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3 massive pythons found slithering through NYC park – with one rescued, 2 still on the loose: ‘This is a first’

It’s one for the hiss-tory books!


Three enormous ball pythons were spotted slithering through Queens’ Forest Park Thursday, including one that was nabbed — and named Kevin by rescuers — and two more that were still on the loose.


The first of the 4-foot-long constricting snakes — which could pose a threat to small pets — was seen having a bad time as it apparently startled a passer-by near Woodhaven Boulevard and Myrtle Avenue on Wednesday.


“One of my staff members sees this guy hitting...
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Exclusive | New Yorkers to get heads up about hideous 5G towers planned for their neighborhood under new proposal

These lawmakers are predicting bad reception.


New Yorkers will be given a warning when eyesore 5G cell towers – which have been unscrupulously popping up “in the middle of the night” across the boroughs – are planned to go up on their block, according to a new City Council bill introduced Thursday.


The legislation, co-sponsored by Brooklyn council members Lincoln Restler and Jennifer Gutierrez, would require the city to notify those living within 500 feet of a proposed 32-foot cell tower o...
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NYC’s first horror bookstore The Twisted Spine opens, hawking ‘Frankenstein’ to modern classics: ‘Nothing else like this’

New Yorkers just might find something scarier than a rent increase inside a new offbeat storefront.


The Twisted Spine, the Big Apple’s first horror-focused bookstore, opened in Brooklyn this month, hawking upwards of 1,500 books from “Dracula” to “Frankenstein” to “The Haunting of Hill House” – and serving as a spooky place to hang out and have a drink, co-owner Jason Mellow told The Post. 


“It’s been difficult to keep everything in stock,” he admitted as a new 750-book shipment was wheele...
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Union launches vicious $1M ad campaign against Eric Adams’ push for NYC horse carriage ban

The union representing horse carriage riders has launched a $1 million ad blitz through the November election slamming Mayor Eric Adams and others for attempting to ban the horse carriage industry.


“Eric Adams stabbed us in the back,” fumed Transport Workers Union president John Samuelsen.


Samuelsen said Adams’ sudden turn against the carriage industry doesn’t pass the smell test, especially since First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used to represent the leading animal rights, anti-carriage gr...
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NYC’s first rat czar quietly scurries away from $176K gig in Eric Adams’ administration

Hizzoner’s general in his war on rats waved the white flag.


The city’s first-ever rat czar Kathleen Corradi, has left her $176,000-a-year job, according to City Hall — and it’s unclear if the position will ever be filled again.


Corradi left on her own accord and will be “working to serve the city in a different capacity,” according to Mayor Eric Adams’ office.


”When I appointed Kathy Corradi to this historic, unique job, I knew she’d have the drive and knowledge to send the rats packing...
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Notorious Central Park stretch even more dangerous after redesign, locals say: ‘ Like running the gauntlet’

A notoriously dangerous Central Park thoroughfare for pedestrians and joggers has become even more treacherous — after a redesign that was supposed to make it safer, locals say.


The revamped 6-mile loop debuted in June with just a single two-way lane for pedestrians while creating two new one-way lanes for slow and fast-moving bikes — amid fewer walk signals, confusing new signage and still-ignored cyclist traffic lights, critics claim.


“Crossing any street in Central Park is like running...
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Fetid asphalt plant near trendy NYC neighborhood blasted by locals for ‘noxious’ fumes seeping into homes

These New Yorkers are fuming.


More than 100 residents from a pair of Queens and Brooklyn waterfront neighborhoods slammed a city-contracted asphalt recycling plant near their homes at a tense meeting Tuesday over its smelly, “burning rubber”-like emissions that they fear are making them sick.


The plant, which has operated in Long Island City, Queens, since 2011, was first cited by state officials in January 2024 for spewing fumes that “unreasonably interfered with the comfortable enjoyment...
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Exclusive | Eric Adams calls for Central Park horse carriage ban, inks multi-agency crackdown executive order

Central Park buggy drivers may need to hold their horses.


A ban on Central Park carriage horses is on the horizon, with the mayor signing an executive order Wednesday to crack down on the industry and City Hall eyeing a wind-down of the decades-old tradition by spring of 2026, The Post has exclusively learned.


Mayor Eric Adams took a defiant stance against the horse-drawn carriages in a statement, blasting them as vestiges of old New York that “no longer work for our city” after four carri...
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Exclusive | Ruff crowd: Coaches, parents confront brazen rogue dog owners at popular NYC park

It’s one nasty turf war.


Furious coaches, parents and neighbors staged a showdown with snarling dog owners at a popular but feces-filled Brooklyn ballfield over the weekend that included some pooch-lovers appearing to threaten violence — against kids.


The team of sports supporters launched a “get-our-fields-back” effort Saturday, bringing pint-sized sluggers to play ball at the 3-acre Green Central Knoll park in Bushwick.


Its field has become popular with rogue dog owners who slip past...
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Exclusive | NYC’s hidden ‘noise cameras’ issue $1.7M in fines: ‘Things have gotten worse’

A dozen city “noise cameras” secretly monitoring for loud motorcycles, honking cars and music-blasting vehicles have doled out more than $1.7 million in fines in the past few years, The Post has learned.


“In the last handful of years, things have gotten worse,” said City Councilman Lincoln Restler of Brooklyn, whose office paid for the latest city camera to be installed — a $40,000 device on Tillary Street near the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges — from its own budget.


“Neighbors are frustr...
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NYC renters see ‘significant’ savings over dropped broker fees — but financial boost won’t last: experts

Big Apple tenants have been saving money on dropped broker fees even though landlords try to bake them into higher rents — but the financial gain won’t last, real-estate experts warn.


New York City renters saw a “significant” average savings of roughly $1,300 from the banned fees since the Fairness in Apartment Rentals Act went into effect June 11, according to a study published by tenant review platform OpenIgloo on Friday.


City rents overall this past summer rose a relative modest 6% abo...
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Sept. 11 survivors, pols urge feds to boost ‘insufficient’ health program’s funding: ‘It’s going to get even worse’

Survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks and city councilmembers are urging Congress to approve more funding for a 9/11-related illness health program slated to run out of cash this decade.


The World Trade Center Health Program has provided more than 140,000 survivors with cancer treatment, respiratory care and mental health support since 2011, officials said — but given “insufficient” funding, the initiative will begin turning away new applicants in 2027.


“This program saves lives,” 9/11 survivo...
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NYC park catering to hipsters and stroller moms now full of rats and syringes: ‘Really upsetting’

A Brooklyn park popular with hipsters and stroller moms is being overrun by rats, mounds of garbage and even syringes left near where dogs and tots run around, furious residents told The Post.


McCarren Park on the border of the trendy Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods has been plagued by the scourges since the start of the summer, and conditions are only getting worse, said fuming locals — who are demanding the city intervene asap.


“It’s really upsetting because we moved here and w...
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MTA buses earn atrocious D, F grades for speed, reliability as some NYC pedestrians out-walk certain routes: bombshell report

Most of the city’s buses that ferry more than a million daily riders earn D and F ratings when it comes to reliability and speed — with pedestrians even out-walking some of them, a dismal new report shows.


About 56% of the Big Apple’s bus routes are running at speeds “significantly below” where they should be, causing them to lag behind schedule more than half of the time, City Comptroller Brad Lander said in his office’s “Life in the Fast Lane: A Report Card for NYC’s Buses” report released...
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Exclusive | Buzzy NYC restaurants and bars dupe customers, city inspectors by hiding below-A health ratings

They only get an A for effort.


Nearly a dozen Instagram-worthy hotspots around the Big Apple are pulling a fast one on oblivious foodies by hiding their city-issued B and C letter grades, The Post has found.


Trendy eateries such as Serafina, Citizens of Soho, Flippers and more have earned sub-A ratings over the likes of rodents, flies and other hazards — but are duping diners by posting outdated “grade pending” notices or foregoing the mandatory signs altogether, The Post has learned.


R...
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Exclusive | Blindsided residents ordered to evacuate crumbling NYC building after huge chunk of facade falls in tourist hotspot

A chunk of a West Village building’s brick façade came crashing down outside a popular bakery this month, prompting the city to order the evacuation of the century-old complex.


But nearly a dozen residents told The Post they had “no clue” that they’d been ordered to leave their homes, alleging they were kept in the dark about conditions in the five-story building being deemed “perilous to life.”


“Even if any of us were to be sitting on our fire escape, we could easily be hit by one of the...
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Exclusive | Carbone hid ‘B’ health rating — with latest NYC inspection finding dirty dishes, food left above safe temps

A-listers have been settling for a B for years without even knowing.


Perennially-buzzy West Village red sauce joint Carbone has been concealing its city-issued, cleanliness-rating “B” letter grade from diners — possibly for years, The Post has learned.


The ritzy Thompson Street restaurant – where the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Rihanna and the Kardashians have been spotted on repeat since it opened in 2012 — has been dinged for sanitary violations worthy of a below-A rating “B” status sinc...
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Exclusive | Historic former NY stock exchange building in ‘perilous to life’ disrepair — billionaire owner lands criminal summons

The historic former American Stock Exchange in Manhattan is raining potentially deadly debris on the street — earning its billionaire owner a criminal summons over its lame sidewalk shed, according to the city.


The unsightly, ineffective sidewalk shed at the landmarked 15-story site at 86 Trinity Place was erected in late 2017 while repairs were being made to the building’s façade, a city Department of Buildings rep said.Eight years later, the green-painted eyesore remains — and “the owner ha...
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Waymo’s robotaxis hit NYC in test run — but locals, ex-mayor say hit the brakes: ‘Really bad idea’

The robots are here – kind of.


The first driverless robotaxis hit the streets of the Big Apple as part of a test program with humans still in the driver seat, though some New Yorkers said futuristic tech is a disaster waiting to happen.


Waymo officials are assessing how its vehicles will handle city obstacles like jaywalkers, taxis, cyclists and carriage horses as up to eight robotaxis make their way around Brooklyn and Manhattan.


The company, owned by Google parent Alphabet, was grante...
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Exclusive | Inside upstate retreat for aging Holocaust survivors living in NYC — where kugel baking is therapy: ‘It’s a lifeline’

Some of New York’s last living Holocaust survivors escaped the city — temporarily leaving economic burdens, lonely apartments and surging antisemitism fears behind — for a weeklong summer respite in the mountains to partake in “simple joys.”


More than 40 survivors ranging in age from 80 to 105 — mostly Brooklynites living below the federal poverty level — gathered for an all-expenses paid, five-day trip to the Catskill mountains this week to bake kugel, make bracelets for former Israeli hosta...
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Crowds wowed by ‘Sauronhenge,’ a stunning ‘LOTR’-inspired astronomical event with ‘evil’ NYC tower

Move over, Manhattanhenge.


City residents are gushing over “Sauronhenge,’’ the newly coined phrase for an astronomical phenomenon involving the sun aligning with the top of the “evil”-looking Brooklyn Tower — looking akin to Sauron’s lair from the flick “Lord of the Rings.’’


Dozens of Brooklynites lined up at the intersection of Dekalb and Vanderbilt avenues in Clinton Hill last week for the perfect glimpse of the stunning sight.


“The rumors are true!” an enthralled commentator wrote in...
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Tallest subway platform in NYC among 60 stations set to finally get elevators: ‘They’re climbing Mount Everest’

For Brooklyn subway riders, it’s only up from here.


The Big Apple’s tallest subway station is finally set to get elevators, putting an end to straphangers’ 90-foot hike that officials have likened to “climbing Mount Everest.”


The century-old Smith-9th Street subway station in Gowanus – one of the tallest in the world – is slated to finally get elevators and bring relief to huffing-and-puffing F and G train riders under the MTA’s 2025-29 capital plan, state Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D-Brooklyn...
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Exclusive | NYC ex-cons slice and dice their way through new culinary training program dished up to keep them on the ‘straight and narrow’

In this kitchen, justice is served – and finely chopped.


Nearly a dozen ex-cons graduated Monday from the city Department of Probation’s inaugural culinary-skills program, part of a range of new classes offered to parolees to try to bolster employment and slash recidivism rates.


“This is my yellow brick road,” said newly minted class graduate and parolee Angel Rivera, 52, of Brooklyn. “This is going to open up doors for me.”


The 11 graduates — who are serving probation for everything fr...
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Rabbits used in Anna Delvey photoshoot dumped in Prospect Park, sparking outrage as assistant takes blame

A hare-y situation has thrown the Big Apple’s infamous “fake heiress” Anna Delvey back in the spotlight.


The scammer-turned-model got ripped by animal lovers after several rabbits she used in a glamorous photoshoot were found dumped in Prospect Park last week.


Activists quickly drew the link to Delvey, who had posted photos from the downtown Manhattan shoot at around the same time as the rescues, with the caption “our bunny daycare is open.”


“These animals were left in a park to die rig...
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