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Mayor Tiffany Henyard attends meetings dressed as a movie gangster and her residents say she plays the part – retaliating against them unless they do her bidding, The Post can reveal. Henyard channeled drug kingpin Nino Brown from the 1991 gangster movie “New Jack City” at a 2023 gathering, an ensemble meant to intimidate, her critics claimed this week. “People look at politics like a joke, it’s like a mockery right now because of all this stuff,” Village of Dolton Trustee Kiana Belcher told The Post. “She comes to board meetings dressed like Nino Brown.” -snip Lawrence Gardner, 57, told...

Police released images of the four suspects who beat and stabbed a 29-year-old man who wished the quartet a happy new year. The victim was waiting for a Manhattan-bound D train at the 182-183rd St. station in the Bronx when he said “Happy new year” to the four fellow straphangers about 8:45 p.m. Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. (NYPD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The 29-year-old man beaten and stabbed by four men at a Bronx train station he wished a happy new year to was trying to squeeze past the cruel quartet when he was attacked, family members said Saturday. “He was coming down...

Police have surveillance video showing the entire incident and they used that to identify a suspect. Wednesday, police arrested and charged a homeless man named Alvin Charles for the murder: A homeless man has been arrested and charged with murdering a Brooklyn man after a dispute on a subway train. The NYPD says that Alvin Charles, 43, was arrested Wednesday evening and charged with murder… But today we learned that at the time of the murder last Friday, Alvin Charles was on supervised release from another subway attack last year where he allegedly stabbed someone else multiple times: Charles had...

If this isn’t a sign of the times, nothing is. Amid rising crime in the Big Apple, one of Mayor Eric Adams’ aides was mugged in broad daylight Tuesday while scouting a location in Brooklyn for a planned visit by Hizzoner, law enforcement sources told The Post. The brazen caper took place even though the victim, a civilian member of Adams’ advance team, cautioned that he was a well-connected City Hall employee, a high-ranking police source said. “You don’t want to do this. I work for the mayor,” he told the two crooks. But in a show of utter contempt,...

An aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams told both Brooklyn muggers not to attack him because he works for City Hall, right before he was robbed and shoved into the ground. Christopher Bauch, 33, is a member of the mayor's advance team - which deals with event planning - and was scouting out a location for a mayoral appearance near Brooklyn Navy Yard at around 10.30am....

New Yorkers are about to get zapped on their electric bills. Starting May 28, households in the five boroughs will be socked with rate increases of up to 12 percent to run appli ances -- after the feds de cided that power companies needed an extra $500 million a year, The Post has learned. And that's on top of another 4 percent state-OK'd Con Ed rate hike that kicks in today. A typical apartment resident's electric bill of $74 -- based on 250 kilowatt hours of power each month -- will go up to $86, or $12 more than last...