‘American’ glory at movie$
LOS ANGELES — George Clooney outgunned rivals at the Labor Day holiday weekend box office with his assassin drama, “The American.”
According to studio estimates released yesterday, it earned…
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Business
Words to work by
Labor Day is our kind of holiday — a day where we honor hard work by staying home from our jobs.
Amid the barbecues and other end-of-summer fun, we hope you’ll…
Hurd talking to Oracle
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd — who exited the company last month after allegations that he was cheating on his expenses while chasing an HP contractor — reportedly may soon…
‘Toy Story 3′ lassos summer box office
It’s Buzz Lightyear to the rescue — again.
Disney’s “Toy Story 3″ was the top performer this summer, grossing a record $405 million and lifting a summer box-office that was light…
Politics
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Queens
Cops were hunting for the driver of a black SUV that mowed down a pedestrian in Richmond Hill yesterday.
A 45-year-old man crossing Jamaica Avenue at about…
HTC Directs You To The Eric Schneiderman Phone Bank
Observer editor Kyle Pope snapped the following photo at the Hotel Trades Council headquarters, around the corner from the Observer offices. It’s a little small, but the sign says, “Eric…
Federal Election Monitors Coming To The Bronx?
Gustavo Rivera, the former Gillibrand aide who is trying to take out coup-instigating state Senator Pedro Espada up in the Bronx has sent a letter to the Civil Rights division…
Editorials
Wells Tower: “The Landlord.”
At ten-thirty, Armando Colón comes to my office. It lifts my mood to see him. Armando lives in one of the worst properties I own, an apartment complex so rife…
Arts & Entertainment
Paradigm Shift
As a biographer, Justin Spring has a unique talent for intimate detail, sweeping historical context, and marvelously accessible writing. And unlike too many contemporary historians, Spring has the consummate good…
Culture
A Gray Area From a Red Revolution
If history is indeed the great teacher — if, as I once read in a fortune cookie, “The past is the book of the future” — then what are we…
Education
B’klyn school chucks 200 books in garbage
One Brooklyn elementary school got ready for the first day of class by tossing bags of children’s books in the trash.
Food & Wine
New York’s briniest
It’s time to come out of your shell. Rather than firing up ground meat and Hebrew National hot dogs this Labor Day, grab a handful of oysters, crab claws, clams…
Baseball
Mets club Cubs; Johan to miss start
CHICAGO — Better safe than sorry. The Mets already are sorry on the field, so they will play it safe with their $137.5 million ace.
Despite wanting the ball for his…
Basketball
JP Morgan Chase, MSG reach sponsorship deal: report
JP Morgan Chase and MSG have reached the most lucrative sponsorship agreement in the United States, Sports Business Journal reports.
The deal, worth $300 million over 10 years, is expected to…
Hockey
NHL OKs Kovalchuk’s deal with Devils
The seemingly never-ending saga of Ilya Kovalchuk and his controversial, long-term deal with the Devils ended early Saturday morning. Just before 3 a.m., Kovalchuk’s 15-year, $100 million contract was accepted…
Football
Jets owner will buy tickets to avert blackout
Neither the Giants nor the Jets will be blacked out on local TV in Week 1, but there sure are going to be a lot of empty seats at New…
