A boozed-up driver yesterday fatally struck an 89-year-old Queens man crossing the street just steps from his home, police said. Demitrios Matsoukatidis, 67, was driving east on 21st Avenue near 31st Street in Astoria at 6 p.m. when he... Read Full Story
They wound up 6 feet under — and lived to tell about it. Three workers at a Queens cemetery plunged yesterday into a deep grave — on top of a freshly laid casket — leaving one of them injured. Raimundo Rodriguez, 49, had been...
The Big A is back. Horse betting is up at Aqueduct following the opening of the new racino next door. The total handle on races is up 6.6 last month, compared with January 2011, according to figures compiled by the New York Racing...
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...
Three people were murdered in separate incidents during a 12-hour spate of violence in Queens over the weekend, police said. The bloodshed first erupted at...
An elementary-school talent show turned tragic in Queens after a parent suffering a violent seizure accidently punched a man who was trying to help him — and...
Rep. Gregory Meeks is a super fan of Super Bowl fund-raising. The Queens Democrat has thrown pricey parties at the last four games, buying up tickets not available to the general public and selling them to donors willing to shell out...
A fast-moving house fire killed a Queens grandmother early today as her family managed to escape the blaze in South Jamaica. “The family was screaming for their grandmother,” said neighbor Lola Reid. “She never came out of the house...
A teacher who worked with students with special needs was brutally beaten to death in a Queens apartment building, police and neighbors said. Relatives...
A 33-year-old woman was found murdered last night in a Queens apartment building, police said. Tara Hawes was slashed across the throat and found at 8:30 p.m....
A maintenance worker has been busted for allegedly raping a woman after breaking into her Manhattan apartment while she slept. Alberto Delgado, 37, of Queens,...
Anxious CUNY Law School administrators are urging struggling students not to take this summer’s bar exam in an apparent bid to boost the school’s sagging pass...
A Tsa agent was arrested at Kennedy Airport for allegedly stealing $5,000 from a passenger’s jacket at a security checkpoint. Alexandra Schmid, 31, was...
The catwoman has been declawed. A Queens woman who robbed an Astor Place boutique while wearing a cat mask was ordered caged for 10 years — and she went out hissing all the way. “I am not the catwoman!” Shana Spalding shouted after...
They’re throwing the book at Mormons. Queens civic leaders are mounting a campaign to block the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from building a...
Department of Education bureaucrats bungled the city’s best chance to rid itself of its notorious $100,000-a-year rubber-room teacher by failing to secure the testimony of a series of students who accused him of creepy behavior,...
If you’re in elective office, it’s probably not a good idea to accuse the FBI of using slimy tactics in a political investigation. City Councilman Peter Koo...
Over the past decade while sitting in a rubber room — now called “administrative reassignment” — typing teacher Alan Rosenfeld has overseen a 14-property real...
A drunken driver got a slap on the wrist from a Queens judge yesterday for drunkenly slamming his car into a 6-year-old girl who later died from her injuries....
Give up the funk — or give back our money! Legendary funk master George Clinton and his band Parliament Funkadelic have been slapped with a lawsuit claiming...
Clueless TSA agents found two possible pipe bombs in a passenger’s luggage yesterday at La Guardia Airport — and kept them in a public area for six hours without notifying cops, The Post has learned. The Transportation Security...
The real estate-dealing rubber-room teacher with a six-figure Department of Education paycheck ought to be using his business acumen to help the city, Mayor Bloomberg suggested yesterday. Showing a growing frustration with the...
Dora the Explorer is now a born-and-bred New Yorker from Queens. One of the city’s highest-paid child models, Fatima Ptacek, 11, has been tapped to provide the new bubbly voice of Dora Marquez, the adventurous, bilingual 8-year-old...
On the day his murder trial was set to begin in 2009, Edward Taibi, a hunter from Queens, had every reason to hope. The jury in his case, which involved the tragic death of a toddler killed when Taibi’s wayward bullet pierced her...
Hell no, he won’t go. In a defiant raspberry to the city Department of Education — and taxpayers — disgraced teacher Alan Rosenfeld, 66, won’t retire. Deemed a danger to kids, the typing teacher with a $10 million real estate...
In a rare move, dozens of parents and teachers took their complaints about a Queens principal to the streets yesterday after their elementary school plummeted...
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Tarik Raynor heard plenty of noise coming from the gymnasium, noise he hadn’t heard all year. Still, the Campus Magnet senior was unconvinced until he walked through the door and saw the stands full. “It was crazy,” Raynor said of the capacity... 2:52 AM
Elisabeth Gully finally got a reward for her perseverance and hard work. The 5-foot-10 Mary Louis post lost 40 pounds last year and continued to transform her game with her Positive Direction travel team from a back-to-the-basket player to one who...
Christ the King has taken its lumps. The Royals played five games in six days in three different states during one stretch this year. They’ve been blown out by nationally ranked teams on three separate situations. Maybe all of that was just a table...
Scott Lagas is on Jessica Jamin constantly at practice. “We say to her every single day, ‘When you want to realize your potential you can be a very good basketball player,” the first-year Molloy coach said. The junior guard showed a glimpse of...
Justin Thompson has shown exemplary strength and courage under the most difficult of circumstances. That wasn’t going to change as his father Donald pushed his wheelchair to center court at Archbishop Molloy’s Jack Curran Gymnasium. “His courage...
The noise came as soon as Omar Calhoun put his hands on the ball. The St. Raymond fans mercilessly chanted “overrated” at the UConn-bound Christ the King star, followed by boos. And just about every time, Calhoun made them pay. “All those...
If Marquise Moore had any rust in his first game back to the court in two weeks it didn’t show Friday night. Moore was instrumental in Holy Cross’ 70-55 victory over St. Francis Prep in CHSAA Class AA boys basketball in Fresh Meadows. For Moore,...
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...
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...
Andy Kostel has been the boys soccer coach at Archbishop Molloy for more than three decades. Four years ago, though, took his respect for the school and its community to a whole new level. In February 2008, Katy Grogan, a star on the Stanners girls...
Every other week during the winter, Christ the King's Isaiah Lewis, one of the nation's top junior guards, takes us with him on his journey for a city and state Federation championship. In this exclusive diary for NYPost.com, the multi-talented 6...
Bob Mackey was fighting back tears as he finished talking to the crowd at Christ the King about greater meaning behind this particular breast cancer awareness game. In December, former Christ the King All-American and current St. Edmund Prep...
Before Tuesday, Bayside had not defeated Cardozo in 11 years. But just minutes into the second quarter, with a large lead, it was evident that the losing streak was coming to an end. “This is probably the biggest win of my career,” Bayside’s fourth...
When Jermaine Lawrence inexplicably bolted Cardozo three weeks ago for Pope John XXII in Sparta, N.J., the Judges lost one of the nation's top junior prospects. In his absence, however, they have become a better team – tougher, with better ball...
The script was about to be the same as too many other games for Francis Lewis this season. The Patriots started fast, but saw a big lead dwindle to just two late in the fourth quarter against Curtis. “We were kind of frustrated that we lost our...
Jon Severe has noticed something about his team. Christ the King has something of a switch, not unlike the light in your living room. “Every time we lose, in the next game we just play together,” the Royals junior guard said. “I don’t know how....
Holy Cross is no stranger to spreading its points around and Friday night was no different. The Knights had four players reach double digits in their 68-55 victory against rival Molloy, who they beat for the second time this season, in CHSAA Class...
After an extensive process and plenty of work in the classroom and on the court, Rayne Connell is where she wants to be. The Christ the King senior guard, a 90 student, said she took two SATs and five ACTs to get the score required for acceptance...
Paul Gilvary was leaving nothing to chance. When his Holy Cross players broke from the huddle, they didn’t go far. Up four points after a Bishop Loughlin timeout with 1.7 seconds remaining in the game, all five Knights players stood a few feet...
Disappointment quickly turned into elation for Andrew King. Frustrated over his lack of Division I scholarships offers, Flushing’s star running back/outside linebacker took a visit to Army – the one Division I school to show sincere interest – and...
Kamille Ejerta uses one of her talents to aid another. The Archbishop Molloy guard is not only an excellent basketball player, but has been a superb artist since she was younger. Ejerta can paint and draw with the best of them and has some of her...
Comfortable wins and complete performances haven’t come with the same frequency as in the past for Christ the King. The Royals have struggled, lost to multiple nationally ranked teams and saw two league wins get away in the fourth quarter. None of...
Arthur Santanna hears it all the time. Queens is soft. Queens A West is one of the weakest divisions in the city. Star Aaron Williams isn’t around anymore to bail out Long Island City, last year’s PSAL Class A runner-up. After Saturday’s...
Anthony Libroia couldn’t even seem to hit the most wide-open 3-pointers earlier in the season. The Holy Cross guard, known for his shooting prowess, struggled and he knows exactly why. Libroia was waiting for his SAT score to come back, waiting to...
Benjamin Cardozo finally got a chance to regroup from the loss of Jermaine Lawrence with a team meeting Wednesday. A day later they gave the city a better glimpse of how the Judges will win without the 6-foot-9 star forward, who unexpectedly...
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