August 26, 2009
Walk of art
This is it: Your last chance to see some great art while you shop. All summer long, browsers on Fifth Avenue, between Dean and 18th streets, have been enjoying the...
PEREZ OUT FOR SEASON, TOO
MIAMI -- Jerry Manuel grew numb to the Mets' staggering rash of injuries a long time ago. That explains why Manuel barely blinked at news that Oliver Perez's hugely disappointing...
4 ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTED MURDER IN LAGUARDIA AIRPORT SHOOTING
Four people are accused of attempted murder in a botched drug deal after a man was robbed, shot and dumped at a taxi rest stop at New York's LaGuardia Airport....
FOX 5 Fantasy Special
FOX 5 will present a half-hour "Fantasy Victory Draft Special" on Thursday at 7:30.The program will offer detailed player rankings; analysis from fantasy football expert Paul Charchian; and NFL insider...
Sillinger retires from Islanders
APIslanders center Mike Sillinger is retiring after 17 years in the NHL because of an injured left hip."The decision was clear to me after dealing with hip surgery the last...
Barbed wire
It looks like mega-developer Extell's Gary Barnett got ripped off. Apparently, Extell was swindled by one of the title insurance companies with which it did business.Last week, Brian Madden, president...
Parker Posey withdraws from Off-B'Way's 'This'
NEW YORK -- Parker Posey has withdrawn from a lead role in the upcoming Playwrights Horizons' production of "This" after developing Lyme disease. Artistic director Tim Sanford says the play...
'SURVIVOR' WINNER STILL IN JAIL AFTER HEARING
BOSTON -- A lawyer for "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch is threatening to go to court if her client is not released soon from a Massachusetts county jail. Hatch had been...
FALL OUT BOY ARRESTED
LOS ANGELES -- Singer Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy has been arrested on a two-year-old warrant for driving without a valid license. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says the 25-year-old...
AUTHOR DOMINICK DUNNE DEAD AT 83
Author Dominick Dunne, who told stories of shocking crimes among the rich and famous through his magazine articles and best-selling novels such as "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles," died Wednesday at...
BEAR CLIMBS LADDER TO ESCAPE COLO. SKATE PARK
SNOWMASS, Colo. -- A bear that wandered into a sunken skateboard park and got stuck was rescued when officials lowered a ladder so it could climb out. The bear was...
Reaction to Sanchez as the starter
By MARK CANNIZZAROGreetings from Florham Park.Rex Ryan said he made a "gut'' decision about who his starting quarterback would be on Tuesday night, telling no one until he met with...
Horne off DL, sent to Charleston
You can now follow Beating the Bushes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYP_Bushes**********The Yankees' talented but oft-injured prospect Alan Horne has, once again, been reinstated from the disabled list, and has been transferred...
Yankees top draft picks in action
You can now follow Beating the Bushes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYP_Bushes**********Several of the Yankees' top draft picks from June's First-Year Player Draft, including Slade Heathcott and John Murphy, have begun their...
VIDEO SHOWS LOHAN BURGLARS DURING BREAK-IN
Hollywood Hills - Police today released surveillance camera images of a man and two women wanted for burglarizing Lindsay Lohan's Hollywood Hills home over the weekend.Read the Full Story at...
As season winds down, affiliates fight for playoff spots
You can now follow Beating the Bushes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYP_Bushes**********With less than two weeks to go before the regular season throughout the minor leagues comes to an end, various affiliates...
RICK PITINO: SEX SCANDAL 'PURE HELL' FOR FAMILY
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Louisville coach Rick Pitino said Wednesday a sex scandal involving a woman accused of trying to extort him has been "pure hell" for his family, and that...
Perez latest to be shut down
(UPDATED: 6 P.M.) MIAMI -- Oliver Perez's incredibly disappointing season is officially over: The left-hander will have season-ending surgery to address tendinitis in his right knee.Perez had been sent back...
Perez to have knee surgery
Mets pitcher Oliver Perez will have season-ending surgery to treat patella tendon tendinosis in his right knee.He was examined today by Mets Medical Director Dr. David Altchek at the Hospital...
1B/OF Carter one of two PTBNL for Wagner
You can now follow Beating the Bushes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYP_Bushes**********According to Baseball America, one of the two players the Mets acquired from the Red Sox for former closer Billy Wagner...
Game 127: Mets at Marlins
MIAMI -- A day after being engulfed in injury and trade madness, the Mets will try to snap a four-game losing streak here tonight when Mike Pelfrey takes on the...
Sanchez is Jets starter, not yours
No real surprise, but the Jets named Mark Sanchez the starting QB. this doesn't change his value in redraft leagues - he's still a low-end fantasy backup.In keeper leagues, he...
CANDIDATES IN 40TH COUNCIL DISTRICT BUTT HEADS
Sparks flew as candidates in the 40th Council District came face to face during a debate held at this newspaper's office. The debate, sponsored by this paper's publisher, Community Newspaper...
PHONE TAKERS NABBED
Thomas Tracy A crew of cell phone thieves was apprehended after they allegedly snagged an iPhone from a woman on the F train, area cops said. Robert Gajales, 17, and...
BEAT-NICK
Thomas Tracy Somewhere there's a sad song in this: a 39-year-old man was robbed of his drum machine at gunpoint during an altercation with a maniacal music lover. The victim...
BENEFIT BONANZA: LONGTIME LEGISLATORS CAN REAP RETIREMENT PACKAGES WHILE STILL IN OFFICE
If you want to stump long-standing state legislators, you don't have to ask them about gay marriage, the economy or mayoral control of city schools. Just ask them their age....
NICOLE MARWELL COMES BACK TO BROOKLYN
As a competitive primary season in North Brooklyn nears its dramatic conclusion, author Nicole Marwell returned to Williamsburg on Saturday to talk about her landmark study about how local nonprofits...
EDDIE CIBRIAN HAS FILED FOR DIVORCE
LOS ANGELES -- Eddie Cibrian is divorcing his wife of nearly eight years. Court records show the 36-year-old actor, who has appeared on TV shows such as "Ugly Betty" and...
Ted Kennedy in Brooklyn — a Brooklyn Paper flashback
Though best known for representing Massachusetts for 47 years in the Senate, Ted Kennedy was also known to gourmands in Brooklyn Heights. In June, 2001, Kennedy and his daughter Caroline...
Candidates in 40th Council District Butt Heads
Sparks flew as candidates in the 40th Council District came face to face during a debate held at this newspaper’s office.The debate, sponsored by this paper’s publisher, Community Newspaper Group,...
ACORN initiative aims at halting Brooklyn foreclosures
Several dozen members from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) gathered outside a Midwood dwelling last week to spotlight mortgage lenders not adjusting loans under a federal...
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: TED KENNEDY IN BROOKLYN â" A BROOKLYN PAPER FLASHBACK
Though best known for representing Massachusetts for 47 years in the Senate, Ted Kennedy was also known to gourmands in Brooklyn Heights. In June, 2001, Kennedy and his niece Caroline...
SMALL CARGO PLANE CRASHES IN CONGO, KILLING 6
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo -- A small cargo plane crashed into a cemetery Wednesday morning, killing six people, the country's top transport official said. The Antonov 12 cargo plane crashed...
And from the mailbag...
To the editor, The Boardwalk comfort station on Brighton Second Street has no working soap dispensers. There are eight broken dispensers on the men’s side and eight broken dispensers on...
World No. 1's Federer, Safina named US Open top
Five-time defending US Open champion and world No. 1 Roger Federer of Switzerland and world No. 1 Dinara Safina of Russia will be the top seeds at the 2009 US...
If You Missed It...
Kate Gosselin stood her ground when visiting "Larry King Live" last night. Watch.
BROOKLYN 'PERV' GETS 10 YEARS FOR ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING
A feisty 13-year-old who fought off a 6-foot-4 pervert tearfully told a Brooklyn judge today that the attack inside her building left her terrified to walk alone and struggling to...
MINE THAT BIRD OUT OF TRAVERS
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Deciding that discretion was the better part of valor, Mark Allen and Dr. Leonard Blach, the owners of Mine That Bird, and trainer Chip Woolley announced this...
DEMOCRATIC FUNDRAISER SPRUNG FROM THE CLINK
Disgraced Democratic fund-raiser Hassan Nemazee was released to house arrest this afternoon following a night behind bars in a downtown lockup. Nemazee, 59, emerged from the Manhattan federal courthouse shortly...
3 IN 4 VOTERS HAVE SEEN BLOOMBERG'S TV ADS: POLL
About three out of four New York City voters have seen Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign television ads. According to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, 78 percent of registered voters...
SEPT. 11 MEMORIAL OFFERS VIEW OF CONSTRUCTION
Visitors to the World Trade Center site can now watch live video of the construction at ground zero. A nearby exhibit opened Wednesday. The 9/11 Memorial Preview Site is housed...
No Time to Rest
With the postseason less than six weeks away, it's time to get Joba ready for the playoffs. Too much idle time is not a good thing.I was at the Stadium...
Reversals of Fortune
Just a reminder - I'm on Twitter. As Charlie Steiner said in the old SportsCenter commercial - "Follow me! Follow me to freedom!"A few things before today's list:It's worth pointing...
Slim pickings for WRs
With the NFL season fast approaching, it's time to get prepared for your fantasy draft. In Part 4 of a five-part series, the Fantasy Tracker gives you a look at...
GOV. SANFORD IGNORES CALLS FOR RESIGNATION
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Gov. Mark Sanford today ignored calls for his resignation by his lieutenant governor during a press conference. "I'm not going to railroaded out of this office by...
DEALS: Emirates from $755/RT
Our complete and utter dependence on foreign oil has at least one positive: tricked out Arab airlines. Specifically Emirates, whose economy seats could give most of our domestic first class...
Tannenbaum: 'Nothing imminent' with Leon
Help me reach my modest goal of 10010 100 followers on twitter.Leon Washington will have to keep waiting for his big payday.Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum told WFAN that 'nothing is...
Testing giant Stanley Kaplan dead
Testing giant Stanley Kaplan deadAnyone who’s taken an SAT or GRE knows the name Kaplan. This week, the man behind the testing center, Stanley Kaplan, died from heart failure. He...
Wright here, right now! Met star takes BP at Keyspan
Injured Met star David Wright showed up at Keyspan Park on Tuesday afternoon to take some batting practice and field grounders — evidence that he’s almost ready to join his...
'ONE TREE HILL' ACTOR STILL ON TV AFTER NYC PLEA
NEW YORK -- An actor who pleaded guilty in New York City to a Social Security number scheme will appear in at least the first several new episodes of the...
Sanchez is Rex's man
By MARK CANNIZZAROPredictably, Mark Sanchez has been named the Jets' starting quarterback.Practice is still an hour away here at the team's Florham Park, N.J. training facility, but Rex Ryan informed...
Papelbon reached out to Wagner
Help me reach my modest goal of 10010 100 followers on twitter.After a lecture by Red Sox General Manager, Theo Epstein, Jonathan Papelbon reached out to Billy Wagner to let...
ACLU SPIES ENDANGER AMERICA
At The Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens on Liberals and the CIANew Majority attacks outing undercover agents
LOCKERBIE LESSONS
Obama incapable of terror fight says Mark Davis at The Dallas Morning NewsCon Coughlin says terror fight means keeping bad guy behind bars
JOE'S CRITIQUE MAY TURN TIDE
At Forbes Dan Gerstein says Democrats are their own worst enemyAt Fortune, Allan Sloane says problems start with 1,000 page legislation
NYERS MOURN KENNEDY'S DEATH AT ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL
People from New York City and beyond are pausing at St. Patrick's Cathedral to reflect on the life of Sen. Edward Kennedy. Kennedy Dies at 77Obama Calls Kennedy Greatest Senator...
Serie A: A League of 'Our Own'
It's official -- Italy's Serie A clubs confirmed Wednesday that they will split from the second division Serie B in an attempt to make up ground on England's Premier League.The...
Junior's. Nathan's. <i>Yassky?</i>
They’ll take a “Yassky”? Councilman David Yassky quickly put his endorsement by Borough President Markowitz this week to good use, releasing a TV ad that will start airing today featuring...
Coverage in The Post
MIAMI -- One of the more remarkable days (and not in a good way) in the Mets' recent sad-sack history Tuesday featured two season-ending injuries, a possibly a third and...
KATE GOSSELIN TO GUEST HOST 'THE VIEW'
ABC is adding Kate Gosselin to the list of guest co-hosts for "The View."VIDEO: Kate Gosselin on 'Larry King' Last Night Celebrity mom Gosselin will be subbing for regular "View"...
MAN KILLED IN CAR CRASH WITH DUMP TRUCK
A man has been killed in a car accident on the Brooklyn bridge. New York City police say the victim was driving toward Manhattan when his car collided with a...
3 UP: OMAR, WAGNER AND JOBA
Yes, I am on Twitter.1. I proposed writing a column to my office yesterday early in the afternoon shortly after it was revealed that Billy Wagner had, indeed, been traded...
SANCHEZ WILL BE JETS STARTING QUARTERBACK
Jets head coach Rex Ryan said he made a gut decision about his starting quarterback on Tuesday night, telling no one until he met with Mark Sanchez and Kellen Clemens...
Report: Jets name Sanchez starter
FOXSports.com reports Rex Ryan has informed Mark Sanchez that he will be the Jets' starting quarterback.The No. 5 pick in this year's NFL Draft beat out veteran Kellen Clemens.It was...
OBAMA CALLS KENNEDY GREATEST SENATOR OF OUR TIME
President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the nation lost "the greatest United States senator of our time" with the death of Ted Kennedy. "For five decades, virtually every major piece...
REPUBLICANS JOIN DEMOCRATS IN MOURNING TED KENNEDY
BOSTON -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was a Democrat's Democrat, so much so that he became a rallying point for those in his party and an object of derision for...
KENNEDY: ALWAYS IN THE PUBLIC SPOTLIGHT
In the quiet of a Capitol elevator, one of Edward M. Kennedy's fellow lawmakers asked whether he had plans for a family Thanksgiving away from the nation's capital. No, the...
ACLU SPIES ENDANGER AMERICA
SAVOR the silence of America's self-serving champions of privacy. For once, the American Civil Liberties Union has nothing bad to say about the latest case of secret domestic surveillance --...
TIGER SLAYER IS YANG AT HEART
IF Y.E. Yang looks a little weary these days, it's with good reason. During the first week after his stunning upset of Tiger Woods at the PGA Championship, Yang got...
AFTER SORRY START, YANKEES COMEBACK FALLS ONE RUN SHORT
The Yankees appeared ready to produce another one of their patented late-inning comebacks last night against Texas, but the whipped cream stayed on ice this time. BOX SCORETONIGHT'S PREVIEW: Rangers...
IT'S TRAVERS D-DAY FOR MINE THAT BIRD
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Heading to the track at 8 a.m. yesterday accompanied by trainer Chip Woolley and co-owners Mark Allen and Dr. Leonard Blach, Mine That Bird had his first...
HONDO GOES FOURTH
Ice, ice, Hondo! The cold snap continued last night for Mr. Aitch, who stumbled with the 'Stros and Jays to raise the deficit to 510 pizarros. Tonight, he's hoping to...
GARDNER HOPES TO RETURN IN A WEEK
Brett Gardner took another step toward returning to the lineup yesterday when he swung a bat for the first time in a month. BOX SCORETONIGHT'S PREVIEW: Rangers at Yankees If...
WHAT RANGERS VICTORY MEANS
After Texas shortstop Elvis Andrus had done his best Usain Bolt impression _ outsprinting pinch-runner Jerry Hairston Jr. to the second base bag for a game-inning double-play _ the Rangers...
BLUEFISH TOURNEY OFFERS BIG CATCH
The 27th Annual Greatest Bluefish Tournament on Earth is Saturday and Sunday on the Long Island Sound, with guaranteed cash prizes totaling over $45,000. This year's tournament offers a grand...
Bayside counting on new QB Antoine
Kevin Antoine never played quarterback before -- not even in Pop Warner leagues as a youngster. But the Bayside senior, who started last season at free safety, is going to...
SHOWDOWN AT SARATOGA
Post handicappers John DaSilva, Ed Fountaine and two-time defending champion Vic Cangialosi challenge former champion steeplechase jockey, OTB backstretch insider and co-publisher of the Saratoga Special, Sean Clancy, as they...
NIGHTLIFE GETS BRIGHTER
LIKE a lot of industries, nightlife in New York City has had a rough year. We lost a few good clubs for non-economic reasons (RIP, Beatrice Inn), as well as...
The 'bust' is a bust
WHAT a disastrous, wipeout summer for restaurants it isn't. An overload of doom-and-gloom stories briefly made it seem that half of New York's eateries were on the brink of extinction....
DUMP THIS 'STOCK'!
ANG Lee's "Taking Woodstock" achieves an amazing feat: It turns the fabled music festival, a key cultural moment of the late 20th century, into an exceedingly lame, heavily clichéd, thumb-sucking...
ACTORS' 'Q' TIPS
LADY Luck has been subletting a place on "Avenue Q" since the smash hit made its off-Broadway premiere in March 2003. That run was extended four times, until the show...
Ab fab!
IT was the gut heard 'round the world. On Page 194 of Glamour's September issue, one photo of a near-naked woman has become a hot topic. All because of one...
MOTHER-IN-LAW IN 'GAG' ORDER
A Brooklyn woman who's sick of being the butt of her comedian daughter-in-law's jokes has sued to get the last laugh. Ruth Zafrin, of Midwood, claims her son's wife, veteran...
WRIGHT KEEPS FOCUS ON MONDAY RETURN
Finally, a Met who's feeling better. Third baseman David Wright provided the disarrayed Mets universe a welcome sliver of good news yesterday when he reported feeling no symptoms of the...
OMAR KEEPS HURTIN' AMAZIN'S REP
FOR a little while, yesterday could have been classified as one of the finer days of the Mets' season.BOX SCOREHARDBALL BLOGSHERMAN ON TWITTER Sure, Johan Santana needed surgery and all...
PITCHING PAINS KEEP COMING
MIAMI -- Johan Santana's surgery wasn't the only downbeat pitching news for the Mets yesterday, just the biggest.BOX SCOREMETS BLOGHUBBUCH ON TWITTER The club also announced Oliver Perez has returned...
THROGS NECK HARDHAT KILLED
A Long Island crane operator was killed in a freak construction accident on the Throgs Neck Bridge yesterday, authorities said. William Barnes, 48, of Port Washington was guiding the boom...
FIRE HERO KIN AGREE TO $1M
The family of firefighter Robert Beddia, killed in the 2007 blaze at the condemned Deutsche Bank building, has an agreement to settle claims stemming from the doomed demolition of the...
HOME FOR NARROW MINDED
You have to be pretty skinny to fit into this address. At 9½ feet wide, it's the narrowest house in Manhattan. But given that it's located in the heart of...
BRIT PM RIPS LOCKERBEAST WELCOME
LONDON -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown broke his silence on the Lockerbie bomber yesterday, saying he was repulsed by the hero's welcome Libya gave the convicted mass murderer. Abdel...
NBA REF GETS THROWN BACK IN CAGE
Prison authorities called a foul on disgraced former NBA ref Tim Donaghy after he made a stop at a gym without permission from officials at a Florida halfway house where...
ON HECTIC DAY, WAGS ALSO BIDS FAREWELL TO METS
MIAMI -- A dizzyingly chaotic day for the snake-bitten Mets ended with Johan Santana and J.J. Putz out for the season, Oliver Perez not far behind, Billy Wagner on his...
LOCKERBIE LESSONS
PRESIDENT Obama is lucky. The scandal over the re lease of convicted terrorist bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, which is melting down the political class in Britain and Scotland, offers powerful...
BLOOMBERG BARES PLAN TO BOOST ELDERLY
With little more than two months before Election Day, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday unveiled 59 initiatives to improve the lives of seniors -- who just happen to be the city's most...
MANHATTAN RENTS IN THE BA$EMENT
Good news for Manhattan tenants: rents are still falling. On one-bedroom apartments in doormen buildings, rents dropped 10 percent from last August, to an average of $3,274, according to the...
CRASH OR CREDIT?
That's plane amazing! A quick-acting pilot experiencing engine trouble landed his small airplane yesterday in the parking lot of a New Jersey mall -- without hurting anyone on the ground....
THOMPSON WAS LAX ON TAX FOR PROPERTIES
City Comptroller William Thompson was delinquent on property taxes for a year on land and a house in Massachusetts he inherited from his mother, documents reviewed by The Post reveal....
JACKIE O BRO INDICTED FOR KID PORN AND SEX ABUSE
Jackie Kennedy Onassis' half-brother, who has been shunned by the Kennedy clan for his bizarre obsession with a young JFK Jr., has been indicted in Oregon on kiddie-porn and child...
RIHANNA'S 5-YEAR BROWN-OUT
Six months of hard community labor is one thing. But the harshest part of Chris Brown's sentence for the bloody beatdown of ex-girlfriend Rihanna may be a five-year communication blackout....
'DOUGH' WHITE GAL WINS $5M
Here's a story about Snow White and the seven figures. In a fairy-tale twist, a smoking-hot actress who played Snow White at Disneyland walked off with a cool $5.2 million...
CONFLICT CRIES OVER GREEN'S FAMILY TIES
Public-advocate hopeful Mark Green has years-old financial ties to his real-estate mogul brother, raising questions about potential conflicts of interest if he wins back his old job this fall, experts...
SENATOR TED KENNEDY DEAD AT 77
Ted Kennedy, the liberal lion of the US Senate -- and the youngest and last surviving brother of the legendary political dynasty heralded as a modern-day Camelot -- died at...
CHARLIE'S 'BURIED' TREASURE
WASHINGTON -- Embattled Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel -- who is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee -- failed to reveal personal assets totaling as much as $780,000 in financial-disclosure...
STARR REPORT
They're two legitConcetta Tomei ("Provi dence," "China Beach") will segue to the boards in the Sept. 8 premiere of "In The Daylight" at the McGinn Ca zale Theatre (2162 Broad...
'CRASH' DUMMIES
BUCKLE up your seat belts and throw away your brains. ABC has come up with the dopiest, most ridiculous, completely idiotic reality series they've ever put on the air. And...
TWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
PAULA Abdul got a job in Brooklyn yesterday. Abdul, who announced last month she's not returning to "American Idol," will host "VH1 Divas," the first "Divas" installment to air in...
IT'S NOT 'GREATNESS' -- IT'S GRATING
HALFWAY through Dan iel MacIvor's "His Greatness," I briefly wondered where the show was going. Then I realized I wasn't sure where it had been. An aging American writer (Peter...
JUST MOM & ME
CASSIDY Gifford is all grown up. The pretty 16-year-old was spotted out in Beverly Hills on Robertson Boulevard, boutique shopping alongside mom Kathie Lee Gifford. Cassidy and her older brother,...
SIMON SINGER ROCKS 'TODAY'
SUSAN Boyle mania is officially over -- there's a new British reality show YouTube star in town and he'll be on "Today" tomorrow. Eager to get a jump on the...
RANDY MANDY B'WAY DANDY
THE last time Mandy Patinkin ap peared in a Broadway show, his nut tiness got the better of him. The show was "The Wild Party," produced in 2000, and Patinkin...
TIME TO GIVE LAYOFF A REST
ENOUGH with all the extra rest for Joba Chamberlain. In less than six weeks, the playoffs begin. It's time to take off the bubble wrap and let Joba be Joba....
JETS LEFT WAITING FOR QB TO STEP UP
It appears the decision is going to have to wait. JETS BLOG Despite his desire to decide who the Jets starting quarterback will be by this week, there's no way...
D DOESN'T IMPRESS REX
Rex Ryan, already having a lot to deal with as his two top quarterbacks were throwing passes to the opposition Monday night, wasn't thrilled with his defense, either. JETS BLOG...
GIANTS' ROSS MAY MISS OPENER
ALBANY -- The final day of training camp is supposed to be spent with a quick workout on the field, a quick scan of the dorm rooms for any personal...
ROOKIE NICKS DROPS THE BALL
ALBANY -- The day after he had what Tom Coughlin described as his best practice of training camp, rookie receiver Hakeem Nicks yesterday contracted a case of the drops. He...
VIJAY SET FOR PLAYOFF PUSH
The reigning Tour playoff champ says he would run it differently. Much differently. Instead of accumulating survival points during a four-tournament cutdown, Vijay Singh says players should be eliminated solely...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: Bay's blast boosts Boston In Boston, Jason Bay hit a solo homer to break an eighth-inning tie, and Jacoby Ellsbury had three hits to go with his franchise-record 55th...
SAN ANTONIO NEXT FOR SOUTH SHORE
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- South Shore has dodged another bullet, this one colored baby blue. Bring on Texas! In tonight's U.S. semifinals of the Little League World Series, Staten Island's heroes...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn He was duped by a doll. A Brownsville jewelry store employee was shot by two robbers yesterday after they tricked him into coming out from behind his glass shield....
CHENEY: HALT PROBE OF CIA
Dick Cheney launched a counterattack on CIA critics yesterday, saying the agency's interrogations of terror suspects "saved lives and prevented terrorist attacks." The former vice president blasted the Obama administration's...
5-CAR BLAST KILLS 41 IN AFGHANISTAN
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Five car bombs detonated in a single, simultaneous blast yesterday in Afghanistan's largest southern city, flattening buildings and killing at least 41 people, officials said. The force...
PATERSON: I SHOULDN'T HAVE MADE RACE REMARKS
This morning, Gov. Paterson again attempted to get beyond his controversial remarks on race, admitting he "overreacted" and "shouldn't have said it - straight out" during a second appearance on...
SAVORING THAT BOOK
Looks like President Obama is one slow reader. The commander in chief's list of beach books for his Martha's Vineyard vacation includes an environmental best seller that he bragged about...
'WINKY DINK' BERNIE
An investor who says she had an affair with Bernard Madoff 16 years ago explained yesterday that she described the super-scammer as "not well-endowed" because she thought the detail was...
GAL KOS DEAL IN PUG-LY COP SPAT
The Brooklyn dog owner who allegedly got into a shouting match with the NYPD's first Hasidic police officer turned down a plea deal yesterday that would have ended the case...
MTA DEMANDS ITS PIECE OF THE PIEPHONE
The MTA has a message for iPhone application developers: Thumbs off those train schedules! Agency marketing and legal bigs are going after computer programmers who use schedule information to make...
9/11 TRIBUTE PREVIEW
The official opening of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum is still years away, but visitors to Ground Zero now have a "preview site" where they can share their...
BX. HERO'S TALE
A gutsy Bronx clerk's barehanded attack on an armed robber might sound like a death wish to most people. But the hero yesterday told The Post that doing nothing would...
YOGIS GET A YO-GIFT
ALBANY -- Yoga instructors in New York state can take a deep, cleansing breath and chant, "Ommmmm." State education officials have dropped plans to require yogis to have licenses before...
SUNBATHING OBAMA BURNING US TO A CRISP
WASHINGTON -- Sunning lazily this week on the rocky shores of Martha's Vineyard, President Obama is in a terrible pickle. He has flushed billions of taxpayers' hard-earned dollars down the...
SAT SCORES HIT FLOOR IN DRAMATIC PLUMMET
City and state scores on SATs spiraled downward for the fourth straight year, according to new data. Since hitting a peak in 2005, the city's average score on each 800-point...
HIGH LINE HOTEL ENCOURAGES NUDE CLIENTELE
If you've got it, flaunt it! That's the rule -- not the exception -- at the exhibitionist-friendly Standard Hotel in the Meatpacking District, employees told The Post. Photo Gallery: Peep...
CALL FOR BAN ON CITY'S TOUR COPTERS
An activist group yesterday urged the City Council to ban tourist helicopter flights such as the one involved in a midair collision over the Hudson River that killed nine people....
O: SAY, CAN YOU SEE $9T DEFICIT
Ouch! The federal deficit is on track to hit $9 trillion over the next decade -- $2 trillion more than the White House predicted in May, according to estimates the...
BAM $$ GUY BUSTED ON BANK-FRAUD RAP
A major fund-raiser for President Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton yesterday surrendered to the feds on a charge he scammed Citibank into lending him more than $74 million. Investment...
PLAXICO AND VICK HUDDLE
Plaxico Burress says he's spoken to ex-jailbird quarterback Michael Vick about what life is like in prison. "He said, 'You're going to get through it.' He said, 'There'll be better...
COPS SET TO BUST JACKO'S WACKO DOCS
Jacko's "quackos" are about to be shackled. Investigators have told Michael Jackson's family they are ready to make "multiple arrests" of doctors who kept the King of Pop loopy with...
KARZAI IN DEADLOCK WITH RIVAL
KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai and his main rival, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, were running virtually even yesterday in the first fragmented returns from last week's Afghan election,...
'FORGETFUL' CHARLIE FINDS ANOTHER 780G
WASHINGTON -- Embattled Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel -- who is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee -- failed to reveal personal assets totaling as much as $780,000 in financial-disclosure...
TOBACCO WILL KILL 6M IN 2010
WASHINGTON -- Tobacco use worldwide will kill 6 million people next year from cancer, heart disease, emphysema and a range of other ills, an American Cancer Society report said yesterday....
JEN'S CO-STAR IN A DOGFIGHT
Jennifer Aniston's new leading man, Gerard Butler, is locked in a nasty pug-of-war with an elderly Queens couple. The hunky actor claims that he got into a verbal tussle with...
BROOKLYN BODY HUNT CALLED OFF
The feds have stopped searching a Brooklyn home for the body of a court translator, who disappeared two years ago. The search through the Sea Gate home of Dmitriy and...
Bowlmor looks to 'strike' deal
TIMES Square may soon have a bowling-alley trifecta. Bowlmor Lanes, the trendy Union Square spot that made rolling balls a blast for the celebrity cocktail jet set, wants to put...
HEALTH FOODS FIGHT
A union-backed investor called on Whole Foods to oust its controversial CEO John Mackey, charging a recent opinion piece Mackey wrote on health-care reform alienates the pricey grocery chain's left-leaning...
Four hoods mug a man
90th PrecinctWilliamsburg–BushwickIt takes four Four vicious hoods beat down a man and stole his messenger bag at the corner of White and McKibbin streets on Aug. 21. The victim was...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Hiring More than half the em ployers in a new poll say they plan to hire full- time employees in the next 12 months, accord ing to research from Rob...
MARTS GET BOOST FROM SECURE SHOPPERS
Equity markets received a shot in the arm yesterday, as a batch of positive economic news -- including rising home prices and a rebound in consumer confidence -- lending credence...
YOUTUBE'S VIRAL CLIPS CASH IN
Google Inc.'s YouTube will let users get a portion of the site's advertising revenue when a video goes "viral" and draws a wide audience. A clip will qualify for the...
GOLDMAN'S 'TRADING HUDDLES' CALLED OFFSIDES: GALVIN
William Galvin, Massachusetts's chief financial regulator, subpoenaed Goldman Sachs demanding information on the firm's dissemination of analysts' tips to major clients and its own traders. Goldman Sachs research analysts give...
SONY'S KINDLE(ING)
Call it the Kindle killer. Struggling consumer-electronics giant Sony yesterday took a big step toward trying to loosen Amazon.com's grip on the electronic-reading device market, launching a new version that...
USPS JOBS-BUYOUT TARGET: $500M
The US Postal Service is hoping to save as much as $500 million by offering financial incentives to employees who resign or retire before year end. Eligible employees -- members...
HOW DOES DIMON PAY?
NOW that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has emerged as the accidental media mogul who may control the biggest magazine empire in America -- the bank owns or wields considerable...
TRASHES BOFA, SEC
A federal judge in Manhattan ripped to shreds the arguments made by Bank of America and the Securities and Exchange Commission in defense of a $33 million settlement over allegations...
COOLER HEADS PREVAIL AS BERNANKE RETURNS AS FED CHAIR
Tim Geithner and Sheila Bair just got schooled by Ben Bernanke. As Geithner and Bair publicly duked it out over who should be in charge of leading Uncle Sam's rescue...
PARAMOUNT RENTAL DEAL
Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures agreed to continue to provide Coinstar Inc.'s Redbox DVD rental kiosks with new releases through the end of the year after other Hollywood studios delayed titles....
TAPPING THE HIGH LINE'S ASSETS
The folks who run the West Side's glitzy new High Line park wisely have abandoned plans to seek a special neighborhood tax to finance upkeep of the aerial esplanade. But,...
OBAMA'S ABYSS
President Obama's budget folks yes terday upped their estimate of the fiscal hole they plan to dig over the next 10 years from $7 trillion to $9 trillion. No biggie,...
A RACE TO THE BOTTOM: DAVE'S UNFAIR CHARGE
*** For our governor to use the racial excuse would be laughable if it wasn't so pathetic ("Dave's Downfall All Bumbling, No Bigotry," Leonard Greene, Aug. 23). For a minority...
PRESCRIPTION: DEBT
DEMOCRATIC members of Congress are now trying to decide whether they're better off abandoning ObamaCare and inviting the administration's wrath -- or supporting it and inviting their constitu ents' wrath....
I'LL STICK WITH MAIMONIDES
DID President Obama realize just how offensive it was to pitch his health reforms as "a core ethical and moral obligation"? I don't take guidance on how to practice medicine...
JOE'S CRITIQUE MAY TURN TIDE
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...
WITCH-HUNTING THE WATCHMEN
"It's disgraceful. You wonder which side they're on. . . Either the president is intentionally caving to the left wing of his party, or he's lost control of his administration....
Six men, one woman, one cellphone
76th PrecinctCarroll Gardens– Cobble Hill–Red HookGang of six Police arrested six men, ranging from 16–26 years old, for stealing a cellphone from a woman on the subway at the Bergen...
Joe Sitt locks out his theme park operator — and our readers chime in
Our online story this week about Joe Sitt closing his own Coney Island amusement park in a rent dispute really got people talking. Here’s what people had to say.“So sad...
Our editors' picks!
SaturdayAugust 29Got soul? The closing night of the two-night “Brooklyn Soul Festival” will feature Otis Clay (pictured, who had a hit with “Trying to Live My Life Without You”) and...
JACKIE HALF BROTHER INDICTED ON CHILD PORN CHARGES
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' half brother, who as a boy carried her wedding train up the aisle but later became estranged from her, has been indicted on felony...
Slope library branch to close for a year or more
Park Slope’s busy public library branch will shut down this fall — perhaps for a year or more — while the city renovates the building to make it more accessible to the...
Report: U.S. U-17 stars Renken & Gyau to Bundesliga's Hoffenheim
U.S. Under-17 standouts Charles Renken and Joseph-Claude Gyau are headed to Europe...kind of. They're moving from the U-17 residency program in Bradenton, Fla. to Bundesliga upstart 1899 Hoffenheim according to...
Never Too Old To Play
ReutersFormer Fiorentina goalkeeper Lamberto Boranga has come out of retirement at the age of 66 to play for L'Ammeto in the Italian amateur leagues."I will do it because a friend...
A commanding win keeps the Cyclones on top
Lake Monsters 1Cyclones 3Tuesday, Aug. 24 at Keyspan Park Starter Collin McHugh, who has been good all year long, was dominant, yielding just three hits in six innings, striking out...
Our weekly events calendar!
Fri, Aug. 28Urban Plant Art: Brooklyn artist Sara Bouchard and German artist Leslie Kuo investigate urban plants together. Includes discussion, participation, and walks through the neighborhood. Free. Open Source Gallery...
A fortnight of Redford films
Even if you miss Robert Redford’s two-night stand at the Brooklyn Academy of Music next month, there will still be hours and hours of Redford to soak in during BAMcinematek’s...
Testing giant Stanley Kaplan dead
Testing giant Stanley Kaplan deadAnyone who’s taken an SAT or GRE knows the name Kaplan. This week, the man behind the testing center, Stanley Kaplan, died from heart failure. He...
BURRESS HOPING TO RETURN TO NFL AFTER PRISON TERM
Plaxico Burress says he plans to return to the NFL after serving a two-year prison sentence on a weapons charge. In an ESPN interview broadcast Tuesday night, the former Giants...