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THOU SHALT NOT TEACH NO Educator cast out of religious school for Adam & Eve lesson “myth” that Judaism, Christianity and Islam all share. Now Kossman has been exiled to a disciplinary “rubber room” for helping “build up tolerance,” she told The Post.

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A discussion about Adam and Eve between city-paid teacher Nina Kossman (right) and third-graders at a private Muslim school has led to her expulsion. Kossman, who taught at the Razi School in Woodside, Queens, told kids the Bible story is a

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Mayor de Blasio will have his work cut out for him in replacing Rikers Island with new jails in every borough, officials said Saturday. The mayor backs a long-term plan to replace Rikers with new jails near borough courthouses. “It most certainly wouldn’t be welcome,” said Staten Island Bor-

ough President Jimmy Oddo. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said the city must fix the Manhattan House of Detention before adding new cells. Brooklyn residents killed a plan to build a 1,500-bed jail at the Brooklyn House of Detention site in Boerum Hill a decade ago —

and “would not be excited” about new jail cells there, said area Councilman Steve Levin. But Queens Councilman Rory Lancman foresees little opposition to a new jail on the site of the Queens House of Detention, which is next to the Kew Gardens courthouse. Aaron Short

Rite & wrong: FDNY revamps hazing ban Stricter rules amid complaints EXCLUSIVE By DEAN BALSAMINI and SUSAN EDELMAN Embarrassed by a series of shocking hazing complaints — including one in which a rookie claimed he was sexually abused — the FDNY has quietly overhauled its anti-hazing policy, The Post has learned. Without any public announcement, Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro on March 21 issued a new five-page policy. The internal document, obtained by The Post, lists 17 prohibited behaviors, including several recently exposed in a series of Post reports. The tougher policy comes amid a rising number of “pending” investigations of Equal Employment Opportunity complaints against the FDNY. Of the ongoing probes, eight complaints were filed in the first two months of this year, topping the seven filed for all of 2016. The FDNY would not discuss the accusations, which could entail gender or race discrimination, as well as hazing and bullying. For the first time, the FDNY says it will refer any conduct considered a “possible crime” to the city Department of Investigation. It also says every officer and employee has an “obligation” to report such acts.

The FDNY has been criticized for sweeping hazing incidents under the rug and not swiftly calling in criminal investigators. The new rules prohibit “any inappropriate physical contact” and “performing degrading, crude or humiliating acts.” In January, The Post reported on a firefighter who allegedly dangled his genitals onto the face of probie Gordon Springs in a first-day hazing ritual at Midtown’s Ladder Co. 35/Engine Co. 40. In February, The Post reported on Michael Troina, who claimed members of Ladder Co. 1/Engine Co. 7 in Tribeca stomped on his bunker gear, smeared peanut butter on his car, and superimposed his face on a picture of a crying baby. The new rules prohibit “creating or posting demeaning signs or photo-shopped faces.” Both Springs and Troina say they were harassed further after reporting the alleged abuse. The new policy warns in bold print that the FDNY “will not tolerate any such retaliation.” The old guidelines, issued in 2013 and covering two pages, never mentioned “bullying.” Even well-worn firehouse high jinks — such as dousing a colleague with a bucket of water — are prohibited under the new policy. The old policy said offenders “will be subject to discipline,

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FIRE STORM: New rules address hazing claims made by firefighters Gordon Springs (left) and Michael Troina (right). up to and including termination.” The new rules add other possible measures, including immediate transfers of accused members, up to 30 days’ suspension, and loss of overtime. Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, noted the new rules address hazing allegations but added that they seem like common sense. “How do you put those on paper with a straight face?” he said. “It sounds like what Sister Rosemary read to us in the sixth grade: Don’t put cherry bombs in the sink. The sad part is we’re talking about grown men.” Paul Liggieri, the attorney for both Springs and Troina, called the policy “a day late and a dollar short.” “It should not have taken this many victims of sexual harassment and discrimination for the FDNY to make a change,” he said. dbalsamini@nypost.com

No-nos Hazing/bullying behaviors now prohibited by the FDNY n Requiring physical exercise ercise asons for nonlegitimate reasons n Orchestrating exclusion or silent treatment n Tampering with food or drink n Pouring a bucket of water or other substance over any part of an employee’s body n Using cruel, abusive or discriminatory language toward an employee n Destroying or otherwise damaging an employee’s personal property n Singling out an employee to do tasks not given to others or multiplying tasks . . . in an effort to intimidate, undermine or harass n Requiring an employee to wear embarrassing or humiliating attire n Performing degrading, crude or humiliating acts against an employee n Tampering with an employee’s bunker gear n Removing or defacing an employee’s locker n Creating or posting demeaning signs or photo-shopped faces n Using social media to demean, intimidate, or otherwise harass n Playing abusive tricks or engaging in acts intended to ridicule n Any inappropriate physical contact n Requiring excessive physical exertion n Forcing or requiring the consumption of food, alcohol, drugs or any other substance

Justin Trudeau has issued a friendly challenge to actor Matthew Perry. About two weeks after Perry revealed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that he once beat up the future Canadian prime minister when they were both boys in Ottawa, Trudeau retaliated with a tweet on Saturday. “I’ve been giving it some thought, and you know what, who hasn’t wanted to punch Chandler? How about a rematch @MatthewPerry?” The “Friends” star told Kimmel the attack was born out of jealousy that Trudeau was better at sports than Perry. Johnny Oleksinski

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DE-FLABULOUS! By LAURA ITALIANO

Va-va-June! After shedding more than 300 pounds, Mama June — mother of the titular pageant contestant on TLC’s now-canceled “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” — has gone from behemoth to babe. The reality-show star officially

revealed her impressive weightloss transformation on Friday night’s episode of WE tv’s “Mama June: From Not To Hot.” Mama, formerly a size 24 (left), looks buxom and confident in what is claimed to be a size-4 dress (right). The 37-year-old had to undergo what she terms a “boob job,” a

tummy tuck and multiple surgeries to remove excess skin, and the show didn’t shy away from revealing the long scars under her arms. June had been working all season to get rid of the pounds in hopes of fitting into a fire-engine-red dress just in time to attend the wedding of Sugar Bear, her ex-husband. During the episode, Mama June

becomes despondent over having been dis-invited by the bride-to-be. Honey Boo Boo tells Sugar Bear that she won’t go if Mama can’t. Fans of Mama June will have to wait for the season finale for the outcome of the wedding showdown. But whatever the drama, the reality star will look fabulous. litaliano@nypost.com

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Ya gotta believe — the computer! The Mets will claw their way to a World Series title this year, at least according to a CBS Sports simulation of the entire season using the newly released video game “MLB The Show 17.” But the squad will have a tough road to get to the Canyon of Heroes, according to the simulation. After collecting 90 wins, the Mets will squash the San Francisco Giants in the Wild Card game, dispatch with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the division series and knock off the Washington Nationals to win the pennant. The victory will set up a rematch of the epic 1986 World Series, with the Mets defeating the juggernaut 106-win Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in seven games. In the finale, Steven Matz will outclass Drew Pomeranz, 7-1, in a battle of lefties. The pipe dream is apparently enough to make Sawx fans nervous. “The results of the sim should be taken with a grain of salt,” assured the New England Sports Network. And Mets fans shouldn’t count their chickens yet. Another site, App Trigger, also did a full-season simulation and has the Sox as World Champions. Dean Balsamini

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Brits rip how-to stab vid Brits are outraged over an instructional video on YouTube — “How to Pierce a Stab Proof Vest” — that shows how to plunge a knife through the kind of body armor worn by the fatally stabbed officer in last week’s Westminster attack. Such videos could be used by jihadis for training, detractors warned. “We will not tolerate the Internet being used to hide terrorist activities or, as The Mail on Sunday has revealed, provide information to assist them in their terrible activities,” Home Secretary Amber Rudd told The Mail late Saturday after it reported that the video remained online. The video was posted six months ago by “German weapons obsessive” Jorg Sprave, The Mail reported. The seven-minute film has by now been viewed a quarter of a million times — generating thousands of dollars in ad revenue. YouTube owners Google had promised last week to crack down on extremist material, The Mail site noted. “When is Google going to get their act together and stop making money out of vile hatred?” the Labor Party’s Yvette Cooper said. Laura Italiano

‘Placard abuse’ in Theater District By SUSAN EDELMAN

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park in the no-standing zone. However, after The Post sent the A part-time NYPD surgeon and photos to the NYPD, the agency pal of ex-Police Commissioner Bill launched an internal investigation, Bratton has lost his parking privi- said Deputy Chief Timothy leges pending a probe of possible Trainor. “You brought to our attention a abuse — for the second time, offipotential abuse of his parking placcials told The Post. On Wednesday night, Dr. Rich- ard,” Trainor said. Leinhardt, 69, a plastic surgeon ard Leinhardt left his black Merand ear-nose-andcedes sedan — with throat specialist, has MD plates and an helped 9/11 respondNYPD parking placers with respiratory ard on the dashboard problems and done — in front of the pro-bono facial reLunt-Fontanne Theconstructive work atre on West 46th for cops. He formerly Street while he, his worked for the city wife and another Correction Departcouple watched a ment. performance of Since joining the “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” PRIVILEGED SURGEON: NYPD’s staff of 36 A red sign at the Dr. Richard Leinhardt surgeons last year, curb reads “NO parked his car — guarded Leinhardt can be upon for STANDING Any- by a cop — outside a Broad- called emergencies at any time,” which means way theater last week. time, but that doesn’t a quick drop-off or give him the right to pick-up is permitted park anywhere while — but no parking. off-duty, Trainor exDuring the show, a plained. police lieutenant in an “NYPD counter“A parking placard terrorism” jacket does not afford the stood by Leinhardt’s department emcar. When the show ployee the right to ended, the lieutenant park illegally when stopped traffic so unnecessary,” he said. that Leinhardt could It’s the second time pull out, a bystander’s Leinhardt’s alleged photos show. placard abuse has been spotlighted. In NYPD parking placards are supposed to be for January, The Post reported complaints that he used the placard on “official business” only. Leinhardt told a reporter he did his Mercedes-Benz while parked in nothing improper because he’s front of fire hydrants on the East available to the NYPD around the 57th Street block where he lives. Trainor said the NYPD has “reclock. “I’m always on official business. scinded” Leinhardt’s parking placI’m on call 24/7,” Leinhardt said, ard pending the probe. Additional reporting by Tina claiming an NYPD officer on duty near the theater directed him to Moore

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Supermodel Gigi Hadid knows how to brighten a rainy day after a long day of work in the Big Apple, returning home in red Lolita glasses, Reeboks, and a snazzy tee.

A teenage boy died and 11 other people — six of them between 12 and 14 years old — were rushed to hospitals after carbon monoxide leaked into the pool area of a Michigan motel on Saturday, officials said. Staffers at the Quality Inn in Niles discovered most of the poisoned youngsters unresponsive on the deck of the indoor pool, reported WNDU-TV. Another victim was a girl, found in her family’s firstfloor room, who had just returned from the pool. Bryan Douglas Watts, 13, of Niles, died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital. The others were expected to recover. Post Wires

Under the threat of losing their pay for seven weeks, state lawmakers inched closer to a budget agreement Saturday. They missed the midnight deadline Friday to get an on-time spending plan in place. “I think we can come up with a plan and have a budget,” Assemblyman Joe Lentol (D-Brooklyn) said after emerging from Gov. Cuomo’s office Saturday afternoon. “We have the framework of an agreement, but we have to send it over to our conferences for approval.” When lawmakers reached an impasse Friday night, Cuomo issued a warning. “If the Legislature does not reach agreement at the conclusion of the weekend, then I will put forth emergency legislation to extend the current budget,” he said. Lawmakers knew that would mean going unpaid until the extension expires in May. Kirstan Conley

‘Baby’ is boss at box office “Boss Baby” earned $15.5 million Friday, on its way to a projected weekend total of more than $50 million, knocking “Beauty and the Beast” from the top of the movie box office. “Beauty,” which has ruled the movie world with record grosses since its midMarch release, took in about $13 million Friday and is expected to make $45 million through Sunday night. Scarlett Johansson’s “Ghost in the Shell” will finish a distant third, with about $20 million for the entire weekend. Post Wire Services

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Muslim-school teach nixed for showing portrait of ‘myth’ By SUSAN EDELMAN An argument over Adam and Eve between a city-paid teacher and third-graders at a private Muslim school in Queens has landed the instructor in pedagogical purgatory, The Post has learned. English teacher Nina Kossman claims that she committed sin of “telling the truth” and that it led to her expulsion from the Razi School in Woodside, which uses taxpayerfunded city Department of Education teachers in a federally mandated program for poor kids. Kossman (inset) infuriated parents by telling their children that Adam is “not real.” She noted that Judaism, Christianity and Islam share the myth, thinking it would “help build up tolerance” for other faiths. She also inadvertently showed kids a classical painting of the first couple as imagined in the Garden of Eden — nude. A group of angry parents showed up at the school the next day to complain that she “discussed Jews with them and showed them pictures of naked people,” Kossman said Imani Al-Amin, an assistant to the principal, told her. “The parents were in shock — in a fury,” the assistant said, according to Kossman. “You have to understand that this is a different environment.” Last week, Kossman was cast out of Razi and exiled to a DOE “rubber room,” a Queens office used for ed-

ucators facing discipline. While she does nothing but menial paperwork, taxpayers foot her $90,000 salary. Kossman’s troubles started as her third-graders assembled. “It was a conversation between the children, but I was right there,” she recalled. “One girl was trying to say that girls are as important as boys because without women there would not be any men.” The girl turned to Kossman: “Teacher, all people are born from a woman’s belly, right?” Kossman agreed, but a boy chimed in, “One person was not born from a woman’s belly — Adam!” Kossman replied, “It’s just a story, a myth. It’s not real.” The boy objected: “Adam is not a story! He is real!” But Kossman said, “The story of Adam and Eve belongs to three religions — first Judaism, then Christianity, then Islam.” She called up the Wikipedia page on Adam and Eve. Up popped the iconic painting of the nude couple by 17th-century artist Peter Paul Rubens. “Ooh! Naked people!” kids cried. “We’re not allowed to look at naked people!” Kossman said she covered the picture with her hands but read from the Wikipedia entry, which says Adam and Eve is a “creation myth.” With kids still calling her wrong, Kossman said, “Well, it’s up to you to think that, but it happens to be true.” An NYU Islamic Studies professor who did not want to be identified

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NAKED TRUTH: Nina Kossman, a city-paid teacher, was removed from the Islamic Razi School in Queens after she showed students this Peter Paul Rubens painting of a nude Adam and Eve.

Behind DOE’s private-institution $upport It’s not exactly a separation of church and state. To comply with state and federal mandates, the city Department of Education assigns teachers to work in private Title I schools — including Catholic, Jewish and Muslim institutions — where at least 40 percent of the kids qualify for a free lunch. The DOE’s Division of Non-Public Schools spends $42.6 million on teachers and other personnel in private schools, the Independent Budget Office reports. “Staff members provide secular instruction and are instructed not to get involved in religious aspects of the schools,” said DOE spokeswoman Toya Holness. Susan Edelman said, “Many religious people think that someone in the Scripture is actually an historical truth. To say it is a myth can be deemed offensive.” The pre-K-to-12 Razi School charges tuition of $5,500 to $5,700 a year yet is entitled to use several DOE teachers because it is a Title I school, where at least 40 percent of students qualify for free lunch. Razi touts a college-prep curriculum and also has a mosque where students pray about an hour a day. Navy-blue uniforms are required. Boys wear dress shoes. Girls must don white headscarves completely covering their hair. Female staffers also wear hijabs, but Kossman was exempt. Two other DOE teachers in the school are men. Kossman, who immigrated from Russia in 1973 and describes herself as nonreligious, said she had never

before gotten into trouble. Since 1991, the DOE has sent her to about 20 religious schools, mostly Catholic but also several yeshivas and one other Muslim school. She was assigned to Razi in September 2014. She teaches English as a second language to students who speak Urdu, Bengali, Farsi and Arabic at home, and she uses fairy tales and literature in lessons. DOE teachers assigned to nonpublic schools “don’t have any specific guidelines,” Kossman said. “It’s generally understood that we should not talk about religion to students. I probably should have avoided talking about it.” Al-Amin and Principal Ghassan Elcheikhali refused to comment, referring questions to the DOE, which said Kossman is under investigation.

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DRUG BUSTS: Sisters Christine (top) and Linda Genise were arrested for allegedly dealing drugs after their landlord put this sign outside their home on Staten Island. By NICK FUGALLO and KATHIANNE BONIELLO A fed up Staten Island landlord put the writing on the wall for a pair of tenants accused of peddling drugs from her home. “Enough was enough,” said building owner Donna — who asked to be identified by her first name only, and who decided last week to take a DIY approach to dealing with the situation. “Beware! Drug Dealers Downstairs!” warned a handmade sign, written in red ink and taped outside of her New Dorp building. “I knew it was going on and they kept lying to my face,” said Donna. “This has been going on for two years and they wouldn’t stop.” On Thursday, just days after she put up the sign, narcotics officers swooped in and busted the tenants, sisters Linda and Christine Genise, on drug charges, according to officials. “When the police came, I thought it was someone coming to collect on someone they screwed over,” Donna said. “When I saw it was the police I was so relieved.” Cops said they found heroin and oxycodone in the Genises’ apartment. The sisters, both 52, were being held at Rikers Island Saturday in lieu of $2,500 bail each.

Donna, whose sign was first reported by the Staten Island Advance, said the Genises were annoyed but undeterred. “Oh, they were pissed,” she told The Post Saturday. “The sign was up, but they still dealt [drugs]. Nothing was stopping them.” The sisters have rented the downstairs apartment from Donna for four years. “Believe it or not, the first two years, they were amazing tenants,” she said. “Always paid their rent.” But now, the apartment is trashed, with broken outlets, burn marks on the vanity and holes in the walls, according to Donna. The landlord said she suspects they have been dealing drugs for about two years. She has been trying to evict them since January. “I didn’t want any of this to happen,” Donna said, but she acted because the alleged activities put her family at risk. “I have a 2-year-old kid with Down Syndrome; I had no choice but to take legal action,” she said. There were 1,075 opioidrelated overdose deaths in the city last year, up from 753 such deaths in 2015. Staten Island has been especially hard hit by the crisis, with more than 100 overdose deaths last year, up from 69 in 2015, the Advance reported.

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INDY, a 27-year-old Bushwick graphic designer, became infatuated with the dating app Tinder after she downloaded it last May. She and her boyfriend of five years had broken up, and she was ready for new adventures. “I’m super boy crazy, so it wasn’t surprising I got obsessed with Tinder really fast,” said Cindy, who spoke on the condition her real name not be used. “I get off on the high of matching with someone, meeting them and sleeping with them.” The shapely pink-haired pixie’s phone began to blow up with 50 messages a day. “It was thrilling to have a ton of people at my fingertips,” she said. Before long, she was “swiping right” on 150 men a day and meeting men several times a week. She once slept with two men in a day — one in the morning and one at night.

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“I didn’t really think about it,” she said. Since Tinder launched in 2012, the number of dating apps — and the anonymous hookups they ignite — has exploded. And so has the number of sex addicts. “It’s really the crack of our time. It’s an instant way of feeling better and it’s just a click away,” said Puja Hall, a psychotherapist and director of the New York Center for Sexuality and Sex Addiction Treatment. Hall says she’s treating more juveniles for sex addictions than ever before because of apps like Tinder. “In the last few years it has spiraled completely out of control,” she added. “It’s a real problem and it’s heartbreaking.”

ROM its inception, Tinder has been downloaded more than 100 million times and has spawned 20 billion “matches” worldwide, the company claims. In the Big Apple, more than 60 per-

cent of single women and more than 80 percent of single men between the ages of 18 and 24 have used Tinder. The hugely popular program asks users to create a profile featuring up to six photos and a short bio. People can then scroll through other users who are within an adjustable geographical range, from 1 to 100 miles. A user swipes left for “Nope” or right for “Like” on each profile they view. If two users mutually “Like” each other, they are alerted to their “Match.” Then they can begin a private chat on the app. Spencer Nelson is a fan of the dating tool, which allows him to have sex whenever he craves it. On a recent Tuesday at 9 p.m., his iPhone pinged with a message from a stranger. “Hey, I seriously want to have sex,” the woman wrote. Nelson, 25, met up with the sexy blonde at a Brooklyn bar. After just one beer, the two were back at her place. “As soon as the door shut, it was an instant make-out sesh. Then she told me to take all my clothes off,” the Brooklyn bartender recalled. The pair slept together and haven’t spoken to each other since. “I like that I could put on a suit, take some selfies, go sleep with someone in the Financial District and disappear, never to be seen again,” Nelson said. Cindy has used Tinder to experiment sexually beyond her usual bedroom routine. One winter night, she met a 20-something in an open relationship. “I spent the date finding out about the sex parties that [he] and his girlfriend go to. Our conversation sparked a mood between us, and we went back to my place after a few drinks,” she recalled. “We had sex with me bent over my kitchen stove. Then we opened up my curtains and had sex in front of

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“Tinder really does feel like a drug,” said Cindy. “You get into this spiral where you delete it and re-download it over and over.” Although Nelson says the app hasn’t turned him into a sex addict, he does admit to incessantly deleting and reinstalling the app. “You get fed up and are like ‘What am I doing? I should meet people in real life,’ but Tinder is fun,” he said. Nelson is attracted to the powerful feeling of being able to change his persona on a whim. “I can reinvent myself every time I meet someone,” he says. “If you meet them through mutual friends, they’ll have an established thought about you.” Online dating has existed since at least 1995 when Match.com burst onto the scene, but at the time it inspired more marriages and relationships than anonymous sex. The technological speed and ease of Tinder made it a hit with the millennial generation, and in-

ALL warns that dating apps encourage alter egos that can be detrimental to having meaningful relationships. “They don’t know how to be themselves anymore, and who they portray isn’t really real,” the Manhattan therapist says of some users. “You can’t make connections that way.” All three users interviewed by The Post have struggled with feelings of emptiness after too many Tinder dates. “After a while you get disillusioned by the constant meat factory of swiping and meaningless encounters,” Cindy said. “Eventually,

Terms millennials use on Tinder: Tinderella: An attractive female who frequently uses the app DTF: Abbreviation for “Down to F- -k” DTR: Abbreviation for “Define the Relationship.” Used when two people need to arrive at a mutual understanding of where it’s going GGG: Abbreviation for “Good, Giving and Game” — describing a partner who is good in bed, generous in pleasuring others, and up for anything sexual Thirsty: When someone is acting overly eager to hook up Tinder Food Stamps: Using the app to line up dates solely to get a free meal Eggplant emoji: Penis Bird+Bee emojis: Sex Tinderitis: Sore thumb from constant swiping

the dates all start to feel the same.” Some experts wonder if addiction is precisely what dating-app companies — who usually charge for special features, even if the app itself is free — hope for. “Do they really want you to find true love on a dating app? Or do they want you to just keep swiping and using their product?” asks Sales, who is also the author of “American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers.” Cindy can’t imagine quitting, but wants to use the app much less. “I really haven’t been on Tinder much these days,” she proudly declares, as several Tinder messages ping her phone. “Ignore that,” she snaps. “They don’t count.”

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NSURPRISINGLY, many of these hookups feel more like cold business transactions than meaningful connections with fellow humans. A Williamsburg doctor who invited Cindy over on a Friday night put on a Kevin Hart movie and then, without even a second of foreplay, dropped trou and placed her hand on his junk. “We had agreed to hook up so I gave him [oral sex] on the couch,” she said. Now, after less than a year on Tinder, she has at least 25 notches on her belt — but not all of her conquests are winners. “One guy asked to sleep with me again and I had to flat-out say, ‘I’m not looking for a repeat of that’ and shut it down,” she said. “He was a bad lay.” Texting and sexting before the initial meet is also a big rush.

“I like getting all of our sexual preferences out on the table before meeting so we can get right to it without any awkwardness,” she says. “The buildup also makes for really hot sex.” But it’s the dependence on onenight stands that can lead to obsessive behavior, depression and issues maintaining real connections, therapists believe. “We wind up having these sexual engagements that are fundamentally live pornography, where the person is basically masturbating with someone else’s body parts,” said Paul Kelly, a psychotherapist and sex-addiction therapist. “Having that kind of turnstile approach to relationships really wears down the idea of actually building long-lasting ones.” At work, addicts sometimes waste hours mindlessly swiping through profiles, therapists say. Quitting “can be a very challenging process” and it’s “almost impossible” to recover alone, according to Kelly.

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the window,” she said. “We basically had sex all over the apartment.”

spired a new era of machinemade matching. Dozens of dating apps followed Tinder’s model, including OkCupid, Hinge, Happn, Coffee Meets Bagel, Plenty of Fish, Tastebuds, Zoosk, Bumble and more. Tinder itself has continued to expand the services it offers, including a new program called “Tinder Select” that caters to an elite group of the most desirable people on the app. Little information is available about the exclusive feature, and it remains unknown how people are chosen to join the closed group. In the past, Tinder has been criticized for making sex too easily available and encouraging the commodification of bodies — especially women’s — rather than facilitating real connections. Some believe “the extreme casualness of sex in the age of Tinder leaves many women feeling devalued,” author Nancy Jo Sales wrote in her Vanity Fair piece “Tinder and the Dawn of the ‘Dating Apocalypse.’ ” “It’s rare for a woman of our generation to meet a man who treats her like a priority instead of an option,” journalist Erica Gordon was quoted as saying in the article. The Tinder community reacted sharply on Twitter. “If you want to try to tear us down with one-sided journalism, well, that’s your prerogative,” a Tinder employee blasted back at Sales, joining other commenters who cried bias. (Asked for comment on this story, a Tinder spokesperson said: “We know from our research that 80 percent of Tinder users are seeking a meaningful relationship.”) Sales said she was puzzled by the extreme reactions. “My piece was not only about Tinder, but about misogyny in the emerging dating-app culture,” she tells The Post. “It was as if no one wanted to talk about that. ‘Dating apocalypse’ was not my assessment, but an ironic quote from a young woman I interviewed.”

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Actress mourns Actress mourns loft loft lost lost in in E. E. Village Village gas gas blast blast N March 26, 2015, actress Drea de Matteo had a big day ahead of her. The lifelong New Yorker, best known as the tragic Adriana on “The Sopranos,” was in LA getting ready for a party to celebrate her NBC series “Shades of Blue.” Then the phone rang. It was her friend Ginger calling with devastating news: De Matteo’s Manhattan home of 22 years was up in flames. “She said, ‘Turn on the TV! Your building’s on fire!” said the actress, speaking about the ordeal for the first time, exclusively to The Post. “I said, ‘You’re out of your freaking mind.’ Then [my children and I] watched our house fall to the ground on television.” There had been a gas explosion in the basement of 121 Second Ave., the East Village building next door to de Matteo’s. The blast blew out the interior of the Sushi Park restaurant there, killing a customer and a kitchen worker. Immediately, 121 went up in flames, as did 119 Second Ave. and 123 Second Ave. — the circa-1834 structure where de Matteo lived with her daughter, Alabama (then 7 years old), and son, Blackjack (then 3). By the next day, all three buildings were rubble. “I lived most of my life in that apartment — I made beautiful memories there,” said the actress, 45. “I was a real East Village girl.” De Matteo was 21 years old and fresh out of NYU when she and two roommates moved into the second-story loft — nearly 2,000 square feet — in 1993. The three split the $2,100 rent (which had gone up to $3,500 by 2015). At the time, heroin dealers were as common in the neighborhood as juice joints are today. Vagrants slept on the cracked sidewalks and graffiti covered the exteriors of the former tenements. It was pure grit, and the Queens-bred de Matteo loved it. “I was holding parties there. It was wild,” she said. She put her funky stamp on the space with Gothic tables and chairs from her dad, Albert, who owned a furniture company. She added black lights “so at night it was [like] a discotheque — the whole apartment glowed. It was a little gypsy caravan,” she said. The apartment, above Sam’s Deli and the restaurant Pommes Frites, saw her through life changes: opening a vintage clothing store, Filth Mart; landing her first big role, on “The Sopranos,” in 1999; winning an Emmy in 2004. As her star grew, de Matteo stayed put — even once she became engaged to musician Shooter Jennings, son of country music legend Waylon Jennings, and gave birth to their two children. (Jennings and de Matteo later split.) “I brought both of my children home from the hospital to that apartment,” she recalled. The pad also became a sanctuary at the end of 2014, a year after her father died. De Matteo’s mom downsized from the Whitestone home where the actress had grown up and moved the family’s most treasured possessions into the loft. The pad housed “everything meaningful and valuable” in her life, de Matteo said. She lost it all in the blaze. “Every single photograph is gone, every videotape of my dad . . . my children’s foot-

TRAGEDY AT HOME: Drea de Matteo (right) lost her East Village apartment (below, with a family friend in the photo), when the building next door exploded in 2015 and both structures were reduced to rubble.

‘I saw my home fall to the ground’ prints,” the actress sadly recounted. Yet despite all that, de Matteo is at peace. “I can live without all that stuff,” she said. “I am just happy to be alive.” She and some 35 others who lost their homes in the blast have filed a $17 million suit against the city, Con Ed and companies including contractor Neighborhood Construction Corp., alleging failure to properly test gas lines or to “observe . . . significant ‘red flags.’ ” Five people — building owners and contractors — were arrested in 2016 on charges including manslaughter, assault and criminally negligent homicide, and charged with rigging the gas-delivery system that triggered the blast. “I do want to be repaid, mainly because of my heartache, stress and [not] being able to cover the cost of living in NYC,” de Matteo said. “People think, ‘She’s on a TV show, she’ll be fine.’ I’m not one of these actors who’s rolling in money.” The tragedy has left the family in what de Matteo describes as a constant state of

fear. Watching their home burn on TV, they caught a glimpse of Alabama’s bedroom. “You could see the bed and stuffed animals,” de Matteo said. “[The kids] didn’t deal with it well.” Now, she said, “every five minutes, it’s, ‘Do I smell something burning?’ If fire trucks are [driving by], we run in the other direction.” She and the kids, now ages 9 and 5, along

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with her fiancé, musician Michael Devin, are temporarily renting a downtown apartment and hope to eventually “live in any neighborhood I can afford.” Prominently displayed atop the diningroom table in the new place is a brick from the old one — a potent reminder of all that the family lost. “I loved it there more than anything,” de Matteo said. “I just want to be home.”

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Anti-establishment rock ’n’ roller David Peel suffered a massive heart attack and is in critical condition, a friend told The Post. Peel, 73, was stricken Friday and was recovering Saturday at Manhattan Veterans Hospital, where he is “resting up for a bypass,” friend John Penley said. With his band, David Peel & the Lower East Side, he was known for the 1968 hippie anthem “I Like Marijuana.” Peel — who was close friends with Beatle John Lennon — launched his music career in the late 1960s, strumming songs such as “Die Yuppie Scum” in Washington Square Park. He was discovered by Lennon and signed by Apple Music to record the album “The Pope Smokes Dope.” “A radical cat,” said Penley, “[Peel] was like the Woody Guthrie” of the downtown protest community, he said. “Even the cops loved it!” Johnny Oleksinski

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Dylan grabs Better economy spurs metro flight his Nobel By AARON SHORT

Bob Dylan finally has his hands on his Nobel Literature diploma and medal. Klas Ostergren, a member of the Swedish Academy, said the 75-year-old singersongwriter received his award during a small gathering Saturday afternoon at a hotel next to the conference center where Dylan was to perform later that night. Ostergren said the ceremony was a small, intimate event in line with the singer’s wishes, with just academy members and a member of Dylan’s staff attending. AP

side his cottage, was ruining the views of tourists who come to gawk at the 14th-century stone homes. Finally someone scratched the word “MOVE’’ on the car’s hood and smashed the driver’s-side and rear windows. Maddox said that instead of paying a $7,500 repair bill, he just might write the car off. If that turns out to be the case, he won’t be too yellow to continue taunting back at his opponents. He warned he just might replace his vandalized vehicle with one colored a bright lime green. Post staff

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The streets of a historic Olde English village Saturday looked more like the taxi line outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal — when they were invaded by some 100 yellow cars. Their drivers were demonstrating in support of an 84year-old retired dentist named Peter Maddox (inset, with a young pal Saturday), who lives in the village of Bibury, which boasts some of the oldest inhabited properties in the country, the London Telegraph said. Some neighbors complained that Maddox’s banana-yellow Vauxhall, which he parked out-

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More people are leaving the New York region than any other major metropolitan area in the country. More than 1 million more people moved out of the area than moved in since 2010, a rate of 4.4 percent — the highest negative net migration rate among the nation’s large population centers, US Census records show. The number of people leaving the region — which includes parts of New Jersey, Connecticut, the lower Hudson Valley and Long Island — in one year swelled from 187,034 in 2015 to 223,423 in 2016, while the number of international immigrants settling in the tri-state area dropped from 181,551 to 160,324 over the same period, records show.

The nation’s economy is improving, there are more jobs in cheaper places to live and retirees are choosing to move to warmer climates, experts say. “The historical trend is that out migration grows when economy is getting better,” said Empire Center for Public Policy research director E.J. McMahon. “As the economy gets better there are more jobs outside the region and by the same token . . . more people to buy your house if you’re a baby boomer looking to move to Boca Raton or Myrtle Beach.” The New York metro area remains the nation’s most populous with 23.7 million residents. Americans have been increasingly relocating from the East and the Rust Belt to cities in Florida,

Texas and the Northwest. The Orlando-Daytona Beach, Fla., area attracted 217,104 Americans over the past six years, a growth rate of 7.7 percent. Denver had the second highest rate of domestic migrants (6.3), according to census records compiled by the Empire Center. The population of the New York region still grew 2.7 percent from 2010 to 2016, thanks to foreign arrivals and births, records show. New York City, the main driver of the region’s population, is on track to have 8.6 million people by 2020, from a current population of 8.5 million, according to July 2016 records. Some 422,045 people — or 4.3 percent — have left Chicago since 2010, the second highest negative migration rate after New York’s.

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WAVE OF SUPPORT: Demonstrators wave pennants in support of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch ahead of this coming Monday’s vote. By MARY KAY LINGE

Senate rivals Mitch McConnell and Charles Schumer are headed for a high-stakes staring contest Monday when the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch proceeds toward a Senate vote. President Trump’s legislative agenda — not just a key court seat — could hinge on who blinks first. “The Republicans are playing a game of unnecessary and dangerous brinksmanship,” Schumer complained Friday in the Senate. Schumer, the Democratic minority leader, needs 41 Senate votes to filibuster Gorsuch’s nomination. A filibuster would prevent an up-ordown vote on whether Gorsuch is appointed to the court. A filibuster blocking Gorsuch’s nomination could be ended only by a cloture vote, which requires a 60-vote majority in the Senate. Schumer currently has 36 votes in his corner — not yet enough to maintain a filibuster. But even if Schumer and the Democrats win the filibuster battle, they could still lose the war.

That’s because Democratic success in a filibuster likely would compel Republican Majority Leader McConnell to “go nuclear” on the Senate’s rules. A simple 51-vote majority would slice the cloture requirement out of the Senate rulebook. The Senate has 52 Republicans. Wiping out cloture could lead to other changes to Senate rules. Senators in both parties say McConnell’s deployment of the

nuclear option could lead to the elimination of rules requiring a 60-vote super majority to bring legislation to the Senate floor. McConnell “is going to do the nuclear option,” Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) told Politico on Friday. “He’s going to break the rules to change the rules. No doubt.” The battle could be joined Monday, when the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to approve Gorsuch’s nomination. McConnell

WH takes Twitter swipe at GOPer A top Trump aide warred on Twitter Saturday with a conservative Michigan congressman and Freedom Caucus member. “@realDonaldTrump is bringing auto plants & jobs back to Michigan,” Trump senior adviser Dan Scavino tweeted in a direct shot at GOP Rep. Justin Amash. “@justinamash is a big liability. #TrumpTrain, defeat him in primary.” Amash fired back: “Same old agenda: Attack conservatives, libertarians & independent thinkers.” At least one Dem was likewise cranky. New Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez — labor secretary under President Obama — on Friday night ranted to Newark rally-goers that Trump “didn’t win the election” and that the Republican Party doesn’t “give a s--t” about them. Mary Kay Linge

has pledged to get Gorsuch confirmed by Friday, when Congress begins a two-week recess. The cloture rule, adopted in the 1970s, is a major barrier to the Trump team’s plans for tax cuts, budget reforms and health-care overhauls. “We will overcome the obstructionists, and the United States Senate will confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch one way or the other,” Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday during a speech in Columbus, Ohio. Even if McConnell keeps his finger off the nuclear-option button, he could force the Democrats to undertake a true “talking filibuster” in which senators opposed to Gorsuch must take the floor with hours-long speeches aimed at stalling a vote. And as a last resort, the president could install his nominee on the court as a temporary recess appointment. Trump, meanwhile, issued a weekly video address — complete with stirring sound track — arguing for Gorsuch’s confirmation. mlinge@nypost.com

Russians playing the ‘fools’ These pranksters are no hacks. The Russian Foreign Ministry proved its diplomats have a sense of humor by poking fun at themselves and offering free election interference on April Fools’ Day. “To arrange a call from a Russian diplomat to your political opponent, press 1,” the ministry’s “new” — and apparently farcical — telephone switchboard message states. Press 2 “to use the services of Russian hackers” and 3 “to request election interference” — then “wait until the next election campaign,” the message continues in both English and Russian. The nearly 1-minute recording is titled “Answering machine for Russian diplomatic missions.” The ministry posted the purported recording for Russian embassies on its Facebook page Saturday. A ministry official confirmed that the post was indeed a cheeky stunt. Melkorka Licea with Post Wire Services

Flynn ‘omitted’ Russ payments Ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn (inset) failed in February to list payments from Russian entities on the first of his two financial-disclosure forms — omissions that include the $45,000 speaking fee from the Russian-run television channel and Web site RT, the New York Times reported Saturday. An amended, second version lists the Russian income, but without detailing his compensation. No reason was given for the discrepancy. Laura Italiano

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IN THE OPEN: A group huddles outside the Lace Gentlemen’s Club on Seventh Avenue, where a crime ring led by Isa Karim (inset) has set up shop.

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A gang runs an open-air drugand-sex ring in the heart of Times Square, brazenly hawking cocaine, pot, pills and women to passers-by — all right in front of NYPD cops. Three times this month, ring members approached a Post reporter and asked if he wanted drugs or prostitutes, with one trying to lead him into an office building for sex with a hooker. Another offered a “happy ending” massage at an unnamed hotel nearby. A third said he would provide “free samples” of illegal drugs. The ring has set up shop on Seventh Avenue between 48th and 49th streets in front of the bar

Tonic and next to the Lace Gentleman’s Club, a strip joint. It was there that two young men with foreign accents tried to get the reporter to buy drugs or pay for sex with 20-something “ladies” they said were available. Each offer was made as patrol cops stood nearby or sat in a police van on the block. “Russian girls, Spanish,” gang member Junior said to the reporter. “Go to the hotel there,” he said and pointed up the block. “Happy ending. On the second floor. The girl come and meet you downstairs. Take you upstairs . . . Everything straight.” The cost: $250, Junior said. “Hotel room is included.” Another member claimed the ring had a room for illicit sex in a

10-story office building at 723 Seventh Ave., where one of its leaders, Isa Karim, 37, was arrested for allegedly slicing up a man in January, leaving a pool of blood on the sidewalk at the corner of 48th Street. It’s the same building where rapper Tupac Shakur got shot five times in 1994 but survived. But a security guard in the building said no such room exists. He said the gang lures in tourists with its offers, then takes their money and walks off. “These gentlemen, if you could call them that, are out there steering individuals,” a police source said. “There might be some drugs involved. There might be prostitution. Or they might be scamming.” A worker for a business on the

block said the gang was a scourge. “We hate that they are out there,” the worker said. “I’m frustrated as hell. It’s epidemic. I think there about 15 to 20 guys. Most of them tend to be of African descent. From Africa. We let the cops know. They’re not oblivious.” Cops say they are doing all they can to stop the gang, making 128 arrests on the block in 2016, including 39 that were drug related, and an additional 22 busts so far this year. “We’re aware of it and conduct numerous arrests in that area,” Lt. John Grimpel said. He said that the Midtown North precinct, which covers that block, made 131 prostitution arrests in 2016 and 28 in 2017.

Hundreds dead as mudslides smash Colombian city

Flooding and mudslides in the Colombian city of Mocoa sent torrents of water and debris crashing onto houses Saturday morning, killing as many as 254 people and injuring hundreds of others. Heavy rains caused several rivers to overflow, pushing sediment and

rocks onto buildings and roads in the capital of southwestern Putumayo province and immobilizing cars in several feet of mud. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos flew to Mocoa, which has a population of 345,000, to oversee rescue efforts.

“We will do everything possible to help them,” Santos said. “It breaks my heart.” The 254-person death toll came from the army, which added that 400 people were injured and 200 were missing. Santos gave a lower death toll of 193.

“It’s a big area,” Mocoa Mayor José Antonio Castro, who lost his house, told local radio. “A big portion of many houses were just taken by the avalanche.” Colombia’s deadliest landslide, the 1985 Armero disaster, left more than 20,000 dead. Reuters

Former NYPD drug-scandal cop Michael Dowd is in trouble with the law again. Dowd, 55, was busted in Suffolk County Tuesday on two counts of violating a protection order after twice sneaking back into hotel rooms with a girlfriend he allegedly assaulted in December, authorities allege. Dowd had been free on $75,000 bail on the East Islip domestic-violence case. He spent 12 years in prison as the head of a crew of cops who shook down Brooklyn coke dealers in the ’80s and ’90s. His exploits were detailed in the 2014 documentary “The Seven Five.” Larry Celona, Laura Italiano

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An elderly Queens woman who wanted her and her friend’s mothers to rest in peace together couldn’t get a judge to approve her plot. Dorothy Doyle went to Brooklyn Supreme Court in December with her lifelong pal and roomie, Mary Murray, seeking to unite the remains of their mothers. Doyle’s mom, Anna, is buried at Flushing’s Mount St. Mary’s Cemetery. Murray’s mom, Bessie, who was Anna’s best pal, is in Brooklyn’s Holy Cross Cemetery. Doyle wanted Bessie Murray’s remains moved. “I am making this request because I would like Bessie [Murray] to be reinterred with her best friend and my mother, Anna Doyle,” Doyle said in court papers. Mary Murray filed an affidavit approving of Doyle’s court effort. But she died weeks later at age 92. Last month, Judge Francois Rivera declined the request, noting Doyle, 92, isn’t related and saying the dead woman’s daughter should have sought the change. He had earlier asked if friendship justified such a move, a transcript shows. “Do you have standing to move a body when you have no relation to the body other than friendship?” he said. “Friendship is kind of vague.” Kathianne Boniello

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But the plan has already hit roadblocks, with a judge last month temporarily halting the opening of a new men’s shelter in Crown Heights that is opposed by community residents. Social services at 16 of the Manhattan hotels are provided by Children’s Community Services (CCS), a Queens nonprofit that has amassed $19.3 million in current and pending city contracts in just two years. The nonprofit is headed by Thomas Bransky, whose bio says he used to work in his family’s Illinois hotel-management business. He loaned the organization $100,000 to get it started. By July 2015, the group had a $1.9 million deficit, according to its financial filings. But two months later, it secured a $3 million contract to provide homeless housing in hotels, city records show. It now oversees hundreds of units. Bransky refused to talk to The Post, directing questions to the Department of Homeless Services. The nonprofit’s contract calls for using no more than 39 percent of a hotel’s rooms unless the city gives special permission, according to a copy obtained by The Post under a Freedom of Information Law request.

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The city has used 30 Manhattan hotels to house the homeless, including the iconic New Yorker, the upscale Excelsior and the touristfriendly The Manhattan at Times Square. The city’s use of Manhattan hotels shot up 58 percent in the last year as bookings expanded from the outer boroughs to prime tourist destinations in Midtown and Soho. And the homeless lodging has reached beyond fleabag flophouses to boutique hotels and brand names sought by visitors who don’t necessarily want to mingle with the down-and-out. “We rode the elevator up to our room with homeless people who were barefoot,” one guest at the Art Deco New Yorker hotel griped on the site Trip Advisor in August. A total of 1,453 Manhattan hotel rooms were listed on the city’s “Shelter Scorecard” for February. The citywide average per room is $222 per day, including social services. The average cost per day at a shelter is $150. The city spent $72.9 million on hotel housing in the year ending Oct. 31, 2016, a report by Comptroller Scott Stringer says.

“This is a massive crisis, and the city is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars — per night — on hotels. They’re ill-suited to help families get back on their feet, and they’re extraordinarily costly,” Stringer told The Post. The use of hotels for the homeless has climbed despite Mayor de Blasio’s pledge last year to end the practice after the stabbing death of a mother and her two children in a Staten Island hotel. On Friday, a Queens toddler was found unconscious inside a Quality Inn used as a family homeless shelter. Kimio Williams was pronounced dead at Elmhurst Hospital. No arrests have been made and no criminality is suspected, authorities said. There are now 7,500 homeless people staying in hotels throughout the city, up from 6,100 in October 2016 and 2,600 in February 2016. The total shelter population, including those in hotels, was 59,240 as of Thursday. De Blasio’s new plan to tackle the city’s homeless crisis calls for opening 90 new shelters and expanding others during the next five years in order to get people out of hotels and “cluster site” housing by 2023.

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THE HIGH LIFE: Among the Manhattan hotels where the city of New York has rented rooms for homeless people are the Clarion on Park Avenue (left) and the New Yorker on Eighth Avenue. The cost of hotel rooms averages $222 per day, including social services, compared with $150 at shelters.

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The MAve Hotel on Madison Avenue is among those in Manhattan under CCS supervision. The Post revealed in October that the city was paying for rooms there at the same time it was suing the property’s owner for operating “illegal” and dangerous rentals at Midtown apartment buildings. The hotel had nine open FDNY and building-code violations last month, according to the Shelter Scorecard. The document says all of the hotel’s 74 rooms were in use for the homeless, although the city insisted in October it was still a commercial hotel. The Frant Hotel on West 101st Street had the most open violations in Manhattan, with 62 last month. The city abruptly stopped using The New Yorker in early February. A manager there would not comment. “To address the citywide challenge of homelessness, we are ending the use of all 360 cluster sites and hotel facilities across the five boroughs. At the same time, we continue to review all our providers to ensure they meet the standards our clients deserve,” said DHS spokesman Isaac McGinn. Additional reporting by Isabel Vincent

Holiday Inn Express, 126 Water St.

The New Yorker, 481 Eighth Ave.

The MAve Hotel, 62 Madison Ave.

Clarion Hotel, 429 Park Ave. South

The Excelsior Hotel, 45 W. 81st St.

Holiday Inn Wall Street, 51 Nassau St.

Holiday Inn Express Chelsea, 232 W. 29th St.

Skyline Hotel, 725 Tenth Ave.

Holiday Inn Express Times Square, 343 W. 39th St.

Candlewood Suites, 339 W. 39th St.

Hotel Richland, 5 Allen St.

Comfort Inn Lower East Side, 154 Madison St.

The Manhattan at Times Square Hotel, 790 Seventh Ave.

Frant Hotel, 211 W. 101st St.

Source: NYC Department of Homeless Services’ “Shelter Scorecard,” NYC property records

tricks. Consider that Evelyn Farkas, a former Obama defense official whose portfolio included Russia, said in a March 2 interview that was little noticed until last week that she had urged the Obama White House and congressional Dems to gather information about Trump and protect it from the new administration. “If they found out how we knew what we knew about their, the staff, the Trump staff’s dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would no longer have access to that intelligence,” Farkas told MSNBC. “So I became very worried, because not enough was coming out into the open, and I knew that there was more.” She added: “We have good intelligence on Russia . . . That’s why you have the leaking. People are worried.” Farkas later tried to walk back her claims, but too late. Her next speech should be to a federal grand jury. Her apparent admission that national security leaks came from Obama officials working to undermine Trump is a major development, and The New York Times added an important wrinkle Friday.

Perhaps inadvertently, a Page One story dropped the usual reference to surveillance on “Trump associates” and cited “intelligence reports that showed that President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies.” To my knowledge, that is the first report anywhere to say that Trump himself was picked up on surveillance. If true, it’s a bombshell that changes everything. When was Trump overheard? Who was he talking to? How does the Times know it was “incidental” instead of intentional, except that a leaker said so? The story doesn’t answer those questions, yet says Trump’s claim of being wiretapped was “debunked.” Wrong. It’s been denied, but hardly debunked. Furthermore, it’s a crime for anyone to leak Trump’s name to the Times and to “unmask” any American citizen who was not the target of surveillance. Yet Trump is at least the sixth person from his circle to be publicly identified as being picked up by Obama-era surveillance. The accumulating evidence that

Trump and his team were targeted by American agents is now properly part of congressional investigations, but the pattern also deserves a criminal probe. Watergate references can be trite, but the end of Richard Nixon offers lessons about where we go from here. For one thing, finding and squeezing a knowledgeable insider is crucial, and Farkas is a good starting point for the Justice Department. Because she later served as an adviser to Clinton’s campaign, it’s also worth exploring whether she was a conduit with the Obama White House, and whether she leaked secret data to the media. A second Watergate lesson is that the war isn’t over until the home team waves the white flag. Recall that it was Republicans who convinced Nixon it was time to go. So the GOP is key to the outcome of the Trump-Russia probe, and Dems will have a say about whether the leak investigation implicates Obama. Here’s the really frightening possibility: What if both presidents turn out to be guilty? What the hell do we do then?

Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio are personal enemies but, politically, more like twins. Their desire to close Rikers Island is the latest example of their shared radicalism. The leftward march is no coincidence. Both have their eye on a national Democratic audience even as they run for re-election: de Blasio this year, Cuomo next. Both also hope to get ahead by running against the policies of President Trump. It’s hard to believe there’s room for another New Yorker on the national stage, with Trump in the White House and Sen. Chuck Schumer the big Dem dog in the Senate. Then again, Trump’s victory is convincing lots of long shots that lightning can strike them, too.

DeB’s tab? Put it on the house Now that the city’s Conflict of Interest Board has slapped a $50 limit on “gifts” to Mayor de Blasio’s legal-defense fund, speculation grows that he’ll stick taxpayers with the bill. Here’s a better idea: As I’ve noted, de Blasio owns two private homes in pricey Brooklyn, and a reader estimates their combined market value could be $5 million. The mayor is rich, and can pay his own legal bills. He should sell the houses instead of sticking taxpayers with another corruption tax.

Haha, Bharara! Preet Bharara hasn’t lost his sense of humor. The former federal prosecutor tweeted about Albany: “#BREAKING: Bold, sweeping, principled ethics reforms finally enacted in New York State! The swamp, drained. #AprilFools.”

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UST when you thought Washington couldn’t get worse, we’re swamped by sensational headlines and breathless reports about Russia, wiretaps and criminal leaks of classified material. Throw in a leading congressman’s late-night meeting at the White House, and it all has the feel of a second-rate movie plot. But don’t you dare tune out, because we are witnessing an unprecedented event: two potential Watergatesized scandals involving two presidents are emerging simultaneously. Did Donald Trump collude with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton? Did Barack Obama politicize law enforcement and intelligencegathering to spy on Trump and destroy his presidency? Those are extraordinary questions, all the more so because the race to answer them is happening on parallel tracks. The usual partisanship has become a winnertake-all war to paint the other side’s president as guilty of unAmerican conduct. Scandal No. 1 started with reports that Russian hackers tried to tip the presidential election to Trump. Soon came the added charge that Trump’s team was working with Vladimir Putin, as described in the discredited dossier about Russian hookers. Clinton insisted often that Trump was guilty of something, and her media handmaidens still fan the smoke in a desperate search for flames. Though there is zero evidence so far, the continuing FBI investigation gives Democrats an opening to make up their own facts, as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi did Friday by suggesting that Russia is blackmailing Trump. The next piece of collusion evidence will be the first, but that hasn’t stopped the left’s fantasies about impeaching Trump. Some are breaking the law to build their case. That brings us to Scandal No. 2, which got a late start, but it’s moving fast and is closer to pay dirt. As far fetched as it might have seemed when Trump first charged that Obama “wire-tapped” him, there is compelling evidence that Trump was onto something very big. Numerous media reports continue to reveal that federal agents gathered secret information about Trump’s team and used it to sabotage him. If it can be proven that a sitting president used government authorities to spy on a candidate who then became president and orchestrated leaks of classified material, Watergate, by comparison, really would be a second-rate burglary. The odds favor the possibility that Obama was the king of dirty

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After Page Six reported that a California man fainted at Bette Midler’s new Broadway musical “Hello, Dolly!” — but so much wanted to see the second act that he refused to let EMTs cart him away — two more hearty patrons risked their health to attend the hotticket show. Sources told Page Six that two women in their 60s were headed to the revival on West 44th Street Thursday when they were struck by a car down the block from the Shubert Theatre. “Two old ladies got clipped by a car” on their way to see “Dolly!” but they refused medical attention, said a theater source, adding that witnesses saw them “on the ground” with cops

standing around them, and that an ambulance even arrived. But the intrepid duo “refused treatment” and instead continued on to the theater. A source said the women did not file a police report on the scene. A spokesperson for the NYPD had no further information about the incident. Another source told us that one of the women was “more shaken than anything,” while her pal “seemed to go unconscious for a minute,” but then appeared to be OK. Thank goodness. “The accident apparently happened down the block from the show, close to Eighth Avenue,” said the second source. “So the two poor

ladies had to then brush themselves off and walk down the street to get to the show.” The hot musical has advance ticket sales of $40 million and took in $1.67 million from just six previews last week. Opening night is April 20. Tickets for the show start at $89 for balcony seats and go up to $750 for front-row premium seating, according to Telecharge. Page Six reported that a fan fainted at the second preview, which was halted. But when he was taken to the lobby by paramedics, the man refused medical help and exclaimed instead, “I’d sooner die than miss Act 2!” Producer Scott Rudin even invited him to another performance.

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Schumer-gate relate THE female supporter of President Trump rudely called out by Sen. Chuck Schumer has been getting support around town. Schumer caused a scene last week when he yelled at Hilary Califano that Trump is “a liar.” On Tuesday, Hilary and her husband, Joseph A. Califano Jr., who served as the secretary of health, education and welfare under President Jimmy Carter, dined at Sistina, where “they were approached by many guests with comments about how appalling Schumer’s actions were. Joseph, a Democrat, was overheard saying, ‘How could he have been so crazy towards me? I was a secretary under Carter — had he forgotten that?’ ”

Dean of B’way dies ROBERT A. Boyar, known as the “Dean of Broadway Insurance,” died at his NYC home on March 16 at age 93. Friend Keith Sherman told us

the Boyars were entertainment’s top insurance brokers. He said, “Boyar helped producers protect their investments. He arranged $200,000 when Elizabeth Taylor missed eight performances for ‘The Little Foxes’

Mayor’s Fair Share ‘unfair’ Return to RHONY IS Kelly Killoren Bensimon returning to “The Real Housewives of New York City?” Bensimon (above) dodged questions at the Boca Beach Club with daughter Teddy during spring break. Bravo boss Andy Cohen had asked Bensimon if she might appear again. But she initially declined because her friends are refusing to be filmed. Elizabeth Hurley declined to be featured on “RHONY,” as did Elle Macpherson. A source said, “Kelly only wants to go back on the show if the scenes are authentic, with her real friends.”

THE gentrifiers are revolting. We’re told Crown Heights residents are furious that Bill de Blaiso’s revived “Fair Share” initiative on homeless accommodation is treating some neighborhoods more fairly than others — namely, his own. Hizzoner recently said 90 new shelters will be spread evenly across the five boroughs. But the Crown Heights insurgents say three shelters are being built in their hood — but zero are going up in neighboring Park Slope, where de Blasio lived before Gracie Mansion. “I think he’s absolutely concerned about his property value, and he knows how mobilized Park Slope is as a community,” said Jennifer Catto, one of the residents suing to stop shelters being built. Catto’s argument is that shelters are being shoved into poorer neighborhoods, where residents are expected to put up less of a fight. De Blasio spokesperson Jaclyn Rothenberg said, “We are committed to opening facilities in every community across the five boroughs, including neighborhoods like Park Slope.” Of the five shelters announced this year, none are in Park Slope.

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Grilled by her exes AUTHOR Jo Piazza is bravely willing to face all her ex-boyfriends at a book reading. At a party to launch her new tome, “How To Be Married,” the writer has agreed to be interviewed about past relationships by her ex-boyfriends as well as her husband. She told us, “I said each [of my single exes] could get three questions, and then Nick [Aster, her husband] gets to grill me about our marriage.” She added, “I don’t know what they’re going to ask me. I figure I’m pregnant, so people will be nice.” We’ll see. The Harmony Books publication is out April 18.

Voice of authority MARK Harris, author of “Five Came Back,” which has been turned into a series by Netflix, said it was a dream come true to land Meryl Streep (above) to narrate. “She was my first choice because I think that she brings a warmth, authority, humanity, clarity, and an empathy to what she does . . . I was excited by the idea of a woman narrating this documentary because that does not often happen. I was thrilled when she said yes. She captured my heart. It was like, ‘Please say my words. You are the one.’ ”

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Dissing Dunne

DOMINICK Dunne (inset) had troubled relationships with nearly everyone in his life — but his most painful falling-out was with his boss, Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief Graydon Carter. In “Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne” (out April 18 from University of Wisconsin Press) biographer Robert Hofler tells of a meeting in Carter’s Midtown office in 2006, three years before Dunne died of cancer. “Seven recent issues of Vanity Fair were spread out across a table, each of them opened to one of his columns. According to Dominick, Carter did not like any of them,” Hofler reports. “Dominick felt like he had

just been whipped by his father.” Dunne had become one of the most famous reporters in America, covering the trials of O.J. Simpson and the Menendez brothers. But in later years, he had to settle for Martha Stewart and Robert Blake. “The wealthy people just aren’t shooting each other at the rate we’d like them to,” Carter quipped, according to the author. Despite their differences, Dominick wanted Carter as one of his pallbearers, and Carter dutifully joined Stephen Sondheim and Jesse Kornbluth for Dunne’s funeral.

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THE unstoppable Robert De Niro was in a wheelchair after stumbling on some steps last weekend and hurting his back, but he kept working and going to meetings. By the end of the week, he was using a walker . . . TV writer Susan Silver took a break on Madison Avenue — from planning the April 20 launch at Michael’s of her book, “Hot Pants in Hollywood” — and spotted French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy following a tall blond companion into Alexander McQueen; Secret Service agents outside Bar Italia guarding Ivanka Trump; and George Stephanopoulos with his arm around his daughter Harper.

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COMMERCE Secretary Wilbur Ross wasn’t invited to the ladies’ tea party thrown for his wife, Hilary Geary, by Washington, DC, hostesses Jane Cafritz, Suzi Cordish and Ann Nitze — so he invited himself. Guests at the Cafritz house in Georgetown on Thursday included Didi Cutler, Susan Pillsbury, Lucky Roosevelt, Jane

Hitchcock and the wives of the Italian, German, Saudi and British ambassadors. Singers from the Washington Opera serenaded, and Geary was presented with a copy of the Green Book, Washington’s social register.

Endquote: “LITERATURE is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.” — Virginia Woolf

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Fuzzy math at Flushing HS principal faked classes, harming kids: teachers By SUSAN EDELMAN This principal didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do his math. Tyee Chin (right) of Flushing HS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a cornerstone of Mayor de Blasioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s limping Renewal Schools program â&#x20AC;&#x201D; demands that teachers aim to pass 75 percent of their students, or else. But his crackdown backfired. Hundreds of kids who passed their algebra classes flunked the Regents algebra exam required for graduation. So Chin and a math assistant principal, in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;blatant disregardâ&#x20AC;? of city and state rules, ordered that 254 students who had been bumped up into geometry classes be taught the algebra they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t learn the prior year, teachers alleged. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They gave us these classes

called geometry, but we were told to teach algebra,â&#x20AC;? an outraged teacher told The Post. Students who did not learn geometry received geometry credits on their transcripts, staffers said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We believe that this is a deliberate attempt . . . to fraudulently boost graduation rates and meet the Renewal school benchmarks,â&#x20AC;? five teachers wrote last December to Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard Condon. A copy was sent to Chancellor Carmen FariĂąa. Condon referred the complaint to the Department of Education. A DOE investigation of Chin for â&#x20AC;&#x153;academic misconductâ&#x20AC;? is ongoing, officials said Friday. Chin declined to comment. Flushing students are struggling. Of 586 who took the Regents algebra exam in January, only 31 percent passed, requiring 404 kids to try again. While five math teachers taught algebra in classes labeled geometry, Chin and the assistant princi-

pal for math also ignored their duties to visit the classes to evaluate the instruction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They covered themselves. They never came to observe us,â&#x20AC;? a staffer said. Chin, 41, who has led Flushing HS for two years, was recently reprimanded for violating a â&#x20AC;&#x153;code of ethicsâ&#x20AC;? for the DOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teacher surveys, officials revealed. Last March, he warned his staff against making negative comments in the survey â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which is meant to help rate the school â&#x20AC;&#x201D; lest enrollment drop and teachers lose jobs. That happened during his former gig as principal of Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing & Visual Arts in Harlem â&#x20AC;&#x201D; another Renewal school.

Now Chin wants to jump ship. This month, he applied to become principal of Townsend Harris HS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highestperforming schools â&#x20AC;&#x201D; where student reporters spotted him emerging from an interview. The Flushing fraud investigation and survey tampering came out after The Post reported that high-profile Renewal principal Santiago Taveras was stripped of his post at DeWitt Clinton HS in The Bronx after Condon found he improperly fixed grades. Mayor de Blasio is pouring an extra $754 million into the Renewal program, which started in 2014 with 96 schools, but after closings will continue with 78 in the fall. Getty Images for Global Dignity

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Pain tot & mom in anguish A botched circumcision at Bellevue Hospital filled a Manhattan infantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first months with pain, a mom claims in court papers. An intern circumcised Karina Colladoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s baby boy without asking a day after his February 2015 birth, she said in a Manhattan Supreme Court filing. In 10 visits over 18 months, Collado â&#x20AC;&#x153;was assured that her sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s penis was going though the normal healing process,â&#x20AC;? according to court documents. In January, Collado took her son to Mount Sinai Medical Center and learned he had a urinary tract infection that would require surgery. The boyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;deformedâ&#x20AC;? penis has two holes on either side of his urethra and â&#x20AC;&#x153;significantâ&#x20AC;? foreskin still attached, the mom charges. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a matter thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s under investigation,â&#x20AC;? said Colladoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyer, Eric Schwarz. The city declined to comment on the claim. Kathianne Boniello

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The eccentric cosmetics entrepreneur Helena Rubinstein once said of her rival, Elizabeth Arden, “With her packaging and my product, we could have ruled the world.” Too bad they hated each other’s guts. “They avoided each other and wouldn’t even refer to one another by name,” said Doug Wright, who wrote “War Paint,” a new Broadway musical about Rubinstein and Arden, opening April 6. “It was either ‘the other woman’ or ‘that dreadful woman.’ ” Rubinstein and Arden ruled the cosmetics industry in the first half of the 20th century, but their rivalry was anything but pretty. Throughout their 50-year battle, the beauty queens stole one another’s employees, copied each other’s products and threw all sorts of shade. Their combative relationship inspired quite a few cosmetic breakthroughs, including the first waterproof mascara, and helped them earn millions at a time when women were just getting the right to vote. Amazingly, though “War Paint” depicts an imaginary tête-à-tête between the dueling divas, the two never actually met, despite living and working blocks apart from one another on Manhattan’s East Side. “Their competition almost depended on them never meeting,” said Ann Carol Grossman, who co-directed “The Powder & the Glory,” a documentary about Rubinstein and Arden. “What if — God forbid — they met and actually liked each other?” Arden and Rubinstein were hardworking, self-mythologizing, larger-than-life social climbers. Both were immigrants who came from nothing. Arden, born Florence Nightingale Graham in 1878, was a Canadian farm girl; Rubinstein, born in 1872, a poor Polish Jew whose parents shipped her off to Australia when she started seeing an unsuitable fellow. Arden arrived in the Big Apple first, opening her salon in 1910. New York society women went crazy for her face creams, sold

in pretty pink pots. So, when Rubinstein — a 4-foot-10 dynamo whose exotic accent, ostentatious jewels and tall tales seduced the fashion press — brought her Australian brand to New York five years later, Arden got territorial. She moved her salon from 42nd to 54th Street, five blocks away from Rubinstein’s new shop, and painted the door bright red to send a message: This was war. When Arden launched her first mascara in the ’30s, Rubinstein worked overtime to develop a waterproof version. When Arden came out with her best-selling Blue

to sting,” said documentarian Grossman. “The ways they battled each other were sly and sophisticated — more elegant than name-calling,” said Wright. “It was like watching two high-powered executives go at one another: No one’s tearing off the other’s wig.” Not that it didn’t get personal. When Rubinstein, then 66, married Prince Artchil Gourielli-Tchkonia, an impoverished Russian aristocrat 23 years her junior, Arden was so blinded with jealousy over her rival’s new title of princess that she went out and got herself her own royal beau, who ended up being a charlatan. “They both wanted to be the queen bee,” said biographer Lindy Woodhead, whose book, also called “War Paint,” inspired the new musical. If the two women did happen to be at the same party, she added, “some poor hapless young editor had to keep Madame RuSHADY LADIES: binstein at an arm lock on Makeup queens one end of the room, and Elizabeth Arden (far another had to do the left) and Helena same with Miss Arden on Rubinstein (above) the other . . . so they didn’t despised each other meet in the middle of the — but never met. room and start a catfight.” Yet while their constant competition allowed Grass perfume in 1934, Rubinstein retaliated these two moguls to scale new heights, it shortly after with Heaven Sent, which she also blinded them to other threats. By the announced by dropping 500 1950s, Charles Revson had skyrocketed to balloons from the roof fame and fortune with his Revlon nail polof Fifth Avenue ish, which the two older women had disdepartment store missed as vulgar. Soon other upstarts, who weren’t afraid of youthful, sexy advertiseBonwit Teller. Things got partic- ments or TV, were eclipsing Rubinstein ularly heated in 1937, and Arden and their old-fashioned ways. Still, the cosmetics titans battled to the when Arden poached Rubinstein’s top HR guy, death, clinging to their companies through who brought 11 defec- the mid-60s. When Rubinstein passed away tors with him. Ru- in 1965, at the age of 92, Arden — who would binstein got even die 18 months later at age 89 — couldn’t help by hiring Arden’s but gloat. “Poor Helena,” she sighed to a reex-husband as porter, who noted that “Arden’s voice was sad, but her eyes were triumphant.” her publicist. “It was a way rlaneri@nypost.com

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Hate victim mourned Blas speaks at rites By GEORGETT ROBERTS Saturday’s celebration of Timothy Caughman’s life couldn’t avoid the stark fact that he died allegedly at the hands of an avowed racist. “He was attacked for who he was, plain and simple,” Mayor de Blasio said at Caughman’s Queens funeral. “It was an attack on New York City.” Caughman, 66, whose family described him as “a very friendly man who never met a stranger,” was stabbed to death March 20. His accused slayer, James Harris Jackson, allegedly told cops he killed Caughman simply because he was black. Friends, family and supporters packed the pews at Mount Zion Baptist

Church in South Jamaica, where Caughman’s father was once a minister. “He had a huge heart and he loved his family. It’s tragic that he had to die in such a hateful way.” said his cousin, Khadijah Peek. Peek, 24, fought tears as she read two poems during the service. “We have to fight that hate,” she said. “We have to acknowledge that hate crimes happen in the world and figure out what causes it and address it, instead of just addressing the symptoms. It starts with a conversation, a real conversation.” Caughman relished conversation. He frequently took bus trips to Washington, DC, to witness Congress in action, and would have lunch with other Americans visiting the

Capitol and discuss the issues of the day. He was also a movie buff who watched the crowds for famous faces. Photos of Caughman alongside celebrities like Beyoncé, Susan Lucci, D.L. Hughley and gymnast Gabby Douglas were featured in his funeral program. “His true vocation was really photography,” said his brother-in-law, Charles Johnson. “Being in Manhattan, going around collecting cans for recycling, he’d get to see quite a few stars and therefore he could take photographs with them.” Caughman was nicknamed “Hard Rock” when he played basketball as a youth. “Whatever he did, Tim went hard,” said his friend Michael Welch, 66.

‘AN ATTACK ON NEW YORK’: Mayor de Blasio addresses the funeral of Timothy Caughman (inset) Saturday.

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James Rosenquist, a leading figure of the 1960s pop-art movement known for his room-sized works, died Friday at 83, his studio said. Rosenquist was famous for his color-bursting displays of common objects. His early experience as a billboard painter became a springboard for presentations of images that he culled from sources including print advertisements and magazines. Rosenquist exhibited in some of the world’s top museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. “Painting is probably much more exciting than advertisadvertis ing,” Rosenquist was quoted as saying by the MOMA. “So why shouldn’t it be done with that power and gusto, with that impact?” One of his works is “F-111,’ which was created during the Vietnam War. It shows images including a US warplane, a bombing and scenes of American prospros perity. Reuters

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CRASH LANDING: Lots of millennials are blowing their student loans on pricey spring break vacations, but Jeffrey Skinner (right), who spent his $1,000 loan check on a trip to NYC, regrets it.

Gelasio Reyes (top) was struck and killed allegedly by Cristian Guiracocha (above).

A Queens bicyclist was killed by a hit-and-run driver early Saturday in Sunnyside, cops said. Gelasio Reyes, 32, of Corona, was pedaling at 39th Street and 43rd Avenue at about 3 a.m. when he was hit by a driver in a red Ford Escape, police said. Reyes was pronounced dead at Elmhurst Hospital. Cops caught up with Cristian Guiracocha, 25, of Woodside, four hours later at Laurel Hill Boulevard and 58th Street. Police charged Guiracocha with DWI, aggravated unlicensed operator and refusal to take a breath test. Caroll Alvarado and Joe Parziale

Lawyer in ‘defame’ suit A Manhattan attorney slapped his ex with a defamation lawsuit after she allegedly told a friend he’d hit her. Dennis McCoobery, who also co-owns the Upper East Side sports bar Mile 17, says Manuela Washington told her co-workers that McCoobery “slapped [her] in the face” as she tried to leave his Manhattan apartment. The pair had dated for nine months before she broke it off in December, according to court papers. Washington could not be reached. Kathianne Boniello

Owe no! Local coeds are racking up debt by blowing student loan money on spring break By CHRISTIAN GOLLAYAN When Dan, a 23-year-old graduate student, was making springbreak plans last year, he didn’t let unemployment stop him from taking a weeklong jaunt to Puerto Rico. After all, he had money on hand — his student loan. “I deserved to enjoy myself since I would be studying for the rest of the semester,” said Dan, a political science major at a local university. (He did not want to use his last name for professional reasons.) So he spent a $500 student loan check on plane tickets and barhopping all over town with his pals. “I’ll eventually pay it back at a later date,” Dan said. And a new study has revealed he’s not alone in his party-now, pay-later philosophy. The report from LendEDU found that 30 percent of US students plan to use college loans to fund getaways such as spring break jaunts. “A lot of students overborrow in their first semester and think

they have this ‘extra money’ sit- proper money management. ting around. They feel flush and “We don’t teach them the right spend on frivolous expenses,” thing,” she said. “So many stuLynnette Khalfani-Cox, author of dents use college loans as the de“Zero Debt: The Ultimate Guide fault to bridge a financial gap, to Financial Freedom,” told The when it should be your last rePost. source.” That was certainly the case for Just ask Jeffrey Skinner, a 28Hunter, a 20-yearyear-old real estate old college junior. agent and finance For last month’s coach in Bed-Stuy. spring break, he In 2008, when he used $300 of his was a freshman at loans for a weekMiles College in long bender in PanAlabama, he blew ama City, Fla. — through $1,000 for and doesn’t regret a a spring break in thing. New York City. “Live it up while “Part of our you can and pay [campus] culture back later,” the — Money expert Lynnette was that people English major at a would wait around Khalfani-Cox local university to get their refund said. “I’m living liberally in col- checks so they could spend it” on lege. I’m going to live conserva- frivolous items, Skinner said. He tively once I graduate to pay it all dropped a chunk of his borrowed back.” dough on shopping sprees and Khalfani-Cox said this bor- nightclubs. But now that he’s working to rowing trend has been on the rise, in part because parents pay off $35,000 in student loans, don’t teach their children Skinner regrets it all.

A lot of students overborrow and think they have ‘extra money.’

“I’m actually against student loans, and I’d advise people to just go to a state school because it’s more affordable,” he said. Kelly Foster, an attorney in Bridgewater, NJ, is likewise kicking herself for behaving like the party-hearty grasshopper in Aesop’s fable — as opposed to the save-for-the-future ant. Just after graduation from law school in 2014, she blew her last $1,000 loan check on a trip to South Africa. But it doesn’t seem so fun now that she’s in the red for $98,000 in student loans. “[Students] don’t want to be reminded of the looming debt they carry — that’s not fun to think about,” said Foster, who’s in her 30s. “They just want to get away from student loan debt, and vacation is one way to do that.” And though she had a blast touring Johannesburg and Cape Town, Foster doesn’t advise using loans for far-flung getaways. “It’s just going to put you further behind on your [student loan] payments,” she said. “I just don’t think it’s worth it.”

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Not all the action is on the field this season — check out baseball’s sexiest ‘WAGs’ (wives and girlfriends) By KIRSTEN FLEMING

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Model Larisa Fraser has stood by her man, Milwaukee Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun, as he’s weathered two steroid scandals — one of which landed him a lengthy suspension in 2013 — and an accusation that he had cheated on her. Though she’s never spoken publicly about any of those issues, she’s done a good job of putting on a happy face, Instagramming adorable pics of the family, including toddler Celine and baby son Greyson, and beauty shots of her healthy cooking — stuff like homemade acai bowls. In fact, Fraser seems to be launching herself as a bit of a lifestyle guru, offering recipes and holistic health consultations on her Web site, ModelEatsBlog.com. (Hopefully all of the ingredients are baseball legal.) It’s a change from the brunette’s former gig, posing for the likes of Michael Kors, Nordstrom and GQ.

HOMETOWN HERO: The Mets’ Matt Harvey has been linked to model Adriana Lima.

POWER HIT: Larisa Fraser, wife of Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun, has modeled for GQ.

THE ANIMAL LOVER Tiffany Price, wife of Boston Red Sox pitcher David, describes herself as “mommy to two barking boys” — petite pooches Louis and Astro, who she often posts photos of on social media. But she’s about to add a human to the mix: The couple, married this past November, is expecting a son in May. The 33-year-old beauty is also known as a fierce presence on Twitter. In 2013, she called out Boston fans as “pieces of s--t” — which was really awkward when her hubby, now 31, signed a contract with the Red Sox in late 2015. But no doubt, she’s a great sport. When sportscaster Dan Patrick once asked Tiffany if she wanted an engagement ring or a World Series ring first, she proved her WAG worthiness by answering: “I’m hoping a World Series ring.”

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THE VICTORIA’S SECRET BABE Adriana Lima moves faster than Matt Harvey’s fastball. In early February, the Victoria’s Secret Angel was cheering on her thenrumored beau — Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman — in the Super Bowl. But by mid-March, Edelman was out of the picture, and Lima, 35, was caught canoodling with 28-yearold Mets hurler Matt Harvey at a Miami restaurant. It’s unclear as to whether they’re just playing the field, but the Brazilian catwalker and the man known as the Dark Knight are perfect for each other. Harvey has dated enough models — including Devon Windsor and Anne V. — to open his own agency. But Lima, who’s said to be worth $75 million, might be his most accomplished conquest to date: Beyond lingerie, she’s worked for high-end designers from Prada to Givenchy. And she likes her athletes, having previously been married to Serbian NBA player Marko Jaric, with whom she has two young daughters, Valentina and Sienna.

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TRIPLE PLAY: Tiffany Price and her hubby, Red Sox pitcher David, are devoted to pups Louis (far left) and Astro, and have a son on the way.

HOME-RUN HOTTIES WHAT A CATCH: Kate Upton is engaged to Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander.

THE FORMER CHEERLEADER

THE SMALLSCREEN SIREN

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TWEET HEARTS: CBS Sports reporter Allie LaForce met the Blue Jays’ Joe Smith on Twitter.

RAH-RAH ROMANCE: Ex-Cowboys cheerleader Emily Greinke is a rock for Diamondbacks player Zack Greinke.

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While many WAGs can be found on the sidelines, Allie LaForce is paid to be there. The wife of Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Joe Smith is a reporter for CBS Sports, covering college football and basketball — but sadly, no baseball. The 28-year-old blonde, who played hoops at Ohio University, was crowned Miss Teen USA in 2005. She first met her hubby after she challenged him via Twitter to an on-air game of H-O-R-S-E. While Smith won best of three, it took him longer to grab her heart because she was leery of dating an athlete. But the pitcher, now 33, persisted, and they tied the knot in 2015.

Zack Greinke hates publicity. In fact, the Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher, 33, suffered from such crippling anxiety that he took a brief leave from the game in 2006. Luckily, he has his wife, the former Emily Kuchar: “You look in her eyes, and it just makes you feel good,” he has said of the former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader, now 33. The high-school sweethearts from Orlando, Fla., tied the knot seven years ago and have a son, Bode, born in 2015.

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Criminals in Boca Raton were probably lining up to get arrested by this fiery redhead. Before she was January 2010’s Playboy Playmate of the Month, Jaime Edmondson was a police officer in Boca Raton, Fla. Blue blood runs in the family, as both of her parents are cops. But the beauty left the force after two years to return to her old job — Miami Dolphins cheerleader. Though she no longer waves her pompoms, Edmondson, who also competed on “The Amazing Race” in 2008, has been cheering from the Tampa Bay Rays’ stands since 2011. That’s when she got together with the team’s Evan Longoria, now 31. The two married in 2015 and have a son, Nash, and a daughter, Elle. Last July, Edmondson, 38, tweeted her devotion for her third baseman: “I have a really hot husband — just saying.”

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Sports Illustrated’s 2017 Swimsuit Issue cover girl Kate Upton and her fiancé — Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander — are the reigning power couple of baseball. And no WAG is more loyal than the 24-year-old bombshell: After Verlander, 34, was snubbed for the Cy Young Award last fall, she tweeted at the league, “I thought I was the only person allowed to f--k @JustinVerlander . . .” The pair, who bought a $5.25 million Beverly Hills home in December, haven’t announced a wedding date yet, but their game-day rules are in place. “There’s no sex before a game,” Upton said on “Watch What Happens Live.” “Absolutely none. And then, also what I just found out is, if he plays too well, there’s no sex after, either.”

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BIG SCORE: Tampa’s Evan Longoria is married to Jaime Edmondson.

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Plows are making life ‘hail’

H’way ice hits homes By MELKORKA LICEA

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This gorilla’s just daffy. Nico, the oldest resident of Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire, England, eats a bouquet of daffodils that keepers gave him to mark the start of spring, but the ol’ graybeard was apparently just feeling peckish.

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“When [plows] come by, it sounds like a freight train is comWhile most New Yorkers ride ing towards us,” she said. “We can out a blizzard by curling up and always hear the snow smack getting cozy at home, the resi- against the window . . . It’s been dents of Third Avenue in Sunset an ongoing issue.” The heavy sleet and snow durPark cower in fear. That’s because with every big ing the recent storm was particustorm, icy, bowling ball-sized pro- larly dangerous, breaking more jectiles from the Gowanus Ex- than a dozen windows on Third pressway threaten to smash Avenue between 56th and 58th streets, according to through their winwitnesses. dows. One neighbor was On a long stretch sitting on a bed with of the elevated her two babies when South Brooklyn glass came raining highway, the Gowdown on them and anus’ edge is just “cut up” the mom’s feet from the falegs, according to cades of the fourRios. story walkups along The projectiles the avenue. As also reportedly speeding city snow dented cars and plows clear the excaused the awning pressway, ice and snow is catapulted THAT’S COLD: Caitlyn of the Pentecostal over the low barri- Morales, 9, was hit by glass Church of Jericho to ers into homes and after ice from the Gowanus collapse. Expressway hit her home. “It was like a chain businesses. reaction,” Rios said. Caitlyn Morales, 9, The church’s landwas playing on her lord filed a comphone in her bedplaint with the city room during the Comptroller’s office March 14 snowand Rios said she storm when ice sudplans to sue the city. denly shot through “We’re sick and two second-floor tired of not knowing windows. what to expect,” “Glass hit me unRios said. der my eye, scraped The Gowanus is a my nose and a big state highway but one hit my chest,” the little girl recalled. “I saw the the city Sanitation Department blood on my face and that’s when plows it during storms. The I screamed out for my grand- agency said it was unable to identify the plow that might have mother. I felt really scared.” Now, Caitlyn is afraid to stay in caused the damage. Sanitation spokesman Vito her room. “I can’t sleep,” she said. “I’ll Turso said the agency will caution never know if another truck is go- snow-plow drivers before future storms, and may recommend that ing to come.” Her mother, Clarissa Rios, 38, the state install protective guards said the family has lived with such along certain stretches of the roadway. fears “for years.”

BEAT IT, KIDS! A Taser-carrying cop threatens a group of teens.

A video shows a Taser-holding cop intimidating a group of students outside a prestigious Brooklyn high school, even taunting one of the teens: “You wanna ride the lightning?” The footage, taken March 16 but posted to YouTube on Saturday, shows the cop and his partner in front of Midwood HS. First reported by Gothamist, the footage shows one officer, with baton out, lightly pushing one of the students.

“Don’t touch me,” she complains — to which the cop says, “What are you going to do about it?” As the kids continue walking away, he draws his Taser, keeping it pointed downward as he taunts, “You wanna ride the lightning?” “I see officers aggressively dispersing students from Midwood all the time,” although never before with a Taser, the witness who filmed the incident, CUNY associate professor Alex Vitale, told Gothamist. Laura Italiano

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IS NY STILL RULED

With the passing of a patriarch, a great dynasty’s power fades

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By MICHAEL KAPLAN

could’ve inspired the comic-book character Richie Rich with their over-the-top childHEN David Rockefeller Sr. died hoods. When David skated down Fifth AveMarch 20, at the age of 101, he was nue, a limousine rolled behind him in case he worth $3.3 billion, according to got too tired. He grew up in Manhattan’s larg107Forbes. And with his passing, the est private residence and summered at a 107 city lost one of the last of its room “beach cottage” in Seal Harbor, Maine. brand-name billionaires. When con artist and murderer Christian The Rockefeller name has long captured Karl Gerhartsreiter wanted to pass himself the American imagination, becoming short- off as a wealthy heir in the 1990s, he renamed During the the same same hand for “richest of the rich.” For more than a himself himself Clark Clark Rockefeller. Rockefeller. During century, the family has ranked among the decade, decade, aa striving striving Jay Jay Z Z launched launched the the Roc-ARocA sending aa clear clear mes mesmost important clans in New York. It is no Fella Fella Records Records label label — — sending understatement to say they helped build this sage about his hip-hop ambitions. In our our collective collective imagination, imagination, “Rockefeller” “Rockefeller” town. Their moniker is stamped all over local In stand for for massive massive yachts, yachts, buck buckinstitutions — Rockefeller Center, Rock- has has come come to to stand efeller Fountain, Rockefeller University for ets ets of of diamonds diamonds and and flowing flowing champagne. champagne. But But flaunted its its wealth. wealth. John John D. D. medical sciences. A Rockefeller co-founded the the family family never never flaunted the Museum of Modern Art. Family members Rockefeller Rockefeller Jr. Jr. was was even even squeamish squeamish about about Rockefeller Center. have also helped fund everything from the putting putting his his name name on on Rockefeller Center. “He “He distasteful,’ ”” YMCA to the Asia Society and have driven thought thought it it ‘flamboyant ‘flamboyant and and distasteful,’ in his his book book “Great “Great For Forthe development of projects such as Battery wrote wrote Dan Dan Okrent Okrent in tune,” “but the prospect of empty buildings Park City. There was a time when having a Rock- was distasteful, too.” And he knew putting efeller at an event could elevate an up-and- the family stamp on it would attract tenants coming hostess. “They were the most desir- eager for a bit of that success to rub off on them, too. able guests,” says a source Yet some in New York sociwho knows that world well. ety say the family’s power has “It could cement a person’s been diluted a bit as they’ve place in society.” grown in numbers and their So what does it mean to be a level of wealth has become inRockefeller today, when few creasingly common. In an age New Yorkers would be able to of tech billionaires and hedgename members of the current fund titans, America’s oldgenerations? money families have strug“The name still means a lot,” gled to keep up. The Vandersaid Michael Gross, editor of bilts, who built Grand Central Avenue magazine. “But they Station, are “wealthy but not have collective power, not infabulously wealthy. The Carndividual power.” egies are worth nothing [now],” said Nasaw. HE family’s money was “The older Rockefeller genfirst earned by John D. eration did a lot to help New Rockefeller — David’s York,” said a prominent Mangrandfather — who founded hattan socialite. “But the Standard Oil in 1870, and was younger generation is more America’s first billionaire. out geographically and “[He] is the quintessential — A socialite speaking of spread financially. They don’t have robber baron,” Gross said. the Rockefeller family the [financial] wherewithal to Indeed, despite all the good do what their relatives did.” he did for early-20th century There are Rockefellers in Montana, VerManhattan, John D. operated as a brutal businessman. “[He was] no angel,” said David Na- mont, even Arkansas, where Andrea D. Rocksaw, who’s written about America’s great dy- efeller, granddaughter of that state’s onetime nasties. “You make his kind of money by governor Winthrop, is a cop. Divorces, remardriving hard bargains, destroying competi- riages and prolific numbers of children — living blood-descendents of John D. Rockefeller tors and paying the lowest wages.” It all fostered the luxurious lifestyles of exceed 150 — have divided the family fortune. Today John D. Rockefeller’s lifetime haul family members. David and his siblings — including brothers who grew up to be the gov- would be worth around $336 billion. But ernors of New York and Arkansas, as well as Forbes estimates that the collective family one of America’s first venture capitalists — bankroll hovers at around a thinly spread $11

The younger generation ... doesn’t have the [financial wherewithal] to do what their relatives did.

SHOW OF SHOW OF WEALTH: WEALTH: David David Rockefeller Rockefeller (inset), (inset), who who passed passed away away on on March March 20, 20, pospossessed an art collection said to be worth $500 million.The family’s Sleepy Hollow estate, Kykuit, is open to the public and full of works by Picasso, Calder and more. billion. (David — who served as president of Chase Bank — died with a personal fortune of $3.3 billion.) A chunk of it has gone to philanthropy. John D. Rockefeller’s ethos was, “I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.” He underscored this by giving away $530,853,632. David donated some $900 million in his lifetime. Relatives today continue the tradition with organizations such as Rockefeller Philanthropy, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. “[High-profile philanthropy] is in their DNA,” said another socialite. “They have given funds to improve health care, to foster international trade and to enliven the arts.” But while there are family institutions, there is no money-making family business, per se. By contrast, the Hearst family, with their active media holdings, continue to roll in the dough and are said to be worth $28 billion. Robert Frank, who’s chronicled the rich for The Wall Street Journal, has expressed doubt about the money lasting through the current crop of Rockefellers. Sean O’Reilly, who has written extensively on the family, concurs: “You have five generations . . . start chopping up a billion dollars and it disappears.”

HE Rockefellers have largely been outshined, in terms of glamour and ostentatiousness, by West Coast dynasties like the Hearsts and the Gettys. But that’s not to say they haven’t had scandal and tragedy. When former New York governor Nelson Rockefeller passed away in 1979 of a heart

attack, it was allegedly after having made love to his secretary. Steven Rockefeller shocked everyone by marrying Anne-Marie Rasmussen, his family’s housemaid, in 1959. In 1951, Winifred Rockefeller, great-niece of John D. Rockefeller, killed herself and two of her children inside their Greenwich, Conn., home. Ten years later, in 1961, while hunting down art in New Guinea, 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller was supposedly eaten by cannibals. Lately, though, the name has been untarnished and those deep in the philanthropy scene said it still goes a long way. “When you have a Rockefeller on your committee it is a bonus,” said a society chronicler. “People want to hobnob with them.” Among the glittering lights on the gala circuit are several women who married into the family: Renee Rockefeller, who is on the board of public art organization Creative Time and is the wife of Nelson’s son Mark; Allison Rockefeller, who founded Audubon’s Women in Conservation and is wed to Nelson’s grandson Peter; and Susan Rockefeller, who’s on the board of Oceana and is married to David Jr. Still, if finances keep eroding, one wonders what might become of NYC’s most valuable name. Perhaps a relative could take a stint on the “Real Housewives,” a la Sonja Morgan — whose ex-husband was an heir of Industrial Age banking tycoon John Pierpont Morgan. Gross admits it could happen. “My hope, though,” he said, “would be that somebody in the family would stage an intervention.”

AN ABRIDGED LOOK AT THE ROCKEFELLER FAMILY TREE

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Founded Standard Oil in 1870

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Edith Rockefeller 1872 - 1932

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1874 - 1960 Donated land for UN headquarters; developed Rockefeller Center.

Remarried 1951 Martha Baird Rockefeller 1895 - 1971

John D. Rockefeller III 1906 - 1978 Set up the United Negro College Fund. Four children, several grandchildren.

Married 1901

Son John D. “Jay” Rockefeller IV was a US Senator from West Virginia from 19852015.

Renee Rockefeller, wife of Nelson's youngest child, Mark, is prominent on the current NYC society scene.

Son Michael died in 1961 in New Guinea; it's been speculated he was killed and eaten by cannibal natives. Son Steven married the Rockefellers' housemaid, Anne-Marie Rasmussen.

Winthrop Rockefeller 1912 - 1973

Co-founded Museum of Modern Art.

Governor of Arkansas, 19671971; finalized racial integration of the state's public schools.

Son “Win” Rockefeller was lieutenant governor of Arkansas under Gov. Mike Huckabee. Passed away in 2006. One of his eight children, daughter Andr Andrea, is a police lieut lieutenant in England, Ark.

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Governor of New York, 1959-1973; vice president of the United States under Gerald Ford. Seven children, many grandchildren.

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Nelson A. Rockefeller 1908 - 1979

Co-founded Venrock Associates, providing early funding for Apple and Intel. Four children, many grandchildren.

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller 1874 - 1948

Married Margaret McGrath in 1940

Laurance S. Rockefeller 1910 - 2004

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Alta Rockefeller 1871 - 1962

Alice Rockefeller 1869 - 1870

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Created Greenacre Foundation to maintain public parks. Married three times; two daughters.

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Was CEO of Chase Manhattan Corp.

Son Richard, a doctor, died in a 2014 private plane crash in Westchester. Daughter Abby belonged to the radical Female Liberation Front group in the 1970s. David Rockefeller Da Jr. Founded Fo nonprofit Sailors Sa for the Sea, educating boaters about ocean health. Paul Bruinooge/PatrickMcMullan.com

David Jr.'s daughter Ariana is a handbag designer.

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Abby Rockefeller 1903 -1976

Laura Spelman Rockefeller 1839 - 1915

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Bessie Rockefeller 1866 - 1906

Married 1864

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Student ‘Council’

ISIS No. 2 blown away in airstrike

NYUer seeks Dem nod By MELKORKA LICEA

“grass-roots approach” to his campaign. That means he has no money. “We already have a full staff pro bono, and when I meet officials for lunches, they usually offer to pay anyways,” he joked. Hebbur chastised the current council for proposing progressive policies but not executing them. He cited the Save a Life, Carry Naloxone campaign, which touted expanding access to the life-saving overdose anecdote to 700 pharmacies. “I went to 12 local Walgreens asking about it, but no one knew what I was talking about,” he said. Hebbur says his age is irrelevant. “My message is something that can resonate with people of all ages and even party affiliations.”

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Chetan Hebbur is giving a run for City Council the old college try. The New York University senior, 21, wants a shot at succeeding Rosie Mendez, who is term-limited out. “The city needs younger voices who represent change,” he told The Post. If he wins, the Democrat would tie former Bronx Councilman Joel Rivera for the title of youngest city lawmaker in Big Apple history. Rivera was 22 when he was elected in 2001. The budding politico plans to rely on his fellow students to secure a spot on the ballot to represent the East Village, Lower East Side and Murray Hill. “You only need a tiny slice of the pie and there are 50,000 students at

NYU,” Hebbur said. The math and economics major, who also works full time as a marketing consultant at an advisory firm, is calling his effort an “anti-campaign.” “I plan to do things differently and create change,” the Dallas native said. He wants to transform NYU students’ anger at President Trump into a local movement. “I want to get my peers on the same page and actively make a difference in our community,” he said. He wants to use the Internet and social media to create more government transparency. He hopes to launch an online portal for people to vote on policy proposals, and to measure local support for each piece of legislation. Hebbur also believes in a

A ‘MAJOR’ EFFORT: Chetan Hebbur, 21, hopes to become one of the two youngest City Council members ever.

Ayad al-Jumaili, the man believed to be the deputy of ISIS leader Abu Bakr alBaghdadi, has been killed in an airstrike, Iraqi state TV said Saturday, citing Iraqi military intelligence. Jumaili was killed with other ISIS commanders in a strike carried out by the Iraqi air force in the region of al-Qaim, near Syria, the state channel said, without giving the date of the raid. The channel described Jumaili as “second-in-command” and “war minister.” The spokesman of the US-led anti-ISIS coalition could not be reached for comment. Iraqi forces have been battling to retake the city of Mosul, the Islamic State’s stronghold in Iraq and the city where Baghdadi declared a caliphate nearly three years ago. A separate battle is in preparation to drive ISIS from the Syrian city of Raqaa. Reuters

by KYLE SMITH

With absurd proposals aiding cons and illegal immigrants, it’s clear what de Blasio cares about most: opposing Trump De Blasio’s New York is interfering with deportation of illegal immigrants in all sorts of ways. Last year, the city evicted Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from its Rikers Island office. And then last month, The Post reported that de Blasio-appointed judges are granting illegal immigrants’ requests to send them to Rikers instead of letting them go free between court dates so they can avoid the clutches of ICE agents. Hey, come to this country in search of opportunity, right? Right now Rikers is the only proven path to a job. It’s a sanctuary prison inside a sanctuary city. New York is a crazy

enough place on an ordinary day. Now, during de Blasio’s nutty war with Trump, we have law enforcement and criminal justice being run for the convenience of criminals. What’s more, as a tactic for pumping up his vote totals in November, Trump-bashing seems superfluous: de Blasio beat his declared challenger, Paul Massey, by 34 points in a February Quinnipiac poll. De Blasio won 73 percent of the vote in 2013, and though New Yorkers don’t particularly like him, it’s hard to imag-

If President Trump’s against it, you can be sure Mayor de Blasio is all in — especially when it comes to being soft on criminals.

ine a fellow progressive taking him on, while Republicans couldn’t find anyone viable to run against him last time and are faring no better this year. If Trump says laws should be enforced, de Blasio says they shouldn’t. If Trump says criminals are bad dudes, de Blasio says they just need a break, and if Trump says rain water is not Chardonnay, de Blasio is likely to immediately call a press conference so he can stick his snout in the nearest puddle and start lapping it up. @rkylesmith

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OMING up on a a re-election season in which he faces about as much meaningful opposition as Godzilla in Smurf Village, Mayor de Blasio is bored. The central purpose of his mayoralty, he has decided, is not ensuring tranquility or trying to nudge some more growth out of the economy or even to stop people from getting killed on the streets. No, de Blasio is focused on one object only: Trump-trolling. De Blasio is operating on a gut-level political instinct: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. This is a fairly disastrous way to run a life, much less a city. But BdB figures anyone who irritates Trump must be worthy of his praise and devotion, and therefore your tax dollars, plus a cordon of police and judicial protection. Trump hates illegal immigrants and other criminals, so de Blasio shows his opposition to the president by supporting the criminal class. This week, de Blasio, in the spirit of doing stuff Trump hates, promised to close the Rikers Island jail in 10 years after a blue-ribbon report said it could be replaced with five much smaller jails, one in each borough. The report said the jailed population could be cut in half — but the only way to do that is to let more criminals go free. De Blasio also rolled out a $10 million program to give a job to everybody who serves a year or less time at Rikers Island. Jobs-for-criminals is an indicator of upside-down priorities. You could be the best employee at your company for 10 years, get laid off because the company went under, and not be guaranteed another job. You could graduate NYU Law School and not be guaranteed a job. Why are criminals suddenly the only people in New York guaranteed a job, and what kind of perverse incentive is that? New York’s tens of thousands of unemployed are thinking, “Should I brush up my résumé or just steal a purse?” De Blasio’s war with Trump over illegal immigration also means he is effectively an accomplice to mass law-breaking. On Tuesday, De Blasio ordered a memo telling city police on school property that they should not allow federal law-enforcement agents to search for suspects at the schools without a warrant. That’s one government official telling other government officials to block higher-ranking government officials from access to government property. All of this, so that illegal immigrants can continue to enjoy your taxpayer-funded public education, regardless of whether they’re guilty of additional crimes on top of being in the country unlawfully. De Blasio told CNN’s Jake Tapper in a January interview that the city even shields illegal immigrants who have been caught drunk driving.

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POSTSCRIPT Culture Club

Losing heart Why online dating and other modern methods of finding love are so disappointing

by NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY

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F you didn’t talk about poo, that would be a great start.” That was the recommendation of one woman to her dinner companion on the British hit show, “First Dates,” which is coming to the US on Friday. Produced by Ellen DeGeneres and narrated by Drew Barrymore, the show films couples in a restaurant — all on blind dates — and then later asks them about their experiences and whether they would like to go out again. Some of these dates are funny, some are cute, but most are simply painful to watch — as was the case with the former Army guy who couldn’t stop swearing, wondering aloud about the color of his date’s hair (the ones not on her head) and discussing how the taste of semolina reminds him of, well, poo. These dates are not just a reminder that people can be obnoxious, but also that we have wildly different standards for how to behave on a date. It also illuminates how hard it really is to find the right person. Dating today is hard, and it’s getting harder.

While the folks orchestrating “First Dates” may have a devilish streak, for the most part they actually put together people of similar ages and similar socioeconomic backgrounds, even a few with similar interests. In other words, it sure beats trying to meet someone at a bar. Online dating might seem like it would work better, but it’s actually worse. While the latter seems to open up a whole new world of possibilities — just think of all the people you can swipe through in a few minutes compared to how long it would take to encounter each of them in person — the truth is it gives the impression that there are always other (read, better) fish in the sea. According to a 2016 survey by the Pew Research Center, about one in 10 Americans has tried online dating. But “even among Americans who have been with their spouse or partner for five years or less, fully 88 percent say that they met their partner offline — without the help of a dating site.” Some people complain that the problem with online dating is that it’s superficial, which is why so many people lie in their profile or put up pictures that are a decade old.

It’s more attainable to meet “The One” through friends than social media.

But the real problem with meeting people online is actually the same as meeting people in a bar — there is no context. As Beth, now married to someone she met through former work colleagues, told me about her past online experience: “It was hard to start from simply “we’re both single” as the only common ground. There’s no background. So in addition to “could I see myself with this person?” you’re also asking “Is this person a criminal?” She recalls once going out with a professional poker player. “I

think he liked me, and I might have liked him if I knew his sister or a friend of a friend. As it was, ‘professional gambler’ raised red flags.” We used to meet potential romantic partners at school, in our home communities or at our religious institutions. (Ann Landers’ rules for “husband hunting” began with “You probably won’t find Mr. Right in a bar. Try grocery stores, church, where you work or through a friend.”) But now, as we are marrying later, we are

Chatter “If the president puts Russian dressing on his salad ... somehow that’s a Russian connection.” — White House spokesman Sean Spicer about accusations linking the White House and the Kremlin

“A provocation tantamount to declaration of war.” — An official statement from North Korea, after Sen. John McCain called the country’s leader “a crazy fat kid”

“The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don’t get on the team, & fast. We must ﬁght them, & Dems, in 2018!” — President Trump in a tweet blaming the GOP’s right-wingers for the failure of his health-care plan

less likely to meet our mate in college (let alone high school), in our hometown grocery store or in our faith communities (the older we are when we get married, the more likely we are to marry someone of another religion). And what do we know about someone we meet on Tinder or eHarmony? The problem is not that he or she might be a serial killer. The problem is that we have a completely different perspective from one another. We have wildly inconsistent expectations, and without any context it’s hard to sort people out. Every morning, the radio station 95.5 WPLJ plays a game called “Blown Off,” in which the hosts call a person who has “gone ghost” after a date, leaving the other person bewildered about the reasons why things didn’t work out. (Usually, the people have met online or in a bar.) Putting aside the absurd idea that getting them on the radio is going to resolve the situation happily, these calls are actually very instructive. In one episode a man didn’t want to see a woman again because he found out on the date that she was married (but had an open relationship). In another, a woman decided against seeing a guy who was 30 years old and had never paid taxes or had a bank account. A man couldn’t imagine going on a second date after he heard the woman in question make racist remarks. There was even a gay man who decided he didn’t want to continue the relationship after the other man suggested they get a room in the hotel where they had met for drinks. He told the hosts: “I don’t do that on the first date!” It all makes for great radio and entertaining television. But as a way to find a real relationship, modern dating leaves much to be desired.

“General Flynn certainly has a story to tell.” — From a statement announcing that the former national security advisor is willing to testify on Russia if he is given immunity

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The world outside the Acela train’s windows is one of decay, corruption and poor city planning.

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are served to you at your seat. The ride is a jarring anthropological experience — that is, if you bother to look up from your digital device. Not because it is too fast, or the curves are too sharp; the jarring effect comes from the visual decay of our country swooshing right before your eyes. Outside, a different Acela corridor rolls by — one roiled by isolation, decay and societal changes, a world ghosted by technology, corrupt politicians and bad city planning. Shuttered machine shops, refineries, steel mills and manufacturing

“I mean, the Human Rights Council is so corrupt.” — Nikki Haley, American envoy to the United Nations, attacking the UN body meant to promote and defend human rights across the globe

plants near Trenton and Philadelphia slide past the window like a kaleidoscope of sorrow; scores of once-charming century-old houses are now covered in graffiti and dot areas in and around Baltimore, Newark and Wilmington, Del. It used to be that the people who lived and worked along the Acela corridor were held in at least as much esteem as those in the urban bookends that connect them. They were the people who made the stuff that made this country great, mostly blue-collar, mostly union members, mostly middle-class. They worked hard, they played

hard. On Friday nights, when their shifts ended, they went to the neighborhood bars; on Sundays they prayed for their sins. And, in between, they coached their kids’ softball games or volunteered at the concession stands. Politically, they mostly have been New Deal Democrats, believing that government was there to hold together the social fabric; they depended on it as much as the government depended on them. Until, like Nigel, it didn’t anymore. A lot of things have happened in this “other” Acela corridor, stripping it of prosperity and patriotism, once

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“I will not allow myself to be a scapegoat.”

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generated by the notion that people here were the engine that made this country roar. But, mostly, it has been unrelenting automation that has eliminated middle-class lives and jobs. A study by economists Pascual Restrepo of Boston University and Daron Acemoglu of MIT tried to quantify how worried we should be about robots — and they succeeded. In short, they determined, every additional robot used in automation reduced employment in a given commuting area by three to six workers, and lowered wages by 0.25 to 0.5 percent. There are 1.5 million robots out there working in what is left of industrial America, and that number is projected to double in less than 10 years. For Nigel, automation ultimately will kill the best income he earns as a cabdriver, since driverless-vehicle technology is fast becoming more of a reality. Lawrence Katz, a labor economist at Harvard, estimates that automated cars will impact the 5 million people nationwide who make their living by driving Uber, Lyft, taxis, buses, vans, trucks and delivery vehicles. Katz points out that most of these drivers are people like Nigel — a man without a college degree — who’ve already been hit by the loss of 5 million manufacturing jobs since 2000. Peering out the window of the Acela Express, the sadness of this other world speeds by like a faded collage of past lives, hopelessly waiting to be brought back to life. President Trump, like him or not, wasn’t wrong when he said there was “carnage” in the country right now. Ironically, a lot of that carnage is located on this corridor, in between eight of the 10 wealthiest counties in our nation. The hard truth is that no one has any idea what to do with the underemployed, high-school-educated people who once were able to carve out good, middle-class lives with their own hands, as long as they were willing to work. But somebody had better figure it out soon: With nearly 70 percent of Americans lacking college degrees, this corridor will eventually crack, just like the dislocated voters of the Rust Belt.

“It’s probably the most bitter beer you can drink.”

— Dean Bethea, claiming a teen wouldn’t want a beer he’d bought as a defense in his childendangerment case

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ASHINGTON — Nigel works three jobs to make ends meet. He is black, single, progressive politically and determined to live the American dream — “as long, of course, that it does not kill me first,” he said, navigating his cab through Capitol Hill traffic. He moved here from California because of a woman but, “It didn’t work out.” Still, he stayed. He lives on the fringes of poverty, in the economically challenged part of Washington within spitting distance of the railroad tracks that transport businesspeople to New York or Boston a couple of dozen times a day on the Acela Express. The irony is not lost on Nigel. He understands, despite his economic struggles, that he literally lives along the Acela corridor, the famed connector of the highest concentration of the most elite people in America. Nearly everyone getting on the Acela Express that day is either on their way up the ladder or, more than likely, already at the top; they are wealthy, successful, powerful, in the crosshairs or on the boards of what moves and shakes this country. Yet, in Nigel’s neighborhood on the wrong side of North Capitol Street, prosperity and opportunity are not part of the narrative. He’s not envious, nor is he particularly interested in gentrification overtaking his neighborhood. “That’s just geography,” he said, explaining that it doesn’t solve the problem, just rearranges it. Nigel voted for Barack Obama, twice: “It was a point of pride for me, as a black man, to cast my vote for the first black president. Wow! But it turned out he was no different than anyone else who held the office. Just another politician who could string together pretty words.” In the Acela Express’ business class, your seat is big and comfortable; you can plug in your iPhone or laptop or use the club cafe to sip on a craft IPA or chardonnay. Sit in first class, and you get to enjoy hot towels, newspapers and beverages. Meals and drinks? Well, they

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If you’re stuck in a jam, one day you can get a (literal) lift instead.

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ATE for work? Imagine skipping the subway and instead heading to your local “vertiport,” where you can hop into an aircraft the size of an SUV that runs on electricity and works pretty much like an elevator. Get in, punch in your destination, and off you go. Alone. It may sound like an episode of “The Jetsons,” but electric air taxis are a form of transportation that is coming to Dubai in just a few months. And investors hope American cities aren’t much far behind. Insiders call the new breed of flying machine “e-VTOLs,” (pronounced “EE-VEE- talls”), an acronym for “electric vertical take off and landing.” Exotic prototypes are being designed, built and flight-tested by companies ranging from Airbus to startups bankrolled by tech billionaires such as Google co-founder Larry Page. “Dozens of companies . . . are investing in e-VTOL aircraft,” observes advocate Mike Hirschberg, executive director of the American Helicopter Society International. “They are proving that not only is e-VTOL technology feasible, but it can make a compelling business.” The business case is being made most eagerly by Uber. The San Francisco-based rent-a-ride provider wants to live up to its name — German for “over” — by making it possible for customers to use their Uber cellphone app to order up a lift by car or air taxi or a combination of the two, whatever is most convenient and economical. Uber sees e-

VTOLs as the answer. “Flight is a natural extension of what we’re doing,” said Jeff Holden, Uber’s chief product officer, who created Uber’s self-driving-car laboratory in Pittsburgh. Uber will host an invitation-only “Elevate Summit” in Dallas from April 25-27. There, Holden and others from Uber, along with leaders of companies developing and investing in e-VTOLs and related technologies, will discuss the many issues raised by the concept of urban air transport. “All these benefits may seem great in theory, [and] far-off in practice, but we believe VTOLs could be flying on Uber within a decade,” an Uber spokesperson told The Post. “We’ll be talking about timeline in more depth at the summit.”

T’S a 21st century take on a notion that’s been around since the advent of powered flight. “A vehicle that can take you from your home to your office, to your country club, to your bank or to your friend’s house, by air or by road, whichever is most convenient, will have a vast usefulness,” test pilot James G. Ray told a Philadelphia conference on VTOL aircraft — in 1938. Lots of flying cars have been designed and built since then, yet the only place you ever see them is on covers of Popular Science or Popular Mechanics. One big hurdle: A car able to rise into the air and fly needs vastly more power than one that just rolls on wheels. Most e-VTOL developers aren’t even trying to make their vehicles “roadable.” “Don’t call them flying cars! They are not flying cars!” beseeches

Tech firms like Uber are hoping to bring flying taxis to the skies within ten years.

Hirschberg. “Hardly anyone today is looking at concepts that can both fly and drive. VTOL vehicles are never going to be as cheap as cars, so why would someone want to drive an aircraft that costs hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars on the highway?” Configurations vary, but many eVTOLs look and work something like quadcopters and other hobby drones — one source of inspiration for the concept. Advances in batteries, electric propulsion, artificial intelligence, and sensors, coupled with lightweight composite materials, now make it possible to think about sizing little drones up to carry people. To keep competitors in the dark, some e-VTOL developers — like Google co-founder Page’s startup Zee.Aero — refuse to talk about their designs. But most use some combination of battery-driven electric motors to run propellers, rotors or fans held in arrays around the passenger cabin or in rows on top of, or embedded inside, wings. Some have tilting

wings and a tilting “canard,” a stubby wing out front to add stability. The idea of helicopter taxi services was once popular among urban planners and architects such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, said Roger Connor, curator for rotorcraft and drones at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

Various companies began offering helicopter air taxi services in New York and other big cities after World War II, Connor said, but they proved unprofitable. “Demand was high, but profitability was elusive, because even the most efficient twin turbine helicopters could not keep the seat-mile

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In perhaps just five years, electric crafts like this one (above) may begin replacing taxi cabs.

DVOCATES say e-VTOLs will work for urban transport where helicopters haven’t because, being electric, they will be cleaner, quieter and cheaper. “Helicopters are too noisy, ineffi-

cient, polluting and expensive for mass-scale use,” a 100-page white paper from Uber last year argued. “VTOL aircraft will make use of electric propulsion so they have zero operational emissions and will likely be quiet enough to operate in cities without disturbing the neighbors.” Some experts take strong issue

with the latter point. Just because electric motors aren’t loud doesn’t mean e-VTOLs will be quiet, said John Hansman, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology aeronautics and astronautics professor. Electric VTOLs, after all, still have to spin rotors, propellers or fans at speeds that create substantial noise.

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This Chinese-made EHang flier (above) will start flying Dubai commuters by remote control in July.

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costs to an economically viable level,” Connor said.

We want it it to to be be onondemand. You push a button and a car will pick you up and take you to a vertiport and the next aircraft will leave in minutes.

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Airborne cabs could make sure we’re never stuck in NYC traffic again. But are they a flight of fancy — or a better way to travel?

“Even on a jet engine, most of the “quad multicopter” with a total of noise is not the engine, it’s either eight propellers stacked in vertical from the fan or the exhaust jet,” Han- upper and lower pairs that turn in sman said. Take the buzz of a toy opposite directions at the end of four drone and scale it up to a 4,000-lb. arms. vehicle and “it’s probably not going The propellers are run by electric to be silent,” he said. motors powered by lithium polymer But given growing road congestion batteries. EHang says the 184 can fly and commuter frustration, Hansman one passenger weighing less than added, “There is clearly a market.” 220 lbs. on a trip lasting about 23 Promoted by NASA research on minutes. electric aircraft propulsion, the eNeither Dubai nor EHang offered VTOL movement was well under- details, but news coverage posted to way when Uber joined it, but “Uber EHang’s website said that while the can accelerate this,” Holden said. 184 is designed to be autonomous, Uber doesn’t plan to build its own initial flights in Dubai will be ree-VTOLs, he said, but “we’re coming mote-controlled from a command into this intending to operate a net- center able to land the aircraft imwork of aircraft.” mediately in case of problems. Uber wants to be a catalyst for e“I’m not getting in one,” said Eric VTOLs, dangling the carrot of its 40 Raymond, who has designed and million monthly worldwide users flown solar-electric and batteryand nearly $70 billion valuation to powered electric airplanes since spur technological, 1989. Raymond — a regulatory and culformer hang-glider tural progress. aerobatics world “We want it to be champion — thinks on-demand,” Holden none of the e-VTOL said. “It may very well designs he’s seen are be multimodal, which practical or safe. means that you push Batteries are heavy a button and a car will and as a rule can store pick you up and take only a fraction as you to a vertiport, and much energy as aviathen the next aircraft tion fuel, so e-VTOLs will leave in the next are going to have excouple of minutes. We tremely limited flight don’t think it will be endurance, Raymond one of these things noted. And if they lose where things are power in flight, he scheduled, like an airsaid, e-VTOLs withport where you buy a out good-sized wings ticket for a certain to glide down on or time or something rotors big enough to like that. That’s not “auto-rotate” like a the way Uber rolls.” maple seed are likely For the scheme to to drop like a rock. work, the Federal AviReading Uber’s ation Administration white paper offered will have to figure out Raymond no comfort how to certify eon that point. VTOLs as safe and “They’re promising adopt air-traffic rules ballistic parachutes, to govern them. Cities which I’ve actually will have to build or used and tested,” he — Jeff Holden, be equipped with versaid. “I have one in my Uber’s chief tiports and other inairplane.” But below product officer frastructure. Citizens 100 feet of altitude, the will have to accept the parachute doesn’t idea of e-VTOLs crisscrossing city have time to deploy, he said, and skies. even if the parachute opens, “You They’ll have to accept the cost, too. could go into power lines, trees, waUber calculates that a 50-mile air ter. The idea of a ballistic parachute taxi trip “might initially cost around is you’ll probably survive the crash.” $129 and eventually be as cheap as Urban e-VTOL advocate Hirsch$20,” an Uber spokesperson said, as berg and other proponents concede ridesharing and higher demand for that the technology still poses chalsuch rides make it easier to pay for lenges, but think they can be overe-VTOLs. come. “These e-VTOL aircraft aren’t ready now for passenger flights, but LSEWHERE in the world, the in five or 10 years, with advances in authorities are less picky. The electric batteries, motors, and other Dubai Roads and Transport technologies, Uber’s vision could Agency announced in February that become a reality,” Hirschberg said. Chinese drone technology and serv- “This isn’t about today. It’s about toices company EHang will be allowed morrow.” to fly air-taxi trips in that United Arab Emirates metropolis starting Richard Whittle is the author of “The Dream this July using its EHang 184 Autono- Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious mous Aerial Vehicle. V-22 Osprey” and “Predator: The Secret Origins The EHang 184 is a one-passenger of the Drone Revolution,” both out now

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Blas’ Too-Good Idea There’s a decent idea buried in the “Jails to Jobs” plan that Mayor de Blasio unveiled last week — buried about six feet under. The program, which is to kick off by year’s end, will offer an eight-week minimum-wage job to every convict who leaves a city jail after completing a sentence — no matter his or her record or suitability for employment. Providing ex-cons with jobs, argues the mayor, can cut the odds they’ll return to crime — and prison. He points to research showing that “shortterm transitional employment” can cut recidivism rates by 22 percent by leading to long-term employment. Set aside the fairness question — that is, why aren’t needy New Yorkers who’ve never done time going to get this help? After all, if it works, the mayor will surely be happy to expand the program. More: Successfully steering those caught up in the criminal world toward honest lives of self-sufficiency would be worth the $10 million a year that de Blasio plans to spend. And not just because it would carve out a better path for ex-cons: The payoff would also include lower crime rates and prison costs. Everyone wins. If it works. Trouble is, it’s a big “if.” And the chances that an equality-obsessed, big-government progressive like de Blasio can pull it off seem slim. To be kind.

Start with the “entitlement” problem: Giving jobs sends all the wrong signals. Enrollees should have to earn them — or at least apply. More, de Blasio assumes that many won’t be suited for a job. So he’ll offer “re-entry services,” such as job training, as a key part of the program both during inmates’ time behind bars and after they’re freed. Some ex-cons will be paid for job training in lieu of work. That’s where the big trouble starts. Since 1984, America Works has found jobs for more than a half-million hard-to-place workers, including many ex-cons. But what President Peter Cove and CEO Lee Bowes note is that a job is a job — not a training program, mentoring service, peer counseling or any of the other near-useless features the mayor intends to include. Only working at — and holding down — an actual job, with actual workplace demands, regularly ends lives of dependency, poverty and crime. It’s impossible to imagine Team de Blasio running a program that holds the new workers — or the social workers overseeing them — to such accountability. Do they lose the job if they don’t show up? Yes, the mayor has stumbled on a potentially good idea. But to make it work, he’d have to abandon too many of his other ways of thinking.

Erase Another Trump Horror For everything there is a season, and for many the Time of Trump is the season for perpetual outrage. The latest horror is over President Trump’s supposed “erasing” of the LGBT community, because the 2020 Census isn’t asking any questions about sexual orientation or gender identification. Yet the Census has never asked about either — and all decisions are still being made by Obama appointees. Not that facts can be allowed to stand in the way of social-justice fury, which erupted everywhere from a GQ column, “The Trump White House Is Quietly Destroying That ‘LGBT-Friendly’ Agenda It Loves To Talk About,” to a Daily Beast rant, “This Is Why The Erasing of LGBT Americans On The 2020 Census Matters.” And don’t even think about the outraged tweets hashtagged #CantEraseUs. In the Beast piece, Tim Teeman storms that “erasure is not an uncommon thing for LGBT people to experience” and that “initially, LGBT people were to be part of the 2020 Census.” He asks: “Why did census organizers at first plan to include LGBT Americans in the Census, and then — suddenly, and so far without explanation — decide not to?” The New York Post is published by N.Y.P. Holdings Inc. 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036

It turns out the Census Bureau has only started to study the issue. The only hint that it might put LGBT questions in the next Census came in the appendix of a report to Congress — which accidentally used text from an early draft, while the main report accurately suggested no such possibility. As Reid Wilson reported in The Hill, “The Bureau takes years to test new topics to be included among their questions, and while the agency has been researching sexual-orientation questions, they may not have finalized that research or figured out just how to phrase the questions they ask.” Makes sense: The horse does go before the buggy, after all. Ben Casselman of the site FiveThirtyEight talked to demographer Gary Gates, a longtime advocate for asking LGBTQ questions who actually served on the Census Bureau’s scientific advisory committee until last year. “I can tell you with 100 percent certainty that there was never a plan to add sexual orientation or gender identity to the 2020 Census,” Gates said. “That just wasn’t happening. It wasn’t even being considered.” Don’t hold your breath waiting for a wave of corrections on this fake news; instead, get ready for the next outrage-that-really-isn’t. Chairman Rupert Murdoch Publisher Jesse Angelo EditorinChief Stephen Lynch Editorial Page Editor Mark Cunningham

We have more than ever before. So why are American men drifting?

HIS is the great paradox of our time: In 2017, it has never been easier for us to satisfy our wants, but we seldom have been more dissatisfied. In the United States, in Europe, in Latin America, and even (more quietly) in parts of Asia and in Australia, there is a sense that things are not going quite right, that the old order — not only in politics but also in commercial and religious life — is dead on its feet. People have turned to leaders and movements of very different kinds — Hugo Chávez, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, Black Lives Matter, black-mask anarchism — in search of alternatives. In a sense, they are all the same: Those who had felt themselves to be on the outside looking in are now on the outside looking out. Once, the question the ambitious and dissatisfied asked themselves was: “How do I climb that ladder?” Current tastes run more toward smashing the ladder and the hierarchies for which it stands in the name of . . . whatever: feminism or anti-feminism, black liberation or white nationalism, global justice or national sovereignty.

E spend our days surrounded by great miracles and minor irritations. My friend Jay Nordlinger recently recounted how Joseph Stalin allowed the film “The Grapes of Wrath” to be shown in the Soviet Union, believing that to see an indictment of capitalism from within the beast itself would be salutary for the proletariat. The proletariat took another lesson from the film: The Joads, apparently the poorest people in America, had a Ford, a luxury no working man in the workers’ paradise could dream of. A similar story is told about the television series “Dallas”: The Soviets thought their subjects would recoil from the mischief of J. R. Ewing and his Texas oil cronies, but all the poor Rus-

sians could see was that American servants lived better than Soviet doctors and professors. If we could share our daily tales of woe with our great-grandparents — e.g., my complaints about the Wi-Fi on airplanes — they would not take from that the conclusion we intended. We do not have a problem of privation in the United States. Not really. What we have is something related to what Arthur Brooks describes as the need for earned success. We are not happy with mere material abundance. We — and not to go all “Iron John” on you, but I think “we” here applies especially to men — need to feel that we have earned our keep, that we have established a place for ourselves in the world by our labor or by other virtues, especially such masculine virtues as physical courage and endurance. I suspect that is a big part of the reason for the exaggeratedly reverential, practically sacramental attitude we current express toward soldiers, police officers, and firemen. Of course they are brave and deserve our gratitude, but if we had felt the need to ceremonially thank everyone for their service in 1948, we’d never have done anything else with our time. In 2017, there are many more jobs for courtiers than for soldiers, and the virtues earning the highest return are not bravery or toughness but conversational cleverness, skill in social navigation, excellence in bureaucracy, and keenness in finance. But of course the martial virtues are not the only masculine ones, and men can hardly complain when the commanding heights of our culture and economy, from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to high-level chess, are occupied disproportionately by men.

UT what kind of men? Young ones, mainly. Here is something interesting via Stack Exchange: The aver-

American men suffer from a gut feeling they haven’t earned their success.

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age age at which a chess grandmaster born before 1945 was awarded the title “grandmaster” was slightly over 26 years of age. Among chess players born after 1970, the average age for being recognized as a grandmaster is 23. For those born after 1975, it is 22; after 1980, 21; after 1985, 20; after 1990, 18 years and six months. Related: Of the 10 largest US companies as measured by market capitalization, none was founded by a man over 50. John D. Rockefeller was 31 when he founded Standard Oil. Jeff Bezos was 30 when he founded Amazon. Bill Gates was 20 when he founded Microsoft. The newly unemployed man of 40 seeking to reinvent himself is not in the most promising position. Two things are going on here related to American unhappiness: The first is that as our economy becomes less physical and more intellectual, success in life is less like war and more like chess, and extraordinary success in life — i.e., being part of the founding of a successful new company — is a lot like being a grandmaster: It is an avenue that simply is not open to everyone. It requires talents that are not distributed with any sense of fairness and that are not earnable: Hard work is not enough. Peter Thiel is both a successful entrepreneur and a ranked chess master — and these facts are not merely coincidental. You can blame Thiel a little bit for the second factor in American unhappiness: Facebook. Facebook and other social-media communities are a kind of ongoing high-school reunion, the real and unstated purpose of which is to dramatize the socioeconomic gulf

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between those who have made it in life and those who have not. We simply know more about how our more successful friends and neighbors live than our ancestors knew about John D. Rockefeller, about whom they thought seldom if at all. Our contemporary tycoons have reality shows (some of which blossom into presidencies, oddly enough), but social media is itself a kind of reality show for everybody else. It is not that a modern bus driver can’t live as well as Ralph Kramden did — he lives much better. But Ralph Kramden had something that made his relative lack of financial success much more bearable: Alice.

VEN in this age of plenty, when work has become for so many of us more pleasant and more interesting than it was a generation or two ago, most of us are not going to have the kind of jobs that high-school guidance counselors like to call “careers,” which is to say, jobs that are so important and meaningful to us that they form the anchor of our sense of self and our sense of self-worth. Most of us will just have jobs, things that we have to do in exchange for money, positions about which we do not necessarily have any strong feeling other than perhaps the fear of losing it. But the marriage and family that once was a source of security is today a source of insecurity, an unstable and uncertain thing scarcely defended by the law (it is far, far easier to walk away from a marriage than from a student loan) and held in low regard by much of society. And there is the paradox within our paradox: The world is wondrous and beautiful and exciting and rich, and many of us have trouble finding our place in it, in part, because it is wondrous and beautiful and exciting and rich, so much so that we have lost touch with certain older realities. One of those realities is that children need fathers. Another is that fathers need children. But these are what my colleague David French calls the “wounds that public policy will not heal.” Our churches are full of people who would love to talk to you about healing, but many have lost interest in that sort of thing, too. And so they turn to Trump, to Le Pen, to Chavismo (which is what Bernie Sanders is peddling) and, perhaps, to opiate-induced oblivion. Where will they turn when they figure out — and they will figure it out — that there are no answers in these, either? And what will we offer them?

We are not happy with mere material abundance. We need to feel we have established our place in the world by other virtues.

LETTERS Rally on climate As an avid reader of The Post, I generally agree with the stances taken on the Trump administration. However, regarding climate change, I could not disagree more (“Trump’s Clean-Power Play,” Editorial, March 29). I am a registered Republican who voted for President Trump, yet I believe firmly that humans have caused significant damage to the environment and have played a substantial role in the warming climate. There is essentially no debate in the scientific community about our role in climate change, and it’s time we took a stance against the president’s moves to roll back the Clean Power Plan. Besides, he will face many lawsuits from environmental groups. And the assertion that jobs will return, specifically in coal, is flawed. There is absolutely no indication of that, and coal jobs have been decreasing due to automation for years. You can be conservative and pro-environment. Our future depends on it. Jonathan N. Fiskus, The Bronx

Nuclear option I applaud Gov. Cuomo and the Public Service Commission for adopting the “50 in 30” program to convert New York’s electricity energy systems to carbon-free fuels (“The Price

of ‘Clean Power,’ ” Editorial, March 27). Maintaining our nuclear-energy infrastructure for the sake of our children and grandchildren is a necessity. However, a closer look reveals that currently, if we include solar, wind, hydro and nuclear, the current percentage of carbon-free generation in NYS is about 55 percent, so from that point of view, the goal is already achieved and we can pat ourselves on the back. Perhaps we need a newer, better goal: Something closer to “75 in 30,” if for no other reason than to prevent the governor and others from shutting down Indian Point because of ridiculous delusions concerning nuclear-plant safety. Additionally, the state should start a directed process that will support the replacement of all our coal plants with Small Modular (nuclear) Reactors. Time is getting short. Business-as-usual is a dead end.

Why doesn’t the GOP just change its name to “The Anything for a Buck Party,” so we know where it stands? Samuel Bernstein, Brooklyn

Street performers I bet the uber-liberals on the Upper East Side who can’t get a good night’s sleep thanks to a homeless man’s late-night singing wish that Ed Koch or Rudy Giuliani, those “law-and-order fascists” the left never liked, were back in Gracie Mansion (“Sidewalk serenades giving us the blues!” March 27). Even if Mayor de Blasio decided to crack down on the man’s 3 a.m. yodeling, the New York Civil Liberties Union would step in and claim that the caroler had a “right” to serenade his neighbors in the wee hours of the morning. Edward Hochman, Manhattan

William Vaughn, Rochester

Privacy for sale So the Republican-majority Congress says it’s OK for Internet service providers to sell our private information without our consent (“GOP cutting privacy safety ’Net: Shu,” March 27)? What’s so patriotic about invading the privacy of Americans? In time, I’m sure wealthy Americans with the means will be able to pay to have their privacy protected, while the rest of us remain vulnerable.

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Twenty years after Balthazar opened its elegant doors, the brasserie is still serving up plenty of juicy secrets

The Soho eatery is the place for steak frites, raw shellfish and comforts that echo a gilded Paris of days gone by.

by STEVE CUOZZO

Victoria Will

O restaurant in New York City — maybe in America — ever opened to greater hoopla, hysteria and impossible-to-satisfy demand than Balthazar did on April 21, 1997. The 180 seats at Keith McNally’s Soho brasserie, crafted to evoke a romantic Paris that might never have existed, were impossible to come by without connections. Before I wrote about restaurants for the New York Post, I never got into Balthazar until nearly a year after it opened — and that was only thanks to a friend who knew McNally. Only two earlier, non-restaurant phenomena compared to its fusion of media and public madness — “A Chorus Line” when it moved to Broadway in 1975 and the debut of Studio 54 in 1977. Everybody wanted in to Balthazar. McNally had “invented” Tribeca with The Odeon in 1980 and launched a few other small places after that. But this new colos-

A seat at Balthazar in 1997 was like “Hamilton” tickets today. sus on a vibrant Soho corner, constructed in secrecy behind plywood, would be his magnum opus. “Have you been to Balthazar?” was the great status-definer of its time, the way “Have you seen ‘Hamilton’ ” is today.

When I finally passed through the doors at 80 Spring St., I was transported by its yellow-and-gold walls and ceiling that were new but looked old, red leather banquettes framed by brass trim and Art Deco flourishes. Golden, Renoir-ish light, bouncing off mirrors tilted to reflect the room, made everyone beautiful. The crowd was a mix of celebrities including Calvin Klein and Madonna and chic unknowns dressed entirely in black. I was less dazzled by the food. Standards like steak au poivre and moules frites didn’t seem so different from dishes I’d had elsewhere. Twenty years later, Balthazar is a much better, and more democratic, restaurant. Today you’ll see many more ordinary New Yorkers and tourists than celebrities — but the house still draws the likes of Taylor Swift, Cate Blanchett and the great Le Bernardin chef Eric Ripert, who calls it his favorite New York place.

OR all its enduring success, Balthazar is at the age when restaurant lovers start to worry

about its future. But for now, celebration’s in order. A strange and charming new book, Reggie Nadelson’s “At Balthazar: The New York Brasserie at the Center of the World” (Gallery Books), brings the place to colorful, quirky life — and in the process pays homage to the life-affirming qualities of every place we pay to be fed. Nadelson was born in Greenwich Village and moved to Soho in 1986. She lives around the corner from Balthazar but, notwithstanding a life rich with romance, family and friends, seems to spend more time there than at home. She went every day for years after 9/ll, when “New Yorkers huddled together more than any time I could remember, the need for community was powerful, and for that I went to Balthazar for breakfast every morning.” Like an easily distracted table-hopper, she flits from the eating habits of 17th century Dutch New York to how Balthazar’s bussers pour butter into little cups. But the thematic tissue that holds it together is her insatiable passion for Balthazar.

From the virtual run-of-the-house owner McNally bravely gave her, we learn fascinating facts about the eatery: Its prep kitchen and storage areas sprawl through underground “catacombs” that stretch all the way from Crosby Street to Broadway. Balthazar backer Dick Robinson wrote a $2 million check to start work on the basis of a sketch McNally and designer Ian McPheely drew on a napkin. I learned that the banana ricotta tart that I enjoyed last week has been on the menu since Day 1 in 1997. Balthazar serves a half-million meals and takes in $20 million to $25 million every year. Phone reservations are taken in McNally’s offices at 568 Broadway — which Nadelson was stunned to recognize as having once belonged to her father’s printing business. Oysters, “a big deal at Balthazar from the beginning,” sells so many varieties that waiters have a tough time learning all their names and characteristics. Oyster master Jerry Alvarez shucks so many that his hands “hurt like hell at the end of a week.” Nadelson’s own finger bleeds from the shucking lesson he gives her.

It’s a seen!

by Mackenzie Dawson

Come for the food, stay for the stargazing. Big names like these have graced Balthazar over the years.

by John Freeman Gill (Knopf)

Taylor Swift The gold-tinted ambiance is a large part of the fabled eatery’s allure.

Madonna

Cate Blanchett

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HUCKING oysters at the restaurant One Fifth was McNally’s first job in New York. Born a workingclass Englishman in war-ravaged East London in 1951, he fled the stubborn shackles of his nation’s class system for Gotham in 1975. He helped give birth to the city’s modern-day dining culture and “invented” neighborhoods. Tribeca was a dim, dangerous no-man’s-land when he launched The Odeon and the Lower East Side’s far-eastern fringe still full of crack and crime before he created Schiller’s in 2003. Nadelson brings to life his enigmatic personality as well as anyone ever has. McNally’s youthful stage-acting experience helped inspire his theatrical flair with restaurants, and the book lends nuance to his star-struck impulses. I once endured a phone harangue from him after I’d written, entirely accurately, that the “no-reservations” policy at his later bistro Pastis was phony because seats were always held for the Jack Nicholsons and Anna Wintours who took up half the house. But McNally understood, Nadelson suggests, that star power was needed at the

outset to set a new place on fire. And while scoring reservations at Balthazar was a snap for celebrities including Meryl Streep and Lauren Bacall, the favoritism was later relaxed — just as it did at Pastis. In the early going, even Balthazar’s seen-’em-all floor crew were awestruck by Joe DiMaggio. But former maitre d’ Zouheir Louhaichy recalled facing down one powerful customer who wanted the table next to himself and his wife kept empty just to have extra room. “I said I was so sorry, but the seats were reserved,” Louhaichy told a surprisingly uncombative Donald Trump. We also meet employees from Poland, Bangladesh, France, Mexico, Ecuador, Canada, Senegal. Their individual sagas of striving bring to life the great ship Balthazar as it tools up from idling speed in the morning to battle stations at dinner. In Nadelson’s deft hands, the restaurant becomes a metaphor for the city’s ceaseless cycles of ambition, immigration and change. Morris Propp, a 19th century Jewish immigrant from Belarus who fled the pogroms and “built the first great business that sold electric Christmas tree lights,” later bought 80 Spring St. — the building of which Balthazar is part. His grandson owns it today.

hides shining in the sun, gained 300 pounds in three months.” Once, hundreds of the beasts that were peacefully munching, “turned all at once as a herd and bolted . . . a terrible collective whimpering rose up.” What spooked them was the approach of a “rendering truck” used to pick up sick or injured cows, which were killed for tallow and sometimes dog food. Back in New York, Nadelson couldn’t immediately shake the memory: “I didn’t order the steak, not that night.” But return for it she did. Nadelson knows that Balthazar won’t likely last forever, at least not in its present form. McNally’s company, Third Man Management, became more corporate than in its seat-of-the-pants early years. Since Balthazar, it grew to include Morandi, Pulino’s (now Cherche Midi), Minetta Tavern, a Balthazar in London, and brand-new Augustine in the Beekman Hotel downtown. Nadelson perceived “just a faint whisper of it, the kind of thing that brushed against your skin,” that one day it could be sold and turn into a tourist trap. No restaurant is forever. But just as a new World Trade Center has risen since 9/11, in the 20 years since Balthazar opened, grand new places have rarely give a come onto the scene thought to the forthat will go on winmer life and times of ning hearts well into the pig on my plate. the future — Nobu, But Nadelson underMarea, The Breslin, stands that, while the Eleven Madison Park, world may come to a Le Coucou, and, yes, great restaurant, the Augustine. Others — restaurant must first Union Square Cafe, take from the world. The Four Seasons — She chases down the can even come back origins, not of “luxury” ingredients such as — author Reggie Nadelson from the dead. Politically motivated truffles, but of less ex- on the restaurant post 9/11 haters may go on warnotic staples. Enamored of Balthazar’s steak frites, ing that evil landlords will one day drive she journeys to Creekstone Farms in every last restaurant out of town. But Arkansas City, Kan., where all of the these palaces of pleasure will be with us restaurant’s meat is processed. Mean- as long as there are ones like Balthazar — and the people who love them. ing: animals killed. In nearby grazing land, it troubled Nadelson that “Black Angus, their sleek scuozzo@nypost.com

New Yorkers huddled together ... the need for community was powerful, and for that I went to Balthazar for breakfast every morning.

Thirteen-year-old Griffin Watts is charged with an unusual crime: the theft of stone gargoyles off New York City buildings, from tenements to skyscrapers. He’s a chip off the old (crumbling city) block — his father runs an illicit architectural salvage company. To the dad, the gargoyles are a precious endangered species.

Conviction

by Julia Dahl (Minotaur) Former New York Post reporter Julia Dahl is back with another NYC thriller. In 1992, a black family is found murdered in their Crown Heights home. A teenager is quickly convicted, and that seems to be the end of the case — until 22 years later, journalist Rebekah Roberts gets a letter that says: “I didn’t do it.” So begins an exploration into the dark underside of the city — and as Roberts creeps closer to the truth, her own life is at risk.

Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring

by Bassem Youssef (Dey Street Books) A memoir from the “Jon Stewart of the Arab World,” Youssef created “The Program,” the satirical news show that became the most-watched TV show in Egypt’s history. His jokes hit their target — so much so that he was subjected to a six-hour long police interrogation, in which he was accused of insulting the Egyptian presidency and Islam. Both hilarious and disturbing.

No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

by Ron Powers (Hachette Books) Part memoir, part history, this book offers up a thoroughly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America, paired with the author’s own personal story about his two sons’ battles against schizophrenia.

Tuesdays with Morrie: 20th Anniversary

by Mitch Albom (Broadway Books) The story of the friendship between a college professor, his former student and the lessons of life became an international best-seller, a TV movie, a stage play and a beloved staple of book clubs across the country. This month, it celebrates its 20th anniversary with a special edition and a new forward by Albom.

Missing Tyler

by Tamara Palmer (CreateSpace) It’s summer break, but 15-year-old Kit Carlin is reeling from the loss of her twin brother. She copes with her grief on the Jersey Shore while dealing with the usual mix of young love, jealousy and friendship.

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The definition of CRAZY

In a world gone mad, creating a dictionary is one of America’s toughest jobs by REED TUCKER

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UTTING together a dictionary is hard. Or if you prefer, difficile or Augean. It’s one of those indispensable elements of civilization that many of us take for granted, like electricity. But its creation and constant re-creation is surprisingly complicated and labor-intensive. For a fascinating peek behind the process, pick up “Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries” (Pantheon) by Kory Stamper, a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster. It’s part memoir, part workplace chronicle and part history lesson. Merriam-Webster dates back to the 1830s — though its headquarters belie its illustrious history. The company is housed in a two-story brick building located in a “transitional neighborhood” in Springfield, Mass. “Drug deals occasionally happen in the parking lot, and there are bullet holes in the safety glass at the back of the building,” Stamper writes. Putting out the dictionary is slow. The latest unabridged edition, “Webster’s Third New International,” took some 12 years to compile, employing a staff of almost 100 editors and 202 consultants. To become a lexicographer, applicants must meet two formal requirements: They must have a college degree in any field, and they must be native English speakers. One of the best perks of working for Merriam-Webster is that the job is essentially being paid to read.

Much of the work of producing an updated edition is identifying new words and phrases. (A 1990s revision of the Collegiate Dictionary added some 10,000 new entries.) So lexicographers spend hours poring over magazines and newspapers, including Vibe, Better Homes and Gardens and the Rocky Mountain News, looking for material to flag for potential entry. (The system is based on one pioneered by dictionary publisher Samuel Johnson in the 1750s.) What’s included does not necessarily represent “proper” speech. “Many people . . . believe that the dictionary is some great guardian of the English language, that its job is to set boundaries of decorum around this profligate language like a great linguistic housemother setting curfew,” Stamper writes. Not so. The dictionary’s mission is not to judgmentally police the language, but to simply observe and record how people are using it. To merit inclusion, a word has to meet three criteria. It needs to have widespread use in print. For example, “muggle,” originally from the Harry Potter series, is now used in mainstream news articles to describe a provincial person. Secondly, a word has to have — in the opinion of the staff — “a long shelf life.” Stamper recounts a time in the 1980s when the editors decided to dump “snollygoster,” meaning an unprincipled person, from the book, only to have a TV personality latch onto the word some 10 years later,

The word “irregardless” is one of many dictionary entries that spark angry complaints.

giving it a high profile. “America is now on the cusp of a ‘snollygoster’ revival, and, boy, do we feel stupid,” she writes. It was reinserted earlier this year. The final requirement for inclusion is that a word must have “meaningful use.” Seems obvious, but take pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a 45-character nonsense word referring to a lung ailment. It was supposedly invented in 1935 by the president of the National Puz-

zlers’ League as a parody of complicated medical jargon “just to see if dictionaries would fall for it.” “We did,” Stamper writes. “We’re a little more careful now.” (The word was dropped from the Collegiate Dictionary in 1983 but remains in the Unabridged Dictionary.) The staff must then define the potential new words. “One of the biggest problems in writing definitions: Things change, and you are a lexicographer, not a clairvoyant,” she writes.

Take the definition for “hotel” written in the 1950s, that described a building for overnight accommodation “providing personal services (as hairdressing, shoe shining) and with telephone booths, writing tables and washrooms freely available.” The modern definition is more pared down. Regardless of how careful the editors are, Merriam-Webster receives a flood of e-mails and letters griping about various points. (Editors actually respond.) Many irate readers write to object about the word “irregardless.” “People’s hatred of ‘irregardless’ is specific and vehemently serious,” Stamper writes. Many of the words that do make it in start off as spoken slang, leaving the editors with the sometimes thankless task of tracking down word origins. Is “twerk” an altered form of “work?” And is “molly,” the street name for the drug MDMA, a bastardization of the UK slang for the powder, “mandy?” And then there’s “on fleek,” a phrase that means “good” or “on point.” In June 2014, a 16-year-old teen named Peaches Monroee posted a six-second video of herself referring to her eyebrows as “on fleek.” Five months later, some 10 percent of all Google searches worldwide were for the term. Was it a mix of “flick” and “on point,” or perhaps a blend of “fly” and “chic,” the editors wondered. A colleague of Stamper’s called Monroee to find out. Turns out, the girl just made it up. And so goes the life of a lexicographer, who gets up every day knowing the work will never be done, as the language is constantly changing. “A dictionary,” Stamper writes, “is out of date the minute that it’s done.”

IN MY LIBRARY Omar Metwally He’s gone from “The Affair” to an all-out orgy. Or, at least Omar Metwally’s character enjoys one with Marisa Tomei and the rest of the cast in Sarah Ruhl’s “How to Transcend a Happy Marriage,” at Lincoln Center Theater. Metwally, who hints that we haven’t seen the last of Dr. Vic on the Showtime series, says blocking an orgy scene on stage wasn’t easy: “I think the trick was to find a way that seemed spontaneous and dangerous but also looked beautiful.” Here’s what’s in his library. — Barbara Hoffman

Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung Jung wrote this near the end of his life, in conjunction with some of his students. He lays out his major ideas about the unconscious, dreaming and the role of symbols. This book was my first introduction to the ideas that had a major influence on my life and work. I still keep a dream journal. And it’s helped my acting as well, to go beyond ego and connect with something bigger.

Polaroid Stories by Naomi Iizuka This is one of the first plays I did as a professional actor with a great theater company in San Francisco, Campo Santo. I met the playwright there. Naomi takes stories from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” and conflates them with real stories of homeless street kids. It’s a beautiful, harrowing play about transformation. It’s always interesting when myth and theater intersect.

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson The title comes from a Velvet Underground song. This is a truly fantastic collection of short stories, all told from the point of view of the same narrator, about a misspent youth among drug addicts and petty criminals. They’re very funny, unflinching, compassionate and poignant. And the writing is just beautiful.

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien I believe it was released posthumously by Tolkien’s son. It’s basically the mythology of Middle Earth, the world he created in his “Lord of the Rings” books, but the imaginative scope of the book boggles my mind. It’s dark and tragic but punctuated with moments of hope . . . I find myself picking it up whenever I’m feeling defeated.

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Down 1 Unstable 2 Snake state 3 New England touchdown site 4 River of Germany 5 “The Bathers” artist 6 Short lunch order? 7 Midday refresher 8 Writes ths clue, say 9 Rock sci. 10 __ doll 11 One overstepping bounds 12 Seriously overstepped bounds 13 Brother of Jack and Bobby 14 What may be stiff when trouble arises? 15 Farm girl 16 Quality control job at a maraschino factory?

17 Plaza Hotel imp 18 With skill 20 Sagan series 24 Touched 28 Bandleader Lawrence 31 Sport__ 32 Modular homes 34 Holder of disks 35 More steady 37 Famille member 38 British philosopher A.J. 39 Sides sharing views 41 Mining passage 42 Feature of Charlie Brown’s head? 45 Migratory bird banding equipment 46 Homecoming query 47 “Encore!” 49 Lyricist Gershwin 50 Eggy quaff 51 Composer Charles 53 Hill hundred 55 Classic TV nerd 56 Chou En__ 57 Denudes 59 Fruitripening gas 64 Prim and proper 67 Revolve on an axis 69 Lab dispenser 70 Prefix with meter 73 Intestinal divisions 75 Spanish pronoun

62 Saltimbocca herb 63 Acquiesce 65 Moo __ pork 66 “’Scuse Me While __ This Guy: and Other Misheard Lyrics”: Gavin Edwards book 68 Fella 71 Booster’s cry 72 89Across’ Illinois headquarters 74 Primary part 78 Germ’s future? 79 66, e.g.: Abbr. 80 Carrier known for tight security 81 “I’ll give you five bucks for your Egyptian water lily”? 86 Spanish 101 word 88 Gorilla, for example 89 Farm equipment giant 90 Actress __ Sue Martin 92 Do fair work 95 Mule’s father 96 Cabinet dept. 98 Positively charged vehicle? 103 Also 104 “Probably ... ” 105 River past Logroño 106 Sun or moon 109 Obliterate 111 Outfit again 114 Hall of Fame second baseman Roberto 116 “If I Were __

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Across 1 Worker on the floor 6 Secondrarest blood type, briefly 10 Really big 14 Worked at home 19 “Lordy me!” 21 “Hamilton” accolade 22 “Ici on __ francais” 23 Website search response with an attitude? 25 Spirits strength 26 Seven Wonders lighthouse 27 They often have runners 28 Mite 29 “Round __ virgin ... ” 30 “My turn” 33 “Guys and Dolls” composer 36 Archipelago part: Abbr. 37 Competition at the geometry fair? 40 Marshal at Waterloo 41 Pre-A.D. 43 “So long” 44 Vexing 46 Ballerina Shearer 48 Like some out of-favor suffixes 52 Lats relatives 54 “A penny saved is hardly worth the effort”? 58 You, at one time 60 “In a __” 61 Burkini wearer, perhaps

76 Suitable 77 “Rocky IV” boxer Ivan __ 82 Watched at the beach, maybe 83 Hems in 84 Transparent 85 Deck wood 87 Osculates 91 German finale

93 Wall St. hedger 94 Arrow poison 96 You won’t find subs on them 97 Get out 99 Holeinone, for one 100 Otherwise 101 Actress Hatcher

102 Time periods? 106 Muscat native 107 Give up to the cops 108 Retired sportscaster Musburger 110 Got a holein one on 112 At a Dodger

game, for short 113 Handle 115 Parting words? 117 Bit of RAM 118 Drivers’ org. 119 What Zener cards purportedly tested for 120 NBA nos.

Post SU DOKU You must put a number, from 1 to 9, in each empty box. Each number must appear once in each horizontal row, as well as in each vertical column and in each of the 3-by-3 grids. Super Su Doku, inside, multiplies the challenge — and your enjoyment. For that one, put a number from 1 to 12 in each empty box, making sure each number appears once in each horizontal row, as well as in each vertical column and in each of the 3by-4 grids. Tips and in-depth strategies at www.SudokuWiki.org. For more Su Doku puzzles, see tomorrow’s New York Post. © Syndicated Puzzles Inc.

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A losing gambit

: How can a great player lose in fewer than 30 moves? A: Because he doesn’t want to lose in 60 moves. This explains how some of the grandest of grandmasters seem to self-destruct in the middlegame. They can see clearly how lost an endgame would be, so they throw the dice on the chance that their opponent will blunder. In this week’s game Jeffery Xiong, the 16-year-old grandmaster from Plano, Texas, sees his position falling apart after White’s astute pawn sacrifice 15 d5!. He could have tried 17…a6 18

Place 1 to 9 in each white cell. To choose the right number, you need to work from the clues in around the edge. The numbers below the diagonal lines are the sums of the solutions in the white cells immediately beneath. The numbers above the divide are the sums of the solutions immediately to the right. Rows and columns do NOT have to be unique.

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h3! Nh6. But 19 h4 Bf6 20 Ng5! g6 21 Ne6! leads to complications that would favor White greatly when the dust settles. Xiong would also have been in bad shape after 19…Nc5 20 Qb1 Ra8 in view of 21 Rxb7! Nxb7 22 d6! Bf6 23 Nd5, again with a ruthless initiative. Instead, he bet on 24…Nxf2 because 24…Nh6 25 Be5! would win in the long run. When White didn’t give him swindling chances with 27 Bxf3 Nc3 28 Rb7 Qxh3 but played 27 Rb7! instead (27…Qc8 28 Rc7!) it was time to fold. Resigning was more attractive than prolonging the agony.

QUEEN’S INDIAN DEFENSE St. Louis 2017

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KENKEN Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 4 (easy) or 1 through 6 (challenging) without repeating. The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners. Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

Chess

Jeffery Xiong

1 d4 ...................Nf6

15 d5! ...............Ng4

2 c4..................... e6

16 Bf4 ............. cxb3

3 Nf3................... b6

17 axb3 ...............c4

4 g3 ............... Bb4+

18 Rxa7 .......... cxb3

5 Bd2 ................ Be7

19 Qxb3............ b5?

6 Bg2 ...................c6

20 d6! ................Bf6

7 O-O.................. d5

21 Rxb7 .......... Rxc3

8 Qc2 ................O-O

22 Qb1.............. Nc5

9 Rd1 ................ Bb7

23 Rxb5 ............Qd7

10 b3 ..............Nbd7

24 h3! .......... Nxf2?!

11 Nc3 .............. Rc8

25 Kxf2 .......... Ne4+

H. Gusain-A. Donchenko

12 e4! ................ c5!

26 Kg1 .............Rxf3

Moscow 2017

13 exd5 .......... exd5

27 Rb7!...... Resigns

Last week: Not 1…Rh4 2 Ng4 but 1… Rxe5! 2 dxe5 Rh4 wins.

14 Be3 ............ dxc4

Sunday Word Force

Black to play and win.

RECIPROCATE From the word or phrase above, form at least 34 five-letter words, without using more than one form of the same word. For example, drink or drank, not both.

Bridge

“Willie was a chemist, but Willie is no more. What Willie thought was H20 was H2SO4.” — graffiti. Bridge is a game of errors — and of keeping the number you make to the minimum. Players miscalculate all the time. Today’s deal arose in a team match, and both Souths landed at four spades after opening one spade. When North raised, South could bid game without telling the defenders about his second long suit. West led the jack of diamonds, winning, and a second diamond. At one table, declarer ruffed and miscalculated by drawing trumps and leading the king of hearts. West considered playing low, but he counted only nine tricks for South even if dummy won four heart tricks. So West took his ace and led another diamond, and South had

to ruff with his last trump. He ran the hearts, but West won the last two tricks with the ace of clubs and a diamond. Down one. At the second table, declarer fared better: He led the king of hearts at Trick Three. If West had played low, South would have drawn trumps and forced out the ace of clubs, winning five trumps, four clubs and a heart. So West took the ace of hearts and led another diamond. South ruffed and still didn’t draw trumps. He led a club next. West had no winning defense. If he played low, dummy’s king would win, and South would draw trumps and run the hearts for 10 tricks. If West took his ace of clubs and led a fourth diamond (no other lead would be better), South could ruff in dummy, preserving the trumps in his hand to draw trumps.

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Wonderword

First read the list of words, then look at the puzzle. The words are in all directions vertically, horizontally, diagonally, backward. Circle each letter of a word found and strike it off the list. The letters are often used more than once, so do not cross them out. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best to find the big words first. When you find all the words listed in the clues, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have a number of letters left over that spell out the Wonderword. Account, Amount, Banking, Bearer, Bills, Blank, Bond, Branch, Business, Buying, Cash, Certified, Cleared, Code, Contact, Credit, Currency, Date, Deposit, Document, Donate, Draft, Drawee, Drawer, Earned, Electronic, Endorse, Financial, Funds, Gift, Government, Hold, Increase, Information, Issue, Ledger, Legitimate, Logo, Maker, Memo, Mobile, Monetary, Money, Name, Note, Number, Open, Option, Order, Payable, Payee, Payment, Payroll, Personalized, Posted, Reconcile, Secure, Sequential, Signature, Stop, Stub, Total, Trade, Transactions, Transfer, Transit, Travel, Treasurer, Type, Value, Vouchers, Withdraw, World, Written

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Susan Sarandon is stylish in a “Simpsons”themed varsity jacket in Soho.

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Kelly Rowland makes waves with son TJ in Sydney.

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Rooney Mara shimmers in a patterned cocktail dress at an LA screening of Netﬂix’s “The Discovery.”

WINDOW PAIN Sarah Jessica Parker emotes against the glass while ﬁlming HBO’s “Divorce” in NYC.

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Jason Momoa (left) gets close to Charlie Hunnam at CinemaCon 2017 in Las Vegas.

PORTA PUPPIES

Annabelle Wallis wows in a colorful dress with a lace inset at CinemaCon 2017 in Las Vegas.

Katharine McPhee goofs around with her smooching pups Larry (left) and Wilmer in Malibu, Calif.

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Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler celebrates his 69 birthday at Disn th eyland with girlfr iend Aimee Ann Preston.

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Howie Mandel totes a miniature doppelganger at the “America’s Got Talent” kickoff in Pasadena, Calif.

Something catches the attention of Selena Gomez and the Weeknd in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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PRECIOUS METAL Kate Hudson is as good as Goldie — Hawn, her mom — downtown.

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Jane (Shailene Woodley, near right) and Madeline (Reese Witherspoon) brace themselves for disaster on “Big Little Lies.”

‘LIES’ ‘LIE ‘L IE THAT BIND Revenge and murder haunt season ﬁnale

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Tuesday, 9 p.m., Fox SERIES PREMIERE. Seven years have elapsed since Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller, above left) was presumed dead. He’s not! His brother, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell, above right), goes to Yemen, where his mates Sucre (Amaury Nolasco), T-Bag (Robert Knepper) and C-Note (Rockmond Dunbar) plan the biggest escape ever. Danger!

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Sunday, 10 p.m., FX With Hollywood rooting for Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) to win a third Best Actress Oscar for “Baby Jane,” the malevolently sour Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange, above) and Hedda Hopper (Judy Davis) launch a campaign against her that involves Davis’ fellow nominees, such as Geraldine Page (Sarah Paulson).

BIG LITTLE LIES Sunday, 9 p.m., HBO

UNDAY night’s finale of “Big Little Lies” is one of most anxiously anticipated of the year. Who has Jane Chapman (Shailene Woodley) been chasing on the beach? Who has been bullying Amabella Klein (Ivy George) in school? Who has been ironing Madeline’s (Reese Witherspoon) hair so that it always looks perfect? Most importantly, who has committed the murder so deliciously hinted at in the first episode? And who dies? The setting is the school fund-raiser. The women come dressed as one of Audrey Hepburn’s screen roles while the men choose one of Elvis Presley’s incarnations. Among the guests is mellow dad Nathan Carlson (James Tupper, right), who reveals previously unheard musical talent. Tupper, 51, spoke to The Post from sunny California, where everyone was having a good day. As everyone gets ready to go to the fundraiser, what’s the prevailing mood?

not supposed to say anything. Everyone I know has told me who they think the killer is. I tell them they’re right. No one has actually guessed the real killer. What is your costume?

Elvis in “Jailhouse Rock.”

What song do you sing?

“How’s the World Treating You?”

Why do Nathan and Ed (Adam Scott) hate each other?

I just take issue with the way he’s raised my daughter.

What was your favorite relationship among the characters?

I was moved by Jane’s relationship with Ziggy (Iain Armitage). The good spirit and love she had was more important than people saying his possible bullying of the girl was genetically based. What can you tell us about Nicole Kidman that we don’t know?

Well, I think murder is in the air. We shot that scene, it felt like 20 days in a row. We started at dark and went till sun-up. At one point I believed I was dead, and kept doing the scene over and over.

When you meet her, it’s wild, but she has an aura. You feel like you’re underwater looking up at the light. She’s so centered and she takes you in. She goes through the world like that and it’s kind of profound. It’s very vulnerable and open.

Were certain people barred from the set so they would not see key scenes?

Of the all the houses on the show, which one would you like to live in?

The novel’s available, so we did not have that kind of security. We understood we’re

I think [Alexander] Skarsgård’s got it good. I like that view.

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Saturday, 9 p.m., AMC SERIES PREMIERE. In 1849, Eli McCullough (Jacob Lofland) is kidnapped and indoctrinated into a tribe of Comanches. To say this experience toughens him up is an understatement. When Eli grows up and becomes the ruthless patriarch of a cattle empire, he is played by Pierce Brosnan. Prone to power struggles, he makes an enemy of his neighbor, Pedro Garcia (Carlos Bardem). Fireworks ensue.

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Wednesday, 8 p.m., Fox Preston (Stephan James) visits Jesse Carr’s fraternity in search of clues in his murder. Ashe (Sanaa Lathan) trails witnesses in the Joey Campbell case. Meanwhile, Governor Eamons’ (Helen Hunt) rival, Penn Moder (Ronald Keith Harris Jr.), seeks the support of Jesse’s mother, Alicia (Jill Hennessy).

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Sunday, 9 p.m., Reelz SERIES PREMIERE. Following the deaths of Jack and Bobby Kennedy, Jackie (Katie Holmes, right) and Ted (Matthew Perry) take different paths. Jackie heads straight into the arms of Aristotle Onassis (Alexander Siddig). Ted drives off the bridge at Chappaquiddick with Mary Jo Kophecne (Kelly Van der Burg) in the car. Ten hours later, he tells the police …

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Wednesday, 9 p.m., Bravo SEASON PREMIERE. Original ‘Housewives’ Ramona Singer (below center) and Luann D’Agostino (below left) are still kicking. Defector Bethenny Frankel is back, fresh from divorce court. Sonja Morgan (below right) spreads ill will. How will newbie Tinsley Mortimer fare in this henhouse?

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Friday, 8 p.m., NBC SERIES PREMIERE. Drew Barrymore narrates this reality show which spies on five first dates happening on the same night in a Chicago restaurant. A hidden camera reveals the awkward and random things that can occur between strangers. At the end of each hour, the daters will reveal to one another if they’d like to see each other again or if they will return to love’s lonely drawing board.

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 ARIES (March 21-April 20)

The planets make it clear that you would be wise to keep your money in your pocket and not take any risks this week. No matter how much others try to convince you that you cannot lose you must remember there is no such thing as a "sure thing."

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TAURUS (April 21-May 21) If you let your fears get the better of you now you will regret it later on when you look back and realize what a fantastic opportunity you managed to miss. Your luck will change for the better very soon sooner still if you think and act positively.

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GEMINI (May 22-June 21) You may be tempted to let a rival off the hook this week but the planets warn it will only encourage them to take advantage of you again. Every now and then you have to make an example of someone and this

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You may not be able to control what is going on around you in the world but you can control the way you choose to react to it. Look for reasons to be cheerful this week, even though what others say and do may annoy you intensely.

 LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)

The more you help other people this week and during the early part of the new week the more they will help you later on. What goes around always comes around eventually, so be nice to everyone you meet, even those who may not deserve it.

 VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)

All may be fair in love and war but you don't have to make a battle out of life. This week's cosmic picture urges you to be a peace-maker rather than a troublemaker. A more conciliatory approach will work wonders at home and at work.

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Don't give up on a friendship or a romance just because it is going through a rough patch. The planets indicate if you hang in a little while longer you will both come through this rather negative phase with your relationship many times stronger.

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are not in a recession. Last week the Commerce Department released its third revision for fourth-quarter 2016 gross domestic product. The number came in at a paltry 2.1 percent, meaning that growth during President Obama’s final year in office — the end of an “Error of Hope” — landed with a big thud at just 1.6 percent. That low-water mark puts the Obama presidency in last place among all the post-World War II presidents when it comes to economic growth. There have been 13 post-WWII presidents, beginning with Harry Truman, who had the disadvantage of beginning in the aftermath of war in 1946, during which the economy contracted 11.6 percent — four times the contraction any other negative year since — and even he bested Obama’s economic record! Truman, a moderate Democrat, also posted the two best years of growth on record: 1950 at 8.7 percent and 1951 at 8 percent, and there was no zero percent interest rate to gin up the economy back then. Thirteenth of 13 presidents is no mild distinction. Obama had eight full years to enact a growth policy, while many of his predecessors never had two complete terms. George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter had just four years each, Gerald Ford had less than three years and Richard Nixon had five. I’m not the least bit surprised the Obama economy was a failure. I’ve chronicled it for more than seven years in this column. Here are the average growth rates for each president: Johnson (1964-68), 5.3 percent Kennedy (1961-63), 4.3 percent Clinton (1993-2000), 3.9 percent Reagan (1981-88), 3.5 percent Carter (1977-80), 3.3 percent Eisenhower (1953-60), 3 percent Nixon (1969-74), 2.8 percent Ford (1975-76), 2.6 percent G.H.W. Bush (1989-92), 2.3 percent G.W. Bush (2001-08), 2.1 percent Truman (1946-52), 1.7 percent Obama (2009-16), 1.6 percent.

indie store boomlet By CATHERINE CURAN New Yorkers like to think we have it all: the most Michelinstarred restaurants, the tallest building in the country and more theaters than any other city in the world. But we’re woefully short of bookstores. The closure of four Barnes & Noble stores starting in 2014 has left Queens’ 2.3 million residents with only one general-interest bookstore, and The Bronx’s 1.4 million denizens with none. New York City’s 8.5 million residents now have eight Barnes & Nobles and fewer than 100 independent bookstores. France, by contrast, has eight times NYC’s population, but 2,500 bookstores. And yet, a new group of bibliophiles-turned-business-owners is bringing more bookstores to NYC. The Lit. Bar in the South Bronx, Books Are Magic in Brooklyn and the tentatively titled Forest Bookshop in Queens are set to open by year-end, each in direct response to the loss of a local bookstore. “We live in the neighborhood, and couldn’t bear the idea of not having a bookstore,” said novelist Emma Straub, whose 1,800-squarefoot store debuts on May 1 at 225 Smith St., six blocks from the site of iconic indie BookCourt, which closed last year. The indie-bookstore boomlet also includes Greenlight Bookstore, which opened its second Brooklyn outpost last year, and WORD, a 10-year veteran expanding its children’s section into a new space two doors down from its Greenpoint shop. Book lovers are greeting these entrepreneurs with a flood of goodwill — and thousands in crowdfunding cash. Building a viable business, however, means contending with New York’s notoriously high rents, and the paper-thin profit margins of an industry that’s been decimated by Amazon. The online titan opens its first New York City brick-and-mortar bookstore this spring at Columbus Circle, and a

When Emma Straub has a late-night question about the independent bookstore business, her mentor is only a text message away. Whether she’s wondering about event planning, mailing lists or even a particular title to order for her new store Books Are Magic, Straub, a novelistturned-entrepreneur, fires off a text to her friend Christine Onorati. After a decade running WORD Bookstores, a profitable company with $3 million in annual sales from two metro-area locations, Onorati is happy to share tips. “As an accidental entrepreneur, it’s been really, really, not only encouraging, but … the support of the bookselling community is what has made this possible,” Straub says. Nearly everyone The Post spoke to for this story was on a first-name basis with Bronx-based entrepreneur Noelle Santos; Onorati even contributed to Santos’ Indiegogo campaign. Likewise, when the three partners of The Queens Bookshop Initiative called Lexi Beach of Astoria Bookshop — currently the sole general-interest bookstore in Queens — she happily sat down with them for a two-hour discussion. Catherine Curan

second one on West 34th Street this summer. Barnes & Noble also plans to open more local stores. “The challenges are enormous,” said Oren Teicher, chief executive officer of American Booksellers Association, noting that French and German bookstores are protected by a ban on Amazon-style deep discounting. “They think [bookstores are] an important part of the cultural heritage and mission of the city.” Neither Amazon nor e-books, however, have destroyed shoppers’ desire for local bookstores. Indepen-

dent bookstore sales rose about 5 percent in the US in 2016, and new stores outpaced closures last year — even as bankruptcies and contraction roiled the broader retail sector. The resurgence of shopping local has helped, while crowdfunding provides a new source of nonbank capital. The Lit. Bar’s Noelle Santos, a third-generation entrepreneur, has exceeded her original Kickstarter goal of $100,000, raising $127,000 to date. The three partners in The Forest Bookshop, who met while working at the neighborhood Barnes & Noble,

raised $72,000 on Kickstarter, netting $65,000 after fees. However, bibliophiles-turnedbooksellers take on a 14-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week retail grind, for profit margins as low as 2 percent. Straub, a former BookCourt employee, and the partners in Forest Bookshop bring relevant experience, while Santos is a NYC startup competition winner. But neither long hours nor sobering ABA statistics can dampen Santos’ dream of being surrounded by books full time. “I’m off to bookland,” Santos said.

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READERS OF THE PACK: Author Emma Straub and husband Michael Fusco at their soon-to-open Brooklyn bookstore, Books Are Magic, have a healthy support network. J.C. Rice

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ONY/ATV boss Marty Bandier helps fund a Syracuse University academic muS sic business program, which came back to bite

opened a new salon in Midtown. “I got everything on the loyne [line],” ChrisChris tina said in the sizzle reel shown to the press last week. him recently when he had to face off in negoti“We fell in love with her,” said ations against one of the program’s graduates TLC President Nancy — who used what he learned to drive a hard Nancy Daniels. Daniels. “I love the accent, the bargain. family came The deft alum was none Claire through as just other than DJ/producer Drew rich, fun characTaggart, who forms one half charac Atkinson ters and it’s a of the Chainsmokers with world you Alex Pall. He’s now a big want to be part star in addition to being a On the Money of.” smart guy. He took advantage The six-part of me when we negotiated a deal,” jokes Bandsixpart series got us to thinking they must be ier. But the Sony chief clearly won the better putting something in the end of the bargain — the Chainsmokers are pignoli cookies in Staten Isnow signed to Sony/ATV. Is land, which is a hotbed of “We were negotiating with Taggart and he reality TV talent. Other said, ‘You are not going to fool me with that.’ ” shows The Sony exec said he could see how the acashows set set in in the the outer outer borbor ough demic program works firsthand. ough include include “Mob “Mob Wives,” Wives,” “Staten Bandier tells On the Money he’s made an“Staten Island Island Cakes” Cakes” and and other gift to the scholarship program. The new “Staten Island Law.” money will help facilitate the program to move from the College of Visual and Performing Arts to the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at the university. The world of sports Bandier says 90 percent of students who take media is typically the program leave with a job. “I take an active awash in cash, but interest in placing the kids. Whoever winds up one struggling netin our industry, they’re not like fresh interns. work is an example They’re frightening.” of how not to do busibusi ness. Sports network One World Media just got acquired by Get ready for the latest reality show courtesy UK-based UKbased 11 Sports, and freefree lancers are grousing they’ve of a family of Staten Island hairdressers. been stiffed and not paid for TLC’s “Hair Goddess,” which is set to air in longstanding debts. the summer, can be described as “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” meets “Jersey Shore” One World Media’s programprogram ming and its distribution in 50 meets “Cake Boss.” million homes were acquired, In other words, there’s lots of long dark hair, but its debts were left with the family infighting and Italian-style entrepremothership, and what happens neurship in the mix. next is anyone’s guess. Staff were The series follows self-made woman Christina Oliva (pictured), who began her own hair furloughed before the sale, acac cording to several reports. extension empire at the age of 18, and just

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Calls and e-mails emails to Chief Executive Sandy Sandy Brown Brown and Chief Financial OfOf ficer Ricardo Ricardo Venegas Venegas requesting comment were not returned. Linacre Media, a production comcom pany that produced eight televised Ivy League basketball games, is suing One World Media and its new ownown ers for breach of contract, claiming it is owed $171,381.66. Freelancers are being referred to to aa firm firm called called Ballard Ballard Spahr, Spahr, which which appears appears to to be be handling handling the the wind-down winddown and and is is sugsug gesting gesting that that One One World World Media Media isn’t isn’t currently currently in in aa position position to to pay pay its its bills. bills. A OWM spokesperson person did did not not respond respond to to requests requests for for comment. comment.

Aussie menu Aussie menu Australia’s food scene is inundating the New York market as the best chefs in the world arrive from Down Under Resthis week for the World’s 50 Best Res taurant awards. The W50B winners will announced in Melbourne on Wednesday. The propro gram will showcase the Australia’s outout standing food and wine culture to a global audience of chefs, restaurateurs, sommeliers and media, who are flying in for the biggest foodie destination event of Julie EarleLevine Earle-Levine. the year, reports Julie Aussie chefs Dan Dan Hunter Hunter of Brae and Quay’s Peter Peter Gilmore Gilmore are among those joining stars Massimo Massimo Bottura, Bottura whose Modena, Italy, restaurant, Osteria Francescana, escana, is the current No. 1 world restaurant, and New York’s Daniel Humm and Will Will Guidara Guidara from Eleven Madison Park. resNew York is dotted with Australian res taurants, including Bluestone Lane, Ruby’s Café, Flinders Lane, Two Hands NYC and newcomer Banter in GreenGreen wich Village. Wire Image Wire Image

DRAKE Hip-hop artist shatters single album streaming record with 385M in its debut week. EUGENE LEE JR. Darden CEO sees stock surge after reporting good Q3, Cheddar’s Scratch deal. JEFF BEZOS Amazon chief passes Warren Buffett to become world’s second-richest person.

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MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Financial media company CEO sees data terminal sales decline for second time ever. TRAVIS KALANICK Uber boss suffers succession of management mishaps during a South Korean business trip. EVAN SPIEGEL Snap CEO watches stock fall after Facebook intros photo features similar to Snapchat’s.

New artists New artists benefit benefit from from ‘Kobalt’ ‘Kobalt’ treatment treatment POSSE: Vérité (second from left) with Annabelle Fleur, Cory Kennedy, Eleanor Lambert and Emeraude Toubia. StarPix

When her debut album is released in June, pop singer Vérité will be able to learn in hours how much she’s making just by looking at her mobile phone. Vérité, whose real name is Kelsey Byrne, can use a new app from New York-based music publisher, Kobalt Music Group to see how many people are listening to her music on Spotify or Apple Music, how old her fans are and what playlists are promoting her the most. “I can walk down the street and see how many royalties are in my account for this quarter,” Byrne said in a phone interview from London,

where she’s promoting a new song and playing a show. The app, which debuts Tuesday, is available to musicians and smaller labels that, like Byrne, have signed with the company for the tools and services it provides independent artists. Kobalt has attracted some of the biggest songwriters, including Paul McCartney, Beck and Max Martin, by offering transparency, higher royalties and greater ownership of their music. Together, streaming and social media have given musicians the ability to distribute and market music on their own, emboldening art-

ists to work outside the traditional system. Kobalt has tried to exploit that opening, pitching itself as an artists’ guide to the messy economics of streaming. The company’s music publishing business and labels represent more than 1 million songs. Kobalt’s approach has drawn investors including Google and Michael Dell, who participated in a $60 million investment round in 2015. The company is again looking to raise funds, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named discussing private negotiations. Bloomberg

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Dear John

TAKING A SLICE: There is a 9.63 percent “patient services surcharge” on every inpatient and outpatient procedure in New York state.

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Roughly two weeks before April 20, investors with a craving for marijuana exposure will have a new instrument to roll into their portfolios. The first exchange-traded fund with a marijuana focus, the Horizons Medical Marijuana Life Sciences ETF, has been conditionally approved for listing by the Toronto Stock Exchange. It is scheduled to debut on April 5 under the ticker symbol HMMJ. According to Horizon ETF Management, it will be the first ETF “that offers direct exposure to North American-listed stocks that are involved with medical marijuana bioengineering and production.” The marijuana industry has seen surging growth of late. Sales grew 30 percent in 2016, according to Arcview Market Research, and they are expected to triple in four years. The growth comes as more and more people approve of legalizing marijuana, including for recreational purposes. In 2016, roughly 60 percent of Americans said they favored the legalization of recreational marijuana, as the industry gained support in invalidating the war on drugs, and seven states voted to legalize pot for recreational or medical use. “The medical marijuana industry is rapidly growing in North America as legislators allow or consider allowing more legal uses of marijuana and marijuana-related products, particularly medical marijuana usage,” Steve Hawkins, president and co-chief executive officer of Horizons ETFs, said. “Given the recent high returns generated by medical marijuana companies, investors are clearly attracted to the industry,” Hawkins added. Other ETF providers have proposed similar funds. In February, ETF Managers Trust filed paperwork with regulators for the Emerging AgroSphere ETF, which would also focus on medical marijuana companies, as well as ones involved in the production or sale of products derived from hemp. It wasn’t clear when that fund might receive SEC approval and begin trading, and a representative for ETF Managers said the firm couldn’t comment. Bloomberg

THISHidden TAXhealthIScareSICK surcharges The Answer Man Dear John: I saw the item in your Sunday column from the reader who wrote about the tax paid on a recent surgery at NYU hospital and wanted to provide you — and your readers — with some additional information. A 20-year-old New York law known as the Health Care Reform Act (HCRA) imposes something called the “patient services surcharge” on every inpatient and outpatient procedure. The surcharge — another word for tax — is 9.63 percent. Another HCRA-imposed tax your readers might be interested to learn about is the “covered lives assessment,” a tax on every health insurance policy sold in New York. In New York City it’s currently $185 a year for a single policy and $611 a year for a family policy. Most consumers never know about these health care taxes because they have to be built into the cost of your health insurance premiums. But these HCRA taxes together cost New Yorkers nearly $5 billion (yes, with a “b”) a year, and they are one of the reasons New York’s health insurance costs more than that in most other states. So now you and your readers know. Leslie Moran, senior vice president, New York Health Plan Association

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Dear Leslie Moran: Thanks for the information and for making our day a little brighter. Dear John: Do you really think you’ve figured it out? Writing a prescription is the key to this whole health care debacle? I’d love for you to ask how many people think a doctor’s visit is worthless unless they get a prescription. Then I’d like you to figure out how a doctor actually sees a patient, pays his/her support staff salaries, taxes, medical insurance, worker’s compensation insurance, rent, supplies, phone/Internet, utilities, professional, city, county and state licenses, and malpractice insurance for $300 an hour. Oh, did I forget to mention the doctor is trying to make a living too? Go pick a fight with some-

one your own size. B.B.C. (A very disheartened family practice doctor) Dear B.B.C.: I’m not picking a fight with anyone. I’m just sitting here minding my own business and someone writes to me about why health care costs are so high. Then I make some sarcastic remarks and (say “ah”) you’re jumping down my throat. Yes, doctors have lots of expenses. So they — like everyone else in America — try to make the most money they can. The solution will come when nobody wants to be a doctor anymore. And then the shortage will make Americans realize that the supply/demand balance in health care is off-kilter and that something needs to be done. Meanwhile I’m going back to picking fights with car rental companies. Dear John: As a doctor,

B.M.’s Letter was extremely offensive. He has no idea what really goes into doctors’ visits and fees. Overall, doctors’ fees are consistently less than 20 percent of the total health care pie. A.G., MD Dear A.G., MD: I’m always sarcastic. It’s a genetic defect. See some other comments.

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Debt boggles brilliant minds, too

Dear John: I’m a Mensa member and do not understand trillions. Nobody does. When writing about the national debt, please put it in terms people are able to understand. It is now more than $61,000 per man, woman and child. Just imagine every other citizen you see with a $61,000 bill in their hands. S.R.

Dear S.R.: Sorry, trillions are the things that come after billions. Tell your Mensa friends at the next reunion.

Dear John: F$&@ you. Where were you when Obama spent $10 trillion, you piece of s&@#? R.S. Dear R.S.: I guess those are supposed to be

dirty words, but you misspelled them. To answer your question: I’ve been right here for decades criticizing the way Washington handles our money. And that’s been through both Democrat and Republican administrations. So take that you “##@*7%^^!” — which, of course, means you “dear reader.”

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Prestige on a small budget Virtual office the trick By ED ZWIRN

Looking to situate your business at that prestigious address without paying prestigious rent? A growing number of business clients — ranging from solitary millennial entrepreneurs to multinational companies — are turning to the services of “micro” or “virtual” office providers in a quest to either establish themselves, impress clients or backers or set up branch offices on the cheap. For as little as a $50 monthly membership fee and a $250 month-to-month lease, Marcus Moufarrige, chief operating officer of Servcorp, says that the next Elon Musk can set up a “virtual office,” just to receive mail. If they want to enjoy genius-inducing creature comforts like cappuccino, couches and free WiFi at the so-called “co-working spaces,” that’s an additional $450 a month at either financial district locales like the World

Trade Center and 17 State St., or Midtown meccas such as the Seagram Building and 1230 Sixth Ave. In an automated update of the old dodge of renting a mailbox at a high-class address, “virtual offices” provide a business with its own dedicated receptionist guaranteed to respond promptly to every one of your leads and with the special attention you want each one to get, Moufarrige says. Beyond that, and of course higher up the price scale, companies can secure actual mid-sized offices and even conference rooms and executive suites starting at $1,000 monthly. “It’s often said that nine out of 10 small businesses go under,“ says Moufarrige. “But what kills small businesses that are not household names is the cost of hiring people and the cost of rent. It’s not necessary to have your own lobby and your own office.” Servcorp started in Australia in 1978 and only began establishing

THRIFTY: The lobby of the WeWorks building at 110 Wall St. in lower Manhattan. Helayne Seidman a presence in this country in 2010. It now has 22 sites around the US, including the four New York City locations, and 150 around the world. In the Big Apple, this presence is dwarfed by the much larger footprint established by WeWork, which has 38 locations in the city (including four in Brook-

lyn and one in Queens) and offers similar sets of amenities (e.g., a private Madison Avenue office for as little as $850 monthly, or $650 if you just want your own desk). “At WeWork, our mission is to provide the space, community and services New Yorkers need to make a life, not just a living,” says

Rui Barros, WeWork’s tri-state general manager. “Our We membership is the perfect option for creators on the go — it includes access to our diverse, global community through our own digital member network and enables members to book work and meeting spaces at many of our locations worldwide when they need it.” Moufarrige says that what companies like Servcorp and WeWork are doing is “certainly disruptive to the commercial real estate sector.” But there are skeptics, especially considering the size of the business. “The micro and virtual office sector in New York City is an even smaller subset of the co-working space providers, who lease less than 1 percent of the total city office stock of approximately 450 million square feet,” argues Mike Tepedino, a senior managing director for the New York office of HFF, a firm that provides financing for commercial real estate. “These providers have been around for some time and have minimal impact on the macro commercial environment in the city.”

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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL HELP WANTED Information Clerk - Flushing: Provide answers & information via in person, telephone, fax & email to customers of our business. High School or Foreign Equivalent + Fluent Korean Language. Send ltr/res to Hidden Nail Supply Inc. 33-19 Farrington St. FL 1 Flushing, NY 11354. Attn: HR. Information Clerk - Jackson Heights: Answer questions, & provide information about our company’s products, services, & price information via in person, telephone, fax & email. High School + Fluent Korean Language. Send ltr/res to New World Glass Inc. 198-18 30th Ave. Flushing, NY 11358. Attn: HR. Laborer – Elmhurst, NY & srdng area F/T 3 mos exp to provide proper upkeep of properties. Send resume to Pavillion Contracting, 83-26 Broadway #1780, Elmhurst, NY 11373. Attn: Mr. Nieto MAIL ONLY. Master Stone Mason needed for Long Island-based masonry contracting company. 2 years experience as stone mason required. Travel required througout New York City and Long Island. Please submit resume by mail to Giaquinto Masonry, Inc., 429 Carll’s Path, Deer Park, NY 11729, Attn: Luigi Giaquinto, V.P. Supervisor, GroundskeeperQueens, NY - Supervise workers in landscaping & groundskeeping activities. Review contracts for service, machine, & workforce req; answer customer ques. 2 yrs exp. in pos or as landscape mgr. send res. To D. Salazar-223 Franklin St., 21-25 44th Ave. , LIC, NY 11101. Tour Guide (Italian GRPS) (NY, NY): Escort Italian tour grps throughout US & Canada; Lead grp to tour site locs. & dscrbe gen’l history, pts of intrsts, & current affairs in Italian; Organize day to day mgmnt of tours to match itinerary; Troubleshoot prblms w/ itineraries, srvce, or accommodations as they arise throughout tour; Liaise & maintain positive relationships w/ suppliers; Attend to special needs of individuals in tour grp; & Evaluate srvcs rec’d on tour & rprt findings to mgmnt. Req HS diploma, GED, or foreign equiv, + 2 yrs exp in above duties. Req domestic or int’l travel on monthly basis & fluency in Italian. Any suitable combo of edu, training, or exp is acptbl. E-mail cv to Teamamerica, Inc. at hr@teamamericany.com Truck mechanic Repair, overhaul & maintain trucks & tractor trailers. Determine malfunctn, repair, replace or rebuild parts. Adjust brakes, lubricate truck equipment. FT, 1yr exp. Send res: Fiorini Landscape, Inc. 124 Half Hollow Rd, Melville, NY 11747 Welder (1) Bay Shore, NY M-F 8a-5p fuse metal, hammering compressing or the LIW, unite pieces 2yrs exp, refs, drug kit test no job trning, mail or fax res attn. Bruce 631- 732-3554

EDUCATION Assistant Professor. Teach biostatistical/epidemiologic methods in med/grad schools. Mentor grad students, residents/ fellows in research projects. Initiate/ participate/lead epidemiologic & biostatistical research studies. Act as contact bet. clinical depts and the Institute to perform literature search, identify research gap, write grants & manuscripts. Ph.D in Biostatistics. CV to Debora Gomez, Int’l Personnel, HR, Icahn Sch. of Medicine. 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1514, NY, NY 10029. Refer to Job ID 2331024.

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RESTAURANT & HOSPITALITY Assistant Manager (Yonkers, NY) Suprvis wrkers who prep & serve fast food. Compile cash recpts, trn wrkers, assign duties. Ensure qual standards. FT,1yr exp. Resume:3551 Yonkers LLC d.b.a Domino’s Pizza, 132 Tuckahoe Rd, Yonkers, NY 10710 Assistant Restaurant Manager (NY, NY) - Oversee food prep/wait staff/ kitchen personnel & safety procedures of restrnt. Clean kitchen/ dining area as needed. Order ingredients/supplies/equipment. Resolve patrons complaints . Ensure service quality standards. Assign work hours, duties of workers. Compile/balance receipts daily. Reqs: HS Diploma + fluency in Korean. Resumes to: MK 32 Rest. Corp. dba The Kunjip, 32 W.32nd St, NY, NY 10001 Asst. Restaurant Manager Assist with coordination of F&B Service. Send resume: NYLC, LLC, 151 E 58th St, NY, NY 10022 Attn: C. Mantica COOK - Continental lunch & dinner specialties. 2 yrs exp. Mail resume: Dani’s Italian Bistro, Inc., 7331 Amboy Rd, SI, NY 10307 Cook - Laurel Links CC, 6 temp FT jobs (4/25/17-10/15/17) in Laurel, NY.35 hrs/wk, Mon-Sun 10a-11p. Prep, season, cook, plate, garnish meals. Measure/mix recipe ingredients. Follow portion control, presentation, consistency, flavor. Observe/test food cooked. May substitute/assist other cooks. Follow sanitation proc. 6 mos recent exp as Restaurant Cook preparing foods from scratch req’d. Must: work splitshifts, nights, w/ends, holidays; carry min 25 lbs; walk/stand long time. Proff. appearance, articulate in English. $14.41/hr min, O/T not guar @ $21.62/hr.Tools, supplies, equip. for job @ no charge.Work hours min 3/4 of the workdays of each 12-wk period. Most economical & reasonable travel cost to place of work reimb. only if 50% of work period com-pleted. Daily travel subsistence $12.09/day w/out or max $51/day w/ receipts. Return transp. only if dismissed early or full work period completed. Apply to: laurellinkscc@yahoo.com; or PO Box 307, Laurel, NY 11948; or Workforce NY Career Ctr-160 S Ocean Ave, Patchogue, NY 11772, Ph 631687-4800. Ref JO# NY1197144 Server - Laurel Links CC, 6 temp FT jobs (4/25/17-10/15/17) in Laurel, NY.35 hrs/wk, Mon-Sun 10a-11p. Serve food & bev. Take orders. Complete side work, clear/carry dishes, keep stations clean. Supply linens, silver/glassware. dishes in DR; set-up, clean, open/close F&B area. May do other related duties. 3 mos exp in fine dining/country club F&B serving req’d. Must: work split-shifts, nights, w/ends & holidays; carry min 25 lbs; walk/stand long time. Proff. appearance, articulate in English. Base + gratuity no less than $12.28/hr, O/T not guar @ $18.42/hr. Tools, supplies, equip. for job @ no charge. Work hours min 3/4 of the workdays of each 12-wk period. Most economical & reasonable travel cost to place of work reimb. only if 50% of work period completed. Daily travel subsistence $12.09/day w/out or max $51/day w/ receipts. Return transp. only if dismissed early or full work period completed. Apply to laurellinkscc@yahoo.com, or PO Box 307, Laurel, NY 11948, or Workforce NY Career Ctr-160 S Ocean Ave, Patchogue, NY 11772, Ph 631687-4800.Ref JO# NY1197149

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Cook - Scarsdale GC, 6 temp FT jobs (5/01/17-10/15/17) in Hartsdale, NY.35 hrs/wk, Mon-Sun 10a-11p. Prep, season, cook, plate, garnish meals.Measure/mix recipe ingredients. Follow portion control, presentation, consistency, flavor. Observe/test food cooked. May substitute/assist other cooks. Follow sanitation proc. 6 mos recent exp as Restaurant Cook preparing foods from scratch req’d. Must: work splitshifts, nights, w/ends, holidays; carry min 25 lbs; walk/stand long time. Proff. appearance, articulate in English. $13.74/hr min, O/T not guar @ $20.61/hr.Optl. housing, rent ded. $2.45/day, max $15.55/wk. Tools, supplies, equip. for job @ no charge. Work hrs min 3/4 workdays of each 12-wk period. Most economical & reasonable travel cost to place of work reimb. only if 50% of work period completed. Daily travel subsistence $12.09/day w/out or max $51/day w/ receipts. Return transp. only if dismissed early or full work period completed. Apply to: scarsdalegc@yahoo.com; or PO Box 701, Hartsdale, NY 10530; or Westchester Cty Employment Ctr 120 Bloomingdale Rd, White Plains, NY 10605, Ph 914-995-3910. Ref JO# NY1197489 Server - Apawamis Club, 10 temp FT jobs (5/01/17-10/31/17) in Rye, NY. 35 hrs/wk, Tue-Sun 10a-11p.Serve food & bev.Take orders. Complete side work, clear & carry dishes, keep stations clean. Supply linens, silver/glassware, dishes in DR; set-up, clean, open/close F&B area. May do other related duties. 3 mos exp in fine dining/country club F&B serving req’d. Pre-hire bkgd check. Must: work split-shifts, nights, w/ends, holidays; carry min 25 lbs; walk/ stand long time. Proff. appearance, articulate in English. $14.08/hr min, O/T not guar @ $21.12/hr. Optl. housing, rent ded. $2.45/day, max $15.55/wk. Tools, supplies, equip. for job @ no charge. Work hrs min 3/4 workdays of each 12-wk period. Most economical & reasonable travel cost to place of work reimb. only if 50% of work period completed. Daily travel subsistence $12.09/day w/out or max $51/day w/ receipts. Return transp. only if dismissed early or full work period completed. Apply to: apawamisclub@yahoo.com or 2 Club Rd, Rye, NY 10580, or Westchester Cty Employment Ctr 120 Bloomingdale Rd, White Plains, NY 10605, Ph 914-995-3910. Ref JO# NY1197533 Server - Metropolis CC, 14 temp FT jobs (5/01/17-10/31/17) in White Plains, NY. 35 hrs/wk, Tue-Sun 10a-11p. Serve food & bev.Take orders. Complete side work, clear/ carry dishes, keep stations clean. Supply linens, silver/glassware, dishes in DR; set-up, clean, open/ close F&B area. May do other related duties. 3 mos exp in fine dining/ country club F&B serving req’d. Must: work split-shifts, nights, w/ends, holidays; carry min 25 lbs; walk/ stand long time. Proff. appearance, articulate in English. $14.08/hr min, O/T not guar @ $21.12/hr. Optl. housing, rent ded. $2.45/day, max $15.55/wk. Tools, supplies, equip. for job @ no charge. Work hrs min 3/4 workdays of each 12-wk period. Most economical & reasonable travel cost to place of work reimb. only if 50% of work period completed. Daily travel subsistence $12.09/day w/out or max $51/day w/ receipts. Return transp. only if dismissed early or full work period completed. Apply to metropoliscc@yahoo.com; or 289 Dobbs Ferry Rd, White Plains, NY 10607; or Westchester Cty Employment Ctr - 120 Bloomingdale Rd, White Plains, NY 10605, Ph 914-995-3910. Ref JO# NY1197581

Server - Scarsdale GC, 15 temp FT jobs (5/01/17-10/16/17) in Hartsdale, NY. 35 hrs/wk, Mon-Sun 10a-11p. Serve food & bev. Take orders. Complete side work, clear/carry dishes, keep stations clean. Supply linens, silver/glassware, dishes in DR; set-up, clean, open/close F&B area. May do other related duties. 3 mos exp in fine dining/country club F&B serving req’d. Must: work split-shifts, nights, w/ends, holidays; carry min 25 lbs; walk/stand for long time. Proff. appearance, articulate in English. $14.08/hr min, O/T not guar @ $21.12/hr.Optl. housing, rent ded. $2.45/day, max $15.55/wk. Tools, supplies, equip. for job @ no charge. Work hrs min 3/4 workdays of each 12-wk period. Most economical & reasonable travel cost to place of work reimb. only if 50% of work period completed.Daily travel subsistence $12.09/day w/out or max $51/day w/ receipts. Return transp. only if dismissed early or full work period completed. Apply to scarsdalegc@yahoo.com; or PO Box 701, Hartsdale, NY 10530; or Westchester Cty Employment Ctr 120 Bloomingdale Rd, White Plains, NY 10605, Ph 914-995-3910. Ref JO# NY1197440 Server - Sunningdale CC, 10 temp FT jobs (5/01/17-10/31/17) in Rye, NY. 35 hrs/wk, Tue-Sun 10a-11p. Serve food & bev. Take orders. Complete side work, clear/carry dishes, keep stations clean. Supply linens, silver/ glassware, dishes in DR; set-up, clean, open/close F&B area. May do other related duties. 3 mos exp in fine dining/country club F&B serving req’d. Must: work split-shifts, nights, w/ends, holidays; carry min 25 lbs; walk/stand long time. Proff. appearance, articulate in English. $14.08/hr min, O/T not guar @ $21.12/hr. Optl. housing no charge. Tools, supplies, equip. for job @ no charge. Work hours min 3/4 workdays of each 12-wk period.Most economical & reasonable travel cost to place of work reimb. only if 50% of work period completed. Daily travel subsistence $12.09/day w/out or max $51/day w/ receipts. Return transp. only if dismissed early or full work period completed. Apply to sunningdalecc@yahoo.com, or PO Box 249, Scarsdale, NY 10583, or Westchester Cty Employment Ctr 120 Bloomingdale Rd, White Plains, NY 10605, Ph 914-995-3910. Ref JO# NY1197578 Server - Whippoorwill Club, 5 temp FT jobs (5/01/17-10/31/17) in Armonk, NY. 35 hrs/wk, Mon-Sun 9a-11p.Serve food & bev.Take orders. Complete side work, clear/carry dishes, keep stations clean. Supply linens, silver/glassware, dishes in DR; setup, clean, open/close F&B area. May do other related duties. 3 mos exp in fine dining/country club F&B serving req’d. Must: work split-shifts, nights, w/ends & holidays; carry min 25 lbs; walk/stand for long time. Proff. appearance, articulate in English.$14.08/hr min, O/T not guar @ $21.12/hr.Optl. housing, rent ded. $2.45/day, max $15.55/wk.Tools, supplies, equip. for job @ no charge. Work hours min 3/4 of workdays of each 12-wk period. Most economical & reasonable travel cost to place of work reimb. only if 50% of work period completed. Daily travel subsistence $12.09/day w/out or max $51/day w/ receipts. Return transp. only if dismissed early or full work period completed. Apply to whippoorwillcc@yahoo.com; or 150 Whippoorwill Rd, Armonk, NY 10504; or Westchester Cty Employment Ctr 120 Bloomingdale Rd, White Plains, NY 10605, Ph 914-995-3910. Ref JO# NY1197366

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ETC.: Always Dreaming takes Fla. Derby

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1 mile; $27,000; clm($14,000); 3up(f)

Wait, what? Boys of summer are back? Couldn’t hear you with all this mud in my ear. Give me a $20 exacta; the Ortiz-less Red Sox over the overdue Dodgers..Not much to like in our opener. Maybe MORETHANJUSTHELLO who is the midst of an 11 race skid. Returns to a mile after a wide trip left her an excusable 3rd. PHOCEA placed 2nd, about 6 lengths better than top pick 2 back. Jacobson played the same card and she came back 2nd again. Top 2 should battle to the wire. Long way back to 3rd. PARI NATH ran to her odds of 99-1, then 93-1 last pair. Winless thru 16 at the distance but so is the rest of this sleepy field. Runs for new team Forde/Fragoso. May fill out the super with FROSTIE ANNE. PN Horse Wt.

Jockey

Last 3 Trainer

Odds

1 Pari Nath(L),120

P Fragoso

7-7-5

Forde

30-1

2 Morethanjusthello(L),120

I Ortiz, Jr

3-4-7

Barker

7-5

3 Frostie Anne(L),113

H Diaz, Jr

5-7-7

Gullo

5-1

4 Megan's Muse(L),115

A Ayala

5-6-5

Sciacca

10-1

5 Rahy's Bandit(L),120

M Luzzi

6-3-5

Iselin

12-1

6 Phocea(L),122

R Montanez

2-2-2

Jacobson

8-5

 2

7 fur; $20,000; clm($10,000); 4up

The more than rested HUNTS ROAD makes his seasonal off the 10 month shelf. Used speed last year to hit the board 4 of 5 with better. Ready to roll after a robust 5 panel work. Luzzi in the irons. PATTON PROUD checked in a leg weary 3rd and was claimed by Arriaga. Betters position edging lower. WIZARDLY creeps south as well after racing evenly for show money. Resume reads 1 for 15 over the last 2 years but he should get a share. Gets Fragoso back. BEACH HUT got the best of this brand last week. Stretches a furlong where he's proven. PN Horse Wt.

Jockey

Last 3 Trainer

Odds

1 Wizardly(L),118

P Fragoso

3-8-3

C Martin

4-1

2 Hunt's Road(L),118

M Luzzi

4-2-2

Englehart

5-1

3 Fullfaithandcredit(L),118

M Franco

3-4-7

Contessa

6-1

4 Beach Hut(L),120

E Cancel

1-3-6

Chatterpaul

5-1

5 Bluegrass Chat(L),123

A Arroyo

7-1-8

Serey

7-2

6 Non Stop(L),111

H Diaz, Jr

5-6-6

Barrera

7 Patton Proud(L),113

L Reyes

3-8-1

20-1

Arriaga

3-1

 3

6 1/2 fur; $67,000; alw; 3up(f)

Deuces are wild in the early pick 3. PICCO UNO won her last pair by a combined 15 lengths. Soared in the mud; soaring figs as well. Make it 3. FELINI showed the way before retreating for 3rd at this upper level. Things did not go as well 2 back with same at this longer distance. Rosario is scheduled to ride for McLaughlin. Chad Browns MY FAIR LILY graduated in the mud 2 back then passed some tired horses to get 3rd at this height. Additional 1/16th makes her a contender. PN Horse Wt.

Jockey

Last 3 Trainer

Odds

1 Princessofthieves(L),121

E Cancel

2-7-3

Nevin

15-1

2 Picco Uno(L),124

I Ortiz, Jr

1-1-2

Servis

4-5

3 My Fair Lily(L),124

M Franco

3-1-5

C Brown

4-1

4 Felini(L),124

J Rosario

3-8-1

McLaughlin

5-2

PN Horse Wt.

Jockey

Last 3 Trainer

5 Riot Worthy(L),124

D Davis

3-2-1

Baker

8-1

1 Toga Challenger(L),119

I Ortiz, Jr

2-1-x

Rodriguez

5-2

2 Ethan Hunt(L),121

C Velasquez

3-9-1

Toscano

8-1

 4

6 1/2 fur; $41,000; mdn clm($40,000); 3up

Close calls for these 2 geldings in their latest at this level. Either can move forward. ADIRONDACK DREAM missed by a fast closing neck 2 back with this brand. Moved higher; stretched to a route; never factored. Serious player in this more comfortable setting. Maragh rides for new handler Bond. LIGHT THE VOW fell to this level and was denied a ¹/₂ length after running out of ground. Sensible play as Baker gives him an extra 1/16th to get there and gets Decarlo to ride. ALGORIX proved a debut dud; running to his odds of 52-1. Moves off mdn spcl wghts for C Englehart who applies lasix. Saddle 7 lighter than top pair. PN Horse Wt.

Jockey

Last 3 Trainer

Odds

1 We Were Kings(L),124

M Luzzi

4-2-5

Acquilano

12-1

2 Heldatgunpoint(M),117

J Rosario

x-x-x

Cannizzo

8-1

3 Alpha Go(L),117

K Carmouche

11-x-x Hushion

4-1

4 Adirondack Dream(L),124

R Maragh

5-3-5

Bond

3-1

5 Algorix(M),117

C Velasquez

6-x-x

Englehart

5-1

6 Quai Voltaire(L),117

D Davis

3-5-4

Sciacca

7 Light the Vow(L),124

C DeCarlo

2-4-5

Baker

8 Cournoyer(M),117

M Franco

4-6-10 Englehart

12-1 5-2 12-1

 5

1 mile; $57,000; alw; 3up(f)

Similar styles suggest a cat & mouse game here. Field of 6 stalkers and NO HAYNE NO GAYNE should be doing the purring at the wire. Got up in the final yards to earn her diploma. Tough spot facing winners 1st time but Beyer says she fits. Right back. TIME SQUARED easily wired claimers 2 back in the slop so she may be your leader down the backstretch. Surged from off the pace to defeat allowance next out. Rider change to Franco. ARCHUMYBABY Gargan filly is 2 for 2 at the distance after narrowly defeating this brand at 20-1. Encore? PN Horse Wt.

Jockey

Last 3 Trainer

Odds

1 His Girl Friday(L),121

D Brown

6-2-4

Ferraro

2 Three Eighty Eight(L),114

H Diaz, Jr

2-4-5

Rice

3-1

3 Archumybaby(L),117

R Maragh

1-1-5

Gargan

8-1

4 No Hayne No Gayne(L),117

K Carmouche

1-2-4

Asmussen

6-5

5 Time Squared(L),121

M Franco

1-1-3

Parker

5-2

6 All Day Lawn(L),121

R Silvera

1-7-8

Aro

20-1

 6

1 mile; $58,000; alw; 3YO

Little too much muscle from MR BUFF who survived the lively stretch duel but couldn't survive the stewards inquiry. Held by a game neck but was DQ'd for 1 too many bumps. Buffer, down the lane, making 1 turn. TOGA CHALLENGER won handily at 1st asking then rallied to within a neck of a stubborn winner vs. this condition. Looms large extending to a mile for Rudy. MOLLICA Out of touch 6th, then 4th last pair over the inner. Victory earned over the main oval here in December. Fired a 5 panel bullet for Rice at Belmont. Diaz replaces Cornelio who retains the mount on ETHAN HUNT.

Aqueduct Results FIRST-1 mile; $60,000; 4up(f) Sis City Stakes 6 Mddzskr (Velsquz) 4.30 2.60 2.10 5 Reckless Humor (OrtzJr.) 4.30 2.60 2 Just Got Out (Arroyo) 2.70 • Exacta (6-5) $20.20 • Superfecta (6-5-2-4) $174.50 • Trifecta (6-5-2) $34.80 Winner picked by Vic C SECOND-6 fur; $70,000; 4up(f) Xtra Heat Stakes 5 Rng Knockr (Arry) 13.40 5.30 2.90 2 Little Bear Cat (Ortiz,Jr.) 5.00 3.20 1 Bow Town Cat (Velasquez) 2.90 • Daily Double (6-5) $28.20 • Exacta (5-2) $51.50 • Quinella (2-5) $24.40 • Superfecta (5-2-1-6) $302.00 • Trifecta (5-2-1) $139.00 THIRD-7 fur; $80,000; 4up Caixa Eletronica Stakes 4 Alx th Trrr (Mntnz) 10.00 3.80 out 5 Eye Luv Lulu (Alvarado) 2.70 out Scr: Foreset. • Pick 3 (6-5-4) 3 Correct $202.50 • Daily Double (5-4) $59.00 • Exacta (4-5) $27.20 FOURTH-1 mile; $75,000; 4up The Stud Muffin 3 Do Shre (Velsquz) 4.00 2.80 2.40 4 Marriage Fever (Davis) 8.20 5.30 2 Bluegrass Prevals (Crmouche) 4.90

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Pick 3 (5-4-3) 3 Correct $264.00 Daily Double (4-3) $26.00 Exacta (3-4) $37.80 Quinella (3-4) $28.20 Superfecta (3-4-2-1) $729.00 Trifecta (3-4-2) $241.50

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Winner picked by Vic C FIFTH-6 fur; $55,000; 4up Kelly Kip Stakes 4 Bss Rvr Rd (OrtzJr.) 2.80 2.40 2.10 1 Formal Summaton (Luzz) 7.30 4.70 7 Gambler's Ghost (Arroyo) 3.10 Scr: Fullfaithandcredit, Chelios. • dq_Gambler's Ghost (2-3) • Pick 5 (6-5-4-3-3/4/6) 5 Correct $1,148.00 • Pick 4 (5-4-3-3/4/6) 4 Correct $494.00 • Pick 3 (4-3-4) 3 Correct $59.00 • Trifecta (4-1-7) $88.50 • Superfecta (4-1-7-9) $257.50 • Daily Double (3-4) $6.60 • Exacta (4-1) $21.20 SIXTH-7 fur; $80,000; 4up(f) Karakorum Elektra Stakes 2 Sh's So Fn (Mntnz) 7.20 3.80 3.00 5 Mama Joyce (Velasquez) 5.00 3.80 3 Chorus Line (Franco) 2.90 • Pick 3 (3-4-2) 3 Correct $30.60 • Daily Double (42) $10.40 • Exacta (2-5) $29.40 • Superfecta (2-53-6) $339.50 • Trifecta (2-5-3) $82.50 Winner picked by Vic C SEVENTH-6 fur; $55,000; 4up(f) Videogenic Stakes 5 Pcture Dy (Vlsquz) 11.60 5.20 3.20

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Da Wildcat Girl (Davis) 3.30 2.80 Call Her Karma (Franco) 2.80 • Pick 3 (4-2-5) 3 Correct $77.50 • Daily Double (25) $35.00 • Exacta (5-4) $36.80 • Superfecta (5-41-8) $431.50 • Trifecta (5-4-1) $125.00

EIGHTH-1 1/8 miles; $90,000; 4up Mr Sinatra Stakes 6 Testostrston (Dvs) 13.20 5.00 3.20 3 Hard Study (Velasquez) 5.00 3.10 4 Stormin Monarcho (Ortiz,Jr.) 2.60 • Pick 3 (2-5-6) 3 Correct $276.50 • Grand Slam (1/3/4/6/7-2/3/5-1/4/5-6) 4 Correct $30.80 • Daily Double (5-6) $81.50 • Exacta (6-3) $70.00 • Superfecta (6-3-4-1) $544.00 • Trifecta (6-3-4) $174.00 NINTH-1 mile; $60,000; 4up More To Tell Stakes 5 Bttl Mdwy (Crmch) 7.90 3.90 2.60 1 River Date (Velasquez) 3.50 2.80 7 Becker's Galaxy (Ortiz,Jr.) 2.50 Scr: Are We Not Men. • Pick 6 (3-3/4/6-2-5-6-5) 6 Correct $5,050.00, 5 Correct $60.50 • Pick 4 (2-5-6-5) 4 Correct $1,234.00 • Pick 3 (5-6-5) 3 Correct $401.00 • Superfecta (5-1-7-3) $1,443.00 • Daily Double (6-5) $44.80 • Exacta (5-1) $35.40 • Trifecta (5-1-7) $94.00 Attendance unavailable. Track Handle $908,155. Total Handle $6,979,046.

3 Mollica(L),114

H Diaz, Jr

4-6-7

Rice

4 Degrom(L),121

M Franco

1-5-8

Servis

5 Dynamax Prime(M),121

R Maragh

3-3-1

Weaver

6 Terry O Geri(L),119

J Alvarado

1-10-x Contessa

7 Mr. Buff(L),119

M Luzzi

2-3-5

Kimmel

Odds

6-1 12-1 7-2 15-1 2-1

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6 fur; $44,000; clm($50,000); 3up

Sampling SUMMER BOURBON who steps higher off the C Englehart claim. Exits an easy 3 length score tightening to preferred distance. Will have to stay with KOHLHASE who may have it his way on the front end. Opened up a quick 2 lengths then held on by a hard fought head in latest. Irad to ration the speed. TIMBER kicked belatedly for 3rd last pair, the latest with allowance. May catch fire if top pair burn. Also saddled by C Englehart. INDIAN SOLDIER enters off back to back W's. Watch the board. PN Horse Wt.

Jockey

Last 3 Trainer

Odds

1 Timber(L),120

K Carmouche

3-3-1

Englehart

8-1

2 Sky Chaparral(L),120

D Davis

4-5-4

Jacobson

6-1

3 Dr. Shane(L),113

H Diaz, Jr

3-2-4

Esler

4 Kohlhase(L),122

I Ortiz, Jr

1-2-3

Rodriguez

5-2

5 Indian Soldier(L),120

M Luzzi

1-1-6

Schosberg

20-1

6 Summer Bourbon(L),120

A Arroyo

1-8-8

Englehart

5-1

7 Nobody Move(L),120

R Montanez

6-3-1

Toscano

6-1

8 Manipulated(L),122

C Velasquez

3-4-2

Jacobson

3-1

12-1

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1 1/8 miles; $200,000; 4up(f) THE TOP FLIGHT

FIRST: mile pace; $27,000; TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 7:14 TIME-27.1; 56.4; 1:25.0; 1:53.1 2 LoneSurvvor(JBrtlett) 4.20 2.40 2.30 5 Santanna One (T Tetrick) 3.30 3.10 8 Dojea Solo (M MacDonald) 9.50

THIRD: mile pace; $27,000; cond TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 7:57 TIME-27.0; 56.1; 1:24.4; 1:54.0 6 Rancousy(JBongorno) 42.60 13.20 9.80 4 Killer Martini (D Dube) 13.80 4.30 7 Sir Machalot (J Bartlett) 6.10

FOURTH: mile pace; $31,000; cond TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 8:17 TIME-27.3; 56.4; 1:25.0; 1:53.1 3 IdealCowboy(JBrtlett) 3.20 2.50 2.10 4 WesternBayama(JStratton) 3.60 3.80 5 Statesman N (T Tetrick) 4.10

• Exacta (2-5) $18.80 • Triple (2-5-8) $301.50 Exacta picked by Deb Little

SECOND: mile trot; $31,000; cond TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 7:36 TIME-28.2; 59.0; 1:28.1; 1:56.3 1 J A T O (G Brennan) 6.00 3.60 2.60 4 CovertOperatve(MKakaley) 6.70 3.50 2 Wing Flash (A Miller) 3.60

• Exacta (1-4) $25.60 • Triple (1-4-2) $104.00 • Daily double (2-1) $16.00

• Exacta (6-4) $244.50 • Triple (6-4-7) $1,746.00 • Superfecta (6-4-7-1) $6,309.00

• Exacta (3-4) $10.60 • Triple (3-4-5) $52.50 • Pick 3 (1-6-all) $571.00 • Pick 3 (all-6-3) $343.50 • Pick 3 (1-all-3) $5.40

FIFTH-1-mile pace; gm levy; purse $50,000 TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 8:37 TIME-26.3; 55.4; 1:23.4; 1:51.4 2 Soto (M Kakaley) 10.00 3.90 3.10 3 Somewhere InLA(JBartlett) 2.80 2.60 4 Wakizashi Hanover (J Stratton) 4.50

• Exacta (2-3) $29.20 • Triple (2-3-4) $121.50

SIXTH-1-mile pace; gm levy; purse $50,000 TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 8:58 TIME-27.2; 56.4; 1:24.0; 1:51.3 4 Missile J (T Tetrick) 2.70 2.10 1 Great Vintage (M MacDonald) 5.30 3 Clear Vision (B Miller) 5.30

• Exacta (4-1) $10.80 • Triple (4-1-3) $50.50 • Pick 3 (3-2-4) $35.00 • Pick 4 (6-3-2-4) $964.00

Impressive. So impressive that trainer Bill Mott gives ISABELLE a shot with graded company in the Top Flight. Broke alertly in the Heavenly Prize and never looked back; opening up a dozen under the wire. Pulled down a triple digit fig for her effort. Caught late in the Saratoga Dew lone try at this longer distance. VERVES TALE Only graded stake winner; only lady with a win over the oval, only lady with a W at the distance. Broke those barriers when she won the Comely here in November. Made seasonal at Gulfstream in the grade 2 Royal Delta and landed off the board for the 1st time in 10 starts. Rebound expected after smoking a ¹/₂ in :48 flat for Tagg. MO GREEN Runner-up in the Royal Delta. Nipped sharp optional field in previous. Races for N.Y. connections Servis/Irad off the rising figs. Sitting on another big one. In light at 116. WINTER brings a 3 race win streak from Laurel including a pair of 75K's.

SEVENTH: mile pace; $50,000; Levy TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 9:17 TIME-27.0; 55.1; 1:23.1; 1:51.3 1 KeystonVlocty(DDub) 3.10 2.80 2.10 3 Provoctveprncen(JStrtton) 4.80 3.50 4 P H Supercam (B Miller) 5.90

PN Horse Wt.

Jockey

Last 3 Trainer

1 Disco Rose(L),116

J Acosta

1-2-1

Reid

20-1

• Exacta (3-4) $12.20 • Triple (3-4-7) $62.00 • Superfecta (3-4-7-5) $269.50 • Pick 4 (2-4-1-3)

2 Oasis At Midnight(L),116

R Maragh

4-3-3

Orseno

20-1

3 Verve's Tale(L),123

P Lopez

4-1-1

Tagg

5-2

4 Isabelle(L),123

K Carmouche

1-2-1

Mott

8-5

5 Mo' Green(L),116

I Ortiz, Jr

2-1-2

Servis

3-1

• Exacta (6-3) $31.40 • Triple (6-3-4) $117.00

6 Winter(L),118

T McCarthy

1-1-1

Lynch

5-1

TENTH: mile pace; $40,000; cond TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 10:22 TIME-27.2; 56.1; 1:24.0; 1:52.2 1 NuclerDrgon(TTetrck) 5.90 3.30 2.50 2 Texican N (J Stratton) 3.10 2.10 3 Holdingallthecards (B Miller) 2.80

Odds

• Exacta (1-3) $13.20 • Triple (1-3-4) $48.80

EIGHTH: mile trot; $55,000;n Open TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 9:42 TIME-27.3; 57.1; 1:26.0; 1:55.0 3 Lady'sDude(GBrennn) 3.80 2.50 2.60 4 In Secret (M Kakaley) 3.50 5.70 7 Hemi Seelster (J Bartlett) 7.10

$83.00 Winner picked by Deb Little

NINTH: mile pace; $50,000; Levy TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 10:02 TIME-28.2; 57.3; 1:25.3; 1:52.4 6 BtOfALgndN(JStrtton) 4.90 3.20 2.60 3 Mcwicked (M Kakaley) 4.90 2.40 4 Always At My Place (Y Gingras) 4.00 Winner picked by Deb Little

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6 fur; $41,000; mdn clm($40,000); 3up(f)

Doubling down with Mott/Carmouche. THIRTYDAYSINJUNE led every step but the last falling to this level. REALLY Similar story. Dropped to this height and was beaten a neck after leading by more than 2 at Laurel. OURO VERDE closed for 3rd with this brand 2 back. Positive pace scenario. CHRISTMAS SKY debuts for Gullo. PN Horse Wt.

Jockey

Last 3 Trainer

1 Really(L),117

I Ortiz, Jr

2-5-7

Rodriguez

2 Princess Sariah ,117

K Mendez

x-x-x

Grant

20-1

3 Thirtydaysinjune(L),117

K Carmouche

2-6-2

Mott

4-1

4 Ouro Verde(L),117

E Cancel

3-3-x

Donk

3-1

5 Citizen by Day(L),124

D Davis

3-2-6

Handal

12-1

6 Christmas Sky(M),110

H Diaz, Jr

x-x-x

Gullo

12-1

7 Rising Polka Dot ,117

A Ayala

x-x-x

Forde

20-1

8 Miss Pearl(L),117

C Velasquez

5-3-10 Contessa

6-1

9 Axe Capital(L),117

A Arroyo

2-3-7

8-1

Serey

Odds 5-2

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Picco Uno (3rd) Lock Record: 0 for 2 (0%) Meet Record: 7/18 $47.40

New York Post, Sunday, April 2, 2017

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Analysis by Vic Cangialosi

Lock of the Day

• Exacta (1-2) $21.00 • Triple (1-2-3) $50.00 • Superfecta (1-2-3-7) $991.00 • Pick 3 (3-6-1) $62.00

ELEVENTH: mile trot; $35,000; cond TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 10:42 TIME-28.4; 58.2; 1:26.4; 1:56.0 4 RoseRunPrkr(YGngrs) 3.40 2.50 2.10 5 Dewycolornthelne(TTetrck) 3.70 2.60 6 Rock Of Cashel (S Zeron) 5.20

• Exacta (4-5) $8.30 • Triple (4-5-6) $31.60 • Pick 5 (1-3-6-1-4) $84.37

TWELFTH: mile pace; $35,000; cond TRACK: CONDITION-FT OFF: 11:01 TIME-28.2; 57.4; 1:25.2; 1:53.2 1 RolndNRock(JStrtton) 3.80 2.70 2.20 5 Lord Of Misrule (T Tetrick) 5.70 3.00 2 Sapphire City (G Brennan) 3.20

• Exacta (1-5) $19.60 • Triple (1-5-2) $59.00 • Superfecta (1-5-2-3) $232.50 • Late double (4-1) $7.00

Winner picked by Deb Little Total attendance unavailable Total Handle-$605,894.

New York Post, Sunday, April 2, 2017

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Nets 121, Magic 111

NBA

Bulls 106, Hawks 104

Orlando

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic x-Boston x-Toronto KNICKS Philadelphia NETS

W 49 46 29 28 17

L 27 30 47 48 59

Pct. .645 .605 .382 .368 .224

GB — 3 20 21 32

Southeast z-Washington Atlanta Miami Charlotte Orlando

W 46 39 37 35 27

L 30 37 39 41 50

Pct. .605 .513 .487 .461 .351

GB — 7 9 11 19½

Central z-Cleveland Milwaukee Chicago Indiana Detroit

W 48 40 37 37 35

L 27 36 39 39 42

Pct. .640 .526 .487 .487 .455

GB — 8½ 11½ 11½ 14

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest z-San Antonio x-Houston Memphis New Orleans Dallas

W 58 51 42 33 31

L 17 25 34 43 44

Pct. .773 .671 .553 .434 .413

GB — 7½ 16½ 25½ 27

Northwest x-Utah x-Oklahoma City Portland Denver Minnesota

W 47 43 38 35 30

L 29 32 38 40 45

Pct. .618 .573 .500 .467 .400

GB — 3½ 9 11½ 16½

Pacific z-Golden State x-L.A. Clippers Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Lakers

W 62 47 30 22 21

L 14 31 47 55 55

Pct. .816 .603 .390 .286 .276

GB — 16 32½ 40½ 41

x-clinched playoff spot z-clinched division

Saturday Nets 121, Orlando 111 Clippers 115, L.A. Lakers 104 Chicago 106, Atlanta 104 Sacramento 123, Minnesota 117 Portland 130, Phoenix 117

Sunday Boston at Knicks, 1pm Atlanta at Nets, 6pm Charlotte at Oklahoma City, 3pm Dallas at Milwaukee, 3:30pm Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 3:30pm Utah at San Antonio, 3:30pm Chicago at New Orleans, 6pm Denver at Miami, 6pm Indiana at Cleveland, 6pm Philadelphia at Toronto, 6pm Washington at Golden State, 8pm Houston at Phoenix, 9pm

Monday Portland at Minnesota, 7pm

Tuesday Nets at Philadelphia, 7pm Chicago at Knicks, 8pm Charlotte at Washington, 7pm Orlando at Cleveland, 7pm Toronto at Indiana, 7pm Denver at New Orleans, 8pm Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, 8pm Memphis at San Antonio, 8:30pm Portland at Utah, 9pm Dallas at Sacramento, 10:30pm Minnesota at Golden State, 10:30pm

Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Fournier 36:50 8-16 2-4 0-1 1 3 20 Gordon 35:26 9-18 0-0 4-15 5 3 22 Ross 33:09 3-10 0-1 0-2 2 2 6 Vucevic 32:24 13-20 0-0 4-11 1 4 27 Payton 35:18 6-12 7-8 2-11 11 0 20 Meeks 18:29 4-7 2-2 0-0 0 1 11 Hezonja 17:04 0-2 0-0 1-1 3 1 0 Augustin 15:44 2-5 0-0 0-1 2 0 5 Biyombo 15:36 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 Totals 240:00 45-91 11-15 11-42 26 15 111 Percentages: FG .495, FT .733. 3-point goals: 10-25, .400 (Gordon 4-7, Fournier 2-4, Augustin 1-2, Payton 1-2, Vucevic 12, Meeks 1-4, Hezonja 0-1, Ross 0-3). Blocked shots: 2 (Meeks, Vucevic). Turnovers: 14 (Augustin 4, Vucevic 3, Fournier 2, Payton 2, Gordon, Hezonja, Meeks). Steals: 9 (Fournier 2, Gordon 2, Augustin, Hezonja, Payton, Ross, Vucevic). Technicals: Defensive three second, 9:03 first; team, 9:03 first.

Nets Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Lopez 28:02 12-22 4-5 2-7 1 1 30 Foye 10:57 0-2 0-0 0-2 1 1 0 Hollis-Jeffersn 24:36 1-2 0-2 0-6 3 1 2 LeVert 20:21 4-8 0-0 0-3 0 1 9 Lin 28:11 3-14 0-0 0-4 8 4 8 Whitehead 26:20 3-4 0-0 1-1 5 1 6 Booker 23:55 11-12 0-0 2-8 1 1 23 Kilpatrick 22:23 6-12 2-2 2-5 4 1 15 Dinwiddie 19:49 3-5 1-1 1-3 1 2 7 Hamilton 19:27 5-9 2-2 1-5 0 1 13 Goodwin 15:59 2-4 4-4 0-0 2 1 8 Totals 240:00 50-94 13-16 9-44 26 15 121 Percentages: FG .532, FT .813. 3-point goals: 8-31, .258 (Lin 2-6, Lopez 2-6, Booker 1-2, Hamilton 1-3, Kilpatrick 1-4, LeVert 1-4, Goodwin 0-1, Whitehead 0-1, Dinwiddie 0-2, Foye 0-2). Blocked shots: 5 (Lopez 2, Dinwiddie, Goodwin, Lin). Turnovers: 11 (Kilpatrick 3, Hamilton 2, Hollis-Jefferson 2, Lin 2, Booker, Lopez). Steals: 8 (Dinwiddie 2, Lin 2, Booker, Foye, Goodwin, Whitehead). Technicals: Defensive three second, 9:25 first; team, 9:25 first; team, 00:28 second. Orlando 33 20 36 22—111 Nets 33 27 29 32—121 A: 15,976 (17,732). T: 1:59. Officials: James Williams, Eric Lewis, Ben Taylor

Clippers 115, Lakers 104 L.A. Lakers Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Ingram 23:46 7-14 3-6 2-5 3 5 18 Nance 22:53 4-10 0-0 3-4 3 5 8 Randle 22:40 5-10 2-3 1-6 2 3 14 Clarkson 30:48 3-12 0-0 0-0 3 3 7 Russell 28:59 1-9 0-0 0-0 6 1 2 Nwaba 34:33 6-9 7-10 3-6 1 4 19 Black 25:07 3-3 2-2 1-5 1 3 8 Robinson 22:07 7-15 2-5 5-9 3 1 16 Ennis 19:01 2-5 0-0 0-3 3 0 6 Brewer 10:06 1-3 4-4 0-3 1 2 6 Totals 240:00 39-90 20-30 15-41 26 27 104 Percentages: FG .433, FT .667. 3-point goals: 6-23, .261 (Randle 2-3, Ennis 2-5, Ingram 1-1, Clarkson 1-5, Robinson 0-1, Nwaba 0-2, Russell 0-6). Blocked shots: 2 (Black, Ingram). Turnovers: 11 (Russell 3, Randle 2, Black, Ennis, Ingram, Nance, Nwaba, Robinson). Steals: 12 (Nance 2, Nwaba 2, Russell 2, Black, Brewer, Ennis, Ingram, Randle, Robinson). Technicals: None.

L.A. Clippers Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Griffin 40:02 12-15 8-9 2-8 5 5 36 Mbh a Moute 22:11 3-5 0-0 0-1 0 3 7 Jordan 39:09 4-4 3-8 1-12 1 2 11 Paul 37:23 9-14 10-10 0-4 12 1 29 Redick 37:35 6-12 3-3 0-5 2 3 19 Crawford 21:42 2-7 2-2 0-1 3 0 7 Felton 19:02 1-8 0-0 0-2 1 0 2 Speights 8:51 0-1 0-0 0-2 0 1 0 Bass 7:58 1-1 2-2 1-4 0 1 4 Anderson 6:07 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 3 0 Totals 240:00 38-69 28-34 4-39 24 19 115 Percentages: FG .551, FT .824. 3-point goals: 11-25, .440 (Redick 4-6, Griffin 47, Mbah a Moute 1-1, Crawford 1-3, Paul 1-3, Anderson 0-1, Speights 0-1, Felton 0-3). Blocked shots: 5 (Jordan 2, Mbah a Moute 2, Felton). Turnovers: 17 (Paul 6, Jordan 3, Redick 3, Crawford 2, Griffin 2, Felton). Steals: 8 (Jordan 3, Crawford, Felton, Griffin, Paul, Redick). Technicals: None. L.A. Lakers 22 28 22 32—104 L.A. Clippers 28 27 38 22—115 A: 19,060 (19,060). T: 2:21.

Trail Blazers 130, Suns 117 Phoenix

Atlanta Min Ilyasova 33:30 Prince 25:44 Howard 37:16 Hardaway Jr. 36:43 Schroder 36:56 Bazemore 21:19 Muscala 18:29 Dunleavy 12:23 Calderon 10:55 Humphries 6:45 Totals 240:00

FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts 6-15 0-0 2-4 4 3 13 3-9 3-6 0-3 1 3 9 6-12 1-2 5-12 3 1 13 6-16 5-5 1-5 5 2 20 12-19 4-4 2-7 6 3 29 2-8 0-0 0-5 2 2 6 3-4 0-0 0-1 2 2 9 0-1 0-0 0-3 1 0 0 2-3 0-0 1-3 1 0 5 0-3 0-0 0-2 0 0 0 40-90 13-17 11-45 25 16 104

Percentages: FG .444, FT .765. 3-point goals: 11-28, .393 (Muscala 3-3, Hardaway Jr. 3-6, Bazemore 2-5, Calderon 1-2, Ilyasova 1-3, Schroder 13, Dunleavy 0-1, Humphries 0-1, Prince 0-4). Blocked shots: 2 (Howard, Schroder). Turnovers: 13 (Schroder 3, Calderon 2, Hardaway Jr. 2, Howard 2, Prince 2, Ilyasova, Muscala). Steals: 4 (Prince 3, Schroder). Technicals: None.

Chicago Min Mirotic 30:46 Zipser 26:31 Lopez 36:16 Butler 42:32 Rondo 35:33 Valentine 28:10 Portis 17:04 Lauvergne 11:44 Cartr-Williams 11:24 Totals 240:00

FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts 2-8 2-2 1-9 5 1 8 3-5 2-2 0-2 1 4 10 4-9 0-0 1-4 1 2 8 11-20 10-10 1-5 8 3 33 11-18 0-0 2-11 6 3 25 5-11 0-0 0-2 1 2 13 0-4 0-0 0-4 1 1 0 2-5 0-0 0-1 0 0 4 2-5 0-0 1-2 2 1 5 40-85 14-14 6-40 25 17 106

Percentages: FG .471, FT 1.000. 3-point goals: 12-30, .400 (Rondo 3-6, Valentine 3-8, Mirotic 2-3, Zipser 2-4, Butler 1-2, Carter-Williams 1-3, Portis 0-4). Blocked shots: 4 (Zipser 2, Butler, Valentine). Turnovers: 12 (Rondo 7, Lopez 2, Butler, Mirotic, Valentine). Steals: 6 (Rondo 3, Mirotic 2, Portis). Technicals: None. Atlanta 21 25 38 20 —104 Chicago 23 29 27 27 —106 Officials: Justin Van Duyne, Pat Fraher, Sean Wright

Kings 123, Timberwolves 117 Sacramento Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Labissiere 19:48 3-6 0-0 1-6 0 2 6 Caley-Stein 27:25 5-9 5-7 2-10 3 5 15 Collison 25:37 2-7 3-4 0-0 7 1 7 Hield 34:15 9-15 0-0 0-4 1 3 22 McLemore 17:33 3-4 1-2 2-3 0 5 7 Tolliver 28:24 4-10 0-1 0-4 3 3 8 Afflalo 26:20 5-9 2-3 0-2 2 2 16 Lawson 25:22 5-8 11-14 0-2 11 3 21 Papgiannis 20:21 2-3 0-0 1-6 0 3 4 Galloway 14:55 6-7 2-2 1-3 0 0 17 Totals 240:00 44-78 24-33 7-40 27 27 123 Percentages: FG .564, FT .727. 3-point goals: 11-19, .579 (Afflalo 4-5, Hield 4-6, Galloway 3-4, Lawson 0-1, Tolliver 0-3). Team rebounds: 8. Team turnovers: 17 (0 PTS). Blocked shots: 4 (Tolliver 3, Papagiannis). Turnovers: 17 (McLemore 5, Collison 3, Afflalo 2, Labissiere 2, Cauley-Stein, Hield, Lawson, Papagiannis, Tolliver). Steals: 5 (Cauley-Stein 2, Collison, Hield, Lawson). Technicals: None.

Minnesota Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Towns 39:43 8-17 9-10 3-11 2 4 26 Wiggins 39:08 13-20 2-6 1-3 3 1 32 Dieng 36:58 3-8 4-4 2-8 2 3 11 Rubio 37:14 1-10 9-10 1-6 13 3 11 Rush 22:04 4-8 0-0 0-2 1 1 11 Dunn 18:34 2-7 0-0 1-3 3 6 4 Muhmmad 16:01 2-6 2-2 1-2 0 2 6 Casspi 12:13 1-2 2-2 0-2 0 1 4 Jones 10:59 3-5 0-0 0-1 3 0 6 Payne 7:06 2-4 2-4 1-3 0 2 6 Totals 240:00 39-87 30-38 10-41 27 23 117 Percentages: FG .448, FT .789. 3-point goals: 9-25, .360 (Wiggins 4-7, Rush 3-4, Dieng 1-1, Towns 1-5, Casspi 0-1, Jones 0-1, Payne 0-1, Dunn 0-2, Rubio 0-3). Team rebounds: 10. Team turnovers: 10 (0 PTS). Blocked shots: 3 (Dieng, Payne, Wiggins). Turnovers: 10 (Towns 5, Rubio 2, Jones, Muhammad, Wiggins). Steals: 8 (Dieng 3, Rubio 2, Dunn, Jones, Towns). Technicals: None. Sacramento 18 37 36 32 —123 Minnesota 31 28 26 32 —117 Officials: Curtis Blair, Dan Crawford, Gary Zielinski

Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Chriss 34:28 7-10 4-4 2-13 1 1 19 Warren 42:53 10-17 3-4 1-5 1 3 25 Len 15:46 5-6 2-2 4-7 0 6 12 Booker 42:05 10-25 11-14 1-3 7 2 31 Ulis 37:56 4-11 3-4 0-3 5 4 11 Jones 25:30 2-4 0-0 2-6 0 5 4 Williams 16:24 4-7 1-2 3-5 0 2 9 Dudley 15:49 2-4 2-2 0-0 2 1 6 Price 9:09 0-0 0-0 0-1 1 2 0 Totals 240:00 44-84 26-32 13-43 17 26 117 Percentages: FG .524, FT .813. 3-point goals: 3-10, .300 (Warren 2-2, Chriss 1-2, Dudley 0-1, Ulis 0-1, Booker 0-4). Blocked shots: 6 (Chriss 2, Len 2, Warren, Williams). Turnovers: 17 (Booker 7, Chriss 4, Dudley 2, Ulis 2, Len, Williams). Steals: 8 (Booker 3, Dudley 2, Jones 2, Chriss). Technicals: Warren, 2:45 third; coach Earl Watson, 8:01 fourth.

Portland

Stars 3, Hurricanes 0 0 1 2— 3 0 0 0— 0

First Period: None. Penalties: Ritchie, DAL, (cross checking), 12:34. Second Period: 1, Dallas, Spezza 13 (Pateryn, Elie), 4:46. Penalties: None. Third Period: 2, Dallas, Klingberg 13, 18:03. 3, Dallas, Shore 12, 18:35. Penalties: None. Shots on Goal: Dallas 6-10-8—24. Carolina 7-5-13—25. Power-play opportunities: Dallas 0 of 0; Carolina 0 of 1. Goalies: Dallas, Lehtonen 21-23-7 (25 shots-25 saves). Carolina, Ward 26-2111 (22-21). A: 14,201 (18,680). T: 2:17. Referees: Chris Lee, Dean Morton. Linesmen: Michel Cormier, Pierre Racicot.

Oilers 3, Ducks 2, OT Anaheim Edmonton

Devils Philadelphia

0 0 0— 0 2 1 0— 3

First Period: 1, Philadelphia, Schenn 24 (Gostisbehere, Giroux), 7:28 (pp). 2, Philadelphia, Mcdonald 1 (Gudas, Vandevelde), 11:28. Second Period: 3, Philadelphia, Weal 8 (Voracek, Del zotto), 10:06 (pp). Third Period: None. Shots on Goal: Devils 10-10-12—32. Philadelphia 16-9-16—41. Power-play opportunities: Devils 0 of 4; Philadelphia 2 of 5. Goalies: Devils, Schneider 20-25-11 (41 shots-38 saves). Philadelphia, Stolarz 20-0 (26-26), Neuvirth 11-11-1 (6-6). A: 19,911 (19,537). T: 2:44. Referees: Eric Furlatt, Justin St Pierre. Linesmen: Steve Miller, Kiel Murchison.

Maple Leafs 5, Red Wings 4

Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Harkless 26:09 5-8 3-3 2-4 2 4 13 Leonard 21:50 1-5 4-4 0-4 0 4 7 Vonleh 35:16 6-8 0-0 5-13 2 5 12 Lillard 34:38 7-16 13-13 1-5 7 3 31 McCollum 35:05 10-19 4-4 1-5 7 1 29 Turner 25:52 6-11 4-5 0-1 2 0 18 Aminu 25:52 5-11 1-2 2-6 0 4 12 Crabbe 23:44 2-8 0-0 0-2 1 2 6 Napier 5:57 0-4 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Layman 2:49 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Connaughton 2:49 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 Totals 240:00 43-92 29-31 11-41 21 23 130 Percentages: FG .467, FT .935. 3-point goals: 15-37, .405 (McCollum 5-6, Lillard 4-11, Turner 2-3, Crabbe 2-6, Aminu 1-4, Leonard 1-4, Connaughton 0-1, Harkless 0-1, Napier 0-1). Blocked shots: 3 (Crabbe, Harkless, Turner). Turnovers: 12 (Lillard 4, Harkless 2, McCollum 2, Vonleh 2, Aminu, Turner). Steals: 12 (Aminu 3, Turner 2, Vonleh 2, Connaughton, Leonard, Lillard, McCollum, Napier). Technicals: None. Phoenix 21 32 34 30 —117 Portland 37 26 34 33 —130 A: 18,915 (19,980). T: 2:11.

Dallas Carolina

Flyers 3, Devils 0

0 1 1 0— 2 1 0 1 1— 3

First Period: 1, Edmonton, Mcdavid 29 (Larsson, Maroon), 19:11. Penalties: None. Second Period: 2, Anaheim, Getzlaf 15 (Fowler, Silfverberg), 3:27 (pp). Penalties: Hendricks, EDM, (high sticking), 3:21; Perry, ANA, (hooking), 6:21; Kesler, ANA, (holding stick), 9:03; Eaves, ANA, (delay of game), 18:34. Third Period: 3, Anaheim, Eaves 29 (Vermette, Silfverberg), 8:53 (pp). 4, Edmonton, Lucic 19 (Mcdavid, Draisaitl), 18:02 (pp). Penalties: Nugent-hopkins, EDM, (slashing), 7:47; Vermette, ANA, (hooking), 17:15. Overtime: 5, Edmonton, Draisaitl 28 (Mcdavid), 1:26. Penalties: None. Shots on Goal: Anaheim 4-10-4—18. Edmonton 14-10-12-1—37. Power-play opportunities: Anaheim 2 of 2; Edmonton 1 of 4. Goalies: Anaheim, Gibson 23-16-9 (37 shots-34 saves). Edmonton, Talbot 4021-8 (18-16). A: 18,347 (18,641). T: 2:37. Referees: Dan O'Rourke, Francois St Laurent. Linesmen: Steve Barton, Shane Heyer.

Toronto Detroit

0 3 2— 5 1 1 2— 4

First Period: 1, Detroit, Nyquist 11 (Jensen, Nielsen), 14:50. Second Period: 2, Toronto, Matthews 37 (Komarov, Zaitsev), 2:56 (pp). 3, Toronto, Marner 18 (Carrick), 13:53. 4, Toronto, Nylander 22 (Polak, Matthews), 15:08. 5, Detroit, Jensen 4 (Zetterberg), 16:42. Third Period: 6, Detroit, Kronwall 2 (Zetterberg, Nyquist), 14:41. 7, Toronto, Van riemsdyk 25 (Kadri, Gardiner), 17:34. 8, Toronto, Matthews 38 (Boyle), 18:51. 9, Detroit, Green 14 (Helm, Larkin), 19:15. Shots on Goal: Toronto 9-11-7—27. Detroit 16-12-14—42. Power-play opportunities: Toronto 1 of 1; Detroit 0 of 3. Goalies: Toronto, Andersen 32-15-14 (42 shots-38 saves). Detroit, Howard 910-1 (27-22). A: 20,027 (20,066). T: 2:37. Referees: Trevor Hanson, Marc Joannette. Linesmen: David Brisebois, Ryan Galloway.

Jets 4, Senators 2 Ottawa Winnipeg

1 1 0— 2 0 2 2— 4

First Period: 1, Ottawa, Hoffman 24 (Brassard), 16:15. Second Period: 2, Winnipeg, Wheeler 25, 3:29. 3, Ottawa, Hoffman 25 (Pyatt, Ceci), 3:40. 4, Winnipeg, Lowry 15 (Trouba), 10:43. Third Period: 5, Winnipeg, Perreault 12 (Little, Trouba), 7:46. 6, Winnipeg, Ehlers 24 (Little, Laine), 19:35. Shots on Goal: Ottawa 8-11-12—31. Winnipeg 8-9-11—28. Power-play opportunities: Ottawa 0 of 2; Winnipeg 0 of 2. Goalies: Ottawa, Condon 19-13-6 (27 shots-24 saves). Winnipeg, Hellebuyck 25-19-4 (31-29). A: 15,294 (15,015). T: 2:27. Referees: Jean Hebert, Kyle Rehman. Linesmen: Mark Shewchyk, Mark Wheler.

Canadiens 2, Lightning 1, OT Montreal Tampa Bay

0 1 0 1— 2 0 0 1 0— 1

First Period: None. Second Period: 1, Montreal, Danault 13 (Pacioretty), 14:24. Third Period: 2, Tampa Bay, Gourde 4 (Drouin, Hedman), 11:38. Overtime: 3, Montreal, Radulov 17 (Danault, Pacioretty), 0:51. Penalties: None. Shots on Goal: Montreal 7-17-9-3—36. Tampa Bay 7-6-9—22. Power-play opportunities: Montreal 0 of 2; Tampa Bay 0 of 2. Goalies: Montreal, Price 37-18-5 (22 shots-21 saves). Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy 20-16-7 (36-34). A: 19,092 (19,092). T: 2:32. Referees: Steve Kozari, Kevin Pollock. Linesmen: Scott Driscoll, Darren Gibbs.

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic W L OL* Pt GF GA x-Montreal 45 24 9 99 216 191 Ottawa 41 27 9 91 199 203 Toronto 38 24 15 91 238 226 Boston 42 30 6 90 225 205 Tampa Bay 38 29 10 86 216 215 Florida 33 34 11 77 201 227 Buffalo 32 33 12 76 193 221 Detroit 31 35 12 74 196 234 Metropolitan W L OL* Pt GF GA x-Washington 51 18 8 110 251 176 x-Columbus 49 20 8 106 237 177 x-Pittsburgh 47 19 11 105 263 219 x-Rangers 46 26 6 98 248 210 Islanders 36 29 12 84 224 235 Carolina 35 28 14 84 202 217 Philadelphia 38 32 8 84 209 225 Devils 27 37 14 68 175 229 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central W L OL* Pt GF GA z-Chicago 50 21 7 107 237 199 x-Minnesota 45 25 8 98 249 199 x-St. Louis 42 28 7 91 215 203 Nashville 40 27 11 91 230 213 Winnipeg 37 35 7 81 237 249 Dallas 32 35 11 75 210 244 Colorado 21 53 3 45 152 259 Pacific W L OL* Pt GF GA x-Edmonton 44 25 9 97 231 200 x-Anaheim 42 23 13 97 208 193 x-San Jose 43 28 7 93 210 194 x-Calgary 44 30 4 92 217 210 Los Angeles 37 33 7 81 187 189 Vancouver 30 38 9 69 173 225 Arizona 28 41 9 65 188 250 OL*: Lost in OT (for 1 point) x-clinched playoff spot z-clinched conference Saturday Philadelphia 3, Devils 0 Boston 5, Florida 2 Nashville 3, Minnesota 0 Toronto 5, Detroit 4 Dallas 3, Carolina 0 Montreal 2, Tampa Bay 1, OT Winnipeg 4, Ottawa 2 Edmonton 3, Anaheim 2, OT Sunday Islanders at Buffalo, 3pm Philadelphia at Rangers, 7:30pm Boston at Chicago, 12:30pm Nashville at St. Louis, 4pm Carolina at Pittsburgh, 5pm Washington at Columbus, 6pm Colorado at Minnesota, 6pm Dallas at Tampa Bay, 6pm San Jose at Vancouver, 7pm Anaheim at Calgary, 9:30pm Arizona at Los Angeles, 10:30pm

Bruins 5, Panthers 2 Florida Boston

0 2 0— 2 1 2 2— 5

First Period: 1, Boston, Acciari 2, 17:03. Second Period: 2, Florida, Vanek 17 (Sceviour, Bjugstad), 1:38. 3, Boston, Bergeron 19 (Pastrnak, Chara), 7:56. 4, Florida, Jagr 16 (Marchessault, Yandle), 9:53 (pp). 5, Boston, Krejci 23, 14:30. Third Period: 6, Boston, Marchand 39 (Pastrnak, Spooner), 18:16 (pp). 7, Boston, Bergeron 20, 19:48. Shots on Goal: Florida 3-10-13—26. Boston 13-10-6—29. Power-play opportunities: Florida 1 of 4; Boston 1 of 4. Goalies: Florida, Berra 0-4-0 (28 shots24 saves). Boston, Rask 36-20-4 (26-24). A: 17,565 (17,565). T: 2:32.

Predators 3, Wild 0 Minnesota Nashville

0 0 0— 0 0 2 1— 3

First Period: None. Penalties: None. Second Period: 1, Nashville, Forsberg 31 (Josi, Johansen), 17:21. 2, Nashville, Fiala 10, 17:31. Penalties: Koivu, MIN, (tripping), 4:33. Third Period: 3, Nashville, Subban 10, 17:37. Penalties: Ekholm, NSH, (high sticking), 0:45; Hanzal, MIN, (high sticking), 6:57. Shots on Goal: Minnesota 10-12-9—31. Nashville 12-14-10—36. Power-play opportunities: Minnesota 0 of 1; Nashville 0 of 2. Goalies: Minnesota, Stalock 1-1-0 (35 shots-33 saves). Nashville, Rinne 31-188 (31-31). A: 17,113 (17,113). T: 2:40. Referees: Wes McCauley, Jon Mclsaac. Linesmen: Jonny Murray, Bryan Pancich.

2016 AL Standings

Pitching Form

L 69 73 73 78 94

Pct. GB *WGB .574 — — .549 4 — .549 4 — .519 9 5 .420 25 21

L10 Streak Home Away 5-5 L2 47-34 46-35 7-3 W1 50-31 39-42 6-4 W2 46-35 43-38 5-5 L1 48-33 36-45 3-7 W2 36-45 32-49

Central y-Cleveland Detroit Kansas City Chicago Minnesota

W 94 86 81 78 59

L 67 75 81 84 103

Pct. GB *WGB .584 — — .534 8 2.5 .500 13.5 8 .481 16.5 11 .364 35.5 30

L10 Streak Home Away 6-4 W3 53-28 41-39 5-5 L2 45-35 41-40 4-6 L4 47-34 34-47 6-4 L2 45-36 33-48 4-6 W2 30-51 29-52

West z-Texas Seattle Houston Los Angeles Oakland

W 95 86 84 74 69

L 67 76 78 88 93

Pct. .586 .531 .519 .457 .426

L10 Streak Home Away 5-5 L2 53-28 42-39 6-4 L2 44-37 42-39 3-7 L1 43-38 41-40 8-2 W1 40-41 34-47 3-7 W2 34-47 35-46

GB *WGB — — 9 3 11 5 21 15 26 20

*WGB: Games behind leader in wild-card race w-clinched wild card, x-clinched playoff berth, y-clinched division, z-clinched division and best record in league. Saturday

Spring Training

Sunday (Opening Day)

Yankees at Tampa Bay, 1:10pm

Monday Pittsburgh at Boston, 2:05pm Toronto at Baltimore, 3:05pm Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 4:10pm Kansas City at Minnesota, 4:10pm Cleveland at Texas, 7:05pm Seattle at Houston, 8:10pm L.A. Angels at Oakland, 10:05pm

Miami 3, Detroit 2 Toronto 6, Pittsburgh 4 Cincinnati 5, CIF 1 Boston 4, Washington 4 Texas 5, Kansas City 3 Milwaukee 5, Chicago 4 San Francisco 6, Oakland 3 Seattle 1, Colorado 1 L.A. Angels 4, L.A. Dodgers 4, 10 inn.

2016 NL Standings East y-Washington w-Mets Miami Philadelphia Atlanta Central z-Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Milwaukee Cincinnati West y-Los Angeles w-San Francisco Colorado Arizona San Diego

L 67 75 82 91 93

Pct. GB *WGB .586 — — .537 8 — .491 15.5 7.5 .438 24 16 .422 26.5 18.5

L10 Streak Home Away 6-4 W2 50-31 45-36 7-3 L1 44-37 43-38 3-7 L2 40-40 39-42 2-8 W1 37-44 34-47 8-2 W2 31-50 37-43

W 103 86 78 73 68

L 58 76 83 89 94

Pct. GB *WGB .640 — — .531 17.5 1 .484 25 8.5 .451 30.5 14 .420 35.5 19

L10 Streak Home Away 7-3 W1 57-24 45-34 6-4 W4 38-43 48-33 2-8 L3 38-42 40-41 5-5 W2 41-40 32-49 5-5 L1 38-43 30-51

W 91 87 75 69 68

L 71 75 87 93 94

Pct. .562 .537 .463 .426 .420

L10 Streak Home Away 5-5 L3 53-28 38-43 7-3 W4 45-36 42-39 2-8 L2 42-39 33-48 5-5 W3 33-48 36-45 4-6 L4 39-42 29-52

GB *WGB — 4.0 — 16 12 22 18 23 19

*WGB: Games behind leader in wild-card race w-clinched wild card, x-clinched playoff berth, y-clinched division, z-clinched division and best record in league. San Francisco at Arizona, 4:10pm Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 8:35pm

Monday Atlanta at Mets, 1:10pm Florida at Washington, 1:05pm Colorado at Milwaukee, 2:10pm Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 4:10pm San Diego at L.A. Angeles Dodgers, 4:10pm

Tennis Results

Miami Open At The Tennis Center at Crandon Park; Key Biscayne, Fla.; Purse: Men, $6.99 million (Masters 1000); Women, $6.99 million (Premier); Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles - Women; Championship Johanna Konta (10), Britain, def. Caroline Wozniacki (12), Denmark, 6-4, 6-3.

MLB Calendar Apr. 2: Opening day. Active rosters reduced to 25 players. May 16-18: Owners' meetings, New York. Jun. 12: Amateur draft starts. Jul. 11: All-Star Game, Miami. Jul. 7: Last day to sign for amateur draft picks subject to deadline. Jul. 30: Hall of Fame inductions, Cooperstown, N.Y.

Yankees Rays

Tanaka (R) Archer (R)

Giants D'Backs

Bumgarner (L) Greinke (R)

Cubs Cardinals

Lester (L) Martinez (R)

W-L

2017 ERA

*REC

'16 vs OPP CAREER W-L ERA vs OPP

1:10pm

0-0 0-0

0.00 0.00

0-0 0-0

4-0 0-3

2.88 3.86

6-0 5-5

0-0 0-0

0.0 0.0

0.00 0.00

4:10pm

0-0 0-0

0.00 0.00

0-0 0-0

1-1 2-2

2.45 3.28

9-7 9-2

0-0 0-0

0.0 0.0

0.00 0.00

8:35pm

0-0 0-0

0.00 0.00

0-0 0-0

2-0 1-3

0.87 4.80

3-3 3-3

0-0 0-0

0.0 0.0

0.00 0.00

Jul. 31: Last day to trade a player without securing waivers. Sep. 1: Active rosters expand to 40 players. November TBA: Deadline for teams to make qualifying offers to their eligible former players who became free agents, fifth day after World Series.

LAST 3 STARTS W-L IP ERA

* REC: Won-lost record of pitcher's team in games he has started.

Stitches ... Hondo’s Wally Pipp Editor’s note: Now that the legendary Hondo has retired, today we introduce our new baseball handicapping column called Stitches. Enjoy. And good luck. Put me in coach, I’m ready to play, today. Is there life after Hondo? Well, maybe. Time will tell. Tough task replacing the irreplaceable. His award-winning column kept you in stitches. This fortune teller might need a couple just to keep it together. Looking out the window here at Post headquarters I can see Mr. Aitch’s Nation up in arms as some of the best arms in baseball set foot-to-rubber to begin the 2017 MLB season. ... Stitches to the rescue. Send thoughts, prayers and unpleasantries to sports@nypost.com until further notice so that we can move forward as quickly as possible. Aces up on opening day. Let’s play two. If Masahiro Tanaka’s spring is any indication (0.38 ERA), he finally could live up to his lofty potential. Baby bombers have the professors back. Backing the pinstripes for 20 units as well as Bumgarner’s Giants as they lean into yet another successful season that commences in Arizona against Greinke and the D’backs. sports@nypost.com

Golf Scores

W 95 87 79 71 68

Sunday (Opening Day)

Game time

PGA Tour - Shell Houston Open At Golf Club of Houston; Humble, Texas; Purse: $7 million; Yardage: 7,441; Par 72 Third Round Sung Kang.................. 65-63-71 199 -17 Rickie Fowler ............. 64-71-67 202 -14 Russell Henley ........... 67-67-69 203 -13 Luke List..................... 68-71-65 204 -12 Rafael Campos .......... 69-71-68 208 -8 Daniel Berger............. 70-67-71 208 -8 Kyle Stanley............... 66-71-71 208 -8 Aaron Baddeley......... 68-68-73 209 -7 Hudson Swafford ...... 67-67-75 209 -7 Jhonattan Vegas ....... 66-74-70 210 -6 Michael Kim............... 70-70-70 210 -6 Andrew Loupe ........... 68-70-72 210 -6 Danny Lee .................. 69-69-72 210 -6 Stewart Cink .............. 66-71-73 210 -6 Jason Dufner.............. 68-69-73 210 -6 J.T. Poston.................. 70-71-70 211 -5 Kevin Chappell .......... 72-71-68 211 -5 Andy Sullivan............. 68-76-67 211 -5 Justin Rose................. 67-71-73 211 -5 Zac Blair ..................... 69-67-75 211 -5 Harold Varner III........ 68-73-71 212 -4 Robert Garrigus......... 68-73-71 212 -4 Michael Thompson ... 70-73-69 212 -4 Jon Rahm.................... 71-72-69 212 -4 Charley Hoffman....... 71-72-69 212 -4 Charles Howell III ...... 70-71-72 213 -3 Bernd Wiesberger..... 70-71-72 213 -3 Billy Horschel ............ 68-73-72 213 -3 Tom Hoge................... 67-72-74 213 -3 D.A. Points ................. 68-71-74 213 -3 Sam Saunders ........... 71-73-69 213 -3 Geoff Ogilvy ............... 68-74-72 214 -2 Peter Uihlein .............. 71-71-72 214 -2 Nick Taylor................. 69-71-74 214 -2 Patrick Cantlay.......... 70-73-71 214 -2 Chris Wood ................ 73-70-71 214 -2 Keegan Bradley ......... 67-71-76 214 -2 Angel Cabrera ........... 69-69-76 214 -2 Spencer Levin............ 70-71-74 215 -1 Mackenzie Hughes.... 72-70-73 215 -1 Robert Streb .............. 77-65-73 215 -1 Troy Merritt ............... 67-75-73 215 -1 Matt Jones ................. 70-72-73 215 -1 Beau Hossler.............. 70-71-74 215 -1 Morgan Hoffmann..... 71-73-71 215 -1 Kevin Streelman........ 68-76-71 215 -1 Chad Campbell .......... 71-71-74 216 E J.J. Spaun.................... 69-72-75 216 E Vaughn Taylor ........... 67-74-75 216 E Ryan Blaum................ 68-74-74 216 E John Huh .................... 70-71-75 216 E Tony Finau ................. 71-73-72 216 E Blayne Barber............ 72-72-72 216 E Andres Gonzales ....... 75-67-75 217 +1 J.J. Henry .................... 71-71-75 217 +1 Tyrone Van Aswegn.. 69-73-75 217 +1 James Hahn ............... 70-73-74 217 +1 Brysn DeChambeau .. 71-68-78 217 +1 Johnson Wagner........ 69-70-78 217 +1 Sean O'Hair................ 70-74-73 217 +1 Luke Donald ............... 71-71-76 218 +2 Matt Every ................. 69-72-77 218 +2 Grayson Murray ........ 68-75-75 218 +2 Bryce Molder ............. 68-75-75 218 +2

Cody Gribble.............. 75-69-74 218 +2 Phil Mickelson ........... 72-72-74 218 +2 Kyle Reifers................ 71-71-77 219 +3 Harris English ............ 69-72-78 219 +3 Davis Love III ............. 71-72-76 219 +3 Ben Crane 72-72-75 219 +3 Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic At Fall Oak; Biloxi, Miss.; Purse: $1.6 million; Yardage: 7,088; Par: 72 Second Round Gene Sauers ..................... 69-63 132 -12 Miguel Angel Jimenez ..... 67-66 133 -11 Glen Day ........................... 68-67 135 -9 Joe Durant ........................ 66-69 135 -9 Rod Spittle........................ 68-68 136 -8 Bernhard Langer.............. 71-66 137 -7 Scott Dunlap..................... 70-67 137 -7 Kenny Perry...................... 69-68 137 -7 Jay Haas............................ 67-70 137 -7 Kirk Triplett ...................... 72-66 138 -6 Kevin Sutherland ............. 71-67 138 -6 Scott McCarron................ 73-65 138 -6 Paul Broadhurst............... 70-68 138 -6 Billy Mayfair ..................... 70-68 138 -6 Jeff Maggert..................... 69-69 138 -6 Scott Hoch........................ 67-71 138 -6 Lee Janzen........................ 67-71 138 -6 Tom Pernice Jr ................. 70-69 139 -5 Carlos Franco................... 70-69 139 -5 Steve Stricker .................. 69-70 139 -5 Mark Brooks..................... 70-69 139 -5 Tom Lehman .................... 69-70 139 -5 Scott Parel........................ 68-71 139 -5 Lance Ten Broeck ............ 71-69 140 -4 Jerry Kelly......................... 72-68 140 -4 Esteban Toledo ................ 70-70 140 -4 Paul Goydos ..................... 69-71 140 -4 Tom Byrum....................... 68-72 140 -4 ANA Inspiration Par At Mission Hills Country Club; Rancho Mirage, Calif.; Purse: $2.7 million; Yardage: 6,763; Par:72 Third Round a-amateur Lexi Thompson ......... 69-67-67 203 -13 Suzann Pettersen ..... 68-69-68 205 -11 Mi Jung Hur ............... 70-71-65 206 -10 Minjee Lee................. 70-68-68 206 -10 Inbee Park ................. 69-69-68 206 -10 So Yeon Ryu .............. 68-69-69 206 -10 Ariya Jutanugarn ...... 70-70-68 208 -8 Karine Icher .............. 67-73-68 208 -8 Cristie Kerr................ 67-71-70 208 -8 Michelle Wie ............. 68-69-71 208 -8 Amy Yang .................. 73-71-67 211 -5 Marina Alex............... 72-71-68 211 -5 Sarah Jane Smith...... 70-72-69 211 -5 Jessica Korda............ 74-67-70 211 -5 Pernilla Lindberg ...... 70-71-70 211 -5 Lydia Ko..................... 70-70-71 211 -5 Charley Hull .............. 68-72-71 211 -5 Sung Hyun Park ........ 68-69-74 211 -5

The

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Underdog ARIZONA ST. LOUIS

American League Yankees

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Devs lose as Flyers goalie collapses By CHUCK GORMLEY

PHILADELPHIA — Anthony Stolarz stopped 26 shots to earn his second shutout after replacing Michael Neuvirth early in the first period and the Flyers beat the Devils 3-0 Saturday night. Neuvirth left the game after collapsing in his crease 7 ¹/₂ minutes into the game. He was carted off the ice on a stretcher and later taken to Pennsylvania Hospital, where he was “awake and alert,” according to Flyers general manager Ron Hextall. Neuvirth stopped all six shots he faced. “It’s obviously pretty scary when you see your goaltender just collapse like that,” Flyers left wing Chris VandeVelde said. “I’m not sure really what

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happened, if he fainted or got lightheaded or what, but it was pretty scary and I’m glad to see he was moving and functioning when he was rolled off the ice.” Cory Schneider stopped 38 shots for the Devils, who lost their sixth straight (0-4-2) and are now 2-14-4 in their last 20 games. Brayden Schenn, Colin McDonald and Jordan Weal scored for the Flyers, who won their fourth straight game to remain in the Eastern Conference playoff hunt. Philadelphia remained six points behind Boston for the second wild card playoff spot in the East with four games remaining for each team. — AP

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VEN as it was happening, it was hard to believe it was happening, and that’s when you know you’re watching something special. It’s funny, no matter where you were Friday night — alone in your den as midnight approached, in a crowded sports bar — there was an obvious community about the Mississippi State-Connecticut game. You could sense — no, you knew — that when the refs concocted that absurd flagrant foul that seemed to hand the game right into UConn’s hands, late, you weren’t alone in wanting to see those officials immediately removed. You could sense — no, you knew — there really was an impending sense of swift justice afoot when the Huskies rushed into a bad shot, same as everyone else did. And you could sense — no, you knew — the moment Morgan William’s 15-footer splashed clean through the net, you weren’t the only one reaching for Rasheed Wallace’s classic, and perfect, summary when these things work out as they’re supposed to: Ball don’t lie. Was this the greatest upset of all time? Few things are more subjective, but there’s little doubt you can toss it on the list right away, and it belongs. For the purposes of trying to rank this, because that’s what we do here, let’s build a simple scorebook to figure these things out. Winning the game alone gets you 10 automatic points. If that win happens in the playoffs, add five, and if it determines a championship, add 10 more; if it’s a league/tournament final, add five. If it ends an historic winning streak? Add 10. And add your own wow! factor, on a scale from 1-to-10. Thus do we present this list …

1. Giants 17, Patriots 14, Super Bowl XLII

Playoffs? Yes. Championship game? Yes. Winning Streak? Yes. WOW! Factor: 10. Total: A perfect 45. The perfect-storm upset, because the Pats were 18-0, they were the heavy betting favorite, seemingly invincible … and the Giants won anyway, and on the sport’s biggest stage, and they added a couple of wrinkles — David Tyree’s catch chief among Timothy Foster: Something I haven’t seen mentioned much is that the Mets play 13 of their 19 games against the Nats by July 5, before the All-Star break. They can’t afford to falter against them early, or it could be a slog catching them, even with their staff. Vac: Seasons always come at you in a hurry, but we’re going

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A new contender for greatest upset ever them — that ensured this always will be the gold standard for upsets. To do all of this with a title on the line? It’ll only grow in stature as the years pass.

2. USA 4, USSR 3, Medal Round, 1980 Olympics

Playoffs? Yes. Championship game? No. Winning Streak? Yes. WOW! Factor: 10. Total: 40. If we decided to give a limitless potential number to the wow! factor, of course, this might win every time. The Soviets hadn’t lost in the Olympics in 20 years. They probably wouldn’t have lost to the U.S. if they’d played another 99 times. The only missing element was this: it was a semifinal, a point Herb Brooks himself made in the greatest pregame speech of all time, two days later when his team faced Finland. “Lose this game,” he warned his team, “you’ll take it to your [expletive] grave.”

3. Mississippi St. 66, UConn 64, 2017 NCAA Tournament

Playoffs? Yes. Championship game? No, Finals (+3). Winning Streak? Yes. WOW! Factor: 10. Total: 38. Logically, you understood UConn’s 111-game winning streak would end sometime, and Geno Auriemma kept praising how much this team had overachieved. Still, they had erased a 16-point

to know an awful lot about the Mets a lot sooner than is normal. Alan Zoldan: In regards to Joakim Noah’s suspension: I always thought that performanceenhancing drugs were supposed

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deficit early and a four-point lead late, and that flagrant just seemed like a message from the gods this couldn’t happen. And then it did.

4. Villanova 66, Georgetown 64, 1985 NCAA Tournament

Playoffs? Yes. Championship game? Yes. Winning streak? No. WOW! Factor: 10. Total: 35 To put what Mississippi State did in perspective, consider how often we’d just assumed this would be the greatest upset of all time, in any sport … and then add in if the Wildcats had ended an 88-game winning streak by the Hoyas, the way Notre Dame did in a regular-season game with UCLA in 1974. The only thing missing was being able to cut the nets down afterward. Also: look at the final score. Spooky.

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➤ The Knicks winning and the Connecticut women losing on the same night, that’s a pay-off-your-mortgage parlay right there.

5. Jets 16, Colts 7, Super Bowl III Playoffs? Yes. Championship game? Yes. Winning Streak? No. WOW! Factor: 9. Total: 34. The Jets have long insisted that while Jimmy the Greek and others considered them 18-point underdogs, they themselves never did; it’s what emboldened Joe Namath to make his guarantee. So let’s reward that pluckiness by reducing the wow! factor by a point. Still a result (almost) nobody saw coming. AP

to enhance performance. Vac: Ladies and gentlemen: The perfect one-sentence epitaph to your 2016-17 New York Knicks! @seansheppard: I have never heard a good explanation for

➤ There might not have been five better jobs done by a basketball coach than the one John Dunne did in Jersey City this year at Saint Peter’s, which won the CIT on Friday night in Corpus Christie, Texas. Good for the Peacocks.

➤ I told you about this one way back on New Year’s Eve, so I do hope you bought Marty Appel’s terrific biography of Casey Stengel — “Baseball’s Greatest Character” — as soon as it became available this week.

why Sasha Vujacic has been on this roster for the past two years. It’s laughable. @MikeVacc: Maybe Phil is hoping historians will label this segment of Knicks history as the

“Sasha Vujacic Era?” Hey, if I were him, I’d try everything too. Steve Giegerich: Totally agree on “Homeland.” Nuanced, subtle, dangerous. Excellent season. Watchable. Vac: It’s on about its seventh life with me. But I cannot wait for the next episode again. Love that feeling.

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Frozen Four At The United Center Chicago National Semifinals Thursday, April 6 Harvard (28-5-2) vs. Minnesota-Duluth (27-6-7), 6pm Denver (31-7-4) vs. Notre Dame (23-115), 9:30pm National Championship Saturday, April 8 Semifinal winners, 8pm

Soccer Scores English Premier League Liverpool 3, Everton 1 Manchester United 0, West Brom 0 Leicester 2, Stoke 0 Chelsea 1, Crystal Palace 2 Hull 2, West Ham 1 Watford 1, Sunderland 0 Burnley 0, Tottenham 2 Southampton 0, Bournemouth 0 Other Matches Barnsley 1, Sheffield Wednesday 1 Ipswich 1, Birmingham 1 Huddersfield 0, Burton Albion 1 Brighton 1, Blackburn 0 Aston Villa 2, Norwich 0 Preston 1, Nottingham Forest 1 Newcastle 2, Wigan 1 Brentford 2, Bristol City 0 Wolverhampton 3, Cardiff 1 Rotherham 0, Fulham 1 Reading 1, Leeds 0 Peterborough 2, Charlton 0 Millwall 3, Scunthorpe 1 Milton Keynes Dons 3, Gillingham 2 Bolton 0, Chesterfield 0 Rochdale 1, Northampton 1 Southend 3, Oldham 0 Germany RB Leipzig 4, Darmstadt 0 Schalke 1, Borussia Dortmund 1 Bayern Munich 6, Augsburg 0 SC Freiburg 2, Werder Bremen 5 Hamburger SV 2, FC Koln 1 Eintracht Frankfurt 0, Borussia Moenchengladbach 0 Italy Serie B Novara 1, Ternana Calcio 2 Brescia 2, Virtus Entella 2 Pro Vercelli 1, Bari 0 Spezia 1, Benevento 3 Trapani 0, Verona 2 Perugia 1, Vicenza 0 Ascoli 1, Carpi 2 Pisa 0, Salernitana 1 Latina 0, Cittadella 2 Italy Serie A Sassuolo 1, Lazio 2 Spain Villarreal 2, Eibar 3 Osasuna 1, Athletic Bilbao 2 Real Sociedad 1, Leganes 1

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Bolstered by bench, Nets display grit By BRIAN LEWIS Brook Lopez gave the Nets a dominant performance on his birthday. They gave him a sound team win, thanks to Trevor Booker and the bench. After looking complacent in losses to Philadelphia and Detroit, the Nets brought back the grit with a 121-111 victory over Orlando in front of 15,976 at Barclays Center. They drove the ball at will, saw their bench shred the Magic and claim they’re determined to play hard to the finish.

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“It was very important, very big,” said Lopez, who had 30 points and seven boards on his 29th birthday. “We continually talked about no slippage until the very end of the season ... but we want to continue to improve and take every opportunity we can to get better as a team.” Lopez was the only Nets starter to break double-figures. But their bench broke Orlando (27-50), outscoring the Magic reserves 72-16. Trevor Booker had a seasonhigh 23 points and eight boards and teamed with Spencer Dinwiddie to score every point in an 11-0 run that snapped an 89-all tie going into the fourth. “That second group came in, everybody was playing with energy and got each other going,” Booker said. “We just had it rolling.” The Nets (17-59) never trailed again, improving to 8-12 since the All-Star break. “[The reserves] were spectacular, the difference,” said Lopez, who now is just 89 points from surpassing Buck Williams as the team’s alltime leading scorer.

“They played great. They saved us. They saved me,” said Jeremy Lin, who had eight points and eight assists but shot just 3-of-14. Lin’s greatest contribution may have been imploring his Nets from the start to drive the ball more. The result? They shot 53 percent from the floor and scored a seasonhigh 72 points in the paint, fourth-most in team history since it became a statistic 20 years ago. It didn’t seem like the Nets’ night early, when Nikola Vucevic (27 points) tried to throw an entry lob in to Aaron Gordon, only to see it bounce off the rim, up and through for a fluke 3-pointer. Gordon’s alley-oop reverse sent the Nets into a timeout down 15-5, and his 3 left them trailing 85-80 with two minutes to go in the third. An extended 20-4 run gave Brooklyn the lead for good. It was 89-all to start the fourth, when the bench took over. Booker’s hook shot and Dinwidde’s layup made it 93-89. Booker stole a D.J. Augustin pass and went for a coast-tocoast floater to put the Nets ahead by six. When Jodie Meeks missed, Booker snatched the rebound and passed upcourt, and Dinwiddie made a driving hook shot and ensuing free throw for a 98-89 cushion. The pair combined to cap the run when Booker rebounded Augustin’s miss, pushed it upcourt and kicked back out to Dinwiddie at the arc. The guard dropped it back inside to Booker for a floater and a 100-89 lead the Nets made stand up. “We definitely want to finish the season strong,” Booker said. “It’ll give us something to build off of over the summer going into next season.” brian.lewis@nypost.com

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Tavares likely out for season By BRETT CYRGALIS Even the most ardent hater couldn’t have wanted this to happen, not like this. Yet what seemed like an inevitability because of the awful ice surface at Barclays Center turned into the worst-case scenario, with Islanders captain John Tavares suffering a hamstring injury during his team’s 2-1 win over the Devils on Friday night. Tavares’ status was described as “week-to-week,” meaning he is essentially done for the remaining five games of the regular season, with his team barely on the periphery of the race for the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. The Islanders are six points behind the Bruins, TAVARES Injured hamstring. who beat the Panthers 5-2 on Saturday afternoon, for the second wild card position. They are two points behind the Lightning (86 points, lost to the Canadiens in OT on Saturday) and tied with the Hurricanes (84 points, lost to the Stars) and the Flyers (84 points, beat the Devils). So when the Islanders take the ice in Buffalo on Sunday afternoon, they will be further away from playoffs, and in a depression because of Tavares’ absence. And speaking of depressions, that’s exactly what might have caused Tavares’ injury. According to alternate captain Cal Clutterbuck, who has been the most outspoken detractor of the poor playing conditions in Brooklyn, Tavares caught his skate in a rut as he was coming around the net, which caused him to extend his leg and seemingly hurt his left hamstring. “You see a guy’s heel dig in like that, it doesn’t happen other places,” Clutterbuck told Newsday after the game. “It’s something that doesn’t get addressed ... It had been a little better the last few games, but not [Friday] night.”

BLUESHIRT BOUNTY: Rick Nash makes a move Friday night against the Penguins. Though their home losing streak extended to eight games, Nash scored his fifth goal in the last six games, an encouraging sign for the Rangers. N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg

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By BRETT CYRGALIS Rick Nash has been unflinchingly honest over the past few years about his role on the Rangers, about what he’s here to do, and about knowing his importance to the team’s success. Nash knows he needs to score goals, and he knows they haven’t always come in the numbers that he would like — especially in the biggest games. But as his team has gone through a recent malaise with a 6-7-4 record over their previous 17 games, with a seventh straight postseason berth coming this past Tuesday and the monumental task of the playoffs coloring their own inconsistency, his game has elevated to a level where very

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few players on his team have followed. At least it’s a good sign for the Rangers that one of their best players is acting like it. “When pucks are going in, it’s always nice,” Nash said after scoring his fifth goal in the past six games during Friday night’s 4-3 shootout loss to the Penguins, giving him 23 on the season. “You don’t really try

to push it or think about it too much, but when it’s going on in, you just try to go about your business.” The Rangers have all but locked in to the first wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference, and very likely will play the Atlantic Division-leading Canadiens in the first round. After a day off Saturday, they will resume their schedule by playing host to the Flyers on Sunday night at the Garden, with only three games remaining on the schedule after that. So to score now is nice for Nash, who has always seen his production come in bunches. But to still be scoring at a high rate in two weeks is when it will matter most. It won’t take a lot to remind Nash

he has 12 goals in 65 career postseason games. He had three in 25 playoff games when the Rangers were on their run to the 2014 Stanley Cup final that was after a regular season when he led the team with 42. The year prior, he had one goal in 12 postseason games when John Tortorella’s Rangers were ousted in the second round at the hands of the Bruins. But his play right now is encouraging to the Blueshirts as they look ahead to another postseason with some hopeful expectations. “That’s what you’re looking for,” coach Alain Vigneault said Friday night. “Any team that has any type of success in big games, in big moments, their top players have to obviously come through.”

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Of course, the Rangers cannot be carried by Nash alone, and they got another encouraging performance Friday from goalie Henrik Lundqvist. Having missed almost three weeks because of a hip injury, this was Lundqvist’s third start since returning and was by far his best performance. Lundqvist made 32 saves, some of them spectacular on grade-A chances from some of the best players in the world. “He was by far the best player,” Nash said. “I thought the score could’ve gotten out of control for a little stretch. They had a lot of chances, but he was definitely our best player.” Vigneault had said Lundqvist is only going to sit one more time this season, that being one of the

back-to-back games that end the schedule: Saturday, April 8 in Ottawa against the Senators, then home the next night in the finale against the Penguins. Odds are backup Antti Raanta will get the game in Ottawa, and then Lundqvist will get Pittsburgh yet again as a final tune-up for the playoffs. Because that is the Rangers’ goal right now — getting ready for the postseason. They need to feel better about themselves at home, having now gone 0-5-3 over their past eight on Broadway. But the good news is that right now Nash is rolling and Lundqvist is getting sharp. Those things continuing are where the hope lies for these Rangers. bcyrgalis@nypost.com

Larry Brooks Slap Shots And so it was early in the 2002-03 season that I approached Elias, whom I had known since he first joined the Devils as a 19year-old back in 1995. Sykora had been traded the previous offseason. I started a question, “Petr…” Elias interrupted me. “I’m Patrik,” he said. He most certainly was. He most certainly is. He is Patrik Elias, the greatest forward ever to play for the Devils and one of the great two-way forwards of his generation who probably sacrificed some 75-100 goals and 150-200 points off his lifetime 408-617-1,025 total in order to accommodate the unyielding defense-first philosophy of the only organization for which he ever worked. Except, as Elias told me when we chatted upon the announcement of his retirement, it probably wasn’t much of a sacrifice at all to become an indispensable part of two of the three Stanley Cups the franchise won while reigning over the Eastern Conference for more than a decade. “There are no regrets for me,” said New Jersey’s forever No. 26, who next year will have his sweater raised to the rafters to accompany those of franchise bedrocks Martin Brodeur, Scott Stevens, Scott Niedermayer and Ken Daneyko. “Maybe I could have had different numbers somewhere else, but I was happy winning championships. I was happy making the playoffs every year and I was happy knowing we had a chance to win every year. “You either adjusted in New Jersey or you didn’t stay. We were all proud of being part of those teams. I wasn’t just a oneway player. If they wanted to

season in which the winger recorded 40 goals and 56 assists for 96 points was the most productive of his career. The Devils gave away the Cup final and a repeat in that seven-game loss to the Avalanche after becoming cavalier about their talent and supremacy, but that was through no fault of Elias, who had 23 points (9-14) in 25 playoff games after posting 20 (seven goals, 13 assists) in 23 matches the previous tournament. Those were the days of the A Line, the shooting comet of the unit featuring Elias, Arnott and Sykora that was as lethal, skilled and entertaining a combination that has played in the league over the last quarter century. While the rest of the league was playing checkers, the A Line was playing chess. It seemed as if the three pieces would be interlocked forever. They lasted just over two years. Arnott, unhappy and becoming a disruptive influence, was traded first, at the ’02 deadline. Then Sykora. “Obviously those were the best two years, but more than that, playing on that line with Petr and Arnie was the most fun of my career,” Elias said. “Every time we went onto the ice, every game, every practice, we had so much fun together. “But Lou made those decisions. I don’t really know why. I wish we had been together longer.” Elias thrived without Arnott and Sykora. He became the quintessential checking wing for Pat Burns’ 2003 Cup champions, became the left wing on another one of the Devils’ signature units, the EGG line centered by Scott Gomez that had Brian Gionta on the right. He later moved to center when times became leaner in New Jersey. But he never wore another NHL logo. Never played for another team, this exceptional player who most certainly is Hall of Fame worthy and who, felled by a knee injury that kept him off the ice all season, will skate in warmups one final time before the home finale against the Islanders next Saturday night. One more skate for Elias, who established his own identity as a franchise icon and who will leave New Jersey with everybody not only knowing his name, but chanting it, as well. He’s Patrik. larry.brooks@nypost.com

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move me from wing to center, I did it. I played the PP and the PK. I could check. I’m very happy being known for that. “When I look back, the thing I am most proud of is that I spent my entire career with one team,” Elias said, before referring to the man who ran the show. “You know, I wasn’t the only one to make that decision. Lou [Lamoriello] kept me for all those years, too.” Elias almost left, almost signed with the Rangers when he became a free agent the summer of 2006. In fact, he had essentially agreed to a six-year, $42 million contract. But when New York general manager Glen Sather would not give the winger a nomove clause, Elias circled back to the Devils and signed a sevenyear, $42 million deal. It was slightly more than the $625,000 he earned during the 1999-2000 Cup season when he recorded 72 points (35-37) and put the puck on Jason Arnott’s stick with one of the slickest passes you have ever seen for the Game 6 double-overtime Cup winner in Dallas. That $625,000, by the way, that was surpassed that season by 486 players. And that $625,000 was Elias’ salary on the first year of a three-year deal he received following a holdout through which he missed the season’s first nine games. “It wasn’t always roses with Lou,” Elias said. “But we made it work and the relationship got better as it went on.” The 2000-01

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OR years they had been inseparable, off the ice and on the ice, where they made magic as sweet as any set of NHL matched-pair wingers have in a very, very long time, and in the mind’s eye of the hockey universe. But after a while, Patrik Elias yearned for independence from his friend Petr Sykora; yearned to be known as an independent entity and for his own identity. He had, after all, earned that.

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KP unsure of summer hoops plan By MARC BERMAN While Euro rookies Willy Hernangomez (Spain) and Mindaugas Kuzminskas (Lithuania) say they expect to play in the European Championships in late August/September, Kristaps Porzingis has made no decisions for Latvia. Porzingis told The Post he still is debating and wants to talk to the Knicks about it. Last summer, Porzingis decided against playing for Latvia in its Olympic qualifier. Hernangomez and Kuzminskas played for their respective countries in the Olympics in Rio last summer.

KNICKS NOTES Because of the Olympics training camp, Hernangomez never played for the Knicks’ summer league team in Orlando last July. He is not expected to play any games in this July’s summerleague because of the massive progress he made, but may practice with them. Hernangomez said he does not believe Knicks management will stand in his way to play for Spain. The event leaks into midSeptember, close to training camp. “They let me play in the Olympics and the European Championships is almost as important to us,’’ Hernangomez said. Hernangomez said he hopes his buddy Porzingis suits up for Latvia. “I’d be looking very forward to going against him,’’ Hernangomez said. “I’d like that.’’ As ➤ season

their 70th anniversary comes to a close, the Knicks will have one more celebration to honor the 1999 Finals team during Sunday’s Celtics matinee. Jeff Van Gundy, on hand for ABC, will be present, along with newly welcomed Latrell Sprewell, Allan Houston, Larry Johnson, Marcus Camby, Charlie Ward, Kurt Thomas and Herb Williams. Chris Childs, the club’s backup point guard, told SNY.tv he wasn’t invited. “It might have to do with me supporting Charles Oakley,’’ Childs said.

One of the Knicks’ Achilles ➤ heels this season has defending

3’s in key moments. The Knicks held Miami to 8 of 33 from behind the arc in Friday’s 98-94 surprise win. That came after Miami scorched the Knicks at the Garden (12-of-25).

By MARC BERMAN The free-agent-to-be point guard ran the Knicks offense with aplomb in Miami, directing the triangle traffic flow, defending fiercely. It wasn’t Derrick Rose, who rested his sore left knee in Friday’s stunning win, but Ron Baker, whom Carmelo Anthony affectionately nicknamed “Ron Burgundy.’’ The undrafted rookie combo guard from Wichita State notched 10 points and six assists as the field general against the Heat and now has six more games to ensure his return next season, starting with Sunday’s Garden match against Boston on national television. But “Burgundy’’ already has won over coach Jeff Hornacek and has, according to a source, gotten Phil Jackson on board as well. It is well-established Baker’s biggest fan is Hornacek. The Knicks coach sees a ton of similarities between himself and Baker coming out of college, not the least of which

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is playing a full four years. Or maybe Hornacek is just happy he has one guy who plays his butt off every game, especially on defense. Baker, 24, will be a restricted free agent, and the Knicks can match any offer. “Yeah, we have a pretty good friendship,’’ Baker said of Hornacek. “We’ll try to be on the same team.’’ Baker’s value would increase immeasurably if he establishes himself as a point guard. Scouts believe as a strict shooting guard, he’s not a good enough outside shooter (29

percent from behind the arc). For Jackson, the most vital attribute he proved has been competently defending quick point guards by using physicality. “The big question we all had coming into the year was: Will he be able to guard point guards?’’ Hornacek said. “He’s proven he can. That’s a great thing for him — we can put him on a 1, we can put him on a 2, even put him on a 3. He’s versatile that way.” Baker had 16 NBA workouts in 34 days last spring. He didn’t get drafted, perhaps because he looks like he’d fit in well at Hickory High. But the pride of Scott City, Kansas, who has a trace of Native American blood in him, plays tougher than he looks. “Some of the things I [did] in college, I’d probably foul out in the first half,’’ Baker said.

“You’re always trying to prove yourself, regardless of the situation,’’ Baker added. “It was a similar situation coming out of high school, getting colleges used to the unknown. Getting to this point is very satisfying, but I want more, want to keep improving to see where my ceiling is.’’ Hornacek can talk all day about Baker. If some club tries to overbid on a contract, the Knicks coach would be in his corner. Rookie point guard Chasson Randle got signed last month but couldn’t get ahead of Baker in Hornacek’s pecking order. Earlier this week, when Hornacek was asked about the rookie wall Mindaugas Kuzminskas hit, the Knicks coach turned his response into an endorsement of Baker, who didn’t hit one. “Guys like that [combo guards]

With Knicks fans eyeing the team’s lottery chances, here’s a look at the race for pingpong balls, with each team’s odds of getting a top-three pick and the No. 1 overall pick: W-L

Top 3

No. 1

1. Nets

17-59

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64.3%

25.0%

2. Lakers

21-55

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55.8%

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3. Suns

22-55

4.5

46.9%

15.6%

4. Magic

27-50

9.5

37.8%

11.9%

5. 76ers

28-48

11.0

29.1%

8.8%

6. Knicks

29-47

12.0

21.5%

6.3%

7. Kings

30-4 7

12.5

15.0%

4.3%

8. T’Wolves 30-45

13.5

9.9%

2.8%

9. Mavericks 31-44

14.5

6.1%

1.7%

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FAVORITE INGREDIENT: Guard Ron Baker, driving to the basket, has become well liked by coach Jeff Hornacek because of his smarts and defensive toughness. Getty Images

Knicks’ anchor man are valuable in the league,’’ Hornacek said. “You’re not just strictly just relying on him at the 2. You can play him off the ball, you can play him on the ball. If he’s playing the point, he can get us into the offense. He’s smart about calling out the plays and he’s a tough defender. Early on, playing against point guards, he was keeping guys in front of him.’’ Hornacek said Baker has gotten better defensively because he’s “learning their tendencies.’’ “He’s a smart guy,’’ Hornacek said. “Run a certain play, he gets a feeling how he wants to guard it. Maybe having four years in college helped him.’’ Baker’s locker was next to Brandon Jennings’ before he left, and he gleaned pointers off the veteran point guard. Baker has grown close to Court-

ney Lee, and they hang together on the road. Baker has learned from Rose just by watching. “He has different skills than I do, but a lot of stuff I pick up from him along the way,’’ Baker said. Baker, who has appeared in 46 NBA games and six in the DLeague, said he was “a little timid’’ at the outset but built confidence on defense when Hornacek started playing him 45 games into the season. “He’s got the size, doesn’t get rattled because Ron’s strong enough,’’ Hornacek said. “He finishes through fouls and grabs [the player]. It’s a great skill to have.’’ marc.berman@nypost.com

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Shot brings new fame to Miss. St. guard By STEPHEN HAWKINS DALLAS — Morgan William figures her new nickname “Itty Bitty” will grow on her. Mississippi State’s diminutive point guard also will have to deal with her growing status in Bulldogs lore, among the likes of Dak Prescott, after a buzzer-beating overtime shot that ended UConn’s record 111-game winning streak and sent the program to its first women’s NCAA Tournament championship game. “I guess it’s great. I’m shy, I’m not just like social butterfly,” William said Saturday. “To get all this attention ... it’s overwhelming. But it’s exciting because it’s for a great cause. I’m just enjoying it right now, like everywhere I go, can I get a picture, can I get an autograph? I’m used to being low key, shy, minding my business.” Morgan William — yes, with an extraneous letter on her last name — became a trending topic on Twitter after her shot that took down the four-time defending national champion Huskies late Friday night in Dallas — after midnight on the East Coast. Prescott, a record-setting NFL rookie quarterback who last season helped lead the Cowboys to the NFC East title, sat near the Mississippi State bench, emphatically cheering on his Bulldogs. Amid the postgame celebration, the quarterback of America’s Team joined William on the floor for an interview. So who’s the most popular Bulldog at the moment? “I’m going to say it’s Morgan William,” fellow guard Victoria Vivians said. “I think Morgan might have Dak beat right now,” teammate Dominique Dillingham said. “She’s going

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A STAR IS BORN: Mississippi State guard Morgan William, mobbed by teammates after making the shot to beat UConn in the national semifinals, is now being asked for pictures and autographs. Getty Images to have it rough when she gets back” to Starkville. Before that, the 5-foot-5 William and the Bulldogs (34-4) still have one more game to play. They take on South Carolina (32-4) in a rematch of the SEC Tournament championship game — this time for the national title. “We fought extremely hard to get where we are. For us to come off beating a great team, and not finishing it off, it’d be tough,” William said. “We beat UConn, but we haven’t gotten the rings, cut the nets. Nothing like that.” Mississippi State has won consecutive games against top-seeded teams in overtime. The Bulldogs are the first team ever with consecutive overtime victories in the NCAA Tournament. William scored 41 points in Mis-

sissippi State’s 94-85 victory over Baylor in the Oklahoma City Regional final last Sunday night. While she had only 13 points against UConn, and had a layup attempt blocked at the end of regulation, the smallest player on the floor made the biggest shot. Like she has for most of her basketball career, William wanted the ball at the big moment, a desire developed while growing up being coached by her stepfather, Donnie Rory, who died just over three years ago. “Pretty much my stepdad coached me all my life, and was my high school coach. Daughter-father, just had that bond, it was like I want the ball in my hands,” she said. “Just having the confidence that I can make something happen, and I live for moments like that now.” — AP

the national semifinals. “When we started Oct. 15 to where we are today ... these kids were way older than they were supposed to be,” Auriemma said. “They should have shown their age early on in the season — November, December, at some point. We just kept playing like older, older players, more mature players.” They will be next season. First-team All-Americans Katie Lou Samuelson and Napheesa Collier will be juniors. Gabby Williams, who made the second team, and Kia Nurse, who made a record 22 3point shots during the NCAA Tournament, will be seniors. Crystal Dangerfield, who shared

point guard duties with Chong, will be a sophomore. “We’ll talk about it as a team and make our minds up to have some changes made to come back as a different team — a better team,” Dangerfield said. Azura Stevens, a 6-foot-6 transfer from Duke, and 6-2 Batouly Camara from Kentucky will be eligible to play after sitting out this season. UConn has another top recruiting class led by 6-1 Megan Walker, the consensus national high school player of the year. That group also includes guard Andra EspinozaWalker from Ossining H.S., wing Lexi Gordon and guard Mikayla Coombs. —AP

UConn loaded for redemption run By PAT EATON-ROBB

STORRS, Conn. — UConn will return to campus from the Final Four on Sunday for the first time in five years without a national championship trophy. But it’s not like Hall of Fame coach Geno Auriemma will return with nothing. His team heads into next season with a lot of talent and more experience. Auriemma loses just one starter, senior point guard Saniya Chong, from a team that won its first 36 games and completed an NCAA record 111-game winning streak before losing to Mississippi State in overtime, 66-64, on Friday night in

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LSU running back likely to be

Leonard Fournette

By BRIAN COSTELLO A popular NFL draft storyline a few years ago was about the devaluation of running backs. The experts said teams would no longer take running backs in the f irst round because coaches had deemphasized the position. No backs were taken in the 2013 or 2014 f irst rounds. Then, Todd Gurley came along in 2015 and won Rookie of the Year for the Rams. Last season Ezekiel Elliott went No. 4 overall to the Cowboys and ran for 1,631 yards. No one is doubting the r u n n i n g ba c k anymore as a high draft pick. In this year’s draft, Leonard Fournette of LSU is expected to go in the top 10 with Florida State’s

Dalvin Cook and Stanford’s in three seasons at LSU. He Christian McCaffrey shortly also had 41 catches for 526 yards and a receiving touchbehind him. “It’s changing the game for down. the running backs,” Fournette “North-and-south runner,” said at last month’s scout- Fournette said when asked ing comto describe bine. “When his style. [Elliott] and “Can make To d d G u r defenders ley came miss. Can run out, they did over them. a great job Can run past preparing them.” us running Teams will backs nowahave quesdays to come tions about out to even Fo u r n e t t e ’s get a chance durabil— An anonymous scout, to get picked ity, though. talking about in the f irst A nagging round.” ankle injury Leonard Fournette Fo u r n e t t e slowed him is viewed by many around the down for most of the 2016 seaNFL as the next great running son. It is the reason he said he back. The 6-foot-1, 240-pound- sat out the team’s bowl game, a er can run through people and decision that raised eyebrows. run around them. He had 3,830 It seemed like he was sitting yards on 616 carries (6.2 yards out to protect his draft status per carry) and 40 touchdowns rather than helping his team.

“There’s similar things to Bo [Jackson]: size, twitch, explosion, burst, power.”

Rating the prospects RUNNING BACKS

*underclassman

THE TOP FIVE

NO. NAME SCHOOL HT. WT. 1. Leonard Fournette* LSU 6-1 240 A freakish blend of size, speed and power who should be taken in the top 10. 2. Dalvin Cook* Florida St. 5-11 213 May be the most complete back in this draft with a ton of versatility. 3. Christian McCaffrey* Stanford 6-0 202 Some smart team is going to use him in a hybrid running/receiving role. 4. Alvin Kamara* Tennessee 5-10 214 A highly productive player for the Vols (23 TDs in two years), he should be a second-day pick. 5. Joe Mixon* Oklahoma 6-1 226 Would be a first-round pick if not for his domestic violence history. Late Riser D’Onta Foreman, Texas: A one-year starter, Foreman rushed for more yards per game (184.4) than any other back in FBS last year. Dropping Fast Marlon Mack, South Florida: A big-play threat, but there are questions about him running between the tackles. Small-School Wonder De’Angelo Henderson, Coastal Carolina: He has scored a touchdown in 35 straight games. Getty Images (2), ZUMA Wire

Dalvin Cook

a top-10 selection

had some of the most dynamic 2-yard gains you will ever see.” Mock drafts have Fournette going as high as No. 4 to the Jaguars. The Jets at No. 6 and the Panthers at No. 8 are also possibilities. Panthers coach Ron Rivera said this week he will personally attend Fournette’s pro day next week. “There’s a few of [the pro days] that I wanted to go to specif ically,” Rivera said Wednesday at the owners meetings. “His is one of them.” Jets general manager Mike Maccagnan acknowledged that from a scouting perspective, he sees the argument that running backs can be found in the later rounds, but if a running back is worth taking in the first round, he would do it. “Would I consider taking a running back at six?” Maccagnan said at the NFL Scouting Combine. “Absolutely. If I thought he was worthy of that pick.” Fournette may be that guy.

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There is no doubt the Giants are going to add a running back to their roster, and the draft is where they most likely will look. Would they take one with the 23rd overall pick? Sure they would. They have Shane Vereen, who’s coming off an injurymarred season, and Paul Perkins coming off a promising rookie year as the 1-2 punch, not necessarily in that order. If exciting Dalvin Cook (Florida State) fell to them, how could the Giants pass on him? The most intriguing player is Christian

McCaffrey (Stanford), son of former Giants wide receiver Ed McCaffrey, a versatile back with absolutely great hands in the passing game. He is worth a first-round pick. Given that the two starting receivers (Odell Beckham Jr. and Sterling Shepard) are young and productive and their marquee signing in free agency was towering Brandon Marshall, the Giants aren’t going to be thinking receiver in the first round — unless something crazy happens and

Corey Davis (Western Michigan) or speedster John Ross (Washington) drops down. It has been 15 years since the Giants used a first-round pick on a tight end (Jeremy Shockey, 2002) and there are a bunch of them worth considering at No. 23, and beyond, as this is a deep talent pool at the position. O.J. Howard (Alabama) is the stud but will be gone. David Njoku (Miami) is a Jersey kid with a huge upside, but he might be gone as well. — Paul Schwartz

WHAT JETS MIGHT DO AT RB, WR, TE The Jets need playmakers and could draft players at all three positions. The biggest area of need here is tight end. The Jets virtually ignored the position during the last two years under Chan Gailey. With new offensive coordinator John Morton, they will utilize the position again. The Jets probably have too many holes to take a tight end at No. 6, but if they trade down it would not be a shock if they grab one of

the top tight ends in the middle of the first round. One of the few highlights of last season was the emergence of the team’s young receivers. Quincy Enunwa and Robby Anderson both had big seasons. Charone Peake and Jalin Marshall showed promise. Devin Smith is also coming back from injury. Still, the Jets lack a true No. 1 receiver with Eric Decker now topping the depth chart. Could they be

tempted to grab Mike Williams in the first round? The Jets don’t need a running back for 2017 with Matt Forte and Bilal Powell forming a nice 1-2 combination. But Forte won’t be around long, so the Jets could use an infusion of youth at the position. Leonard Fournette will be tempting if he is there at No. 6. Jets fans would love to have an offensive playmaker to rally behind. — Brian Costello

The Post’s Brian Costello ranks the top RBs, WRs, and TEs in the April 27-29 draft. WIDE RECEIVERS

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*underclassman

THE TOP FIVE

*underclassman

THE TOP FIVE

NO. NAME SCHOOL HT. WT. 1. Mike Williams* Clemson 6-3 218 A big, physical receiver who is the latest to come from the WR factory.

NO. NAME SCHOOL HT. WT. 1. O.J. Howard Alabama 6-6 251 A stud who may be drafted in the top 10, a rarity for the position.

2. Corey Davis Western Michigan 6-3 209 A well-rounded receiver whose biggest question is how he will do going from MAC competition to the NFL.

2. David Njoku* Miami Freakish talent who will be a first-round pick.

6-4

246

3. Evan Engram Mississippi Reminds people of Redskins TE Jordan Reed.

6-3

234

3. John Ross* Washington 5-11 188 Turned heads at the combine with a record 4.22-second 40-yard dash. 4. Curtis Samuel* Ohio State 5-11 Reminiscent of Percy Harvin, a versatile weapon.

4. Gerald Everett South Alabama 6-3 239 A high school basketball star who started playing football as a HS senior.

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5. Cooper Kupp Eastern Washington 6-1 204 The most prolific receiver in FCS history should be a Day 2 pick. Late Riser Zay Jones, East Carolina: Caught 158 passes as a senior and broke a number of records. He had a strong showing at the Senior Bowl. Dropping Fast Dede Westbrook, Oklahoma: Two domestic violence arrests could scare NFL teams and make Westbrook drop in the draft. Small-School Wonder Chad Williams, Grambling State: Turned heads during Senior Bowl practices, proving he belonged by catching everything thrown at him.

Mike Williams

5. Jake Butt Michigan 6-5 250 A torn ACL in the Orange Bowl will cause Butt to fall in the draft. Late Riser Adam Shaheen, Ashland: A Division II star whom some view as a Day 2 draft pick. He had 70 catches in 2015 and 58 last year. Dropping Fast Bucky Hodges, Virginia Tech: An overgrown wide receiver who has little experience blocking as an inline tight end. Small-School Wonder Eric Saubert, Drake: A big, 6-foot-5 target whose inconsistency as a receiver will hurt him, but a combination of size and speed that will intrigue NFL teams.

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Fournette said LSU coach Ed Orgeron convinced him to sit. “It was a hard decision for me to sit out, and my coach asking me and telling me to make the right decision for your future,” Fournette said. “I cried like a girl. It was one of the hardest decisions I had to make besides committing to a school.” NFL teams surely will get over that decision quickly when they study Fournette’s ability. His game tape is impressive enough, but then when you look at his physical traits, it will be hard for teams to pass on him. He ran a 4.51second 40-yard dash at the combine, a day after weighing in at 240 pounds. “There’s similar things to Bo [Jackson]: size, twitch, explosion, burst, power,” an anonymous scout told The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. “I could have written his report as a freshman. It didn’t take long to see he was a different bird. He’s not normal. Last year he

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Joel

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E WERE sitting in the home dugout, watching the Mets workout on their main field in the final week of spring training and bouncing from subject to subject when I brought up the talent and depth of the NL’s best teams, including the Mets and Nationals. I mentioned to general manager Sandy Alderson that the Nationals had kind of dropped a calling card on the Mets of their excellence the previous day with arguably their three best players starring — two homers each from Bryce Harper and Trea Turner plus five shutout innings from Max Scherzer in a 6-0 Washington victory. Suddenly, there was intensity in both Alderson’s visage and voice, as he quickly noted that the Mets had used their sixth or seventh starter, Seth Lugo, in the game and that half of their positional starters were in Jupiter playing the Marlins in a split-squad contest.

IT’S GAME ON Stakes couldn’t be higher for Mets and Nationals

Even in the f inal week of March — in a game that would not count — Alderson was unwilling to give an inch on Nationals-Mets. Which, by the way, is just perfect. You will get arguments from supporters of the Cardinals and Giants, and perhaps Pirates. But if you ask personnel men and scouts — or if you just want to even ask me — four teams stand above the NL: the Cubs, Dodgers, Mets and Nationals because of projected excellence in every phase and depth. Obviously, the game is not played on paper and that is one reason we love sports — it does not come with an actual script. But paper is where you start at this time of year to try to envision the season ahead. And should it play out to expectation, then you have the Dodgers as the dominant

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team in the NL West, the Cubs as the dominant team in the NL Central, but both the Mets and Nationals vying in the NL East. That is why I believe one of the highlights of this season will be the 19 Nationals-Mets games. So much will be at stake between finishing first and second. “They won [the East] last year and we have our eyes on them,” Mets assistant GM John Ricco said. “Those games against them are hugely important, and I hope they do play out where there is a lot riding on them because that would be great for baseball to develop this type of rivalry. We run a business too, and the business drives everything we do and we saw the value of what Yankees-Red Sox and CardinalsCubs has meant and how great it has been for baseball.” The Nationals and Mets have alternated the NL East crown the last three years with the Mets winning in 2015. But that enabled them to avoid a oneand-done wild-card game, which led to an NL pennant. Last year, the Mets were at the mercy of how f ickle that game i s — No a h Syndergaard t h rew s even shutout innings and the Giants still won behind Madison Bumgarner’s four-hit shutout. N e i l Wa l k e r was in uniform in the Mets dugout for the wild-card game, but inactive after back surgery. He played in the three previous NL wildcard games as a Pirate, winning in 2013, but losing in 2014 (when Bumgarner threw another four-hit shutout) and 2015 (when Jake Arrieta threw a five-hit shutout). “Trust me, I have seen how valuable it is to win the division,” Walker said. “Not that we are taking anyone else in the NL East lightly, but we know the Nationals are the reigning division champs, and to win the division we ultimately will have to go through them.”

the first of those games with a 12th-inning walk-off homer a few days after being in tears before learning that his trade to Milwaukee for Carlos Gomez had been rescinded because Gomez did not pass the Mets’ physical review. Instead, the Mets obtained Yoenis Cespedes. “If we win the World Series [in 2015], those six games would be part of Mets lore for 50 years,” Alderson said. “The difference between winning and not winning the division the last two years has been our games [against the Nationals]. They are a reminder of how well we have to play across the board to be the best because we play them so much.”

David Wright used the same terminology in saying the NL East went through Washington, and noting how during his career the rivalry to win the division was handed from the Braves to the Phillies and now games against the Nationals. The Marlins, Braves and Phillies all attempted to upgrade in the offseason and Miami, in particular, wants to try to disrupt the power dynamic atop the divijoel.sherman@nypost.com sion. But it would be a significant upset if the Mets and Nationals did not finish 1-2 in some order for a fourth straight year. Bovada had the Nationals as 5-7 favorites to win the NL East and the Mets at 8-5, and no third-place projection in any of the six divisions were as long as the Marlins’ 12-1. Which circles us back to just how vital those 1 9 M e t s - Na t i o n a l s games portend to be. The Mets hold a scheduling edge with 10 home games rather than nine and with the last series between the clubs coming at Citi Field from Sept. 22-24 — the third-tolast series of the season. “The thing about the Nationals is they are the standard against which we measure ourselves, just like we are the standard by which they measure themselves against,” Alderson said. “I do think it is important to play well against them — and it is not just about the 19 games, it is about meeting a standard.” The Mets did not meet that standard last year, going 7-12 against the Nationals. They were 11-8 against Wa s h i n g t o n in 2015, notably going 6-0 from July 31 to Sept. 9 to go f rom second in the NL East Noah to complete Syndergaard command. Wi l m e r Flores wo n

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The elephant-in-the-room storyline that had hovered over this week’s Masters was whether Tiger Woods was going to suddenly turn up at Augusta and compete after being virtually invisible since his January withdrawal in Dubai due to back spasms. But Woods announced Friday he wasn’t playing. Here are the five most compelling storylines that define this Masters:

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HERE ARE some sporting events that grace our lives and leave such an indelible mark on us we remember exactly where we were and what we were doing at that moment and how it impacted us. Tiger Woods’ awe-inspiring assault of Augusta National en route to his recordshattering, 12-stroke Masters victory in 1997, in which he finished 18-under, is one of those sports moments that forever endures. This week’s Masters marks the 20-year anniversary of that Woods introduction to the world as he changed the sport forever. Some might argue it feels like it took place just last year. Others might argue it feels like it was generations ago. No one, however, would argue that it wasn’t one of the most important moments the sport has ever seen or that it changed lives as much as it changed the game. Woods’ win that week increased golf tournament purses to obscene numbers. It sent TV contract numbers skyrocketing. It drew many more eyes to the game. There’s little question that Woods’ meteoric rise in the game, beginning with that 1997 Masters win, helped produce some of the biggest stars in the game today. The following are the accounts from many associated with the game to whom The Post interviewed about where they were and what they remembered most about the week. CHARLES HOWELL III Howell, an Augusta native who used to play high school matches at Augusta National and used to work the manual scoreboards during Masters weeks, said he “had known of’’ Woods before that week and “knew he was special, but I don’t think anybody quite knew he was all that.’’ “I can’t think of one golf tournament that’s changed the game more than that one,’’ Howell said. “You can almost pinpoint to that week the reason we’re playing for the money we’re playing for today and the fanfare of the game. “In that win that week he checked all the boxes. He’s young, he hit it far, he hit it straight, he had a phenomenal short game. He did it all, and he did it on the biggest, hardest stage in the world. I think in the history of time we’ll look back on that week as sort of a turning point for the professional game. ERNIE ELS Els, who in later years would become a frequent major championship bridesmaid to Woods, said he remembered seeing Woods on the range after the roller-coaster opening-round 70 that began with a 40 on the front nine and ended with a 30 on the back, “and I could see the excitement and the joy’’ in Woods’ face. “He knew he’d won the first hurdle,’’ Els said. “I think he knew then that it was over.’’ NICK FALDO Faldo, the defending champion who was paired with Woods in that opening round, knew it was over, too. “The way I analyzed it, he went out in 40, came back in 30 and we didn’t see him for dust for another 14 years,’’ Faldo said. “That was the start of Tiger and the start of his dominance. It was a special day. You go out

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in 40 and then you win by 12. That’s something pretty unique.” Faldo shot 75 that day and followed it with an 81 and missed the cut. PAUL AZINGER Azinger, an 11-time PGA Tour winner with one major championship, was paired with Woods in the second round. He began the day one shot ahead of Woods and ended it six shots behind after Woods’ 66 to his 73. “I never had seen Tiger hit a shot until that round,’’ Azinger said. “When he won the way he won, it was amazing, but you didn’t know its place in history at the time. I didn’t understand its place in history at

the time. It wasn’t, to me, the beginning of the unfolding of an historic run. I didn’t see it. My crystal ball had a crack in it.’’ COLIN MONTGOMERIE One of the great exchanges of that week involved Montgomerie, who was paired with Woods in Saturday’s third round. On Friday night, Montgomerie, three shots behind Woods, waxed poetic about the fact that the young Woods had never been in the position of taking a major championship lead into the weekend and how everything changes on the weekend of a major. “The pressure is mounting … and I have a lot more experience in major championships,’’ Monty said that night. Woods, in his recently published book, revealed that Montgomerie’s words “definitely motivated me.’’

Woods shot 65 that Saturday to Montgomerie’s 74, and after the round Monty spoke as if he had seen a ghost. “All I have to say is one brief comment today,’’ Monty told reporters. “There is no chance …we’re all human beings here … [and] there is no chance humanly possible that Tiger is going to lose this tournament. No way.’’ Montgomerie, on a recent NBC conference call, recalled that Saturday round by Woods as “the easiest 65 I’ve ever seen.’’ “From the second hole onwards, I thought, ‘Hang on a minute. This is something extraordinary,’ ’’ he said. “This is a game that I had not seen before and none of us had. I’m probably the reason he did what he did. I thought I would beat him. I was wrong. But I admitted it. I’d just witnessed

GARY WOODLAND Woodland, as a teenage boy living in Kansas and playing every sport he could in ’97, said he watched that ’97 Masters on a VHS tape his mother gave him, and it changed his life. “I watched it over and over and that’s when I got excited about golf,’’ Woodland said. “I was playing so many other sports that I wasn’t focused on golf. But Tiger was an athlete. Where I grew up, nobody played golf. But he made it cool. “That week changed everything for me. I probably would have tried to play baseball or something else, but he made it cool for athletes to play golf and that’s what I wanted to do. Eventually, I probably will tell him that.’’ BRENDAN STEELE Steele was an impressionable teenager growing up outside of Palm Springs, Calif.,

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STEVE STRICKER Stricker had played with Woods earlier in the year at Pebble Beach and realized, “I don’t have that game.’’ “He’s playing it 310 or 315 and hitting 3-wood past my driver and he just had this intimidating l o o k a b o ut h i m and this belief in himself,’’ Stricker said. “So I saw it earlier in the year. But then to see him put it all together at Augusta was pretty cool. He showed the world what he was capable of at that time … and it was just a glimpse of what was to come.”

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something very special. I thought I shot a very solid 74 until I lost to him by nine shots. I witnessed something that nobody else had seen.’’ Montgomerie, surely rattled by the thumping he took from Woods on Saturday, shot 81 on Sunday. COSTANTINO ROCCA The Italian was paired with Woods in the final round. Trailing by eight shots at the start, Rocca played a bit part in the coronation as Woods shot 69 and won by the record 12 shots. “At that time, he was very powerful and the people were going crazy to see this thing,’’ Rocca recalled. “From the 13th to the 18th, the people supported him like crazy. I don’t know if anyone remembered I was on the golf course. It was good for him, not for me.’’

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HISTORIC! Tiger Woods celebrates after his dominant, 12-stroke victory in the 1997 Masters.

when Woods did what he did in ’97. “I had just kind of picked up golf,’’ Steele said. “I definitely remember sitting around and watching that Masters and being so blown away by it — the dominance and the madness. I don’t know that I would be where I am without that week. It definitely motivated me and excited me about the game more than I had ever been before.’’ JORDAN SPIETH “There’s nobody who had more influence in my golf game than Tiger,’’ Spieth said. “He brought it in every tournament … the dominance, the way that he was able to bring it in the majors, the way that he was able to kind of get into contention and be in contention and be at that highest kind of mental part of the game week-in and week-out and major-in and major-out.” JASON DAY Day was a 9-year-old living in Rockhampton, a town in rural Queensland in Australia when Woods was changing the game in a week. “My dad had this turn-knob TV with bunny ears and you had to move the antenna to get the right picture and it was like really early in the morning,” Day recalled. “I remember [Woods] walking up the 18th and he obliterated the field. There’s two moments where Tiger really got me into golf — that moment when he won the ’97 Masters and I started playing more golf than I usually did at that age. Then when I read a book about him when I was 14. Those are the two moments that really kind of changed my life with regards to my career.” IAN POULTER Poulter, who was manning his local pro shop in England selling golf shirts when Woods was dismantling Augusta in ’97, said what transpired “opened everyone’s eyes.’’ “When that happened in ’97, you don’t think anything other that, ‘Wow, this kid’s exceptional,’ ’’ Poulter said. “But I don’t think anyone thought right then he’s going to win 14 majors and take on Jack’s record. That week changed everything. It changed golf for everybody. It changed courses for us all, it changed purses, it changed equipment.’’ ANDY NORTH North was working his first Masters as an analyst at ESPN that year and called Woods’ dominance “a signal that the rest of the golf world was going to be in a lot of trouble if they expected to beat this guy.’’ “And then there was the impact he’s had over the last 20 years,’’ North said. “He made golf cool for a lot of younger kids. If you were a kid playing on their high school golf team back in the late ’90s and early 2000s, all of a sudden now you were proud to walk through the front door of the school with your golf clubs to put in your locker, versus trying to sneak them in the back door. Now, all of a sudden people recognized that golf was a sport that meant something.’’

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Kennedy Meeks (above) made sure he will get another chance at a national title Monday night. He equaled a career high with 25 points and added 14 rebounds, carrying the Tar Heels back to the championship game.

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Theo Pinson scored just eight points and hit just 2 of 8 shots from the field, but the junior grabbed eight rebounds and notched five assists. Pinson played lockdown defense on Oregon’s top scorers Tyler Dorey and Brooks.

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Missed free throws by North Carolina in the closing seconds with the Tar Heels up by one. Two huge offensive rebounds enabled UNC to hold on for a trip to the national championship.

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“Oh, jump off the building, something like that.”

— Roy Williams on what he was thinking watching his team miss four free throws in the final 5.8 seconds.

By HOWIE KUSSOY GLENDALE, Ariz. — North Carolina was about to end its year-long wait. The top-seeded Tar Heels were seconds from securing their second straight trip to the national championship game. If the top rebounding team in the country didn’t live up to its billing, Oregon could have made Kris Jenkins’ buzzer-beater feel like a paper cut. Leading by one with less than six seconds remaining, North Carolina missed four straight free throws, but the Tar Heels grabbed two offensive rebounds to N. CAROLINA 77 76 book a return OREGON to the national title game, escaping University of Phoenix Stadium with a 77-76 win over the third-seeded Ducks Saturday night. “We’re relieved,” coach Roy Williams said. “We feel very lucky, feel very fortunate we’re still playing, but the fact of the matter is we’re still playing. … We feel very lucky, but that’s OK. Doesn’t make any difference. We’re still one of the two teams playing on Monday night.” North Carolina (32-7) will meet Gonzaga (37-1) Monday night in a battle of historically incompatible top seeds, with the Bulldogs making their first title

Tar Heels survive a wild finish to return to NCAA title game game appearance and the Tar Heels looking for their sixth national championship. One year later, North Carolina is one win from completing its quest to repair the Villanovasized wound that has haunted it since becoming the victim of the all-time NCAA Tournament championFinal Four ship ending. “I think you’re always going to have that in the back of your mind because it was a heartbreaking experience for us,” said senior center Kennedy Meeks. “We came so far last year, but it’s a different team. We have different dynamics.” Meeks had the best game of his career, scoring a season-high 25 points on 11-of-13 shooting with 14 rebounds and three steals, but the senior nearly made it the last game of his career, missing two free throws with 5.8 seconds remaining. Theo Pinson tapped out the second miss, with Oregon then sending Joel Berry II to the line

with four seconds left. After Berry missed both shots, Meeks made up for his misses by snatching another offensive rebound, enabling the Tar Heels to run out the clock. “We talk and work on little things all the time,” Williams said. “I tell them if you line up on the rebound spot, when your teammate is shooting the free throw, you’re trying to rebound. … So we do work on those things.” Oregon got another strong performance from Jordan Bell (13 points, 16 rebounds) and hit 25 of 28 free throws, but the Ducks made just 7 of 26 3-pointers as their top two scorers, Dillon Brooks (10 points, 2-of-11) and Tyler Dorsey (21 points, 3-of-11 from the field, 12-of-12 free throws), had their worst efforts of the tournament. “A close loss like this, it drives coaches crazy, it drives players crazy because you think about every one little thing,” Oregon coach Dana Altman said. “It re-

ally messes with you a little bit longer. … I wish I had something to say to make them feel better. It hurts. … The few weeks, the next couple months are not going to feel too good.” Even with Brooks, the Pac-12 Player of the Year, playing like a fan pulled from the stands, and Dorsey, the tournament’s second-leading scorer, failing to hit a shot in the first half, the Ducks still led most of the first half, holding the early edge on the glass and putting the Tar Heels in a 30-22 hole. Then, North Carolina put up 15 points in a span of 2:30, taking a 39-36 lead into the break. While Meeks continued dominating inside, ACC Player of the Year Justin Jackson (22 points) hit his first three 3-pointers of the second half to give North Carolina a 10-point lead with less than eight minutes remaining. The lead was barely enough, following the two most important rebounds of their season. hkussoy@nypost.com

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GLENDALE, Ariz. — It didn’t hit Kennedy Meeks until he was on the bench. This could be it. This could be how his career ends. It was the Sweet 16 against Butler, and coach Roy Williams benched him for missing a box-out. Meeks promised himself he couldn’t have any regrets in his final NCAA Tournament. “I just knew that it’s important for me to help my team out in any way I can,” Meeks said. He couldn’t have done any more Saturday night. The 6-foot-10 senior forward from Charlotte, N.C., equaled a career high with 25 points and added 14 rebounds, keying topseeded North Carolina’s 77-76 win over No. 3 Oregon in a national semifinal at University of Phoenix Stadium, advancing to Monday night, when it will face Gonzaga in the final. Meeks was coming off a monster performance, hauling in 17 rebounds and blocking four shots in a memorable South Region final victory over Kentucky. On Saturday, with fellow big man Isaiah Hicks struggling through a 1-for-12 shooting performance and reserves Luke Maye and Tony Bradley contributing little, he needed to produce more offensively. “I took it upon myself to try to do the best I could to call for the ball, especially when my teammates got in trouble,” he said. “I just knew we had to be aggressive in the paint. Coach told us it was going to be a man’s game.” Meeks missed just two shots from the field, throwing down big dunks and scoring with ease in the paint. He also had three steals and made the game’s biggest play, hauling in a Joel Berry II missed free throw with 4.0 seconds left and the Tar Heels up just one, enabling North Carolina to run out the clock. It was his eighth and final offensive rebound and a monster one at that. Without his supreme performance, North Carolina isn’t back in the na-

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tional championship game for a second straight season. It doesn’t get a chance at redemption. He made up for the poor performance of Hicks and Berry — the duo combined to shoot 3-of-26 from the field — and notched his best offensive effort of the year in its biggest moment.

“I thought he was just sensational around the basket, not only on the offensive boards but on the defensive boards,” Williams said. “I’m sure he’s got tremendous focus as a senior and he wants to keep playing. “I thought,” the coach added, “he controlled everything inside.”

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olina to its first tournament win since 1973, and averaging 25.8 points through the first four games, Thornwell’s explosiveness looked sapped from the second he stepped onto the floor. The SEC Player of the Year had little lift on his shots and was stripped of the aggressiveness that had made him the tournament’s most dangerous scorer. Thornwell missed his first three shots — seven teammates scored before him — and went 17 minutes before making his first field goal, finishing with five points in the first half.

“They just crowded the paint,” Thornwell said. “They forced me to pass on my drives.” The 6-foot-5 guard clearly was bothered by the length of Gonzaga’s 6-9 wing Johnathan Williams, but his exhaustion seemed to play a larger role, highlighted by Thornwell’s air-ball to open the second half. Though Thornwell hit 5of-6 free throws and a 3pointer to help the Gamecocks go on a 16-0 run and take a late lead, his teammates stopped feeding the horse they had ridden all season, often failing even to look at the team’s top player.

THE HEEL DEAL: North Carolina’s Justin Jackson puts up a shot in the second half of the Tar Heels’ 7776 Final Four win over Dylan Ennis (inset above) and Oregon on Saturday. AP (2)

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Heading into the biggest game of his life, Sindarius Thornwell came down with an untimely illness, and for the rest of his life, the memories of his lone Final Four appearance will make him sick. The leading scorer in the NCAA Tournament looked nothing like the star who carried South Carolina to the national semifinals, hitting just 4-of-12 shots Saturday as the seventhseeded Gamecocks’ unlikely run ended following a 77-73 loss to top-seeded

Gonzaga at University of Phoenix Stadium. The 15 points scored by Thornwell, who was unable to practice Thursday because of his illness, tied his lowest point total in 21 games dating to Jan. 14, but the senior refused to blame what happened earlier in the week for his rare off performance, claiming he was at “100 percent” during his final college game. “I think the first half I was a little fatigued a little bit, but that’s still not an excuse for anything,” Thornwell said. “I was fine. I was fine the whole game.” After leading South Car-

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By ZACH BRAZILLER GLENDALE, Ariz. — Nerves? Nope. Not Gonzaga. Not this team. Not with this coach. Not with these players. Gonzaga struggled with the pressure of its first Final Four about as much as it did with the West Coast Conference this year. The top-seeded Bulldogs looked comfortable in this setting, like all their previous NCAA Tournament failures had prepared them for this moment. They raced out to a big lead and never lost their composure once as the game tightened up, performing like a team used to such high stakes.

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Nigel Williams-Goss (above) had his best performance of the NCAA Tournament to lead Gonzaga to its first national championship game, scoring 23 points on 9-of-16 shooting while adding six assists and five rebounds. The junior guard became the first player to put up 20-5-5 in a Final Four debut in seven years. South Carolina’s Sindarius Thornwell needed more time to recover. The SEC Player of the Year and the leading scorer in the NCAA Tournament, averaging 25.7 points, missed Thursday’s practice with an illness and never looked quite right.

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Gonzaga freshman Zach Collins showed why he’s the team’s top pro prospect. The 7-footer, who had a total of seven points and 10 rebounds in Gonzaga’s previous two games, outplayed starter Przemek Karnowski on both ends of the floor, finishing with 14 points and 13 rebounds, while tying a freshman Final Four record with six blocks.

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Mark Few’s veteran group moved on to Monday night’s final to face North Carolina — which survived its own late scare against Oregon — bouncing back from a furious South Carolina second-half run and knocking off the seventh-seeded Gamecocks, 77-73, at University of Phoenix Stadium. “To be playing the last game of the year is just crazy cool,” said Few, who was so thrilled to be one win away from a title that he did a handstand in the locker room. Gonzaga became the first West Coast Conference school to reach the champion-

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STUFFED: Gonzaga’s Zach Collins, blocking a shot by South Carolina’s Maik Kotsar, rejected six shots in the Bulldogs’ 77-73 victory Saturday in the Final Four. Getty Images

LENDALE, Ariz. — The unbreakable bond between the three boys began in fourth grade at Happy Valley Elementary, and so Alex Humble drove here from Salt Lake City and Alex Roth flew in from Portland to watch Nigel Williams-Goss lead Gonzaga past South Carolina Saturday night in a Final Four semifinal. Humble and Roth have been there every step of the way watching their childhood friend’s magical March Madness journey, and they were sitting in Section 132 Row X inside University of Phoenix Stadium, cheering him on as Gonzaga, the 77-73 winner, survived a furious second-half South Carolina comeback. Williams-Goss, helped immensely by 7foot freshman Zach Collins (14 points, 13 rebounds, six blocks), poured in 23 points and played through a sore right ankle he turned early in the second half. “I’m not going to let anything stop me at this point,” Williams-Goss said, standing just 40 minutes from a national championship.

holding the Gamecocks to six points over the final 7:06. The lane was mostly closed off, primarily because of 7-foot freshman Zach Collins’ six blocked shots off the bench, which he complemented with 14 points and 13 rebounds. “He told me before the game, ‘I wouldn’t want to be playing against me today,’” said Williams-Goss, Collins’ roommate. South Carolina (26-11), outplayed most of the way, hung around and ripped off a 16-0 run to go ahead for the first time since the opening moments with 7:42 left. “That run South Carolina made on us, that just shows just the heart of a lion that they have, that [coach] Frank [Martin] instills in them, that they get from him,” Few said. “And it took everything we had to hold them off and come back.” On the possession after losing the lead, Collins hit a 3-pointer, a shot that hung on the back of the rim, and somehow dropped in. Two Przemek Karnowski baskets later, the lead was five with 4:49 remaining. Order was restored. In the final minute, Dozier missed twice and Gonzaga smartly fouled, up three with 3.5 seconds left. Gonzaga has employed that late-game philosophy all season up three in the closing seconds. “Hopefully,” Few said, “we’ll be in that situation Monday.”

“Pure elation; something that words can’t really encapsulate,” Humble told the Post after the game. “It truly feels like we are living in a dream, yet when the alarm sounds it’s actually the buzzer and the dream continues. I’m so proud and honored to witness and support the ride.” “Incredible, we are all so proud and can’t wait for Monday,” Roth told the Post. “This is a dream come true for Nigel, and everyone that he has touched in our community.” Their friend has overcome all odds to honor the tattoo on his back that reads: Dreamkeeper. “The significance behind it is everyone has these dreams, and then we grow up and then reality sets in and we lose them,” Humble said. “And Nigel, he’s a Dreamkeeper. He’s out

there to make his dreams a reality, and to me, every time I see him on the big stage, I just had to think of those nights we stayed up talking in my room or his room, where our parents told us to go to bed and it’s 2:30, 3 o’clock in the morning and we’re talking about sports, and we’re talking about basketball and saying, ‘One day that’s going to be me. One day I’m going to be playing in the Final Four. One day I’m going to be on the TV, they’re going to see me on ESPN.’ And just to see that come true, it shows hard work pays off. You have a vision, you have a dream, go get it. And that’s what Nigel’s doing right now.” Williams-Goss was 18 and getting ready to pursue his college basketball dream when he got the tattoo in Las Vegas. “I was there when he got that one,” Roth

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ship game since San Francisco in 1956 and first team from a mid-major conference to play for it all since Butler, then in the Horizon League, in 2011. The school has never won a championship of any kind. On Friday, South Carolina senior star Sindarius Thornwell said Gonzaga “is really nervous,” because of the pressure of playing in its first Final Four as a favorite. The Bulldogs didn’t offer much of a retort Friday, preferring to let their play do the talking Saturday. “We just heard everything this year — we’ve heard the conference, we’ve heard we haven’t played tight games, that we’re not tough. We’ve heard everything,” Gonzaga point guard Nigel Williams-Goss, the best player on the floor, scoring 23 points and adding six assists and five rebounds. “I think the respect thing has to go out the window. You have 37 wins in a college season — I mean, that’s just unbelievable. And to be playing the last game of the season, we have a chance to play for it all. And we’re here to win it.” Gonzaga (37-1) looked every bit like a team capable of cutting down the nets Monday night. It flexed its scoring depth — four players reached double figures — and its defensive ability. It out-rebounded South Carolina, 41-36, and limited Thornwell, the SEC Player of the Year, to a tournament-low 15 points on 4-of-12 shooting. It won the game on the defensive end,

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FIRST TIMERS: Gonzaga coach Mark Few hugs Nigel Williams-Goss after advancing to Monday’s national championship game, the first in school history. USA TODAY Sports

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There’s just ... the team. So he didn’t get the high school experience. But with all of us, we’d travel down there and he’d come back home and we got to kind of help him have that experience a little bit.” Roth had dinner with Williams-Goss Friday evening. “He stopped and talked to everybody,” Roth said. “That’s the Nigel we all know, and he hasn’t changed a bit.” Humble actually stayed over Thursday night at Williams-Goss’ Las Vegas home before completing the 10-hour drive Friday. “I slept in his room,” Humble said. Humble and Roth will stay through Monday night to watch their friend try to defeat North Carolina and cut down the nets. “I’m planning on going out on the town Monday night in Phoenix celebrating Gonzaga’s first championship,” Humble said. Dreamkeeper. steve.serby@nypost.com

said. “Nigel got that tattoo because everybody’s so quick to try and take everybody’s dreams away. ... It’s just him promising himself that he’s going to keep his dreams and do everything he can to achieve it.” Williams-Goss left an immediate indelible impression on Roth and Humble when he first met them in Happy Valley, Ore. “He was far better than everybody at recess, far better than anybody that had lived in our town previously,” Roth said. “It was a shock to everybody.” The boys would all attend different high schools. Williams-Goss moved from Happy Valley to Las Vegas and Findlay Prep High School. “He would fly to Portland or we’d fly down to Vegas for the week or a weekend whenever we could, for birthdays, for whatever it was, graduation,” Humble said. “Findlay Prep is not like a high school where you have a bunch of friends and you play basketball — no, it’s just basketball.

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S E R B Y ’ S S U N D AY Q & A W I T H . . .

With th Open Opening Day just a day away, Mets second baseman Neil Walker steps into the Q&A batter’s box with The Post’s Steve Serby:

Q: Terry Collins says that he expects a huge year from you. A: No. 1 it means I’m healthy. I think the confidence that I have is hopefully going to translate on the field every day. I feel like I’m in a good place mentally and physically in my career. We have a great group of guys, and the camaraderie we have makes it easy to go to the ballpark and just prepare and to play and to focus on winning.

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Q: He also said that you’re a leader. What makes a leader? A: There’s definitely different kinds of leaders. There are leaders that lead by example, there’s leaders that lead more vocally. I feel like I have a little bit of those attributes as a player and as a person. I don’t go to the ballpark every day saying to myself, “I need to be a leader.” I try to do what I can to be a good teammate, to be supportive, to do things the right way, to prepare myself the right way. Q: It must be a nice mental freedom for you knowing your back problems are finally behind you. A: Absolutely. I could tell within three days of having the surgery that my back already felt 100 times better. That was a big relief off my back. Obviously, the timing of it couldn’t have been worse with [us] being in a playoff run and so on and so forth, so that was really the hard part of it. I feel like I’m able to do the things that I need to do, and I’m able to do ‘em more comfortably, with more confidence. There’s not much

that can take the place of being able to go out and not worry about your back locking up on you or something along those lines.

Q: You were in the dugout during the wild-card loss. A: It was a very frustrating thing, but I tried to do everything I could to be as supportive as I could for my teammates. Q: Why is your father (Tom) your hero? A: I’ve been able to lean on him in so many different facets of life. As a former baseball player himself, he’s been through really everything that I’ve been through in my professional career. He’s battled some health things over the course of the last 10 years, and to watch him go through it is really tough on me, my brothers and sister and mom. But he doesn’t complain and he sets a very good example for me, my siblings and my father’s grandchildren, my mother’s. ... I have one daughter and we’re very fortunate to have him as somebody that is such a pillar of our family. Q: He’s had 12 surgeries? A: Yeah. He’s had hip replacement on both sides, and he had complications in one of his hip surgeries that almost took his life back in 2007. He’s had two knee replacements, he could have two shoulder replacements if he wanted to. Q: What happened in 2007? A: He had an infection from the replacement that they ended up having to go in three or four different times to clean, and he ended up spending almost two months in the hospital. Q: How frightening was that? A: It was very frightening. I was playing baseball in Double-A Altoona, which actually was about an hour-and-a-half away from home, but my family really kept me in the dark because they didn’t want to affect the way I was playing. When I saw him during the season, he was in much worse shape than I

anticipated, in a wheelchair and had lost a ton of weight. It was really alarming to see him like that. Q: Your daughter Nora Vail was born last August. How has fatherhood changed your life? A: It’s given me just a greater perspective on life and on baseball and the daily grind of things. You really stop worrying about some of the things that seem important. ... It’s just so fun to kind of see her grow and watch her smile and things like that. It really touches your heart. I never expected that. I expected to really enjoy being a father but I’m probably doing it way more than I could have imagined. Q ; Your experience living on the Upper East side. A: Everything’s at your fingertips. We really got used to having groceries delivered, walking to great restaurants, and entertainment things and walking over to Central Park to take the dog for a walk and the baby in the stroller and so on and so forth. Q: When Matt Harvey had his All-Star season, what was it like facing him? A: You knew that you were going to get just a nasty slider at some point at bat, you didn’t want to miss the fastball when you got it. The fastball is midto upper-90s, and then you get a putaway slider, it was a very uncomfortable at-bat needless to say. Q: Does he look like he’s on his way back? A: Seeing him and watching him, I think the health issues are behind him, and that’s exciting to see because his stuff is so good. Q: Noah Syndergaard on the mound. A: He’s a bull. To watch him pitch and to watch the power stuff that he’s had, the power fastball, the power slider, it makes you happy that you’re not on that other end. I’ve been on

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that other end against him, and that’s no joke (chuckle).

Q: How intimidating is he on the mound? A: He’s very intimidating. Anytime you’re looking at a 6-foot-5, 6-foot-6 guy with muscles bulging and he’s throwing in the upper 90s with [a] 92 mile-an-hour slider, as soon as you step in the box, you know you’re in for a dogfight. There’s not many guys that are like that as pitchers. We got a couple of those guys on our team and you’re happy to be on that side as opposed to the other side. Q: Yoenis Cespedes in the batter’s box. A: He’s just such a dynamic hitter. He can hit a home run at any time, in any ballpark, pull the ball, dead center field, opposite field — I mean, there’s not much the guy can’t do as a hitter, and that’s pretty scary. Q: Favorite New York City restaurants? A: Marea and Del Posto. Q: Is this a World Series championship team? A: I think so. You look around, and there’s not many holes on this team, we have some of the best talent that I’ve ever been around. We have the ability to do it, and obviously staying healthy as a group is really important, and more than that, it’s about coming together as a group and going out there and not worrying about the expectations, but just focusing on how do we win on a nightly basis as a team, and after 162 games see where you’re at.

Q: Who’s the team to beat? A: I think it’s easy to say that the Cubs are the team to beat in the National League. They’re the defending champs so they’re riding high and everybody’s going to be gunning for them, but we feel like if we take care of our business and not worry about any of the other teams, just kind of control what we can control, what we can control as a group, that we have just as good a chance as anybody else to win a World Series.

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By MIKE PUMA David Wright has spent 347 days on the disabled list in recent seasons, but Monday’s inactivity will seem a little different for the Mets captain. After 12 straight starts at third base on Opening Day to begin his major league career, Wright will be reduced to a spectator when the Mets play their opener against the Braves at Citi Field. Wright, was shut down from his throwing program early in spring training because of a shoulder impingement following his return from neck surgery. He indicated he will still be in uniform for pregame introductions and then will watch from the dugout. “The disappointment level is high,” Wright said. “I wish there is something else I could do to get ready, but there is nothing. That’s how you kind of maybe soften the disappointment of not being ready, is that I am doing everything I possibly can and that is how I go about it. I wish I was on the field, of course, but I just can’t.” Jose Reyes is scheduled to start at third base for the Mets. The last Mets player other than Wright to start a season opener at the position was Ty Wigginton in 2004; Wright was called up from Triple-A later that year and began his Opening Day streak the following spring. Wright has been swinging the bat, fielding grounders and running, but indicated it might be another two weeks before he’s cleared to start throwing. And once he begins throwing, he will have to gradually build up arm strength, adding more time to his rehab. The 34-year-old Wright is absolute in his belief he will play this season, but also realistic enough to know there will be no guarantees about regular playing time once he returns. “We’re in a position now where this team is built to win, so when I do come back I have to be ready to produce and not get back just for the sake of getting back, because this is really a deep team,” Wright said. “I am not going to risk hurting this team for the sake of saying, ‘OK, I am back from neck surgery, I am back from my shoulder woes.’ When I’m back I want to be able to produce.” In addition to his shoulder impingement, Wright still is managing the spinal stenosis in his back that cost him most of the 2015 season. Last year, he underwent surgery in June for a herniated disk in his neck and never returned. The Mets brought back Reyes last July following his release from the Rockies — he previously had been suspended 52 games for violating MLB’s domestic violence policy — and still is hoping he can play, once again, in the same infield with Wright. The two, who were teammates for eight seasons, were in the same lineup for a spring training game, with Wright as the designated hitter. “It’s tough. That is something I was looking

Captain to miss Opening Day for first for first time time in in his his career career forward forward to, to, playing playing with with him him in in the the same same infield,” infield,” Reyes Reyes said. said. “It “It seems seems like like we we have have to to wait wait aa little get little bit. bit. Try Try to to get healthy, healthy, don’t don’t try try to to do do it it too too soon. soon. Wait Wait until you’re ready ready and and then then try try to to come come back.” back.” Wright plans plans Wright to docto visit visit with with doc tors tors in in New New York York this this week week before before returning returning to to Port Lucie Port St. St. Lucie to to continue continue his rehab. his rehab. Then Then he he wants wants to veterans to join join veterans such such as as Reyes, Reyes, Neil Neil Walker, Walker, Curtis Curtis GranderGrander son son and and Jay Jay Bruce Bruce in in hoisthoist ing ing aa World World Series Series champichampi onship onship trophy. trophy. “We have have the the ability ability to to have have “We sustained sustained success success around around here, here, but but we’re we’re in in aa win-now winnow mode, mode, because because we we have have got got aa lot lot of of guys guys that that are are going going to to be be free free agents agents at at the the end end of of the the year,” year,” Wright could be be Wright said. said. “This “This could one one of of this this group’s group’s final final chances the chances to to kind kind of of finish finish the job couple of of years years job from from aa couple ago. get back back II ago. So, So, when when II get want carry want to to be be able able to to carry my my weight.” weight.” mpuma@nypost.com

A DIFFERENT A DIFFERENT LOOK: The The Mets will will be be withwithMets out David David Wright Wright out (right) on on Opening Opening (right) Day for for the the first first time time Day since 2004. 2004. In In his his place, place, his his since long-time infield infield partner partner Jose Jose Reyes Reyes long-time will start start at at third third base. base. will

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METS NOTES ➤

Reliever Fernando Salas was limited to just five spring training games because of a delay receiving his work visa, but appeared sharp in his final two appearances, in which he did not allow a base runner over 1 ²/₃ innings. “I feel more confidence, and I’m ready for the season,” he said. Witt closer Jeurys Familia serving a 15-game suspension for violating MLB’s domestic violence policy, Addison Reed will shift to the closer’s role, with Salas likely receiving much of the eighth-inning work. But manager Terry Collins has also said he may look to mix and match in the eighth inning until Familia returns.

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Zack Wheeler threw 68 pitches in a camp game Saturday in Port St. Lucie, Fla. The right-hander is scheduled to pitch against the Marlins on Friday at Citi Field for his first major league start since 2014.

Missing Miller, Girardi still comfortable in late innings By GEORGE A. KING III

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Yankees manager Joe Girardi didn’t dance around what not having versatile reliever Andrew Miller to turn to in the late innings this year means. “We lost a great pitcher in Andrew Miller,’’ Girardi said of the lanky lefty who was dealt to the Indians last July, and helped Cleveland get one win away from a World Series title. “He is a hard guy to replace.’’ Dellin Betances is back and Aroldis Chapman returned via free agency on a five-year contract worth $86 million, so the Yankees have plenty of ammunition late in the game. And while Tyler Clippard isn’t Miller, he still has a lot of experience. “I feel good overall about our bullpen. The arms that we have down there and the options, the two longer guys who can serve as shorter guys if you needed to,’’ Girardi said of Bryan Mitchell and Adam Warren. “But again, you can’t replace Andrew Miller. He is the elite of the elite. [But] I feel really good about our bullpen.’’

YANKEES NOTES With the first 18 games against ➤ the Rays, Orioles, Cardinals, White

Sox and Pirates the Yankees have a chance for a decent beginning to the season. “I think it is important to get off to good start because we are in such a tough division. We had four teams that finished over .500 last year,’’ Girardi said. “You don’t want to dig yourself a hole.’’ After three games in Pittsburgh (April 21-23) the schedule grows teeth. Nine of the following 12 games are against the Red Sox in Boston, the Blue Jays at home and the defending World Series champion Cubs in Chicago.

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Make what you want of it but the Yankees’ 24-9-1 record in spring training was the best in the majors. The 24 victories tied the franchise’s record since at least 1962. The 2009 club won 24 exhibition games and the World Series.

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The final spot on the Mets’ Opening Day roster likely will belong to Rafael Montero. An industry source confirmed Saturday that Seth Lugo is expected to be placed on the disabled list to begin the season after experiencing recent “fatigue” in his right arm. The Mets had planned to test Lugo in a side session on Sunday, but now appear ready to give Montero the bullpen job. Lugo battled arm soreness after returning from the World Baseball Classic and indicated he might have pushed too hard in the final week of spring training in his attempt to win a job. And so, the Mets appear likely to begin the season with both Lugo and Steven Matz sidelined by arm issues. The lefty Matz was recently shut down from throwing for at least three weeks because of irritation in his elbow. Lugo was competing for a rotation spot, but Zack Wheeler and Robert Gsellman were last week named as the starters behind Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom and Matt Harvey.

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OPENING DAY 2017

Conforto will get chances as a reserve By FRED KERBER Last April, Michael Conforto was on an absolute tear for the Mets. In 21 games, he hit .365 was on a pace for 31 homers, 139 RBIs and 116 runs scored. In July, he was back in the minors, playing in Las Vegas. A real riches to rags story. Conforto made it back to the Mets after posting video-game numbers at Triple-A. Still, with the Mets having imported Jay Bruce last summer to join fixtures Yoenis Cespedes and Curtis Granderson, along with Juan Lagares, a return to the minors seemed likely for the lefty-hitting Conforto, 24. But Lagares tweaked an oblique and Conforto got the word he would remain as a reserve. “I feel good. Confident. It’s a different role for me starting the year, but I feel great,” said ConMICHAEL forto, who was a CONFORTO late-season revelation two summers ago and played in the World Series. “I’m excited about the opportunity to just get in there and hopefully influence some games late and give some guys rest and do what I can to help the team win. “My goal in the offseason was to get here,” said Conforto, who finished last season hitting .220 — but only because of a .300-plus September. “It’s tough with all the talent we have on this team, there weren’t many spots to get.” Manager Terry Collins has been a Conforto supporter and said he knows Conforto has it in him. But he also knows the young outfielder can torture himself. “After the month he had in April, everybody’s chanting ‘MVP’ about this kid — he hit homers, leading the league in RBI or whatever. And they’re chanting ‘MVP.’ Then he expected too much of himself,” Collins said. “That’s the way I look at it. That’s when we saw the change in his swing. He went from that really nice, smooth, through-the-ball swing and created himself a hole. And they exploited it at this level, which they can do.” Collins, with a set outfield, said he still sees room for Conforto, but in a role that provides some breathing room. “I talked to him. He wants to play. I told him right now this is where he needs to be to help us the most. He’s on board,” Collins said. “That fine line for me is, ‘You don’t have to like what you’re going to be asked to do but you’ve got to accept it and go about and do it right.’ And he will.” fred.kerber@nypost.com

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“I don’t worry about that stuff anyERRY Collins is one fired-up 67-yearold with his Mets opening the 2017 more,’’ Collins told The Post. “When I got season Monday at Citi Field against back to the major league dugout [after managing stints with the Astros and Anthe Braves, Collins’ 47th year in baseball. The feisty Collins is in the final year of gels] I said I’m not going to let this stuff his contract as manager of the Mets, his get to me. Now it gets to me when we don’t play well because seventh season here, that’s my responsibility. and the Mets are lucky “At the start of this to have him. year I said I am going After making it to the to enjoy the year, have World Series two years some fun, get us to play ago and taking an injugood and at the end of ry-ravaged team to the postseason in 2016, Kevin Kernan the year I hope they say, ‘We’d like you Collins is looking to back,’ or maybe I will become the first manager in Mets history to make it to the say ‘I’m done.’ “I grew up in the Dodgers organization, playoffs three straight seasons. Being in the last year of his contract a Hall of Fame guy had one-year contracts for 23 years in a row,’’ Collins said does not phase him. of Walter Alston. “He never worried. It inspires him.

Tommy [Lasorda] never worried. The era of the game today is look, just go do your job, and if you do it the best way you can, things will work out.’’ If the Mets go in another direction, you can be sure Collins will stay in the game in some capacity. He does not know the meaning of the word retirement. One early morning in Port St. Lucie this spring, about 14 Mets veterans were invited into Collins’ office. It was time to go over the ground rules for the season. This is the biggest change Collins has made since his first two times around as a major league manager. It’s easier to have help and not be the dictator. “This is the best clubhouse I’ve ever been around,’’ Collins said. “These guys are funny, I include them, they include me in stuff, we have no problems here. Every-

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METS VS. BRAVES - MONDAY, 1:10 READY TO GO: Terry Collins will turn 68 in May, but the Mets manager isn’t ready to step away from the game of baseball. “The era of the game today is look, just go do your job and if you do it the best way you can, things will work out,” he said. Corey Sipkin; AP

1. April 9, 1985: Gary Carter’s debut with the Mets couldn’t have been better scripted. The All-Star catcher smashed a gameending homer (above) against the Cardinals’ Neil Allen in the 10th inning to give the Mets a 6-5 victory at Shea Stadium. Carter had arrived in a winter trade with the Expos for Hubie Brooks, Mike Fitzgerald, Herm Winningham and Floyd Youmans.

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body knows the rules. If I’m the guy that always has to lay down the law, they get nervous if I start walking around, now all of a sudden, if you got a guy over here who is not buying into it, the [veterans] will be the first ones to head it off, if they can’t do it then I get involved. “That has made a world of difference. My first two stops it was all me. I demanded a lot.’’ If rules are broken, the players’ peers address the issue first, the team becomes more unified. That is just one way Collins has grown as a manager. Managing the Mets is unique because of so many different factors: an involved ownership in the Wilpons; a battle-tested general manager who demands a lot in Sandy Alderson; a talented, young pitching staff that must be handled with care; New York media

obligations; and the most important task — winning. It’s all there. This journey began in 1971 at short-season Niagara Falls after a college educated middle infielder was drafted by the Pirates in the 19th round. Collins’ first managing gig was 10 years later at Single-A Lodi (Calif.). In 12 years of managing in the majors with those stops in Houston and Anaheim and these six seasons with the Mets, Collins has amassed 925 wins and 925 losses. Imagine that. This is the season that can really put him and the Mets over the top. Collins, who turns 68 on May 27, is ready. He remains as feisty as ever. “I love competition. I love to win,’’ he said, his voice rising. “I love to beat you. I say that to anybody, just because I was

small. Let’s go, bring it on. I’ll take my chances. I make jokes today about when I go play golf. They all say, ‘What’s my handicap?’ “What do you mean what’s my handicap? Let’s go. If you are better than me, great. “When I played high school basketball I was OK, they didn’t lower the rim because I’m 5-7. When I played football, they didn’t shorten the field from 100 yards, in baseball, they didn’t bring the fences in because I was coming up. Bullcrap, let’s go play. I’ll take my chances because I believe in what I can do.’’ I then ask Collins the million dollar question: And you’ll take your chances with this Mets team? His response is full-blown TC. “You bet your ass,’’ he said. kevin.kernan@nypost.com

2. April 4, 1994: Tuffy Rhodes, a light-hitting outfielder who finished with 13 career homers, went deep three times against Dwight Gooden, but the Mets had their own power display in a 12-8 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Jose Vizcaino, Todd Hundley and Jeff Kent all homered for the Mets, who totaled 16 hits. 3. March 31, 1998: Alberto Castillo’s pinch-hit RBI single in the 14th inning gave the Mets a 1-0 victory over the Phillies at Shea Stadium. Temperature at first pitch was 82 degrees, and Curt Schilling brought additional heat, striking out nine in eight innings for the Phillies. The Mets received six shutout innings from Bobby Jones. 4. April 8, 1975: Joe Torre’s RBI single in the ninth inning beat Steve Carlton, 2-1, in a battle between Hall of Fame pitchers at Shea Stadium. Tom Seaver allowed one run in the completegame victory over the Phillies. Dave Kingman homered against Carlton for the Mets’ other run. 5. April 11, 1962: In their inaugural opener, the Mets lost 11-4 to the Cardinals at Busch Stadium, foreshadowing a season of despair. The Mets, under manager Casey Stengel, set a major league record with 120 losses. — Mike Puma

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INSIDE THE MATCHUPS YANKEES: Tanaka led the American League with a 2.34 road ERA in 2016, marking the lowest mark by a Yankees pitcher since Ron Guidry posted a 1.69 road ERA in 1978 and recorded a 6-1 record and 2.27 ERA against AL East opponents. RAYS: Archer finished last season with the worst ERA of his career but pitched better against the Yankees. Archer recorded a hard-luck 0-3 record and a 3.86 ERA, during which he surpassed six innings in each of his three starts.

STAT SO? YANKEES: The Yankees have lost their last four season openers that have taken place on the road and are just 7-20 since 1971. RAYS: According to Statcast, opponents are hitting just .193 and slugging .287 against Archer’s slider when it ends on at bat.

By DAN MARTIN ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Aaron Judge says he wouldn’t change any part of his path to being the Opening Day right fielder for the Yankees this season. His teammate Gary Sanchez also seems to have no regrets. Looking back to last June, you would be hard-pressed to have predicted both players would be in the starting lineup at the start of the 2017 season. Sanchez was out with a fractured right thumb after a disastrous spring training that landed him back at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, and Judge was in the midst of a 20 at-bat hitless streak that had some wondering if he ever would get to the majors. A lot can change in a few months, and now, the former prospects will get a chance to prove themselves again, beginning Sunday against the Rays at Tropicana Field. Judge will have to show the adjustments he has made since the end of last season will carry over from the spring and make him less of a strikeout machine. Sanchez is looking to continue the rampage he began last August following his call-up from Scranton/WilkesBarre. “I can’t sit here and get too excited about [Sunday] because now the real work starts,” Judge said before the Yankees held a workout at The Trop on Saturday. “We’ve got to win games and everything counts for real now. I hope I’m different than last year. I’ve made a lot of adjustments, and I’m trying to be more consistent.”

Because Judge didn’t have much success in his twomonth cameo with the Yankees last year, manager Joe Girardi placed him eighth in the lineup, while the more proven Sanchez will hit second. “We talk about not putting too much on a young player’s plate in the beginning so you can earn your way up the lineup,” Girardi. “If he hits the way we believe he’s capable, there’s a good chance he’s going to move up. We’re trying not to put too much on him too early.” Judge insists he’s not feeling pressure — nor are his teammates. “I’m still trying to have fun,” Judge said. “To me, this is like a little league team. We have a lot of young guys with a lot of energy.” Sanchez looked like he was playing little league at times in 2016, hitting homers at a record-setting pace. He hit well again this spring, but pitchers, starting with Tampa Bay’s Chris Archer on Sunday, no doubt will continue to look for flaws in his offensive game. Sanchez said he is ready for the challenge. “I’m excited,” the catcher said through a translator. “I just want [Sunday] to get here and for us to start playing.”

BIG-TIME FUN: Yankees slugger Aaron Judge, whose path to the starting lineup has been winding, to say the least, says he wouldn’t trade it for anything and he is “still trying to have fun.” N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg

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T. PETERSBURG, Fla. — We need this. Need it? Around New York, when it became apparent the chill wasn’t going to abandon our bones one second earlier than required, we’ve been circling this date, pining for it, counting down toward it, from the moments last autumn when baseball expired, abandoning us at the most inopportune time. That was the most timeless thing Bart Giamatti was talking about all those years ago, after all, when he wrote about how baseball is built to break your heart. That’s the part that still reaches into your soul for a

squeeze every year: “As soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. … You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive … and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.” Oh, yeah. We need the Yankees and the Rays at Tropicana Field on Sunday, and we need the Mets

and the Braves at Citi Field on Monday. We need all 318 of the games that will follow in a way, this time, that maybe we’ve never needed them before. Think about all that has transpired since the afternoon of Oct. 2, when Baltimore’s Zach Britton struck out Brett Gardner, ending a 5-2 Orioles win and closing out the Yankees’ schedule (a pitch that would, as

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it turned out, to the lasting regret of Maryland baseball fans everywhere, be the last pitch Britton threw all year, too). Think about the echoing sadness that chased you out the door at Citi Field on the night of Oct. 5, when Madison Bumgarner coaxed a line drive off the bat of T.J. Rivera, ending a dominant four-hit, 119-pitch 3-0 victory for the Giants. Recall the abrupt silence that filled the yard maybe a half-hour earlier, when Conor Gillaspie drilled a three-run homer that sealed the Mets’ fate and slaughtered their season. If you are a New York sports

fan, think about all the losses you have witnessed in the weeks since then, blowout losses and heartbreaking losses, losses where your team didn’t show up and losses where you wish you hadn’t shown up. The Nets and the Knicks have fallen in bunches, in bulk, the Jets losing so often you grew numb to it, the Giants winning just enough to keep your interest piqued, then pulling a no-show in Green Bay in the playoffs. If you are a hockey fan in New Jersey or Brooklyn, it has been a forgettable slog, and even as well as the Rangers have played, it sometimes feels like the

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YANKEES AT RAYS - SUNDAY, 1:10 FIELD OF DREAMS: It has been a trying few months in the New York sports world since the final pitch of the 2016 season — from Carmelo Anthony (inset far left) and the Knicks to Jets quarterback drama, like Bryce Petty’s injury (inset left) — but baseball returns Sunday just in time to give us all reason to be excited again, writes Post columnist Mike Vaccaro. Neil Miller; Paul J. Bereswill; Getty Images

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SAVING ACE: Yankees ace Masahiro Tanaka will make his third straight Opening Day start Sunday against the Rays. AP By DAN MARTIN

Yankees have won at the Stadium more recently than Broadway Blue has won at the Garden. Just when we needed it most, baseball stopped and gave us … all of that, instead. But it wasn’t just sports that soured our mood in the interim. There was an election (you may have heard), and no matter what side of the great abyss your views may fall, it has been a long, hard, jagged road from Election Day to here, and the pavers are nowhere in sight just yet. The weather seemed especially foul this year, but then, if we’re being honest with ourselves, the weather seems especially foul ev-

ery year when summer follows baseball out the door. It’s what makes the last day of the season such a mournful affair, after all, because we know what’s coming behind it. But if there’s one good thing about an endless string of 23-degree mornings, it’s this: You appreciate what’s coming behind that, too. And so this week, if you indulge yourself a little, you see a day or two where the temperature might actually reach 65 in Central Park. It should be right around 80 when the Yankees take on the Rays on Sunday (although that technically may be cheating,

since the game will be in Florida and it will be contested indoors in the air conditioning). No matter. As sad as the end of that old Giamatti essay was, after all, it is surpassed by the hope of the start: “The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings …” We need to begin again. We need this summer. We need this season. We need baseball, back again at 1 o’clock Sunday. More than that: We’ve earned it, this year more than any before. mvaccaro@nypost.com

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — With the Yankees rotation anything but deep, Masahiro Tanaka isn’t just the ace. He’s the only reliable piece going into the regular season. Despite that, manager Joe Girardi is careful not to make too much of the right-hander’s importance to the staff. “He’s been really consistent the three years we had him and that’s all we’re asking him to be,” Girardi said during the team’s workout at Tropicana Field in advance of Sunday’s season opener against the Rays. “Not any more [than that]. If we give him good run support, he’s gonna win a lot of games.” Tanaka will have to in order for the Yankees to stay in contention with their new-look roster. CC Sabathia and Michael Pineda are the only other veteran starters, and they both have health concerns — as does Tanaka. The Yankees will start the season with the untested Luis Severino and either Jordan Montgomery or Chad Green likely rounding out the rotation. This spring, Tanaka has shown just how dominant he can be as he enters his fourth season with the Yankees and will be making his third

straight Opening Day start. “I’m ready,” Tanaka said after giving up just two runs, one earned, in 23²/₃ innings in the Grapefruit League. He’s anxious to see how the Yankees come together behind him. “I think we have some good talent and the potential is there,” Tanaka said through a translator. “Maybe there will be some growing pains going through the season, including myself, but we’re an energetic, good, young team.” We’ll see. Girardi said he just wants Tanaka to keep doing what he has been doing. “He had a really good spring,” Girardi said. “You hope he picks up where he left off.” Tanaka made his final appearance of 2016 at The Trop and had mixed results. He earned the win and surrendered four runs in six innings but managed to give up four homers in the bottom of the third. “I think I’m over it,” Tanaka said of the Rays’ taking him deep. “But I did study it. You’ve got to look back and study what you did wrong. I understand the adjustments that need to be made, so feel I’m confident going into the game.” dan.martin@nypost.com

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YOUTH GETS Why not us? Gardner has hopes of winning AL East By GEORGE A. KING III

designated hitter, Mark Teixeira the first baseman and Andrew Miller joined Dellin Betances ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Brett Gardner and Chapman as the most feared late-innings is well aware the excitement of Opening Day bullpen in baseball. Rodriguez and Teixeira are retired and Miller hasn’t carried the Yankees into a postseason is with the Indians. series the past four years. Holliday replaces Rodriguez and Chapman Since 2013, the Yankees’ postseason experience is losing the 2015 AL Wild Card Game to the returned via a five-year deal worth $86 million. Didi Gregorius is expected to miss Astros at Yankee Stadium. April with a shoulder injury, Nevertheless, that didn’t PROJECTED which is a big blow. Ronald stop the left fielder from YANKEES LINEUP Torreyes will fill in at short. predicting something others 2016 statistics “There is a little different would consider a stretch. energy, a little different feel,’’ “I think we are capable of BRETT GARDNER Gardner said of the roster. .261, 7 HR, 41 RBI winning the division. Every“I like it and I have a good body believes that, that’s our GARY SANCHEZ feeling about it. I am excited goal,’’ Gardner said Saturday .299, 20 HR, 42 RBI about the season and excited before the Yankees worked about these young guys getout at Tropicana Field in front GREG BIRD ting the opportunity to show of Sunday’s Opening Day tilt .261, 11 HR, 31 RBI (’15) they belong here. The last against the Rays. “That’s the few years have been disapgood thing about Opening MATT HOLLIDAY .246, 20 HR, 62 RBI pointing for us and me. We Day, everybody starts off on have to make it back to the equal footing and everybody JACOBY ELLSBURY playoffs. That’s our goal.’’ has the same opportunities.’’ .263, 9 HR, 56 RBI For all but a few teams, the For the Yankees to dislodge dawn of a new season delivthe Red Sox from the top of STARLIN CASTRO ers hope. And there is hope the AL East a lot of things .270, 21 HR, 70 RBI inside the Yankees’ universe, have to go right for them CHASE HEADLEY but there are so many quesand wrong for the defending .251, 14 HR, 51 RBI tions in the rotation that hope champions, who won’t have might be hard to sustain. David Price at the beginning AARON JUDGE B eyond Tanaka, CC of the season and the retired .179, 4 HR, 10 RBI Sabathia will be 37 in July, David Ortiz forever. coming off right knee surgery The longest-tenured YanRONALD TORREYES and is 32-39 with a 4.54 ERA in kee, Gardner, 33, said he is .258, 1 HR, 12 RBI 99 starts since the beginning impressed with the players of 2013. Sabathia did make 30 around him and expects Gary starts last year and went 9-12 with a 3.91 ERA. Sanchez, Greg Bird and Aaron Judge to deliver. Despite the veteran lefty’s dropoff, he isn’t “We have a lot of talent. A lot of the young kids are really going to take advantage of this near the top of the Yankees’ list of rotation quesopportunity and run with it,’’ Gardner predicted. tions. Michael Pineda and Luis Severino had “They are guys with a lot of talent mixed in with miserable seasons a year ago and nothing in the veterans like Matt Holliday and we have spring training indicated bounce-back years. Publicly, manager Joe Girardi is always the Chappy [Aroldis Chapman] back. Our bullpen is one of our strengths so it’s important our offense head of the “Glass Half Full’’ crowd, and he was in that mode Saturday. score some runs.’’ “Offensively we have a chance to be pretty good. The Yankees’ season opens Sunday with ace Masahiro Tanaka facing the Rays and Chris You look at the middle of the lineup [Bird, HolArcher. It is Tanaka’s third straight Opening Day liday, Jacoby Ellsbury] and there is a lot of potenassignment, and the Yankees are hoping his suc- tial,’’ said Girardi, who enters his 10th season withcess against the Rays continues. He is 6-0 with a out a contract for next year and hoping the long list of questions are answered in a positive light. 2.82 ERA in eight starts against them. At this time last year Alex Rodriguez was the george.king@nypost.com

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This new era of Yanks set to provide a breath of fresh air S

ond-oldest player after new designated hitter Matt Holliday, who’s 37), this represents a bit of déjà vu from his time the rebuilding Indians clubs of the early-to-mid 2000s. Except he has switched roles from up-and-comer to graybeard. “You don’t really know what to expect, day to day,” Sabathia said of such a young team. “It makes it a lot of fun, though.” The Yankees looked like a fun bunch late last season, after they executed a flurry of trade-deadline deals that refueled their farm system and announced their long-term intentions to the baseball world. That the team went 32-26 after selling off Carlos Beltran, ArolKen dis Chapman, Andrew Miller and Ivan Davidoff Nova only strengthened their resolve and led to the offseason trade of Brian McCann to Houston as well as, in the interest of contending while reconstructing, the Holliday signing and Chapman’s return. Now Bird, off a yearlong injury absence, appears ready to succeed the retired Mark Teixeira. Refsnyder, once an exciting prospect, has been surpassed by higher-ceiling youngsters like new right fielder Aaron Judge. Many more interesting names, like Clint Frazier, Gleyber Torres and James Kaprielian, prepare in the minor leagues as the team hopes to get under the luxury tax next winter, then spend on a free agent like Bryce Harper or Manny Machado after 2018 as a finishing touch. The success of Phase 1, the team’s ability to stay in the race last September, “that’s why everybody’s riding so high right now,” Sabathia opined. Gardner countered: “I don’t know that it matters any at all, to be honest. Yeah, we played well. We played well the last couple of months of the season, I feel like. But the bottom line is we didn’t make the playoffs. That’s why you play 162 games and not 62.” Gardner added: “I do think we’re going to surprise some people,” and the Yankees might be the hardest team in all of baseball to peg given their dependence on high-end youngsters. For starters, it feels much different around here. It’s on these 2017 Yankees to turn that breath of fresh air into something really sweet. kdavidoff@nypost.com

1. BELIEVE IN MIRACLES CC Sabathia (below), Michael Pineda and Luis Severino have to combine for 90 starts and 45 wins. Try getting those bets in. Of the three Sabathia is likely to have the best year. Pineda is far too inconsistent. Severino was named the fourth starter because he was better than a pedestrian bunch in spring training. He was 0-8 with an 8.50 ERA in 11 starts last year. Left unsaid is Masahiro Tanaka will be required to surpass the 200 innings mark for the first time in the big leagues and win 20-plus games. And don’t forget Dellin Betances and Aroldis Chapman must stay healthy and be almost perfect.

2. PRAY THE KIDS ARE MORE THAN ALL RIGHT The Yankees didn’t score enough runs a year ago and now are turning to neophytes Gary Sanchez, Greg Bird and Aaron Judge to provide the muscle that Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira didn’t in 2016. Expectations are through the clouds on Sanchez, who swatted 20 homers in two months last year. Even if the trio produces the Yankees must get more from veterans Jacoby Ellsbury, Brett Gardner, Chase Headley and the same results or better out of Didi Gregorius and Starlin Castro.

3. FORGET THE WORLD SERIES — FOCUS ON AL EAST

Red Sox and Blue Jays to come down with significant injuries or have off years from Chris Sale, Marcus Stroman, Mookie Betts and Josh Donaldson, as well as others to leave the AL East title door open. The Yankees’ rotation is short compared to the Red Sox and Blue Jays. Then there are the Indians, Royals and Mariners to contend with.

4. PULL OFF A STUNNING DEAL Let’s say the Yankees are in the AL East race in late July and decide they are one or two pieces away. A year ago at the Aug. 1 trade deadline the Yankees were 6 ½ lengths back and opted to deal Andrew Miller, Chapman and Carlos Beltran. Will they look at White Sox lefty Jose Quintana or some other pitchers/players and think they would be the difference between a fifth straight year ending without participating in a postseason series or printing ALDS tickets?

5. BEAT THE ODDS Bovada has the Yankees listed at 25-1 odds to win the World Series, 12-1 to cop the AL title, 11-2 in the AL East and list the Yankees’ win total at 82 ½. All that sounds fair for a team that has so many question marks on the mound and at the plate and very little chance of winning their 28th World Series title. — George A. King III

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T. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Ever initiate a workplace conversation with someone standing about 15 feet away? You probably have. But it requires a significant volume level, and that in turn requires a significant comfort level. Earlier this spring, in the home clubhouse at George M. Steinbrenner Field, Greg Bird shouted down to Rob Refsnyder, with about 15 feet separating their lockers, concerning some mundane item. Once upon a time in the Yankees’ universe, to do so would have meant disrupting the air space of myriad workplace lifers, including stately captain Derek Jeter. Maybe Bird wouldn’t have done so in the first place. By now, however, you know these are not your parents’ Yankees. The youth movement has arrived in full, and on Sunday afternoon at Tropicana Field, with their game against the Rays opening the Major League Baseball schedule, these dramatically remade Yankees will start to see whether they’re ready to simultaneously develop and win. “This is an exciting time for them,” Brett Gardner said of his less experienced teammates. “It’s an exciting time for us to be around and try to help them with that. I think it’s an exciting time for fans and the organization, too. I think we’ve got a bright future, not just long-term, but I think we’re going to have a good year this year, as well.” Gardner, the likely leadoff hitter against Tampa Bay ace Chris Archer, speaks as a representative of this team’s minority — those players in their 30s. The team’s Opening Day roster features 17 players in their 20s and eight in their 30s. In their most recent postseason game, their 2015 wild-card loss to the Astros, the Yankees used eight players in their 30s and six in their 20s. For Gardner, 33, a careerlong Yankee who debuted in 2008 and counted Bobby Abreu, Jason Giambi, Mike Mussina and new Hall of Famer Ivan Rodriguez as brief teammates, this will be a whole new world. For CC Sabathia, 36, the club’s oldest pitcher (and sec-

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Bird, Sanchez faces of Yanks as season begins This isn’t your typical veteran-laden Yankees team of seasons past. Young sluggers Greg Bird (left) and Gary Sanchez — leaders of an emerging youth movement — look to lead the Bombers back to the playoffs. Their quest begins today against the Rays at Tropicana Field.

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