Dear John: You’re an a–. You just dug your own virtual grave. You think bitcoin is a joke? Wake up, old man, the world has changed without you. Ron Insana of CNBC just destroyed his reputation over his last bitcoin article and so did you. The hate mail is just beginning. Good luck, old fool....
Mayor de Blasio likes using taxpayer money to create “good-paying” local jobs — unless he’s campaigning. De Blasio’s re-election bid has spent $1.27 million at businesses headquartered or located outside the five boroughs, according to campaign finance records through Aug. 28. That’s nearly half of roughly $2.7 million shelled out by the campaign, including outstanding...
A Staten Island lawmaker who praised Moscow during an overseas trip last week claims she was trying to learn about Russian culture for her constituents. “She felt it was important to learn the culture of the people she represents,” state Sen. Diane Savino’s Chief of Staff Robert Cataldo told the Staten Island Advance on Saturday....
OAKLAND, Calif. — ArDarius Stewart knows what it will feel like to score his first NFL touchdown because he sort of already did. The rookie Jets wide receiver reached the end zone last week … for a moment. In the third quarter, Stewart dove for the pylon for what was initially ruled a 9-yard touchdown....
Those who know quarterback whisperers when they see and hear one expect Jared Goff one day to be saying exactly what Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins is saying today about Sean McVay. “I was certainly a younger player when he first started leading me at the quarterback position,” Cousins told Serby Says. “I think we grew...
A jury awarded a Brooklyn landlord $250,000 after she sued the city for an arrest that left her shackled to a hospital bed for 17 days. Karen Brim alleged that the NYPD roughed her up in the stairwell of her Flatbush building in 2012 as they pursued four teens who had been hanging out on...
A volunteer who worked in the student store at a Brooklyn high school had a doggone odd way of acting with students: He barked. Students who bought candy or other items at Leon Goldstein HS in Sheepshead Bay called William Ferraro “weird.” He rubbed their hands when giving change, making some girls uncomfortable, and then...
Nets rookie Jarrett Allen’s mother Cheryl raised him to think of others, and he already has shown that before ever suiting up for a game — giving back in his adopted Brooklyn home, as well as putting the team’s needs ahead of his own. Last week Allen welcomed a competitor for the center job with...
The company’s affiliates on two other continents have also seen their data compromised.
During last year’s campaign, The New York Times justified its biased coverage of Donald Trump by saying he was the “abnormal” candidate while Hillary Clinton was the “normal” one. Oh, what a difference a year makes. Now it’s President Trump who is doing bipartisan deals with congress and trying to rally the world against North...
The state Board of Regents just made it easier to get certified to teach in New York public schools — just weeks after trying to shoot down a far better alternative-certification reform by the SUNY Charter Institute. As retired teacher Larry Sand noted in Friday’s Post, there’s no general shortage of teachers in this country:...
President Trump better not have any allergies, because New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his band of headline-hungry, progressive state AGs are sure to sue if the prez so much as sneezes. Their latest: a court challenge to Trump’s delay of an Obama-planned hike in penalties for car-makers who don’t meet fuel standards. The...
One night in the early ’70s, a singer named Betty Rhodes was performing at the New York Improv on West 44th Street, which then featured comedians and singers. Richard Pryor was there, and as Rhodes sang, he called over a waitress he knew named Liz Torres and said, “Watch this.” He went to the bathroom...
No team leaves spring training dreaming of entering the postseason through the wild-card back door, which offers nine innings of win-or-go-home ball. Yet at this juncture of the season, the wild-card ticket beats ending the season, and the way the Yankees are playing lately, they would have to like their chances in a do-or-die game...
For those who believe the Rangers winning the Stanley Cup constitutes a miracle — with one in the past 77 years supporting that proposition — then the club’s scheduled preseason team-building trip to Lake Placid bodes well for 2017-18. The Blueshirts, who have eight days to fill between their final exhibition game in Philadelphia on...
A Hail-Mary prayer was answered. Feleipe Franks connected with Tyrie Cleveland on a 63-yard pass to propel No. 24 Florida to a stunning 26-20 victory over No. 25 Tennessee on Saturday in Tallahassee, Fla. It obviously didn’t make this Tennessee fan too happy.
Seamus Mullen, the chef behind Spanish-inflected Manhattan hot spots Tertulia and El Colmado, boasts that there are many benefits to living at 60 Water, the plush Dumbo address where he moved in April. His two-bedroom apartment features views of lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge, as well as an open kitchen with a five-burner stove....
The watch continues. On the final Giants’ injury report before Monday’s home opener against the Lions, Odell Beckham Jr. was listed as questionable with the sprained ankle that has sidelined him since the second week of the preseason. The wide receiver was a limited participant in practice Thursday and Friday and was limited again for...
A tidal wave of booze and beer is flooding St. Marks Place, neighbors complain. Despite a state law that is supposed to limit the number of places selling hard liquor, beer and wine to only three within a 500-foot radius, dozens of gin mills exist cheek-by-jowl on the East Village street. A proposal for yet...
The city kills hundreds of raccoons and other critters for rabies tests only to find the vast majority aren’t infected. The Health Department tested 662 raccoons for rabies between 2014 and 2016 — but just 18 had the deadly viral disease, officials said. Only 23 of all 1,248 animals euthanized and tested during that time...
More than 1,000 diehard fans of rap group Insane Clown Posse gathered in Washington DC on Saturday to protest the FBI’s classification of them as a gang. The band’s followers, called Juggalos, rallied in front of the Lincoln Memorial in a show of strength and unity. ICP is suing the Department of Justice to lift...
A Brooklyn real estate broker desperate to unload her $1.9 million Williamsburg condo before nearby construction obliterated its “money views” of Manhattan lied to secure the sale, the buyers claim. Kristin Thomas-Senior admitted the views from the bedrooms of her 1,460-square-foot pad would be blocked, but claimed the living room and kitchen would still have...
Disgraced ex-congressman Michael Grimm is set to announce a bid to win his old seat back, according to reports. Grimm, who was released from federal prison 16 months ago, was convicted of tax fraud in 2014. He served seven months in the slammer after a probe into his political fundraising led to charges that he...
Air conditioning broke down often at the Florida nursing home where eight elderly people died last week in the sweltering aftermath of Hurricane Irma, a former senior employee said. Cristina Bichachi, the former business development director at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, told the Associated Press that the air conditioning went on the fritz...
All the world’s eyes are on the Korean Peninsula, but not only because of Kim Jong Un’s controversial nuclear missile tests. South Korea is set to host the Winter Olympics in February. Scheduled for Feb. 8-25, the games are planned to take place in Pyeongchang, a city of 44,000 people just 50 miles from the...