Gov. Paterson is ready to make the lives of state lawmakers "miserable" over the next three weeks in an effort to avoid having the latest state budget in history, a source close to the governor told...
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"...
Identify yourself as a "Democrat" or "Republican," and hardly anybody will accuse you of being a reformer. Party labels of any kind are increasingly -- and correctly -- seen as obstacles to the kind...
If all goes according to plan, Wednesday will be the D-Day of New York education. That is when officials will present an honest assessment of how state students are doing in reading and math....
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 -- If you're wondering what's that burning smell wafting from Harlem, it's Charlie Rangel's tail on fire. And it can only get worse. Much worse. For a House member -- a long...
WASHINGTON -- After nearly two years of Hope and Change, the seas have not receded, the world has not turned into a gentle dove in His hands, and we have not slipped the surly shackles of...
It's showtime for Blago. With his Beatle haircut, salesman's blue suit and devilish grin, Rod Blagoje vich worked the courtroom, the lunchroom, the men's room like a middle-aged rock star hepped up...
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...
The city sent out in correct bills to 83 percent of the 300 companies enrolled over the last six years in one of its largest economic-development incentive programs, a top auditing firm hired by the...
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...
Buyer's remorse: It's like when you buy a jelly doughnut to eat while you're driving but forget that you have a stick shift. So you wish you hadn't ever purchased that damn car. Well, I'm being...
What have you been smoking? That was asked a lot in the '60s. Now the question is coming back into vogue -- but for an entirely different reason. US tobacco companies are worried that the...
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...
The only thing worse than former Fed chief Alan Greenspan's final years at the helm of the Federal Reserve have been his retirement years as an over-exposed pundit. And this week the "maestro"...
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...
Essence, a Time Inc.-owned monthly that is seen as the ultimate fashion and lifestyle title for black women, is wrestling with a controversy sparked by a former fashion editor who criticized the...
THE Jackal has struck -- and Random House has struck back. Superagent Andrew Wylie long ago earned the nickname "The Jackal" for his stealth missions to swipe authors from other agents with the...
The Plaza's condo board wants to dump some of the glass on the penthouse roof and replace it with copper and tile. According to the application filed with the Landmarks Commission -- which needs...
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 result notwithstanding, last night is why you don't look at the percentages and determine that the Mets are just too much of a long shot for ownership to grant GM Omar Minaya the funds necessary...
About half of the crowd of 47,890 remained in the house for Alex Rodriguez’s at-bat in the eighth inning that came at 6:30 p.m., five hours and 22 minutes after Phil Hughes’ first pitch of the...
The tornado warning, either the cue for Alex Rodriguez to do it like Roy Hobbs did or a sign that the desperate baseball gods are throwing behind A-Rod's ear, arrived at the same time the Yankees...
Alex Rodriguez waited eight games between home runs No. 499 and No. 500 in 2007 to get to a place a which only 25 players in major league baseball history have been. Rarer will become the air,...
The Mets didn’t drop any bombshells yesterday. Howard Johnson is still the hitting coach, and Jerry Manuel remains the manager. Johnson is confident the hitting will come around. “I got a plan for...
LOS ANGELES -- So much for meaningful games in 2010 as the Mets continue to be their own bad baseball joke. No matter what Mets management has said, the Jerry Watch is officially on. Ownership...
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...
There are a lot of you out there who are not happy with having to pay for a saltwater fishing license in New York, but at least some of that money is going to go good use. Using funds from the...
The steamy weather continues to heat up the saltwater action for both inshore and offshore anglers. Despite some nasty seas anglers heading to the deep saw a good yellowfin bite south of the...
Show of hands: How many would like to be at a ballgame seated beside a fellow (or between fellows) who kept leaning toward you, giving you his take on almost every pitch and swing? How many of...
How IS it, Jethro, that TV folk figure we don't notice what we can't miss? Part I: Most everywhere you turn, lately, someone's lecturing on how big league umpiring is worse than ever, a disgrace...
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....
Rex Ryan comes barging and barking into America’s living rooms come Aug. 11 on HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” the leading man of a team filled with fearless loudmouths that make the young Muhammad Ali sound...
This is no time for Mike Tannenbaum (and Woody Johnson) to be picking up the telephone inquiring about Terrell Owens. The only call they should be making -- today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow...
Pessimism about making deals always rules leading up to the trade deadline. It is one part strategy: Teams hope that by making it sound as if there is no way they would meet the current prices then...
We have seen this movie. The Mets had a manager and GM holding on for their jobs. They had played surprisingly well for about half the schedule, but as the trade deadline neared they began trending...
There are times when glum makes a noise. That was the top of the first inning last night, Citi Field, the Cardinals' Ryan Ludwick pounding a Jon Niese cutter into the ground, the ball bouncing just...
A few days after The Decision, I called a friend of mine whose sporting heart always has resided in Cleveland, even if he followed his own talents to South Beach about 15 years ago. As sports fans...
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...
Is Kelly Ripa saying so long to SoHo? We hear that Ripa and hubby Mark Consuelos are quietly shopping their stunning duplex penthouse at 76 Crosby St. They bought the huge, 9,865-square-foot unit...
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...
My wife — whom I’ve known and been with since college, and is also the mother of my three children, recently told me she’s no longer in love with me. I moved out and am now I’m stuck with the...
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...
Enfant terrible Todd Solondz finally grows up with "Life During Wartime," which abandons the sopho moric shock-for-shock's-sake rut he fell into after a pair of remarkable debut features that seemed...
It's nice when a little reality is allowed to in trude into a family film. The current re cession drives the plot of the cute, well-made "Ramona and Beezus," based on a series of juvenile-fiction...
Three neglected noirs from the early 1950s are to be released on DVD on Tuesday, courtesy of Olive Films. Best of the bunch is Lewis Allen's "Appointment With Danger" (1951). It stars Alan Ladd...
With Russian spies making headlines, there couldn't be a more appropriate time to open "Farewell," a drama, the opening credits inform, "based on events that led to the downfall of the Soviet empire...
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 Broadway graveyard is full of flops that had great scores and bad scripts. An outstanding example is the 1965 musical "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever." The score -- music by Burton...
DALLAS -- While Bono, The Edge and Julie Taymor have been twisting and turning in that web of a mess called "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark," the Dallas Theater Center is soaring with a long...
Bachelor parties gone wild have gotten lots of stage and screen time. But if Leslye Headland's wickedly comic play is any indication, bachelorette parties are more fun. Not that the girls in...
For a show that touches down in a half-dozen places, "See Rock City & Other Destinations" doesn't really get very far. In fact, this evening of musical vignettes, which opened last night, feels more...
And you thought “Sex and the City 2” was girly! Superspy Evelyn Salt, a sort of Jasmine Bourne who studies the art of napkin folding, risks her life running away from the CIA so she can share her...
Illustrating the many ways nuclear weapons could kill you makes "Countdown to Zero" one of the most frightening documentaries you'll ever see, or endure. Writer-director Lucy Walker doesn't...
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...
The most interesting change on the new season of "Jersey Shore" is that it's no longer a show about Italian-American idiots. Now, it's just a show about American idiots. Bowing to complaints...
Here's a sure-fire recipe for success that even an amateur chef can master: Take one hugely successful UK show and add one famously arrogant and colorful TV chef (a real handful). Stir in a...
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 wife — whom I’ve known and been with since college, and is also the mother of my three children, recently told me she’s no longer in love with me. I moved out and am now I’m stuck with the...
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...
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....
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported last week that Gotham's econ omy is back. Problem is, what's keeping us afloat is the Fed down in DC, which has taken extreme action to juice up the US...
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...
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 -...
If we needed yet another example of Washington's self-absorption, we sure got it with the WikiLeaks dump of classified data on AfPak. Government officials promptly freaked about the political...
The treasure trove of 91,000 classified AfPak documents posted by WikiLeaks suggests that our government's been deceiving us about Pakistan's murderous behavior. But the situation's even worse...
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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