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A US judge yesterday dismissed the case against a former UN employee accused of biting a UN security guard after complaining of nepotism at the world body. Nicola Baroncini, 36, was charged with third-degree assault in the June 2009 incident. He had been offered a deal to plead guilty to...

The courts upheld ladies' night and New Yorkers say the feeling's right. Charging female patrons less is a good idea, say bartenders and customers. "The [appellate court] judges made a good decision," said Martha Giretti, 30, a bartender at Local 138 on the Lower East Side. "Ladies' night gets...

Brawl erupts at US Open, stopping match between Djokovic and Petzschner

Hurricane Earl downgraded, with tropical storm warning in effect for Long Island

Chew on that, Capital One. The Cipriani restaurant empire -- currently in a nasty legal battle with its creditor, Capital One Bank -- was granted an injunction yesterday that halted a public auction of its assets. New York Supreme Court Judge Richard Lowe III's ruling effectively killed Capital One...

An Egyptian-born businessman who lives on Long Island — and who once gave thousands of dollars to a Hamas front group — is a major investor in the proposed mosque near Ground Zero, it was reported last night, in the first disclosure of the money behind the controversial project. Hisham Elzanaty was...

You sure as #%&* don’t see this at Wimbledon! Rowdy US Open tennis hooligans — tennis hooligans? — got into a brawl in the upper deck of Arthur Ashe Stadium during a match between thirdseeded Novak Djokovic of Serbia and unseeded Philipp Petzschner of Germany. The fisticuffs began just after 9 p...

Some 2,000 anxious parents of 4-year-olds still don’t know what public school to take their children to on Wednesday because the city failed to notify them on time. Letters offering them pre-kindergarten slots are set to be mailed out today, which, because of the fore the start of...

This won’t be a holiday for your car. As millions of New Yorkers take to their cars this Labor Day weekend, they’ll be driving along some of the most decrepit, crumbling roads in the nation, a new study shows. The Empire State ranked 46th out of the 50...

Jewish patrol members wounded on Brooklyn street while confronting man in car

Manhattan * A thug was busted for mugging an NYU student in Greenwich Village, authorities said yesterday. Victor Gasper, 31, confronted the victim at Thompson Street and Washington Square South at noon Tuesday, cops said. Gasper barked, “I can get real gangster on you. I can stab you. I know you...

The Senate's education watchdog is launching a probe into the controversy surrounding the state Education Department's scoring and overhaul of standardized exams. Senate Education Chairwoman Suzi Oppenheimer (D-Westchester) said she'll hold a hearing in Manhattan by November on the recalibration of pass rates for grades 3 to...

Situation Wanted: TV producer. Work experience: 27 years with CBS; four months as prison librarian on Rikers Island. Contact Robert "Joe" Halderman. The disgraced CBS News producer who shook down David Letterman for $2 million by threatening to expose the TV funnyman's adulterous trysts with staffers walked free yesterday...

Chloe Jane Glass is just 11 years old, but she loves being on the cutting edge when it comes to helping others. The New Jersey sixth-grader says her blondish hair is almost long enough once again to cut and donate to Locks of Love, a nonprofit that provides hairpieces to...

This terrifying Bronx inferno raged for more than five hours -- and destroyed a row of businesses -- before New York's Bravest could get it under control. The six-alarm blaze appeared to begin at Spice Island music, 4225 White Plains Road in Riverdale at around 12:30 a.m...

Organizations and municipalities with projects to fight pollution in the Bronx River are getting a financial boost from a 2007 settlement between the state Attorney General's Office and polluters. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday that $2.5 million of the settlement will be used to fund 12 projects...

Four members of a Jewish volunteer patrol were shot during a tussle with a suspected pervert in Brooklyn last night, police said. "I tackled him and as we were falling to the ground, he started shooting all over the place," said Motty Perl, a member of the unarmed Shomrim security...

A federal appeals court has overturned a verdict that denied the heirs of a Holocaust victim -- including a Manhattan man -- ownership of a valuable drawing they claim was looted by the Nazis. The case involves a 1917 work by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele, "Seated Woman with Bent Left...

A former banker for Citigroup says that she was canned because of her age after she went on maternity leave, according to a filing in Brooklyn Civil Court. Cassandra Lilienthal, 51, a business banker, said her supervisor warned co-workers that he was hired to "get rid of old, dead wood...

A Long Island state Senate candidate was nabbed in a terrifying road-rage incident targeting his ex-girlfriend -- repeatedly trying to run her off the road as she traveled with a new beau, authorities said. Yet despite spending a night in jail, Dave Mejias, a former Nassau County legislator, said he...

One down -- eight to go. Firefighters yesterday brought an apparently dead Brooklyn cat back to life after hooking it up to an oxygen mask. The smoke-eaters pulled the tabby from 925 Dumont Ave. during a four-alarm fire in front of its owner -- a weeping 4-year-old girl. When firefighter...

Give us a brake! A whining New Jersey woman's gripe that her precious sports car was destroyed by a suicidal man's 40-story fall triggered a venomous outpouring from his friends, neighbors and fellow New Yorkers yesterday. "The damage to the car -- it saved his life, and that...

The sicko accused of raping a St. John's University student testified yesterday that the victim called 911 because she was unsatisfied with the sex during the horrific attack in a Queens alley. "I believe she was spiteful enough to make that call after I left because she was disappointed...

The courts upheld ladies' night and New Yorkers say the feeling's right. Charging female patrons less is a good idea, say bartenders and customers. "The [appellate court] judges made a good decision," said Martha Giretti, 30, a bartender at Local 138 on the Lower East Side. "Ladies' night gets...

Four New Jersey men are accused of selling bogus tickets for ferries that shuttle passengers to and from New York City. SeaStreak alerted the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office after noticing that the ticket numbers were out of sequence. Charles Frobosilo's business in New Brunswick was used to stamp...

An escalating turf war between bloodthirsty street gangs nearly claimed the life of a 10-year-old Brooklyn boy who was hit by a bullet that flew through his window while he was innocently watching cartoons on television. Khali Robinson was in stable condition at Brookdale Hospital yesterday following his terrifying ordeal...

Attorney-general hopeful Sean Coffey is scared that a secret from deep in his past will blow his chance to get the job. "This may cost me the Democratic nomination: I have never used drugs," he joked last night at a forum for his party's candidates at NYU. "I was...

A Republican political appointee with the Nassau County Board of Elections ended up disenfranchising her own party when she failed to include the GOP in the instructions sent out to 900,000 voters on the new electronic voting machines, red-faced officials admitted yesterday. The elephant-sized goof appeared in information sent...

Chew on that, Capital One. The Cipriani restaurant empire -- currently in a nasty legal battle with its creditor, Capital One Bank -- was granted an injunction yesterday that halted a public auction of its assets. New York Supreme Court Judge Richard Lowe III's ruling effectively killed Capital One...

A Long Island accountant was nabbed with more than $10,000 worth of US Open tickets after he was spotted illegally hawking a pair of the ducats, prosecutors said yesterday. Police said they caught Marvin Schaffer, 61, of Glen Head serving up tickets outside Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday. Cops...