Gov. Cuomo and Senate Republicans are on a collision course that could soon return state government to the “chaos of past years,” sources close to both sides have told The Post. Republicans are...
The fate of New York’s nervous GOP is riding on the outcome of tomorrow’s presidential primary in Florida, leading state Republicans told The Post. They said the GOP’s ability to defeat incumbent...
In his masterful biography of the late Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson focuses on a key ingredient in the tech genius’ secret sauce: simplicity. Apple’s first brochure declared that “simplicity is the...
There was so much baloney in President Obama’s State of the Union speech that it was hard to find the beef. But there it was, buried toward the bottom of his remarks. Finally and forcefully, he chose...
There’s something about daughters. They bounce back up as quickly as our sons, but it tears us up inside to watch them fall. So, when someone’s little girls are looking out at us from the cover of a...
David Friedman peered down the block where a little lost boy breathed his last breath, and said out loud what everyone else had only been thinking. "He's a Jew," Friedman said yesterday of Levi...
Why are rich and powerful men dumber than roadkill? Yankee GM Brian Cashman could have slept with a supermodel, a soccer mom, a non-English-speaking Slavic immigrant or even his own wife. Instead...
Even you can’t have it all, Gisele. Eli Manning is taken! Gisele Bundchen, the skinny supermodel/arm candy/trophy wife of pretty Patriots quarterback Tom Brady looks red hot in a bikini and cool as...
Get ready for Bloomberg unleashed. He’s one of the most powerful individuals in the city right now, but Mayor Bloomberg is looking to expand his influence when he leaves office, saying that...
Mayor Bloomberg’s visit to an unfinished Long Island City high-rise last week capped a series of upbeat announcements about how safe the city has become. With crime and fire and motor-vehicle...
TENT CITY, NJ — Marilyn Berenzweig worked in Manhattan for more than 35 years, rising to design director for a textile company. She was paid $100,000 a year before being laid off from an industry...
Dear John: I had placed an order to sell 50 shares of Apple stock on the day the company was recently reporting quarterly earnings. My order was “good-til-canceled,” or GTC, as they say in the...
Our column in The Post on Friday about the cost of the Port Authority’s World Trade Center Transportation Hub — the Santiago Calatrava-designed PATH terminal — drew e-mails from readers skeptical...
There’s no stopping Gary Barnett. His Extell Development Co. just bought 138 E. 50th St., a prime development site midway between Third and Lexington avenues, for $61 million. The address,...
While the White House celebrated Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics’ announcement that the unemployment rate slipped to 8.3 percent and 243,000 new jobs were created, there appears to be storm...
While the White House celebrated Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics’ announcement that the unemployment rate slipped to 8.3 percent and 243,000 new jobs were created, there appears to be storm...
If the economy is on the mend, someone forgot to tell the nation’s magazine-lovers. Of the top 25 glossy magazines in the country, all but four posted newsstand sale declines in the second half of...
In a divided vote, Newspaper Guild employees at the Spanish language daily El Diario/La Prensa voted to accept a new contract with the parent company ImpreMedia. The deal that will result in the...
Red Lobster is rolling into Harlem at 261-267 W. 125th St. to anchor a new project next door to the Apollo Theater. The ubiquitous seafood chain has leased 9,500 square feet on two levels for a 300...
Talkative SiriusXM radio has zipped lips when it comes to its business plans, but we discovered the Mel Karmazin-led company has renewed leases at two city hot spots. The deals encompass about 130...
The Premiere Games in Europe that have opened the NHL season the past five years could be a casualty of collective bargaining, though sources within the league and the NHLPA have told Slap Shots the...
The most singular weapon the Rangers have had over the last seven seasons while inexorably tilting the Battle of the Hudson toward the shores of Manhattan remained on the bench last night in Newark....
BOSTON — I’m in the belly of the beast. In Copley Square I see a Patriots fan wearing a “Peyton S---s Too’’ shirt and ask him who is going to win the Super Bowl. He smiles and says, “You know who’s...
BOSTON — What a Super letdown once again for Mike D’Antoni and the Knicks. D’Antoni, with his coaching job possibly hanging in the balance, watched the Knicks again fail to execute in the final...
Sometimes, all you can do is laugh. For the two weeks before the Super Bowl, the biggest unknown story was the condition of Patriots record-setting tight end Rob Gronkowski, hurting with a high...
I Feel a bad moon a-risin.’ Sooner or later — and we’re overdue — the winner of the NFL championship is going to be determined by some systemic, non-football absurdity, some ridiculous, unintended...
If you grew up in this exquisite melting pot of a city, a city where the faces change every day but the dreams remain the same, you know someone like Jerry Flood. He was a New York City sanitation...
There were 19,979 fans in Madison Square Garden yesterday afternoon, and the smart ones saved their ticket stubs. One of these days, hopefully years from now, they can show their friends they were...
Eli Manning began walking off the field at MetLife Stadium, a place of sheer Bluephoria that had unmistakably become Giants Stadium, his arm around his wife, Abby, and soon the championship face of...
BLUE YORK CITY — Just because we are The City That Never Sleeps doesn’t mean we don’t dream. Because we do. We dream big around here, and we adore the teams that wear the NY that dream big,...
We should start with this proviso: Just about every personnel expert I respect thinks the Yankees did very well in shipping Jesus Montero and Hector Noesi to the Mariners for Michael Pineda and Jose...
The press conference was long and cathartic. It felt as much about a healing process as a wave goodbye. Jorge Posada announced his retirement yesterday in a This-Is-Your-Life-type tribute in which...
Suddenly, he is more than a quarterback, more than an athlete — more than a champion, even. Suddenly, Eli Manning in 2012 has become equal parts Elvis from 1956, John Lennon from 1964 and Derek Jeter...
Dear Boss: I’m happy to report I made it home without getting bloodied by too many readers who noticed that my Super Bowl pick didn’t quite work out. You may remember that, Boss. I picked the...
An Internet report last week asserted Kobe Bryant presented a sales pitch for the Purple and Gold to Dwight Howard, who was so turned off by Bryant’s effort it curdled the Lakers’ chances of signing...
There they were with an actual chance to silence the wolves, the lambs and the vultures Friday night in Boston, and what did the Knicks do? Croaked from second-hand choke. Up a dozen against the...
They were the only players to speak yesterday, the only real Giants that addressed fans in New York and New Jersey and thanked them for being along for this wonderful ride. If there was any question...
INDIANAPOLIS — Ahmad Bradshaw was sitting on a spongy chair in the lobby of the Downtown Marriott yesterday morning waiting to do an appearance on “Good Morning America.” It was his first official...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- For the first time that I can remember, America woke up yesterday to discover no shining light in its thoroughbred racing firmament. The Breeders’ Cup flicked the switch on...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Drosselmeyer won the $5 million Breeders’ Cup last night — and who gives a fig? Who cares, that is beyond those who own him, train him and ride him and, most of all, bet him. In...
Greg Kinnear’s in a new movie. “Thin Ice.” A dark comedy that folks of a higher polloi than myself call “a noir thriller.” “I play a small-time opportunistic insurance salesman trying to get through...
Max von Sydow, Best Supporting Actor nominee for “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”: “I was home in France when my wife, checking the TV, heard. We celebrated with Champagne. Although it was the...
Here’s hoping that the Knicks settling into new homes will help them settle down and win some more games. Big man Tyson Chandler has found a full-floor apartment that suits his 7-foot-1 frame. The...
Power couple Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber’s extensive downtown home hunt has ended with the purchase of a full-floor loft on Washington Street in TriBeCa. The acting duo have closed on the 4,315...
I’ve been seeing this guy for a little over a month now. I like him a lot, but he wants to take things slow. I’m fine with that, but it’s no secret that Valentine’s Day is coming up. Can I get him a...
I recently began seeing a guy I really like. While staying over at his house, I got a late-night text from a booty call I’d been playing around with. He means nothing to me, and I haven’t seen him in...
Dori Berinstein’s cinematic love letter masquerading as a documentary presents a totally adoring portrait of the 91-year-old Broadway icon, who tells many great and funny stories about a show...
Would the Mayans have predicted the end of the world in 2012 if they’d known it would inspire not only “The Tree of Life’’ and “Melancholia’’ but an endless supply of more dreary depictions of end...
Surf’s up in the troubled nation of Papua New Guinea. According to Adam Pesce’s documentary “Splinters,” the sport got its start there when an Australian pilot left a surfboard behind in the 1980s....
‘After Fall, Winter” is a mixed-up movie about mixed-up people. The nuttiest of the bunch is Michael, played by the film’s director-writer, Eric Schaeffer (“My Life’s in Turnaround”). Michael is a...
What do you do for exhaustion? I do one of two things. I either go to sleep, or, if I don’t make it that far, I simply fall asleep. And I’ve always found that a good night’s sleep cures exhaustion,...
This just in . . . A large sinkhole formed today on the Henry Hudson Parkway. Police are looking into it. The shameless and desperate state of TV news now demands that its shot callers ask themselves...
I received a batch of e-mails in response to my column two weeks ago about Nicol Williamson, the brilliant but troubled Scottish actor who died in December. He was as famous for his off-stage antics...
Several years ago I got a call from the BBC asking if I’d be a judge on a new reality show. They had no idea who I was, but they were looking for a mean Broadway critic and when they Googled “mean...
Memo to theater companies specializing in the classics: Take a cue from Marvell Rep. The troupe’s second season doesn’t have a Shakespeare, Chekhov or Shaw in the bunch — just six controversial works...
In light of the recent Vassar early-admissions snafu, already wary parents of students applying to college should avoid “Inadmissible.” Not that anyone else should rush to see this play about three...
Extroverts are such a pain and a poison that we feel Virgil Starkwell’s agony when, in “Take the Money and Run,” he breaks the rules while working on a chain gang and “for several days he is locked...
Banal at the beginning and preposterous at the close, the British horror film “Kill List” jumbles together wildly incongruous ingredients to create a dramatic mush. We learned from “True Lies” that...
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, who better to give jewelry-buying advice than “Hardcore Pawn” star Les Gold? Gold, who runs the American Jewelry and Loan shop in Detroit (with his son,...
Judge Jackie Glass turns to one of her TV heroes to help her decide a case on tomorrow’s episode of “Swift Justice” (11 a.m./Ch. 9). Glass, who’s a huge fan of Bravo’s “Real Housewives” franchise,...
Lovers of “Lost” take heart. ABC has a new mysterious jungle series with the down- river, patrol-boat feel of “Apocalypse Now” and a character with the relentless need for fame of risk-taking idiot...
Broadway musicals don’t bring me joy. In fact, the very sound of “five, six, seven, eight,” makes me physically ill, and dance numbers that include top hats or flying witches can send me into a...
The three-piece orchestra in “Ionescopade” has barely started the overture — zany percussion, wacky noisemakers — and already the whimsy-meter is in the red. You’d think you were at the Big Apple...
John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” opened in London with a huge bang in 1956, upending staid British theater and helping usher the era of “angry young men” — smart, educated, working- or middle...
Russia and China’s veto Saturday of a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria dismayed and outraged Westerners. So what are they going to do about it? The double veto underlined the...
Syria is on the agenda of the UN Security Council this week, which above all means one thing: The bear is back. Russia is determined to prove itself a power that can determine the course of world...
A struggling economy. Cash shortfalls at City Hall, in Albany and Washington. A turbulent Mideast. A fateful US presidential election. The coming year is shaping up to be absolutely . . ....
‘I’m not going to have anything to do with a bill that does not respect the rights of the disabled community,” Gov. Cuomo said Friday, dissing a measure that would notably boost the number of...
President Obama will spend most of tonight’s State of the Union Address on domestic matters — but he also owes the nation a serious look at our pressing foreign-policy and defense issues. It’s fair...
Even as his government back home was sentencing to death an American citizen it outrageously claims is a spy, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad embarked on a five-day visit to four of Latin...
Staten Island Chuck didn’t see his shadow yesterday. But Mayor Mike saw more budget deficits — meaning six more weeks . . . er, make that years of budget winter for New York. City taxpayers will...
Gov. Cuomo wants to “build a new New York” — but he doesn’t want to pay for it. To get billions for construction, he’s turning to “public-private partnerships.” Sorry. Just as there’s no free lunch,...
On Sept. 18, Army Spec. Chazray Clark stepped on an IED in Kandahar province, instantly losing an arm and both legs. But the 24-year-old Michigan native was still able to say, “I’m OK,” when his...
The build-up of the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz took another big step this weekend, when the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln entered the Persian Gulf together with British and French naval...
Gov. Cuomo last week waded hip-deep into New York’s fetid education-standards swamp — picking a fight he must win if the state is ever to have real teacher accountability. Now he’s well-positioned...
Mike Bloomberg didn’t precisely call Andrew Cuomo’s public-education bluff yesterday — but he sure did cover the governor’s bet. What happens next isn’t likely to be pretty. The centerpiece of the...
If you live in Manhattan, you’ve heard it a million times by now: Someone sees a vacant storefront and says, in a tone of dripping irony, “Oh, how I hope a bank will go in there! Because that’s what...
‘a billion dollars aimed at a single person.” There was a week last summer during which I heard that phrase spoken every day by different people in the Republican ambit — two political consultants on...
In one of those quirks that make Middle East politics interesting, both Israel and Iran have condemned the Palestinian Authority-Hamas accord to form a “national unity” government. Signed on Monday...
A year after the Arab Spring began, its ripples have reached oil-rich Kuwait, one of the most politically stable states in the region: Thursday’s elections bring a dramatic change in the makeup of...
When the abortion wars flared up last week, partisans of both sides rushed to the barricades — but the real lesson may be for the countless Americans in the middle. A private charity devoted to...
Today’s Capitol Hill hearing on the “Fast and Furious” mess promises drama that may well rival the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings or gangland chieftain Frank Costello’s memorable 1951 testimony in front...
Fountain Hills, Ariz. Dina Galassini doesn’t seem to pose a threat to Arizona’s civic integrity. But the government of this desert community thinks you can’t be too careful. And state law empowers...
CHARLESTON, SC They are nearing 70 now, the 11 men who were 12-year-old boys in 1955 and who are remembered for the baseball games they couldn’t play. They were — actually, with their matching blue...
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