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  • John Crudele

    John Crudele

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    For Ben and the Fed, good news equals trouble

    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...  

    Fed policymakers are stuck with flawed data

    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...  

  • Steve Cuozzo

    Steve Cuozzo

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    It's a lot worse than you think

    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...  

    Developing gift ideas

    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...  

  • Terry Keenan

    Terry Keenan

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    Happy returns

    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...  

    Pandit's testimony is Oscar- worthy

    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...  

  • Keith J. Kelly

    Keith Kelly

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    Fiori on firing line

    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...  

    AMI's Pecker raids Meredith's Parent stable

    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...  

  • Lois Weiss - Between the Bricks

    Lois Weiss

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    One Broadway deal

    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 wants 510 Fifth

    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...  

  • Cindy Adams

    Cindy Adams

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    'Date' with comedy

    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...  

    Sexy sheet music

    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...  

  • Jennifer Gould Keil

    Jennifer Keil

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    Worth a lot

    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....  

    Splittin'

    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...  

  • Ashley Dupre

    Ashley Dupre

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    Ask Ashley: John Mayer,'stupid mouth'

    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...  

    Ask Ashley: Guy chooses buds? fly solo

    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...  

  • Lou Lumenick

    Lou Lumenick

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    Lies, sex and secrets run in their family

    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...  

    Iraq and roll in 'Green Zone'

    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...  

  • V.A. Musetto

    V.A. Musetto

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    The right ingredients

    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...  

    Greta takes Los Angeles

    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...  

  • Phil Mushnick

    Phil Mushnick

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    History Channel passes on the Irish this year

    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...  

    When ads dress up like morning shows

    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...  

  • Michael Riedel

    Michael Riedel

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    Bebe B'way house of horror

    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 --...  

    London's Victorian secret

    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...  

  • Frank Scheck

    Frank Scheck

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    B'way royalty turns out for feast of Stephen

    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...  

    Scoop up this one about the Pentagon Papers

    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....  

  • Kyle Smith

    Kyle Smith

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    Painful 'Bounty' another Jennifer Aniston dud

    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...  

    The terrorist & the spy

    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...  

  • Michael Starr

    Michael Starr

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    Starr report

    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-...  

    Starr report

    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...  

  • Linda Stasi

    Linda Stasi

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    Food for thought

    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...  

    Game of ‘Life’

    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...  

  • Elisabeth Vincentelli

    Elisabeth Vincentelli

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    Can't blame Dame

    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...  

    Suspense falls from sluggish 'Grace'

    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...  

  • Adam Brodsky

    Adam Brodsky

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    Glimmers of hope in rock-bottom NY

    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?...  

    Hike MTA fares now

    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...  

  • Ashley Dupre

    Ashley Dupre

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    Ask Ashley: John Mayer,'stupid mouth'

    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...  

    Ask Ashley: Guy chooses buds? fly solo

    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...  

  • Peter Brookes

    Peter Brookes

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    O's year of foreign-policy fumbles

    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...  

    O's China kowtow

    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...  

  • Nicole Gelinas

    Nicole Gelinas

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    It's all Greek to NY

    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....  

    How 'eminent domain' makes blight

    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...  

  • Bob McManus

    Bob McManus

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    Soldiers know

    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...  

    PAY HEED TO THIS WARRIOR STATESMAN

    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...  

  • Dick Morris

    Dick Morris

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    JOE'S CRITIQUE MAY TURN TIDE

    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...  

    THE 'TWO-FER' PROBLEM

    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 -...  

  • Ralph Peters

    Ralph Peters

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    Breaking with Israel

    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...  

    Truman, Ike, Reagan: next up, Sarah Palin?

    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...  

  • Kirsten Powers

    Kirsten Powers

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    Nancy's House unclean

    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...  

    Stop talking & lead

    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....  

  • Amir Taheri

    Amir Taheri

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    Iran’s deadly ambitions

    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...  

    Learning to love 'regime change'

    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...  

  • George F. Will

    George Will

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    More gauzy goals for US schools

    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...  

    'Professor' Obama

    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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  • Celebrity photos: March 20, 2010
    Celebrity photos: March 20, 2010
  • Jesse James' 'other woman'
    Jesse James' 'other woman'
  • Sandra Bullock
    Sandra Bullock
  • Sandra Bullock & Jesse James during happier times
    Sandra Bullock & Jesse James during happier times
  • Katherine Heigl's wardrobe malfunction
    Katherine Heigl's wardrobe malfunction

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