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Port of New York’s rising tide of jobs as Panama Canal expands
New York’s first industry is prepping for its next act.The Bayonne Bridge is being raised, the seabed in the Kill Van Kull beneath it is getting lowered, and the city...
‘Maritime’ makeover
Here’s the first glimpse of what the old Battery Maritime Building downtown will look like one day. The 103-year-old Beaux Arts building at 10 South St. served as one of...
Kept apart from kids, ‘Gossip Girl’ actress bares her pain
They fall hard for charming Europeans and only later realize they’ve married someone they barely know who has whisked their children away. Stars, they’re just like us. It’s two days...
New breed of ruffi-ant found in Manhattan
The Big Apple has long had its unique style of bagel and distinct “New Yawk” accent. Now it has its own species of ant. Biologists studying six-legged New Yorkers have...
Tourists treating 9/11 Memorial like a playground
They’re treating it like a national playground. At the National September 11th Memorial, tourists balance coffee cups and soda bottles on the parapets bearing the names of the dead. Parents...
‘Parking’ plan to save Pier 40
Developer Douglas Durst wants to save Manhattan’s Pier 40 by turning part of it into a valet-parking lot.Elected officials had proposed trying to save the crumbling pier at West Houston...
Big spenders drop $16,640 on two bottles of Petrus '82 wine at '21' club
This dinner may have left them in the red. Two business associates visiting New York casually strolled into the iconic “21” club for a weeknight supper this summer — and...
Thompson a sleeper candidate, but not asleep
He’s the front-runner nobody’s talking about — so low-key that many people think he’s not even running. But political insiders say mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, who lost to Mayor Bloomberg...
Come here, ya big ape!
It’s a gorilla bromance. Two big apes greeted each other like long-lost human brothers when they were reunited after three years of separation. The gorillas, Kesho, 13, and Alf, 9,...
Their home 'sheet' home
Jacob Avid purchased a four-story brownstone on the Upper West Side in 2008 for $2.2 million and wanted to add two stories and build a rear extension. The extensive gut...
Squatter sets ‘sites’ on gov’s dot-coms
If Andrew Cuomo wants to run for president, he’ll need to kiss the ring of a regular Joe, a Long Island hospital administrator.Bill Lynch, director of medical staff at North...
Katz in political cradle
Melinda Katz — the ex-Democratic assemblywoman and City Council member who used frozen sperm to have two kids and then fell in love with the donor, Curtis Sliwa — is...
Real-estate GI swings Manhattan property deals from Afghanistan
She’s a Navy officer in an Afghanistan war zone moonlighting as a Manhattan real-estate power broker — but which job is more cutthroat? Naval Reserve Lt. Commander and Prudential Douglas...
Honors grad dies in ‘drunk’ pal’s ATV flip
A teen who had just graduated from a posh Connecticut boarding school was killed in Montana when he “fell out” of an ATV driven by his drunken former roommate, police...
Disgraced pol Weiner eyes mayor or public advocate run
Anthony Weiner’s not shrinking from elected office. The disgraced former congressman — who’s sitting on a $4.5 million campaign war chest — is mulling a bid for citywide office next...
Con Ed pulls the plug on neighborhood blackout info
As its labor lockout stretches into a second week, Con Ed is blacking out information on customer blackouts.The utility yanked street- and block-level data about electric outages from its Web...
Suits put the S&M in swim
Say goodbye to your little string bikini, and hello to bondage-inspired beachwear this summer. While modest ladies would normally rejoice at news the tank suit is making a comeback —...
NJ 'mommy mafia' becomes town's new power brokers
There’s a new mob running Jersey City. A group of 636 mothers — many former Manhattanites who decamped across the river after giving birth — have banded together to reform...
Baldwin weds yoga gal Hilaria Thomas
Alec Baldwin finally got a lesson in anger marriagement. After years of public meltdowns, punching photographers and verbally abusing family members, the 54-year-old “30 Rock” star tied the knot Saturday...
Real mayors of New Jersey
Like history, corruption in New Jersey repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Though the 1980s, many municipal governments were under control of the mob. The scope was huge;...