• It’s Last Week For 26 Schools In New York Archdiocese

  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - This is the last week for 26 Catholic schools in the New York Archdiocese. As the Archdiocese looks to consolidate and streamline for long-term viability, some 4,000 students will be displaced. Forty-five percent of them will reportedly not return to Catholic schools. In addition, many teachers will be left ...

• Nicks On Skipping OTAs ‘I Had To Take Care Of Some Things’ WR Takes Some Blame

  NEW YORK (WFAN) — As we all know, Giants widereceiverHakeem Nicks was a no-show at the team’s voluntary OTAs last month and early this month. Coach Tom Coughlin was admittedly unhappy that his star receiver was not in attendance.Coughlin said that Nicks told him he’d be there, and the 25-year-old didn’t provide an explanation as to why he opted to skip the practices. ...

• Redford to promote energy industry environmental performance in New York

  Premier Alison Redford says she's prepared for "frank" talk in New York on Wednesday as she promotes Alberta's energy sector in the face of environmental black eyes for the province and uncertainty over the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline.Redford is slated to be the keynote speaker at the Foreign Policy Association's North American Energy Independence Conference.The ...

• Deport the Statue of Liberty video takes on Immigration Reform

  "I came here in some crates by boat, they didn't give me any documents when I arrived," Lady Liberty tells an immigration officer in this video from Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, ...

• Car crashes into New York City grocery store eight injured

  A car collided with another car, jumped a curb and smashed into a grocery store in New York City Wednesday, injuring eight people, police said. The cars crashed at 7:30 a.m. near Second Avenue and East Fourth Street in the East Village, WNBC-TV reported. Fire officials said eight people were hospitalized, three of them in serious condition. Five of the injured had been inside the vehicle that ...

• Deport the Statue of Liberty

  "I came here in some crates by boat, they didn't give me any documents when I arrived," Lady Liberty tells an immigration officer in this video from Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, ...

• Deport the Statue of Liberty

  "I came here in some crates by boat, they didn't give me any documents when I arrived," Lady Liberty tells an immigration officer in this video from Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, ...

• Deport the Statue of Liberty

  "I came here in some crates by boat, they didn't give me any documents when I arrived," Lady Liberty tells an immigration officer in this video from Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, ...

• Deport the Statue of Liberty

  "I came here in some crates by boat, they didn't give me any documents when I arrived," Lady Liberty tells an immigration officer in this video from Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, ...

• Riverkeeper Calls on Governor to Declare new York City Watershed Off-Limits to Natural Gas Drilling

  Riverkeeper Calls on Governor to Declare new York City Watershed Off-Limits to Natural Gas Drilling NEW YORK - August 8 - At a press conference with Queens City Councilman Gennaro today, Riverkeeper called on Governor Paterson to designate the New York City Watershed ...

• NYPD Suspect dead in police shooting

  NYC crime rates An NYPD officer shot and killed a robbery suspect as the two exchanged gunfire early Wednesday in Brooklyn, police said.Officers in the 75th Precinct were on patrol at about 1:08 a.m. when a cabdriver alerted them to a gunpoint robbery in progress in the 300 block of Hinsdale Street, police said.The officers heard gunshots and after exiting their vehicle saw two men struggling ...

• LIRR Restores Full Rush Hour Service After Derailment Repairs Completed

  The derailment prompted the railroad to cancel or divert several trains during the morning and evening rush hours Tuesday. However, the railroad restored full rush hour service by Wednesday morning and trains were running on or close to schedule. Numerous other incidents have impacted MTA riders in recent weeks. In late ...

• Sweeny Past Present And Future — Donnie Baseball Talks Yankees And Baseball

  More Columns Don Mattingly's return to Yankee Stadium as manager of the Dodgers is unprecedented. Never has a player as iconic as Mattingly returned to New York in a visiting uniform. With all due respect to Tino Martinez, Hideki Matsui and others, they are not close to what Mattingly meant to Yankees fans in his prime. He spent his entire 14-year playing career in pinstripes and his No. ...

• Several People Hurt After Car Jumps Curb In East Village

  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – At least eight people have been injured, three of them seriously, after a car jumped the curb in the East Village, officials said. The incident happened Wednesday morning at Second Avenue and East Fourth ...

• NYPD Robbery Suspect Killed In Police-Involved Shooting In East New York

  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A robbery suspect was shot and killed by police in East New York early Wednesday morning. A livery cab driver flagged down two police officers on routine patrol in the area and alerted them to a gunpoint robbery in progress in front of 367 Hinsdale Street shortly after 1 a.m., police said. The officers heard gunshots and when they got to the scene they sawa ...

• One Tank Trips Duke Farms In Hillsborough N.J.

  HILLSBOROUGH, N.J. (CBSNewYork) - If you think New Jersey is all about factories, beaches, and where the Jets and Giants play, then you need to take ...

• World in Pictures June 19 2013 The Wanted in London and Madonna in New York

  TODAY'S World in Pictures features photographs of Nathan Sykes, Tom Parker, Jay McGuiness, Max George and Siva Kaneswaran at the premiere of their reality E! TV series Wanted Life in London and Madonna at the world premiere of 'Madonna: The MDNA Tour' at the Paris Theatre in New ...

• LIRR Wednesday morning rush looking good

  Commuters react to disruptions as several trains were still canceled or diverted a day after Monday's LIRR derailment. Crews were working to repair damage caused Monday evening when two cars from a Hempstead-bound LIRR train derailed in an East River Access tunnel. Videojournalist: Chris Ware (June 18, 2013) (June 18, 2013 10:43 ...

• Palladino Wheeler Can’t Be Mets’ Savior — Because Harvey Already Is

  More Ernie Palladino Columns Zack Wheeler said before Tuesday that the New York media should never regard him as a savior. No problem. Given their performance in that day's opener of the futuristic day-night doubleheader in Atlanta, the nightcap of which served as Wheeler's major league curtain-raiser, the Mets have him already. His name is Matt Harvey, and all Wheeler has to do for ...

• ‘Near-Normal’ Commute Finally Expected Over 24 Hours After LIRR Derailment

  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – At long last, a ';near-normal'; commute was expected Wednesday, in the wake of a derailment that damaged tracks and switches. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said Wednesday night that LIRR customers should anticipate a ';near-normal rush hour'; Wednesday morning, following the ';expected completion'; of repairs. Earlier ...

• Mets Trade McHugh For Eric Young Jr. Designate Cowgill For Assignment

  ATLANTA (CBSNewYork/AP) -- The New York Mets have traded right-hander Collin McHugh to the Colorado Rockies for outfielder Eric Young Jr. The Mets announced the deal Tuesday ...

• Police Stabbing At ‘Crossroads Of The World’ An Isolated Incident

  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A man was hospitalized following a stabbing in the heart of Times Square on Tuesday afternoon. The typically large crowd looked on as two men fought near the intersection of 46th Street and Seventh Avenue around 2 p.m. As 1010 WINS' Sonia Rincon reported, it was an altercation between two men in their 40s that got physical. Witnesses were alarmed, but did not ...

• Mark Teixeira Returns To DL Kevin Youkilis To Miss At Least 10-12 Weeks

  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Kevin Youkilis needs back surgery and Mark Teixeira returned to the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with an aching right wrist, the latest injury setbacks for the depleted New York Yankees. Youkilis will miss at least 10-12 weeks after he has the procedure in California on Thursday. He had gone back on the DL last Friday. The three-time All-Star, who signed a one-year, ...

• Rick Perry takes aim at New York

  Rick Perry stars in an ad out Wednesday that coincides with his swing across the Northeast to lure jobs to Texas.The one-minute, campaign-style video - shared first with POLITICO - attacks New York, where the governor is spending the day, as a high-tax, high-regulation state. ...

• K-9 cop is hurt on job

  Bear was treated at an animal-care facility and released later in the day. He’ll be back on the job today.The dog will have two teeth capped and is expected to return to full duty.Matos-Davis was charged with injuring a police animal, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.In 2011, Bear helped apprehend suspects in two other ...

• Car mows down roadside dinosaurs on Long Island

  SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) -- A Long Island man denies a police claim that he was intoxicated when his car smashed into about a dozen roadside ...

• FBI hunt for Jimmy Hoffa remains entering 3rd day

  OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- FBI agents plan a third day of digging Wednesday in suburban Detroit for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared 38 years ...

• Brazil braces for more anti-government protests

  Brazil braced for a new round of anti-government protests Wednesday after a violent night of looting and vandalism in Sao Paulo that led to at least 30 arrests. An estimated 50,000 people flooded the city's central Cathedral Square for the second night running, marching through streets and waving banners carrying slogans such as, "The people have awakened." One group tried to ...

• Condo couple $5M hit

  "If they can’t pay back the money, they could get from one to four years in prison."From 2008 to 2012, the couple raked in millions marketing and selling units to more than 27 buyers at the Broadway Towers Condominiums in Elmhurst, according to a felony complaint. The units started at about $300,000 and one sold for $938,000 in 2012, property records show.Tommy, 59, and Alice, ...

• Bust in Marine slaying

  Cops arrested the man who fatally stabbed an aspiring Marine just hours before his 20th birthday, police said.Wilson Rivera, 19, stabbed D’Anthony McDonald in the chest at about 9 p.m. on June 14 in South Ozone Park, cops said.Rivera was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.It’s unclear what sparked the violence between the two young men, who lived just ...

• Arrest in cab umbrella slay

  The man who police say fatally stabbed a livery cab driver in the eye with an umbrella was busted in Brooklyn yesterday.Shamel Allen, 28, was nabbed at 11:30 a.m. and charged with manslaughter in last Thursday’s slaying, police said.Orji-Ama Uro was driving Allen in the vicinity of Lott Avenue and Thomas Boyland Street in Brownsville when Allen plunged the tip of the umbrella into ...

• Feds Surveillance foiled NYSE attack

  Secret US surveillance foiled an al Qaeda plot to blow up the New York Stock Exchange, the FBI revealed to Congress yesterday.A Brooklyn accountant "cased" the stock exchange in 2008 under orders from a mysterious al Qaeda leader in Yemen known as "the Doctor," according to federal authorities.But the accountant and two other suspected terrorists were arrested before the plot ...

• Weiner’s meager sext therapy

  Anthony Weiner yesterday admitted that he’s still in therapy for his crotch-tweeting compulsion - but sex-addiction experts say he needs more than just a shrink.Asked if he’s going to counseling, the married former US congressman told The Post, "I am, yes" - then declined to comment further.But psychologists say deeply rooted problems such as the mayoral candidate’s ...

• Mystery death in W’burg luxe loft

  An accountant was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his luxury Williamsburg loft yesterday morning, authorities said.The body of Mark Garza, 46, was found on his bed in his pad at 184 Kent Ave. in at 8:40 a.m., sources said. His body was found by his brother, who hadn’t heard from him in a few days, law-enforcement sources said.There were no signs of forced entry, and the ...

• Chris-Drake brawl club’s booze ban KO’d

  Drink up, A-listers!An appeals court yesterday overturned a Manhattan judge’s decision to revoke the liquor license at the Soho club that played host to the infamous brawl between Chris Brown and Drake over Rihanna last summer. The Appellate Division found that Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Wright’s termination of a booze permit for W.i.P. in November 2012 because of ...

• Gov Senate in abortion-bill deal

  ALBANY - Gov. Cuomo and state Senate leadership reached a late-night agreement yesterday to introduce a controversial pro-abortion bill, a senior administration official told The Post. But it’s still unclear if the measure - which Cuomo has pushed - will actually be put to a vote on the Senate floor, sources said. The deal breaks Cuomo’s Women’s Equality Act into 10 separate ...

• New York City aims to require apartment dwellers to compost food scraps

  NEW YORK -- Legions of New York City apartment dwellers will soon be asked -- and may eventually be forced -- to start collecting food scraps for composting, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest bid to make the city ...

• Obama to call for U.S.-Russia nuclear arms cuts

  Barack Obama 's foreign-policy speech in Berlin Wednesday will call for additional U.S.-Russia nuclear-arms cuts, administration officials said. He is expected to say Washington and Moscow can shrink their nuclear arsenals by up to one-third beyond cuts mandated under the 2010 New Start, or Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, without hurting deterrence or capabilities, the officials told The ...

• Syria peace talks delayed after Putin unyielding

  Syrian peace talks will be delayed after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to boycott talks that assume President Bashar Assad will resign, officials said. The international peace conference in Geneva, Switzerland, proposed by Washington and Moscow six weeks ago to be held as soon as May is now likely to be delayed until September, a Western official told several news organizations after ...

• Suit over Soho Citi Bike site

  Opponents of a Citi Bike station that was dumped in a popular Soho park will file a lawsuit today asking a judge to remove it."Why did it have to come to this?" asked Sean Sweeney, of the Soho Alliance. "It’s the intransigence of an arrogant DOT commissioner who has put her and Mayor Bloomberg’s legacy over the interests of parks and art and the common good." ...

• Brawl-bar booze ban reversed

  Drink up, A-listers!An appeals court yesterday overturned a Manhattan judge’s decision to revoke the liquor license at the Soho club that played host to the infamous brawl between Chris Brown and Drake over Rihanna last summer. The Appellate Division found that Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Wright’s termination of a booze permit for W.i.P. in November 2012 because of ...

• NFL’er quizzed in death

  Authorities searched the $1.3 million home of Hernandez, who was initially uncooperative, ABC said. The body was found at 5:30 p.m. Monday in an industrial park. It could have been there as long as a day, according to the Sun Chronicle of Attleboro.Authorities focused on Hernandez when they found a rented Chevrolet Suburban with Rhode Island plates - and which was tied to his name - near the ...

• I killed for love of the family

  BOSTON - A former cohort of James "Whitey" Bulger who admitted killing 20 people is insisting he’s not a hit man or a serial killer.John Martorano says he is a "nice guy" who was only trying to help his family and friends when he pumped bullets into victims while working with Bulger and his gang.Martorano made the statements yesterday while being cross-examined by one ...

• Lohan accuser pill bust

  Physician, heal thyself! A Gramercy Park psychiatrist who went on TV and accused Lindsay Lohan’s doctor of turning her into a pill-popping drug addict was busted yesterday for allegedly selling oxycodone prescriptions for cash. William Belfar, who was nabbed in an undercover FBI sting, discussed the perils of overusing prescription drugs while appearing as a talking head in a May segment ...

• Slay thug targeted gay cops

  An accused killer told cops he shot a man dead in the West Village because the victim was gay, authorities said yesterday. "Guy thought he was tough in front of his bitch so I shot him. Diagnosis is dead, doctor," Elliot Morales heartlessly told cops after the May 18 shooting of Mark Carson, 32, according to court papers released at the accused killer’s arraignment yesterday. ...

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