July 12, 2012
Suspicious package causes Midtown subway station evacuation
A Midtown subway station was evacuated during afternoon rush hour today because of a suspicious-looking box on a train, authorities said. A horde of NYPD cops descended on the station...
The Post sits with New York Cosmos co-owner Seamus O'Brien
After a three-decade hiatus, the New York Cosmos finally return to the field next year in the NASL. But their ultimate goal is far higher; to eventually reach MLS, reignite...
Jay-Z to now play eight shows to open Barclays Center
The Barclays Center opening celebration featuring Jay-Z continues to grow, and grow, and grow. The rap superstar today announced he’ll now play eight concerts to tip off the opening of...
Harvey a 'remote' possibility to replace Gee in Mets rotation
ATLANTA ---- Consider him a dark horse, but stud pitching prospect Matt Harvey hasn’t been eliminated from the conversation for Dillon Gee’s spot in the Mets’ rotation.Gee is scheduled to...
Knicks GM thinks experience will pay off for Camby, Kidd
So maybe they’ll need to lace the Gatorade with Geritol and insert a rocking chair or two near the Knicks bench.But where some see gray hairs, GM Glen Grunwald sees...
Giuliani campaigns for Romney in Va. Beach
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told veterans in Virginia Beach on Thursday that President Barack Obama would destroy the region's job base through defense spending...
Occupy Wall Street hits Sun Valley
The Occupy Wall Street movement made its way to the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, where the real “1 percent” rub elbows. Protesters railing against the growing...
Monticello Raceway celebrates “Back To The Track” with amateur drivers
Monticello Raceway is bringing everyone "Back to the Track" Friday afternoon by presenting a 12-race card of amateur racing. The "Back to the Track" promotion celebrates the history of harness...
Reggie apologizes in statement, but Yankees ban continues
Reggie Jackson is trying to clear the air.The Yankees legend, who offended multiple players with his recent controversial comments about Alex Rodriguez, Andy Pettitte and Mets Hall of Famer Gary...
WATCH: Female MMA fighter wants to 'beat the crap' out of Kim Kardashian
Ronda Rousey, one of the top female mixed martial arts fighters in the world, is seeking out her next opponent: Kim Kardashian.In an interview while promoting her nude spread in...
Former Harvard coach accused of stealing at NY bar
WHITE PLAINS, NY — A former assistant football coach at Harvard has been accused of stealing about $80,000 from a suburban New York restaurant. The Westchester County district attorney's office...
Court to decide if Coney boardwalk should be replaced by cement
The battle over whether much of Coney Island’s famous – but rickety – wooden boardwalk should be replaced by cement will now be decided in court. A string of civic...
Migrant's widow welcomes US probe of border death
SAN DIEGO - The widow of an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was shot with a stun gun by U.S. border officials welcomes a federal grand jury investigation into her...
NFL files grievance with union in Vilma lawsuit
The NFL has filed a grievance with the players’ union asking Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma to drop his defamation lawsuit against Commissioner Roger Goodell. The league claims Vilma’s suit violates...
Excerpts from the Freeh report on Penn State, Sandusky
Key excerpts from the investigation into the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal led by former federal judge and ex-FBI director Louis Freeh: - "The most saddening finding by the Special...
Episcopals do the right thing
Is divestment a bad word suddenly?Last week it was the Presbyterians who defeated a motion to divest from companies doing business with Israel.This week it is the Episcopal Church that's...
UFC's Jones says Silva megafight would be 'lose-lose'
Jon Jones really doesn’t want to fight Anderson Silva – and it evidently goes beyond the mutual respect the two have claimed for each other over the past few months.Jones,...
Revival Circuit: Kelly vs Kelly, 'Universal 100'
Only in New York could you have dueling retrospectives dedicated to fellow Pennsylvania natives and MGM stars Gene and Grace Kelly opening on the exact same day. As far as...
NYC store owner arraigned in murder-for-hire plot
MINEOLA, NY — The owner of a New York City religious supplies store who is accused of sexually assaulting a teenage employee has been charged with conspiring to kill his...
Tix-fix cop planned to pay for murder with NYPD pension money: prosecution
The shamed cop who sparked the NYPD ticket-fixing scandal tried to hire a hitman to kill a witness in the case -- and planned to pay for the rub-out with...
Democrats' do-nothing Senate
What a waste. Voters went to the polls to elect 100 senators and all they are getting for their trouble is a lot of talk and not a lot of...
Griffin injures knee during Team USA scrimmage
Clippers forward Blake Griffin injured his left knee during a Team USA scrimmage and is returning to Los Angeles to be examined by team doctors, according to Yahoo! Sports. The...
US budget deficit grew by $60 billion in June
WASHINGTON — The U.S. budget deficit grew by nearly $60 billion in June, remaining on track to exceed $1 trillion for the fourth straight year. The Treasury Department says the...
NBC launches two mobile apps to watch the Olympics
NBC is launching two mobile apps that will let people watch Olympics events as they happen, look up athlete profiles and access other extra content on their iPads, iPhones and...
LT doubts Holmes can handle Jets' run-heavy attack
The potential quarterback controversy between Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow is not LaDainian Tomlinson’s biggest concern for this year’s Jets. Tomlinson, who retired recently after spending the final two years...
BAM's hot-tub time machine
Mark your calendars, my dear theater geeks: This coming Monday, I'm hosting what promises to be a hoot of a panel at BAM, from 7 to 8:30pm. The idea originated...
Cuomo signs bill to expand firefighters' memorial
Gov. Cuomo has signed legislation to expand the list of names on the Fallen Firefighter Memorial beyond those volunteers and professionals who died as a direct result of line-of-duty injuries....
Stone tools focus picture of ancient Americans
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Stone tools and human DNA from ancient caves in Oregon offer new evidence of how some of the first Americans spread through the continent: Quite apart...
Yahoo's interim CEO faces off with shareholders at annual meeting
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo's interim CEO has faced skeptical questioning from frustrated shareholders as he tries to convince them that the embattled Internet company will rebound from years of financial...
Kristin Chenoweth out of hospital, recovering from injury on set of 'The Good Wife'
Actress Kristin Chenoweth is out of the hospital after being injured on the set of the CBS drama "The Good Wife." Her publicist, Jill Fritzo, said Thursday that Chenoweth was...
Nike taking Paterno's name off child care center at company headquarters
BEAVERTON, Ore. — The president of Nike Inc. says he has decided to change the name of the Joe Paterno Child Development Center, a child care facility at the company's...
Tarloff trial date still not set as defense could challenge medical ruling
There is still no satisfaction for the family of a psychiatrist slashed to death in her Upper East Side office more than four years ago. Three of the six surviving...
Biden tells NAACP Obama stands by his convictions
HOUSTON — Vice President Joe Biden rallied support for President Obama before the nation's largest civil rights organization on Thursday, declaring that Republican challenger Mitt Romney's election-year agenda would hurt...
B'klyn perv only gets 2 years behind bars after molesting boy for years
That's just twisted. Pedophile Andrew Goodman today proudly declared his undying love for the boy he molested for years, as a Brooklyn judge stuck to a sweetheart deal to lock...
JETS TOP 25: No. 10 Calvin Pace
As the Jets enter the quiet part of the summer between the spring program and training camp, I am going to examine the roster and give you my top 25...
Another border drug tunnel found
SAN DIEGO - US authorities say an incomplete tunnel designed to smuggle drugs into the United States has been found in Tijuana, Mexico. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lauren Mack...
Toshiba, LG and AU Optronics settle LCD price-fixing case
Three Asia-based companies have agreed to pay $571 million to settle claims by officials in eight states that they conspired to inflate prices for liquid crystal display screens used in...
Jewelers plead guilty to illegal ivory sales
Officials have confiscated $2 million in elephant ivory from a pair of Diamond District jewelers in what is being touted as one of the biggest seizure of illegal ivory in...
Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman had cuts on head minutes after altercation, new documents reveal
ORLANDO, Fla. — Police officers who responded minutes after the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin could not agree on whether George Zimmerman had a broken nose, but they all...
Qatari investors buy Valentino
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Qatari investors outlined plans Thursday to acquire the Italian fashion house Valentino, adding to the Gulf state's growing stable of premium brands. Valentino is famous...
Liberty’s Malone predicts success with Sirius takeover
Billionaire John Malone refused to play nice at “summer camp” for media moguls, throwing a few darts the way of Sirius XM chief Mel Karmazin. Malone continued his tug of...
Cosmos to join NASL
The New York Cosmos have joined the NASL and will start league play in the 2013 season. The NASL Board of Governors unanimously approved the Cosmos’ membership during its meetings...
Millen defends former Penn State coach Paterno
ESPN analyst Matt Millen defended Penn State coach Joe Paterno on Thursday morning, just minutes after a released report determined that Paterno and other school administrators “concealed critical facts” from...
Jordan 'laughed' at Kobe saying current squad better than Dream Team
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Michael Jordan said there’s no way Kobe Bryant and this year’s USA Olympic basketball team could’ve beaten the 1992 Dream Team. Jordan told The Associated Press Thursday...
Jacobs says leaving Giants was all about the money
Brandon Jacobs has spent plenty of time this summer with his former Giants teammates and Wednesday night was no exception, as he attended the ESPYs in Los Angeles. If the...
Steve Jobs' wife buys Sun Valley home
Although late Apple visionary Steve Jobs was never a fixture at the mogul retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho, it appears that his wife has taken a real shine to the...
NYC taxi commission approves 17% fare hike
The Taxi and Limousine Commission voted to approve 17 percent fare hikes for millions of riders. Six members of the commission voted for the fare hike plan. Two voted against...
Prokhorov 'thrilled' with Nets' offseason moves
After the Nets officially put together virtually an entire new roster Wednesday, owner Mikhail Prokhorov issued a statement Thursday morning praising his management team of general manager Billy King, assistant...
Jury awards $9M in NY car collision case
A jury has awarded a New York woman $9 million for injuries she suffered in a 2004 car collision in Westchester County. Cristina Grossman will ultimately receive only $1.1 million...
Summer League Preview Game 4: Nets vs. Thunder
ORLANDO – Now that the Nets are 0-3 this week in summer league, they’ll look to get their first win today against the Thunder at 1 p.m. on NBA TV.Here...
NY motorcyclist dies after ejection over cliff
HIGHLANDS, NY — Police say a 35-year-old woman was killed when she lost control of her motorcycle, hit a guardrail and was ejected over a 90-foot cliff in the Hudson...
This week's calendar, July 12 to 18
Friday, July 13 to Sunday, July 15 Bridgehampton Antiques & Design Fair The Bridgehampton Antiques & Design Fair will present 25 dealers offering a selection of antiques, including mid-century modern,...
WATCH: 'Name Check' with Rocsi Diaz
TV host and Eddie Murphy's rumored sweetheart, Rocsi Diaz, stops by The Post to chat with Michael Riedel and Page Six reporter Stephanie Smith for the first edition of Name...
Long Island's Weidman should get next UFC middleweight title shot after destroying Munoz
Five years ago, Matt Serra earned a UFC welterweight title shot against Georges St-Pierre, one of the greatest champions ever, and stunned him with a first-round TKO. Serra, a Long...
Obama, Romney campaigns accuse each other of lies
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney's campaigns traded accusations of lying Thursday, ratcheting up an already heated race for the White House. The Romney camp's charge...
Main players in Penn State scandal
The main players in the Penn State scandal: JERRY SANDUSKY Role: Former assistant football coach and founder of The Second Mile charity for children, convicted of molesting boys over a...
Coast Guard frees tangled sea turtle in NY
A Coast Guard crew conducting training exercises near Montauk Harbor on Long Island has rescued a 5-foot sea turtle that was tangled in a buoy line. The sea turtle was...
Queens man arrested for 'trying to kidnap' former girlfriend at Long Island mall
A New York City man has been arrested for allegedly kicking, choking and threatening to kill his former girlfriend at a Long Island mall. Nassau County police charged Franklyn Brown...
WATCH: Warren Buffett remains confident in Jamie Dimon
OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Thursday that U.S. economic growth has slowed in the last two months as fears about Europe's debt woes mounted. Buffett's comments during...
Number of people seeking unemployment benefits fall to lowest level in four years
WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking unemployment benefits plunged last week to the lowest level in four years, a hopeful sign for the struggling job market. But the decline...
Pope's butler to remain in custody, probe to end soon
Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict's butler who was arrested on May 23 on charges of leaking sensitive documents, will remain in custody for the time being, at least until the conclusion...
Mladic hospitalized after feeling unwell at genocide trial
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic was hospitalized Thursday after complaining of feeling unwell at his genocide trial. Mladic was checked by a nurse at...
Bin Laden's 'cook' released from Guantanamo
The United States has sent a Sudanese man, accused of guarding Osama bin Laden and helping him escape US forces, back to Sudan after being held at Guantanamo Bay prison...
Afghan president calls on Taliban to drop weapons
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's president called on the Taliban Thursday to relinquish their weapons, saying that the group and its leader should join the political process. The call by Hamid...
Yahoo confirms theft of 450,000 users' passwords
LONDON — Some 450,000 Yahoo users' email addresses and passwords have been leaked because of a security breach, the company confirmed Thursday, adding that just a small fraction of the...
NJ Transit buses slowly getting back on schedule after disabled tractor-trailer in Lincoln Tunnel snarled traffic
NJ Transit buses headed to and from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City are slowly getting back on schedule. They were running up to an hour late...
Palestinian officials hesitant on Arafat autopsy
RAMALLAH, West Bank — In an apparent flip-flop, Palestinian investigators looking into Yasser Arafat's death said Thursday they want to review reports from a Swiss lab before deciding whether to...
NYPD looking for man wanted for raping woman in Bronx
Police are hunting a sicko who raped, beat and bound a tourist in her Bronx hotel room, cops said today. The 33-year-old victim, a woman from the South, asked the...
Eminent domain for mortgages is eminently stupid
Some bad ideas have come out of California, but the notion of using eminent domain to seize mortgages from private investors is one of the worst. The cities of Fonatana and...
Saudis to send two women to London Games: sources
LONDON — Olympic officials tell The Associated Press that Saudi Arabia will send female athletes to the games for the first time at the London Olympics. Two officials with knowledge...
Another major Syrian defection
Last week it was a high ranking military officer close to dictator Bashar Assad, today it is the Syrian ambassador to Iraq who has declared that he is defecting to...
St. John’s announces easier schedule
Steve Lavin’s challenge last year was trying to keep the confidence level of one of the youngest rosters in college basketball from tanking. This year, the challenge will be to...
Nova says Yankees 'can do more' in second half
How was the Yankees first-half of the season, in which they finished with the best record in baseball? “It was good, but we can do more,” starter Ivan Nova said....
Close call in Sydney reveals cracks in U.S. foundation
It is easy to pinpoint the precise moment when the notion of the Dream Team was irrevocably and irretrievably altered, for good, forever. It was 10:17 p.m., Australian time, on...
Report: Penn St. officials concealed abuse
PHILADELPHIA — Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials hushed up child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago for fear of bad publicity, allowing...
Nets walk away from Howard trade, re-sign Lopez
The Nets’ abysmally long Dwightmare is over. The Nets finally said enough is enough yesterday and ended their pursuit of Dwight Howard, that legend says began during the first Ice...
Shengelia again impresses for Nets
Here are some thoughts from the Nets’ 79-71 loss to the 76ers Wednesday afternoon, dropping Brooklyn to 0-3 in this year’s Orlando Summer League play:- Since practice for summer league...
Pursuit of Dwight proves Nets a new franchise
So Dwight Howard remains in Orlando — for now — and the Nets are planning on playing in their sparkling super arena without Superman — for now — and the...
SADIE SAYS: Naz guard Edwards begins summer with EP Elite
Nazareth star Sadie Edwards will chronicle her travels with the brand new Epiphanny Prince Elite AAU team over the month of July exclusively on NYPost.com. One of the most highly...
Lin, Tebow clown around in photo with Jessica Biel following ESPY wins
LOS ANGELES — New York sports stars Jeremy Lin and Tim Tebow were among the winners of Wednesday's ESPY Awards. The duo even posed in comical photos with actress Jessica...
Well-traveled former St. John's recruit Thomas matured, looking for new home
READNG, Pa. – Jevon Thomas walks under the hoop, inbounds the ball and playfully shoulder-bumps Wings Academy coach Billy Turnage. He does the same to another familiar face, smiling at...
WATCH: R.A. Dickey teaches Letterman how to throw a knuckleball
The storybook season continues for R.A. Dickey. The Mets pitcher appeared on “Late Show with David Letterman” Wednesday to discuss his late-career success – and teach the host how to...
Decision to attend Hoop Group pays off for Wings' Brown with FDU offer
READING, Pa. – Jaequan Brown was planning use this week to rest and get ready for the AAU Nationals and Super Showcase in Orlando, Fla. Instead, he found himself in...
Former Lincoln star Dickerson works way to SMU commitment
READING, Pa. – Jordan Dickerson’s decision to leave home three years ago paid off Wednesday afternoon. The former Lincoln standout, who went from Alexandria, Va. to Coney Island, verbally committed...
Hoop Group Elite Camp notebook: Jefferson's Lynch taking time with recruitment
READING, Pa. – Don’t look for an early commitment out of Thomas Jefferson guard Jaquan (Son Son) Lynch. The 6-foot combo guard, known for his toughness and clutch shot-making, has...
Business briefs
Audit ageThe SEC adopted a rule aimed at bolstering surveillance of equities markets by establishing a central database that stores every trade order.Thin Penney S&P downgraded JCPenney to B+ from...
20M viewers - 26 channels = DirecTV now
Don’t expect to see SpongeBob back on DirecTV anytime soon. Despite resuming talks to restore Nickelodeon and other Viacom-owned channels to DirecTV’s 20 million satellite-TV customers, the chiefs of both...
Broker’s fraud case tied to reporting system
Regulators were closing in on Russ Wasendorf. The 64-year-old founder of the Peregrine Financial Group brokerage, who was allegedly doctoring his financial statements to paper over a cash shortage in...
Libor scandal grows: It wasn’t just Brits
The Brits — such amateurs at rigging the financial market. Just wait until the world finds out what the Americans were doing! If you’ve been following the news out of...
JPMorgan bags analysts award
She’s Jamie Dimon’s better half in the rough-and-tumble world of picking stocks. Noelle Grainger, who heads JPMorgan Chase’s superstar team of analysts, will be crowned Wall Street’s best analyst today,...
The rebound guy
JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon is hoping to rebound from an embarrassing and costly trading blunder when the bank kicks off Wall Street’s second-quarter earnings season tomorrow. The bank is expected...
Diller of an Aereo decision
Aereo, the online television service backed by media mogul Barry Diller, won’t be shut down while US television networks pursue a copyright lawsuit against the company, a federal judge ruled....
McGraw-Hill plans spin-off/sale
McGraw-Hill, which is expected to split off its education business into a separately traded company, is also quietly exploring a sale of the division, The Post has learned. In the...
Apple is no Frisco treat
San Francisco’s 50 departments and 28,000 employees will no longer be able to use city funds to buy Apple desktops, laptops or monitors because the company dropped out of a...
Cook’s (TV) tour
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook wasted no time getting down to business in his first appearance here at Allen and Co.’s annual gathering of media movers and shakers. With Apple...
A new low for Groupon
Groupon shares hit a record low yesterday on concerns about economic weakness in Europe, where the leading online daily deals company gets about one-quarter of its revenue, analysts said.Groupon dropped...
Death of a legend
The New York retail scene has lost a luminary like no other. Marvin S. Traub — the legendary merchant whose wild ambition and theatrical flair transformed Bloomingdale’s into an international...
BofA execs dodge a bullet
Bank of America won a federal court ruling dismissing claims against former Chief Executive Officer Ken Lewis and others in a securities-fraud lawsuit over the bank’s use of an electronic...
Love letters
New Yorkers who know their ABCs know to keep away from the D’s. Naturally, we’re talking about Alphabet City. Those two words have an uncanny ability to summon up sordid...
Just sold!
Manhattan FIDI $1,450,000 15 Broad St. Two-bedroom, two-bath condo, 2,025 square feet, with walk-in closet and washer/dryer; building features doorman, swimming pool, indoor basketball and squash courts, bowling alley, yoga/ballet...
Wright’s out
Mets slugger David Wright’s former “ultimate bachelor pad” wasn’t sold to a bachelor. The buyer of the 4,100-square-foot penthouse condo at the Infinity Flats building, at 24 E. 21st St.,...
Noises off!
Your home is your haven. No matter where you live, the goal is to keep the clamor and chaos of the outside world far removed — out of sight and...
Billionaire Leon Black’s ‘Scream’ something to shout about
Even at a price that would make most millionaires scream, he could afford it. New York billionaire Leon Black shelled out almost $120 million for Edvard Munch’s masterpiece, “The Scream,”...
WATCH: Mitt booed by NAACP during O critique
WASHINGTON — Republican Mitt Romney yesterday marched in front of the NAACP convention and took it on the chin when he was booed for daring to challenge President Obama’s policies....
Prez-race ‘wed gap’
WASHINGTON — Maybe President Obama should be playing more Beyoncé at his rallies: His strongest support comes from the “single ladies.” A huge marriage gap is showing up in the...
House nixes health law
WASHINGTON — A divided House voted yesterday to repeal President Obama’s health- care law in a move that Republicans acknowledged was more symbolic than attainable.Two weeks after the US Supreme...
DA fires warning shot at gun goons
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has taken more than 400 guns off the street, with another 100 being turned in via buy-back events, DA Cyrus Vance Jr. announced yesterday, touting...
Bully jailed for ’Net threats
He threatened them online — but five brave women faced down an admitted cyberbully in court yesterday and got him tossed in jail. A Manhattan federal judge said the “highly...
Att’y for thug accused in shooting 3-year-old sneers at tot's wound
He’s all heart. The lawyer for a thug accused in the shooting of a 3-year-old Brooklyn boy said yesterday that the kid’s bullet wound to the leg isn’t exactly the...
NYPD Commissioner Kelly counters pol's criticism, discusses city violence
Been there, done that! Police Commissioner Ray Kelly — declaring that he “walked a lot of streets’’ as a cop — yesterday declined a snarky invitation from state Sen. Eric...
Cops tracking cellphone calls of hit-and-run driver who killed Long Island nun
The hit-and-run driver who fatally struck a popular nun in the Hamptons made a cellphone call shortly after the incident — and now police are using the digital information to...
$50 mil from Mike
Mayor Bloomberg has made another major commitment to family planning with a $50 million contribution from his foundation to help poor women around the globe gain access to contraceptive information...
Father of Connecticut Christmas fire children sues ex-wife’s contractor-boyfriend
The dad of three girls who died in the tragic Christmas Day fire in Connecticut has slapped their mom’s contractor-boyfriend with a lawsuit over the fatal blaze. The suit by...
Pol’s crooked pal on campaign team
Republican campaign operative John Haggerty, who was convicted of swiping $750,000 from Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign in 2009 and faces prison time, is working as a volunteer in what is shaping...
Chinatown death clue
The two Chinatown women executed two weeks ago may have ripped off nearly $100,000 from Chinese thugs, law-enforcement sources believe. Xiao L. Li, 70, and Yong Hua Chen, 36, were...
Ingrate cashes out
Some thanks! Denise Rich is a songwriter, socialite and philanthropist with a wicked spending problem — provided the money she squanders goes solely to tax-and-spend liberals. But Rich and I...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan Three teen hoods, one carrying a gun, assaulted two young women during a home-invasion robbery in Harlem, police said. The robbers (pictured) burst into a residence on St. Nicholas...
‘Secret cell’ calls for help
A determined Katie Holmes plotted her escape from domineering hubby Tom Cruise like a “Mission: Impossible” operation — using a pal’s disposable cellphone to talk to lawyers in three states...
Denny’s? Spaghett abouddit!
In a slap that could make Park Slope foodies gag on their locally sourced greens, execs at national diner chain Denny’s have decided the quintessential Brooklyn meal is spaghetti and...
Kristin Chenoweth KO’d on B’klyn set
Pint-sized actress Kristin Chenoweth was knocked out by a piece of falling scaffolding on the Williamsburg set of “The Good Wife” yesterday and suffered a seizure after the terrifying accident,...
Machines hamper 2013 vote
They’re going down for the count.The city’s Board of Elections has notified Albany it won’t be able to conduct next year’s mayoral ballot under the current schedule because it takes...
Traffic madness for GWB drivers
New Jersey drivers should get ready to slam on the brakes. A massive three-month construction project on the Alexander Hamilton Bridge — the main thoroughfare for eastbound drivers coming over...
Rail at us, MTA asks riders
Frustrated subway and bus riders can win a free MetroCard for giving the MTA’s brass a piece of their mind. It’s part of a new agency plan to launch an...
GCT-area overhaul plan
The controversial closure of Vanderbilt Avenue for a pedestrian plaza is just one part of a proposed East Side redevelopment project that also includes Grand Central Station subway improvements and...
Cyclists targeted in Central Park tack attack
Somebody hates Central Park cyclists so much that they are waging war on them with the ultimate weapon — thumbtacks! A mysterious pedal protester caused a tire massacre last week...
Hilaria & Alec in a whirl
Hothead Alec Baldwin cooled off at his wedding reception — where he breezed across the dance floor with his bride, Hilaria. Taking the floor for their first dance as husband...
‘Bird’ man suing city
Now he’s flipping mad.An aspiring lawyer who got busted for giving three cops the finger behind their backs filed suit against the city yesterday.Robert Bell says his middle-digit salute was...
Car hits wall in The Bronx, killing driver
An out-of-control car crashed completely through the brick wall of a Bronx building today — killing the 49-year-old driver and badly injuring his 30-year-old female passenger, cops said. “It sounded...
Manhattan rent prices rising -- with smaller apts. seeing the biggest hikes
Manhattan rents are soaring to their highest levels in two years, and it’s the smaller apartments that are in demand — and seeing the biggest hikes. The average rent in...
Cold-case slay DNA match the result of lab contamination: sources
Lab contamination may have led to the DNA match between evidence from the 2004 murder of Juilliard student Sarah Fox and a chain abandoned at an Occupy Wall Street protest...
Memorial gag order on pols
ALBANY — No mute button needed. Politicians won’t get to speak at this year’s 9/11 memorial, the foundation led by Mayor Bloomberg has decided. It will be the first time...
DUMBO’s plaza grows
A loved-by-locals pedestrian plaza in Brooklyn’s DUMBO that connects with the reopened Manhattan Bridge archway is about to become much bigger. The city and the DUMBO Business Improvement District will...
Sister of missing Queens woman fears murder -- but cops aren't convinced
The terrified sister of a 26-year-old Queens woman who vanished Sunday believes her deeply religious sibling was murdered — but cops are not convinced. Gurpreet Kaur, 23, received a bizarre...
9/11 top television moment
The 9/11 terror attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the O.J. Simpson verdict were television’s most memorable moments of the last 50 years, a poll of US television viewers reveals. The Challenger...
Ed. overhaul put on hold
When 24 low-performing schools open this fall, they’ll be staffed with the same teachers and principals, city officials said yesterday.The Bloomberg administration still plans to close the schools and reopen...
GCT project ‘hush-hush’
Metro-North has begun painstaking renovations to the arched 100-year-old “whispering gallery” next to the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal’s lower level.The railroad plans to preserve the gallery’s acoustics, which...
Divers pull capsized death yacht out of LI Sound
After a week beneath the murky Long Island Sound, a capsized cabin cruiser was brought to the surface yesterday — hopefully along with clues about why it sank and killed...
Jurors smelled a ‘rat’
If it looks like a rat and smells like a rat . . . For the second time in as many months, a Colombo wiseguy was cleared of Mafia murder...
It’s a culture of cheating
News of widespread, cellphone-aided cheating on Regents exams broke as my Stuyvesant HS classmates and I were graduating — a reminder of something we’d sooner forget: endemic cheating at our...
Diplomacy with a ‘Kick me’ sign
Kofi Annan, that veteran poster boy for kumbaya one-world-ism, asked the UN Security Council yesterday to extend the mandate of his ever-expanding Syria mission. His ideas on solving the Mideast’s...
Mike’s Small-Time Idea: Closeting NYC’s Tenants
The Issue: Mayor Bloomberg’s push to have developers build 300-square-foot ‘micro’ housing units. *** The city doesn’t just need more available housing, it needs truly affordable housing (“The Living Is...
Life preserver or economy killer?
The Issue: The escalating enrollment and costs to sustain the nation’s food-stamp program. *** The federal government has a ruinous influence whenever it ventures outside the limits set for it...
Romney and the NAACP
It’s no secret that blacks vote heavily for Democrats, especially in presidential races. But that isn’t stopping Mitt Romney from asking for their support anyway. At the NAACP’s annual confab...
Speaking truth to nonsense
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly touched a nerve when he said community leaders in predominantly minority neighborhoods are “shockingly silent” about violent crime. As opposed to their hypocritically shrill criticism of...
To do better for blacks
Excerpted from Mitt Romney’s speech yesterday at the NAACP convention. If equal opportunity in America were an accomplished fact, then a chronically bad economy would be equally bad for everyone....
What did Tim know?
The latest development in the Libor-manipulation scandal is that the banks weren’t really fixing the price of the key interest rate in total secret — US regulators were aware of...
Junior’s still a crooner
When he was first trying to make it on his own, Frank Sinatra Jr. wanted to do it his way. Not about to follow in the footsteps of his father...
Far out dance belongs in another dimension
On a sultry summer evening, seeing Trisha Brown’s “Astral Converted” is as refreshing as escaping into a dark, cool aquarium. But refreshing doesn’t always equal exciting. Revived on Tuesday night...
U.S. Hockey honors Devils GM Lamoriello
Devils GM Lou Lamoriello was chosen for the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame yesterday along with 1994 Ranger Cup-winner Ed Olczyk and Stars center Mike Modano. They will be inducted...
Meadowlands Graded Entries
Post Time: 7:00 p.m.Best Bet: Odds On Jan (5th)FIRST: mile trot; $18,000; N.J.S.S.6 Timo Deo(TSmedshammer)2-1-X2-15 Muscle Mountain(JTakter)1-1-49-51 Super Classic(DAckerman)3-3-47-22 The Franchise(RPierce)6-5-X10-13 Chocolate Delight(HLandy)2-4-312-14 Marion Mayday(TTetrick)4-6-38-1SECOND: mile trot; $11,000; cond2 Sassy...
Veterinary surgeon: No unusual treatments for I'll Have Another
I’ll Have Another, scratched from his Triple Crown attempt and retired on the eve of this year’s Belmont Stakes when an ultrasound revealed chronic tendinitis in his left foreleg, did...
Tomorrow’s Belmont Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-1 1/16m(T); $64,000; alw opt clm; 3up PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 Alltiffedoff(L),121M Luzzi6-7-9LO'Brien30-12 TyphoonTycon(L),121SHusbnds8-3-5Fisher30-13 Ampersand(L),119A Garcia2-1-4Violette2-14 HeartheFotstps(L),121RNaprvnk11-3-4Rice8-15 Good Prospect(L),121CVelasquz2-1-4Rice3-16 Modern Child(L),121JCastellan5-1-2JImperio12-17 Mia Poppy(L),119J Alvarado1-1-2Schettino6-18...
Delaware Charts
July 11th, 2012 Clear And Fast. Turf Firm. ©2012 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-6f; $12,500; cl($10,000); 3up; (f&m)Off: 1:16. Good. bid into str,shook clrTime: 22.5, 46.37, 59.65, 1:12.97.Trainer: Juan VazquezWinner: B...
Sports Shorts
NBA: Mavericks trade for Collison The Mavericks and Pacers agreed to a trade that would send point guard Darren Collison and guard Dahntay Jones to the Mavericks in exchange for...
Today's Sports on the Air
Baseball7 p.m.Cyclones at Connecticut WSOU (89.5 FM)Basketball7 p.m.WNBA: Los Angeles at Indiana ESPN2Cycling7 a.m.Tour de France: Stage 11 NBCSNGolf9:30 a.m.European: Scottish Open, first open GOLF3 p.m.U.S. Senior Open, first round...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYJuly 12FRIJuly 13SATJuly 14SUNJuly 15MONJuly 16TUEJuly 17WEDJuly 18YankeesNO GAMEL.A.A.7:05WWORWCBSL.A.A.1:05YESWCBSL.A.A.1:05YESWCBSTor.7:05YESWCBSTor.7:05WWORWCBSTor.1:05YESWCBSMetsNO GAMEAtl.7:35SNYWFANAtl.4:05FOXWFANAtl.1:35SNYWFANNO GAMEWash.7:05SNYWFANWash.7:05SNYWFANLibertyNO GAMEWash.11amNo TVNO GAMENO GAMENO GAMENO GAMENO GAMERed BullsNO GAMENO GAMENO GAMESea.4:00ESPNNO GAMENO GAMEChi.1:00MSG+WLIBS.I. YankeesState College7:05No TVSt. Coll.7:05No TVLow.7:05No TVLow.5:05No...
Hondo has Bill to pay
Appealing Cat turned in a brutally ugly performance yesterday in the eighth at Delaware Park, which caused Hondo’s accounts payable to grow to 1,435 abbatiellos. Tonight, Mr. Aitch will eschew...
Sanchez sets up tight security at Jets West
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. — Mark Sanchez wasn’t kidding about keeping Jets West under wraps. Sanchez’s annual West Coast confab with his Gang Green offensive skill mates here this week feels...
Keller: Sanchez’s passing camp just what Jets needed
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. — The first rule of Jets West this year apparently is don’t talk about Jets West. Despite Mark Sanchez’s strong desire to keep his annual voluntary West...
Stackhouse thinks he'll be outside threat, leader for Nets
ORLANDO, Fla. — Two years ago, Jerry Stackhouse would never have considered joining the Nets. But after seeing the moves they have made since free agency began on July 1...
Gardner’s injury blessing in disguise for Yankees
Bobby Valentine started Mauro Gomez and Daniel Nava in each of the four games against the Yankees to close the first half, and Pedro Ciriaco in the final three. Ciriaco...
Yankees prospect assigned to South Carolina after tweeting he'd never play there
Either the folks who run the Yankees’ minor league department don’t subscribe to Twitter or they have a wickedly ironic sense of humor. Either way, Rob Refsnyder, the organization’s fifth-round...
Mets' Gee opts for surgery, likely done for season
Dillon Gee will undergo potentially season-ending surgery tomorrow to help make sure he doesn’t suffer another arterial clot in his right shoulder, according to a source with knowledge of the...
Woodson: Knicks will match Lin’s offer, and he’ll open training camp as starter
LAS VEGAS — Not only are the Knicks matching Jeremy Lin’s offer sheet, but they are starting him next season, too. Coach Mike Woodson boldly stated Wednesday night Lin begins...
Knicks sign veteran PG Prigioni
Jeremy Lin has another veteran point-guard mentor — Spanish-style. The 35-year-old Spanish League veteran Pablo Prigioni has signed with the Knicks for a one-year, $473,000 minimum contract, his agent George...
Howard's end new beginning for Nets' Lopez
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Nets acquired their opening night center Wednesday. It just wasn’t Dwight Howard. After months of speculation surrounding Brook Lopez’s future, the 7-foot center signed a four-year,...
Knicks coach loves Kidd, Camby additions
LAS VEGAS — Mike Woodson says the older the better. The Knicks have added a lot of pieces — and years — during July’s free agency, drawing some criticism about...
Drama mama
Your weekly guide to TV’s best and worst one-hour shows Beginnings and endings are evenly matched in the coming week: “Inside Men” (Wednesday, 10 p.m., BBC America) Mama is convinced...
CBS talked of paying CNN for news: ex-exec
During the Katie Couric years, CBS “discussed” the idea of outsourcing the evening news to CNN to save money, according to the former No. 2 man at CBS News. “It...
Ray Charles grandkid on ‘X’
Rock ’n’ roll royalty auditioned for “The X Factor” this week. The grandson of Ray Charles sang for Simon Cowell, L.A. Reid, Britney Spears and Demi Lovato at Greensboro, NC,...
Rare ‘Blood’ hype
The No. 1 show in New York these days is not available on traditional TV, and is blushingly inappropriate for kids. “True Blood,” the sexy HBO series about vampires living...
Walt vs. Germans
Consistently great “Breaking Bad,” is going off for good. Sort of. Let’s just call it a long goodbye. Sunday night starts the beginning of the end of the series. This...
Weird but true
A sorry thief accused of ripping off a $1.89 candy bar apologized to cops — for not giving them something more interesting to do. The 47-year-old master criminal, who allegedly...
Fordham changes focus of AD search
Fordham’s search for a new athletic director might have taken a new direction. The university, according to two people familiar with the search committee’s thinking, is focused on finding a...
Gee opts for surgery, likely done for season
Dillon Gee will undergo potentially season-ending surgery tomorrow to help make sure he doesn’t suffer another arterial clot in his right shoulder, according to a source with knowledge of the...
The hot sex text
Fifteen-year-old Jessie loves Zumba, biology and classic Disney movies such as “Beauty and the Beast” — but lately, her favorite activity has been reading. While she spent her school year...
US banks $6M in online poker deal
They're cashing out. A Texas firm that moved money tied to illegal online gambling agreed yesterday to forfeit more than $6 million in tainted cash to the feds. LST Financial...
Dad who lost 3 girls in Conn. fire suing their mom's boyfriend over blaze
The dad of three girls who died in a tragic Christmas Day fire in Stamford, Conn., has slapped their mom’s contractor-boyfriend with a lawsuit over the fatal blaze. Attorneys for...
Sister of missing Queens woman fears sibling murdered
The terrified sister of a 26-year-old Queens woman who went missing Sunday believes her deeply religious sibling has been murdered. Gurpreet Kaur, 23, received a message from Rajwinder’s cell phone...