September 14, 2019
ꦏ FDNY firefighters rescue four people trapped on fire truck ride
Four people got trapped in a fake fire rig at a Staten Island fair on Saturday -- and a team of genuine FDNY ꦫfirefighters rushed to the scene to rescue...
How Daniel Jones' path could become similar to Josh Allen
The development of highly touted young quarterbacks is always a fascinating study. Do they ꦇget on the field right away, or sit back and watch an established veteran for a...
🔴 Warm wea♍ther delays fall foliage in the Catskills and Adirondacks
Peepers keep your eyes peeled: Lea🔯f-viewing season is underway, with fall hues arriving — albeit a bit late — i♛n the the Catskills and Adirondacks. Fall colors across the state...
Jets 'growing pains' downside of playing it safe in NFL preseason
The way most NFL coa꧃ches treated the preseason, it would be easy to conclude it doesn’t really matter unless ꧋you’re a rookie or a free agent trying to make the...
Despe𒉰rate 9/11 widow ups reward for stolen w꧟edding rings
A 9/11 widow has upped the reward for the return of her stolen wedding rings to $10,500. Monica Iken had used diamonds from her wedding ring wi🧸t🃏h husband Michael, a...
💛 Rajai Davis comes through in a pinch for Mets
The Mets are accustomed to a man named Davis delivering, but he goes by J.D. Here was Rajai Davis thrust into an important spot Saturday night: bases lo𝓡aded, two outs...
ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ Manhattan horse ride raises awareness of vet suicide epidemic
It was a 20-mile ride to healing. Fourteen veterans on horseback accompanied by the NYPD’s mounted unit ma𓆉de the annual “Trail to Zero” trek Saturday morniཧng to raise awareness of...
💛 Texans have plenty of r🎃eason to worry about Deshaun Watson
For what must have felt like minutes — not seconds — to anxious Texans fans on Monday night, Deshaun Watson was suspended in mid-air after taking a punishing hit as...꧒
ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ Cubs injury chaos has fantasy owners scrambling for answer🃏s
Whether you are looking at fantasy baseball or reality, nothing derails your quest f🌃or a championship worse than late-season injuries. Your replacement options are extremely limited, and as you find...
💜 New Yorkers flock to Central Park to play with birds
They were winging it in Central Park Saturday. More than 400 people🎐 turned out for the New York City park rangers Raptor Fest, an annuaꦐl event that aims to inform...
NYCHA crime surges as Harlem's Wagner Houses become gang battleground
New ♔York City’s beleaguered housing projects are as bloody as they are broken. While the city enjoys a 4% decrease in serious crime so far this year, NYC Housing Authority... ܫ
ꦐ 😼 Why some NFL Week 1 hot takes will be so wrong
Week 2 h♚as mercifully arrived to give us a better idea as to how many of our m🐠any Week 1 overreactions will have a realistic chance of ringing true. The...
Teachers reveal top high school's secret to high pass rates: cheating
At highly rated Maspeth High School in Queens, s💞tudents know they can play hooky, skip course work, flunk tests —ౠ and still pass. They call it the “Maspeth Minimum,” meaning...
Just ban the cos♉tumed creeps in Times Square 🔜
🔯 Enough, already: The city needs to find a way to clear all the Elmos, Batmen, Minnie Mice and alꦇl the rest out of Times Square. They’re a public nuisance verging...
Bronx homeowner charged with 'corpse concealment' for hogtied body
Th✱e owner of the Bronx apartment where police discovered a man slashed and bound with duct tape has been arrested in connection with his death, cops said Saturday. Charles Votaw,...
The assault on ‘contract employees’ isn't about helping workers at all
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is talking about “protecting” New Yorkers from employment as independent contractors. He’d be wise to see h♛ow it works out in California, first. “More people s♑hould be...
Doriaღn relief suspended in Bahamas to prepare✱ for Tropical Storm Humberto
Although much weaker than the Category 5 hurricane that devastated Grand💜 Bahama and Abaco islands, Humberto on Saturday followed a similar path for several hours early in the day and...
'Believeland' not ready to give up
CLEVELAND — “Believeland” is cautiously living up to its name. For one more week, at least. The hype that had surrounded the Browns leading into Wee🎶k 1 — on the...
Stanford ꧂is latest elite university linked to Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein gifted Stanf๊ord University $50,000 for its physics p💞rogram, making it the latest elite school to be linked to the late billionaire pedophile, a report said.
New York City public schools 'toothless' on vaping despite national health crisis
While others are going as far as removing bathroom doors and expellཧing students caught just once with e-cigarettes, the nation’s largest district is taking a comparatively lax approach.
Th♕e other side to Jeff McNeil that has become Mets blessing
The play was lost in a haze🐻 of bad Noah Syndergaard pitches and wonder about the righty’s relationship with catcher Wilson Ramos. But the fourth inning Friday night began with...
Over $6K in cash recovered during Queens hoarder house cleanup ♉
Workers recovered $6,200 in American cash and $1,658 in C💙anadian currency in the South Jamaica home.
Shepard inj💫ury prompts NFL to review concussion protoꦰcol
Sterling Shepard’s concussion could lead to a change in NFL policy. The NFL and NFLPA have initiated a𒅌 review of concussion protocols after the Giants’ receiver suffered a concussion last... ꦑ
Michelle Obama chaꦯrging up to $4,20ꦫ0 for tickets to new tour
Former first lady Michelle Obama is coming to Newark Nov. 3 and fans are shelling out big ꧂bucks to hear what she has to say.
ꦗ 🌞 Brett Gardner looks like Yankees legend in masterpiece
TORONTO — Mickey, Willie and … The Brett! For one day, Brett Gardner took over for Duke Snider in the lyrical trilogy of outstanding New York center fielder💛s. Gardner, of...
NYC developers constantly lie ab🧜out how tall their buildings are 💞
🅰 You ain’t dreaming. New York’s toniest buildings really are bigger on the inside than the outside. For a small pool of New York buyers, a floor in the 90s is...
18-karat gold toilet swiped from Churchill's childhood home
Thieves pinched an 18-karat commode from Winston Churchill’s boyhood home Saturday — and immediately bec♓ame public enemies numbers 1 and 2.
Child sex abuse victim ♒nabbed his own abuser, beౠcame FBI agent
When Jim Clemente walked into the Bronx home of ඣhis former summer♕ camp director, it wasn’t for old time’s sake.
Pavel Buchnevich is X-factor on Rangers' revamped top line
Let’s remember this. For all of the good intentions and common sense displayed by David Quinn in anointing Artemi Panarin, Mika Zibanejad and Pavel Buchnevicꦓh as the Rangers’ first line,...
Cops target Canal Street counterfeits ⛄in dramatic raid
🔜 Two dozen New York City Sheriff’s officers descended on Chinatown’s Canal Street on Saturday afternoon, confiscating thousands of allegedly counterfeit designer handbags, watches, belts and sunglasses. The faux bags and... 🐓
Dellin Betances returning✅ leaves big Yankees question
TORONTO — Dellin Betances is joining the 𝄹Yankees on Sunday and Aaron Boone’s hope is the right-handed reliever can build enough arm strength over the next two weeks to possibly...
Christian Yelich blow doesn't have to sink your fantasy season
It was an awful sight, and the timing could not have been any worse. The fantasy playoffs hꦕad just started, and there waಞs Christian Yelich, the reigning NL MVP, on...
C.J. Mosley ruled out in another Jet♚s nightmare
The Jets defense crumbled without C.J. Mosley, and now it will have to play a full game with൩out t💧he standout middle linebacker against a more talented offense. Mosley was ruled...
Bills kicker's wife still angry over controversial Jets hit
The wife of one Biꦓlls player called Jets defensive end Henry Anderson an "embarrassment" for his late hit🍬 on Josh Allen last weekend. The league may have been listening. Anderson...
Owner of apartment where dead man found hog-t♌ied in custody
The man's body was found in an ap♔artment on Creston Avenue near Field Place in Fordham Heights Friday.
'Seberg' a missed opportunity to honor an iconic actress
The intriguing story behin🌟d "Seberg" and the reliable tal🥀ent of its lead actress, Kristen Stewart, promise greatness. But this biopic manages to squander both, reducing the film to a bland...
Why Yankees' greatest playoff fear isn't all that daunting
ꦅ The Rays, Astros, Indians, A’s and Twins began the weekend ranked 1-5 for best ERAs in the AL. The Yankees were sixth. That feels revelatory because the Astros, Yankees and...
Eli Manning opens up: His next Giants chapteꦏr, losing hardship
Iconic Giants quarterback Eli Manning huddles with P🔯ost columnist Steve Serby to tal♛k his immediate future, his legacy and what it is like having the heir apparent franchise QB waiting...
Terry Bradshaw 'can't stand' Antonio Brown, says he pulls teams apart
Pittsburgh Steelers great Terry Bradshaw "wouldn't throw" a pass to Antonio Brown, he said this week amid rape allegations made against the embattled receiver. "I can't stand 🦩players like Antonio...
The secret history behind the world-famous 'Goldfinch' painting
Business is booming for “The Goldfinch,” and it goes beyond the bestselling nov🎃el and Oscar-bait movie that opened in theaters Friday. Centuries before author Donna Tartt came up with her...
'It’s insulting': Yankees fans are pissed about ticket hikes
One fan's 41-game plan in the upper deck cost him a “fan-friendly” $1,664 in 2018, but jumped to $ꦇ2,067 this season, and will cost $2,327 in 2020 -- a 40...
Boomer Esiason, Mike Francesa are showing off WFAN's worst
Despite WFAN’s unsporting drive-time inhabitants, it’s called sports radio. Sunday𝔍 afternoon, Boomer Esiason, aka Weekend Boomer, was, as usual, seen and heard on CBS’ NFL studio show as a꧒ well-comported...
Toeleꩲss man fired by heartless company: Lawsuit
A Hudson Valley immigrant missing his lower left leg and part of his righඣt foot was callously canned after 30 years by his factory bo🌠sses after they refused to let...
𒁏 Peter Thiel and Ann Coulter to headline NYC Fundraꦉiser
A pol from the Kansas cornfields is coming to New York to make it rain. Kris Kobach, a former state♏ Secretary of State, will be the focus of a fundraiser...
Mom found guilty of murdering boyfrie📖nd seeks lighter sentence under new law
In a matter of weeks, Poughkeepsie🅠 mom Nikki Addimando could become the first person in New York state to receive a lighter murder sentence under a new law that shields... ඣ
💎 Brewers vs.𓆉 Cardinals: Bet on this hot pitcher
Where’s the justice? Sam Darnold an☂d Feli🦋city Huffman are both out at least two weeks. Antonio Brown and Lori Loughlin “free” to go? Brewers, on the playoff bubble all year,...
MIT once gifte🍰d Jeffrey Epstein with bizarre, giant marble: report
MIT wined and dined Jeffrey Epstein as it solicited millions of dollars in donations from the conv𝄹icted pedophile -- and once bizarrely gave him a giant marble as a gift,...
Apparently, ‘Never Fౠorget’ doesn’t apply to MLB hierarchy
Call this retroactive fury, if you will,🎉 but my personal world was in a bit of turmoil back on Monday, July 22, so I missed 🍌the news that the Astros...
🌼Trump teases mutual defense pact with Israel
⛄ President Trump is exploring an expanded military 𓆏alliance with Israel -- days ahead of a crucial re-election bid for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump announced the possible pact in a...
Why Bernie Sanders' 'overpopulation' theory is total bunk
Not only does the aging pol peddle failed socialist ideas that are better𒀰 at producing tyranny than prosperity, now he’s recycling the long discredited idea that we are breeding ourselves... 𓆏
Woman's boss harassed her so much it killed her, scathing suit claims
Dr. Inna Shuman was so mentally and physically stressed by a campaign of cruelty conducted by her depart🌠ment chairman that her immune system was compromised, making her susceptible to cancer,...
NHL star 𝐆suspended following🍌 positive cocaine test
WASHINGTON — Washington Capitals forward Evgeny Kuznetsov has been suspended without pay for three regular-season games by the NHL for "inapp🃏ropriate conduct," less than a month after he was banned...
ESPN's beloved 'NFL PrimeTime' returning with major caveat
As Chris Berman ⛎might say:ꦺ 'Back, back, back, back!' ESPN is bringing back “NFL PrimeTime,” hosted by Berman and Tom Jackson — with a caveat. The widely popular highlight show...
Homeland Security offi🔯ce vandalized with swastika graffiti
A Department of Homeland Security office building in Washington, D.C. 🅰was vandalized with a hand-drawn swastika, officials said. The Nazi symbol was discovered Friday on the third floor of the...
Wake up, GOP challengers: This is Trump's party now
The single most important fact of Republican life in 2019 is this𝔍: The GOP is Donald Trump’s party now. When the GOP chose Trump as its presidential cand꧃idate in 2016,...
Boris Johnson's party peddled fake Facebook ads to promote Conservative gov't: report
British Prime Ministeꩲr Boris Johnson's party allegedly funded fake Facebook ads that included an altered news headline casting the Conservative Party in a more positive light. The ad-in-question links to...
💙 Cops help deliver healthy baby outside Bronx police✤ station
They didn't just stand by — they delivered. A trio of cops helped an expecting Bronx mom push out a brand new baby boy -- right on the steps of.♑..
🤪 Social services u♏sed to build character — now they blame society
In the mid-19th century, Charles Loring Brace, the son of a Connecticut school teacher, moved to Neꦍw York, determined to do something about the wave of children he saw living...
Trump to host Otto Warmbier's parents at White House dinner
💙🦩 This just four months after Fred and Cindy Warmbier called Trump's negotiations with dictator Kim Jong Un “a charade.”
Alabama football's 'very alarming' student tracking system
ꦗ Alabama students, meet Big Brother. In a move shades of “1984,” the University of Alabama is tracking students through its Tide Loyalty Points app to see whether they stay the...
Why Secretary Pompeo should be the next Kissinger ꦑ
Soon after President Trump said he’d annou🔥nce his pick to replace John Bolton as national seꦿcurity adviser this week, Washington was abuzz: How about Mike Pompeo? It may be a...
Antonio Brown los💖es h𒁏elmet endorsement amid rape allegations
Helmet manufacturer Xenith cut ties with🦋 embattled Patriots receiver Antonio Brown this 💫week amid allegations that he raped his former trainer-- ending a deal that lasted less than two weeks....
This woman is addicted to one of the world's riskiest jobs
Jill Heinerth was wriggling through a narrow crack in the underwater cave when claustrop📖hobia caught hold of her dive partner.
Asteroid th🉐e size of a skyscraper to hurtle past Earth: NASA
A skyscraper length asteroid will whiz by Earth on Saꦛturday. The space roc✨k, Asteroid 2000 QW7, is roughly between 951 and 2,132 feet long, according to NASA. The larger estimation...
Etan Patz's parents move out of NYC 40 years after son's infamous disappearance
Forty years after their 6-year-old son Etan Patz disappeared on a Soho street, Julie and Stan Patz have started a new chapter. The couple quietly sold their Prince Str🔯eet loft...
Gregg Popovich destroys 'arrogant' Team USA critics
BEIJING — Their final game at the World Cup had bဣeen over for🤪 several minutes, and every member of the U.S. team and coaching staff were still lingering together on...
Saquon Barkley rescues young fan from salty autograph🎶 snub 🍬
Saquon Barkley to the rescue! In light of Cowboys defense end Demarcus Lawrence snubbing an 11-year-old autograph-seeking Giants fan last weekend in Dallas, Barkley w💙ill fly out the youngster and...
Former British PM David Cameron says he's sorry for Brexit
David Cameron says he's sorry for Brexit. In a new interview, the former British Prime Minister said he regrettedꦚ his role in le💦ading his country toward the current crisis, according...
ܫ South African president booed at Mugabe funeral over anti-immigrant violence ♓
Mugabe, 95, Zimbabwe’s strongman for nearly four decades, died Sept. 6 in Singapore after a lengthy illness. Th🐻ousands attended his funeral at a stadium in Harare, the nation🍎’s capital.
Syracuse won't win vs. Clemson, but they'll cover
There is no need to wait for UCF to run the table again, or for the Big Ten champion t𝓡o be slig🍌hted again, to drum up more support for playoff...
🍬 Scuওffles break out during holiday-weekend protests in Hong Kong
Clashes erupted between pro-democracy protesters and supporters of the Chinese regime at a Hong Kong shopping mall Saturday. Tensions began when hundreds of the pro-Beijing crowd sang the nationꦯal anthem,...
'World's oldest parents' both in intensive care after delivering twins
Their newborn twins are fine, but not so for the “world’s oldest parents” — both are in intensive care. The🅷 couple from India, both in their 70s, had created an...
ꦐ Newark Airport conducts full-scale eme✱rgency drill
♍ An emergency response drill at Newark Liberty International Airport Saturday morning might raise some passengers' pulses as simulations produce some smoke and emergency vehicles respond. "We’re conducting a full-scale emergency...
ꦯ Three NYPD employees arrested in two boroughs
Three NYPD emplo🌌yees — including one found with drugs and counterfeit cash — were busted across Staten Island and Queens, police said Saturday. School Safety officer Iashia Glover, 29, was...
US sends Osa⛎ma bin Laden’s son straight to dad’s home in 🎃hell
President Trump finally confirmed the long-rumored death of Osama bin Laden’s son, Hamza bin Laden, S⛦aturday — but provided only sparse details. The al Qaeda h💟eir apparent “was killed in...
Empire State Bui🥀lding sword swinger ch꧋arged
The unhinged man who swung a sword around the observation deck of the Empire State Building was charged Saturday, police said. Matthꦫew Dixon, 35, of Lorton, Virginia, was charged with...
Anti-vaxxer hurls what appears to be her own blood at Cal🐲ifornia lawmakers
An anti-vaccine protester threw California’s state senate into chaos whꦫen she hurled what appeared to be blood at legislators, hitting at least six officials. “My menstrual blood is all over...
Ho🔴w books are helping employees bond at this real estate company
Sylvia ಞPlath’s semi-autobiographicaಞl 1963 book “The Bell Jar” is most likely to be found in a sophomore English class, pored over by high-school students. But recently at Squarefoot, a commercial...
Lois Lane revived in new DC series 'Enemy of the People'
🧜 Comic book icon Lois Lane is making a return in a new 12-issue series from DC comics. In the series, "Enemy of the People," the character reprises her role as...
MIT scientist says Epstein victim was 'entirely willing': report
A renowned MIT computer scientist is under fire for apparently defending Jeffrey Epstein by speculating in a series of leaked emails that one of the🌼 pedophile's alleged victims was "entirely...
Yemen rebelsꦜ claim responsibility for drone attacks onℱ Saudi oil sites
Iranian-backed rebels set two major Saudi Arabian oil facilities ablaze with coordinated drone attack🍃s early Saturday, forcing the kingdom to shut down half its oil production and sparking fears of...
Why Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream is dead
Just as minority gro🔜ups have achieved once-unimaginable levels of equality in America💙, our society is more divided than ever on the issue of race. In this excerpt from his new...
Man fatally shot outside Manhat﷽🍬tan deli
A man was shot and killed outside a Manhattan deli early Satဣurday, police said. The 22-♔year-old man was in front of a deli on the corner of Saint Nicholas Ave...
This man has a BS detector so good ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚit almost drove hi🎀m nuts
In December 2008, Bernie Madoff was arrested for defrauding investors out of $64 billion, shocking Wall Street and the world. But one in🎃dependent financialꦦ investigator, who knew Madoff was fishy...
From MacBooks to Chromebooks, these refurbished laptop deals areꦗ an absolute steal ♈
It’s hard to survive in the world today without a working computer. Whether you’re a remo⛎te worker, a con💃tractor, or a college student – a reliable device (and connection) is...
Family o🍨f abortionist makes grisly find after his death
After a South Bend abortionist died in Indiana, his family made a grisly discovery in his Indiana home: 2,246 medically preserved fetal remains. The family of Ulrich George Klop🔯ꦉfer found...
How Gary Sanchez's injury could turn into Yankees' breaking point
TORONTO — Even the mighty Yankees have an injury breaking point. This latest Gary Sanchez groin injury could be the one that really hurts because the calendar will soon flip..𒈔.
Where Yankees' injury situation stands now
𓃲 TORONTO — Aaron Boone didn’t want to play the speculating game when asked about injuries to Gary San🧜chez and Edwin Encarnacion, but the Yankees manager had an idea when J.A....
🐽 Bills looking to wreck another MetLife home debut
The Bills will enter MetLife Stadium with more confidence than the average visitor,♛ making them an even more dangerous opponent when they face the Giants there Sunday. Before the🅘 Giants...
Mets' bullpen lets another game get out of hand
Onc🌃e Noah Sydnergaard gave up four runs through the first five innings Friday night, Mickey Callaway looked to his bullpen to give his team some life a🅺s they trailed the...
When Yanke💙es could move CC Sꦇabathia to the bullpen
🐽 ♏ TORONTO — CC Sabathia has pitched 559 regular-season big league games and has started all of them. Of the 24 postseason games he has worked, the veteran lefty has started...
A Giancarlo S🅺tanton update 😼
TORONTO — Giancarlo Stanton, out since June 25 with a sprained right knee, participated 🥀in a simulated game Friday in Tampa and played four innings in the outfield. According to...
J.D. Davis homers in loss — and admits to scoreboard watch🔯ing
J.D. Davis was one of few Mets to have success Friday night against Dodgers lefty Clayton Kershaw, but his first-inning home ꦆrun was wasted in a 9-2 loss to the...
Jets coach: Shipping Landry to Browns wasn't personal
Adam Gase and Jarvis Landry still can’t agree, two seasons later. Last year, Landry told ESPN he believes his former coach with the Dolphins sent him to Cleveland “✤to die.”... 🥃
෴ Why Mets chose not to start Pete Alonso 𓃲
The Mets had to think rookie slugger Pete Alonso was prett❀y gassed to take him out of the lineup Friday night against one of the top left-handed starters in baseball,...
Shurmur: Bills interpreted my Allen comments 'differently'
The Bills mined bulletin board material from Pat Shurmur’s 🧸assessment of Josh Allen before last year’s draft, when tജhe Giants coach said the quarterback had “a chance to be a...
One dead, two injured in Seattle subway s🌠tation shooting
A shooting at a Seattle subway statio𒊎n has left one person dead and two injured, police told The Seattle Times. Two suspects were being sought early Sunday, officials said. The...
Bahamas brace for t🦹ropical storm amid hurricane cleanup💦
More bad weather is bearing down on the hurricane-ravaged Bahamas. Tropical depression Humberto strengthened Friday night into a tropical storm and was threatening some of the same islands devastated by... ♈
Man who knifed DC jogger to death in random att🧸ack sentenced to 30 years
The man who randomly knife🦄d a Washington, DC woman to death while she was out on a ru🙈n near her home last September was sentenced to 30 years in prison...
Mets were wrong to force Noah Syndergaard-Wilson Ramos combo ꦐ ♌
The Mets sandwiched four terrific starts (in wins) between two sub-par efforts (in losses). We can call coincide✅nce tha🗹t those sub-par efforts came with Noah Syndergaard pitching to Wilson Ramos....
🌱 Dead man with cuts to wrist an♏d chest found hog tied in Bronx apartment
A dead man with slashes to his chest and wrists was found tied up in a Bronx apartment building on Friday evening, police said. A resident of the🧔 building on...
NYPD cop accused of racist tirade in Nashville pleads no contesไt
ꦍ An NYPD cop accused of drunkenly breaking into a woman's Nashville home and hurling🦹 racial slurs at her and her family pleaded no contest to charges brought against him on...
Ex-Jet laughed his ass off💜 at Mike Maccagnan firing
BEREA, Ohio — When the Jets fired Mike Maccagnan as 🌳general manager in May, it was mostly met by shock, because of the timing. For one man, it was met...