Erin Calabrese

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Dog walker loses woman's pit bull after meltdown

It’s every dog owner’s nightmare. An East Village woman entrusted her beloved pooch to a neighborhood dog walker while she was on a business trip — and he lost the...

Supermarket mogul found dead outside home in freezing temps

A supermarket mogul who left a Staten Island country-club party to take a 10-minute walk home in bone-chilling temperatures was found dead the next morning just steps from his ritzy...

NYC's record homicide-free streak in jeopardy after man found dead

The Big Apple’s record homicide-free streak was in danger of dying Saturday, as a Queens shooting victim clings to life and another man was found dead under suspicious circumstances. Friday...

Luxurious Avenue D building offers subway shuttle service

Tenants who can afford to pay $5,000 a month in rent for a three-bedroom apartment near Avenue D won’t have to schlep to the subway with everyone else in the...

NYPD cop who shot Akai Gurley pleads not guilty

The rookie cop who gunned down an unarmed man in a pitch-black stairwell made a deadly mistake — and then never got help for his victim, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken...

High School principal OK'd racially charged anti-cop poster

A city high-school principal allowed a racially charged, anti-police poster to hang in the hallway — even after the December execution of two officers, The Post has learned. The sign...

Vandal tags neighborhood after drunken fight with girlfriend

A heartbroken vandal spraypainted his tag nearly twenty times around his girlfriend’s Queens neighborhood after a drunken spat so she’d be constantly reminded of his name, law enforcement sources said....

Most killed in Metro-North crash 'burned beyond recognition'

Nearly all of the commuters killed when a Metro-North train slammed into a car on Westchester County railroad tr​​acks were burned beyond recognition and will have to be identified ​using...

Teen shot after cops kicked him out of the station house: suit

A terrified Brooklyn teen fleeing a gunman ran into an NYPD station house seeking refuge, but cops there callously booted him back outside — where he was shot dead, a...

Restaurant to serve $4,900 Super Bowl wing special

A Manhattan restaurant is serving up a chicken wing special for the Super Bowl that’s so pricey it could make even the richest football fan squawk. The Old Homestead Steakhouse...

Construction worker falls to death down elevator shaft

A major gut-renovation project on side-by-side Upper West Side townhomes turned tragic Wednesday morning when the manager of the construction plunged one story to his death down an open elevator...

PBA foes say Pat Lynch didn't back them up in tix-fix scandal

Dissident cops insist they can run the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association better than combative Patrick Lynch — even though two of the candidates on the crew’s election slate were indicted in...

Second of 2 cops shot released from hospital

He earned this hero’s salute. The second of two cops shot this month while responding to a Bronx bodega stickup was released from the hospital Friday as columns of cops...

Cops in ticket-fix scandal blast Lynch for lack of support

PBA boss Pat Lynch hasn’t done a thing to help out the 13 indicted cops facing trial in an alleged ticket-fixing scam, one of the charged officers complained after a...

Cop supporters lash out at Sharpton for 'anti-police hate'

NYPD supporters took the fight to the Rev. Al Sharpton on Tuesday at a pro-cop rally where the rabble-rousing preacher was called out for stirring up anti-police hate — with...

De Blasio meets NYPD union heads to address tensions

Three NYPD union leaders — including two of Mayor Bill de Blasio's harshest critics — presented a united front Tuesday as they entered the Police Academy in Queens together for an unprecedented...

Ebola doctor says no-contact rules are hard on patients

It’s the gift he most wishes he could give this holiday season — but he can’t because it might kill him. Dr. Ken Marx has been risking his life treating...

Nepalese refugee teen gets NYE ball drop honor

The bright lights of Times Square on New Year’s Eve are a long way from the tiny Nepalese village where Queens high-school student Sonam Lama grew up. Lama, 16, is...

NYPD searching for reputed gang member who threatened cops

The NYPD is searching for a reputed Brooklyn gang-banger who threatened cops by posting an online photo of a man opening fire into a marked police cruiser -- just hours...

Sharpton: I got death threats after NYPD cops were executed

It's all about him. The Rev. Al Sharpton claimed Sunday that he's received death threats in the wake of execution-style murders of two NYPD officers in Brooklyn. Sharpton, appearing alongside...