February 5, 2009
PADAVAN EMERGES AS SENATE RACE WINNER AFTER EPIC RECOUNT
The people of the 11th State Senate District finally have representation in Albany. Incumbent Frank Padavan (R-Bellerose) defeated City Councilman James Gennaro (D-Fresh Meadows) by 480 votes, according to Gennaro...
Report: Boldin unlikely to stay Cardinal
It looks like Anquan Boldin, really, really -- REALLY -- doesn't want to play for the Cardinals again."I don't think the relationship can be repaired with the organization," Boldin told...
Dessens added on minor deal
The Mets added another veteran bullpen candidate today, signing journeyman right-hander Elmer Dessens to a minor-league contract and inviting him to spring training. Dessens, who has pitched for nine major-league...
Becks: I. Want. Out.
Secret's out. He wants out David Beckham finally manned-up and admitted the truth we all knew: He wants out. He came to L.A. Galaxy talking all this junk. You wanted...
MILEY CYRUS: PRESS IS MAKING ME OUT TO BE NEW 'BAD GIRL'
Miley Cyrus is responding to criticism that she mocked Asians in a photograph of the tween star stretching the corners of her eyes. "In NO way was I making fun...
Mets wise to pass on Sheets
For those of you wondering why Omar Minaya didn't pursue Ben Sheets this offseason, I now have an answer: Sheets appears to need elbow surgery that would cause him to...
'Idol' Fix: Paris Wants to Party With Simon
Heir-head Paris Hilton says she wants to invite audacious "Idol" judge Simon Cowell to the nightclub she has built-in to her house, which she refers to as Paris Palace. "Simon...
NEW TAX DRAMA FOR OBAMA
President Obama's tax drama continues. A Senate committee abruptly postponed a vote this afternoon to confirm Obama's nominee to be Labor Secretary following a report that her husband had a...
OLMERT FOE LISTED AS MADOFF VICTIM
The Long Island businessman whose questionable payments to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert led to the lawmaker's resignation has been identified as a victim of Bernard Madoff's alleged mega-Ponzi scheme,...
Rex's staff complete?
Rex Ryan's coaching staff appears complete with the addition of Matt Cavanaugh as quarterbacks coach and John DeFilippo as assistant quarterbacks coach. NFL sources confirmed the hiring of both men...
ALLEGED MOB VICTIM PUSHED RELIGION ON THEM: WITNESS
A Brooklyn court officer who was allegedly rubbed out by hit man Charles Carneglia had tried to "encourage" the mobster to become a Jehovah's Witness about a year before he...
Report: Jones turned down Yanks' minor-league offer
The Yankees offered Andruw Jones a minor-league contract, but the struggling outfielder turned them down, according to SI.com.The report says the Mets, Rangers, Phillies and Braves are all considering making...
Mangold fries Cutler's monitor
The Denver Post reports that as part of a Pro Bowl prank, Nick Mangold helped push Broncos QB Jay Cutler into a pool, which "fried" Cutler's blood-sugar monitor.The paper reports...
2 ARRESTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
The FBI arrested two traders Thursday on charges they made millions of dollars in illicit profits using inside tips from an investment bank employee about the 2006 sale of the...
Eli talks Plax, new contract from Pro Bowl
Eli Manning, out in Hawaii for the Pro Bowl, reiterated that he wants Plaxico Burress back with the team next year."We don't know what's going to happen in the next...
Not just Manny, Abreu jobless, too
Manny Ramirez isn't the only former All-Star outfielder who is still a free agent.Former Yankees outfielder Bobby Abreu remains unsigned, and for the most part unheard from, cast in the...
OCTUPLETS' MOM DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL
LOS ANGELES - The Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets last week left the hospital before dawn Thursday and announced through her publicist that she will be giving...
Bye-bye Bikini Girl
"Bikini Girl" is gone from "American Idol."Katrina Darrell didn't make the cut last night as the show moved another step closer to revealing its latest 36 semifinalists.Darrell's excuse for her...
JUSTICE GINSBURG HAS SURGERY FOR CANCER
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery Thursday after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the court said. Ginsburg, 75, had the surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer...
HOUSE ARREST FOR ALLEGED LI PONZI SCHEMER
A judge says a prominent New York lawyer accused of defrauding investors of more than $400 million can be freed under house arrest. Federal judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan on...
Dodgers, Manny to keep talking
The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif., reported that "Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti continued discussions with agent Scott Boras on Wednesday, one day after Boras appeared to have issued a warning...
Jeter to play AGAINST Yankees
APDerek Jeter admits the Yankees spring training game on March 3 will be a strange experience.The captain will play for the United States against his Yankees in a warmup for...
SHAKE-UP AT CONDE NAST
Condé Nast CEO Charles Townsend is shaking things up inside the Newhouse-owned magazine empire, the Post has learned, and sweeping changes could be unveiled as early as today. As part...
OBAMA INVITES 9/11 KIN TO WHITE HOUSE
President Obama - under fire for suspending trials of suspected terrorists and phasing out Guantanamo military prison in Cuba - has invited family members of victims killed on 9/11 to...
Report: Favre has no timetable
Brett Favre isn't in any rush to make a decision about his future, his agent James "Bus" Cook told 1050 ESPN Radio.Favre has four options: retire, ask the Jets for...
Mets looking at Ohman, Beimel
Omar Minaya admitted earlier this week that the Mets are in the market for a minimally priced left handed reliever, and that might turn out to be Will Ohman (pictured)...
IT'S NEW JERSEY'S FAULT!
This could be the first time a good smell has ever come from New Jersey. City officials have finally sniffed out the cause of a mysterious maple syrup-like smell that...
SULLY ON '60 MINUTES'
He knew they were in serious trouble the moment he heard the birds strike. "It was the worst sickening, pit-of-your-stomach, falling-through-the-floor feeling I've ever felt in my life," hero pilot...
Oscar Watch: British Academy Awards Offer A Preview For the First Time in Years
Nobody on this side of the Atlantic has paid much mind to the British Academy Awards (also known as the BAFTAs or the Orange Awards, after their cell phone sponsor)...
Kobe or LeBron? Torre gets closer to A-Fraud truth
Kobe or LeBron?LeBron James said he wasn't worried about topping Kobe Bryant's 61-point performance before the Cavaliers played the Knicks last night at Madison Square Garden.But as Walt "Clyde" Frazier...
STIMULUS BILL WON'T FIX JOBS CRISIS
WASHINGTON -- With unemployment rising at a steady clip, the Senate's massive "stimulus" bill aimed at getting Americans back to work fails to include a simple, routine provision requiring contractors...
PANETTA ACCEPTED $700K IN SPEAKING FEES
Talk about lacking some "intelligence" when it comes to who you accept money from. Leon Panetta, President Obama's pick to head the CIA, earned a staggering $700,000 in consulting and...
TRENDS: Where y'at?
People are traveling. Priceline says so. They sampled from more than 30,000 Valentine's weekend bookings to see just where these "people" were "traveling." The top results - besides New York,...
JAYS CLOSE TO SIGNING MILLAR
By JOEL SHERMANThe Mets and Yankees both had conversations with Kevin Millar's representatives about the free-agent slugger. But, the Post has learned, the righty swinger is almost certain to sign...
JOBLESS CLAIMS JUMP MORE THAN EXPECTED
WASHINGTON - New jobless claims jumped far more than expected last week in an already dismal labor market, and there's no relief in sight for workers as mass layoffs persist....
LIVEBLOG: Checking up on Mazatlan
Before there was Cancun, before Cabo, before the Riviera Maya, before even Puerto Vallarta, and actually round about the time when Acapulco was also getting going, there was Mazatlan.Back in...
Tivo Alert: 31 Days of Oscar, Day 5
Turn into tonight at 8 p.m. EST for "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' to see ace character actor William Demarest -- that's Bill mugging at dead center in the poster...
'Push' Comes to Shove: Harvey Wants Mo'Nique As His Date for Next Year's Oscars
Lionsgate filed suit in Los Angeles Wednesday against The Weinstein Co., preemptively claiming the latter has no rights to the Sundance sensation "Push'' -- not to be confused with the...
TORRE'S TWO STORIES (FACES?) ON A-ROD
In the Yankee Years, the Joe Torre/Tom Verducci book, the reporting in the book is that Alex Rodriguez was made fun of in the Yankee clubhouse behind his back, including...
3 UP: Torre, Mussina and Aurilia
1. In the Yankee Years, the Joe Torre/Tom Verducci book, the reporting in the book is that Alex Rodriguez was made fun of in the Yankee clubhouse behind his back,...
METS INSIST RAMIREZ ISN'T FLUSHING-BOUND
Mets fans can hold all the "Million Manny Marches" they want. Manny Ramirez won't be wearing a home jersey in Flushing this season. Management made that crystal clear yesterday, saying...
RENNEY CRACKS WHIP ON RANGERS
There are a lot of questions that you could ask the Rangers right now. Why is scoring so difficult? What is wrong with the power play? How do you come...
BREEDERS' CUP PURSES WON'T BE CUT
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Breeders' Cup will maintain funding levels for its stakes program at North American tracks beyond 2009. The organization previously had refused to make a long-term financial...
JETS SNAG KANSAS ASSISTANT COACH
Rex Ryan is turning to the college ranks for reinforcement on the Jets' defensive staff. Kerry Locklin, who a little more than two weeks ago left Fresno State to become...
VONN AS GOOD AS GOLD
LINDSEY Vonn has led the charge for the Americans at the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships in France. Fresh from a sweep of two races at the FIS World Cup...
SPORTS SHORTS
SOCCER: Beckham wants to leave GalaxyDavid Beckham wants to leave the Los Angeles Galaxy and stay with AC Milan after his stay with the Italian team ends next month. The...
CLEMSON STOMPS DUKE
Trevor Booker scored 21 points and Terrence Oglesby had five 3-pointers as the 10th-ranked Clemson Tigers posted a 74-47 victory over No. 4 Duke last night in Clemson, S.C. The...
ST. JOHN'S PLAYERS EYE EXIT IF COACH GETS BOOT
If Norm Roberts is not retained as St. John's coach next season, that decision likely will trigger a mass exodus of players, The Post has learned. "Paris [Horne] and I...
RUTGERS' RECRUITING FINISHES STRONG
PISCATAWAY _ Rutgers' rebound on the recruiting trails mirrored its revival on the field. After opening the season 1-5, the Scarlet Knights won their last seven, including their third straight...
WHY YOU WILL SEE HUGE DROP IN JANUARY JOBS
PREPARE yourself to be shocked. Tomorrow the Labor Department will announce the number of jobs that were lost in January, along with the nation's newest unemployment rate. We all know...
BOWLING ORG. STRIKES BACK
Bowlers split all the time, but in New York state, it has led to a court case. The US Bowling Congress last year revoked the charter of New York's bowling...
$950M LOOT RECOVERED
The search for assets of accused Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff's securities firm has so far turned up about $950 million of the $50 billion he confessed to stealing, the firm's...
SUPER SNAKE SIZE OF A BUS
Never mind the 40-foot snake that menaced Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 movie "Anaconda." Fossils from Colombia reveal the biggest snake ever was a monster that stretched 45 feet and...
AFGHAN ANSWERS
IN President Obama's first week in office, the Taliban launched an unprecedented attack, destroying a strategic bridge over the Khyber Pass via which US troops in Afghanistan are supplied from...
ZOO'S BIGGER BITE
The Staten Island Zoo will be taking a bigger bite out its patrons starting next month. The zoo, home to mayoral-chomping groundhog Staten Island Chuck, will charge another $1 -...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan Two pickpockets picked the wrong victim when they snatched a cellphone from a plainclothes cop, authorities said yesterday. Derrick Boothe, 19, and Kian Barrett, 24, were standing behind the...
OCTUPLET IS ENOUGH!
Talk about irresponsibility. President Obama should have a sit-down with the octuplets mother, Nadya Suleman ("Obsessed Octo-mom Always Had a 'Born' Identity," Feb. 1). What was a single mother of...
THE NEW DRUG WAR
HERE'S some more bad news for the New York-New Jersey area: The once-invulnerable pharmaceutical industry is facing tough times of its own. "Big Pharma" firms with headquarters and/or major R&D...
NY'S DELI KING IN PASTRAMI HEAVEN
He was the man who turned the overstuffed pastrami sandwich into a New York landmark. And the Broadway legend who could bestow the ultimate accolade on the city's celebrities -...
JERSEY JOUST
Christopher Christie, who served seven years as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor, began his bid for governor yesterday by saying he's the man to fix a broken state government. Christie...
ON WALL STREET: WHO COULD LIVE ON $500K?
President Obama's executive-salary cap order got a mixed reaction yesterday on Wall Street, where company employees raised concerns about recruiting and retaining top talent. Stocks fell on the news, with...
CUOMO COY ON BID TO CHALLENGE PATERSON
ALBANY - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo yesterday wouldn't rule out running for governor in 2010, even as he claimed his eyebrow-raising speech at a Conservative Party conference next week has...
CITY BUS ETA SCREENS EYED
The MTA is in talks with the city about using a wireless setup to tell waiting riders where buses are along their routes. The MTA has tried in vain several...
GALS PINE FOR HAPPY VALENTINE
Nearly half of American women take Valentine's Day so to heart they would give up something special - like sex or chocolate - for a month in order to have...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Boiler room The SEC has taken emergency action to stop an ongoing international boiler room scheme that raised at least $44.2 mil lion from 1,400 investors since March 2007 by...
UNDECIDED DEMS COULD SINK SHEL'S 'WEALTH' TAX
ALBANY - Most of the Democrats in the state Senate support a controversial "millionaire's tax" backed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver - but not yet enough to pass the measure,...
ATTACK OF THE NAZI ZOMBIES
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. - Pranksters are messing with electronic road signs meant to warn motorists of possible traffic problems by putting drivers on notice about Nazi zombies and raptors. The latest...
HOW SEC BOZOS BLEW IT
The man who tried to warn federal regulators about Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme told Congress yesterday that the Securities and Exchange Commission is a totally incompetent agency that...
GOING FOR THE GANJA: PHELPS' OLYMPIC ERROR
What is the big controversy over Michael Phelps' use of an illegal substance ("Pool Fool Letting Endorsement Deals Go Up in Smoke," Andrea Peyser, Feb. 2)? One word explains it...
O POSTER BOY IN COPYRIGHT FIGHT
Buttons, posters and Web sites - the image (right) was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: a pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a...
BANKS' MONEY WELL SPENT
WASHINGTON - New York's top banking firms went on a multimillion lobbying spree late last year - just as the feds were crafting a $700 billion rescue plan for struggling...
NY UP TO THE TEST
More city students are taking and passing the college-credit-bearing Advanced Placement exams, new data show. The number of students who scored proficiently on an AP test last year climbed by...
'SCREW-UP' WORKING IN PREZ'S FAVOR
President Obama's frank admission - "I screwed up" - in the wake of his appointees withdrawing because of tax problems was a smart move, and a marked departure from his...
CHARTER FOOLS
An air-charter company favored by a slew of A-list celebs recklessly overfilled its jets with cut-rate fuel - a penny-pinching measure that caused one plane to abort takeoff at Teterboro...
TIME WARNER HAS $16B LOSS
Time Warner fell deep into the red yesterday reporting a $16 billion, fourth-quarter loss, hurt not only by previously announced hefty writedowns but also a downturn in advertising and consumer...
WALL ST. WOES LAID BEAR
Talk about a bear market! Hard times on Wall Street are apparently forcing even furry forest creatures to forage for change. We spotted this panda-costumed guy at Bowling Green Park...
'82 TYLENOL DEATHS RAID
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Federal agents yesterday searched the home of a man linked to the fatal 1982 Tylenol poisonings in the Chicago area that triggered a nationwide scare and prompted...
GOV'S PAROLE PICK SUDDENLY DROPS OUT
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson's nominee for parole chief abruptly withdrew his name from consideration yesterday, just weeks after his predecessor in the office resigned amid theft charges. Paterson had tapped...
LEAD, DAVE, LEAD
Gov. Paterson jetted off to Washington yesterday, deep-sixing a scheduled town hall meeting in upstate Broome County in favor of a photo-op with President Obama. It's not hard to understand...
TEHRAN'S CLENCHED FIST
Iran just made clear what it thinks of President Obama's "extended hand." The Islamic Republic announced Tuesday that it had launched its first space satellite. This sends a message, of...
THE SALARY CAP
President Obama's pay cap for execs at bailed-out firms may have been meant to divert attention from the tax foibles of Tom Daschle & Co., or as a trial balloon...
CIG TAX TO INSURE KID HEALTH
WASHINGTON - President Obama yesterday signed into law a bill extending health coverage to 4 million uninsured children, funded through a 61-cent hike in the federal cigarette tax. "This is...
PLAYBOY'S ROCKER SCRIBE RIFFS ON STREET ROGUES
Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses fame celebrates his 45th birthday today with a new job - a national financial columnist on a mean mission. Playboy magazine hired the rocker...
DIVORCé BIDS TO 'EX'-TEND MADOFF PAIN
He's destroyed retirement accounts, college funds, charities and lives, and now Bernie Madoff is even ruining divorces. A bigwig real-estate lawyer who says he was cheated out of millions by...
HIT MAN SOUSED CASING $3.5M HEIST: STOOLIE
A top Gambino assassin had such a bad drinking problem that a loyal underling abruptly backed out of a multimillion-dollar heist - a plot that later went awry and left...
PHELPS FELT FOR MARI-MOMMA
Sorry, Mom! Pot-puffing pool prince Michael Phelps surfaced yesterday to admit that he made a "mistake" - and that it "definitely wasn't easy" to explain it all to his mother,...
LIFEGUARD JOBS MAY BE RECESSION LIFESAVERS
Down-on-their-luck Wall Street types should trade their pinstripes for swimsuits and become city lifeguards this summer, officials said yesterday as they launched a massive recruiting effort. "One of the silver...
SMOKING FEATHER OF FLIGHT 1549
Canada geese - J'accuse! * Here's smoking-gun evidence that the feathered fiends who plague our grassy lawns and golf courses are also threatening the lives of airplane passengers departing La...
SUISSE DO MISS CALLAN
Erin Callan, once Wall Street's highest-ranking woman, has gone into personal seclusion after being summoned by a federal grand jury for a tell-all about the stunning collapse of Lehman Brothers....
A STEALTHY ROUTE TO DC STATEHOOD
ONE answer is: Six rows of stars - the top, third and fifth rows with nine, the second, fourth and sixth rows with eight. The question is: How might the...
FAMILY 'HIT MAN'
The gunman on trial for murdering a Forest Hills dentist was "a paid executioner, an assassin, a hit man" who shot him inches from his young daughter - a plot...
MOB ON THE ROCKS
The mob has long been in the business of extorting bars. Now it's expanded into shaking down the schools that teach bartenders how to shake and stir the drinks, the...
UBS TO DISS SWISS
Swiss banking giant UBS next Tuesday will reaffirm its commitment to its strategy of being all things to all people, resisting fierce pressure from the Swiss government to break itself...
RANGEL 'FLUNKS' $$ MATH
The financial-disclosure forms filed over the past three decades by Rep. Charles Rangel are full of fuzzy math, according to an exhaustive review released yesterday. The nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation identified...
STATEN I. WILDCAT CAPTURED
This was no cute little kitty cat. A wild bobcat that had been freaking out Staten Island residents for months was captured yesterday by neighbors who lured it into a...
NO REWARD FOR FAILURE
President Barack Obama yesterday uncorked a new $500,000 cap on pay for top financial executives whose troubled companies tap government rescue cash going forward, saying Americans are upset at honchos...
GRANDPA VICTIM WAS SAMU-RILED
A 75-year-old Brooklyn man who lost his life's savings in a home-invasion robbery said yesterday he would have killed the thieves with his samurai sword if they hadn't hog-tied him....
AMAZIN' AMBUSH!
Hell hath no fury like a baseball wife scorned! The enraged ex-wife of Miracle Met Art Shamsky tracked him to a Midtown luncheon yesterday and chased him down the street...
LAUNDROMAT RAPE HORROR
A pervert pretending to be a customer raped an East Harlem Laundromat attendant, cops said yesterday. The 38-year-old victim was alone in the store when the hulking, 6-foot-3, 200-pound man...
O WARNS OF 'CATA$TROPHE'
President Obama warned yesterday that failure to pass the stimulus package would "turn crisis into a catastrophe" for the country. His grim admonition came as the economic plan faced resistance...
BERNIE'S RIP-OFF ROLL CALL
A massive list naming thousands of Bernard Madoff's victims - from ordinary Joes who were wiped out to moguls and celebrities who lost millions - was filed yesterday in federal...
SPRINGSTEEN TICKED OFF
The Boss is "furious" with Ticketmaster, and believes its selling practices constitute a conflict of interest. When tickets for Bruce Springsteen's show at the Meadowlands went on sale Monday, some...
CHENEY BLASTS O ON GITMO
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says that there is "a high probability" of a nuclear or biological attack in the future, and fears the policies of President Obama might allow...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Top this! Sheyla Hershey (above), a Houston dancer who had already undergone eight breast-enlargement surgeries, traveled to Brazil for her ninth one after learning that Texas law limited the amount...
REPORT: FEDERAL SNITCH IS EX-CON
The FBI informant who helped several investigations into steroid use in sports is an unemployed, 43-year-old convicted felon from Baltimore, a Web site reported yesterday. The Smoking Gun said Andrew...
UNSEALED BONDS EVIDENCE INCLUDES 4 FAILED STEROID TESTS
Barry Bonds was never one to shy away from confrontation. Judging by what was made public of the government's case against him he better prepare for the fight of his...
DEVILS SHRUG OFF END OF HOT STREAK
Coming off a loss for the first time in more than three weeks, the Devils coach yesterday huddled up his team - which he calls "better" than last year -...
RENNEY'S DOGS NEED NEW BARK
IF the Rangers are not exactly in a mid-life crisis, they are at a mid-season crossroads, that's for sure. And so is Tom Renney, who yesterday put his players through...
STAR IS NOT KEEN ON GUTTED TEAM
The Knicks traded away their two leading scorers, frantically trying to clear salary cap space for the 2010 free-agent class that is headlined by LeBron James and includes Dwyane Wade...
FANS REGAIN SOME CREDIBILITY
THE Knicks didn't beat the Cavaliers last night, but at least they accomplished something meaningful - they won the Garden back. Unlike Monday night, when the home crowd cheered Kobe...
BERNARD DREAMS OF GARDEN'S FUTURE KING
Bernard King, whose Garden scoring record of 60 points was broken by Kobe Bryant on Monday, only has hope - that LeBron James eventually breaks Bryant's record in a Knicks...
D'ANTONI'S CREW CAN'T OVERCOME JAMES' TRIPLE-DOUBLE
After Kobe Bryant got the fawning adoration of the Garden crowd and a building-record 61 points on Monday, he said jokingly that Cleveland's LeBron James would get a quadruple-double last...
OLD 'LOST' LOVERS WILL SHAKE IT UP
Take a good look at Kate and Jack waltzing in the jungle - because Kate is about to change partners again on "Lost." Actress Evangeline Lilly, who stars as Kate,...
ISLES HIT THE ROAD
The Islanders head out on the road winners of four straight, but their newfound good health didn't last long. Defensemen Thomas Pock and Mark Streit both missed practice yesterday. Pock...
HUNTER EARNS 'A' WITH 16-0 MARK
If you thought the members of the Hunter College High School boys' basketball team were more likely to produce a perfect SAT score than a perfect 16-0 record, then you...
JETER GETTING TIRED OF A-ROD TALK
TAMPA, Fla. - Yankees captain Derek Jeter wants to reiterate it yet again: Alex Rodriguez has the support of his teammates. "Like I've said before, we all support Alex. He's...
MANY FANS WON'T THROW BOOK AT TORRE
Broken clubhouse code or no broken clubhouse code, Yankee fans aren't holding "The Yankee Years" against Joe Torre. That was obvious yesterday during the final day of Torre's whirlwind, two-day...
CHIPPER: WBC HAS WRIGHT STUFF
This really could be one big, happy family. For Mets' fans, the idea of David Wright sharing a clubhouse and becoming chummy with Jimmy Rollins and Chipper Jones for a...
GIANTS TURN UP ON DANSBY'S RADAR
Karlos Dansby, the leading tackler and best linebacker on the upstart Cardinals team that nearly pulled off a big upset in Super Bowl XLIII, said yesterday he "wouldn't mind playing...
HARRIS AND CO. ROLL PAST LOWLY WIZARDS
WASHINGTON - Face it, somebody had to get fired or traded if the Nets lost this one. True, the Nets are a few rungs away from "dynasty," but the collection...
UPPER WEST SIDE
Here's your chance to "recapture history" - and profit from it, too. This five-story, turn-of-the-20th-century brick and limestone townhouse, located on a "beautiful, tree-lined" block in the Riverside-West End Historic...
SUTTON
Just because the renovation on this massive co-op on East 57th Street was completed with "museum-quality workmanship" doesn't mean you can't touch anything or make yourself perfectly at home. Of...
SADDLE RIVER, NJ
This "extraordinary" brick manor set on 2.6 acres is a grand space built for entertaining. Just imagine: From the entryway, you'll greet guests in front of the double staircase that...
KEY LARGO, FLA.
This "Mediterranean canal-front" home isn't actually in the Mediterranean, but rather in the incredibly exclusive (and strictly patrolled) Ocean Reef Club in the Florida Keys, where private golf and tennis...
SOHO
Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 1,300 Maintenance: $1,310 -- Sure, the great location on Lafayette Street, the brand-new kitchen and the 7-by-7-foot windows are great - but we think...
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY
Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2 1/2 Square feet: 2,600 -- Built in 2003, this Colonial set on more than an acre is "better than new," thanks to all the updates inside....
GRAMERCY
Bedrooms: 0 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 420 Maintenance: $608 -- This "serene" studio co-op in a full-service building on East 24th Street features a lofted sleeping alcove and a private...
KIPS BAY
Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 450 Maintenance: $626 -- This split-layout condop, with an "ample" living area on one end and a bedroom on the other, also features a...
MIDTOWN WEST
Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1 1/2 Square feet: 1,200 Maintenance: $1,634 -- In addition to all the services offered in this doorman building on West 55th Street, this "exquisitely renovated" prewar...
CLINTON HILL, BROOKLYN
Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 875 Maintenance: $769 -- If you're looking for an "extraordinary corner classic apartment" in a "gorgeous prewar building," who needs Park Avenue? Clinton Avenue...
GIVE ME LIBERTY!
Nine days before 9/11, hip-hop entrepreneur and philanthropist Russell Simmons and his family left their Liberty Street apartment and moved to Saddle River, NJ. They picked a good time to...
RUFF RIDERS
AT the risk of sounding like a lonely dog lady who walks around in men's pants covered in dog hair,* I admit that I look forward to watching the "Westminster...
WOMEN MOVED TO THE FORE
THOUGH aesthetically worlds apart, George Balanchine and Jacqulyn Buglisi could certainly agree on one point: Dance is woman. Buglisi has big ideas, particularly about women, and those were at the...
TIBET HOUSE BENEFIT CONCERT
JUST ask the Dalai Lama to describe the essence of Buddhism, and he might grin a saintly smile and suggest "change." Despite change being the focal point for Buddhist insight,...
BOX-OFFICE BAILOUT BARGAIN
BANK NIGHT - the givea way series that helped movie theaters stay afloat during the Great Depression - is back at Film Forum in modern form. Drawings for movie tickets...
TWELVE STEPS TO TWO-STEP
YOU can lead a "Jackass" star to rehab - but can you make him waltz? Wild man Steve-O, who shot to fame on MTV's anything-goes show "Jackass," is in line...
DIGITAL SWITCH PUSHED TO JUNE
YOU do not have to take down the rabbit ears just yet. Congress yesterday pushed back the digital TV changeover date from Feb. 17 to June 12, giving viewers more...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan FLATIRON $455,000 66 Madison Ave. Prewar studio co-op, 550 square feet, with 10 1/2-foot beamed ceilings, renovated marble bath, renovated open kitchen, oak floors and through-the-wall AC; building features...
'OFFICE' SPACE
'I'M definitely a nester," Melora Hardin says. "I really like home and homey-ness, but I have to resist the urge to buy things for this apartment." After all, she's only...
HAUTE LIST
HOW did David Foote (inset) - who spent years directing music videos and commercials and working with stars such as Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige and Bono - wind up creating...
THE GIRL WHO FELL TO EARTH
EACH Thursday morning, a substantial number of average young women open their inboxes to find a new e-mail from none other than Gwyneth Paltrow, in which the multimillionaire movie star...
GWYNETH'S STUPID DIET
NO wonder she's so annoying. Drinking room-temperature lemon water first thing in the morning and ending the day with a several spoonfuls of straight olive oil would make anyone a...
IT'S A NUMBERS GAME
JENNY could have been rich. Earlier this week, a New Jersey man put the phone number made famous in the 1982 Tommy Tutone hit "867-5309/Jenny" for sale on eBay. At...
Happy Days Are Here Again -- Again
This one shows funny gals Mary Boland and Lyda Roberti in Elliot Nugent's delightful, if undeservedly forgotten, pioneering screwball comedy "Three-Cornered Moon'' (also '33) starring Claudette Colbert (not to be...
KOUFAX, BASEBALL GREATS HIT HARD BY MADOFF
Apparently, there is crying in baseball. Scores of big names in baseball - including legendary Dodger hurler Sandy Koufax and former Met Timothy Teufel - are on the list of...
FULL LIST OF MADOFF VICTIMS RELEASED
An exhaustive 162-page list of Bernard Madoff's bilked clients - including baseball legend Sandy Koufax, Columbia University and New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon - was released today following a...
POLICE ACCOUNTS CENTRAL AS MALAKOV SHOOTING TRIAL OPENS
More than 15 months after Dr. Daniel Malakov was gunned down in a cold-blooded hit allegedly plotted by his estranged wife and family, the murder trial commenced Wednesday with lively...