Angela Montefinise
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TIMES SQ. IS SITTING PRETTIER
July 5, 2009 | 7:16amBryant Park is coming to Broadway. The flimsy rubber folding chairs currently lining the new Times Square pedestrian plaza should be gone by the end of the month, replaced with...
CROWN REOPENS TO DELIGHT OF NEW YORKERS, TOURISTS
July 4, 2009 | 3:53pmLady Liberty became a Yankee Doodle Dandy once again today, as her crown opened to the public for the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks.PHOTOS: Statue of Liberty ReopensScalpers...
EX-WIFE ROWE BOWS OUT OF CUSTODY FIGHT
June 28, 2009 | 7:37amThe brewing custody battle over the King of Pop's children will not involve his ex-wife, it was revealed yesterday. Debbie Rowe -- mother of "Prince" Michael Joseph, 12, and Paris...
JANET WILL CONTROL ESTATE
June 28, 2009 | 6:42amMichael Jackson's pop star sister Janet has been named executor of the singer's vastly complicated estate, a family member said yesterday. "She's in charge, she has the documents, she has...
FIRST DOG BREED HAS A LEG UP
June 28, 2009 | 6:42amNew York has gone to the Portuguese water dogs. The number of "Porties" registered in the Big Apple has tripled over the last two years, from 15 in 2007 to...
637 AT SCHOOLS GET 'IDLE'-IZED
June 28, 2009 | 6:42amNew York City high school teacher George Addison has pocketed almost $500,000 in taxpayer-funded paychecks over the last six years -- and hasn't taught a single class. Accused of fondling...
MIKE GETS ED. TEST MILEAGE
June 21, 2009 | 7:38amMayor Bloomberg got some free publicity on the state-created English Regents exam this month, scoring a positive mention in a reading-comprehension passage. "New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spearheaded an...
CALL HIM M.I.A.-ROD
June 21, 2009 | 5:59amKate Hudson may be wearing A-Rod out. The slumping Yankee slugger missed most of last night's game against the Florida Marlins after riding the bench the night before as well...
RAGE OVER DAVE MATTHEWS FAN-CLUBBING
June 14, 2009 | 6:18amA die-hard Dave Matthews Band fan was dismayed when the group's ticket police wrongfully accused him of scalping a highly coveted ducat. Lorenzo Zinti, 27, was shocked when he received...
RAGE AT 'LAWLESS LIMOS'
June 14, 2009 | 6:18amThe Port Authority has kicked to the curb a chauffeur service connected to rental-car company Avis -- but safety advocates and city limo drivers are hoping for more action. The...
OOPS! KIDS SEE 'SEX ED'
June 14, 2009 | 6:18amDebbie does grade school. An auditorium full of unsuspecting Brooklyn students -- some as young as 5 years old -- got a surprise lesson in reading, writing and raunchiness on...
SAY 'HIGH' TO NEW APPLE LANDMARKS
June 14, 2009 | 6:18amBig multimillion-dollar makeovers are in the works for three major Big Apple icons. Plans for the Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Hall and the Fashion Institute of Technology are all...
TRAGIC DEATH OF NYU GRAD
May 31, 2009 | 7:27amAn up-and-coming filmmaker who graduated this month from NYU was electrocuted while shooting a student project in Georgia, authorities said yesterday. John Lamensdorf, 22, of Sarasota, Fla., was wiring a...
ACCUSER'S NEW HOPE FOR JUSTICE
May 31, 2009 | 7:27amSteve Jimenez has waited four decades for justice. A controversial state bill could be the answer to his prayers. Jimenez, 55, is one of dozens of New York Catholics claiming...
TRACKING A TON OF GRIPES
May 24, 2009 | 8:46am"Dear morons in charge." That's how one infuriated straphanger began an online complaint to the MTA -- one of nearly 300 diatribes sent to the agency through its Web site...
INSULT TO INJURY AT 'BERN'ED SHUL
May 17, 2009 | 8:26amWhat chutzpah! That's what some members of the tony Fifth Avenue Synagogue are saying about embattled financier J. Ezra Merkin, who's about to ascend to chairman of the temple board...
'POMP' CULTURE
May 17, 2009 | 8:16amGraduation season is in full swing, with stars and power brokers from Dolly Parton to President Obama waxing philosophical in commencement speeches nationwide. The most controversial address of the season...
'HOME' SHOPPER
May 17, 2009 | 6:04amRuth built it. Rudy's buying it. The high-priced sale of Yankee Stadium memorabilia is a hit with former mayor and lifelong fan Rudy Giuliani, who is planning to grab grass,...
90 YEARS IN SAME APT.
May 17, 2009 | 6:04amWhen 12-year-old Elsa Barnouw first moved into her Morningside Heights apartment, Woodrow Wilson was president, World War I was barely over and Tammany Hall man John Hylan was mayor of...
LOCK, STOCK & SECURITY
May 10, 2009 | 8:27amThe lazy Susan of security is now protecting the Stock Exchange. A high-tech, one-of-a-kind system of revolving bronze barricades began twirling on Broad and Beaver streets in lower Manhattan this...