America Together: Good Samaritan helps NYPD officer shovel police cruiser out of snow pile up

A Massachusetts man believed to be connected to a New York City bombing hoax turned himself in to police in the Big Apple on Tuesday morning and is being questioned by investigators just one day after a Queens mall was evacuated in response to a suspicious Tesla with what appeared to be an explosive inside, according to officials and reports.  Louis Shenker called 911 around 3 a.m.

This will surprise absolutely no one, but having movie theaters largely closed during 2020 was bad for the box office figures. Go figure, right? Well, now that 2020 is in the books, this final weekend of the box office for last year just hammers it home.

The NYPD, despite having been scheduled to receive the COVID vaccine this week, will have to wait to get it, Commissioner Dermot Shea said on Tuesday.

Police shot and wounded an unarmed man in Brooklyn Monday night after he rushed at cops and pulled his hand from his waistband — refusing commands to show his hands, NYPD officials said. The man, identified by sources as 35-year-old Curtis McGarrell, was hit in the leg and taken to Kings County Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Chief of Department Terence Monahan said during a briefing at the shooting scene in Prospect Lefferts Gardens.

Phil Niekro, the only knuckleball pitcher to win 300 games, died in his sleep Saturday night at age 81 after a long battle with cancer, the Atlanta Braves announced.

The Big Apple’s staggering surge in shootings amid the COVID-19 pandemic has led nearly 9,000 terrified New Yorkers to apply for gun permits — but the NYPD has signed off on fewer than 1,100, The Post has learned. The 8,088 applications for first-time pistol and rifle permits submitted since March 22 — when coronavirus-related restrictions went into effect — represent a threefold-plus increase over the 2,562 submitted between March 22 and Dec.

Four New York City-area teenagers who recently graduated high school were killed Tuesday when the car they were in was struck by a motoris who was evading police, officials said.  Yonkers residents Brandon Sierra, Randy Brisbane, Tamari Watkins, and Anthony Cruz, all 18, were inside a 2006 Nissan sedan, according to the Yonkers Police Department.

Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall are ready for a fresh Zamunda-to-New York City adventure in the first teaser forComing 2 America. Amazon Prime Video debuted the teaser trailer for the sequel of the 1998 comedy Coming to America on Tuesday morning.

Things are already looking up for 2021, y’all!

A police officer in Rochester, N.Y., was shot Tuesday while responding to a report of a man with a gun attempting to enter a home, his department says. Rochester Police Capt.

Eddie Murphy classic has inspired a follow-up in — get this — , which sees the comedian reprise his role as Prince Akeem for another journey to New York city. On Tuesday, Amazon unveiled the sequel's teaser trailer.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday mused that Santa will be "very good" to him this Christmas because of how hard he worked to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

Home Alone 2: Lost In New York parody on Saturday Night Live last night (December 19).The actor played the Pigeon Lady in the spoof sketch, in which she was joined by Melissa Villaseñor as Kevin.“It’s the 30th anniversary of Home Alone and to celebrate 20th Century Studios is releasing this never-before-seen ending to the Christmas classic Home Alone 2: Lost In New York,” a voiceover introduced the skit.Later, Villaseñor’s Kevin met up with the Pigeon Lady to thank her for her friendship but

The father of a woman whose body was found in a Staten Island park last year has been extradited from the Middle East and charged with her murder. Kabary Salem had been indicted in the murder of his daughter, Ola Salem, 25, by a Staten Island grand jury Nov.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNew York-based outfit Grasshopper Film has acquired North American rights to Ephraim Asili’s debut feature, “The Inheritance,” following its premiere at Toronto and screening at the New York Film Festival.Grasshopper Film is planning to have “The Inheritance” open on March 12 in New York at Film at Lincoln Center, as well as in other cities.The ensemble film takes place almost entirely in a West Philadelphia house, where a community of young people have

Naman Ramachandran The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) will merge its Los Angeles and New York branches to form a single BAFTA North America in 2021, Variety has confirmed.The merger is in aid of a homogenous strategy designed to foster closer interactions with the U.K. body.

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA is set to merge its New York and LA branches to become BAFTA North America, we can reveal.