Melissa Jane Kronfeld

The Archive

'HIP' MERMAIDS ON PARADE

These bodacious Brookly beach babes kicked up their heels yesterday as the city kicked off summer with the Coney Island Mermaid Parade. The annual festival drew thousands of revelers.

FOR WELL-HEELED FASHIONABLE TOTS

Now baby girls can really kick up their heels - in stilettos fashioned for the crib set. The soft crib booties designed to look like high heels are selling like...

TOMATOES CANNED AT RESTAURANTS

Hold the tomatoes. McDonald's, Burger King, Whole Foods and other chains pulled certain raw tomatoes from their restaurants and shelves yesterday because of an outbreak of potentially lethal salmonella that...

NO COUNTRY FOR STRAIGHT MEN

Dudes just aren't into "Sex." "Sex and the City" hit the spot with gals who turned out yesterday to see the ultimate chick flick on its first day. But a...

HOT PREMIERE IN 'SEX'-CRAZED CITY

The foreplay is over! After years of forced abstinence, Carrie and company returned to Manhattan last night and hit the pink carpet for the star-studded premiere of "Sex and the...

NEW YORKERS SWOON FOR 'SEX AND THE CITY'

The foreplay is over!Photo Gallery After four years of forced abstinence, Carrie and company returned to Manhattan last night and hit the pink carpet for the star-studded premiere of "Sex...

GAS-FUMERS OFF HOLIDAY ROADS

America's gas-price surge has put the brakes on New Yorkers' car-travel plans this Memorial Day weekend, but things were status quo at the airports. About 1.5 million people were expected...

WII FIT FRENZY HITS MIDTOWN

Wii Fit, the Nintendo exercise game designed to separate the potato from the couch, made its US debut in the Big Apple yesterday - and immediately sent hearts pounding and...

PLAYERS WINE UP FOR CHARITY

Subway Series catchers Jorge Posada of the Yanks and Brian Schneider of the Mets are among 30 pro athletes lending their faces and names to wines in an effort to...

FINAL THREE IDOLS

AND now, "American Idol" is down to just three. Next week, David Cook and David Archuleta - the "Two Davids," as fans call them - and the unsinkable Syesha Mercado,...

LITTLE GIRL EVIL ON 'HOUSEWIVES'

THE newest villain on "Desperate Housewives" is just 11 years old. How's that for evil? After months in the background of the primetime soap, creepy little Kayla - the love...

BRIT'S BACK

Pop-tart train wreck Britney Spears is looking more like the Amtrak Metroliner - all silver and sleek - as she prepares to come back as the love-struck receptionist in the...

TELL IT TO JUDGE JEANINE

FORMER Westchester DA Jeanine Pirro is starring in a new courtroom show starting in September on Ch. 11. "I'm so excited about this," says Pirro. "I am really looking forward...

DAREDEVIL REWIRES

Thirty-four years after he walked a cable stretched high between the Twin Towers, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recreated the magic by walking a tightrope in Washington Square Park. "I started...

TEARY BROOKE WHITE SAYS GOODBYE

BROOKE WHITE, the 24-year-old former nanny from Mesa, Ariz., must have seen the end of her run on "American Idol" coming. She was crying even before host Ryan Seacrest announced...

MILEY BARES HER TORMENT

Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old TV sensation, yesterday apologized for posing seminude in a provocative photo taken by celebrity shutterbug Annie Leibovitz. "I took part in a photo shoot that was...

MILEY CYRUS APOLOGIZES FOR POSING SEMINUDE

Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old TV sensation, today apologized for posing seminude in a provocative photo taken by celebrity shutterbug Annie Leibovitz. "I took part in a photo shoot that was...

MILEY CYRUS APOLOGIZES FOR POSING SEMINUDE

Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old TV sensation, today apologized for posing seminude in a provocative photo taken by celebrity shutterbug Annie Leibovitz. "I took part in a photo shoot that was...

CARLY KO'D

IRISH-BORN belter Carly Smithson - who was painted as a "ringer" early on in the "American Idol" contest because she had put out a major album - was eliminated last...

KRISTY IS COOK(ED)

AFTER being in the bottom three pretty much since the competition began, country canary Kristy Lee Cook was set home last night, the sixth contestant eliminated from "American Idol." Kristy,...