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  • Michael Goodwin
    Michael Goodwin

    Scapegoater-in-chief

    That was fast. Mounting his shrinking soapbox soon after the Senate passed the debt-ceiling bill,...  

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  • Lois Weiss
    Lois Weiss

    Potamkin block sale

    The Potamkin family wants to sell an entire East Harlem block that has the potential for more than...  

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  • Keith J. Kelly
    Keith J. Kelly

    Messy Martha paperwork

    Martha Stewart's return to the board of her own company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, has been...  

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Beyonce films music video in NJ mobile home park

Beyonce films music video in NJ mobile home park

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Beyonce is featuring a New Jersey mobile home park in her next music video. Residents of the Oakdale Mobile Home Park in South Brunswick on Tuesday watched as the Grammy-winning artist and crew filmed a video of...  Read Full Story

Latest NYC Metro News

  • Two boys injured by black bear at New Jersey campground

    TRENTON, N.J. -- A black bear was on the loose in New Jersey Wednesday after it attacked and injured two boys as they were camping. An 11-year-old...   3:57 PM

  • Gov. Cuomo orders investigation of wages at nonprofits

    Gov. Cuomo orders investigation of wages at nonprofits

    ALBANY -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo has created a task force to investigate salaries and other compensation at nonprofit agencies where he says about 2,000 workers are paid more than $100,000 a year. The task force will be led by state Inspector General...   4:22 PM

  • Boater finds a body in Shinnecock Bay

    HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. — A Long Island medical examiner will determine what caused the death of a man whose body was floating in Shinnecock Bay....   3:54 PM

  • Death penalty off the table in NY-Fla. killings

    Death penalty off the table in NY-Fla. killings

    WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A Florida woman accused of arranging the killings of her husband and mother-in-law will not face the death penalty, a federal prosecutor announced Wednesday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Elliott Jacobson said in court that he was...   3:53 PM

  • 4 men arrested in LA-to-NY cocaine smuggling ring

    HAUPPAGUE, N.Y. — Four men have been arrested and a suspected ringleader was still being sought in a California-to-New York cocaine smuggling ring that...   3:53 PM

  • NYC man faces sentencing in oven punishment case

    Prosecutors say they will ask for the maximum sentence allowed by law for a New York City man who's admitted throwing his son naked in the oven as...   11:58 AM

  • NY turns into flee market

    NY turns into flee market

    Taxed-out New Yorkers are voting with their feet, with a staggering 1.6 million residents fleeing the state over the last decade, a new report found. That's as if the entire populations of Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, White Plains and West...   6:14 AM

  • Family of slain NJ med student seeks answers

    JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The family of a medical student from Jersey City who was stabbed and slashed to death on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao has...   11:58 AM

  • Unqualified subway signal maintainer got time off after facing arrest

    Unqualified subway signal maintainer got time off after facing arrest

    An unqualified NYC Transit signal maintainer claimed he needed a leave of absence from work for a family crisis, but was really facing legal heat, sources told The Post. Patrick Sohan, 24, got his high-ranking father, a chief in the signal...   11:36 AM

  • Family, friends dedicate memorials to 8 killed in Conn. beer distributor shooting

    MANCHESTER, Conn. — Family, friends and colleagues of eight workers who were killed at a Manchester beer distributor have marked the anniversary of the...   11:36 AM

  • New York man wanted for Columbia theft caught in Mass.

    LAWRENCE, Mass. — A man wanted in connection with the alleged theft of $5.7 million from Columbia University has been captured in Massachusetts....   11:36 AM

  • Train derailment snarls 4, 6 lines

    A minor derailment of a subway train in Harlem is causing some service disruptions. NYC Transit says No. 6 trains are running express between Grand...   11:36 AM

  • Hamptons grift gal is caged

    Hamptons grift gal is caged

    She's gone from Cartier to the clink. An infamous Hamptons con queen mouthed off to an exasperated judge during her sentencing yesterday -- and he still cut her a break. Nydia Vega, 64, was slapped with a 2-to-4-year prison term when she...   3:35 AM

  • FDNY takes heat over test cheats

    FDNY takes heat over test cheats

    A federal judge lashed into Fire Department officials yesterday for not aggressively investigating complaints of "widespread" cheating by applicants on the city's last firefighter entrance exam. The revelation came as a senior Fire Department...   4:05 AM

  • $6M in past 'offenses'

    $6M in past 'offenses'

    A Manhattan social climber and self-proclaimed presidential historian charged with stealing millions of dollars worth of historic documents in Maryland also swiped documents from two venerable New York museums during his crime spree, according to...   12:19 PM

  • Singin' hardhat's Met 'pitch'

    The MTA hardhat whose soothing vocals helps Upper East Siders cope with earsplitting Second Avenue Subway construction noise wants to sing at another...   3:35 AM

  • Wife's shrieking howl at DSK bust

    Wife's shrieking howl at DSK bust

    Dominque Strauss-Kahn's wife stood behind him after the former IMF chief was accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid -- but that doesn't mean she took the news well. Anne Sinclair "howled in pain" like an "animal" when she learned Strauss...   3:38 AM

  • Ad campaign promises sex with a 'condo'

    An upstart brokerage firm launched a new ad campaign yesterday putting a raunchy twist on apartment hunting. Put plainly: Landing a hot apartment...   3:35 AM

  • Age-old woe for teacher

    Age-old woe for teacher

    So much for respecting your elders. An 80-year-old veteran Queens public-school teacher with a bum knee says her supervisors purposely saddled her with physically demanding assignments to force her out. Lillie Leon, who worked at PS 117 and...   7:37 AM

  • More teachers get F's

    The percentage of city public-school teachers rated "unsatisfactory" continues to edge upward each year, but still remains below 3 percent, new data...   12:19 PM

  • The new Spider-Man - unmasked!

    The new Spider-Man - unmasked!

    Marvel Comics today introduces fans to a brand-new Spider-Man -- who is half-black, half-Latino, and from Brooklyn. Spidey's new alter-ego, Miles Morales, will replace his Queens-native predecessor, Peter Parker, at comic-book stores everywhere....   3:45 AM

  • Linda $$ bawl

    Linda $$ bawl

    Supermodel Linda Evangelista's billionaire baby daddy is raking in even more big bucks while paying her zilch in child support. Good investments may have just made Evangelista's former lover François-Henri Pinault the world's richest, deadbeat...   4:00 AM

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  • Day in Photos: Aug. 2, 2011
    Day in Photos: Aug. 2, 2011
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    Rihanna
  • Celebrity Photos: Aug. 3, 2011
    Celebrity Photos: Aug. 3, 2011
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    WTC memorial pool
  • Emma Stone
    Emma Stone

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