A vile Brooklyn teachers aide took explicit photos and videos of himself molesting students at his elementary school — and shared the sick images with other online perverts, federal prosecutors said yesterday. Taleek Brooks, 41, a... Read Full Story
There’s a lot more riding on whether developer Bruce Ratner can build the world’s tallest pre-fabricated building than just completing Brooklyn’s long-delayed...
The best medicine for miracle cop Kevin Brennan was the Giants’ victory. Recovering in Bellevue Hospital after a thug shot him in the head, Brennan yesterday basked in Big Blue’s Super Bowl glory. “I am feeling much better after the...
The husband of a Queens special-ed teacher who was beaten to death is under arrest after State Police found him asleep beside a Connecticut highway, sources...
Always tidy up before calling the cops — it’s a lesson that Michael Cokley learned the hard way. Late last year, he called 911 to report a gunpoint home...
Four people were injured last night at a Brooklyn rave when the floor of an outdoor smoking area collapsed, authorities said. The party, featuring DJ Fruit Loop, at the Slave Theater on Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant ended at 10...
A man accused of shooting a New York City police officer in the head has been indicted on an attempted murder charge. The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office announced the indictment of 21-year-old Luis Ortiz on Monday. If convicted,...
Downtown Brooklyn business leaders Friday stepped up efforts to support NYU’s bid to create an applied-sciences school in the growing neighborhood by releasing...
A woman was seriously injured after her car crashed into another vehicle and then slammed into building scaffolding in downtown Brooklyn Sunday, authorities...
Four teens — including a 13-year-old — are under arrest in connection with a broad-daylight home invasion that degenerated from armed robbery into the sexual...
The medic charged with misconduct for callously failing to help a dying pregnant woman is still banking city paychecks — more than two years after getting suspended from active duty. Melisa Jackson, 25, has raked in about $39,000...
Kevin Brennan, the NYPD cop shot in the head last week, allegedly by a gangbanger, continued to show signs of improvement yesterday, his family said. “He’s...
Retired? No, you’re fired! The city has asked a judge to terminate a teacher who finally quit last fall after beating a rap for alleged sexual misconduct. Steven Ostrin, 58, a once-popular social-studies instructor at the elite...
A Brooklyn teacher — fired for posting snarky online comments suggesting her unruly students should drown — can go back to the classroom, a judge says. Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Barbara Jaffe last week overturned an...
They probably don’t feel like partying now. Four Occupy Wall Street protesters were indicted by a grand jury in Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday and could...
Wiseguy yacht broker Glenn Mazzella was sentenced to six months’ house arrest yesterday and fined $40,000 for helping a sick uncle with his mob-linked...
Now that’s a sob story. A corrupt ex-cop wept his way out of a jail sentence yesterday after he begged his victims and a Brooklyn judge for mercy. Jason Arbeeny faced up to four years in prison for planting drugs on an innocent...
A popular lake at Brooklyn's Prospect Park has quietly become a dumping ground for thousands of rotted branches, boughs and trunks of diseased and dead trees. A Post reporter touring the 60-acre freshwater lake’s perimeter yesterday...
The Brooklyn cop who miraculously survived a gunshot to the head wanted to call his wife with the terrifying news. “I’ve been shot and I’m OK,” Kevin Brennan told his wife, Janet, after he was wounded Tuesday night at the Bushwick...
Even mobsters dream of retiring. An octogenarian wiseguy once close to the Gotti family has asked a judge to end his probation early so he can start enjoying...
A student was seriously injured after a pack of thugs bashed him in the head with a pipe during a violent robbery outside a Brooklyn High School this morning,...
A 9-year-old Brooklyn boy was struggling for life today after his 24-year-old brother attacked him with a hammer, police said. At about 6 a.m., Jonathan...
A man working in a Brooklyn subway station is in critical condition after a concrete slab fell on his head. The 26-year-old man was clearing concrete from the...
With the state set to give the city the keys to a century-old armory in Crown Heights, Brooklyn Borough President Markowitz plans to announce he’s jumpstarting...
Enough with the hefty fines for minor offenses, already! That’s the message Brooklyn Borough Marty Markowitz plans to deliver to city officials during his...
Seven members of a vicious Brooklyn street gang were busted yesterday for allegedly committing four murders and shooting a little girl who was caught in their...
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Nazareth’s season continues – for now. Taking the floor with its future in jeopardy, the nationally ranked Lady Kingsmen girls basketball team beat Bishop Loughlin, 80-60, on Senior Night at the Brooklyn school Tuesday night. As first reported by... 2:04 AM
Even the threat of losing her season can’t slow Bianca Cuevas down. The Nazareth sophomore dynamo has been on a tear of late, making the case she is the city's top player. Cuevas dropped in a game-high 34 points to help lead the Lady Kingsmen over... 2:43 AM
The nationally ranked Nazareth girls basketball team’s season could be in jeopardy. The defending New York State Federation Class AA champion is being investigated by CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens for using an ineligible player in three recent leagues...
Nazareth finally got the game it wanted against Christ the King and exacted its own form of punishment. Almost a month to the day of the first scheduled meeting that Christ the King refused to play, Nazareth hammered the host Royals, 74-44, in...
Lincoln will be without standout sophomore Isaiah Whitehead for next week’s Brooklyn borough playoffs, but he should be able to return for the PSAL Class AA playoffs at the end of the month, The Post has learned. Whitehead only has a severe left...
Brian Bernardi and Dillon Burns grew up as adversaries on Staten Island, bitter foes in the forgotten borough's CYO league. Eventually, they grew a mutual respect for each other's basketball talents, and when the two found out each other would be...
Bishop Ford and Christ the King should forfeit their unplayed girls basketball games against Nazareth following Naz coach Apache Paschall’s death, the CHSAA Eligibility and Infractions Committee recommended Friday, The Post has learned. The final...
Boys & Girls trailed a divisional rival at home with less than a half minute remaining and didn’t have possession. Essentially, the Kangaroos had Lincoln exactly where they wanted them. For the third time this year – and second time in less than a...
Erin Blum kept telling Clare Droesch she wasn’t going to let her St. Edmund Prep team lose to Bishop Kearney. “Erin was like, ‘We are not losing this game. We are not losing this game,’” the former Christ the King star and St. Edmund assistant...
Lincoln could be without nationally ranked sophomore Isaiah Whitehead for next week’s Brooklyn borough playoffs – and beyond. The 6-foot-4 guard landed awkwardly on his left ankle late after a missing a fade-away jump shot along the left baseline...
The conversation between Alvin Cornelius and Wayne Morgan started on the field Oct. 2 during their respective teams’ Week 4 game. It continued last week at the PSAL coaches association all-city dinner. And the story of the two best seniors in New...
Reporters, parents and friends flocked to Coney Island on Wednesday. And it had nothing to do with the nationally renowned boys basketball team. Such is life these days at Lincoln, where the football team has begun to make a name for itself,...
When Brianna Butler left Penn Charter (Pa.) and transferred to Nazareth, this wasn’t the start to her senior year she imagined. At first, the highly touted Syracuse-bound star guard was not cleared to play by CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens until more...
Every other week during the season, Bishop Loughlin’s star junior guard Jasmine Alston takes us into her world on and off the court. In this exclusive diary for NYPost.com, Alston chronicles Bishop Loughlin’s quest to prove itself as one of the city...
New York City’s top high school football player has finally chosen his college destination. All-American defensive back Wayne Morgan of Erasmus Hall told The Post that he’ll announce Wednesday at a school press conference that he will sign a...
Tuesday’s South Shore-Lincoln clash in Canarsie was halted with 4:01 remaining in the fourth quarter and Lincoln leading 49-41 because of a fight in...
Thaddeus Hall's senior year has been filled with more stops and starts than rush hour traffic on the Brooklyn/Queens Expressway. From academic ineligibility to a lower back injury then a benching for disciplinary reasons, the smooth southpaw's final...
Darius Faulk and the rest of her Nazareth teammates wanted to leave no doubt about the hierarchy of New York City girls basketball, especially with Bishop Ford establishing itself as arguably the greatest threat to their throne. “Everyone thought...
Robert Kitching began his official visit to the University of Massachusetts unsure of his future. He left completely certain. Monday morning, Lincoln’s two-way lineman verbally committed to new coach Charley Molnar and the freshly minted Division...
Steve Oliver didn’t sense the difference right away, but it didn’t take long to become apparent to the Fontbonne Hall coach that his team was treating this game a little different than others. Rival Bishop Kearney was on the other side of the floor...
Lauren Best isn’t sure if her team’s backcourt is the best in the country. But with Syracuse-bound Brianna Butler, sophomore sensation Bianca Cuevas, West Virginia-bound Darius Faulk and the super strong Sadie Edwards, she isn’t exactly ruling that...
Being taken down nearly turned into being knocked out. “I hit my head a little bit, but I think I’m alright,” star Grand Street Campus wrestler Jorje Jimenez said. “I didn’t want to be the first Grand Street kid to lose in the finals today; I just...
It was a victory that didn’t just prove something for Boys & Girls, coach Ruth Lovelace said, but for the public school league as a whole. Boys High held off rallying host Cardinal Hayes for a big, 63-61 win in non-league boys basketball Saturday...
Dwayne (Tiny) Morton has never fit the mold of a traditional high school boys basketball coach. But even for the wildly successful Lincoln head man, this was out of the ordinary. Following Saturday's 58-50 loss to New Jersey up-and-comer Hudson...
Brianna Butler’s assessment of Nazareth’s opening two quarters was simple and to the point. “In the first half they were staying with us because we weren’t playing any defense,” the Syracuse-bound guard said. “We were just letting them go right by...
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