Doug Auer

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Evac stat as hospitals lose power to heal

Hundreds of patients were scrambled out of hospitals yesterday due to power outages and flooding. At NYU Langone Medical Center, 300 patients were evacuated — including critically ill newborns —...

Parents, children & heroes among dead

Sandy’s destructive path through the New York area was also deadly. The storm killed at least 35 people, including a Staten Island cop who died saving his family, and a...

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Manhattan *** He’s in the dog house. A Hell’s Kitchen man busted for attacking his dog in a luxury rental building was also caught with high-powered ammo and a fake...

Student life at NYU is Rx-rated

No wonder it’s called higher education.The director of security at NYU recently requested a special meeting with top NYPD officials to brainstorm ideas on how to best combat a rise...

NYU terrorism class asks students to plot terrorist attack

It’s Terrorism 101. A New York University class on transnational terrorism is requiring students to “hypothetically plan a terrorist attack” — and shocked cops say the outrageous lesson plan is...

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Manhattan *** Shots were fired during a police car chase in East Harlem early yesterday, sources said. According to cops, two crooks robbed five men at gunpoint on Fifth Avenue...

Dognap dame on loose

She’s a dog-gone thief. Cops are sniffing around for a young woman caught on video with a beloved pooch she had just brazenly stolen from a Manhattan man when he...

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Manhattan***You would think that seven prison stints might teach a guy something about staying out of trouble, but alleged serial burglar Paul Wise sure seems none the wiser.The 54-year-old ex-con...

Bullied Staten Is. teen sent text to foster mother moments before her suicide

The despondent Staten Island teen who jumped in front of a train to escape her bullying peers sent one final text to her foster mother moments before killing herself. “I’m...

Dramatic video reveals heroism of Bronx cop shooting back after taking a bullet in the chest

Dramatic video released yesterday shows an incredibly brave cop holding one hand over a bleeding bullet wound in his chest — and a gun in the other as he chases...

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Queens *** Cops are looking for a Rego Park bank bandit who brandished a metal pipe as a weapon, police said. The suspect allegedly entered the HSBC branch at 137-61...

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Manhattan A career criminal was shot dead after being turned away from a Harlem club, police sources said. Jermaine Smalls, 32, was out drinking Tuesday night at the trendy Red...

Suspect held in ’96 slay

He nearly got away with murder.A Manhattan man who allegedly mowed down his girlfriend 16 years ago in a drunken rampage and fled to Ecuador has finally been caught, because...

Bullied teen jumps in front of SI train as horrified classmates look on

A Staten Island teen who pals said had been relentlessly tormented by bullies leaped to her death in front of a train yesterday as her classmates looked on in horror....

SI teen jumps to her death as horrified classmates look on

A distraught Staten Island teen jumped to her death in front of train today as classmates looked on in horror, The Post has learned. Felicia Garcia, 15, leaped in front...

Cops bust fugitive in 16-year-old cold case murder

He nearly got away with murder. A raging Manhattan lover who allegedly mowed down his girlfriend 16 years ago in a drunken rampage and fled to Ecuador has finally been...

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Manhattan *** A 23-year-old man was killed after jumping in front of a subway train yesterday morning at a Hamilton Heights station, authorities said. Brent Ellis was struck at about...

LI cop fatally shot while chasing suspect from Cross Island Parkway accident; cops nab 'killer'

Cops have arrested a crazed man suspected of shooting and killing a Nassau County cop -- then killed another motorist as he made his getaway, law-enforcement sources told the Post....

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Manhattan An attempted rapist is being sought for attacking a 35-year-old woman in Morningside Heights, police said yesterday. The suspect (pictured) followed the woman into her building at an undisclosed...

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Brooklyn *** A sticky-fingered thief boosted a wallet from a Williamsburg organic beauty shop, police sources said. The crook entered Skinny Skinny on Grand Street near Roebling Street at about...