Will Gov. Cuomo be backing the Republican candidate for president next year? Certainly not openly. But privately, that could be another matter. Two nationally prominent Republicans, in an...
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...
He turns 87 in December, he's been out of office for 21 years, yet he has more fire in the belly than most prime-time pols. Ed Koch still stirs the drink. His latest bold stroke aims to punish...
When President Obama started talking at his news conference Monday, I listened intently for 15 minutes or so. Then I got fidgety as his half-truths about the debt grew into full-blown whoppers. As...
David Friedman peered down the block where a little lost boy breathed his last breath, and said out loud what everyone else had only been thinking. "He's a Jew," Friedman said yesterday of Levi...
About an hour before the saddest event ever in Bor ough Park, the sky dark ened to a deep shade of purple and filled the streets with rain. Already, a thick crowd was filling the street outside...
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...
Call them New York's Re fuseniks. Rosemary Centi has per formed marriage ceremo nies in upstate Guil derland for the past 10 years, hitching hundreds of satisfied men and women. For good, she...
Steel yourselves, ladies. It's open season on the women lefties love to hurt. Michele Bachmann is a tax lawyer. She ran for, and won, a seat in Congress. She is also a wife and mother of five...
He beat the system -- and pinned the city taxpayer to the mat. A firefighter who retired on a $74,624 disability pension, only to compete in mixed-martial arts matches, will be allowed to keep...
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...
What's the one thing that the US doesn't have? Come on, think! This country has an official anthem that we can sing and several unofficial ones that we can sing better. It has a powerful...
Dear John: I just wanted to relay a quick thought I have every time you (or a reader) chide the stock market as a "casino," or any other gambling reference. As one of the hated, evil fat cats in...
The Port Authority and the federal General Services Administration are negotiating for "much less" space at 1 World Trade Center than the GSA originally intended to lease, Realty Check has learned....
The giant stuffed animals won't be leaving Fifth Avenue after all. FAO Schwarz has renewed its lease at Boston Properties' GM Building for five years, ending speculation that the fabled retailer...
As the debt talks between the president and Congress continue to look like a play date gone horribly wrong, not a newscast hits the airwaves without some talking head declaring that we are headed...
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...
Time Warner has thrown the doors open at its headquarters, letting potential executives kick the tires. The tours are part of its search to find a new CEO of its Time Inc. magazine division, but...
Why not suspend them all? That's the question raised by the Huffington Post's decision this week to "indefinitely suspend" a young writer, Amy Lee, for cribbing liberally from an AdAge column....
The World Trade Center site is humming with activity. On Monday, we walked across the site and rode the construction hoist up at Silverstein Properties' 4 World Trade Center as the north Memorial...
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...
If 50 percent of baseball al ways has been 80 percent pitching, the ratio has even in creased following the purge of the scourge of performance-enhancing drugs. That's why the Phillies, Braves...
Odd. I tend to think the fourth-overall pick in the draft receiving a bonus package every other high selection before him has received would be less disruptive to the locker room than dressing 15...
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...
Trading Francisco Rodriguez was the deal Sandy Alderson had to make if the Mets are to have any shot at re-signing Jose Reyes, which is the key to the franchise’s immediate future. The K-Rod...
PHOENIX -- As Robinson Cano stood by his All-Star locker last night, a clubhouse attendant came over with a black baseball bat and a silver Sharpie. "Big Papi wants to know if you will sign this...
The GPS system we all rely on so much for finding are way might be in jeopardy. As a result of a proposal by a private company to use radio frequency bandwidth right next to the existing GPS radio...
The offshore action continues to make news, and sharks are so close to shore you do not have to considerate it offshore fishing. Anglers were taking threshers and small makos feeding on bunker...
It brings to mind those experiments conducted on mice to determine how much a rodent can endure before it starts walking sideways and trying to eat through its ears. Since the new Yankee Stadium...
There was a sign stenciled to a windowless metal door deep in Detroit’s old Briggs/Tiger Stadium. It read: “Visitors Clubhouse No Visitors” All I did, Friday morning, was what ESPN, for the last...
Malik Stith turned 22 this week but his newbie St. John's teammates have been calling him "Pops" all summer. Stith finds himself in the most remarkable of positions. He has gone from being a player...
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 can sum up the plight of the Mets -- back at .500 again and 8½ games behind the Braves and fading in the wild-card race -- in two words: Oy Bay. Another Bay Watch has begun around the...
It appears a virtual certainty now that sanity and reason have made their goal-line stand. That greed has been intercepted in the end zone. That NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will be dropping back...
Carlos Beltran was suffering from the flu yesterday, struggling so much, in fact, that he never even came to Citi Field. So as he arrived to the third spot on his lineup card yesterday, a place...
There was surprise in the major league landscape. Not that the Mets had traded Francisco Rodriguez, but that they did so while ostensibly in a pennant race and yet the uproar was, at best, tame from...
This one really felt like the end was lurking on the other side of the ninth inning. One more time, the Mets threw out a lineup that would struggle to score runs in the International League, and...
There are no medals for trying at this level, especially in this city, and the Mets know that as well as anyone. There is no such thing as a plucky big-market team, not even one that started the...
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. -- At 65, Reggie Jackson remains the straw that stirs the drink. Of course, the drink is now Metamucil. Still, his vivacity and influence remain unflinchingly on maneuvers. I don...
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...
Aaron Davis, the commis sioner of the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, announced this week he was suspending the three judges who scored the Paul Williams-Erislandy Lara bout on July 9 in...
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 . . . "...
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...
WEDDINGS. We speak weddings. If not pooped from Yankee Stadium concertizing, Sir Beatle McCartney marries longtime ladyfriend New Yorker Nancy Shevell, come fall. In London. Considering she's done...
Paul McCartney's nearly three- hour Yankee Stadium con cert Friday was not a bad little event. Be sides future wife Nancy Shevell, future father-in-law Mike Shevell, former in-law Vanessa Eastman and...
It looks like there will be no more white nights on the Hudson in posh Snedens Landing, NY, for ballet superstar and former “Sex and the City” love interest Mikhail Baryshnikov.He’s in contract to...
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...
My girlfriend has an admirer who sends her Facebook messages — nothing sexual — but when she tells me about them, instead of getting jealous, I become excited and fantasize about her having sex with...
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...
Credit filmmaker Justin Lerner with getting an affecting per formance out of Evan Sneider, a longtime friend with Down syndrome but no prior acting experience, in the emotionally manipulative and...
The 21st century corollary to George Kaufman's maxim that "satire is what closes Saturday night" might well be that indie black comedies -- which almost never make money but continue to attract name...
It took a while to get used to French star Charlotte Gain sbourg as an Australian wife and mother in "The Tree," but she's such a wonderful actress that she won me over. You might remember her...
How much pain and suffering can a 12-year-old girl endure? In "Life, Above All," set in a dusty South African village, the answer is a lot. The movie opens with the sad-eyed girl, Chanda, making...
Perhaps the greatest indictment of television is that people who know nothing about the business beyond the on-off button could not make more neglectful moves or illogical decisions than many of...
"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...
Is this perfect casting or what? Nicolas Cage -- who's almost as celebrated for his nutty outbursts as he is for his string of lousy movies ("The Wicker Man") -- playing Randle Patrick McMurphy in a...
Strolling through the West Village the other night, I ran into Duncan Sheik, who, with lyricist Steven Sater, wrote the Tony-winning "Spring Awakening." He'd just come from Poughkeepsie, where...
Haunted-looking figures, their faces painted white, stand motionless onstage as you enter the Flea Theater. It's an arresting image -- one that dissipates as soon as they open their mouths. This...
Imagine Blue Man Group expanding its roster, developing the ability to harmonize and turning from blue to white. That, in essence, is "Voca People," about an intergalactic singing group. OK,...
Sitting unmoved and uninterested through all eight Harry Potter movies over the last decade or so, I often had the thought: Please don’t let this all be leading up to Harry P. and Lord V. standing a...
The documentary "Tabloid" shows that an oddball lead character and a smirky style do not necessarily add up to a complete movie. Errol Morris, the Oscar-winning director of "The Fog of War" and...
As you might expect, the months-long ratings spike enjoyed by HLN's prime-time lineup (Nancy Grace, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Joy Behar) during the Casey Anthony murder trial has dropped a bit in the wake of...
Sunday's season premiere of AMC's "Breaking Bad" will mark yet another journey into this show's heart of darkness. I interviewed series star Bryan Cranston -- he of the three consecutive Emmys...
It's hard to know whether J.K. Rowling's real-life story or Harry Potter's fictional story is the more magical one. You can ponder this yourself tonight when Lifetime airs "Magic Beyond Words:...
SOURCE CODE 2011 Movies on Demand uThis intricate thriller stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a pilot whose last memory was flying a mission in Iraq but who wakes up in the body of another man on a commuter...
What "The Nutcracker" is to December, "Hair" is to July. Not only does the musical take place during the Summer of Love, but its "turn on, tune in, drop out" message feels particularly right when...
Smoke! Pyrotechnics! Battle gear! When the Montagues and the Ca pulets duke it out in this "Romeo and Juliet," it feels like a Kiss con cert -- and it's almost as loud. Needless to say, this...
Can the United Nations com mand the birth of a nation? South Sudan became the 193rd UN member yesterday. The Palestinians are striving to become the 194th this fall. Meanwhile, the Republic of...
When Leon Panetta moved from the CIA to the Pentagon last week, he listed his top priorities as defense secretary as defeating al Qaeda, forging a partnership with independent Iraq and coping with...
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...
After inking the scary new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and pushing to revive the once-dead Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Obama administration is acting like it belongs in a foreign-policy...
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...
City Hall sent Deputy Mayor Bob Steel yesterday to a Citizens Budget Commission breakfast to pitch public-pension reform. Steel gave a commanding presentation -- but couldn't overcome the timidity...
The average MTA worker made $71,237 last year in salary, wages and other cash pay, according to new data posted by SeeThroughNY, a project of the Empire Center, on its Web site. This sum and...
Just a year after the BP oil spill, America is on the verge of a new golden era of oil exploration and production -- unless President Obama and his environmentalist friends get their way. This...
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...
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....
Barack Obama says the federal debt ceiling must be raised, that it would be calamitous and unprecedented and horrible and nightmarish and terrible if it were not raised. Then he says he won't...
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...
Each July for the last decade, the Syrian regime has staged North Korean-style "popular marches" marking President Bashar al-Assad's accession to power in 2000 after the death of his father Hafez....
Defeated in Iraq and shut out of Af ghanistan, al Qaeda may be trying to transfer its principal bases to its birthplace, Saudi Arabia. At least, that's what the Riyadh government claimed in a series...
Forget all the numbers being tossed around in Washington -- the millions and billions and trillions of dollars being taxed, borrowed, printed and spent as the country approaches the Aug. 2 debt...
Here's a joke for you: President Obama nearly bankrupts the country with his out-of-control deficit spending -- then demands responsible fiscal leadership from the Republicans. OK, this is no...
"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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