The 17-year-old victim was entering the bathroom inside the lower level of the library at Kingsborough Community College in Manhattan Beach about 11:35 a.m. Monday when she felt someone coming in behind her, cops said.

Police discovered firefighter Lenzell Ross, 28, snoozing in his parked Tesla on the side of the Belt Parkway near Shore Parkway in Lindenwood about 2:30 a.m., authorities said.

Attorney Javier Solano, in his final jury address Friday, insisted there was a “piece that didn’t fit” in the prosecution’s presentation against murder suspect Andres Fernandez in the June 30, 2016, shooting of Louis Barbati.

A driver abandoned his wrecked vehicle and left one of his passengers to die after a drunken off-duty cop in a muscle car t-boned his vehicle in Brooklyn early Sunday, police said. NYPD Officer Rohan Shaw was driving a white 2019 Nissan GT-R, zooming east on Foster Ave. just before 5 a.m., when a black 2016 Mazda 6 rolled through a stop sign on E. 55th St. and right into the cop’s path, police said.

Instead of waking up to wish his daughter the best on her 23rd birthday, Collin Dixon got the phone call every parent dreads.

The city withheld explosive allegations of racism against two high-ranking NYPD cops accused of demanding arrests of black and Hispanic people, an attorney charged Friday.

Yousef Selassie, 19, pleaded not guilty to first-degree grand larceny, identity theft and other charges at his Manhattan Supreme Court appearance for the lucrative scheme that operated from January through May this past year.

The Friday morning deaths capped off a deadly three days across the city.

Two men accused of violent crimes were freed without bail from Brooklyn Criminal Court on Thursday amid growing concern about the state's new bail reform laws.

Sometime after 911 was called, the 63-year-old victim — whose name has not been released — went into his bedroom to put out the fire. He soon passed out amid the smoke and flames, officials said. Responding firefighters and EMTs pulled him out of the apartment. "He was badly burned," said a neighbor.

Aaron Weinreb, a 48-year-old OB-GYN, has been in home detention on $1.5 million bail since his arrest in October on charges he used the gay dating app Grindr to connect with an underage boy for sex.Because they’ve found a second victim, prosecutors wantED Weinreb jailed while he awaits trial.

A Brooklyn woman was slashed in the face with a knife by an enraged passenger after her child threw up on a city bus.

The new law requires prosecutors to hand over most evidence in criminal cases to defense lawyers within 15 days of suspects’ arraignments. Because of the law, lawyers who once clocked out in the early evening are now working late into the night, say multiple sources in the Brooklyn DA’s office.

The plaintiff, a former high school cheerleader identified only by the pseudonym “Mary Coe,” was in her first year at the school when defendant William Martire allegedly initially forced her to perform oral sex on him in the early 1980s, according to a horrifying 18-page Brooklyn Supreme Court filing.

More than 200 mourners filed into the Love Fellowship Tabernacle church in East New York Thursday night for Payson Lott’s wake and funeral. The youngster was struck and killed by an unlicensed driver as he crossed a street in his neighborhood.

The employee, who works at 320 Jay St. in Downtown Brooklyn, tested positive for the illness Thursday night, prompting the Vera Institute to tell a majority of their employees to work from home.

The murder may have happened outside the city.

The diocese made the dramatic announcement after confirming positive coronavirus tests for two priests: One at a church in Queens, the other at a church in Brooklyn.

The judge, whose name was not released, was last in the courthouse on Mar. 12, officials said.

The operators of the New Oriental Guyana Restaurant on Liberty Ave. in Jamaica shut its front gates — but in a Prohibition-era move, they let dozens of customers in through an alley door so they could wine and dine the night away, the State Liquor Authority said.

Patient Jessica Ellision recalled how she broke down and sobbed Monday when she finally received her medication after a three-hour wait — much of it in the crowded hallway where she feared the other patients might be infected. “It was so intense and so stressful, and you feel like you worked so hard not to be sick, but this is it now — this is how it happens,” said Ellison, 39, of the Bronx.

Rona Phillips, the principal of KAPPA V High School in Brownsville, is in intensive care with pneumonia, officials said. “Our thoughts are with Principal Phillips and her family for a speedy recovery, and we’ll support the school community in every way we can,” said Education Department spokeswoman Miranda Barbot.

The beloved 49-year-old priest, born in Mexico City, passed away Friday evening at the Wyckoff Medical Center in Brooklyn, the diocese said. Father Jorge, as he was known to worshippers, served as the diocesan coordinator of the ministry for Mexican-Americans among his other duties.

A Brooklyn federal magistrate denied Genaro Garcia Luna release from prison due to coronavirus, saying he was a flight risk.

Hospital police initially issued Lundy a disorderly conduct summons after the attack and released her. On Thursday NYPD cops arrested her for manslaughter and assault.

Runners are using their legs for deliveries now.

Suspect Donte West, 28, broke into a side door of the shoe store on Pitkin Ave. near Bristol St. in Brownsville about 8:45 a.m. Saturday and loaded up a Chevy Trailblazer with more than three dozen pairs of sneakers and nearly 40 baseball caps as cops arrived, police said.

The last thing Jorge Cruz ever did was ask for a cup of hot tea. By the time it was cool enough for a sip, he was dead -- apparently from coronavirus.

A pair of crooks smashed their way into a grocery store in Brooklyn and stole the deli’s cash register along with three dozen Red Bulls, cops said.

Wilfredo Cervantes, 52, an artist and poet from Puerto Rico, was found dead inside his second-floor apartment on Jefferson Ave. near Ralph Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Wednesday evening.

The heartless bandits with hidden faces are wanted for a violent robbery spree across Brooklyn and the Bronx over the past five weeks that includes beating an 83-year-old man, pistol-whipping a woman and shooting a bread deliveryman who survived a bullet to the pancreas.

New Yorkers leave messages of hope through the coronavirus pandemic.

Frederick Scheinin, 29, of Sunnyside, Queens, allegedly chatted for months with a federal agent posing as a minor, and now faces charges in Manhattan federal court of attempting to entice a minor and attempting to produce child pornography.

Two thousand workers from the Amalgamated Transit Union’s Local 1181 voted overwhelmingly to authorize the strike against their employer, which operates about 900 of the city’s more than 8,000 school bus routes.

Advocates have long protested the lack of special education pre-K classes for 3- and 4-year-olds, which is federally mandated, even as the city invests millions in universal pre-K.

The hefty payout comes after the federal Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the city Education Department in 2016 for allowing a “pattern and practice of discrimination” to flourish at Pan American High School during the 2012-13 school year.

A fast-growing New York state program that funds math and science teacher salaries at private schools paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars to some of the city’s priciest private schools that can charge over $50,000 a year for tuition, the Daily News has learned.

The special education courts are designed to protect the legal rights of those children, but the city’s system is so overburdened that vulnerable students wait months or years for help getting critical support, according to the legal complaint.

The results from the city’s annual foster care census showed a precipitous decline from the 1990s, when there were 50,000 kids in foster care, and a continued improvement from 2010, when there were 17,000.

The teen and a pal stayed there for roughly 30 hours, most of which time they spent handcuffed to a bench in a Queens police precinct without food or water. “I still can’t sleep at home, because it’s always running through my mind,” 16-year-old Haily D’Souza told the Daily News.

The plaintiff, a former high school cheerleader identified only by the pseudonym “Mary Coe,” was in her first year at the school when defendant William Martire allegedly initially forced her to perform oral sex on him in the early 1980s, according to a horrifying 18-page Brooklyn Supreme Court filing.

Flushing High School junior Arialis Guzman said she “just didn’t get treated right" while police held her and a friend for more than a day in the aftermath of an after school altercation. The teens spent the night of Wednesday, Feb. 12 and much of the next day, Feb. 13, handcuffed to a bench in a Queens police precinct.

City middle and high school students streamed off buses and trains, buzzing with excitement for the afternoon’s entertainment. For some, it was the first chance to see a Broadway show.

New rules from federal Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would severely limit students' ability to clear debt by burying them in bureaucratic red tape, according to a new federal lawsuit.

The New York Board of Regents said the move will allow the state to hire more judges and ease the growing backlog of cases.

Under the policy, middle and high schools may consider attendance records when making admissions decisions — and fourth- and seventh-grade attendance records can be a factor in getting into the city’s most selective public schools.

In a letter, the group noted that past pandemics show large-scale social restrictions that keep people physically separated can make the most difference if done before the illness becomes widespread.

Manhattan fifth-grader Vale Esposito took home top honors during the first day of the Daily News spelling bee Tuesday, despite being one of the youngest contestants on stage.

The college systems, which enroll a combined 700,000 students across the state, will move to a “distance learning model,” Cuomo said at a coronavirus-related press conference Wednesday.

Ashwin Ranjan, a 13-year-old student at The Dalton School, correctly spelled “bauxite,” a type of sedimentary rock, to win the day and go to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May.