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Doomsday vote on NY's budget
June 28, 2010 at 2:45 AM

All eyes turn to the Capitol again today as lawmakers gather for a high-stakes showdown that could either end Albany's three-month budget impasse or shut down critical state agencies. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) and Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson of Brooklyn planned to vote on a 2010-11 spending...

NJ dad who fought to bring kids back from mom in South Korea returns home with children
June 28, 2010 at 2:42 AM

The New Jersey dad who battled for more than a year to get his two kids finally was reunited with them at JFK last night. Alejandro Mendoza, 47, cried when he saw Kristian, 6, and Haerin, 3, for the first time since April 2009. "My beautiful children are finally home...

Jersey gov takes a poke at do-nothing Albany pols
June 28, 2010 at 2:41 AM

Here's some neighborly advice. It's time for bumbling Albany legislators to "get serious" about the massive problems facing the state and stop hitting snooze on tough decisions regarding runaway spending and soaring taxes, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told The Post. "My advice to New York is: Get...

Dems fear backlash for boosting Silver
June 28, 2010 at 2:38 AM

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's last-ditch ef fort today to derail Gov. Paterson's budget cuts and reform agenda may fall victim to nervous Senate Democrats, who fear a voter backlash, sources said late yesterday. Silver (D-Manhattan) -- desperate to stop Paterson's effort to use a threatened government shutdown...

Echo of gekko
June 28, 2010 at 2:36 AM

Maybe greed isn't so good after all. Michael Douglas is fighting tooth-and-nail to keep his ex-wife's hands off of his "Wall Street 2" millions. Diandra Douglas quietly filed suit against her ex earlier this month, claiming she's entitled to 50 percent of the up-front money and royalties...

Fowl play near JFK
June 28, 2010 at 2:34 AM

Someone should goose the National Park Service. Canada geese are being eradicated all over the city -- except next to JFK. In the 18 months since geese forced US Airways Flight 1549 from La Guardia Airport to land in the Hudson River, the service has grounded Agriculture Department efforts to...

Bell cop sues back for 'injury'
June 28, 2010 at 2:33 AM

A cop involved in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell on his wedding day is now suing the dead man's estate -- claiming Bell drunkenly assaulted and badly injured him with a car right before the hail of police gunfire that brought the unarmed man down. Police Officer Michael...

'The family is in shock'
June 28, 2010 at 2:31 AM

Heartsick relatives of an infant knocked out of her mother's arms and killed by a tree branch at the Central Park Zoo comforted each other yesterday as city officials puzzled over the horrifying tragedy. Little Gianna Ricciutti died after a seemingly healthy tree limb snapped 25 feet above her...

Indy big's spouse got biz 'break'
June 28, 2010 at 2:28 AM

The wife of the state Independence Party leader formed a company that won a state Senate contract at the same time that the party was forming alliances with the Republicans who controlled the legislative body, The Post has learned. Records show that Kirstin MacKay, wife of Independence Party Chairman Frank...

Bx. pol drawing tan 'lines'
June 28, 2010 at 2:18 AM

A city councilman wants to shine some light on tanning-salon practices. Bronx Democrat James Vacca is introducing a measure tomorrow that would require the salons to post signs announcing the risk of skin cancer. The legislation would also ban the salons from offering student discounts and other promotions aimed at...

The royal thrown
June 28, 2010 at 2:13 AM

Prince Harry abdicated the saddle. His royal hunkness tumbled from his horse during a charity polo match on Governors Island yesterday, but as far as his adoring fans were concerned, the momentary clumsiness only made him dreamier. "I thought he looked gorgeous. He looked so sexy -- even more so...

Day 1 of MTA's 'slash' transit
June 28, 2010 at 2:08 AM

Doomsday is here. The full effects of the MTA's service cuts go into effect today, with the M line turning orange and running along Sixth Avenue, and cutbacks on 21 local bus routes along with 12 express lines. Riders yesterday were socked with the first weekend cuts, which eliminated...

Kelly eyes ruling taking cops off key sites
June 28, 2010 at 2:06 AM

Not so fast. A ruling that cost 120 cops their off-duty anti-terror security jobs at scores of vulnerable targets across the city is under review by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, The Post has learned. The NYPD Legal Bureau says it's a conflict of interest for any police employee to...

Prince Harry tumbles off horse
June 27, 2010 at 4:40 PM

Prince Harry has abdicated the saddle. The third in line for the British crown tumbled from his horse during a charity polo match at Governors Island today. The thrown prince landed on his knees after falling from the left side of the horse, but quickly remounted and dusted himself off...

Trial tomorrow for Serb beat brute
June 27, 2010 at 12:55 PM

BELGRADE, Serbia — A former college basketball player from Serbia who jumped bail in the U.S. after allegedly beating an Brooklyn student into a coma will go on trial in his native country tomorrow. The First Municipal Court in Belgrade said today that 23-year-old Miladin Kovacevic is accused of inflicting...

It ain't cricket, Harry!
June 27, 2010 at 7:53 AM

Prince Harry sizes up the strike zone at the Mets-Twins game in Citi Field yesterday -- before hurling an opening pitch a that barely crossed the plate. The British royal -- who was attending with fellow war veterans -- nevertheless left the field with a smile and caught the rest...

NYC best sellers
June 27, 2010 at 7:01 AM

These are a few of our favorite things. The Post polled the city's restaurants and retailers for a list of their all-time best-selling items. We left off the fads and current trends — no "Twilight" movies or Stieg Larsson novels. Instead, these are the things that, year after year, customers...

Platt penthouse 'rapist' is a career criminal with a rap sheet a mile long
June 27, 2010 at 7:01 AM

Forty strikes and this accused rapist was still not out. The career criminal accused of raping an ex-model on the rooftop terrace of a socialite couple's SoHo penthouse has 40 prior arrests, is being eyed in another rape case, and was freed without bail in another case months before...

Medic big's joke is DOA
June 27, 2010 at 7:01 AM

He got punked -- by himself. An EMS lieutenant with a sick sense of humor is likely to lose his FDNY job thanks to a tasteless joke that violated federal medical-privacy law. Bozo boss Michael Palleschi, 36, posted details online of a 911 call he found hilarious -- a woman...

No remorse for dad diss: Astor scion
June 27, 2010 at 7:01 AM

Time hasn't softened Philip Marshall's heart. More than a year after testifying against his greedy father, the grandson of Brooke Astor has no regrets. "I would do it again," he said about blowing the whistle on his dad, Anthony Marshall, for neglecting Astor. The elder-abuse lawsuit that he...

Carb-counting New Yorkers demanding inside of bagels 'scooped out'
June 27, 2010 at 6:53 AM

The New York bagel isn't dying -- it's just wounded. Carb-counting New Yorkers -- who want to diet but can't bear to give up their bagels and shmear -- are demanding the soft guts of their doughy circles professionally removed, leaving behind only a crusty carcass to...

Tree-limb snap kills baby in Central Park
June 27, 2010 at 6:28 AM

A 6-month-old New Jersey girl was killed and her mom badly injured yesterday when a tree branch fell on them as they posed for a photo at the Central Park Zoo. Gianna Ricciutti died in the horrifying accident that played out before helpless relatives and dozens of zoo-goers at around...

Scoop's on!
June 27, 2010 at 3:33 AM

The New York bagel isn't dying -- it's just wounded. Carb-counting New Yorkers -- who want to diet but can't bear to give up their bagels and shmear -- are demanding the soft guts of their doughy circles professionally removed, leaving behind only a crusty carcass to...

Kruger graft-rap nix
June 27, 2010 at 3:31 AM

A lawyer for state Sen. Carl Kruger said yesterday that prosecutors have cleared the lawmaker of allegations that he traded bureaucratic favors for campaign contributions. Attorney Benjamin Brafman said he was told by the US attorney in Brooklyn that Kruger is no longer a target of an inquiry that began...

NYPD Daily Blotter
June 27, 2010 at 3:30 AM

A deranged lover butchered his live-in girlfriend during a late-night argument in their Soundview apartment, cops said. Anna Maria Silva, 44, a mother of three, had just wrapped up a party celebrating her grandson's first birthday at 10 p.m. Friday, cops said. After the revelers left her apartment...

Surviving bruin ruin
June 27, 2010 at 3:30 AM

A motorcyclist escaped serious injury yesterday when he collided with a black bear that unexpectedly ran across a northwestern New Jersey highway. Sgt. Julian Castellanos, a State Police spokesman, said the man was northbound on Route 94 in the Sussex County community of Fredon when the accident occurred around 9...

'Rapist' rap sheet mile long
June 27, 2010 at 3:29 AM

Forty strikes and this accused rapist was still not out. The career criminal accused of raping an ex-model on the rooftop terrace of a socialite couple's SoHo penthouse has 40 prior arrests, is being eyed in another rape case, and was freed without bail in another case months before...

It ain't cricket, Harry!
June 27, 2010 at 3:28 AM

Prince Harry sizes up the strike zone at the Mets-Twins game in Citi Field yesterday -- before hurling an opening pitch a that barely crossed the plate. The British royal -- who was attending with fellow war veterans -- nevertheless left the field with a smile and caught the rest...

Libyan envoy's son critically injured in Midtown plunge
June 27, 2010 at 3:27 AM

The 2-year-old son of a Libyan diplomat survived a three-story plunge from the 18th floor of his Midtown apartment after his mother mistakenly left a window open, sources said. Ebrahim Aburawi was found on the 15th-floor terrace of the East 46th Street building following his 12:50 p.m. fall...

Medic big's joke is DOA
June 27, 2010 at 3:26 AM

He got punked -- by himself. An EMS lieutenant with a sick sense of humor is likely to lose his FDNY job thanks to a tasteless joke that violated federal medical-privacy law. Bozo boss Michael Palleschi, 36, posted details online of a 911 call he found hilarious -- a woman...

WTC legal billing blitz just 'sick'
June 27, 2010 at 3:20 AM

We're good -- but we're not that good. A lawyer working for the city on Ground Zero worker lawsuits billed $409 for 42 minutes of her time, which included a phone call and time to "read article in New York Post." Attorney Margaret Warner's $584-an-hour reading skills...

'Love Boat school' prom nix
June 27, 2010 at 3:17 AM

A Brooklyn high school that last June threw a "Love Boat" senior prom with booze for the teachers -- one of whom made out with a student -- had no prom this year. Last year, the first graduating class from International HS at Lafayettes boarded the yacht Fantasy for a...

Biz bigs wage war on union-scale match
June 27, 2010 at 3:11 AM

A Bill passed by the state Senate that was intended to force contractors for utilities to pay union-level wages has become a runaway train, with provisions so drastic that the state Assembly -- after howls of protest from city and business leaders -- is planning sweeping revisions. "This is an...

Funeral fury at principal
June 27, 2010 at 3:10 AM

A parent angrily blamed the field-trip drowning of a Harlem sixth-grader on her school principal yesterday following the girl's funeral. "Tell the truth. Tell the truth," David Suker, 42, co-president of the parents association at Columbia Secondary School, shouted at Principal José Maldonado-Rivera as the two left the 10...

The road to wheel $ecurity
June 27, 2010 at 3:08 AM

It's a tale of two bus drivers -- one with a full tank of pay and benefits, the other running on fumes. MTA bus driver Glenroy Connor, 52, earned $72,445 last year with hardly any overtime. He enjoys 11 paid holidays a year, including his birthday. In seven...

Disturbing disdain for the rule of law
June 27, 2010 at 2:51 AM

With the shock still fresh over the sacking of Gen. Stanley Mc Chrystal, it fell to Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, to put the case in perspective: "We are and must remain a neutral instrument of the state, accountable to and respectful of those leaders, no...

'DWI' gal kills passenger
June 27, 2010 at 2:47 AM

A man was killed yesterday when the drunken driver he was riding with bounced her car off a guardrail and then slammed into a tree on the Hutchinson River Parkway in The Bronx, cops said. Maria Lara, 29, was driving her 2001 Saturn sedan north near the Orchard Beach exit...

Heat's on 10 sidewalks
June 27, 2010 at 2:46 AM

This is some hot property. Heated sidewalks are the newest luxury for New York City property owners who want winter to simply melt away. A handful of high-living Manhattanites are paying big bucks to install radiant heating coils beneath their walkways, The Post has learned. These sizzling sidewalks can be...

Rider beaten in full view
June 27, 2010 at 2:41 AM

A normal morning commute turned into every straphanger's worst nightmare for a Brooklyn woman who was suddenly, violently attacked by a madman in a subway station as two transit workers looked on. Before Lisseth Choez, 22, knew what was happening, the hulking 6-foot stranger smashed his fist into her...

Tony apt. now 'barracks'
June 27, 2010 at 2:37 AM

Just days after moving into a spacious, three-level, apartment in a swanky Murray Hill building, a woman turned the triplex into a flophouse for rent, with bunks lining the walls and Internet ads to attract tourists, a lawsuit charges. An adjoining tenant discovered Tae Kyung Ha's allegedly illegal hotel...

Bigs 'ignored' branch peril
June 27, 2010 at 2:27 AM

Authorities have failed to swiftly remove killer trees from Central Park, claims the family of a man crushed to death in February by a falling limb. A decayed American elm was marked as dangerous weeks before one of its snow-laden branches fell on the head of Elmaz Qyra, 46, an...

Tree-limb snap kills baby
June 27, 2010 at 2:25 AM

A 6-month-old New Jersey girl was killed and her mom badly injured yesterday when a tree branch fell on them as they posed for a photo at the Central Park Zoo. Gianna Ricciutti died in the horrifying accident that played out before helpless relatives and dozens of zoo-goers at around...

She's an Ivy Big Leaguer
June 27, 2010 at 2:15 AM

College-bound Brooklynite Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe definitely has a thing for Ivy. The brainy bookworm was recently accepted into not one, but four Ivy League schools -- Harvard, Yale, Brown and Pennsylvania universities. "I'm still in shock," the 17-year-old from East Flatbush told Essence.com. The budding scholar will head to...

No remorse for dad diss: Astor scion
June 27, 2010 at 2:14 AM

Time hasn't softened Philip Marshall's heart. More than a year after testifying against his greedy father, the grandson of Brooke Astor has no regrets. "I would do it again," he said about blowing the whistle on his dad, Anthony Marshall, for neglecting Astor. The elder-abuse lawsuit that he...

City gets in gear with iPad
June 27, 2010 at 2:08 AM

It's really the Big Apple. New York City is developing a contract with Apple to buy iPads, iPhones and iPods in bulk at deeply discounted rates, according to the city Department Information Technology & Telecommunications. The deal should be completed within the year. The city's 50 agencies currently rely...

Coyote attacks girl, 6, outside W'chester home
June 27, 2010 at 2:01 AM

A pair of coyotes pounced on a 6-year-old girl in suburban Rye, biting her on the shoulder and thigh before the girl's mother chased them off. The child had been playing with her sisters and friends in her front yard Friday evening while the coyote duo skulked behind a...

Shel game gambit vs. gov's plan
June 27, 2010 at 2:00 AM

ALBANY -- With the clock ticking toward a government shutdown tomorrow, an angry Gov. Paterson ordered lawmakers back to Albany for a special budget session today -- even as defiant legislators made an end run around his latest solution to the state's money woes. Yesterday, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver...






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