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Exclusive | NY Petco selling live egg-laying female chicks for $5.99 a pop in new ‘pilot program’ as egg price crisis continues

Petco has hatched a plan.


Budget-conscious Long Islanders are flocking to the pet supply retailer’s location in Commack, New York, which has started selling egg-laying female chicks as part of a “pilot program” for those looking to procure their own eggs amid soaring costs.


“We actually sold through the first two batches,” a worker at the store told The Post, adding that a third shipment of about 25 female chicks sold for $5.99 a pop is expected to come in on Wednesday.


“We’re down to o...
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Exclusive | Trendy NYC thrift stores fear US tariffs could obliterate business: ‘No small business can survive’

This could really take a bite out of the Big Apple.


The secondhand apparel industry may be dodging duties on imported goods – but the impact of President Trump’s tariffs on thrift shops may still bring a wrecking ball to businesses across the city, resellers told The Post.


“There’s a lot of rhetoric that everybody’s going to turn to second-hand [clothing] when wallets tighten,” said Alexis Krase, owner of plus-size secondhand store Plus BKLYN in Greenpoint.


“But overall, I think that...
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Exclusive | NYC confiscates 140 pounds of banned rat poison as expert warns ‘genuinely scary’ product can kill when inhaled

The city has confiscated 140 pounds of banned rat poison this month but street vendors keep selling the stuff – as one expert warned the black market could have deadly consequences.


Local medical professionals are bracing to handle more patients exposed to the effects of the poisons with one popular but “genuinely scary” ingredient blamed for the tragic death of four kids in Texas, said Adam Blumenberg, associate professor of emergency medicine at Columbia University Medical Center.


“A lot...
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Columbia University quad was never public — can close anytime despite local outrage, NYC says

The Big Apple is backing Columbia University in its war to keep its gates shut.


Attorneys for the city said the Ivy League school should be allowed to block the public from a beloved community space on its Morningside Heights campus — after outraged locals sued to get access.


“This has always been private property,” Rachel Moston, senior counsel for the city Law Department, argued in court this week.


At the heart of the legal battle is College Walk, a once bustling footpath on West 116t...
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‘Futuristic’ UFO-like trash bins invade NYC neighborhood, abduct parking spaces and get low marks from locals: ‘Hideous’

These space invaders are trash.


The city has installed a bunch of anti-rat trash bins outside upper Manhattan schools – but locals say the spaceship-shaped monstrosities aren’t exactly out of this world.


“They look out-of-place here,” said Marcus Delgado, 52, of the city Department of Sanitation, “Empire Bins” gobbling up parking spots along Amsterdam Avenue near 152nd Street.


“They look futuristic, you know, the shape of them,” he added. “It looks like a robot sitting there with two ar...
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Exclusive | Brooklyn pet store owner accused of kidnapping NYC pigeons, selling them as live shooting targets

An alleged pigeon pirate is ruffling feathers in the concrete jungle.


A longtime Brooklyn pet store owner is coming under fire after allegations resurfaced that he kidnaps pigeons from public parks and illegally sells them to hunters to be used as live shooting targets, The Post has learned – but his brother claims activists have pigeonholed the wrong guy.


Michael Scott, co-owner of Broadway Pigeon & Pet Supplies in Bushwick, has been accused of purloining pigeons for decades, according to...
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Execs on NYC’s Roosevelt Island spent $170K in taxpayer cash to launch anti-tourist smear campaign: probe

Roosevelt Island officials launched a smear campaign to blame tourists — and not mismanagement — for repeated problems with the island’s famed Tramway, a scathing state report reveals.


Well-paid former members of the Roosevelt Island Operation Corporation paid a PR firm nearly $170,000 in taxpayer dollars to manipulate local media outlets and plant posts online claiming a glut of visitors were behind the mishaps, the state Office of the Inspector General said in the 23-page report. 


In fac...
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New bill would trash NYC ticketing over garbage during Jewish Sabbath

City sanitation workers would be banned from issuing trash-related fines to New Yorkers during some weekend hours — including during the Jewish Sabbath — under a new proposed state bill.


The bill, introduced by Assembly member Simcha Eichenstein on Monday, seeks to change the Sanitation Department’s “discriminatory” evening curbside garbage drop-off rules, which have resulted in $50 to $300 fines for Orthodox Jewish residents who are prohibited from handling trash during the religious observa...
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Bird flu sickens thousands of chickens at NYC poultry markets despite temporary statewide shutdown

Bird flu is continuing to spread in New York City despite the state’s temporary live market shut down in February — and activists want a total closure of the slaughter houses.


At least 4,180 Big Apple birds intended to be sold were found to be infected with the highly contagious virus since March 1, according to data from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.


The outbreaks were found in live markets with over 1,000 birds in the Bronx and Queens, as well as smaller flocks in Brook...
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Slain NYC parks worker honored with street renaming 50 years after death: ‘It means so much’

A Staten Island street was renamed Sunday in honor of a parks worker who was killed 50 years ago during a botched golf-course burglary – and never got to see his two sons grow up to be hero NYPD cops.


Arthur Leahy was the first city parks worker to die on the job when he was killed April 6, 1975, as three assailants tried to break into the LaTourette Park golf course clubhouse overnight, according to City Councilman David Carr (R-Staten Island).


“Arthur C. Leahy Way” now faces the entrance...
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Exclusive | Trendy West Village eatery blames congestion pricing for impending closure: ‘We’re just open to pay bills’

This vegan joint just can’t beet congestion pricing.


West Village plant-based French eatery Delice & Sarrasin claims the controversial e-tolling program has led to delivery surcharges from distributors that are so high they are facing the prospect of going out of business.


“We’re at this point now when we’re just open to pay bills,” owner Christophe Caron told The Post, estimating the 12-year-old eatery has just three to six months left before it goes under.


Two of Caron’s restaurant s...
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Exclusive | 100-year-old NYC cabaret singer shares her secret to longevity: ‘Everything about her is an inspiration’

She’s still kicking after all these years.


Longtime New York cabaret singer Lynne Charnay marked her 100th birthday Tuesday night by paying homage to her decades-long history in New York theater  – which has taken her from Manhattan piano bars to the small screen to Broadway’s Palace Theatre.


The newly-minted centenarian, who celebrated the milestone crooning to a sold-out crowd at a piano bar in Manhattan, says her performances help to keep her young at heart.


“It’s very satisfying to...
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Brooklyn residents fight plan to chop down 78 healthy trees in Fort Greene Park, saying it’ll create a ‘summer frying pan’

Leaf these trees alone.


Plant-loving locals are looking to block the city from chopping down 78 trees in Fort Greene Park – a move they say would turn the greenspace into a “summer frying pan.”


A group of residents in Brooklyn’s trendy Fort Greene is suing the city and fighting with the parks conservancy over a plan for a pedestrian plaza despite officials pledging to replace the healthy trees with 300 saplings.


“The environmental concerns are important to all of us involved and for the...
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NYPD reviewing $734K contract with horse veterinarian who has decades-long history of violations: ‘Not a criminal’

The NYPD is reviewing its $734,000 contract with a veterinarian overseeing the agency’s mounted horse unit after his history of violating racehorse care rules surfaced, The Post has learned.


Camilo Bravo Sierra, of Northport, New York, who has been a contract veterinarian with the Department of Health since 2019, was fined at least seven times and suspended twice while working as a horse racing veterinarian at Queens’ Aqueduct Race Track, according to state data first reported by Gothamist....
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Peek inside the plan for a gorgeous NYC park that would reshape the Midtown waterfront

This casino plan calls for all kinds of green.


A massive public waterfront park – roughly the size of Bryant Park – may be coming to Midtown East if a developer gets its Mohegan-backed casino proposal OK’d later this year, The Post has learned.


Freedom Plaza, a now-vacant 4.7-acre green space between First Avenue and the waterfront, would tout an outdoor amphitheater, river promenade, playground and even a museum should the state dole out one of three coveted downstate casino licenses to t...
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Site of century-old synagogue to be torn down – and hundreds of historic NYC landmarks face same risk: advocates

This vintage house of worship doesn’t have a prayer.


The site of a former century-old synagogue for Ukrainian immigrants in the East Village is set to be torn down to make room for six trendy condos — prompting activists to complain that a piece of history will be lost to make way for a generic new apartment for hipsters.


“Pieces of the building will survive, but none of the facade,” Village Preservation executive director Andrew Berman told The Post.


“There is this memory of, and con...
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First-of-its-kind Japanese ‘mini-forest’ coming to Brooklyn this spring – will revamp ‘dilapidated’ waterfront

Brooklyn is branching out.


The Borough of Trees is getting a first-of-its-kind Japanese mini-forest this spring – which is slated to improve air quality, prevent flooding and beautify a “dilapidated” section of waterfront Williamsburg.


The collection of river birch trees is modeled after Miyawaki pocket forests, which are distinguished by their particularly dense planting of native trees in a small area.


The mini-forest set to open at the end of North 4th Street by late May to beautify...
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Beloved 121-year-old NYC Italian restaurant Ferdinando’s Focacceria finds new owner — one month after sudden closure: ‘It’s an honor’

The red sauce will keep flowing at Ferdinando’s.


Ferdinando’s Focacceria in Carroll Gardens will reopen under a new owner — a familiar face in the neighborhood food scene — after the 121-year-old Sicilian restaurant abruptly closed its doors last month, The Post has learned.


Owner Frank Buffa selected Sal Lamboglia, who helms Brooklyn spots Cafe Spaghetti, Swoony’s and Sal Tang’s, to take over the old-school eatery on Union Street, a rep for Lamboglia said. The lease was signed late last w...
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Exclusive | Egg, poultry ‘price gouging’ reports in NY up more than 840% amid bird flu outbreak

It’s time to crack down.


Complaints of illegal egg and poultry price gouging in New York state are up more than 840% in 2025 amid the recent bird flu outbreak, compared to just 16 similar reports made last year, The Post has learned.


The New York Attorney General’s Office was hit with 151 complaints about ripoff egg prices between Jan. 1 and March 10, a rep from the office told The Post — with some of the problematic price tags advertising eggs at between $11.99 and $15.99 per dozen.


“I...
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Exclusive | NYC bars, delis dealing with sky-high corned beef prices ahead of St. Patrick’s Day

Erin go broke! 


This year’s inflated price of the beloved St. Patrick’s Day staple corned beef is making New Yorkers’ wallets bleed green — and is so expensive one supplier named after the product is no longer selling it.


“These guys couldn’t hack it because of the pricing,” Joe DiGangi, owner of Queens’ Mario’s Meats and Deli, said of his former vendor Mosey’s Corned Beef. “Not everyone does it anymore because of the pricing.”


The bloated brisket price has risen 8.7% in the past year....
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Exclusive | Rat sightings up by 119% in this NYC nabe – as vermin-hating locals claim ‘every house has rats’

This neighborhood is totally rat-tled.


Rat sightings are trending down citywide but some neighborhoods are seeing massive spikes — with one area in Queens hit with a 119% increase in 311 complaints about the vermin last year.


“Every house has rats and nobody is doing anything about it,” said Shuvro Md, of Jamaica Hills, Queens. That neighborhood part of the borough’s Community Board 8 — alongside Briarwood, Hillcrest, Holliswood and more — which saw the whopping increase from 2023 to 2024....
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Massive all-geothermal high-rise building set to open in trendy NYC neighborhood

Greenpoint is about to get a lot greener.


A new all-geothermal-powered apartment complex — the largest in the state — is set to be built along the trendy Brooklyn neighborhood’s waterfront by next year and could bring welcome relief from costly utility bills to residents.


The Riverie, a two-tower residential development at 1 Java St., is poised to use a vertical “closed-loop geoexchange system” – fueled by the Earth’s temperature – to heat and cool each of its 834 units, according to reps...
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‘Anora’ Oscars sweep puts ‘iconic’ Brooklyn neighborhoods Coney Island, Brighton Beach in the spotlight: ‘Recognition it deserves’

Brighton Beach is the latest star of the silver screen.


The Oscar-winning independent film “Anora” is bringing new visitors out to the local Brooklyn establishments that served as the backdrop for the flick — which created movie magic with moves such as replacing a boardwalk candy store’s display with breakaway “sugar glass” and using handheld cameras to capture the daily life of locals at restaurants and the beach.


One local shop owner even helped the crew find an extra who was paid $1,20...
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Hundreds of birds in NYC infected by bird flu after poultry markets allowed to reopen

Hundreds of birds at a Queens live poultry market have succumbed to a new bird flu outbreak — less than two weeks after the shops were allowed to reopen as the virus runs rampant across the nation.


At least 150 birds were found on Monday to be infected with the extremely contagious and devastating virus, data from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service shows.


The sprawling infection marks the first at a live market in the Big Apple since early February, when 1,240 birds at Queens a...
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