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...
In apparent violation of the law, a top adviser to Gov. Paterson's now-ended campaign provided thousands of dollars' worth of services to the governor for free while lobbying him for the...
"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,...
Yesterday, I urged Gov. Pat erson to get a lawyer. Today, I amend the prescription: He should also get a shrink. He needs somebody to help him tell the truth. He shows such an astonishing...
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 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,...
The army of the damned is about to grow stronger. On stoops in places like Washington Heights, they sit and smoke for days on end, talking to themselves or begging for change. One day in 2005,...
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...
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...
Dear John: When I was 59 years old -- back in 2005 -- I moved to North Carolina with my life's savings and was targeted by a professional con man, who with the help of co-conspirators, chewed me up...
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...
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...
The magazine publishing industry used the American Association of Advertising Agencies conference in San Francisco to kick off a $90 million ad campaign to tout its resources and accomplishments....
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...
The office building at 340 Madison Ave. is on the block, and thanks to its current cash flow it could be one of the few prime city offerings to fetch more than the sellers paid for it in the boom....
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...
OTTAWA -- Maybe Olli Jokinen will carry the Rangers to the playoffs the way he carried Finland to the bronze in Vancouver. Maybe Marian Gaborik shouldn't have tried to drag Slovakia to the first...
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...
BRADENTON, Fla. -- The bond of winning a championship together has created a tighter bond between Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter. They drove here together yesterday from Tampa for the Yankees'...
TAMPA — The last time Andy Pettitte faced hitters was Game 6 of the World Series, the clinching game for the Yankees’ 27th championship. His stage yesterday was about as far removed from the glare of...
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...
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...
The fishermen's rally in Washington and the wintry weather kept fishing quiet through the weekend, but all heck broke loose on Tuesday. Charter and party boats from Montauk made their way...
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....
Around here, the Big East Tournament is much more than a mere March Madness appetizer for a basketball-starved city. This is the week when the Garden rocks again, when electricity fills the...
The trade last night for Antonio Cromartie, for a third-round 2011 draft pick that could end up as a second-rounder, means the Jets won't have to draft a cornerback in the first round of next month...
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...
JUPITER, Fla. — The trick, at this point, is swimming through the muck in order to reach the cooling waters, clawing through the clouds in order to find the sun, tip-toeing through the trip-wires of...
VANCOUVER -- The puck was behind Ryan Miller, and suddenly it was over, in a flash, a game and a hockey tournament you will remember until the day you die. We often take great liberties with...
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...
So Vanity Fair's boss is stuffed into some small corner surveying all these movie stars who came to his little party -- Jodie Foster, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Judd Apa tow, Carey Mulligan, Vera...
It's raining here. Also freezing . . . I cannot tell you the thrill of being in sunny Southern California. And 10 Best Picture nominees? Before the evening's over, forget Joan Rivers needing a...
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”...
Fashion design titan Elie Tahari and his gorgeous wife, Rory (20 years his junior), have quietly put their stunning four-story, 9,600-square-foot trophy loft on the market. While the Prince Street co...
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...
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...
After the bungle in the jungle that was "Tarzan," the 3-day-old fish that was "The Little Mer maid" and the soggy umbrella that is "Mary Poppins," I've pretty much given up on Disney. The...
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...
It sounds like an old MGM musical: A girl singer from a small town is discovered, becomes a star, then drops out of sight, only to rise again years later. That, in a nutshell, is the story of...
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....
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...
Not only does John Langley have a "Cops" racing team named after his Fox show -- and a line of wines produced in Argentina -- but he's also a producer on "Brooklyn's Finest," which premiered in...
It wasn't the first time that hosting duties were divided at the Oscars -- usually with dopey to disastrous results -- but after last night's terrific turn by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, it may...
THE QUEEN (2006) Sunday, 7:30 a.m., AMC Helen Mirren won an Oscar as Queen Elizabeth, who stays behind the walls of Balmoral Castle after the death of Princess Diana, keeping the massive crowds of...
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...
Christopher Walken has an eccentric charisma, his hangdog, sorrowful demeanor spiked with a twisted kind of charm. The mix is a perfect fit for Martin McDonagh's particular brand of macabre comedy....
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...
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...
In announcing his proposed $66.5 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that starts in July, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday got the destination right -- but he's charting a long and dangerous path to...
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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