February 8, 2015
Insiders say Cuomo is rattled by Silver corruption case
Gov. Cuomo is suffering from a newly discovered syndrome that is wearing thin his already strained relationship with leaders on both sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats alike are...
Bruce Jenner across the newsstands
Bruce Jenner has had a hell of a year, and 2015 isn’t even six weeks old. The former gold medal-winning decathlete and current Kardashian clan patriarch has been able to...
'Special’ point guard could be Knicks' draft consolation prize
Maybe the Knicks don’t have to lose more for Jahlil Okafor. The status quo could get them D’Angelo Russell. Based on the season Ohio State’s slick and steady 6-foot-5 freshman...
Tapas joint Marcha headed to the East Village
Marcha has big ambitions — and small plates. The Washington Heights tapas joint — la marcha is Spanish slang for “night life” — is opening an outpost in the East...
Rangers superstar: From hero to struggling to benched
For the last few weeks again, it has been hard to remember Marty St. Louis is part of the Rangers. That’s how invisible he has been on the ice. And...
Subway founder’s sister takes over operations
Subway billionaire Fred DeLuca, who’s been battling leukemia for nearly two years, has handed the reins of the world’s largest restaurant chain to his younger sister, The Post has learned....
Billionaire Ira Rennert grilled in court over MagCorp case
Billionaire mining mogul Ira Rennert could have used an asbestos suit at times on Thursday. Rennert, who seldom speaks in public, was forced to testify for about six hours in...
Berkshire Hathaway does a 'poor' job at disclosing financials
Warren Buffett may be the world’s best investor — but he’s one of the worst when it comes to financial disclosure. That’s the consensus of long-suffering Wall Street analysts who...
How Kentucky typifies the baffling culture of NCAA fandom
Sports culture shock. It was Thanksgiving, 1998. I was with my family on vacation in Puerto Rico. The hotel and its meals were a bit over my head, but, hey, who...
Henrik Lundqvist would have risked a stroke by playing
Henrik Lundqvist feels good, much better than last week, when he was suffering with a sore neck and headaches, revealed to be caused by a vascular injury which will keep...
NYPD to host fundraiser for cops' daughter injured in crash
New York’s Finest will be holding a fundraiser Thursday for the daughter of two Brooklyn cops after she was severely injured in a car crash caused by a robbery suspect...
Dwyane Wade could miss out on Knicks -- and All-Star Game
MIAMI — Dwyane Wade could miss his sixth straight game Monday when the Knicks face the Heat at AmericanAirlines Arena, leading to further speculation about his All-Star status. The Heat...
Time for Knicks to say goodbye to class act Amar'e Stoudemire
Embattled Knicks owner James Dolan has a lot on his plate now, absorbing the horror of a 10-41 season and the embarrassment of his viciously worded email to a longtime...
How relentless Dan Hurley has rescued Rhode Island
Dan Hurley doesn’t have a background in architecture. But he sure knows how to lay a foundation. He’s become an expert at reclamation projects, leading Rhode Island to the top...
With email, James Dolan sets new standard for stupidity
The gall strikes you first, followed by the arrogance, followed by the sheer stupidity. When you read this email that James Dolan sent a fan, you really aren’t sure how...
Stars' OT goal kills Talbot's, Rangers' buzz
Henrik Lundqvist wouldn’t have been able to help much Sunday night. Playing their third straight game without their star goaltender, the Rangers received another stellar showing from Cam Talbot in...
Wall Street's 'no lose' view of 2016
The early voting is in, and Wall Street loves what it sees and hears from its anointed 2016 front-runners — Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Jeb Bush (with Chris Christie...
5 affordable free agents for Yankees, Mets to chase
With less than two weeks before pitchers and catchers report, both the Yankees and Mets already look spent. Not mentally or physically spent; that wouldn’t say much for their fortitude....
The GOP's 'ObamaCare backup' -- ready if Supremes gut law
For five years, President Obama has ridiculed Republicans for not having “a meaningful alternative” to ObamaCare. The tables are turning. Republicans announced a plan on Wednesday, just two weeks before...
How making nice with Tehran boosts ISIS
Take it from me, a leader of a Lebanese political party and a Shia Muslim: The supposedly Shiite regime in Iran is a bully, and repeated failures to stand up...
Senatorial split: Gillibrand, Booker break with Schumer, Menendez on Iran
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has a simple message: Diplomacy with Tehran stands a high chance of failure unless the United States reinforces it with the threat of devastating economic pressure....
Islanders get back on track with win over lowly Sabres
BUFFALO — Mikhail Grabovski’s snap shot from the slot midway through the second period stood up as the winner for the Islanders, who hung on for a 3-2 victory over...
Grammy Awards red carpet arrivals
Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and more of music's hottest stars hit the red carpet for the 2015 Grammy Awards.
Grimm reaping
Back around, say, 1776, a group of American colonies banded together and sent a message to Mother England — no taxation without representation. Today, some Staten Islanders (along with some...
Failure to communicate
Remember Nancy Pelosi’s infamous statement about congressional approval of ObamaCare — “We have to vote on it before we see what’s in it”? We’re getting a bad sequel in the...
No Jew left behind
In his State of the City last week, Mayor de Blasio bragged of having provided seats for 50,000 kids in his “universal pre-k” program. Well, not quite “universal”: It bars...
Rex Ryan promised to 'build a bully' -- then landed Incognito
ORCHARD PARK — The Bills are prepared to give Richie Incognito a second chance after the offensive guard's career was derailed by the Dolphins' bullying scandal in 2013. In a...
How hope has turned to frustration for Deron Williams
MILWAUKEE -- Deron Williams has spent the past two games looking like someone who took a month off from playing basketball. After an encouraging pair of performances initially in his...
Riot at soccer game leaves at least 25 people dead
CAIRO (AP) — A riot broke out Sunday night outside of a major soccer game in Egypt, with a stampede and fighting between police and fans killing at least 25...
Dean Smith transcended basketball as a pioneer for good
The name of the restaurant was The Pines, and back in the late 1950s, when Frank McGuire was still coaching basketball for the University of North Carolina, he often would...
EPL soccer coach 'chokes' opponent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qzHzXcmzs Contrary to an earlier report, Leicester City F.C. manager Nigel Pearson has not been fired one day after appearing to choke an opposing player. During the Foxes game against Crystal Palace...
'The Knicks don't want you': Dolan to fan in raging email
As if this season wasn’t embarrassing enough, Knicks owner James Dolan showed his thin skin, tearing into a lifelong 72-year-old fan who criticized Dolan and his dreadful team in an...
Ex-DIA director says Obama's ISIS strategy is 'confusion'
WASHINGTON – The former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency described President Obama’s strategy to fight ISIS as “confusion.” Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who retired last year as the agency’s...
MLB's most interesting mountain man lives in a van
A chunk of Daniel Norris' $2 million signing bonus went to his house and car. Only, it was a single payment.
Blake Griffin out indefinitely with staph infection
OKLAHOMA CITY — Clippers All-Star forward Blake Griffin needs surgery to remove a staph infection in his right elbow, and coach Doc Rivers says it "could be a while" before...
Anthony Davis' cringe-worthy fall huge blow to Pelicans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cR1tQF7Ms0 NEW ORLEANS — Anthony Davis stood in a hallway outside the Pelicans' and Bulls' locker rooms, wearing a gray sweatsuit and smiling as he engaged Chicago coach Tom Thibodeau...
Planned floodwall at VA medical center angers nearby residents
Mr. Obama, tear down this wall! Or at least make it prettier. The East Side may soon be more like the Eastern Bloc, thanks to a bleak — and pricey...
Teen arrested in mall shooting; 1 victim targeted
MONROEVILLE, Pa. — A teenager who police say opened fire at a Pittsburgh-area mall, shooting his intended target as well as two bystanders, was arrested early Sunday, and the three...
Man steals kitten for Valentine's gift, then returns with apology note
MINNEAPOLIS — A man stole a 3-month-old kitten from a Minneapolis pet store, only to return it the next day with an apology note. Ruff Start Rescue partners with PetSmart...
Man shoots 4 dead, including ex-wife, children: cops
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — A quiet, suburban neighborhood outside Atlanta was left reeling after a man shot six people — killing four of them, including his ex-wife and several children —...
D'Angelo brings the funk to the Apollo
In D'Angelo's case, absence has made his heart grow funkier. After 14 years of near silence, the Virginian and his band the Vanguard returned unannounced in December with the absurdly...
Vandal tags neighborhood after drunken fight with girlfriend
A heartbroken vandal spraypainted his tag nearly twenty times around his girlfriend’s Queens neighborhood after a drunken spat so she’d be constantly reminded of his name, law enforcement sources said....
State seeks contractor for marijuana-tracking software
The state Health Department is seeking a contractor to help make New York’s medical-marijuana trade more than a pipe dream. The agency on Jan. 9 released the first solicitation related...
EMT finally fired after 'pulling knife on co-worker' 3 years ago
A city EMT was finally fired three years after being accused of pulling a knife on a co-worker, threatening another with a broom handle and calling a female colleague a...
Missing Super Bowl gambler located by authorities
A retired Staten Island janitor who vanished after collecting up to $25,000 running local Super Bowl pools was traced to Florida over the weekend — thanks to his love of...
NYC teacher’s aide accused of having sex with teen student
A Bronx teacher’s aide was arrested Saturday evening and charged with sleeping with a 14-year-old student at her home, police said. Maria Contreras, 29, a substitute paraprofessional at the Bronx...
'Call me': De Blasio and Sharpton's single email exchange
Nothing in writing! Although Mayor de Blasio and Rev. Al Sharpton are close confidants who are said to speak regularly and at length on the phone, it seems they want...
Inside the ‘Rent Is Too Damn High’ guy's $872-a-month apartment
This housing court battle is too damn weird. Famed tenant-rights crusader and erstwhile mayoral candidate Jimmy McMillan won an 11th-hour reprieve from eviction last week in his four-year court battle...
Ex-congresswoman could get payout from court tied to Silver
Judges have helped turn Manhattan’s special asbestos court into a gold mine for Sheldon Silver’s law firm — and a former Long Island congresswoman could also reap the rewards. In...
Legendary UNC coach Dean Smith dies at 83
Dean Smith, the Hall of Fame innovator who won two national championships at North Carolina along with an Olympic gold medal while coaching some of the game's biggest names like...
This $300 Hamptons trailer is on sale for $1.1 million
This Hamptons property is one fisherman’s catch of a lifetime.
Ruben Diaz Jr. slips Carl Heastie cash at Sharpton event
Carl Heastie’s new job as Assembly speaker is already paying off. At the end of a meeting of the National Action Network in Harlem on Saturday in which Heastie waxed...
Charles Manson's fiancée wanted to marry him for his corpse: source
This plot was too crazy even for Charles Manson. Manson’s engagement to a woman 53 years his junior was part of a wild scheme of hers to profit by putting...
Former Goldman co-chair Whitehead dies at 92
John Whitehead, a former senior partner and co-chairman of Goldman Sachs who helped make it a top-tier Wall Street firm and led its international expansion, has died, the investment bank...
Columbia mattress rape case is not justice — it’s shaming without proof
It’s time to put down the mattress. Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz, who claims her close friend and former sexual partner Paul Nungesser raped her, has been carrying a mattress around...
Inside New York City's hidden S&M dungeon
I never thought I’d work in a place with a real Red Room of Pain, let alone Black and Blue Rooms of Pain. But here at the Den, we not...
6 real-life meet-cutes that prove you can find love in NYC
“Annie Hall.” “Sleepless in Seattle.” “When Harry Met Sally . . . ” If romantic comedies have taught us anything, it’s that New York is a great place to meet the love...
States should decide their own policies for schools
In 1981, Tennessee’s 41-year-old governor proposed to President Ronald Reagan a swap: Washington would fully fund Medicaid and the states would have complete responsibility for primary and secondary education. Reagan,...
‘Pretty Filthy’ is a surprisingly wholesome musical about the porn industry
The most wholesome musical in town happens to be about porn. Despite its explicit language (not to mention catchy ditties about things like “Waiting for Wood”), “Pretty Filthy” is winningly...
The epic legal battle Lincoln waged — over a bridge
On May 6, 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton crashed into the Rock Island Bridge, the first railroad bridge ever built across the Mississippi River. No one was killed, but the...
China's secret plan to topple the US as the world's superpower
In 1995, Michael Pillsbury, an expert on China who has worked with every US president since Nixon and has, he writes, “arguably had more access to China’s military and intelligence...
5 Grammy noms you won't see on Sunday — but you should hear
The world will tune in to watch Sam Smith, Kanye West and Iggy Azalea rock the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, but that's just a fraction of the story. The...
Meet Martha Stewart's (hot) nephew — a Grammy nominee
If it’s a real taste of Martha Stewart-style living you seek, then put down her special-recipe cocktails and crank up some New York Polyphony instead. The haunting chamber group formed...
ObamaCare is creating an illusion economy
GDP is up, unemployment is down — good times are here again! Sure, if you don’t ask too many questions. While the economy grew 2.6 percent in the fourth quarter, what most...
The stories behind the letters of our alphabet
G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began...
NBC serves up a contentious 'Slap' in your face this week
1. The 57th Annual Grammy Awards Sunday, 8 p.m., CBS There are so many categories at this show that they probably nominate stars for singing in the shower. LL Cool...
Tax breaks for the rich
For once, New York’s progressives have it right — at least when it comes to their call to end a housing-subsidy that’s proving a monumental failure. The program is known...
Carmen the Toreador
It’s an operatic battle. On one side of this bullfight, there’s Gov. Cuomo, who has rightly zeroed in on an education “monopoly” that has more to do with providing jobs...
My boyfriend used my $1.2M to fund his lavish lifestyle: lawsuit
A Manhattan man claims his beef-cake boyfriend used him to fund a lavish lifestyle and a $1.2 million bank account before bolting — leaving him with just 11 cents. Daniel...
Dominatrix fears 'Fifty Shades' will hurt her business
Lena Marquise, a 29-year-old dominatrix, is lounging in her apartment in a latex black mini-dress and Chanel stilettos. In front of her, a naked, 40-something accountant with skinny legs, thick-rimmed...
Amar'e plays possible last Garden game as Knick as Melo sits
Both Carmelo Anthony (37 minutes) and Amar’e Stoudemire (18 minutes) played Friday for the Knicks in their loss to the Nets at Barclays Center. So when the Knicks faced the...
Stephen Curry gets hot to save Warriors from 'horrible' game
The Warriors were up 26 on the Knicks. Yawn. That’s to be expected. But then here came the Knicks, and with 4:20 left in Saturday’s game, they pulled within five....
Kerr might not have used triangle offense in New York
Warriors coach Steve Kerr wouldn’t commit to whether he would have run the fullblown triangle offense if he had taken the Knicks job and not left Phil Jackson at the...
We shouldn’t believe Williams’ lie was an innocent mistake
Brian Williams did it all for the soldiers, you see. His chopper whoppers were patriotic acts. “This was a bungled attempt by me to thank one special veteran,” he explained....
Daily Blotter
The Bronx A suspect broke into a Claremont restaurant in the early-morning hours of Jan. 18 and swiped $1,500, authorities said. The burglar kicked in a window-mounted air-conditioning unit and entered...