Candice M. Giove
The Archive
Horse farm fighting sale to church
One of the last relics of rural Queens — a 108-year-old barn and stable in Fresh Meadows — may ride into the sunset. The Western Riding Club — serving children,...
Silver's driver making wasteful Albany-NYC trips
While Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver collects frequent-flier miles on the taxpayer dime on airplane trips from New York City to Albany via Washington, DC, his driver and bodyguard racks up...
Kenya had mall-attack warning
The Kenyan government came under fire Saturday amid accusations that officials ignored intelligence reports before the Nairobi mall bloodbath last week. A Sept. 13 report leaked to the country’s newspapers...
NYC Comptroller John Liu failed to report $736M in lawsuits, settlements
City taxpayers shelled out $736.6 million — the most paid in over a decade — on legal claims, lawsuit settlements and court awards last fiscal year, records show. But City...
Dogs killed by mystery illness
Four dogs in Ohio have died of a mystery illness — and a New York researcher is on the case. The pooches may have died from a “circovirus,’’ which causes...
Man shoots self in chest, miraculously survives
God wanted him to live. A man shot himself in the chest next to the alter of Bronx church and miraculously survived, cops said. The wounded man was slouched on...
Baseball field plagued by nesting hawks
At this Bronx field, it’s called a “fowl” ball. Hawks are nesting in the stadium lights that shine on a diamond at Roberto Clemente Ballfield in Crotona Park — and...
‘Fake’ Rivera in real $nafu
“Fake” Joel Rivera, who is running to fill term-limited City Council Majority Leader Joel Rivera’s seat in The Bronx, spent lots of money capitalizing on a fortuitous shared name.But he...
City $laps ‘human kennel’
Chinatown’s “human kennel” was hit with more than 60 violations from multiple agencies for unsafe conditions exposed by The Post, records show.After the exposé, the Hester Street hellhole, where men...
Sept. 11 memorial ‘extortion’
The mother of a 9/11 victim claims a world-renowned yeshiva and Jewish organization demands more money to remember. Nelly Braginsky, 77, donated $36,000 to Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem to place...
Sex-scandal-plagued Vito Lopez loses ground in City Council election
With Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer stealing all the attention, it’s easy to forget about the third pervert in next month’s primary election — serial groper Vito Lopez. Lopez, who...
Sheldon Silver goes out of his way to bank frequent-flier miles – and you pay for it
What an airhead. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver spent $20,219 in taxpayer money over the past three years jetting from New York City to Albany — but the top-flight pol turned...
Life in a ‘dog cage’: Manhattan’s secret tenement offers hell for $10 a night
It’s a human kennel. Less than a 10-minute walk from Soho is the Sun Bright Hotel — where men pay $10 a night to live in tiny cells bounded by...
Sock it to jerk
A Westchester homeowner caught a thief stealing her FedEx package on surveillance video — though he was likely disappointed with the score.He made off with $25 worth of compression stockings.The...
Park Slope residents want billboard stripped of ‘inappropriate’ ad
In Park Slope, playpens are for children only. A giant billboard for “Peyton’s Playpen,” a Sunset Park jiggle joint, is rattling Park Slope snobs who took to the Web to...
Citibank global vice president of public affairs - who championed bike share program - lives near unpopular City Bike docking station in Soho
The Citi Bike rack at Petrosino Square in Soho that the community has been fighting to remove is right outside the Lafayette Street home of a Citibank executive and former...
Dem council hopeful Micah Kellner scored on taxi lobbying
The federal stimulus helped at least one person keep his job — Assemblyman Micah Kellner. The Miami-based Vehicle Production Group (VPG), with manufacturing operations in Michigan, received a $50 million...
Is this really the ugliest dog in the world?
How did this beauty win among these beasts?! Walle, a cute, 4-year-old mutt inexplicably snagged the title of World’s Ugliest Dog on Friday, beating out a rogues’ gallery of hideous...
Newcomer named Joel R. Rivera running for 'real' Joel Rivera's City Council seat in The Bronx
They may not know him, but Joel R. Rivera bets that voters know the name. He’s one of seven Democratic candidates vying for the seat being vacated by term-limited City...
‘Perv’ Elmo wins 2 Emmys
Daytime Emmy judges are still tickled by Elmo.Kevin Clash, 53, who played “Sesame Street’s” furry red Muppet for 25 years, snagged an award for Outstanding Performer in a Children’s Series...