A month after Chancellor Carmen Fariña announced all school lunches would be free, 85,000 families who had pre-paid for meals are wondering if the city has stolen their lunch money. The Department of Education has yet to refund the $1.3 million that families had on deposit in automatic-pay accounts — and parents who ask about...
The Yankees made a late run at the AL East title — and kept the pressure on the Red Sox with a 2-1 win over the Blue Jays on Saturday — but they’re headed to the wild-card game Tuesday thanks to Boston’s 6-3 win over the Astros. Trailing in the division by five games as...
Making her debut at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater singing from the libretto of “La Traviata,” chanteuse Charity Tillemann-Dick reached to the vocal stratosphere and gave her all to the last high note. The audience erupted into applause and the soprano bowed, moved offstage and collapsed into a wheelchair. An oxygen cannula was secured around her...
A German man is charged with threatening to disperse poisoned baby food throughout stores in Europe if the companies didn’t fork over $11.8 million in blackmail money. Authorities cuffed the 53-year-old suspect on Friday after recovering five jars of baby food tainted with ethylene glycol – a compound used in antifreeze – at stores in...
TAMPA, Fla. — This is the first day of the rest of Odell Beckham’s football life. He needs this day, and the rest of the days that follow, to leave New York and Giants ownership and Giants fans slack-jawed and breathless over his football genius, instead of the doggone theatrics that have earned him scorn...
One of the engines on an Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles blew up over the Atlantic on Saturday, forcing the pilots to make an emergency landing in Canada. None of the 520 passengers were injured aboard the Airbus A380, which is the world’s largest commercial airliner. The four-engine airliner left Paris’s Charles...
He hates law and order on the streets — but he loves it between the sheets. The anarchist John Jay College professor who tweeted “it’s a privilege to teach future dead cops” says publicly that he despises authority and punishment, but privately he’s seeking a dominatrix to rule him with an iron fist. Michael Isaacson’s...
The bribery trial of senior New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has it all. Menendez is facing charges that he sold his US Senate office to a Palm Beach, Fla., eye doctor, his co-defendant Salomon Melgen, for bribes in the form of private jets stocked with Menendez’s favorite beverages, a private villa at one of...
From what we have learned of last week’s meeting, Gary Bettman’s message/advice/order to the Board of Governors regarding national anthem protests essentially can be distilled to these four words: “Stay out of it.” And I can understand that. For as much as a segment of the hockey population would encourage NHL players to kneel or...
CC Sabathia and Aaron Judge did their part to keep the Yankees alive the AL East race that ended Saturday with the Red Sox on top. Players constantly talk about controlling only what is in their hands and the Yankees did that by beating the Blue Jays, 2-1, at Yankee Stadium in front of 39,457....
Christina Sanchez insists she was the victim when she was arrested on her way to face the baseball star in court.
Jared Kushner came under fresh fire Saturday with two new reports stating that senior White House officials are frustrated over his unregulated access to President Trump. The stories came just days after the Senate intelligence Committee revealed that the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser had used private email to conduct official business — an offense...
The Biltmore is called the “grandest private home in America,” but even that doesn’t do it justice. At 178,926 square feet, the Gilded Age estate dwarfs the White House by a factor of three and puts Hearst Castle (at 70,000 square feet) to shame. It’s about the same size as a Walmart Supercenter, but it’s...
When Buffet appeared on “Today” this past week, he offered his Hamptons neighbor Matt Lauer “a ride home.”
One down, how many more to go? The Jets landed their first win of the season last week against the Dolphins, surprising many NFL observers. But the Jets say they were not surprised, and they are looking to add to that win total Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium against the Jaguars. “No one in this...
Creative inspiration strikes at random times, often when it’s least expected. For the UK-based publishing house Bloomsbury, it struck in the office one day when a colleague’s mother sent a photo of their family guinea pig wearing a Christmas hat. Much hilarity ensued, and without realizing it, a new label, Guinea Pig Classics, had been...
A new face of the "Real Housewives of Atlanta" is one reality TV viewers have seen before.
TAMPA, Fla. — No season advances as quickly as the NFL, where the games come week by week and a team that opens up after Labor Day can be on fumes by Columbus Day, glumly looking ahead on a lost year by Halloween and irrelevant long before Thanksgiving. The Giants did not make it out...
The frontrunner to replace Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services was the architect of Indiana’s Medicaid expansion under Obamacare and is considered a protégé of Vice President Mike Pence. Seema Verma, who as the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is responsible for administering the Affordable Care Act, played...
A fool and his football are soon parted. The first act of national self-humiliation as per premature touchdown celebrating was not Leon’s Lett’s in the 1993 Super Bowl. The Cowboys already had it won when Lett played the check-me-out-fool in front of 91 million viewers — including Bills receiver Don Beebe, who caught Lett in...
Look, in this regard, sports is exactly the same as real life: there’s never an easy way to fire someone, or tell them their contract won’t be renewed — to tell them, no matter how the wording goes, that their services are no longer required. It was uncomfortable to watch the Yankees part company with...
Olé! He’s a cop turned matador. A Long Island police officer had to nearly grab these bulls by the horns to herd them into a neighbor’s yard after they halted traffic on a road in Yaphank Saturday morning. In lieu of a red flag, the Suffolk County cop had to chase the loose black and...
A 30-year-old bicyclist was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver in Brooklyn early Saturday, cops said. The victim was heading down Church Avenue, attempting to cross Nostrand Avenue in Flatbush around 8:30 a.m. when the driver of a silver Infiniti slammed into him and took off, police said. The victim was rushed to Kings County...
