Move over, Elmo and Mickey — mermaids are coming to Times Square. A jumbo edition of seafood-centric Mermaid Inn is coming next spring to 127 W. 43d St., a former Heartland Brewery site. Mermaid owners Danny Abrams and Cindy Smith have teamed up in a joint venture with Alicart Restaurant Group CEO Jeffrey Bank on … Read more
Wall Street profits surged in the first half of 2021 thanks to record low interest rates — but the securities industry is bleeding jobs, which could spell doom for New York’s economy, according to an analysis released Thursday by the state comptroller. Wall Street recorded its strongest first half since 2009, generating a hefty $31 … Read more
A 7-year-old Long Island boy miraculously recovered from a deadly lung condition and was released from a hospital after four years amid a spirited NYPD salute Thursday. Against all odds, little Anthony Rojas, who was named an honorary service member, left Saint Mary’s Hospital for Children in Bayside, Queens, to the sound of 100 clapping … Read more
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal agenda is now governing the future of city pension funds, Mayor Bill de Blasio and city Comptroller Scott Stringer announced Thursday. Self-described socialist AOC was on hand at City Hall Thursday as the city politicians, each with less than three months left in office, pushed $8 billion in investments … Read more
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s announcement Wednesday that all city workers will soon be required to get vaccinated or face being put on unpaid leave left some fuming about the “ridiculous” move. As a generous incentive, the city is prepared to spend up to $23 million, assuming every currently unvaccinated municipal employee receives a jab and in turn … Read more
Another teen was busted with a gun inside a city high school Thursday after his mother called administrators to warn them that he had a weapon, sources told The Post. The concerned parent warned staffers at I.S. 98 in the Bronx that her 17-year-old son was in possession of a firearm, according to law enforcement … Read more
Shocking video captures the moment a gunman opened fire on a 14-year-old boy — grazing him in the head — just as he boarded an MTA bus in Harlem. The teen was getting on an M1 bus on West 139th Street near Malcolm X Boulevard just before 10 a.m. Oct. 14 when the suspect discharged … Read more
New video shows the moment a cop fires a Taser into a car window in Brooklyn on Tuesday night — prompting the driver to peel out and somehow drive over the hood of the parked police vehicle to get away, according to police. The incident happened just after 7 p.m. when cops spotted the Hyundai … Read more
An armed crook kicked an elderly man to the ground and wrestled away his wallet in the Bronx, disturbing new video shows. The 85-year-old victim was trying to enter his home on Cannon Place in Van Cortlandt Village around 11:25 p.m. Tuesday when a car pulled up on the street and a man got out, approaching … Read more
Dozens of men crammed together for days in temporary holding cells amid a pandemic. Filthy floors sullied with rotten food, maggots, urine, feces, and blood. Plastic sheets for blankets, cardboard boxes for beds and bags that substituted for toilets. This is what the epicenter of the crisis on Rikers Island — which has a whopping, … Read more