Mayor de Blasio on Friday expressed severe skepticism about Gov Cuomo’s $1.4 billion plan to boost Central Brooklyn, saying it’s great if “real” but first “show us the money.” “To date, we have been waiting on the State on New York to give us a clear affordable housing plan,” the mayor said on his weekly...
A machete-wielding lunatic attacked an 80-year-old man in Dusseldorf on Friday – only hours after a different madman injured nine people with an axe during a rampage at the German city’s railroad station. The unidentified assailant fled after seriously injuring the elderly man in a parking lot in the city’s outskirts, The Telegraph reported. His...
When Olivier Assayas wrote the script for his new movie “Personal Shopper,” he always had one actress in mind for the lead role – Kristen Stewart. “She inspired it,” the director explained to Page Six on Thursday morning. “I was writing for a young American woman. My experience of being around a young American woman...
Do men and women fare better on certain diets? Not exactly: “The truth of the matter is, it really depends on the person,” Robin Foroutan, a dietitian and the national spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, told Fox News. A person’s activity levels, family history, and genes can all determine what particular diet...
A Queens woman faces up to a year in jail for abandoning a hungry 5-year-old girl on the street this week, prosecutors said Friday. Trimeka Crum, who runs a daycare business of her Far Rockaway apartment, was charged with child endangerment and released on her own recognizance after pleading not guilty Thursday night in Queens...
Author Robert James Waller, whose best-selling, bittersweet 1992 novel “The Bridges of Madison County” was turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood and a Broadway musical, has died in Texas, according to his literary agency. He was 77. Lucy Childs of Aaron M. Priest Literary Agency said Friday that Waller died either...
The "Seinfeld" alum and his real-life son Gabe Greenspan will headline "Dinner With Dad," a new digital short-form series greenlighted by Freeform.
Amal Clooney goes the UN, Charo is in full rehearsal mode and more ...
Alain Vigneault called it. The Rangers coach was incensed Thursday night when his team gave up the game-tying goal on what he thought was clearly goaltender interference, eventually leading to a 4-3 loss to the Hurricanes in Carolina. But Vigneault also knew that the league would defend the call, after he challenged the play when...
The Flaming Lips have been keeping music weird since 1983. Whether it’s bringing a running motorcycle on stage, performing with hordes of fans dressed up as aliens and Santas, or having Miley Cyrus unexpectedly pop out of Wayne Coyne’s oversize robe, the Oklahomans have always made their live shows as gloriously bizarre as possible. But...
Pope Francis is open to the idea of having some married men ordained as Catholic priests, in an effort to combat clergy shortages in “remote” communities. Francis said in an interview published Thursday in Germany’s Die Zeit that the Catholic Church must study whether so-called “viri probati” — Latin for “tested men” or married men...
Simmons, 68, reportedly has not been seen outside his home since February 2014.
Thirteen-year-old Danielle Bregoli, aka the “Cash Me Outside” girl, is slamming the “Dr. Phil Show” for its editing, which she says “was just chopped up to make it look like my mom and I were at each other’s throats.” Known for her braggadocious and combative personality, the rowdy teen tells The Post that when it comes...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian police on Friday formally identified Kim Jong Nam as the victim of a fatal nerve agent attack at Kuala Lumpur’s airport, an expected but significant development in a case that has broken down the once-warm ties between North Korea and Malaysia. Kim is the long-estranged half-brother of North Korea’s ruler,...
The Washington Redskins spat on GM Scot McCloughan on his way out the door, and the rest of the NFL has taken notice. The dysfunctional Redskins’ firing of McCloughan on Thursday night was accompanied by a deliberate attempt to control the narrative: An unnamed official told the Washington Post that McCloughan, who has struggled in...
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo suddenly turned into BFFs on Friday – a day after The Post reported how they tried to outdo each other during a bomb scare at a Jewish center. The longtime bickering duo issued a rare joint statement announcing a $20,000 joint state-city reward for information leading to an...
NASA has discovered a spaceship that disappeared eight years ago. The space agency spotted an Indian craft orbiting the moon using its massive STEREO-B radar dish. Space is home to plenty of man-made cosmic junk that has broken off during missions and been left to float through the vast abyss. NASA uses its special lunar...
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Publicly, the Yankees want Michael Pineda to put away hitters and finish innings. Privately, the have their fingers crossed Pineda stops being the “Big Tease’’ he has been since they got him from Seattle in prior to the 2012 season. Two spring training outings are a small sample of what Pineda has...
YES Yankees announcers Ken Singleton and David Cone wish the best for Mets project Tim Tebow. . . but view the former Broncos and Jets quarterback’s baseball chances as fourth-and-long. “Here’s my deal, and this goes for the fans, and everybody who watches games on TV — the only reason baseball looks that easy, is...
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Jorge Mateo turned professional in 2012, as a 16-year-old, for a moderate $250,000 signing bonus. The Yankees did not need to engage in an epic bidding war to bring aboard the young man they found to be “really athletic,” in the words of Gordon Blakeley. “These are the kinds of guys you...
PORT ST. LUCIE — Since joining the Mets, Yoenis Cespedes has been instrumental in two playoff runs, guaranteed himself $137.5 million in salary and become a larger star. He wants to add to that résumé. Yoenis Cespedes is eyeing an MVP trophy. “That’s what I want,” Cespedes told The Post through a translator. “The first...
It’s a small world,’’ Sal Alosi chuckled on the phone from Westwood, Calif. on Thursday. On the UCLA campus, Alosi, the former Jets strength and conditioning coach, spent May through August in Westwood working with Knicks point guard Derrick Rose, grinding his body into as good a condition than maybe it ever has been —...
More than 100,000 customers remained without power in upstate New York on Friday and were told that some outages could last for days after fierce winds toppled power lines and damaged homes and businesses. Utilities companies reported that nearly 127,000 customers were without power as of 1 a.m. local time as crews continued to access...
YES Network Yankees announcers Paul O’Neill, David Cone, Ken Singleton, John Flaherty and Michael Kay sat down Wednesday with Post columnist Steve Serby for a roundtable chat about the baby Bombers and their outlook for the 2017 season. Q: What can Gary Sanchez do for an encore? Flaherty: I’ll admit it, I was a little...
Outside Barclays Center, it was easy to spot the Duke fans and the North Carolina fans. Actually, it’s never all that difficult a task because they’re the ones sporting various vestments of blue, darker for the Blue Devils, lighter for the Tar Heels. It’s not like they’re clad in camo. Still, this was extra easy,...
