Superman, quit horsing around! A Bronx oddball known for getting into trouble while dressed as the Man of Steel mounted the George Washington statue in Union Square Park today and launched into a bizarre series of rants, authorities and witnesses said. Maksim Katsnelson –- whose past antics have included a...

The job does come with an inherently grave danger. Four workers at a Queens cemetery today plunged into a deep, freshly dug grave, leaving one of them injured. The hurt man, Raimundo Rodriguez, 49, had been working in a crew of four at the Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery in Middle...

A Harlem man offered a half-hearted apology today for delivering a brutal beating that led to a rival being fatally shot in the back of the head. Michael Smith was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for the death of father of two Roy Huntley, who threw the...

A prisoner who was caught plotting the murder of a witness who helped convict him was sentenced to an extra eight to 16 years behind bars. Disgraced Long Island businessman Aaron Hand was already serving an 8 1/2- to 25-year prison sentence last year when he hired a “hitman...

Always tidy up before calling the cops — it’s a lesson that Michael Cokley learned the hard way. Late last year, he called 911 to report a gunpoint home invasion robbery. When cops showed up at his apartment in Far Rockaway, Queens, Cokley invited the officers inside and began to...

A New Jersey man who got so drunk playing beer pong at a Greenwich Village pub that he thought walking across a busy highway was a good idea cannot sue the bar over his injuries, a judge has ruled. In a decision made public today, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lucy...

Now he’s an army of one. A corrupt cop who bragged about leading a “good f----n’ army” of crooked cronies pleaded guilty today to heading up a contraband ring that smuggled guns, cigarettes and slot machines into New York. William Masso, 48, agreed to serve nearly six years in...

A man accused of shooting a New York City police officer in the head has been indicted on an attempted murder charge. The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office announced the indictment of 21-year-old Luis Ortiz on Monday. If convicted, Ortiz faces up to 25 years to life in prison. His...

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Top administrators at a Long Island school district intentionally inflated a star football player’s grades in order to make him eligible for an athletic scholarship to Syracuse University, according to a bombshell report obtained by The Post. The damning probe of Bellport HS found that district brass conspired to...

Giants fans are shopping up a storm, scooping up T-shirts and other Super Bowl champions merchandise at a Times Square store. Shopper Stu Miller of Ringoes, NJ, wouldn't say how much he was spending Monday: "My wife is liable to kill me." His loot included at least three T-shirts...

ALBANY - Less is more. New York voters strongly favor reduced pension benefits for future public employees and solidly oppose pay raises for state politicians and appointees for the first time since 1999, according to a new poll. Gov. Cuomo's proposed pension reform won the support of 68 percent...

A startling number of healthy, young cops who responded to the 9/11 attacks have since been diagnosed with cancer, according to new data obtained by The Post. The statistics — which show nearly a tripling in the number of cops applying for cancer-related disability pensions post-9/11 — are the first...

Giants fans will bask in the glory of last night’s victory with a massive parade in lower Manhattan honoring Big Blue tomorrow. The city will host a ticker-tape parade and City Hall ceremony to commemorate the Super Bowl XLVI champs starting at 11 a.m. Fans who are at...

Cops arrested a protester attempting to throw a shoe at Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel yesterday. Amin Almroot, 34, of Brooklyn, was charged with disorderly conduct for the attempted shoe toss — an act deemed a grave insult in Arabic culture. Cops say Almroot had crossed Central...

Only a week after Brian Cashman gave his alleged stalker $6,000 for an abortion, her mom revealed that the unstable woman was never pregnant, The Post has learned. Caroline Meanwell made the disclosure about her daughter, Louise, during a meeting with the Yankee general manager and his advisers on...

Twitter, Facebook and other social media exploded with Super Bowl activity throughout the game. There were a total of 15.8 million Super Bowl-related tweets on Twitter and comments on Facebook last night, up 500 percent from 3.01 million during Super Bowl XLV last year. “Highly dramatic finishes are...

It’s G-men mania! Euphoria swept Giants nation from Indianapolis to the Big Apple last night as a gutsy Big Blue squad snatched its second Super Bowl crown in five years by dispatching the New England Patriots again. “I’m absolutely super excited!” screamed Karen Szpyhulsky, 29, of South Amboy...

What a Super trip! Two of slain hero cop Peter Figoski’s daughters lived it up and rubbed elbows with A-listers during the trip of a lifetime yesterday as the Giants’ guests of honor at Super Bowl XLVI. Corrine, 14, and Caroline, 16, made the journey with mom Paulette courtesy...

It’s deja Blue all over again! Eli Manning led another heart-stopping, fourth-quarter drive as the Giants upset the New England Patriots, 21-17, in last night’s Super Bowl in Indianapolis. Ahmad Bradshaw’s 6-yard touchdown run with 57 seconds left capped the breath-taking rally. “We know who the most...

A new set of gut-wrenching numbers shows that Housing Authority plumbers are cleaning up on overtime. Thirty-one of the pipe workers are on the list of 100 top city overtime earners in 2011, according to records prepared by the Office of Payroll Administration. The top dog on the charts was...

INDIANAPOLIS — He had just guided his boss through the maze of cameras and klieg lights and fans and family members, given him a lift onto a podium, and now Mike Murphy was standing off to the side, grinning a grin you couldn’t remove with a sand blaster, thrilling for...

WASHINGTON — Pay up, America. Mayor Bloomberg took his call for the expiration of the Bush tax cuts to the national stage yesterday, saying all Americans — not just the wealthy — should pay to get the federal government out of its fiscal hole. “We are all in this together,” Bloomberg said on...

David Schwimmer isn’t making any friends in the East Village — and he hasn’t even moved in to the ’hood yet. The former “Friends” star bought a beautiful East Village townhouse built in 1852 — and then promptly destroyed it just months after the city told him it was destined...

NYPD Officer Edwin Rivera rushed to Ground Zero a healthy, weight-lifting man and now suffers from cancer. “We sat in the pile and ate, drank water, rested — there was nowhere to go that wasn’t contaminated,” Rivera, 55, who retired from the 48th Precinct, told The Post. “To me, we...

Three people were murdered in separate incidents during a 12-hour spate of violence in Queens over the weekend, police said. The bloodshed first erupted at around 5:45 p.m. Saturday, when career criminal George Portillo, 31, got in a fight with an unknown gunman on 95th Street and 31st...

At one Catholic-run health insurer for the needy, charity starts in the executive suite. Mark Lane, the CEO of the Fidelis Care/New York State Catholic Health Plan, receives a $1.1 million salary plus another $864,000 in retirement pension and other benefits, The Post has learned. His total...

NYPD bosses are stepping up efforts to encourage troubled cops to get help, after the recent suicides of two officers less than a week apart, sources said. Many cops are afraid that seeking help for psychological problems could derail their careers, sources said. Supervisors “want guys to see a psychiatrist...

A former high-school wrestler put a would-be mugger in a fatal chokehold in Newark yesterday after the thug tried to rip off a cellphone from the ex-grappler’s friend, cops said. Gian Davis, 30, was pronounced dead Saturday after he got into a tussle with two college students who refused...

The Bronx *** A crook knocked off two stores on the same day, in Soundview and Morrisania, police said yesterday. He allegedly began his spree at 8:15 a.m. Jan. 27, when he hopped over the counter of a deli on Bronx River Avenue, punched a worker in the face...

An elementary-school talent show turned tragic in Queens after a parent suffering a violent seizure accidently punched a man who was trying to help him — and the good Samaritan later died, cops said.Students had been performing at Ave Maria Catholic School in Howard Beach Thursday evening when strobe lights...

Gov. Cuomo and Senate Republicans are on a collision course that could soon return state government to the “chaos of past years,” sources close to both sides have told The Post. Republicans are threatening to hold up key elements of Cuomo’s 2012 agenda — including pension and budget reforms and...