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State yanks liquor licenses from NYC bars over social distance violations
July 21, 2020 | 3:55pmThe state has indefinitely suspended the liquor licenses of three restaurants and bars in Queens -- including a problem lounge that has recently drawn crowds of partiers -- for violating...
Huge dead iguana found in freezer of gross Florida pizzeria
June 23, 2020 | 3:29pmThat wasn't well thawed out. A pizza joint in West Palm Beach, Fla., was temporarily shuttered last week after state inspectors found an 80-pound iguana stashed in the freezer, according...
Nightclub holds secret, invite-only party in violation of coronavirus lockdown
May 11, 2020 | 12:48pm"This isn't prohibition, this is a pandemic.”
Owner of junk-filled Queens home cleans up act
September 5, 2019 | 2:27pmThe owner of a Queens home that has become a towering trash dump finally began hauling away debris Thursday -- after The Post's front-page story sparked action from city officials....
City officials seeking court order to clean up Queens trash house
September 4, 2019 | 7:31pmThe city is ready to go to war with the Queens garbage lady. Sanitation and Law Department officials are seeking a court order to access Carmine Bhimull's makeshift landfill in...
Queens hoarder claims trash covering home is just recycling
September 4, 2019 | 2:57pmShe is an eco-friendly hoarder. The Queens woman who has turned her home into a trash-filled eyesore with garbage piled up to the second-story says that the state of her...
This NYC home is literally a dump
September 3, 2019 | 8:02pmThis Queens home is a total dump! A residence on an otherwise tidy block has stacks of junk-filled garbage bags and other debris piled up to the second-floor window —...
Hubby of missing mom Jennifer Dulos may have violated bond by coming to NY
June 25, 2019 | 5:32pmThe estranged husband of missing New Canaan mother Jennifer Dulos crossed state lines into New York on Monday — a possible violation of the conditions of his release, a new...
Notorious Queens landlord has paid a fraction of $4M in fines
January 13, 2019 | 11:01pmIf Mayor de Blasio wants to make good on his vow to protect New Yorkers from slumlords, he can start at this Queens hellhole. City inspectors have slapped 87-40 165th...
City health department bungled 90 percent of violations
October 31, 2018 | 10:00pmCity Health Department inspectors made so many mistakes in writing violations for building cooling towers that 90 percent of those that were challenged were tossed at administrative trials last year,...
Restaurant owned by de Blasio donor faces closure over liquor law violations
July 18, 2018 | 11:44pmA politically connected Manhattan restaurateur learned the hard way how little clout he really has — when an NYPD raid uncovered dozens of potential liquor-law violations that could shut down...
Ex-councilman fined $21K for campaign finance violations
May 17, 2018 | 4:22pmA former Queens Councilman was slapped with more than $21,000 in fines by the city's Campaign Finance Board Thursday for numerous violations during his failed 2013 bid to become borough...
Food vendor skirted $117K in fines by using fake identities
April 16, 2018 | 10:11pmThis guy is as slippery as a sidewalk hot dog. A city food-cart vendor dodged $117,300 in health-inspection fines by cooking up a series of phony identities for himself so...
Fed-up cyclist creates Twitter account to shame dangerous drivers
April 7, 2018 | 10:17pmReckless drivers, be warned: There’s a new shaming sheriff in town. A cyclist who outed state Sen. Marty Golden for allegedly posing as a cop during a traffic dispute in...
This driver has had his license suspended 64 times
March 9, 2018 | 1:15pmA Long Island man pulled over for a traffic violation was arrested when cops learned that his license had been suspended a whopping 64 times, police said. Jaquan Joas, 27,...
City issues more than 12,000 speeding tickets in 33 days
March 1, 2018 | 9:06amPROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island city has issued more than 12,000 speeding tickets in the first 33 days of a new school-zone speed camera program. WPRI-TV reports 12,193 tickets...
Grimaldi's pizzeria had a mice-poop problem
January 17, 2018 | 3:19pmThe famed Brooklyn pizzeria Grimaldi’s was forced to close temporarily over rodent-related health violations — and its owners are hotter than a brick oven, restaurant sources and city officials said...
Lawmaker who 'impersonated' cop parked in crosswalk: witness
January 2, 2018 | 4:14pmBrooklyn state Sen. Marty Golden — who allegedly impersonated a cop while harassing a bicyclist last month — is in trouble again after a constituent spotted him parked in a...
Thousands of New York homes hurt by ‘nightmare neighbors’
December 16, 2017 | 10:58pmMore than 100 bank-owned homes are nightmare neighbors for fellow New Yorkers. Ten years after the foreclosure crisis began, the pain grinds on locally in low-income areas and communities of...
Activists want cop-impersonating politician's placard yanked
December 15, 2017 | 10:54pmBrooklyn state Sen. Marty Golden’s bike lane of trouble is widening to freeway proportions — with transportation activists and political opponents calling on City Hall to yank his parking placard....