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Swank restaurants with many Health Department violations still open

Swank restaurants with many Health Department violations still open

It's enough to make you barf before you even take a bite of your $23 mac and cheese. Because of a technicality in the law, restaurants can stay open despite accumulating a sickening amount of Health Department violations. Take the...  Read Full Story

Manhattan

  • Drunken, jobless actor trashes 'Late Show' theater

    Drunken, jobless actor trashes 'Late Show' theater

    There must be a better way to get your foot in the door at "Late Show With David Letterman." A boozed-up, down-on-his-luck Broadway actor wannabe bizarrely kicked his way through the front glass door of Letterman's famed Ed Sullivan Theater...  

  • Drunk man who trashed Letterman's theater has no recollection of incident

    Drunk man who trashed Letterman's theater has no recollection of incident

    The boozed-up wannabe Broadway actor who kicked his way into the famed Ed Sullivan Theater and thrashed the studio lobby "almost came to tears" when he realized what he had done and has no recollection of the bizarre incident, his lawyer said...  

Brooklyn

  • Just call him Wal-Marty Markowitz

    Just call him Wal-Marty Markowitz

    Walmart is suddenly making sweet music with Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz -- once a staunch critic of the megastore's plans to break ground in the borough. The retail giant -- angling to open in a planned East New York development -- has...  

  • 75-year-old woman suing 77-year-old ex over unpaid child support 34 years after divorce

    75-year-old woman suing 77-year-old ex over unpaid child support 34 years after divorce

    She's not getting mad, she's getting even -- 34 years later! Frances Ragusa, 75, and her former husband, Philip, 77, were engaged in a nasty divorce almost 34 years ago, and their three kids have long since grown up -- but the Staten Island...  

Queens

  • PA boss' Err Force One furor

    PA boss' Err Force One furor

    A top Port Authority boss trying to impress a giddy female pal pulled strings to get her onto a secured JFK Airport tarmac to view Air Force One -- and then brought his kids back for yet another unauthorized jaunt two weeks later. Ira...  

  • 2nd slay at bodega

    2nd slay at bodega

    A 65-year-old manager shot dead by a masked robber in a Queens bodega was the second worker killed there in 15 years, the store's grieving owner said yesterday. Jorge Marte, the father of two adult children, was behind the counter in Melani...  

Bronx

  • Fan who caught Jeter's 3,000th ball -- and gave it back -- has no regrets

    Fan who caught Jeter's 3,000th ball -- and gave it back -- has no regrets

    No regrets. The Derek Jeter fan who gave back the historic 3,000th-hit ball that his idol blasted into the left-field stands -- a memento worth about $250,000 -- yesterday said he'd do it again "100 times." Sitting yesterday in a seat...  

  • Betrayed wife bounces her 'hit-run' husband

    Betrayed wife bounces her 'hit-run' husband

    You can have him! A Bronx wife whose husband allegedly barreled her SUV into his mistress -- and then sped off and destroyed the car in a drunken crash -- says she's dumping him because of his betrayal. "He's supposed to be my husband....  

Staten Island

  • 75-year-old woman suing 77-year-old ex over unpaid child support 34 years after divorce

    75-year-old woman suing 77-year-old ex over unpaid child support 34 years after divorce

    She's not getting mad, she's getting even -- 34 years later! Frances Ragusa, 75, and her former husband, Philip, 77, were engaged in a nasty divorce almost 34 years ago, and their three kids have long since grown up -- but the Staten Island...  

  • E-ZPass toll troll owes 30G

    E-ZPass toll troll owes 30G

    He took the E-Z way out of Staten Island nearly a thousand times -- and now the Port Authority wants its cold, hard cash. Alfred Buono, 47, of Rossville, has racked up $30,254 in unpaid E-ZPass bills traveling to and from New Jersey over...  

Sports

  • SUNY school continues to grow

    SUNY school continues to grow

    Consider this the first Robbins Nest quiz: Which New York university will send its basketball team to Europe this summer for a five-game exhibition tour to prepare for the 2011-12 season, when it will play one game in the Garden? St. John's?...  

  • Crash survivor has the Wolverines to lean on

    Crash survivor has the Wolverines to lean on

    You hope there's never before been a story like this and pray there never will be another one like it again. It's a story that makes parents walk into their child's room at night just to see the rise and fall of his or her chest. It's a story...  

  • Former Rice star optimistic after tough season at K-State

    Former Rice star optimistic after tough season at K-State

    Curtis Kelly is ready to move forward. He just isn’t sure where that is yet. The former Rice star is coming off a frustrating final season at Kansas State after a stellar junior campaign. He started the year in coach Frank Martin’s doghouse and was...  

  • Former Seton Hall star sees bright future after difficult year

    Former Seton Hall star sees bright future after difficult year

    Jeremy Hazell is completely healthy. It’s something he hasn’t been recently. Former Seton Hall star spent last season battling injury and even a gunshot wound, while trying to be the Pirates leader. Hazell, a 6-foot-5 shooting guard, broke a bone...  

  • Former Tennessee standout eyes overseas opportunity

    Former Tennessee standout eyes overseas opportunity

    The potential for an NBA lockout isn’t getting Brian Williams down. He is more than happy taking his game outside the United States instead of waiting and hoping for a call. “They said the lockout could last over six months,” the former University...  

  • St. John's Hardy still pursuing NBA dream despite draft disappointment

    St. John's Hardy still pursuing NBA dream despite draft disappointment

    The autograph seekers ran immediately over to Dwight Hardy after his game at Hoops in the Sun. During the contest Saturday afternoon, the famed streetball tournament’s announcers Uncle G Stacks and Bobby C expressed their disappointment to the...  

  • Bronx product Walker taken 9th by Bobcats

    Bronx product Walker taken 9th by Bobcats

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Charlotte Bobcats have selected the star of this spring’s NCAA tournament, point guard Kemba Walker of Connecticut, with the ninth pick in the NBA Draft. The 6-foot-1 Walker averaged 23.5 points in leading the Huskies to the...  

  • Virginia, S. Carolina advance in CWS

    Virginia ace Danny Hultzen and Tyler Wilson did their part from the start. It took the Cavaliers' offense a lot longer to get going. Finally they...  

  • God'sgift continues journey at St. John's

    God'sgift continues journey at St. John's

    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 Nigeria who will don a St. John's jersey next season,...  

  • New park ready for College World Series

    New park ready for College World Series

    OMAHA, Neb. -- The College World Series opens at the new TD Ameritrade Park today after 61 years at Rosenblatt Stadium, and coaches are doing all they can to keep their players focused on what happens between the lines. There's a lot of CWS...  

  • Parlayzed Rutgers player feels 'twitches throughout body'

    Eric LeGrand tweeted more good news on his recovery Monday. “Twitches going throughout the body, coming back,” the Rutgers football player wrote on...  

  • MoMo shocker: Arizona transfer chooses Iona

    MoMo shocker: Arizona transfer chooses Iona

    MoMo Jones announced yesterday that he is taking his talents to Iona. Not Marquette, Seton Hall or South Florida of the Big East. Not UMass of the Atlantic 10. Not Hofstra of the Colonial, which has become a three-bid league. He chose Iona....  

  • Arizona transfer MoMo chooses Iona over Seton Hall

    Harlem native MoMo Jones has chosen to transfer to Iona over Seton Hall and UMass, the former Arizona guard announced Wednesday. Jones, who said he...  

  • Pryor to leave Ohio State amid scandal

    COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Terrelle Pryor's career at Ohio State, which started with so much promise and potential, came to an abrupt and scandal-ridden end....  

  • Ex-Duke basketball player leaps to death

    A former Duke basketball player jumped to his death from the top of the New York Athletic Club on Central Park South yesterday, police said. Thomas...  

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