Former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton still isn't talking about how he got his special parking pass made for city employees on official business. But a spokesman for the Bloomberg administration tells the Post that they have a crack investigation squad working in shifts to determine how this abuse of rank has continued to deprive the City of vital parking revenue. “We’re looking at the issue,” Stu Loeser told the paper. more ›

A week after the New York Post falsely conflated the work of the homeless advocacy group Picture the Homeless with "pimps" and "hookers," the paper obtained a letter from City Counsel attorney Elizabeth Fine asking for a probe of the non-profit that may shut off its funding—PTH was scheduled to receive $50K this fiscal year. The Post's subheadline for the web article begins, " 'Picture' this:" Yeah! Take that, organization working to enact meaningful social change. more ›

Protesters made themselves heard on the New York Post's State News editor's radio interview with Governor Cuomo in Albany today. Fredric Dicker's paychecks happen to be cut by a little company called News Corp, which paid an effective state tax rate of 3.7% instead of the standard 7.1%, along with an effective federal rate of 21% rather than 35%. Apparently you could hear the demonstrators shouting in the background on Dicker's program, but State Troopers prevented them from presenting him with a check for all those unpaid taxes. more ›

After New York Post cartoonist Sean Delonas depicted President Obama as a crazed chimpanzee deserving to be shot in 2009, News Corp agreed to form a "diversity council" with civil rights groups that would meet twice a year to presumably make the company think twice before printing racist cartoons. But the cartoon above suggests that the panel was pointless, and that the New York Post is content with portraying innocent Muslims as deceitful, gun-toting, bomb-making terrorists. more ›

Thursday's blatant character assassination of Greg Kelly's rape accuser masquerading as a newspaper cover can either be explained by the New York Post's profound commitment to misogyny, the NYPD, News Corp, or all of the above. But the paper's response to criticisms of their coverage reflects a piercing hatred for basic literacy and is a new low, even for the Limbo of tabloids. more ›

The pastor of a church that has housed Occupy Wall Street protesters is giving them two weeks to leave after a portion of a baptismal font went missing. "It was like pissing on the 99 percent," the Post quotes Rev. Bob Brashear of West Park Presbyterian Church as sermonizing. Around 60 protesters sleep between the pews every night, and Brashear discovered that the basin and its lid were missing before Sunday services, and demanded that they be returned later that day. Recalling the era of the crack epidemic, Brashear said that the drug addicts the church took in didn't steal the basin. "Not even the crackheads messed with that." more ›

Yesterday the New York Post ran a story claiming that December's Occupy Foreclosure event was a misguided sham. The paper quoted the former owner of the vacant home in East New York as being "pissed" that he'd been frozen out of the reoccupation process, and insinuated that the home was being inhabited by protesters, not the family for whom it was intended. VOCAL-NY, the organization that coordinated Occupy Foreclosure, has given us a statement that attempts to blunt some of the Post's accusations. more ›

The New York Post alleges that Occupy Wall Street shunned the homeowner of the foreclosed home in East New York that the movement reclaimed for a homeless family last month. "They’re trying to take a house and say the bank is robbing the people because the mortgage is too high—so contact the owner!" Wise Ahadzi told the paper. Ahadzi, a single father of a 3-year old and a 10-year-old, has been confirmed to be in foreclosure proceedings since 2009. more ›

Last we checked, the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park was uprooted on November 15, and with it went the massive police presence that had been blamed for ballooning budgets and an increase in shootings. But when parents in East Harlem called an emergency meeting with police officials on Thursday after a series of daytime shootings, they were told by the head of the 23rd Precinct, Deputy Inspector William Pla, that Occupy Wall Street was keeping officers off their beat in El Barrio. One parent present told the Post, “I was really annoyed that police would tell me that they are busy patrolling a peaceful protest instead of a gunshot-ridden area. That to me is shocking." more ›

Whether or not Herman Cain had an on-again, off-again consensual affair with Atlantan Ginger White (which he didn't!) is none of our business. But people, this coordinated conspiracy against our next president has to stop! Cain's already said he's "reassessing" his entire campaign, and now he's cancelled a private dinner sponsored by Post columnist Cindy Adams. That Rockette costume that he was supposed to wear is NON-REFUNDABLE people! more ›

Journalists widely reported being kept from last week's NYPD raid of Zuccotti Park. 10 reporters have been arrested in New York since the protests began, and several have claimed that they were injured by NYPD officers while on the job. In response, New York Times Company Vice President and Assistant General Counsel George Freeman has written a letter to NYPD spokesman Paul Browne condemning the actions of the police and requesting an "immediate meeting" with Browne and Commissioner Ray Kelly. It is signed by representatives from the New York Post, the Daily News, NBC, the Associated Press, and Dow Jones among others. more ›

During the first weekend of Occupy Wall Street last month, we saw very few tents in Zuccotti Park, and in fact a spokesperson for Occupy Wall Street told us that the NYPD would direct them to remove any tents or tarps they put up. It seems that this is no longer the case. As the weather gets colder more protesters find the need to protect themselves from the elements, Zuccotti Park is now full of tents, and the NYPD, taking its cue from Brookfield Properties, is not forcing protesters to remove them. more ›

Last week a well-respected attorney at the New York Attorney General's office was suspended for her reported activities as a dominatrix, and now state employees have hit the water cooler to DISH. The Post (who else?) claims that their sources tell them that Alisha Smith, who was suspended without pay, "is now the butt of office jokes." One source whose life has probably a fraction of the excitement and fulfillment as Smith's does, says, "You've got to be out of your f*cking mind putting that stuff on Twitter." more ›

The veteran New York Post copy editor and the author of the famous headline, "Axis Of Weasel," died on Thursday from complications related to a recent stroke. Joseph Cunningham was 43 years-old. more ›

Normally when we spill ink on one of Steve Cuozzo's adorable columns in the NY Post, it's to point out that he is the Mayor of Wrongville, a loner afraid of change who sits in the corner of his hovel surrounded by jars of urine, rocking back and forth on his heels whilst murmuring things about "pedestrian plazas." Maybe not! Today, Cuozzo is the champion of service employees everywhere in advocating for a mandatory, built-in 20 percent tip in New York establishments. "A mandatory service charge democratizes the restaurant experience for both customers and staff," Cuozzo writes. more ›

Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York for barely six months, wants Barack Obama to lose reelection in 2012— if you believe GOP consultants interviewed by the New York Post. John McLaughlin, who counts House Minority Whip and uncompromising 48-year-old "Young Gun" Eric Cantor as a client, says that Obama has to lose if Cuomo stands a chance in 2016. You hear that, Governor? Forget a VP deal, just burn every political bridge you have with the national Democratic party in 2012, so they'll want to support you 4 years later. You'll be monogramming your White House towels in no time. more ›

Following the closure of News Corp-owned British tabloid News of the World after revelations that the paper hacked the cell phones of 9/11 victims, murder victims and dead soldiers, Rupert Murdoch has withdrawn the company's $12 billion bid to take over British Sky Broadcasting, the largest satellite broadcasting company in Britain. In a statement, News Corp's deputy chairman said, "We believed that the proposed acquisition of BSkyB by News Corporation would benefit both companies but it has come clear that it is too difficult to progress in this climate." more ›

New evidence provided by the Hotel Worker's Union, Local 6 appears to show that the New York Post was given documentation that disproved the paper's statements that Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser was placed there by the union as a prostitute "earner," and may bolster her libel suit against the paper. more ›

Despite his accuser's libel suit against the New York Post, the revelations that the woman is a prostitute, associates with criminals and has previously lied to the government have shattered her credibility and the rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Today, Manhattan District Attorney (and friend of Gothamist) Cy Vance, Jr. and his team will meet with Strauss-Kahn's defense attorneys to discuss the possibility of a plea bargain and the future of the case. more ›

After the Post shamed the Parks Department into resupplying Coney Island's toilet paper coffers, the Daily News seems to have had the same effect when it reported on Monday that kids were "risking their lives" by diving off the Steeplechase Pier at Coney Island. Reporter Michael Daly details the pier's transformation from a dock of impunity to "a border crossing in cold-war Berlin" in the span of a single day. "A dozen uniformed sentries and an emergency vehicle" were on site to keep the pier off-limits to everyone but fisherman. One 47-year-old man whose efforts to relax on the pier were rebuffed, said he remembered diving off the pier when he was 12, "the same summer he was introduced to the ways of love." Great, give them another reason to dive off the pier. more ›

It appears that Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser is calling the New York Post on their claims that she is a "hooker": the 32-year-old Guinean immigrant is suing the paper and five of its journalists for libel. The Post reported that the woman was having sex for money at taxpayers' expense, by having "multiple 'dates' and encounters" in her hotel room "on the DA's dime." more ›

Today, the Post discovers the shocking world of Brooklyn moms who rely on weed to handle the stresses of childrearing. “It can help you look at your kids in a more positive light," said one Park Slope parent, while a DUMBO mom added, "When you’re smoking, you’re on a different level. Things don’t frustrate you as much.” more ›

A woman with cerebral-palsy alleges she was drugged by her physician and taken to a motel, where he had sex with her. Jamie Hooker, 25, called police after the incident occurred last month, but former NYU physician Dr. David Magill was not charged with a crime. A civil complaint against Magill claims that he "overmedicated [Hooker] intentionally so as to make her compliant to defendant's demand that she have sexual relations with him." Magill, who was a cerebral-palsy specialist, "surrendered his license last week and admitted to professional misconduct." more ›

In the past week, the DOT has revealed details about two bold new plans to create pedestrian plazas in high-traffic parts of Manhattan. As part of a proposed 34th Street Transitway, a pedestrian plaza would be created on the block between Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas. Further downtown, the DOT wants to turn a block of Broadway north of Union Square into another pedestrian plaza, which would extend along East 17th Street to the eastern corner of the park, at Park Avenue South. But the two proposed changes have come at a price: the fragile inner serenity of NY Post columnist Steve Cuozzo. more ›

[UPDATE BELOW]: Media magnate Rupert Murdoch has never liked the New York Times. In fact, ever since the Times editorialized against his bid to purchase the Wall Street Journal, Murdoch has had "an Ahab-like obsession" with destroying the Gray Lady, according to New York Magazine. And next month he hopes to plunge the final, fatal harpoon into her heart. more ›

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who owns both the NY Post and the Wall Street Journal, has been been put in the humiliating position of asking for a favor from his competitors. The Journal has been getting ready to launch a new edition in April, with an NYC metro section intended as a tough competitor to the Times. Meanwhile, Murdoch’s News Corporation is upgrading the Post’s printing plant in the South Bronx so that it can print the Journal and the Post. But there have been major delays on that, and now Murdoch needs to outsource some of The Post’s printing, so he's been reduced to begging his enemies for help. We do believe a HA-HA is in order. more ›

Since he said he was considering challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford Jr. has received the coldest welcome of any politician in New York since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia. Influential Democrats including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and Gov. David Paterson have discouraged the 39-year-old from running, while pro-choice and gay rights groups have been on the attack against the former Congressman's record. So Ford took to the pages of the Post to tell potential voters how he really feels: more ›

You don't have to get a hip replacement to sneak titanium onto an airplane, according to the Post. A reporter carrying an eight-inch-long piece of the nonferrous metal was able to pass through security twice at Kennedy Airport without setting off metal detectors. more ›