A group that has been advocating for the state legislature to approve tolls on New York City’s East River bridges to try to curb congestion said Monday that the Big Apple can actually legally adopt a similar plan on its own — but Mayor de Blasio immediately dismissed the idea. The group, Move NY, is...
CLEVELAND – And here is something else that the Cavaliers simply don’t need. Klay Thompson found his shooting stroke for the Warriors in Game 2. Thompson turned in one of the best lousy games in memory in Game 1 of the Finals, shooting 3-of-16. But he affected the game in every other conceivable way, defending...
The lone Ranger who needed offseason surgery turned out to be Jesper Fast, as the team announced Monday that the winger underwent a successful labral repair of his left hip. The recovery is expected to be five months, meaning Fast won’t be back until November, missing all of training camp and about the first month...
Urban policy wonk: Bronx DA’s Misguided Indictment Bronx DA Darcel Clark’s chances of obtaining a murder conviction of an NYPD sergeant that can survive appeal are “so remote as to be virtually non-existent,” contends Bob McManus at City Journal. Which suggests she either “doesn’t understand the relevant law” or, more likely, “is playing politics.” Sgt....
The pair is honeymooning in Rwanda.
A huge, deep depression on Mars has left astronomers baffled. It was discovered by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been studying the Martian surface for 11 years. The vast pit, estimated to be hundreds of feet across and surrounded by frozen carbon dioxide, is located on the south pole of Mars — sticking out among...
It only takes 140 characters to harm your career. Tweeting between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. could hurt job performance, according to a study on NBA players released Monday. Players who tweeted during these hours scored one point less in games, on average, and saw their shooting accuracy drop 1.7 percentage points, compared to those...
HBO previously put the film on hold over budget issues.
English majors are becoming an increasingly rare commodity. The share of new bachelor’s degrees awarded in the humanities dropped below 12 percent in 2015 for the first time since 1987, according to an analysis released Monday by Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences which tracks data on the state...
Fox News Channel personality Eboni Williams will replace Ron Kuby and team up with Curtis Sliwa on their WABC radio talk show, network officials announced on Monday. Williams – a defense lawyer best known for her work on “The Fox News Specialists” – will be half of the new “The Curtis and Eboni Show” airing...
Kelly Johnson took the stand in the Bill Cosby trial on Monday.
Last month, Dove announced that it would be selling bottles of body wash in varying shapes in the UK, to make women feel better about their own differently shaped bodies — and it didn’t go over as well as the brand might have hoped. “Each bottle evokes the shapes, sizes, curves, and edges that combine...
Cecil Fielder was at Yankee Stadium when Aaron Judge homered in his major league debut last August. “From the first time I saw him, I thought he was going to be a pretty good athlete because he’s a five-tool player,” the former Yankees slugger said Monday. “He’s got the ability to do anything he wants...
The gunman who shot and killed five employees at his former workplace in Orlando, Fla., Monday morning was identified as a US Army veteran, police officials said. John Robert Neumann Jr., 45, a “disgruntled” ex-employee of RV awning company, Fiamma Inc., “singled out” his victims as he opened fire at around 8 a.m. inside the...
The "Extant" actress cheekily addressed the headlines.
Beer is having a bad time. Global alcohol sales fell 1.3 percent last year, led by a 1.8 percent decline in beer sales, according to new data from International Wine and Spirits Research, a London-based industry group. The 1.3 percent contraction was markedly steeper than the five-year average decline of 0.3 percent, while the 1.8...
An Upper East Side doctor was busted by federal authorities Monday, accused of feeding his patients’ addiction to powerful painkillers. Dr. Martin Tesher is charged with prescribing 2.2 million oxycodone pills to patients without a legitimate medical purpose – including those he knew were addicted to the powerful pain killer. The millions of pills were...
“If you can’t spot the sucker in your first half-hour at the table, then you are the sucker.” – Mike McDermott, “Rounders.” Remember what was supposed to be the low point? The seven-game losing streak, six in a row on the road in Milwaukee and Arizona. That left the Mets seven games under .500, nine...
Roger Lewis, a promising second-year Giants receiver, was arrested over the weekend for operating a vehicle while impaired, The Post confirmed with the Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Police Department. Lewis, driving a 2012 Audi, was pulled over for speeding and tinted windows on Sunday, TMZ reported. During the stop, police told TMZ, they smelled marijuana and noticed...
A Columbia University student is clinging to life after being hit by a car near the college early Monday, cops said. The 22-year-old student, who is from Pakistan, was crossing the street at Riverside Drive and 115th Street near the Woodbridge Hall dormitories around 12:30 a.m. when he was struck by a burgundy sedan which...
One of the London Bridge attackers slipped through the net even though he had been reported to authorities and had appeared in a documentary displaying an ISIS flag in a city park, according to reports. The man – know to friends as “Abz” — appeared in a Channel 4 show about British jihadists along with...
At least 10 prospective members of Harvard’s Class of 2021 saw their Ivy League dreams crumble when the university rescinded their offers after finding the teens had shared sexually explicit and offensive memes. The memes were primarily sent as messages last December in a private Facebook group called “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens,” an...
Eric Mangini just wants to be friends with Bill Belichick again. The 2007 Spygate scandal destroyed Mangini’s friendship with his former mentor, and he says the two haven’t spoken since. “Am I surprised? I hope it’s something that can come back,” Mangini, now out of coaching, told ESPN. “Look, Bill is a big part of...
Let’s act, for a few minutes anyway, as if Jerome Holtzman had never created the save rule. If that were the case, who would have been pitching in the eighth inning Sunday for the Yankees? The score was 2-2. The best part of the Blue Jays order was due up, with Josh Donaldson, Jose Bautista,...
Shanta Jordan is being called a hero after she was struck by a car while trying to save a young child. While she and the kid were both still injured, officials believe that she absorbed most of the impact and saved the young boy’s life.
