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  • Mets ace Matt Harvey dating Victorias Secret model Anne V

    New York Mets pitcher Matt Harvey and supermodel Anne V were reportedly spotted getting intimate in public at the New York Rangers playoff game at Madison Square Garden, on Thursday. Harvey- who is a Connecticut-born, die-hard Rangers fan- first met the green-eyed blond bombshell in early May after they watched the Broadway Blueshirts win at the Garden, the New York Post reported. According to ...

  • US Defense Chief Calls for End to Military Sex Assaults

    U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called for an end to sexual assaults in the military Saturday in a commencement speech to graduates of the West Point military academy in New York state. Hagel called sexual harassment and sexual assault in the military a "profound betrayal" of sacred oaths and trusts and a "scourge" that must be stamped out. A day earlier, President Barack Obama ...

  • Bang With Friends mysterious CEO revealed

    Bang with Friends- the controversial Facebook app run by its CEO and co-founder who just goes by his initial 'C' has been revealed accidentally by Internet New York which included the founders' name on the online ballot. BWF app creator Colin Hodge, 28, and Omri Mor had remained anonymous till last week, but the leak of their identity through Internet Week New York disappointed Hodge, the Daily ...

  • Spanish art gets privileged space in New York museum

    New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or ...

  • Chicago avoids elimination New York is not so fortunate

    Both the Blackhawks and Rangers entered Saturday just one loss away from seeing their Stanley Cup dreams end. Chicago won in convincing fashion, while New York fell to ...


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Movie Review

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Most film scholars will tell you that there are two quintessential American genres: the Western and the gangster film. Because iconoclastic independent writer/director Jim Jarmusch has already deconstructed the Western in "Dead Man" (1995), it is only logical that for his next narrative film he would turn his sights on the gangster film. ...

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  • ‘Abu$ive’ banks held to account

    Big banks are the biggest abusers of New York financial customers - and they’re being forced to reimburse thousands of people.That’s according to a Post analysis of complaints filed with a new federal-fraud squad, which puts Bank of America at the top of the offender list.The bank had to fork over 882 refunds to city customers who griped to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

  • Little brother is watching you

    Public policing via phone cams has uncovered a dog at the Greenwich Village D’Agostino (above), a cigar sold to a minor in Little Italy (below) and an illegal rooster in Brooklyn. "The proliferation of smartphones helps," said 311 director Joe Morrisroe. "For the customer, the picture is better than words . . . They have presumed evidence that shows something is out of ...

  • Newark church-scandal big out

    The second-highest official in the Archdiocese of Newark is stepping down in the wake of a sex scandal. Church officials said Monsignor John Doran resigned Friday as vicar general and will no longer hold a leadership position with the archdiocese.A former priest who worked under him had been accused of violating an agreement with law enforcement barring him from working with kids. Doran signed ...

  • ‘Hi boys got me again’

    You know summer has arrived - Long Island’s hot-dog hooker is under arrest again.Catherine Scalia flirted with reporters and then launched into a dramatic rant in court yesterday - claiming cops unfairly targeted her in a prostitution bust. "Hi boys! They got me again!" the handcuffed bun-slinger told a throng of reporters yesterday after cops arrested her for allegedly selling ...

  • Only one rent-hike hearing due

    The rent hearing is too damn far!The city is getting ready to jack up the cost of living in rent-regulated apartments throughout the five boroughs, but plans to hold only one public hearing - in Manhattan.Of the city’s 1,025,214 rent-regulated apartments, 741,125 are in Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Staten Island.The single Rent Guidelines Board hearing on the issue is scheduled for June ...

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