Casting aside objections from Gov. Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio is plowing ahead with a plan to redevelop the Sunnyside rail yards in Queens as an affordable-housing mecca. On Friday — 17 days after ...
https://nypost.com/2015/02/21/de-blasios-sunnyside-home-push-defies-cuomos-wishes/
Get the shredders ready — the Tea Party could be coming. The city’s new municipal ID program allows for personal info provided by applicants to be destroyed at the end of 2016, in case a cons...
https://nypost.com/2015/02/16/municipal-id-law-has-delete-in-case-of-tea-party-clause/
Students at Harvard Law School plan to honor the Bronx public defender who was caught lying about her organization’s role in an outrageous anti-cop rap video, The Post has learned. Robin Steinb...
https://nypost.com/2015/02/16/harvard-law-to-honor-public-defender-amid-rap-video-scandal/
Mayor Bill de Blasio had better watch his back. The next mayoral election isn’t until 2017, but one of his supposed allies is already making moves for a possible challenge, according to sources...
https://nypost.com/2015/02/06/brooklyn-borough-prez-puts-out-feelers-for-mayoral-run/
A group of snooty Upper East Siders has put their million-dollar East River views above the safety of handicapped people. Community Board 8 unanimously approved a nonbinding resolution that would...
https://nypost.com/2015/02/03/upper-east-siders-handicap-bridge-will-ruin-our-river-view/
The Bronx Democrat on the verge of becoming the next Assembly speaker paid his baby mama $2,500 from his campaign treasury — raising ethical concerns following disgraced Sheldon Silver’s corr...
https://nypost.com/2015/01/30/carl-heastie-made-campaign-payments-to-ex-for-work-she-didnt-do/
The deadly terror attack on a kosher market in Paris has its CEO considering a move to Manhattan — where his wife and kids relocated last year to escape surging anti-Semitism in their native co...
https://nypost.com/2015/01/21/kosher-market-ceo-sent-family-to-nyc-over-anti-semitism-in-paris/
Mayor de Blasio gets along just fine with cops — as long as he’s in Paris. Hizzoner shook hands with a gendarme Tuesday during a visit to the kosher market where an Islamic militant killed th...
https://nypost.com/2015/01/21/de-blasio-kisses-up-to-french-cop-during-paris-visit/
PARIS — Mayor de Blasio paid respects Tuesday to the victims of the dual terrorist massacres here and told Parisians that New Yorkers have “walked in the same shoes.” De Blasio left three w...
https://nypost.com/2015/01/20/de-blasio-pays-respects-to-charlie-hebdo-victims-in-paris/
The city will turn one of New York’s busiest neighborhoods upside down for four days — all for a 45-minute concert, The Post has learned. The NBA All-Star Weekend concert, topped by an “A-l...
https://nypost.com/2015/01/20/nba-all-star-concert-to-paralyze-flatiron-district/
The city’s most entitled parents are taking helicoptering to new heights — suing when their kids are called out for allegedly getting coached on high-stakes kindergarten admissions tests. T...
https://nypost.com/2015/01/17/elitist-parents-sue-college-board-over-kindergarten-test-prep/
https://twitter.com/NYCCOIB/status/555443373239439361 Acting more like lovesick 14-year-old girls than a serious city agency, the Conflicts of Interest Board is trying to lure city workers to com...
https://nypost.com/2015/01/15/conflicts-of-interest-board-goes-gaga-for-gosling-meme/
New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito strong-armed five council members to take their names off a resolution that would increase disability benefits for cops, The Post has learned. ...
Former three-term Gov. Mario Cuomo may be gone, but Mario Mania has just begun. There’s a revival of interest in all things Cuomo as political memorabilia collectors dust off their merchandise ...
https://nypost.com/2015/01/12/mario-cuomo-memorabilia-expected-to-fetch-big-bucks-at-auction/
The Hamptons are being overrun by giant wild turkeys — which are getting caught in tennis nets, snarling traffic, chasing dogs and scaring the stuffing out of residents. Locals say they’ve ne...
https://nypost.com/2015/01/09/wild-turkey-flocks-fowling-up-hamptons/
HAVANA, Cuba — Cop-killer Joanne Chesimard may hold a special place in Fidel Castro’s heart — but ordinary Cubans eyeing a $2 million reward would rat her out in a heartbeat, several told T...
https://nypost.com/2014/12/27/cubans-eye-2m-reward-for-ratting-out-cop-killer/
HAVANA — It may be the workers’ paradise — but its prices would put even Manhattan capitalists to shame. American tourists hoping to score a cheap vacation by visiting Cuba should think aga...
https://nypost.com/2014/12/25/tourists-will-pay-a-pretty-peso-to-visit-cuba/
HAVANA — They ♥ New York! Cubans are so obsessed with the Big Apple and the freedom it represents that they have created their own mini-New York in Havana — complete with a Central Park,...
https://nypost.com/2014/12/23/after-creating-a-little-apple-cubans-yearn-to-visit-the-real-thing/
HAVANA — It’s the equivalent of buying a Gucci bag on Canal Street. Vendors who fill Havana’s streets selling black-market cigars to unsuspecting tourists are salivating over President Obam...
https://nypost.com/2014/12/22/how-to-spot-a-real-cuban-cigar-from-a-fake-one/
They pulled the strings so the bartenders could pull the taps. The City Council booked its holiday party at a swanky new bar that still needed a liquor license — so they just called in a favor ...
https://nypost.com/2014/12/18/city-council-pushes-sla-to-hurry-holiday-partys-liquor-license/