Message from the gov: Don’t wait ’til next year.Gov. Cuomo has told associates he’s willing to support a desperately desired pay increase for state lawmakers this year, but won’t do so next year as...
Gov. Cuomo and the leaders of the Legislature are considering plans to rein in and reorganize the scandal-scarred New York Racing Association in the wake of a state report showing NYRA cheated...
An Important change is happening in the presidential race — the belief that Mitt Romney could actually win is spreading. There is a growing confidence among his supporters, and the polls are starting...
It’s called the salami tactic for good reason. You slice your rival one way, then another, trying to cut him into little, defenseless pieces. Once the province of dictators and generals, the divide...
Tyshene Mungo didn’t celebrate Mother’s Day on Sunday like everybody else. She had to wait another day until she got to court.“Today is my Mother’s Day,” Mungo said yesterday as she stared down the...
In my house growing up, “Like It Is” with Gil Noble was as much a part of my Sunday as church and the NFL.Where else could we see interviews with Harry Belafonte or in-depth reports about voting...
GREENSBORO, NC — The Bastard out of North Carolina looked mighty pleased with himself. Too pleased.And why not? John Edwards (yesterday, left) just might get away with it all — with stealing campaign...
In the blink of an eyelash, former state Sen. and miserable crook Pedro Espada Jr. was reduced from enjoying $60,000 worth of sushi and lobster feasts to subsisting on Meatloaf Surprise and communal...
It’s the Family Feud, government edition. The MTA and the city are at cross-tracks over more than $1 million worth of billboards, with each side claiming it has the power to tell the other what to...
See no evil. Hear no evil. Read no evil. The Department of Investigation has chronicled multiple abuses committed by former Finance Commissioner Martha Stark in a scathing 111-page report that also...
Something odd happened a few weeks ago.The love affair that small investors had with Apple Inc. finally started to cool. This, of course, was long overdue especially since Wall Street professionals...
TAMPA — Everyone calls him “Jamie.” And until a couple of days ago the nickname seemed to fit the altar-boy-like CEO of JPMorgan Chase, officially known as James S. Dimon, aka the last untainted...
There’s nothing wrong with the financial-services leasing market that a good presidential election won’t cure, says Larry Silverstein.Acknowledging that Wall Street firms are “holding back and...
It looks like liftoff is close for the long-awaited hotel/condo project at the former Donnell Library site in Midtown. Preliminary work has been going on for some time and sources tell us excavation...
Jamie Dimon’s whale-watching tour came to a crashing end last week as the JPMorgan chief was forced to admit a huge trading loss.JPMorgan’s London Whale Bruno Iksil, the French trader whose super...
While the headline number for joblessness fell to 8.1 percent on Friday for the month of April, there are some crueler numbers behind it. News last week out of California suggests trouble is brewing....
The bankrupt Tribune Co. has become the latest newspaper publisher to pull the plug on a monthly magazine.The staff of LA, Los Angeles Times Magazine got the word yesterday that the June 3 edition...
Time magazine, which is dealing with an ad slump and a dip in newsstand sales, has ignited a raging Internet controversy with its provocative cover shot of a hot, blonde mom breast-feeding her 3-year...
Joseph Moinian is working to cobble together an 84,000-square-foot retail space at the base of the office building at 535-545 Fifth Ave. that will run the full 200-foot long block between East 44th...
Two older industrial office buildings near the Trump SoHo Hotel are being bought and combined into a new, modern entity called One SoHo Square, named after the park across Spring Street. Stellar...
I've got to tell you, I can’t even begin to imagine exactly what Martin Brodeur was thinking after the Devils’ 3-0 defeat in Game 1 of the Battle of the Hudson on Monday, in which the Rangers blocked...
The dysfunction on display within the Blackhawks’ hierarchy makes one yearn for the days when Bill Wirtz ran the Original Six franchise into the underground. Well, no, not at all, but the decision...
BALTIMORE — There is another side to Rafael Soriano. In many ways, Soriano was an outcast from the day he became a Yankee. He was the closer who couldn’t get the opportunity to close games. Now,...
BALTIMORE — There have been too many excuses and not enough wins for the Yankees.It’s time to make a move and there is only one way that will happen, the Yankees must out-slug their opponents. There...
We must be seeing things. Rather, we must not be seeing things. The public used to rely on the media to fight for it, to go to bat for the bat-less. Not so much anymore. Most in the news take their...
Judging from two recent high-profile TV interviews — one with CBS’ Jim Nantz, the other a more extensive chat with NBC’s Bob Costas — it’s difficult to imagine that the NCAA could have chosen a more...
The Long Beach gang from back in the day, when it was still cool to use that expression, is going to get together Friday — tell some stories, shed some tears, have a laugh, knock back a few cold ones...
It’s important to state this now, before Bill O’Brien suffers his first loss or posts his first win as Penn State’s first new head football coach in 46 years: O’Brien was the right man to step into...
The clock in the press room read 11:04 and here came John Tortorella through a side door, followed by public relations chief John Rosasco.The Last Angry Man was angry, and had every right to be.This...
It is scruffy and weathered and shrunken and black, something someone who lost a bet might be forced to wear, but to the Rangers, the Broadway Hat is not meant to be a fashion statement. It is a...
Andy Pettitte headed toward the dugout with one out in the seventh inning and was regaled with a standing ovation, a familiar sound at a strange moment.It is uncommon for the good citizens of the...
The reaction to Josh Hamilton’s four-homer game last week was revealing. The sounds of congratulations quickly were washed away by the ka-chinging of cash registers.The calculus was not about the...
Afterward, they would recite from the familiar missals and mantras, talk about how they were outhustled and outworked and out-effort-ed, the whole laundry list of self-flagellation that accompanies...
The first step on the long road back to relevance was a simple one, a critical one: The Mets needed to sell themselves to their own. They needed to convince their own fans they were worth the time,...
I love Chris Paul’s posture. I remind me of him. He doesn’t take even the slightest slights stoically. He gets both angry and even. Either on the spot or with the first chance that presents itself. I...
If Nuggets president Josh Kroenke and general manager Masai Ujiri have made an important personnel mistake in the two years since their minds meshed as Babes in David Stern’s Toyland, feel free to...
D.J. Carrasco pitched in relief last night and managed to get through his 1 1/3 innings of duty without hitting anyone in the back with a baseball even after giving up yet another home run.Yet that...
It’s time we listened to Floyd Mayweather. He wanted Manny Pacquiao to agree to Olympic-style drug testing if they were to fight. That was more than two years ago, and Mayweather has required it of...
BALTIMORE — D. Wayne Lukas, at 76 the reigning patriarch of the horse training business, will seek his sixth Preakness win when he saddles Optimizer in the great old classic on Saturday.The horse...
BALTIMORE -- The Preakness Stakes usually is the easiest and simplest classic race to handicap, but this year’s running on Saturday has turned into a “very complicated” race.That’s the verdict of...
The Blue Jays knocked around Hiroki Kuroda for the Yankees’ second straight loss, and the specific takeaway from this night has to be Kuroda himself. He has a 4.50 ERA in eight starts, and he has...
This was playful Fred Wilpon, a side of the Mets principal owner we see actually quite often. To wit, the last time he spoke publicly in a baseball setting, at the team’s spring training complex,...
ABC’s upfronts partied downtown at 16th Street and Ninth Avenue, where I’ve never been but Entertainment Weekly has, because they sprang for this party at the Dream Hotel.Ginnifer Goodwin, Snow White...
Bill Rancic. From the “Giuliana and Bill” reality thing. From being the first winner on D. Trump’s “The Apprentice.” Signed for a new NBC show next season. He’s also a big-time speaker. Big-time....
"Californication” has hit the Upper West Side.David Duchovny is on an apartment hunt, and our spies spotted the actor in the Eldorado at 300 Central Park West, the coveted co-op building where Alec...
America’s sweetheart is sweet on downtown Manhattan.Meg Ryan is on an apartment search again, with her rocker boyfriend John Mellencamp. But Ryan, who as we previously reported has rented at 40...
I’m of the belief that the sooner you get the sex out of the way, the more you can be real afterwards. Is it really so terrible to start a relationship with sex? Anonymous, NYC I do think it’s...
How can I tell the guy I’m dating that I have zero interest in ever attending one of his rec team’s baseball games? Anonymous, NYC Oh, come on! You have to go at least once. Look, I know the idea of...
Sacha Baron Cohen tackles a more or less conventionally scripted fish-out-of-water/political satire/romantic comedy/raunchfest in the fitfully amusing “The Dictator.’’ It ends up being a lot less...
In this better-than-average tween comedy aimed at the Latino market, Cierra Ramirez makes an impression as a precocious Seattle teenager who decides she’s ready for adulthood after her private-school...
The Filipino horror fest “The Road” has a minimal plot — and even that isn’t especially original — but its director/co-writer/cinematographer, Yam Laranas, still delivers a maximum of suspense and...
Peruvian director Cristián Jiménez’s charm-filled romance “Bonsai” is just a few minutes old when you discover, during a voice-over, that a key character will die at the end. But this spoiler should...
Say it ain’t so! Alex Trebek, 71, last week hinted that he’s leaning toward retirement, that he’ll soon ask his last question in the form of an answer. That would be a shame, given that “Jeopardy!,”...
I always liked Dick Clark as a TV host — of music and dance shows, of game shows, of New Year’s Eve shows from Times Square. But it was only after his 2004 stroke that slowed and impaired his speech...
Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, porn star?The Fonz — who in real life goes by the name Henry Winkler — is in negotiations to star on Broadway next season in “The Performers,” a new comedy by David West...
As regular readers of this column know (hi, mom, hi dad!), I like to rib Public Theater chief Oskar Eustis about his infatuation with Broadway.The Public is one of the most influential nonprofit...
Ever felt trapped at a party listening to a windbag telling an endless story with no apparent point? Such is the experience of watching “Are You There, McPhee?” John Guare’s new play, receiving its...
George Bernard Shaw’s 1903 classic “Man and Superman” is a weighty philosophical treatise disguised as a frothy rom-com. The Irish Rep’s revival successfully has it both ways. On the surface, it...
How huge is “NCIS”? So big even its time-slot competitor “Glee” can’t ignore it. In an episode last month, the Fox show’s Puck worked in a diss of the procedural by saying, “My Nana watches that!”...
The quippy guy in the ironic T-shirt, the generically hot wife who is both charmed and exasperated by his wacky schemes: “Nesting” is a sitcom, but a really slow and dull one that barely grinds out...
Does it get any better than this — at least when it comes to cheesy, tongue-planted-firmly-in-cheek TV movies?Syfy will air four of its famous (or infamous, depending on who you ask) original movies...
Howard Stern’s Monday-night debut on “America’s Got Talent” translated into strong numbers for NBC in the coveted adults 18-49 demo — but not much of a boost for the show in total viewers (at least...
Is that the stink of desperation we smell coming off of Simon Cowell?Answer: If desperation smells like $16 million then yes, that’s what that pungent odor seems to be. The other day Cowell announced...
America’s got talent, and now “America’s Got Talent” has got Howard Stern. A whole lot of Stern.While the King of all Media may turn out to be good for the immensely popular show, it still remains to...
Like the Scottish music festival where this meandering romance was shot, getting the plot from point A to point B seems beside the point. It’s about the chance encounters, the community, the filthy...
‘Why have a civilization if we’re no longer interested in being civilized?” That’s the core of Bobcat Goldthwait’s rant masquerading as a feature film, and a lot of it is pretty easy to get onboard...
The Encores! production of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” is like a dessert stuffed with juicy morsels. Why quibble because the cake doesn’t always hold the fruity bits together? The lushest nibble in...
If the New Group company’s new drama, “An Early History of Fire,” were by a rookie, you could blame its mediocrity on inexperience. But the author is David Rabe, the Tony-winning writer of...
Israel’s recent political roller-coaster ride came to a surprising halt yesterday with Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu on top — and saying he’s now poised to make the “tough decisions”...
The State Department painted it as an elegant way out of a ballooning crisis involving Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng — but by day’s end, it looked like a disgraceful performance by US diplomats...
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...
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. — Niels BohrIn the unknown future of US national-security challenges, safe still beats sorry — especially when those challenges already...
Seoul Later this week, North Korea is expected to launch a long-range missile with a satellite on board; it’s likely to be just the first in a series of provocations by Pyongyang this year —...
JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon’s admission last week that the bank blew $2 billion — maybe mor e — on a “terrible egregious” trading mistake isn’t just a warning that President Obama hasn’t fixed...
Mayor Mike unveiled his second-to-last budget yesterday, musing over how many of “these things we’ve done together.” But his budget was as much about the future — and things aren’t looking bright for...
One crown jewel of the defense industry is about to shut its gates forever. Its closing should set off alarm bells about how long our military will remain the world’s best. Boeing’s fabled Wichita...
The Obama administration’s obsession with “green energy” is pushing us toward a needless and costly trade war with China over solar panels — at a time when the US oil- and gas-boom offers a huge...
Sheldon Silver has been speaker of the New York Assembly for going on 19 years now, and not for a moment of his tenure has he been his own man.But not until yesterday afternoon — when he openly...
Of all the cheesy stunts The Associated Press has pulled in its continuing calumny of the NYPD’s anti-terrorism efforts, the agency’s trip to Columbia University this past weekend will be hard to top...
So how good is the Obama reelection campaign going to be? By “good,” I mean competent, able to plan elaborate events and respond quickly and effectively to fast-breaking news. Obama supporters have...
When conservative commentator Pat Buchanan garnered 37 percent of the vote as a protest candidate against the sitting Republican president in the 1992 New Hampshire primary, his showing was a clear...
Somewhere deep in the State Department, experts are hard at work putting the final touches on the Obama administration’s strategy for the forthcoming talks on Iran’s nuclear program.Their...
Now to the third round! This was the battle cry across the French political spectrum yesterday, even as the threat of months of uncertainty loomed. The third round, of course, isn’t about electing...
So that “CIA coup” in Yemen against another al Qaeda underwear bomber turns out to actually have been a joint Saudi-British intelligence operation — which apparently was prematurely terminated thanks...
Let’s stipulate that the CIA’s discovery a fortnight ago of yet another underwear-bomber plot, this one originating with al Qaeda in Yemen and aimed at an American airliner, was a splendid feat of...
“You have a Prius. . . . You probably compost, sort all your recycling, and have a reusable shopping bag for your short drive to Whole Foods. You are the best! So, do we really need the Obama sticker...
Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions. For example, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), joined by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi...
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