Metro

The MTA’s top lawyer is abruptly stepping down at the end of July with no successor immediately named — just months after The Post revealed the agency’s legal costs ballooned under her tenure. 

Mayor Mamdani defended his controversial map of immigrant enclaves across the Big Apple, saying more communities would be added after notably omitting the famed Little Italy as well as Jewish and Irish communities.

More than half of water cooling towers in a section of the Upper East Side under investigation for a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak were dinged by health officials in their latest inspections, The Post has learned.

Ari Shtein, 18 — who allegedly stuck his hand down a 30-year-old victim’s underwear on an R train last week — is an aspiring journalist who penned a tone-deaf opinion piece calling sexual harassment training on the Ivy League campus pointless.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s international affairs commissioner boneheadedly made plans to meet with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, sources confirmed to The Post.

Scarsdale community activist Marian Green tried to find a niche for her troubled son for years — until he allegedly killed her.

“I was naked and afraid,” said one traveler who was fresh from the shower as a swath of Midtown was evacuated.

A NYCHA plumber who’s one of New York City’s highest-paid employees is in hot water after claiming he worked nearly 2,600 hours of overtime.

Amel Crawford tried to get away from cops after his mom’s fatal stabbing by running into the surf at Rockaway beach, sources said.

The developer of a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper evacuated after its support beams began buckling has described the incident as a “freak accident,” as he looked to deny that the building was at risk of collapse.