Alleged scamming brothers inflame Airbnb host, Kickstarter users

Meet the modern-day Frank and Jesse James.

But rather than robbing stagecoaches, brothers Maksym and Denys Pashanin are allegedly preying on proponents of the feel-good "sharing economy."

In a bizarre tale that is raising fresh questions about the risks of renting one's own car or home, the Pashanin brothers are being blasted as "squatters" by their Palm Springs, Calif., Airbnb host — and as "scammers" by members of crowdsourcing site Kickstarter.

Their alleged antics, including raising tens of thousands of dollars on Kickstarter for projects they have yet to show progress on, have raised questions about the risks of platforms that increasingly make it easier for regular folks to sell things to strangers.

The trouble started in early July when Cory Tschogl, 39, was unable to collect fees due from the Airbnb renters who had asked to occupy her one-bedroom condo in a gated community in Palm Springs for 44 days, through July 8.

When Tschogl, a therapist, threatened to turn off the electricity for nonpayment, she was threatened with legal action — among the brothers' allegations is that her tap water damaged their fancy espresso machine — she told the San Francisco Chronicle, which first reported on the Airbnb "nightmare."

Under California laws, people who rent a home for 30 days are protected as tenants and have to be forcibly evicted, a process that could take months.

Meanwhile, the guests that won't leave are being blasted by members of Kickstarter over more than $41,000 for two video games they have promised to develop through their gaming company, Kilobite Inc.

The [Pashanin brothers'] first game, "Confederate Express" failed to meet certain June delivery expectations despite raising close to $40,000 last year. The other game, "Knuckle Club," continues to rack up the donations despite cries for Kickstarter to shutter the project.

The first game, "Confederate Express" failed to meet certain June delivery expectations despite raising close to $40,000 last year. The other game, "Knuckle Club," continues to rack up the donations despite cries for Kickstarter to shutter the project.

"Knuckle Club," which is seeking $25,000, saw donations rise to more than $900 on Wednesday, up from the $700-plus range earlier in the week, even as previous backers fill up the project's comment pages with demands for their money back.

The experience has left an ardent Kickstarter supporter feeling dismayed about the Web site.

"This should be a loud and clear wake-up call to all current and new Kickstarter users," the angry contributor to both Kilobite projects told The Post.

"Kickstarter's fraud prevention at best seems to be completely random," said this person, who asked not to be identified. "And that mind-set will ultimately kill Kickstarter's reputation."

Kickstarter declined to comment on its plans for the Kilobite fundraising projects. Airbnb has told Tschogl that it will reimburse her for the costs of evicting her tenants.

"I'm not at all surprised," said fraud investigator and former prosecutor Rob Seiden. "Every time new channels of commerce open up, there is a lack of regulation, and fraudsters see it as an opportunity. It's like the Wild West," he said.

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Stop approving charter schools, SUNY: City Council

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City Council members are calling on the State University of New York to stop approving charters until the state makes the privately run schools more accountable.

Council Education Committee Chairman Daniel Dromm (D-Queens) and nine colleagues urged the SUNY Board of Trustees in a letter Wednesday to examine "harsh disciplinary practices" and "exclusionary admissions practices" among charters.

University spokesman David Doyle said the trustees will consider comments on new charter- school applications through October.

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Second person arrested in teen girl’s murder on bus

A second person was arrested Wednesday in the tragic shooting of a 14-year-old girl who was killed while riding a bus in Jamaica, Queens, last year, cops said.

Shamel Capers, 16, was charged with murder in connection with the shooting of D'aja Robinson, who was killed on May 18, 2013, according to police.

A law-enforcement source said that both Capers and the other suspect, Kevin McClinton, 21, used the same weapon to fire a number of rounds at the side of the bus. McClinton was arrested in June 2013.

"We had been investigating the possibility of a second suspect in D'aja Robinson's murder," a police source said. "McClinton said another person, a friend, was with him and fired the gun first."

It's not clear which suspect fired the fatal shot, but they were both charged with murder because they were intentionally shooting at the side of the bus.

Capers was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court Wednesday and charged with murder, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon, according to DA Richard Brown

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‘Hoffa’ producer busted in mob-linked sports gambling ring

A producer of the 1992 flick "Hoffa" and former defendant in a 1980s radio payola scheme was hauled into Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday for allegedly helping run a mob-linked gambling operation.

Reputed Gambino associate Joseph Isgro, 66, was arrested in Los Angeles on Saturday and extradited to New York.

The normally clean-cut ex-Marine looked scruffy in an oversized T-shirt and flip-flops as he pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, money laundering and gambling.

The Hollywood figure, who has posed for photos with many noted stars, including Kim Kardashian, was among seven people indicted in a Mafia-linked sports-betting ring that raked in $1 billion a year, authorities allege.

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Israel vows to destroy Hamas tunnels — cease-fire or not

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JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the military will dismantle the Hamas tunnel network in the Gaza Strip "with or without a cease-fire."

Netanyahu said Thursday he will not accept any truce that won't allow Israel to complete its mission of destroying the sophisticated tunnel network, which has been used to carry out deadly attacks inside Israel.

Israel launched its air campaign on July 8 to stop unrelenting rocket fire from Gaza toward Israel.

It expanded the operation with a ground offensive on July 17 with the primary purpose of blocking Hamas infiltration attempts through the tunnels.

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Unproven Jets secondary will get put to the test right away

CORTLAND — Jets fans spent the end of March wringing their hands and screaming at their computer screens as free-agent cornerback after free-agent cornerback signed with other teams. It became the focus of free agency: What about the secondary?

Fast forward four months and the biggest question about the Jets remains their defensive backs. They wound up signing Dimitri Patterson to replace Antonio Cromartie at corner and then drafted safety Calvin Pryor in the first round of May's draft. But Patterson's signing was met with a collective "who?," and Pryor will be a rookie learning on the fly.

It is a huge departure from Rex Ryan's early years as Jets coach when big names like Darrelle Revis and Cromartie led the way.

Now, the Jets are counting on a bunch of unproven players.

"The names aren't household names yet," Ryan said, "but hopefully by the time the season's over some of them can step up and earn that."

They better do it quick.

Here are the quarterbacks the Jets face starting with Week 2, barring injuries: Aaron Rodgers, Jay Cutler, Matthew Stafford, Philip Rivers, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady.

If the secondary is not any better, they will have whiplash from watching the ball go over their heads.

It would be hard for the Jets to be worse than last season when they gave up 3,947 passing yards, the most by a Jets defense since 1986. Of the 10 games with the most passing yards allowed under Ryan, four came last season.

"It's very motivating," defensive backs coach Tim McDonald said.

Right now, the starting cornerbacks are expected to be Dee Milliner, who had a rough rookie season, and Patterson. Milliner recently proclaimed he was the best corner in the NFL, a claim that drew chuckles around the league. On Tuesday, Milliner said he was just saying he would never concede to anyone.

"That's where the problem came, when I said I'm the best corner," Milliner said. "I was saying I'll never admit to someone being better than me."

Calvin PryorPhoto: Bill Kostroun

The Jets expect Milliner to make huge strides this year. McDonald said they have "high hopes" for Milliner.

The bigger unknown may be Patterson, who is on his seventh team in 10 seasons. Despite his travels, Patterson has a ton of confidence. Jets fans were disappointed when the team let Cromartie walk and then failed to land Vontae Davis, Alterraun Verner or Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie in free agency. But Patterson said he is not intimidated by taking over for Cromartie.

"That doesn't bother me one bit," he said. "Those guys are who they are. Obviously, Revis set a standard here when he played here. That's on tape. You have to acknowledge that. As far as I'm concerned, I know what I can do. I'm excited to show the fan base what I can do."

Ryan feels the Jets are definitely deeper at safety this season, where Antonio Allen has another year of experience, they added Pryor and veteran Dawan Landry is back. Those three are fighting for two spots.

In Ryan's first few years, the secondary was the strength of the team. Now, it may be a weakness, but Ryan still sounds confident in the group.

"On paper, we may not look as strong as we've been in the past, but I think we have a group of guys that are taking a lot of pride in it," he said. "I think we'll be just fine. With that being said, we have a lot of work to do. We've got to get better. There's no doubt."

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A stall for Times as digital sub growth slows, print ads fall

The Street is wondering whether the New York Times Co.'s digital strategy has stalled after new products failed to accelerate subscriber additions while a decline in print advertising dragged down profits.

Shares closed down more than 8 percent, to $12.89, on Tuesday after the company reported disappointing second-quarter results.

The number of digital subscribers rose by 32,000 in the quarter, a slowdown from 39,000 additions in the first quarter, even though the paper rolled out less-expensive niche products, including NYT Now, NYT Opinion and Times Premiere.

"In and of itself, that's disappointing, a small number — with lots of marketing and promotion — and small new revenue on what are already lower-priced niche products," said media analyst Ken Doctoroff. "It would also tell us that Times' all-access full-price push has really slowed, to 12,000 or so."

Paid subscribers to digital-only products totaled about 831,000 at the end of the quarter.

CEO Mark Thompson acknowledged that growth for its "core digital bundles" was lower than expected.

"We underestimated the challenge of presenting the new, wider range of choices to our users and left some consumers confused as a result — obviously we are working hard to pivot and correct that," he said in a call with analysts.

Net income plunged 54 percent as increased investments in digital products failed to offset a 6.6 decline in print advertising.

"We saw some loss of momentum in print advertising in the second quarter after a very good start to the year," Thompson said in the call.

Total revenue decreased by 0.6 percent, to $389 million, from $391 million in the period a year ago. Most of the drop can be attributed to the 4.1 percent decline in ad revenue.

The results also reflected $2.2 million in severance, which likely includes any payment to ousted editor Jill Abramson, who was fired in May.

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Woman finds wedding gown thought lost to Hurricane Sandy

Michael and Nicole Pagliaro at their wedding reception.Photo: Nicole Pagliaro

A Staten Island woman miraculously found her wedding dress in the window of a dry cleaner ­nearly two years after she thought it had been washed away by Hurricane Sandy.

Nicole Pagliaro, 30, took her beloved vintage wedding dress to South Beach Cleaners on Sand Lane after her August 2012 wedding, and she thought it was lost forever when the store was wiped out in the devastating storm.

"My first thought was, 'What about my wedding dress?' " Pagliaro said. "I was devastated, I cried."

For weeks, Nicole and her husband, Michael, 34, returned to the remains of the store to see if the dress could be located. But the space was filled with water.

"Michael tried to give me false hope," Nicole said.

But a few weeks ago, they were driving past a different shop on McClean Avenue — where South Beach owner Hector Pacheco had reopened his business — when they made an amazing discovery.

"I saw my dress in the window!" Nicole said.

When she walked in the next day, receipt in hand, she stated that the dress in the window was hers.

The woman working said the manager wasn't in, but took down her contact information.

When Nicole came back, Pacheco recognized her instantly.

"I almost started crying. We hugged each other," she recalled.

Pacheco said the dress was the only thing that survived when the waves crashed through his store.

He had refused to sell it — because he thought it brought good luck.

"He told me it was a symbol of regrowth and he had feeling that I'd find it one day," Nicole said. "It was the only thing that wasn't damaged. It was in pristine condition."

Nicole plans to store the dress at the top of her closet until her 16-month-old daughter is old enough to wear it, either for her sweet 16 or her own wedding.

She believes finding the dress was a sign.

"My husband and I weren't together for long before we got married. This is just another way of God telling me that it was meant to be," she said. "If the dress can survive Sandy, we can survive anything, and that's true of our relationship, too ."

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City drags its feet on teacher discipline cases: union

Nearly a quarter of teacher disciplinary cases have not been resolved within two years, and union officials claim the city is to blame for the delays.

The Department of Education has sought to remove 637 teachers with tenure over the past two years, but 153 of the cases are still pending, leaving many of the educators stuck in "rubber rooms," according to the United Federation of Teachers' own figures.

The median length of the proceedings is 105 days. Six cases have lasted more than 500 days, the UFT said.

Union officials said some minor cases could have been decided in a matter of hours if school officials hadn't pressed for outrageous penalties.

"The DOE has sought termination in nearly all [disciplinary] proceedings," said a UFT statement. Schools spokeswoman Devora Kaye said the agency will work with the union to ensure cases are heard in a "fair, appropriate and efficient manner."

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Accused cop shooter’s sister says ‘f—k off’ to judge

The sister of a Brooklyn man accused of shooting four cops had to be handcuffed in court Tuesday after she bellowed. "F–k you!" at the judge presiding over her brother's case.

Tyona Foxworth, 39, squabbled with court officers Tuesday as NYPD cops testified in a pretrial hearing about how her brother, Nakwon Foxworth, 35, allegedly blasted away at four officers who were trying to arrest him April 8, 2012.

"Ma'am, please sit down," a court officer said after Foxworth stood up and adjusted her pants.

"What's the situation? Why can't I fix my pants?" she yelled.

When Judge Neil Firetog told her to be quiet. she hollered, "F–k you and your courtroom!"

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Sesame Street eyes legal action to ban muppet characters from Times Square

The producers of "Sesame Street" said Monday they're considering legal action against panhandlers who dress up like Muppets — as Mayor de Blasio vowed a crackdown on Times Square's growing horde of cartoon impersonators.

The non-profit Sesame Workshop said it "has not authorized the appearance of any Sesame Street costumed characters on public streets in any city."

"We care about our fans and the image of our brand, and, like everyone else, we care about public safety on our streets," the company said.

"We have been talking to other concerned groups, including third-party intellectual-property-rights holders, to determine appropriate actions that we can take."

"Elmo" and "Cookie Monster" impersonators have been busted in recent years over disturbing incidents that include going on anti-Semitic rants and shoving a 2-year-old after his mom refused to hand over a $2 tip.

De Blasio said he was outraged by the increasing lawlessness of some of the characters, including the "Spider-Man" who was caught on video slugging a cop on Saturday and five others busted afterward.

"I think this has gone too far, and it's time to take some real steps to regulate this new reality — I don't know whether to call it an industry or what you call it, but it needs to be regulated," de Blasio said.

"I know some of my colleagues in the City Council are looking at legislation that we could move quickly to create licensing and rules."

Until then, de Blasio vowed strict enforcement of all existing laws, including a ban on aggressive panhandling.

"It's not appropriate for anyone to demand a certain amount of money from a passing tourist and harass them," de Blasio said.

As many as three cops at a time were spotted keeping watch over the costumed coterie in Times Square on Monday, a day after the NYPD trailed some panhandlers and told tourists that paying them to pose for photos was strictly optional.

Councilman Andy King (D-Bronx) said he planned to introduce a bill next month that would cover anyone who wears a mask or "changes their physical appearance" in order to ask people for money.

"This has become a real headache for a lot of New Yorkers, tourists and children," he said.

King said he hoped to have the law enacted in time for Halloween, and that failure to comply would be punishable by a fine and forced removal.

A fake Batman, however, insisted that "the city can't do nothing" because he pays taxes on his earnings.

"You know how much this costume costs? $3,000," the faux Caped Crusader complained.

"The problem now is the police are telling people they don't have to pay to take a picture. That's the big problem right now."

Ricardo Ruiz, who was dressed up as Mario from the "Super Mario Bros." video game, said he has had a state tax ID since last year and pays between $150 and $180 every three months.

"If it's free, OK," he said of the proposed city license through a Spanish-language interpreter.

"But we don't make a lot, ­­­ ­so­ ­. . . if it's more money . . . no."

Additional reporting by Antonio Antenucci and Dana Sauchelli

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Few New York commercial flights use improved navigation system

Almost no planes fly into the New York City area using a high-tech navigational system the FAA developed for the airports nine years ago, although it makes planes less noisy, arrive on time more often and burn less fuel, according to a federal report.

The system, called performance-based navigation, uses GPS, software and new Federal Aviation Administration procedures to fly much more precise routes.

Planes that use it can descend more steeply, so they don't have to fly as low over residential neighborhoods.

But only 1 percent of flights at JFK and La Guardia are using it, and less than that for Newark, although the congested airports have the worst delays in the country, the Department of Transportation inspector general has found.

"Where the technology is in place, it defies common sense for the FAA to be using it less than 1 percent of the time in New York airspace," said Joe Sitt, chairman of the airport advocacy group, Global Gateway Alliance.

Most major airports have been slow to adopt the system, but Washington's Reagan National Airport uses it to direct planes to fly less over neighborhoods and more over the Potomac River.

It's been difficult to adapt the procedure at New York City airports because not all airlines have the equipment to use it, sources said.

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Thousands of Defense personnel owe $730M in taxes

WASHINGTON — Thousands of Defense Department employees and contractors trusted with the nation's top secrets can't be relied upon to pay Uncle Sam.

A new audit of defense workers and vendors with high security clearances found 83,000 owe $730 million in back taxes.

What's more, the Defense Department probably doesn't know who they are because the IRS doesn't share tax information freely over legal concerns, according to the Government Accountability Office.

The GAO warned the debt burden could be a dangerous "vulnerability" to the US because strapped workers might be tempted to sell secrets to foreign governments.

"You only want to give a clearance to someone who is trustworthy. But if they are financially extended, they are at risk," said GAO spokesman Steve Lord.

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Israeli tank shells take out Gaza Strip’s only power plant

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli tank shells hit a fuel tank of the Gaza Strip's only power plant on Tuesday, forcing the plant to shut down, a spokesman for Gaza's electricity distribution company said. A huge cloud of black smoke rose over the coastal city.

There was no immediate word of casualties and the Israeli military had no comment. According to Jamal Dardasawi, the spokesman of the electricity distribution company, the shells hit one of three tanks in the plant compound that currently store fuel.

Even before the strike, Gaza residents had electricity for only about three hours a day. The strike is bound to reduce supplies even further.

The hit on the power plant came as Israeli aircraft and tanks struck symbols of Hamas control in Gaza overnight and into Tuesday, their heaviest bombardment of the densely populated coastal territory since the war between Israel and the Islamic militants began more than three weeks ago.

The pounding came just hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in a televised speech of a "prolonged" campaign in Gaza.

Hamas also signaled defiance. Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader whose house was struck in an airstrike early Tuesday, said in a statement that "destroying stones will not break our determination."

The tough words by both sides came amid mounting international appeals for an unconditional cease-fire.

However, Hamas has said it will not stop fighting until it wins international guarantees that a seven-year-old border blockade of Gaza will be lifted. Israel said its troops will not leave Gaza until they have demolished several dozen Hamas military tunnels under the Gaza-Israel border. Late Monday, Netanyahu signaled that Israel is insifying its air- and ground campaign.

Early Tuesday, Israel warplanes struck a series of targets in Gaza City, including Haniyeh's house and government offices, while Gaza's border area with Israel was hit by heavy tank shelling. Flares turned Gaza's night sky orange, and by daybreak, a cloud of thick dust from explosions hung over Gaza City.

The overall Gaza death toll rose to at least 1,110, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Israel says it has lost 53 soldiers, along with two civilians and a Thai worker.

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US: Russia violated 1987 nuclear missile treaty

WASHINGTON — In an escalation of tensions, the Obama administration accused Russia on Monday of conducting tests in violation of a 1987 nuclear missile treaty, calling the breach "a very serious matter" and going public with allegations that have simmered for some time.

The treaty confrontation comes at a highly strained time between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin over Russia's intervention in Ukraine and Putin's grant of asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.

An administration official said Obama notified Putin of the U.S. determination in a letter Monday. The finding will be included in a State Department annual report on compliance with arms control treaties that will be released Tuesday.

The U.S. says Russia tested a new ground-launched cruise missile, breaking the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty that President Ronald Reagan signed with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Russian officials say they have looked into the allegations and consider the matter closed.

The Obama administration has expressed its concern over possible violations before, but this is the first time that the administration has formally accused Russia of violating the treaty. It comes in the wake of the downed Malaysian airliner in Ukraine and as the U.S. and the European Union seek to ramp up sanctions against Russia, offering the administration a convenient time to release the report which had been due to come out in April.

Two officials said the U.S. is prepared to hold high-level discussions on the issue immediately and want assurances that Russia will comply with the treaty requirements going forward. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the sensitive issue publicly by name ahead of Tuesday's report.

The New York Times first reported the U.S. move Monday evening

In raising the issue now, the U.S. appears to be placing increased pressure on Russia and trying to further isolate it from the international community. The European Union and the United States plan to announce new sanctions against Russia this week in the face of U.S. evidence that Russia has continued to assist separatist forces in Ukraine.

The formal finding comes in the wake of congressional pressure on the White House to confront Russia over the allegations of cheating on the treaty. The treaty banned all U.S. and Russian land-based ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 300 miles and 3,400 miles.

The officials said the Obama administration has informed Congress and U.S. allies of its decision to seek Russian compliance.

Indeed Obama, who has made nuclear disarmament a key foreign policy aim, has little interest in having Russia pull out of the treaty altogether.

Obama won Senate ratification of a New START treaty, which took effect in February 2011 and requires the U.S. and Russia to reduce the number of their strategic nuclear weapons to no more than 1,550 by February 2018.

Obama last year announced that he wants to cut the number of U.S. nuclear arms by another third and that he would "seek negotiated cuts" with Russia, a goal now complicated by the accusation of a missile treaty violation.

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Richard Adler’s wife and attorney to battle over $22M estate

The curtain goes up this week on a courtroom drama pitting the longtime attorney of the late Broadway great Richard Adler against his high-living fifth wife — with big bucks at stake.

The Tony-winning writer, composer and producer is famous for 1950s hits "Damn Yankees" and "Pajama Game" and for producing the 1962 fund-raiser that featured Marilyn Monroe singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President."

In the years before Adler died in 2012 at 90, his wife, Susan Ivory, 70, went on a spending spree, lawyer Norman Solovay, the executor of Adler's $22 million estate, says in papers filed in Manhattan Surrogate's Court. Ivory spent more in 2010 than her hubby's music company took in, Solovay says.

The company, Lakshmi Puja, which brings in about a half- million bucks a year, owns the rights to Adler's biggest hit songs, including "Hey, There," "Hernando's Hideaway" and "Whatever Lola Wants."

"The money was still being used among other things for trips for Susan and her children and other extravagances," according to Solovay..

The indulgences included a family jaunt to the Balkans for Ivory and her kids from a previous marriage while the 89-year-old Adler stayed at home, said a source close to the case.

Ivory also threw a 90th birthday party in Southampton for Adler and 75 of his friends even though the composer looked like a "statue" who could barely speak, Solovay said.

After Adler died, Solovay accused Ivory of trying to swipe funds from the composer's two grandchildren, Demian Delshay Adler and Scarlett Cheyenne Adler. They're the children of Adler's only son Andrew and ownd 36.5 percent of Puja.

"She [Ivory] continued to refuse to recognize the grandchildren's . . . trust interest in the music company and to misappropriate their funds in a way that now might well be described as theft," Solovay charges.

Ivory, the sole employee of Puja, pays herself a $75,000 salary, the source said.

Solovay was originally the sole executor of Adler's will.

Ivory allegedly manipulated her feeding-tube-aided husband into making multiple changes to his will in a codicil he signed in June 2011.

They added Ivory as a co-executor and also gave $1.3 million to her children while allegedly depriving the composer's friends and favorite charitable organizations of their bequests.

The codicil did not change provisions dividing the vast bulk of his estate between Ivory and Andrew.

Ivory and her lawyer did not return calls for comment.

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New shady claims about Sampson emerge

Embattled Brooklyn state Sen. John Sampson is up to his old funny-money tricks, critics charge.

Sampson was indicted by the feds last year for allegedly stealing $440,000 from housing escrow accounts and using part of the proceeds to help fund a failed bid to become Brooklyn district attorney.

Sampson has yet to stand trial and is seeking re-election to his Senate seat. But he is now being accused by a chief rival and election lawyers of using questionable, if not illegal, practices to finance his re-election campaign.

Sampson has reported that his campaign treasury has a deficit of $28,746 — a red flag that raises questions on how or where he's getting the money to finance his re-election bid.

The Committee to Re-elect John Sampson raised only $36,646 over the past six months. And he has to pay mounting legal bills from lawyers in the pending federal case.

Last year, Sampson made a $35,000 payment to his attorneys Dorsey & Whitney.

He has been indicted by Brooklyn federal prosecutors for allegedly stealing $440,000 from an escrow on foreclosed properties to help fund his prior campaign for district attorney.

He is also charged with five counts of obstruction of justice and two counts of making false statements to the FBI.

Dell Smitherman, a leading candidate seeking to oust Sampson in the Democratic primary, claims the former Democratic leader is allegedly breaking the law again.

"John Sampson has been arrested for funneling embezzled money into his previous campaign, and is now illegally spending funds on this race without reporting where his shady money is coming from," Smitherman spokesman Nathan Smith alleged.

Sampson did not return calls seeking comment.

But election lawyers agreed that running a campaign on red ink looked suspicious.

"What bank would allow you to continue to write checks when you have a negative balance?" Jerry Goldfeder said. "He might very well face consequences. It sounds like he's spending money that he doesn't have or he's not reporting money he's taking in. Both of which seem to be pretty serious offenses."

Election lawyer Sarah Steiner agreed: "You're not supposed to do that. It's highly questionable, if not illegal. There are red flags all over the place."

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SunCal billionaire suing cheating ex-girlfriend for $850,000

A construction magnate says his much-younger ex-girlfriend has a big debt to pay after cheating on him and then dumping him.

Bruce Elieff, 59, whose New York City and California-based firm SunCal was worth $4 billion before its largest lender, Lehman Brothers, collapsed, is suing Jennifer Alice Armstrong for the total $850,000 he gave her, claiming the money wasn't gifts but short-term loans.

Elieff, who is now dating a swimsuit model, says Armstrong, then a 34-year-old medical student, claimed she needed the cash to pay for her $160,000 tuition at the University of Hawaii, $10,000 in monthly expenses, $160,000 for cancer treatments and $37,000 to freeze her eggs.

The couple started dating in 2009, but Armstrong broke off the relationship in 2013 after giving birth to twins, fathered by another man, according to Elieff's fraud suit filed in Orange County, Calif.

That's when her sugar daddy learned the expenses were "either substantially exaggerated or untrue," Elieff's court papers say.

Armstrong, through her attorney Paul Berra, declined to comment. But in a sworn statement filed in court, she says the suit is based on spite.

"I feel that this lawsuit is [Elieff's] last-ditch effort to continue controlling my life," the now-doctor says, describing her former boyfriend as "controlling, possessive and very jealous."

Armstrong says the allegations are "completely baseless" because "everything that he gave to me was a gift . . . no strings attached."

And Elieff didn't just cover her bills, he showered his ex with "expensive jewelry, a new Range Rover and other items with a total worth in the hundreds of thousands of dollars," Armstrong says in the papers.

"He also presented me with stacks of cash on occasion, which I usually declined and gave me credit cards with no limits to buy whatever I want. "

She added, "I was convinced that he was sleeping with a number of women other than me."

She admits she also strayed but says it was "during a brief period of time that we had broken up."

The tycoon is suing Armstrong, as well as her friend John Luciano, whom Elieff accuses of taking a cut of the funds.

But Luciano told The Post that Elieff, whose appearance he compared to the cartoon ogre Shrek, can only get young, hot women if he lavishes them with dough.

"It's ludicrous for him to claim these were loans," Luciano said. "If all of the money he has given to women over the years were loans, he'd have given out more loans than Bank of America," he joked.

The suit is merely "sour grapes" because Elieff "can't get over that his ex doesn't want him and has moved on," Luciano said.

A spokesman said Elieff is confident a jury will be convinced Luciano and Armstrong stooped "to the lowest of levels, such as faking life-threatening cancer to accomplish their goals."

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DOE phasing out high-fat and salt foods from school meals

The Department of Education is finally phasing out unhealthy lunch and breakfast items containing dangerously high levels of sodium and fat — which it promised to ban from school menus over a year ago, The Post has learned.

School officials said the fatty, salty and preservative-filled items would be expelled from cafeterias in September.

But through last June, unsuspecting school kids were still gobbling up chemicals like azodicarbonamide — a controversial "foaming agent" found in yoga mats, which Subway recently took out of its bread after public outcry — in products such as Palagonia whole-wheat heroes and JJ Cassone French bread, a review of nutritional information for lunchroom menu items reveals.

Despite the fact that DOE requires its distributors to confirm that the foods are low in fat and sodium, students also ate artery-clogging grub like Papetti's cooked frozen cheese omelettes and Pilgrim's Pride chicken patties — which has more calories and salt than a four-piece order of McDonald's Chicken McNuggets.

Since fall 2013, the Department of Education has phased out at least 24 objectionable items. But at least 12 remained through the summer.

At first the DOE refused to say when it would eliminate the remaining items, but following a Freedom of Information Act request by The Post, the agency gave a more definitive date — while defiantly noting that those foods still appeared in supermarkets and school districts across the country.

"We are proud of our record of providing healthy meals to students," said DOE spokeswoman Marge Feinberg. "The DOE has been ahead of the curve to ensure healthy meals are available."

"We are working to continually improve the food options in our schools," she added.

But food experts said some of the city's menu items turned their stomachs.

"We have to change the way we do things," warned nutritionist Dr. Joel Fuhrman. "Soda, sugar and white flour can lead to addictive consumption, and the low-nutrient foods we're feeding children can lead to decreased intelligence, aggressive behavior, and increased risk of depression and chronic illnesses."

Other health advocates say they would be surprised if the city made radical changes to its cafeteria menus.

"Processed food is still going to be cheaper, and unfortunately they're all driven by money rather than by health," said food educator Dr. Susan Rubin. "Until we start to set real standards for ingredient integrity, that's how the game is going to be played."

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Cop claims feds are targeting him because he believes in ghosts

A Department of Veterans Affairs cop, convinced his former New Jersey workplace is haunted by evil spirits, says the feds are using his belief in ghosts as an excuse to fire him, The Post has learned.

The spooky story pits Valdo Vaher, 48, a retired Army sergeant and former lieutenant in the New York National Guard, against the VA, where he began working in 2006.

Vaher, who lives in Rockland County, defiantly insists otherworldly phenomena are real.

"This seems strange to some people, but for religious Catholics like myself, many feel as I do about this — that there are spirits in the world and they sometimes show themselves and are more likely to be doing this in and around hospitals, where people suffer and die," he told The Post.

The VA initiated a long and bitter legal battle to permanently exorcise Vaher because, it charges, he's basically too crazy to be a cop.

At one point he actually was fired. But in 2013, a judge for the Merit Systems Protection Board in Washington ordered he be re-hired.

"There are spirits in the world and they sometimes show themselves and are more likely to be doing this in and around hospitals, where people suffer and die." - Valdo Vaher

As part of a settlement, he was reassigned from the Manhattan VA Hospital to a facility in East Orange, NJ.

In February, he was stripped of his gun, placed on modified duty and reassigned to another New Jersey facility for "making bizarre statements and displaying unusual behaviors," according to a letter from VA Deputy Police Chief Bernais McNeil.

Vaher was chided for giving a hair-raising talk to a rookie colleague about how their East Orange command was haunted by "evil spirits" — comments the agency suggested posed a safety risk to his co-workers and warranted his dismissal.

"You should stay away from certain areas here because there are evil spirits. I will give you some holy salts to ward off these evil spirits," Vaher is quoted as having told the rookie.

Vaher is also alleged to have said, "Watch out for certain trees because they have faces and I just have a bad vibe with them" and "People around this area are animals."

Vaher, who holds dual US-Estonian citizenship and who served in that country's military, was an MP at West Point for nearly a decade and worked as a civilian observer in Kosovo for the State Department in 1998, a position that required him to brief the White House on a daily basis.

Vaher's lawyer, Alan Wolin, accused the VA of "using psychology as a weapon, just like in the old Soviet Union" and insists the agency doesn't stand a ghost of a chance of winning its case against him.

"They've been targeting him since Day One," he said. "The bottom line is that they tried and failed to fire him twice before and we're extremely confident we'll win again."

The VA formally notified Vaher this month of its latest plan to cast him out.

But Vaher still won't back away from his claims that the VA's East Orange site is haunted by ghostly apparitions.

"There are many people who work there who would tell you privately that there are spirits in that place and lots of them," he said.

"There's a lot of paranormal activity there. The police know it. The janitors know it. And the nursing people know it. They all know it — especially the people who work the night shift," he said.

A VA spokesman declined to comment.

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Lack of truck drivers jackknifes Swift profits

Swift Transportation, the largest trucker in North America, saw its shares crater 16 percent on Friday after it said it could not find enough truck drivers and that it would hurt future earnings.

The firm, which has a large facility near the Port of Elizabeth in New Jersey, said it was "constrained" by a challenging driver market, which led to higher turnover than was anticipated.

"There has been a driver shortage that has been getting incrementally worse as the economy improves and they have to fight for employees with the housing sector," Lee Klaskow, an analyst, told Bloomberg.

"You see some carriers passing on rate increases to drivers, but for whatever reason, Swift has had a harder time attracting and retaining drivers," he added

The American Trucking Association has issued repeated warnings that the North American trucking market has lost more than 30,000 drivers in the past few years and anticipates that shortfall could skyrocket to 200,000 in the next decade, according to a statement on its Web site.

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Chop’t CEO wants to take brand national

Having turned his trendy chain of New York-based salad restaurants into a success, Chop't CEO Nick Marsh is determined to go national.

The trick will be convincing middle America that salad is cool again. Salad consumption has declined steadily since the fitness-crazed 1980s, when model Elle Macpherson touted Burger King salad bars and Richard Simmons pitched spray-bottle dressing.

Only 4.8 percent of restaurant lunches include a main-dish salad, about half as many as in 1989, according to research firm NPD Group.

"We really had to change people's perceptions of what a salad could be" when Chop't opened its doors 12 years ago and "recruited" diners with a dish featuring steak, fried onions and blue cheese, Marsh told Bloomberg. "In the immediate future, Chop't has the opportunity to be in a lot more places." Chop't hopes to ride the consumer wave toward fast-casual restaurants, typified by Chipotle Mexican Grill.

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William Shatner blasts Zuckerberg’s celebrity-only app

Mark Zuckerberg launched a new app for celebrities — and Captain Kirk immediately blasted it with his phaser.

OK, so it wasn't a phaser. It was a blog. Still, Facebook's new app for famous people to interact with fans free of other Facebook clutter, called "Mentions," had only just been released when actor William Shatner tore it down on his Tumblr blog.

"I'm not quite sure why Facebook released this app for 'celebrities,' " Shatner said on the blog. "It seems to be ill-conceived."

Among his complaints: Mentions requires its "actors, athletes, musicians and other influencers" to follow other celebs as part of the registration process.

And the first celeb Facebook recommended to Shatner? Why, his old "Star Trek" nemesis George Takei.

"Rolling my eyes," Shatner wrote about Facebook's awkward suggestion that he follow Takei. The Priceline spokesman chose Robert Downey Jr. instead — and then hid his posts, he said.

"I think that is a big flaw in the set-up. If this app is for celebrities then WHY force them to follow another celebrity in order to set up this app?" Shatner groaned.

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Don’t bet house on housing

Two billion dollars for a real estate Web site?

That's what Zillow is reportedly willing to pay for its house-hunting rival Trulia. But while house-stalking online is the equivalent of TV binge-watching, not everything is going well in white-picket-fence land.

That is because housing has become a major impediment for the US economy and a large reason economic growth has come to a standstill in 2014.

The latest numbers underscore the story. While there had been strong hopes for a broad-based housing upturn six years into the "recovery," demand for new homes has fallen off the cliff this year.

In fact, sales of new single-family homes cratered 4.9 percent in the first six months of 2014. June was nearly twice as bad, with sales off more than 8 percent from May levels.

This comes as no surprise to Jeffrey Gundlach of Doubleline Capital, one of the smartest guys in the hedge fund arena. All year, Gundlach has been warning that Americans (especially younger ones) have been scared senseless by the housing bust and are steering clear of home ownership.

Gundlach also makes the case that without all the bells and whistles of the 2006-era adjustable-rate financing, home affordability is no better now than it was back in those halcyon days — despite rock-bottom mortgage rates.

One doesn't have to look to the new construction on 57th Street to see that housing prices have soared in recent years, perversely tamping down demand in the 99 percent of the country, where Russian oligarchs aren't parking their money.

The median price of a new home in the US is almost 18 percent higher than it was a year ago, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

How much of a drag the housing stall is having on the economy will come into sharper view this week, when the initial estimate of GDP for this spring is released. We already know the slowdown had an impact on the 2.9 percent contraction in growth in the first quarter.

In the meantime, Zillow, which is worth an eye-popping $6 billion, is betting the house that Americans will live out their American dream, vicariously, by home-viewing on-line.

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8 things to watch this week

1. The Quest

Thursday, 8 p.m., ABC

A genre-bending new reality series unlike anything else on television, "The Quest," combines harrowing and intense competition challenges, narrative storytelling and cutting edge special effects and prosthetics to conjure an immersive fantasy environment. 12 real people, pulled from their everyday lives, are transported to a fantasy world where they are declared Paladins, defenders of a noble cause.Photo: ABC/Rick Rowell

Fantasy and reality clash with scripted drama in this new series, a competition show in which 12 contestants, broken up into two teams, enter a fantasy world called "Everealm," where they compete in challenges while being bombarded with animatronic creations and 3-D images. Or something. It all sounds very confusing, but it's got a nice pedigree, since it's from the executive producer of "The Lord of the Rings" movie franchise with an assist from the people behind "The Amazing Race."

2. James Garner Tribute

Monday, 6 a.m., TCM

Gena Rowlands as "Allie" and James Garner as "Noah in the 2004 film "The Notebook."Photo: SMPSP/New Line Productions

Turner Classic Movies salutes the late actor James Garner, who passed away July 19 at the age of 86, with a 24-hour marathon of his best-known movies. While Garner is known for his TV roles in "Maverick" and "The Rockford Files," he has a rich history of film work, which will be highlighted here starting with "Toward the Unknown" at 6 a.m. and continuing with, among others, "Grand Prix" (9:30 a.m.), "Darby's Rangers" (4 p.m.), "The Thrill of It All" (8 p.m.), "The Americanization of Emily" (10 p.m.) and "Victor/Victoria" (2 a.m.).

3. The Leftovers

Sunday, 10 p.m., HBO

Justin Theroux on "The Leftovers."Photo: HBO

This new series about a global rapture which swallows up 2 percent of the world's population is starting to generate some buzz and pick up a slew of viewers as word-of-mouth spreads. In Sunday night's episode, "Gladys," Laurie's (Amy Brenneman) resolve is put to the test after a brutal hate crime, while Kevin (Justin Theroux with Christopher Eccleston) turns down an outside offer to rid the town of its problems after he fails to maintain the peace in Mapleton. Meg (Liv Tyler), meanwhile, takes on a new role.

4. Ray Donovan

Sunday, 9 p.m., Showtime

Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight play a battling father and son on "Ray Donovan."

The popular series continues with the second episode of Season 2. In Sunday's hour long showcase, Ray (Liev Schreiber) and wife Abby (Paula Malcomson) face a big hurdle in trying to get daughter Bridget (Kerris Dorsey) into her dream school. Jon Voight, Dash Mihok, Pooch Hall and Katherine Moennig co-star.

5. Sharknado 2: The Second One

Wednesday, 9 p.m., Syfy

Ian Ziering fends off sharks – in the subway – in "Sharknado 2: The Second One," which airs July 30 on Syfy.Photo: Syfy

Call it "summer camp." Syfy will try to replicate at least part of the social media firestorm generated by last summer's mega-cheesy "Sharknado," in which a tornado unleashed a mess o' sharks on the streets of LA. This time around, the Sharknado hits New York City, and back in action are original stars Ian Zieiring and Tara Reid, aided and abetted by many guest stars, including Judd Hirsch, Andy Dick, Billy Ray Cyrus, Kelly Osbourne, Al Roker and Robert Klein.

6. Running Wild with Bear Grylls

Monday, 8 p.m., NBC

Intrepid Post reporter Gregory Miller is proud of the shelter he built from sticks and leaves — not the worst one in his group, he boasts.Photo: Christian Johnston

Bear Grylls will take actor Zac Efron out this week on "Running Wild."Photo: NBC

Adventurer/survivalist Bear Grylls stars in this new series in which he takes six celebrities — including Zac Efron in Monday's series opener — into remote locations in the US and around the world for a two-day journey in which they endure harsh wilderness conditions while doing outdoorsy things like skydiving and repelling down cliffs. Future episodes will feature Ben Stiller, Channing Tatum, Deion Sanders, Tom Arnold and MSNBC/"Today" show anchor Tamron Hall.

7. Manhattan

Sunday, 9 p.m., WGN America

Rachel Brosnahan as Abby Isaacs and Ashley Zuckerman as Charlie Isaacs in WGN America's "Manhattan."Photo: Greg Peters/WGN America

Following on the heels of its first original series, "Salem," WGN America goes to the historical well again — this time in a more realistic way. "Manhattan" is a 13-episode series revolving around the top-secret race to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, NM, during World War II (even US veep Harry Truman didn't know about the project). The series will mix history and melodrama as it tracks how the events, dubbed "The Manhattan Project," affect both the scientists involved in the mission, and their family members (wives, children, etc.). The large ensemble cast includes Daniel Stern with Sid Liao, and Harry Lloyd, Rachel Brosnahan ("House of Cards"), John Benjamin Hickey, Olivia Williams, Ashley Zukerman, Christopher Denham and Michael Chernus.

8. Hell on Wheels

Saturday, 9 p.m., AMC

Anson Mount stars in "Hell on Wheels" on AMC.Photo: Chris Large/AMC

AMC's Western drama returns for a fourth season of 13 episodes — airing in two parts — with stars Anson Mount, Colm Meaney and Common. The series performed well last season in its new Saturday night timeslot, and the new season picks up where "Hell on Wheels" left off, with Cullen (Mount) married to a pregnant Naomi and living in the Mormon fort where The Swede (Christopher Heyerdahl) was impersonating church leader Bishop Dutson. "Doc" Durant (Meaney), meanwhile, was back in control of the Union Pacific Railroad and Elam (Common) was gravely injured by a bear while searching for Cullen. Season 4 will also include new characters including John Campbell, played by Jake Weber ("Medium," "The Following").

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Fans pitch their tents at CitiField for NYC’s most unusual sleepover

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Jeffrey Rathgeber and his 12-year-old son, Jeffrey Jr., enjoy a double-bedder at Citi Field, where the Mets let fans sleep on the field overnight.

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Sign him up! Three-year-old Connor warms up — maybe the Mets will need him to pitch.

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Photos with Mr. and Mrs. Met!

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Brothers Logan, 7 (from left), and Nolan, 5, along with pal Chase, 8, pretend they're phoning the bullpen to get a Mets reliever warmed up.

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Ron Renna and his son Zachary can't wait till next year's overnight at the ballpark.

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Of course, hot dogs were served for dinner.

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At right, little fan Jovanny, 4, is tuckered out from the sleepover.

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No doubt, these young fans are dreaming of a Mets World Series win.

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Writer Mary Kay Linge's son Xavier, 10, is all tired out after playing on the field.

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Writer Mary Kay Linge (from left) and her kids Peter, Teresa and Xavier had an amazin' time.

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As the young man stepped through the bullpen gate onto the warning track at the edge of right field in Citi Field, he gasped, "Oh, my God."

Sign him up! Three-year-old Connor warms up — maybe the Mets will need him to pitch.Photo: Angel Chevrestt

No, this wasn't Mets closer Jenrry Mejía running to the mound in a tight game. It was my 17-year-old son, Peter — a Mets fan since birth (he watched them clobber the Phillies 8-4 on the hospital-room TV three hours after his arrival). He was here with the rest of the family, and about 300 other fans, on a recent Saturday when the Mets were in San Diego, for the team's annual sleepover at the stadium. On the field!

He tiptoed across the red dirt and gazed at the cathedral-like vista of seats and scoreboards, glowing in the late afternoon light. Then he and his dad, laughing, whipped off their sneakers and walked barefoot through the grass.

The sleepover, (which cost $200 per person and included meals, snacks and a pillow) let us see one of NYC's iconic spots from a new perspective. We fans had a whole night with the place to ourselves, snoozing on the outfield grass, wriggling our toes in its dirt. If Mets stars Matt Harvey and David Wright have done that, they've kept it pretty quiet.

Brothers Logan, 7 (from left), and Nolan, 5, along with pal Chase, 8, pretend they're phoning the bullpen to get a Mets reliever warmed up.Photo: Angel Chevrestt

My younger kids, Teresa, 15, and Xavier, 10, followed Peter onto the field, picking their way through duffel bags and ground cloths. One group was inflating an air mattress. Others were pitching tents (I counted 56 of them) on the warning track. We picked a spot in shallow center, where we've seen outfielder Juan Lagares snare fly balls with style, and plopped our sleeping bags down.

First off, we had to have a catch. Digging out the ball and gloves, Peter and his dad joined the fans in left field who'd had the same thought. Xavier just wanted to run around sans shoes ("No rocks!"). Teresa tried on the satin sleep mask she'd received from the Mets at the gate.

Our on-field neighbor, Ron Renna, 45, of Hillsborough, NJ, was laying out gear with his son Zachary, 10. "Awesome," said Renna, a pharmaceutical sales rep. "You feel like you're part of the place. Zack says that now he can appreciate the pressure that players are under."

After running around the field, we built up an appetite. Dinner was a kid's dream: unlimited hot dogs, pizza, soda and an ice cream sundae bar, with fruit juice and tossed salad on hand to appease the moms. Peter dropped his dog to go meet Mets legend Ed Kranepool, returning with a story of how he'd shown off his 1969 World Series ring. Peter pronounced it "so cool." Also on hand for photo ops: Mr. — and Mrs. — Met.

After dinner, the Mets-Padres game from San Diego was shown on the stadium screens, and, once the game was done, a movie, complete with late-night snacks.

Photos with Mr. and Mrs. Met!Photo: Angel Chevrestt

"I'm kvelling," said Charlotte Sasso, 52, a store owner from Amagansett, LI, there with her 10-year-old son, Dante. "At his age, these are his heroes. To sleep so close to the spot where Daniel Murphy stands is huge for him," she said, referring to the Mets second baseman.

Before the game came on, we did some exploring. The infield was roped off, but both dugouts were open. Peter and I goofed around on the phones ("Get Mejía hot!") and crouched on the top step like manager Terry Collins. We could even use the dugout bathrooms. By the looks of things, lots of guys liked the idea of going where many Mets had gone before.

The late-night snack spread (doughnuts, popcorn, soft pretzels, candy — the works) was out for hours. Our kids meandered back and forth for munchies as Lagares struck out to end the game. The stadium lights dimmed, and the film "Angels in the Outfield" began. Sugared-up children played tag in their PJs, before, one by one, dropping off to sleep.

I strolled around the ballpark at 1:45 a.m., with the movie over and lights low. There was none of the rowdiness you might see at a game with beered-up fans. I settled down to rest.

And I learned a couple of things on this sleepover:

1) The ground that produces that lush lawn is rock-hard.

2) When it rains, you're not allowed to nap in the dugout.

At right, little fan Jovanny, 4, is tuckered out from the sleepover.Photo: Angel Chevrestt

Ten minutes of drizzle won't kill you, but it sure does break up your slumber. "Another rain delay," groaned my husband the third time it happened. The plane screaming overhead from LaGuardia at 4:19 a.m. didn't help. But who expects a full night's sleep at a sleepover at a baseball stadium?

As dawn broke, it hit me: We're in the middle of a major-league ballpark. Funny how quickly it had come to feel as familiar as my living room.

The sound of recorded church bells booming over the sound system woke us at 6 a.m. Teresa jammed her pillow (blue and orange and very comfy, courtesy of a Mets sponsor) over her head. Mr. and Mrs. Met bounded onto the field to rouse drowsy fans. Mrs. Met sashayed over and Xavier reached out a hand for a high-five before huddling back in his bag.

Some rushed to get in one last game of catch. We rolled up our damp bedding and stumbled toward a breakfast of muffins, fruit and doughnuts.

Ron and Zachary Renna were also on their way out. "It was exciting to wake up and see I was in Citi Field," said Zachary.

"He peeked out and said, 'Dad, I love you, and I want to do this again next year,' " Renna said. "What can you say? That was the moment for me."

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Welcome to New York: The city that sometimes sleeps

If you've ever wondered how factually accurate Ben Stiller's movie "Night at the Museum" was, now's your opportunity to find out firsthand.

The word's still out on whether any dinosaur skeletons will come to life and eat you, but there's plenty of excitement in store for the American Museum of Natural History's first adults-only sleepover Friday night. If it goes well, others will be scheduled (62,000 people have already participated in the kid-friendly version).

"The nice thing about being in the museum at night, there's a point at which you'll find yourself standing alone in complete darkness, one-on-one with the content," says Brad Harris, senior director of visitor services. "It's quite a unique experience."

The sleepover ($375 for nonmembers, $325 for members; amnh.org/sleepovers) goes from 6:30 p.m. on Friday to 9 a.m. Saturday and features flashlight tours, live music, a midnight space show screening, a three-course dinner and sleeping on cots underneath the museum's famed 94-foot blue whale.

As for the 21-and-up requirement, Harris isn't anticipating any drunken debauchery. "We'll have one Champagne toast and there'll be wine with dinner, but that's the extent of it," he says. "If that's the goal of the participant . . . But the folks we've been talking to, I think they're much more nerdish."

The Rubin Museum, home to art from the Himalayas, has hosted sold-out "Dream-Overs" since 2011, the most recent of which included lessons on the importance of dreams in Tibetan medicine. At least one more is planned for the future (e-mail programming@ rmanyc.org to stay updated).

Families, kids' groups and individuals can suit up for "Operation Slumber" events at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on multiple Saturdays throughout the fall. Highlights of the overnight include a scavenger hunt, guided flashlight tours and a ride on the XD Theater Cosmic Coaster. Individual tickets are $120, $99 per person for groups of 15 or more — visit intrepidmuseum.org or call 646-381- 5010 for more info.

But if you want something a little more wild, test out the Bronx Zoo's family overnight safari ($185 per person; bronxzoo.org). Going strong for 20 years, its next overnight is Sept. 13. Nothing quite compares to a wake-up call from a group of sea lions.

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Brave the world’s tallest, fastest ride at Six Flags Great Adventure

Pulling up to the parking lot, I was good.

"You got this," I thought to myself. "You is kind, you is smart, you is going to tackle the beast."

But then I heard the bloodcurdling screams of 24 people plummeting 41 stories to their would-be deaths. I mentally began to calculate how long it would take to find a doctor to prescribe Klonopin.

Lucky me, I'm here at Six Flags Great Adventure — a 90-minute New Jersey Transit bus ride out of the Port Authority to Jackson, NJ — to test out the theme park's newest thrill, Zumanjaro: Drop of Doom. When it opened at the beginning of July, it obliterated two world records. Disappearing 415 feet into the clouds, it's billed as the tallest drop ride in the world, and with riders plummeting back to earth at 90 mph, it also lays claim as the fastest.

It's a good thing I thought twice about buying that churro.

The Post's Gregory Miller puts on a brave front (not really) as he waits for launch.Photo: Keith A. Muccilli

"We're always looking to do something innovative and different, and breaking records is important," John Fitzgerald, the park president, told me earlier. "The primary objective was . . . to come up with something that had notoriety from the beginning."

Mission accomplished. I'm quivering, and the girls trying to shove each other into the entrance are most definitely terrified. But they suck it up, and since they are teenage girls half my size, I figure it's time I pull it together, too.

On a recent sunny Saturday morning, the line is surprisingly short — no more than 30 minutes or so. The short line, though, means taking a stroll through the first half of the queue space in a manner not unlike walking the plank.

As if I weren't nervous enough already, a sign greeted me midway through the line, warning, "Clothing may get soiled from track lubricant."

Great. Now, not only was there a strong chance of soiling my pants on my own accord, I might get grease on this cute new tank top I just bought from Target. It has a pocket!

The tension builds as I get closer and closer to strapping myself into the seat. Finally, it's time, and like a dentist appointment or a colonoscopy, I'm ready for this to be over.

I buckle up, and we begin to rise.

"So long, world," I think. "You and I were just starting to get along. The tank top was even on sale."

I'm suddenly distracted by the breathtaking sights around me. The Statue of Liberty ain't got nothin' on this. Coming into view is the Philadelphia skyline, some 50 miles away. It's unlike anything I've ever —

BAM.

We drop. Hurtling to the ground with legs flying, I feel like I'm floating, but also about to make a humansized imprint in the concrete below. In less than 10 seconds, our feet are on the ground.

"I didn't look up so I didn't see how far we'd gone. I kept thinking, 'Oh, we're at the top. OK, now we're at the top. OK, we're at the top, no?' It just kept going!" says Catherine Guarino, a 20-year-old visitor from Long Island who took the plunge. "First my stomach dropped, and then it, like, left," she says of the fall.

Not only did I survive the death-defying fall, I am happy to report that both my pants and my tank top made it out just fine. Thanks for asking.

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Man reports innocent ex-wife as ‘terrorist’ to authorities

A Queens man called 911 to report that a woman flying to New York City from India was a "terrorist" involved in a "plot" – even though she was really his innocent ex-wife, according to his Brooklyn federal court complaint.

Jacob Thomas, 51, phoned 911 twice on July 5, 2014 to falsely report that a woman named "Shakeela" was "traveling to commit some type of terrorist act," the complaint states.

Law enforcement agents who investigated the call found that there was a Shakeela traveling to JFK Airport from India but when they met her at the airport to search and question her they found no evidence of terrorism.

Thomas had recently expressed anger that his ex-wife was visiting the US and when federal agents questioned him he apologized for wasting their time, his complaint states.

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Good Samaritans stop ‘Bruce Lee’ in home invasion

A home invasion in the Bronx was thwarted by some good Samaritans Friday evening, cops said.

Police say Bruce Lee, 29, of Brooklyn, pushed his way into the victim's home on East 190th Street just after 6 p.m.

Lee tied up the victim's hands and feet with duct tape and made off with the woman's cell phone. jewelry, and money before fleeing the building, according to police.

As Lee left, the woman was able to call for help while still bound by duct tape, and several neighbors stopped Lee and held him down while they waited for cops to arrive, police said.

Cops said Lee was carrying an imitation gun, which he used to intimidate his way into the woman's Bedford Park apartment.

Lee was charged with burglary, grand larceny, robbery, and unlawful imprisonment.

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Billionaire’s apartment is oozing goo in neighbor’s homes: suit

A glass-encased Tribeca condo that is home to a restaurant billionaire and a top Wall Street banker is oozing sticky goo into the apartments of several big-bucks residents because of shoddy construction, a new $10 million lawsuit charges.

The board of managers at 1 York St., on Sixth Avenue just off Canal Street, is suing the Canadian company Ferguson Nedorf Glass for the "careless and slipshod" job.

At the high-rise on Thursday, a worker pointed out the allegedly shoddy sealant on second-floor windows visible from Sixth Avenue.

Representatives for Ferguson Nerdoff did not return messages seeking comment.

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Indian teen has 232 teeth removed from his mouth

When Ashik Gavai began struggling to bite and chew due to severe swelling on the right side of his face, he took himself to see a doctor.

After a number of tests on the 17-year-old from Buldhana, in western India, doctors discovered an unusual growth on one of his bottom molars and booked him in for surgery.

"Initially, it was not very clear what it could be and so we decided to go in for surgery yesterday (Monday)," Dr. Sunanda Dhivare-Palwankar, head of the hospital's dental department, told India Times.

As they got to work on fixing the molar they discovered hundreds of tiny teeth growing inside the tooth, which had grown to the size of a small marble.

"At the final count, we had a total of 232 small pearlies, all independently developing as teeth, coming out of that lone molar," Dr. Dhivare-Palwankar said.

The over 200 teeth removed from Gavai's mouth.Photo: Getty Images

They also discovered a rock-like growth inside the molar which was too hard for the dentist's Dr.ill to remove, with surgeons resorting to an old "chisel-mallet" technique.

The surgery took seven hours to complete and Dr. Dhivare-Palwankar said it was the first time she had ever seen anything like it.

She said the "development abnormality" likely formed after Gavai lost his milk teeth. She said the tumor was benign.

Gavai had put up with the pain in his mouth for years as he was unable to afford medical treatment.

The operation was paid for by a government health care scheme for the poor.

This article originally appeared on News.com.au.

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Israeli airstrikes hit 30 Gaza Strip homes

JERUSALEM — Israeli aircraft struck 30 houses in the Gaza Strip early Friday, killing a leader of the militant Islamic Jihad group and two of his sons, while ground troops and Hamas gunmen fought intense battles in the north and center of the territory, Palestinian officials said.

The Israeli military confirmed dozens of sites were hit, including what it said were Hamas command posts, but did not elaborate.

With the current round of fighting entering its 18th day, Israel's Security Cabinet was to meet later Friday to decide whether to expand its operation or consider ideas for a cease-fire.

One plan calls for a five-day humanitarian truce during which Israel and Hamas would negotiate new border arrangements for blockaded Gaza, said Hana Amireh, a senior Palestine Liberation Organization official in the West Bank, who is involved in cease-fire efforts.

Hamas has said it will not halt fire without international guarantees that Egypt and Israel will open Gaza's border crossings and end their seven-year-old border blockade. Israel and Egypt are reluctant to ease the blockade, fearing this will enable Hamas to tighten its grip on Gaza.

Israeli media reported that the military also wants more time to continue destroying rocket sites and tunnels from Gaza into Israel that Hamas has used to launch attacks. The military has found 31 tunnels but only destroyed about one-third of them so far.

In Jerusalem, meanwhile, thousands of Israeli security forces were deployed for possible Palestinian protests after Friday prayers at a key Muslim holy site, said police spokeswoman Luba Samri.

The night before, thousands of Palestinians protesting the Gaza fighting clashed with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. One Palestinian was killed and dozens were wounded, according to Palestinian medical officials.

In Gaza, the death toll soared to 808, after 115 Palestinians were killed on Thursday in one of the deadliest days of fighting, said Ashraf al-Kidra, a Palestinian health official. Thirty-four Israelis, among them 32 soldiers, and a Thai worker have been killed since July 8.

Early Friday, Israeli warplanes struck 30 houses throughout the Gaza Strip, including the home of Salah Hassanein, a leader of the military wing of Islamic Jihad, the second-largest militant group in Gaza after Hamas.

Hassanein and two of his sons were killed in the strike, said Gaza police spokesman Ayman Batniji and al-Kidra.

Over the past two weeks, Israeli aircraft have repeatedly hit homes of Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders. Most had gone into hiding, but the strikes killed a leader of an Islamic Jihad rocket squad, a Hamas commander and a son of senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Haya, according to the Israeli military.

Such strikes have also claimed the lives of a large number of civilians. A Gaza human rights group said earlier this week that close to 500 homes have been damaged or destroyed in direct hits from the air, and that more than 320 people have been killed in their homes as a result of military strikes.

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Leap of faith for passengers after aviation’s terrible week

WASHINGTON — Airline travel requires passengers to make a leap of faith, entrusting their lives to pilots, airlines, air traffic controllers and others who regulate air travel.

Even after a week of multiple tragedies in worldwide aviation, "There isn't much that we can do to manipulate how we fly as passengers. But we also shouldn't worry too much," says Phil Derner, founder of the aviation enthusiast website NYC Aviation.

With one passenger plane being shot out of the sky and two crashing during storms, aviation experts said there was no pattern suggesting a huge gap in airline safety measures.

"One of things that makes me feel better when we look at these events is that if they all were the same type event or same root cause. Then you would say there's a systemic problem here, but each event is unique," said Jon Beatty, president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation, an airline industry-supported nonprofit in Alexandria, Virginia, that promotes global aviation safety.

Less than 1 in 2 million flights last year ended in an accident that damaged a plane beyond repair, according to the International Air Transport Association. The statistic includes accidents involving cargo and charter airlines in its data as well as scheduled passenger airline flights. This week's aviation disasters have the potential to push airline fatalities this year to over 700 deaths — the most since 2010. And 2014 is still barely half over.

The misfortunes began July 18 when Malaysia Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine with 298 people on board. It's still uncertain who fired the missile that destroyed the plane, but Ukrainian officials have blamed ethnic Russian rebels, and U.S. officials have pointed to circumstantial evidence that suggests that may be the case.

Global aviation leaders will meet in Montreal next week to initiate discussions on a plan to address safety and security issues raised by the shoot-down of the Malaysia Airlines jet, an aviation official said late Thursday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the issue publicly by name.

There isn't much that we can do to manipulate how we fly as passengers. But we also shouldn't worry too much. - Phil Derner, NYC Aviation founder

The shoot-down doubled Malaysia Airlines' losses this year. The mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370 with 239 people on board in March combined with the destruction of Flight 17 amount to more than twice the total global airline fatalities in all of last year, which was the industry's safest year on record. Ascend, a global aviation industry consulting firm headquartered in London, counts 163 fatalities in 2013 involving passenger-carrying airliners with 14 seats or more.

On Wednesday, a TransAsia Airways plane crashed in Taiwan in stormy weather trailing a typhoon, killing 48 passengers, injuring 10 passengers and crew, and injuring five more people on the ground.

The next day an Air Algerie flight with 116 passengers and crew disappeared in a rainstorm over Mali while en route from Burkina Faso to Algeria's capital. The plane's wreckage was later found near Mali's border with Burkina Faso. The plane was operated for the airline by Swiftair, a Spanish carrier.

Derner said passengers can't do much about the path of their flights, and should leave it to aviation officials to learn the right lessons from the downing of the Malaysian flight.

For all that is out of the passengers' control, though, there are still steps that travelers can take to be well informed, select solid airlines and practice good safety habits.

Some tips:

• Tracking Flights: FlightAware.com can show what path a specific flight has flown the past few days, which can give passengers an idea of what to expect on their own flight. However, flight plans typically aren't loaded until an hour or two before a flight, and change all the time. Within the United States, passengers can track a flight's planned path with the WindowSeat flight tracker app.
• Safety Records: AirSafe.com offers airline-by-airline and model-by-model information on fatal plane crashes and other fatal events. It also shows crashes by regions of the world. Aviation-safety.net, a service of the Flight Safety Foundation, lists recent safety problems, offers information on emergency exits and other safety information, and has a database of safety issues stretching back to 1921.
• Assessing the Airline: The European Union keeps a list of airlines that are prohibited from flying there. If an airline makes that list, avoid it. It's also a good idea to see if a carrier is a member of the International Air Transport Association, the trade association for the world's airlines. If they're not, they might not have met the group's safety standards.
• Good Habits: AirSafe.com, run by former Boeing safety engineer Todd Curtis, offers 10 tips for safe flight. These include choosing larger aircraft and nonstop flights. Once onboard: listen to the safety briefing, keep overhead bins free of heavy items, keep seatbelts fastened during flight, listen to flight attendants, don't bring hazardous materials, let flight attendants pour any hot drinks, don't drink too much and keep your wits about you.

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Russian newspaper prints front-page MH17 apology

The left-leaning Novaya Gazeta Russian newspaper has published a highly provocative apology — written in Dutch and splashed across its front page today.

The paper has deviated from the official line coming out of the Kremlin, by attributing the source of the attack on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 at the hands of the Russian separatists.

The front page of Novaya Gazeta for July 25, 2014 reads 'Forgive Us, Netherlands' in Dutch.Photo: Getty Images

"Forgive Us, Netherlands'' was the bold headline above a somber photograph of the convoy of hearses that transported the first of the bodies across The Netherlands from Eindhoven to Hilversum for forensic analysis.

The paper — which was set up by the former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbechev from money he received as part of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize — is highly regarded for its critical coverage of Russian politics.

But the investigations have come at a heavy price, with four of its journalists murdered since 2001.

This article originally appeared on News.com.au.

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Analysis finds subway information signs inadequate

All signs point to confusion, thanks to the MTA.

Riders whose subway lines are rerouted for repair work have a hard time finding signs that explain clearly what's going on, according to a New York City Transit Riders Council analysis.

The council found that many signs are posted past turnstiles, requiring people to pay before learning if their train is running. Other stations are missing signs.

"It's hit or miss," said the council's chairman, Andrew Albert.

MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said the agency uses many different ways to communicate with riders, including its Web sites, apps and social media, as well as the signs.

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Woman arrested in murder, dismemberment of roommate

A Brooklyn woman has been arrested in the gruesome death and dismemberment of her roommate, whose body parts were found strewn all over Long Island, law enforcement sources confirmed early Thursday morning.

Leah Cuevas, 42, was charged in Chinelle LaToya Thompson Browne's death.

Browne's body parts were discovered scattered across Bay Shore and Hempstead from July 8th through the 17th.

Cuevas was Browne's roommate before she was last scene on July 5th, according to cops.

Cops say Cuevas was charged with second degree murder and will be arraigned at the First District Court in Central Islip on Thursday.

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Escort charged with Google exec’s drug death seen in 2012 photo shoot

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A 2012 photo of Alix Tichelman, who allegedly shot a Google executive full of heroin before leaving him to die on a yacht.

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A 2012 photo of Alix Tichelman, who allegedly shot a Google executive full of heroin before leaving him to die on a yacht.

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A 2012 photo of Alix Tichelman, who allegedly shot a Google executive full of heroin before leaving him to die on a yacht.

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You don't need Google Glass to see this femme fatale.

Heroin-shooting escort Alix Tichelman donned leather, fur and stiletto boots during a 2012 photo shoot, in which she bared her red-rose shoulder tattoo.

The 26-year-old sexpot — who was charged with manslaughter earlier this month for injecting Google exec Forrest Timothy Hayes with heroin and leaving him to die on a yacht — planned to use the images to help bolster her modeling career.

This sexy shot was taken in Atlanta, where the raven-haired beauty frequented local bondage clubs and where she dated Dean Riopelle, the owner of a music venue and the lead singer of a rock band called the Impotent Sea Snakes.

Riopelle, too, died of a heroin overdose while he was with Tichelman.

But unlike in the Hayes incident, the sexy siren called 911 in an effort to get her rocker lover some help, officials said.

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