Michael Goodwin: New York City needs help -- have any would-be mayors noticed De Blasio's failures?

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.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicMichael Alig, the New York City club promoter who in the early- to mid-1990s made a name for himself as the leader of the “Club Kids,” and was subsequently convicted of first-degree manslaughter for the 1996 death of Andre “Angel” Melendez — the inspiration for the 2003 film “Party Monster” starring Macauley Kulkin — has died of an apparent heroin overdose. He was 54.

A New York City Republican club is now firing back at critics – including the Big Apple’s "idiot mayor" and "King Cuomo" – after its members were filmed dancing in a maskless conga line during a recent holiday party.  At least 50 people attended the indoor celebration at the Il Bacco Ristorante in the city’s Queens borough on Dec. 9, according to the Queens Daily Eagle.

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.

Bella Hadid bundles up in a cool jacket while leaving her apartment in New York City on Monday (December 21).

Bella Hadid and Gigi Hadid, who have been out and about together this winter in the city, matching in their all black getups (masks included, of course) while taking Baby Hadid for a brisk stroll through SoHo, or in Gigi's case, introducing her daughter to her very first snow.Bella, however, opted for giving her 36 million Instagram followers "a snow angel special."A special it was indeed—who else is brave enough to plop themselves down in the snow, wearing their Sex-embroidered white jeans,

Gigi Hadid is out and about with her newborn! Three months after Gigi gave birth to her first child — a daughter with her boyfriend, Zayn Malik — the 25-year-old model was spotted out for a walk in New York City with her baby girl.An eyewitness tells ET that Gigi walked with her baby to sister Bella Hadid's SoHo apartment on Tuesday.«She was walking in SoHo with a baby stroller — there was a blanket over the baby though,» the eyewitness says.The eyewitness notes that, while the baby wasn't

A New York City doctor who became one of the first people in the U.S. to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine Monday told Fox News it "felt fantastic." "This is a very hopeful day ..." Dr.

New York City will receive its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines next week pending federal approval, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday.  "We are 10 months into this crisis. But for the first time, we can really see the end in sight," de Blasio told reporters during a press conference.

Roy Trakin It was December 8, 1980, and I was sure I was going to meet John Lennon.I had just interviewed Jack Douglas, producer of John and Yoko’s comeback album, “Double Fantasy,” for Musician magazine. The album had been released just three weeks earlier; a cover story called “Yoko Only” written by Peter Occhiogrosso, my editor at the Soho Weekly News, was on newsstands.