The treasure trove of valuables that accused Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff secretly mailed off to relatives on Christmas Eve includes diamond watches from Cartier and Tiffany, federal prosecutors revealed today. One package recovered by the feds...

A Long Island doctor whose wife dumped him for her physical therapist after he gave her his kidney is suing the mother of three for the $1.5 million that he claims the organ is worth. "I saved her life and then to be betrayed like this is...

Even in the wacky world of Big Apple real estate, this is a tale for the ages: a hot-dog vendor has agreed to pay the city $81,701 more a year to peddle franks on the north side of the Metropolitan Museum of Art entrance than on the south side 100...

The maple syrup mystery plot has thickened. A sickly sweet odor that first wafted across Manhattan in 2005 had people sniffing the air again Monday night as 37 callers in just three hours reported the smell to the city s 311 information line...

In a heist straight out of Guy Ritchie s film "Snatch," a pair of armed robbers disguised themselves as Hasidic Jews to steal $4 million worth of jewels from a Diamond District wholesaler in broad daylight, law-enforcement sources told The Post...

A hotshot tax attorney was busted for allegedly trying to blackmail a former lover into sending him nude photos by threatening to give her husband, neighbors and relatives what he claimed was a raunchy DVD of their past sexcapades. Steven Klig, a...

Forget schussing. Tushing is all the rage on the slopes of Vail, as a hapless skier gets caught with his pants down after falling off a chairlift. The 48-year-old man slipped moments after he sat on the ascending Vail Mountain lift on New Year s...

It s clear who wears the pinstriped pants in new Yankee savior Mark Teixeira s family. Teixeira and his wife, Leigh, were all smiles yesterday as they met Big Apple scribes at old Yankee Stadium, where he revealed that his better half steered...

Seared by relentless criticism of pricey luxury boxes the city scored at the new Yankee and Mets stadiums, Mayor Bloomberg gave in yesterday and said he ll sell back the perks to pump up a cash-starved treasury. The administration is asking both...

Some 6 percent of city workers rake in more than $100,000, research released yesterday by a conservative think tank shows. The offices of Mayor Bloomberg, the City Council, the public advocate, the city comptroller and the Department of Education...

Connecticut cops said yesterday they pinched foul-mouthed actor Rip Torn for alleged DUI - his third boozy driving bust in five years. Torn, 77, pleaded not guilty in a Litchfield court on Monday to two DUI-related charges. State troopers...

New York University lost as much as $94 million when a hotshot money manager, against the school s wishes, invested the cash with swindler Bernie Madoff, its lawyers told a judge yesterday. Ariel Fund Ltd., run by financier and GMAC Chairman...

A campaign bus for a candidate in the City Council s special election killed a 9-year-old Queens boy scampering home from school yesterday, devastating the child s family and stunning the politician, who suspended his race. PS 63 fourth-grader...

HAMILTON, NJ - Officials at the Faith Baptist School here were hoping for a return to normal yesterday, a day after classes were disrupted when two deer leaped through a window. The school canceled outdoor recess for the day. Animal-control...

A former floor manager at the Times Square eatery Hawaiian Tropic Zone, who says she was raped by her boss, wasn t the victim of sexual harassment, the restaurant contends. The bar-restaurant yesterday asked a federal judge to dismiss Giulietta...

A Long Island ambulance driver has been charged with aggravated animal cruelty after police say he stabbed his family s pit bull to death. Lamont Yarborough, 36, stabbed Buster multiple times in the family s home in Middle Island, Suffolk County...

A Gambino-linked construction official was arrested yesterday and charged with stealing as much as $2 million from the Deutsche Bank building demolition - taking kickbacks in the form of cash, jewelry, Caribbean vacations and Mercedes-Benz and BMW...

A Long Island man and a woman died of carbon monoxide poisoning when they used a car as a trysting place and kept the engine running to keep warm, cops said yesterday. The woman, Santos Rios-Vasquez, 23, of Brentwood, was found dead in a Honda...

A fire lieutenant testified yesterday how he tried to help save six comrades, only to see them fall or jump from a burning building in the 2005 Black Sunday inferno. "One member was hanging straight down from the window," Lt. Kevin White said...

Straphangers who still have nightmares of the 2005 holiday-season subway and bus strike can rest easy. The MTA and the Transport Workers Union have agreed to settle the most recent contract dispute through arbitration, each side said yesterday...