Andrew Cuomo, gearing up for a late April announcement, breathed a loud sigh of relief over the weekend after hard-charging Democratic-turned-Republican Steve Levy failed to win Conservative Party...
ALBANY -- It was the Democrats and not the Republicans who were supposed to have a bitter and bloody primary battle for governor in November, but 2010 is, of course, anything but a predictable...
A decade ago, New York City faced a dramatic rise of children placed in fos ter care. Even more alarming was the kind of family breakdowns that got them there. Nearly 85 percent of children were...
Truth delayed is truth denied. Or at least truth was denied until yesterday, when the fig leaf of "health-care reform" was shredded. Finally exposed was the Holy Grail of the ruthless quest. It...
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 -- As a Democrat from a conservative district in a red state, Rep. Brad Ellsworth has always relied on shrewd political instincts and good timing. The former local county sheriff is...
WASHINGTON -- Stepping before cameras in the White House late last night, President Obama thanked Democrats in Congress for making the ultimate sacrifice. The president noted that to better the...
There's something perverse about a city that deems it wise to distribute instructional pamphlets in health centers aimed at teaching young people to shoot heroin properly into their veins -- then...
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...
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is in a bind. Last year, he took on the Bloomberg administration and led the successful fight to block development of the long-vacant Kingsbridge Armory...
Three months into his third term, Mayor Bloomberg still hasn't told some of his commissioners if he'll keep them for the next four years. Understandably, those left dangling are nervous. "I...
Dear John: How do Congress' unemployment benefit extensions affect the jobless rate? If Congress fails to extend benefits, does the unemployment rate go down? J.H. Dear J.H.: You are talking apples...
It's lucky nearly everyone will soon have health care because what I'm about to tell you is gonna make you sick. On March 2, 2009 the federal debt -- to the penny -- was $11,040,807,027,558.10....
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...
The health-care debate is over for now, and the economy shows a few nascent signs of a spring pick-up, but an uneasiness lingers over the land. Why so? I suspect what's bothering the...
A funny thing happened this week in the land of statistics -- President Obama's disapproval rating bested his approval score for the first time in his presidency (46 percent approve, while 48...
TIME Inc. Editor-in-Chief John Huey's name used to sit proudly atop the masthead of Real Simple. Not anymore. Huey's name appeared above the title through the February issue, but was not in...
CONDÉ Nast raided the New York Times to hire Stefano Tonchi, editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, as the new editor of W. He replaces Patrick McCarthy, the editorial director who has...
Ga ry Barnett of Extell Development is getting a loan from an Oman company for Riverside Center by the West Side Highway. To get the funds, Barnett and his partners from Washington-based Carlyle...
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...
TORONTO -- Donald Fehr is the right man at the right time for the NHLPA, a union splintered into disarray that requires a force at the top to educate and lead without constant sniping from the...
So John Tortorella, the head coach of the Rangers, had a better idea. You can ask him. Well, maybe it's best not to. But anyway, it was Tortorella's plan going into the season to reduce Henrik...
For 14 seasons, New York's soccer team has been playing in perpet ual added time, trying to produce something worth watching. All the writhing by fans fouled by ever-changing rosters and tightfisted...
The Rangers, three points back of eighth-place Boston with eight games to go to the Bruins' nine, have repeatedly proven in a 33-32-9 season they are only as good as their next game. And now they...
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- David Wright came to this camp with the express purpose of getting back into the swing. He has done that by using his legs more and driving the ball. He's hitting home runs...
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Jose Reyes wants to be at Citi Field Opening Day. The Mets want him there on Opening Day. If he continues to show progress like he did in yesterday's workout, you can write Reyes'...
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...
After a winter that never wanted to end, we fi nally have arrived at the start of New York's annual freshwater fishing season. This Thursday, you will witness what is generally called the annual...
New Jersey sportsmen and women advanced on a number of fronts this week with a bill to create a free registry for anglers, a continued shark season and a step closer to a bear season this fall....
Did you hear the one about the three big-league baseball players — one from Florida, one from Puerto Rico, one from the Dominican Republic — who travel to Canada to see a shady doctor who specializes...
Is it ok to admit that I sorta, kinda miss Billy Packer? Clark Kellogg beside Jim Nantz is fine, but Kellogg doesn't seem to hold opinions or convictions beyond the importance of blocking out and...
SALT LAKE CITY — Butler coach Brad Stevens carries around an adage as cliché as one of those rubber wrist bands. “If you don’t believe it,” he says, “You can’t achieve it.” Even a dreamer has a...
BUFFALO -- The most crucial week in the future of metropolitan area basketball is upon us, so it is time for a cautionary tale. Two years ago, Providence College athletic director Bob Driscoll...
His name is Gregg Morris, and he is living proof that a Cornell basketball team can beat a Kentucky basketball team. He is 63 years old now, an assistant professor in the Department of Film and...
Of course Tony Price believes Cornell can play the part of Hoosiers on Thursday in Syracuse against Goliath Kentucky. Of course he believes it, because he lived it, because he helped carry the 1979...
The balance of power has not shifted from the AL to the NL, but the plain old power might have. Though the AL might be thought of as the brute strength league with the designated hitter and all, the...
TAMPA — This was a conversation a few days ago with a veteran scout: Scout: Joel, can I ask a question? Joel: Sure. Scout: Does Andy Pettitte still play with the Yankees? Joel (laughing): I guess...
HOUSTON -- It is a useful reference point, Dec. 19, 2003, the day St. John's decided to cleanse its soul, ridding itself of Mike Jarvis. There is no need to detail the fiasco Jarvis' final years...
It was the morning that Tom Pecora woke up in the back of a truck in Jackson, Miss., that he realized he wanted a little more out of his life than working for the Mohawk Moving Company, schlepping...
This is the last time I help out the authorities. After we were led to be lieve the District of Columbia has the strictest gun laws in the country -- no room for interpretive dance: you do the...
Would someone from Toyota please tell the Cavaliers and Lakers to take their feet off the accelerator? As the irregular season winding down, we hold these truths to be self-evident: 1--Ain't...
If you follow mixed martial arts, then you know Georges St-Pierre. If you don't, here's some knowledge. St-Pierre, or GSP as he's known to MMA fans, is the Manny Pacquiao of his sport. The...
You'll have to excuse Ross Greenburg if he’s extra giddy the Jets will be featured in the up coming installment of “Hard Knocks,” HBO’s annual mini-series that offers an in-depth look at an NFL team...
BY now you've heard more about "Journal of the Plague Year," Lloyd Constantine's coming book -- which mercifully is finally coming -- than you've heard about the health-care bill. Constantine was...
This paper's Kaja Whitehouse did an excellent business story last month on Benihana. Most of us know it as a low-cost Japanese eat ery chain best known for its high- level knife-throwing chefs. Yeah...
Billy Joel’s New York state of mind has taken him downtown to 211 Elizabeth St. in Nolita, where he just bought a $3.3 million apartment. For a superstar like Joel, the two-bedroom, 1,600-square-foot...
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....
My girlfriend gets home from work on the early side, but has to be up and out by 8:30 a.m., while I tend to work late in a studio and don’t have to be at work until noon. This makes finding time to...
I just started seeing this guy. We’ve been on three dates, all of which went really well. His only communication between dates, though, is text. And sometimes, these texts go back and forth for days...
The location -- Sarah Palin's beautiful old stomping ground of Wasilla, Alaska -- is the main attraction in Robert Saitzyk's talky and overwrought melodrama. Charlie Shepard plays a faith healer...
Playwright Conor McPherson ("The Seafarer") makes an auspicious filmmaking debut with "The Eclipse," which combines romance and the supernatural in ways that should not be confused with the upcoming...
Will the next Steven Spielberg please stand up. Founded in 1972, the annual New Directors/ New Films festival -- programmed by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center --...
French director Catherine Breillat is noted for pushing the sexual envelope in films such as "Romance" (the sex was real) and "Anatomy of Hell" (the sex might have been real). Her new creation,...
As a kid-embracing TV network, Nickelodeon has moved in a very predictable direction: Low, lower and keep going. Last night’s annual “Kids’ Choice Awards” included some interesting choices,...
The History Channel lately has shown “The World At War,” the superb, 26-part, British-made 1973 documentary about World War II. One of its essential themes — and a theme of most credible histories...
In 1984, Michael Bennett, flush with cash from his hit shows "A Chorus Line" and "Dreamgirls," set his sights on a Times Square jewel, the Mark Hellinger Theatre. Bennett had been enchanted with...
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 --...
He may be 69 years old, but he can still do the twist. Yes, at an age when many people are having hip replacements, Chubby Checker's still doing what he does best -- and what he's been doing for...
When it premiered on Broadway in 1950, T.S. Eliot's "The Cocktail Party" was the snob hit of its day, running more than a year and snaring a Tony for Best Play. This despite -- or maybe because --...
Here’s a headline that should never have appeared in any newspaper: “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” Here’s one that should have: “Obama to City: Drop Dead.” The first headline, which famously appeared...
Arriving at Disney shortly after it released the bomb "The Black Cauldron," Jeffrey Katzenberg urged the animators, "We have to wake Sleeping Beauty." Five years after the unit hit its Nadir, it...
That was "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston watch ing the Rangers-Islanders in 3D Wednesday at the Theater at MSG along with 2,500 (mostly Blueshirts) fans. Cranston has good reason to cheer; not...
A little perspective on "Life," Discovery Channel's 11-part series which premiered Sunday night. While the series bowed to a solid 9.4 million viewers, that was across six Discovery networks, and...
MONKEY BUSINESS (1931) Monday, 8 p.m., TCM Four brothers (Harpo, Chico, Groucho and Zeppo) stow away on an oceanliner and are forced to become thugs in a war between the bootleggers on board. When...
The bad thing about producing a teen show is that the teens grow up and then you either have to bring in the second string or, failing that, dump the show and start over. Hey -- nobody wants to see...
If nothing else, "Come Fly Away" confirms that Twyla Tharp has created a Broadway category of her own: the jukebox dancical. The choreographer broke new ground in 2002 when she conceived and...
Too many times, a mediocre production of a play her alded as a classic leaves you wondering what the fuss is all about. A dull "Othello" -- oh, the agony. An endless "Death of a Salesman" -- death...
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...
My girlfriend gets home from work on the early side, but has to be up and out by 8:30 a.m., while I tend to work late in a studio and don’t have to be at work until noon. This makes finding time to...
I just started seeing this guy. We’ve been on three dates, all of which went really well. His only communication between dates, though, is text. And sometimes, these texts go back and forth for days...
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 -...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, was the worst day for US diplomacy in recent memory. Between sunrise and sunset, we 1) handled our Israeli allies as enemies, 2) treated Pakistani gangsters as our...
It's wretched enough that our "friend" Ahmed Chalabi has become Iran's point man in Iraq. Now "our man in Kabul," President Hamid Karzai, is quietly shifting his loyalty to Tehran. Beyond...
Last night, Democrats got the votes they needed to pass the Senate health-care bill -- put over the top by a group of pro-life Democrats who had been threatening to scuttle it. The bill is truly...
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...
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...
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, like many liberals, seems afflicted by Sixties Nostalgia Syndrome, a longing for the high drama and moral clarity of the civil-rights era. Speaking in Alabama at...
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...
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