Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver -- who has stymied governors' agendas for the past 15 years -- has held several secret "peacemaking" meetings with Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo in hopes of avoiding...
Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo, in his first test of in fluence with the Legislature, is weighing in on next Monday's special legislative session by backing Gov. Paterson's plan to slash $315 million from...
'Count your blessings" was my mother's lifelong advice, and now it's official: She was right. People who feel grateful have more energy, enthusiasm and a more positive outlook on life than those...
Pick your favorite: "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it." Or, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." Either way, the wisdom is wasted on...
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...
No matter the situation, one thing always remains the same. There are the rules. And then there are Charlie's rules. When Charlie Rangel appeared before the ethics committee for his trial...
WASHINGTON -- The sad, wrenching spectacle we saw yesterday of a grand old man, crumpled in an armchair, his face broken, weeping into his hands, was just another dramatic display of Charlie Rangel...
Sarah was successful in business, well-married and cute. Also a secret and insatiable, hard-core addict. Anything could trigger Sarah's need. An argument with the hub. Boredom. Or nothing in...
It brings me no joy to say this. But the impending marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, a fairy tale that's bringing joy to the fusty crown and hope to the single masses -- while driving...
What's in a name? Not the millions of dollars a year the Parks Department had been counting on by peddling naming rights. The agency has temporarily pulled the plug on a plan to raise money...
For the first time in 35 years, the Fire Department pension board is recalling two retired firefighters to determine whether the medical disabilities that allowed them to leave at a comfortable...
Dear John: The Federal Reserve is playing with explosives and it has not been properly trained to use them. Big Ben (Bernanke) believes that dollar devaluation is the only way to get the federal...
I stopped thinking about turkey long enough yesterday to contemplate other important issues, and Oprah Winfrey's latest giveaway this week to the 300 people in her audience -- a 2012 VW Beetle,...
The next big Manhattan hotel to go on the market will be the giant Park Central at 870 Seventh Ave. Sources said owners Rockpoint and Highgate Hotels have tapped Atlanta-based hotel broker Mark...
So, nothing happens around Labor Day? Hah! While others doze, Realty Check has a bunch of big deals to tell you about. SL Green is nearly doubling its money on a Midtown building it bought just...
Much ink has been spilled this week on revelations that the US Attorney's office in the Southern District of New York and the FBI have gone into overdrive in an insider- trading investi gati on that...
It's Thanksgiving week and that means it's time to roast the biggest turkeys in business. So fair or foul, here comes the fork: gobble, gobble. Mark Hurd: Did the former Hewlett-Packard CEO...
When the walking wounded gathered for the Condé Nast year-end party last Monday, it was a far cry from its glitzy, glamorous parties at the Four Seasons of yesteryear. This year, as they did a year...
A top publishing executive at AM New York, part of the Cablevision-owned Newsday Media Group, was arrested at the freebie newspaper's Manhattan offices on Thursday for a domestic violence assault...
Just in time for Black Friday's shopping crush comes word that the future retail experience planned for the World Trade Center site is still in flux but will likely open for business by Thanksgiving...
French money manager Natixis is set to ink a deal today to move into 180,000 square feet in the base of 1251 Ave. of the Americas. The company is leasing the third through fifth floors that were...
Regarding the Rang ers, 4-1 in their past five games and 7-3 in their past 10 as they get set to meet the Penguins, winners of six in a row since their Nov. 15, 3-2 OT home loss to the Black-and...
Yesterday's victory over the Flyers that represented a 360 from Friday's folly on Long Island does not change Devils Surgeon General Lou Lamoriello's mandate going forward, for though his team went 3...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Four months after his re tirement, Alabama coaching legend Bear Bryant was dead, something that frightens Joe Paterno far more than any university president or donor ever has....
The last stand-up goalie finally is taking a seat a row back. Martin Brodeur, three years since his last playoff series win and not likely to have a chance at redemption this spring, still, at...
Great escapes lead to great seasons. The Jets have had enough of the "lucky or good?" controversy. Against the Texans tomorrow at New Meadowlands Stadium, they're looking to score early, shut down...
This isn’t November football, this is playoff football. And the pumped-up Giants went about their business that way yesterday. That’s the first step to getting it right after Sunday’s terrible...
Long Island is a busy place these days with the opening of the wa terfowl season this past week, and if you plan on deer hunting this winter on the Island, you better start preparing now. The...
The opening weekend of New York's big-game season was a windy one that kept hunters and their quarry on their toes. Hunters seem to adapt, however, and reports from the opening weekend say that...
It was a Sean McDonough Saturday. If only McDonough could have been in two places at once. This column first became smitten with McDonough's play-by-play late in the 1990 Holiday Bowl. Texas A&M,...
"I can read writin', but not when the writin's written rotten." — Popeye the Sailor Interesting, how verbal body language — the art of carefully chosen words — is ignored. The story was all over...
An open memo to Steve Spur rier, the Ol' Ball Coach: You have been great for college football, an outstanding tactician and a gusher for reporters who hang on your witty, biting remarks about...
Let's put it out there, right up front: This is not an anti-Big East sentiment, but the conference happens to be the poster child for one of the many flaws in the BCS system. The Big East will send...
Another collapse was com ing for the Giants. Another 30 minutes and another season would likely end in disgrace, failure, sorrow. And right then and there, inside an angry, prideful halftime locker...
There is absolutely no reason today for Rex Ryan to check for bugs in the lampshades and behind the clocks at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center with Bill Belichick and the Patriots only eight...
It is Thanksgiving weekend, time for peace and coming together. So as a holiday gift to those nouveau enemies -- the Yankees and Derek Jeter -- I have come to broker a truce. Ultimately, the sides...
In his first few weeks on the job, Sandy Alderson strayed toward the safe. The new Mets general manager put an old band back together again, hiring loyal aides Paul DePodesta and J.P. Ricciardi. He...
A week earlier, an avalanche of angst overcame the hand-wringers and the head-shakers and the shoulder-shruggers, all who specialize in lamenting Eli Manning's flaws, in underlining all the things he...
True story: It wasn’t until the third or fourth time that the four-ton wrecking ball collided with the brick façade that any noticeable dent was put into the Philadelphia Spectrum last week, when...
Every now and then you have to hit the road to hit home . . . to hear stories unlikely shared except in person and witness uncensored scenes. Remember when Walt Frazier was in his "Clyde" heyday,...
Remember when LeBron James announced he was taking his talents to South Beach? Come on, focus, this is important. Think hard! No sooner had the world's axis shifted to Miami than the...
HBO will televise an intriguing boxing tripleheader tonight from Las Vegas, where Juan Manuel Marquez and Andre Berto will be on the card. But the best fight of the day could be in Helsinki, Finland,...
ATLANTIC CITY -- There are few guarantees in life besides death, taxes and Bruce Springsteen selling out the Meadowlands. But when Paul Williams and Sergio Martinez meet in a much-anticipated...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- "It was my fault. We should have won." Jockey Mike Smith, sobbing in frustration and disappointment, blamed himself for the defeat of the mighty mare Zenyatta in yesterday's...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Go, baby, go! Racing’s universal cry will roar out of millions of throats this evening when Zenyatta, the nation’s celebrity of the hour, unleashes her spine-tingling stretch run...
'Conviction" is the true story of 18 years putting life on hold, studying law and fighting to free your wrongfully convicted brother from a murder charge. Its star Hilary Swank told me: "Our...
Monday after Thanksgiving we all know the country's biggest turkey was Mel Gibson. How ever, let us remember how much we must be grateful for: Like: Madonna hasn't starred in another movie we...
The SoHo apartment where actor Heath Ledger lived — and tragically died of an overdose in 2008 — is unofficially back on the market for $5 million. Sources who have toured the 4,400-square-foot,...
Ilya Kovalchuk recently signed a 15-year contract with the New Jersey Devils, which gives him plenty of time to build his Jersey dream home. Kovalchuk, whose NHL contract is worth $100 million,...
I have a lesbian roommate who brings home cute girls. How do I bring up the option of involving a man (i.e., me) without making it awkward?— Stephen, 26 Well, Stephen, you’re living every man’s...
I’ve had about one conversation with my next-door neighbor, but I always hear him and his girlfriend going at it. What’s the best way to ask him to keep it down?— Adam, 26 Well, that’s awkward,...
Break out a helping of leftover pumpkin pie. The top prize in The Post’s 12th annual Turkey Movie Awards is shared by a pair of siblings who appeared in two of the worst movies since last...
Tchaikovsky's glorious music is the only thing that survives in Andrei Konchalovsky's spectacularly misconceived, bloated and incredibly ugly fantasy epic "The Nutcracker in 3-D." For his first...
"Kawasaki's Rose," the Czech Re public nominee for the foreign- language Oscar, has much going for it: solid ensemble acting, pleasing visuals. Unfortunately, a key plot device doesn't hold up....
The story of how New York went to the birds is contained in Frederic Lilien's documentary "The Legend of Pale Male." Pale Male, as you might remember, is the name given to a red-tailed hawk who...
Where Credit Is Due, Part 1: In the debate as to who delivers the best opening monologue — Letterman? Leno? Jimmy? Conan? Jon? — you don’t hear, “Ellen.” Perhaps that’s because Ellen DeGeneres’s...
It seems as if every day and night on cable TV and every Sunday morning on traditional TV, the political, legal, social, historical, financial and moral debate flares over “racial profiling.” But...
Not even Spider-Man could avert this disaster. Last night's opening pre view of Broadway's most expensive production ever, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," was an epic flop as the $65 million...
Manhattan Theater Club, long an engine of new and ambitious plays, is getting into the risk-averse import business. The nonprofit, taxpayer-subsidized company recently opened Lee Hall's "The...
A country racked by in tense division be tween the right and left; character assassination by a biased press -- and ruthless political figures willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their ends....
A canny pairing of early and late one-acts by Harold Pinter, "The Collection & A Kind of Alaska," makes it clear that the Nobel Prize-winning playwright's talents only deepened over the years....
What’s it like inside the Obama White House? A lot like what you’d guess from outside the Obama White House. In “Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside Obama’s White House,” MSNBC analyst...
A romantic comedy that is willfully anti-romance and woefully anti-funny, “Love & Other Drugs” bids to be a Judd Apatow-ized “Jerry Maguire.” But 100 minutes of bitterness and raunch followed by a...
Today's episode of "The Doctors" (9 a.m./Ch. 2) covers two topics both very much in the news right now. Magic Johnson, who's been HIV-positive for 19 years, visits the show to discuss what it's...
Deidre Hall and current "Days of Our Lives" cast members Crystal Chappell and Shawn Christian will be on hand when Greg Meng and Eddie Campbell sign copies of their new book, "Days of Our Lives 45...
Forget every movie you've ever seen wherein pampered Hollywood actors smudge their faces with dirt, rub on some fake blood and pretend they are soldiers fighting for their country and their lives on...
THE ODD COUPLE (1968) Sunday, 6 p.m., TCM After his wife throws him out, neat freak Felix Unger (Jack Lemmon) becomes suicidal and is saved by pal, Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau). The two men move...
It's a good time for period pieces -- espe cially wacky ones. On the Great White Way, the rambunctious "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" is a bio-musical that's part Looney Tunes, part emo rock....
The best fairy tales have a dark side, and the best storytellers aren't afraid to address it. Adapting Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes" -- about a girl who literally can't stop dancing when...
What, exactly, do Manhat tan Borough President Scott Stringer, city Comp troller John Liu, Bronx BP Ruben Diaz and 28 City Council members have against poor, young immigrants and blacks? Not...
There's one big reason Democrats face disaster Tuesday: They've done almost nothing in the last two years to make anyone -- left or right -- want to vote for them. In 2008, recall, they made...
Sunday, a new nuclear-weapons program; yesterday, an unprovoked and deadly attack on a neighbor: When nutty North Korea makes the headlines, you can bet it's not good news. Over the weekend,...
The White House's efforts to ram the flawed US-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty -- aka New START -- through the Senate during Congress' lame-duck session are increasingly disingenuous -- and...
Congress could face a fresh fiscal mess: a state -- or a pack of 'em -- calling for cash. The Republicans, newly in charge of the House, will be inclined to "just say no" and let markets punish the...
Leaders from Brazil to Germany have criticized the Federal Reserve’s project to print up $600 billion in free money. The world fears the move will spur inflation, warping global markets. But one...
Think of him as Andrew Cuomo, odd man out. That is, think of New York's governor-elect as a man committed to fundamental reform of a sort that the party he now heads considers wormwood and gall....
Who would have ever suspected that Ray Kelly leads two lives? There's Ray Kelly the former Marine and city police commissioner since 2002, hitherto thought to have been a model of rectitude....
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 -...
Two years after Barack Obama swept into office and Democrats regaled the country with silly stories about a political realignment that would change the course of politics, voters last night sent...
"We probably spent much more time trying to get the policy right than trying to get the politics right," President Obama told The New York Times this week. "There is probably a perverse pride in my...
If it looks like a shotgun mar riage, that's because it is one. Wednesday's deal to form a new government in Baghdad comes almost at the 11th hour. Earlier in the week, the Supreme Court ordered the...
"Abu Hussain! Palestine loves you!!!" This slogan, in English, appears on a poster and other products produced by the Palestinian Hamas movement and put on sale in Gaza. Yesterday, it adorned...
Fifty years ago William F. Buckley wrote a memorable complaint about the fact that Americans do not com plain enough. His point, like most of the points he made during his well-lived life, is,...
Unwilling to delay until tomorrow mistakes that could be made immediately, Democrats used 2010 to begin losing 2012. Trying to pre-emptively drain the election of its dangerous (to Democrats)...
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