September 1, 2014
Ambulance takes an hour to answer call near Gracie Mansion
An elderly neighbor of Mayor de Blasio lay on the floor with blood gushing from her head while waiting nearly an hour for an ambulance to answer repeated 911 calls...
Cops told to ignore drunken booze-fests
Brooklyn cops were ordered to ignore blatantly illegal liquor sales inside three junkyards that were turned into open-air nightclubs — drawing thousands of rowdy revelers who vomited and urinated in...
NATO special force aims to be able to take on Russia
WASHINGTON — NATO is moving to create a new rapid-reaction force with 4,000 soldiers who could be deployed to defend Eastern European allies under threat from an aggressive Russia. The...
Man beheaded in gruesome Bronx suicide
A man decapitated himself Monday morning in a suicide that left his headless corpse lying in a Bronx street, law enforcement sources said. The 51-year-old man attached a metal chain...
Kickstarter users fundraise for products already sold on Amazon
What do crowdfunding website Kickstarter and online retailer Amazon.com have in common? Too much, critics charge. Kickstarter fans, who have become a bit prickly over what they feel are too...
US military targets Islamic extremists in Somalia operation
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon says US military forces have targeted the Islamic extremist al-Shabaab network in an operation in Somalia. Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby says the US is...
Idzik, Rex in denial over Jets' cornerback debacle
When the Jets resume practice Tuesday, their starting cornerbacks could be Antonio Allen, who has never started a game at the position, and Darrin Walls, who has four career starts....
NYC proves too hot for Canada's Bouchard
Eugenie Bouchard couldn’t take the heat of Flushing. The burgeoning blonde melted in the humidity of Flushing Meadows and under the weight of recent expectations. Complaining afterward of dizziness and...
Flatiron's finance firm boosts Sixth Avenue
In a rare reversal of the recent office-migration pattern, a prominent wealth-management firm is moving from Flatiron to Midtown — in particular, to tenant-hemorrhaging Sixth Avenue. KLS Professional Advisors Group...
Taste of Southeast Asia set for Second Avenue rollout
Two talented chefs are opening Sachi Asian Bistro on Sept. 8, offering fun, inventive twists on the classics and Southeast Asian street food they grew up on. Andy Yang, whose...
Bumpy ride for 'terrible' Wheeler
MIAMI — Zack Wheeler felt “terrible” for his entire afternoon of work, but kept the Mets in the game Monday. Trying to get Wheeler a victory, manager Terry Collins stuck...
Hondo goes for Greene
Hondo racked up his third no-hitter of the season Monday when the Phillies’ Gang of Four shut down the Braves. That bit of brilliance, coupled with his Tiger victory, reduced...
No-fer! Cruz deems opener against Lions a 'must-win'
After what the Giants went through last season, Victor Cruz isn’t afraid to label this year’s season opener a must-win game. An ugly 0-6 start in 2013 all but guaranteed...
Weinstein in pricey gamble on ‘Rigby’ three-play movie format
In a year when Hollywood studios are finding it tough to get US moviegoers to buy tickets to any single film, leave it to Harvey Weinstein to try and get...
The 2014 football season magazine rundown
After an off-season filled with news of domestic violence, concussion suits and the Washington franchise’s nickname, the National Football League gets down to doing what it does best — gluing...
Technology making it easier to fly in, buy charter jets
For many Americans, a golden age of air travel is dawning. No, not for the legions of leisure travelers whose summer memories are likely to be peppered with delays, cramped...
'Finally!' Serena ecstatic as she rolls into Open quarterfinal
With 17 Grand Slam titles, who would have thought making a quarterfinal would be such an accomplishment for top-ranked Serena Williams? Apparently the only person capable of stopping Williams was...
Djokovic, Murray prepare for 2012 Open finals rematch
They have met on the biggest stages several times before. Even if Andy Murray hasn’t shown his top form since back surgery last September, he has saved his top form...
Carlyle’s $115M ends private equity 'collusion' case
Carlyle Group is the last of the private-equity giants to settle civil charges that it colluded with rivals on tens of billions of dollars worth of deals. The Washington, DC-based...
Tip-toeing NYT is missing the Census beat
It bothers me when the media reports stupid things — but I have to admit that I get a certain pleasure from dumb stories in the New York Times. Monday,...
NYC journalist's missing teen son returns home
The 16-year-old son of long-time 1010 WINS reporter Carol D’Auria returned home Monday after running away from a Long Island drug rehab center last week. A missing persons report was...
Yanks will need to deliver on this homestand to have any hope
In the funeral-parlor silence of a morose Rogers Centre clubhouse Sunday, David Robertson was asked if he recalled a conversation with The Post last Aug. 28, when the Yankees were...
De Blasio defends cops in death of man in NYPD custody
Mayor de Blasio Monday defended the cops trying to bust a crazed man high on PCP who died in their custody. Ronald Singleton died in the back of a taxi...
Broadcasters must help steward sportsmanship
Just outside Cleveland on Friday night, the high school football opener between Collinwood at Garfield Heights was canceled in the third quarter after a late hit started a fight, which...
US Open wunderkind blowing up on social media
Fame and her US Open success may not have changed Catherine “CiCi” Bellis, but it may have changed the 15-year-old San Francisco phenom’s world a bit. With her angelic face,...
Cameron wants to seize passports of suspected British jihadists
Declaring that “adhering to British values is not an option or a choice," UK Prime Minister David Cameron is proposing to seize the passports of British citizens who travel abroad...
Yankees take history and 'hope' into desperate September
September. Baseball’s best month, arguably. Crunch time. The Yankees will require an awesome September to live to see October, and they have a roster full of players who historically love...
Alaskan city has spent $7,000 appealing mayor's $37.50 fine
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — The city has so far spent about $7,000 appealing a $37.50 election-law fine leveled against the mayor. The Alaska Public Offices Commission ordered city Mayor John Eberhart...
Mets rack up 6 errors in brutal loss to Marlins
MIAMI — It simply was an embarrassment. The Mets did not belong on a major league baseball field Monday afternoon, playing the kind of game that signaled they have packed...
Hamels, Phillies bullpen team up to no-hit Atlanta
ATLANTA — Cole Hamels and three Philadelphia Phillies relievers combined to pitch a no-hitter Monday, beating the Atlanta Braves 7-0 and giving a last-place team a rare reason to celebrate....
Maroon 5's latest album is a snooze
Albums of the Week Maroon 5 "V" ★½ It's not hard to see that Maroon 5 is hunting for another “Moves Like Jagger.” Their fifth album, “V,” is packed with...
Woman robbed at knife-point in East Village
A woman was robbed at knife-point on her way home from work at an East Village café, cops said. The victim, a 35-year-old woman, was on East Ninth Street and...
Please stop bothering Tom Coughlin about Odell Beckham
Tom Coughlin’s frustration with the state of Odell Beckham Jr.’s ailing hamstring boiled over Monday — directly at the media. While revealing the Giants’ first-round pick could miss two or...
4-day, 50-inning baseball game finally ends
It ain't over, til it's over! It took four days and 50 innings of pitchers trading blows to decide the winner of a high school baseball game in Japan over...
Markowitz backing indicted state Sen. Sampson’s re-election
ALBANY— Brooklyn’s biggest pitch man just threw a knuckle ball at the voters: Marty Markowitz is backing indicted state Sen. John Sampson’s re-election bid. The former Brooklyn borough president, who...
Man and woman shot hours before West Indian Day Parade
One man was shot dead, and at least five others -- including a cop -- were injured as gunfire erupted during Monday's pre-dawn festivities leading up to the West Indian...
Alaskan fishermen were trained to be spies during Cold War
WASHINGTON — Fearing a Russian invasion and occupation of Alaska, the U.S. government in the early Cold War years recruited and trained fishermen, bush pilots, trappers and other private citizens...
3 Americans detained in North Korea plead for help
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea gave foreign media access on Monday to three detained Americans who said they have been able to contact their families and — watched by...
Screaming woman dislocates jaw during ice bucket challenge
A woman has been hospitalized after screaming so hard during the Ice Bucket Challenge, that she dislocated her jaw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyPSoyLUjb0 Isabelle Roberts shouted so violently while freezing water was poured over...
SNY has new analysts for Jets coverage
There will be a new look to the Jets’ coverage on SNY this season. Former Jets safety Erik Coleman and linebacker Chad Cascadden will join the network’s coverage of the...
Parent stabs 3 kids to death at school in China
A man with a knife killed three children and injured several more in a primary school in China on Monday, the first day of a new school term after the...
Man dead, wife injured in brutal stabbing
A birthday celebration for an elderly Staten Island couple ended in horror when a junkie burglar ransacking their home for pills butchered the grandpa and turned the knife on his...
Mark your calendars -- here's your perfect September guide
Sept. 1 Immerse yourself in Caribbean culture and join more than 2 million people in Crown Heights for Brooklyn’s annual West Indian American Day Carnival. Food vendors will serve jerk...
Rick Perry deletes ‘unauthorized’ drunk-Democrat tweet
Texas Gov. Rick Perry made a social-media blunder nearly the size of the Lone Star State on Sunday night when his Twitter account posted a viral image of a prosecutor...
History could be made on ‘American Ninja Warrior’
No American has ever completed the “Ninja Warrior” championship course — which means the second night of the Las Vegas finals airing Monday on NBC have another chance to make...
‘Boardwalk Empire’ starts its final season
“The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story” Monday at 9 p.m. on Lifetime The Bayside High gang returns as this TV movie takes a nostalgic look back at the iconic...
Police officer and nine others shot during holiday weekend
A police officer was one of 10 people struck by gunfire in violence that spread across three boroughs Saturday night into Sunday morning, authorities said. Officer John Hirschberger, 28, was...
Couple uses fake credit cards to buy $100K worth of baby formula
They had a formula for making money. Cops have charged a Brooklyn couple with using phony credit cards to buy more than $100,000 worth of Enfamil baby formula from a...
Pregnant woman fatally shot six times in car
A pregnant Long Island woman who tragically lost twin boys at birth last year and was joyously awaiting another baby in December was shot dead in front of her home,...
Cuomo may dump Hochul, fearing a Tim Wu primary win
Gov. Cuomo’s political operatives are eyeing a “painful scenario’’ to dump Kathy Hochul, a moderate upstater, as the governor’s running mate for lieutenant governor amid growing signs that leftist law...
Staten busts plunge after chokehold death
NYPD cops are taking a hands-off approach when it comes to policing the Staten Island precinct where Eric Garner was killed in a police chokehold, citing an order from superiors...
Israel blasts a Syrian drone out of the sky over the Golan Heights
Israel blasted a Syrian drone out of the sky as it flew over the Golan Heights on Sunday. Military officials in Jerusalem are unsure whether the unmanned aircraft was aimed...
Current Congress might be history's worst at passing laws
WASHINGTON — The current Congress is on track to be the worst ever at passing laws since modern record-keeping began, with three of its lawmakers failing to introduce a single...
Chobani yogurt is taking over congressional fridges
WASHINGTON — So much for the gravy train — New York’s congressional delegation is hopping aboard the yogurt express. Chobani yogurt, which is based in the upstate town of Norwich,...
Belinda Bencic follows lead of Martina Hingis in stunning win
With friend and mentor Martina Hingis watching and cheering from her box in Arthur Ashe Stadium, teenage phenom Belinda Bencic followed in Hingis’ footsteps and fought her way into U.S....
Former Ranger Carol Vadnais dies at 68
Former Rangers defenseman Carol Vadnais died Sunday at the age of 68 after a battle with cancer. Vadnais played with the Rangers for seven seasons after he was acquired with...
Happy Labor Day
This year, New York’s Labor Day Parade will be open to some who’ve been uninvited before: non-union workers. We’re glad to see it. Because just as Big Business is often...
New York's sleazy party favors
It’s no surprise New York’s most prominent feminist group, the National Organization for Women, has endorsed the only woman in the governor’s race — Democrat Zephyr Teachout. But why is...
Salute to a sergeant
Not long ago, we wrote about the Silver Star awarded to one of Staten Island’s own, Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis. Ollis died a year ago in eastern Afghanistan. But this...
Reckless SWAT use is worse than tanks in the street
Contrary to what you may have heard, the armored vehicles that appeared on the streets of Ferguson, Mo., during the unrest that followed the police shooting of Michael Brown didn’t...
Germany 75 years ago: 'What do you mean, a world war?'
Shortly after 4:30 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler ordered the attack on Poland to begin, launching the Second World War. The only people who didn’t seem to...
Daily Blotter
Queens A thief stole $1,300 from a Jackson Heights bank, authorities said Sunday. A teller at the Dime Bank on 37th Avenue near 76th Street handed the cash over after...