ALBANY -- Gov. Cuomo's choice of senior adviser Lawrence Schwartz, onetime top aide to bumbling Gov. David Paterson, as his new chief-of-staff has stunned some investigators because of Schwartz's...
A Prominent Republican is joining a prominent Democrat in predicting that Gov. Cuomo will become President Obama's running mate for vice president next year. Former New York GOP boss William...
Dennis Walcott might want to introduce his left hand to his right hand. They have a lot to talk about. The chancellor's promise to teachers that he would examine charges that principals are...
In the School of Scandal textbook, the first rule of holes is to stop digging. When you've made a mis take, don't get yourself in any deeper. The Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr.,...
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...
Party at Casey's! Casey Anthony sa-shayed into the courtroom yesterday tarted up like a Florida sorority girl looking for a quick-and-dirty hookup. On what she clearly believed was Freedom...
Her kid is dead. Her parents hate her guts. Any reasonable American thinks she's a murdering monster. But Casey Anthony wouldn't trade places with anyone. Representatives of the world's...
Municipal labor leaders facing difficult contract negotiations are openly talking of "waiting out" Mayor Bloomberg to reach more favorable settlements with the next mayor. "If you're telling us...
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is making improbable friends in an industry that's far removed from his progressive politics: real estate. "Bill's going to be on the other side of almost every...
Dear John: Please help me with something. The weekly first-time jobless claims have averaged more than 400,000 for some time. This should equate to 1.6 million jobs lost per month, at least. If we...
If you are an American looking for work -- no, make that pleading to be allowed to earn a living -- you already know this: the job market is even worse than Washington is telling us. And Washington...
Poor Joseph Moinian. In parts of Midtown you might think he's Public Enemy No. 1. A small fire on Thursday at 237 W. 54th St., a 5-story building he's demolishing, drew a dozen FDNY engines and...
The World Financial Center's Courtyard restaurants will vamoose as part of Brookfield Office Properties' $250 million project to burnish the WFC's retail profile. In place of the eateries that...
If you're an octogenarian known around the world as an oracle, you develop a penchant for making bold predictions on a regular basis. So this week we were treated to the latest prognostication...
With the nation just one month away from a debt showdown that could rock financial markets around the globe, it has come down to this: The Senate will play nice with President Obama and...
Ever since American Media and its financial backers emerged as the surprise acquirers of the US edition of OK!, speculation has swirled that AMI CEO David Pecker had found a secret new strategic...
The summer season seriously kicked into high gear in the Hamptons this past weekend, and if the ad page surge in East End publications is any indicator, the luxury market's comeback appears to have...
Local Israeli investor Jonathan Leitersdorf is getting a prime development site in Chelsea on the northeast corner of 11th Avenue and West 23rd Street. According to documents we've reviewed, the...
Two Grand Central tower is the latest Midtown office building to hit the sales block with a value that could top $370 million. Boston Properties, Goldman Sachs and Meraas Capital, which is...
So it turns out the issue wasn’t so much whether I agreed with Glen Sather and Jim Dolan on the deal the Rangers gave Brad Richards, but whether I agreed with myself. Yes (or no), that’s correct. I...
No doubt there will be grumbling from the few NHL precincts with owner ship issues that prevented a handful of clubs from joining either Friday's free agent festivities or last week's blockbuster...
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...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Big chal lenges are ahead for the Mets. But in one way, they have overcome their biggest: They are not a complete joke anymore. They still have major issues, consider last...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Just in case anyone is wondering, Ed Kranepool is the Mets all-time hits leader at 1,418. It was fitting on the day Derek Jeter collected his 3,000th hit in such dramatic...
The Fourth of July weekend has come and gone and the offshore fishing action continues to impress those who have ventured off to the canyons in recent weeks. Both yellowfin and big eye tuna have...
Waterfowlers will be happy to hear that breeding populations are at an all-time high. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its preliminary report on breeding ducks and habitats, based on...
The commonly held opinion that the perjury trial of Roger Clemens is a waste of time, money and our legal system is both understandable and more than a little sad. It's an extremely important...
What happened around here? Did we pull a Rip Van Winkle? Was it all just a dream sequence? Three months ago the Mets were financially dead in the water. The only question was whether the ship...
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...
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...
They were all pups together back in 1995, young Yankees with dreams. The gangly shortstop from Kalamazoo . . . the skinny, religious Panamian pitcher . . . the thick-legged catcher from Puerto Rico....
It felt like the bottom of the ninth of Game 7 of the World Series when Derek Jeter stepped to the plate, 2,999 hits looking for 3,000 and history. It was only the bottom of the third against David...
This was chilling and memorable, nostalgic and surreal, impressive and historic. But because this was Derek Jeter, the most important element of a special day was this: It was meaningful. For at...
You want to get a pretty good baseball argument going? Then ask a front office executive what he thinks Jose Reyes will receive as a free agent. I have been doing exactly that for months, and as...
The killjoys will tell you it’s just a number. They will tell you that the Derek Jeter who circled the basepaths at Yankee Stadium just past 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon was precisely the same player...
Each at bat these past few days had been a symphony of sound, an orchestra of acoustic resonance. It would start every time they cued up the tape of the late Bob Sheppard, booming once more...
If you successfully surmised two rounds of the draft were internationally interminable, stay tuned for the rounds and rounds of ridiculousness we're in store for in the coming months (years?) after...
A permanent friend (no matter what I write about him or those in his profession; yes, there is actually such an animal) is forever telling me not to expect anything out of people, especially those...
Derek Jeter had almost made it through an entire impromptu press conference in front of his locker before yesterday's game against the Rays before he was asked, "Given your advancing age . . . "...
Paul Williams likes to be called "the Most Feared Man in Boxing." But the former welterweight champion didn't look so ferocious last November, when he face-planted on the canvas after being knocked...
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...
The Mrs. Anthony Weiner story. Supersmart. Loyal. Able. Important. Good-looking. International. Connected. A Rolodex that goes from a Hillary Secretary of State private cellphone, which not even...
It's wedding season. Brit royals. Mon aco royals. Kardashian kommoners. Forgetting Sandra Bullock's ex, whose mantra is, "Try not to ask, and I won't tell," even Hollywood movie stars try it a week...
Good morning, Upper East Siders! Divorced “Gossip Girl” star Kelly Rutherford is renting a two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo at 45 E. 80th St. for about $10,500 a month. Rutherford went through her own...
Upper West Side fixture Jerry Seinfeld, whose TV show symbolized the neighborhood, could be heading east. Seinfeld, who lives and raises his three children at the Beresford on Central Park West, was...
What’s the best way to suggest a weekend away if we haven’t been together that long? — Anonymous For guys, chances are if the girl is into you, you’ll have no problem suggesting a weekend getaway...
I had a one-night stand with one of my friends and now my period is late. I don’t know if I should tell him, but I could really use the support, emotionally. I also don’t want to harm the dynamics of...
Joseph Dorman's documentary starts off looking like a glorified DVD extra for "Fiddler on the Roof," but it eventually becomes a far more gemutlich portrait of the creator of Tevye the Milkman, who...
There have been many untraditional film adaptations of Shakespeare's, but few have been as unorthodox as this one, which plays out as a star-crossed romance between rival Satmar Jewish sects on the...
You don't need a bath ing suit at the Sea side Motel because it's in the mountains, with no water in sight. But it does get interesting guests, as we see in the Japanese comedy "The Seaside Motel,"...
Provocative French director Catherine Breillat, whose 1999 "Romance" featured unsimulated sex, isn't a likely choice to turn a fairy tale into a movie. But that's exactly what she did with...
"I see,” said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw. We’ve lately been asked by too many people in too many places to believe only what they say and not what we see — as seen on TV. For...
Seeing how it’s Wimbledon time, did I ever tell you about the Great Wimbledon Caper of 1992? One of my favorites. Andre Agassi, then starring in camera commercials in which he stressed “Image is...
Hugh Jackman's one-man show opened in Toronto this week -- and boy, is it hot. I wrote about "Hugh Jackman in Concert" in May, when it opened in San Francisco, and while the reviews were pretty...
Critics may snigger all they want to at Andrew Lloyd Webber's music, but the great songwriter Cy Coleman ("Witchcraft," "Hey, Big Spender") once told me, "There isn't a Broadway composer alive who...
One of the most tender love songs currently heard on a New York stage is sung by a cannibalistic killer. Its title can't be repeated here, and you won't be hearing it covered by Harry Connick Jr....
Greek tragedy is transposed to modern-day South Africa in "MoLoRa," Yael Farber's adaptation of the "Oresteia." This powerful drama takes the story of the murderous Klytemnestra and her vengeful...
When last spotted atop the bestseller list, radio host Laura Ingraham was publishing the top-secret spoof “The Obama Diaries.” This time she’s riffing on all things cultural, from men attempting to...
A hotel manager climbs up onto "The Ledge" atop a high building, but unlike its talky hero, the credibility of this preposterous drama immediately plunges into the abyss. The manager (an...
History lesson: Discovery is using its annual "Shark Week" programming lineup to needle a cable competitor. The network unveiled a huge "Shark Week" billboard with (what looks like) a smiling...
Comedy legend Mel Brooks is teaming with Shout! Factory for a multi-DVD boxed-set retrospective of Brooks' prolific output. "The History of Mel Brooks, Part 1," which begins production this month...
Thank God I'm going to Canada next week -- or I'd never recognize Manhattan, where I live and work. The latest show to pretend it is taking place in New York (when it's obviously not) is "Alphas"...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND 2010 Monday, 4:45 p.m., Encore uNineteen-year-old Alice journeys though Underland, where she meets odd, otherworldly characters like the Cheshire Cat (voiced by Stephen Fry),...
Judy Gold's new solo outing, "The Judy Show: My Life As a Sitcom," begins slowly. For someone who describes herself as a "6-foot-3 Jewish lesbian mother of two," Gold's childhood was utterly banal --...
At times, the Lincoln Center Festival is the high-art answer to Ep cot's World Showcase -- building entire ven ues from scratch so we can see foreign companies in their home environment without...
Hey, Turkey and Israel, can't we all get along? One thing's for sure: The United Nations isn't making that any easier. Even as Ankara and Jerusalem are trying to get over several years of...
Morocco moved in democracy's direction over the weekend, but unlike this winter's much ballyhooed revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, the world -- including the Obama administration -- barely noticed....
Yale just announced a new program for studying anti-Semitism, just weeks after it shut an earlier version that called attention to manifestations of Muslim Jew-hatred. The program will let Yale...
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...
President Obama's "lead by example" nuclear-nonproliferation policy of strategic-weapons cuts and treaties (such as the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia) isn't having the desired...
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,...
For almost two years, federal stimulus cash has kept New York City's economy going like gangbusters. We shouldn't say thanks, though. Being on the dole will end up hurting Gotham. Since 2009, the...
Let's all give a round of applause to the deputy mayors responsible for New York City's final $68.9 billion budget -- Michael Mulgrew and Lillian Roberts. OK -- Mulgrew and Roberts don't...
President Obama's speech on Afghanistan last Wednesday has left supporters and opponents alike wondering if he has a strategy there at all -- or is just trying to split the difference between...
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...
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....
It's a complex story that looks like a simple one. The simple version goes like this: Four years ago, The People Who Know Better Than You decided Americans should no longer be allowed to purchase an...
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...
Talk to high officials in Western capitals these days and you hear that it's time for the United Nations to "do something" about Syria. "The UN cannot remain silent," says British Foreign...
Convinced that President Obama is preparing the United States for a strategic retreat, the leaders of Iran's Khomeinist regime have put their latest military hardware on show in support of their...
As Congress and the president pursue their high-stakes game of chicken over the debt ceiling, another war of wills is being waged halfway around the world in Pakistan. In response to Pakistani...
Don't look now, but the real action in Washington this week isn't the parti san wrangling over the debt ceiling but something -- literally -- even more incendiary: Operation Fast and Furious, which...
"If he popped up in the pinch he should of made a base hit and the reason he didn't was so-and-so. And if he cracked one for three bases he ought to had a home run, only the ball wasn't lively, or...
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” — Emerson The louder they talked about the disadvantaged, the more money they made. And the more the financial system tottered...
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