January 5, 2014
Slain slumlord’s business partner fears he’s next
A business partner of slain slumlord Menachem “Max” Stark is terrified that whoever left his pal’s body smoldering in a gas-station dumpster will now come after him. Israel “Sam” Perlmutter...
16-year-old Brooklyn teen killed leaving party
The grieving mother of a slain Brooklyn teenager stood on the spot where her son was fatally wounded hours earlier and vowed on Sunday to visit the bloody crime scene...
Apple quiet as rivals peel off iTunes share
Where’s Apple? That’s what big music label executives are wondering as a slew of newcomers set up all-you-can-eat digital music stores in anticipation of streaming riches. Last week, Billboard reported...
49ers boot Green Bay on last-second field goal
GREEN BAY, Wis. — The weather didn’t live up to the hype, but the game exceeded it. The 49ers and Packers went at each other like heavyweight champions on a...
Media empresses swear off technology for the holidays
Overdoing it during the holidays is easy: There’s food galore, drinks you adore and parties that leave you sore. But three media power players vowed not to go overboard in...
Top magazines that are fit to face 2014
It would be nice if it were this easy. Men: Lose Your Gut in Five Days; Get Back in Shape in Two Weeks. Women: Drop Pounds in Days; Let’s Go...
Anthony, Shumpert lift Knicks over Mavs in road finale
DALLAS — The Knicks came to Texas a train wreck. They will leave the Lone Star State bagging their season’s two biggest wins and return home with one newly resuscitated player...
Red-hot Chargers are the last thing Manning wants to see
CINCINNATI — This is the last thing Peyton Manning and the Broncos wanted: The Chargers. Again. But that’s what the AFC’s No. 1 seed — fresh (or stale?) off a...
Former Yankee infielder, broadcaster Coleman dies
Jerry Coleman, who played for four World Series winning teams with the Yankees, died Sunday at age 89, the Padres announced. A former infielder and colorful broadcaster, Coleman spent 41...
Beats sets a Super Bowl push to nail Spotify
Jimmy Iovine’s Beats Music is about to make some noise. The digital subscription music service is unleashing a huge marketing campaign aimed at squashing Spotify, the subscription music-streaming leader, according...
BCS title game matchups
FSU run offense vs. Auburn run defense Jameis Winston gets all the attention, but the team’s rushing attack was just as dangerous, ranking ninth in the nation in yards per...
Chocolate combo offers religious experience
In keeping with the new tradition of dessert royalty partnering with chocolate companies — à la cronut creator Dominique Ansel’s partnership with Neuhaus, the Belgian chocolatier, as Side Dish first...
Dalton loses his stripes
CINCINNATI — Andy Dalton better prepare for months of questions about his future. The Bengals quarterback had three second-half turnovers and played terribly Sunday in the team’s 27-10 AFC wild-card...
Saints vow better show in Seahawks rematch
PHILADELPHIA — What awaits the Saints is going to be so challenging, their star tight end, Jimmy Graham, is making up words to make his point. “They obviously gave it...
Post's report on slain slumlord draws harsh criticism
Some Brooklyn politicians and Hasidic leaders demanded an apology Sunday from The Post after the paper wrote about the shady business dealings of a murdered Williamsburg slumlord. The Post particularly...
Go to Greg: The business of snow days
Half of my staff didn’t show up to work on Friday due to the snow. I can understand it for those who had to travel from outside of the city,...
The hunger of 'activism'
"Twice the Activism = Double the Power”: That’s the message in a push for matching-gift donations to the National Council of Jewish Women, an outfit that most of us used...
US politics 2014 -- by the numbers
Two years from today, Iowa will be enjoying its quadrennial moment as the epicenter of the universe. And in 10 months, voters will vent their spleens in congressional elections. Some...
Chargers shock Bengals thanks to dominant defense
CINCINNATI — The hottest team in the AFC is … the Chargers? That’s right. The sixth-seeded Chargers continued their hot streak Sunday by knocking off the Bengals 27-10 in an...
Susan Rice's Sudan disaster
The world’s newest country, South Sudan, is trapped in a bloody civil war as rival political factions fight for control of the country’s oil reserves — the third biggest in sub-Saharan...
Mayor vs. the world
Mayor de Blasio wants to end inequality. But what does that mean? In fact, at the heart of his target are two separate things, neither of which is inequality. The...
Bill de Blasio & an anti-charter lawsuit
Even before Mayor de Blasio took office Wednesday, he was being yanked to his left on a key issue: charter schools. And he had a wise response: Not so fast....
Despite game-winner, Johnson mired in troublesome slump
As good as Joe Johnson’s game-winning shot was Thursday, his slump since Christmas has been even worse. His scoring is down, his shooting has been off, and the Nets star...
Chargers' Butler is unsung hero in wild-card win
HERO: Chargers defensive coordinator John Pagano gets the game ball. His game plan was perfect and it slowed down the Bengals' high-flying offense. Pagano sent blitzes that confused the Bengals...
Luck's legend grows in Indianapolis
Matt Hasselbeck knows great quarterbacks. He was a pretty good one himself, having started for most of his 15 NFL seasons, winning 80 and losing 72. He has strong quarterback...
Bronx mom stabbed to death in front of children
A Bronx mom was stabbed to death by her boyfriend as her two daughters looked on, authorities and family members said Sunday. Willy Canturencia, 28, was so ruthless that after...
Debate over jobless benefits rages on in Washington
WASHINGTON – President Obama’s top economic advisor Sunday touted the improved economy even as he called for an extension of jobless benefits. “It is true the economy is improving and...
Sheldon Silver wants to accelerate minimum wage raise
So now it’s the minimum wage. Within the last few weeks, Democratic leaders at both the federal and state levels have announced that raising the minimum wage will be their...
US is the greatest threat to world peace: poll
The United States is the greatest threat to world peace. That’s the finding of an end-of-the- year, WIN/Gallup International survey of people in 65 countries. Of the 66,000 people polled,...
Dogs align with Earth's magnetic field when pooping: study
It’s the axis of beagle! Dogs are so attuned to the Earth’s magnetic field that they line up with it to relieve themselves, a new study found. Dogs of all...
Legendary Benfica striker Eusebio dies at 71
Legendary Portugal striker Eusebio died Sunday at the age of 71. He’d been hospitalized several times in the last year with heart and respiratory issues, before finally passing away from...
1 killed, 2 injured in Aspen plane crash
A fiery plane crash at the Aspen airport Sunday afternoon killed one person and injured two others, one severely, Colorado authorities said. The three were the only ones aboard the...
Carmelo shoots down ‘stupid’ L.A. trade rumors
DALLAS — Carmelo Anthony hopes for the best for his buddy, point guard Chris Paul, and his injured shoulder, but doesn’t expect to be by his side this season, calling...
Schumer backs away from de Blasio's high tax crusade
WASHINGTON – Sen. Charles Schumer said Sunday that he won’t back Mayor de Blasio’s crusade to slap higher taxes on wealthy New Yorkers. Schumer, a leader of the Democrats’ push to...
Fake Facebook, Twitter and YouTube clicks are big business
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Celebrities, businesses and even the US State Department have bought bogus Facebook likes, Twitter followers or YouTube viewers from offshore "click farms," where workers tap, tap,...
Punter tweets picture of naked Andrew Luck
This may be the first case of a punter roughing the passer. A fortuitously placed smartphone was all that stood between Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck and what would have...
Nets rewind: Andrei Kirilenko's big impact in limited minutes
Here are my three thoughts on the Nets’ 89-82 win over the Cavaliers Saturday night in Brooklyn: 1. While Andrei Kirilenko spent virtually the entire first two months of the...
Ready, set, snow fashion
Fashionably furry Fur pompom hat, $225 at glamourpussnyc.com Embellished fur stole, $1,495 at toryburch.com Faux-fur mittens, $36 at topshop.com Rock royalty Cotton-blend beanie, $50 at Kate Spade Saturday, 30 Gansevoort...
Fire rips through Manhattan high-rise killing 1
A blaze sparked by a faulty Christmas tree wire erupted in a luxury Manhattan high-rise Sunday, killing one man and sending terrified residents fleeing to their balconies to escape the...
Anyone can channel their inner matchmaker — and get paid for it
Want to make 2014 the year you get married? Or the year you make some extra cash? Or the year you finally put your stellar matchmaking skills to good use?...
My rock ’n’ roll New York: Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo
LEE RANALDO IN 1981, Sonic Youth unveiled themselves to New York audiences and began their journey to become one of the most important alt-rock bands of the last 30 years,...
Romney takes high road in row with MSNBC host
WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney took the high road Sunday and refused to fire back at MSNBC for mocking his family's adoption of a black child. Instead, the 2012 Republican presidential...
This week's couple: One night only
Dating for some is a sport in which the more you play, the better your chances at finding the one for you. So who can blame Allison, 24, for still...
Game-night gal seeks a guy who will roll the dice on romance
Abbe, 28 Says she hasn’t seen many films, so the Brooklyn-based magazine editor would appreciate a movie buff who can give her some direction. Play time: This self-described “chill party animal”...
Bad Samaritan carjacks Queens teen stuck in snow
A Queens teenager fell victim Saturday to a very bad Samaritan who hijacked his car — after first graciously helping to dig it out. Genero Placenia, 18, approached his snowed-in...
Three scenes in 'Star Wars' that could have happened
Sure, it may be unlikely that a 900-year-old Jedi master is doling out helpful advice in a galaxy far, far away but not all of “Star Wars” is so far-fetched....
Superintendent carjacked in West Village: 'I’ll deal with it in my own way'
The building super whose truck was carjacked at gunpoint in the West Village as he dug it out of the snow said Saturday that he’s getting over his ordeal. “I’m...
Delta Airlines plane skids off JFK runway
A plane skidded off an icy runway and into the snow at JFK Sunday, prompting a temporary closure of the entire airport, still reeling from days of weather-related cancellations. Thankfully,...
Gracie Mansion open to visitors with tickets Sunday
Mayor de Blasio will throw open the doors to Gracie Mansion on Sunday so thousands of “everyday” New Yorkers can take a gander at his family’s new digs. The event,...
Financial advisers admit: We need 'alternative' advisers
Folks looking to properly balance their portfolios should include alternative investments — but aren’t offered them by financial advisers, more than half of whom say such alternatives are too difficult...
Maria Bartiromo heading to Davos
Not even a non-compete clause can keep hard-working business journalist Maria Bartiromo from heading to the exclusive World Economic Forum this year. Bartiromo quit CNBC — after 20 years —...
Best selling print book of 2013 not in top 20 for e-book sales
The best-selling book in print last year (1.8 million copies, according to Nielsen Bookscan) was Jeff Kinney’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck.” But as the weekly trade journal...
NY restaurant consultant spreads business across USA
A New York hospitality recruitment and placement agency is reaping the benefits of new hotel construction and restaurants across the country. Steven Kamali, a New York-based restaurant consultant, launched The...
Fuzzy math may help WME
IMG’s fuzzy math was the subject of much debate over the past few months as the sale of the sports, fashion and media agency reached a climax. Now it looks...
Hot dog! Vendors back at Washington Sq. park
We have a wiener! Hot-dog vendors are returning to Washington Square Park — one month after The Post revealed a private conservancy’s efforts to give the “unsightly” sausage-slingers the boot....
Skirt-peep eye doc disciplined
This doctor has an eye for the ladies. Upper West Side ophthalmologist Dr. Daniel Goldberg was busted for aiming his cellphone up the skirt of a woman riding the escalator...
No mercy for Edward Snowden: Janet Napolitano
Edward Snowden can rot in Russia — at least as far as former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is concerned. In an interview to be broadcast Sunday on NBC’s “Meet...
Cold case Niners better suited for tundra than Pack
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Some forecasts for the NFC wild-card matchup Sunday afternoon are calling for a high of minus-5 degrees with a seemingly impossible wind-chill factor of as low...
ObamaCare's four biggest lies
President Obama’s famous vow — “If you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan. Period.” — isn’t the only broken promise of ObamaCare. Now...
Memory of pitcher turned 'Lone Survivor' pilot unites community
WASHINGTON, Conn. — As you drive down the long, winding driveway past Sue and Ray Reich’s immaculate stone home, built in 1938, you make your way to a small garage....
Do you really need a puppy camera? Not remotely
Canines everywhere, beware. Because Big Owner is watching you. Thanks to the new Motorola Pet Monitor and its accompanying app, now available exclusively at PetSmart, I can now spy on...
Dear John: Lessons on student loans
Dear John: I have another question about college-loan forgiveness. My daughter has about $15,000 in loans through Nelnet. She graduated from West Virginia University as an art teacher. She is...
Cook gets plate broken over head, then fired
This isn’t the way to get smashed on New Year’s Eve. A hot-headed cook at swanky Soho restaurant The Mercer Kitchen allegedly cracked a plate over a co-worker’s head while...
Daily blotter
The Bronx A thug walked into a Fleetwood cellphone store, punched a clerk in the face and snatched a phone, police said. The suspect (right) attacked the 22-year-old clerk at...
Iconic Village barbershop gets documentary movie focus
The newly sworn-in mayor comes for a coif and a touch of the mother tongue. Bruce Willis is a regular and likes to tip big. And Mayor de Blasio is...
Tech takes the stage in 2014
As regularly as the strains of “Auld Lang Syne” at midnight, the turn of the year rings in the latest and greatest in tech with the Consumer Electronics Show in...
Chef Paul Liebrandt's marvelously meatless dish
Vegetables: They’re not just a side dish anymore. And we’re not even talking about at strictly vegetarian joints. For proof, look no further than Dovetail on the Upper West Side,...
Brunch, Broadway & graffiti: Stories behind staples of NYC revealed
What’s the most New York thing about living in New York? The subway? Ridiculous rents? Suspicious street meat? There are so many aspects of life here that give the city...
The doc 'The Act of Killing' has to be seen to be believed
While interviewing subjects for his harrowing documentary “The Act of Killing,” director Josh Oppenheimer spoke with Anwar Congo, a death-squad leader during the 1965 Indonesian genocide in which more than...
2014 forecast: weather trumps news
In like a tired bad joke, out like a tired bad joke. In 2013, the biggest, recidivist local TV news story — easy to freshen, cheap to provide and just...
Don't miss: A preview of the week's top shows
Gibbs Gets Lucky When a stolen drone is linked to the elusive terrorist Parsa, the NCIS team partners with the Department of Defense, including Gibbs’ former girlfriend Hollis Mann (Susanna...
Our 5 TV New Year’s Resolutions
Time for Mama’s New Year’s Resolutions: 1. Stop watching “Sons of Anarchy.” Any interesting plot development is offset by the gratuitous burning of a young woman alive or the drowning...
Leggy Tricia Helfer hunts vengeful ‘Women’
Canadian supermodel Tricia Helfer first made waves as Number Six, a slinky Cylon on “Battlestar Galactica.” The lanky 39-year-old then popped up as a guest star on many series, including...
Marg Helgenberger takes charge on ‘Intelligence’
Look closely at Marg Helgenberger’s ring finger in the new CBS drama, “Intelligence,” and you’ll notice what she calls a “teeny, tiny” diamond ring. It was never in the script....
Kicking drugs has led ex-'Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr. to a fresh sound
It’s 10:30 a.m. on a freezing winter day, and as he stands in the middle of an East Village street, Albert Hammond Jr. is telling The Post in detail about...
How will Lady Mary keep calm and carry on in Season 4?
When Michelle Dockery first learned that Dan Stevens had opted out of the fourth season of PBS’s “Downton Abbey,” she panicked. Were the walls at Highclere Castle about to crumble?...
Stephen Malkmus' new album sure to please new & old fans
It’s one of music’s great romantic myths: Rock stars go to Berlin and reinvent themselves. David Bowie did it in the mid-1970s and came back with “Low” and “Heroes”; U2...
'Little Liar' Lucy Hale branches into country radio
Lucy Hale’s first turn at TV wasn’t “Pretty Little Liars.” In 2003, the actress competed in a spinoff of “American Idol” — a kiddie singing competition called “American Juniors.” “A...
RFK Jr.'s daughter, Kick, skips family business for acting career
How ironic to find a Kennedy doing Greek tragedy — what this clan’s been through could make Sophocles weep. And yet, while the fabled American family’s given us politicians, philanthropists...
He survived 47-floor plunge — and now walks for charity
He’s a walking miracle. Alcides Moreno, the Midtown window washer who survived a terrifying, 47-story plunge when his scaffolding broke on Dec. 7, 2007, has made a stunning recovery. Moreno,...
New schools boss to collect double de Blasio's pay
Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina will collect both a city salary and her pension for a total income of $412,193 a year — nearly twice as much as Mayor de Blasio is...
Odds that you’ll be killed by a stranger in NYC on the decline
These are killer odds. You’re more likely to die in a plane crash, drown in your bathtub or perish in an earthquake during your lifetime than be murdered by a...
Vote is in: Breaking down a divisive Hall of Fame ballot
I am a Hall of Fame voter. With that responsibility, I believe, comes many other titles. But definitely not plenty others. I am a judge, but not a cop, an...
With one play, Luck makes fans believers
Amazingly, remarkably, ridiculously, the ball was in the air, traveling on a string, 63,551 sets of eyes locked on its every sidespin. Improbably, impossibly, incredibly, when those eyes lowered to...
Foles falls short, but gives Philly fans taste of future
He stood in the center of the locker room listening to Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie tell him how proud he was of him, and then a heartbroken Nick Foles, a...
Doctors hopes surgery fixes Lopez’s foot for good
Doctors hopes surgery fixes Lopez’s foot for good Two weeks after the Nets announced Brook Lopez would miss the rest of the season with yet another fracture of the fifth...
Reunion for 911 operator who helped mom give birth
It was a special delivery — courtesy of a 911 operator. A cool-headed emergency worker was reunited Saturday with three generations of women — one barely a week old —...
Democrats' 'fairness' Catch-22
All the political talk of tackling inequality should warm the hearts of Jets fans. After next month’s game in the Meadowlands, it will be 45 years since the team won...
Gov. Cuomo to approve medical marijuana
Gov. Cuomo plans to legalize medical marijuana for the seriously ill, state officials said Saturday. The governor — long a hard-line opponent of any form of legalization — will announce...
De Blasio pushing hard for Mark-Viverito
As the Wednesday vote for City Council speaker nears, Mayor de Blasio is leaning harder on pols to support his pick, Melissa Mark-Viverito, sources say. He approached Bronx Democratic Chairman Carl...
Speaker hopeful Mark-Viverito called vindictive by critics
It was supposed to be a friendly talk about an East Harlem art space. But when board members of the nonprofit Casabe Housing Development Fund met with Melissa Mark-Viverito, now...
Slain slumlord found in trash has enemies list a mile long
The millionaire Hasidic slumlord found burned and suffocated in a Nassau County dumpster — his body still smoldering from the waist down — had so many enemies that investigators say...
Tech companies eye robots as wages rise
In the technology industry today, the buzzword is robots. Tech companies’ motivations are fueled partly by the lure of cheaper labor. As wage levels surge in such nations as China,...
Digging out key to recovery
One of the last times the city was recovering from a winter snowstorm so soon after Christmas, President Clinton was in the White House, Princess Diana secured her divorce from...
Small business uncertain, but not discouraged
It’s not as though entrepreneurs like Alan Bain of World-Wide Business Centres are holding back on hiring because they a bunch of pessimists. Quite the contrary. These small-business owners are...
NY exec fearful of adding jobs
If City Hall wants to bring down the Big Apple’s 8.5 percent unemployment rate, it’s going to have to convince small-business owners like Alan Bain the new jobs he wants...
Nets perfect in ’14 after stopping Cavs
In the wake of Thursday night’s stunning victory in Oklahoma City, the Nets all said it wouldn’t matter if they couldn’t follow with another victory against the Cavaliers in Brooklyn...
Moody’s wake-up call to colleges
It wasn’t so long ago Occupy Wall Street was putting faces to people holding up signs listing the staggering amounts of debt they owed from their college loans. Today we’re...