John Edwards Has Balls The Size Of Australia

John Edwards’ 2008 campaign just gets better and better:

A call girl working for alleged “Millionaire Madam” Anna Gristina told investigators she was paid to have sex with former U.S. Sen. John Edwards when he was in New York raising money for his failed presidential bid, DNAinfo has learned.

Edwards is the first big name to surface in connection to Gristina’s alleged prostitution scheme run out of an Upper East Side apartment.

His lawyers were contacted by DNAinfo, but did not comment.

According to “On The Inside” sources, Edwards allegedly hooked up with one of Gristina’s high-end hookers in 2007 when the dashing pol from North Carolina brought his then high-flying presidential campaign to the Big Apple.

You Can Lead A Horse To A Spiffy Pedestrian Mall . . .

But then the horse sees a group of ne’er-do-wells congregating in front of the Walgreens and decides not to go in:

Kensington residents are shooting down the city’s plan to turn Church Avenue and Beverly Road into a “Parisian” plaza teeming with benches and trees, claiming that the proposed champs elysees will become a home base for neighborhood hoodlums.

“We don’t need more people hanging out,” [a resident] said as she slammed the changes proposed for the corner, where the city wants to bring three benches, three trees, granite bollards and a bike rack to a large patch of concrete in front of a Walgreens. “People already congregate there and if I see a crowd in front of Walgreens, I won’t go in!”

Don’t Worry, They Were Just Posing Undercover As A Bunch Of Yobbos Out For Dinner

More “good police work”* going on, this time at a steakhouse in Washington Heights:

Four New York City police detectives have been placed on desk duty and stripped of their guns and badges amid claims that they drank alcohol at a Washington Heights restaurant while on duty last week, according to a law enforcement official and the detectives’ lawyer.

In addition, the official said that one of the detectives was being investigated by the police Internal Affairs Bureau to determine if he sexually assaulted a waitress there — or if he paid for sex with her.

*Like Peter King says.

Moral: Never Tie Your Legacy To School Test Scores

It will eventually bite you in the ass:

In a stunning blow to Mayor Bloomberg’s legacy on education, new national exam results show the city’s math and reading scores have flatlined since 2009.

Eighth-grade reading scores have stagnated since 2003, when the Bloomberg administration reforms first took effect.

There’s also been no significant improvement in the percentage of eighth-graders who tested “proficient” or above in math, the scores released Wednesday show.

Message: If Some College Kid Asks For A Ride To East New York, Gladly Invite Him Or Her In And Remind That Person That The Credit Card Machine Is Always On

Because you’d think it should be fairly easy for them to tell who is a plant:

The student agents have hailed 1,330 yellow cabs since September and been denied 361 times, according to TLC data.

. . .

Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx were the least popular destinations, with refusal rates ranging between 15 and 63 percent during various time frames, the statistics revealed.