April fools! Legislative leaders, citing lame- duck Gov. Paterson's huge legal troubles and the late release of a massive, $6 billion borrowing scheme, privately concede there's no chance to get a...
ALBANY -- Mayor Bloom berg got it right yesterday with his flip observation that Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch's scheme to borrow $6 billion to reform state spending "doesn't pass the laugh test."...
A favorite guessing game for the last year concerned Hillary Rodham Clinton. Is she a true Obama loyalist, or is she a double agent, pretending to be a team player while plotting a 2012 challenge?...
Finally someone said it. Now we must do something about it. In his major speech in Israel, Vice President Joe Biden was refreshingly direct and straightforward: "The United States is determined...
Charles Rangel was walk ing along 125th Street, past the drugstores and shopping centers some said would never be, when a woman stopped him, crying uncontrollably over the death of Percy Sutton....
LET'S be clear about a few things. When anxious white cops kill their black colleagues in the line of duty without ever losing so much as a day's pay, that is a serious racial problem. When...
WASHINGTON -- This will be one unholy Sunday for any American suckers left who still believe in the "Schoolhouse Rock" version of how a bill becomes a law. Yes, Democrats will finally enjoy the...
WASHINGTON -- Now playing in theaters every where: "Slaughter House Rules." In this latest sequel in the very bad B-movie horror series, Nancy Pelosi and her evil scientists manage to defy all...
The Muslim principal who cried "bomb!" in a crowded school has left chaos and violence in the classrooms she created. And now, she's moved a step closer to returning. It is against this...
This city needs a fighter. Not a lover. Cyrus Vance Jr. plopped, seemingly from nowhere, into one of the country's premier crime-fighting jobs -- one that's lauded on TV's "Law & Order,"...
Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. is trying to work out a budget truce with Mayor Bloomberg, who last year angrily accused Vance's legendary predecessor of stiffing the city out of millions. Sources...
Crooked cabbies trying to pull off the same massive meter scam as ex-driver Wasid Khalid Cheema -- who holds the record rip-off crown -- could soon find themselves tripped up by GPS technology....
It's never too early to specu late on what the Federal Reserve will do next month, so here it goes. As you've no doubt already heard, the Fed did nothing at its meeting Tuesday, which was about...
Pity the poor Federal Reserve. The Fed's policymaking Open Market Committee meets today, and in all likelihood we will learn around 2:15 p.m. that the Fed won't change interest rates, but it...
TUCKED into Jones Lang LaSalle's just-released, year-end "Skyline Review" is this holiday-season party pooper: "Net effective rents in Midtown have fallen by 42 percent since the second quarter...
It's presumptuous to guess what the city's real estate kings and queens would like to find in their holiday stockings. Presumptuous, but too much fun not to -- so we'll go way out on a limb and...
It's just over a month until tax day -- April 15 -- typically one of the most dreaded days on the calendar for Americans. But that red-letter day is of diminishing significance to an increasing...
The national celebration of creative filmmaking, illusion and escape -- better known as the Oscars -- takes place tonight. But before the official awards ceremony kicks off, American taxpayers were...
HEARST Magazines President Cathie Black is said to have quietly begun a search to replace Pamela Fiori, the longtime editor-in-chief of Town & Country. Like all magazines tied to the luxury...
For the second time in two days, American Media, whose National Enquirer got the scoops on John Edwards' love child, has successfully raided Meredith Corp., publisher of Ladies Home Journal and...
In a deal that will likely be greeted as a sign of stability for both the building at One Broadway and downtown in general, law firm Kenyon & Kenyon is close to renewing its lease to occupy the...
Vornado Realty Trust is swooping in to buy the landmarked 510 Fifth Avenue. Sources say the real estate investment trust led by Steven Roth and Michael Fascitelli is trying to work out a deal...
So now John Tortorella has made it clear he wants the title of Ranger team captain as well as the ones of head coach and travel director he already owns. He has made it clear that he not only wants...
You know something? If referees Tom Peel and Marc Joannette simply had done their jobs last Sunday in Pittsburgh, the NHL would have been able to avoid the fine-print absurdity that league...
The Rangers aren’t so much running out of time as they are out of team. Boston lost again last night, keeping John Tortorella’s club, which has beaten the Bruins all three previous meetings this...
The Devils remembered when they were young last night, wearing the red and green uniforms that they wore for the first 10 years in New Jersey without a shudder from at least one charter team member....
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Carlos Beltran and I are sitting in the Mets dugout at Tradition Field. The ballpark is otherwise empty, except for three stadium workers power-washing the seats. This was...
PORT ST. LUCIE — Talk to Jenrry Mejia and you learn that he’s not scared of anything or anyone. You quickly realize something more important. The Mets young pitcher looks at baseball as a job....
ARCADIA, Calif. -- Zenyatta's memorable swoop down the lane to capture the Breeders' Cup Classic may have been one of the great moments in the turf year, but it has thrown Horse of the Year voters...
ARCADIA, Calif. -- She did it! Zenyatta, the big, beautiful ornament of American racing rocked southern California like an earthquake yesterday, when she came from dead last to storm her way...
No doubt this first weekend of spring will bring the codfish anglers out in droves, especially after last week’s fierce nor’easter kept the boats tied up and everyone house-bound. If you’re not...
One of the more exciting times for boarders and skiers takes place over the next two weeks The biggest, baddest snowboard event on the planet is back at Stratton this weekend, with both high...
SO NOW word comes that freshly removed Seton Hall Pirates coach Bobby Gonzalez is a bad guy — and always was. It hardly matters. He wasn’t hired to be a good guy; he was hired to win basketball...
So whattya doing the second weekend in April? As televised sports events go, how do you counter-program Tiger Woods’ return to public golf — and on the most private of golf courses, Augusta National...
The old guard smiles today. Looie, Rollie, Big John -- men who valued relationships -- will watch tonight when Georgetown goes for its record eighth Big East Conference Tournament title. The old...
They must have been laughing on Tobacco Road if they were watching last night's Rutgers-Seton Hall game. You call this a rivalry?! Seton Hall gets out to an 18-point lead and coasts, and that...
NEW ORLEANS -- Less than 12 months ago, Tyler Hansbrough basked in his "One Shining Moment" inside Ford Field, delivered a national championship for North Carolina. Today his kid brother Ben tries to...
It sounds like the old, familiar persecution complex for sure, but if you've followed the trials and tribulations of Gang Green With Envy, you might understand why Woody Johnson and the Jets, second...
He is tempting. Oh boy, is Jenrry Mejia tempting. It is not just that he is talented. But he is talented and he can be pigeon-holed to fill an obvious Mets’ need in the eighth inning. Not only that,...
Baseball does not have a competitive-balance problem. It might have a Yankees problem or a Yankees-Red Sox problem. But mainly it has a public relations problem. There is no salary cap and the...
TAMPA -- There isn't another city that insinuates itself into the equation quite the way New York City does. Nobody ever wonders if a linebacker "has the makeup to make it in New Orleans." No one...
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The problem with Joba Chamberlain, in so many ways, isn't the version of him we see in March of 2010. It is the version of him that we remember from August of 2007. It is the...
Should St. John's spike Norm Roberts, it's unfathomable the university would contact or consider anyone without first feeling out Mark Jackson. Yet, supposedly, Virginia Tech's Seth Greenberg...
Say this much for Larry Brown . . . Next Town may be packing up as we communicate, but his Bobcats aren't packing it in. Charlotte's sixth win in succession was its most inspiring, by far,...
He hasn’t played a competitive round of golf since November and has experienced one of the greatest falls from grace ever witnessed in sports history. But don’t be surprised if Tiger Woods wins the...
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey stood face-to-face in the center of Cowboys Stadium yesterday, posed in the traditional boxing stare down after weighing in for tonight's WBO...
NEXT month comes "Date Night" with Steve Carell, Tina Fey and Taraji P. Henson, who said: "They were great to work with. We had such laughs. They impro vise a lot. And I do that a lot." Since...
Julianne Moore and I sat in the back row of the Landmark Sunshine Theater. And don't let the name fool you. Downtown, somewhere between Forsyth and Eldridge, it's just the smell of a pickle from...
Frank Winfield Woolworth made his millions from dime stores, then saved his pennies and built some of the city’s landmarks — like the trio of East 80th Street townhouses he created for his daughters....
Fashion mogul Elie Tahari, who runs his $500 million eponymous company, and his wife, Rory, are quietly trying to sell more than $70 million worth of property. And we hear that the 10-year marriage...
What, exactly, is ‘sexual napalm’? And doesn’t that seem like a bad thing? — Mike, 38, New Jersey OK, first let me say how much of a douchebag I think John Mayer is. (Am I allowed to say douchebag...
My boyfriend travels all the time with his friends and never asks me to go with him. I want to be doing things with him rather than living separate lives. Do I have a right to feel as I do or am I...
I have never particu larly warmed to Andy Garcia as an actor -- he always seems to be trying way too hard -- but he is quite wonderful as the head of a wildly dysfunctional Bronx family in Raymond...
Master director Paul Greengrass’ “Green Zone” reunites him with Matt Damon for what’s essentially another Jason Bourne thriller that entertainingly — if sometimes uneasily — mixes fact and...
IF the comedy “Mid-August Lunch” does nothing else for you, it will make you hungry for a homecooked Italian dinner, washed down by bountiful wine. That’s because the movie revolves around the...
Is there life after mum blecore? For Greta Gerwig, the mumblecore It Girl, there most cer tainly is. On Friday, her foray into the mainstream, "Greenberg," opens. It's directed by Noah Baumbach...
Progress! (Perhaps.) Last year at this time, with a prompt from reader Jim Mulloy, this column noted that the History Channel’s salute to St. Patrick’s Day was, for the most part, nothing better...
It must be the latest ritual in TV news rooms: Walk in, hang up your coat and hat in one closet, hang your dignity and credibility in the other. On the morning after the Olympics more than two...
The scariest thing in the "The Addams Family" isn't the giant squid that lives under the stairs. It's Bebe Neuwirth backstage. The Broadway diva is said to be fuming that her role --...
I have my doubts about how well "Love Never Dies" -- the sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera" -- will do on Broadway. But there's one show I saw last week in London that'll play like gangbusters...
After a slew of stripped-down Broadway revivals of Stephen Sondheim's shows, it was a rapturous experience hearing his music performed Monday night as it was intended -- by a full orchestra. The...
It's hard not to feel nostalgic during "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers," about the risky 1971 decision to publish the classified document detailing the buildup to the Vietnam War....
I can believe a guy can be thrown off a downtown New York building (at “Sixth and Rivington”) and investigators would be too dumb to figure out it wasn’t a suicide. I can believe a reporter who...
Gitmo. Yellowcake. WMDs. Afghanistan. Pakistan. Ahmed Chalabi. American phone records. The invasion of Iraq. Waterboarding. John Kiriakou, a 14-year CIA veteran, was up to his elbows in many of the...
I was glad to see "Justified" get off to a strong start Tues day. The FX series, based on several Elmore Leonard short stories -- and starring Timothy Olyphant as a shoot-first, ask-questions-...
I was going to write some thing about the passing of Peter Graves, who died Monday at the age of 83, but my friend Sandy Brokaw, who was Peter's publicist for many years, put it better than I ever...
Some towns are known for their beaches, some for their quaint town squares, some for cultural activities. Huntington, W. Va., is known for its fatties. Yes, Huntington is, according to the US...
Discovery Channel’s extraordinary and extraordinarily beautiful 11-part series, “Life,” accomplishes a lot of things, but perhaps the most important is proving unequivocally that the dopiest phrase...
It's great to have Dame Edna Everage back in town, but she's part of a package that includes Michael Feinstein -- and that's no deal. The premise for "All About Me" is that the Australian...
Grace lives in a dreary place with a dreary husband, but she tries hard to accentuate the positive. In her pink waitress uniform, a huge smile plastered on her tired face, she keeps track of...
ALBANY is beyond hope -- and every one knows it. Corruption's rampant. No one gives a fig about taxpayers. The governor's MIA, the Senate's overrun by boodlers and bunglers. The Assembly?...
MTA Chairman Jay Walder last week said he was losing sleep over his options for plugging a $750 million budget hole. Planned service cuts, he said, are "tearing my heart out." But if Walder wants...
What, exactly, is ‘sexual napalm’? And doesn’t that seem like a bad thing? — Mike, 38, New Jersey OK, first let me say how much of a douchebag I think John Mayer is. (Am I allowed to say douchebag...
My boyfriend travels all the time with his friends and never asks me to go with him. I want to be doing things with him rather than living separate lives. Do I have a right to feel as I do or am I...
Let me be clear (as President Obama loves to say): After a year in office, there isn't much for this White House to brag about foreign policy-wise, in spite of rhetorical flourishes and grandiose...
If you were troubled by President Obama's "Wow Bow" in Japan, you won't be any happier with the "kowtow" during his just-concluded trip to the People's Republic of China. In the latest chapter of...
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou came to Washington yesterday to ask President Obama to help save his nation from speculators. In other words, he wants America to help him shoot the messenger....
New York may be on the road to reining in its longtime abuse of emi nent domain. Could our politicians actually abandon their long-held belief that it's their responsibility to replace people and...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants a "unified" in quiry into the Army's in ability to recognize warning signs of the sort broadcast for months by its homicidal Islamist psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal...
GEN. David H. Petraeus yes terday strode purpose fully into a Capitol Hill hearing room to the rattlesnake buzz of still-camera shutters and the muffled disapprobation of the ladies in pink T-shirts...
SEN. Joseph Lieberman's criticism of the Obama health-care initiative may prove to be a pivotal turning point. Others have focused exclusively on the Obama plan's impact on health care. The...
AS Bill Clinton crisscrosses America defending his wife's candidacy, he's fuel ing speculation about who'd be in charge should Hillary be elected. Sen. Clinton - the incredible shrinking candidate -...
If the Obama administration continues to betray Israel, will any ally ever trust us again? We've been viewed as a fickle (if mighty) partner at least since the 1970s, when we abruptly dumped...
THE ISSUE: Whether presidential candidates today have character, as their predecessors did. *** In looking for a president with the character of Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan...
Oh, the irony. After claiming that she would preside over the "most ethical Congress in history," Nancy Pelosi is instead presiding over the same kind of shenanigans that cost Republicans their...
A little over a year into his first term, President Obama finally lived up to his election-year promise to hold health-care negotiations on C-SPAN. Better late than never, I suppose....
For almost 20 years, the United Nations nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) did its best not to notice the slow but steady building of a military nuclear capability in the...
With the International Atomic Energy Agency for the first time ever bluntly accusing the Islamic Republic of pursuing a military nuclear program, it's just as well that the Obama administration is...
Doubling down on dubious bets is characteristic of compulsive gamblers and federal education policy. The nation was essentially without such policy for grades K through 12, and better off for...
There are legislative miles to go before the govern ment will be emancipated from its health-care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing up. Whether all or nothing of the legislation becomes...
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