ReStart Academy puts at-risk teens Back On Track
They claim to have forgotten how to formally set a dinner table, but Rayshawn Joseph and Christopher Henry do remember a bit about China plates.
View ArticleJuly 13: Ray Kelly, microapartments and Olympic uniforms
Brentwood, L.I.: I applaud Police Commissioner Ray Kelly for finally speaking truth about the very real and deadly issue of black-on-black shootings and murders (“Where is the rage?” July 11).
View ArticleJoePa's hall of shame
The truth about Penn State’s response to the rampant child abuser in its midst, assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, is out — and it’s worse than the most disgusting and depressing reports you...
View ArticleCabaret review: Ben Vereen at 54 Below
Ben Vereen never holds back. In his new cabaret show focused on hits from the Great White Way and Ol’ Blue Eyes, Vereen blows onto the stage with a gale force ready to sweep the audience up, up and away.
View ArticleDiaz Jr., Vacca top campaign fundraisers so far this year
City Councilman James Vacca raised more campaign cash in the first half of 2012 than all but one Bronx politician running for city office next year--Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.
View Article‘American Gypsies’ focuses on a family in New York
Arranged teen marriages, homeschooling and feuding fortune-telling shops are some of the issues brought to light in “American Gypsies.” The New York City family the new reality show focuses on has an...
View ArticleVera Wang & Evan Lysacek: Just good skates or more?
Maybe Vera Wang isn’t ready to compete solo just yet.
View ArticleCUNY grad student studying Van Cortlandt Park inch by inch
Jack Henning may know Van Cortlandt Park better than anyone--he has spent the past four years meticulously studying each and every area of the 1,100-acre greenspace. "If I were blindfolded, I could...
View ArticleFree & Cheap in New York: Tues., July 17
HOW’S TRICKS? Enjoy spooky Tuesdays at “The House of Ghostly Haunts” at the Canal Park Playhouse. Watch Cardone the Magician escape from a straitjacket, demonstrate an onstage guillotine and showcase...
View ArticleJessica Simpson tweets pic of 2-month-old Maxwell Drew
Jessica Simpson's daughter Maxwell Drew is already getting star treatment at just two months old. The tot, who weighed a whopping 9 lbs., 13 oz. when she was born May 1, is dwarfed in a photo Simpson...
View ArticleMt. Sinai saves Brooklyn girl with heart disorder
‘Get my baby to Mount Sinai!” a frantic Tenise Rutledge yelled into the phone last fall, when her daughter’s Brooklyn school called to say she fainted tying her sneaker and was being rushed to Woodhull...
View Article‘Hitman’ prank lands filmmaker in jail on bomb hoax charge
Two Florida filmmakers whose video of faked “Miami zombie” attacks went viral last month were caught in a prank gone wrong when an angry victim chased the pair and one of them landed in jail.
View ArticleLess invasive surgery keeps many in circulation
Six days after heart surgery, Grace Ditrapani was nowhere near a hospital bed. The 85-year-old Manhattan great-grandmother was noshing on a cheese omelet at her favorite diner.
View ArticleAlbum Review: Susanna Hoffs, 'Someday'
People paint rock of the ’60s as a free-for-all, marked by wailing guitars, screaming vocals and drum volleys volcanic enough to bring down the heavens.
View ArticleAlbum Review: Nas, 'Life Is Good'
There’s nothing like a little trauma to bring out the best in a writer. Luckily for top scribe Nas, he’s had a truckload of late.
View ArticleMotefiore hospital fights diabetes
When Mayor Bloomberg proposed his controversial ban on super-size sodas this spring, he did it at Montefiore Medical Center.
View ArticleTop geriatric care at Irving Wright Center
He was a young medical student at Albert Einstein, being shown the ropes in the emergency room. The doctor in charge told Ron Adelman to go see the “S.H.P.O.S.” in Room 6.
View ArticleSurf’s up again after surgery
Surfing is his passion, but after a horrific motorcycle accident, Nicholas Gelorum feared he’d never be able to ride the waves again.
View ArticleOlympic athletes arrive to traffic, security concerns
With only 10 days before the start of the London Olympics, a private security firm with a fat contract has had to admit it just can't deliver.
View ArticleRush Limbaugh claims Obama 'hates' America
Rush Limbaugh's attacks on President Obama may have peaked (or bottomed out) Monday when the talk show host claimed the U.S. president "hates this country."
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