September 20, 2008
RANGEL NOW FACES LOSING LOW-RENT APTS.
Rep. Charles Rangel's tax disclosures not only are an embarrassment for the Democratic congressman - they put him far over the limit to qualify for his rent-stabilized Harlem apartments. While...
Game 154: Mets at Braves
ATLANTA -- Fresh from reclaiming first place in the NL East, the Mets look to extend their three-game win streak here tonight when Pedro Martinez takes on Braves rookie Jorge...
YANKEES BEAT ORIOLES 1-0
Six thousand, five hundred and eighty down, one to go. Somebody just needs to turn out the lights on their way out tonight. In a perfect pinstriped universe, that would...
THE JOY OF HEX
When the late-night program "The Jon Stewart Show" was cancelled in 1995, Stewart took to the air one last time to say, "To all those people who said my show...
Maine throws sim with no pain
ATLANTA -- John Maine (pictured) threw a total of 24 pitches to five hitters here this afternoon and reported no pain from the bone spur in his right shoulder. The...
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The Mets appear to have found something special in rookie Daniel Murphy (pictured), who put them back in first place in the NL East with a pinch-hit, two run double...
RESCUE PLAN SEEKS $700B TO BUY BAD MORTGAGES
Congressional finance leaders are working through the weekend to hammer out unprecedented legislation that could let the government print $700 billion as part of a $1 trillion buyout of toxic...
MCC'S A PLAN MAN & O TAKES IT SLOW
John McCain unveiled his plan yesterday to prevent future disasters on Wall Street, while Barack Obama spoke generally in favor of giving the feds "broad authority" to deal with the...
RANGEL'S DIRTY POLITICS: DEMS NEED CLEAN SWEEP
THE ISSUE: Whether Charlie Rangel should resign as Ways and Means Committee chairman. "Step Down, Charlie" (Editorial, Sept. 17) is what the public should demand. The tangle with Rep. Charlie...
THE HOT HOLIDAY DESTINATION: IRAQ?
THE way Barack Obama talks of Iraq, you'd think the whole county is a sea of fire and blood, created by the United States. So he might be surprised to...
'WE MUST ACT NOW'
THIS is a pivotal moment for America's economy. Problems that originated in the credit markets and first showed up in the area of subprime mortgages have spread throughout our financial...
OUR SISTER SARAH PALIN'S ANTI-ELITIST CHARM
I KNOW Sarah Palin, and so does my wife. Neither of us ever actually met the governor of Alaska, but we grew up with her - in the small-town America...
MAC'S LATE RALLY WITH HIS MONEY MESSAGE
A WEEK that began so badly for John McCain on economic fundamentals ended on a comparative high. In dueling speeches yesterday, McCain outthought Barack Obama, thanks to a greater, if...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Fri.: 680; Lucky Sum: 14 / Midday Win-4 Fri.: 3046; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Nos. Fri.: 742; Lucky Sum: 13 / Evening Win-4 Fri.: 1476;...
BUSH'S RX FOR $ICK TIMES
Calling the financial crisis a "pivotal moment for America's economy," President Bush yesterday unveiled a string of measures aimed at easing the devastating Wall Street meltdown. "America's economy is facing...
IT'S FULL-COURT LEHMAN PRESS
A legion of lawyers descended on bankruptcy court yesterday to pick over the bones of Lehman Brothers after one of the biggest business bust-ups in US history. More than 200...
ANSWERS FOR YOUR FEARS
The government yesterday began putting together what is likely to be the biggest-ever bailout, in an effort to stabilize the financial markets. Details have yet to be finalized, but the...
CURSES! 'ROB' JURY HEARS O.J. TAPES
Rapt jurors yesterday heard tape of O.J. Simpson barking expletive-laced orders to armed thugs as they allegedly ripped off two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint last year in Las Vegas. Simpson...
ECONOMY'S $1T 'TOXIC' CLEANUP
Struggling to stave off the potential collapse of Wall Street, the Bush administration yesterday laid out a historic bailout plan to buy back toxic mortgages and bad debt - a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
THE BRONX Police are searching for the teen pictured above who vanished after leaving her West Farms home Monday afternoon. Amanda Morera, 15, left her home at Harrod Avenue and...
BRO'S ASHES IN 'RITE' FIELD
As the last games get played at Yankee Stadium, Dan Sabia yesterday bid goodbye to the fabled field - and to his brother Joe, who died in April. Dan, 50,...
CITY'S CURBSIDE 'PARK'ING
Hard, cold blacktop turned green across the city yesterday as environmental activists reclaimed dozens of curbside parking spaces and turned them into mini-parks. Dubbed Park(ing) Day NYC, the event saw...
NIGHTMARE BAT ATTACK
Two thugs savagely beat a Boston radio-show host with a bat in a Bronx vestibule yesterday morning as he came home to visit his kids, authorities said. Pelagio de la...
$1 MIL FROM MILLS
After suffering the indignity of having her own publicist call her a "gold-digging witch," Heather Mills has come up with a way to show she really is a good person...
COPS TOW CAR 'THIEF'
A Long Island man was busted yesterday for using a tow truck to steal dozens of cars in Queens and scoring up to $17,500 after selling them for scrap during...
A BIG CRANE IN THE NECK
Hundreds of construction workers may be idled in the coming weeks because of the city Buildings Department's sudden imposition of new rules on tower cranes, an industry lobbyist said yesterday....
FOOT-IN-MOUTH 'DISABILITY' AS CHARLIE RIPS PALIN
Rep. Charles Rangel yesterday slammed GOP veep nominee Sarah Palin as "disabled." Asked by Channel 2's Marcia Kramer if Democrats are afraid of Palin, Rangel said, "You got to be...
SUN-BURNED RANGEL PAYS 11G TO TAXMAN
WASHINGTON - Charlie's check is in the mail. Rep. Charles Rangel has sent six checks totaling $10,800 to the IRS and New York state to cover three years' worth of...
STADIUM STROLL
Fans can hit the field at Yankee Stadium tomorrow without fear of getting tackled by security - for a few hours anyway. The team will open the entrance to the...
SUBWAY BE DAMMED
The MTA said yesterday it will install about 240 sleek steel benches along Hillside Avenue in Queens in an effort to prevent flooding in the subways. The designer furniture will...
DIDDY THE CRAP STAR
You can call him Poop Diddy now! Or maybe P. Doody? Hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs really stepped in it this week - literally. Strolling alongside his hired muscle and...
FOUR SHOT AT BX. DANCE
A gunman opened fire at a Bronx high school dance last night, wounding four youths, including a 14-year-old girl, cops said. The violence erupted at 10:47 p.m. at the Christopher...
CITY SERVING UP HEALTHIER FOOD
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday said the city would impose nutritional standards on every one of the 225 million meals and snacks it serves each year. "Fried food out, fresh fruits and...
GRANNY FIGHTS OFF MUG FIEND
Don't mess with this granny! Elsie Barreto, 83, wasn't about to let a cowardly thug get her money - or her life - during a vicious attempted mugging in her...
WAMU SUITORS LOOK AT BOOKS
Potential buyers of Washington Mutual continued to examine the company's books yesterday, but a takeover of the nation's largest savings and loan was far from certain despite a number of...
SPIELBERG GETS $1.2B FINANCING
Steven Spielberg has discovered one doesn't need Wall Street to finance movies when there's India. The filmmaker's studio DreamWorks SKG yesterday sealed a $1.2 billion financing deal with Mumbai-based Reliance...
SHORT SHRIFT: CRITICS
The Securities and Exchange Commission's temporary ban on short-selling took down the good with the bad. Several groups yesterday said they took a beating as a result of the ban,...
DETAILS OF RESCUE PLAN KEEP STREET ON EDGE
Despite the euphoria that engulfed Wall Street yesterday after Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said he was unveiling a sweeping plan to bail out financial companies, investors remained fretful about how...
DEMS DISS PALIN, ISRAEL
With one astonishingly clumsy public temper tantrum, Hillary Clinton and the Obama campaign have transformed what for decades has been a bipartisan policy - American support for Israel - into...
NO TIME FOR DITHERING
The dramatic bailout announced yesterday by President Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson constitutes Washington's most dramatic, and far-reaching, intervention in Wall Street since the Great Depression. In an extraordinary...
JETS EXPECTING COLES TO HEAT UP
Though Laveranues Coles is off to a slow start with his new quarterback, Brian Schottenheimer insists he's not worried about Coles and Brett Favre. Through two games, Coles hasn't scored...
REST NOT IN BRODEUR'S PLANS
Burnout, bah. Poised to become the winningest goalie of all time, Martin Brodeur plans to continue his remarkable workload. "I expect to play at least 70 games, for sure," Brodeur...
YANKS HONOR MURCER
Bobby Murcer's spirit was alive in The Bronx yesterday. In an emotional afternoon ceremony across the street from the Stadium, the Yankee icon was remembered with the unveiling of a...
CAPTAIN COURAGEOUS
Derek Jeter cemented his legacy as a winner with four World Series championships in his first full five years as a Yankee, but the photographic evidence came in 2004 when...
INCONSTANT GARDNER
Brett Gardner likely won't be the Yankees' starting center fielder in 2009, but he's certainly on everybody's radar. The trick for Gardner remains shedding his status as an almost automatic...
GETTING UP FOR DOWN TEAMS A GIANT HURDLE
The season is heading into its third weekend and already the Giants are faced with a recurring theme. How do you get up for an opponent that is so down?...
TONIGHT'S SHOW TIME FOR RANGER HOPEFULS
It's difficult to imagine the pace of tonight's first preseason game in Ottawa will be as frenetic as the tempo the Rangers established through three days of training-camp scrimmages that...
COACHING ELITE CONGREGATE AT MANHATTAN COLLEGE
Barry Rohrssen still has the inked-up napkin. Last September, the coach at Manhattan College was out to lunch with an old friend and mentor, Howard Garfinkel, when they were struck...
HONDO EYES TWIN WIN
There'll be no government bailout necessary for Hondo, Inc. Mr. Aitch breezed with the Cards yesterday in the Windy City to boost his earnings to 720 minchers. Tonight, he'll try...
SPORTS SHORTS
MLB: First replay reversal Baseball's instant-replay system produced its first reversal last night when Tampa Bay's Carlos Pena had a two-run double changed to a three-run homer during the fourth...
FALDO SITS LEE, SERGIO
LOUISVILLE - In a stunning move following yesterday's opening-round matches, European captain Nick Faldo benched Sergio Garcia and Lee Westwood - his two most accomplished Ryder cup players - for...
LEONARD BRINGS '99 MAGIC
LOUISVILLE - If Justin Leonard isn't a fan of Prince he should be because he's partying like it's 1999. At least that's the way it seemed yesterday at Valhalla Country...
NEW YORKERS HOPING FOR A CALIPARI RETURN SHOULD FUGGHEDABOUTIT!
JOHN Calipari wasn't in the building 30 seconds before the question was asked. Or was it a demand? "Would you take the St. John's job," a frustrated passer-by said. "Please?"...
EURO MIFFED BY BOO
LOUISVILLE - After only one day of the Louisville crowds relishing their role as the "13th man" at Valhalla yesterday, some of the Europeans are seeing shades of the Americans'...
UNDERDOG AMERICANS TAKE 3-POINT LEAD
LOUISVILLE - For what has seemed like forever and a few years to the Americans, the Europeans have dominated the Ryder Cup. With that has come the constant, annoying ring...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
EAST CAROLINA at N.C. STATE Noon ESPNLine: East Carolina by 71/2. Angle: The Pirates (3-0) have become the darlings of college football, but before you bet with your heart, think....
MURPHY LEADS WAY BACK INTO EAST LEAD
ATLANTA - Memo to Jerry Manuel: Forget that he's a rookie and forget the lefty-righty angle, Daniel Murphy needs to play every single day. That was glaringly obvious last night...
IT'S NEVER EASY - OR DULL - FOR THESE METS
ATLANTA - This Mets bullpen needs more seven-and eight-inning outings from the starters. Most of the members, in their frustrated fans' view, need to be on another team next year,...
MAINE COURSE REVEALED TODAY
ATLANTA - The Mets expect to find out this afternoon if John Maine will be available as a reliever the final week of the regular season and, assuming they make...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
There's a place in bell hell for this duo. Two men were charged with stealing an 82-year-old bronze bell from an Iowa church and selling it to a salvage yard...
PICKY, PICKY!
ANYONE with a Web browser and a rental car can take the family apple-picking. The trick is making the experience an autumn joyride rather than a long fall into despair....
WHAT'S UP?
TODAY SUPERSURPRISE ME: The Brooklyn Children's Museum is now twice as big as before - the better to let kids play in a giant sandbox, design carnival costumes and get...
HAPPY RETURNS
APPARENTLY, the practice of ripping small children from their siblings didn't end with the abolition of slavery. It still goes on when families are broken up by social services agencies...
'DUDE' JAILED
DUTCH Elijah Whitlock, who played "skater dude" in "High School Musical," will serve a year in jail for robbing a pizza shop at gunpoint. A judge also ordered Whitlock, 19,...
BLOCK IS BACK
FOR girls who weren't in their teens between 1986 and 1994, the acronym NKOTB might look like gibberish. But to those in the know, there's no mistaking those letters. Before...
THEY PARTY LIKE IT'S 1989
IT'S hard to tell where kitsch stops and hip starts in Manhattan lounges these days, especially when Phil Collins' "Sussudio" begins to play. Sure, one man's nostalgia is another man's...
KITTY-SLAY GUY SAYS: MY 'BAD'
Bad cat killer. Bad. "Self-defense" kitty bludgeoner Joseph Petcka came the closest he has to an apology yesterday, telling jurors his fatal kicking of Norman, his girlfriend's orange house tabby,...