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NYPD cops will soon have to wear body cams under a federal court order — but the city is still offering a small pay hike to sweeten the pot for those who do so. Mayor “de Blasio just wants cops to think he is being nice to them for once,” said one cynical police-union source, noting that Hizzoner is seeking re-election next year.

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HRA benefits gal benefited herself By YOAV GONEN City Hall Bureau Chief A veteran city worker tasked with helping the most vulnerable New Yorkers coerced a client living with HIV to spend part of her food-stamp benefits on the employee herself, an administrative law judge found. Jackie Bonner, a benefits worker with the Human Resources Administration, initially helped the ailing client land an unexpected windfall of $753 in cash and food stamps after identifying an error in the woman’s records. But Bonner then falsely told the woman the money would be forfeited unless it was spent in 90 days — and prodded the woman to “hook up a sister” by using the benefits to buy groceries for Bonner, according to hearing records. The client initially said no, but later agreed — buying 37 Yoplait yogurts and 19 cuts of meat for Bonner ahead of Thanksgiving 2015. The client, who isn’t identified in city documents, spent $153.97 on Bonner at a Stop & Shop in Yonkers, making a food-stamp payment with her governmentissued Electronic Benefit Transfer card, according to documents. Despite Bonner’s history of generally good performance reviews, an administrative law judge overseeing the case called for the 31-year municipal worker to be canned. “The facts suggest that [Bonner]

Facts suggest [she] targeted this client . . . as someone that she could manipulate. — Judge Alessandra Zorgniotti, on woman using her EBT card to buy food for HRA worker

targeted this client, who is sick and vulnerable, as someone that she could manipulate,” Judge Alessandra Zorgniotti wrote in her Dec. 5 ruling. “Such an abuse of her position clearly demonstrates that [Bonner] is unfit to be an eligibility specialist.” Bonner maintained at the disciplinary hearing that she never asked the client to purchase the groceries, and the client told Zorgniotti that she felt “power” in being able to do something for Bonner. But texts between the pair show the client sent photos of items in

her grocery cart, to which Bonner replied, “LOL . . . WOW . . . Sweet,” according to city documents. The client also sent messages saying “one bag of yogurt” and “YOUR MEAT” to Bonner, who replied “Thanks.” But Bonner told the judge she was absentmindedly responding to the texts of a client who she believed was shopping for herself. She told Zorgniotti that some things she had given the client — including $20 for a bus ticket, a red velvet cake and a winter coat — were given out of concern, not as an attempt to butter her up.

Bonner acknowledged that the client left the bag of groceries downstairs at her HRA office building a few days after the shopping trip, but told the judge most of the food was taken by colleagues. She said she took the last bit — which she valued at roughly $25 — because she didn’t believe it violated the agency’s policy against accepting gifts. Bonner declined to comment, and her lawyer couldn’t immediately be reached. Bonner earns $54,720 annually, according to online records. ygonen@nypost.com

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The Connecticut man charged with killing his wife and abandoning their 6year-old daughter at the Port Authority Bus Terminal was angry over his wife’s relationship with another man, police said Monday. Elmer Gomez Ruano confessed to smothering Dionicia Bautista-Cano, 24, according to police. The couple had been reunited for less than 24 hours when they got into a fight over her ex-boyfriend on Nov. 14 in their Stamford apartment, police said. AP

Vera Rubin, a pioneering astronomer who helped find powerful evidence of dark matter, has died, her son said Monday. She was 88. Allan Rubin, a professor of geosciences at Princeton University, told The Associated Press his mother died Sunday night of natural causes. He said the Philadelphia native had been living in the Princeton area. Vera Rubin found that galaxies don’t quite rotate the way they were predicted, and that lent support to the

She also received the National Medal of Science from President Bill Clinton in 1993 “for her pioneering research programs in observational cosmology.” She was the only astronomy major to graduate from Vassar College in 1948. When she sought to enroll as a graduate student at Princeton, she learned women were not allowed in the university’s graduate astronomy program, so she instead earned her master’s degree from Cornell University. AP

A Queens woman suffered a fractured spine after a deranged homeless man pushed her down a flight of stairs in a subway station, cops said. The man came up behind the 54-year-old victim at the Forest Hills-71st Avenue station just before 9 a.m. Saturday and shoved her, police said. He then ran onto an E train and started stripping off his clothes. When he was busted, he gave cops fake names. The victim also suffered a broken elbow. Tom Wilson

theory that some other force was at work, namely dark matter. Dark matter, which hasn’t been directly observed, makes up 27 percent of the universe — as opposed to 5 percent of the universe being normal matter. Scientists better understand what dark matter isn’t rather than what it is. Rubin’s scientific achievements earned her numerous honors, including becoming the second female astronomer to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

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She grew up in The Bronx, dreaming of Broadway’s bright lights. Now those lights sparkle all day and all night for this star of the smash hit “Hamilton.” Lexi Lawson, who plays Alexander Hamilton’s wife, Eliza, lives high in the sky in a new West 42nd Street condo just an eight-minute power-walk from the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The glow of the Theater District fills her living room. “When I wake up and come into the living room and look out at the city, I still can’t believe it,” she said as she took The Post on a backstage tour of the $2.9 million two-bedroom condo on the 58th floor of Manhattan View. Lawson was 7 when her family moved to upstate Newburgh. As a girl, she often returned to the city for auditions. “Broadway was my home,” Lawson, now 32, said. “These were the streets that I walked, looking up at the city and the big lights. This is where I came.”

Lawson, who returned to the city from California for the show, shares the condo with her husband and their Yorkie. On days when she has two shows, Lawson goes home for dinner in between performances. “We get there early, we laugh, we do our show, and then I go home,” she said. “I cook, sometimes I take a nap, and then I go back.” “I love the walk,” she said. “It helps me wind down.” From inside her apartment, the view is always vibrant. “I love looking at the George Washington Bridge. It reminds me of coming down from the ’burbs into the city for auditions as a kid,’’ she said. “This is an awesome reminder of all the work I do. “And then I look at Broadway. It still takes my breath away.” She said all her hard-won success still feels “unreal.” “There was a lot of pain and a lot of work. Some days, I woke up and I didn’t want to wake up,” she said. “Now, I am thanking the universe. I’m really grateful.” jgould@nypost.com

Holiday goe$ ‘Rogue’ Prey-ers answered A ‘New’ role for Ban It was an intergalactic holiday at movie theaters as “Rogue One” blasted past four new releases to hold on to the top spot at the weekend box office. The “Star Wars” story added another $96 million to its coffers over the four-day holiday period, according to studio estimates Monday. The animated animal mu-

sical “Sing” debuted in second place with $56 million. Space tale “Passengers” opened in third with $23.1 million. Two other new releases, “Why Him?” and “Assassin’s Creed,” rounded out the top five with $16.7 million and $15 million respectively. Final box-office figures will be released Tuesday.AP

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will perform one last ceremonial duty before ending his 10-year leadership of the world body. Organizers of the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration announced Monday that Ban will push the Waterford crystal button to begin the official 60-second countdown to 2017.

The South Korean statesman was elected as the eighth secretary-general by the United Nations General Assembly in October 2006. Dec. 31 will be his last day. Antonio Guterres, of Portugal, will take over on Jan. 1. Times Square Alliance head Tim Tompkins praised Ban for “bringing people and nations together.” AP

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O ‘behind UN vote’ By DANIEL HALPER in Washington, DC, and MARK MOORE in NY A top Israeli diplomat claimed Monday that President Obama masterminded the United Nation’s antisettlement vote last week and that he has evidence of the White House’s role. “What is outrageous is that the United States was actually behind that gang-up. I think it was a very sad day, really a shameful chapter,” Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer said on CNN’s “New Day.” “We have clear evidence of it. We will present that evidence to the new administration through the appropriate channels. And if they want to share it with the US people, they’re welcome to do it.” Dermer also accused the White House of orchestrating the vote in the Security Council to help the Palestinians, who “are trying to wage a diplomatic and legal war against Israel.” On Friday, the US abstained from a vote on a resolution approved by 14 out of the 15 Security Council members that demanded “Israel immediately and

completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem.” In abstaining, the US opted to not use its veto power to block the vote. It was the first successful resolution since 1979 to condemn Israel’s settlement policies. The US vetoed a similar resolution in 2011. The White House’s refusal to veto the resolution was considered a betrayal by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has had a chilly relationship with Obama. Israel responded swiftly to the vote, with Netanyahu announcing the Jewish state would cut “working ties” with 10 of the nations that voted in favor of the resolution. The American Jewish Congress advocacy group is urging congressional hearings in the aftermath of the vote, which the organization characterized as ”onesided” and “anti-Israel.” Meanwhile, Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to deliver a speech this week to address the Obama administration’s vision for Middle East peace, CNN reported Monday.

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Rapper big shot stops by stops by Rapper 50 Cent visited his bullet-riddled buddy, Troy Ave, in the hospital and posted this bedside photo on Instagram. “Dope boy Troy all good,” 50 wrote on Instagram. “Merry Christmas.” The well-wishes came hours after a Christmas Day shooting left Troy Ave with a bullet wound to the arm and a graze wound to the head. Troy Ave and 50 Cent recorded a song together, “Bang Bang,” which was released in 2015.

The Brooklyn-born Troy Ave — whose real name is Roland Collins — was shot Sunday while sitting in a red Maserati with his girlfriend at East 91st Street and Linden Boulevard in Canarsie at about 4:20 p.m. The gunman walked up to Troy Ave’s convertible and fired through the driver’s-side window, according to police. The rapper took himself to Brookdale Hospital, where he was recovering on Monday.

“Shot in the head, man,” the rapper told The Post as he was being wheeled into the hospital. Troy Ave has been out on bail since his arrest in connection with a shooting backstage at an Irving Plaza concert for T.I. in May. A bodyguard was fatally wounded in the shooting and two other people were left injured. Troy Ave suffered a gunshot wound to the leg in the incident, but it may have been self-inflicted. Joe Tacopino

Terrorism unlikely in Russian plane crash: officials A pilot error or a technical fault — not terrorism — is likely to have been the cause of Sunday’s plane crash in the Black Sea, Russian officials said Monday as the nation held a day of mourning. Russia’s defense ministry said the determination was made after find-

ing a flight recorder from the plane. All 84 passengers and eight crew on the Russian military’s Tu-154 plane are believed to have died in the crash, which occured two minutes after takeoff from Sochi. The passengers included dozens of singers in Russia’s world-famous Alex-

androv Ensemble choir, nine journalists and a Russian doctor known for her charity work in war zones. Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said Monday terrorism was not among the main theories for the cause of the crash, and that authorities were looking into a possible

technical fault or a pilot error. By Monday morning — a nationwide day of mourning for the plane victims — rescue teams had recovered 11 bodies as well as body fragments. All were flown to Moscow, where the remains will be identified. AP

The chauffeur whose crash killed “60 Minutes” correspondent Bob Simon is refusing to turn over medical information about a suicide attempt that left him with a lame arm at the time of the accident, court papers allege. Reshad Abdul Fedahi, who was driving Simon, sued the couple whose Mercedes he grazed with his Lincoln Town Car before veering into a post on the West Side Highway in February 2015. But the couple in the Mercedes says in new Manhattan court paSIMON pers that Fedahi is refusing to hand over medical records regarding his 2005 suicide leap. FEDAHI “It was reported that when he was driving, he had a dead right arm and could only drive with one arm,” Ellen Sontag-Miller and Zachary Miller say in the documents. Fedahi’s medical records are important to the case “not only with respect to his claimed injuries, but also in respect to his employer in allowing Fedahi to drive with” a dead right arm, the couple says, urging the judge to toss the driver’s suit if he doesn’t hand them over. Fedahi, 46 — who is a defendant in a wrongful-death suit filed by Simon’s widow — insists the Millers were at fault. He is suing them for unspecified damages. Law-enforcement sources have said Fedahi was at fault because he appeared to have been speeding and hit the gas instead of the brake when his car struck the Mercedes. Fedahi’s lawyer, Duane Morgan, said he is in the process of gathering all of his client’s medical history. Julia Marsh

A former Bronx high-school science teacher who made headlines after seducing a student and having his baby was found dead in her West Harlem apartment on Monday along with their 4-year-old son, police sources said. Felicia Barahona, 36, who got pregnant after telling her Dewitt Clinton HS lover not to use condoms, was discovered in her West 153rd Street home at around 8:30 a.m. with an electrical cord tied around her neck. Her little boy, Miguel, was drowned in the bathtub. Police have not determined whether the deaths were a double homicide or a murder-suicide, sources said. Barahona, an Afghanistan war vet, was fired by city school officials in 2013 for repeatedly having sex with the teenager. She first romanced him when he was around 15 but waited until he turned 17 — the legal age of consent — before having actual intercourse with him. She told the student, who was never publicly identified, “not to worry” about using protection during their five-times-a-week trysts, according to a report by the Special Commissioner of Investigation. The couple broke up in 2012, before Miguel was born. Oddly, Barahona dressed the baby in pink and described him as a girl in 2013 Facebook photos. She called herself “divorced” on her Facebook page, which also features a quote: “Never give up!” The bodies were found Monday when the building superintendent smelled a foul odor wafting from the

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A black man was attacked on a subway in Harlem by a woman who made racial remarks before carving him up with a knife, police sources said Monday. “I don’t know why she did it, because I didn’t do anything to provoke her,” Ijan Jarrett, who needed nearly 100 stitches after the attack, told The Post. The 44-year-old hairstylist was heading home to The Bronx on a 4 train Sunday night after a shift at a New Jersey salon. “Two girls came on the train,” Jarrett recalled. “The heavy-set girl was standing over me. I asked her, ‘Would you like to sit next to your friend?’ She said, ‘Oh, no, no. I’m good.’ ” But then the woman — later identified as Stephanie Pazmino, 30 — allegedly gestured at him and barked, “I don’t want your seat!” according to police sources. She then allegedly turned to her cousin and said, “I don’t want to sit next to a black person.” Jarrett said he could only make out the word “Negro.” “I moved. I got up and I said, ‘OK, you don’t have to sit next to me,’ ” he recalled. But as the train reached 125th Street, the woman stormed over and “punched me on top of my head. I didn’t know I was being stabbed,” Jarrett said. “She stabbed me right under my left eye, on the back of my hand and on my left arm. She was screaming and hollering the whole time.” Pazmino was awaiting arraignment Monday night. Georgett Roberts, Tina Moore and Natalie Musumeci

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SAD END: Felicia Barahona, a former teacher who was included in a Post report after bedding a student, was found dead in her West Harlem home Monday along with son Miguel, who was born out of the affair.

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third-floor unit and went out on the fire escape to look inside. He saw Barahona lying on the floor and called 911. Police sources believe she had been there for three to four days. “We’re in shock,” Barahona’s brother, Jamie Bravo, told The Post. “She never seemed like she was in any danger,” Bravo added. “I saw her a few days ago, and everything seemed OK.” Neighbors on Monday recalled Barahona as “strange” and unfriendly and Miguel as a rambunctious but intelligent little boy who loved to play with his train set in the hallway. Sometimes, the mother would dress the boy up in girl’s clothing, said across-the-hall neighbor Javier

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Yudelka, 43. “It is odd to see the little boy sometimes dressed up like a girl. Also, the little boy runs up and down the hall, and I never see her saying be quiet or come back here or anything,” Yudelka said. “He’s just allowed to run around and do what he wants.” Friends said that Barahona had begun taking classes and teaching at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and that she had an 8-year-old daughter who did not live with her. The college did not immediately confirm if Barahona worked or attended class there. “She really loved her children. She always had a smile on her face when she talked about them,” said one

friend who asked not to be identified. The friend said that they had just taken a final exam together on Thursday for a John Jay forensic-science class. “She even messaged me later in the day about the exam,” the friend said. “We were all worried about the exam. She was just such a great person and extremely nice. I just don’t understand how this happened.” A stunned neighbor, who also asked not to be identified, said, “There was never any noise from her apartment. It didn’t even sound like anyone was in there.” Additional reporting by Laura Italiano

Marx’s ‘stunning’ result

Korean Air Lines will now allow crew members to use stun guns against rowdy passengers after singer Richard Marx had to wrestle a man in mid-flight. The Guardian said the airline made the decision after Marx called the crew members “ill-trained” and “ill-equipped.” “It’s a start,” Marx tweeted of the news Monday night. Joe Tacopino

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Second City crime time

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Violence marred Chicago’s holiday weekend. From about 5 p.m. Friday until 5 p.m. Monday:

55 shot 12 dead

Chicago’s totals for 2016:

4,000+ shootings 753 homicides

‘Soccer’ plane was out of fuel Colombian aviation authorities on Monday said the airliner that crashed last month with a Brazilian soccer team aboard — killing 71 people — had run out of fuel before it could land. The conclusion was based on the plane’s black boxes and other evidence, according to the Civil Aeronautics agency, which said the evidence points to human error rather than technical problems or sabotage. Experts had earlier suggested that fuel exhaustion was a likely cause of the Nov. 28 crash, which wiped out all but a few members of the Chapecoense soccer team. The BAE 146 Avro RJ85 has a maximum range of 1,841 miles — just under the distance between its destination, Medellín, Colombia, and Santa Cruz, Bolivia, where it had taken off. The plane was in the air for about 4 hours and 20 minutes when air-traffic controllers in Medellín put it into a holding pattern because another flight was given priority. AP

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UNHOLY: One of the scores of victims is rushed to an ambulance on Christmas Day as a Chicago cop scours a multiple-shooting scene. By MICHAEL HECHTMAN and LARRY CELONA Chicago turned into a virtual war zone over the holiday weekend — with 55 people shot, a dozen of them fatally. The shootings — many of which targeted gangbangers as they were celebrating Christmas with their families — took place between 4:50 p.m. Friday and the same time Monday. More than a dozen of the victims were in serious or critical condition, the Chicago Tribune reported. “We had a reprehensible amount of shootings and murders,’’ a furious Police Superin-

tendent Eddie Johnson said. Many, he said, were “deliberate and planned shootings by one gang against another. “They were targeted knowing fully well that individuals would be at the homes of family and friends celebrating the holidays. This was followed by several acts of retaliation.” Johnson wants to see gun-toting gangsters get more hard time. He called on legislators to “give judges the autonomy to sentence repeat gun offenders to the upper end of the gun-sentencing range.” If judges don’t comply, he said, they should be forced to “give us written explanations why.’’

Included in the weekend gunplay were eight shootings that claimed multiple victims. Most were in neighborhoods “with historical gang conflicts in the South and West sides of Chicago,’’ said Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Chicago PD. One attack in the East Chatham neighborhood produced a body count of five dead and two wounded. And a shooting in the Austin neighborhood left two dead, the Tribune said. “Ninety percent of those fatally wounded had gang affiliations, criminal histories, and were preidentified’’ by an algorithm the department uses to identify potential shooters and

their victims, Guglielmi said. So far this year, the Windy City has seen more than 4,000 people shot. More than 700 have died. Guglielmi said, “While we have promising leads, this unacceptable level of gun violence demonstrates the clear and present need for policymakers to . . . give Chicago the gun-sentencing tools against repeat offenders.’’ By contrast, there have been 1,166 shootings in New York City so far this year, not including the holiday weekend. From Friday to Monday about ten people were shot here, two of them fatally, a source said. Additional reporting by Tom Wilson

‘Henry VIII art’ hanging in NYC

An acclaimed Cambridge professor has spotted a 450-year-old tapestry at a Midtown rug store — and says it might be a reconstruction of a panel commissioned by King Henry VIII. Mary Beard, a classics professor at the University of Cambridge, spied the tapestry (left) for sale on the Persian Gallery’s Web site

while researching images of Julius Caesar on Google, she wrote on her blog, A Don’s Life. During the English king’s 15thcentury reign, he commissioned a set of 10 9-foot-tall tapestries portraying the life of Caesar. “They were colossally valuable,” Beard told The Times of London. “They were the most prized pos-

sessions of the royal household.” The pieces have disappeared, but Beard (right) says later tapestries constructed from the same designs were made in the 16th century. The wool wall hanging for sale at the East 31st Street store portrays Caesar crossing the Rubicon on horseback. It’s worth $50,000, The Times said. Rebecca Rosenberg

When compared to the average US adult, individuals who require a drink to participate in a family holiday or other function are most likely to buy Jack Daniel’s, followed by Jägermeister, Johnnie Walker, Southern Comfort and Skyy. Demographic data suggest that those who need a few drinks to get by in the company of family are most likely city-based millennials ages 18 to 34 with a liberal outlook. YouGov

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SMILE! Joined by Mayor de Blasio, Police Sgt. Joseph Freer demonstrates a body camera as part of an earlier pilot program. By TINA MOORE and DANIKA FEARS

The city has offered the PBA 9 percent raises retroactive for time worked from August 2012 to July 2017, sources said. NYPD cops have been working without a contract since 2012. In addition to the body-cam incentive, the city also offered to pay an extra $2,500 to every cop who works on patrol — and another $750 to officers if they have a bachelor’s degree or higher, sources said. Several union members complained that the proposal package calls for killing an annual $522 annuity for new hires. “None of the other unions had to give anything up, so bonuses are at a cost” to PBA members, a source said. The source added that the proposed bonuses will have strings attached. “There are a lot of clauses

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that will eliminate cops from getting the bonuses, whether it is because of Civilian Complaint Review Board complaints or if they were in the military and didn’t get to go to college,” the source said. A City Hall spokesman declined to comment. PBA President Patrick Lynch said that, as of now, the city’s offer isn’t up to snuff. “New York City police officers do a difficult and dangerous job, one that is different from the job of any other city worker,” he said in a statement. “Our members remain the lowest-paid police officers in this area. They deserve more than any of the proposals the city has put on the table so far.’’ Police have resisted body cameras in several cities, and sources say most NYPD cops also are reluctant to use them.

“They are inevitable,” Eugene O’Donnell, a former NYPD cop and a professor of law and police studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said of the cameras. But while “they will usually vindicate the cops . . . any seasoned street cop knows it will be the end of most self-initiated police work. The stakes are too high.” In Boston, Police Commissioner Bill Evans made the city’s body-cam program mandatory after no one volunteered for a pilot project. Cops in Cincinnati also have asked for salary bumps for wearing the devices. The NYPD held a pilot bodycam program that included 54 cops in six commands who volunteered to wear the devices. It ended in March. tmoore@nypost.com

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Most NYPD cops don’t want to wear body cameras — but they may soon get paid for their trouble. In an effort to sweeten the pot in contract talks with the police union, City Hall is offering a 1 percent salary bump for officers forced to use the equipment, sources told The Post. A total of 1,000 will be chosen to wear the cams by the end of next year as part of the NYPD’s compliance with a 2013 federal court order. They will be chosen by federally appointed monitor Peter Zimroth and his team from 20 precincts with the highest crime rates. The cameras will eventually be required for all of the NYPD’s approximately 20,000 patrol cops.

City negotiators offered the 1 percent bonuses during a Dec. 16 mediation session as part of a slew of incentives to resolve its contract dispute with the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, sources said. But a union source said they need to see the fine print of the camera proposal before considering it. “This is not a negotiation. It’s mediation,” the source said. “The city’s proposal is vague. The devil, as they say, is in the details — of which there are none.” Union sources believe the offer is just a desperate attempt by Mayor de Blasio to resolve contract issues and win over the rank-and-file before his run for re-election heats up. “De Blasio just wants cops to think he is being nice to them for once,” a source said.

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O: People buy my vision; Hill blew it By DANIEL HALPER and BOB FREDERICKS President Obama claims he would have handily trounced Donald Trump if only the Constitution had let him seek a third term. “I am confident in [my progressive] vision because I’m confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could have mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it,” Obama told his former top adviser David Axelrod on Axelrod’s podcast, “The Axe Files.” “I know that in conversations that I’ve had with people around the country, even some people who disagreed with me, they would say, ‘The vision, the direction that you point towards is the right one,’ ” the lameduck president said. But Trump had a different take. “President Obama said that he thinks he would have won against me. He should say that but I say NO WAY! — jobs leaving, ISIS, OCare, etc.,” he tweeted Monday afternoon. And Obama took a shot at Hillary Clinton for failing to concentrate on grass-roots efforts to connect with voters who were alienated from Beltway politics. “Part of what we have to do to rebuild is to be there, and that means organizing, that means caring about state parties, it

means caring about local races, state boards or school boards and city councils and state legislative races and not thinking that, somehow, just a great set of progressive policies that we present to the New York Times editorial board will win the day,” he lectured. The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, passed in 1947 after President Franklin D. Roosevelt had been elected to four terms, limits chief executives to two terms in office. Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden all campaigned hard for Clinton, believing her victory was essential to preserving Obama’s legacy. After her stunning loss — with most polls predicting she would win right up to Election Day — Obama worried that Americans would see his message of “hope” and “change” and progressive agenda as nothing more than a naive dream. “Obviously in the wake of the election and Trump winning, a lot of people have suggested that somehow, it really was a fantasy. What I would argue is that the culture actually did shift, that the majority does buy into the notion of a one America that is tolerant and diverse and open, full of energy and dynamism,” he said. rfredericks@nypost.com

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Trump’s tweet charity President elect Donald Trump defended his nonprofit foundation Monday night — just days after he pledged to shut it down amid allegations of conflicts. “I gave millions of dollars to DJT Foundation, raised or recieved (sic) millions more, ALL of which is given to charity, and media won’t Commander report!” in tweet Trump tweeted, referring to the Donald J. Trump Foundation. “The DJT Foundation, unlike most foundations, never paid fees, rent, salaries or any expenses. 100% of money goes to wonderful charities!” The foundation has been the target of critics for allegedly misusing funds. In September, Trump paid a $2,500 fine after it was revealed that the foundation violated tax laws when it made a political contribution. The nonprofit is also under investigation by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. On Saturday, Trump said he was closing the foundation because he did not want it to distract him. But Schneiderman said Trump cannot shut it while the probe is ongoing. Joe Tacopino

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Donald Trump has turned to a top adviser to pen his inaugural address — a message that will focus on matters more nationalistic than ideological. Stephen Miller, incoming senior White House adviser for policy, who wrote Trump’s convention address, will compose the speech, Politico reported. Bob Fredericks

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Pearl Harbor with President Obama on Tuesday. Japan’s press at first trumpeted the visit as a historic moment, saying that the conservative Abe was the first sitting Japanese prime minister to visit the historic Hawaiian site. But since then, media reports suggest Abe may be

the third — or even fourth — prime minister to visit. Abe wasn’t born when Japan’s former leader Shigeru Yoshida went there in 1951, six years after World War II, reportedly by himself and feeling out of place after his country’s defeat. A Hawaiian Japanese-language newspaper reported last week that it had found archival articles about another

possible two visits to the memorial by sitting Japanese prime ministers in the 1950s. Japanese authorities also acknowledged that Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama visited the US Pacific Command in Honolulu in 1956, and that Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi paid a visit to the islands in 1957. So Japanese officials now say Abe’s visit will be the

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By DAVID K. LI George Michael’s longtime lover found him dead in bed on Christmas morning, the heartbroken man lamented, as the exact cause of the singer’s death remained a mystery Monday. London celebrity hairstylist Fadi Fawaz said he was shocked by the discovery and shared his pain on social media. “Its a xmas i will never forget finding your partner dead peacefully in bed first thing in the morning,” Fawaz tweeted Monday. Fawaz also changed his Twitter bio to read simply, “I will never stop missing you xxx,” along with a picture of him kissing Michael

with his arm around him. Michael, 53, paired up with Fawaz, 43, not long after the star’s 2009 breakup with longtime boyfriend Kenny Goss, a Texas art dealer. Michael had been talking to Goss again in recent weeks, rekindling their friendship, the London Sun reported. “I’m heartbroken with the news that my dear friend and longtime love George Michael has passed,” Goss said in a statement to the Dallas Morning News. “He was a major part of my life and I loved him very, very much. He was an extremely kind and generous man. The beautiful memories and music he brought to the world will always be an im-

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portant part of my life and those who also loved and admired him.” Months before his death, Michael appeared overweight and unrecognizable, judging by his last known pictures. The snapshots reportedly were taken on Sept. 14, when Michael went out to dinner with friends near his home in Oxfordshire, England. The extra pounds didn’t slow down Michael’s partying, the Mirror reported on Monday. “George loved having friends over and was often still going strong well into the following morning. This continued right up until his death,” a Mirror source said.

“He may have been in his 50s, but it’s fair to say he gave much younger partygoers a run for their money, and the atmosphere was always quite hedonistic.” Michael’s reps couldn’t be reached for comment on Monday. His manager cited vague “heart failure” as the general cause of death on Sunday. Michael had long struggled with marijuana abuse — once burdened by a 25-joint-a-day smoking habit. “It almost killed me,” he told the Ham & High newspaper in 2014. “On a subconscious level, it was very frightening, and I’ll probably never feel quite as safe again.”

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A Manhattan couple was stabbed and critically injured Monday morning by an upstairs neighbor who stormed into their East Village apartment, police said. The emotionally disturbed man ran downstairs to the eighth floor of 1 Haven Plaza at around 8:30 a.m. and stabbed the couple after an argument, sources said. “Help me! Jason stabbed me!” neighbor Albert Byrnes recalled the male victim say while stumbling toward him. Byrnes, 50, was in the lobby of the apartment building when he saw both wounded victims as they exited the elevator. The man had visible stab wounds on his face and body and the woman, 23, was naked and covered in blood, Byrnes said. Police did not release the names of the victims, who were rushed to Bellevue Hospital and listed in stable condition. The suspect, who was not named, is in his 30s and lives on the 19th floor with his mother. He suffers from mental-health issues, neighbors said. He was taken into police custody after leading officers on a brief chase. Stephanie Pagones, Tina Moore and Larry Celona

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DONALD Trump hasn’t even taken office yet, but already there’s allegations of a staff sex scandal. Jason Miller abruptly resigned as White House communications director on Christmas Eve, two days after landing the coveted role, to “spend more time with his family.” Insiders had already been buzzing about married Miller “spending time” during the campaign with Trump adviser A.J. Delgado — the staffers who famously went to a strip club with the media after the final debate in Vegas. Miller’s appointment initially sent Delgado into a Twitter frenzy. She wrote, “Congratulations to the baby-daddy on being named WH Comms Director!” Miller and his wife are ex-

pecting their second child next month. Delgado then went on to brand Miller “The 2016 version of John Edwards,” who famously hid his love child in 2008. But Delgado didn’t stop there. She went on, “When people need to resign graciously and refuse to, its a bit . . . spooky.” And she added, “Jason Miller. Who needed to resign . . . yesterday.” And then she deleted her Twitter account and changed her cellphone number. And then on Dec. 24, Miller did resign, saying in a statement (just two days after landing one of the top jobs in the White House): “After spending this past week with my family, the most amount of time I have been able to spend

with them since March 2015, it is clear they need to be my top priority right now and this is not the right time to start a new job as demanding as White House communications director.” Neither Miller nor Delgado responded to calls and e-mails for comment on Monday. Insiders said upon the news of Miller’s appointment and the subsequent tweetstorm, the rumors of Delgado’s relationship with Miller, her direct supervisor, forced his resignation. Other sources say Miller has been considering other more lucrative offers in the private sector. Trump’s transition team declined to comment on Monday.

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Swift surprise for vet TAYLOR Swift surprised a 96year-old World War II veteran with a holiday visit to his Missouri home. Swift showed up on Monday at Cyrus Porter’s home after he became known as the oldest “Swifty,” attending the singer’s concerts with his 20-plus grandchildren. “It’s a Christmas Miracle!!!” grandson Robert Frye captioned a Twitter selfie. “Thank you @taylorswift13. My grandpa was so excited!!” Pictures show Swift looking at Porter’s WWII memorabilia before she took out her guitar and treated the entire family to an acoustic performance of her songs, including “Shake It Off.”

Poor political plate THAT large thud that could be heard across Long Island over the holidays was the sound of the personalized plates sent by Congress-

man Tom Suozzi collectively being thrown in trash cans. Supporters said they were shocked to get a plate bearing the picture of the Capitol, inscribed with a note from the Congressman-elect for New York’s

Bush & Lauren clan celebrate Bruce hits J.Crew THE Boss even does his own holiday shopping. Bruce Springsteen (above) was spotted checking out some last-minute gifts on Christmas Eve at the J.Crew store in the Grove mall in Shrewsbury, NJ. While some people did a double take, most shoppers were nice enough to stand back and let Springsteen buy his socks and sweaters (or whatever he was buying). “He wasn’t being mobbed as much as you would think,” says a spy. “People were being pretty respectful.” Also spotted at the mall was singer Charlie Puth.

SHARON Bush christened her new oceanfront home in Palm Beach, Fla., with a party by the pool with family including daughters Lauren Bush Lauren and Ashley and son Pierce. Guests included Lauren’s husband, David Lauren, and their 1-year-old son, James, and heiress Pamela O’Connor. “Real Housewife of New York City” LuAnn de Lesseps was there with her fiancé, Tom D’Agostino (no relation to the supermarket), and was heard telling guests how excited they were for their New Year’s Eve wedding. Others at the intimate cocktail bash included property expert Royce Pinkwater and Peter Brown. Lauren and David said they planned to celebrate Christmas lunch at the Breakers, then would head to see her grandparents, Barbara and former President George H.W. Bush, and her uncle, former President George W. Bush, along with the entire Bush clan, in Gasparilla, Fla., where the family traditionally spends the holidays. They will then travel to Jamaica to the home of David’s parents, Ralph and Ricky Lauren, for New Year’s.

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3rd District, which reads, “Everyone loves a comeback story! Thomas R. Suozzi, 11/8/16.” One recipient said, “The holiday gift is supposed to be something to thank supporters.” But the message from Suozzi (who previously lost races for governor of New York and Nassau County executive) was, “Aren’t I fabulous? People are shaking their head in disbelief. It seems rather tacky.”

Sightings . . . DIVORCED couple David Duchovny and Téa Leoni taking in “Dear Evan Hansen” with their kids and leading the standing ovation . . . PAUL McCartney at “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” this week, with his wife and children. The show’s second act opens with the Beatles song “Chains,” which King wrote with Gerry Goffin. McCartney played some King tunes on the piano backstage, where he was hiding out before the show . . . ETHEL Kennedy shopping on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, Fla., on Christmas Eve.

Blondie’s next move BLONDIE’S Debbie Harry (above) is collaborating with Shepard Fairey on the artist’s Obey clothing label. She is working on a special-edition women’s line, which will debut next fall. Fairey has described Harry as “an amazing vocalist, lyricist, style icon, beauty and embodiment of NYC cool.” Street artist Fairey, possibly best known for his President Obama “Hope” poster, also told WWD, “I’ve been a Blondie fan my whole life . . . Working with Debbie on this project has been totally inspiring.”

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UPSCALE residents of tony Soho and sleek customers of the Chanel boutique say they’re being driven insane by “mercenary” protesters of a Canada Goose outlet on Wooster Street. They claim the animalrights campaigners are scaring their kids and their pets with their noisy protests. “It’s awful — it’s beyond,” a resident told Page Six of aggressive protesters outside the Canada Goose outlet at 101 Wooster St., adding that activists have been demonstrating daily “for 21 days” as of Christmas Day from 2:30 p.m. till the store closes. “People who live and work there can’t stand it. Their signs are grotesque . . . They show animals being flayed alive. And their chants always have ‘f - - k’ in them.” The local added that demonstrators “yell and use high-pitched whistles. Babies have to take naps in other areas. All the pets on Wooster Street hide when they start demonstrating . . . There are horrible sounds they play of animals being tortured.” The resident added that when one neighbor was walking their dog the supposed animal lovers even “called her dog an a - - hole.” The witness went on to say, “They run out and yell ‘murderers’ at random passers-by, even if you are not wearing fur. There is a large police presence. There are barricades for the lines to enter the store.” The activists are reportedly protesting the brand’s use of coyote fur on its jackets. “When you call 311, they refer you to 911,” said the resident. “911 refers you to the local police precinct. The police precinct says they can’t do anything.” The resident added, “Their goal is to put [Canada Goose] out of business in the US.” And, perhaps making the whole thing even more intolerable: “They deface the Chanel store — they ruin their planters.”

Former “Real Housewives of New York City” star Kelly Bensimon soaks up some postholiday sun on Miami Beach on Monday.

Fiat heir Elkann emerges TROUBLED Fiat heir Lapo Elkann was seen for the first time in public over the holidays after he was arrested in late November in New York for allegedly faking his own kidnapping following a two-day drug binge with a transgender escort. Elkann was at the funeral of Vogue Italy’s Editor-in-Chief Franca Sozzani in Portofino, Italy, on Dec. 24. He’s been on lockdown by his family after the incident, during which he claimed he needed $10K to secure his freedom from a downtown housing project, which forced him to cancel his appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach.

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Film that couldn’t a movie project.” Bregman, 85, was ordered earlier this month to pay back millions his former friends George S. Kaufman and Larry Herbert had invested in 2008 in the stillborn film. But sources say the investors don’t expect to get paid. Bregman hasn’t made a movie in 13 years, and the Park Avenue apartment he shares with his wife, Cornelia Sharpe — now on the market for $7.9 million — is said to be in her name. Sources say Bregman’s son Michael took part in the fund-raising. Despite the litigation, Michael still

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NELSON DeMille, best-selling author of “The Gold Coast,” is almost as disappointed that the movie version never got made as the investors who lost millions in the project are. DeMille recalls how producer Marty Bregman took him to dinner in 1993 and promised Al Pacino (inset) would star as a mob don with an eye for the beautiful wife of his WASPy North Shore neighbor. “He made the best pitch and sent me a check for a half a million dollars,” DeMille told me. “It was too good to be true. ‘The Gold Coast’ is a ‘Cold Ghost’ as

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Choose fun over fight THE atmosphere turned tense at Lavo on Sunday night when a group of Israelis unfurled an Israeli flag and started waving it in defiance of the UN vote on West Bank settlements. While South African action hero Tony Schiena and Russian model Kira Dikhtyar (right) partied on, a table of Egyptians on the other side of the room, being entertained by a belly dancer, discussed whether to confront the flag wavers. “As soon as the DJ played ‘Bamboleo’ by the Gipsy Kings, everyone went back to dancing,” said my witness. “In the end, the desire for fun won over fighting.” If only that were true everywhere.

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vane declined to discuss the new movie. “It’s way too early in the development process,” he said. But the field is open. Ferrell dropped “Reagan” in the spring after two of the late president’s kids slammed the comedy about an ambitious intern tasked with convincing the addled commander-in-chief that he is an actor playing the president in a movie.

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Here’s what I’m told LIAM Neeson gave me an Italian blessing: “Di giorno” . . . DR. Brian Saltzman’s Museum of Arts and Design restaurant, Robert — high overlooking Columbus Circle — was booked three months ago for New Year’s Eve. Black-tie, $300. That’s the same price it was at the famous supper club Regine’s in 1984, so don’t nobody bitch about the cost . . . AFTER being on soap “General Hospital” 28 years ago, then leaving the place, actress Tonja Walker returns in 2017.

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tour, then Harvard part-time on international law. Trump. Fewer speeches than predecessor. Loses weight. USA. No more troops sent abroad. Hawaii. Volcano eruption. Crops, not lives, lost. England. Charles finally gets Mama’s job. Antarctica. International research station cut off for many months. John Cohan, who last year predicted Brad and Angelina wouldn’t last — a huge, enormous, mindboggling, large, really big, tall, wide, fat stunning blow of a surprise to us all — now presages: Anderson Cooper marries partner Benjamin Maisani. Rihanna and Pitt? A decision that’s in the Pitts. Lady Gaga teams with m’lord Harry Connick. Billy Bush: depression, medical help. Oprah goes blond. Like Kim’s husband, Kanye (or Kan’t-ye) Worst. Kathie Lee Gifford marries a younger guy. Streisand and husband James Brolin separate. This I don’t believe. I don’t even think Brolin believes. I mean, where’s he going?

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 A livery driver was stabbed by his passenger four times in East Harlem over an argument about the fare, cop sources said Monday. The passenger, who was in the car with two women and a child on Lexington Avenue near East 115th Street at around 1:30 p.m. Sunday, knifed the driver in the lower back, the sources said. The cabby was treated at Mt. Sinai-St. Lukes Hospital, according to the sources.  A caller traced to a hospital in Hawaii left a voicemail message at a Greenwich Village church threatening to bomb it, police sources said Monday. The Rev. James Cuddy, 40, told police somebody calling himself “Soloman” left the threatening message at St. Joseph’s Church on Sixth Avenue near Washington Place at about 11:15 a.m. Sunday, the sources said. “ISIS Soldiers from Brooklyn have planted a bomb in the Catholic church cathedral,” the message stated, according to the sources.

“Bomb will go off on Monday at 12 a.m.,” the caller said. The call was traced back to Kona Community Hospital in Kealakekua, Hawaii, the sources said. The hospital has an adult psych unit. Cuddy told The Post that police deemed the threat noncredible. “Anytime you hear any kind of language that ISIS is threatening to blow up a church, that’s jarring in and of itself,” said Cuddy.

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 Police have released new surveillance video of an armed thief who has knocked off at least seven city stores. The footage shows the crook,, whose face is covered by a ski mask and a bandana, robbing Nick’s Drug Store in Laconia on Nov.

10 at about 5:10 p.m., police said. The robber (inset left and above) approached a 52-year-old employee inside the Boston Road shop, flashed a handgun and demanded money, according to cops. He made off with $450, they said. The bandit pulled off

similar crimes six more times at stores in The Bronx and Manhattan on Nov. 16, Nov. 17, Nov. 26, twice on Dec. 1, and Dec. 4, police said. The 6-foot, 250-pound crook has swiped more than $5,500 as well as merchandise and 202 lottery tickets from the stores, according to authorities.  A man was accused of menacing an MTA bus driver with a gun early Monday, police sources said. The driver said the passenger boarded the bus at West 261st Street and Broadway in North Riverdale a few minutes after midnight and they got into a dispute, the sources said. The driver told cops that the passenger then threatened him with a gun. Police arrested a suspect, but did not release his identity. No firearm was recovered, according to the sources.

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 A brawl at a hookah lounge in Richmond Hill led to sword play that left two men with gashed heads, police said Monday. Gupreet Singh, 18, was slashed on the head and hand by two men armed with swords at the Aladdin Hookah Lounge on Liberty Avenue near 109th Street at around 2 a.m. Sunday, police sources said. Satwinder Singh, 25, also was slashed on the head, according to the sources. Police arrested Jaswinder Singh, 23, at around 6 a.m. He was charged with assault, reckless endangerment, possession of a weapon, disorderly conduct and menacing, officials said. It was unclear what the dispute was about, said cops, who noted that the men are acquaintances.  A thug mugged a man at gunpoint in Jamaica, officials said Monday.

The 27-year-old victim told cops that he was on Jamaica Avenue and 197th Street on Sunday when a man walked up to him, displayed a firearm and demanded his property, sources said. The thief fled with the man’s wallet and cellphone. The victim suffered a minor abrasion to his neck, but refused medical treatment at the scene.

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department recently increased its use of video surveillance at Rikers, and the incident was caught on tape. It was a jailhouse crock. Footage of the incident A gang member accused showed a person of killing one of grabbing CrawGov. Cuomo’s ford’s arm, but it top aides tarwas another ingeted the city mate who was Department of trying to calm Correction comhim down, a missioner with a source said. bogus excessive“The video force claim — proves the claim and it took the is unfounded,” jails boss weeks said department to clear his name, The Post CAREY GABAY spokesman Pehas learned. Gov aide slain in ’15. ter Thorne. A department Tyshawn source called Crawford, who Crawford a “liar was being held who should at Rikers Island spend the rest of in the 2015 killhis life behind ing, took an opbars.” portunity to “He’s a classic mess with Compiece of s- -t missioner Jowho allegedly seph Ponte killed a talented when Ponte and prominent toured the jail man in the comon Dec. 2. CRAWFORD Crawford, 21, Made “attack” claim. munity, and now he tried to take threw a fit when Ponte’s security detail or- down a commissioner,” the dered him to step back to source said. Gabay, 43, was struck in let the commish pass. He shouted at the offic- the head by a stray bullet ers, then challenged Ponte after he and his brother got caught in the middle of a to a fight. Ponte walked past Craw- gang shootout during the festivities in ford without even looking J’Ouvert Crown Heights on Sept. 7, at him. Still, Crawford — one of 2015. He died nine days four gangbangers charged later. The Harvard-educated in the shooting death of senior Cuomo adviser Carey lawyer, who lived in Clinton Gabay at last year’s J’Ou- Hill, was a first deputy vert festivities in Brooklyn counsel for Cuomo’s Empire — filed a complaint alleg- State Development Corp. Crawford refused a reing that Ponte grabbed his quest for an interview. His forearm. Correction investigators lawyer, Daniel Lynch, declined to comment. launched a probe. Fortunately for Ponte, the jschram@nypost.com

Woody eats his heart out as By BOB FREDERICKS

ONG before the publicity-savvy owners named a gut-busting pastrami-and-cornedbeef sandwich after him, a struggling Woody Allen found a comforting refuge in the Carnegie Deli as he honed his comedic chops. “I used to eat at the Carnegie long before I became a comedian because the food was delicious, and in those days, I had no fear of eating corned beef, pastrami or any other things that now I feel would destroy my life,” the 81-year-old filmmaker told The Post about the Big Apple landmark, which will serve up its last meal on Friday night.

It was the ’50s and early ’60s, and Allen wasn’t the only one seeking solace in the snappy late-night patter and fragrant pleasures of smoked meats, chopped liver and latkes at the classic Jewish deli on Seventh Avenue at 55th Street, near Carnegie Hall. “It was a great place to sit around and talk with other comedy writers,” Allen said. Even after he became a wildly successful writer, stand-up comic and director, the atmosphere — and the mouth-watering menu — kept him coming back.

LLEN immortalized his love affair with the deli when he used it as the setting for much of the 1984

comedy “Broadway Danny Rose” — in which he played a fast-talking but hapless talent agent who pretended to date a character named Tina, played by Mia Farrow. Allen’s character regaled a gang of fellow showbiz types gathered at the deli with the tale of how Tina, a former mob moll, was dating one of his clients. “I got to eat there all the time and was able to rationalize it because I was working there, even though I knew how bad it was for me,” Allen said. “So when I was working there and work necessitated that I eat there all the time, I was able to get past my guilt over that amount of pleasure in that short of space.”

Allen was far from the only celeb to nosh at Carnegie over the years; the walls are covered with scores of framed shots of politicians, sports heroes, actors, performers and others too numerous to mention. Celebs like Henry Kissinger, Meryl Streep, Bob Fosse, Warren Beatty and John Glenn plus many others stopped in over the years for a bite. Henny Youngman, the king of one-liners, was a regular and eulogized coowner Leo Steiner on his death in 1987 as “the deli lama.” In fact, Steiner’s service was more of a yuckfest than a time for tears. “Whaddya mean, ‘Is chicken soup good for you?’

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‘WAITERS’: A ‘WAITERS’: A line line grows grows outside outside Carnegie Carnegie Deli, Deli, which which will will shut shut down down at at the the end end of of the the week. week. The New The New York York institution institution — — home home of of The The Woody Woody (inset (inset left), left), a a $29.99 $29.99 corned-beef-and-pastrami corned-beef-and-pastrami monstrosity, and beloved by countless celebrities (inset center) — will live on in satellite shops.

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LL good things come to an end,” current owner Marian Harper, Parker’s daughter, said recently over a bittersweet lunch of The Woody and the equally artery-clogging $29 Reuben — about two

pounds of meat, sauerkraut and melted Swiss cheese. “I’ve been here since the day my father took over,” she told The Post. “I started as a cashier.” Her decision to close and concentrate on the brand’s other locations, wholesale and mail-order operations was not an easy one. But after a tough couple of years that included a well-publicized divorce, a temporary closure due to utility problems and a suit by staffers claiming they were underpaid, she felt the time had come. Carnegie satellites will remain open at Madison Square Garden, the Mirage Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, Pa., Harper

noted. “It’s like a second home,” she said, breaking into a brief shimmy as Barry Manilow’s 1977 hit “It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve” played on the sound system.

CORES of old-timers and regulars have flocked to the deli since the closure was announced earlier this year — including Allen, who had a final dinner there with his wife, Soon-Yi, friends and Harper’s daughter, Sarri, in November. Despite his short stature and frail frame, the man can apparently pack it away. The order for the table included, among other items, latkes, cole slaw, gefilte fish,

chopped liver, the massive Reuben, knockwurst, a beeftongue sandwich, pickles — and cheesecake. And The Woody is not the only sandwich named after a celeb. Limited-edition specialty sandwiches were also named for George H.W. Bush, Ross Perot and Derek Jeter, among others.

HE secret of the deli’s success — famed critic Mimi Sheraton called its pastrami sandwich the Big Apple’s best in 1979 — is the meticulous preparation of its meat. The corned beef, for instance, begins as a full-cut shoulder brisket, weighing 20 to 24 pounds. The brisket is abundantly infused with

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flavorful brine, placed in a brine-filled barrel and refrigerated for a week. Finally, the corned beef is boiled for 3¹/₂ to four hours and then brought straight to the deli counter, where the fat is trimmed and the meat is sliced and piled high on rye bread. The prep work clearly pays off — as lines of tourists and New Yorkers who make regular pilgrimages to the shrine of Jewish cuisine often stretch down the block. “For me, any food is good for me in direct proportion to how pleasureless it is,” Allen said. “The food at the Carnegie had to be bad for me because it was ecstatically pleasurable.”

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You ever see a chicken with a cold?” Steiner cracked on a videotape that was shown during the memorial. Steiner and two partners, Fred Klein and Milton Parker, bought the Carnegie in 1976 from the original owners, who had run it since 1937. Parker — known as the Chief Pastrami Maven — was known for starting every workday by chowing down on a foot-long frank.

GUILTY PLEASURE: Woody Allen enjoys one last meal at Carnegie Deli.

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A heartbroken Florida man went to the Jacksonville Humane Society looking to adopt a cat to replace the one that ran away from home two months earlier. And that’s where he found his missing pal, Misty. “She was found around the same time and place she went missing,” the Humane Society said. “Now she is back home for the holidays, where she belongs!” The water wars have begun. Several residents in tony Hillsborough, Calif., where the average home goes for $4.3 million, are suing San Mateo County over new policies that charge higher water rates for big users. In other words, people with mansions don’t want to pay more to maintain their lush yards in droughtstricken California.

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Traffic safety officials in Nebraska are using force — the Force — to promote safe driving. Authorities are using funny messages on electronic traffic signs to get motorists to pay attention. “Reckless driving is on the path to the dark side,” said one sign posted last week, in hopes of catching the eyes of “Rogue One” fans.

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FROZEN HELL: Karen Klein (above) walked 26 miles near the Grand Canyon to get help for husband Eric and son Isaac (below).

Searchers found her there Saturday afternoon, “too exhausted to even make a fire,” Driscoll said. If Klein hadn’t been “in really good shape . . . she wouldn’t have made it,” he added. Her husband, Eric Klein, 47, and son, Isaac, meanwhile, had already been rescued Friday afternoon, after Eric summoned help by hiking to higher ground where he got cellphone service, Driscoll said.

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A woman ate twigs and drank her own urine to survive a 26-mile trudge in three feet of snow in Arizona, before being rescued in what a local official called “a Christmas miracle.” Searchers found Karen Klein, 46, in an abandoned cabin just as a storm was bearing down on the region, said Jim Driscoll, the chief sheriff’s deputy in Cococino County, Ariz. “This is a Christmas miracle,” Driscoll told The Associated Press. Klein, of Easton, Pa., was headed to the Grand Canyon’s North Rim on vacation with her husband and 10-year-old son when their plan went awry. The route from Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah was blocked by snow, and their rental car got stuck in a ditch when they tried to turn around Thursday afternoon. Klein, a marathon runner and triathlete, set out on foot to seek help, Driscoll said. Wearing a parka, knit cap and hiking boots — but no snow gear — the community college professor trekked about 26 miles over the next 24-plus hours. She endured the ordeal by eating twigs from pine trees and drinking her own urine, her twin sister told the Morning Call newspaper of Allentown, Pa. Klein had to drink the urine to avoid suffering hypothermia from eating snow, Kristen Haase said. Klein found a shuttered entrance station to the North Rim on Friday around dusk and took shelter inside.

A fast-moving blaze ripped through a four-story apartment building Monday on Manhattan’s East Side. None of the tenants in the six-unit building at 122 Lexington Ave. off 28th Street was injured, but a resident, who asked not to be identified, noted that two dogs belonging to a neighbor had died. “It was terrible,” she said. The fire started in a fourth-floor apartment and spread to the third floor

and roof, officials said. A restaurant on the ground floor was also badly damaged. Officials said the third- and fourthfloor tenants would not be able to return Monday night, but some of the secondfloor apartment might be habitable. The blaze, which started around 6 p.m. and was under control 20 minutes later, sent three firefighters to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Joe Marino and Tom Wilson

Nothing says Christmas like a fresh tamale. So it was a bummer when hundreds of the savory Mexican treats being sold at the Amapola market in Downey, Calif., went bad due to a problem with the dough. Emilio Gomez said his mom was in tears over her bad tamales: “She thought it was her fault . . . and started crying. She thought she had ruined Christmas.” The market was busy on Monday issuing refunds. So long, sofa. Adan Hernandez, 37, noticed a discarded couch on the street in his Anchorage neighborhood in October and snapped one picture of it every day, calling it a ritual akin to “watching the ocean.” He hit Day 67 before the snow-covered couch was finally hauled away by trash collectors on Monday morning. David K. Li, Wires

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From the right: Obama’s Disgraceful Legacy on Israel

How liberals’ culture wars isolate them

For eight years, Elliot Abrams writes in The Weekly Standard, Democrats “have made believe that Barack Obama is a firm and enthusiastic supporter and defender” of Israel. But that argument was “ground into dust” by Friday’s US abstention that allowed a sweeping anti-Israel resolution to pass the UN Security Council. Now Obama leaves office “with his record on Israel in ruins.” Fact is, Israeli settlements “have been an obsession for Obama,” who believed that “freezing construction in settlements was the key to Israeli-Palestinian peace.” So Obama “has done what he could for eight years to undermine Israel’s elected government, prevent its action against Iran’s nuclear weapons program and create as much daylight as possible” between the US and Israel.

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Foreign desk: Angela Merkel Is Destroying Europe German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy on immigration may have been “lauded as a courageous triumph of humanitarianism,” but after last week’s terror attack in Berlin, it’s become clear that it “has actually been a disaster,” says Michael Brendan Dougherty in The Week. “The current wave of terrorism and the enormous fear of crime and disorder in European cities is proving mortally dangerous not just to her own party, but to the European Union itself.” The perpetrators of terrorism and other violent crimes throughout Europe have “used the flow of refugees in Europe to escape detection by police.” So “instead of finding new ways of integrating migrants,” countries “are coming up with new ways to surveil them. This is a Europe no one wanted.”

Conservative: Designers Will Regret Snubbing Melania Samantha Schroeder at The Federalist notes that “when a fashion designer says that he or she would be honored to dress the First Lady, it usually doesn’t make news.” But “that was before Donald Trump was elected.” Now many in “fashion’s designer elite are rushing to declare that they will have nothing to do with the president-elect and his family.” The “partisan histrionics” are no surprise, she says: “It is an industry that believes only liberal views can be fashionable.” Indeed, “many of the fashion elite gave personally to Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign,” including Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Vera Wang, Tory Burch and Diane von Furstenberg. But “the joke might be on them. They will miss a remarkable opportunity to witness their work worn by one of the most powerful promoters of fashion in the US: the president’s wife.” Melania Trump

Economist: The Economy Needs Attention Now The Dow “is up 9 percent since the election, while economic-sensitive small-caps have jumped nearly 16 percent,” — all signs of confidence in Donald Trump. But Larry Kudlow, a top contender to head the Council of Economic Advisers, says the president-elect needs to launch “immediate bipartisan efforts to strengthen the economy.” Writing at Real Clear Politics, he says that’s because the economy, despite all the positive signs, “is weakening yet again: Real GDP is rising only 1.7 percent. Business fixed investment continues to decline. Productivity is flat. Consumer spending has barely risen in the last two months.” And while repealing ObamaCare is a tempting first target, he argues instead for “business tax reform — with low marginal corporate rates for large and small companies, easy repatriation and immediate expensing for new investment.”

Science writer: America Needs a New Moon Mission It’s been 44 years since the US last went to the moon and we won’t be returning anytime soon. “That’s a shame,” says Adam Minter at Bloomberg, because “the moon is now a more compelling destination than ever.” Other countries are exploring: “The most ambitious effort is the European Space Agency’s ‘moon village,’ which is intended to be a permanent international outpost on the lunar surface.” But Washington remains focused on “Journey to Mars,” a “hugely expensive” and “stillhazy” plan “to fly astronauts around the red planet — and possibly land there — in the 2030s.” Says Minter: “Getting back to the moon first makes more sense.” It’s a potential “scientific bonanza” and can serve as “a way station en route to Mars.” —Compiled by Eric Fettmann

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EW few performers seem willing to step up and entertain the country when the new president is sworn in on Jan. 20. With the news last week that opera singer Andrea Bocelli had bowed to pressure and dropped out of the Inauguration Day concert, and with a member of the Rockettes leading a social-media rebellion against performing for the president, Kid Rock is currently the biggest name scheduled to appear. And liberals are giddy. Because they still don’t get it. Robert Reich, Bill Clinton’s labor secretary who has trans- Not so fast: Katy Perry performs at a Clinton rally in November. formed himself into the Michael Moore of Facebook, is promot- boos. And still the cast lectured ers is foolhardy. Writing in the ing something called the Free- him from the stage as if there leftist online arts magazine The dom United Concert to air at the couldn’t possibly be any Trump- Baffler, Jacob Silverman pointed same time as the inauguration. voters in the audience or, heaven to the cult of celebrity as a prime reason Hillary lost. The concert would benefit all forbid, in the cast or crew. He wrote that these “pleas for The liberal bent in everything the usual liberal charities and Reich hopes to get big names goes far beyond just Broadway or celebrity attention seem to relike Jay-Z and Madonna to per- Hollywood. It permeates every- flect a liberal desire to see their form. “Presto,” he writes. “The thing. And it gets old fast. The politics validated, even given a Trump inauguration loses all the September issue of homekeeping halo of glamor, by fellow elites. TV ratings. Basically, no one mag Real Simple featured an in- Clinton’s pithy tweets and Jay-Z coherent politi- concert appearances appeal to watches it.” cal rant by au- the already converted while ofThat’ll show thor Terry Mc- fering nothing to the millions of him. KAROL Millan. In it, she American workers wondering if, Jay-Z and MaMARKOWICZ accused the Re- just maybe, the woman who gives donna both alpublican Party of secret $250,000 speeches to ready performed during the election to gin up sup- conspiring against President bankers lacks a common touch.” An astronomical 68 percent in port for Hillary Clinton — and Obama because he’s black and clearly failed. But sure, one more states of “rigging” voting re- a Reuters/Ipsos exit Election concert should swing the coun- quirements. She wrote that white Day poll said that “traditional people complain of black people parties and politicians don’t care try to Reich’s side. The real issue is the bubble taking their jobs and that she’s about people like me.” That’s a created by the left’s Stalinized afraid of her son going out alone lot of people feeling completely abandoned — and Katy Perry airbrushing of nonliberals out of lest the police shoot him. Real Simple is a magazine isn’t cutting it anymore. American popular culture. As liberals continue to draw Lin Manuel Miranda is running known for recipes and organizacultural lines that leave consera contest to raise money for tional tips. It’s a world Democrats don’t in- vatives out, they have to notice Planned Parenthood. For a $10 donation, you can be entered habit. They would never be read- that it’s translating to ballot-box into a drawing to see his show ing a home magazine and find losses. Republicans don’t just “Hamilton” in three cities. themselves knee deep in conser- control the presidency, the Miranda’s mom is on the national vative political conspiracy theo- House and the Senate but nearly board of directors of Planned ries. Same goes for women’s mag- two-thirds of statehouses and a Parenthood Action Fund, so this azines, which are all automatically majority of governorships. The all-encompassing liberalliberal with uniform opinions on is clearly a cause he cares about. There has been exactly zero “women’s issues,” as if conserva- ism in popular culture might not controversy over his fund-raiser tive women don’t exist. Then be hurting the performers’ finan— yet imagine if it were for the there’s a shock when 53 percent of cial bottom lines (so far), but it’s certainly not doing anything to National Rifle Association or any white women choose Trump. In an election that came down help their political causes, either. other popular conservative cause. When Mike Pence attended the to Democrats’ failure to hold the As we learned this election, we now-infamous “Hamilton” perfor- Rust Belt states, doubling down ignore whole segments of the mance, the video of his entrance on talking only to other liberals population at our peril. featured many more cheers than while watching liberal performTwitter: @Karol

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ayor de Blasio is denouncing The Post and city Comptroller Scott Stringer for conspiring to create “fake news” — namely last week’s exposés of gross mismanagement at the Administration for Children’s Services. Make that deadly mismanagement. As Rich Calder reported in Thursday’s Post, Stringer’s review of “high priority” ACS cases in the 12 weeks before the death of Zymere Perkins flagged, among other things, 10 other children who died despite each being the subject of at least four abuse or maltreatment complaints to ACS. On WNYC the next day, the mayor made the “fake news” charge as he condemned Stringer and The Post for “denigrating the work of all the people at ACS who protect children.” No, we’re exposing the non-work of people — especially ACS management, which has bloated under de Blasio — who didn’t protect these now-dead kids. And there’s nothing fake about the deaths of children living in unsafe situations and known to the city. The mayor’s also claiming that four of these deaths occurred years earlier — yet ACS confirms the figure of 10 deaths in that period, and in any case Stringer was working from the records that ACS provided. De Blasio also insisted that the six other deaths were unrelated to abuse or neglect — although the records on that are conveniently not open to the public. And, again, Stringer was simply reviewing the files on “high priority” cases of at-risk kids that

ACS provided. Note, too, that de Blasio isn’t challenging the comptroller’s other findings from his review of 3,692 cases about the failure to follow established ACS procedures and reforms, including:  Almost 75 percent of the cases that were closed lacked proper review by managers.  A full 32 percent were closed without the proper review by supervisors.  In 22 percent of cases, ACS agents didn’t meet face-to-face with affected kids within 24 hours of ACS receiving the allegations.  Some 26 percent were closed without caseworkers making the required number of face-to-face contacts with affected kids.  In 65 percent of cases, risk-assessment profile reports didn’t get done on time. The failure of ACS management to enforce its own basic protocols speaks volumes about an agency adrift. Is it really any wonder that Commissioner Gladys Carrion has quit — or that the state is forcing the city to accept an outside monitor over ACS? Then there’s this: The mayor also bragged on WNYC that “the number of cases that have been substantiated as potential child abuse has gone down steadily” in recent years. That’s great — if it’s actually a drop in abuse, or in false findings. It’s terrible if ACS is simply failing to flag abuse that’s real — as it apparently did multiple times in Zymere’s case. And, tragically, that explanation better fits the facts we have about the de Blasio Administration for Children’s Services.

A Big Win for Bad Teachers

chools Chancellor Carmen Fariña last week joined with United Federation of Teachers boss Mike Mulgrew and principals’ union head Ernest Logan to ask for a waiver from the state mandate for outside, independent evaluations of teachers. You couldn’t ask for better proof that the inmates have taken over the asylum that passes for public education in New York City. The waiver push came with the announcement of the new plan for rating city teachers — on the basis of classroom observations, tests created by teachers and student portfolios. That’s a system extremely easy to game, as long as no outsider is in the loop. Yes, good principals will still quietly identify bad teachers, and strive to push them out of their schools. But those teachers will just wind up at another school, with a lessdiligent principal — most likely at a school serving underprivileged kids. Teachers and principals invested only in protecting their jobs and shielding themselves from scrutiny are the big winners. Fariña’s promise that new professional-development programs will fix any problem teachers is laughable. All this follows on the utter collapse of Gov. Cuomo’s years-long effort to impose tougher teacher-evaluation procedures. The unions fought that tooth and nail. When Cuomo last year gave up his push for student-test data to be used in evaluations, the

outside-observer mandate became the last hope for any objective accountability. Now Fariña and Michael Mulgrew argue that the mandate is too costly — as if money spent to ID failing teachers is a waste. Will the State Education Department grant the waiver? Sadly, the teachers unions now own SED — thanks to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who de facto controls the state Board of Regents and only won the speakership with the unions’ backing. Goodbye to any hope of getting incompetent teachers fired — or even of denying tenure to newly-hired failures. The bottom line: The de Blasio administration is putting teacher-employment first, ahead of the children’s needs. Kids trapped in the mayor’s Renewal schools and other failure factories will continue to suffer — while Mulgrew’s union enthusiastically works to help de Blasio win re-election. One hope for change: an all-out war in Albany to remove the speaker’s one-man control of the State Education Department. The other hope is that the Trump administration might find a way to break up this corrupt game. With reformer Betsy DeVos helming the federal Education Department, maybe New York could see a pilot schoolvoucher program to give parents the chance to take their children out of de Blasio’s schools, and into ones that actually care about good teaching.

The Russian-Hack Excuse: Refusing To Face Reality  I’m so tired of the Russian hacking issue (“Most doubt Russia hack,” Dec. 21). The question shouldn’t be who exposed the truth, the question should be what the truth exposed. And we know what the hack revealed: a corrupt Democratic Party, from top to bottom. When Donald Trump takes office, the Democrats will be reduced to the irrelevance they deserve. The damage they’ve done will take decades to repair, but at least we will have a president and Congress that can try to fix our problems. Jan. 20 can’t come soon enough. Michael Pacer Paso Robles, Calif.  When

will the Democrats stop making fools of themselves? They’re blaming the Russians for helping Trump win. They choose to forget that President Obama tried preventing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from being re-elected.

THE ISSUE: Democrats blaming Russian interference for Donald Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton.

the FBI, Russian hacking and the Electoral College. Everything but themselves. Sam King Manhattan  You

Donald Trump Later, Obama went to England to influence the British to vote against Brexit. Considering that both attempts failed, maybe Democrats should consult the Russians on how they supposedly succeeded? Brian Keane Patchogue  Democrats,

instead of trying to figure out what they did wrong, have blamed everything and everyone else for their mistakes. They blame Trump,

would have to be a political novice to think Russia wanted Trump as our president. Trump plans to build up our military. Russia would have much preferred Hillary Clinton, who wanted to continue to weaken our military as the Obama administration has done. Don’t let anyone fool you. Tom Scott Sportswood, NJ

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the left spent months telling the world that Trump is an authoritarian narcissist, it’s hard to accept the new line that he’ll be Vladimir Putin’s, or anyone else’s, stooge. No matter what you think of him, Trump, for good or ill, will always do it his own way. J. Weisenfeld Brooklyn

Terror at a Christmas Market  Decent, intelligent people throughout the world were shaken and mortified by the latest brutal acts of terrorism committed by Islamic thugs in Germany (“Christmas shop of horrors,” Dec. 20). “What’s happening is disgraceful,” Donald Trump said. “That’s an attack on humanity, that’s what it is. It’s an attack on humanity and it’s gotta be stopped.” Trump’s clear-headed, honest approach to dealing with the Islamic extremism is the sort of thinking that has been

THE ISSUE: Reactions to the truck attack in Berlin that left 12 dead and 56 others wounded.

missing from the likes of President Obama, Hillary Clinton and other people who are oblivious and refuse to accept the truth. John Lillpop Pine Grove, Calif.  Ralph Peters is right about one thing: Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to allow massive immigration into Germany was tragic (“Stand by Merkel, despite this mess,” PostOpinion, Dec. 22).

It’s very tragic that the rest of Europe suffers because of her thoughtless actions. Yes, Merkel may feel guilt because of what Germany did during World War I and II, but did she ever consider what she inflicted on her neighboring countries by her effort to appease this guilt? She’s imperiled all of her neighbors. Catherine Adago Manhattan

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They deserved better: A visitor to the Bronx site where Peter and Danielle Ambrose lost their daughters, Scylee and Ibanez, when a radiator exploded. tion and court order, that will give a free apartment to any family from anywhere in the world. That’s as long as the adults in that family are persistent enough to keep trying after they’re rejected. The girls’ parents, Danielle McGuire and Pete Ambrose, were. Let’s not romanticize it: These aren’t young adults coming to the city with nothing in their pocket, willing to sleep on couches and work odd jobs to make their way.

People come to New York every day to do that, with or without kids. Instead, Danielle was a 24-yearold young woman with two needy babies and no way to support herself or them, far away from family and friends. New York is a fairy tale on TV — but it’s a brutal place if you have nothing except a naive view of the big city, and no means to make even the most modest living. Pete, with a history of drug addiction, couldn’t support himself,

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How We Can Save At-Risk Children C OULD Zymere Perkins have been saved? The answer, revealed in a recent 27-page report from the state Office of Children and Family Services, is clearly yes. There were five investigations into claims of abuse against the boy who died earlier this fall allegedly at the hands of his mother’s boyfriend. He had been smacked as many as 20 times in a row in front of witnesses, beaten with a belt, placed under cold showers and denied food if he misbehaved. In addition to bruises and broken bones, he was missing all of his front teeth. But apparently all his mother had to do was tell the ACS workers that he had fallen — down the stairs, off a scooter, whatever — and they would close the case. Now it turns out that as many as 10 children died in the 12 weeks before Zymere Perkins, despite each being the subject of at least four abuse or maltreatment complaints. It doesn’t have to be like this. More and more cities are adopting predictive analytics as a powerful tool in determining which children are at the greatest risk for repeated abuse and even death at the hands of the adults in their lives. Maura Corrigan, a former justice on the Michigan Supreme Court who studies

Of course, then the computer wouldn’t be child welfare, told a recent panel at the American Enterprise Institute, “If we were any more prejudiced than people who are able to mine data in child welfare and in- currently deciding which families are at risk. tervene with good casework by the mining But there’s no evidence that racism is playof that data, perhaps we would reduce the ing a role in the first place. Corrigan says the 1,500 to 3,000 deaths from child abuse and majority of child-abuse complaints in Michigan are directed at African-Americans. neglect in this country each year.” And she’s fairly certain that authorities So why haven’t more states and cities — like New York — started using data from aren’t simply ignoring complaints of white past cases in order to inform decisions parent abuse. “Our reporting laws are so about current ones? Joette Katz, commis- comprehensive on child abuse and neglect sioner of the Connecticut Department of that I don’t think there’s unreported child abuse going on out there,” Children and Families, she said. “This is poverty which has started to introrelated.” duce predictive analytics, NAOMI But it’s not just economic told the gathering: “Not SCHAEFER RILEY conditions that lead to child surprisingly, predictive abuse. There’s a higher incitools have been treated with suspicion in the child-welfare area, dence of single motherhood among racial minorities, and fathers living with children and you all know who I’m talking about.” Who is she talking about? For one, she is who aren’t biologically their own are more talking about academics, lawyers and poli- likely to engage in abuse. But these facts won’t stop the people who ticians who worry about everyone’s favorite topic — disparate impact. It turns out are more concerned with the racial aesthat there are a disproportionate number of thetics of the system. ACLU senior analyst racial minorities who are reported to and Jay Stanley told PBS that “The worst-case investigated by child services. So if an algo- scenario is that the score is just reflecting rithm incorporates data about who has the prejudices or beliefs of whoever scored been engaged in abuse in the past, it might the algorithm.” Actually, the worst-case scenario is that inadvertently target more black and Hischildren are beaten to death. panic families.

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There are others who object to the use of predictive analytics — namely, many of the professionals who work for child services and believe that their expertise is superior to a computer’s. But their concerns probably go beyond that. Thanks to these new tools, we can’t only figure out which children are most likely to be harmed; we can also figure out which case workers are most likely to have made the wrong decisions. And what public-sector bureaucrat wants that? Perhaps this sounds familiar. A system that’s supposed to help the children but is really turning into a jobs program for adults? Yes, it’s our inner-city public schools. And just like low-performing public-school teachers don’t want the accountability that comes with teacher evaluations, so many case workers would be pretty unhappy if we tried to inject greater accountability into child services. In a report issued on Thursday, Comptroller Scott Stringer noted that without reform, the mismanagement of ACS “will continue to prove fatal for an unknown number of children.” Now we know what that reform should look like. There’s no time to waste. Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum. Twitter: @NaomiSRiley

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IS the season to be generous. But generosity — when it comes from the government — can backfire. Especially when the government has guaranteed it will be generous to everyone. When you try to help everyone, sometimes you end up hurting everyone. Consider Ibanez and Scylee McGuire. Both babies, a 2-year-old and a 1-year-old, were scalded to death in a Bronx apartment earlier this month. The city is still investigating the incident, which may have been because of a damaged radiator in the babies’ apartment, owned by a slumlord. But even before the girls died, they lived in desperation. As The New York Times reports, the girls’ father posted that (edited for spelling and grammar) “the neighborhood is riddled with automatic gunfire every weekend.” The police “won’t come. I just saw a guy

smash the teeth out of this other guy with a pistol, then fire three shots in the air.” Yet the girls didn’t live and die in such conditions because they were poor. They weren’t poor in a financial sense. Someone spent more than $35,620 on their behalf over the past year, just in rent. That money — nearly $3,000 a month — can rate a nice apartment in a fine neighborhood. To afford such an apartment, the girls’ parents would have had to make about $80,000 a year, achievable for two people with basic skills. The city’s average privatesector wage, outside of the financial sector, is $69,171. Many people get by on far less. The problem is that the people spending the money weren’t the girls’ parents, or anyone else that they knew. It was the city of New York, paying top prices to house people in the ghetto. The girls’ parents came here a year and a half ago, from Maine, and went right into the city’s shelter system. They weren’t totally out of options: They had places to stay in Maine, as the Times found. But New York is one of the only places in the country, by inclina-

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let alone help support his two youngest children. But the city government claimed to be able to support the Ambrose family, at any cost — and so New York attracted them here, where it failed them. The city deluding itself that it can competently house everyone in the world, for free, didn’t only harm the Ambroses. It harms the people who are trying to make their way. New York had 60,382 people in its homeless system as of last week, more than 6,600 from out of town. To house some of these people, New York has rented more than 3,200 “cluster” apartments like the one in which Ibanez and Scylee died. That’s 3,200 apartments not available to people who can afford modest rent, but who are being outbid, essentially, by the government. Mayor de Blasio is trying to stop relying as much on those apartments. But to do that, he’s using hotel rooms — 2,069 each night. Low-end hotels are no place for kids. And when the city rents highend rooms, it pushes more tourists to Airbnb, also harming the supply of apartments. Though de Blasio has tried, there’s no way around it: The city cannot provide free, safe apartments to everyone who comes. Maintaining the illusion that we can — to people who, like the Ambroses, had other options — isn’t generous. It’s cruel. Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal.

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PROCEDURE From the word or phrase above, form AT LEAST 16 five-letter words, without using more than one form of the same word. For example, drink or drank (not both). ANSWERS IN TOMORROW’S POST Yesterday’s word: agile alien align

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Every flower must go though some dirt before it blooms. In the process of becoming proficient at bridge, you’ll make mistakes. The idea is to learn from them. Today’s West leads the king of spades against five diamonds: three, nine from East, four. How should West continue? West actually led a second spade. South ruffed, led a trump to dummy, ruffed a spade, led a trump to dummy and ruffed the last spade. He next led the A-K and a third club. When West won, he was end-played. He had to lead a heart, and South put up dummy’s queen and made his game. For West to lead a second spade looked obvious, but “obvious” plays are suspect. If South has a second spade loser, he has no way to avoid it. West must defend passively by leading a trump at Trick Two, preserving a spade as a safe exit card. South lacks the entries to ruff out dummy’s spades and can’t pull off his end play. I’ve never played an error-free session. Everyone makes errors. Profit from them.

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Apparel retailer J. Crew’s shopping Web site was down for several hours on Monday. “We’re experiencing issues with jcrew.com, but we’ll be back up and running shortly. Sorry for any inconvenience and thank you,” the retailer tweeted.

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’Tis the season when brick-and-mortar stores have an advantage over online retailers, The Wall Street Journal reports. With 10 percent of holiday gifts being returned — and the vast majority brought to stores, whether they were purchased online or in person — shops see an influx of consumers, and have a chance to make more sales. Sources: AP, Dow Jones, Dow Jones, Post Wires

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Bombshells wants to bust out. Management of the fourunit Houston-based restaurant and bar wants to take its military-themed concept — and its scantily-clad waitresses and ice-cold beer — on a cross-country tear that could result in as many as 100 new franchised locations opening in the next five years. The timing of the move would appear to be perfect. While revenue of Bombshells grew 6 percent in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, it spiked 10.5 percent in the fourth quarter. The momentum appears to have shareholders upbeat. Shares of RCI Hospitality, which owns Bombshells as well as a host of adult-friendly nightclubs and cabarets, have increased nearly 40 percent since the presidential election through Dec. 23, to $15.95. This is all good news for RCI brass — but just don’t start referring to their Bombshells chain as just another so-called “breastaurant,” the name for a burger and beer joint with scantily-clad waitresses, like Twin Peaks and Hooters. Management would rather you think of the familyfriendly Dave & Buster’s as their inspiration — never mind the bullet-belts hanging from its servers waists and the cleavage-baring zippered tops.

Bombshells, its waitresses garbed in military military-themed gear (shown), hopes to take its culinary concept nationwide in five fiv years.

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Hometown: Hometo wn: Houston Growth: 4 going on 100 in five fiv years Decor: WW II theme Revenue: nue: Up 10.5 percent in fourth quarter “It is not a so-called ‘breastaurant,’ ” insisted spokesman Gary Fishman. OK, we won’t mention that the staff is encouraged to sidle up to customers or that they have to sign an employment contract that allows the restaurant to say what lipstick

colors are acceptable and require them to wear their hair down. To be sure, the WWIIthemed eatery is trying to tap into the family crowd by hosting Little League gatherings and the like in a way that its breastaurant peers are not, say

industry watchers. “It’s drawing people in at lunch and going all the way to 2 a.m.,” said Frank Camma, a retail analyst at Sidoti, who notes that Bombshells attracts more women than Hooters. “It has cross-appeal.” RCI Hospitality operates

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more than 40 gentlemen’s clubs, including jiggle joint Rick’s Cabaret in Manhattan, Jaguars, Tootsies Cabaret and XTC. Among all the RCI brands, it is the 3-year-old Bombshells that is being groomed for growth. RCI recently poached Shannon Glaser, a franchising expert from the Twin Peaks chain. Glaser helped her former employer win acclaim as the fastest-growing restaurant chain over the past several years. At a time when the restaurant industry is experiencing anemic growth and buzz, phrases like “restaurant recession” have crept into the lexicon, RCI — and Bombshells in particular — seem to be bucking the trend. “I think overall the election is turning out to be very, very, very positive for us so far,” Bombshells Chief Executive Eric Langan told Wall Street in a recent conference call. “We think the franchising and growth of this concept will greatly enhance shareholder value, and [we] view Bombshells as a buried ‘gem,’ ” Camma wrote in a report. The company doesn’t even think those skimpy Bombshells outfits go too far. “Our uniform is like a cheerleader outfit,” director of operations David Simmons offered. lfickenscher@nypost.com

Stocks’ run could be arrested by ‘border’ By RODRIGO CAMPOS

The stocks rally on the heels of the election of Donald Trump was built on expectations of reduced regulations, big tax cuts and a large fiscal stimulus. Now signs are emerging from the Trump camp that harsher trade policies that could jeopardize the honeymoon are likely in the offing, and investors would be well advised to give those prospects more weight when gauging how much further an already

pricey market has to run. By naming China hawk Peter Navarro head of a newly formed White House National Trade Council, the incoming administration is signaling that Trump’s campaign promises to revisit trade deals and even impose a tax on all imports are very much alive. Navarro favors a so-called border adjustment tax that is also included in Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) “Better Way” tax-reform blueprint. Economists at Deutsche Bank estiwww.ebook3000.com

mate the tax, if implemented, could send inflation far above the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target and drive a 15 percent surge in the dollar. Analysts calculate that, all else being equal, a 5 percent increase in the dollar translates into about a 3 percent negative earnings revision for the S&P 500 and a half-point drag on gross domestic product growth. The dollar index has already gained more than 5 percent since Election Day. Harsher trade policies may not cause a full economic slowdown, “but

I’d expect a localized recession in manufacturing and smaller gains in factory employment as well,” said Brian Jacobsen, chief portfolio strategist at Wells Fargo Funds Management. A border tax could trigger retaliation, pouring uncertainty into the market, he said. “Even if the drafters of the legislation have pure intentions, other countries could use this as a pretext for propping up or subsidizing their own favorite industries.” Reuters

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Oprah Winfrey didn’t let the holidays interfere with pushing her Weight Watchers diet. The 62-year-old media mogul posted a picture on Instagram of her eating jalapeño cheese bagels. Weight Watchers stock gained 16 percent over two days last week after Winfrey announced she had lost 40 pounds since joining.

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A world of hurt The incoming year couldn’t face a less-demanding mandate: Don’t be as messed-up as 2016, which seemed to set a new low almost weekly. Prominent among them, of course, is the refugee crisis that never seems to end. With the Dec. 26 double issue of Time, a year-long series called Finding Home is launched, which follows four refugee mothers who gave birth in September in Greece, chronicling their experiences in video and photos as they raise their children in a foreign country. “They are between worlds,” Time reports, “and about the only thing certain in their lives is that they probably won’t see their parents’ home country until they are adults, if ever.” The 14-page spread is sure to tug a few heart strings, though Time is probably aiming a little higher — as in a Pulitzer Prize. Also in the issue, a refreshing look at the presidential election, focusing on Vice President-elect Mike Pence for a change, with a profile declaring that Pence “is no ordinary wingman.” Pence and Trump are fierce buds now, according to Time, which describes the evolution of their relationship from when Pence remained mum when Trump contradicted himself during the debates and at rallies, but now defends his every tweet. The Indiana governor, Time claims, is the “central figure” vetting Cabinet picks and is also the one who “can mellow his billionaire boss.”

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HH Gun violence is the explosive topic New York zeroes in on for its year-end double issue, in which the book pits the gun advocate who auctioned off the Glock that killed Trayvon Martin against the mother of a daughter who died in a mass shooting. The mag brings together the two camps as part of an “experiment in radical empathy” that was done with a nonprofit group called Narrative 4. The stories are compelling and the partnerships — for example, a cop is paired with the mother of child shot by a cop — are unlikely. Food columnist Adam Platt does his annual thing about where to eat in 2017 with a dash of humor on trends he’s sick of — including “absurd” cocktail names like “Upset the Apple Cart” and the focus on everyone’s “backstory,” including the “house forager.” And New York poses the question: of who will do what outgoing senator Harry Reid has done for decades in Congress? Spoiler alert: Hometown

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boy Chuck Schumer is the annointed Democratic savior. OK, that’s enough! It’s a new year! How about a little hope here? Well, how about a cure for Lyme disease soon? Or malaria? The New Yorker gives us a gleam that these may be in sight. A group of MIT scientists are hard at work “rewriting the code of life.” These highly evolved experts are creating molecular tools that could even eradicate smallpox, malaria, yellow fever (and a multitude of other fevers that you get from traveling to farflung places). As for Lyme disease, which is far more common in our backyards, apparently the tick has infected a quarter of the population of Nantucket, Mass. We also learn that the strongman in charge of Egypt — President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi — is disarmingly soft-spoken, despite the fact that he rose to power in a coup. Sisi is also the first foreign leader to place a congratulatory call to Presi-

dent-elect Trump. Writer Peter Hessler describes Sisi as a leader “who is not a real politician.” Sound familiar? The New Yorker has a lot to say about the Middle East. Dexter Filkins fills us in on an Iraqi dam, the Mosul, which is on the verge of a collapse of “biblical proportions.” OK, Let’s try technology. Technology’s good, right? Uber and Amazon have a lot in common, according to Forbes, which slapped the ride-hail app’s CEO, Travis Kalanick, on its cover and claims that he’s got Amazon on his brain. As the richest start-up in history, with a valuation of $68 billion, Uber is “one of the world’s most interesting companies,” Forbes gushes. Kalanick can raise as much money as he wants without being profitable or having an IPO in his sights. We also learn that more people earn a paycheck from Uber than from any private employer in the world, except Walmart and McDonald’s. Forbes, perhaps, glosses over the bad rap Kalanick has earned over the years for being a difficult boss. “He’s mellowing out and moving past his scorched-earth insurgent days.” Less interesting is the list of the world’s most powerful people. Don’t we already know who they are? Maybe the most interesting point is that Russian President Vladimir Putin gets top billing over Trump, who comes in second on the list of 74

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Film buzz 1. Dunkirk 2. Despicable Me 3 3. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4. Befikre 5. The Fate of the Furious

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TV craze 1. The OA (Netflix) 2. The Path (Hulu) 3. Sneaky Pete (Amazon) 4. Leave It to Stevie (VH1) 5. Taken (NBC)

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Google trends 1. George Michael 2. Queen Elizabeth misses Christmas service 3. Celebrities who died in 2016 4. Britney Spears hoax 5. Premier League

NY Post hot topics 1. George Michael was unrecognizable before death 2. Mom drinks pee, eats twigs to survive 26-mile trek to safety 3. Transgender black man slashed after offering subway seat 4. Obama cried at sendoff 5. Mariah wears gown for Aspen shopping trip

Toys R Us playing with $37.5 million idea By JOSH KOSMAN Retailers during the Christmas shopping season use plenty of incentives to get employees to increase sales and new credit card accounts. Bonuses and in-store discounts could be among the most popular. But pressing employees to open credit card accounts because it would help boost the company’s Ebitda, an arcane term used infrequently outside the C-Suite? That is a new one. But that is exactly what the brass at

Toys R Us did. The toy retailer recently put signs on tables in employee break rooms (left) urging them to increase Ebitda, or earnings before interest, depreciation ad amortization, by pushing company credit card accounts, a store employee told The Post. “On the back side are mathematical formulas for calculating incremental sales and Ebitda, as though some clerk were actually going to sit down and do this to see just how much money they can make for the bosses,”

the employee told The Post. “Of course, there’s no attempt to explain what Ebitda is or why it’s important to the corporation,” the employee added. Well, Chief Executive David Brandon makes a $37.5 million bonus if the company can reach $600 million in adjusted Ebitda minus capital expenditures in the year ending Jan. 31, according to public filings. This was part of a three-year contract he signed when joining Toys R Us in 2015 and applies if he hits the

mark in fiscal 2015, 2016 or 2017. Last year, Brandon was very close to hitting that mark — netting $581 million in adjusted Ebitda. The break room notices come as the company is a little behind last year’s Ebitda pace, filing show. Owners KKR, Bain Capital and Vornado Realty bought the chain for $6.6 billion in 2005. They have been struggling to list its shares in an initial public offering. Toys R Us declined comment. jkosman@nypost.com

By CARLETON ENGLISH Throw these dogs a bone — or rather, a couple of dollars onto their stock price. As the Dow Jones industrial average has hit several new highs since Election Day and the S&P 500 Index has gained 5.8 percent, 135 stocks have not enjoyed the Trump Rally. Those stocks — which can be called the Dogs of the Trump Rally — are down since Nov. 8. Some of the losers, such as those in the health care space, are to be expected, given President-elect Trump’s promise in an interview earlier this month to bring down drug prices. For example, CVS Health has lost 5 percent since the election, and Abbott Laboratories and Biogen are both down roughly 3 percent. But other stocks have no

easy explanation. TripAdvisor, for example, is the biggest dog of the Trump Rally, giving up nearly 27 percent of its market cap since Election Day. The company has struggled in recent years as it’s tried to broaden its business beyond earning fees for referring customers to other online booking sites. Although the company gained 5 percent after signing a deal with Expedia on Dec. 20, shares are down 45 percent for the year. The Gap is leading losers among retail names in the S&P 500. Shares have fallen 16 percent, to $22.58 as of Friday’s close, since Nov. 8. The mall stalwart’s decline outpaces its struggling peers like Michael Kors, which is down 14.2 percent, and Urban Outfitters, which lost 12.7 percent over the same period. Also not on the Trump-

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Michael Kors (bag shown), whose stock has fallen 14.2 percent since Election Day, is one of the dogs that have failed to benefit since the Trump Rally, which has seen the S&P rise 5.8 percent since the vote.

train is Coty, the parent company of drug- and department-store beauty brands like O*P*I, Sally Hansen, Wella and Cover Girl. Its shares plunged 15.5 percent after Trump’s win,

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Congressional Democrats say they’ll try to thwart Republican plans to overhaul the US tax code by portraying them as a boon for the rich that betrays Presidentelect Trump’s campaign promise to fight for working Americans. “There’s going to be opposition if these tax cuts are directed to the people at the top again,” said Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), who is slated to become his party’s ranking member of the House’s taxwriting Ways and Means Committee. Neal’s initial comments suggest that the 115th Congress, which convenes Jan. 3 with a Republican-led agenda of instituting a broad tax overhaul and repealing ObamaCare, will be peppered with debate over income inequality. Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) have endorsed across-the-board cuts in individual income tax rates — although details remain to be filled in. Bloomberg

to $18.60. If reports of the “post-Trump haircut” are true, customers may have less of a need for the company’s hair straighteners and other beauty products. The Trump Rally also did nothing to lift toymakers

this holiday season. Mattel and Hasbro, which each get roughly 30 percent of its annual revenue in the holiday season, are down 8.3 percent and 5.1 percent, respectively, since Trump’s win. cenglish@nypost.com

Looks like holiday sales were ho-ho-ho-hum JOHN CRUDELE ESPITE all the early hoopla about how great this holiday D shopping season would turn out, it

hasn’t worked out that way. In fact, even all the money made in the Donald Trump stock market rally that started with the Presidentelect’s Nov. 8 victory hasn’t made Christmas spending good again. That’s what happens when “experts” base their opinions on misleading government statistics. I hate to wear out a theme, but faulty data coming out of Washington led people to believe Christmas sales would go gangbusters. Even the National Retail Federation said in October that the holiday season would see a strong 3.6 percent in sale gains. That would have been better than the 2.5 percent annual average over the last 10 years. The retail organization’s optimism led a major financial magazine to run a headline: “Christmas Sales Are Expected to Be Strong This Year.”

Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell consumers, who are still struggling with small pay increases, no hikes in Social Security payments, little interest income on their savings, poor job growth and gains in stock prices that are hard to liquidate to buy Christmas presents. It’s too early to tell how retailers are doing this Christmas, since the first sales report won’t hit until early January. But early indications aren’t good. Discern Retail Insights, one of the Wall Street firms that tracks the industry, says “a modest post-election bounce in consumer spending intentions has since faded.” Discern said its survey results in December “dipped from the November results across the board. ... (And) the results point to a small increase in consumer spending for the holiday this year.” RS Metrics, which uses satellites to monitor the number of cars in mall parking lots, is seeing much the same trend. November traffic in the lots was about 3 to 4 percent higher than last year but December is down 2 to 2.5 percent. A lot of things affect consumer spending, but the biggest is how much money people have. I told you last month about two

government surveys that were misleading the experts — including, apparently, retailers — into thinking Americans were flush. One showed a surge in household income. But if you looked closely enough — which I did — you noticed that income was up strong mainly because the government was counting withdrawals from retirement accounts as if they were wages. People don’t usually withdraw money from retirement accounts to buy Christmas presents. And when the Census Bureau announced a healthy increase in sales for October, I pointed out that most of the gain was the result of guesswork and “imputations” that could be making the retail situation look better than it really was. Not surprisingly, this is the sort of concocted optimism you see from Washington right before presidential elections. The election is over, so now Washington can go back to being a little more honest. Last week, the Commerce Department reported that US consumer spending increased by a modest 0.2 percent in October. And half of that gain was the result ofwww.ebook3000.com higher prices — inflation — and

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wasn’t because people bought more.  All right, already! Get the damn Dow to 20,000 so we can stop hearing about it. As my readers already understand, traders can push market indices up if they do concentrated buying in futures contracts. So the Dow Jones industrial average will undoubtedly get to 20,000 before long — whether stocks deserve to be at these levels or not. But keep this in mind if you are on bubble-watch: Fundamentals like earnings matter. And corporate profits are expected to be down 5 percent percent when when all all third-quarter thirdquarter numbers numbers are are tallied. tallied. That’s That’s with energy companies included. And earnings are down 2 percent without energy. And if you eliminated the fancy accounting that companies companies are are now now doing, doing, earnings earnings would would probably probably be be down even more. Revenues may also be down. And if you anticipate future earnings, as Wall Street is apt to do, the market’s price-to-earnings ratio is a dangerously high 19.2–to–1. It’ll be even worse if those future earnings were calculated on a traditional

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) basis and not on the trendy Hide the Bad News (HTBN) basis. As I said before, it’s dangerous out there, even if Wall Street and CNBC wants you to think otherwise.  An outfit called Reportlinker Insight argues that the drones are coming — and they will be welcomed by Americans. I’m not so sure myself. But I am ready to capture the first drone that attempts to deliver something to my house and hold it for ransom. But others seem less — what’s the word? — — crazy crazy than than II am. am. Reportlinker says 47 percent of Americans are interested in drone delivery technology. Not surprisingly, men (53 percent) and people age 18 to 24 (72 percent of “millennials,” in the jargon of the day) are most interested in having their pizza or next Amazon Prime order plopped down at their doorstep by job-destroying drones. But if you buy a drone for personal use it could be delivered by a drone — and that seems appropriate.

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The next big things Uptown and down, what we’d like to see in ’17 STEVE CUOZZO

Like a prayer

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REALTY CHECK OPE springs eternal in frigid January, as develH opers and brokers get back

on the job after long holidays away. Here are some of our own hopes for the new year at locations the real estate industry will also be watching closely.  EAST MIDTOWN REZONING: The least sexysounding, but most important wish-list item for 2017 is the long-awaited rezoning of the vast “Grand Central District” (the blocks between Third and Fifth avenues and from East 40th to 57th streets). Several times delayed, it appears at last ready to start the public-review process early in the new year. Time is of the essence as more companies abandon the oncepremier district where old zoning makes developing large new buildings nearly impossible.  LARRY’S BIG LEASE: Silverstein Properties is itching to sign Spotify, now at 620 Sixth Ave., to over 500,000 square feet at 4 World Trade Center, a negotiation first reported by my colleague Lois Weiss. A deal would fill the 2.3 million square-foot tower — and claim another marquee tenant for downtown.  DURST’S DECISION: The Durst Organization is weighing its options for the linchpin southwest corner of Park Avenue and East 125th Street, which it bought from Bruce Eichner a few months

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ago for $91 million. Durst owns several other large development sites in the city, but we’re keeping our closest eye on this one, where a new residential or mixed-use project would fill a gaping hole in East Harlem’s gradually improving streetscape.  THE TRUMP EFFECT: Residential developers are praying, and we’re certainly hoping, that Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency will encourage, rather than scare off, continued foreign investment in high-end condo apartments. A continued open spigot is good news for Harry Macklowe, Gary Barnett’s Extell and Ken

Horn’s Alchemy (which is with restaurateurs Jeanconverting upper floors of Georges Vongerichten and David Chang at Pier 17. the Woolworth Building.) But work on Pier 17 still has But a retreat by foreign buyers could spell disaster a way to go despite obvious for their projects — and for visible progress. There are dozens of others around engineering and landmark istown where only slightly less sues yet to be resolved and expensive expensive new new product product is is the the opening opening date’s date’s unclear. unclear. Let’s coming on line. Let’s hope hope they they finish finish the job soon.  SOUTH Get more  BATTERY STREET SEAPORT: It’s been Realty Check at MARITIME BLUES: The city is only good news so far for Howard NYPOST.COM scrambling to revive the long-stalled Hughes Co.’s restohotel project atop the ration ration and and expansion expansion of of the dining and entertainment landmarked Governors Iscomplex. The luxurious iPic land Ferry Terminal. The cinemas recently opened in original developer backed the Fulton Market Building, out, and prospective rescuer and leases have been signed Steven Witkoff no longer

seems to be in the picture. Although it’s not the biggest project, its almost-butnot-quite-finished status at a high-profile location remains a blemish on otherwise rejuvenated downtown.  RETAIL PRAYERS: Proliferating, huge and yawning vacancies increasingly blight neighborhoods from the Upper East and West Sides to the Battery. Maybe landlords will come to their senses and realize that token cuts to asking rents won’t help as stores continue to close; shoppers switch to buying online; and new and “repositioned” buildings only bring even more pricey space online. scuozzo@nypost.com

China has a 7% solution for economy China will meet its growth target of 6.5 to 7 percent growth this year, a reassuring sign for a “weak and vulnerable” global economy, state news agency Xinhua said in a commentary on Monday. Xinhua noted a “troublesome start” to 2016, probably referring to a sharp fall in the yuan and worry about China’s slow-

ing economy roiling markets worldwide. The yuan remains weak after foreign reserves fell more than expected in November. Nor would maintaining stable growth be easy for China in 2017, Xinhua said, “given persistently weak external demand, ongoing deleveraging and capacity-reduction pressure, and a slowing

property sector.” It warned that trading partners would only have access to China’s home market if similar access were given by other nations, a nod to growing protectionist sentiment around the world, a worrying trend for the world’s largest exporter. Reuters

While 2016 has seen some top restaurants close, including Betony on West 57th Street’s “Billionaires Row” and Da Silvano, it has also seen some brand explosions. Black Tap Craft Burgers and Beers, from Michelinstarred chef Joe Isidori, which started off as a 15-seat burger bar at 529 Broome St. last year, became a cult phenom thanks to its Instagram-worthy milkshakes. The $15 shakes come studded in grand cupcake-like style, covered in colorful candies, cookies and cotton candy. There’s now an expanded 1,200 square-foot subterranean space below the burger bar, with graffiti art by Fumeroism, a Black Tap in the Meatpacking District at 248 W. 14th St. and an even larger, 2,400 square-foot space in Midtown that recently opened at the Blakely New York hotel at 136 W. 55th St. Now Side Dish can reveal exclusively that Black Tap will also be opening at the Dumbo Market in Brooklyn, at 55 Water St., this spring. Another Black Tap is expected to open in the trendy Lower East Side by summer. Isidori’s Greg Norman burger won the New York City Food and Wine Festival’s Burger Bash award for the past two years in a row. The burgers, Korean-style chicken wings, salads and milkshakes are still drawing crowds, who line up around the block to get a table. jgould@nypost.com

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A leAp forwArd Ardd Ar In 2016, these New Yorkers reached soaring new ﬁtness heights By MOLLY SHEA

EED a little New Year’s resolution inspiration? These seven New Yorkers raised the bar(bell) in 2016, running days at a time and dropping hundreds of pounds. Here, they tell The Post how they did it.

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Ameer Haroun was doubled over on a 2015 family vacation when he realized he needed to get in shape. “I was at the beach, standing as the goalkeeper, playing beach soccer,” says the 40-yearold Montvale, NJ, resident. “Within 10 minutes, I was so out of breath it took me two hours to recover.” The father of two decided to hit the gym to shape up, but struggled without anything holding him accountable. “I realized, ‘If I miss a day, does it matter?’ It didn’t,” he says.

So when his friend suggested doing a Spartan race — an intense obstacle run — he jumped at the chance. “I thought I was in good shape, but I was just humbled,” he says. “But I went for another race a week after.” He threw himself into race training, competing nearly every other weekend. Still, he felt like something was missing. “I hated going to races and not knowing anyone and leaving right after they ended,” he says. So at the end of 2015, he started Spartan 4-0, a group for Spartan competitors who are aged 30 or older. This year, it

became the largest Spartan group in the world, with more than 8,200 members. Haroun, who hopes to compete in Spartan’s Elite Masters race in 2017 and grow Spartan 4-0 to more than 12,000 members, says building the group has helped him improve his own racing skills. “I went from someone who was finishing in the bottom 25 percent,” he says, “to now finishing in the top 5 percent.”

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ready to begin training. Leading disabled athletes through grueling triathlons “My New Year’s resolution was to do a half Ironman wasn’t always in the cards for 30-year-old Tiffany Chou. [triathlon], and guide someone in a triathlon,” she says. “I “Growing up, to pass high school, you had to run for 20 started working out on Jan. 1.” minutes straight, and I couldn’t do that. So when I tell my Being a guide meant Chou had to be in peak shape. friends that I do triathlons, they don’t believe me,” says “I was working out six days a week — running, swimthe native Hawaiian, who now lives on ming, biking — and lifting weights twice the Upper West Side. a week,” she says. “I would double up Inspired by her brother, who has auand take naps in between.” tism, Chou joined Achilles International, The hard work paid off: Chou an organization that pairs disabled ath“When I tell guided Sarah through three triathlons letes with guides to help them through this year, and ﬁnished a half Ironman on my friends I do races, in 2012. She hit it off immediately her own this summer. with Sarah, a member who had suffered She hopes to keep up the momentum triathlons, they a traumatic brain injury. in the new year. don’t believe me.” Chou ran races for the group but “I want to get the Achilles Tri team out hoped to someday lead someone to Maui for a triathlon clinic [in 2017],” — Tiffany Chou she says, “and get abs and keep them!” through a triathlon. By January, she was

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Over the past 12 months, former marketing executive Amy Fleischer changed careers, dropped 80 pounds and gained friends she now calls family. It started while the Huntington, LI, resident was recovering from a hip operation in late 2015. “I saw a Facebook ad for boot-camp classes at the local gym. But at the time I could barely walk,” she says. It had been a rough few years for Fleischer — deaths in her family left her struggling to work and compulsively overeating. “I basically stalked the owner of the gym. Finally she said, ‘Just come in.’ I was taking prescriptionstrength anti-inflammatory [medicine], but I got through an amazing workout.” She liked it so much she started attending classes six days a week and working at the front desk last winter. It was clear to the gym’s owner that Fleischer had a future in fitness. “One day [the gym’s owner] said, ‘I’ve signed you up for certification training,’ ” says Fleischer, 54. Since becoming a personal trainer, Fleischer helped open a second location of the gym, Northport Fit Body Boot Camp; pioneered a children’s fitness class; and built her client list. “I now wake up at 4 a.m. and train people at 5 — I used to have such bad insomnia that I’d be up until 5,” she says. “The only thing keeping me up at night now is writing workouts for my clients, and thinking, ‘This is going to be so good.’ ” Fleischer can’t believe how much her life has turned around since her first boot-camp class. “I wake up every morning and put on spandex, and I’m like, ‘This is what [being] a superhero feels like,’ ” she says.

By the end of 2015, being overweight wasn’t just taking a toll on actor Christian Frazier’s health — it was affecting his career. “Because of the industry I work in, you can’t work a lot if you’re not in shape,” Frazier says. So at the start of the year, the 46-year-old, who lives in Harlem, decided to overhaul his life, from his eating habits to his ﬁtness regimen. He signed up for the gym and realized he loved doing what he’d spent most of his life avoiding. “I started out just using the treadmill and weights, but then I realized I loved doing CrossFit and more ‘total body’ workouts,” he says. “I’ve gotten so into it that I’ve started training other people — one guy I’ve worked with has lost 40 pounds.” He’s now studying to become a certiﬁed personal trainer. Frazier has lost about 70 pounds since January, dropping from 254 to 185. “I just want to continue to maintain it and help out others,” he says. “A lot of people have been inspired — I try to be motivating and push people on.”

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The workout warrior Weight-loss blogger Alexis Eggleton was on vacation in Miami with her boyfriend in late 2014 when she realized how much her body was holding her back. “We were heading to the pool, and I was like, ‘I don’t want to go out there,’” says Eggleton, now 34, who had struggled with her weight since childhood. “I broke down and was like, ‘I don’t want this to be my life.’” She joined Weight Watchers that day, and in the two years since, the Middletown, NY, resident has dropped 118 pounds, to a current weight of 167, a feat she attributes to cleaning up her diet in 2015 and what she calls a “year of ﬁtness” in 2016. “This was the year I learned how to ﬂip a tractor tire,” says Eggleton, who works in development. She tried Bikram yoga, SoulCycle, pilates, boxing and everything in between, including her favorite class, Shred415 — a highintensity workout in Chicago, where she travels frequently for work. Eggleton hopes to hit her goal weight of 150 pounds in 2017 and celebrate with a hike through Big Sur, Calif. “I’m going to love every minute of that — and recognize that two years before it, I couldn’t even walk up the stairs,” she says. She says her weight loss has changed her life in ways she never expected. “People think this is such a hard or awful experience, and I want to show them that [losing weight] can be the greatest thing you’ve ever done.”

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Ten years ago, Eric Gelber set out on a simple mission: run the NYC Marathon to raise money for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation in support of a family friend, Anita, who’d been battling the rare blood cancer for four years. Gelber raised $6,000 that year, but the Chappaqua, NY-based real estate executive, now 49, saw potential to do more. “After my second marathon, I learned a little more about ultrarunning, and thought, ‘Hey, maybe if I run a little further, people will give me more money,’ ” he says. In 2013, after years of running increasingly longer ultramarathons, Gelber decided that the best way to draw attention to his cause — and raise more money from onlookers — was to attempt a 200-mile run in Central Park. “My goal was to raise $100,000,” he says. “I only ran 165 miles, but I raised $145,000.” He fell short again in 2014 but cleared $240,000 in donations. After detouring to the desert for an ultramarathon in 2015, he decided to give the 200 miles another shot this past September. “We marketed it as the third and ﬁnal attempt,” he says. He prepared by training less than he had in previous years — to avoid fatiguing his body. And instead of pushing through his exhaustion, he built a few small stops into his run. “I took ﬁve 20-minute naps, for a total of an hour and 40 minutes of rest, over two-and-a-half days,” he says. It proved to be a recipe for success. “In just under 60 hours, I completed the 200 miles and raised $320,000,” he says — bringing his total money raised to more than $1.1 million.

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Christa Hartmann, 74, wasn’t about to let a double hip replacement stop her from finishing her 16th NYC Marathon in November. The Washington Heights resident runs races nearly every weekend as a member of New York Road Runners. But Hartmann wasn’t always so fit. “I smoked three packs a day for 30 years, and when I turned 50 I quit smoking, but I didn’t know what to do with myself,” says the Germany-born retiree. She took up running and never stopped — until her hip replacement at the Hospital for Special Surgery last year, which led to a case of plantar fasciitis that kept her sidelined until June. Doctors advised her to stop running, but she knew she couldn’t sit still, so once she recovered she began training for this year’s marathon — under the watch of her surgeon. “I do one minute walk, one minute jog. That makes me happier than sitting more and complaining,” she says. “I’m still not like I used to be before, but I did manage from June to the first week in November to get myself together for the marathon.” She’s kept on jogging and walking since the big 26.2-mile run — in preparation for next year’s big race. “I get up at 5 o’clock and I run every morning of the week except for one,” says Hartmann.

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Hana R. Alberts takes Maui’s Road to Hana and finds a place to call her own

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OMETIMES you want to go where everybody knows your name. Mine is commonly misspelled and mispronounced, butchered into a nasal “hannah” rather than the open-throated, sighreleasing “hana” my mom intended. So when traveling to hawaii this summer, I devised an antidote. I would drive the renowned highway after which my mother had, in part, named me: The Road to hana, in Maui. (Or rather, my good-natured boyfriend would navigate the blind turns and 74 one-way bridges while I snapped pictures for Instagram and read factoids aloud from the guidebook.) It worked! I drove my namesake road to my namesake town and reveled not only in the spectacular waterfalls, beaches and mountains, but, along the way — in fact, on the entire island — the joy of being greeted not just warmly, SAY but with proper ALOHA elocution. IN 2017 heaven!

the 64-mile hana highway leads to the gorgeous travaasa hana hotel (above).

I also came away with tips for completing the muchtouristed 64-mile drive. Start in Paia, a town that’s at once laid-back and chic, where you can stock up on water and snacks. The first pit stop was Twin Falls, whose best vistas and swimming hole require a 15-minute hike that includes fording a river. The sharp curves — allegedly 619 of ’em — along the hana highway are not just hearsay. I gripped the dashboard every time we almost hit a red Mustang convertible with doe-eyed honeymooners. Practical types, we had opted for a bulky ride with four-wheel drive. Later, we braved a steep dirt road down to Honomanu Bay, a rocky beach with pretty cliffs that drop to the water and nary another visitor in sight. Further down, in Ke’anae, you’ll find a cute town with a church and waves that spill white foam over spiky black lava rocks. The Halfway to Hana shack was a great place for a bathroom and banana bread stop — and a photo with the sign. (Oh, there were many photo ops!)

snorkel with sea turtles in crystalclear waters.

After four hours of a dizzying drive, we saw the sandwich board: “You’ve made it!” It was the Hana Farm Stand, touting six bananas for a dollar. The final stretch before hana, a town of at most 1,200, was, for me, surreal. The elementary and high schools, the gym, the

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hEN NY1 traffic reporter Jamie Stelter and her husband, CNN anchor and correspondent Brian Stelter, were planning a December getaway, they nixed their usual locales. “We like to go to Miami. We’ve been to Puerto Rico. Anything in the Caribbean feels fairly easy to do,” says Jamie Stelter. But instead of a quick twoor three-hour jaunt to the beach, the Stelters went to Kauai in hawaii — a 10-hourplus journey from NYC.

The reason? Stelter would be four months pregnant in December and the mosquito-borne Zika virus, she says — which can cause microcephaly and other birth defects — had infiltrated their go-to destinations. “I [didn’t want to] take the chance, especially after what it took for us to have a healthy pregnancy,” says Stelter, 34, who has been public about her difficulties conceiving and IVF treatments. In Kauai, “it was all pregnant women,” she says with a laugh. “It was a big trip, but we both knew we

“We wanted somewhere that was warm ... and you can’t really go anywhere close.” — Jamie Stelter wanted somewhere that was warm and beachy and relaxing, and you really can’t go anywhere close.” It’s not surprising that other New Yorkers also are

a norwegian cruise ship reaches port in honolulu. clamoring to say aloha. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website reports that more than 200 locally acquired Zika transmissions have occurred so far in Florida, and more than 33,000 in Puerto Rico. The number

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Get up close to Maui’s many waterfalls.

drive on, taking the southeastern road. We passed Kuapo, which has one convenience store and packs of paniolos, or hawaiian ranch hands, on horseback. To our left, a grassy knoll stretched out to deep blue ocean. We were driving full circle, back to Paia, but I felt born again.

a tropical area. A Delta rep tells the New York Post that the industry has seen an increase in passenger demand to hawaii from New York in the last year. And the Four Seasons Maui says the hotel’s New York guests jumped up 3.5

percent since last year. This Christmas break, Allyson Stumacher broke a 15-year family tradition of hopping aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise leaving from Puerto Rico for a Norwegian cruise in hawaii due to Zika fears. The 33-year-old mother of an 8-month-old and 4½-yearold was concerned what would happen if her youngest got bit, especially after they’d had a previous scare. “We did that Caribbean cruise [while I was pregnant],” says Stumacher. “When I got back, it was announced that there was Zika in those spots. The CDC flagged me and I had to go for blood tests. I wouldn’t put myself in the same position.” For 30-year-old Katie, a West Village resident who asked that her last name not be used, Maui was one of the few warm-weather options considered when her family planned her stepfather’s 75th birthday

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suites at the Andaz Maui are built around a tiered oasis of five (!) swimming pools. The simple-yetmodern decor nods subtly to the South Pacific, and the endless breakfast buffet boasts an array of exotic fruit juices and waffles with a secret ingredient: mochi (from $464/night in Dec.; Maui.Andaz.Hyatt.com).

celebration this week. “If not for Zika, we probably wouldn’t be going on such a long flight. It definitely adds an extra expense with 14 people traveling. and we have one 3-year-old with us,” says Katie, noting that the five-hour time change can prove difficult. “But at least we have an excuse to visit such an exciting and beautiful part of America.”

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leis, slept to the sound of crashing waves, did sunrise yoga and luxuriated in a massive swimming pool (for $450/night double occupancy; Travaasa.com/Hana). In a word, perfection. Most travelers turn around at hana and head back the way they came. We opted to

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IFE is grand,” proclaims a bold sign outside the 2015-opened Kameha Grand Zurich hotel. It’s a fitting motto for this opulent Swiss stay. Located in the admittedly bland Glattpark some 2 miles from the airport and 5 miles from the city center, this 245-room, amenity-packed property stands out among its no-frills surroundings of office buildings and apartments with a striking glass exterior, and a bold interior design set off with rococo flourishes. If you’re among those who think of Zurich as a boring banking hub, this inspired destination could help change your mind and be a gateway to the “real” Zurich, from its beautiful lake to the cultural melting pot of its cafe-filled Medieval Old Town. WHY: You’ll be wowed by the glitzy Marcel Wanders-designed interiors. A grand lobby flows into plush sitting areas — a chic smoker’s lounge with black leather furniture and fireplace, housing Cuban and Dominican cigars; a shisha lounge with hookahs — and a bar whose walls sparkle with gold-colored ornaments. It also offers two the shisha lounge restaurants and an enormous with hookahs. spa, ensuring that guests can both chill and be entertained. WORKING WELL: Among the rooms stand 11 playful theme suites. One of them, the sexy Burlesque Suite, features blood-red window curtains, jet-black furniture, and a kit with whips and handcuffs (from $698). But in a class of its own is the Michael Najjardesigned Kubrick-esque Space Suite, which sports moon-print carpet and ceiling, silver walls and Jetsons-style furnishings (from $1,555). NEEDS WORK: It might help if the hotel offered its own transportation into central Zurich, a roughly 20-minute ride on a city tram. (Thankfully, several of them stop close to the hotel.) MUST TRY: Take advantage of the amenities on offer, from spa treatments, like an aromatherapeutic body massage ($97), to one of its two saunas, or the roof terrace with distant Alpine views. And bring your appetite. L’Unico serves up delicious Italian fare — beef carpaccio and homemade pastas among them. But prioritize a reservation at the Michelin-starred YOU, a French restaurant with Far Eastern influences where selections include a braised eel entree. BOTTOM LINE: Given the hotel’s proximity to the airport, it’s a great spot for travelers with overnight layovers. But for those who don’t mind the tram, it offers a luxe experience with easy access to the city. DETAILS: From $456; KamehaGrandZuerich.com. — Zachary Kussin

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of infections in other Caribbean islands, it notes, vary. Thus far, hawaii has seen no locally acquired cases. But hawaii visitors be warned: It’s good practice to check the CDC website (CDC.gov/Zika) for updated warnings before any trip to

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vacation rental office, the gas station, the minuscule post office — all their signs bore my name. We stayed at Travaasa Hana, an idyllic retreat consisting of a compound of suites and cottages set on Maui’s far eastern edge. We were greeted with fragrant

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 CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 20)

Make a special effort to get your message across to someone you love. Is there something you have been wanting to say but for one reason or another never quite got around to? Then say it today. Your relationship will quickly reach new heights.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19) Give your imagination permission to roam and don't reject an idea just because others tell you it is too outrageous to ever come true. Today's Sun-Mars link means you have the power to make things happen. Anything is possible if you want it enough.

 PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)

Don't worry if others say you are acting irrationally because even if they are it will work out okay. There is something in the Pisces nature that attracts the right results even when you do everything the wrong way.

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always pure, and very soon your dreams will come true.

plans are under excellent stars until the early part of the new year, so get out and about. Make sure you show your face in places where being recognized can do good things for your career. Visibility is so important.

 ARIES (March 21-April 20)

Lady Luck will smile on you today. You don't have to do anything special, you just have to be yourself and good things will inevitably come your way. Your ruler Mars makes you seem so dynamic that everyone wants to do things for you.

 VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)

You seem to be the only one who knows what is going on at the moment but you are advised to keep it to yourself for the time being. You may see the situation in a radically different light around the time of Thursday's new moon.

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 TAURUS (April 21-May 21)

Today's cosmic set-up promises that if you reach for the biggest prize on offer you can and you will make it your own. You have so much talent and so much potential but sometimes you also have too much self-doubt. Get over it!

 GEMINI (May 22-June 21)

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CANCER (June 22-July 23) The more others say you are aiming too high the more you will go out of your way to prove them wrong. There is nothing you like more than a challenge and you will get plenty of them today. Just remember that winning isn't everything.

 LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)

 LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)

You need to remember that every word you say and every move you make has consequences. As you think today so it will be tomorrow, so make sure your thoughts are positive, if not

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BIRTHDAY TUESDAY A Sun-Mars link on your birthday will give you all the energy you need to take your achievements to the next level. Don't make longterm plans, just keep your mind in the present and aim to make each and every 24hour period a masterpiece.

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Peekskill 53/32

N.Y. Tomorrow: Mostly sunny and cooler. High 39 to 45.

You have been putting off tackling your money situation for too long. As from today you need to start making savings and maybe find a new source of income as well. If you don't you may have to throw yourself on the mercy of other people.

Wednesday

Today: Not as cool; a couple of morning showers. High 54 to 60.

 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 - Dec. 21)

If you are the sort of Libra who enjoys getting involved in causes and movements then what happens today should be a lot of fun. The most important thing though is that you don't take any of it too seriously. Keep it as light-hearted as possible.

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You will go out of your way to help someone in need today but you must also make sure that you are not taken advantage of by people who mistake your generous nature for lack of streetwisdom. Be charitable by all means but be sensible too.

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NOTICES FORECLOSURE NOTICES SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NEW YORK; Index 850082/2016. Filed 03/16/2016 U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff, v. RAJEEVE AHUJA; LALENSONS, INC.; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE 225 FIFTH AVENUE CONDOMINIUM; 225 5TH AVENUE CONDOMINIUM; NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK; JOHN DOE (Unknown Tenants/Occupants of the subject property being set forth to represent any and all occupants of the subject property being foreclosed herein, and any parties, entities of any kind, if any, having or claiming an interest or lien upon the mortgaged property), Defendants. SUMMONS AND NOTICE. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above captioned action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action may answer to appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who file d this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Arlene P. Bluth, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated August 8, 2016 and filed along with the supporting papers in the New York County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage on the property located at 225 Fifth Avenue A/K/A 225 Fifth Avenue, #9R, New York, NY 10010 also known as Block: 856 Lot: 1236. New York County is designated as the place of trial based upon the location of the property being foreclosed. Attorneys for Plaintiff: Stern & Eisenberg, PC, 485 B Route 1 South, Suite 330, Iselin, NJ 08830, T: (516) 630-0288. Sell your car online! Place your ad on vehicles.classifieds.nypost.com

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Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on August 12, 2016, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County Courthouse, Courtroom 25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY on January 27, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., premises known as 172-34 82nd Avenue, Jamaica, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings d an improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, City and State of New York, Block 7050 and Lot 22. Approximate amount of judgment is $439,441.44 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 20780/10. Matthew Vishnick, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Ste. 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff List your property for sale! Place an ad in the NYP Home section, the weekly real estate guide running on Thursdays Call 212-930-8100 today!

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION – FORECLOSURE SALE OF COOPERATIVE APARTMENT BY VIRTUE OF A DEFAULT in a Security Agreement dated April 2, 2009, executed by Wendy F. Levey and Hugh W. Levey, Debtors, to Bank of America, N.A., secured party, in accordance with its rights as holder of the Security, by William Mannion, DCA 796322 and/or Ronal d DeBoer, DCA 086498, Auctioneers, will conduct a public sale of the security consisting of 470 shares of capital stock of 920 FIFTH AVENUE CORPORATION, all right, title and interest in and to a Proprietary Lease between said Corporation and debtor for apartment 5B & Maids Room 4 & 5 in the building known as 920 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY 10021, together with all fixtures and articles of personal property now or hereafter affixed to or used in connection with said apartment on JANUARY 24, 2017, at 1:00 P.M., at the Rotunda of the New York County Courthouse, located at 60 Centre Street, New York, NY in the principal amount of $1,500,000.00, plus interest, late fees, attorney fees, maintenance in arrears and all other advanced charges. Apartment is sold “AS IS” and possession to be obtained by the purchaser. Said sale is subject to: payment of all sums due, if any, to 920 FIFTH AVENUE CORPORATION and their attorneys, and the consent if necessary, of said corporation; any existing tenancy; payment of all expenses and fees of the secured party with respect thereto; terms of sale and auctioneer’s fees; flip tax; State, City and County transfer tax. The secured party reserves the right to bid. The purchase price for the Lease and Shares of the Apartment shall be payable by certified or bank check, as follows: a ten (10%) percent deposit is required with a successful bid, payable to Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP. Cash will not be accepted, and the balance of the purchase price shall be payable within thirty (30) days. SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON, LLP. (Attorneys for Secured Creditor) (212) 653-8700. Sell your car, truck, or van in the New York Post’s Classifieds List your vehicle for sale online at vehicles.classifieds.nypost.com or call 212-930-8100 to place your ad

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HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for Wells Fargo Asset Securities Corporation, Mortgage Asset-Backe d PassThrough Certificates Series 2007PA2; Plaintiff(s) vs. SAIED MOHAMMED; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein on or about November 2, 2015, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at the QUEENS COUNTY SUPREME COURT located at 88-11 SUTPHIN BOULEVARD, JAMAICA, NEW YORK IN COURTROOM #25. On January 20, 2017 at 10:00 am. Premises known as 120-33 146TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY 11436-1541 Block: 12044 Lot: 55 ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York. As more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale. Approximate amount of judgment $356,779.03 plus interest and costs. INDEX NO. 16685-12 Caren L. Samplin, Esq., REFEREE

LEGAL NOTICES STORAGE NOTICE New York S. Storage Inc. will sell at Public Auction at 225 East 120th Street, New York, NY 10035 at 10:00am on January 10th , 2016 for due and unpaid charges by virtue of a lien in accordance with provisions of the law and with due notice given all parties claiming an interest therein, the time specified in each notice for payment of said charges having expired, household furniture & effects, pianos, trunks, cases, TV’s, radios, hi-fi’s, refrigerators, sewing machines, washers, air conditioners, househol d furniture of all descriptions and the contents thereof stored under the following name: Jamal Bennett, Jane & John Doe, Paul Steketee, Elizabeth Mayer, Shayna Brunson, Kim L Booker, Bruce Cuffie, Brenda Simpson, Eva Sirna and Max Vesterhult. Sincerely, Willie Tomlin, Auctioneer

STORAGE NOTICE Big Apple Mini Storage, Inc. will sell at Public Auction at 9.00 a.m. at 119 East 124th Street, New York, NY 10035 and at 11:00 a.m. at 157 West 124th Street, New York, NY 10027 on January 10th, 2017 for due and unpaid charges by virtue of a lien in accordance with the provisions of the law and with due notice given to all parties claiming an interest therein, the time specified in each notice for payment of said charges having expired, household items of all descriptions and the contents thereof stored under the following names; Aboubacar Cisse, Derrick Miles, Cornwall V. Samuel, Delroy S. Tang, Magda Velasquez, Lynora Ashford, Tracy Brown, Robert Blumenblatt, Campbell Pool, Matthew Hartsell, Terkiya Chillious, and Tarsha Evans. Sincerely, Willie Tomlin, Auctioneer

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EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Montreal Ottawa Boston Tampa Bay Florida Toronto Detroit Buffalo

W 21 20 18 17 15 14 15 12

L OL* 9 4 11 3 14 4 15 3 14 6 12 7 15 4 13 8

Pt GF GA 46 104 76 43 88 89 40 85 87 37 100 98 36 85 97 35 97 95 34 83 96 32 71 91

Metropolitan Columbus Pittsburgh Rangers Washington Philadelphia Carolina Devils Islanders

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L OL* 5 4 8 5 12 1 8 4 12 4 11 7 14 7 14 6

Pt 50 49 47 44 44 37 33 32

GF 110 121 119 87 110 88 80 90

GA 65 100 89 69 108 90 102 102

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Chicago Minnesota St. Louis Nashville Dallas Winnipeg Colorado

W 22 21 18 15 14 16 12

L OL* 9 5 8 4 12 5 13 5 14 7 17 3 20 1

Pt GF GA 49 102 86 46 102 66 41 98 103 35 94 94 35 89 106 35 95 105 25 67 106

Pacific San Jose Edmonton Anaheim Los Angeles Calgary Vancouver Arizona

W 21 18 17 17 18 14 11

L OL* 12 1 12 6 12 6 13 4 16 2 18 3 18 5

Pt GF GA 43 87 75 42 105 97 40 96 99 38 87 84 38 94 103 31 86 109 27 75 108

OL*: Lost in OT (for 1 point) Monday No games scheduled Tuesday Ottawa at Rangers, 7pm Washington at Islanders, 7pm Pittsburgh at Devils, 7pm Boston at Columbus, 7pm Buffalo at Detroit, 7:30pm Minnesota at Nashville, 8pm Winnipeg at Chicago, 8:30pm Dallas at Arizona, 9pm Calgary at Colorado, 9pm San Jose at Anaheim, 10pm Wednesday Carolina at Pittsburgh, 7pm Toronto at Florida, 7pm Montreal at Tampa Bay, 7:30pm Philadelphia at St. Louis, 8pm Los Angeles at Vancouver, 10pm

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 25, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking Record Pts Pv 1. Villanova (56) 12-0 1,614 1 2. UCLA (3) 13-0 1,518 2 3. Kansas 11-1 1,461 3 4. Baylor (6) 12-0 1,458 4 5. Duke 12-1 1,375 5 6. Louisville 11-1 1,260 10 7. Gonzaga 12-0 1,222 7 8. Kentucky 10-2 1,171 6 9. North Carolina 11-2 1,113 8 10. Creighton 12-0 1,049 9 11. West Virginia 11-1 933 11 12. Virginia 10-1 892 12 13. Butler 11-1 837 13 14. Wisconsin 11-2 772 14 15. Purdue 11-2 745 15 16. Indiana 10-2 709 16 17. Xavier 10-2 548 17 18. Arizona 11-2 512 18 407 19 19. Saint Mary's (Cal) 10-1 20. Florida St. 12-1 326 21 21. Oregon 11-2 321 20 22. Southern Cal 13-0 248 23 23. Cincinnati 10-2 207 24 24. Notre Dame 10-2 204 25 25. Florida 9-3 76 Others receiving votes: Maryland 40, Virginia Tech 37, Seton Hall 18, Clemson 12, Minnesota 8, Miami 8, Oklahoma St. 7, Northwestern 5, South Carolina 4, UNC Wilmington 3, Arkansas 3, Iowa St. 2.

USA Today Top 25 The top 25 teams in the USA Today men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 25, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

Villanova (27) UCLA (2) Kansas (1) Baylor Duke (1) Gonzaga Louisville Kentucky Creighton North Carolina Virginia West Virginia Butler Wisconsin Purdue Indiana Xavier Arizona Saint Mary's Florida State Oregon Southern Cal Cincinnati Notre Dame South Carolina

Record 12-0 13-0 11-1 12-0 12-1 12-0 11-1 10-2 12-0 11-2 10-1 11-1 11-1 11-2 11-2 10-2 10-2 11-2 10-1 12-1 11-2 13-0 10-2 10-2 9-2

Pts 771 736 695 656 641 600 560 537 531 522 454 438 397 347 331 285 277 232 214 161 148 136 93 92 57

Pv 1 2 3 6 4 7 11 5 9 8 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 22 21 25 23 24 20

Thursday Devils at Washington, 7pm Islanders at Minnesota, 8pm Rangers at Arizona, 9pm Boston at Buffalo, 7pm Montreal at Florida, 7:30pm Toronto at Tampa Bay, 7:30pm Detroit at Ottawa, 8pm Chicago at Nashville, 8pm Columbus at Winnipeg, 8pm Colorado at Dallas, 8:30pm Los Angeles at Edmonton, 9pm Anaheim at Calgary, 9pm

Others receiving votes: Florida 37, Maryland 33, Arkansas 27, Oklahoma State 17, Miami 13, California 7, Minnesota 7, TCU 7, Seton Hall 4, Virginia Tech 4, Nevada 3, Colorado 2, Middle Tennessee 1, New Mexico State 1, UNCWilmington 1.

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Jan. 1: NHL Centennial Classic, BMO Field, Toronto. Jan. 2 : NHL Winter Classic, Busch Stadium, St. Louis. Jan. 28-29: All-Star Weekend, Staples Center, Los Angeles. Feb. 25: NHL Stadium Series, Heinz Field, Pittsburgh. April 9: End of regular season. April 12: Playoffs begin.

England English Premier League Crystal Palace 1, Watford 1 West Ham 4, Swansea 1 Arsenal 1, West Bromwich Albion 0 Everton 2, Leicester 0 Chelsea 3, Bournemouth 0 Burnley 1, Middlesbrough 0 Manchester United 3, Sunderland 1 Manchester City 3, Hull 0

Atlanta Bazemore Millsap Sefolosha Howard Schroder Korver Delaney Muscala Scott Bembry Humphries Prince Kelly

Min FG 23:52 1-3 24:51 2-13 21:01 5-10 21:03 9-9 22:55 4-10 23:36 2-7 21:03 1-6 18:30 1-4 17:31 2-6 16:58 3-4 10:54 3-5 9:55 1-3 7:51 1-3

FT O-Rb A PF Pts 0-0 0-2 2 4 2 3-4 2-5 0 3 7 0-0 1-5 0 0 13 2-3 6-12 2 2 20 0-0 1-2 4 4 8 0-0 0-3 1 1 6 0-0 0-1 1 1 2 0-0 2-2 4 0 3 0-0 0-3 1 0 5 1-3 0-3 0 3 7 6-7 5-5 2 0 12 0-0 0-2 2 0 2 0-0 0-1 1 1 3

Totals 240:00 35-83 12-17 17-46 20 19 90 Percentages: FG .422, FT .706. 3-point goals: 8-32, .250 (Sefolosha 3-4, Korver 2-6, Kelly 1-2, Muscala 1-4, Scott 1-5, Humphries 0-1, Bazemore 0-2, Schroder 0-2, Delaney 0-3, Millsap 0-3). Blocked shots: 7 (Sefolosha 3, Bazemore, Howard, Prince, Scott). Turnovers: 19 (Delaney 4, Bazemore 3, Howard 3, Bembry 2, Millsap 2, Schroder 2, Kelly, Scott, Sefolosha). Steals: 8 (Howard 2, Bazemore, Delaney, Kelly, Millsap, Schroder, Scott). Technicals: None.

Minnesota Min Towns 30:51 Wiggins 28:19 Dieng 34:33 LaVine 30:48 Rubio 24:09 Muhammad 29:02 Bjelica 25:05 Dunn 23:51 Jones 7:51 Hill 5:31

FG 8-8 7-14 6-12 7-16 1-4 4-13 3-9 1-4 0-1 0-1

FT O-Rb A PF Pts 3-3 3-11 4 5 22 3-4 1-4 2 2 21 2-2 2-7 3 3 14 1-1 0-1 3 1 21 0-0 1-1 10 1 3 3-4 2-3 0 2 12 2-2 1-5 3 4 8 1-2 0-6 1 1 3 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 0-0 1-1 0 0 0

Totals 240:00 37-82 15-18 11-40 26 19 104 Percentages: FG .451, FT .833. 3-point goals: 15-31, .484 (LaVine 6-9, Wiggins 4-6, Towns 3-3, Muhammad 1-3, Rubio 1-3, Dunn 0-1, Jones 0-1, Bjelica 0-5). Blocked shots: 3 (Towns 3). Turnovers: 14 (LaVine 4, Bjelica 3, Muhammad 3, Dieng 2, Dunn, Towns). Steals: 11 (Dieng 3, Bjelica 2, Dunn 2, LaVine, Muhammad, Rubio, Wiggins). Technicals: None. Atlanta 25 20 20 25 — 90 Minnesota 23 31 35 15 —104 A: 15,617 (19,356). T: 2:01. Officials: Dedric Taylor, Brent Barnaky, Zach Zarba

College Hoops Far West

Loyola Marymount 70, Morgan St. 49

Transactions FOOTBALL

National Football League Chicago Bears: Waived OL Cornelius Edison. Dallas Cowboys: Waived DE Zach Moore. Activated DE Randy Gregory from the exempt/commissioner permission list.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League Pittsburgh Penguins: Signed coach Mike Sullivan to a three-year contract extension. Tampa Bay Lightning: Reassigned Fs Cory Conacher, Erik Condra and Tanner Richards to Syracuse (AHL).

ECHL

ECHL: Suspended Colorado D Michael Sdao three games and Florida RW John McCarron,Atlanta D Drew Baker and Quad City D Andrew Panzarella two games.

Turf Paradise Entries FIRST-1 1/16 miles; $8,200; st allow; 3up PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 Delta Court(L),122 SWhtS 3-7-4 8-1 2 TheSpinmeistrL124 SStvns 1-5-2 3-1 3 MuchoMachDnL119 EGarcia 1-8-5 12-1 4 LeavinglosnglsL124 IEnriqz 2-1-1 5-2 5 GinsandGigglsL124 EGarcia 2-4-1 2-1 6 Flat Gone(L),124 E Lopez 2-1-1 7-2 7 GrandSlmAndrL117 AGreen 9-7-5 30-1 SECOND-6 1/2 fur; $7,000; md cl($8-7,000); 3up(f&m) PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 Angelnaule(L),121 IHrnnd 6-3-5 7-2 2 Emma's Joy(L),121 RMrtnz 3-5-6 6-1 3 EnchantedPatty121 RBurny 7-6-7 20-1 4 Santa Nella(L),121 SStvns 7-4-3 3-1 5 Correlation(L),121 JBourdi 7-7-7 8-5 6 Family Rules(L),119 AGreen 8-5-7 15-1 7 SwetnrthrnRsM119 ARmgt x-x-x 4-1 THIRD-6 fur; $16,000; cl($20-18,000); 3up PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 Oh Newman(L),122 NCdngt 7-2-7 7-2 2 StaroftheDia(L),122 DVergr 5-4-1 6-1 3 UnstoppblClbyL122 SStvns 4-7-1 3-1 4 Media Melee(L),119 LDelrm 7-5-4 20-1 5 Solomon(L),122 JBarton 4-2-8 9-2 6 DelRioHarbor(L)122 DLopez 2-3-5 5-1 7 WatchItBusterL122 JBourdi 2-1-2 5-2 FOURTH-4 1/2 fur; $7,000; cl($3,000); 3up PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 Hush My Mouth,124 ARmgt 6-5-6 12-1 2 NohoneymoonL119 AGreen 4-8-1 10-1 3 Sun Catcher(L),124 EGarcia 11-3-7 20-1 4 Nicolas Cajun ,124 NCdngt 2-2-5 6-5 5 It'saDoneDeal(L124 GMrnH 4-3-1 8-1 6 Sir Dadnger(L),124 RMrtnz 6-6-7 20-1 7 ArtisticVentureL124 DLopez 6-7-3 3-1 8 Estancia(L),124 JBarton 3-4-7 7-2 FIFTH-5 1/2 fur; $9,500; cl($8-7,000); 3up(f&m) PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 Ziva the Diva(L),122 SStvns 3-3-1 3-1 2 Tip Top Lady(L),122 DVergr 6-3-6 15-1 3 FourTimesLckyL122 JBourdi 2-7-5 5-2 4 Camille(L),122 IEnriqz 5-1-6 8-1 5 LazyDaisyMay(L122 IHrnnd 4-5-6 8-1 6 CopyBegone(L),117 E Lopez 2-5-9 12-1 7 ExtremeCautinL122 ARmgt 2-2-5 3-1 8 Bonita Sexy(L),121 DLopez 1-4-3 5-1 SIXTH-6 1/2 fur; $7,000; cl($3,500); 3up PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 Iairanicon(L),114 VRmbr 6-7-7 30-1 2 TizwonderflcrkL122 C Clark 5-2-8 2-1 3 Brock Baby(L),119 IHrnnd 2-5-6 9-2 4 Visitation(L),122 RMrtnz 10-7-7 30-1 5 GraymrksthsptL119 NCdngt 4-6-3 5-2 6 NavajoCodTlkrL119 JBourdi 5-4-5 8-1 7 Cayoke Star(L),124 JBarton 1-2-3 3-1 8 Leartes(L),122 DVergr 3-10-5 10-1 SEVENTH-5 1/2 fur; $8,000; cl($8,500); 3up(f&m) PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 DollysPartyDllL119 IHrnnd 6-8-7 15-1 2 FlownwththbrzL122 ARmgt 9-7-2 3-1 3 OldHollywood(L119 JBarton 7-4-1 20-1 4 HereCmsGrnnyL122 GMrnH 8-4-7 20-1 5 SincereWrnngL119 ARmgt 8-1-8 8-1 6 Danzig Flare(L),122 DLopez 2-4-2 5-2 7 Sierrastorm(L),119 E Lopez 2-3-2 3-1 8 Marquee Cat(L),119 DVergr 6-4-6 20-1 9 Gowithgrace(L),121 JBourdi 1-x-x 7-2 EIGHTH-6 1/2 fur; $7,100; cl($3,500); 3up PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 Goliath(L),122 JSmpsn 8-5-3 5-1 2 Bernco(L),122 GMrnH 11-7-10 30-1 3 Hidden Gun(L),122 DVergr 2-2-2 4-5 4 Slick Deal ,122 RBurny 10-5-5 30-1 5 Stand Em Up(L),122 RMrtnz 9-6-4 30-1 6 El Alazan(L),122 IHrnnd 4-5-5 8-1 7 Tricky Storm(L),114 EGarcia 9-4-7 20-1 8 Jukebox(L),119 ARmgt 8-5-1 2-1

2016 Final Yonkers Driver Leaders

COLLEGE

Carson-Newman: Named Simon Duffy women's soccer coach. Clayton State: Named Jimmy Baxter assistant cross country and track and field coach.

Debbie Little at Monticello

Post Time: 2:40 p.m.

Sts

J. Bartlett

Driver

2336

576

378

327

D. Dube

2101

287

269

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Best Bet: Grecale As (2nd) FIRST: mile; pace; $2,500; cl($4,000) 1 Tylers Great (BAldrichJr) 2-4-4 5-2 2 WinbakPrince (KDiBenedett) 5-7-7 7-2 5 Delco Tross (PBeeler) 2-6-4 3-1 3 Betterthanlynx (JHuckabne) 6-1-6 8-1 4 Mercurio N (JTaggartJr) 3-4-5 9-2 6 WoodmereRondevos (JDevx) 6-2-4 10-1 7 Chief Cruiser (MMerton) 2-7-3 4-1 8 Hawker (LStalbaum) 8-2-8 12-1 SECOND: mile; trot; $2,700; cond 3 Grecale As (LStalbaum) 7-4-1 3-1 5 PaystobeaMeangrl(JTggrtJr) 1-1-2 5-2 2 Nice Dream (BAldrichJr) 2-6-6 7-2 1 StormontLancelot (MMertn) 5-4-1 9-2 4 Alaric (SDarish) 7-1-4 10-1 6 Mr Invincible (JHuckabone) 6-2-3 8-1 7 Showing Off (RHarp) 3-4-5 12-1 8 Whata Hustler (JDevaux) 3-3-3 4-1 THIRD: mile; pace; $4,000; cond 3 Some MajorBeach (MMertn) 3-1-1 5-2 9 Nippy (JHuckabone) 1-2-3 4-1 6 Kj Brent (JTaggartJr) 5-4-3 9-2 1 Moonlight Artist (BAldrichJr) 3-7-1 7-2 2 Semalu Express (JDevaux) 7-3-7 3-1 4 Lolas Cruiser (PCurtin) 5-2-4 8-1 5 Prince Aland (PBeeler) 1-3-4 5-1 7 ShandoHanver (KDBenedett) 4-5-1 12-1 8 NancysSkyscape (LStalbam) 1-2-6 10-1 FOURTH: mile; pace; $4,700; cond 2 EveilDunChampion(JTggrtJr) 1-3-6 5-2 1 PanFromNntcket (BAldrchJr) 4-3-6 9-2 8 Hunchie (LStalbaum) 2-5-7 4-1 3 MobilBigJohn (KDiBenedtto) 3-1-3 7-2 4 Sing Bird Sing (PBeeler) 6-6-5 10-1 5 Adonis Bay (JDevaux) 1-1-8 3-1 6 Jay Bees GrinN (MAdmczyk) 10-5-5 12-1 7 Rozewood (JDeSimoneJr.) 3-3-2 8-1 FIFTH: mile; pace; $3,000; cond 4 Sb Ideal In Art (JTaggartJr) 4-5-1 3-1 6 Elusive Point (JDevaux) 7-5-9 8-1 3 Gett'er Done Dune (ADick) 2-1-5 5-1 1 Lightupbullville (BAldrichJr) 7-6-4 5-2 2 AnOfficersDuty (JHuckabne) 4-3-5 4-1 5 Pure Smoke (SDarish) 3-6-3 10-1 7 Wheretheparty'sat (LStlbm) 5-3-5 7-2 8 Nanny Boh (MMerton) 6-8-7 12-1

Parx Racing Entries FIRST-1m&70yds; $21,000; cl($7,500); 3up(f&m) PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 ShesOvrwlmngL120 FPnngt 5-7-7 5-1 2 Steve'sPhilly(L),118 LOcasi 2-1-2 5-2 3 FooledbyMagicL114 SGnzlz 4-4-5 20-1 4 Surfer Chub(L),119 JFelixJr 3-2-7 6-1 5 NativeCrossingL119 RSilver 8-5-3 20-1 6 Jazzy Java(L),120 J Flores 4-1-7 7-2 7 FeistyValentinL120 VCrrsc 3-8-9 8-1 8 Oh My Dar(L),120 CCedn 7-3-5 8-1 9 Kathywithak(L),119 HCabllr 5-8-5 20-1 10 Kristinite(L),113 LPinero 4-5-3 6-1

SECOND-1 mile; $20,000; cl($7,500); 3up PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 I Will(L),124 JNavarr 1-2-5 10-1 2 Invocation(L),122 ASalgd 3-3-1 7-2 3 D'marin(L),122 MSnch 4-8-9 6-1 4 SorcsndmthdsL122 JVrgsJr 3-1-2 5-2 5 BarloventoTigrL124 EEsqvl 1-7-5 9-2 6 Final Ritual(L),122 JAcost 4-7-1 4-1 7 ForestFriends(L115 LPinero 8-6-1 20-1 8 Choroni(L),122 RRosad 2-1-5 8-1 THIRD-1m&70yds; $18,000; md cl($10,000); 3up(f&m) PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 AlexandrasMstL123 CCedn 4-4-6 2-1 2 CrackerRose(L),116 J Perez 6-7-4 15-1 3 IlgethprtystrtdL118 LOcasi 2-7-8 7-2 4 Birdz Wish(L),118 SGnzlz 7-5-8 12-1 5 Vera Dee(L),124 TSmps 9-6-x 10-1 6 Patsy Time(L),124 HCabllr 6-5-6 15-1 7 RodeoDriveDiva124 MSnch 4-5-4 5-1 8 Seek Praise(L),116 JTorres 8-10-7 20-1 9 Goldhunt(L),116 LPinero 2-8-3 6-1 FOURTH-5 ¹/₂ fur; $24,000; cl($10,000); 3up(f&m) PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 a-LuckytoWin(L121 JNavarr 2-1-2 8-1 2 Duchess Bird(L),121 J Flores 5-1-5 4-1 3 Keep inMind(L),113 JTorres 8-6-7 20-1 4 Scoff(L),119 VCrrsc 5-5-7 6-1 1 a-SurfsideChicL122 CCedn 1-3-3 8-1 5 Avalancha(L),119 HCabllr 9-3-5 15-1 6 Up All Night(L),115 SGnzlz 5-10-8 12-1 7 MidnghtPrncssL115 LPinero 1-2-8 9-2 8 Cheeky Gal(L),120 RSilver 3-4-6 7-2 9 Miss Kalem(L),116 LOcasi 9-4-5 3-1 a-Coupled

FIFTH-1m&70yds; $28,000; cl($20,000); 3up(f&m) PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 AwesomeSingrL116 LOcasi 5-5-3 8-1 2 RShadeofGray(L118 SGnzlz 1-5-5 5-2 3 CasssDovehntL113 LPinero 5-4-2 12-1 4 ExoticAppeal(L)120 DCastill 6-2-7 10-1 5 SweetMaggieM120 MSnch 4-6-2 6-1 6 KissMeKenzie(L120 CLopez 6-2-8 7-2 7 Kinghorn(L),121 MRnfrd 5-1-3 9-2

Post Time: 12:25 p.m. SIXTH: mile; pace; $4,400; cond 4 Ideal Candidate (BAldrichJr) 1-4-6 5-2 5 Salevster Stallion (MMerton) 3-3-3 7-2 3 Steve Said (JDevaux) 2-4-8 3-1 1 LightningStrike (JHuckabne) 1-3-5 8-1 2 QuicksilvercandyA(LStalbm) 7-1-6 4-1 6 Wakinyan (PCurtin) 5-3-7 10-1 7 Paulimony (JTaggartJr) 5-2-1 5-1 8 Eagle Pass (PLutmanJr) 1-4-4 12-1 SEVENTH: mile; pace; $4,900; cond 6 ItsonlyrocknrollA (LStalbam) 6-1-6 3-1 5 Stratocaster (JMarohnJr) 3-4-1 5-2 4 InRunawayBayN (JHuckbne) 6-4-7 4-1 1 Ponyta Boy (BAldrichJr) 10-1-4 10-1 2 Bettrsluckystreak (JTggrtJr) 7-2-5 9-2 3 Admiral (JDevaux) 2-7-6 7-2 7 National Debt (PBeeler) 6-1-6 8-1 8 Little Man Cam (MMerton) 5-6-4 12-1 EIGHTH: mile; pace; $4,400; cond 1 Deliciouslynaughty (LStlbm) 2-4-3 5-2 2 CherokeeRanger (JTaggrtJr) 4-2-7 4-1 4 Clear Winner (PCurtin) 8-9-2 10-1 3 Raylan Givens (MMerton) 3-1-8 6-1 5 Mr Sideburns (JHuckabone) 1-5-1 9-2 6 CottonEyedJoe(KDBenedett) X-6-1 12-1 7 Jj's Doughnut (JDevaux) 1-1-1 3-1 8 AmericanChamp(BAldrichJr) 4-3-2 7-2 NINTH: mile; pace; $2,700; cl($4,000) 5 Lastchancelilly (BAldrichJr) 3-1-4 5-2 2 PrivateAshley (KDiBenedett) 4-4-4 7-2 6 Kiddie Mccardle(LStalbaum) 4-2-7 3-1 1 Soggy Soggy (MMerton) 8-8-2 10-1 3 Little Miss Marie (BFilion) 6-4-1 9-2 4 KesonsSilhouette (JHuckbn) 4-1-5 6-1 7 Rusty's Flying (JDevaux) 2-1-4 4-1 8 RoadWorkAhead (JTaggrtJr) 5-6-1 12-1 TENTH: mile; pace; $4,200; cl($7,500) 6 May Day (LStalbaum) 1-4-1 3-1 2 For Kevin's Sake (JDevaux) 1-4-1 5-2 4 Whatagamble (JTaggartJr) 2-4-4 4-1 1 Tkr's Metro Specs (PBeeler) 2-3-6 9-2 3 Makeoutlikeapandit (PCrtn) 5-5-3 6-1 5 Nabber Again (JHuckabone) 8-3-1 10-1 7 Oaks Hanover (MMerton) 10-6-4 12-1 8 Giddyallyougot (BAldrichJr) 3-1-5 7-2

Post Time: 12:25 p.m. 8 RoyalDelMar(L),120 CCedn 2-4-1 8-1 9 Confirm(L),121 ABwmn 4-11-4 12-1

SIXTH-1 mile; $37,000; cl($16,000); 3up PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 WhitfieldsRtrnL120 HCabllr 9-8-4 12-1 2 Fire Alarm(L),120 CCedn 4-2-1 8-1 3 BowmansBestL120 JNavarr 7-7-6 10-1 4 WirelessFutureL120 RSilver 6-3-5 5-2 5 Allowed ,124 SHmltn 1-2-3 9-2 6 BluegrassChatL124 CLopez 3-1-4 7-2 7 Magic Cash(L),115 LOcasi 3-10-9 8-1 8 Percussion(L),120 TMcCrt 3-4-4 5-1 9 EconomicData(L120 J Flores 6-5-7 20-1 SEVENTH-1m&70yds; $33,000; cl($12,500); 3up PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 LureoftheSothL120 JNavarr 3-9-3 4-1 2 Bartolome(L),120 CCedn 6-4-3 10-1 3 Harpoon(L),120 EEsqvl 2-8-2 2-1 4 Gadget Man(L),120 FPnngt 8-3-6 6-1 5 Mi Amore(L),120 MRosar 3-7-7 20-1 6 WellingtnWzrdL115 LOcasi 8-5-5 9-2 7 TuckersPoint(L)120 ARdrgz 3-1-8 5-1 8 Golden Rivet(L),120 MSnch 8-6-6 15-1 EIGHTH-7 fur; $42,000; st alw; 3up(f&m) PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 Lendar(L),123 I Beato 1-2-1 5-1 2 Trulamo(L),123 TMcCrt 2-1-10 7-2 3 GardenGames(L121 ASalgd 3-4-1 12-1 4 HarlansBelle(L),121 MSnch 2-4-12 8-1 5 HeartbreakrGrlL123 HCabllr 1-2-9 6-1 6 Sheislikeice(L),121 JBisono 5-7-5 10-1 7 T Cross(L),116 SGnzlz 9-7-5 12-1 8 HoldMeDown(L)124 RSilver 1-2-2 2-1 9 Rally Gal(L),121 ARdrgz 4-8-5 12-1 NINTH-1 mile; $51,000; alw op cl; 2YO PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 HonorableSrvcL119 FPnngt 2-1-5 12-1 2 Printer(L),116 LOcasi 3-1-4 10-1 3 Alan'sLegacy(L)114 LPinero 1-2-7 5-1 4 Dads Party(L),119 TMcCrt 5-8-5 12-1 5 Gaetano(L),119 JAcost 1-2-4 8-1 6 Fillet of Sole(L),121 JBisono 1-3-3 2-1 7 OneballnostrksL119 JVrgsJr 2-5-1 3-1 8 CreatWndstrmL119 NMngl 1-3-5 12-1 9 Curtis(L),119 MSnch 2-2-6 8-1 TENTH-6 fur; $20,000; cl($7,500); 3up PN Horse,Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 CasanovaWay(L124 GGarci 12-9-5 20-1 2 AvalancheRockL124 RRosad 4-5-10 12-1 3 In the Beat(L),124 J Davis 2-3-1 3-1 4 TuckedinFront(L124 EEsqvl 8-6-7 12-1 5 Baby Cat(L),124 CLopez 6-6-5 8-1 6 Al's Jubalee(L),124 MSnch 9-11-2 20-1 7 Coolusive(L),119 SGnzlz 2-10-2 8-1 8 Strike It Now(L),117 J Perez 7-10-10 20-1 9 CraftyConcordL124 TMcCrt 5-4-6 5-2 10 Mr Brioni(L),124 FPnngt 1-11-6 4-1

Cowboys 42, Lions 21

NFL PA 236 345 348 399

South y-Houston Tennessee Indianapolis Jacksonville

W L 9 6 8 7 7 8 3 12

T 0 0 0 0

Pct. .600 .533 .467 .200

PF 262 357 387 298

PA 304 361 372 376

North y-Pittsburgh Baltimore Cincinnati Cleveland

W L 10 5 8 7 5 9 1 14

T 0 0 1 0

Pct. .667 .533 .367 .067

PF 372 333 298 240

PA 303 294 305 425 PA 361 284 291 386

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct. PF z-Dallas 13 2 0 .867 408 x-Giants 10 5 0 .667 291 Washington 8 6 1 .567 386 Philadelphia 6 9 0 .400 340

PA 279 274 364 318

South y-Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans Carolina

W 10 8 7 6

L 5 7 8 9

T 0 0 0 0

Pct. .667 .533 .467 .400

PF 502 337 437 353

PA 374 353 416 385

North Green Bay Detroit Minnesota Chicago

W L 9 6 9 6 7 8 3 12

T 0 0 0 0

Pct. .600 .600 .467 .200

PF 401 322 289 269

PA 364 327 297 361

West W L T Pct. PF y-Seattle 9 5 1 .633 329 Arizona 6 8 1 .433 374 Los Angeles 4 11 0 .267 218 San Francisco 2 13 0 .133 286

PA 269 356 350 455

x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched No. 1 seed

Thursday

Philadelphia 24, Giants 19

Saturday

New England 41, Jets 3 Jacksonville 38, Tennessee 17 Washington 41, Chicago 21 Green Bay 38, Minnesota 25 Cleveland 20, San Diego 17 Atlanta 33, Carolina 16 Miami 34, Buffalo 31, OT Oakland 33, Indianapolis 25 New Orleans 31, Tampa Bay 24 San Francisco 22, Los Angeles 21 Arizona 34, Seattle 31 Houston 12, Cincinnati 10

Sunday

Pittsburgh 31, Baltimore 27 Kansas City 33, Denver 10

Monday

Dallas 42, Detroit 21

Sunday, Jan. 1

Buffalo at Jets, 1pm Giants at Washington, 4:25pm New England at Miami, 1pm Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1pm Carolina at Tampa Bay, 1pm Dallas at Philadelphia, 1pm Houston at Tennessee, 1pm Chicago at Minnesota, 1pm Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1pm Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 1pm Seattle at San Francisco, 4:25pm New Orleans at Atlanta, 4:25pm Kansas City at San Diego, 4:25pm Arizona at Los Angeles, 4:25pm Oakland at Denver, 4:25pm Green Bay at Detroit, 8:30pm

First Quarter Dal: Butler 21 pass from Prescott (Bailey kick), 9:57. Det: Zenner 7 run (Prater kick), 5:23. Dal: Elliott 55 run (Bailey kick), 2:49. Second Quarter Det: Stafford 1 run (Prater kick), 13:32. Det: Zenner 5 run (Prater kick), 7:40. Dal: Bryant 25 pass from Prescott (Bailey kick), 1:04. Third Quarter Dal: Elliott 1 run (Bailey kick), 10:19. Dal: Witten 10 pass from Bryant (Bailey kick), 4:03. Fourth Quarter Dal: Bryant 19 pass from Prescott (Bailey kick), 12:12. A: 92,885. Det Dal First downs ...................... 23 23 Total Net Yards ............. 319 375 Rushes-yards ............. 20-90 30-164 Passing ........................... 229 211 Punt Returns ................ 1-23 2-5 Kickoff Returns ............ 2-64 3-74 Interceptions Ret. .......... 0-0 1-8 Comp-Att-Int ........... 26-46-1 16-21-0 Sacked-Yards Lost ....... 4-31 1-11 Punts .......................... 4-49.0 4-47.3 Fumbles-Lost ................. 2-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards ........... 5-62 8-47 Time of Possession .... 30:43 29:17 Individual Statistics Rushing: Detroit, Zenner 12-67, Washington 7-22, Stafford 1-1. Dallas, Elliott 12-80, D.McFadden 14-49, Prescott 4-35. Passing: Detroit, Stafford 26-46-1260. Dallas, Prescott 15-20-0-212, Bryant 1-1-0-10. Receiving: Detroit, Ebron 8-93, Tate 6-58, Boldin 5-33, Zenner 2-25, M.Jones 1-16, Roberts 1-14, T.Jones 1-9, Mulligan 1-8, Washington 1-4. Dallas, Bryant 4-70, T.Williams 4-61, Beasley 4-25, Witten 2-33, Butler 121, Elliott 1-12. Missed Field Goals: Detroit, Prater 47.

AP Female Athlete of the Year 2016 — Simone Biles, gymnastics 2015 — Serena Williams, tennis 2014 — Mo'ne Davis, baseball 2013 — Serena Williams, tennis 2012 — Gabby Douglas, gymnastics 2011 — Abby Wambach, soccer 2010 — Lindsey Vonn, skiing 2009 — Serena Williams, tennis 2008 — Candace Parker, basketball 2007 — Lorena Ochoa, golf 2006 — Lorena Ochoa, golf 2005 — Annika Sorenstam, golf 2004 — Annika Sorenstam, golf 2003 — Annika Sorenstam, golf 2002 — Serena Williams, tennis 2001 — Jennifer Capriati, tennis 2000 — Marion Jones, track 1999 — U.S. Soccer Team 1998 — Se Ri Pak, golf 1997 — Martina Hingis, tennis 1996 — Amy Van Dyken, swimming 1995 — Rebecca Lobo, basketball 1994 — Bonnie Blair, speedskating 1993 — Sheryl Swoopes, basketball 1992 — Monica Seles, tennis 1991 — Monica Seles, tennis 1990 — Beth Daniel, golf

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BRADY HUNCH Give Skjei shot on right side

EGARDING the Rangers, beginning this sixgame segment before the Jan. 8-12 bye week with Tuesday’s match at the Garden against the Senators: 1. Alain Vigneault was correct to make Brady Skjei a healthy scratch for Friday’s 7-4 defeat by the Wild, even if the 22-year-old is never not one of the Blueshirts’ top six options on defense and even if the club suffered without him.

Larry Brooks Because if the coach detected laziness in the way the rookie played his final shift of the preceding 7-2 defeat in Pittsburgh, and that is believed the case, it was Vigneault’s obligation to get the message across as quickly as possible that such an approach is unacceptable. Last season, Vigneault made the mistake of adopting a laissez-faire approach to sophomore pro Kevin Hayes’ lethargy that ultimately served neither the team nor the player. Not this time and not in this case with Skjei, whose game has hit a couple of speed bumps the last few weeks and for whom that example of malpractice on the Penguins’ final goal at 19:49 of the third must be nothing but an aberration. Case closed. 2. For anyone involved with the Rangers, last season is never far from consciousness. That is why these last two games, and in particular the third period in Pittsburgh and the second period against the Wild, raised so many red flags. The Blueshirts were disconnected and disengaged, their forwards delinquent in their duties without the puck. The work ethic, for the first meaningful stretch this season, was questionable. If it happens again, regardless of the identities of the culprits, Vigneault must act accordingly. Though the Rangers are in a very good spot regarding the playoffs, slip-

BRADY SKJEI page in work habits will ensure a return to the rabbit’s hole through which the 2015-16 Blueshirts disappeared. 3. The Rangers are ninth in the NHL with a 2.44 goals-against average, and remember that is after allowing as many as seven goals in consecutive games for the first time since the first month of the 1987-88 season. Their GAA in opening 13-4 was 2.23. It is 2.62 while going 10-8-1 since. But it was 2.12 through the first 17 games of the second segment before last week’s twin calamities, and that despite a below-average even-strength save percentage of .922 that ranks 18th in the NHL.

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There are inferior shotattempt percentages that are reflective both of the team’s rush/perfect-shot style and difficulty escaping its own end on the first (or second) try. 4. “The Dan Girardi Problem” is not Girardi himself, but Vigneault’s insistence on heaping firstpair, matchup minutes on the 32-year-old as Ryan McDonagh’s partner. True enough, alternatives don’t jump off the page at you (especially if one potential fix would break up the successful Marc Staal-Nick Holden pairing), and the long-term solution to filling this critical spot probably lies with a) sacrificing a youngish top-line-type forward (plus) to acquire a youngish righty with first-

pair potential in a trade; and/or b) signing pending unrestricted Kevin Shattenkirk (who will be 28 come July 1) to a Keith Yandlelike, seven-year contract for upward of $6.5 million per year. But before general manager Jeff Gorton travels down either one of those roads, the Rangers should find out whether Skjei, a lefty, can handle the switch to his off-side he first tried during the second half of last year with AHL Hartford before a pair of games on the right with McDonagh in the playoffs against the Penguins and three on the right with Staal during the middle of last month. (Note to Gorton: Please, please, please, no draft pick(s) to Buffalo to rent righty Cody Franson, or to Calgary to lease righty Dennis Wideman. Please.) This may not be the most opportune time for the switch in the immediate wake of both the team’s and Skjei’s struggles. It would be better if both were playing well. But typically that is not when coaches put major changes into place. No, the Rangers need to find out whether this talented, confident 22-year-old can be a long-term answer on the right … and whether and by how much McDonagh, whose own game had leveled before skidding off the rails last week, would benefit by playing with a more mobile partner. McDonagh has played 73 percent of his 5-on-5 minutes (440/605) with Girardi; 17 percent with Holden (105); and only 1.4 percent with Skjei (9). McDonagh is the Rangers’ best player. Putting the captain in his best position to succeed is a worthy endeavor. And Vigneault should make this move even in the unlikely event it costs the team a game or two over the next couple of weeks. The Blueshirts might have to take one step back to take two or three forward either later this season or next season. Not only is there nothing wrong with that, such forward thinking is necessary. larry.brooks@nypost.com

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Miss. St. escapes on blocked FG Associated Press Mississippi State’s sideline erupted in celebration, relieved to escape with a victory to end a challenging season. Nick Fitzgerald rushed for 142 yards and two touchdowns in another strong performance by the dual-threat quarterback; however, the heavily favored Bulldogs had to block a field goal in the closing seconds to hold off Miami (Ohio) 17-16 in the St. Petersburg Bowl in St. Petersburg, Fla. on Monday. “Great game. Not exactly how we drew it up,” coach Dan Mullen said after defensive tackle Nelson Adams

BOWL ROUNDUP got a hand on Nick Dowd’s potential game-winning kick. Both the Bulldogs (6-7) and the RedHawks (6-7), who won six straight games to become bowl eligible, finished with losing marks.

Boston College 36, Maryland 30 In Detroit, Patrick Towles threw two touchdown passes and caught a pass for a score in the first half, helping Boston College top Maryland in the Quick Lane Bowl. The Eagles (7-6) led by 16 at halftime, 23 points early in

the third quarter and had to force Maryland to turn the ball over on downs late in the game to seal the victory.

N.C. State 41, Vanderbilt 17 In Shreveport, La., Jaylen Samuels caught three touchdown passes from Ryan Finley, Nyheim Hines returned a kickoff for a 100-yard touchdown and North Carolina State beat Vanderbilt in the Independence Bowl. The Wolfpack (7-6) built a 28-3 lead by midway through the third quarter — largely thanks to Samuels’ touchdown catches of 9, 55 and 17 yards — and then held off a brief Vanderbilt rally.

Nets 120, Hornets 118

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Monday Nets 120, Charlotte 118 Orlando 112, Memphis 102 Washington 107, Milwaukee 102 Detroit 106, Cleveland 90 Chicago 90, Indiana 85 Houston 131, Phoenix 115 Minnesota 104, Atlanta 90 New Orleans 111, Dallas 104 Toronto 95, Portland 91 Denver 106, Clippers 102 Sacramento 102, Philadelphia 100

Tuesday Memphis at Boston, 7:30pm Oklahoma City at Miami, 7:30pm Houston at Dallas, 8:30pm Utah at L.A. Lakers, 10:30pm

Wednesday Knicks at Atlanta, 7:30pm Nets at Chicago, 8pm Charlotte at Orlando, 7pm Indiana at Washington, 7pm Milwaukee at Detroit, 7:30pm Clippers at New Orleans, 8pm Phoenix at San Antonio, 8:30pm Minnesota at Denver, 9pm Sacramento at Portland, 10pm Toronto at Golden State, 10:30pm

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Nets Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Booker 22:22 1-3 1-2 0-12 3 2 3 Lopez 33:01 8-13 4-4 2-5 5 1 21 Harris 11:57 0-2 0-0 0-2 0 1 0 Kilpatrick 31:42 9-15 1-2 0-5 4 3 23 Lin 22:20 6-11 3-4 0-0 4 2 17 Bogdanovic 26:32 7-11 8-9 1-4 2 1 26 Hollis-Jffrsn 25:44 1-6 8-10 1-4 1 4 10 Foye 20:43 1-2 0-0 0-1 2 1 3 Whitehead 16:06 4-7 0-0 0-2 3 4 9 Hamilton 14:53 1-2 0-0 0-3 1 0 3 LeVert 14:40 2-3 0-0 0-1 1 2 5 Totals 240:00 40-75 25-31 4-39 26 21 120 Percentages: FG .533, FT .806. 3-point goals: 15-31, .484 (Bogdanovic 4-7, Kilpatrick 4-7, Lin 2-4, Foye 1-2, Hamilton 1-2, LeVert 1-2, Whitehead 12, Lopez 1-3, Harris 0-2). Team rebounds: 3. Team turnovers: 15 (0 PTS). Blocked shots: 8 (Lopez 3, HollisJefferson 2, Booker, Hamilton, Whitehead). Turnovers: 15 (Whitehead 4, Lin 3, Booker 2, Kilpatrick 2, Lopez 2, Hamilton, LeVert). Steals: 4 (Lin 2, Hollis-Jefferson, Whitehead). Technicals: None. Charlotte 40 23 25 30—118 Nets 31 23 29 37—120 A: 17,732 (17,732). Officials: Justin Van Duyne, Michael Smith, Sean Wright

Magic 112, Grizzlies 102 Memphis

Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Ja.Green 29:33 3-6 1-2 0-2 1 3 9 Parsons 12:25 0-4 0-0 0-1 0 1 0 Gasol 27:51 4-9 3-4 0-4 3 2 11 Allen 22:47 4-7 2-2 0-2 0 3 10 Conley 26:32 6-8 5-5 0-2 4 1 17 Harrison 24:07 1-4 6-8 0-4 2 3 8 Randolph 23:09 6-15 0-0 1-5 3 1 13 Ennis 22:10 3-4 3-4 1-2 1 2 11 Daniels 19:46 5-12 2-3 1-4 1 0 16 Martin 16:12 2-3 0-0 0-8 0 0 4 Carter 15:28 1-4 0-0 0-1 2 2 3 Totals 240:00 35-76 22-28 3-35 17 18 102 Percentages: FG .461, FT .786. 3-point goals: 10-25, .400 (Daniels 4-8, Ennis 2-2, Ja.Green 2-5, Carter 1-3, Randolph 1-3, Conley 0-1, Gasol 0-1, Parsons 0-2). Blocked shots: 4 (Ja.Green 2, Carter, Randolph). Turnovers: 6 (Conley 3, Ja.Green 2, Gasol). Steals: 7 (Gasol 2, Allen, Daniels, Ennis, Martin, Randolph). Technicals: None.

Orlando

Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Gordon 34:13 11-15 4-5 1-1 1 4 30 Ibaka 24:29 6-11 2-2 1-6 3 3 16 Biyombo 23:51 4-6 2-4 6-12 0 2 10 Augustin 19:54 4-8 0-0 0-0 7 2 10 Meeks 28:47 5-8 0-0 0-3 2 1 13 Vucevic 27:11 6-11 0-0 0-9 1 3 13 Payton 25:28 6-10 3-5 0-4 7 3 16 Je.Green 23:39 2-11 0-0 1-3 1 0 4 Watson 20:03 0-4 0-0 0-1 1 1 0 Hezonja 4:31 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Wilcox 2:38 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 2 0 Rudez 2:38 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Zimmerman 2:38 0-0 0-0 0-3 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 44-87 11-16 9-44 23 21 112 Percentages: FG .506, FT .688. 3-point goals: 13-26, .500 (Gordon 4-4, Meeks 35, Augustin 2-2, Ibaka 2-6, Vucevic 1-1, Payton 1-2, Hezonja 0-1, Rudez 0-1, Je.Green 0-2, Watson 0-2). Blocked shots: 3 (Gordon, Vucevic, Zimmerman). Turnovers: 9 (Watson 2, Augustin, Biyombo, Hezonja, Ibaka, Payton, Vucevic, Wilcox). Steals: 5 (Meeks 2, Augustin, Gordon, Payton). Technicals: None. Memphis 18 25 28 31—102 Orlando 36 32 28 16—112 Officials: Derrick Collins, Steven Anderson, James Capers

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Washington Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Morris 37:34 7-11 3-4 1-4 0 2 18 Porter 41:16 13-18 1-2 0-13 1 4 32 Gortat 41:31 2-5 0-0 2-12 3 1 4 Beal 36:38 5-14 9-10 1-4 5 2 22 Wall 42:02 8-19 1-2 2-3 16 2 18 Oubre 17:23 2-6 0-0 1-2 3 2 5 Thornton 12:58 2-4 0-0 0-1 1 1 5 Smith 6:16 1-1 1-2 0-1 0 1 3 Burke 4:22 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 Totals 240:00 40-79 15-20 7-40 29 16 107 Percentages: FG .506, FT .750. 3-point goals: 12-29, .414 (Porter 5-9, Beal 3-8, Morris 1-2, Thornton 1-2, Oubre 1-4, Wall 1-4). Team rebounds: 9. Team turnovers: 16 (16 PTS). Blocked shots: 5 (Wall 2, Gortat, Morris, Porter). Turnovers: 16 (Wall 7, Beal 3, Morris 2, Porter 2, Oubre, Thornton). Steals: 7 (Beal 2, Morris 2, Wall 2, Oubre). Technicals: None. Milwaukee 27 30 27 18 —102 Washington 28 25 29 25 —107 A: 15,773 (20,356). T: 2:13. Officials: Kevin Scott, Scott Wall, Ed Malloy

Pistons 106, Cavaliers 90 Cleveland Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Jefferson 22:14 1-4 0-0 1-2 1 3 2 Love 25:53 6-14 2-2 4-14 1 2 17 Thompson 26:17 2-4 3-4 4-10 1 4 7 Irving 28:50 8-20 0-1 1-5 8 3 18 Liggins 18:16 0-3 0-0 0-1 1 2 0 Shumpert 32:46 4-10 2-2 0-1 2 0 11 Dunleavy 28:22 2-4 1-2 0-4 1 2 6 Felder 19:58 2-8 7-8 0-3 2 0 11 Frye 17:50 4-8 0-0 0-4 1 5 11 Jones 13:55 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 1 0 McRae 5:39 1-2 4-4 0-2 1 1 7 Totals 240:00 30-79 19-23 10-47 19 23 90 Percentages: FG .380, FT .826. 3-point goals: 11-28, .393 (Frye 3-5, Love 3-6, Irving 2-6, Dunleavy 1-1, McRae 1-1, Shumpert 1-3, Felder 0-1, Jones 0-1, Jefferson 0-2, Liggins 0-2). Team rebounds: 11. Team turnovers: 21 (0 PTS). Blocked shots: 3 (Jones, Love, Thompson). Turnovers: 21 (Love 5, Shumpert 4, Frye 3, Irving 3, Dunleavy, Felder, Jefferson, Liggins, McRae, Thompson). Steals: 8 (Shumpert 3, Love 2, Dunleavy, Felder, Jefferson). Technicals: None.

Detroit Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Leuer 27:58 5-11 1-1 1-5 1 3 13 Morris 36:14 6-16 0-0 1-5 2 2 15 Drummond 28:14 5-15 1-7 7-17 4 1 11 Caldwll-Pope 39:16 7-11 0-0 0-3 3 2 18 Jackson 30:20 5-9 1-1 0-1 6 4 13 Harris 29:13 7-14 4-4 0-6 4 0 21 I.Smith 17:40 4-7 0-0 0-2 5 2 9 Baynes 11:53 1-1 0-0 1-4 0 3 2 Johnson 11:51 1-4 0-0 0-1 0 2 3 Gbinije 2:27 0-1 0-0 1-1 0 0 0 Ellenson 2:27 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Hilliard 2:27 0-2 1-2 0-1 0 0 1 Totals 240:00 41-93 8-15 11-46 25 19 106 Percentages: FG .441, FT .533. 3-point goals: 16-28, .571 (Caldwell-Pope 4-6, Harris 3-6, Morris 3-6, Jackson 2-3, Leuer 2-3, I.Smith 1-1, Johnson 1-2, Drummond 0-1). Team rebounds: 8. Team turnovers: 12 (0 PTS). Blocked shots: 4 (Drummond 2, Caldwell-Pope, I.Smith). Turnovers: 12 (Jackson 6, Baynes, Caldwell-Pope, Drummond, Harris, I.Smith, Morris). Steals: 12 (Caldwell-Pope 3, Morris 3, I.Smith 2, Leuer 2, Jackson, Johnson). Technicals: None. Cleveland 19 25 20 26 — 90 Detroit 22 28 26 30 —106 T: 2:09. Officials: Lauren Holtkamp, Dan Crawford, Brian Forte

Phoenix Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Chriss 18:53 5-9 1-2 3-5 1 3 12 Tucker 21:22 0-2 0-0 2-2 1 1 0 Chandler 19:31 3-6 0-0 5-8 0 2 6 Bledsoe 27:17 8-20 7-9 0-6 4 3 24 Booker 27:32 6-18 3-3 1-2 4 6 16 Warren 31:23 5-16 0-1 2-4 0 1 11 Bender 26:38 5-11 0-0 2-13 2 2 11 Knight 24:17 6-12 7-8 0-5 1 2 21 Len 19:33 2-2 2-2 1-6 0 3 6 Barbosa 12:14 2-3 0-0 0-0 3 1 4 Williams 5:40 0-0 2-2 0-1 0 1 2 Ulis 5:40 1-2 0-0 0-1 1 0 2 Totals 240:0043-101 22-27 16-53 17 25 115 Percentages: FG .426, FT .815. 3-point goals: 7-30, .233 (Knight 2-5, Bender 1-4, Chriss 1-4, Warren 1-4, Booker 1-5, Bledsoe 1-8). Blocked shots: 6 (Bender 2, Chriss 2, Len, Williams). Turnovers: 17 (Bledsoe 5, Bender 2, Chriss 2, Tucker 2, Warren 2, Booker, Chandler, Knight, Len). Steals: 14 (Bender 3, Bledsoe 3, Tucker 2, Williams 2, Barbosa, Booker, Len, Warren). Technicals: Bledsoe, 10:25 third.

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New Orleans Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Cunningham 36:49 4-7 2-2 0-6 0 3 11 Davis 36:37 8-14 12-14 5-16 4 4 28 Hill 30:58 2-5 4-4 0-7 2 4 10 Hield 23:14 6-8 0-0 0-2 2 1 14 Holiday 35:50 2-11 3-4 0-3 11 2 7 Galloway 25:32 6-8 0-0 0-2 2 1 17 Moore 22:49 7-10 0-0 0-1 1 2 16 Jones 12:25 1-3 3-4 0-3 0 0 5 Evans 11:28 1-4 0-0 0-0 1 1 2 Frazier 4:18 0-0 1-2 0-1 1 1 1 Totals 240:00 37-70 25-30 5-41 24 19 111 Percentages: FG .529, FT .833. 3-point goals: 12-25, .480 (Galloway 5-5, Moore 2-3, Hield 2-4, Hill 2-5, Cunningham 1-3, Davis 0-1, Holiday 0-1, Jones 0-1, Evans 0-2). Blocked shots: 3 (Davis 2, Jones). Turnovers: 10 (Davis 6, Galloway 2, Holiday, Jones). Steals: 6 (Moore 2, Cunningham, Frazier, Hill, Holiday). Technicals: Defensive three second, 4:40 third; team, 4:40 third. Dallas 20 33 24 27 —104 New Orleans 25 30 30 26 —111 A: 15,764 (16,867). T: 2:14. Officials: Karl Lane, Tom Washington, Tyler Ford

Bulls 90, Pacers 85

Raptors 95, Trail Blazers 91

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Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts George 39:29 6-14 1-1 0-3 8 2 14 Turner 28:20 7-15 1-2 0-8 0 4 16 T.Young 31:36 5-11 0-0 3-6 0 1 12 Robinson 32:24 1-5 0-0 2-6 1 1 3 Teague 23:53 2-8 1-2 1-2 5 0 6 Miles 25:05 0-6 0-0 0-4 1 4 0 Brooks 24:07 6-8 4-4 1-4 7 1 19 Jefferson 19:40 5-9 1-1 3-6 3 4 11 Seraphin 9:09 1-3 0-0 0-2 1 4 2 Stuckey 6:17 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 Totals 240:00 34-81 8-10 10-41 26 21 85 Percentages: FG .420, FT .800. 3-point goals: 9-25, .360 (Brooks 3-4, T.Young 25, Robinson 1-3, Teague 1-3, Turner 1-3, George 1-5, Miles 0-2). Team rebounds: 6. Team turnovers: 16 (0 PTS). Blocked shots: 5 (Turner 2, Brooks, Robinson, Seraphin). Turnovers: 16 (George 4, Brooks 3, T.Young 3, Teague 3, Jefferson, Robinson, Seraphin). Steals: 5 (T.Young 3, George, Robinson). Technicals: None.

Percentages: FG .337, FT .792. 3-point goals: 12-34, .353 (Patterson 5-11, Lowry 5-13, Carroll 2-5, DeRozan 0-1, Joseph 0-1, Powell 0-1, Ross 0-2). Blocked shots: 4 (Nogueira 2, Ross, Valanciunas). Turnovers: 12 (DeRozan 3, Lowry 3, Ross 2, Carroll, Nogueira, Patterson, Powell). Steals: 11 (Ross 4, DeRozan 3, Joseph, Lowry, Patterson, Valanciunas). Technicals: None.

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Aminu Harkless Plumlee Crabbe McCollum Turner Vonleh Napier Davis Leonard Totals

Min 32:59 33:04 29:45 35:19 33:52 27:22 15:23 14:08 9:40 8:29 240:00

FG FT 2-7 0-0 0-1 0-0 5-13 2-2 8-22 4-7 8-18 6-7 5-12 0-0 2-11 2-2 0-1 4-4 2-8 0-0 0-2 1-2 32-95 19-24

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Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Barnes 36:38 6-14 2-2 0-7 1 1 15 Finney-Smith 17:28 1-1 0-0 2-3 2 4 2 Nowitzki 16:59 4-9 0-0 0-2 4 1 10 Matthews 35:49 4-11 6-7 0-2 2 2 17 D.Williams 32:19 9-18 3-4 1-2 9 3 24 Curry 31:04 5-9 4-5 0-1 7 3 16 Powell 21:12 2-3 2-4 0-5 0 3 6 Harris 18:28 2-4 0-0 0-3 2 1 5 Mejri 15:55 0-0 0-0 0-5 0 4 0 Anderson 13:26 4-6 0-0 1-2 0 0 9 Hammons 0:14 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Brussino 0:14 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Gibson 0:14 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 37-75 17-22 4-32 27 22 104 Percentages: FG .493, FT .773. 3-point goals: 13-32, .406 (Matthews 3-7, D.Williams 3-7, Nowitzki 2-4, Curry 2-6, Anderson 1-2, Barnes 1-2, Harris 1-3, Powell 0-1). Blocked shots: 1 (Anderson). Turnovers: 10 (Matthews 4, Barnes 2, D.Williams 2, Anderson, Curry). Steals: 4 (Matthews 2, D.Williams, Mejri). Technicals: None.

Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Anderson 25:12 6-9 0-0 2-5 1 2 15 Ariza 25:57 3-9 1-1 0-10 4 3 8 Harrell 22:43 5-6 4-6 1-3 1 3 14 Beverley 26:15 4-10 0-0 0-7 2 4 11 Harden 30:06 9-18 12-15 1-5 12 3 32 Gordon 28:19 5-13 2-2 0-3 5 2 15 Dekker 25:18 5-10 0-0 2-4 0 0 12 Brewer 17:45 3-3 1-1 0-0 1 0 8 Hilario 14:26 2-3 1-2 1-3 1 1 5 Onuaku 8:21 2-2 2-2 1-3 1 1 6 Ennis 5:40 1-3 1-1 0-0 0 1 3 Wiltjer 5:40 0-3 0-0 1-1 0 0 0 McDaniels 4:18 1-3 0-0 1-3 0 1 2 Totals 240:00 46-92 24-30 10-47 28 21 131 Percentages: FG .500, FT .800. 3-point goals: 15-43, .349 (Beverley 3-4, Anderson 3-5, Gordon 3-8, Dekker 2-4, Harden 2-9, Brewer 1-1, Ariza 1-7, Ennis 0-1, McDaniels 0-1, Wiltjer 0-3). Blocked shots: 4 (Harrell 2, Dekker, Hilario). Turnovers: 20 (Harden 7, Gordon 3, Beverley 2, Ennis 2, Harrell 2, Anderson, Ariza, McDaniels, Wiltjer). Steals: 11 (Ariza 5, Beverley 3, Brewer, Gordon, Onuaku). Technicals: None. Phoenix 23 20 37 35 —115 Houston 39 30 38 24 —131 A: 18,055 (18,055). T: 2:10. Officials: Monty McCutchen, James Williams, Aaron Smith

Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Gibson 22:13 5-12 0-0 0-2 0 1 10 Lopez 32:17 4-8 0-1 5-12 0 3 8 Butler 39:47 3-12 9-12 0-4 5 1 16 Rondo 24:02 1-6 0-0 4-9 5 3 2 Wade 32:30 8-19 5-5 1-3 5 1 21 Mirotic 29:34 7-13 3-4 4-7 0 1 20 Grant 28:41 4-7 0-0 1-3 0 3 10 Cartr-Williams 19:00 0-5 1-2 0-5 2 1 1 Felicio 11:56 0-1 2-4 1-2 0 1 2 Totals 240:00 32-83 20-28 16-47 17 15 90 Percentages: FG .386, FT .714. 3-point goals: 6-25, .240 (Mirotic 3-9, Grant 2-4, Butler 1-3, Carter-Williams 0-2, Rondo 0-3, Wade 0-4). Team rebounds: 14. Team turnovers: 12 (0 PTS). Blocked shots: 3 (Wade 2, Lopez). Turnovers: 12 (Lopez 3, Gibson 2, Rondo 2, Wade 2, Butler, Carter-Williams, Grant). Steals: 10 (Butler 2, Grant 2, Lopez 2, Wade 2, Carter-Williams, Gibson). Technicals: None. Indiana 19 22 20 24 — 85 Chicago 28 23 12 27 — 90 Officials: Bill Spooner, C.J. Washington, Pat Fraher

Nuggets 106, Clippers 102

O-Rb 1-2 0-0 3-12 5-10 1-7 3-8 0-2 1-8 0-2 0-1 14-52

A 1 0 1 7 4 0 1 2 0 1 17

PF Pts 0 6 0 0 2 12 1 20 4 27 1 15 1 6 2 4 1 4 0 1 12 95

FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts 3-7 0-0 0-8 3 2 8 5-9 0-2 0-5 1 4 10 5-10 3-4 4-15 4 4 13 3-11 1-2 0-5 0 2 7 12-23 2-2 2-3 7 4 29 3-9 2-2 0-3 5 1 9 2-5 1-2 4-8 2 2 5 2-5 4-4 0-1 0 0 10 0-3 0-0 1-5 0 2 0 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 1 0 35-83 13-18 11-54 22 22 91

Percentages: FG .422, FT .722. 3-point goals: 8-23, .348 (McCollum 3-7, Aminu 2-4, Napier 2-4, Turner 1-3, Harkless 0-1, Leonard 0-1, Crabbe 0-3). Blocked shots: 4 (Harkless 2, Aminu, Vonleh). Turnovers: 18 (Harkless 5, McCollum 4, Turner 4, Napier 3, Leonard, Vonleh). Steals: 8 (Harkless 2, Napier 2, Turner 2, Crabbe, McCollum). Technicals: None. Toronto 21 22 30 22 — 95 Portland 24 18 26 23 — 91 A: 19,393 (19,980). T: 2:12. Officials: J.T. Orr, Bill Kennedy, Mark Ayotte

Min Chandler 29:16 Gallinari 37:03 Jokic 32:25 Harris 30:54 Mudiay 18:05 Barton 32:03 Nelson 29:55 Faried 18:31 Murray 11:48 Totals 240:00

FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts 1-4 0-0 1-4 3 2 2 5-12 11-12 2-11 1 0 23 11-16 0-1 2-10 4 4 24 2-9 5-6 1-4 1 2 10 3-7 1-2 0-2 0 3 9 8-14 4-5 0-8 6 4 23 2-10 0-0 0-1 6 0 5 3-7 2-2 5-10 1 2 8 1-3 0-0 0-1 0 1 2 36-82 23-28 11-51 22 18 106

Percentages: FG .439, FT .821. 3-point goals: 11-31, .355 (Barton 3-6, Jokic 2-3, Gallinari 2-5, Mudiay 2-5, Harris 1-4, Nelson 1-6, Chandler 0-1, Murray 0-1). Blocked shots: 1 (Faried). Turnovers: 14 (Chandler 5, Mudiay 4, Gallinari 2, Jokic 2, Murray). Steals: 10 (Gallinari 3, Jokic 3, Mudiay 2, Faried, Nelson). Technicals: None.

L.A. Clippers Min W.Johnson 19:38 Mbh a Moute 32:23 Jordan 33:49 Crawford 35:52 Rivers 42:16 Felton 30:56 Bass 20:21 Speights 14:53 Anderson 9:51 Totals 240:00

FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts 2-5 2-4 0-2 4 5 7 3-6 0-0 0-7 1 3 8 4-7 4-5 2-11 0 3 12 11-23 0-0 0-4 6 3 24 8-17 1-1 0-3 5 0 19 5-14 0-0 0-4 3 2 10 2-4 7-8 1-4 2 0 11 3-7 1-2 0-2 1 1 9 1-1 0-0 1-1 0 2 2 39-84 15-20 4-38 22 19 102

Percentages: FG .464, FT .750. 3-point goals: 9-25, .360 (Mbah a Moute 2-3, Speights 2-4, Crawford 2-5, Rivers 2-6, W.Johnson 1-4, Felton 0-3). Blocked shots: 7 (W.Johnson 3, Bass, Jordan, Mbah a Moute, Speights). Turnovers: 11 (Rivers 5, Crawford 3, Bass, Felton, Jordan). Steals: 6 (Jordan 3, Crawford 2, Rivers). Technicals: None. Denver 23 40 16 27 —106 L.A. Clippers 23 23 31 25 —102 A: 19,060 (19,060). T: 2:11. Officials: Ron Garretson, Eric Dalen, Tre Maddox

Kings 102, 76ers 100 Philadelphia Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Covington 36:53 2-6 1-2 1-6 1 4 5 Embiid 28:52 8-17 8-9 4-8 1 5 25 Okafor 19:33 3-5 0-0 1-2 2 4 6 Henderson 25:13 3-9 0-0 0-2 1 1 6 Rodriguez 24:50 7-9 0-0 0-3 5 1 18 Ilyasova 32:35 7-12 1-2 0-4 2 5 17 Saric 26:34 5-11 0-0 1-9 2 1 12 McConnell 23:10 1-4 2-4 1-2 6 1 4 Stauskas 18:59 2-4 0-0 0-1 0 1 4 Noel 3:21 1-2 1-1 0-1 0 0 3 Totals 240:00 39-79 13-18 8-38 20 23 100 Percentages: FG .494, FT .722. 3-point goals: 9-25, .360 (Rodriguez 4-5, Ilyasova 2-5, Saric 2-5, Embiid 1-4, Stauskas 0-1, Covington 0-2, Henderson 0-3). Blocked shots: 5 (Covington 2, Embiid 2, Noel). Turnovers: 22 (Embiid 8, Covington 3, McConnell 3, Okafor 3, Rodriguez 2, Stauskas 2, Saric). Steals: 13 (Rodriguez 3, Covington 2, Embiid 2, Ilyasova 2, McConnell, Okafor, Saric, Stauskas). Technicals: Saric, 8:58 fourth.

Sacramento Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Gay 35:30 7-16 2-2 2-9 2 1 17 Cousins 34:16 10-20 8-9 2-7 5 4 30 Koufos 14:57 3-3 0-2 0-3 1 5 6 Collison 27:47 4-10 0-0 1-1 4 0 9 McLemore 16:52 2-7 0-0 0-2 3 1 4 Temple 28:36 1-4 2-2 0-1 3 0 5 Tolliver 22:34 2-5 0-0 1-4 0 1 5 Lawson 20:28 4-8 4-4 3-4 4 3 12 Barnes 13:19 1-3 0-0 0-2 2 1 3 Casspi 13:14 1-4 0-0 2-5 0 0 2 Cauley-Stein 12:27 4-7 1-2 2-4 0 3 9 Totals 240:00 39-87 17-21 13-42 24 19 102 Percentages: FG .448, FT .810. 3-point goals: 7-25, .280 (Cousins 2-4, Barnes 12, Collison 1-3, Temple 1-3, Gay 1-4, Tolliver 1-4, Lawson 0-2, McLemore 03). Blocked shots: 4 (Cousins 2, CauleyStein, Gay). Turnovers: 19 (Cousins 5, Gay 4, Lawson 3, Barnes 2, Collison 2, McLemore, Temple, Tolliver). Steals: 11 (Cousins 3, Koufos 2, Lawson 2, Casspi, Cauley-Stein, Collison, Temple). Technicals: Koufos, 8:58 fourth. Philadelphia 23 24 30 23 —100 Sacramento 24 27 19 32 —102 A: 17,608 (17,500). T: 2:20. Officials: Marc Davis, Rodney Mott, Scott Twardoski

Miami at Charlotte, 7pm Boston at Cleveland, 8pm Oklahoma City at Memphis, 8pm Philadelphia at Utah, 9pm Toronto at Phoenix, 9pm Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 10:30pm

Milwaukee Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Antetkunmpo 38:08 7-12 8-11 5-12 7 3 22 Henson 25:21 4-7 0-0 0-3 1 3 8 Parker 39:39 7-18 0-0 1-6 4 3 14 Snell 29:04 7-14 0-0 1-4 1 2 20 Dellavedova 29:48 1-9 6-8 1-3 11 4 8 Brogdon 23:07 3-3 0-0 0-1 1 0 6 Monroe 22:26 7-10 2-4 1-5 1 0 16 Beasley 18:13 4-11 0-0 1-4 1 4 8 Terry 14:14 0-1 0-0 0-2 0 0 0 Totals 240:00 40-85 16-23 10-40 27 19 102 Percentages: FG .471, FT .696. 3-point goals: 6-21, .286 (Snell 6-11, Antetokounmpo 0-1, Beasley 0-1, Parker 0-3, Dellavedova 0-5). Team rebounds: 7. Team turnovers: 13 (15 PTS). Blocked shots: 2 (Antetokounmpo, Parker). Turnovers: 13 (Parker 4, Antetokounmpo 2, Monroe 2, Snell 2, Brogdon, Dellavedova, Henson). Steals: 8 (Beasley 2, Dellavedova 2, Snell 2, Brogdon, Monroe). Technicals: None.

Pelicans 111, Mavericks 104

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Charlotte Min FG FT O-Rb A PF Pts Kidd-Gilchrst 34:59 5-10 2-2 2-10 2 1 12 Williams 28:29 3-8 2-2 2-4 1 1 9 Zeller 28:42 7-11 1-2 3-9 2 5 15 Batum 36:49 7-16 8-8 0-5 5 2 24 Walker 35:06 6-17 2-2 0-3 6 3 15 Lamb 21:48 7-14 1-3 1-4 1 3 17 Kaminsky 19:31 5-9 2-2 2-5 0 4 13 Hibbert 19:18 2-3 0-0 2-4 2 4 4 Sessions 15:18 2-6 4-4 0-0 4 1 9 Totals 240:00 44-94 22-25 12-44 23 24 118 Percentages: FG .468, FT .880. 3-point goals: 8-26, .308 (Batum 2-6, Lamb 2-6, Kaminsky 1-3, Sessions 1-3, Williams 13, Walker 1-5). Team rebounds: 8. Team turnovers: 11 (0 PTS). Blocked shots: 3 (Kidd-Gilchrist 2, Lamb). Turnovers: 11 (Walker 3, Hibbert 2, Kaminsky 2, Williams 2, Batum, Sessions). Steals: 11 (Batum 3, Williams 3, Hibbert 2, Walker 2, Zeller). Technicals: None.

Rockets 131, Suns 115

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Atlantic Toronto Boston KNICKS NETS Philadelphia

Wizards 107, Bucks 102

Injuries and benchings will make Week 17 complicated

FANTASY FUTURE: Anticipating next season’s needs is critical, so keep an eye on inexpensive youngsters poised for increased production, such as the Titans’ Derrick Henry.

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ou might be stoked this week about a Christmas gift you received. or you might be bummed you didn’t get what you wanted. You might be jazzed about a fantasy title you just won. or you might be depressed you didn’t get what you wanted. The Madman can’t do anything about your holiday haul, but we can brighten your spirits regarding what is to come. even if the Ghost of Christmas Past kept you out of the playoffs, regardless whether the Ghost of Christmas Present doomed you in y o u r t i t l e game, the Ghost of Keeper Future is here to help you lay the groundwork to make sure your next holiday season is more fruitful. The key to keepers is knowing the future value of players. For those leagues that don’t attach a price tag or draft pick to holdovers, you have it easy. however many you get to keep, lock in the ones with the brightest immediate outlook, without overlooking the young ones with high upside. For example, if you’re debating about whether to keep

Alshon Jeffery or Kelvin Benjamin, the choice is Benjamin. But hopefully, if you can keep only a few, you have more reliable future options than both. But if you are in a contemporary keeper league, which either carries over auction price or accelerated draft-pick values, then the choice becomes more complicated. if you’re in one of these smarter leagues, the reason it is smarter is because it is harder. The choices become more complicated. First, you want to tarBy DREW LOFTIS get those on your roster who have low cost in next season’s draft. Take, for example, Jordan howard. Chances are, you either got him late in the draft or at a cheap auction price. Now, compare him to DeMarco Murray, who required a higher draft pick or auction bid. Sure, Murray outperformed howard this season, but you’re not focused on this season. You’re looking ahead. Next year, howard almost certainly will continue to be the Bears’ primary running back. But Murray will be competing with last year’s first-round pick, Derrick henry. Murray came out of the

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Kenneth Dixon Tyreek Hill RB, Ravens

WR, Chiefs

A strong runner who should take over next season. Think a Jordan Howard-type season.

Already one of the NFL’s best playmakers. If your league scores individual points for special teams plays, all the better.

C.J. Prosise

Michael Thomas

RB, Seahawks

Looked great in brief feature role before a shoulder injury. Look out Thomas Rawls.

WR, Saints

The Saints spread it around a lot, but of all the options, he is the most reliable. Expect even better in second season.

gates like gangbusters this season, but his production ebbed a tad near the end. henry was an afterthought early, but became much more productive late. The Titans’ backfield smells like a developing timeshare next year, and probably sooner in the season than later. As a comparison, take the Falcons’ backfield, where Tevin Coleman ate into some of Devonta Freeman’s production this season — which is something we expect to be even more common in 2017. You shouldn’t look much further than the running back and wide receiver slots for keepers, instead of quarterbacks and tight ends. Cam Newton was a worldbeater in 2015 but an also-ran in 2016. Beyond the ability to stream QBs successfully, they are erratic from year to year (Aaron Rodgers had a season and a half of ho-hum play before turning it on at the end of the season). Tight ends? Come on. Rob Gronkowski and Jordan Reed were the top two drafted this season, and both were busts. Don’t hang your hat here. Keep guys in valuable positions. Keep those you can get for a valuable spot or price. And dump those whose value is overpriced. dloftis@nypost.com

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Tyrell Williams

WR, Chargers Some will worry about the return of Keenan Allen. But it will help draw coverage off Williams.

LeGarrette Blount RB, Patriots

Never trust New England RBs. And with a healthy Dion Lewis and no Tom Brady suspension, Blount’s steady production will return to its erratic norm.

Latavius Murray

RB, Raiders This could change if he changes teams and lands in the right spot, but that right spot isn’t with the Raiders.

Mark Ingram RB, Saints

The Madman has been at odds with Ingram all season. That won’t change next year.

Allen Robinson WR, Jaguars

As long as Blake Bortles is his QB, Robinson can’t be trusted. How did garbage-time reliance work out this season?

Dez Bryant WR, Cowboys

Expect him to bounce back in 2017, but at the price you likely have to pay to keep him, not worth it.

hile most of the fantasy football community has crowned a champion and laid to rest the season after Week 16, the battle wages on for some. if the NFl is going to play 17 weeks, their fantasy season extends accordingly. it doesn’t matter if players are being rested once their NFl teams clinch a playoff berth. The length of the season is what it is and these fantasy players aren’t afraid to play it through. For those who are done, we salute you. For those who aren’t, prepare for ugliness. Week 17 isn’t known for its aesthetics. Teams that have clinched a playoff berth and have little hope of improving their seeding tend By HoWard Bender to keep their starters on the sidelines for most, if not all, of their final game while teams out of playoff contention begin to audit their roster’s underlings in search of who goes and who stays for next season’s training camp. That leaves a small handful of teams putting forth a full competitive effort for your fantasy championship. if you’ve been riding the ezekiel elliott train all year, you may have just missed your last stop. in addition, the rash of injuries endured in Week 16 has left many fantasy rosters in complete shambles. Weeks 14 and 15 were rough as high-end producers such as Melvin Gordon, Theo Riddick and Julio Jones were stuck on the sidelines, but Week 16 was downright abusive. Top-flight tight ends Jordan Reed and Tyler eifert were held out from the onset, two top-10 fantasy quarterbacks in Marcus Mariota and Derek Carr suffered broken fibulas, Carlos hyde tore his MCl, Ryan Mathews herniated a disk in his back, Robert Kelley suffered a knee injury, Donte Moncrief injured his shoulder and if you were looking to lose your lunch, go back and watch video of the defensive back landing on top of Tyler lockett’s ankle. Coaches holding out their star players is the least of your concern. in most leagues, the waiver wire has already been picked clean. Multiple weeks of injuries will do that to you. Playoff contenders with championship dreams bulked up on depth and left no stone unturned. Backup quarterbacks were rostered, running-back handcuffs had been snatched up and any receiver who even sniffed a red-zone target was already long gone. And with a single-elimination playoff format, none of those players are coming back. So if your season continues here and you have one more week to go before receiving that coveted championship hardware, we wish you nothing but the best. Your journey heads through even rockier terrain now. Mariota, Zeke and A.J. Green may have carried you here, but your dreams now rest on the shoulders of Matt Cassel, Alfred Morris and Xavier Grimble. happy holidays, everyone, and a very happy New Year! Howard Bender is a senior writer at FantasyAlarm.com and the host of “Overtime” on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio each Sunday from 11 p.m.-1 a.m. Follow him on Twitter @rotobuzzguy. For more from Fantasy Alarm, listen weekdays on SiriusXM from 4-6 p.m.

SPORTS SHORTS NBA: Cavs fall minus King, NBA says refs missed calls

NCAA: Huskies fire Diaco after three seasons

MLB: Former Rangers pitcher shot dead

John Barfield, a left-hander from Arkansas who pitched three seasons for the Texas Rangers beginning in 1989, died in a shooting in Little Rock, Ark., police and family members said. He was 52.

ETC.: Gymnast Biles AP’s top female athlete

U.S. star gymnast Simone Biles, who won a record-tying four goal medals and a bronze at the Rio Olympics, was voted AP Female Athlete of the Year, beating out swimmer Katie Ledecky, tennis’ Serena Williams and UConn women’s hoops sensation Breanna Stewart.  In Montreal, Clayton Keller scored twice and the United States overcame a slow start to beat Latvia 6-1 at the world junior hockey championship.

NFL NOTES “I’d like to get that clear: This thing is not what people think,” Newman said. Postgame commentary on Saturday by Rhodes suggested players defied Zimmer’s orders to put the Pro Bowl cornerback on Nelson, rather than keep Rhodes and Newman in their places regardless of the formation shown by the Packers. The stunning admission after the 38-25 loss by the Vikings served as a snapshot of Minnesota’s spoiled season and became a national headline. Two days later, the Vikings tried to thoroughly dismantle any controversy or tension. “I probably wasn’t specific enough in the things I was asking them to do, and

Rogue none Vikings deny DB’s mutiny

it went out there,” Zimmer said. 49ERS: Running back Carlos Hyde has a torn MCL in his left knee and will miss the season finale against Seattle. Hyde got hurt after being hit in Saturday’s win over the Rams. Coach Chip Kelly said Hyde will not need surgery and will be available for the offseason program. TEXANS: Houston is sticking with Tom Savage at quarterback on Sunday against the Titans, according to coach Bill O’Brien. Savage made his first career start in place of Brock Osweiler on Saturday night in a 12-10 win over the Bengals that allowed the Texans to clinch the AFC South. Osweiler was benched in the second quarter two weeks ago

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XAVIER RHODES Vikings cornerback. against Jacksonville. DOLPHINS: Miami coach Adam Gase said he won’t rest his starters in Sunday’s regular-season finale against the Patriots even though his team has already clinched a playoff berth. The Dolphins are locked into a road game as a wildcard team, while the Patriots are battling for homefield advantage throughout the AFC playoffs.

Miami will likely go again with quarterback Matt Moore. No. 1-signal caller Ryan Tannehill is not expected to play while recovering from a strained left knee. TITANS: Quarterback Marcus Mariota will have surgery Wednesday for his broken right leg, and coach Mike Mularkey said the recovery process will take four to five months. RAIDERS: Derek Carr’s surgery to repair a broken fibula is scheduled for Tuesday, according to reports. The Oakland quarterback, is unlikely to return this season even if the Raiders reach the Super Bowl. BRONCOS: Coach Gary Kubiak hasn’t ruled out replacing starting quarterback Trevor Siemian with rookie Paxton Lynch against Oakland on Sunday.

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UConn fired football coach Bob Diaco after his third season. University officials announced their decision on Monday, saying Diaco would be relieved of his duties effective Jan. 2. Athletic director David Benedict said in a statement that the program needs a new leader for long-term success. The Huskies were 11-26 under Diaco, including 3-9 this season.

Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said he doesn’t believe his defensive backs made their own plan for covering Green Bay wide receiver Jordy Nelson. Corner Xavier Rhodes repeatedly called the conflict a “miscommunication.” Terence Newman said it was a non-issue.

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Tobias Harris scored 21 points to help the Pistons beat the Cavaliers 106-90 on Monday night while LeBron James sat out resting in Auburn Hills, Mich. James missed his third game of the season, and Cleveland has lost all three. Earlier, the NBA said two calls were missed in the final moments of Cleveland’s win over Golden State on Sunday. The league said James should have been assessed a technical foul for deliberately hanging on the rim with 1:43 remaining, and the Cavaliers’ Richard Jefferson should have been called for fouling Kevin Durant on the game’s final play.  In New Orleans, Anthony Davis had 28 points and 16 rebounds, and the Pelicans beat the Mavericks 111-104. Langston Galloway added 17 points for the Pelicans.  In Chicago, Dwyane Wade scored 21 points, Nikola Mirotic added 20 and the Bulls beat the Pacers 90-85.

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FEELING RANDY By BRIAN LEWIS

It was backup point guard — and forgotten man — Randy Foye who won it with an off-balance, 3-point prayer as the buzzer sounded. But it was starting point guard Jeremy Lin who hobbled off with yet another strained hamstring and cast a pall over that win, a 120-118 victory over Charlotte that could prove bittersweet.

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The Nets had blown a fourpoint lead in the final minute, and allowed Cody Zeller to tip in a Kemba Walker miss for what seemed destined to be the gamewinner with 3.5 seconds left. But Foye — who had lost his spot in the rotation when Lin returned from his previous hamstring injury — turned destiny around with a clutch shot as the Nets snapped a five-game losing streak. “Actually [the play] was for Brook [Lopez]. I set the screen, but Kemba was kind of stuck in between switching over to Brook and guarding me. He’s a step late, I saw him running out and I just jabbed and went up,” said Foye, who made only the second buzzer-beater of his career. “It just felt good as soon as it left my hand.” Foye took an inbounds from Bojan Bogdanovic (game-high 26 points off the bench) and when he saw an opening, instead of feeding Lopez, he took one jab step to his left and put up a 3pointer over Walker. Replays showed it just beat the buzzer, and the Nets erupted off the bench to swarm Foye. “It’s hard to [express]. We all just kind of reacted, and we’re all in a scrum a second later,’’ said Lopez, who had 10 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter, including every Net point in an 8-0

NAILED IT! Randy Foye and Bojan Bogdanovic (right) can barely contain their excitement after Foye hit the game-winner Monday night. run. “I don’t know if I’ve run that fast all season.” The Nets (8-22) now have to await word on Lin, who left with 17 points and four assists. The last time he left a game with a strained hamstring, he missed 17 straight games over five weeks. The Nets are hoping they don’t have to wait until February to get their point guard back again. “It was important, for the group for the guys just to have that validation, because for the longest

time we haven’t really responded [in the] third quarter and I think we did that,’’ Lopez said. Lin came up limping after being fouled by Walker with his Nets down 68-54. Then he landed on Nicolas Batum’s foot but stayed in the game, his free throws sparking a 10-0 Nets run to get within two on Bogdanovic’s 3pointer. But Lin aggravated his hamstring on a layup attempt, leaving with 7:47 left in the third and not returning.

“It’s extremely frustrating: Not for me or for the guys but seeing your guy work so hard to get back. Just respect, just leadership, every single day, on the court, off the court. Then for him to go out again with the same thing, come on man, why?” Foye said. “But at the end of the day Jeremy is resilient. He’s a strong person, and he’s going to get through this.” The Nets showed resilience, taking a 69-68 lead on Bog-

danovic’s three-point play just 12 seconds later. Even down 98-92, Lopez scored every point in a 10-0 run to put Brooklyn ahead 100-98. Then 3s by Sean Kilpatrick (21 points) and Bogdanovic made it 117-113 with 1:06 on the clock. Batum (24 points) rattled home a 3 with 32 seconds left, and when Bogdanovic missed a 3 of his own Charlotte had one last shot. Zeller made it, but Foye made a better one. brian.lewis@nypost.com

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Coaches constantly preach about building a culture, about getting players to buy in and accept roles, even if that means not always getting the minutes they want. Monday’s slump-busting 120-118 win over the Hornets was an example of that for the Nets.

Randy Foye was recently banished from the rotation, but was forced into crunch time with Jeremy Lin’s injury and hit the game-winning shot. And Bojan Bogdanovic lost his starting spot to Joe Harris, but bounced back with a gamehigh 26 points off the bench. “I played the last couple

of games bad, so that’s coach’s decision — I have to respect that. I don’t have any problem with it. I just try to be aggressive to do something for the team,’’ said Bogdanovic, who had 13 points in the third quarter, when the Nets usually struggle but outscored Charlotte 29-25. “They started with a 7-0

run in the third quarter, then Joe got injured. I tried to be aggressive.” Coach Kenny Atkinson had no further updates on Lin, and declined to elaborate on his discussion with Bogdanovic other than to say the wing took the news professionally. “That’s between Bojan and me. But why do

coaches make decisions? You get a lot of information and felt like we needed a change,’’ Atkinson said. “He was extremely professional, even when I told him. Yes, I’ll accept this role. We’ll see going forward, and we’ll see the matchups going forward. But I’m proud. He was resilient,

he responded. So kudos to him.” Foye had been benched for four straight games in the wake of Lin’s return, then logged a total of 23:28 in the last three when rookie Isaiah Whitehead was out with a foot injury. But Foye put in the work to stay sharp and got 20:43 on Monday.

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IKE giving gifts at the age player to spend his enholidays, long-term con- tire career with the Mets. tracts are bestowed with But he has four years at $77 good intentions and the million left, and due to his spinal stenosis, the organizagreatest of hope. Yet you throw in the gift tion has no idea how much receipt, just in case there he can play moving forward was a mis-read or a wrong and to what level. Jacoby Ellsbury would not size or a duplicate. There is fall into the no such thing category of in baseball. most beloved The guaranYankees. He teed contract has four is the no-reyears at $89.6 turn policy of Joel Sherman million left, sports. You has proven buy it, you own it. The gift that keeps on brittle, and in pinstripes, has giving — not always in a only shown flashes of gamechanging skills. Like Bruce good way. But what if there were a with the Mets, the Yankees Dec. 26 in the majors, a day will be done with the conwhen you could begin re- tracts of Alex Rodriguez and turning the mistakes? What CC Sabathia after this seaif each team were given an son. Neither will be an issue amnesty to get the blender to the 2018 payroll, which the that doesn’t work or the Yankees hope to drag under sweater that doesn’t fit off its the luxury-tax threshold. Plus, the Yankees have young roster? The decisions would be outfielders coming whom easy for the New York Ellsbury will soon block. You can see how previous teams, but painful for one. For as much as the Mets decisions to go for it hinder want to move Jay Bruce and opportunities now. Perhaps his $13 million, that is a one- that should be a cautionary year headache. David tale about the illusion of goWright is beloved in his ing for it. Still, without Bruce clubhouse, and looks as if he or Wright, you could imagwill be the first above-aver- ine the Mets having spent

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This is another team that invested heavily to go for it, and now is harmed by those decisions. Texas needed Encarnacion more than Cleveland did, having lost Carlos Beltran, Ian Desmond, Prince Fielder and Mitch Moreland from last year’s roster. But the Rangers are clogged with contracts they now rue. Fielder was forced to retire due to a neck malady. The Tigers and insurance are paying more than half of the $96 million he is due through 2020, but the Rangers still have about $36 million in obligations. Texas signed Shin-Soo Choo for seven years the same offseason the Yankees went seven years for Ellsbury, and now they have many of the same issues with an injury-prone, declining player. Choo is owed $82 million for four more years.

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difficult of it. It’s diffi dif cult for the Whites Plains guys. We’re continuing to look at it to see if it’s beneficial. To get in the arena in the morning, it makes it more a homecourt advantage’’ It’s been benef icial. The Knicks’ home record is a healthy 11-5. Brooklyn native who grew up in the Newark area, Thomas started living in Tribeca last season. He is the city’s largest advocate. “I want to be in the city, I’m used to it,’’ Thomas said. “I’m comfortable in the city. I know the city very well and I feel like you don’t grasp the full experiences of being a Knick living in Westchester.” Courtney Lee asked Thomas about living in the city after signing this summer. Thomas encouraged him, but Lee is taking it slow and starting out his first season in Westchester with an eye on relocating in 2017. “When guys come ask about who’s in the city, I tell them, ‘If you want to fully experience being a Knick I think you should live in the city,’’’ Thomas said. “It’s a little more of a drive to practice but the city is the city.’’ Noah, a product of Hell’s Kithen, needed no sell job. He had bought a place near the old neighborhood just months before signing with the Knicks in July. “Why?’’ Noah said. “Because it’s home. “I wasn’t sure when I signed where the practice facility was,’’ Noah added. “I went to the [freeagent] meeting [with Jackson]. I had already bought my apartment regardless if I played for the Knicks or not. It worked out amazing.’’ Noah said traffic going up to Tarrytown can “sometimes be bad,’’ so he’s looking at adding a Westchester apartment for convenience. Similarly, Porzingis still has a place in Westchester, but he and his two brothers, Janis and Martin, this season began renting in the Sky building on Manhattan’s West Side — the same complex in which Anthony runs a basketball

melo Anthony, Kristaps Porzingis, Joakim Noah, Lance Thomas and Sasha Vujacic — love the new setup. Anthony waited until his second full season as a Knick before moving to Manhattan with his actress/wife, La La. And that was on a one-year rental as an experiment, taking a five-bedroom place overlooking Central Park. He’s now moved permanently to a Chelsea apartment close to the High Line. “My family wanted to be in the city because of the work of my

wife — a lot of her work was in the city,’’ Anthony told The Post. “We tried it when I first got here and lived in White Plains. Then we went to the city and it was more convenient for her overall. Coming from Denver where you had houses and backyards, you got to give and take in this situation.’’ Anthony has a driver but sometimes likes to drive the Westchester commute himself. “I’m right off the West Side [Highway], so it’s easy,’’ Anthony said.

Still owning a home in Phoenix, Hornacek decided to get a place in Manhattan, mostly for his wife, Stacy, because their children are grown. “For us personally, we felt there’s more to do in the city, especially for my wife when I’m on the road,’’ Hornacek said. “Being from Phoenix, it’s pretty crowded, but it’s fun. “Guys like being here where they don’t have to have a big trip [from Westchester] coming in for the game. We’re trying to do more shootarounds here because

CITY OF DREAMS: Kristaps Porzingis (right) is living large in Manhattan, but he’s not the only Knicks player enjoying the city. Lance Thomas (in front of his Tribeca condo with his dog), Carmelo Anthony (walking in Manhattan before the season) and Joakim Noah (heading for a fashion show in September) are also city dwellers.

in opposition to the triangle philosophy. Lee is averaging 10 points per game. One of the few players in the NBA noted for deferring to others on the offensive end, he’s averaged double-figures in scoring only three times in his nine-year career. “It’s not something I try to do first and foremost,” Lee said. “Jab step and shoot the 3 over you. I feel [when] you work the offense and execute, someone’s going to get a better shot. But in certain times he’s telling me doing it every time I’m in the corner. He’s the coach. I got to listen to him. You have to bear with me.” Lee, who has battled a sore wrist the past two weeks that was aggravated Sunday, admits the coach is “not telling everybody’’ to launch shots. In fact, Hornacek made a point in recent days to applaud Kyle O’Quinn for taking fewer 3-pointers than last season. In the key defensive analytic, the Knicks are giving up 108 points per 100 possessions, which ranks 25th in the league. That’s the worst defensive rating of any club in playoff position.

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Side overlooking the 59th Street Bridge. “I don’t care if anyone lived in the city. I just wanted to live and not commute to games and I hired a driver to take me there,’’ Rose said. “For Westchester. I leave very early. I’m used to it now. I spent six years in Chicago living in the suburbs. In Chicago, there’s more easier shortcuts to get where you want to go downtown. “Here, one way takes you to the suburbs. It’s less confusing.” With the Knicks’ Big 3 — Anthony, Porzingis and Rose — in Gotham, even more are expected to follow. “Guys are feeling more comfortable living in the city — really understanding it’s just a 30-minute drive [to practice],’’ Anthony said.

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court/gym and uses for workouts. “It’s been great,’’ Porzingis said, “but I still don’t do too much.” Porzingis says at 7-foot-3 it’s tough to walk around without being recognized and admits the city location occasionally backfires. He didn’t get home to his apartment until nearly 3:30 a.m. after a flight last month from Charlotte because the team plane flies into Westchester Airport. Vujacic lives a block away from Porzingis and feels he’s got the best of both coasts. The former Laker also has a place in Manhattan Beach in addition to Manhattan. “Both beautiful places,’’ Vujacic said. ackson resides on the West Side in the 50s, where he also lived during his playing career. Back then, most of the Knicks lived in New Jersey and Westchester — except Clyde Frazier, who resided on the East

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Knicks point guard Brandon Jennings apparently believes differently than Carmelo Anthony regarding critiques that too much one-on-one play existed in their 119-114 loss to Boston on Christmas. Jennings signaled the rips were merited. After the Knicks mustered only 11 assists Sunday, Jennings liked a tweet from the Bullyup. com Twitter handle criticizing their style: “KNICKS Rely way too much on a jumpshot, they need to move the [ball].” Jennings was nowhere to be found in the locker room Sunday after the loss after notching two assists one game after posting 12 versus Orlando.

Anthony said the Knicks are good in their current style because it’s important for him, Kristaps Porzingis and Derrick Rose to be able to showcase matchups. Rose collected 25 points with just three assists. Porzingis said they could’ve “made the extra pass’’ but added, “that’s not why we lost the game.’’ “There’s a couple of things it could be,’’ Courtney Lee said of the 11-assist total. “Guys not making shots. Could be matchup they like, guards going off pick-androlls and getting to a certain spot to knock down a shot. The ball will continue to move. We’ll get assists.” — Marc Berman

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By MARC BERMAN Get greedy. Courtney Lee, the Knicks starting shooting guard, has made the rounds in the NBA, but this season is the first one in which his coach has begged him to take more shots — that is, contested shots. Lee is second in the NBA in 3-point field-goal percentage at 46.7 percent and Knicks coach Jeff Hornacek wants their $50 million freeagent pickup to take more. Even if it means shooting when not open. “He’s encouraging me to take a lot of shots — more so contested shots,’’ Lee said after the Knicks fell, 119-114, to the Celtics on Christmas Day. “I believe I did a jab step in the corner, shot it over [Jae] Crowder. He said those are the shots I want you take. It’s just me getting used to a coach like that giving me the green light to shoot contested shots. I always try to get the best shot every time down for myself or teammates. I’m going to try to listen too.’’ Hornacek’s plea seems like an attempt to counter a disturbing trend that the Knicks aren’t moving the ball enough after notching just 11 assists against Boston — a club falling more in love with isolation play that runs

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By PAUL SCHWARTZ So what is Eli Manning’s “take” on whether he should play in the Giants’ regular-season finale Sunday afternoon against the Redskins at FedEx Field? “My take is to play,” Manning said Monday. “Go in there, play well, try to find a good rhythm offensively, going against a team in the division, a team you know well, they know us. I think that’s the mindset. Until I’m told differently that’s how I’m taking it.’’ The Giants (10-5) are locked into the No. 5 slot in the NFC playoffs and cannot move up or down no matter what happens as they close out their regular season. Ben McAdoo, the first-year head coach, has a firsttime decision to make on whether he goes pedalto-the-metal in this game, plays it totally cautiously or opts for something in between as far as the deployment of his players the week before an NFC wild-card playoff game. It would be quite a surprise if McAdoo keeps many of his starters out of the game entirely. Manning has a streak of 209 consecutive starts and it is doubtful he will not make No. 210 on Sunday. He likely will start the game, but perhaps not finish it. “No, that doesn’t play in,” Manning said of his starting streak. “I’m gonna do whatever coach McAdoo thinks best for

the team, best for me, best for us going forward. That won’t play a factor.’’ This game happens to be against an NFC East rival and the Giants are coming off a 24-19 loss to another division rival, the Eagles, in Philadelphia. Plus, the Giants already have been beaten once by the Redskins, 29-27 back in late September in a penalty-filled downer at MetLife Stadium. “So that would be tough going in not trying to beat Washington, you understand what I’m saying?” linebacker Jonathan Casillas said. “I think McAdoo, he’s a guy, he wants to beat the Washington Redskins.” Casillas has been down this road before. He was a rookie with the Saints in 2009, when they won Super Bowl XLIV. He was a sometime starter for the Patriots in 2014, when they won Super Bowl XLIX. He has seen the benefit of resting players at the end of the regular season in order to ensure health in the playoffs. “Especially if you got guys who are banged up, kind of on the injury report who can possibly play, but an extra week of rest would be fantastic,” Casillas said. “We do have guys like that. If McAdoo decides to do that, so be it. We still want to finish this regular season strong, and Washington has beat us already.” Casillas is dealing with a knee issue and said “probably like 90 percent of the guys” are dealing

ARLINGTON, Texas — Dez Bryant threw his first career touchdown pass between a pair of scoring catches, Ezekiel Elliott ran for two touchdowns and the Cowboys kept Detroit from clinching a playoff spot with a 42-21 win over the Lions on Monday night. With home-field advantage already wrapped up, the Cowboys (13-2) didn’t let up in their seventh straight home win while matching their franchise record in victories, reached two other times.

COWBOYS 42 LIONS 21 with some sort of physical ailment this late in the season. “I want to play,” he said. “If I have to miss time, so be it. I don’t even like missing practice. We’ll see what we decide to do.” The Patriots are 13-2 and will clinch the No. 1 seed in the AFC if they beat the Dolphins in the regular-season finale. Bill Belichick sounded a bit bewildered when asked Monday if he will rest some of his players in that game. “I mean, look, I don’t really understand that question,” Belichick said. “ ... We can only inactivate seven players. This isn’t like a preseason game, where you have 75 guys on your roster. This is a regular-season game. I don’t really understand that whole line of questioning. I’m not saying I’m a great mathematician or anything, but the numbers just don’t add up for that type of conversation, so there’s no point in even getting involved in it.” paul.schwartz@nypost.com

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The biggest sign they were serious about this one came late in the third quarter, when Bryant took a reverse pitch from Dak Prescott and tucked the ball as if planning to run before pulling up and tossing a lefty lob to Jason Witten for an easy 10-yard score and a 35-21 lead. Witten flashed Bryant’s celebratory “X’’ when the often-exuberant receiver made the signal in his direction after the touchdown. “There’s just one way to play,” coach Jason Garrett said. “You can’t put different meaning on different competition, like all of a sudden this is less important than that. That’s not how we operate.” Detroit quarterback Matthew Stafford lost in a visit to his hometown team again, after a wildcard defeat two years ago. While the Lions (9-6) missed a chance to clinch a playoff berth with their second straight loss, they still control their postseason fate. Detroit plays Green Bay (9-6) for the NFC North title on Sunday. Elliott had a 55-yard touchdown run in the first half and finished with 80 yards on 12 carries. He has 15 rushing touchdowns, two behind league-leading LeGarrette Blount of New England. The first-year sensation is 177 yards shy of Eric Dickerson’s 33year-old rookie rushing record of 1,808 yards.

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(R)EXACT REVENGE By MARK CANNIZZARO

There’s not much for Jets fans to get up for with one more game remaining to this forgettable season. But for those who care enough to show up for the Jets’ season finale against the Bills on New Year’s Day at MetLife Stadium, at least you’ll have Rex Ryan to kick around. Regardless of the Jets 4-11 record, their calamitous quarterback situation, wondering how high their first-round draft pick will end up being, wondering what Sheldon Richardson’s beef is with Brandon Marshall or any of the other sloppy subplots to this season, Ryan will be the star of the show Sunday. Just like he was for the six seasons he coached the Jets before they fired him after the 2014 season. Just like he was last season while his Buffalo team single-handedly kept the Jets out of the playoffs with wins over them, including one in the season finale that left the Jets on the outside looking in at the playoffs in Todd Bowles’ first season with the team. Yes, the Jets finished an impressive 10-6 in 2015 and generated hope for a better 2016. But that 22-17 loss to the Bills last Jan. 3 in Orchard Park left a bitter taste in the mouths of the Jets, who had lost by the same score to Ryan’s Bills on Nov. 12. Jets fans surely recall the unbridled euphoria Ryan displayed in that Nov. 12 meeting, his first against his former team. In that game, Ryan ran up and down the Buffalo sideline pumping his fists after big plays as if he were coaching in a Super Bowl. Now, a year later, it looks like Ryan will be coaching his final game with the Bills in the home of the Jets, the team that gave him the first six years of his head-coaching career. Now, you have to wonder if the shine has worn off Ryan and his headline-magnet bravado that Bills owner Terry Pegula lapped up like a hungry dog, handing him a fiveyear contract worth $27.5 million. Now, you have to wonder whether this is it for Ryan as a

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head coach, whether he’ll slip seamlessly into the waiting network TV booth. Head coaches who’ve been fired twice in less than three years and who’ve coached six consecutive seasons without a playoff berth usually are not a hot commodity. If this is the end for Ryan in Buffalo after just two seasons, his end will have come with similar warts having been exposed like when he was with the Jets, beginning with the mirage that his supposed topnotch defense is. Ryan’s defense is ranked 19th overall this season, same as it was last season. That, by his standards, is an embarrassment. A few weeks ago, Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell gashed Ryan’s defense for 236 yards rushing and three touchdowns. In Saturday’s 34-31 overtime loss to the Dolphins that officially eliminated the Bills, Ryan’s defense yielded 206 rushing yards and a touchdown to Miami running back Jay Ajayi. The Bills generated a franchise-record 589 yards of offense and still lost the game. Another familiar lament of Jets fans while Ryan was here are his constant problems in game management. With the score tied in overtime and 4:09 left in last week’s game versus Miami that, if ended in a tie, would have eliminated the Bills, Ryan opted to punt the ball. That opened the door for the Dolphins to drive for the game-winning field goal, because the Bills’ defense could not stop them. Earlier, Ryan failed to get a time-

out called before Andrew Franks kicked a 55-yard field goal to tie the game at 31-31 with six seconds left in regulation. Referee Craig Wrolstad said head linesman Mark Hittner, who was positioned near Ryan on the sidelines, never heard the coach make the timeout call. On the first play on the Dolphins’ final drive, the Bills had just 10 players on defense, leading to Ajayi gaining 57 yards on a run to the Buffalo 28, which helped set up Franks’ game-winning 27-yard field goal. Ryan explained the reason for the missing defensive player was a misunderstanding that cornerback Stephon Gilmore was going to be allowed to return to the game after being evaluated for a concussion in the fourth quarter. Maybe Ryan should have delegated more game management responsibility to one of his league-high 27 assistant coaches on staff, including his brother, Rob, whom he somehow convinced Bills management to hire. If you’re a Jets fan and any of the above sounds familiar, raise your hand. You can put it down now. Regardless of the fact Sunday’s game has no implications for the playoff race, Ryan’s mere presence is bound to provide some sort of entertainment to those who show up.

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One Hall of a player Despite suffering through a miserable season, Darrelle Revis wants to be remembered as one of the best cornerbacks to play the game during a potential Hall of Fame career. Here’s a look at his 10 years in the league: n Age: 31 n Height: 5’11”

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n Weight: 198 lbs. n Draft: Round 1, Pick 14 (2007)

stAtistics n 2 sacks n 139 games (all starts) n 28 interceptions n 478 tackles n 3 touchdowns n 136 passes defended n 6 forced fumbles HigHligHts n Seven Pro Bowl selections (2008-11, 2013-15) n Four-time first-team All-Pro (2009-11, 2014) n Super Bowl champion (XLIX, Patriots) n Longest INT return for TD in Jets history (100 yards) n Most career passes defended in Jets history (98)

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EVIS Island was once private property with no trespassing allowed. But in 2016, it has become a destination place with quarterbacks and receivers challenging the Jets cornerback without hesitation. In many ways Darrelle Revis is emblematic of the Jets’ 2016 season when high expectations have turned into disappointing results. It was shocking to see Revis get beat deep or offer receivers more cushion than a La-ZBoy sofa. He’ll go into Sunday’s season-finale against the Bills without an interception after claiming five last year. The final years of some of the greatest stars in professional sports are seldom a pretty sight. Peyton Manning went out winning a Super Bowl last year, but only after being benched during the regular season. Kobe Bryant’s final season with the Lakers was tough to watch. Bernard Hopkins got knocked out of the ring by Joe Smith Jr. in what he said would be his last fight. Father Time and injuries eventually catch up to all of them and if you listened to Revis this year it sounds like Revis Island could be closed for business soon. That begs the questions whether this season has tarnished Revis’ legacy not only with Jets fans, but future Hall of Fame voters? The short

Bad season shouldn’t tarnish Revis’ legacy In 2017, $6 million is guaranteed, answer here is yes and no. It has been tough for Jets fans to but there are bonuses in place to watch Revis decline this season. make it worth $13 million. The When he was drafted with the Jets likely won’t want to pay him 14th pick overall out of Pitt in 2007, the $13 million. This season has left some Jets he quickly became one of the franchise’s more popular players, fans feeling lukewarm about Revis. George Koconsistently shutprowski of ting down the opCresskill, N.J., position’s top reone of the bigceivers. He made gest Jets fans I the Pro Bowl as a know, said this Jet from 2008-11, but then money George Willis about Revis: “As I sit here thinkbecame more iming of favorite portant than the uniform and he went to Tampa Jet players, Revis’ name doesn’t Bay in 2013 and then won a Super pop up. It was always contract Bowl ring with the Patriots in and money talk I think of with him. Never thought of him as a 2014. When he was re-signed by the leader. Never really warmed up Jets in 2015 his return was ap- to him. Just a really good player. plauded by Jets Nation, and he Could have put more effort into played well enough last season to his craft on returning.” A 4-11 season can make you earn his seventh trip to the Pro Bowl. But 2016 has been a disas- feel that way. But one bad season ter. At age 31, he has admitted to shouldn’t ruin Hall of Fame credentials. But it could keep him feeling “old.” Revis’ five-year deal with the from going to Canton on his first Jets had $16 million guaranteed year of eligibility. Had Revis’ relast year and $17 million this year. turn to the Jets resulted in play-

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Petty, who finished 0-of-3 with an interception in the loss to the Patriots, finished 1-3 as the starter (including the New England game), completing 75-of-133 (56.4 percent) for 809 yards, three touchdowns, seven interceptions and a 60.0 rating. Unfortunately for Petty, it doesn’t appear he answered any questions definitively about whether he should be the starter in 2017. Petty got his first extended action when he entered the second half of the Jets 41-10 loss to the Colts in Week 13 and finished 11of-25 for 135 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions. He had his best performance in a 23-17 overtime win over the 49ers in San Francisco, where he was 23-of-35 for 257 yards and an interception in a comeback victory. Petty, a fourth-round pick in 2015, will now have to wait until next season to play again. As for Sunday’s game against the Bills, Ryan Fitzpatrick is expected to start with rookie second-round draft pick Christian Hackenberg likely to be dressed as the backup for the first time in his career.

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Coach Todd Bowles visited doctors Monday to follow up on the health scare he had Friday. Because of that, Bowles was not available for a tentatively scheduled conference call with reporters Monday. He is, according to a team source, scheduled to resume his coaching duties Tuesday, when the players reconvene for practices leading up to Sunday’s season finale against the Bills. Bowles was hospitalized Friday with what he described as kidney stones, gallstones and other gallbladder issues. He spent Friday night in the hospital but was cleared by doctors to fly to New England early Saturday to coach the Jets in their loss to the Patriots.

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As expected, Bryce Petty’s audition as the Jets quarterback ended after Saturday’s 41-3 loss to the Patriots at Gillette Stadium. The Jets revealed Monday that Petty suffered a torn labrum in his left shoulder during the game when he tried to make a tackle after a fumble by Jets running back Khiry Robinson. The team announced it had placed the second-year quarterback on injured reserve and added linebacker Corey Lemonier to the roster in his place.

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FEARSOME FOURSOME Giants’ possible playoff foes pose different sets of challenges By PAUL SCHWARTZ Ye t another wintery postseason trip to Green Bay, playing on hallowed NFL ground against Aaron Rodgers, already a legendary quarterback. Or a cross-country flight to drop their uninspiring offense into the cauldron of noise and defensive mayhem in Seattle. A nice, climate-controlled game indoors in Atlanta, but going against possible NFL MVP Matt Ryan, throwing darts to Julio Jones, and others. A nice, climate-controlled game indoors in Detroit, but going against the slings and arrows thrown by Matthew Stafford and a Lions team looking for payback from what transpired late in the regular season in New Jersey. It could be the Packers, Seahawks, Falcons or Lions awaiting the Giants in the first round of the playoffs. All that is certain with a week left in the regular season is the Giants are the No. 5 seed in the NFC and will be on the road. “From my experience you got to take whatever comes to you,’’ linebacker and defensive captain Jonathan Casillas said. “I feel like if you say something like, ‘I don’t want to play outside,’ or, ‘I’d rather play indoors or in the south, we played them and so they’re a familiar opponent,’ you end up indoors and you wanted to be outdoors, which is not likely. If you wanted to be indoors and you ended up outdoors in the cold, Green Bay, then you might feel like, ‘Oh snap,’ you’re like mentally deceiving yourselves before it happens. I feel like as a team, as a unit, we should embrace whoever we get Week 1 for the wild card, whoever we get, we embrace it with open arms and be thankful we have an opportunity to play in the game, no matter where it’s at.’’ The most likely scenario is that the Giants (10-5) will face the Packers at Lambeau Field. That matchup is signed, sealed and delivered if the Packers beat the Lions on Sunday in Detroit (to claim

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The Giants know they will play the No. 4 seed in the NFC in the first round of the playoffs. Four teams — the Packers, Seahawks, Lions or Falcons — could each end up as the fourth seed. Here’s a look at what has to happen for each to become the Giants’ playoff opponent: PACKERS n Beat the Lions, and n Seahawks beat the 49ers SEAHAWKS n Lose to the 49ers LIONS n Beat the Packers, and n Falcons beat the Saints, and n Seahawks beat the 49ers FALCONS n Lose to the Saints, and n Lions beat the Packers, and n Seahawks beat the 49ers

the NFC North title) and the Seahawks beat the 2-13 49ers. “No preference,’’ Eli Manning said. “You don’t really have a say in it so just find out who it’s gonna be.’’ Of the teams they might see in the first round, the Giants this season played and lost to the Packers 23-16 in Green Bay and beat the Lions 17-6 at MetLife Stadium. The Giants last played the Seahawks in November 2014 (losing 38-17 in Seattle) and most recently played the Falcons in September 2015 (losing 24-20 at home). “I don’t know if it’s easier,’’ Manning said of playing a familiar opponent. “I guess if it’s a team you played recently, you have a little idea what their scheme is and about certain players and what-

not. However it works out, we’ll be wellprepared and we’ll get adjusted and have a good plan.’’ The Giants cannot move up or down no matter how they close out their regular season, but they certainly can play a major spoiler role. The Redskins must beat the Giants on Sunday at FedEx Field to have any shot at the playoffs as the No. 6 seed in the NFC. So, the Giants can put a stake through the heart of the postseason aspirations of an NFC East rival. “It ain’t about them, though,’’ Casillas said. “I don’t care where they land at, if they make the playoffs or not and I never did. For us, we have to play good ball and go in the right direction, you can’t digress in any type of way, we can’t afford to do that.’’ Manning does not obsess over such things, but he is human; he’d like to know what the playoffs will bring. “You’re gonna want to know who you’re playing in the playoffs,’’ he said. “I know there’s a lot of scenarios, just a matter I don’t know when certain games are playing next week and when everything will be decided. Focus will be Washington, after that yeah, you’re gonna have some curiosity who you’ll be facing the following week.’’ paul.schwartz@ nypost.com

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Steve Serby Ste Serb “My take is to play,” Manning said. My take is for Ben McAdoo to play him until such time as he is comfortable enough in his performance and in his offense and then get him out of harm’s way at the earliest possible convenience so as not to tempt fate and risk a Derek Carr or Marcus Mariota catastrophe. “As a player, you don’t think about injuries,” Manning said. “You know that’s a part of the game and you go out there and you play tough and you play your regular game and you can’t be worried about that.” It’s McAdoo’s job to worry about that. “I don’t think there’s a right or wrong decision here,” Manning said. Asked if rest would help his arm a little, Manning said: “No. Hey, my arm is live and ready and it’s trained to play this many games and to go through it.” Only three quarterbacks — Joe Montana, Te rry Bradshaw and Tom Brady — have won four Super Bowls. Troy Aikman has won three. The list of quarterbacks who have won two includes Big Brother Peyton, Ben Roethlisberger, John Elway, Jim Plunkett, Roger Staubach, Bob Griese and Bart Starr. Manning was 27 when he won Super Bowl XLII. He was 31 when he won Super Bowl XLVI.

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E HAS spent the last four postseasons, four Januarys and four Super Sundays playing daddy to his little daughters instead of playing for a crack at his third Super Bowl championship. Eli Manning has hungered for this chance, especially because it could be his last chance. You just never know. This chance to run this threering race for a Triple Crown. “My arm is live and ready,” Manning said Monday. Tom Coughlin allowed Manning to use the last 2007 regularseason game against the Patriots as a springboard to glory and the greatest quarterback in New York Football Giants history doesn’t want to rest against the Redskins on New Ye ar’s Day, and it has less to do with making his 210th consecutive start than recapturing the swagger and precision and rhythm he and his offense will need in the playoffs.

LET IT THREE: Eli Manning has to limit his turnovers in the postseason, but he’s four postseason wins from becoming the fifth NFL quarterback with three or more Super Bowl titles. He will be 36, as of Jan. 3, when he begins chasing Super Bowl LI in Houston. And therein lies the source of concern on the minds of many Giants fans who cry out: Houston, we have a problem. Blind Manning loyalists and those with eyes wide shut will argue to the death that SuperMann’s clutch gene will automatically trigger once the playoffs begin. That he will be ready to carry this elite defense that has carried him back to the postseason. Those with eyes wide open are fraught with peril that Father Time has begun tugging on SuperMann’s cape. Remember, this was supposed to be a McAdoozy of an offense — faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall defensive buildings in a single bound. Instead, it has been more of a mild-mannered Clark Kent operation, essentially Odell Beckham Jr.-or-Kryptonite. Manning’s decision-making has suffered behind an offensive line that has his internal clock often sped up to the point where he finds himself throwing off his back foot and reluctant to step

into his throws. The lack of a pass-catching tight-end threat, particularly in the red zone, and rushing attack has forced Manning into a movethe-chains attack against Cover 2 defenses that beg him to take what they give him instead of what he wants. Over the last four games, Manning has thrown six TDs and six INTs — three of which came in Philadelphia. “I just gotta make the throws, make the plays, make good decisions, move around the pocket, extend plays — kinda do all the things I know I’m capable of,” said Manning, who has 26 TDs and 16 INTs on the season. In his four 2012 postseason games, Manning threw nine TDs with one INT. In his four 2008 postseason games, Manning threw six TDs with one INT. All but one of those games — three TDs, no INTs against the Falcons — came on the road. “Excited about the opportunity to be in the playoffs and have a chance to win a championship,” Manning said. The $84 Million Question: Can the $84 Million Mann remember how to do it again? steve.serby@nypost.com

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The number of LGBT television characters that were killed off in 2016. The trope and hashtag #BuryYourGays lit up social media with the deaths of LGBT characters like Denise (Merritt Wever) on “The Walking Dead” and couple Nora (Scarlett Byrne) and Mary Louise (Mary Louise) on “The Vampire Diaries.”

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By ROBERT RORKE and ANDREA MORABITO

Best epIsode: “Home,” “Game of thrones,” HBo When Jon snow was stabbed in this epic drama’s season 5 finale, diehard fans did not believe he was really gone. In the second episode of season 6, ser Davos eventually asked Melisandre if she could revive the Lord Commander. the Red Woman gave it a whirl, chanting and praying over snow’s bathed corpse with Davos, tormund and Edd hoping for a miracle. No dice. Defeated, the group left the chamber. Not so fast: suddenly Jon opened his eyes and breathed. Vindicated, the fans went nuts. And the season was off to a running start.

“Downton Abbey,” with stars Michelle Dockery (left) and Hugh Bonneville (right), ended its run with a satisfying finale.

The year In TV Memorable moments from 2016

as the busiest man on the tube. soon he’ll have enough shows to have a steve Harvey calendar — one for each month.

tHe Mr. televIsIon award: steve Harvey If it seems that Harvey is here (“Family Feud”), there (“Showtime at the Apollo”) and everywhere (“Little Big Shots”), it’s because he is. the uber host has now replaced Ryan seacrest, whose Harvey “American Idol” gig ended,

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to the point: “If only we had the choice.”

Best slap: the Good wife, CBs Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) really landed a good one against the insolent Alicia Florrick’s (Julianna Margulies) horrified puss in this drama’s series finale.

t’s been a busy year in the tV universe — which is now a lot bigger with the advent of streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, et al.). so, without further ado, here are our “2016 tV Yearbook” picks encompassing the best, brightest and, well, worst moments of the year.

Best Breakout: Issa rae, “Insecure,” HBo Unlike some of the younger female characters on premium cable, Issa Rae struck a positive note right off the bat: she was an adult. Her character on “Insecure” has a job. And a conscience. she has a face that cannot lie and one of the best tV smiles we’ve seen in a long time. It’s addictive fun to watch her mess up, break up and make up with the young strivers in her orbit. so we’ll be back when “Insecure” returns for season 2.

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Best sendoff: downton abbey, pBs Everybody loves a happy ending and the beloved “Downton Abbey” tied up all of its loose ends with grace

Anna welcomed a baby boy. and humor. Lady Mary And so on. sins were forfinally remarried (to given, reputations restored a commoner, but she and as always, the Dowager got over the class difCountess had the last line. ference). Lady Edith When her friend Isobel stopped sobbing and Crawley asked at Edith’s married a man who wedding, “What else could didn’t mind that we drink to? We’re going she had a bastard forward into the future, child (smelling not back into the salts, please!). “The Good Wife” star past,” her reply was Bates and

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BIGGest tease: “the walking dead,” aMC Who knew a zombie apocalypse could be so boring? season 7 bookended its first half by answering a cliffhanger in the most gruesome possible fashion and a mildly satisfying reunion to send us off into hiatus. the rest was just filler, jumping among locations and the nowsprawling cast — whole episodes go by without seeing fan favorites like Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) — with only marginal advancement of story. Best party CrasHer: samantha Bee samantha Bee may have been passed over to host “The Daily Show,” but no matter: Her “Full Frontal” on tBs decisively disrupted the late-night boys club with its ferocious and proudly female point of view. Who’s laughing now? Best revIval: “Gilmore Girls,” netflix

Kelly Bishop (left), Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel head up the “Gilmore Girls” revival. that polarizing ending aside, “Gilmore Girls” did the sequel right, with a sharply written love letter to its fans that managed to perfectly recreate that old-fashioned stars Hollow ethos while, importantly, evolving its core characters of Lorelai (Lauren Graham), Rory (Alexis Bledel) and Emily (Kelly Bishop).

“I spend a lot of my time watching NBA games, especially ones involving the Portland Trail Blazers, my favorite team. I love ‘Survivor.’ I love ‘America’s Got Talent,’ especially when they have magicians on. I love magic. My favorite anything (TV, movie, or stage) in 2016 was ‘Stranger Things.’”— Millegan plays Dr. Zack Addy on “Bones,” which returns Jan. 3 (9 p.m.) on Fox.

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