August 21, 2008

Game 128: Braves at Mets

The first-place Mets are going for their ninth win in the past 10 games tonight when Pedro Martinez (pictured) takes on the Braves in the final game of a three-game...

RANGERS TO RETIRE GRAVES' JERSEY FEB. 3

The Rangers announced today that the organization will retire jersey No. 9 in honor of Adam Graves prior to the Rangers-Thrashers game on Tuesday, Feb. 3. The team will retire...

KHLOE ENTERS 'APPRENTICE' BOARDROOM

Khloe Kardashian has joined the ranks of "Celebrity Apprentice." NBC won't confirm anything, but Kardashian, 23, is a go for the new season, sources told The Post. Khloe stars on...

BEIJING 08: Lost in translation

Apparently, "technical timeout" translates as "dance around in your bikinis."-- photo by Lisa Costantini

Jets, Giants Mourn Upshaw

By PAUL SCHWARTZ AND MARK CANNIZZAROThe Giants were shocked and saddened upon hearing of the death of Gene Upshaw, the head of the NFL Players Association, who passed away at...

SI'S KING RIPS JETS FANS

If Jets fans do not pack the house for Saturday's preseason game against the Giants, they'd better expect a tongue lashing from Sports Illustrated columnist Peter King. Unless you happen...

Coke selected as EL All-Star

Despite being called up to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre last month, Phil Coke has been named one of the Double-A Eastern League's All-Star team for his performance with Double-A Trenton.The 26-year-old...

Giants mourn loss of Upshaw

By PAUL SCHWARTZThe Giants were shocked and saddened upon hearing of the death of Gene Upshaw, the head of the NFL Players Association, who passed away at the age of...

A Few of Najera’s Favorite Things

By FRED KERBERForget raindrops on roses and brown paper packages and stuff. Eduardo Najera has a long list of things he likes about the Nets already. Among them:He likes being...

Lassiter has impressive pro debut

Along with sixth-round pick Brett Marshall, the Gulf Coast League Yankees had another prospect making his professional debut in shortstop Garrison Lassiter. The 18-year-old High Point, N.C. native, who was...

How to get into Fashion Shows: Tip #1

For non-industry people, it's always hard to get tickets to fashion week. Begging and stealing work, but, you know, only to a certain extent. And if you're an American Express...

Jets pay tribute to Gene Upshaw

There were a few themes to today at Jets camp, the first day on a regular-season schedule with training camp having come to a close on Wednesday.There, of course was...

Kennedy knocked around for SWB

Ian Kennedy had his first rough start in awhile for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre yesterday, giving up four runs on seven hits in five innings yesterday, taking the loss against Rochester....

Preseason sked

By MARC BERMANKnicks announced their seven-game preseason schedule today. The opener - Danilo Gallinari vs. Andrea Bargnani - in Toronto. And there's a home-and-home with Boston.The schedule is as follows:...

Marshall has successful pro debut

Brett Marshall, the Yankees sixth-round pick in the June draft, threw a scoreless inning for the Gulf Coast League Yankees in his professional debut yesterday.Marshall struck out one and walked...

PAVANO TO START SATURDAY AGAINST ORIOLES

TORONTO - Counting on the American Idle. That's what this nightmare of a season has come to for the Yankees, who this afternoon informed Carl Pavano that he will be...

PBA MEMBERS GETTING A RAISE

The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association has negotiated a tentative contract deal with the Bloomberg Administration, giving its members raises equaling 17 percent over 4 years. The deal, which must still be...

HANK: MEDIA HATE THE YANKEES

Now it's the media's fault. Hank Steinbrenner, who has gone out of his way to emphasize how much injuries have hurt the Yankees this season, told the new Sporting News...

'Runway' Show Far From a 'Drag'

Click here for more photos from last night's showChris announces that the challenge this week will be to create outfits for – wait for it - drag queens. Terri loves...

Scene-NYC streets

Sara Huber, who works for Thakoon, wears the Thakoon For Gap shirt dress with a Devi Kroell bag and Opening Ceremony patent cut-out ballet flats.Sara says she is, "Trying to...

Scene-NYC streets

Shelly Zander, who models and works in film production, wears an adorable Marc by Marc Jacobs T-shirt dress with Converse sneakers, a Bing Bang necklace, and a Matt & Nat...

Scene-NYC streets

ON DECK: BRAVES AT METS

Mike Hampton was the ace the last time the Mets advanced to the World Series in 2000. Hampton left New York after one season, bolting for a big-money contract with...

ON DECK: YANKEES AT BLUE JAYS

David Purcey, no problem. Roy Halladay, now that's another a story. If the Yankees are to build on last night's 5-1 win over Toronto tonight (7:07, YES, WCBS), they will...

THURSDAY'S OLYMPICS VIEWERS GUIDE

WHAT TO WATCH TONIGHT: Although it's a night off from the insane exploits of Usain Bolt -- yesterday was his world-record run in the 200 meters, tomorrow night is his...

TODAY'S PENNANT RACE BREAKDOWN

The Red Sox and Rays are off tonight. Boston will head to Toronto to take on the Blue Jays tomorrow, and Tampa Bay goes to Chicago to take on the...

NIXON JOINS QUENTIN CRISP SEQUEL

Nixon has found a new running mate. Former "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon will co-star in the British sequel to "The Naked Civil Servant," in which John Hurt...

Reality TV Tryouts: 'The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency'

How to get your 15 seconds of fame.Supermodel Janice Dickinson will judge a modeling competition - a "walk off" - of hundreds of model wannabes, drag queens and fans strutting...

Pitching set for Astros series

A duel of aces Friday night between Johan Santana and Houston's Roy Oswalt highlights the pitching matchups in a four-game series with the resurgent Astros at Shea Stadium. Here is...

Coverage in today's Post

The first-place Amazin's are on the verge of sweeping the Braves after Mike Pelfrey (pictured) pitched just the third complete game by a Mets pitcher this season Wednesday night at...

U.S. Women Win Gold Medal

APBEIJING -- Outplayed and undermanned for most of the night, the Americans got the only shot they needed. Olympic champions, once again.Carli Lloyd scored in the sixth minute of overtime...

Can the Mets be kings of NY?

From JOEL SHERMANIn the early editions of Thursday's Post -- in other words, one you will not be seeing online -- I suggested that a door has opened for the...

3 UP: Can the Mets Be Kings of NY?

1. In the early editions of Thursday's Post -- in other words, one you will not be seeing on line -- I suggested that a door has opened for the...

'Dakota Fanning Rape Movie' Slammed with D'uh, R Rating

For months, Empire Film Group has been telling exhibitors -- and proclaiming in press releases -- that it anticipated a re-edited version of the controversial Southern Gothic drama "Hounddog'' would...

Bunny Hop

Hugh Hefner -- whose acting career stretches back at least as far as playing the manager of a Playboy Club in a 1965 episode of "Burke's Law'' -- has perhaps...

DVD Extra: 3-D is Comin' At Ya!

I interviewed the esteemed George Feltenstein of Warner Home Video the other day for an upcoming print piece on WHV's stupendous restoration of "How the West Was Won,'' which digitally...

A NEW GOLD STANDARD: PHELPS DOES US PROUD

In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Michael Phelps has distinguished himself as the greatest Olympian in history and made America proud ("A New Golden Age for Phelps," Aug. 19). He has...

ROOM TO GROW

Steve Cuozzo's latest unfair hit on Fiterman Hall will not deter CUNY from working with city and state officials to obtain sufficient funding to start the rebuilding before the irreparably...

SCHOOL JEWEL

OAKLAND, CALIF. SEATED at a solitary desk in the hall outside a classroom, the slender 13-year-old boy earnestly does remedial algebra, assisted by a paid tutor. She, too, is 13....

AS NATION SAYS 'DRILL,' NANCY SAYS 'STALL'

THIS summer, rather than taking a family vacation, many Americans had to take on a second or third job to offset rising energy costs. Meanwhile, Congress has done . ....

BARACK'S FAVORS FOR CORRUPT CRONY

Barack Obama has ad mitted it was "boneheaded" to get involved in a land deal with Tony Rezko, his friend and fund-raiser. But the media's focus on that deal has...

HILLARY'S HELLIONS

'WELL-behaved women rarely make history": That old feminist rallying cry could be Hillary Clinton's new motto. While in Denver to officially support Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee, Sen. Clinton...

153 DEAD IN FIERY DISASTER

A Spanish jetliner headed to a popular European vacation spot plowed into a tree-covered ravine during takeoff and burst into hellish flames, flinging charred bodies and smoldering wreckage over a...

LOTTERY

NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 441; Lucky Sum: 9 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 5031; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Nos. Wed: 586; Lucky Sum: 19 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 3592;...

MCCAIN JUGGERNAUT WIPES OUT O'S LEAD IN PREZ POLLS

Barack Obama's lead over John McCain has collapsed, according to the latest polls, including a Wall Street Journal/NBC survey that last night showed the race in a statistical dead heat....

FLIERS GET AN AIR 'NET

Surfing and flying now go together on American Airlines, which yesterday launched full Internet access on many long-distance flights. Travelers heading from New York to San Francisco, Los Angeles and...

DUBYA IN IRAQ ATTACK

WASHINGTON - President Bush fired his most direct shot yet at Democratic nominee Barack Obama yesterday, warning against political promises to set timetables for withdrawal from Iraq. "The commander in...

OBAMA CASTS VIRGINIA REEL

MARTINSVILLE, Va. - Barack Obama barnstormed through southern Virginia yesterday with possible running mates, as signs point to a dramatic unveiling of his choice this weekend. Obama and his top...

FITTY PUTS UP LEGAL 'FIREWALL'

Rapper 50 Cent is using a smokescreen of protective lawyers to stonewall the investigation of a suspicious fire that forced his ex-girlfriend and son out of his Long Island home,...

BARACK BROTHER IN SHACK SHOCK

Barack Obama's long-lost half-brother has surfaced in Kenya - living like a recluse on less than $1 a month and hiding his family ties. George Hussein Onyango Obama, 25, said...

HILL KIN MEETS WITH MCC AIDE

WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother Tony Rodham and a group of fellow supporters in the key state of Pennsylvania met this week with a top adviser to Sen....

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

Manhattan This masked thief was caught on camera robbing a Hell's Kitchen bank. The bandit, wearing dark sunglasses and a bandanna over his face, passed a note to a teller...

DEADLY DELAY

Workers at the former Deutsche Bank building inexplicably waited 13 minutes to report the blaze that would take the lives of firefighters Joseph Graffagnino and Robert Beddia, a new FDNY...

WAYWARD CHILD CARE SHUTTERED

The Health Department has temporarily shut down four day-care centers because lax employees have allowed kids to escape, The Post has learned. The four include the Finest Care Child-Care Center...

I'D BE YOUR 'LOLLIPOP'

ALBANY - A married upstate assemblyman got caught with his virtual pants down - busted by XXX-rated e-mails he dashed off to a 19-year-old intern in which the besotted lawmaker...

COWBOY BARES REALITY-TV GIG

The Naked Cowboy's about to get even more overexposed - the busker who wears nothing more than a cowboy hat, briefs and boots is set to star in his own...

SPECIAL-ED BUSES CUT

The Department of Education will run as many as 500 fewer buses serving special-education kids in the upcoming school year, the transit companies told The Post yesterday. Education officials confirmed...

JUSTICE STINKS AT BX. COURT

Some people were s--- out of luck when it came to doing their business yesterday at the Bronx Hall of Justice. A broken sewer line caused raw sewage to back...

RUN AFOUL OF LAW

A former college basketball standout went on trial yesterday for allegedly groping a woman inside trendy nightclub Lotus, but the cowardly cager didn't show up to face the music. Assistant...

ELEVATOR MONSTER ARRESTED

The coward who put an 85-year-old Brooklyn grandmother in a chokehold until she collapsed in an elevator - then ripped off her cash and her cane - was under arrest...

FLYING HIGH

Even at age 86, Roscoe Brown, an original World War II-era Tuskegee Airman, simply won't slow down. "We had our convention last month in Philadelphia," said Brown, who was the...

TOT'S BRUTAL END

A 2-year-old Queens boy who once was removed from his abusive mom died as a result of homicide by "battered child syndrome," authorities said yesterday. Jashya Brown had internal and...

MORE SCHOOLS DROP OFF THE DANGER LIST

Two weeks after city officials hailed a drop in violent crimes at public schools, the state echoed that message - labeling nine fewer city schools as "persistently dangerous" compared to...

GUARD 'KILLER' IN COURT

A crowd of seething correction officers glared at a Long Island man charged with choking their colleague to death at a Southampton bar last week, as he was arraigned on...

STOLEN POLICE VAN SMASHED

A young woman stole a police van from two red-faced rookies in Harlem last night - then took a joyride that ended when she smashed into a truck and a...

IS MIKE QUIXOTE TILTING AT WINDMILLS?

Mayor Bloomberg's visionary windmill energy plan had New Yorkers flapping yesterday - with Donald Trump saying it's a great idea, but perhaps not on his towers. "It's something we should...

CON HELD IN '97 BURN SLAY

An ex-con was busted yesterday and charged with the horrific 1997 murder of a Harlem woman set afire in her apartment. Daniel Santana, 30, was one of three men who...

MAYOR'S '3RD TERM' MANEUVER

Mayor Bloomberg today for the first time left the door open to considering an extension of term limits. At a press conference, Bloomberg explained that the City Council has the...

'CRIME' TIME

The Brooklyn district attorney opened an investigation yesterday into the freak death of a 5-year-old boy who toppled from a chronically malfunctioning elevator in a city-run building. DA Charles Hynes'...

'TIE' IN THE SKY

Former Olympic swimming champ Mark Spitz may have gone off the deep end when he said yesterday that a race between him and Michael Phelps would end in a tie....

LATEST CUT$ A MERE NICK, DAVE WARNS

ALBANY - Gov. Paterson warned state lawmakers yesterday that their just-approved $430 million in spending cuts will be small potatoes compared to the massive reductions needed to balance next year's...

CVS DEAL IS LOOKING MORE LIKE A 'LONGS' SHOT

Activist investor Bill Ackman's efforts to thwart CVS Caremark's buyout of Longs Drug Stores heated up yesterday when the target's largest shareholder joined the fight and told The Post it...

BUST OUT EARNINGS

Specialty retailer Limited Brands posted quarterly earnings that blew past Wall Street's expectations as the company slashed costs amid a weak shopping environment. The Columbus, Ohio-based owner of the Victoria's...

A JUNK DEBT FUNK

Major US investment banks are seeing a lot less junk in their trunks this year - and as it turns out, that's a bad thing. Underwriting volume this year for...

SIMULATED GAME

The Federal Trade Commission gave its OK to a proposed combination of Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive without any restrictions yesterday, further clearing the way for a possible tie-up between...

T(V) & CRUMPETS

NBC Universal, riding high from the success of its Olympics broadcast, quietly announced a deal to acquire British independent production studio Carnival Film & Television yesterday. The purchase - the...

WALL ST. SHIFTS BLAME FOR CRISIS TO STUPID INVESTORS

YOUR investments could look like a pack of cigarettes if the government takes the advice of a blue-ribbon panel of experts. In a report sent recently to Treasury Secretary Hank...

SILVER'S OTHER SIN

Not only did Speaker Sheldon Silver and his Assembly bandits seek to sock successful New Yorkers with steep tax hikes Tuesday, they also flipped the bird to hard-pressed homeowners sorely...

GREAT DEBATES, NOT

One hundred and fifty years ago today, some 10,000 people stood for more than three hours in the sweltering heat of Ottawa, Ill., as two candidates for a US Senate...

GOV EMERGES A WINNER AS HE GEARS FOR NEXT BATTLE

ALBANY - Gov. Paterson won just two-thirds of the budget cuts he requested from the Legislature yesterday, but he gained 100 percent of the moral high ground as he prepares...

WEIRD BUT TRUE

Who can turn down a free dinner? A Canadian couple, who in 1993 found a balloon in their yard with a card attached offering a free dinner at a Canton,...

MEDAL MOM

WHO'D have predicted that one of the best-loved personalities to emerge from this year's Olympics would be a Chico's-wearing middle school principal from Baltimore? Though she just landed stateside on...

LIFE ON THE BUNNY TRAIL

HANGING up the bunny ears, packing up from the mansion, giving a kissy-poo goodbye to Hugh Hefner - what's life really like after being a Playmate?PHOTO GALLERY: Playmates Don't just...

SURGERY WON'T SLOW APPLEGATE

'SAMANTHA Who?" star Christina Applegate will continue to work on her ABC sitcom while undergoing reconstructive surgery. Applegate, 36, revealed on Tuesday's "GMA" that she had a double-mastectomy after being...

WHO IS WATCHING OLYMPICS?

WHO is the typical Olympics watcher - the viewer who has propelled the Beijing Games into one of the biggest TV events of the past decade? She is female, late...

ESPN PLEDGES 'LIVE' GAMES

IF ESPN gets the telecast rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics, the cable network promises to air most, if not all, the action live. "We serve sports fans," says...

HE'S NO KOTTER

IF you were ever called into the principal's office, just remembering it may cause you to break out in fear and loathing. And - worse - if your principal was...

MACKEY WILL NOT BE BACK-Y

FASTEN your seatbelts - here comes the final season of "The Shield." FX's gritty series revolving around good cop/bad cop Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) kicks off its seventh and final...

ROCKEPHONY TV INTERVIEW

NBC News has scored the first sit-down interview with the phony Rockefeller who sparked an international manhunt after being accused of snatching his 7-year-old daughter Reigh "Snooks" Boss. The jailhouse...

HAUTE LIST

EVERYONE knows about Niketown, but what about Nike Sportswear? Tonight, the sports giant launches its first new retailing concept in years with a blowout block party that will transform Mercer...

WOMEN, SEX & OEDIPUS WRECK

ROMANCE novels and Greek tragedies get Fringe Festival spins in "The Boy in the Basement" and "Too Much Trouble," respectively. But while these takeoffs may intrigue aficionados, neither stands on...

FAVRE NEEDS D'BRICK WALL

It is every Jets fans worst nightmare. Here comes Osi Umenyiora, steaming around the corner on the left side, eager to meet Justin Tuck, rampaging around the right side, for...

PYRO HEADS TRAVERS 12

SARATOGA SPRINGS - With no Big Brown to scare anyone away, Saturday's 139th Travers Stakes drew a dozen second-tier 3-year-olds when post positions were drawn yesterday, the largest field for...

SHOWDOWN AT SARATOGA

Post handicappers John DaSilva, Ed Fountaine and defending champion Vic Cangialosi challenge former champion steeplechase jockey, OTB backstretch insider and co-publisher of the Saratoga Special, Sean Clancy, as they battle...

IT'S DYNASKI WITH A LITTLE BIT OF 'LOVE'

SARATOGA SPRINGS - Seven of the eight entered in today's jump race come out of races at the meet July 30 or 31. The questions are, which race was better...

PAVANO IS LIKELY TO START SATURDAY

TORONTO - How bad is the Yankees' season going? The clubhouse buzz last night was that Carl "American Idle" Pavano, will start Saturday night in Baltimore. Though manager Joe Girardi...

JETER & PETTITTE RIGHT YANKS' SHIP

TORONTO - A players-only meeting in which captain Derek Jeter was one of several speakers Tuesday was followed by a stomach-turning loss. The topic of the 10-minute chat was every...

PLAYING CATCH-UP

Misery in this case doesn't love company. Steve Smith should know. He spent the bulk of training camp standing and watching the Giants out at practice, and right there beside...

HONDO: THE NAT-URAL

The Braves turned Flushing's Lame Duck Dump into a little chop of horrors for Hondo last night, as they were mauled by the Metamucils to cut the earnings back down...

SPORTS SHORTS

BASEBALL: Glavine set for surgeryTom Glavine was examined yesterday by Dr. James Andrews in Alabama. As expected, tests showed the 42-year-old pitcher has a partial tear in the flexor tendon...

LAWRENCE PICKS SJU

Omari Lawrence is the kind of player who in recent years would flirt with St. John's before landing at some other -more successful- Big East or ACC program. Perhaps the...

PERRY FOCUSED ON CUP PLAYOFFS

Kenny Perry missed the PGA Championship two weeks ago because of an eye infection, but his sights are set on The Barclays and its head-turning $10 million payday. "I'm just...

MLB, UMPS OK REPLAYS

Baseball umpires and management signed an agreement yesterday that will allow the sport to start using instant replay to help determine calls on the field. Major League Baseball still hasn't...

GALLINARI VS. ITALIAN FOE

There should be a slew of Italians on hand when the Knicks play their preseason opener Oct. 8 in Toronto - the first showdown between Italy's two stars, Danilo Gallinari...

1ST & WHOLE

The crowd was buzzing, hoping. And then what they wanted to see, Mike Pelfrey, all 6-feet, 7-inches of him, emerged from the Mets dugout at the start of the ninth...

AMAZIN' YOUTH WINS NY BATTLE

DANIEL MURPHY came up with the bases loaded and two outs in the first inning. The Brave-Mets game was scoreless. Atlanta's fine young starter Jair Jurrjens got ahead 1-2. But...

YOUNGSTERS MAKING AMAZIN' MARK

Manager Jerry Manuel again praised the play of the young guys platooning in left, Nick Evans and Daniel Murphy who started last night. And it just isn't Manuel who is...

ADDING REYES A RELIEF

Mets GM Omar Minaya talked on Tuesday about the difficulty in getting a bona-fide closer through waivers, about the need to scour and sift through the flawed relievers available to...

ONE-LEGGED SWIMMER REALIZES DREAM

BEIXIAOYING TOWN, China -- Natalie du Toit's Olympic moment came as she sat on the dock after finishing the women's swimming marathon. She began to think about her journey and...

RUSSIAN ROULETTE: HAMMON BATTLES USA

BEIJING - The Olympic women's basketball matchup everyone hoped for becomes a reality today when the U.S. faces Russia in a semifinal. It's not just because a trip to the...

NO CATCHING THIS FRONT RUNNER

BEIJING - It was clear that the eight men running with him, and the one legend dashing alongside him, were in trouble the moment Usain Bolt came careening around the...

U.S. GALS RULE BEACH

BEIJING - It was the kind of morning that has broken millions of Little League hearts across the decades. The sky started spitting rain with first light, and it never...

GOLDEN CHANCE

BEIJING - The U.S. women's soccer team came here surrounded by questions. This was the first Olympics since the trio of Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy and Brandi Chastain retired. Abby...

THE '04 FOUR

BEIJING - They have all bought into the nickname "Redeem Team," into the idea that they're 12 men on a blessed basketball pilgrimage. This time it was Australia that was...

WINS ARE BOLT & BEAUTIFUL

BEIJING - Apparently, a Lightning Bolt can strike twice. Jamaica's Usain Bolt ran a blistering 19.30 in the 200 meters last night in Beijing, breaking Michael Johnson's 12-year-old record by...

Castillo, Church continue rehab stints

Luis Castillo and Ryan Church each started and played the entire game last night for Double-A Binghamton, as the Mets starting second baseman and right fielder each got closer to...

Owen wins Double-A debut

Dylan Owen continues to impress, winning his first game with Double-A Binghamton.After going 12-6 with a 3.43 ERA in 24 starts with High-A St. Lucie, Owen threw six innings of...

Pavano looks OK after all

After yesterday's drama involving Carl Pavano's postponed bullpen session with Double-A Trenton, the oft-injured right-hander was just fine today, according to colleague George A. King III.It looks like Pavano, amazingly,...

ON THE MARKET

FINANCIAL DISTRICT FIVE-BEDROOM, $9,000: Unit (pictured) is 2,800 square feet with 2½ baths, stainless-steel kitchen, high ceilings, washer/dryer, oak floors and keyed elevator. Agent: Daniel Hedaya, Platinum Properties, (212) 825-1050....

BELLE TERRE, LI

It might not be oceanfront property, but this estate does offer indoor and outdoor saltwater swimming pools. Set on 2 professionally landscaped acres, the 13,500-square-foot stone home, just built this...

WEST VILLAGE

In case you thought the hype was over regarding Richard Meier's celebrated glass building at 165 Charles St., you can get excited all over again by this 1,700-square-foot condo. With...

MINEOLA, LI

Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Lot square feet: 3,500 -- This "exquisite" 1908 home has been "completely" redone, with results that include a new eat-in kitchen, new hardwood floors, new bathrooms...

CHELSEA

Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,363 Common charges: $1,041 -- Ironic, isn't it, how you can now live freely and spaciously in this former chain factory on West 18th...

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS

Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 600 Maintenance: $636 -- This gut-renovated, prewar co-op on Pineapple Street - just blocks from the Brooklyn Promenade and its Manhattan views - boasts...

FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN

Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 830 Maintenance: $1,169 -- This co-op in a full-service building on Lafayette Avenue boasts "million-dollar views" (but at a 30 percent discount!). Fully renovated,...

UPPER WEST SIDE

The best prewar details are those that have been meticulously restored postwar, such as what you'll find in this corner co-op on West End Avenue. The four-bedroom, three-bathroom spread (plus...

BRONXVILLE, NY

Thanks to an "extraordinary" renovation, this "gracious" Colonial looks much as it must have when it was built in 1914 - except, of course, for all the modern conveniences and...

FLORAL PARK, LI

Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,820 -- This legal two-family Colonial can, of course, be used as a "spacious" one-family home - just think of the possibilities of that...

UPPER EAST SIDE

Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,159 Common charges: $1,126 -- The views from this high-floor Third Avenue condo are "stunning" - with a direct southern look through "oversized" windows...

JUST SOLD!

Manhattan FINANCIAL DISTRICT $2,255,000 71 Nassau St. Two-bedroom, two-bath duplex condo, 1,694 square feet, with 13-foot ceilings, white oak floors, dining room, chef's kitchen with Sub-Zero refrigerator, Bosch convection oven...

CATCH THIS!

Mike Piazza is swapping real estate like baseball managers trade players. The 12-time All-Star catcher and former Met has reportedly already bought a $10 million house in South Beach after...

MAD MONEY

In terms of the relative maturity of Manhattan residential neighborhoods, the area surrounding Madison Square Park has been something of a late bloomer. Despite its seemingly obvious residential potential -...

HOUSE PARTY

Summer is drawing to a close, but there's no reason outdoor entertaining has to end post-Labor Day. Whether you're the host or the guest, look for party items that will...

THREE'S COMPANY

After the age of 25, a lot of us shy away from the idea of having a roommate. Sure, when we were newly minted college graduates with no money and...

John Carver: Gabriel Cichero might've been trying to hurt Danny Dichio

By BRIAN LEWISI'm actually at a Met game, and I know most of you reading this blog are probably knee-deep into the World Cup qualifier, but I just noticed this...