When Team Cuomo blocked a gas pipeline this month, and another last year, we warned of the fallout. A new report out Monday puts a price tag on such bans — and points out what’s really going on. The study, by the US Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy, found that the Northeast...
PITTSBURGH — Aaron Judge has been making impressions all over baseball. With his latest blast, he even caught the attention of Dave Winfield. After Judge’s ninth-inning homer Saturday, a 457-foot solo shot to left in an 11-5 win over the Pirates, the Hall of Famer posted on Twitter: “I can’t help but retweet this shot,”...
Bob Rosen, the longtime basketball/baseball statistician who witnessed the Knicks’ first game in 1946, passed away Friday. He was 84. Rosen, a Garden staple, worked for the Elias Sports Bureau since 1962. The firm provides historical research/statistical data for pro sports – with Rosen one of the pioneers well before analytics and “Moneyball.’’ At Knicks...
New York City FC winger Jonathan Lewis might be struggling for minutes, but a string of injuries has opened the door for the highly touted rookie. And even if he won’t admit it, Lewis is relishing the opportunity. “I hope so,” Lewis said, laughing, before NYCFC take on Orlando City (4-0-1, 12 points) on Sunday...
Singer Zachary Zortman gave the performance of his life while a surgeon dissected his brain. During a six-hour operation to remove a tumor, Zortman, 29, lay on his side, awake — his skull cut open in a scene out of ‘Hannibal.’ He proceeded to croon his favorite songs, including “Thinking Out Loud.” “I usually perform...
It barely had started before the Red Bulls grabbed all the momentum Saturday — the result of a gruesome injury to a Columbus Crew star — and took a share of first place in the Eastern Conference. Crew midfielder Artur broke his wrist after he blocked a blistering cross by Red Bulls wingback Kemar Lawrence...
With the way the Mets have hit — or not hit — their starting pitchers have had to be near-perfect. Jacob deGrom wasn’t even close in Saturday’s 3-1 loss to Washington. “When you get beat 3-1 and you think you got blown out, that’s not good,’’ manager Terry Collins said. “Our pitching staff has kept...
The walking, limping, wounded Mets still had Yoenis Cespedes out of the lineup at the start of Saturday’s game with the Nationals at Citi Field. When will the Mets’ right-handed threat return to the lineup from his left hamstring ailment? “I don’t know. He’s getting treatment like he did yesterday,” said manager Terry Collins, who...
Best-selling Russian crime writer Boris Akunin never quite trusted Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”: “A ghost? Seriously? I thought that one day, when I become a writer, I’ll sort it out.” So he has, in “Hamlet: A Version,” at the Theatre of St. Clement’s through May 7. An outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, the writer, born Grigol Chkhartishvili...
The new Netflix show “Girlboss” promised fun, fashion and feminism. The series, which premiered Friday, is loosely based on the “#Girlboss” book by Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso. The show had been hailed by publications like Glamour for refusing to dilute its feminist message, and Business Insider once praised Amoruso herself for “making feminism cool...
Since 1980, voters for the Rookie of the Year awards have been allowed to pick a first-through-third on their ballots rather than just a winner. In that time, the Yankees have managed two winners — Dave Righetti in 1981 and Derek Jeter in 1996 — but only once in the near four decades have they...