Mugger targeting women in NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctp3cenLqNw A mugger is targeting women on the Upper West Side, authorities said Sunday. The creep recently robbed two victims in their apartment buildings in separate...
View ArticlePutin leaves G20 summit following world leaders’ rebuke
WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin left the G20 summit early following a rebuke by other world leaders for his incursion into Ukraine. Putin, however, said his early exit has nothing to do...
View ArticleSchumer to Obama: Reimburse NYC for $20M Ebola treatment
Senator Charles Schumer wants President Obama to pick up New York City’s more than $20 million tab for treating its first Ebola patient. Since the Big Apple and Bellevue Hospital treated and cured Dr....
View ArticleEli Manning throws five INTs as Giants sink to new low
There was a dive that did not produce a catch, and for a moment Odell Beckham Jr., the rookie prodigy, stayed down on the field. Only his psyche was hurting. When he got to his feet, slowly, he took...
View ArticleAnother tourist climbs Brooklyn Bridge to snap picture
A French tourist was arrested for scrambling up a cable of the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday to take a photo, authorities said — the third security breach this year at the span. Jonathan Souid, 23,...
View ArticleJohn Doar, a quiet hero of the civil rights movement
John Doar, who died last week, was the civil rights litigator who in the tumultuous 1960s was the face of the US government’s campaign to end racial segregation in America. The protest marches, the...
View Article‘Terrific’ for New York — how Tom Seaver lifted up the city
On April 22, 1970, after accepting the Cy Young Award as the National League’s best pitcher of 1969 — the year he took the Mets from lovable losers to World Series champions, the year of Woodstock and...
View ArticleGiants report card: Play calls didn’t help Eli’s offense
Offense Just when we thought it was safe to declare Eli Manning cured of the turnover bug he goes and throws five interceptions – and some of them were real stinkers. Just dreadful. Big games for...
View Article‘Afroducking’ the law: deadly excuses for endangering others
Afroduck turned chicken: Adam Tang, who used that pseudonym after recording himself looping Manhattan in record time 15 months ago, jumped bail rather than face a jury for his crime. It’s not as...
View ArticleAlleged Silk Road mastermind says he’s a hacking victim
Computer genius Blake Benthall, the alleged mastermind behind drug bazaar Silk Road 2.0, claims he’s been hacked. Benthall, 26, was not behind a recent tweet that appeared on his Twitter page asking...
View ArticlePakistani boot camps want to ‘re-program’ ISIS terrorists
It’s a 12-step program for terrorists. Pakistan has successfully deradicalized thousands of Taliban jihadists using special boot camps — and now wants to try the tactic on the monstrous Islamic State,...
View ArticleWhy Florida State should have been No. 1 all along
Florida State began the year ranked No. 1, has yet to lose and plays in one of the five major conferences. The natural question, of course, is why are Jimbo Fisher, Jameis Winston and Co. third in the...
View ArticleThe non-Eli flub that turned the Giants’ loss
Hero In a game marked by defense — or sloppy offense — 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree looked far from mediocre, catching a 48-yard TD that proved to be the winning score. He got away from Dominique...
View ArticleDEA in prescription drug blitz on NFL
Federal drug enforcement agents showed up unannounced Sunday to check at least two visiting NFL teams’ medical staffs as part of an investigation into former players’ claims that teams mishandled...
View ArticleEmotional Rangers reunions on tap with Lightning visit
Alain Vigneault smiled at the question, and it was clear he had nothing but good feelings for a couple bygone players set to make their return to the Garden on Monday night. That’s when Ryan Callahan,...
View ArticleThe case for starting J.R. Smith over Iman Shumpert
The question the Knicks must ask themselves is this: Why not start J.R? They’ve got nothing to lose. Just start J.R. This is not a team rolling in offense. J.R. Smith started for the first time this...
View ArticleWhere Tom Coughlin went horribly wrong with gutsy calls
It was only one play among dozens in Sunday’s game, but it was a flashing neon sign displaying the Giants’ desperation, designed not only as an attempt to change the course of a game but a season on...
View ArticleHugh Jackman is wasting his time, and ours, in ‘The River’
If “The River” was playing some dinky little theater with a bunch of unknowns, it’d be dismissed as flimsy and gimmicky. But “The River” is on Broadway, starring the ultra-likable, ultra-bankable Hugh...
View Article‘We should’ve run’ it: The play-calls that doomed the Giants
It was first-and-goal at the 49ers 4-yard-line and MetLife Stadium was suddenly alive, sensing a potentially pivotal victory. Odell Beckham Jr. had just hauled in a highlight-reel 37-yard pass down the...
View ArticleEli’s picks an ugly return to 2013 debacle
The game was there for the taking, a season was there for the saving, and Eli Manning threw them both away. It was as if the weight of a falling franchise collapsed on the franchise quarterback of the...
View Article