March 9, 2014
True Detective delivers in miniseries' finale
Finally, the truth can be told (many spoilers below!): the real villain of “True Detective” is… HBOGo.com, which crashed epically as the much anticipated finale of the eight-episode miniseries was...
The new diversity
This morning, Cardinal Timothy Dolan will speak at Cathedral HS on an initiative with the potential to overhaul education in a city where 85 percent of black and Latino children in...
Celebs give you a peek at spring's biggest trends
Winter's days are numbered! Take a breath of fresh flair and follow these stars to the season's biggest trends.
Unions united for better New York schools
The education of New York’s schoolchildren faces an increasingly challenging and uncertain future. Too many public schools are struggling to provide our kids with the education they need to be...
Should I take my unemployment claim to court?
A while back, I was involved in an unemployment hearing. My claim was denied, so I appealed. During the hearing — a three-way call between two of my former bosses,...
Mets' Parnell charged up after solid debut frame
PORT ST. LUCIE — Bobby Parnell last threw a pitch in a major league game last July 30 before being shut down with a neck injury that required surgery in...
Rays manager: McCann move was best one Yankees made
TAMPA — Joe Maddon believes pairing Jacoby Ellsbury with Brett Gardner in the outfield could provide a dynamic similar to the one that helped the Red Sox become World Series...
Gold fork in the road for pasta place Alfredo 100
It’s called Alfredo 100 — and not as a nod to the Roman-themed murals by the late Al Hirschfeld. The relocation and renaming of Alfredo of Rome from its Rock...
The Rays secret that should encourage Yankees, Robertson
TAMPA — Joe Maddon — a reporter’s dream — is game for just about anything in an interview, so I quizzed him whether he could name the seven different relievers...
Sunbathing seal delights in Brooklyn
Seals are really flipping for the Big Apple.Days after one of the adorable critters turned up on the beach in Far Rockaway, another one was spotted hanging out in one...
Top mags for getting back into shape
Despite the mounds of snow that refuse to melt, spring is almost here, the clocks have been turned forward, and you’ve got one more hour of evening daylight. What else...
Baby mama appears to buy sledgehammer used to attack ex: video
A Manhattan shrink apparently paid for the sledgehammer linked to a near-fatal attack on the estranged father of her child, store surveillance photos obtained by The Post reveal. Jacob Nolan,...
Palin pursued as host at streaming network
Sarah Palin is being wooed by two news media veterans to join a streaming network, The Post has learned. Jonathan Klein, who ran CNN’s US operations, and Jeff Gaspin, who...
Elisabeth Moss: 'Mad Men's' biggest star
“Do you remember when I used to come in and bring you a--holes drinks and leave, and that was my job?” Elisabeth Moss recently asked her “Mad Men” co-stars. But,...
Mets send message to Harvey with new media rules
PORT ST. LUCIE — Make no mistake, in his own mind Matt Harvey still believes he will pitch in 2014 for the Mets. He is just not tweeting it. And...
Rangers must go out of character, lock up Staal soon
The trade deadline-driven contract negotiations with Dan Girardi and Ryan Callahan were instructive to Marc Staal, who could be in the very same position as an impending free agent next...
ESPN’s Woods coverage blinds viewers
All hail Preposterous, High Ruler of Sports TV! Another one of those weekends, Mr. Peabody. Where do we start? Well, for late winter weekend watching, there’s nothing more entertaining than...
Monroe: Former teammate Jackson can only help Knicks
Knicks legend Earl Monroe was speaking from his hospital bed Sunday and thinking about the possibilities of Phil Jackson being back in the Knicks organization after all these years. It’s...
Nets rolling into key Atlantic showdown
The Nets did what they were supposed to Sunday night, dispatching a Kings team playing out the string and emerging from Barclays Center with a 104-89 victory. Now comes the...
Anthony not wild about Knicks' pursuit of Jackson
The one person the Knicks should be trying to impress doesn’t seem so impressed with the Knicks’ expected hiring of legendary coach Phil Jackson to their front office. In fact,...
Gas buster
For years, Gov. Cuomo has played Hamlet on the Hudson, using his environmental and health agencies as cover to delay making a decision on fracking. For years, too, we’ve taken...
Laid-off workers leaving it all behind for a ‘grown-up gap year’
In 2012, I was laid off from my staff job at a magazine. It wasn’t unexpected — the magazine had recently gotten a new editor-in-chief who was expected to clean house — but what...
Johnnies' Harrison makes All-Big East team
The Big East announced its all-conference teams Sunday afternoon and St. John’s was well represented. Junior guard and leading scorer D’Angelo Harrison (17.6 points per game) made the first team,...
Revamped Big East back at the Garden
The Big East rolls into New York City this week for its annual postseason tournament with two Final Four contenders, a possible No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, a...
Testing the SATs
Here’s news sure to trigger smiles among high-school students: The SATs are set for a makeover that may make the test easier. Among the changes: The writing section will become...
Iona one win away from NCAA Tournament
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — The champs will get the chance to defend their crown. Top-seeded Iona advanced to its third MAAC Championship game in four years after surviving an entertaining back-and-forth battle...
Ultra-Orthodox Jews rally against proposed Israeli draft
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews rallied in Downtown Manhattan on Sunday afternoon to protest proposed new legislation in Israel that would allow them to be drafted into the army there. The...
Cops crack down on illegal dirt bikes, seize eight vehicles
Joyriders beware. Police took advantage of yesterday’s warming temperatures to nab several illegal dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles in upper Manhattan, arresting three men and seizing a total of eight...
Cuomo to open up slopes with expanded 'I SKI NY' bus service
The state is expanding the “I SKI NY" bus service to make it easier for New Yorkers to hit 13 upstate ski slopes, Gov. Cuomo announced Sunday. Only two ski...
Gillibrand pushes for steep increase to child care tax credit
WASHINGTON – As part of her crusade to help working women, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced legislation Sunday that would more than double the federal child care tax credit. Gillibrand (D-NY)...
Rangers blank Wings as Lundqvist notches 300th win
It was a quiet and tepid Sunday afternoon in midtown Manhattan when Henrik Lundqvist took one more step into the Rangers’ record books. With a 3-0 win over the Red...
De Blasio slapped with suit over charter schools
The Success Academy charter school network is suing Mayor de Blasio on Monday to overturn his decision to stop the siting of three of its schools. A federal civil rights...
NJ woman's finger almost bitten off in parking brawl
CHERRY HILL, N.J. — Police say a dispute over a parking spot at a southern New Jersey mall ended when a woman bit and almost severed the finger of another...
Nicks' time with Giants likely done as he seeks long-term deal
Hakeem Nicks must have not liked the way his first foray into free agency came across when on Saturday word came down he would be willing to sign a one-year,...
Interpol knew about stolen passports used on missing jet
BEIJING — Forty ships and more than 20 airplanes were searching for a missing Malaysia Airlines jet Sunday but by nightfall had not found any wreckage, Malaysian authorities said. Meanwhile,...
Jets dump Cromartie to save cap space
Jets general manager John Idzik swung his ax Sunday, cutting veteran cornerback Antonio Cromartie. In a move that has been expected for months, the Jets parted ways with Cromartie just...
Man fatally struck by hit-and-run driver in Queens
Cops are looking for a dark Chevy Blazer that struck and killed a man in Long Island City. Police identified the victim as Kumar Ragunath, 64, of Jamaica. He was...
St. John's Rewind: Memorable 2OT victory in Milwaukee
Barring a Sweet 16 run or a Big East championship, my most memorable moment of this St. John’s season is going to be Saturday’s double overtime 91-90 victory over Marquette....
Man rescued from half-frozen cemetery lake
A kind-hearted man almost met an early grave Sunday when he wandered out on a half-frozen lake in Woodlawn Cemetery to feed the ducks and fell through the thin ice....
Ukrainian Prime Minister invited to White House
WASHINGTON – Ukraine’s prime minister will sit down with President Obama this week to search for a “peaceful solution” to the deepening crisis in Crimea, where Russian troops tightened their grip...
Missiles seized by Israel were for Sinai or Gaza: Egyptian official
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — A senior security official in Egypt says a missile shipment seized by Israel last week was destined for militants in either the Sinai Peninsula or the...
Detroit Lions owner William Clay Ford Sr. dies at 88
DETROIT — William Clay Ford Sr., who helped steer Ford Motor Co. for more than five decades and owned the NFL's Detroit Lions, has died at the age of 88....
Smallball hurts Nets on poor-shooting night
The Nets did what they were supposed to Sunday night, dispatching a Kings team playing out the string and emerging from Barclays Center with a 104-89 victory. Now comes the...
30-40 injured after high school stage collapses
ANAHEIM, Calif. — A stage at a Southern California high school collapsed during a student event and 30-40 people were rushed to hospitals with mainly minor injuries, authorities said. Police,...
Two seriously injured in nursing home fire
Two people in a nursing home were seriously injured in a fire in Kingsbridge Heights, authorities said. It wasn’t immediately clear what started the fire around 5:45 a.m., on Cannon...
Man shot dead in his Fordham Heights apartment
A 43-year-old man was shot dead inside a Fordham Heights apartment and another person was stabbed outside the building, officials said. The victim was inside a home on East 187th...
Search crew spots possible door from downed airliner
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Vietnamese authorities searching waters for the missing Boeing 777 jetliner spotted an object Sunday that they suspected was one of the plane's doors, as international intelligence...
Lovesick songbirds can woo their mate with an original tune
Forget making a mixtape. If you really want to impress your beloved, you’re going to need more than an assemblage of Frank Sinatra and Magnetic Fields tunes. You’re going to...
Dog owners bite back after Spike Lee ranted on their neighborhood
Director Spike Lee has no love for newcomers to the Brooklyn neighborhood he grew up in — or their dogs. The famous former Fort Greene resident (he now lives on...
New guy in town seeks adventurous woman
Jim, 24 Just moved to the city and is ready to see and do as much as he can. Will he be able to find a girl who wants to...
This week's couple: Hot stuff
Some like it hot — but others can’t handle the heat. During their date at Obao — a Vietnamese and Thai eatery in Hell’s Kitchen — Chelsea, a 26-year-old visual...
Julian Assange hints at fresh WikiLeaks during SXSW talk
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Speaking over Skype from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, fugitive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said his living situation is a bit like prison — with a...
73 arrested at pre-St. Patrick's Day party
AMHERST, Mass. — A pre-St. Patrick's Day celebration near the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts spiraled out of control, pitting police in riot gear against thousands of drunken...
Russia sends more troops to disputed Crimea
SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine — Dozens of military trucks transporting heavily armed soldiers rumbled over Crimea's rutted roads Saturday as Russia reinforced its armed presence on the disputed peninsula in the Black...
Toronto Mayor reminds citizens to 'turn clocks back'
As the rest of North America prepared to set their clocks ahead one hour for Daylight Savings time, Toronto’s crack-impaired mayor Rob Ford took to Twitter on Saturday night to...
Spectators salute star-spangled pants during pledge
I pledge allegiance to the . . . pants? When spectators at a Maryland wrestling match couldn’t find a flag to salute, they turned to the next best thing —...
Iglehart's wish granted as he takes on iconic Genie in 'Aladdin'
In 1992, James Monroe Iglehart’s mother took him to see the animated Disney movie “Aladdin” as a high-school graduation gift. “When ‘Friend Like Me’ came on, I leaned over to...
'Aladdin' gets big changes for Broadway debut
Genie’s not the only aspect of 1992’s “Aladdin” to earn a face-lift for the Great White Way. Here are six more changes. Sorry, no pets allowed. The stage version does...
Puppet star of 'Hand of God' isn't afraid to rebel
In Robert Askins’ “Hand to God,” a devout Christian teenager is led astray by a demonic hand puppet named Tyrone. At off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre, where the MCC Theater production...
A crude way to get Putin out of Ukraine
What should President Obama do to de-fang tyrant Vladimir Putin? He could start with two simple announcements tomorrow morning, as the beginning of a campaign to finally show Moscow that...
Bond dealers upset with treatment by Feds and Treasury
Primary dealers — the elite corps of super-safe bond dealers like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan who trade in the $11.8 trillion market with the New York Fed — are not...
Ex-editor ‘coins’ snarky putdown of Newsweek
It appears there may be some sour grapes over the relaunch of Newsweek’s print edition. Former editor Tina Brown was asked by Bloomberg Television host Tom Keene on Friday about...
City folks heading to suburbs in droves
If you’re thinking about leaving the city for the ’burbs but can’t tell one town from the next, you are not alone. Alison Bernstein, a New York mother of four,...
Lizzy Jagger struts in new hotel ad campaign
Lizzy Jagger, the leggy model daughter of Jerry Hall and Mick Jagger, struts her stuff in a sexy new ad campaign for Row NYC — a new Times Square hotel....
Banking isn’t a wonderful life now as suicides sweep financial district
In the last two months, there has been a rash of suicides and mysterious deaths sweeping the world of high finance. JPMorgan has been hardest hit, with three untimely deaths...
Advertising profits begin to turn around
For the past decade, media companies have been stung by a combination of an economic slowdown and a problem demonstrating growth in advertising revenue. But a change is in the...
Dear John: Head West, young job seekers
Dear John: Just curious: Have you ever traded stocks to make a quick buck or like Obama do you think capitalism is essentially immoral? R.L. Dear R.L.: I think capitalism...
New York State’s low-pay employment growth soars
The Labor Department said Friday that the US added 175,000 jobs last month (though the national unemployment rate ticked up to 6.7 percent), but New York is in a slow...
Tax policies hurt hiring in New York
City and state mandates, onerous work rules and excessive taxes continue to hurt the New York economy, according to several business experts. These hindrances include scheduled increases in the state...
Kate Spade aspires for brand to become like Ralph Lauren
Kate Spade wants to be Ralph Lauren. Looking to quadruple retail sales to $4 billion, the handbag maker is modeling itself on Lauren’s empire: a global lifestyle brand selling everything...
'Ghee' food product built on an old idea
Sandeep Agarwal knew not every business needed to be built on a new idea. In fact, the signature item of his company, Pure Indian Foods, is ghee, a product that...
Grumbles growing that SXSW festival is going nowhere
The South by Southwest festival has lost its compass, say veteran festival-goers. The event — which kicked off this weekend in Austin, Texas — used to be a celebration of...
Serby’s Sunday Q&A with … Steve Lavin
Steve Serby sits down for a chat with Steve Lavin, in which the St. John’s coach talks about his team’s resurgence, the Big East and NCAA tournaments and the future...
First-year coach Bobby Hurley has turned around Buffalo
When Bobby Hurley was still a player he figured he would coach one day. He never imagined it would match the way the two-time NCAA champion and NBA first-round draft...
Schmooze Fest! WFAN host Somers to get his own T-shirt
And now, finally, you there, and Schmoozer T-shirts and hoodies here. Tarnation! Sports will be honoring legendary WFAN talk show host Steve (The Schmoozer) Somers with a “SCHMOOZING” T-shirt ($19.99)...
Sound Off: Trade of Callahan a mistake
The 2013-14 Rangers team, with Ryan Callahan, had zero chance of winning the Cup. The 2013-14 Rangers team, with Martin St. Louis, has zero chance of winning the Cup. Now...
Tiger one of many big names to make charge on ‘Moving Day’
DORAL , Fla. — Somewhere, sometime, many moons ago, somebody coined with expression “Moving Day’’ as it relates to third-round Saturdays at PGA Tour golf tournaments. Players know they cannot...
Mets’ phenom Wheeler making older brothers proud
PORT ST. LUCIE — The Zack Wheeler Experience isn’t just about a young pitcher with a golden right arm making it with the Mets. It’s about three brothers bonding together...
Yankees’ Tanaka on regular pitchers schedule
KISSIMMEE, Fla. ¬— Whatever Masahiro Tanaka turns into on the mound, there are no signs he is on his own program. Scheduled to throw a simulated game Tuesday, the $175...
Yankees’ vital cog Teixeira takes another step forward
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Jacoby Ellsbury, Brian McCann and Carlos Beltran bagged $283 million from the Yankees this offseason to prop up a lineup that was ruined by injury last year....
Tweet prediction of ‘Harvey Day’
LAKELAND, Fla. — Matt Harvey still hasn’t given up on pitching this season. With references both in print and on Twitter to “Noah Day” because of Mets fans’ excitements over...
Missing jet may have turned back: Air force chief
Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four passengers with...
1/3 of drivers don’t honor cashless toll
There is no honor among toll dodgers. A year after the MTA began experimenting with the state’s first cashless tollbooths, installed on the Henry Hudson Bridge, more than 95,000 drivers...
Don't Miss: 'Good Wife' springs a leak; 'New Girl' tries nepotism
The Americans Wednesday, 10 p.m., FX Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) complete their latest mission, but not without complications. Philip’s fears about Elizabeth’s readiness for action deepen. Stan...
Daily Blotter
Brooklyn Three JetBlue employees got into a brawl with two men outside a Williamsburg hookah lounge, leaving one of the airline workers shot in the gut, cops said. The pals...
Inside the walls of swanky 15 Central Park West
Fifteen Central Park West is New York’s most exclusive address, an aerie of hedge-funders and celebrities, where a penthouse costs $40 million — and a wine cellar costs $80,000 more....
Landscape contractor defrauds city for tree planting: workers
It’s a green thumb in the eye. A Brooklyn-based tree-planting company that rakes in millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded contracts isn’t planting all of the trees it gets paid for...
Firefighter hurt by slick slide down fire pole: lawsuit
A Brooklyn firefighter says he was seriously hurt after he slid down a fire pole that was too slick, smashing into the floor and fracturing a vertebra in his lower...
Man who assaulted flight attendant sues over attack's web video
A Brooklyn man who used a JetBlue flight attendant as a punching bag in a drunken assault says he is a victim — of cyberbullying. Antonio Ynoa, 24, claims Google,...
Red Bulls coach Petke: Season-opening flop ‘on me’
Think the worst imaginable season-opener for the Red Bulls — and even that doesn’t do Saturday night’s game justice. Nobody got hurt, except maybe their pride. Other than that, the...
Ground Zero mosque developer bills his own nonprofit for rent
The developer behind the controversial “Ground Zero mosque” is charging rent to his own strapped nonprofit — the very group behind the ambitious project. Park51, the Islamic community center and...
Dolan forcing city’s elder pastors to retire
Some of the city’s most beloved and senior pastors will be forced to leave their flocks under two little-known rules being enforced by Timothy Cardinal Dolan, The Post has learned....
National Grid worker linked to two Long Island gas explosions: probe
A single bumbling National Grid employee worked on two natural-gas hookups before they were involved in massive explosions on Long Island in 2011 and 2012, a just-completed state Public Service...
Public advocate wants to suspend charter-school lottery
Public Advocate Letitia James not only plans to sue to shut down “co-located” charter schools — her team wants a judge to suspend the admissions lottery for the 2014-15 academic...
'Forgotten' woman's body found five years after dying
Authorities in Pontiac, Mich., last week discovered the remains of a woman whose death six years ago went unnoticed because her bills had been set on an automatic bank-debit payment...
Meet ‘Oblasio’: De Blasio’s turning into Obama’s twin
When a politician denounces politics, you know he’s feeling the heat. When that politician is Bill de Blasio and he aims his ire at charter schools, the media and taxpayers,...
Reporter reveals how fake Rockefeller duped him
Sometime during the summer of 1998, a Montana-based journalist named Walter Kirn received an odd request: His friends Harry and Mary Piper, wealthy and religious, had rescued an injured dog...