October 5, 2014
How Prince's wife inspired him to huge game
The origin of Prince Amukamara’s confidence isn’t important. What matters is it looks as if it’s here to stay. After a week in which Amukamara faced more national attention than...
It takes two actors to play 'Sleepy Hollow' villain
On Fox’s supernatural drama “Sleepy Hollow,” two heads are definitely better than one. That’s because it requires two actors to portray one of the show’s central villains — the Headless...
Eli Manning might have just saved the Giants' season
Eli Manning was on the sideline and all of the air had sprinted out of MetLife Stadium. With a three-point lead in the third quarter Sunday, Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan...
Cop-bashers' bogus 'bad apples' bull
“Not all cops are bad.” “The majority of police officers do the job correctly.” “We shouldn’t let a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch.” Sound familiar? If you’ve opened...
How Jason Pierre-Paul turned the Giants' defense around
If you listen to the Giants, defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul had as good a day calling plays as quarterback Eli Manning did Sunday at MetLife Stadium. While Manning threw two...
Mia Farrow's dirty profits—a hidden payoff in corrupt Ecuador trial
The Broadway critics are raving over “Love Letters,” starring Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy — particularly over Farrow. The New York Times says her “remarkable performance . . . casts...
A Bell-ringer in New Jersey
PRINCETON — Every 36 years, it seems Jeff Bell disturbs New Jersey’s political order. In 1978, as a 34-year-old apostle of supply-side economics and a harbinger of the Reagan Revolution, he...
Jersey's coming tunnel-repair nightmare
New Jerseyans could soon find out what a really bad commute is. If they do, they can blame Gov. Chris Christie. In fact, other pols will deserve blame, too. And...
Chocolate factory, upscale retail space coming to Sunset Park
This is a sweet development for a once down-on-its-luck neighborhood A giant chocolate factory and retail space is coming to Sunset Park’s Industry City, a sprawling 30 acres on the...
Why George Steinbrenner would be proud of these Dodgers
ST. LOUIS — The Yankees are not in the postseason for the second straight October. For Yankees fans, that has been a difficult pill to swallow. But there is one...
'Curious Incident' is the most inventive new show on Broadway
Btitish import “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” is the most deliriously inventive new show on Broadway. One second, a clever bit of stage business leaves you...
What Carmelo and Amar'e love about Knicks' new offense
The conventional thinking says the Knicks hardly will be conventional in their triangle offense this season. So don’t think in traditional terms regarding positions. “In our system, it’s not so...
Sony sets high price bar for Web TV
Sony’s upcoming Internet-delivered TV service will carry 100 channels and a surprisingly high price tag of as much as $80 a month, The Post has learned. The Japanese media and...
Le Bernardin adds gold-star facility Privé
Le Bernardin, which just retained its three Michelin-star rating, has long had a happy problem: demand for private dining ridiculously exceeds supply. The fabled 110-seat seafood restaurant has had a...
Meet the fans who spend serious cash on Comic Con costumes
Criminals, you might want to take the week off. The streets of Gotham are set to be swarming with superheroes as the annual New York Comic Con kicks off Thursday....
Has the time come for Netflix to start running ads?
Netflix needs to entertain advertising — at least that’s the view on Madison Avenue. As online video viewing explodes and linear TV- watching comes under pressure, marketers are making the...
Orioles sweep sends Tigers into a Yankees-like winter
DETROIT — The Tigers have a lot of Yankees in them. In its owner’s obsession for a title, Detroit has grown expensive, star-laden and old. There is some Buffalo Bills...
Cop injured after being struck by cyclist
A cop was injured when he was struck by a bicyclist on the Brooklyn Bridge Sunday evening, authorities said. The officer was on the Manhattan side of the span when...
Vick replaces Smith in disgusting Jets shutout loss
SAN DIEGO — Rex Ryan went to the bullpen Sunday, but this was a game not even Mariano Rivera could have saved. The Chargers embarrassed the Jets 31-0 at Qualcomm...
Giants report card: Healthy offense gets the grade it deserves
Offense So this is why Odell Beckham Jr. (four catches, 44 yards) was the 12th pick in the NFL draft. Speed, hands, poise and his first touchdown turns out to...
De Blasio praises himself throughout endorsement speech
But enough about me. Mayor de Blasio used nearly his entire speech -- meant to endorse New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman for his reelection bid -- to list his...
At home in Albany
Nassau County Democrats have now done an abrupt about-face. Apparently they’ve decided their state Senate candidate, recently accused of fraud, would be much more at home in Albany than on...
The Clinton inversion conversion
Bill Clinton delivered some wise words during a recent CNBC interview, implicitly pushing back against President Obama’s message of corporate class war. Clinton was asked whether “inversions” — American companies...
Sharpton not taking sides after associate accused of raping exec
The Rev. Al Sharpton decried the "disrespecting'' of women Sunday while addressing the rape allegations against his high-profile lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein. “I don't care how close we are, if he's...
Mr. Cuomo's neighborhood
Once again, Gov. Cuomo has injected race into this year’s gubernatorial race. We hope New Yorkers are paying attention. Because in so doing, the governor has taken the federal government’s...
Odell Beckham leads Giants' comeback win over Falcons
Veterans almost always try to reserve judgment when talking about rookies, the old pay-your-dues deal. But Mathias Kiwanuka, who has been with the Giants for a decade — longer than...
'Inherent Vice' an Oscar non-starter
Paul Thomas Anderson’s sporadically funny stoner noir “Inherent Vice’’ is so unconcerned with coherence that it makes Howard Hawks’ legendarily confusing “The Big Sleep’’ look like a model of narrative...
Giants fans drool, Odell Beckham dances after first TD
Odell Beckham Jr. hadn’t played a single down of NFL football before this weekend, because of a balky hamstring. But on Sunday he introduced himself to the league, and used...
Lionel Hollins to Brook Lopez: Toughen up
Lionel Hollins has a request for Brook Lopez: Don’t forget how big you are. After Sunday’s practice — which ended with a spirited scrimmage that saw Hollins become animated several...
Leodis McKelvin accidentally decks Bills coach
http://media.giphy.com/media/3qCAEKlnBBQWWBXTPi/giphy.gif Leodis McKelvin needed some elbow room. While angling for a call to be overturned, the Bills cornerback walked backward, wildly swinging his arms, pantomiming the call for an incomplete pass. Only, the...
Netanyahu: White House criticism of Israel is un-American
JERUSALEM — Israel's prime minister dismissed a recent White House rebuke of Israeli settlement construction, saying in comments broadcast on Sunday that the criticism goes "against American values." The tough...
Panther tackled before catching punt, still returns it for TD
In the you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it category comes this return from Philly Brown. Early in the Carolina-Chicago game Sunday, Brown was back deep for a punt return. He was nailed by Teddy Williams of...
Grisly crash leaves Formula 1 racer in critical condition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIn9SH4Zuwc&feature=youtu.be&t=22s Marussia Formula One driver Jules Bianchi is in critical condition after crashing at the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka, Japan. Bianchi was unconscious when he was taken to a...
Tom Brady thinks he's being replaced and is livid
Tom Brady and Bill Belichick have been untouchable football royalty since 2001. The reign may be over. After the Patriots' historic beating Monday night against the Chiefs, when they lost 41-14,...
College football may have found Tim Tebow 2.0
The "15" on the back of the jersey is the same. As are the offense they run and the coach who leads them. Even the bulging muscles that don't match the...
Authorities locate homeless man with possible ties to Texas Ebola patient
DALLAS — Authorities say they've located a homeless man who needs to be monitored because he may have had contact with the lone Ebola patient in the United States. Dallas...
Navy unveils self-guided drone boats
NORFOLK, Va. — Self-guided unmanned patrol boats that can leave warships they're protecting and swarm and attack potential threats on the water could join the Navy's fleet within a year,...
50 fall shoes under $500
Go on, fall hard for the season’s most irresistible shoe trends — all under $500. Plus: 5 luxe splurges worth every penny! High Contrast Cool Wool Plaid Attitude Song and...
Cuban migrants adrift at sea for 23 days drank own blood, urine
A group of Cuban migrants drank their own urine and blood after the engine of their homemade boat failed, leaving them adrift in the Caribbean for three weeks without food...
Coast guard rescues runner traveling in inflatable ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R551tqVR5ps ORLANDO, Fla. -- A longtime endurance runner and peace activist whose latest goal was to reach Bermuda in a homemade floating "Hydro Pod" was rescued by the U.S. Coast...
Giants' Beason to sit, Beckham to finally make debut
There were no strong indications during the week Jon Beason would return to his starting middle linebacker spot for Sunday’s game against the Falcons and so it was no shock...
Suspected cop killer texted 'all is good' before rampage
SCRANTON, Pa. — The suspect in a deadly ambush on two state troopers said in a text message that "all is good" less than five hours before he allegedly opened...
American doctor 'cured' of Ebola back in the hospital
WORCESTER, Mass. — A doctor admitted to a Massachusetts hospital this weekend for an apparent respiratory infection after surviving the Ebola virus was in stable condition and feeling better Sunday,...
Former NFL kicker was legally drunk in fatal car crash
Former Tennessee Titans place kicker Rob Bironas' blood-alcohol level was nearly triple the legal limit on the night he died in a single-car crash near his Nashville home last month,...
One dead, five injured in brawl outside night club
A brawl outside of a Bronx night club early Sunday left one man dead and five others injured including one in critical condition, police said. A group of men were...
Katy Perry chugs a beer, dives off bar after Ole Miss win
Katy Perry’s day of college football is the day that keeps giving. After all this, it still appears there’s no end in sight. In yet another video to grace the...
‘Active consent’ is a solution to an exaggerated problem
In his order Thursday to the SUNY trustees that they overhaul the school’s sexual-assault policy, Gov. Cuomo explained that sexual consent “is active, not passive . . . Silence, in...
How Adam Smith can change your life for the better
King Pyrrhus of Epirus was planning an attack on Rome. A confidante didn’t think it was necessary, or that it would turn out well. And what if we should beat...
Keystone pipeline opponents causing environmental disaster
On July 5, 2013, just before midnight, the sole engineer of a US train carrying 73 carloads of North Dakota crude oil parked miles outside a small town in Quebec...
War hero shocked, humbled to be featured on veterans memorial
Without ever meaning to, Joe Bacani has become the face of disabled American veterans. He had been discharged from the Army in 2009 after taking sniper fire in Iraq and...
Family pleads with ISIS to spare American humanitarian worker
The parents of an American humanitarian worker held hostage by Islamic State militants appealed for his release Saturday, speaking in a written statement and a video that highlighted his aid...
Mystery noise suit withdrawn after Post inquiries
They wanted to keep this riot quiet. Upper West Siders Maureen and Jay Adolf were suing their neighbors Henry and Talia Siegel over “excessive and unreasonable noise” — $4 million...
Luxury-box owners suing Barclay’s Center
A group of Barclays Center luxury-box owners is suing the Brooklyn arena for the second time in less than a year, claiming they were promised a great investment — but...
Woman fired after two hours on the job at MSG: suit
A Madison Square Garden hot-dog seller claims in a lawsuit that she was fired after just two hours on the job because of alleged unpaid bills. The 36-year-old single Brooklyn...
Obama’s big government stumbling for want of a nail
The proverb “For want of a nail” teaches that sometimes it is necessary to sweat the small stuff. Otherwise, a tiny flaw will doom a giant enterprise. The concept explains...
Dear John: Cyber safety’s up in the air
Dear John: How worried should we be about the money we have in savings banks if a cyber theft/attack occurs? Is there any way we can better protect our life...
New York City kids still have trouble finding work
Despite Friday’s unemployment rate dropping to 5.9 percent nationally, New York City is still home to the dead-end kids. Half of the city’s 600,000 recent college graduates are either underemployed...
Homeowners get OK to fight foreclosure scams
American Hope Group and the Donado Law Firm worked hard to sign up Queens homeowner Ana Lopez for their foreclosure rescue services. Lopez says that after an illness caused her...
Our unaffordable city
Leave it to Mayor de Blasio to look at a bad law that wasn’t working and conclude the answer is to make it even worse. Two years ago, the City...
Cop-killer chic
Will the Left ever fall out of love with cop- killer, Mumia Abu-Jamal? Apparently not. Though still serving a sentence of life without parole for murdering Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel...
Where are the women?
As the White House and main-stream media celebrate the latest employment report, consider this: the 1 million march of female workers between the ages of 45 and 54 who have...
Former CEO launches food line from upstate family farm
If the Advertising Week frenzy pushed you over the edge, take heart: There’s life beyond Madison Avenue, farther north. Take former Initiative Worldwide CEO Richard Beaven, who On the Money...
Preet Bharara to be tops on Worth's Power 100 list
This week will be “Worth” it for Preet Bharara, the hard-charging US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. On Monday, he is expected to be unveiled as the...
Dolan recalls how a snake brought him and Azoff together
How to succeed in business: Send a live snake. Madison Square Garden boss and Knicks owner Jim Dolan was recently asked how he first got to know music impresario and...
Stocks off to a shaky start in October
It’s October, and the markets haven’t wasted any time getting their witch on. On Wednesday alone, stocks fell 250 points and bonds had a massive rally, driving the 10-year Treasury...
Teachers get disability for school-related stress
Like cops and firefighters hurt on their dangerous jobs, 713 former city teachers collect two-thirds of their final salaries tax-free because of school-related accidents, assaults and even psychological wounds. Last...
Taxpayers must cover widening gap in teachers' pension funding
The city’s $56 billion Teachers Retirement System will explode with mushrooming costs that taxpayers cannot sustain, the Empire Center for Public Policy warns. The nonprofit think tank obtained updated teacher...
Retired CUNY professor gets $560K a year pension
He’s New York’s pension king. Retired Queens College history professor Edgar J. McManus, 90, gets a city pension of $561,286 a year, newly released figures show. His payout is the...
City agency tickets surged in summer, despite de Blasio’s pledge
Tickets issued by city agencies surged this summer, despite Mayor de Blasio’s election pledge to give small businesses a break. The orange onslaught saw 117,615 violations issued in July and...
City still not sure how it will pick 5th graders for selective schools
It’s middle-school madness. Just weeks before applications are due, the Department of Education still hasn’t figured out how it will pick fifth-graders for 44 selective schools, creating chaos for thousands...
Times Square McDonald’s landlord wants to charge rent for sign
McDonald’s has an “arch” rival in Times Square — its landlord. The company says its property owner in the Crossroads of the World is trying to jack up the rent...
FreshDirect gets City Hall to back off on campaign promise
FreshDirect lobbied City Hall — and dangled the prospect of giving workers a raise — to get the mayor to drop his campaign promise to end the firm’s city subsidies,...
Animal Care and Control botching surgeries, med care: vets
Veterinarians are bashing the city-funded shelter system for botching lifesaving surgeries — and routine procedures. At Brooklyn’s Animal Care and Control shelter in East New York, medical staff operated on...
‘Luxury’ private ambulance dropped patient, killed her: suit
A private ambulance company boasting “luxury” transport dropped an elderly patient going home from the hospital, resulting in injuries that eventually killed her, a lawsuit claims. Citywide Mobile Response Corp....
Battery Park City Authority honchos get big raises
Nice work if you can get it! Honchos and even freshly recruited executives at Battery Park City Authority got double-digit raises — as high as 29 percent — this year....
Upper West apartment being run like a hotel on Airbnb: suit
A Central Park West woman has transformed her ritzy duplex into a way station for tourists and transients, her miffed landlord charges in a lawsuit seeking to evict her. Since...
9/11 terrorists caught testing airport security months before attacks
At least three eyewitnesses spotted al Qaeda hijackers casing the security checkpoints at Boston’s Logan Airport months before the 9/11 attacks. They saw something and said something — but were...
Kemp's game-winning HR may have saved the Dodgers' season
LOS ANGELES — They call it Beast Mode. And Matt Kemp is back to it. It is needed now more than ever. The Dodgers had just given away the lead...
Giants win in 18th in the craziest playoff game you'll see
[mlbvideo id="36751551" width="600" height="370" /] WASHINGTON — After several hours of D.C. gridlock, the Giants hopped on the Belt-way to help end the longest game in MLB postseason history. Brandon...
It's time for JPP and the Giants to give Matt Ryan nightmares
There doesn’t have to be any shootout between Eli Manning and Matt Ryan if Jason Pierre-Paul doesn’t want there to be. JPP has been a beast against the run, but...
Daily Blotter
The Bronx ■ A Bronx bruiser busted for scalping tickets outside Yankee Stadium twisted a cop’s arm to elude arrest and ran, officials said. Investigators said Jacob Fashakin, 26, was...
Russian hackers likely culprits of Chase customer data: report
Russian hackers are the likely culprits in a mega-heist of computer data from banking giant JPMorgan Chase and nine other financial institutions, it was reported Saturday. The brazen data theft...
How Amukamara met and wooed his wife
He didn’t score on his first pass. Giants cornerback Prince Amukamara met Pilar Davis at a Manhattan nightclub three years ago and didn’t tell his future wife — who’s now...
Cops search Sharpton pal's pad after 'rape'
NYPD detectives zeroed in on the Upper East Side apartment of Al Sharpton confidant Sanford Rubenstein on Sunday in their hunt for “rape” evidence, after an attempt to nail the high-powered...
Griddy Hondo hopes for the best
Rutgers failed in its measly mission, which was to beat Michigan by more than two points Saturday night. However, the Scarlet Knights did win by two, so Hondo’s deficit held...
Blame Oscar Wilde for the rise of Kim Kardashian
Bon vivant Oscar Wilde was well-known for his way with a bon mot: “I can resist everything except temptation.” “Don’t be led astray down the path of virtue.” “Only shallow...
How 4 dogs helped protect their masters in war
Military dogs may be as old as armies themselves — the ancient Egyptians trained them for battle — but it’s only in recent American history that such dogs have been...