NYC man Matthew Fertig running to raise money for gun reform
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NYC man Matthew Fertig running to raise money for gun reform

He’s running for their lives. Brooklyn man Matthew Fertig is raising money for the gun reform advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety by running 120 miles this weekend, from Manhattan to Montauk.  The long-distance runner told the Hamptons weekly Dan’s Papers that the herculean equivalent of 4-and-a-half marathons on Saturday…

Principal and cronies secretly demand steep rent from Dominican teachers
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Principal and cronies secretly demand steep rent from Dominican teachers

Bilingual teachers brought from the Dominican Republic to work in New York City public schools have been treated like indentured servants by educators acting as their slumlords, The Post has learned. Bronx principal Emmanuel Polanco and a group of fellow Department of Education administrators have put nearly a dozen teachers…

NY Election Day 2022 live updates: Hochul-Zeldin governor race, other races
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NY Election Day 2022 live updates: Hochul-Zeldin governor race, other races

The increasingly tight race between Gov. Kathy Hochul and challenger Lee Zeldin has most New York voters focused on the top of the ticket — but they could also play a key role in deciding the balance of power in the House of Representatives. Nine of the races in New York’s 26 congressional districts…

Early voting in NYC anemic for Hochul until Clintons, VP Harris arrival
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Early voting in NYC anemic for Hochul until Clintons, VP Harris arrival

Turnout during the nine days of early voting in overwhelmingly Democratic New York City was light — and experts say the lack of early enthusiasm could portend trouble for incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul. Hochul, who was forced to call in the cavalry — Bill and Hillary Clinton and President Biden…

Zeldin won’t let hecklers stop his anti-crime remarks at site of NYC rape
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Zeldin won’t let hecklers stop his anti-crime remarks at site of NYC rape

Hecklers tried to disrupt a Friday appearance by Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin in Manhattan  — but their shouts failed to silence his anti-crime broadsides against Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul. During a news conference near the scene of the Thursday morning rape of a tourist jogging in Hudson River Park,…

Eric Adams offers few details after NYC ‘criminal justice summit’ with DAs
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Eric Adams offers few details after NYC ‘criminal justice summit’ with DAs

Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday touted to the media his two-day “mayoral summit on criminal justice’’ that he just held with city district attorneys — but fuggedabout him offering any major details. Aside from downplaying the role that the state’s controversial bail-reform laws may have on rising city crime, Hizzoner and…