December 25, 2008
RBNY's Jimenez returns to Mexico
By BRIAN LEWISWell, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, all! I know many of you are stuffing your faces with turkey, or even watching the big Lakers-Celtic tilt. But for the...
Nate in Slam Dunk
By MARC BERMANAt least the Knicks will have on representative during All-Star Weekend. Nate Robinson is back in the Slam Dunk competition - which he won in 2006. He lost...
GIRL, 7, DIES AFTER 5-STORY FALL
A 7-year-old autistic girl who plunged from her fifth-floor window in the Bronx last night succumbed to her injuries this morning, a spokeswoman for Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital said. Chelsea Maldonado slipped...
CATCHING UP: GIANTS
The Vikings would like nothing more to get a Carr in their stocking. QB David Carr that is. Minnesota's chances of winning the NFC North would be improved if they...
CATCHING UP: JETS
No one from either side will admit it, but this game is as much Jets vs. Dolphins as it is Brett Favre vs. Chad Pennington. The Jets chose Favre over...
Yule Blog
The Jets are off today for Christmas so there won't be any news, but I talked with Jay Feely yesterday about the delay of game penalty in Seattle. He clarified...
Our Favorite Blogs: Self-Styled Siren
I was planning on eventually getting around to Self-Styled Siren, one of the best and most knowlegable movie bloggers out there, but she's forced my hand with today's hilarious post...
Fox's Big Christmas Present: Rights to Warners' 'Watchmen'
Normally, there isnt much news coming out of Hollywood on Christmas week outside of box office numbers. On Tuesday, SAG announced it was postponing its strike authorization vote, scheduled to...
TEBOW, KILLER DEFENSE TO EAT UP OKLAHOMA
BOB STOOPS, as any polite coach would have done, offered advice some four years ago to one Urban Meyer. Stoops, as he is now, was coach at Oklahoma, and Meyer,...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan CHELSEA $995,000 450 W. 17th St. One-bedroom, one-bath condo, 689 square feet, with N/W exposures; Caledonia building features doorman and concierge, garage, Equinox gym, pet spa, courtyard, business center...
UPPER WEST SIDE
$925,000 Bedrooms:1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 719 Common charges: $599 See Lincoln Center from a whole new perspective from the living room of this condo high above West 67th Street....
PORT WASHINGTON, LI
$1.995 million Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3 1/2 Lot size: 0.4 acres Really, how far can you be from Manhattan if you can actually see it from your house? (Ask Sarah...
WEST VILLAGE
$1.79 million Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,290 Common charges: $680 Wow, a genuine two-bedroom, two-bathroom West Village condo, with two adjoining offices set on two levels - and...
CHELSEA
$1.785 million Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,700 Maintenance: $1,416 Billed as the "perfect" full-floor loft (and just the idea of a full-floor loft sounds pretty perfect), this spacious...
SOHO
$3.2 million With headlines screaming about the millions upon millions being lost, here's one million-dollar depreciation that shouldn't upset you much. That's how much the price has dropped on this...
CHAPPAQUA, NY
$4.85 million When people imagine living in Chappaqua, it's probably in something just like this "spectacular" 7,675-square-foot mansion with five bedrooms and seven bathrooms situated on 2 "gorgeous" acres. The...
WATER MILL, LI
$3.495 million The great news is that there's already a golf course adjacent to this home in the "prestigious" Deerfield Corridor. There's also a heated gunite swimming pool in the...
CENTRAL PARK WEST
$5.5 million Consider it a Christmas present from Trump (that you'll have to buy for yourself): This corner condo high above Central Park West, in what is still considered the...
'TRADING' POST
What's more fitting than the host of TLC's "Trading Spaces" having her apartment made over - and having no say in the design? That's what happened to Paige Davis -...
FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE, CHAPTER 2, VERSES 1 THROUGH 20:
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made...
MIDTOWN CHURCH AILS
The legendary Holy Cross Roman Catholic church - a refuge for saints and sinners in the shadow of the Port Authority Bus Terminal - needs your help this holiday season....
HILL, BILL & CAPITOL HILL: SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY
Bill Clinton's donor list proves that politicians will sell America to the highest bidder ("Bill's Pals, Hill's Problems," Editorial, Dec. 19). Why are the feds not looking into this? If...
GIFTS FROM GOD
THE Wal-Mart stampede in Long Island, NY, last month exposed the ugliest side of the Christmas season. But not all Americans live by "The Blitz Line Starts Here" credo. Not...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn A man wanted for beating and slashing a pregnant woman in her Brownsville home has been arrested nearly three months after the savage attack. Alberto Marzan, 47, had been...
HOW DICKENS 'INVENTED' CHRISTMAS
WHEN the story of "A Christmas Carol" came to Charles Dickens, "he wept over it, laughed, and then wept again," writes Les Standiford, author of the winsome new book "The...
POL ADMITS: I TRIED TO LURE KIDS INTO SEX
A former tough-on-crime state lawmaker and Republican member of the state parole board pleaded guilty to a federal charge yesterday that he used the Internet to try to entice minors...
TRANSIT BIGS GET MOVING IN BID FOR FED $TIMULUS
The prospect of $700 billion in federal aid to revive the economy with a nationwide public-works campaign has city and state officials drawing up wish lists of projects - including...
NYSUES MADOFF CRONY
New York University slapped tarnished financier J. Ezra Merkin with a lawsuit yesterday stemming from his ties with alleged con artist Bernard Madoff. NYU, one of the largest private universities...
CITY GIVES SLOWPOKES ANOTHER CONTRACT
The MTA has re-signed a Swedish construction firm for work on the Fulton Street Transit Center rehab, despite protracted delays on the first project for which they were contracted. The...
EMT-HERO DAD DIES OF HEART ATTACK
A Queens EMT who had saved at least two lives while off duty died suddenly after suffering a heart attack as he unpacked his car, his devastated wife said yesterday....
BX. GIRL, 7, DIES AFTER 5-STORY FALL
After spending the night fighting for her life, a 7-year-old girl who plummeted five stories from her family's Bronx apartment has died. Chelsea Maldonado fell to the concrete courtyard in...
THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CONEY IS.
Meet the Grinch of Coney Island. Developer Joe Sitt showed little holiday spirit this week as he infuriated business operators along the fabled boardwalk by having locks clipped and replaced...
PROBERS RIP HOSP'S 'SICK' PAY
A Brooklyn teaching hospital needs a lesson in payroll management after it shelled out nearly half a million dollars in unearned pay, the state comptroller charges. SUNY Downstate Medical Center...
BARACK NAME LOSES 'CLASS' ON LI
They said NO-bama. A proposal to change the name of a Long Island public school to Barack Obama Elementary was scrapped this week after running into fierce public opposition. Cristobal...
TAX-WARY NYERS LOSE LOVE OF GOV
ALBANY - New Yorkers are turning thumbs down on Gov. Paterson's tax-and-slash budget plan and they're overwhelmingly opposed to his "fat tax" on non-diet soft drinks, a new poll shows....
BUSH HAILS B'KLYN GI
President Bush spent his last Christmas Eve at Camp David by sending congratulations to a Brooklyn soldier who was decorated after being wounded this year in Iraq. Bush called nine...
BLOOMBERG PLAYS SANTA
About 100 needy New Yorkers got some holiday cheer from Mayor Bloomberg yesterday, even if he wasn't so merry. The mayor visited the posh City Hall Restaurant in TriBeCa, shaking...
BIG BARGAINS ARE WORTH THE WAIT
Christmas was just a warmup. The real shopping season starts tomorrow, as retailers further slash prices and open their doors in the wee hours normally reserved for Black Friday. Toys...
QNS. TENANTS ALMOST HOME
Eighteen Queens residents were a step closer yesterday to regaining the apartments they've been locked out of for six months. The agent for the landlord of the Schleicher Court Mansion...
GOV GETS TESTY OVER 'SEN. CAROLINE' GRILL
Gov. Paterson yesterday tamped down suggestions that Caroline Kennedy is at the top of the list to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, asking, "How is she a front-runner?" The comment...
THE PARDON'S OVER AS BUSH REVERSES CALL
In a stunning and unprecedented move, President Bush yesterday abruptly yanked his pardon of Brooklyn real estate swindler Isaac Toussie one day after it was issued - saying he hadn't...
ACLU IS BERN-ED TO TUNE OF 850G
The American Civil Liberties Union sent out an emergency appeal to card-carrying members and donors this week after realizing it is a victim of Bernard Madoff's self-confessed Ponzi scheme. "We've...
MYSTERY LIMO THUGS TAKE WOMAN ON HELL RIDE
A woman was abducted by two men in a black limousine outside a notorious Upper East Side bar and taken on a nightmare ride that ended with her being robbed...
STOCK-INGS UP ON WALL ST.
Santa visited Wall Street on Christmas Eve - and lo, the markets rose, snapping a five-day losing streak. A man dressed as Kris Kringle greeted traders on the floor of...
'ID CON MAN' WAS PUTTIN' ON THE RICH
A Brooklyn model wannabe stole the identities of some of the world's richest men and stole tens of thousands of dollars using credit cards in their names - spending most...
TRAGEDY STRIKES 'SOPRANO' HUNK
The Brooklyn actor who played Johnny Cakes - the gay-fireman lover of a mob capo on "The Sopranos" - killed himself in a holiday tragedy that has stunned family and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Beverly Hills liposuction doctor Craig Alan Bittner turned the fat he removed from patients into biodiesel fuel that propelled his Ford SUV and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator, Forbes reported yesterday....
PENNINGTON EAGER FOR ARM-AGGEDON
NO one should be surprised that Brett Favre's arm/shoulder/body is breaking down 10 months from 40 as the Jets, 40 years from Super Bowl III, break down around him. There...
ND HAMMERS HAWAII TO END BOWL DROUGHT
HONOLULU - Jimmy Clausen ended Notre Dame's long bowl drought - and Hawaii's bid for a fourth straight Hawaii Bowl victory - with a record-breaking passing night. Clausen set Notre...
SNOW WONDER! STORMS REWARD HOLIDAY SKIERS
SKIERS and riders must have been nice this season, because Santa has returned the favor. Back-to-back winter storms have blanketed the northeast, and if you're heading to ski country, expect...
DYNAMIC DUO MAKES IT EASY TO FORGET BIG 3
The Nets have been given the day off for Christmas. As for their fans, well, they received their gift Tuesday night. After losing six of their past eight games, including...
TEX IS QUINTESSENTIAL BOSS PLAYER
Mark Teixeira almost certainly is George Steinbrenner's kind of guy. Though Steinbrenner didn't have a role in the Yankees' pursuit of the talented first baseman, if you venture into the...
GIANTS BACKUP QB TO SEE ACTION SUNDAY
David Carr's father-in-law is a passionate Bears fan named Scott Cross, and Carr figures if he can help the Giants beat the Vikings on Sunday, "I don't have to buy...
TOUGH TIMES FOR ROLSTON
Considering how Brian Rolston's season has gone so far, it's no surprise his resolution for 2009 is a simple one. "I'm looking at (just) getting into the new year," he...
TOM TELLS GIANTS: STAY HOME FOR HOLIDAY
Tom Coughlin scored big with his players, as for the first time he gave them off on Christmas Day. He said it was not because they had already clinched the...
SPAGNUOLO, TEAMS CAN TALK
Teams interested in interviewing defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo about a head-coaching job last season could not speak with him during the bye-week window set aside for such conversations. The reason?...
RANGERS DEFENSEMAN MAKING BIG IMPACT
WE know what the Rangers look like today after selecting Hugh Jessiman 12th overall in the 2003 Entry Draft instead of, say, Dustin Brown (13th), Zach Parise (17th), Ryan Getzlaf...
PETTITTE RETURN LESS LIKELY AFTER TEIXEIRA SIGNING
Andy Pettitte could be headed toward a delay-of-game penalty that ends his Yankees' career. In the aftermath of the team reaching agreement with Mark Teixeira on a bombshell, $180 million...
SPORTS SHORTS
NBA: Farmar out 8 weeks Jordan Farmar underwent surgery yesterday to repair a torn lateral meniscus in his left knee, and the Lakers backup point guard is expected to be...
MANGINI VAGUE ON SUTTON
Eric Mangini did not exactly deliver a ringing endorsement of his defensive coordinator yesterday. When asked if he was happy with the job Bob Sutton has done, Mangini failed to...
FAVRE SAYS HE MAY BE HURT AS HE NEARS THE END
Maybe there is an explanation to Brett Favre's erratic play over the last month. The Jets quarterback revealed yesterday he believes his shoulder may be injured. "During the course of...
OLD-SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
'IF only I knew then what I know now." We've all heard that before, usually uttered wistfully by an older person as he gazes creepily at a pack of college...
BARBIE ADS GET EDGIER
THE most recognizable blonde in the world is about to get an edgy makeover. In an effort to juice-up sales, Barbie - now turning 50 years old - is going...
OLIVIA GETS HER OWN TV SHOW
I'VE got a present for you that even Santa couldn't deliver early. Next month, Nickelodeon brings to the TV "Olivia," kid pig of the best-selling kid's books of the same...