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 -- Essentially powerless to stop the Democratic health-care plan from getting rammed through Congress, the Republicans have settled on a strategy of making little fixes where they can and...
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...
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...
Two veteran Time staffers are moving up the magazine's masthead. International Editor Michael Elliott will become the new deputy managing editor, second in command to Managing Editor Rick...
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...
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...
TAMPA -- Remember when Jose Reyes was the shortstop of the future in New York and Derek Jeter supposedly was starting to slip? Now, things just keep getting worse for Reyes and the Mets while...
TAMPA -- In many ways, Mariano Rivera is the Yankees' Most Valuable Player. Just think where this franchise would be without the great Rivera. To truly understand Rivera, you have to go back to his...
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...
The new fishing regula tions for fluke have been proposed in New York and New Jersey, and again the Garden State anglers get the much better deal. In New York, the fluke season will run through...
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...
In addition to throwing all these anniversary shows for itself — “Tonight we celebrate the 10,000th time we’ve credited Chris Mortensen with a scoop that everyone else had!” — ESPN should observe a...
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...
The old guard smiles today. Looie, Rollie, Big John -- men who valued relationships -- will watch tonight when Georgetown goes for its record eighth Big East Conference Tournament title. The old...
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...
All of Syracuse holds its breath today. That's because the college basketball landscape may have changed at 1:40 p.m. yesterday at the Garden when 6-foot-9, 275-pound senior center Arinze Onuaku...
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...
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...
PORT ST. LUCIE — Manager Jerry Manuel believes. You can take that however you want to. You can take it with a grain of salt. You can take it with enough salt to cover a city pretzel. You can scoff:...
PORT ST. LUCIE — The meat of the news slithered through the crevasses of the medical speak and the happy talk. Omar Minaya, the Mets’ general manager, and Peter Greenberg, the agent for Jose Reyes,...
For those of you not on the Toenail Clippers' e-mail list, permit me to recap Mike Dunleavy's unforeseen capsizing late Monday afternoon. LA severed heads with its general manager (and used-to...
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...
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey stood face-to-face in the center of Cowboys Stadium yesterday, posed in the traditional boxing stare down after weighing in for tonight's WBO...
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...
The play "Next Fall" opened last night at the Helen Hayes. Produc ers? Elton John and his David Furnish. The drama, which had a nice suc cess off-Broadway last year, suddenly became a wham bam...
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...
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...
Master director Paul Greengrass’ “Green Zone” reunites him with Matt Damon for what’s essentially another Jason Bourne thriller that entertainingly — if sometimes uneasily — mixes fact and...
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...
Let's talk about mamas' boys, specifically Do-joon, the 27-year-old virgin in the forefront of the Hit chockian South Korean thriller "Mother." He lives with his long-widowed mom in a small,...
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...
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...
At the opening of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Love Never Dies" Tuesday night, I ran right into the composer's wife, Madeleine. Beautiful and clever, Madeleine's always quick with a quip. "Michael...
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...
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....
There's been lots of ink spilled, and justifiably so, over ABC's freshman sitcom "Modern Family" (a smart, funny, well-acted show). But unlike some other "water cooler" shows ("Mad Men," anyone?),...
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...
What's 150 million years old, has skin like a brontosaurus and loves to gobble up girls in bikinis? If you guessed Hugh Hefner you get a double "D." But if you guessed "Dinoshark," you get a...
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...
Geoffrey Nauffts' play "Next Fall" cov ers at least two of this spring's theater trends: It centers on gay men, and it uses a jumbled timeline to tell the story. The show often drifts toward...
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...
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 -...
Since the end of World War II, our country has had three great presidents: Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan. Their politics varied, but these giants stand in sharp contrast...
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...
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...
There are legislative miles to go before the govern ment will be emancipated from its health-care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing up. Whether all or nothing of the legislation becomes...
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....
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