One of New York's best-known Republicans is calling on pres idential hopeful Rick Perry to choose Rudy Giuliani as his running mate for next year's election. Former state GOP Chairman William...
Gov. Cuomo can for get running for pres ident in 2016 be cause Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to beat him -- and everyone else -- in the race for the Democratic Party's nomination, predicts one of...
Get out the marshmallows and gather ’round the campfire, boys and girls, President Obama is about to give another speech. Whoopee. OK, so the idea doesn’t exactly send a tingle up your leg or make...
A top aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie declared the other day that Mayor Bloomberg is "not the dictator anymore." Though spoken by someone who's obviously never tripped over a Gotham bike lane...
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...
He's been called a racial arsonist, a liar and a bigot. Heck, I've called the shape-shifting Lady Gaga of Politics the most dangerous human ever to walk the streets of New York. Tonight, the Rev...
Here’s Reason No. 501 never to set foot in the People’s Republic of Park Slope. And it’s got nothing to do with the loony couple who recently lost, then found, a stuffed monkey they’re raising like a...
The city's call for austerity in all parts of the government hasn't stopped a few City Hall staffers from landing significant raises. Records show that Brian Mahanna, a senior adviser to the...
A small group of psychiatrists at Kings County Hospi tal piled up astonishing amounts of overtime after a shocking case of fatal neglect in 2008 -- captured on videotape and seen worldwide on the...
An old tune cautions, “Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys Don’t let ’em pick up guitars and drive them old trucks Make ’em be doctors and lawyers and such.” With all due respect...
Earth to the Obama Administration: your new plan to have the government refinance home mortgages is already in effect. And it’s not working very well. Late last week, Obama’s folks leaked the...
In a pair of retail deals reflecting the rising fortunes of Fifth Avenue below 42nd Street, the owners of 452 Fifth have nailed down 23,000 square feet in new leases, filling the store space in the...
A classic, only-in-Manhattan holdout struggle is unfolding at 48 E. 57th St., one of a half-dozen retail townhouses CIM Group wants to raze for its planned skyscraper on the former Drake Hotel site....
Warren Buffett has made a career out of casting himself as a common man -- a folksy octogenarian from Omaha who also is the richest man on earth. The billionaire everyman never misses an...
Montbazon, France In a world sorely in need of reassurance, here’s some from the heart of France: Despite an economy that has shifted in reverse, the French remain, well, quintessentially French....
The Kim Kardashian wedding photo on the cover of this week’s issue of OK! is a Photoshopped fake. OK! Editor-in-Chief Richard Spencer, hoping to preempt the coverage of better financed rival People...
Sale talks between private-equity giant Apollo Global Management and American Media Inc., owner of the National Enquirer, Star Magazine, Shape and Muscle & Fitness, may have quietly died off a month...
One World Trade Center won’t be sold by the Port Authority, we’ve learned. Despite calls from some quarters suggesting the sale as a way for the Port Authority to raise money and get out of the...
The earth’s moves and stock market’s gyrations are sending investors towards tangible towers with two of Midtown’s finest now in contracts to be sold. Sources tell us the Alaska Permanent Fund is...
Finally, an arbitrator who did more than split the difference between a club's submission and the player's. Finally, an arbitrator who did more than color by numbers upon reaching his decision....
David Wright says he isn't going to spend much time at all peeking at the standings, and that's probably a very good idea given the cold reality the Mets haven't been this far out of first place at...
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...
This year is different. This year, the Yankees are promising to go all out down the stretch and not play any wild card games. It's about time. But this all comes with a "healthy" catch. Even...
Cue Bob Marley. This was "Redemption Song" Saturday in The Bronx. Phil Hughes showed why he must stay in the rotation with six solid innings against the Rays, and Jorge Posada came back from Joe...
In what could be a huge help to the striped bass fishery, it is now illegal to commercially fish for bass in the Hudson. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a good striper fisherman in his own right having...
Hurricane tips for boaters IT LOOKS like our luck is about to run out. It's been a couple of decades since the New York area has been hit with a hurricane. If the latest track (Thursday...
The 1979 film "Breaking Away" includes a wonderful scene in which the father, a used car lot owner played by Paul Dooley, has a bad, recurring reaction to the salesmanship of his star-gazing son,...
There are one million stories in PSL City. Here's another one: Chris McGrath and family have been Jets season-ticket subscribers since 1964. That's 47 years of support, some good times, mostly...
Before plunking down any pesos this weekend, a few reminders: There was only one upset among Top 25 teams in Week 1 last season and it was hardly a surprise. Pitt lost at Utah. Teams with unusual...
Post college football writer Lenn Robbins reveals his preseason Top 25, with two teams from the SEC in the top 3, sandwiching the best team from the Big 12. 1. SOUTH CAROLINA 9-5 lost 26-17 to FSU...
Eli Manning might want to do himself a favor today and ask to borrow Tom Brady's thesaurus so he can look up the meaning of the word "Elite." It isn't so much that the Jets' Mark Sanchez,...
At the end of the night tonight, the Giants need to be as healthy as possible for the Redskins on Sept. 11, and the Jets need to be as healthy as possible for the Cowboys that night. But, in the...
1. The Rangers acquired Mike Gonzalez yesterday. Jesus Montero is scheduled to join the Yankees today. These are not completely unrelated stories. As I was first to report in this blog space...
BOSTON -- Joe Girardi is de termined to pare from a six- to five-man rotation and it is clear now that no one is going to win that fifth starter spot for the Yankees. It is now a matter of who...
There are plenty of things you can take issue with when it comes to the manager of the Yankees, on just about any night of the week. You can argue on either side of Joe Girardi’s decision to bunt...
MINNEAPOLIS — Alex Rodriguez is not going to win the American League’s most valuable player award this year. But he’s won three of them already, and could easily have won three more. He knows what an...
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...
It was all a bit strange to see Dustin Johnson coming up the 18th fairway about to claim victory in a prestigious golf tournament at 2 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon. Maybe that's the best thing that...
Knowing Terry Collins as we've come to know him this season, the Mets manager was only speaking in the best interest of the player and his team when he said he planned to rest Jose Reyes more next...
OCEANPORT, N.J. -- The Haskell Invitational has long been the alpha and omega of New Jersey thoroughbred racing, a million dollar Grade 1 showcase, the historic bridge between the Triple Crown and...
OCEANPORT, N.J. — The sun-baked Jersey shore turns up the heat another notch today when two Triple Crown classic stars — Shackleford and Ruler On Ice — go at it in the $1 million Haskell Invitational...
Thursdays, 11:30 p.m., Lifetime’s new reality thing is “The Russian Dolls.” Said Renata Krumer, “Our people originally coming here from a cold country loved beach and ocean. They found Brooklyn’s...
Tony-winning Brian Dennehy I last saw on B’way in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman. So great I wanted to take him home and freeze him. He’s now gone Shakespeare on us and is in Canada doing...
Makeup mogul Bobbi Brown has got her smoky eyes set on a new penthouse at 245 10th Ave., which she is now in contract to buy for around $5 million. The two-bedroom, three-bathroom, 2,500-square...
A nine-room trophy apartment at uber-exclusive 740 Park Ave. is quietly on the market for $29 million. The 17th-floor co-op, which isn’t even listed online, is owned by gaming veteran Gregory...
I’m a married man and got drunk at a recent office party. I made out with a colleague for a minute or two. Nothing else happened and nothing else will happen. Do I need to fess up even though I know...
Sometimes when my girlfriend and I are getting down, my dog is in the room. This is especially true in the summer because my bedroom is the only one with an AC. He doesn’t seem to mind; I definitely...
Most contemporary movies either treat religion uncritically or mock it outright. This promising directing debut by whip-smart actress Vera Farmiga ("Up in the Air") takes another, more interesting...
The biggest mystery of the Bernie Madoff scandal is why government regulators ignored more than a decade of warnings from a Boston portfolio manager: Harry Markopolos studied the uncannily consistent...
Wine, women, song -- and Gitane cigarettes. That aptly sums up the life of Serge Gainsbourg, the legendary French singer, songwriter and womanizer, as depicted in "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life," a...
'Tales From the Golden Age" is the latest pleaser from the Romanian New Wave to reach New York. It's a collection of six short black comedies set during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu in the...
Among the hottest-to-the-touch issues, one that we-I-can't get right, is immigration reform - illegal immigration reform? - as it relates to those just south of our border. It seems many folks have...
I’ve written this before, but now’s the time to hear for yourselves. With the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaching, the news media, as well they should, will be all over this story. But...
The Roundabout's scrambling to find a musical in the fall for Studio 54, one of its prime houses. The nonprofit company announced plans to revive Bob Fosse's 1978 revue "Dancin' " there in...
The creators of the upcoming Broadway revival of "Porgy and Bess" -- still raw from the bucket of acid Stephen Sondheim doused them with the other week -- are bracing for more potential troublemakers...
In case you wondered what role balloons played in the US military during World War I, there's an off-Broadway show that's only too happy to tell you all about it. Enroll in "Captain Ferguson's...
Evenings of one-act plays can cause theatrical whiplash. That's certainly the case with "Summer Shorts 5: Series B." Now running in rep with the recently opened Series A, featuring work by...
Awkwardly marrying "Munich"-style moral conundrums with cheesy Robert Ludlum stylings, the slow-paced thriller "The Debt" never pays off. The movie begins with a suicide in 1990s Israel, where...
Survivors from Ground Zero tell their stories of 9/11 in the restrained but powerful documentary "Rebirth." The scale of 9/11 is so vast that director Jim Whitaker chooses to focus on interviews...
"All My Children" taped its final episode Tuesday in LA -- and series co-star Ricky Paull Goldin says there wasn't a dry eye in the house. "I can't even begin to tell you how many tears there...
'Tooned in: This week brings not one, but two animated shows (on different networks) featuring the voices of established TV stars. First up is "The Good Wife" co-star Christine Baranski, who...
Did the US Navy teleport and finally “disappear” a destroyer during WWII using secret technology? Has there ever been a hybrid baby born from the mating of human and chimp? And did Thomas Edison...
Julie & Julia, 2009 Sunday, 6 p.m., Lifetime Quick-change artist Meryl Streep transforms herself into butter-friendly chef Julia Child in this popular Nora Ephron comedy about an amateur chef...
The Mint Theater specializes in unearthing obscure material, but a year ago it dug particularly deep: It presented an arcane 1930s drama, originally written for radio by an Irishwoman largely...
A fearless resistance fighter sings out about his dreams and beliefs. A sexy spy seduces her opponent with her wiles and lung-busting power ballads. Romantic scenes alternate with kinetic...
Helping Syrians liberate their country from President Bashar Assad could make the months-long drive to defeat friendless Moammar Khadafy look like a cake walk. President Obama’s successful strategy...
After nearly three years of American indecision and failure, Libya is helping an Obama Doctrine to emerge. Call it the Goldilocks foreign policy -- not too hot, not too cold. Why? Success. Just in...
State education officials say a rash of probes into cheating on school tests around the nation spurred them to look at what New York does to prevent such abuse. But the probes also raise an obvious...
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...
Asked why he robbed more than 100 banks, the legendary Willie Sutton supposedly replied: “Go where the money is . . . and go there often.” In the wake of the debt-ceiling deal, the worry now is that...
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...
New York did pretty well in Hurricane Irene -- but with one big sign of trouble for some future disaster that doesn’t peter out. The best news is that MTA management and workers performed admirably....
America is supposed to be the world’s economic and financial leader. How much more will we discredit ourselves before President Obama does his job: lead us out of a historic crisis that is gnawing...
The Defense Department recently confirmed that it’s blocking the sale of 66 F-16 C/D fighters that Taiwan had wanted to buy to update its air force. The repercussions may surprise you. The move was...
The fall of monstrous dictator Moammar Khadafy -- a leading facilitator of Middle East terrorism -- should be a cause for celebration. These days, however, the feeling is more one of apprehension....
It was late on a Sat urday night, and a long-retired Hugh Leo Carey -- his face wrapped in that forbidding scowl New York came to know so well -- seemed very bored indeed. But he brightened when...
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....
The United States doesn’t only have an economic crisis on its hands. It has a political crisis, a crisis of popular legitimacy. Gallup released a poll on Monday in which government ranked dead last...
What is it with the opinion writers at The New York Times and space aliens? There appears to be a new obsession over there in the fancy building on Eighth Avenue. In fact, one might say that what...
Now in its sixth month, the Syrian uprising is developing into a power struggle between regional rivals Turkey and Iran. After hesitating, Turkey appears to have determined that the regime of...
Col. Moammar Khadafy may no longer be a problem for Libya. But even with Khadafy ousted, Libya is likely to be a problem for some time. Before they uncork the bubbly, NATO leaders should take a hard...
Of all the rights we cherish as citizens of the United States, the most important right is one that’s somehow become controversial since 9/11 -- the right to self-preservation. What else to make of...
‘I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians,” Michele Bachmann joked at a Florida campaign stop Sunday. “We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are...
CASTLE ROCK, COLO. The red stone outcropping that gives this community its name is just a facet of the histrionic geology of Douglas County that sprawls prettily along the front range of the Rockies...
Near the statehouse office of New Jersey’s 55th governor sits a sort of shrine to the 34th. Fortunately, Chris Christie is unlike Woodrow Wilson. Christie, who resembles Falstaff in girth and Jack...
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