Larry Celona

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Larry Celona |Tina Moore |Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

The NYPD has ID’d one of the cowardly thugs who allegedly beat an off-duty NYPD cop and stole his service weapon at knifepoint — and have now busted his father for allegedly using the officer’s stolen credit card, law enforcement sources told The Post. Taveon Hargrove, 23, is a person of interest in the shocking assault shortly after 4 a.m. Saturday outside 1472 St. Peter’s Ave. in Westchester Square, when two “armed and extremely dangerous” goons pulled off the brazen armed robbery, police said.

1 week ago | nypost.com | Larry Celona |Tina Moore |Rich Calder

An off-duty NYPD housing cop still in uniform was brutally beaten and robbed of his gun and other items by two masked thugs and left unconscious in the Bronx Saturday, police sources said. The 27-year cop had just ended his shift and was walking to his personal car along St. Peters Avenue in Parkchester around 4:10 a.m. when bandits dressed all in black roughed him up and grabbed his gun belt — with the weapon in it — out of the vehicle.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Larry Celona |Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

An NYPD inspector was quietly bumped from his police academy job for allegedly keeping dozens of recruits on board — even after they failed to meet the department’s mental health standards, law-enforcement sources said. Terrell Anderson, who led the NYPD’s “Candidate Assessment Division,” was transferred to the housing unit May 12 as part of an Internal Affairs Bureau probe into claims he allowed more than 70 candidates to stay at the Police Academy despite them failing psych requirements.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Larry Celona |Chris Nesi |Craig McCarthy |Craig Mccarthy |Anna Young

Out of the garden and into the park. The New York Knicks’ raucous watch parties outside Madison Square Garden — where thousands of rowdy fans celebrated the milestone victory over the Boston Celtics Friday — are moving to a bigger venue as the team hopes to keep dominating in the playoffs, according to sources. Die-hard fans can now rally in the heart of Central Park to show their orange-and-blue pride as the team moves its official watch party to SummerStage on Friday, sources told The Post.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Larry Celona |Amanda Woods

A stranger shoved a 71-year-old man and another straphanger onto subway tracks during a clash in a Lower Manhattan station Monday night, police said. Both victims were injured but still able to climb back up onto the platform on their own before the next train came into the station, authorities said.