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Cabbies - surprise - rated road's worst

Cabbies - surprise - rated road's worst

City motorists constantly steer clear of erratic yellow-cab drivers -- but have no problem sidling up next to massive MTA buses, a new poll found. More than two-thirds of New Yorkers -- some 67 percent -- rated bus drivers as...  Read Full Story

Manhattan

  • Own a piece of Elaine's

    Own a piece of Elaine's

    Table 1 at Elaine's, once reserved for the fabled restaurants biggest VIP customers, will now be handed off to the highest bidder. Relics of the shuttered Manhattan restaurant are being sold off piece by piece like the old Yankee Stadium --...  

  • 'Serial groper' arrest

    'Serial groper' arrest

    A pint-sized pervert was busted for allegedly molesting a dozen women on the Upper East Side, after a building super recognized him from surveillance photos and called a cop pal, police sources said yesterday. José Alfredo Perez Hernandez,...  

Brooklyn

  • Hit-run driver gets the max

    Hit-run driver gets the max

    A "cowardly" Brooklyn woman who sped off after running over a young mayoral aide while gabbing on a cellphone was slapped with the maximum sentence yesterday by a judge who called her conduct "despicable and irresponsible." Frances Jasmin,...  

  • Air-shaft fall kills boy, 15

    A 15-year-old boy died last night after falling through the air shaft on the roof of a Brooklyn junior high school. Nick Gryak was hanging out with pals on...  

Queens

  • Stabbing victim lashes out at attacker before ex-con sentenced to 25 years

    Stabbing victim lashes out at attacker before ex-con sentenced to 25 years

    A Queens woman viciously stabbed by an ex-con who rode up to her on his bicycle lashed out at her assailant before the psychotic slasher was slapped with a 25-year sentence. "He is a waste, filthy and disgusting," Eduarda Oliva said of Elie...  

  • 'Beanie meanie' lawsuit

    'Beanie meanie' lawsuit

    An Italian man walks into a consulting firm wearing a yarmulke . . . Ciro Rosselli, 29, of Queens, claims in papers filed in Manhattan federal court yesterday that he donned the religious head cover in the office while practicing "theosophy...  

Bronx

  • Andy tainting my jury pool: Espada

    Andy tainting my jury pool: Espada

    Defiant former state Sen. Pedro Espada yesterday accused Gov. Cuomo of trying to prejudice jurors in the disgraced Bronx pol's upcoming criminal trial by publicly threatening state action that could shut down his Soundview Health Care...  

  • DSK maid is out to clean up

    DSK maid is out to clean up

    She wants to clean out his monetary fund. As the criminal case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn stands on the verge of collapse, the hotel maid who accused the former IMF chief of sexually assaulting her filed a civil suit against the...  

Staten Island

  • Oven kid begs for his dad

    Oven kid begs for his dad

    His vicious father burned his hands on a stove and stuffed him in an oven during a horrific attack last year, but 11-year-old Chris Moss still couldn't bear to see his old man jailed yesterday. In a tearful statement in Staten Island...  

  • SI psych facility boss charged with strangling autistic patient to death

    A supervisor for disabled adults at a Staten Island mental health facility was charged today with criminally negligent homicide after his wrongful restraint of...  

Sports

  • Notre Dame basketball recruit blinded during pickup game

    SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The career of highly rated Notre Dame basketball recruit Eric Katenda is in doubt after he was permanently blinded in his left eye...  

  • Oklahoma No. 1 in preseason coaches' poll

    Oklahoma is the preseason No. 1 in the USA Today coaches' poll. The Sooners received 42 of 59 first-place votes to easily outpoint No. 2 Alabama,...  

  • St. John's to face Arizona in 2K Sports Classic

    By the time the Big East Tournament arrives next March, the St. John's Red Storm will have been hardened into a dangerous postseason contender or...  

  • West Virginia, Pitt voted Big East favorites

    West Virginia, Pitt voted Big East favorites

    NEWPORT, R.I. -- Rivals West Virginia and Pittsburgh, both of which have new head football coaches this season, were picked first and second, respectively, in the Big East preseason media poll. The Mountaineers will be led by Dana Holgorsen, a...  

  • TV deal holds key to Big East future

    NEWPORT, R.I. -- By the time Big East commissioner John Marinatto took the podium yesterday to offer his most confident assessment of his league's...  

  • Carnesecca to present Mullin at Hall of Fame

    Legendary coach Lou Carnesecca will be the presenter for former St. John's star Chris Mullin at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony Aug. 12 in...  

  • Rutgers picked to finish last in Big East

    NEWPORT, R.I. — West Virginia has been picked to win the Big East, with Pittsburgh and South Florida also receiving first place-votes in the conference...  

  • Forward Gathers commits to St. John's for 2012

    When Ricardo Gathers, the star recruit who gave St. John's a verbal commitment yesterday, was told his AAU coach described him as a cross between Karl...  

  • Former coach Roberts put St. John's on right track

    Former coach Roberts put St. John's on right track

    KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Norm Roberts deserves some of the credit for the success Steve Lavin and his staff have enjoyed in a little over a year at St. John's, the newly hired Florida assistant coach told The Post during the AAU Super Showcase at the ESPN...  

  • Coaches dish on recruiting misadventures

    Coaches dish on recruiting misadventures

    So you want to be a big-time college basketball coach, want to wear an Italian designer suit, want to hear Jay Bilas, Fran Fraschilla and Bill Raftery anoint you a genius for calling that out-of-bounds play out of the timeout -- heady stuff. Maybe...  

  • St. John's star frosh cleared

    St. John's star freshman recruit Maurice Harkless has been cleared by the NCAA to play for the Johnnies this season, The Post has learned....  

  • NCAA clears Harkless to play for St. John's

    NCAA clears Harkless to play for St. John's

    St. John’s star freshman recruit Maurice Harkless has been cleared by the NCAA to play for the Red Storm this season, The Post has learned. Harkless is arguably the most important recruit in Steve Lavin’s highly ranked recruiting class because he...  

  • Manhattan to play Syracuse in NIT opener

    Steve Masiello did not run out to the nearest Duane Reade to buy out the store's supply of antacid after being informed by The Post that his road...  

  • 'Pops' showing St. John's ropes

    'Pops' showing St. John's ropes

    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 that wasn't wanted to being the player St. John's...  

  • Paralyzed Rutgers player stands in therapy

    Tweet by tweet, Eric LeGrand is making progress in his recovery from a fractured vertebrae suffered while making a tackle against Army on Oct. 16. On...  

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