Author: NY Daily News

The beach at Robert Moses State Park opened to swimmers 90 minutes late due to concerns about sharks on Tuesday, one day after two teens were bitten in possible shark encounters four miles apart on Fire Island. At Robert Moses State Park, on the western end of Fire Island, officials spied a school of about…

While New York City was battered by thunderstorms and rain Tuesday afternoon, forecasters expected the skies to clear in time for fireworks at night. “Shower and [thunderstorm] activity is expected to slide south and east of the region between 5 and 8 p.m. from [northwest to southeast], with drying conditions for this evening,” the National…

The U.S. celebrated another birthday Tuesday by gathering in Coney Island to test how many hot dogs a human being can consume in under 10 minutes. World champion Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, who’s won all but one contest since 2006, battled apocalyptic weather in defending his Mustard Belt, gulping a staggering 62 hot dogs after speculation…

A 13-year-old boy was shot early Tuesday in Harlem, continuing a troubling trend in the city in which shooting victims are skewing younger, police said. The teen was hanging out with a group of people in a courtyard outside the Harlem Interfaith apartment building on W. 132nd St. near Bradhurst Ave. just before 1 a.m.…

A wall scrawler armed with a can of spray paint defaced two Brooklyn synagogues across the street from each other in a troubling night of hate, police said Tuesday. The vandal surfaced in Manhattan Beach about 12 a.m. on May 14, where he spray-painted the front of the Manhattan Beach synagogue on West End Ave.…

Correction Commissioner Louis Molina ordered the suspension of a correction captain working for a city anti-corruption agency for not signing in at a jail, the Daily News has learned. Molina’s Friday decision to suspend Captain Lawrence Bond — who has been working as an investigator on loan to the city Department of Investigation for years…

A burglary suspect being held in a Rikers Island jail died early Tuesday of a possible overdose after complaining of chest pain and then having a seizure, the Daily News has learned. Felix Taveras, 40, began complaining of chest pain in the Anna M. Kross Center about 11:55 p.m. Monday, records obtained by The News…

A heartless dad swiped his 4-year-old son from the child’s mother following a meetup in the Bronx — dragging the panicked woman for several feet as he sped away with the child on his scooter, cops said Tuesday. Cops are currently hunting for Makiel Yoan Turbi, 22, who was last seen with his son Yoangel…

A Bronx man was knifed to death by his girlfriend’s former lover early Tuesday during a bloody street clash, cops said. The 26-year-old victim was visiting his girlfriend on Radio Drive near Lucerne St. — just a block away from Palmer Inlet in Pelham Bay — at about 3:15 a.m. when the woman’s ex-boyfriend showed…

A gunman targeted a pre-Fourth of July cookout on Monday, sending three men to the hospital, authorities said. The victims were grilling on the sidewalk outside a Walton Ave. apartment building near E. 161st St. at 8:16 p.m. when the attacker unleashed a hail of gunfire into the unsuspecting crowd, according to police and witnesses.…