ALBANY -- He was already badly wounded and without political friends, but Gov. Paterson's new incarnation as a lame duck leader under criminal investigation will make an already nearly impossible...
ALBANY -- Gov. Paterson bought four more weeks in office -- at best -- by asking Andrew Cuomo to probe his involvement in a scandalous effort to intimidate a battered single mom. But when the AG...
When a recent conversation turned to a be leaguered Gov. Paterson, a New York official aimed a barb at journalists. "How many articles took a close look at Paterson before he became lieutenant...
He did it. He really did it. Gov. Paterson pulled a Spitzer. Like his disgraced patron, Paterson created a huge deficit of trust with the citizens of New York, then brazenly committed a...
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 -- It's good to be the king. Just ask newly "admonished" Charlie Rangel. He stands at the intersection of what should be the most sacred and fundamental covenant between the...
WASHINGTON -- Anyone expecting the professor- in-chief yesterday to perform miracles and begin healing all the sick for free and waking his health-care legislation from the dead were mightily...
The first shot was fired on Feb. 16, ushering in a war of the sexes in city firehouses. The assault was launched not with a weapon, but with a letter by Regina Wilson, president of United Women...
It's stupid season in the city's toniest schools. At this time of year, a crush of reasonably intelligent parents goes posi tively postal in pursuit of their goal to get little Bain or Brittney into...
The city's lengthy list of parking scofflaws stretches all the way to City Hall, where at least nine current and former members of the City Council had been sitting on unpaid summonses totaling more...
A performance-measure ment system that was set up by Bernard Kerik when he was at the city Correction Department in 1995 and is still in use today doesn't provide the public with the full story on...
Dear John: If the US Treasury wavered on the redemption of a series of notes coming due, the dollar would be hit hard. So why is the euro still trading so high against the dollar when the central...
There are many lines of thinking in the mea culpa business. One group, for instance, believes you should do whatever you want -- even if it might get you in trouble -- and just apologize for 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...
Here's one number that wasn't mentioned during last week's Presidential Health Care Summit -- the Democrats want to levy a new income tax to fund ObamaCare and the residents of New York and New...
Mark Twain's famous quote, "Lies, damned lies and statistics" can also reflects the view of many Americans these days. They're not just fed up with Washington, but increasingly skeptical of the...
ATTEMPTS by Newsweek CEO Tom Ascheim and Editor-in-Chief Jon Meacham to reshape the magazine into a lower-circulation weekly with a more Economist-like feel do not seem to be paying off. Tucked...
The founder of Modern Luxury Media, which publishes Manhattan and Angeleno magazines, has been pushed out, an apparent victim of a superheated expansion that could not be sustained in the recession....
The office building at 340 Madison Ave. is on the block, and thanks to its current cash flow it could be one of the few prime city offerings to fetch more than the sellers paid for it in the boom....
Discount retailer Daffy's is facing a lawsuit from Charles Cohen, who claims the chain backdated a renewal option for its East 57th Street store and thus should be booted out of his building. "I...
Players suffer injuries in exhibition games. The NHL doesn't cancel them. Players suffer injuries in practices. NHL teams don't do away with them. Which is to say that while it would be most...
Well here's one from Gary Bettman even more stunning than, a) 10 consecutive seconds of silence from Pierre McGuire, and, b) an observation from Mike Milbury about Alexander Ovechkin that doesn't...
Jay Greenberg takes his 14th annual look at the good, bad and ugly of New York sports: YOU CAN VOTE HERE OVERRATED 1. Joba Chamberlain, Yankees: Three-plus pitches that recommended him for a...
Even with that big, big window the Knicks have opened for LeBron James, Dwyane Wade or Chris Bosh, there still has proven to be plenty of wall left for Danilo Gallinari to hit. "He's 21 years...
VIERA, Fla. — Nyjer Morgan, the smooth-talking center fielder for the Nationals, is standing in the middle of the clubhouse telling me about the nickname he came up with for phenom Stephen Strasburg....
TAMPA -- When you win a champion ship, the question is how do you get better? No team has won consecutive World Series since the Yankees won three in a row from 1998-2000. To that end, Teixeira...
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...
AN APPOINTMENT to a powerful position in Congress spells trou ble for sportsmen across the country. Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) -- no relation -- is expected to be named chairman of the House...
The rally on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday brought together commercial and recreational fishermen and elected officials from both sides of the aisle. More than 20 federal lawmakers...
Maybe team-owners ignore Bud Selig, but we don't. Three Selig quotes of note: When interleague play began, Commissioner Selig called it "a gift to the fans." After the 2008 season, with the...
Olympic hockey can turn history-formed habits strange. Given that Canada is the favorite but Team USA has a reasonable shot, my rooting interests this week drifted to the teams that played against...
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...
The bloodied court had been wiped clean. Maybe even most of the St. John's tears had dried. Yet one truth remained as indisputable as DNA evidence: Seton Hall has earned the right to play St....
I know, I know. We’re all still digging out from under Cruel Old Man Winter. February’s Fury has given us cabin fever, made us long for the Yankees’ defense of their championship, for the Mets to get...
Julius Peppers and the Panthers appear headed for divorce. Julius Peppers and Rex Ryan would be a match made in heaven. Too bad the Jets, because they made it to the AFC Championship game, won't...
Robinson Cano is 27 now and more than 3,000 plate appearances into his major league career. He is the third-highest-paid second baseman in the game, his $9 million ranking just behind Philadelphia’s...
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Jerry Manuel could have play-acted that Kelvim Escobar is still well ahead of schedule, still in his plans as the eighth-inning guy. At this point, however, that would have...
Well, it was nice of Phoenix to go and do us all a solid the other day, pulling out of the bidding for the 2014 Super Bowl, removing one more impediment from the pathway that will bring the Big Game...
VANCOUVER -- Mike Babcock was the one who tried to stir a few dollops of perspective into the piping-hot brew of hype and hyperbole surrounding what has to be on the short list of the most...
The specific formula is not yet official, but plans are far enough along to specu late with great certainty Team USA will forefront an international doubleheader at Madison Square Garden in mid...
Shortly after Clippers general manager Mike Dunleavy stepped down as coach, Fox Sports circulated a preposterous report that Los Angeles had "reached out" to Isiah Thomas regarding every front...
Manny Pacquiao says Floyd Mayweather Jr. wasn't ready to face him this spring, and their disagreement over blood-testing procedures was just a smokescreen to get out of the proposed welterweight...
Joshua Clottey says if Manny Pacquiao is using performance-enhancing drugs "God is going to solve the problem." Otherwise, Clottey chooses to believe Pacquiao is clean and has no qualms about the...
That snowy, awful blizzardy night Cinema Society hosted Universal's "Green Zone." Boy, was it not green. The screening was 7:30. Matt Damon, I was told would show 6:45. Sweet, easy, affable,...
I have written before about having a rotten cold. I now write again about having a rotten cold. And why is that? Because I have one again, that's why. I'm feeling lousy. And I see no per centage...
Fashion design titan Elie Tahari and his gorgeous wife, Rory (20 years his junior), have quietly put their stunning four-story, 9,600-square-foot trophy loft on the market. While the Prince Street co...
Not only is musician Desmond Child “Livin’ La Vida Loca,” he actually wrote the Ricky Martin smash. And now Child (whose other hits include Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer,” Aerosmith’s “Dude [Looks...
My wife thinks it’s weird that I have a foot fetish. I’m not into spikes or leather, just massages. What’s so weird about that? — Paul D., New City I am totally confused. So, you just like...
When I'm out in a social setting or even online dating, I tend to attract women I’m not attracted to. I’m a decent looking guy and I have a good personality, but for some reason, I’m not having much...
Propaganda masquerading as an action thriller, this talky vanity production tells you more than you probably ever wanted to know about Taiwan (a k a Formosa), a stronghold of Chinese anti-Communists...
One-time indie icon Kevin Smith's first film as a major studio hack-for-hire, the shambling '80s mis matched cops homage "Cop Out," repeatedly shoots for laughs -- but ends up mostly firing blanks....
Beware of Bluebeard. The infamous fairy-tale character -- created in 1697 by Charles Perrault -- had an unsettling habit of killing his wives. Naturally, the scoundrel has inspired numerous...
What happens when a movie's lead actors are better than their material? You get something like "Toe to Toe." Directed by Emily Abt, it concerns two girls, Tosha and Jesse, who go to the same...
Since 1988, when the International Olympic Committee first allowed NBC to do whatever it pleases to the Olympics (hey, the money was right), the Games have been predicated on one formula: American...
What’s worse for a big-time network newsman: Being stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time by accident or being stuck in such a place on orders from your network? Seven years ago, CNN anchor...
The reviews won't be out until March 11, but fans of musical theater are already flocking to the Vine yard Theatre to catch a preview of the new John Kander and Fred Ebb musical, "The Scottsboro...
Cue the balcony -- here comes Eva Peron! Deals were being finalized this week on a Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's enduringly popular musical "Evita." The production...
With the "don't ask, don't tell" controversy rearing its head again, the York Theatre Company's new musical about gays in the military couldn't be timelier, even if it is set during World War II....
If there's any solace for "Ugly Betty" fans since ABC decided to pull the plug after this season, it's that its talented cast is now free to pursue fresh opportunities. Case in point: Becki...
“I have no plans to step down,” Gov. Paterson said at the end of his wacky week. He doesn’t have to have a plan, though, does he? A simple “I resign” should do the trick, and it seems as if it’ll be...
In the future, John Waters has predicted, the growth industries will be gay divorce and tattoo removal. But what’s even more embarrassing and indelible than a “Slippery When Wet” tattoo on a lumpy 52...
Dr. Andrew Ordon, co- host of "The Doctors," is heading to India on Tuesday to perform cleft palate sur geries in conjunction with Smile Train, a worldwide or ganization that helps children with...
Cable ratings: Sunday's "Sins of the Mother" was the second-most-watched flick ever on Lifetime Movie Network (2.7 million viewers), while Disney Channel finished last week as the top network in...
DAYS OF HEAVEN (1978) Monday, 10:15 p.m., TCM Hailed as one of the best movies of extraordinary 1970’s, this Terence Malick film looks like a painter created every frame. Richard Gere is a broken...
Definitely the worst original TV movie of the year (and I predict that this honor will hold good for the next 10 months and maybe the decade), MTV's "Turn the Beat Around" is so bad it's "Showgirls"...
Bam's transatlantic Bridge Project got off to a shaky start last month, when director Sam Mendes sucked all the playfulness out of Shakespeare's "As You Like It," and the American actors paled next...
Douglas Carter Beane does one-liners better than most. Remember his book for the musical "Xanadu"? Funny. The great Julie White vehicle "The Little Dog Laughed"? Very funny. But quantity has taken...
Mayor Bloomberg issued a stern warning to state lawmakers last month: Gov. Paterson's budget cuts would meet stiff resistance in the Big Apple. "Let me tell you," Hizzoner huffed, "the cuts the...
If you believe the hype, the United States has a valuable new ally in the War on Terror: American Muslim leaders. Alas, it's called "hype" for a reason. Yes, some American Muslim groups are...
My wife thinks it’s weird that I have a foot fetish. I’m not into spikes or leather, just massages. What’s so weird about that? — Paul D., New City I am totally confused. So, you just like...
When I'm out in a social setting or even online dating, I tend to attract women I’m not attracted to. I’m a decent looking guy and I have a good personality, but for some reason, I’m not having much...
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...
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...
In announcing his proposed $66.5 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that starts in July, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday got the destination right -- but he's charting a long and dangerous path to...
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 -...
The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency now not only admits that Iran's at work on nuclear warheads, but acknowledges that Tehran never stopped working on them -- despite no end of pleas,...
The capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar -- the Taliban's equivalent of Gen. Stan McChrystal -- by Pakistani agents and CIA operatives is a big win. Subordinate only to Mullah Omar, the Taliban...
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....
Somewhere, Bill Clinton is smil ing. After demonizing Clinton's trian gulation of politics during his terms, President Obama was forced in his State of the Union speech last night to mimic the...
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...
Peter De Vries, America's wittiest novelist, died 17 years ago, but his discernment of this country's cultural foibles still amazes. In a 1983 novel, he spotted the tendency of America's therapeutic...
Today's health-policy "summit" comes at a moment when, as happens with metronomic regularity, Washington is reverberating with lamentations about government being "broken." Such talk occurs only...
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