Day: September 2, 2018

Delle Donne, the Washington Mystics superstar, knows she’ll ultimately be judged by the number of championships she wins. This could be her year.

The Knicks are “going nowhere” without Kristaps Porzingis, according to Walt Clyde Frazier.

A blue-ribbon panel investigating abuses of the disciplinary system in the NYPD has requested records of several controversial cases that were first exposed by the Daily News.

Probers plan to review the outcomes of cases involving a detective who padded his reports with phony info from fake witnesses;…

President Trump recently told conservative Christian leaders that he had gotten “rid of” the Johnson Amendment, a decades-old law prohibiting political campaigning by nonprofit charities, churches and religious groups.

While Trump’s assertion was false — he issued a toothless executive order on…

Oh, baby.

The New York Milk Bank — which coordinates breast milk donations for infants in need — recently moved into a larger space and bought a new pasteurizer so that it can process twice as much of the goods.

That’s great news for families who need some extra help nourishing their babies and…

The next chapter of novelist and socialite Suzanne Corso’s life will be written in criminal court.

Corso — who is also membership director of Manhattan’s new Playboy Club — is charged with shoplifting luxury goods from the Battery Park City branch of Saks Fifth Avenue.

Corso, who documented her…

Sept. 2 – Sept. 8

ALTERNATE SIDE PARKING RULES SUSPENDED MONDAY FOR LABOR DAY

Gridlock Alert for central Brooklyn — Crown Heights/Prospect Heights/Flatbush — on Monday as millions (yes millions) of people are expected to celebrate the annual West Indian Day Festival. Eastern Parkway between Howard…

Broadway is experiencing a retro movie revival — with theatrical takes on films such as “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “Tootsie” in the works.

Here are some other movies that could make for interesting musicals.

‘The Blues Brothers’

The classic 1980 tale of Jake and Elwood Blues, played respectively by John…

Never have the differences between bully and hero been more devastatingly clear than this week when our great American hero, Sen. John McCain passed away — but not without passing out a few good zingers at the draft-dodger-in-chief. Like? Like reportedly not wanting President Trump to attend his…

Could “Platoon: The Musical” be coming soon to a Broadway theater near you?

While that’s a long shot, the recent announcement that the Robin Williams movie “Mrs. Doubtfire” is being turned into a Broadway-bound show demonstrates how reworked retro films are all the rage on the Great White Way.

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Students in the U.S. are gearing up for the new academic year. Most are looking forward to seeing friends, enjoying new experiences, immersing themselves in their studies. But some are bracing themselves for battle — readying to fight for their freedom of speech and even their very place on campus.

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Think about your job. About the jobs of your neighbors. About the jobs of those you walk past as you head down Broadway on the way to work. What do the 8.5 million people who live in New York City do for a living?

You probably walk past lawyers and home care workers. Accountants and teachers. Waiters…

Blind trust in new rules to address campus sexual assault and harassment from a government headed by a confessed offender would be folly.

But so are the shouts to dismiss the agenda-in-development from U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to carry out the crucial statute known as Title IX, which…

Hankering to use the last long summer weekend to dig into James Patterson’s latest thriller, or “Everything Trump Touches Dies” by regular Daily News contributor Rick Wilson? Drat: The city’s public libraries, across all five boroughs, are shuttered Saturday, Sunday and Monday for the holiday.

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Even pimps have a right to privacy.

Investigators for Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. violated an accused pimp’s Fourth Amendment rights by sifting through years of content on his Facebook account, new papers argue.

Lavelleous (King Casino) Purcell was charged in February with running…

Playing Neil Armstrong in the movie “First Man,” Canadian Ryan Gosling defended the omission of the iconic moment in which the first man on the moon, culminating the United States’ victory over the Soviet Union in the Space Race, stuck the American flag in the cold rock.

“I don’t think that Neil…

Public-sector unions are moving to calculate how many members — and how much money — they’ll lose in the wake of a June U.S. Supreme Court decision that took away their power to charge non-members fees.

But even before the high court ruled, eight of the 22 states that allowed unions to charge such…

Yes, there are plenty of sequins, feathers, bodysuits, tiaras, crowns, plastic and aluminum rods, beads and rhinestone, but the New York Caribbean Carnival is far more than glam and glitter.

Sunday evening’s Dimanche Gras show – the New York carnival’s penultimate event of grandly elaborate Kings…

Telemarketers, please go away

Brooklyn: I am 90 years old, walk with a cane, have arthritis, haven’t had a pain-free day and can’t get rid of phone calls from “This is Ann.” The Indians and credit card people call me too, but not as often as “Ann.” The only Ann I know is dead. She died very young…

John Mara was a 24-year-old student at Fordham University’s School of Law in Feb. 1979 during a Giants era he recalls as “no question the low point in the history of the franchise.”

The Giants had missed the playoffs for a 15th consecutive season, and that wasn’t the worst of it. They had suffered…

To hear the over-the-top praise heaped on John (Pa Pinstripe) Sterling while he worked a few games under the weather, you would think he was doing play-by-play from inside an MRI tube.

Hey, he broadcasted games with a cold, or the flu, or some other bug. Big deal. Others have done it.

Still, there…

The same road Sloane Stephens traveled as an unseeded player to win $3.7 million and the 2017 U.S. Open is again crowded with contenders. A slew of upsets in women’s matches during the first week have given every survivor reason to say, “This could be my year.”

Maria Sharapova, the 2006 Open champion,…

It’s about five blocks from Joe Hammond’s building to the basketball court in Harlem. He can’t walk one of them without inspiring admiration.

“Right here, this is the best there’s ever been,” says a man with an eye patch and a shopping cart.

Hammond shuffles along with his cane and crocs on his…

About the last thing Brian Cashman wanted to do on the eve of the September stretch was trade another couple valued prospects for a rental fill-in player. But trade he did, sending middle infield prospect Abiatal Avelino and 20-year-old Dominican right-hander Juan De Paula, who averaged a strikeout…

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for September 2, 2018

A fresh breeze brings a wave of new ideas once the Moon shifts into intellectual Gemini at 4:01 am EDT. We are less pragmatic now and more interested in how people can connect by exchanging information. Although it’s easy to be distracted…

The Montreal Impact scored a pair of goals off first-half set pieces and tacked on a late insurance goal to defeat the visiting Red Bulls 3-0 Saturday night at Stade Saputo.

Combined with the New England Revolution’s 1-1 home draw Saturday against the Portland Timbers, the No. 6 Impact (11-14-3,…

The American diplomats in Cuba who suffered a host of mysterious health problems last year were likely zapped by microwave weapons that caused brain injuries.

That’s the conclusion of the doctor who examined 21 affected diplomats, according to The New York Times.

“Everybody was relatively skeptical…