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  • Bronx ghetto tours stop amid residents outrage

    A young man runs under an elevated section of subway tracks in The Bronx borough of New York, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. A company that offered tourist treks to the Bronx "ghetto" has shut down under scathing criticism from neighborhood leaders offended by the tours that took mostly European and Australian tourists past food-pantry lines and "pickpocket" park. But other New ...

  • With Weiner NYC mayor race takes on new dynamic

    FILE - In this June 16, 2011 file photo, Anthony Weiner speaks at a news conference in New York. The Democratic ex-congressman who resigned over raunchy tweets said late Tuesday, May 21, 2013, that he's in the New York City mayoral race. Although the field is crowded for September's primary, Weiner is arriving with some significant advantages, including a $4.8 million campaign war ...

  • Qns. kid hangs herself

    A 12-year-old Queens girl hanged herself in her family home yesterday after being relentlessly cyberbullied by her middle-school classmates, sources told The Post. Gabrielle Molina was found hanging by a belt from a ceiling fan at about 2:15 p.m. on 220th Street in Queens Village, cops said.The troubled tween left behind a heartbreaking note that recounted the torture she endured at the hands of ...

  • 2G ‘junk’ fine tossed

    It was a big win for the little guy and common sense. A Manhattan appeals court this week overturned a $2,000 fine levied in 2011 against Brooklyn carpenter Albert Prince for taking a TV antenna from a pile of curbside trash. Prince, 58, who makes art out of recyclables, said he didn’t realize his scavenging activity was illegal. The Appellate Division panel called the penalty ...

  • Gambling suspect’s ‘safe’ bet

    What happens in Vegas can’t happen at the Bellagio for a co-defendant in the high-stakes, illegal gambling case against Upper East Side art dealer Helly Nahmad.Professional poker player Abe Mosseri won permission from a judge yesterday to travel to Sin City for the upcoming World Series of Poker - but not to stay at the luxury casino.Defense lawyer Michael Bachner told the judge that ...


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Movie Review

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [Blu-Ray]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [Blu-Ray]

Shrouded in ashen cigarette smoke, heavy silences, backroom intrigue, and horridly despondent early 70s British interior dcor, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy unfolds with maximum perplexity, ensuring that we will never, despite being able to grasp the stakes an ... ...

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  • ‘Cats’ in jam over legal fees

    Mayoral hopeful and supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis has to fork over nearly $3.9 million to the lawyers of workers who sued him for shortchanging them at his Gristedes stores, a Manhattan appeals court ruled yesterday.The billionaire Republican candidate sought to slash the hefty legal bill on grounds that it exceeded the $3.5 million settlement he struck with his employees on the eve of ...

  • ‘Wired’ pol eyes old seat

    Maybe he’ll run on the clean-up-Albany platform!Disgraced ex-Assemblyman Nelson Castro, who worked as an undercover informant against fellow Albany legislators, may run for his old Bronx seat, The Post has learned."To be honest, I’m really considering it," Castro said last night. He resigned April 8 as part of a perjury-charge plea deal that also required him to wear a ...

  • Life or death on 20th floor

    Police officers yesterday rescue a woman who threatened to jump from a West 38th Street building’s 20th-floor balcony. It was not known why she wanted to kill herself. The officers finally came through the window and onto the balcony and grabbed the startled woman, whisking her to safety. She was taken to Roosevelt Hospital for observation. "Everything went according to plan," ...

  • Derek’s had Phil of fame

    Also listed on the hotel tab were Bruce Almighty (then-coach Don Mattingly) and Ricky Ricardo (Jorge Posada).Johnny Drama, of course, may not fit well on a coffee cup.Instead, Jeter might be using names based on a rotating cast of Yankee Hall of Famers - and yesterday could have been the turn of late Bomber shortstop Phil Rizzuto. Holy cow!Or, perhaps, Jeter was just a victim of the infamous ...

  • Pols move to stab TSA plan

    All four senators from New York and New Jersey joined forces yesterday to introduce a bill blocking a TSA plan to allow small knives on to planes. New York Democrats Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand teamed with New Jersey’s Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, also Democrats, in pushing for a halt to a plan to allow blades less than 2.36 inches onto commercial flights. The ...

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