October 23, 2008
OK! GIVES THUMBS UP TO NEW EDITOR, PUBLISHER
OK! magazine tomorrow is expected to announce a major leadership shakeup with the appointment of a new editor, publisher and executive creative director. Susan Toepfer, who was most recently editing...
SUBWAY SODOMY ACCUSATION
A gang of rogue cops clobbered and beat a Brooklyn man then sodomized him with a walkie-talkie antenna during a brutal broad-daylight attack inside a subway station, the victim's lawyer...
Haute List: Chain of Fools
Sheepskin boots are tops at keeping feet cozy, and now you don't have to die of boredom wearing them all winter. Australia Love Collective's new "Fame" woolly knit-top make us...
Roster at 15
By FRED KERBERJust when it looked like Keith Van Horn might be the answer. . .The Nets reached their 15-man roster just a while ago by waiving Eddie Gill, Julius...
NYPD OFFICER KILLED BY ROADSIDE BOMB IN AFGHANISTAN
An NYPD cop serving with the army in Afghanistan was killed by a roadside bomb on Wednesday, his relatives said. Officer Deon L. Taylor, from the Bronx, had shipped out...
BURRESS HAS TESTS ON NECK
The pain in the neck's pain in the neck won't go away. Giants head coach Tom Coughlin told the media today that mercurial receiver Plaxico Burress missed practice for the...
Manuel reconfigures coaches
Jerry Manuel (pictured) is shaking up the staff for his first full season as manager of the Mets, bringing in new coaches at first base, third base and in the...
David Beckham to AC Milan on loan?
By BRIAN LEWISConfirmation is coming from both sides of the Atlantic _ the L.A. Galaxy and AC Milan _ that David Beckham is closing in on a loan deal to...
HATHAWAY'S EX GETS 4.5 YEARS IN PRISON
Actress Anne Hathaway's smooth-talking ex-boyfriend was sentenced today to 4 ½ years in federal prison for swindling investors out of millions with boasts of Vatican connections that let him buy...
CALL HER AMBASSADOR OPRAH
Oprah Winfrey is being talked about as a possible US ambassador to Great Britain in an Obama administration. The scenario was suggested yesterday in an item in the London Times...
Hayes On-Court Sighting
By FRED KERBERYup, a Hayes sighting. That would be Jarvis, not Rutherford B. Although it seems like old R.B. was in the White House the last time the free agent...
Plaxico visits hospital for neck
The Journal News reports Plaxico Burress "spent a little time at the hospital today after [his] sore neck showed no real improvement."After an exam revealed no structural damage, he was...
Shea scoreboard comes down
This has to be painful for any longtime Mets fan ...
'GOSSIP GIRL' SPOTTED AT HOSPITAL
"Gossip Girl" Taylor Momsen is expected to return to the show in a few days after beating a "potentially life-threatening throat infection," according to her doctor. Momsen, 15, "is expected...
CATCHING UP: GIANTS
The 5-1 Steelers have two fewer wins than the previous five Giants opponents combined. So starts Big Blue's treacherous stretch, after beating up on the worst the NFL has to...
CATCHING UP: JETS
The Jets can run and the Jets can pass. They just can't do both in the same game. Gang Green has yet to have a 100-yard runner and 200-yard passer...
DARRYL LITTLEJOHN FOUND GUILTY IN KIDNAP CASE
It took a Queens jury less than three hours yesterday to convict a burly ex-bouncer of kidnapping and assaulting a young college student. Darryl Littlejohn - who, in a unrelated...
HASSELBECK FOR PALIN
Got Milf? Right leaning "View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck is hitting the stump for Gov. Sarah Palin, starting this Sunday in Florida. "The View" co-host said Thursday the McCain campaign contacted...
Favre's media mess
Thebiglead.com has a dynamite take on the media's role in the Brett Favre, Lions-Packers phone call controversy.The roles of Peter King of SI.com, Jay Glazer of FOXsports.com and a handful...
Lara Croft is hawt, but you already knew that didn't you?
New screenshots from "Tomb Raider: Underworld" out Nov. 18!Hit the jump for more shots of Lady Croft in Croft Manor, exotic Mediterranean temples, ancient Thailand ruins and Mexican jungles.
Rockies show interest in Willie
The Denver Post reports that Rockies manager Clint Hurdle has contacted Willie Randolph about joining his staff as bench coach. Randolph, fired by the Mets as manager in June, is...
Delicious HD Bioshock 2 Teaser
Want. Want now.EDIT: Teaser, not Trailer. Damnit.
Tatis wins comeback award
Mets outfielder Fernando Tatis, who was out of baseball for more than a year earlier this decade before rejuvenating his career this season, was named the NL's Comeback Player of...
PREVIEW: PHILLIES AT RAYS, GAME 2
With one win, the Phillies gained home-field advantage in the World Series. With one more victory, they'll head back to Philadelphia halfway toward the city's first championship in 25 years....
Surgeries adding up for Brady
According to the Boston Herald, doctors have performed three additional surgeries on Tom Brady's knee to rid it of an infection that occured during the initial operation to repair a...
Oh la la, Guitar Hero peripherals!
Activision's new, totally not based on a real guitar design, Guitar Hero guitar is super cool with its touch sensitive neck slider function...but this one from Logitech is actually...kind of...cooler.Sadly...
Knicks cut Houston, Grunfeld
By HOWARD KUSSOYThe Knicks announced before practice today that they were cutting Allan Houston.Houston signed a non-guaranteed contract with the team, but his chances of making the squad were hampered...
THE YANKEES AND MIKE CAMERON
FROM JOEL SHERMANMy colleague, George King, wrote about the Yankees' potential interest if Mike Cameron is allowed to become a free agent. I do believe that the Yanks have some...
Hamels vs. Santana
From JOEL SHERMAN I wrote a column about Cole Hamels for today's paper in which Brad Lidge compared Hamels' changeup to that of Johan Santana. It is a terrific comparison...
3 UP: Hamels, Santana and Cameron
1. I wrote a column about Cole Hamels for today's paper in which Brad Lidge compared Hamels' changeup to that of Johan Santana. It is a terrific comparison considering how...
UPDATE: Construction in Vegas
Nowhere (other than perhaps the doggie spas, cupcake shops and fancy burger joints of Manhattan) did the good times roll quite as fiercely as along the Las Vegas Strip. It...
MORE PLUMBERS PIPE UP
PUEBLO, Colo. - John McCain broadened his tax attack yesterday on Barack Obama, introducing a host of new "Joe the Plumbers" whose taxes would supposedly go up under Obama's "spread...
BAM: YOU KNOW HOW EXCITED MY JOE GETS
Barack Obama said yesterday that Joe Biden is prone to "rhetorical flourishes," as he tried to downplay his running mate's startling comments that Obama almost certainly would face a "generated...
RUDY 'CALLS' OUT DEMOCRATS
Rudy Giuliani is making automated phone calls for John McCain that blast Barack Obama as a weak-on-crime liberal who's against mandatory prison terms for sex offenders and murderers. MORE: Damage...
PARK THAT STUDY
The report by Transportation Alternatives described in "Mayor's Parking 'Offense' " (Oct. 14) is highly misleading. The report suggests that, by requiring some off-street parking in residential neighborhoods, city government...
AMERICA'S BLINDNESS TO THREATS FROM ABROAD
Ralph Peters is correct ("America the Weak," PostOpinion, Oct. 20). Barack Obama voters have no idea what they're getting. They're too busy watching "American Idol" instead of reading history and...
LESSONS OF BEIRUT
IT was 25 years ago this morning that a suicide bomber blew up the Marine compound in Beirut, killing 241 men. My men. The 21,000 pounds of explosives caused the...
A NEW WELFARE STATE
THANKS to Joe the Plumber, we now know for sure that Barack Obama wants to "spread the wealth around." But the Democratic candidate still hasn't come clean on just how...
FACING NYC'S ADDICTION: STEP ONE
AT a Crain's breakfast Tuesday, City Comptrol ler (and 2009 mayoral candidate) Bill Thompson acknowledged a vital truth: "Budget growth has lately been out of balance with the growth of...
AL-FAYED GRILLED AS 'FONDLER'
A 15-year-old girl accused department-store magnate Mohamed al-Fayed of forcibly groping and kissing her, prompting British cops to quiz the eccentric billionaire yesterday. Al-Fayed, the 75-year-old owner of Harrods and...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 181; Lucky Sum: 10 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 9300; Lucky Sum: 12 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 668; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 9486;...
WOMEN FACE DRINK & SHRINK DILEMMA
Ladies, if you care about being a C or a D cup, you better put down that coffee cup. A new study has found that drinking caffeine over an extended...
SNEAKY NIKE NIX SHOCKER
Sometimes it's not enough to "Just Do It." One amateur runner from Brooklyn found that out the hard way Sunday, after she finished the Nike San Francisco Women's Marathon with...
TOO MUCH GREEN FOR GANG SEATS
Looks like the mystery mortgage mogul who shelled out $400,000 for the rights to buy the two best seats in the house for Jet games fumbled the timing of the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn An unhappy customer was busted for attacking a deli clerk in Fort Greene, authorities said yesterday. Trevon Roberts, 20, angrily expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of the food and...
NYC KIDS NOT EXACTLY WORLD-BEATERS IN TESTING
What's below Hungary and above Cyprus? New York City's fourth-grade math scores, according to a new study - which claims to be the first to compare the academic performance of...
'AILING' GOV AIDE'S WACKY PSYCH-OUT
We'll bet even the IRS hasn't heard this one yet. Gov. Paterson's chief of staff now says he owed nearly $300,000 in back taxes, $100,000 more than was previously known...
FEDS' KUNG POW!
Federal agents busted 11 reputed mobsters yesterday as the government broke up a vicious Chinatown gang that allegedly inflicted brutal beatings to muscle in on private bus and van companies....
MARILYN DUO COUNTERSUES
A photographer who accused two men of coming to him with steamy stolen pictures of Marilyn Monroe should stop the trash talk, because he's the one who tossed the pics...
CUSTODY WAR'S FITTY CONCLUSION
Rapper 50 Cent came to terms yesterday with his estranged baby mama over visitation rights for their 11-year-old boy - a deal reached in the hallway of a Long Island...
LILLO'S PAL HAD TARGET PRACTICE
A junkie accused of gunning down an off-duty cop during a botched Bronx robbery had a budget shooting gallery in his basement, an NYPD investigator testified yesterday. When cops tore...
COPS SUSPENDED
Five cops, including three sergeants, were suspended for letting a prisoner stroll out of an apparently unlocked holding cell in The Bronx - an escape that wasn't detected for hours,...
JUST LOOK ON THE BRIDE $IDE
Let them eat floor-to-ceiling, Swarovski crystal-encrusted, organic white chocolate wedding cake! As millions of Americans sweat over their dwindling retirement funds and falling home equity, a bevy of starry-eyed brides-to-be...
SWITCH IN NAMING NEWBORNS
Oh, baby, what a surprise! For the first time since 1956, Michael is not the most popular name for boys born in the city. Daniel is the new No. 1....
TRAGEDY IN 'LENO' CASE
A Manhattan parking-garage exec killed himself just days after he and "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno were sued for allegedly swindling an elderly Macy's heir out of two pricey cars,...
'LITTLEJOHN' VAN ESCAPE
A college student was left dazed, bloodied and hysterically crying after jumping from a moving van in a desperate bid to get away from the phony lawman who had snatched...
ANOTHER ACORN SCANDAL BLOOMING: ELEX BOARD
ALBANY - Republican members of the state Board of Elections were seeking an emergency meeting yesterday to investigate a charge that the Working Families Party may have illegally funneled nearly...
BIG WIN FOR MIKE
A Manhattan Supreme Court judge yesterday blocked an 11th-hour attempt to stop today's vote on extending term limits, as Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn kept up the...
GRAVE DECISION
The father of a Brooklyn teen who drowned in an upstate boating accident this week wants his son buried close to where he is in West Virginia - but he'll...
CAT KILLER'S ULTIMATUM
"Self-defense" cat killer Joseph Petcka returns to court today to tell a Manhattan judge he wants a retrial - unless prosecutors offer him a no-jail deal or drop the charges...
$PECIAL DELIVERY
There won't be any Disney World vacations - or even trips back home - for the 36 Chinese-immigrant delivery workers awarded $4.6 million in a federal labor-violations case against Saigon...
LOAN 'SCAM' SLAMS FEDS
A Long Island mortgage lender doled out $4 million in fraudulent loans to low-income customers who couldn't make the payments, and then left taxpayers holding the bag, according to a...
SUDDEN HELL FOR SHOT COPS
The two undercover cops who tried to arrest a fare beater in a Queens subway station had no way of knowing that what looked like a minor bust would suddenly...
STUDY RIPS STUPID TEST FOR SMART SCHOOLS
A faulty entrance exam may have excluded thousands of brainy teens from coveted seats at the city's nine specialized high schools, a study claims. Many students who weren't accepted at...
HOOKER FIRM ADMITS IT 'SERVICED' SPITZER
The former owner of a high-end hooker ring long linked to disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer finally admitted last night that he was one of her clients. But Kristin Davis, whose...
ALT: WHY RON PUT ME ON ICE
Supermodel Carol Alt says she and ex-Ranger captain Ron Greschner split because she had cancer and couldn't satisfy his goal of having kids, bombshell court papers reveal. In the papers...
CREDIT-RATING ANALYSTS CREATED SUBPRIME MESS
Credit-rating analysts openly admitted they saw the housing collapse coming four years ago due to their "house of cards" game - but did nothing because it brought in huge profit...
FEAR GRIPS MARTS
Deeper fears of a harsh winter economy finally sunk in for Wall Street, causing investors to flee stocks for strong greenbacks and Treasury notes as the safest bets anywhere in...
FREE-SPENDING AIG HIRES HIGH-PRICED P.R. FIRM
INSURER American Interna tional Group got into trouble for wastefully spending money on extravagant trips right before taxpayers had to bail out the company. Now the hard-up insurance giant is...
AIG PUTS $620M IN PAY ON ICE
Disgraced insurance giant American International Group yesterday agreed to put roughly $620 million in payments to employees on ice, including $19 million in compensation to ousted CEO Martin Sullivan. The...
UNHAPPY HOMEMAKER
A rift is developing between Martha Stewart and the newly crowned co-CEO of her company, Wenda Harris Millard, The Post has learned. According to multiple sources close to either Stewart...
EXECS EXIT WEINSTEIN MOVIE CO.
Several top executives are leaving the Weinstein Co., which is still struggling to produce a big hit and quell rumors of financial trouble after three years in business. The independent...
HEDGE HITS A SLOPE FORTRESS' LAST RESORT
Wes Edens' embattled Fortress Investment Group may be forced to arrange a bankruptcy today for Intrawest - a ski resort owner that the alternative investment manager bought two years ago...
DIVIDED LOYALTIES
Media titan Sumner Redstone's reputation as a stickler for strong corporate governance at Viacom and CBS is coming under fire as his personal problems grow. Media watchers and Wall Street...
TISHMAN TURNS UP HEAT, ELECTRICITY ON RENTERS
Residents of iconic apartment complexes Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town will soon be paying for their own electricity, The Post has learned. The 11,000-unit apartment complex is in the...
A FATEFUL COUNCIL VOTE
The City Council today is expected to take up legislation permitting Mayor Bloomberg and other city officials to seek a third term in office. There are two ways to look...
TAXING CREDIBILITY
Gubernatorial counselor Charles O'Byrne failed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in state and federal income taxes because he suffers from - are you sitting down? - "Non-Filers Syndrome."...
TRADITIONAL WEDDING DRESS IS GOWN FOR THE COUNT
STRAPLESS is out. Wear color. Ditch the tiara for a headband. The bride's traditional wedding dress is being turned on its ear. MORE: Just Look On the Bride SidePHOTOS: Lavish...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
And the Lord spoke unto the horny and told them, "Thou shalt make love - and it shall be good." A group of Christian wives have set up a Web...
ELECTING A PRESIDENT
Republican Candidate John McCain John Sidney McCain was born in 1936 into a family that had a long tradition of serving in the U.S. Navy. As a young boy, he...
YADDO: NOT HALF BAD-O
THERE'S no such thing as a free lunch - unless you're lucky enough to go to Yaddo, that Shangri-La for the gifted. Since 1928, this bucolic estate in Saratoga Springs,...
WATCH HOW YOU VOTE
CAN "The Real House wives of Orange County" help heal our nation's great political divide? Maybe so. Nielsen, the TV ratings people, yesterday put out a study of viewing habits...
CRACK-O WHACKO
A man wanted for six murders somehow eludes capture after he shoots six police officers and half the city regards him as a folk hero. Welcome to the open-air asylum...
'RUNWAY' ALTERATIONS
THE next season of "Project Runway" - which is set to air on Lifetime - finished production a few days ago in LA. But two regulars, judges Nina Garcia and...
RUDE FEUD
HOW much longer can the political squabbling on "The View" go on before there will be another Rosie meltdown? The ladies on the morning coffee klatch got very close to...
HAUTE LIST
Madonna loves Givenchy's black crepe dress loaded with Mr. T-style chains. So do we. But we can't afford the $4,000-plus price tag. Instead, we made our own. Coming in at...
THE KIDS ARE BACK!
BY all means, call it a comeback. Twenty years - this week! - after the debut of MTV's "Headbangers Ball," heavy metal is experiencing a renaissance, and Dee Snider, one...
IN TUNE WITH '80S GREATIES
GO ahead - pretend you spent the '80s listening to the Clash and Elvis Costello, but 'fess up: The bands you really made out to were Journey, Styx, Foreigner and...
CHIEFS BENCH L.J.
Herman Edwards said yesterday that Chiefs running back Larry Johnson, who was involved in an incident in which he allegedly assaulted a woman, will be deactivated for Sunday's game against...
ANGRY BRETT DENIES SABOTAGING PACKERS
Brett Favre, conceding to being "angry," yesterday defiantly denied any wrongdoing regarding a report that he sought out Lions coaches last month to help them game-plan against his former team,...
590G HAUL IN PICK SIX
Belmont Park's ninth-race winner Kiss and Fly, a first-time starter, helped four lucky bettors cash their own $590,566.00 Pick Six ticket yesterday. All four winning tickets, which were bet off...
LOOK OUT FOR MCGAUGHEY'S HORSES
ARCADIA, Calif. - He may be low key and low profile, but no trainer in the history of the Breeders' Cup has amassed a better winning record than Claude R....
BREAKING DOWN EURO INVADERS
ARCADIA, Calif. - Because of several new races and a switch from dirt to synthetic Pro-Ride at Santa Anita, 26 European invaders are entered in the 14 Breeders' Cup races...
DEVILS, BRODEUR WALLOP STARS
As much as they could, six months later, the Devils shut up Sean Avery by shutout. Do not doubt that it was important to them. "He made a mockery of...
CLAUDE: I'D TOP SEAN AS BIGGEST RINK FINK
LET the record show that Sean Avery and Claude Lemieux played against one another twice in the NHL, once in 2001-02 and once in 2002-03 when Avery competed for the...
NO JERSEY JUSTICE FOR SEAN
THEY got their two points, they did what they had to do, they retained their focus, they spoke in almost universally bland hockey cliches, and what the Devils also did...
YANKS' PLANS MAY INCLUDE CAMERON
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - General manager Brian Cashman refused to confirm or deny that Mike Cameron is high on the Yankees' list of free-agent signings if the veteran outfielder becomes...
PIERCE LIKELY TO PLAY SUNDAY
After sitting out against the 49ers with a strained quadriceps muscle, middle linebacker Antonio Pierce is making strides to get back on the field. "Kind of ease his way in,"...
ELI, BIG BEN READY TO DUEL
It sure sounds as if Ben Roethlisberger is glad he's not Eli Manning, content he's doing his thing in Pittsburgh and not New York. "I don't mind where I'm at,"...
ISLANDERS ON MEND
The Islanders seem to be healing, at last. First, goalie Rick DiPietro got back on the ice. Now, defenseman Chris Campoli is close to returning from a shoulder injury that...
STRUGGLING DRURY KEEPIN' THE FAITH
With Chris Drury so far this season, there's been almost nothing in the way of offensive production. He's goal-less and he's almost assist-less. He's also at minus-five through nine games....
PAIN OR CHAMPAGNE FOR RED BULLS
The Red Bulls' task going into tonight's regular-season finale at Chicago (9 p.m., ESPN2, WADO 1280 AM) is simple, but hardly easy. Win and they're in. Lose or tie and...
NO RUST FOR NL CHAMPS
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Charlie Manuel had heard all about what a dangerous path his baseball team had taken to the World Series. He'd listened to Clint Hurdle last October,...
IT'S A GIVIN' - TROJANS WILL ROLL
TWENTY-NINE days ago, most people around here were fixated on a pennant race. It was Thursday, Sept. 25. The Mets defeated the Cubs, 7-6, at Shea, the Phillies were off,...
UCONN GETS BIG EAST NOD
Thirty isn't fatal, unless you're a basketball coach in the Big East. The only league to have sent three teams to a Final Four (1985) and eight teams to the...
RAYS GOT THE COLE SHOULDER
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Phillies were going to deal with a lot of adverse conditions, most of them quite foreign, in the World Series opener. They had not played...
MADSON, LIDGE LAND 1-2 PUNCH ... 1 MORE TIME
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Phillies still know how to make it a seven-inning game. Philadelphia's bullpen has been exceptional throughout the playoffs, and Game 1 of the World Series...
SPORTS SHORTS
NFL: Romo won't play Dallas QB Tony Romo, sidelined last week by a broken little finger, said he now doesn't expect to play again until at least mid-November. That means...
KAZ STARTS; ZAM GOES FARTHER SOUTH
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Stop reading, Mets fans. This is where you want to get off because the last thing you want to read is about Scott Kazmir and Victor...
UTLEY'S HR, HAMELS' PITCHING POWER PHILLY
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Cole Hamels in October is a five-star lock even on nights when his mates fail to hit in the clutch. Pitching for the fourth time in...
HONDO GOES WITH LOSER
It's not the end of the World. Tampa Bay showed no interest in Hondo's wad-expansion program last night, flopping in the opener to trim the bankroll to 310 trillos. Tonight,...
LEE TO TEST MARKET
Donnie Walsh loves David Lee, but he's not ready to marry him. The Knicks president prefers a summer wedding. Agent Mark Bartlestein told The Post that Walsh has decided against...
WILLIAMS ONE UNSELFISH NET
Yes, Sean Williams confirmed, he passed up the chance to start against the Knicks, telling Nets coach Lawrence Frank that Brook Lopez should be the choice. "I look at Brook...
CHELSEA
Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 1/2 Square feet: 1,006 Common charges: $1,014 -- "Super sleek, ultra-refined and elegant," this West 18th Street condo loft offers plenty of panache inside (stainless-steel kitchen,...
KENSINGTON, BROOKLYN
Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 870 Maintenance: $578 -- In this "painstakingly renovated" prewar co-op on Ocean Parkway, you'll find lots to like, such as an "oversized" foyer, sunken...
SADDLE RIVER, NJ
What's better than having your house decorated by a top designer? How about 25 of 'em? This 10,000-square-foot all-brick and precast concrete manor, site of this year's New Jersey Designer...
SOHO
How times change. This former gun supply shop on Centre Street is now a single-family townhouse that's both "palatial" (measuring approximately 5,000 square feet) and "luxuriously appointed." This isn't a...
UPPER WEST SIDE
Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 650 Maintenance: $1,121 -- A home in this neighborhood for under $1 million is a find, especially a good-sized one like this prewar co-op...
SCARSDALE, NY
Bedrooms: 5 Bathrooms: 4 1/2 Square feet: 3,229 -- It's the place to be! This conveniently located - "walk to school and train" - 1926 traditional home in the Greenacres...
GRAMERCY
Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 850 Maintenance: $897 -- This East 21st Street co-op makes a nice starter family home or a quite spacious one-bedroom - the choice is...
CARNEGIE HILL
In addition to high, beamed ceilings and "spacious" living and dining rooms, this classic eight on Park Avenue has had its grand prewar proportions enhanced by a "beautiful and tasteful"...
WHITESTONE, QUEENS
Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2 Lot square feet: 4,000 -- This "stately" brick/frame Colonial features a large master bedroom, two new bathrooms, a formal dining room, a big kitchen and a...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan EAST HARLEM $625,000 450 E. 117th St. One-bedroom, 1½-bath penthouse condo, 1,096 square feet, with two terraces, keyed elevator entry, gas fireplace, windowed kitchen with stainless-steel appliances, marble and...
UPSIDE DOWNTOWN
The forthcoming 56 Leonard, a 60-story residential tower set to rise in TriBeCa, represents the epitome of downtown luxury. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the...
'GOLD' DIGS
'Building a house often leads to divorce," Nelson DeMille says. "But my wife Sandy and I beat the odds. Building our home led to marriage." It all started when DeMille,...
RE-RAISING THE ROOF
Why not be bold in these uncertain economic times? One ambitious homeowner is now asking $75 million for a property that didn't sell when it was listed for $39 million...
Sixer Game Recap
By FRED KERBERSo a few long-time scouts watching the Nets allegedly play defense in the 118-100 loss to the Sixers gave drastically different assessments."Two problems that I see. They're very...
No One Benefits From EliteXC Demis
EliteXC becomes the latest mixed martial arts company to close its doors and that's not good for the fighters or other promotional companies, including UFC By GEORGE WILLISThe demise of...
SPITZER WAS A CLIENT: WICKED EX-MADAME
The former head of a high-end Manhattan call girl ring finally confirmed today that disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer was a client. Davis Gallery Kristin Davis, whose Wicked Models had more...
Bleich pitching well in HWL
The top Yankee draft pick to sign this summer, former Stanford lefty Jeremy Bleich struggled in his initial appearances in the Hawaiian Winter League. But he's quickly turned things around,...
Tejada, pitchers impressing in HWL
Ruben Tejada and a trio of Met prospects on the mound - Josh Stinson, Roy Merritt and Scott Shaw - have all impressed in their time in the Hawaiian Winter...