Metro

The 12-year-old son of a retired NYPD sergeant happily shook his neighbor’s hand before hopping on his bike to pedal to the bodega where he was fatally shot — the innocent victim of a possible gang beef, the resident and law-enforcement sources said Sunday.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is too busy obsessing over his image to help prevent tragedies such as the fatal shooting of an ex-Finest’s innocent 12-year-old as he walked to a bodega, a prominent activist charged Sunday.

Shocking video shows the moment an argument outside a New York City bodega quickly escalated into a brawl that left a 12-year-old boy dead and two others wounded.

Police have IDed Jacob Freytas as the 12-year-old son of a cop fatally gunned down in the Bronx over the weekend, as heartbreaking video shows the boy running into a bodega clutching his chest.

The Democratic Socialists of America are plotting to leverage their relationship with their comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani to stage a radical takeover of New York City Schools.

Nathaniel D. Cullerton, 45, was caught in a heated smoochfest with a much younger Kelsey Borenzweig, 29, by TikTok user Jay Guapõ who posted the now-viral video on Thursday.

The Jewish man who was stabbed by a maniac yelling “Allahu Akhbar” on the Upper West Side was apparently fed-up with rampant antisemitism in the Big Apple and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s anti-Israel stance, driving his recent move to Florida, The Post has learned.

Cops shot a gun-wielding madman when he refused to drop his weapon outside a Queens home engulfed in flames on Saturday — and then discovered two of his family members dead inside, police and sources said.  

This week, four men were seen again hawking shaggy, brown designer pups for $1,500 each out of a Merecedes SUV in broad daylight in the middle of the bustling Diamond District.

An illicit open-air prescription drug market in Washington Heights was back illegally peddling meds this weekend — days after the NYPD shut it down following a wild Post expose.