Chirlane McCray on crutch after third sports injury
City first lady Chirlane McCray has been hobbled by a third sports injury in the last three months. Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife sported crutches and a boot on her right foot Wednesday at a...
View ArticleSysco’s $8.2B U.S. Foods merger may spoil: source
Sysco looks as though it will have to wait longer for its $8.2 billion US Foods merger to be approved by regulators, if it is at all. Blackstone Group-owned Performance Food Group agreed in early...
View ArticleAntonio Cromartie on Jets return: ‘I didn’t want to leave’
PHOENIX — Antonio Cromartie and his family are flying back to New Jersey next week to the home they lived in during his four years with the Jets. It sounds like he’s hoping they can stay. Cromartie,...
View ArticleStanford swimmer charged with raping unconscious woman
A Stanford University swimmer who raced in the 2012 US Olympic trials was charged with raping an intoxicated, unconscious woman last week on the school’s campus, prosecutors said Wednesday. Brock Allen...
View ArticleNYC set to execute first dog in five years
A menacing mutt was bad to the bone, and now he’ll be the first dog in five years put to death in New York City, over the objections of his owner. Bullmastiff mix Disel bit two people without warning...
View ArticleSanitation workers overdo storm cleanup to reap overtime
The overhyped blizzard was a forecasting bust — but a boon for Sanitation Department snowplow drivers, who were still raking in the overtime Wednesday, scraping the black asphalt hours after the white...
View Article$18 billion earnings has Icahn biting tongue on Apple
Carl Icahn is still prodding Apple CEO Tim Cook — but he’s doing it more gently now. “I don’t want to go into my discussions with Tim — we think very highly of Tim,” the hard-charging billionaire said...
View ArticleCourt takes a $4.5M ‘Wiz’ on defunct chain’s co-founder
The disgraced co-founder of defunct, but iconic, electronics chain Nobody Beats the Wiz is heading to prison with empty pockets after a federal judge Wednesday ordered him to shell out $4.5 million to...
View ArticleFXCM to write off losses for 90 percent of customers
FXCM, the bailed-out currency broker, is willing to forgive and forget. The company is going to write off losses for 90 percent of its customers — most of them smaller day-trader-type accounts — that...
View ArticleNumbers don’t add up to a good GDP
Wall Street and politicians will be groping for excuses on Friday. Meanwhile, Janet Yellen’s Federal Reserve will be searching for answers. The reason: the US Commerce Department will announce its...
View ArticleInside Hunt & Fish, where beauties trawl for sugar daddies
On a blustery Wednesday night, Barbara Kavovit sashays through the doors of a new Times Square steakhouse in her Gucci dress and heels — pausing as scores of besuited men turn their heads. “I feel like...
View ArticleIn-house battle to oust correction officers union boss Seabrook
There’s an internal war raging inside the powerful correction officers union — with a rival asking a court to oust longtime union head Norman Seabrook from his position for being a paranoid, vindictive...
View ArticleKnicks ‘are a different basketball team’ since fire sale
Things have gotten so weird for the Knicks recently that Carmelo Anthony has now compared newcomer Langston Galloway to “Linsanity” — Jeremy Lin. After their record 16-game losing streak, the Knicks...
View ArticleIt’s the year of the bromance at Sundance
PARK CITY — Empty ski lifts and movies about male bonding were rampant at this year’s Sundance Film Festival: In other words, it was bros before snows. More than half-a-dozen movies about masculine...
View ArticleFree-falling Nets become Hawks 17th straight victim
ATLANTA — The Nets went into Wednesday’s game against the Hawks having lost 10 of their previous 12 games, while the home team had won 16 straight. So, it came as little surprise the reeling visitors...
View ArticleMansion or modest, Hamptons home prices on the rise
Hamptons home sales are continuing to soar at all price points — from modest first-time residential buys to mega-mansions, according to the latest market reports. One of the hottest ’hoods is...
View ArticleDevils scratch out shootout win over reeling Maple Leafs
If the Devils are going to make a run at the playoffs, they are going to have to win games in which they don’t play well. That is just what they did against the reeling Maple Leafs on Wednesday night...
View ArticleAlbany ripe for chaos after Preet’s capital crackdown
Weitz & Luxenberg fired Shelly Silver yesterday. Put another cookie in Preet Bharara’s lunch pail. The best news, of course, would have been that Bharara (pictured above) had found a little space...
View ArticleLatest blows at headhunter CTPartners
CTPartners, the Wall Street headhunting firm accused by former employees of sexual discrimination, lowered its profit guidance for the fourth quarter and all of 2014 late Wednesday because of an added...
View ArticleJordan injures knee in St. John’s loss to cellar-dweller Creighton
OMAHA, Neb. — This wasn’t the progress Steve Lavin was talking about four days ago. In fact, the St. John’s coach had a new low point to digest Wednesday night. After Sunday’s loss to Duke, Lavin said...
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