As IF there weren’t already enough reasons to grab your iPhone or iPad, now New York is about to go cyber! Aides to Gov. Cuomo are completing a sweeping new plan to permit New Yorkers to use the...
Anti-fracking activists led by a woman who says she talks to animals have distributed more than 140,000 copies of a “newspaper’’ that falsely claims a dramatic National Geographic picture of a West...
Each time I mention that I voted for Barack Obama in 2008, I get a blast from some who didn’t. “How could you be so dumb?” is a typical response to my confession. It is certainly a confession — of...
So, WHAT’S to like? That question danced around my head during Monday night’s debate. Every time President Obama mocked, personally attacked and sneered at Mitt Romney, I kept wondering why so many...
It wasn’t a gloved-fist salute from the medal stand, but Jewish-American gymnast Aly Raisman made quite a statement yesterday by winning a gold medal and invoking the memory of the Israeli athletes...
We are tired. We’re tired of gunfire that makes the streets feel like some lawless stretch of Somalia where warlords rule without fear. We’re tired of the random violence that turns pickup basketball...
Call it the New Normal. With the tide rising faster than a freight train toward their home on Dikeman Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Mark and Liz Ehrhardt staged a harrowing escape, along with kids...
These are the people Americans love to emulate. We’re in trouble. In Hollywood, where spoiled celebs are as common as Lindsay Lohan, and drive-by marriages are the Madonna-inspired norm, the recently...
The Parks Department is rethinking its decision to double entry fees at 32 neighborhood recreation centers after losing 50,000 memberships in a single year, The Post has learned. Officials said that...
The Post’s exposure of a huge backlog of cases gathering dust in the Inspector General’s Office of the municipal-hospital system has led to an unprecedented decision to open some records of the...
If Hollywood were scripting this presidential election, here’s what the next scene would be: When the Labor Department puts out its monthly report Friday morning there would be a decline in the...
This Friday we’ll get the latest statistics on the unemployed. Today I’d like to introduce you to one of the unemployables — Mark Lodger Ruane. He lives on West 32nd Street in Manhattan. Not in an...
Reflecting the ongoing upgrade of FiDi’s casual-eating scene, Roti Mediterranean Grill will launch its first New York outpost at 100 Maiden Lane in January. The “healthy and affordable” chain with...
The music’s almost over on West 48th Street. Sam Ash has signed a lease for a huge new store on West 34th Street, spelling the end soon of several of its outlets on West 48th’s former “Music Row” —...
It’s earnings season on Wall Street, and there is little to cheer about. Many of America’s most beloved companies have been shocking investors with worse-than-expected results over the past three...
What will perhaps go down as the most important economic number before Election Day was released on Friday to little fanfare. The number — announced by the US Labor Department — shows that the...
Tensions are said to be flaring between Martha Stewart, the founder and non-executive chairman at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and Lisa Gersh, president and CEO. In the latest development on the...
While the publishing world is slowly returning to normal after two days of closures and skeleton crews, some are still reeling from Hurricane Sandy. Starting Sunday, virtually the only people in the...
It was a dark and stormy night — but not steamy. Along with city and state agencies working on complex transportation issues, building owners are assessing damage to the infrastructure of their...
One Park Ave. may be sold all or in part to New York University. The NYU Langone Medical Center is already the 20-story building’s largest tenant, with 367,584 square feet. It also has rights to...
Here is how Charles Wang, the Islanders organization, Gary Bettman and the chronically battered fan base of what has become the NHL’s Shipwreck Franchise know the club’s move to Brooklyn three years...
The mutual trust that’s been built between John Tortorella and his players has become an essential ingredient of the Rangers’ DNA. But even as the coach whose whistle has been at least temporarily...
SAN FRANCISCO — This World Series is all about Magic vs. Muscle. The Tigers, who swept the Yankees, own the muscle. The Giants own the magic. That was never clearer than in the third inning last...
SAN FRANCISCO —The Giants are playoff proof there is a different way to go about your baseball business, and, in one way, the Giants offer a glimmer of hope for the Mets. The Giants don’t hit home...
Did ya see where Edvard Munch’s 1893 painting, “The Scream,” is on loan to the Museum of Modern Art? Scream me a river, Edvard. You want something to scream about? As of just this past Friday night,...
Did you hear about the guy who drinks a quart of brake fluid every night? He swears he can stop anytime he wants. Speaking of those out of control, people who can’t stop soon enough, why are TV...
NORMAN, Okla. — On Saturday, we saw the best and the worst college football can offer us. We saw a young quarterback begin to come of age right before our eyes. Everett Golson isn’t reminding any...
NORMAN, Okla. — The Manti Te’o Heisman Trophy campaign has started with a keystroke. Whereas Kansas State sent out a mass mailing to promote quarterback Collin Klein, Notre Dame has gone digital. ...
They love these fans, have grown to understand that there is no better place to win than New York, no better team to be than New York’s team. And no better time to be New York’s team than this...
They were truly Monsters of the Monongahela, a 1970s dynasty that rivaled the Lombardi Packers of the 1960s and the Joe Montana 49ers of the 1980s. And so as the Steelers come to town Sunday, it is...
The World Series and, thus, the 2012 season was barely an hour in the rearview mirror when Giants general manager Brian Sabean accepted a question about savoring a second title in three years with...
DETROIT — Tim Lincecum made $18 million this season and is due $22 million next. He is a two-time Cy Young winner just two years removed from being the MVP of the first World Series win in San...
He represents the Manhattan team espousing an old Brooklyn philosophy. Last spring, in the aftermath of a quick exit from the NBA playoffs, Carmelo Anthony, Red Hook native, channeled the old boys of...
Here's the thing about sports, and sports fans, and the more reasonable among us who understand there is beauty in the balance between what matters and what doesn’t: We usually get it right. We...
The last time Pat Cummings and I were together, the mood was tense, the bitterness intense from years of rubbing each other raw with words that hurt and branding him with a derogatory nickname that...
Soon after Bruce Ratner bought the Nets and revealed intentions to relocate from New Jersey to Brooklyn, he asked whether I’d attend more or fewer home games. It’d be impossible to show up less than...
We understand 40 is the new 30 thanks to Dr. Oz and all the health and fitness instructors who educate us on better exercise methods and eating habits. We’ve seen it play out in the world of sports...
The last conversation I had with Emanuel Steward was about Ricky Womack, a talented amateur boxer from Detroit who looked certain to be part of the 1984 U.S. Olympic boxing team until he was beaten...
Eddie Arcaro, the late immortal jockey, used to say those of his profession, on average, contribute at most about 10 percent to a horse’s winning effort. Rarely, but sometimes, it hits 90 percent. On...
The Belmont Stakes, stripped of its magic with the loss of its star, roared back to life Saturday with a stretch thriller when Union Rags came back from the dead to win the classic by a scant neck...
Now that Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees appear stuck with each other, it’s time to welcome the next great pinstriped drama of the offseason. This one features Mariano Rivera and Rafael Soriano, and...
The image of Angel Pagan celebrating a World Series title, late Sunday night, is as good a place as any to launch a discussion of the Mets’ offseason. The Mets’ trade of Pagan to San Francisco last...
As I write this I am a world away from the City I love. A City whose devastating storm has dominated global headlines. I am in Sydney. Its TV news telecasts, all 24 hours of it, have been dedicated...
Sydney. Where it got its name, I don’t know. My belief is some aboriginal blowing his — pardon the expression — didgeridoo — misspelled my first name. Sydney’s like Toledo, Pittsburgh, anyplace an...
Real estate heavyweight Billy Macklowe and his wife, Julie, are buying a co-op at 950 Fifth Ave. The four-bedroom, 5 1/2-bathroom duplex is a big upgrade from the Macklowes’ current home nearby at...
Here’s a big opportunity to live like a billionaire heiress. Andrea Soros Colombel and her husband, Eric Colombel, have put their Greenwich Village townhouse at 10 W. 10th St. on the market for $29.5...
Don’t expect to be watching “Flight’’ on your next airplane trip. Besides showcasing one of Denzel Washington’s finest performances, it features perhaps the scariest sequence ever set on a stricken...
Frankly, I had modest expectations for this documentary “conceived” by Tony Bennett’s son Danny, a music producer who reinvented his father as a more benevolent Frank Sinatra, smoothly introducing...
For all the polls and all the ensuing examinations and dissections of those polls, every presidential election campaign, they all seem steeped in superficial sameness. There’s no genuine, long-range...
Every now and then, on radio or TV, we bump into a cheery social scientist or urban studies academician who tells us that America’s moral alarmists are all wet — things aren’t much different and no...
After a couple of false starts — and a dilettante producer who couldn’t get his act together — it looks as if “Prince of Broadway” is, happily, on its way. A retrospective of the career of the...
The show must go on. Unless Sandy comes to town. Broadway, which grosses more than $1 billion a year and pumps about $30 million a week into New York’s economy, went dark Monday and Tuesday night due...
‘Let me say right off I’m a witch,” the title character declares at the start of “Sowa’s Red Gravy,” and thank goodness she does, because it’s the only clear moment of Diane Richards’ play. This...
It’s such a pleasure watching the central character of “Mojo” blossom from precocious tyke to rebellious teen that you’ll barely notice she’s a puppet. But a puppet she is, and she comes to marvelous...
When the hero says, “I wreck things. Professionally,” I thought I had wandered into “The Barack Obama Story,” but the speaker in Disney’s visually dazzling, intermittently funny “Wreck-It Ralph” is a...
The worst-kept secret in Washington is that President Obama doesn’t have a second-term agenda. But actually that’s not quite true. He has a stated agenda, and it’s to increase partisanship, dial up...
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from watching “Perry Mason” reruns on Hallmark Movie Channel, it’s that, at Hallmark, it’s all-about the unrelenting cross-network promo campaigns for the 57,898...
Now that President Obama has visited Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show,” will GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney respond by appearing on David Letterman’s “Late Show” — with less than two weeks to go...
The great, good news for Simon Cowell is that the debut of the totally irrelevant Khloe “King Kong” Khardashian and the always serviceable Mario Lopez didn’t wreck “The X Factor.” But that’s only...
Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961 Monday, 10:15 p.m., TCM Based on the third military tribunal of the Nuremberg trials, this brilliant Stanley Kramer film from a script by Abby Mann centers on the war...
Deftly playing on the worst fears of apartment-dwellers everywhere, this nasty little Spanish thriller explores just how bad things could really get as creepy building concierge César (Luis Tosar)...
There is still activity, I regret to report, and none of it is of the normal variety. When will these obsessive home-video enthusiasts learn? The first time an inanimate object hurls itself across...
It’s unclear who the title characters in “Bad Jews” are. Joshua Harmon’s entertaining new comedy of hostility — did not open last night, as scheduled, at the Roundabout Underground — pits two strong...
With a title like “Legendarium,” you’d think the Big Apple Circus’ new show would bring on horses rigged out to look like unicorns, or at least tumbling jesters re-enacting Grimm tales. But no,...
Very soon after Election Day, the winner must figure out the toughest challenge on America’s national-security horizon. He may want to pick up Abraham Soafer’s new book,“Taking on Iran.” Soafer, a...
The Obama team’s bumbling response to the fatal Benghazi attack is threatening to obscure the president’s lone success in an otherwise dismal Mideast record. Tuesday’s debate won’t be the last word...
A struggling economy. Cash shortfalls at City Hall, in Albany and Washington. A turbulent Mideast. A fateful US presidential election. The coming year is shaping up to be absolutely . . ....
‘I’m not going to have anything to do with a bill that does not respect the rights of the disabled community,” Gov. Cuomo said Friday, dissing a measure that would notably boost the number of...
After Team Obama’s horrid handling of the terrible tragedy in Benghazi, does anyone out there really cling to the left’s quickly unraveling yarn that this administration has a strong record on...
As if the mess in the Middle East and North Africa weren’t enough, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrives in Asia this week to confront a region that’s fast becoming a powder keg, fueled by power...
Hours after service resumed Tuesday night, uptown-downtown buses in Manhattan were standing-room only. It’s a sign of health that people lucky enough not to have to deal with flooding, fire or power...
On paper, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority says its physical assets are worth $64.9 billion — including $18 billion worth of stuff like tracks, signals and switches. But to New York’s...
Fifty years ago tonight, President John Kennedy took to the airwaves to tell the American people that the Soviets had based nuclear missiles in Cuba, and that in response, he would impose a naval...
‘Know your enemy” is an old military adage. Now our Army wants to dump that invaluable advice when it comes to Islamic radicalism. That’s the only possible conclusion from the Army’s treatment of one...
Sheldon Silver has been speaker of the New York Assembly for going on 19 years now, and not for a moment of his tenure has he been his own man. But not until yesterday afternoon — when he openly...
Of all the cheesy stunts The Associated Press has pulled in its continuing calumny of the NYPD’s anti-terrorism efforts, the agency’s trip to Columbia University this past weekend will be hard to top...
With five days to go, we find ourselves in the midst of yet another unprecedented presidential election — as has been the case with every race (save 1996) since the billionaire Ross Perot emerged out...
Sandy, Sandy, Sandy, what are you doing to us? I don’t mean us New Yorkers — I mean us election junkies. You may have thought the most haunting news yesterday morning was the flooding of the FDR...
Pollsters and pundits are far from the only ones trying to guess the outcome of the coming US election. Thousands of miles away, participants in the Middle East’s deadly political game are tailoring...
For almost a century the Middle East has been a fault-line threatening international peace and stability. With the debris of successive empires strewn around it, this theater of big power rivalries...
Between President Obama and CNN’s Candy Crowley, Tuesday night’s debate seemed to “confirm” a blatant, provable falsehood — that Obama has always called the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens and...
How is the Obama White House going to fit the entire State Department and the intelligence community under the bus? Last month’s Benghazi fiasco saw four Americans — including our ambassador to Libya...
The election-eve mood is tinged with sadness stemming from well-founded fear that America’s new government is subverting America’s old character. President Obama’s agenda is a menu of temptations...
SALT LAKE CITY — A specter is haunting the Congressional Black Caucus, the specter of integration. It is discomforting enough that the now 43-member CBC has included a Republican since 2011, when...