Some top New York City business lead ers, fearful that the leftist Working Families Party has brought the state the most anti-business government ever, are considering the formation of a "527"...
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio faces two key deadlines Thursday, either of which could signal the end of his long-shot hope of defeating Andrew Cuomo. First, Lazio, a Wall Street...
In his passionate defenses of the planned mosque near Ground Zero, Mayor Bloomberg depicts the issue as a simple case of freedom of religion. "People have a right to pray, and I think, you know,...
Justice is blind, but not stupid. At least not in the case of the odious Lynne Stewart. It took years, but this is a story of triumph for innocent people everywhere in the war against terrorists...
Charles Rangel was walk ing along 125th Street, past the drugstores and shopping centers some said would never be, when a woman stopped him, crying uncontrollably over the death of Percy Sutton....
LET'S be clear about a few things. When anxious white cops kill their black colleagues in the line of duty without ever losing so much as a day's pay, that is a serious racial problem. When...
WASHINGTON -- Bubba is back in the House! Desperate to put the brakes on his startling political free-fall, President Obama has called on the only man in America who might be able to save his...
All the polls show that the public is over whelmingly opposed to President Obama on illegal immigration, but the reality is even worse. At least for Democrats up for re-election this fall, who...
This is how a great city is destroyed -- one degen erate criminal at a time. Those of us who wit nessed New York's de- cline in the '80s and early '90s can feel it coming. And predators, plus...
Shh! Hollywood is having a teaching moment -- this time in the bedroom, where, if you're straight, chances are you've been doing it wrong. In the first frames of the new flick "The Kids Are All...
A nonprofit in Washington Heights that sur vives largely on the government grants secured every year by Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat has employed his sister-in-law, his local Democratic district...
It was supposed to be the glittering jewel of Inwood-Washington Heights -- a $15 million Dominican cultural and community center complete with a rooftop restaurant, a 200-seat auditorium, rehearsal...
This is not going to be the story of an ordinary Internet fraud. Trust me on this. Laura is a 27-year-old former beauty queen with a lot of friends and hundreds of acquaintances. You can tell...
Dear John: I want to give you a little insight about how bad the economy is. I had a business for 13 years until last August, when I had to turn my keys over to the landlord because I couldn't pay my...
TUCKED into Jones Lang LaSalle's just-released, year-end "Skyline Review" is this holiday-season party pooper: "Net effective rents in Midtown have fallen by 42 percent since the second quarter...
It's presumptuous to guess what the city's real estate kings and queens would like to find in their holiday stockings. Presumptuous, but too much fun not to -- so we'll go way out on a limb and...
A long hot summer, a weak US economy, currency turmoil in Europe and a president Americans like personally but believe is detached from their day-to-day money woes. President Barack Obama in the...
Well, that sure settles it. After several weeks of sub-par economic statistics, Friday's employment report put an exclamation point on the fact that this is anything but a V-shaped recovery. Not...
M artin Dunn is out as the editor-in-chief of the Daily News, ending a seven-year run as the top editorial person in the Mort Zuckerman-owned paper. Kevin Convey , the Boston Herald editor-in-chief...
Louise Blouin, once billed as one of the wealthiest women in Britain, appears to be struggling to pay bills at home and at work. Blouin, owner of a mini publishing empire that includes Art +...
A21-unit affordable housing project that was mired in so many construction delays that 10 prospective tenants gave up waiting while others were left homeless finally obtained a Temporary Certificate...
The Middle East investment group that has been renovating the Argonaut Building at 224 W. 57 St. under a 99-year lease is now in contract to buy it. No price is available, but it would likely be...
Not that Brian Cashman is A.J. Burnett or anything, but it’s a little difficult to believe the tale that the Yankees’ GM won’t be on the lookout for a starting pitcher between now and the July 31 non...
This was a week during which Derek Jeter took more hits than he got, given the criticism directed at him for his failure to attend Bob Sheppard’s funeral combined with his prolonged silence at the...
Bygones, the Yankees insisted yesterday, are bygones. Perhaps not as long gone as the ball Reid Brignac hit off A.J. Burnett Saturday that caused him to high-five a clubhouse door, causing wounds...
This is how we already know the Red Bulls' signing of Thierry Henry is the biggest thing to happen for soccer in New York since Pele: The last question, not the first, the French star took yesterday...
PHOENIX -- This should be the end of the line for Oliver Perez. If he doesn't help the Mets this time around, and they need plenty of help after last night's 3-2 loss to the Diamondbacks at...
PHOENIX — At this rate, Francisco Rodriguez is going to have to change his nickname to Hit-Rod. His numbers lately have been more like K-Fraud. K-Rod was saved by a blown call by umpire Phil...
The miracle of the Belmont Stakes last weekend was not Drosselmeyer’s win in foxtrot time, but that the race was even staged. In the months leading up to it, the New York Racing Association was on...
The New York Racing Association nar rowly escaped an historic betting fiasco in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday when the well-bet sentimental favorite Uptowncharlybrown lost a lead pad during the...
The voice of 60 million people is often heard and listened to in the nation's capital, and that is why the American Sportfishing Association is making an effort to unite the sportfishing industry...
After years of battling the past administration, the New Jersey Fish and Game Council ap proved a new bear hunt for December as part of a new management policy for the bruins. The policy now...
This was one of those Say vs. See television weekends. That's not good. Say shouldn't even be in the same ring as See. Friday on Channel 9's Yankee telecast, Rays' right fielder Gabe Kapler made...
So you're a New York sports columnist. You've covered George Steinbrenner, the owner of the Yankees, in some capacity, for nearly 30 years. You didn't like him on a personal or professional basis...
From the Georgetown neighborhood in Washington to South Orange, N.J.; from Providence, R.I., to Jamaica, Queens, you can hear the cynical laughter and snide remarks like the grating wheels of the No...
Mike Rice looked across the kitchen table at his wife, Kerry, earlier this week, and exhaled. "Can you believe I'm going to be a Big East coach in your home state where I grew up?" he said....
The Yankees fancy themselves as a sacred trust to their fans. And there is no Yankee more trusted by their fans today than Derek Jeter. I fully expect Hal Steinbrenner, especially with his father’s...
The heavens had opened over Yankee Stadium, The House That George Steinbrenner Built, drenching mourners who couldn't help but think these had to be the tears of Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio and...
George Steinbrenner's his toric influence remains a powerful force around the Yankees. Andy Pettitte had not yet limped off the field Sunday, and every Yankees fan had a collective Boss moment:...
Joe Girardi's free agency be came a little more interesting yesterday when Lou Piniella announced his retirement as Cubs manager, effective at the conclusion of the season. It had been assumed...
From the start, we wondered about consequences. From the start, we wondered how Alex Rodriguez's admission to the use of performance-enhancing drugs would alter his reputation, affect his legacy,...
As much as anything, George Steinbrenner wanted to prove he wasn’t only good enough to make it in New York, but big enough, too. He could have been a king in Cleveland, his hometown, where he owned...
It's downright lamentable, though outright predictable, not a single soul belonging to LeBron James' wagon-circled, anarchy-free business unit was wise enough to persuade the Drama King to handle his...
What does it say about Le Bron James that he choose Miami? That the Unconquering Hero no longer believes in himself -- at least as far as being able to will a team to his first (of many)...
The last thing I’m ready to see right now is Antonio Margarito fighting a major bout in the United States. That said, boxing so desperately needs to add a big attraction to its fall schedule he might...
Brock Lesnar considered himself the ultimate bad man while building careers in the WWE and now the UFC. He carried himself as an indestructible tower of meanness and muscle, eager to destroy any...
You will not believe this. I can hardly believe this. Monday, Barbara -- do not ask Barbara who? -- called. We do not speak of Barbara Eden or Barbara Feldon. Barbara -- the Barbara -- was...
I called Bernie Kerik's house on Monday, the private line, the one that his family answers. It was the day he went to the can. His children have been brought up wonderfully. The little one, Angelina...
Lady Gaga is still on the hunt for a downtown apartment — and Luc Carl, the young rocker/bartender from her past who recently started seeing her again, is helping her kick the tires on at least one...
Is Lady Gaga a Gimme Shelter fan? One day after we mentioned a $21,000-a-month penthouse rental at 304 Spring St., the over-the-top musician checked out the three-bedroom, three-bathroom, 3,000...
My new guy’s willing to wear a condom, but it’s causing problems with our play-time. Sometimes he’s only at half-mast, and others he just can’t finish the job. We’re not at a stage where I feel...
I’m 28 and still a virgin. I’m just curious to know how guys in similar situations are viewed by women based on today’s societal standards. Also, should I keep this to myself when I’m finally ready...
Visually striking but por tentous and pretentious, Danish director's Nicholas Winding Refn's follow-up to "Bronson" (this one is also in English) is pretty much a love-it or hate-it proposition....
‘Whose subconscious are we going into exactly?” asks a character in Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi thriller “Inception.” This gets a big laugh in a sublime brain-twister of a movie that plays out so...
Jean-Michel Basquiat, who went from spraying graffiti on public walls to producing art that turned him into a wealthy, world-renowned figure, is fondly remembered in the documentary “Jean-Michel...
Woody Allen, meet Martina Garcia. She's a sexy Colombian- born actress who wants nothing more than to be in one of your movies. "Who wouldn't?" she asked me rhetorically during a brief encounter...
At a time when TV news folks are being laid off by the dozens, it becomes extra painful to see how local newscasts waste money. Recently, the 11 p.m. edition of Ch. 7’s “Eyewitness News” reported...
What’s left of NBC News, now relegated to serve NBC’s promotions department, is both laughable and frightening. This past Monday morning, NBC’s “Today” and NBC reporter Jeff Rossen, in an “exclusive...
The script describes him as a "rich, snarky, manipulative, self-indulgent and wildly self-destructive Broadway composer. On the plus side, he's a genius." The composer lives in a gorgeous...
On Broadway, they're calling it "the Denzel effect." Denzel Washington's tri umphant run in "Fences" -- which closed Sunday after breaking box-office records at the Cort Theatre and racking up a...
Since it opened a year and a half ago, nothing about this acclaimed revival of "Our Town" has suggested that it might become a star vehicle. Stripped to its raw essentials and shorn of the...
Don't expect any infectious covers of pop hits at "With Glee." This new musical from the Prospect Theater Company -- about five troubled boys who bond at a boarding school -- shares only the one word...
This is the real “Law & Order,” as it works in the capital of the world in the 21st century. In the city of New York, the people are divided into two separate yet completely unequal groups: the...
A politically themed comedy- killathon, "Operation: Endgame" might be the first satiric thriller to play off President Obama's inauguration. During the ceremonies, two opposed teams of ruthless US...
It's great to see Burt Reynolds back in the saddle -- giving, well, a typical "Burt Reynolds"-type performance in this Thursday's episode of USA's "Burn Notice." Reynolds, now 74, hasn't been...
Somewhere, Conan O'Brien chuckles. Leave it to the TV Academy to cite O'Brien's dead-and-forgotten "Tonight Show" with an Emmy nomination for seven forgettable months of low ratings and zilcho...
Jennifer Love Hewitt lives up to her middle name in tonight's Lifetime movie "The Client List," playing a woman with love for sale. Well, the kind of love one can sell when showing up for work in a...
SUPERMAN (1978) Sunday, 8:15 a.m., AMC Christopher Reeve was never more beautiful and Margot Kidder was never more adorable than in this wondrous tale of the legendary Man of Steel and the girl...
It's the oldest story ever told. No, really, it is: This new musical revisits Adam, Eve, the fruit-based temptation and the fall from grace. But though the York Theatre is in the basement of St....
Things got hairy for Bianca Leigh when she tried to get less hairy. Born male, Leigh felt she was really female. Since working at Macy's couldn't cover her hormone treatment, in the 1980s she...
American victims of terrorism can sue their own government for damages -- but not, generally, foreign regimes or officials. It's a ludicrous approach to the War on Terror. Weren't we supposed to...
As America celebrates free dom this Independence Day, some 35,000 boys are preparing for a first-hand encounter with it later this month -- at a national jamboree that will mark the 100th...
My new guy’s willing to wear a condom, but it’s causing problems with our play-time. Sometimes he’s only at half-mast, and others he just can’t finish the job. We’re not at a stage where I feel...
I’m 28 and still a virgin. I’m just curious to know how guys in similar situations are viewed by women based on today’s societal standards. Also, should I keep this to myself when I’m finally ready...
Just when you thought that bumbling Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale had retired for good, the FBI uncovers an 11-person, deep-cover Russian spy ring stretching from Boston to Washington. But...
The Obama administration is urging the Senate to ratify the US-Russia Strate gic Arms Reduction Treaty -- but it won't release the negotiating record for "New START" to senators who've asked for it....
At next week's public MTA hearings on its proposed token-booth closings and other customer-service reduc tions, city and state lawmakers will talk tough about sticking up for the straphanger against...
The Dodd-Frank Act to "reform" Wall Street isn't yet a sure thing, votes-wise. New York's congressional delegation can still do the right thing for the city and state -- and should vote against this...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants a "unified" in quiry into the Army's in ability to recognize warning signs of the sort broadcast for months by its homicidal Islamist psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal...
GEN. David H. Petraeus yes terday strode purpose fully into a Capitol Hill hearing room to the rattlesnake buzz of still-camera shutters and the muffled disapprobation of the ladies in pink T-shirts...
SEN. Joseph Lieberman's criticism of the Obama health-care initiative may prove to be a pivotal turning point. Others have focused exclusively on the Obama plan's impact on health care. The...
AS Bill Clinton crisscrosses America defending his wife's candidacy, he's fuel ing speculation about who'd be in charge should Hillary be elected. Sen. Clinton - the incredible shrinking candidate -...
The fundamental problem with our national intelligence system is that it assumes that quantity can substitute for quality. The result is a vast, expensive network that's far less than the sum of its...
The Islamists have it wrong: Islam isn't the world's fastest-growing religion. By birth numbers and convert tallies, it's Christianity. And Africa's at the forefront -- a fact that's going to...
President Obama last night gave his first Oval Office address to the nation to lay out his plan for dealing with the crisis in the Gulf. If you missed the speech, don't worry: Marshmallows have...
After Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln eked out a primary win over labor-backed Lt. Gov. Bill Halter on Tuesday, an anonymous White House official snarked to Politico, "Organized labor just flushed $10...
When he arrived in Jeddah in June 2009, Shahram Amiri was just one of the thousands of Iranians who fly to Saudi Arabia each month for out of season pilgrimage to Mecca, Islam’s holiest site. However...
For almost 20 years, the United Nations nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) did its best not to notice the slow but steady building of a military nuclear capability in the...
Two splendid recent developments have highlighted how campaign-fi nance "reforms" have become the disease they pretend to cure. In Arizona and in Congress, measures ostensibly aimed at eliminating...
Sometimes provocative people become that way because they were provoked. Sharron Angle, 60, could be enjoying the 10 grandchildren she loves even more than her .44 magnum. Instead, she is the...
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