security. Kennedy and La Guardia airports will soon get body image scanners, which use X-rays or radio waves to detect weapons on 3-D images that look like passengers' naked bodies. Exactly...
He was just playing John Wayne. Abdul Kadir, a former member of the Guyana parliament and an alleged co-conspirator in the JFK Airport fuel-line terror plot, was just play-acting with his 11 children when he was photographed...
The New York Racing Association isn't horsing around: It's suing an owner to recover prize money he forfeited because his horse failed a drug test. Kitty Nip romped home in the second race at Aqueduct on Sept. 13, 2008, to claim a...
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Lashonda Hathorne isn’t used to being on center stage. The 5-foot-9 rising senior plays for St. John’s Prep in CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens Division II, not a place big time college coaches are looking for talent. So Hathorne couldn’t help put notice the... 1:39 AM
KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Andre Armstrong could’ve had a long list of interested colleges. He could’ve waited until next year at this time, see what other schools came along after a year at Monroe Community College, building himself up and expanding his...
BUFFALO – Danny Gonzalez was hoping to make a big step forward in his amateur boxing career Saturday night, but the 20-year-old from Ozone Park, Queens lost to Hudson Valley’s Jeremy Fiorentino in the Empire State Games welterweight gold medal bout...
DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. – Her mailbox is overflowing with letters from schools in the Big East, ACC and SEC. Talent evaluators are talking about her...
AMHERST, N.Y. – Jacek Ratajczak is growing – literally. The 7-foot-2 native of Warsaw, Poland is coming off a banner year on the volleyball court, helping lead Cal State Northridge to its first NCAA final four appearance in 17 years, earning All...
AMHERST, N.Y. -- Danny Gonzalez hasn’t even stepped into the ring, he hasn’t thrown one punch yet and already the New York City boxer has lasting memories of the 2010 Empire State Games. The 20-year-old welterweight from Ozone Park ran the torch...
The start of the high school soccer season is less than two months away. It should be a time of excitement, but for members of the Bayside soccer season, it is anything but. The Commodores are a shaken bunch, saddened by the sudden passing of...
Brian Addison's unconventional basketball journey is one step closer to completion. The 6-foot-11 power forward got a call from his agent prior to making the trip to Baruch College to play at Nike Pro City on Tuesday. Addison played at a scouting...
Kenny Anderson was the top high-school prospect in the country. He helped lead Georgia Tech to the Final Four and was an all-star in the NBA with the New Jersey Nets. But to the Queens native, none of those things can compare to getting his college...
Ron Artest is always looking for places to play in the summer. It’s what he's used to. When the Los Angeles Lakers forward was a star at LaSalle HS he played all over the city in streetball leagues with Antonio (Mousey) Carela’s Bad Boys team....
July 1 felt like March 1 to Krystian Foriest, only the weather was warm, not cold, and he wasn’t preparing for the playoffs with Wings Academy. Again, the former Wings Academy standout was without a scholarship. Queens College, the place he...
TRENTON, N.J. – Matt Rizzotti returned to Archbishop Molloy over the winter at the crossroads of his professional baseball career. Selling tickets at the door of a boys basketball game at Jack Curran Gymnasium, the former Stanner great joked he...
Janelle Boyd was willing to do whatever it took to get into Cornell University. As a senior at Molloy she applied early and then applied normally. She called the process long and one that included writing essay after essay. In the end Boyd, who...
College hasn’t worked out exactly the way Mike Cavataio planned, but then again the former St. Francis Prep standout knows nothing but hardship, both on and off the basketball court. Cavataio’s mother, Joanne, died when he was a freshman at Christ...
The Outback Steakhouse Empire Challenge was started in 1996 by former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason. It’s mission was to generate money for his foundation, which is focused on finding a cure for systic fibrosis, while at the same time offering the...
Haron Hargrave is as quick and sharp with his tongue as he is handling a basketball. The lightning fast guard from Queens played professionally in...
Anthony Varvaro is five years removed from St. John’s, but he’s just a short drive away from Seattle. The Staten Island native has earned his first Triple-A call-up and will fly to Tacoma Wednesday just two days after pitching in his second...
It’s taken a lot longer than he expected, but Neal Kitson’s professional soccer career is off to a stellar start. Playing for the Rochester Rhinos of the USSF Division-2 Pro League, the Little Neck, Queens native has a 0.83 goals against average...
Cory Underwood can boast of something many on the streetball circuit are still striving for. The 6-foot-10, 225-pound center was invited to the...
No matter what Roberto Colonette does at Manhattan College this coming season, as soon as he pulls on a Jaspers uniform it will be a significant...
The multi-platinum R&B musician, who rose to fame in 1995 wi...
The festival, now in its 14th year, will feature 13 events r...
The band dSb will celebrate its 20th anniversary celebration...
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