January 27, 2014

Super Bowl ticke🌊t prices plummet 🍨

So much for being the most expensive Super Bowl ever. With ticket prices in a freefall, seats for Sunday’s MetLife Stadium matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Bron🅘cos could...

ಌ Fireman’s new hot property

One of the city’s most successful restaurateurs has laid claim to a giant space that was long run by another titan of the eatery business. Shelly Fireman, creator of long-running,...  🐠

  Mom, grandma ꦬroot for Bro🎀ncos star Thomas from prison

It is a Southern drawl that wishes it could 🌄sing outside so the world could hear how proud she is of her son, Demaryius Thomas, five days away fro🍎m playing...

Sherman 'Nets' courtside seats at Brooklyn game

Richard Sherman’s close-up in New York began with a front-row seat in Brooklyn. The Seahawks cornerback, ♛who became a national talking point for his postgame rant in praise of himself...

Bat Clemen🦹s threw at Piazza in World Series for sale 🐈

Fans⛄ of baseball history and woodworking will soon have quite an enviable piece of memorabilia to bid on. The remaining barre💞l of the bat Roger Clemens threw at Mike Piazza...

Something cheesy in Philly -- and it isn’t steak 🦩

There was a distinct impression in t🙈he Philadelphia office of the Census Bureau that someone wanted the unemployment rate to drop in the months before the 20ꦺ12 presidential election, according...

 The president’s ‘inequ𝄹ality’ absurdities

Pres🌄ident Obama’s State of the Union Address is expected to focus heavily on income inequality. Swiping rather liberally from Mayor de Blasio’s playbook, the president will likely imply that the...

 Democrats stacked ൩Bridgegate paneꦕl

Instead of getting to the truth of the Bridgegate affair, the new Legislative Select Committee on Investigation is looking more likely to obscure or di𝐆🙈stort the facts. I voted in...

💧 5 of the best celebrity-inspired hashtags

The latest trend in social media? Celebrity-inspired hashtags. Because you can’t really be a true A-lister until you’ve trended on Twitter, we rounded up s▨ome of the best hashtag memes... 𝔍

🐻 Nets lose heartbreaker to Raptors♔, 104-103 

All the Nets needed to do was make an inbounds pass. Instead, they threw away the game. Deron Williams’ pass intended for Joe Johnson was picked off with 1꧃0.6 seconds... 𒁃

John Kerry’s make-believ🉐e foreign policy

Peddling his “new diplomacy” to business leaders from across the globe in Davos, Switzerland, the other day, Secretary of State John Kerry said𒀰 there is no term to accurately describe...

 The ‘war on women’ sinks t💎o a new low

Mike Huckabee just became a field general in the war on women. He inadvertently won his promotion with one sentence at the Republic✱an Nationa🍃l Committee winter meeting. To wit: “If...

Goofy ‘Stop Hitting You🅺rself’ falls short over🐎all

One look at the decadent ’30s mansion where “Stop Hitting Yourself” is set, and it’s hard not to gasp. A giant dollar sign flashes in the backg🙈round, melted cheese is...

 Re🎃eling Is♌landers fall to Bruins for third straight loss 

So the line in the sand might instead be drawn in snow, as the Islanders have very quickly run out of excuses and are quickly running out of time aඣs...

There’s dumb, and then there’s Super Bowl Media Day du🌊mb

Think of Super Bowl Media Day as the first reality TV show. It’s “Jersey Shore” and “Real Housewives” w✨ith a dash of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.” It’s Twitter gone...

⛎ Giants, Jets owners eye ‘cold’ Bowl every 10 years

♉ ⛦ Super Bowl XLVIII hasn’t even been played yet, but owners of the Giants and Jets are so convinced it will be a success they hope to host one every 10...

 🍎 Calif. gallery duo cops to hawking fake Dami🍎en Hirst works

A pair of Caꦗlifornia art scammers pleaded guilty Monday to selling hundreds of thousands of dollars of counterfeit Damien Hirst artwork out of their Laguna Beach art gallery. Vincent Lopreto,...

ꦦ Christie: Super Bowl is in Jersey!

Yo, let’s be clear about one thing. The Super Bowl is in New Jersey. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made that ♛point in a tongue-and-cheek manner Mondayꩲ at an appearance...

US looks at ways t🧸o prevent spying on its spying

ꦗ WASHINGTON — The US government is looking at ways to prevent anyone from 💟spying on its own surveillance of Americans' phone records. As the Obama administration considers shifting the collection...

Baseball offseason nearly over, but que♐stions remain 

We won’t con you. The main events of this baseball offseason have conc🅺luded. Bud Selig removed Alex Rodriguez from the game ꦓfor a full season. Robinson Cano, Jacoby Ellsbury and...

Don’t 📖expe𒅌ct Kam Chancellor to hit brakes 

Meet the boom part of the Legion of Boom. He is Seahawks strong safety Kam Chancellor, one of the hard💟est hitters in the NFL. “I always tell guys on my...

Creighton's McDermott to test St. John's

Doug McDermott’s wallet tol🐼d him to go pro, but his heart said stay in college. Creighton is thrilled the 6-foot-8 star senior from Iowa was content eating cafeteria food for...

🍬 Margaux brings new life to old Jack Kerouac hangout

🔯 On a recent Thursday, on a night so cold that delivery is the only sensible option, Margaux, a 3-week-old restaurant within the recently restored Marlton Hotel, is overflowing with beautiful...

Expect frigid t💮emps for Rangers-Islanders

The Rangers and Islanders remain on schedule to battle for the championship of the Arctic Vortex Division Wednesday night at ♎Yankee Stadium, even with the forecast of frigid weather conditions....

🍬 Record count of private planes touching down for Super Bowl

  The Seahawks and Broncos may still be a few days from combat, but already Super Bowl XLVIII has crowned a clear winner: t꧃he Tri-State Area’s private aviati🥀on arena. Over this...

Yonkers duo jailed for bribery won't get new trial

A federal judge on Monday shot down a 𝔍new trial request by a former Yonkers councilwoman and her “infatuated” political me🍌ntor who were sent to the slammer for accepting nearly...

Wife LaLa says Carmelo will 'definitely' stay with Knicks

The Knicks are held hostage by the burning question of whether🍃 Carmelo Anthony is staying or leaving, and so far th🐻e star forward has been coy and noncommittal. But the...

Tips from tra♛vel-agent-turned-Broadway producer Jim Strong ⛎

For more than 30 years, Jim Strong has helped travelers secure the choicest rooms, best upgrades and plushest air♕plane seats as president of Strong Travel Services. Now, in partnership with...

Rep. Gri꧟mm associate has to give up Rolex to feds

A shifty associate of embattled Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm will have to cough up a g🍒littering Rolex watch to the f✤eds after his mob-connected bail suretor yanked a $30,000...

Seahawks QB may be🍰 undersized, but he keeps coming up big 𓃲

 Russell Okung stands 6-foot-5 and, as the starting left tackle for the Seahawks, gets paid to protect the quarterback. But the first time h𓆉e saw Russell Wilson,﷽ he barely could...

𝔉 LIRR-to-Grand Central plan could be $1.5B more than expected

The massive construction project to🔯 bring the LIRR to Grand Central Terminal could take at least two years longer and cost $1.5 billion more than expected, MTA officials acknowledged Monday....

Broncos defensive unit co👍u🐠ld make Super difference 

Imagine , if you will, defense𒀰 winning Super Bowl XLVIII Sunday at MetLife Stadium. Sounds feasible, doesn’t it? The Seahawks were, after all, the No. 1-ranked defense in ꦡthe NFL...

꧃  The $500,000 Super Bowl package

🦩 It’s the Hail Mary of Super Bowl packages. A New Jersey-based charter and leasing service has come up with the ultimate Game Day pipe dream: a half-million dollar transportation package... 𒆙

Set sail for ships and giggles on Maui's Ka'anapali Beach

 "A corn dog🌃 saved my life,” confesses Marvin Otsuji — a Moloka’i-born canoe racing captain who’s regaling fans with one tale of the sea after the next on western Maui’s... 🍃

 N.Y. Super Bowl blood runs dee🔯p for Mara 𒐪

He was 29 days past 𓂃his eighth birthday the last time a game to decide the NFL championship was played in Greater New York. John Mara went to Yankee Stadium...

Knife madman: 'Noise' drove me to slay family

🎃 The illegal-immig🌌rant madman charged with massacring his cousin’s wife and four children said he committed the Brooklyn murders because they had tried to move him into a noisy “mahjong spot,”...

‘Pot Roast’ Knighton jokes a win could seal soup deal 🎀 ๊

Terrance Knighton🗹 is hoping for more than a Super Bowl victory to come out of this week. The personable and playful Broncos defensive tackle, of course, wants the Lombardi Trophy...

ဣ Officer indicted in fatal shooting of football player looking for help

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A g♋rand jury has indicted a Charlotte police officer for voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed former Flori෴da A&;M football player. The indictment was...

Demaryiu🅺s on Sherman: Everyone has a weakness

Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas had no interest in getting into a trash-tal🦄king contest with S൩eahawks cornerback Richard Sherman through the media Monday, but Thomas does not sound intimidated by...

Creole vs. Cajun: Two Louisiana cuisin🌳es square off 💫

If you ask two Louisiana gourmands the difference between Creole and Cajun food, you are in for an endless debate𓄧. “Creole food is genteel city food, and Cajun food is...

Don't sell The Other QB Russell Wilson short

The name on the marquee was John Elway. The year was 1987 and the place was the Rose Bowl. John Madden and Pat Summerall were👍 in the CBS booth and...

Sneak peek at the Super Bowl's show-stealing ads

 Super Bowl marketers are kicking into high gear this week. With⭕ just days to go before the big game, ad🐈vertisers are looking to capitalize on heightened interest in the ad...

Relic of late pope's blood stolen in Italy

ROME — Police are searching an Italian mountain area beloved by Pope John Paul II for a sto💎len relic bearing his blood. Vatican Radio decried the "sacrilegious theft" from ti♔ny...

Brad Stevens wowing 🌳his Celtics bosses, despite the losses 🌌

BOSTON – Doc Rivers was gone to the Clippers. Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce were in B🎀rooklyn. The Celtics were rebuilding, not from the ground floor but from somewhere beneath...

Kni🍨cks want payback vs. Ce🙈ltics

The last time the Knicks hosted Boston, they suffered a🧔 41-point blowout loss on Dec. 8. Facing༒ the Celtics Tuesday in the Garden, they will be looking to get some...

'Brokeback' opera set for debut in Spanish capital

MADRID — It was a short st𝓡ory, then a Hollywood movie, and now the tragic tale of two cowboys in love is being reinvented as "Brokeback Mountain" — the opera....

💫 Tacopina slaps Bernie Kerik with $5M d💮efamation suit

High-profile attorney Joe Tacopina has filed a $5 million defamation suit against Bernard Kerik, claiming the convicted felon and former NYPD commissioner fed “outrageous” lies to two New♐ York reporters...

Yankees' new setup man ready for bigger role post-Mo

The Yankees had almost daily reminders last season Mariano Rivera was heading into the sunset, with farewell gifts and ceremonie𝐆s wherev𒆙er the team traveled. Now, though, the reality of life...

Pressure on 'New Girl' to entertain Super Bowl audience

It෴’s not easy to produce a popular sitcom, but imagine how much more pressure it is to produce an 🧜episode of that sitcom to follow the Super Bowl — TV’s...

Former phenom Convey 'less selfish' as he joins Red Bulls

From his Philly roots to his playing 🥃for archrival D.C. U🐟nited to his single-handedly knocking favored New York out of the 2010 postseason, many Red Bulls fans had come to...

Prince sues fans for posting 'bootlegged' recordings online

Prince may love his millions of fans, but he doesn't love them posting his live performances online. According to RadarOnline.com, the superstar has filed lawsuiꦅts against two mega-fans, and he...

꧙Avalanches bury only road to Alaska city

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Avalanches have cut off an Alaska city, and the only highway in could be closed for at least a week, if not "much longer," state Transport💯ation Department🐽...

Jets happy to share facility wit✃h Broncos, but no peeking

//twitter.com/nyjets/status/42783247♚4886893568 John Idzik’s office has floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Jets’ practice fields. This week, that’s a view he’ll avoid. With the Broncos using the Jets’ training center to practice thi🎐s...

First image of new 'Doctor' in character stirs up Twitter

The first image of new “Doctor Who” star Peter Capaldi in character just hit the web, and the Whoniverse (a.k.a. Twitter) is expl🎃oding with opinions on the new Time Lord’s... ꦿ

Islanders' Visnovsky returns from sixth concussion

Th🧸is wasn’t concussion number one, or two, or three for Lubomir Visnovsky, but number six. So it’s not a stretch to understand the concern the Islanders defenseman had before h♕is...

What Jets GM learned helping Seahawks 𒀰build Super Bowl team

 John Idzik plans on finding some time this week t🃏o see some old friends. The Jets general manager will take time out from his te𒐪am’s personnel meetings to visit the...

൩  Apple has r𝓰ecord sales, still disappoints Wall Street

💦 Apple reported record results on Monday — yet fickle investors punished the stock, send𒈔ing it plummeting close to 9 percent in aftermarket trading on fears that the current quarter is...

The day in photos

India's independence day, Cambodian protests, a mass wedding, an overnight marathon, a color✅ful 5k run and more. 

🅷 Ri꧃ta Hayworth and Orson Welles, together again on Blu-ray

A handsome new restoration of Orson Welles' "The Lady From Sh🔥anghai'' underwritten by Sony and The Film Foundation arrives Tuesday in a dual-format DVD/Blu-ray release from the TCM Vault Collection....

Cops surprised by bag of snakes left on Brooklyn sidewalk 🌌 

Three large Boa constrictors were found trying to slither out of a duffle bag that mysteriously ended up in a garbage c♛an near a Brooklyn auto-body shop Monday, authorities said....

 💮 Law license refused for disgraced ex-jo✤urnalist Glass

💞 SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court on Monday denied a law license to a disgrac💯ed former journalist who was caught fabricating dozens of stories for major national magazines. The...

Judge settles family feud over slain man's body

A Brooklyn judge was forced to play Solomon over the body 🍷of a man left in the morgue for more than nine months while his mom and common-law wife duked...

🐷Jorge Posada still catching major league starters

 //ins🐼tagram.com/p/jfOBGeNJt_/ Jorge Posada hasn’t thrown away his catching glove. The Yankees great is now helping Nationals starter Gio Gonzalez prepare for the upcoming seasoꦆn by catching him during offseason workouts...

Tegan and Sara's Grammy-worthy tweets

Canadian rock duo Tegan and Sara made their pre꧃sence felt at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards show — without even being there. They performed the jingle for a peppy Oreos commercial,...

Half a hallelu🅺jah for Church: Download🍌s of the Week 

Downloads of the Weekཧ Eric Church “Give Me Back My Hometown” ★★ Church is one of the sharpest young male country singers — and no one’s sung the words “Pizza Hut”... ꩵ

'I could have died': Ice plunge dog owner recounts frigid ordeal

 The woman who plunged into an icy Central Park lake to rescue her pet pooch feared for her life in the frigid water — but is still doggone su🤪re she...

$240 million and a great s🐎eat for the🌞 Grammys

/𒈔/instagram.com/p/jqMkhꦿinDGQ/# Who said Robinson Cano would enjoy some off-the-diamond perks from switching to Jay Z as his agent? Oh, that's right: Everybody. Cano was the other guy who got to...

Carmelo talks ominously of only g🅘oal♓ in free agency

After repeatedly taking his Knicks team to task throughout the season, Carmelo Anthony reiterated points and paydays aren’t enough to interest him, that the only thing he wants now is... ♏

Fashion's hottest sales of the week

Andrea Carrano 1326 Third Ave., between 75th and 7💎6th streets Sale: Jan. 27-30. Mon-Fꩲri. 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m. / Sat. 11 a.m.-7:00 p.m. / Sun. 12-6 p.m. Deep discounts on women’s...

Hillary Clinton's 'regret' over Benghazi

A year after saying it didn’t matter what sparked the vicious attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Hillary Rodh𒅌am Clinton is calling the incident the “biggest regret” of...

Pastis not closing 🌌-- yet

Fans of steak frites and roast chicken have a reprieve. Pastis, Keith McNally’s Meatpacking District hot spot, was set to close at the end of January, much 🐟to the dismay...

Audit claims overtime abuse at Metro-North, LIRR 🅰

Metro-North Railroad conductors collected overtime pay for time spent changing their clothes, washing their hands and traveling to and from work — and the extra cash was being funded with༒... ꦐ

ꦡ Speed demon busted after roar𝕴ing 113 mph on Thruway 

A mani♒ac from the Bronx was busted for driving a BMW the wrong way on the Thruway upstate — at more than 100 mph with no lights on about 3:30...

Opera singer 'can't work' over uncontrollable flatulence

An opera diva claims her career might be over -- because she can’t belt out big notes without passing gas. Singer Amy Herbst is suing an A﷽rmy hospital over allegedly...

Microsoft, AMD working on Star꧋ Trek-like holodecks 🍬

Star Trek fans will be familiar with the simulated-reality rooms, holodecks, that allow you to be immersed in computer generated world with characters and an environment you can interact 🐽with....

🔯 NBA Power Rankings: Kevin Durant makes his MVP case 

When Russell Westbrook required a third rec♕ent surgery on his right knee, it looked as if the Thunder were in serious jeopardy of falling from atop the Western Conference. Then Kevin... ꦰ

﷽ Will ‘Gravity’ win Best Picture Oscar after taking Directors Guild Award?

🐼 “Gravity’’ now officially leads the Best Picture race after winning the highly predictive Directors Guild of America award over the weekend — but its triumph at the Oscars is far...

Grammys draw over 28M viewers ಌ 

The Grammy Awards on Sunday night drew 28.5 million v🏅iewers to CBS, on par with its audience from 2013. It was the second larges🐟t audience for the awards show in...

 💫 Zara to open shop in Financial Distr👍ict

In a giant breakthrough🐲 for the FiDi shopping scene, Spanish sportswear and accessories chain Zara is opening a three-level store at 222 Broadway, across the s��treet from St. Paul’s Chapel...

Man who 'butchered cousin's family' deemed unfit for trial

The Chinese ma⭕dman who murdered his cousin’s wife and their four young children has been deemed incompetent to stand trial and will undergo psychiatric treatment until he’s found fit for...

Post's Top 25: Michigan unlikely contenders again

On Dec. 14, Michigan had lost three of its last six games. It was 6-4. Star center Mitch McGꦑary was out for the season, after undergoing back surgery. The Wolverine๊s...

ཧ ꦛ Stars hit high and low style notes at the Grammys 

The most exciting fashion moment of last night’s Grammys came when someone showed up on the carpet in a clown mask. No, not Madonna — that came later. It was... ꧃

Bomb scare in Manhattan after 🐎tire explosion 

A tire on a hand-truck exploded and sparked a bomb scare in t💙he lobby of a Manhattan apartment building Monday afternoon. The dolly was being used to deliver packages in...

Bitcoin pitchman busted for 'selling $1M in currency to Silk Road'

Federal agents busted a 24-year-old New York pitchman for the burgeoning bitcoin industry for alleg♔edly scheming to sell the virtual currency to members of an underground drug operation. DEA and...

 Knicks rewind: How offense is soaring without Baꦓrgnan🅺i 

Here are three observations from the Knicks' second straight viಌctory, a 110-103 win over the Lakers on Sunday at the Garden. Even though they beat an injury-ravaged Lakers club, it...

Rosie O'Donnell set for guest spot on 'The View'

Rosie O’Donnell is returning to “The View,” the ABC talk show she abruptly left in 2007 after clashing with her co-hosts and producers. O’Donnell wiᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚll be a guest on the...

German newspaper publishes Nazi Heinrich Himmler's photos, letters

BERLIN — One black-and white ൩photo shows Heinrich Himmler on an idyllic family outing, holding his wife's hand⛦ while his blond, pigtailed daughter is picking flowers. Others show the SS...

How to spend Super Bowl week in New🎉ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ York

Football fans will be able to score bi♏g all week with a slꩲew of grid-themed goodies and events in the metro area. Take an exciting jaunt up Super Bowl Boulevard...

💖 Tarantino fi🍸les lawsuit over leaked script 

Famed director Quentin Tarantino, fuming over the leak of his movie script, sued Gawker on Monday for allegedly violating copyrig𝕴ht protections. Gawker Media’s snarky New York websites, 🧸Gawker and Defamer,... 

Nets rewind: Boston has a favorite -- and that's the Truth

BOSTON – Here are my three thoughts on the Nets’ 85-79 victory over the Celtics on Sunday night: 1. Anyone who was inside TD Garden ꦿor watched it on television...

Taylor Swift thought she won Album 💯of the Year

And the Grammy goes to . . . not Taylor Swift. When the countryღ crooner didn’t win the Album of the Year award for “Red,” her shocked reaction was turned into a...

Giants co✃mplete coaching staff makeover

The Giants’ offensive coaching staff is now set, and thܫe majo🥂r upheaval continues with two assistants changing roles. Sean Ryan, the quarterbacks coach the past two years, moves to work...

The most unlikely heroes in Superౠ Bowl history 

As Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium draws near꧟, The Post ranks th🦩e 10 most unlikely heroes in the history of the big game:

🐓  Silicon Valley honcho compares ‘war on rich’ to Nazi regime

Silicon Valley venture capital pioneer Tom Perkins —co-founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers — is persona non grata for his comments that wealthy Ameri🐠cans are being vi꧒ctimized and persecution...

Super Bow🧔l experiences, from the players who lived them

You've seen all the pageantry and plays that go into the Super Bowl. Ever wonder what it's like in the thick of the spectacle? NFL players share the🍌ir one-of-a-kind experiences:... 𒅌

💛 NJ Democrats to merge Bridgegate p𓂃robes

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Democrats will pool their resources by merging separate legislative investigations in🥂to allegations that Gov. Chris Christie's aides bl♍ocked traffic lanes near the George Washington Bridge...

Florida congreꦉssman to🌞 resign after cocaine bust

WASH🀅INGTON - Republican U.S. Representative Trey Radel, who was charged in November with buying cocaine, plans to resign from Congress on Monday, his office said. Radel, 37, elected to the U.S....

Cops release suspect sketch in attack on gꦬay journalist

Cops released a sketch of ༒a man suspected of beating an openly gay journalist in Midtown earlier this month. The attacker punched the 46-year-old victim, who fell to the ground,...

Jamie Dimon, KKR boss agree to nearly $1🅷0M settlement

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon and a former top lieutenant have finally agreed to a multimillion-dollar handshake over a hiring dispute that entangled the largest US lender, a giant privꦑate-equity firm... 🌱

Boston bombing survivors among Obama's guests at State of the Union

WASHINGTON  — Two survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing and an openly gay NBA player are among t🌳he guests who will sit with first lady Mi✤chelle Obama Tuesday when President...

Sochi🍸 cost $51B,🔜 $49B more than Salt Lake City Olympics

SOCHI, Russia — Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny on Monday launched a website to 🍃publish a wide range of da🅷ta pointing to corruption in Sochi. Russia has...

Another Marlboro man d𒁏ies from smoking🐈-related disease

🐈 LOS ANGELES — Eric Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Mar💃lboro man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, has died. He was 72. Lawson died Jan. 10 at his home...

Grammys misspell Monteith's name during tribute

Oops - Grammy producers have copped criticism from fans of Cory Monteith on social media after they accidentally spelled his name wrong. While "Glee" fans were moved that the🌃 late...

Kim Jong Un ordered execution of uncle's entire family

𝓀 Murderous North Korean nutjob Kim Jong Un ordered the executions of the entire family of the uncle he earlier had killed, including women, kids and the country’s ambassadors t✤o Cuba...

Naked student 'high on shrooms' before fall

A naked NYU freshman 𝐆high on hallucinogenic mushrooms plunged to his death from the roof of his dorm in the East Village early Monday — the first day of the...

‘Ride Along’ wins second straight box off𒁏ice week with $21.2M

“Ride Along,” a buddy-cop comedy starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube, raced to the top of the weekend box-office charts for the second week in a row, collecting $21.2 mi🍸llion...

Twice as many arthritic elderly women than men in NYC ♈

 Nearly half o🦹f the city’s elderly women — 47 percent — are afflicted with osteoarthritis of the hips or knees, a new Health Department survey reveals. Women ageᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚd 65 and...

Traffic agent 🐷charged with theft of rented car ๊

An NYPD traffic-enforcement agent was arrested when cops found her driving a rental car that was reported stolen after𝄹 she refused to give the ride back to the dealer, authorities...

Planned 7 train extension faces deꦡ🐭lays: MTA

♔ The planned extension of the No. 7 train to the far west side of Manhattan is facing delays, the MTA says. The final date for the $2.4 billion project --...

 🌠 T💯he execrable state of the union

 As undignified꧟ as it is unedifying and unnecessary, the vulga🦹r State of the Union circus is again at our throats. America would be a sweeter place if the Framers of...

 De Blasio, C꧟uomo are boꦓth wrong on pre-K funding 

Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo spent the first few weeks of de Blasio’s mayoralty bickering over how to pay for universal pre-kindergaওrten. The mayor wants to raise taxes on...

Wall Street's bad bet on Hillary for 2016

The big Wall Street types will tell you that, as bad as things have gotten with President Obama and his disast♎rous economic policies, help could be on the way in...

ObamaCare's insurance company bailout

On Thursday, Moody’s rating agency downgraded its outlook for the health-insurance industry from stable to negative, blaming ObamaCare. Feꦜw will shed any tears for insurance companies — but John Q...

Harry Connick Jr. makes 'Idol' watchable again

At the end of last season, “American Idol” was a show in freefall. Alienated by🦩 the producers’ cynical, staged and prolonged catfight between judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj —...

 Civil War re-enactors entan✃gled in dramedy ‘Row Afꩵter Row’

The colorful world of historical re-enactment is tailor-m𝔍ade for the stage. Adults dressing up to re-create past events? That’s like theater where the actors would also be the audience —...

ꦆ Soap operas back away from the edge, thrivin♊g again

It’s a back-from-the-dead plot twist worthy of a soap opera. While only a few years ago the daytime drama w🏅as an endangered species ♎(R.I.P. “Guiding Light,” “As the World Turns,”... 

Daily Blotter

The Bronx Police released surveillance video of a suspect they believe to be responsible for killing a Wakefield man in his apartmen𝕴t. Th🎃e video shows victim Jercar Brooks standing in...

 🅺 Veggie fav kale will be served at Super Bowl

The chefs at MetLife Stadium are pul🍒ling a quarterback sneak on football fans for the big day — slipping healthy kale into the menu along with other more typical gri✤diron...

 NYPD plans high security on 𒆙Super Bowl Bou🙈levard

The NYPD will h🉐ave a laser focus on the pop-up Super Bowl theme park set up in the heart of Midtown this we⛦ek — flooding the area with nearly as...

 🧸  Celebrate Israel parade to include moonb𝓡ound spacecraft model

New York City’s Celebrate Israel Parade is going to take an out-of-this-world twist th💫is year — with a sneak peek at a space capsule that Israel is designing to send...

Alabama gambling operator wants to open Caꦏtskills casino

An Alabama-based gambling operator with ties to the Rev. Al Sharpton is launching a splashy campaign to open a cas💧ino in New York, The Post has learned. Greenetrack is run...

 Police comm꧙anders shifting focus from crimeಞ to traffic safety

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