Talk about being gone with the wind. A prisoner was able to inexplicably break free this morning as he was being taken out of the 120th Precinct stationhouse on Staten Island -- then gave cops a wild chase on the tracks of the Staten... Read Full Story
Three women were killed and a man was critically injured in a rash of pedestrian and cyclist accidents across the city yesterday. On Staten Island, a...
New York City voting entered the 21st century yesterday, after the Board of Elections selected a high-tech ballot-scanning machine that will replace the creaky...
Manhattan -- Two times was a charm for this crook. A man failed to knock off a Chelsea bank, but crossed the street and successfully robbed a different one,...
New York City finished off the year with the fewest murders since comparable record keeping began. The 2009 year-end total was 466, down from 523 in 2008 and...
New York City’s top narcotics prosecutor says a Health Department pamphlet that teaches heroin addicts how to shoot up safely is wrongheaded because there is...
A Staten Island mob moll slit her own throat over the prospect of living without her prison-bound gangster boyfriend, according to her tearful letter to the...
The city's charter schools are providing a bigger boost to students' reading and math performance than are traditional public schools, according to a new...
It's time for New Yorkers to toss their Christmas trees and spread some of that fine pine around city parks. From today to Jan. 15, residents can leave...
New York City is replacing its old-fashioned lever voting machines. The Board of Elections is expected to choose new electronic voting machines on Tuesday....
Complaints to 311 about heating problems soared as the temperature plunged below 20 degrees yesterday. The city logged 2,110 calls by 5 p.m. as frigid...
A retired firefighter charged with torching an empty Staten Island house and suspected in a fire that left a family homeless dismissed the allegations as...
Thanks to the quick actions of a neighbor, a Staten Island couple and their 6-month-old son narrowly escaped this fast- moving fire that spread from an...
Cops pinched one of New York's not-so Bravest for allegedly burning down an empty house on Staten Island, police said yesterday. Retired firefighter Glen...
We should all suffer so much. A starving artist injured on the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash cashed in on her back, shoulder and arm injuries -- landing...
The public has a right to know why you jumped that turnstile -- even if was to get to a bathroom. A judge has ordered the Transit Authority to open the doors...
Staten Island DA Dan Donovan is investigating whether a Working Families Party subsidiary violated campaign laws in the election of Debi Rose to the City...
Reeling from four straight years of plunging SAT scores, the city will offer a free online prep course for the exam to all 11th-graders in public schools, The...
A Staten Island man who was caught driving with a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit has become the first person in the state to be punished under...
Goodbye, old yellow cabs. The city is on the lookout for a taxi model to replace its 13,000-car fleet by 2013, according to a request for proposals called...
Get set for a 148 percent increase in water bills over 10 years -- unless the city builds a new filtration plant. Then bills would soar 171 percent....
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Jamie O’Hare wants to succeed so badly, tries to fit in so well as a starting sophomore on the St. Peter’s girls basketball team, that she tries to do a little too much sometimes. “She tries a little too hard,” Eagles coach Bob Daggett said. That...
After a month apart, St. Joseph by the Sea is finally healthy. If Sunday’s 65-38 victory over Grady in the Aviator Winter Clash is any indication, the Vikings are going to be in for quite a couple of months of basketball. Sea hit eight 3-pointers...
Slowly Danissa Smith is rounding back into form after an injury plagued season. She gave her new team a glimpse of the impact she can make. “I’m still getting to where I was,” she said The senior transferred to John F. Kennedy from North Bergen (N...
Dominique Easley is headed to The Swamp. The Post’s All-City football Player of the Year decommitted from Penn State on Wednesday and verbally committed to Florida yesterday. Easley, a 6-foot-3, 260-pound defensive lineman with a relentless motor,...
BAYONNE, N.J. — Christine Kline knows full well about Moore Catholic’s lack of depth past its starting five. “They never go to their bench,” the St. Peter’s junior point guard said. “When they have to, you just take advantage of their [others]...
Nicole Arnone wasn’t having her best game. Through three quarters against McKee/Staten Island Tech, the Moore Catholic junior was a non-factor on the offensive end, scoring just one point. The performance had Arnone slumping her shoulders and...
McKee/Staten Island Tech played Moore Catholic even for just about three quarters. The Sea Gulls were down four at the half and behind by just one heading into the fourth despite playing without star guard Kaitlyn Astel. “I believe we played the...
Keelan Smith was replaying the game in her head as she sat on the bench late in the third quarter watching St. John Villa make it a contest. The St. Joseph Hill offense became a bit more stagnant and Bears were able to force turnovers with the...
Nothing was falling from the outside for St. John Villa and second-chance points were nearly nonexistent in the first half. Still, the Bears kept...
Kassim Forbes had an offer from Albany. He wanted to go away for college. Then he spoke with Fordham coach Tom Masella. The rest, as they say, is history. The standout safety/linebacker verbally committed to Fordham after taking an official visit...
Dominique Easley is still committed to Penn State, but the dominant defensive lineman isn’t sure if he will sign with the Big 10 powerhouse on Feb. 3, 2010, which is National Signing Day. Easley took an official visit to Happy Valley over the...
Keelan Smith knew from the start that St. Joseph Hill wasn’t adding just an ordinary freshman in forward Kelsey Carey. Her skills and approach resembled that of a veteran. “She knew what she was doing right away,” said Smith, a three-year varsity...
Notre Dame Academy entered what coach Tom Cavanagh calls the “No Reversal Zone.” The Gators coach watched his squad’s ball movement go stagnant in the second quarter as they settled for contested jumpers and were losing the battle on the boards to...
Nicole Francomano had needed some encouragement in her first season on the varsity. The St. John Villa junior pass-first point guard was the JV's best...
Staten Island continued its ascent in girls volleyball. Susan Wagner made the PSAL Class A semifinals for the second straight season and McKee/Staten Island Tech got to the quarterfinals. St. Joseph Hill won its first CHSAA Island title and...
Staten Island owned the football scene in New York City this year, especially in the PSAL. Curtis and Tottenville both made the City Championship game and the Warriors, backed by the Big Apple's best defense, won their second title in three years....
It didn’t have to be said. With McKee/Staten Island Tech down six points in the third quarter, senior Kristen Markoe and sophomore Kaitlyn Astel – the Sea Gulls’ dynamic duo – just looked at each other. “They feed off each other,” coach Peter...
Moore Catholic prides itself on its defense and rebounding, but even coach Rich Postiglione was impressed with the level its team reached against Midwood. On one play in the first half, junior forwards Taylor Baggs and Alex Salaycik each had their...
The game was tied with 10 seconds left. The overflow crowd was going crazy. Staten Island supremacy and neighborhood bragging rights were on the line. For Quentin Tate, none of that came into play. “Just blur everything out,” he said. The Curtis...
The court is small and the margin of error for a road team is even smaller. Charlie Donohue knows all about playing at Curtis. “I hate coaching here,” the McKee/Staten Island Tech coach said after his team fell in an 83-80 classic Tuesday night in...
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