November 27, 2015
Bums declare war on Christmas
Vagrants are urinating in the street, hassling passers-by for cash — and now they’ve ruined Christmas in The Bronx. The annual outdoor Christmas tree lighting in the borough’s famed Little...
True NYers aren't afraid of Black Friday battles
Online shopping is for wimps, according to the brave, battered, bag-schlepping real-world shoppers of New York. “You have to risk it for the biscuit,” quipped Franco Fresno, 27, of The...
Bloomberg calls out Carson, Cruz for climate change denial
Ex-Mayor Mike Bloomberg has attacked GOP presidential candidates Ben Carson and Ted Cruz for denying the threat of climate change. “There’s one of them who was a surgeon, unfortunately at...
Heat expose Knicks' discipline problems in disheartening loss
Before Friday night’s game at the Garden, Erik Spoelstra talked about his Heat needing to develop more toughness. Derek Fisher, meanwhile, said his Knicks needed more discipline. One team got...
Islanders fall to Panthers in five-round shootout
SUNRISE, Fla. — Aleksander Barkov scored the winner in a five-round shootout and the Panthers beat the Islanders 3-2 on Friday night. The Panthers scored on all five of their...
Heckler pointed gun at 76ers' star rookie: report
Boston police are investigating an apparent nightclub scuffle involving 76ers rookie center Jahlil Okafor that took place early Thursday morning after an individual approached police Friday morning stating he was...
How NFL shafts and humbles NY fans with Giants, Jets gametime
We hear an awful lot about how important New York City is. Much of the time, that opinion comes from ourselves, because we absolutely believe that New York City is...
NJ wants Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island on new state quarter
WASHINGTON — New Jersey is riling New York politicians by claiming the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island as its own for a new quarter being issued in 2017. The...
Breaking down 4 NCAA showdowns that could decide Playoff
New Year’s Eve plans are on the line Saturday with four massively important rivalry games that could shake up the playoff picture on the last weekend of the regular season...
Devils blow two-goal lead, fall to Canadiens in shootout
This was one the Devils let get away. Alex Galchenyuk and Sven Andrighetto scored in regulation and again in the shootout and the Montreal Canadiens rallied from a two-goal deficit...
LIU Brooklyn star's quick payoff after transfer year from hell
Jerome Frink’s mind would wander because instinct wasn’t allowed to operate. Even the most impressive practices would segue to a seat on the sideline. Having transferred from Florida International to...
Ex-Rikers inmate, beaten in 2012, slain on eve of $450K settlement payday
A former Rikers Island inmate and Bloods gangbanger who was awaiting a $450,000 settlement from the city was fatally shot at a Brownsville public-housing complex, authorities said.
Brooklyn's Heather Hardy hoping Holly Holm effect can extend to boxing
While the world might have been surprised when Holly Holm defeated Ronda Rousey on Nov. 14 in Australia for the UFC bantamweight championship, Heather Hardy wasn’t. “Holly might not have...
Carmelo disappears as Knicks fall apart in 3rd straight loss
The Heat don’t bring the same buzz to Madison Square Garden since LeBron James left last year, but the stars he left behind keep leaving New York with the same...
Overhyped Apple Watch finally showing signs of life
Maybe the Apple Watch won’t be a holiday humbug, after all. Demand for the overhyped wrist gadget was showing “signs of life” at Apple stores and other chains on Black...
App lets you plan Citi Bike-subway combo route
Citi Bike riders who like to do a subway-bike combination will soon be able to plot out their route using a single app. Streamlined technology could be in place by...
Warm weather is killing demand for winter gear
Black Friday has come and gone — but all those coats, sweaters and hats are still hanging on store racks. Despite the flurry of shopping activity over the Thanksgiving weekend,...
ESPN's decline in subscribers sends Disney stock tumbling
Disney served shareholders a big turkey going into Thanksgiving with the disclosure that its biggest growth driver, ESPN, shed 3 million subscribers in its most recent fiscal year. That news...
The catch to Brian Hoyer's tempting, juicy fantasy matchup
Sometimes the obvious can be almost too obvious. There is danger in shopping routinely in the too-good-to-be-true aisle. On special this week, in the quarterback section at your fantasy supermarket,...
Weatherwomen hold the secrets to killer style
It's the dress that hit like a thunderbolt — the one that launched a thousand weather forecasts. The Homeyee women’s stretch tunic pencil sheath dress — a modest, $70 number...
Joe Johnson's shifted role hiding reason Nets need him
CLEVELAND — The scoring is his lowest since 2002-03. His shooting percentage is his lowest ever. So Joe Johnson recently decided he needed to do more in other areas, like...
Who slides in? Assessing Rangers' Derek Stepan fallout
BOSTON — The Rangers’ organizational depth hadn’t been tested through the first seven of weeks of the season, through which the club lived large and healthy. But now it will....
Giants' Larry Donnell admits rough truth about neck injury
Larry Donnell’s season appears to be in jeopardy. The Giants’ starting tight end, who this week will miss a third straight game as he struggles with a neck injury that...
Rangers, Bruins coaches trade shots after rib-breaking hit
BOSTON -- Coaches Alain Vigneault and Claude Julien sent indirect lobs one another’s way after the Rangers' 4-3 loss to the Bruins on Friday. Vigneault, lobbying for supplemental discipline against...
Super Bowl hero's Jets grudge a mystery to iconic teammate
Jets legend Matt Snell’s disdain for his former team is a mystery to his old backfield teammate, too. Snell won’t be at MetLife Stadium on Sunday for his induction into...
The dramatic, forgotten effect on Jets of ailing Nick Mangold
Because of the position he plays and its anonymous nature, it is difficult to properly quantify Nick Mangold’s importance to the Jets. We take Mangold for granted, because most centers...
Brook Lopez knows the 0-fer pain the 76ers are going through
CLEVELAND — Yes, it would be nice to get out of the record books for a rather dubious achievement — the most defeats to start a season, an awful record...
The undrafted CB who softens Jets' Darrelle Revis blow
The news got exponentially worse Friday for the Jets’ beleaguered secondary. Darrelle Revis officially was ruled out for Sunday’s home matchup with the Dolphins, leaving Gang Green without the services...
Spike the new rights for bikes
Not only do bicyclists need red lights, apparently so do city councilmen. Because Antonio Reynoso wants to lift the common-sense rules that cyclists obey traffic lights just as drivers do....
Avis' idiotic anti-Israel 'policy'
Avis has just been forced to make an embarrassing retraction after publicly accusing an Israeli customer who’d been denied a car rental of “unfairly maligning us with unfounded allegations.” Mistakes...
Team de Blasio has endless excuses for letting failed schools stay open
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña offered reason both to cheer and fret in her City Council testimony this week on the city’s 94 Renewal schools. These schools are the worst of...
Tom Coughlin's blunt message for Giants amid the happy talk
Forgive the Giants if they weren’t gleefully sending each other text messages or pumping their fists between bites of turkey as they watched the Cowboys and Eagles implode on Thanksgiving. While...
Rangers right to defend Stepan after dangerous hit breaks his ribs
BOSTON — Derek Stepan was crumpled on the ice in pain with what later was diagnosed as broken ribs, after taking a late hit from Matt Beleskey that sent the...
Block 'Star Wars' spoilers with this Chrome extension
In less than a month, the whole world will be lining up to see "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in theaters on opening day. Well, maybe not the whole world,...
How Ben Carson squandered his presidential potential
A little over a year ago, when Ben Carson was gearing up to run for president, I questioned in this space whether he was ready for what lay ahead. We...
Eva Longoria is a Spanish-challenged soap star in 'Telenovela'
Here’s your first look at Eva Longoria in her new NBC sitcom, “Telenovela.” In the sitcom, given a special sneak-preview Dec. 7 following “The Voice,” Longoria plays actress Ana Sofia...
'The Walking Dead's youngest star opens up about Sam's fate
The youngest resident of Alexandria plays a pivotal role on Sunday’s midseason finale of “The Walking Dead.” Major Dodson, who plays Sam Anderson, guarantees lots of turmoil and drama now...
Lost cat turns up hundreds of miles from his home
An adventurous cat went on a European adventure, travelling over 1,000 miles away from its home in Sweden -- and winding up in the south of France. Nine-year-old Glitter went...
These actors’ best roles were as women
Playing a woman is hardly a drag. Eddie Redmayne stars as a transgender pioneer in Friday’s “The Danish Girl,” and like many male actors before him, he’s discovering that donning...
Bruins' third-period flurry sends Rangers to second straight loss
BOSTON — Ryan Spooner and David Krejci scored 2:03 apart late in the third period as the Bruins rallied to beat the Rangers 4-3 on Friday. Tuukka Rask had 24...
Nutella refuses to put 5-year-old's name on custom jar
Nutella is waging war against Isis--the girl’s name at least. The company rejected making a personalized jar of its hazelnut spread for a 5-year-old Australian girl named after the Egyptian...
Protest over Chicago teen's shooting ties up retail district
CHICAGO -- Hundreds of protesters blocked store entrances and shut down four lanes of traffic in Chicago's ritziest shopping district on Black Friday to draw attention to the 2014 police...
Woman killed in Thanksgiving hit-and-run was retired NYPD cop
A 56-year-old Brooklyn woman who was killed on Thanksgiving by an out-of-control hit-and-run driver was a churchgoing, retired NYPD cop who spent her time taking care of stray cats, friends...
3 dead in Planned Parenthood shooting, gunman surrenders
A gunman holed up in a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic killed three people, including a police officer, and injured nine others before surrendering after a five-hour standoff Friday. Robert Lewis...
People having sex with horses is on the rise in Switzerland
More Swiss people are having sex with horses, according to a sickening new report. There were 105 cases of the maltreatment of horses in Switzerland in 2014 — 10 percent...
How the Obamas are paying for Malia's college
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama's message for high school seniors fretting about their college prospects is simple. Do your research. Visit college campuses. Sit in on classes. Talk to professors, graduates...
Recluse lived with his dead 94-year-old father for four months
https://twitter.com/DailyMirror/status/670253487440138240 A reclusive British man lived out a weird “Weekend at Bernie’s” experience, shacking up with his dead 94-year-old dad for four months, officials said. No one knew about the...
Why does this freak keep burning down construction sites?
Police on Friday released surveillance video of the suspected serial arsonist wanted for torching at least four Queens construction sites this month. The footage shows the hoodie-clad pyromaniac walking through...
The trans women who could change Oscars history
This summer, a little movie called “Tangerine” came out. It was a scrappy, low-budget comedy shot on an iPhone 5s. Its plot concerned two sex workers in Hollywood trying to...
The $5 computer that could change the world
The world collectively dropped its jaw when the Raspberry Pi was first unveiled. A $35 computer that could be used to power just about anything? Yes, please. Then the even...
Mars rover spots 'giant rat' on the Red Planet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ck75rvubE Our moon might not be the only thing in outer space made of cheese. Images taken by NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover show that the Red Planet appears to have...
How wildly obscene trash talk helps hockey appreciation
“Didn’t we lock you in a Dumpster one time?” “Yeah, I got out.” “Cool man, I’m glad you did.” — “Old School” So I’m here to report that I’ve emerged...
China says this beauty queen is too hot for pageant
Canada's China-born Miss World contestant was stopped in Hong Kong on Thursday and denied permission to board a flight to the beauty pageant finals in China, a move she said...
Tony Romo's crying wife was saddest Thanksgiving image
It was another sad day in a sad season for the Cowboys, and especially for Tony Romo. The Cowboys quarterback re-injured his collarbone and appears to be lost for the...
Arrest made in case of 9-year-old killed as gangbangers' revenge
CHICAGO — Chicago police say a 27-year-old man has been arrested in the fatal shooting this month of a 9-year-old boy on the city's South Side. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi...
This local TV reporter is tackling New York's dirtiest jobs
Ch. 5 reporter Jennifer Lahmers brings her popular “Jen at Work” series to prime time for a special episode airing 10:30 p.m. Friday. For the uninitiated, Lahmers’ “Jen at Work”...
Michelle Dockery ‘felt sick’ with sadness at the end of ‘Downton Abbey’
To cure her final-season blues, “Downton Abbey” star Michelle Dockery took to the dance floor. “On my last day of filming, leading up to that final take, I felt sick,”...
Cops say man killed dad, stabbed mom for leaving him out of fast food run
NEW ORLEANS — Authorities say a man faces charges in Louisiana accusing him of killing his father and stabbing his mother because they ordered fast food and didn't get any...
Sidney Crosby, Mario Lemieux quick to deny rumored rift
All is right with the Pittsburgh Penguins and Sidney Crosby. Crosby denied rumors Wednesday night that he and team owner Mario Lemieux were feuding. "I honestly don't even know what...
This home invasion will make your skin crawl
A man slept in his bed just feet away as a burglar creepily crawled on all fours into the bedroom of a Queens house early Wednesday, surveillance footage shows. A...
Two killed when car rams into truck
Thanksgiving turned tragic for two men in Queens early Friday when their car slammed into the back of a box truck, killing them both, police said. Eran Felices, 32, and...
'Cowboys need to get Dez Bryant's $70 million back': Panthers star
Can the Cowboys get a refund? Panthers star cornerback Josh Norman added insult to Carolina’s 33-14 demolition of Dallas by suggesting that the Cowboys should try and get Dez Bryant’s...
Elite FBI teams hunting 48 ISIS suspects in America
With as many as 1,000 active cases, Fox News has learned at least 48 ISIS suspects are considered so high-risk that the FBI is using its elite tracking squads, known...
Brawls break out over Black Friday deals
Shoppers decked the halls — and each other — as they battled and brawled their way through stores across the country Friday. Video footage of merchandise mayhem included two men...
You have to buy these Star Wars toys
There's a new "Star Wars" coming out this Christmas season, and toymakers are taking full advantage. Here are the craziest, most over-the-top toys that superfans are going nuts for!
Congrats, Adam Sandler -- you're the worst actor of the year
These turkeys won’t be getting any pardons from us! For the 17th edition of The Post’s annual Turkey Movie Awards — saluting Tinseltown’s worst over the past 12 months —...
Parks staffer arrested after brawling with cops
A city Parks Department staffer was arrested and suspended 30 days this week after bizarrely coming to the aid of a career criminal busted for illegally peddling sightseeing tours to...
Putin blames US for downed Russian plane
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said it’s America’s fault that Turkey shot down a Russian jet. “The American side, which leads the coalition that Turkey belongs to, knew about...
12 gifts that say, 'Yeah, I'm that rich'
Go time A wrist is a terrible thing to waste, so go Bulgari or go home. “L’Ammiraglio del Tempo” watch, $359,000 at Bulgari, 730 Fifth Ave. Girls with pearls Go...
You can now pay to 'park' your pup
A Brooklyn woman is launching a pay-by-the-minute network of sidewalk dog kennels that allow owners to safely park their pooches while running errands. The kennels are locked by radio signals,...
Hit-and-run kills woman, injures nine
A woman was killed in Brooklyn Thursday night when an out-of-control car hit her, also injuring nine other people before the driver fled on foot, cops said. The car slammed...
Rangers' Alain Vigneault hints at two possible lineup changes
It seems like it took a bad loss for Rangers coach Alain Vigneault to rethink his lineup. Following Wednesday night’s 5-1 defeat to the Canadiens at the Garden, Vigneault set...
How we raised the 'grievance generation' now rampaging on campus
Remember the campus unrest in the 1960s? Whether you agreed with the students or not, they were protesting about things of great consequence — like civil rights, the military draft,...
Giving honest grades to New York's schools
Mayor Bill de Blasio continues to move New York’s schools further away from the accountability they need to truly provide a strong education to the city’s students. From 2007 through...
The Clintons’ Colombian connection: a secret investment fund
Even as Hillary Clinton is upping her anti-Wall Street rhetoric, here comes word that the Clinton Foundation is running a private-equity company down in Colombia. The private-equity field is where...
The tragedy of the 'jihadi brides'
Austrian teen Samra Kesinovic has paid the ultimate price after fleeing home last year to become a “poster girl” for ISIS. The Bosnian-born Kesinovic left Austria with her friend, Sabina...
The history behind Cuomo's 'homeless' slapdown of de Blasio
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pre-holiday slap at Mayor Bill de Blasio’s handling of homelessness was far more than the latest blow in their supposed feud — because Andrew Cuomo has some...
Feds not so happy about toy drones coming to town this year
WASHINGTON — City Hall and the feds are scrambling to put new restrictions in place before the estimated 400,000 drones sold this holiday season flood the skies. The Federal Aviation...
Sickening head shots, antics just blend into sports background
And the band played on … Sunday on FOX, Panthers quarterback Cam Newton completed a pass to tight end Greg Olsen. Redskins defensive back Chris Culliver, making no attempt to tackle...
You're already late for Black Friday shopping
New Yorkers fortified by hefty Thanksgiving feasts are ready to burst through the doors of department stores, boutiques and toy and electronic shops to gobble up merchandise on Black Friday,...
Battered Rodgers can't save Packers on emotional Favre night
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Jay Cutler and the Bears spoiled Brett Favre’s big night back with the Packers. Cutler threw for 200 yards and a score and the Bears held...
The one person who helped Jets' Devin Smith get over drop funk
Devin Smith replayed the pass in his head for the entire trip home from Houston. The would-be 46-yard touchdown pass from Ryan Fitzpatrick, the ball hitting his hands then the...
Hakeem Nicks anxious to seize unexpected 2nd Giants chance
The best-laid plans of the Giants never materialized. Well, not exactly never, but not nearly enough. Odell Beckham Jr. and Victor Cruz — a dream wide receiver duo if ever...
Daily Blotter
The Bronx Investigators on Thursday released these surveillance images of two possible suspects in the fatal shooting of a young man in Morrisania. The men are wanted for questioning in...