July 9, 2009
WOMAN VANISHES AT SKYSCRAPER NEAR GROUND ZERO
An army of cops and police dogs tore through every inch of a lower Manhattan office tower in a bid to find a mother of three who vanished from the...
BULLET FRAGMENTS HIT NYC POLICE SHOOTING AT DOG
Three officers investigating a report of fighting, drugs and prostitution at a Manhattan apartment were injured by bullet fragments after they fired on a pit bull that escaped out the...
ALBANY SENATORS REACH ACCORD TO UNITE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
The prodigal son has returned to the fold, and Malcolm Smith is happy to have him back. That is the way the Democratic conference of the state Senate portrayed an...
PHILLIES, PEDRO TALKING DEAL
Pedro Martinez could soon be joining the Mets' archrivals. Martinez's agent, Fernando Cuza, told The Post that Martinez and the Phillies are interested in each other, and a person with...
Report: Pedro agrees with Phils
For those of you who speak Spanish, a newspaper in the Dominican Republic is reporting today that Pedro Martinezhas agreed to a contract with the Phillies. The story says the...
Halladay done with trade talk
APRoy Halladay would not talk about trade possibilities today after pitching for the first time since the Blue Jays said they would listen to offers for their ace."I addressed that...
WOMAN CLAIMS SHE WAS 'PLAYTHING' FOR BIG UNIVERSITY DONORS
A fundraiser at an upstate university has sued two senior athletic department officials, accusing them of using her as a "plaything" and trying to make her ply big donors with...
ISIAH WORKING HARD AT FIU
MIAMI -- Not even three months have passed since Isiah Thomas made the surprising move to Florida International, eager to restore a reputation tarnished during his tenure as coach and...
GRAFFITI GUY GETS JAIL FOR SPRAY-PAINTING TRAIN
A Queens graffiti vandal with a habit of spray-painting subway trains was given a slap on the wrist today when a judge sentenced her to just a few weeks in...
Rangers sign Kotalik
From the RangersThe Rangers have agreed to terms with unrestricted free agent forward Ales Kotalik."Ales is a strong, hardworking player with good skating ability and a heavy shot," Glen Sather...
SEN. ENSIGN'S PARENTS GAVE MISTRESS, FAMILY $100G
LAS VEGAS -- A Republican senator's parents gave his mistress and her family nearly $100,000 "out of concern for the well being of longtime family friends during a difficult time,"...
4 CHARGED IN GRAVE ROBBING PLOT
ALSIP, Ill. -- Prosecutors on Thursday charged three gravediggers and a manager in an elaborate scheme in which hundreds of corpses were dug up at a historic black cemetery near...
PATERSON PRESENTS RAVITCH AS NEW LT. GOVERNOR
ALBANY -- In a bold move aimed at bringing "stability to our government," Gov. Paterson publicly presented Richard Ravitch as his lieutenant governor this afternoon in order to preside over...
Cora takes out frustration on Erin Andrews
The Mets haven't been winning and Alex Cora hasn't been hitting, but that is no reason for him to go after Erin Andrews this way.ESPN's beauty was hit in the...
MAN SAYS CO-JUROR THREATENED TO CUT OFF HIS FINGER
Jury deliberations turned ugly at the Manhattan trial of a lawyer charged in a giant fraud at commodities brokerage giant Refco. A juror said in a note read in Manhattan...
Kidd says Hill will sign with Knicks
Starting in Las Vegas summer league, you can follow me with updates on Twitter.By MARC BERMANJason Kidd says he believes Grant Hill will sign with the Knicks this July but...
First Look at Cobra Commander in 'G.I. Joe'
We received a box of G.I. Joe toys at the office today, and amongst the usual plastic junk that's more likely to be bought by 40-year-old fanboys than children is...
DEALS: Fly to Mo-Bay for $99
Behold, the healing power of Jamaica....and I'm not even talking about the weed. In the late 19th century, Montego Bay doubled as a kind of natural hospital after some hippie...
F-Mart to the disabled list
You just knew the Mets' phone-book sized disabled list wouldn't stay at eight players for long, didn't you? It's back to nine after outfielder Fernando Martinez was sidelined for at...
Game 84: Dodgers at Mets
(UPDATED) The Mets will try to keep the good feelings from Wednesday's win going tonight when Livan Hernandez takes on the first-place Dodgers in the finale of a three-game series...
POLICE: 5 DIE WHEN TRAIN, CAR COLLIDE
CANTON TOWNSHIP, Michigan -- Police say a passenger train crashed into a vehicle near Detroit, killing all five people in the car. There are no reports of injuries aboard the...
Toney Douglas signs
From the KnicksGuard Toney Douglas has been signed to a contract. Douglas was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 29th overall selection before having his draft rights traded...
PATERSON SAYS RAVITCH RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB
Gov. David Paterson introduced his appointment of former MTA Chairman Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor Thursday afternoon as the move was being challenged in court by Republicans and the stalemate...
PELOSI SPIKES CONTROVERSIAL MICHAEL JACKSON RESOLUTION
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shut the door Thursday to a resolution honoring Michael Jackson because debate on the symbolic measure could raise "contrary views" about the pop star's...
SEN. ESPADA RETURNING TO DEMOCRATS
ALBANY - Bronx state Sen. Pedro Espada, whose defection to the Republican camp helped trigger the current Senate crisis, will return to the Democratic fold and end the month-long Senate...
Michael Moore Looking to Clean Up With Anti-Capitalist Documentary
Michael Moore's new documentary, scheduled for release on Oct. 2, finally has a title, "Capitalism: A Love Story.'' Per the press release, "Moore will return to the issue that began...
FRENCH TOURISTS CALLED THE WORST
PARIS -- French tourists are the worst in the world, coming across as bad at foreign languages, tight-fisted and arrogant, according to a survey of 4,500 hotel owners across the...
DVD Extra: Jolson, Lupino, Sheridan Join Warner Achive Lineup
Warner Bros., which redacted the notorious "Goin' to Heaven On a Mule'' blackface number from its "Busby Berkeley Disc'' when it went from Laserdisc to DVD a few years ago,...
UPDATE: Craig Carton vs. Howie Rose
By JUSTIN TERRANOVAThe background:In anticipation of some sort of Subway Series cross promotion between WFAN and WPIX, Craig Carton came into the radio booth to talk to Howie Rose and...
Cyclones have been welcome bright spot for struggling Mets system
You can now follow Beating the Bushes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NYP_Bushes**********There hasn't been a lot to be excited about from the entire Mets organization in 2009. The major league club has...
LITTLEJOHN SENTENCED TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE IN ST. GUILLEN MURDER
Darryl Littlejohn, the Jamaica man who is already serving a lengthy prison sentence for kidnapping a York College female student nearly four years ago, will be spending the rest of...
MARSHALL TRIES TO KEEP NURSE'S NOTEBOOK OUT OF TRIAL
The accused swindling son of Brooke Astor is fighting hard to keep jurors from seeing a nurse's spiral notebook diary detailing the -- in her mind -- alarming goings on...
MADOFF WON'T APPEAL 150-YEAR SENTENCE
Disgraced financier Bernie Madoff will not appeal his 150-year sentence for running a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, his lawyer said today. Madoff's lawyer Ira Sorkin said that there will be...
STEPHEN BALDWIN'S GUEST ARRESTED
UPPER GRANDVIEW, N.Y. -- Police say a homeless man who was allowed to live on Stephen Baldwin's property has been arrested on heroin charges. Baldwin told police that he offered...
LEADERS WANT TO SEAL WORLD TRADE DEAL AT G8 SUMMIT
L'AQUILA, Italy -- Leaders of rich and developing nations want to finally seal a long-delayed world trade deal next year and head off trade wars that could hit world economies...
CITY WANTS TO EASE GRAFFITI REMOVAL
NEW YORK -- The city wants to make it easier for property owners to deal with graffiti. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City Council are working on legislation that would...
Giants Stadium to host Colombia-Venezuela & Jamaica-Ecuador on Aug. 12
For those local fans who don't get their fill of soccer from the Gold Cup final, or who don't count the Red Bulls as top-flight soccer _ I know. That's...
NYPD INVESTIGATES DEATH OF CHINESE IMMIGRANT
New York City police are investigating whether a woman found beaten to death in her SUV was killed in a botched extortion plot from her native China. Chao Ru Xie...
REWARD OFFERED FOR INFO ABOUT L.I. SWASTIKA INCIDENT
MINEOLA, N.Y. -- Authorities are offering a $6,000 reward to catch whoever spray-painted swastikas on a Long Island synagogue. The swastikas were left last week on the front doors of...
Keeping It 'Real': 'Cancun' Catfights
But one roomie heard the words of wisdom spoken by the house jokester loud and clear: Jonna. After two episodes of saying how much she loved her boyfriend back home...
Previously Unknown John Wayne Movie Debuting on DVD?
John Wayne, who died in 1979, may set the record for a posthumous performances if a sci-fi western he supposedly made an appearance in decades ago turns up as promised...
WOMAN VANISHES FROM MANHATTAN OFFICE TOWER
Police are searching for a woman who vanished from a Manhattan office tower midway through her shift on the evening cleaning crew, and hasn't been heard from since. Eridania Rodriguez...
SPCA PROBES DEATH OF NJ POLICE DOG
MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. -- New Jersey's SPCA is awaiting results of an autopsy as it investigates the death of a police dog. Patton was an explosive-detecting dog assigned to the...
NEW JOBLESS CLAIMS DROP
WASHINGTON -- The number of newly laid-off workers filing initial claims for jobless benefits last week fell to lowest level since early January, largely due to changes in the timing...
AUDIO SLIDE SHOW: THE RESCUERS
When a pair of fishermen were swept away by the currents in Jamaica Bay, a pair of alert bystanders on the beach dove to their rescue. They saved one man...
Chat rewind: July 9
Click on the replay arrow in the graphic below to revisit my hour-long live chat on the Mets:Mets chat with Bart Hubbuch
MIXED HOUSING FOR CEDAR AVE.
Designed to strengthen the community and provide people with a secure home, a joint project between Community Access and Alembic Development Corporation will bring the Bronx a new affordable housing...
PELHAM PARKWAY TEDDY BEAR DRUG BUST
They are cute and cuddly, but the feds say the stuffing of these teddy bears was filled with a deadly drug. The federal Drug Enforcement Agency in conjunction with the...
Coverage in The Post
Despite a predictable seven walks from Ollie Perez, the Mets produced an outcome that was anything but predictable Wednesday night at Citi Field: a 5-4 win over the Dodgers that...
Today's Haute List
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Praise the Lowered
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CHESTNUT SETS RECORD; OUTâ'CHOMPS KOBAYASHI
At two separate eating contests in Coney Island last week, it was the best of times "" and the worst of times "" for the human race. At Nathan's Famous...
ROBBED ON THE STREETS
A recent jump in robberies has cops in Canarsie on alert. According to recently released NYPD crime statistics, 23 robberies have taken place in the 69th Precinct over the last...
NEED FOR A STINK EXPERT
Given the city's track record in determining and curing the source of the odor that has plagued Fort Hamilton Parkway residents for years, maybe a private consultant should take on...
HATFIELDS & MCCOYS ON 87TH ST.
It's two years and counting, and there appears to be no end in sight yet in the epic battle between Bay Ridge homeowners. At its June meeting, Community Board 10...
AMERICAN CHRISTMAS RECOGNIZED FOR FAST GROWTH
Don't be fooled by the warm weather, holiday cheer is still in the air for members of American Christmas, honored this year as one of the Nation's fastest growing inner...
WINDMILL BUFF PROPOSES WIND TURBINES
Throggs Neck may harness the power of the Nor'easter. Malcolm Brown, a City Island resident and windmill buff, wants to build wind turbines at Hart Island, Orchard Beach, SUNY Maritime...
NEW DEANS NAMED AT LEHMAN COLLEGE
Two new deans have been named at Lehman College: Lehman History Professor Dr. Timothy Alborn will become the new dean of Arts and Humanities and Dr. Edward L. Jarroll, a...
How Can Will Smith Top the Grandiosity of 'I Am Legend,' 'Hancock' and 'Seven Pounds'?
"I Am Legend" director Francis Lawrence "will develop to direct 'City That Sailed,' a 20th Century Fox drama that will potentially star Will Smith as a father who lives on...
SECURITY FORCES WILL 'SMASH' PROTESTERS IN IRAN, OFFICIAL WARNS
TEHRAN,Iran -- The governor of Tehran province warned that security forces will "smash" any attempt at protests amid calls Thursday for the first significant opposition marches since a major crackdown...
NEW WAVE OF CYBER ATTACKS HIT S.KOREAN WEB SITES
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korean Web sites were attacked again Thursday after a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea that several officials suspect North...
The Daily Whacks, Thursday Edition
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Jack Thompson Still 'Urgent!'-ly Shrieking
I have no real commentary on this email from Jack Thompson - which he sent to the Post and unnamed 'media' in the body text. He threatened to sue me...
3 UP: HALLADAY, YANK CF AND OLLIE
Yes, I am on Twitter.1. There are many reasons that Toronto has decided to seriously consider trading Roy Halladay. One is reality. Through the games of May 11, the Blue...
HAUTE LIST
BLINDINGLY blingy and over-the-top crystal goodness -- Swarovski's new Crystallized Concept Store (499 Broadway; 212-966-3322) is every budding bedazzler's dream. A new concept for the crystal company, this store focuses...
MEATS HIS MAKER
NO bologna! Oscar Mayer -- the grandson of the man who made millions of Americans pine for processed lunchmeat -- died Monday at the age 95. Yes, not only was...
AGE IN THE INTERNET AGE
ASK a woman in her 50s or 60s how old she is, and she'll likely scoff at you. A lady never tells her age, she might say in between swigs...
THAT'S ONE PRETTY POTTY!
NEW York, you can stop holding it in now. The city officially has one of the country's greatest bathrooms. So let's all pass along a hearty congratulations to the Mobil...
PRAISE THE LOWERED
OH, how the high and mighty have fallen! We mean high heels, of course. Sick of tottering around in 6-inch platform stilettos, starlets are scaling back, opting for summer's shorter-shoe...
BIDDERS GEAR UP FOR LAST SHOT AT DELPHI
As many as four separate bids are expected to be submitted tomorrow for bankrupt auto-parts maker Delphi -- and billionaire investor Carl Icahn might be one of them. A person...
LANCE STAYS IN 2ND
PERPIGNAN, France -- Lance Armstrong, looking to win an eighth Tour de France, is second overall, but he's about to face his toughest test in this year's Tour as the...
WAKEFIELD WINS 11TH
First-time All-Star Tim Wakefield earned his AL-leading 11th victory, and David Ortiz homered and drove in four runs to lead the Red Sox over the Athletics 5-4 last night in...
METS BUST OUT EARLY, HANG ON
It had been a total run of zeroes lately for the Mets. Zero runs. And zero wins. But on the night Oliver Perez returned after a two-month stint on the...
ONE WIN CAN'T HIDE METS' PROBLEMS
AT the beginning of the night there was angst, which happens to be Oliver Perez's specialty. There were seven walks, and about a hundred Dodgers left on base, and it...
TOP PICK EXCITED TO HELP ISLES REBUILD
John Tavares said all the right things yesterday. When asked if he could do for the Islanders what Sidney Crosby did for the Penguins, the Islanders' recent first-overall pick said:...
DEVILS CENTER ATTENTION ON MORRISON
With Saku Koivu now a Duck, general manager Lou Lamoriello's options for adding an offensive center are dwindling. It seems more and more likely that his pronouncement of only adding...
HONDO DEALS A CARD
The Pods' pitiful 'pen imploded against the Snakes yesterday, costing Hondo a trip to the winner's circle and causing the earnings to tumble to 275 oberkfells. Today, he'll invest his...
DELGADO AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
Carlos Delgado -- out since May 11 with an injured right hip -- fielded ground balls for the first time since then yesterday. And after he'd conservatively estimated a mid-August...
SPORTS SHORTS
GOLD CUP: U.S. boots HondurasSantino Quaranta broke a scoreless tie in the 75th minute and Brian Ching followed with a header in the 79th, giving the United States a 2-0...
RESTLESS LIBERTY READY TO WAKE UP
Playing one game in the past 11 days, the Liberty have had plenty of time to think about what's gone wrong this season. But will the time off be time...
THREE COPS SHOT AMID DOG ATTACK
Three NYPD officers and a civilian were injured by ricocheting bullets after cops opened fire on a pit bull in an Upper East Side housing project last night, police said....
PALIN'S PRIORITIES: PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS
Sarah Palin's decision to step down as Alaska's governor has certainly generated a lot of speculation ("Palin Packing It In as Gov," July 4). Everyone is guessing her true intentions...
UNTRUSTWORTHY TRIBES
LAST week, 4,000 US Marines launched a major operation in Helmand, the poppy- queen province in southern Afghanistan. The Marines performed magnificently, reaching their objectives with minimal casualties -- mostly...
'ORGAN' IMPLANT
The 4,192-pipe organ at the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center is slated to be reinstalled next summer. The organ was placed in storage during the hall's two-year...
OH, LARDY! 26% OBESE
WASHINGTON -- Americans are getting heavier than ever, with more than 26 percent of the population now fully obese, the federal government reported yesterday. Despite warnings that the population must...
DEFUSE THE PENSION BOMB
NEW York's public-pension system has become the epicenter of an in fluence-peddling scandal that has at tracted the attention of the SEC as well as state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo....
RITES EYED IN CORPSE THEFT
Authorities investigating the theft of a 2-year-old girl's body from a Connecticut cemetery said yesterday evidence at the crime scene points to a possible voodoo-style ritual. Stamford police Capt. Richard...
11B-YEAR-OLD STAR'BURSTS'
WASHINGTON -- Astronomers have spotted the most distant and oldest star explosions in the universe. Scientists captured the fuzzy death throes of two supernovae that date back nearly 11 billion...
NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
Staten Island A road-raging maniac left a "map" for cops when he blabbed his address while taunting a man he had just shot, authorities said yesterday. Lawrence Newel, 21, was...
BAM DISSES SILVIO
Scandalo! President Obama touched off a controversy in Italy yesterday just by praising the integrity of one of his hosts. Arriving at the G8 summit, Obama heaped unusually lavish praise...
BIKE LANES IN UP CYCLE
City officials yesterday celebrated the completion of 200 new miles of bike-only lanes in three years. As the landmark length was laid down on the Grand Concourse in The Bronx,...
INFLUENCE IS ALL IN THE BAG FOR 'GOVERNMENT SACHS'
WHEN I last wrote about Goldman Sachs in late March the most politically-connected and luckiest firm on Wall Street was in the middle of rigging the stock market -- again....
RX FOR COMPULSIVE HAIR PULLERS
A nutritional supplement could be the first cure for compulsive hair-pullers who pluck hair from their scalp, eyebrows and lashes to the point of baldness. In a clinical trial, the...
NASTY JEERLEADER: COPS
A high-school cheerleader and her pals gave new meaning to the term "mean girls," when they stole $147 from a group of children -- one of whom was in a...
'MINI-MADOFF' GUILTY
A prominent lawyer who admitted defrauding hedge funds of more than $400 million should be sentenced to a Bernie Madoff-like 145 years in prison, prosecutors told a judge yesterday. The...
TREASURY TACKLES TOXIC DEBT
The US Treasury Department yesterday named nine asset managers for the Public-Private Investment Program, in an effort to remove as much as $40 billion in troubled assets from banks and...
MALIA'S MASTER-PEACE
President Obama's eldest daughter brought Woodstock chic to Rome yesterday as she toured the Eternal City wearing a T-shirt that bore the peace emblem of the ban-the-bomb movement. Malia Obama,...
WORKER DEATH BY CHOCOLATE
CAMDEN, NJ -- A man died after falling into a vat of melted chocolate in a processing plant yesterday. Vincent Smith II, 29, a temporary worker at the Cocoa Services...
KIM'S CYBER-STRIKES
LOOKS like we may have a new upstart in the shadowy world of cyber-warfare: North Korea. Yes, that's right, fingers are pointing at North Korea as the perp in a...
GOOGLE'S PC PLANNING MAY BE CHROME GROAN
Google's plan to take on Bill Gates in the computer-operating system realm might have jaws dropping across Silicon Valley, but now comes the hard part -- carving inroads into Microsoft's...
SEA-LION $MOOCH
Even the sea lions at New York Aquarium are going to a new extreme to pay the bills -- kissing for money. Visitors can pay $200 for a tour of...
TONY TOILET TUMBLE HALTS ASTOR TRIAL
The seemingly endless Brooke Astor swindle trial was delayed again yesterday when her allegedly thieving son, Anthony Marshall, was carried out of the courthouse on a gurney after suffering a...
BANKS REJECT CALIF. IOUS
After taking multibillion-dollar bailouts from the federal government, some of the nation's biggest banks are declining to lend a hand with a different financial mess: the California budget stalemate. The...
REAL ESPRIT DE 'CORPSE'
BUFFALO -- Creators of the traveling "Body Worlds" exhibits, which feature posed human corpses with their skin removed and insides exposed, say there is no shortage of people who want...
UIGHUR-BEAVER PALAU WANTS $$
WASHINGTON -- The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau is seeking US aid for 35 years -- just a month after agreeing, for purely "humanitarian" reasons, to take in a...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Swiss diss Switzerland said it would seize UBS AG data to prevent the US Justice Department from pursu ing a US court order seeking the identities of 52,000 American account...
BARGAINS GALORE IN MANHATTAN RENTALS
With the recession in full gear and unemployment at a 16-year high, the number of Manhattan rental apartments languishing on the market shot up 28.8 percent in the second quarter...
EX-HIGHLAND INVESTORS FILE LAWSUIT
A group of wealthy investors who piled $50 million into two recently shuttered hedge funds managed by giant asset manager Highland Capital Management are accusing the firm of misleading them...
MR. CHOW IN LEGAL FOOD FIGHT
Famed restaurateur Mr. Chow is chop-suing nemesis Philippe Chow, whose copycat eateries Mr. Chow contends are a rip-off of his menus and his trademarked good name. Michael Chow, the original...
LOAN BIZ A $102M FRAUD: DA
A crooked mortgage brokerage house conspired with real-estate lawyers, appraisers and bank employees to scam banks out of $102 million, prosecutors said yesterday. The alleged swindle, carried out by AFG...
JUDGE SNAGS GOTTI BAIL OUT
There's no summer vacation coming for John "Junior" Gotti. A judge yesterday refused to grant bail for the mob scion, who scowled and bowed his head upon hearing the decision....
POOH-BAH PATERSON FLOUTS LAW
ALBANY -- Gov. Paterson yesterday put New York on a course to become a banana republic, with an unelected governor (himself), an unelected lieutenant governor (Richard Ravitch) and an unelected...
GM GOING GREEN AS IT EXITS CH. 11
General Motors could literally turn green as it readies itself for major management and cultural changes that will coincide with its escape from bankruptcy protection. People briefed on its plans...
AT LIBERTY WITH HARVEY
LIBERTY Media saved one struggling company this year with the bailout of Sirius XM Satellite Radio, and now it may reprise its role as the white knight for The Weinstein...
NAILED AT THE PLATE
Former Mets great Lenny Dykstra, who bragged he made $60 million playing the stock market and advising others, has been dealt the financial equivalent of a third strike: filing for...
ARTIFICIAL SPERM IN LAB WIGGLE
Who needs men? Human sperm has been artificially created in a lab using stem cells, according to British scientists. While producing babies using lab-spawned sperm is unlikely to happen in...
LAWYER RIPPED OFF CLIENTS: DA
A medical malpractice lawyer looted his clients' settlement awards, stealing $2.2 million, Manhattan prosecutors said yesterday. East Side resident Marc Bernstein's license was suspended by the Manhattan disciplinary committee of...
6 MONTHS FOR BOGUS BONDSMAN
A greedy Manhattan bail bondsman was sentenced yesterday to six months in jail for repeatedly faking his clients' paperwork -- lies that led to at least 58 dealers and stealers...
WHAT THE HAIL HAPPENED?!
That was a hail of a storm! A freak weather system that dumped golf-ball-sized hail on southern Westchester County and left thousands without power left two feet of hail in...
TROUBLESHOOTING NUMBERS CRUNCHER BECOMES NO. 2
Richard Ravitch has been New York's "Mr. Fix-It" for four decades. Ravitch, 76, was credited with turning around the city's decrepit city transit system as MTA chairman in the 1980s....
MERIWETHER'S TWICE-BITTEN
It might be time for hedge-fund veteran John Meriwether to consider another line of work. The 61-year-old investment veteran, who gained notoriety for sending ripples through the global financial markets...
LIFTING THE VEIL ON JACKO'S KIDS
Michael Jackson's sudden death may give his three beloved children something he could never provide -- a chance to be themselves. The King of Pop devoted his life to creating...
I WAS SURE I'D BE DEAD
A Connecticut lawyer yesterday described in harrowing detail how she escaped her crazed ex-husband's clutches after a 13-hour hostage standoff -- one that she was convinced would end her life....
PATERSON'S RAVITCH OPTION
Hard cases, it's said, make bad law. They can make for pretty sketchy constitutional maneuvering, too -- or, should we say, extra-constitutional maneuvering. But while it's hard to make a...
HEALTH CARE: WHAT'S THE HURRY?
Capitol Hill Democrats are in disarray over President Obama's push to fast- track a health-care-reform package -- and with good reason: Both the fine print and the ultimate costs are...
FBI CRASHES THE BOILER-ROOM PARTY
A self-described "bad boy of Wall Street" who made a comeback despite a string of suspensions, probes and censures, was rounded up in an FBI raid yesterday for running an...
TORTOISE & THE AIR
Eighty turtles refused to get the shell out of the way of Kennedy Airport runway traffic yesterday, causing a 1½-hour snarl at one of JFK's busiest times. The dopey dawdlers,...
'BEAT' COP GETS BREAK
A retired cop yesterday refused to take the stand against her ex-lover, an NYPD captain, forcing prosecutors to drop an attempted-assault case against him. Sharon Gandarilla decided not to testify...
MCNAIR KILLER CAUGHT ON VIDEO DURING DUI STOP
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Two days before Sahal Kazemi pumped four bullets into Steve McNair, she was stopped for a DUI, all of which was caught on video. McNair, the former...
ROCK ASSAULT ON FDR DRIVE
An Israeli army commander in town visiting her family was injured when two teenage hooligans threw rocks at her taxi as it cruised along the FDR Drive, police said. Gilat...
DEMS' 'TAX THE RICH' HEALTH-CARE PLAN
WASHINGTON -- An income-tax surcharge on highly paid Americans emerged as the leading option last night as House Democrats sought ways to pay for health-care legislation that President Obama favors,...
JUDGE RIPS 'INHUMANE' IMETTE BAR
A judge sentenced Imette St. Guillen's killer to life in prison yesterday, but saved some venom for the bar workers whose "indifference" cleared the way for the horrific torture and...
RUTH EYEING TINY UES 1BR
Oh, how the mighty Madoffs have fallen. Fresh off getting booted from her huge Upper East Side penthouse, the wife of Ponzi-scheme king Bernard Madoff is eyeing a bland new...
$133M MEGA QNS. JACKPOT
One lucky lottery player is $133 million richer after buying the solo winning ticket for Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing at a Queens store. The lottery haul is the second-biggest jackpot...
CHUCK HANDS-OFF IN RACE
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Schumer said yesterday he supports Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in her 2010 election fight -- but he won't ask Gillibrand's rival to stay out of the Democratic...
MORE INN STORE FOR B'KLYN
Downtown Brooklyn is developing its own "Hotel Row." Ground will be broken next week on a 19-story, 130-room boutique hotel on Duffield Street between Willoughby and Fulton streets, Long Island...
BUTT-SLAPPER BUST
A Brooklyn man busted after slapping a woman's buttocks in Crown Heights Tuesday night has been linked to a dozen similar attacks, police said yesterday. Most of the victims were...
MISSING MA'S KIN FEAR FIEND
A mother of three mysteriously disappeared from the lower Manhattan office tower where she's a cleaning woman -- and relatives, saying she was creeped out by a man who worked...
GOV IN A BOLD POWER PLAY
ALBANY -- In an effort to break the monthlong state Senate stalemate, Gov. Paterson last night appointed former MTA boss Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor -- and a potential tiebreaking...
'LIBERTY' BEHEADED IN VIDEO
Creeps who swiped a Lady Liberty replica from outside Brooklyn coffee and book shop last month have posted a sick Web video showing them sawing off the statue's blindfolded head....
CORPSE'S FATE IS A MYSTERY
Was Jacko in the box? The King of Pop's family kept silent as questions swirled yesterday about exactly where Michael Jackson's gold-plated casket ended up after Tuesday's public memorial in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
He was busted for generosity in the first degree. A Briton celebrated his $72,000 inheritance by having a bit too much to drink and flying to Spain -- where he...
SPF LETS IN NEW LIGHT
AN SPF of eight sounds a little low for your sun screen, but it's fine for the SPF -- the Summer Play Festival, hosted by the Public Theater. This year's...
CHECK OUT THIS HUNGARIAN CHEKHOV
SPIRITUAL malaise has rarely been as enter tainingly played as in the Lincoln Center Festival's "Ivanov." Budapest's Katona Jozsef Theatre's staging of Chekhov's classic is performed in Hungarian with English...
'DESPERATE' KIN WILL BE NIECE TOUCH
ADD another potential troublemaker to the Wisteria Lane crew. Maiara Walsh, who ruffled a few feathers on "Desperate Housewives" late last season, has been made a full-time cast member. She...
JACKO RATES BIG
MICHAEL Jackson's tele vised memorial service on Tuesday pulled in over 31 million viewers across 18 networks, according to Nielsen. That's nearly four times as many viewers as tuned into...
'CRASH' COURSE
THERE are two things wrong with MSNBC's otherwise terrific documentary, "Why Planes Crash: Brace for Impact." One is that it's not really about why planes crash as much as what...
TOP '10 THINGS'
ABC Family's "10 Things I Hate About You" pre miered to solid numbers Tuesday night. The sitcom, featuring Lindsey Shaw and Meaghan Martin, snared 1.6 million viewers, ABC Family's best-ever...
'30 ROCK' ROLLS
LIZ Lemon is coming to Ch. 5. NBC has sold "30 Rock" into syndication. The show will begin airing on the Fox-owned station in fall 2011. Tina Fey stars on...
NY'S SURVIVOR
BIO'S "I Survived. . ." kicks off its third season Sunday with a chilling tale that will resonate with New Yorkers who lived through the city's crime- ridden, early '90s....
WRIGHT: 'THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH ME'
There would seem to be reasons to wonder if David Wright is hurt. But the star third baseman insists he's fully healthy. "No problem," Wright told The Post before last...
MURPHY'S BIG PLAY GRABS SPOTLIGHT
Daniel Murphy, Gold Glover? OK, let's not get carried away, but the much-maligned Mets first baseman made a spectacular play last night against the Dodgers that would make Keith Hernandez...
A.J. MAKES BIG PITCHES AS YANKEES HOLD OFF TWINS
MINNEAPOLIS -- Jorge Posada admitted his pitcher had nothing but a fastball. No put-away curveball that dusted the back foot of left-handed batters. No change-up to keep bats off fastballs....
YANKEES HAVE 'ACE' UP THEIR SLEEVE
MINNEAPOLIS -- In a perfect world, manager Joe Girardi would split Alfredo Aceves in half and have him start and relieve. BOX SCOREHARDBALL ON HALLADAYROY: WINNING MOST IMPORTANT Because the...
MANUEL: OLLIE KEPT US BUSY
David Wright labeled Oliver Perez's outing last night a "promising effort." Indeed, if you optimistically suggest that Perez can add to what he delivered against Los Angeles, he could potentially...
KNICKS AWAITING HILL'S NEXT MOVE
Grant Hill last week re-enrolled his kids at their private school in Scottsdale, Ariz. He has told confidants the worst experience he ever had was uprooting his kids when they...
CELTICS PASS ON MARBURY
Stephon Marbury told The Post last night he won't be returning to the Celtics and is eyeing Europe stronger than ever. KNICKS BLOG Marbury, 32, has been talking to teams...
FOR TORRE, NO GOING BACK TO THE BRONX
Joe Torre swears he has no desire to see the new Yankee Stadium ... except under one circumstance. "I wouldn't mind seeing it in October," the Dodgers manager said. "That...
JETER CALLS OUT UMPIRE
MINNEAPOLIS -- Derek Jeter doesn't believe umpire Marty Foster when the umpire claims he told Jeter that the Yankees captain was tagged out at third Monday at Yankee Stadium. Jeter...
HAMILTON HEIGHTS
Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 800 Maintenance: $866 -- "Less than 10 steps" from several subway lines and the crosstown bus, this "gut-renovated" co-op on West 145th Street offers...
MURRAY HILL
Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 800 Maintenance: $1,060 -- The "warmth" of this prewar "masterpiece" on lower Park Avenue has been maintained, but just about everything else has been...
WESTHAMPTON BEACH, LI
At just a hair under $3 million, this could be your "quintessential" Hamptons dream home at a pretty dreamy price (for the Hamptons, anyway). "Immaculately" renovatedand appointed, the Dune Road...
DARIEN, CONN.
This expansive, European-style residence was built in 1860 and "substantially" renovated in 1995, but one thing that hasn't changed in all those years is its direct waterfront location. To make...
COUNTRY CLUB, THE BRONX
Bedrooms: 5 Bathrooms: 3 Square feet: 2,040 -- A true two-family home, this "beautiful" house on a fenced, corner lot at Spencer Drive will make everyone feel at home, with...
UPPER WEST SIDE
Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 1,000 Maintenance: $810 -- The brick, decorative fireplaces and original floors in this prewar brownstone floor-through co-op on West 80th Street coexist nicely with...
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS
Bedrooms: 0 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 650 Maintenance: $794 -- Though it "needs TLC," once you see this "spacious" co-op studio on Livingston Street, we presume you will consider it...
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS
This parlor-level duplex co-op housed in a magnificent townhouse on Pierrepont Street offers the grand proportions that come with brownstone living. Among its 2,600 square feet are three bedrooms, two...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan EAST VILLAGE $345,000 333 E. 14th St. Studio co-op, 500 square feet, with separate kitchen with new appliances, dressing room, renovated bath and through-the-wall AC; building features garage, laundry...
UP NORTH
A couple who sold their classic prewar co-op at 333 Central Park West during the peak of the market -- the four-bedroom, 2,500-square-foot condo went for $4.6 million in February...
WATER BABIES
No one would dispute that the Hamptons are the créme de la créme of New York City summering spots. But in these trying economic times, not everyone has the financial...
U.S. beats Honduras 2-0, stays undefeated in Gold Cup
Clearly RFK Stadium agrees with Santino Quaranta; and the D.C. United standout obviously knows how to enjoy a homecoming.He snapped a scoreless tie in the 75th minute, and helped the...
Report: New Jerseyan Giuseppe Rossi is Manchester City's latest target
Those of you denouncing Giuseppe Rossi as a traitor _ I'm not one of them _ better sit down. The Teaneck-born, Clifton-raised striker is reportedly the latest target for big-spending...
AWAY THEY GO
The brown raised Ranch down the road is for sale. A young couple bought the house three years ago. I met them once for a brief moment when they jogged...
Trialist Veljko Paunovic hurt, RBNY notes
The Red Bull injury epidemic is so pervasive, so crippling, now it's taken out a player that hasn't even signed yet. Trialist Veljko Paunovic hurt his left hamstring warming up...