Gov. Cuomo and legislative negotiators are hours from a deal on a strong new rent law protecting New York City tenants. The agreement, expected to come as soon as today, will raise the rental...
Seven or more Senate Republicans have signaled Gov. Cuomo that they're ready to legalize same-sex marriage, more than enough to put the controversial and historic measure over the top this week, The...
Palin Derangement Syndrome strikes again. The victim this time is dangerously contagious. In a bombshell announcement, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller publicly confessed his sickness...
Gov. Cuomo's aim to cap proper ty-tax hikes and refusal to sup port higher income taxes are part of his pledge to end New York's ruinous addiction to spending. So far, so good, but Cuomo is...
They thought it would be easier to come back now that the devil was dead. And even though they cheered and applauded, and went to Ground Zero yesterday to personally thank the president of the...
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....
WASHINGTON -- Hope and Change, it turns out, is all relative. They are a sweet elixir when you are talking about electing as president a smooth-talking street organizer with a fistful of vague...
WASHINGTON -- Stop spending! Cut taxes! Simplify the tax code! Expand free trade! Slice the deficit! Slaughter the pork! No, that was not some Tea Partier or the battle cry of Republicans last...
Cat food is looking mighty tasty about now. The news hit the city's overtaxed, overstressed and increasingly broke and despondent middle-class parents like a karate chop to the gut. Come...
I give in. To my dear niece and her lovely wife -- mazel tov. On the day of her big, fat gay wedding, the bride wore a flowing, white dress. The other bride walked down the aisle in a white...
To ex-comptroller Bill Thompson, a comput erized system for settling small claims against the city was a godsend that saved $94 million over five years and won awards for innovation. To the...
The humiliating melt down of Rep. Anthony Weiner has reshuffled the 2013 mayoral race, with political insiders nominating City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former Comptroller Bill Thompson as...
One is hapless and the other hopeless. This is a column about some words and their hidden meaning. Hapless Ben Bernanke is on an unlucky streak that he partly brought upon himself. Hopeless...
Let's all thank Saudi Arabia for trying to do what Washington should be doing -- but won't. The world's largest oil producer is attempting to get the price of gasoline down. But it's not getting...
All over town, stalled projects, commercial and residential, have sprung back to life. This is wonderful news for the city as a whole, if not necessarily for developers who might still face...
Conde Nast's move to 1 World Trade Center represents victory of a magnitude no one -- not even the staunchest boosters of downtown reconstruction -- could have dreamed of just a few years ago. It...
If life is a numbers game, then the most important number of the week is 48. That's the percent of Americans who believe that we are heading into another Great Depression. It's all in the latest...
It’s report card season in households across America, and at the White House, too — where the Obama girls are set to wrap up the school year later this week. Lucky for Sasha and Malia that their...
Time Warner's interest in acquiring the struggling US edition of celebrity magazine OK! appears to be fading. That's thanks to the latest financial results from the title's parent company, Northern...
Only five years after Meredith Corp. bought the critically acclaimed shelter magazine, ReadyMade, from its founders, the Des Moines, Iowa-based media giant is shutting it down, making it the latest...
Elaine's is turning into a development site, according to Neal Sroka of Prudential Douglas Elliman, who is marketing the restaurant along with the two occupied walk-ups above it for $9.5 million....
Joe Sitt's Thor Equities is in contract to buy the Scribner Building for $108.5 million. The 12-story plus penthouse building at 597 Fifth Ave. has over 12,000 square feet of retail space and...
The Mets have been a pretty nice little story on the field this season, for sure they have, managing to hover around .500 after an atrocious start with a depleted roster while tuning out the noise...
It WAS the summer of 2006, and the only way for the Senators to keep impending free agent defensemen Zdeno Chara and Wade Redden was to get each at a hometown discount. Redden, then 29, went for...
Last night, from the very first Memphis possession, the Garden was prioritizing "Defense! Defense!" Trust Mike D'Antoni, he considers it no afterthought, too. "You know what the problem is?" he...
No Rangers shooter has hit a top corner seemingly in months. So damn the potential catastrophic consequences; John Tortorella doesn't want his team to stop trying. If Henrik Lundqvist takes one in...
David Wright may be living in a dream world, but he said he expects the Mets to keep both him and Jose Reyes. It's ironic, of course, that this season Wright is the one injured while Reyes is...
Just over a year ago, on June 19, 2010, Yankees starter Phil Hughes beat the Mets 5-3 to improve his record to 10-1. He was 11-2 at the All-Star break, an All-Star at the age of 24. All the...
The summer begins, and with it comes a freebee this weekend from the State of New York. Each year, the last full weekend in June is designated as Free Fishing Days in New York. During these two...
This summer, you can find out why fishing can be so addictive and great for your health all at the same time. New York is offering free fishing clinics throughout the state with a number of them...
Not since Woodstock have we been subjected to a more repetitive theme. But instead of "Three Days of Peace and Music," this U.S. Open brought "Four Days of What Rory Learned at the Masters."...
CBS Sports Network has hired Rich Rodriguez as a college football game and studio analyst. The same Rich Rodriguez who regularly recruited and indulged criminals and assorted bad boys as the...
If you were God, you proba bly would carry some sort of identification because, let's face it, there are a lot of doubters out there. So God'sgift Achiuwa, the rugged 6-foot-9 forward from...
Jim Calhoun is waiting for the moment -- the epiphany or the awakening as he calls it -- when he will know whether to return for his 26th season as Connecticut's basketball coach. He has plenty...
The Bronx, and all of New York City really, will smile knowingly and burst with pride when our Kemba Walker makes the dream walk, a walk that began in the Sack-Wren Projects, a walk he will make with...
Roger Goodell's response when the draftniks at Radio City Music Hall began a chorus of "We Want Football" was "I hear you. I hear you." Here we are, two months later, and it is well past the...
This Mets season exists on two levels. They are trying to win this year, to honor the $140 million-plus payroll and the Wilpons’ insatiable hunger to fill Citi Field, and to appease a disillusioned...
Mets fans should not concentrate on what Sandy Alderson offered yesterday as news. For there was little surprise in Jose Reyes’ request the sides table contract extension negotiations during the...
CINCINNATI — If this were the movies, you could roll the credits now, send everyone home happy with warmed cockles in their heart, cooing about the feel-good summer hit of 2011. If this were the...
CINCINNATI — Out of the NFL’s bargaining sessions yesterday came one nugget that should be considered a significant triumph no matter where the talks go from here: The 18-game disaster-in-waiting...
You'll have to excuse the Good Rumor Man for failing to keep you current of late regarding trade, coaching and draft chatter. I hate when the NBA interrupts my fundamental train of thought and...
Marques Haynes' grandfather was a freed Mississippi slave. He fled to Tennessee when his cotton gin was commandeered by locals experiencing a little trouble adapting to a black man owning control...
BETHESDA, Md. — The coronation officially began at the par-3 10th hole at Congressional Country Club when Rory McIlroy’s ball, launched off the face of a 6-iron, easily cleared the water that had...
BETHESDA, Md. -- Amid all the hullabaloo over Rory McIlroy being golf's next young superstar, Jason Day shouldn't be overlooked. The 23-year-old from Queensland, Australia, shot a 3-under par 68...
Battered horseplayers coast-to-coast, stung by an unprecedented stream of upsets in the major 3-year-old races, buckled under the last straw when Ruler On Ice rolled to a 24-1 victory in the Belmont...
On a sodden day more suited to ducks than horses, an unsung, unheralded gelding from nowhere by the name of Ruler On Ice sloshed through the slop to win the 143rd Belmont Stakes yesterday and drive...
Tuesday "The Ledge" premiered at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema. And don't let the name fool you. It's on East Houston Street. They reserved me a special bench by the men's room facing a decayed wall....
Charlie Rose, about to celebrate 20 years of "Charlie Rose" on PBS: "I'm now in Washington. Bloomberg's having an event." And yesterday? "Lunched with Kissinger. A conversation about his book on...
Billionaire hedge fund manager Philip Falcone even wheels and deals when it comes to vacation.Falcone has grabbed a Hamptons summer rental for about $700,000 — a 30 percent discount from its $1...
He’s no longer captain of the New York Mets, but retired reliever John Franco still has a house fit for a king. The legendary lefty’s Staten Island home, on Cliffwood Avenue in the Todt Hill area,...
About a year ago, I went out on exactly two dates with a guy I know. We kissed on the first date, and I went down below (with my hands only) on the second. We never moved any further. We are in the...
I’ve been dating a guy I really like for about six months. He has the absolute worst teeth. I like him and I don’t want to be totally vain, but I really, really want him to fix his embarrassing teeth...
His face largely pasted on a computer-generated body, poor Ryan Reynolds acts only from the neck up in “Green Lantern,” a relentlessly silly superhero flick with eyeball-rolling dialogue — set in...
Justifiably lambasted when it premiered at Sundance as "Homework," Hollywood's equivalent of the Witness Protection Program may have provided a new title to hide under. But there's still no good...
Who needs talking heads for a documentary when they can have singing heads and dancing bodies? "Passione," a valentine to the southern Italian city of Naples directed by Italian-American actor...
I don't know why, but I just can't get all worked up over Dan (Buck) Brannaman, subject of the documentary "Buck." Sure, he survived a hellish childhood to become a renowned horseman, and he...
Carol HopkinS, a reader from Manhattan, has a terrific idea. Nearly 40 years after the Nixon administration brought us Watergate, let’s stop adding the word “Gate” to every scandal, big through small...
I’m waiting for something that’s not going to happen. I’m waiting for HBO to 1) admit that its programming initiatives to demonstrate that Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, was the first race-based...
Playwright Douglas Carter Beane -- who, with director Jerry Zaks, turned "Sister Act" into an unexpected treat -- always makes me laugh. On the eve of the Tonys, I wrote that you could tell who...
"Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark" pulled off a miracle this week: It opened. But for all the hoopla surrounding the show's troubled preview period (which began in the Pleistocene Epoch) and its...
The beat of a conga drum greets you as you enter the Intar Theatre. Its hard, insistent beats underscore all of "Drawn and Quartered," Maggie Bofill's new play about an estranged couple's stormy...
The title of "Desperate Writers" refers to its central characters, but it might just as well describe the playwrights themselves. Joshua Grenrock and Catherine Schreiber's hopelessly unfunny comedy...
IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT * In the appalling docu mentary "If a Tree Falls," a narrator referring to an arson attack by the Earth Liberation Front solemnly intones, "In...
Republican gaffe: mangled grammar, malapropisms, trivial errors on historical details, claims of dubious relevance. Democratic gaffe: statement that reveals fundamental ignorance of basic economics...
I always like writing about Jason Patric, if only to mention (to those who might not know this) that he's Jackie Gleason's grandson. I always get a kick out of that. Patric's mom is Linda Gleason...
So how cool is Gary Sinise? The "CSI: New York" star, who's headlined the CBS series since (believe it or not) 2004 now, is devoting a lot of time and attention to The Gary Sinise Foundation,...
Do people watch "True Blood" for the hot- blooded sex or the cold-blooded violence? If you say you watch it for the plot, you are lying through your fangs. You better pull them back in, because...
Everyone who has ever had a dog who was actually a human with fur, raise your hand. OK, that makes everyone except that guy in the back row there. Sorry, sir, cats don't count. A human dog...
It's not like there's anything terribly wrong about Michael Mitnick's new "Sex Lives of Our Parents." But there isn't anything terribly right, either. The Second Stage Uptown play that opened...
If a TV series can sprout a spinoff, why not a play? The most appealing character in Amy Herzog's heavy-handed drama "After the Revolution," which ran at Playwrights Horizons in November, was...
On Monday, Bashar al-Assad told Syrians that if it weren't for a few agitators and terrorists, their lives could be beautiful and democracy would flourish. Then he went and shot some more protesters...
As President Obama tightens our "rela tions" with the mythical "interna tional community," our enemies and competitors are exploiting the Bush approach of building coalitions of the willing....
The foremost duty of an elected official, especially a fiscal watchdog, is to protect the collective interests of constituents -- that is, all constituents, not just those who'll help him politically...
After a week of shifting facts, the picture is now clear: Eight days ago, President Obama charged into Pakistan unilaterally, guns ablaze. He blasted an unarmed Osama bin Laden to kingdom come --...
I feel the need . . . the need for speed.-- Maverick, "Top Gun" (1986) You can't call yourself really alive if the flying scenes in "Top Gun" don't put you on the edge of your seat, pulse racing,...
So now President "Who Needs Nukes?" Obama wants to re-engage the Senate on the once-rejected 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. It's unclear why the administration believes a re-heated version...
For mass-transit riders, the good news is that the state Senate spent time talking about the MTA this week. The bad news? The most substantive conclusion was on new MTA board member Fernando Ferrer...
As Gov. Cuomo and the Legislature finish up spring business, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver wants to tie a suburban property-tax cap to renewal of rent regulations in the city. OK -- but, while we...
Thirty-six years after chasing the United States out of Vietnam, the com munist rulers in Hanoi now want us back. The ironies of this bizarre turn of events are many, but the reason is simple: China...
Barack Obama surely wants to be remembered as the president who got Osama bin Laden and passed the nation's first universal-health-care plan. Instead, history may well mark him down as the leader...
It was 90 minutes or so before the first pitch of what would become known as the Jeffrey Maier game of the ’96 playoffs when a commotion broke out aboard a very crowded D train en route to The Bronx....
For firefighters, as with fighter pilots, speed is life. The sooner water is laid on flame, the sooner the fire is out. Get it on quickly enough, and a major blaze might be avoided altogether....
Yes, the footage is horrible, and the vulgar confrontation it depicts deeply discomfiting, but the truth is that Anthony Weiner got what he deserved yesterday in a resignation event almost as gross...
David Mamet tells me he's like the character in one of the greatest comedies ever written, Moliere's "The Bourgeois Gentleman," who declares: "Good heavens! For more than 40 years I have been...
South African, Tunisian and European "fixers" are seeking a "magic formula" for the "early and peaceful departure" into exile of Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy and an ending the NATO-led operations...
Sunday's voting in Turkey is already being described as historic. At a time of turmoil across the region, Turkey's 80-year-old democracy -- despite its imperfections -- remains a beacon of hope for...
So now we know: After 10 years, billions of dollars and thousands of American casualties, victory in Afghanistan come 2014 will consist of having killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The rest is...
There's a war along the Mexican border all right, but it's not necessarily the one you're thinking of. In fact, this one has spread all the way to the halls of Congress. This week, the Obama...
The US intervention in Libya's civil war, interven tion that began with a sur plus of confusion about capabilities and a shortage of candor about objectives, is now taking a toll on the rule of law....
SACRAMENTO In 1967, five years after California be came the most populous state, novelist Wallace Stegner said California -- en ergetic, innovative, hedonistic -- was America, "only more so." Today,...
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