Day: September 17, 2018

It was a smack in the face for Knicks team president Steve Mills.

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico nearly a year ago, it took away many households’ reliable access to clean water — a resource so vital that progress for women, achieved over decades, was effectively undone.

The burden of housekeeping fell mostly on mothers, wives,…

The images of the deadly storm came across the TV in her Bronx hotel room last week — blankets of rain, whirlpool winds, shards of wood where homes once stood — and Jenyffer Ortiz could feel the anxiety starting to build as she watched Hurricane Florence tear through the Carolinas.

A year ago,…

The sidewalks on E. 149th St. near St. Ann’s Ave. were buzzing by 11 a.m. on a recent weekday.

Curbside auto mechanics rushed from car to car on this blighted block of the South Bronx, replacing busted tires and worn brake pads in exchange for fistfuls of cash.

Across the street, in between two…

Mentally ill Andrew Goldstein was recently released from Sing Sing Correctional Facility after serving 19 years for pushing a young woman named Kendra Webdale in front of a subway train and to her death. After this tragedy, New York State passed a law to help prevent incidents like these: Kendra’s…

Gov. Cuomo deserves a great deal of credit for Tuesday’s opening of the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge as well as last January’s opening of the Second Ave. subway. Since he has taken over the reins of the state’s transportation system, he should also be held responsible for addressing its many problems.

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Andrew Goldstein, so psychologically sick that he shoved a young woman to her death on subway tracks just because, is out of state prison after serving 19 years for manslaughter — and in an unspecified state facility.

Kendra Webdale, the woman whose life he ended with that push, lives on in the…

Web giant Google is on the side of the angels in European court as it fights against widespread application of the “right to be forgotten.”

What may sound at first glance like an empowering information-age principle risks stifling expression everywhere.

As conceived, the right gives an individual…

There’s evil, sadness, corruption, disease and danger aplenty across the planet. But even in these bitter, breathless days, we should acknowledge an underappreciated truth: Life continues to get better for the many, thanks to public health advances, economic growth and decent governance.

The United…

ALBANY — In losing last week’s Democratic gubernatorial primary to Gov. Cuomo, actress Cynthia Nixon failed to capitalize on the gains made four years earlier by lesser-known Fordham law Prof, Zephyr Teachout.

In 2014, Teachout had virtually no money and little media attention, but managed to win…

For some of the public housing staff at the Throggs Neck Houses in the Bronx, work time meant party time. But if you weren’t invited to the party, life could be very unpleasant.

Neil Andrade, 32, says he learned this the hard way when he briefly worked as a NYCHA caretaker at the development that’s…

An indefensible Brooklyn development

Brooklyn: Your editorial on 80 Flatbush missed the mark completely, and shows a profound ignorance of the actual project (“Onward & upward, Brooklyn,” Sept. 10).

Alloy Development spent more than $500,000 lobbying our local officials for this travesty of a project,…

ARLINGTON, Tex. — The Giants paid Odell Beckham Jr. $90 million on a contract extension and allowed the Dallas Cowboys to scheme him into an afterthought two weeks into the season in a prime time game.

Beckham incomprehensibly went almost a full quarter of the Giants’ 20-13 loss without a target…

Maybe not wanting to see the Red Sox celebrate the division title in the Bronx will spark the Yankees. Maybe the potential return of Aaron Judge during the upcoming series against their hated rival will give them the jump start that Aaron Boone is looking for.

A struggling Blue Jays team and a…

Even after all their untimely penalties and turnovers, the Jets still could’ve given Sam Darnold a final chance with three minutes remaining.

The defense only needed to stop the Dolphins on 3rd-and-19. And it couldn’t.

“Put it on me,” said free safety Jamal Adams. “I was responsible. Put it on…

BUCHAREST, Romania — Two U.S. basketball players have been stabbed in a club in eastern Romania and one is in a serious condition, Romanian authorities said Sunday.

Police said Darrell Bowie, 24, and Joseph McClain, 25, who play for local club ACS Cuza Braila, were attacked Saturday night in the…

LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — America’s oldest nuclear power plant, the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in New Jersey, is shutting down Monday.

The plant in Lacey Township near the Jersey shore will go offline at some point before 1 p.m., although officials will not say precisely when.

Oyster…

A man who was crossing between subway cars on a Union Square-bound No. 4 train lost his footing and took a fatal blow to the head Sunday night, police said.

The man, 33, was walking to the back of the train when he stumbled between cars and struck his head at about 10:15 p.m., cops said. Medics…

Sam Darnold was reviewing the first loss of his NFL career, making sure to shoulder real and imaginary blame, making it clear to everyone that if you wanted to point the finger anywhere, it should be at him.

Leaders do those types of things. Leaders take responsibility for everything whether or…

PITTSBURGH — Seven people, most of them children, were injured when a startled camel started bucking during a Pittsburgh circus.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that two children and an adult were riding the camel during an intermission Sunday at the Shrine Circus at PPG Paints Arena when it…

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for September 17, 2018

How fitting that this back-to-work Monday is blessed by the responsive Moon entering ambitious Capricorn at 7:07 am EDT. Unfortunately, responding to authority is harder to justify if that very same person was previously encouraging…

CARACAS, Venezuela — Two firefighters have been arrested after a video surfaced on social media showing them mockingly compare Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to a donkey, officials said Friday.

The two-minute clip shows one man lead a donkey through a firehouse. Another man videotaping says…

ARLINGTON, Tex. — Unacceptable.

The Giants are not allowed to put a product this poor on the field anymore. This 20-13 loss to the Cowboys was too much.

Not after a 3-13 season in 2017. Not after blowing up their front office and coaching staff and retooling the roster around Eli Manning to make…

LOS ANGELES — A Colombian drug kingpin who participated in a violent ring that used planes, speedboats and submarines to smuggle hundreds of millions of dollars in cocaine faced federal trafficking charges Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom, prosecutors said.

Victor Hugo Cuellar-Silva is among nearly…

MEDFORD, Ore. — The Oregon State Police says that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been arrested on multiple counts of sodomy, the Oregonian/oregonlive.com reported.

Officials said in a statement that Blake V. Northway, a 55-year-old who lives in Medford, was taken into custody…

Police have arrested a 14th suspect in connection with the brutal stabbing death of Bronx teenager Lesandro (Junior) Guzman-Feliz.

Frederick Then, 20, an alleged Trinitarios gang member, surrendered himself to police Sunday, just four days after cops released a photo of his face to the media. He’s…