ALBANY -- Mayor Bloom berg got it right yesterday with his flip observation that Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch's scheme to borrow $6 billion to reform state spending "doesn't pass the laugh test."...
Gov. Paterson, liar, liar, pants on fire! Sad to say, Paterson, who's earned a reputation as something of a pathological liar during the past two years, is lying again to the people of New York...
Once again, Barack Obama is a happy pitch man. He's on stage with a microphone, jacket off, sleeves rolled up, his voice rising and falling as he tries to whip the big crowds into revival-tent...
"I can't continue as governor and must re sign." Those are the magic words we all want Gov. Paterson to say. They actually came from Eliot Spitzer two years ago. Spitzer gave us Paterson,...
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 -- Throughout his political career, President Obama could not -- as Jack Nicholson's character in "A Few Good Men" might say -- handle the truth. He had the luxury of going to elegant...
WASHINGTON -- The congressional whale otherwise known as Rep. Charles Rangel has finally been beached. Just weeks ago, Democrats were bellowing about the need to let the House Ethics Committee...
This has gone too far. A Manhattan restaura teur's giddy use of his wife's breast milk in the creation of gourmet cheese intended for consumption by rational adults -- an exhibitionistic and un...
This is how an administration dies. A slow, painful and agonizing demise. Gov. Lame Duck waddled into the ornate Downtown Brooklyn ceremonial courtroom without a single close aide, confidant,...
Crooked cabbies trying to pull off the same massive meter scam as ex-driver Wasid Khalid Cheema -- who holds the record rip-off crown -- could soon find themselves tripped up by GPS technology....
The city's lengthy list of parking scofflaws stretches all the way to City Hall, where at least nine current and former members of the City Council had been sitting on unpaid summonses totaling more...
My credit-card company hung up the phone on me recently. I know, you think that I am really scrounging for a column. But stick with me and you might find this amusing. I'll even teach you...
Brilliant! It was absolutely brilliant! As you know by now, the Labor Department last Friday announced that the country had lost another 36,000 jobs in February. Sure, that's a lot fewer...
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 national celebration of creative filmmaking, illusion and escape -- better known as the Oscars -- takes place tonight. But before the official awards ceremony kicks off, American taxpayers were...
Here's one number that wasn't mentioned during last week's Presidential Health Care Summit -- the Democrats want to levy a new income tax to fund ObamaCare and the residents of New York and New...
The staff at Bloomberg BusinessWeek is bracing for a sweeping restructuring that will see many of the magazine's editorial staff reassigned within Bloomberg LP, while around 30 people are slated to...
NEW York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., who earlier this week survived rumors of a Mexican billionaire trying to seize control of his company, is now confronted with labor unrest on the...
Vornado Realty Trust is swooping in to buy the landmarked 510 Fifth Avenue. Sources say the real estate investment trust led by Steven Roth and Michael Fascitelli is trying to work out a deal...
Ad am Hochfelder was the baby-faced boy wonder who at the top of his game owned part of a Midtown office portfolio worth nearly $3 billion. Now, he's been indicted for allegedly forging...
For his next trick, Rangers' head coach and travel director John Tortorella will have his players take rickshaws to Atlanta for tomorrow night's match with the Thrashers. It's always about...
WASHINGTON -- Maybe Sidney Crosby is a fan of Jay's or maybe he was upset at not being invited to Dave's Super Bowl bash with Oprah, but folks around the NHL sure would be interested in learning...
While more than 100 organized Glen Sather haters gathered on Seventh Avenue looked about ready to slit their wrists over the mediocre state of their team, John Tortorella tried to open a vein in the...
Into thin air has vanished Sidney Crosby's stick, gloves, and the puck that broke America's heart, at least for the few days it cared. During Sunday's gold-medal celebration in Canada, somebody...
LAKELAND, Fla. -- The Yankees are throwing around excuses like Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes are throwing around gopher balls. You can make spring training work for you in any fashion you want,...
TAMPA — Perhaps CC stands for carbon copy. In his second start last spring, CC Sabathia was hammered all over Joker Marchant Stadium in a 7-4 loss to the Tigers, surrendering five runs on six hits...
ARCADIA, Calif. -- Zenyatta's memorable swoop down the lane to capture the Breeders' Cup Classic may have been one of the great moments in the turf year, but it has thrown Horse of the Year voters...
ARCADIA, Calif. -- She did it! Zenyatta, the big, beautiful ornament of American racing rocked southern California like an earthquake yesterday, when she came from dead last to storm her way...
Ski areas throughout the Northeast are setting records for ski visits this spring because of the snow followed by actual spring weather. Most areas also are offering big discounts, so there are no...
RICHMOND HILL, Ga. -- For those who love the out doors, escaping from the winters of the Northeast no longer has to mean moving down to Florida. Tucked in along the coast here, just south of...
TV now fires so many absurdi ties at us, we shouldn't watch without a catcher's mitt, chest protector and mask. Friday, I just wanted to watch some golf, that's all. I didn't tune in the Honda...
I don't know about you, or about how Bud Selig was raised, but when I was a kid and I didn't tell the truth the first time, the fellow in charge of our house didn't allow a second chance, let alone...
They must have been laughing on Tobacco Road if they were watching last night's Rutgers-Seton Hall game. You call this a rivalry?! Seton Hall gets out to an 18-point lead and coasts, and that...
The bloodied court had been wiped clean. Maybe even most of the St. John's tears had dried. Yet one truth remained as indisputable as DNA evidence: Seton Hall has earned the right to play St....
It will be a shame when — not if — a good man like Norm Roberts, one of our own, a New Yawk kid out of Springfield Gardens High and Queens College, is fired. But Marquette 57, St. John's 55 serves...
The hall of Fame coach slumped back in his chair, arms folded, legs crossed, as a senior St. John's walk-on named John Taubeneck dribbled out the final garbage time seconds of a Hall of Shame...
Clues are being dispensed. Jose Reyes was hitting third. Jenrry Mejia was being compared with Mariano Rivera. Kelvim Escobar essentially was exiled before even throwing a bullpen session. Perhaps...
PORT ST. LUCIE — I understand the optimism. It is March. It is 0-0 records all over the landscape, including Flushing. So the Mets are upbeat, full of faith. They want to believe last season is no...
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- There is no such thing as a simple news cycle around the Mets, the home office for Velcro and glue and duct tape, where every story always feels like Freddie Biletnikoff's...
PORT ST. LUCIE — In the movie, this is how the final scene of the comeback is scripted: The wounded hero takes the mound after a long and arduous road back from arm surgery. He stares down his first...
It would be a sacrilege not to begin today's blather with doubly dangerous Dallas. Winners of 12 straight, the Mavericks, strictly offensive a moment ago, are No. 2 in the Spaghetti Western...
This is not the first time Sha quille O'Neal's right thumb has been damaged and in need or repair. I was at an Orlando-Miami game during the 1995-96 season when Matt Geiger hammered him across the...
Maybe he was just saying the politically correct thing, which is what David Lee normally has done during his four years with the Knicks. Despite playing on a series of underachieving teams, he...
For the first eight minutes of last night's game between two teams who can't wait for the season to end, it looked like the Nets had taken the early vacation. They were down 24-8 with 4:42 left...
K elsey Grammer -- and may his tribe increase because we love him -- hits Broadway next month in "La Cage Aux Folles." So I asked: How come? So he said, "It's what came along. "Sometimes things...
I have returned myself from our nation's western frontier, a strange land where the natives never saw a part of a woman's anatomy they did not wish to expose. And I am thankful -- yea, grateful...
Fashion mogul Elie Tahari, who runs his $500 million eponymous company, and his wife, Rory, are quietly trying to sell more than $70 million worth of property. And we hear that the 10-year marriage...
Yes, Alec Baldwin is everywhere. On Jerry Seinfeld’s new marriage show, about to co-host the Oscars with Steve Martin and continuing his house hunt in downtown Manhattan. We’ve tracked the “30 Rock”...
My boyfriend travels all the time with his friends and never asks me to go with him. I want to be doing things with him rather than living separate lives. Do I have a right to feel as I do or am I...
My wife thinks it’s weird that I have a foot fetish. I’m not into spikes or leather, just massages. What’s so weird about that? — Paul D., New City I am totally confused. So, you just like...
The Red Carpet at the Kodak Theater hasn’t even been rolled up, and Tinseltown is already talking about next year’s Oscar race. Will Jeff Bridges and George Clooney be squaring off for Best Actor...
Tim Burton’s lovely Goth-lite visuals, Johnny Depp as the Maddest Hatter ever and Helena Bonham Carter’s hilariously imperious Red Queen buoy “Alice in Wonderland,” an often ponderous fantasy that...
THE Museum of Modern Art is honoring Jia Zhangke, the re negade Chinese film maker better known on the international scene than at home. I've followed his career over the past decade, reviewing...
Beware of Bluebeard. The infamous fairy-tale character -- created in 1697 by Charles Perrault -- had an unsettling habit of killing his wives. Naturally, the scoundrel has inspired numerous...
It must be the latest ritual in TV news rooms: Walk in, hang up your coat and hat in one closet, hang your dignity and credibility in the other. On the morning after the Olympics more than two...
Since 1988, when the International Olympic Committee first allowed NBC to do whatever it pleases to the Olympics (hey, the money was right), the Games have been predicated on one formula: American...
Here's a way to get those "God of Carnage" grosses back up to $1 million a week -- an all-star, African-American cast. Yasmina Reza, zee French lady who wrote zee play, has OK'd the idea, and so...
The new Broadway musical "Million Dollar Quartet" -- about the famous 1956 re cording session featuring Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis -- is poised to become this...
It's hard not to feel nostalgic during "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers," about the risky 1971 decision to publish the classified document detailing the buildup to the Vietnam War....
William Shakespeare as a play wright? Brilliant. As a character in a play? Not so hot. So proves "Equivocation," Bill Cain's ambitious comedy/drama about what might have happened if King James I...
After all of Hollywood's Iraq movies have flopped (even the Oscar-garlanded "The Hurt Locker" earned only $15 million at the box office), one studio thinks it has the following secret to success:...
It sounds like a setup for a Ronald Reagan punchline circa 1980. This week the Gowanus Canal was designated a Superfund site. So what used to be just a toxic waste dump is now . . . radioactive....
Charlie Sheen's legal woes, and his current stint in rehab, have only strengthened viewership for his CBS sitcom, "Two and a Half Men." Not only did "Men" hit a three-year high in adults 18-49 Monday...
They're on a role Marsha Mason will guest star in the Mother's Day epi sode of ABC's "The Middle," playing Frankie's (Patricia Heaton) mother. The trivia- minded might re member that Heaton...
I spend my days with self-absorbed morons who parade their stupidity across the TV screen and call it “reality.” So take it from me, it will make you proud again to be American if you take the time...
What else can they possibly do to top the violence and horror of "Jersey Shore?" I'm glad you asked. We have two new reality shows coming up -- "High Society" debuting tonight on The CW and...
If you see one show this season, make it "The Scottsboro Boys." It's as simple as that. And what an unlikely triumph it is. For starters, the plot is based on the true story of African...
The first 45 minutes of Andrew Bovell's "When the Rain Stops Falling" are disconcerting. The play starts off with a lengthy monologue that establishes we're in a future where fish are nearly...
MTA Chairman Jay Walder last week said he was losing sleep over his options for plugging a $750 million budget hole. Planned service cuts, he said, are "tearing my heart out." But if Walder wants...
Mayor Bloomberg issued a stern warning to state lawmakers last month: Gov. Paterson's budget cuts would meet stiff resistance in the Big Apple. "Let me tell you," Hizzoner huffed, "the cuts the...
My boyfriend travels all the time with his friends and never asks me to go with him. I want to be doing things with him rather than living separate lives. Do I have a right to feel as I do or am I...
My wife thinks it’s weird that I have a foot fetish. I’m not into spikes or leather, just massages. What’s so weird about that? — Paul D., New City I am totally confused. So, you just like...
Let me be clear (as President Obama loves to say): After a year in office, there isn't much for this White House to brag about foreign policy-wise, in spite of rhetorical flourishes and grandiose...
If you were troubled by President Obama's "Wow Bow" in Japan, you won't be any happier with the "kowtow" during his just-concluded trip to the People's Republic of China. In the latest chapter of...
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou came to Washington yesterday to ask President Obama to help save his nation from speculators. In other words, he wants America to help him shoot the messenger....
New York may be on the road to reining in its longtime abuse of emi nent domain. Could our politicians actually abandon their long-held belief that it's their responsibility to replace people and...
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 -...
Threats, bombs and at least 36 dead didn't stop Iraqis from voting on Sunday. But the harder part -- forming a new, more inclusive national government -- lies ahead. Formal results won't come...
A good first step in waging war is to figure out why your enemy is fighting. For over eight years, we've refused to do that in Afghanistan. In the recent Marine offensive against the Taliban in...
Oh, the irony. After claiming that she would preside over the "most ethical Congress in history," Nancy Pelosi is instead presiding over the same kind of shenanigans that cost Republicans their...
A little over a year into his first term, President Obama finally lived up to his election-year promise to hold health-care negotiations on C-SPAN. Better late than never, I suppose....
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...
With the International Atomic Energy Agency for the first time ever bluntly accusing the Islamic Republic of pursuing a military nuclear program, it's just as well that the Obama administration is...
It is said, more frequently than precisely, that the rea sons the Supreme Court gives for doing whatever it does are as important as what it does. Actually, the court's reasons are what it does....
Memo to that Massachu setts school where children in physical- education classes jump rope without using ropes: Get some ropes. And you -- you are about 85 percent of all parents -- who are...
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