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NYC closes number of parking garages over substantial structural issues after last week's fatal collapse

The significant problems were discovered during a sweep that was launched after the Ann Street structure in the Financial District crumbled April 18.

Two accused of running covert 'police station' for China to chase down dissidents in NYC

Suspects Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping were each charged in Brooklyn federal court with conspiring to act as agents of China’s government and obstruction of justice for opening the police...

This Chinese-American family has lived on Mott Street for 5 generations

Ava Chin uncovered a mysterious family history, taking in five generations of her own Chinese-American ancestors over the course of over 150 years as they tried to lay roots in...

NYC restaurants impose 90-minute time limits on diners: 'Out of control'

When it comes to traditional notions of hospitality, time is up.

China’s leader in Moscow for meeting with Putin as tensions with the West rise

China and Russia have described Xi’s trip as part of efforts to further deepen their “no-limits friendship.”

Standing up to Beijing's bullying: Turning point for Asian-Americans

Some 60 protesters demonstrated outside a Chinatown building housing a Beijing “service station” that reportedly conducts surveillance against pro-democracy dissidents living in New York.

Dozens protest outside Chinatown police station over alleged Chinese spying

More than 60 protestors gathered outside a noodle shop where security experts say operatives conduct surveillance against dissidents in the Chinese community.

Counterfeiters back peddling swag in NYC's Chinatown — just 3 months after NYPD takedown

Three months after a massive NYPD sting netted as much as $2 million in knockoff designer goods -- peddlers of faux Fendi and pirated Prada are out in full force...

Water-main break floods NYC subway station, streets

At approximately 10:41 a.m., New York City Transit personnel observed a water condition on the 1/2/3 line near Canal Street as a result of a water main break.

How an 'untouchable' Chinatown informant played the feds, NYPD for years

For nearly two decades – from 1998 through 2015 – Cash was an informant for NYPD Major Case Squad detectives and federal immigration investigators, while also leading a violent gang.

Tiny turnout for Hochul NYC campaign event in stark contrast to Zeldin throng

A photo posted on Twitter showed about 20 people posing in front of an empty, outdoor stage in Chinatown.

New Yorker reveals how Chinese spies smeared, threatened him to derail Congressional bid

Yan Xiong is one of the alleged victims of what US Attorney General Merrick Garland called China "targeting political dissidents and critics of the government" in the US.

NYC cracks down on casino-like gaming in Chinatown park

City officials busted up an outdoor casino in Chinatown over the weekend — just as The Post revealed the illegal big bucks card games in Columbus Park.

Betting explodes in Chinatown park with thousands on the line

Gamblers have transformed Chinatown's Columbus Park into an anything-goes, outdoor casino — where high rollers illegally bet big bucks on card games with pots reaching thousands of dollars and cops...

Another questionable 'first' for House candidate Yuh-Line Niou

Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou bragged about being the "the first-ever” to secure public housing funds on her campaign website.

Activists rip woke Dem as 'fake progressive,' demand she drop congress bid

“She sold out the community,” activist Sarah Ahn told The Post. “We are urging people not to vote for her, not to be fooled by a fake progressive.”

Inside the Manhattan Bridge squatter's makeshift home: Peanut butter, beer and pillows

The derelict drifter who built a wooden home on the Manhattan Bridge is doing his best to pamper himself with common goodies like peanut butter, a bottle of beer and...

Not a troll: Hobo builds house on the Manhattan Bridge

An industrious vagrant has boldly built a 16-square foot wooden home right on the Manhattan Bridge bike path.

House of Cards: Congress wannabe Dem who preaches cop 'defund' moved from 'unsafe' Harlem

Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou told a local publication in 2016 that she moved out of Harlem and into the Financial District out of safety concerns.

This NYC ATM is a virtual stick-up

Several sidewalk ATMs in Chinatown are ripping customers off as they look for money to use at the neighborhood's many cash-only businesses.