Comp Time Is Looking Pretty Good Right About Now

God help me if I ever end up in the Post for accruing massive amounts of overtime:

If the city ever crowns an overtime king, the title would have to go to Pablo Martinez.

A senior systems analyst at the Board of Elections, Martinez pulled in $116,123 in OT in a 12-month period ending June 30, making him the city’s top overtime earner in the 2006 fiscal year.

Martinez’s total earnings came to $197,884, more than the mayor’s official salary of $195,000.

That alone would be impressive, except that Martinez also topped the charts in 2003, with $81,021 in OT, and in 2004, when he collected $93,385.

John Ravitz, the election board’s executive director, explained that Martinez essentially runs the agency’s entire computer operation.

“I wish I had two more bodies so he wouldn’t have to work those hours,” said Ravitz.

But with salaries that start at just $46,000, Ravitz said he hasn’t been able to find qualified computer-systems workers for two open slots.

. . .

Most of the other leading OT earners worked at the Transportation and Fire departments.

Anthony Mancino, a DOT supervising electrician who racked up $73,513 in OT in 2004, took in $108,845 this time, to bring his total earnings to $196,084.

Transportation officials told The Post last year that “overtime for ferry staff should decrease significantly” after new ferries were put into service and staffing levels were revamped.

The last of three new ferries began running in April.

But 21 of the agency’s 38 workers who made the citywide top 100 OT list had ferry duties.

One marine oiler — Theodore Archibald — earned 190 percent of his $45,082 base salary in overtime to bring his total paycheck to $130,694.

Now The Pit Bulls And Rottweilers On The Other Hand, They’re Just Asking For It

The city’s first order-of-protection for a pet has been issued following a recent change in the law. Mildly offensive Post quasi-homophobia added for your reading pleasure:

A jilted gay man turned into the wicked bitch of the west and beat up his ex-boyfriend’s tiny bichon frise, prompting the city’s first-ever order of protection for a dog.

Fredrick Fontanez, 20, now must stay 100 yards away from the pooch Bibi and have no contact with the dog, Judge Alex Zigman ordered in Queens Criminal Court yesterday.

ASPCA officials say that on July 20, Fontanez was dog-sitting for his boyfriend, Derek Lopez, at the latter’s house on 149th Avenue in Howard Beach, when the two had a fight over the phone at about 6 p.m.

Lopez allegedly told Fontanez, who lives in The Bronx, to be out of his house by the time he got home from work.

Sometime later, neighbors report hearing blood-curdling yelps and howls from the apartment where Fontanez, who is 5-foot-10 and 180 pounds, was alone with 5-year-old Bibi, a cute, 15-pound, white powder puff of a dog.

“I heard him kick the dog. You know when a dog yelps, you know something is not right,” said neighbor Miguel Colon, 38. “I know when a dog is being hurt.”

Fontanez left when Lopez got home — and Colon told him what he had heard. Lopez was shocked when he saw the pup.

“A few minutes later, he knocks on my door and says, ‘Yo, look at this,’ He’s got the welts, he’s got black and blues,” said Colon, an animal lover. “It was black and blue over his spine, maybe four inches from his tail. You could see he was shivering, see it in his face.

“You know that’s not cool — that’s not cool. Because that dog can’t defend itself,” he said. “The guy should go pick on some of the pit bulls or Rottweilers around here.”

After an investigation by the ASPCA, Fontanez was arrested Wednesday. He was arraigned early yesterday and released with no bail on orders to stay away from Lopez and his canine best friend.

The extension of orders of protection to animals was signed into law just late last month by Gov. Pataki.

“This is precisely why my legislation is so necessary,” said Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, who co-sponsored the fur-friendly bill. Abusing a loved one’s pet “is a way of saying ‘You’re next.’ It’s a warning.”

The Post Oppo Research Machine Chugs Along

After revealing yesterday that Yvette Clarke sort of overlooked not actually receiving her degree, the Post Oppo Research machine makes Chris Owens prove he didn’t put up fliers calling David Yassky a rat:

A black Brooklyn congressional candidate denied having anything to do with putting up fliers calling his Jewish opponent a rat.

During a debate last night, Chris Owens — the son of Rep. Major Owens, who is vacating the seat in the 11th District — was asked if he was connected to fliers addressed to “Nasty Yassky.”

The posters refer to City Councilman David Yassky, who has been accused of moving into the district to run among a crowded field of blacks and take advantage of a split vote. “We don’t need any more rats or roaches in the neighborhood,” they read.

The fliers were next to campaign posters for Owens, who said he hadn’t seen them. Councilwoman Yvette Clarke called Yassky an opportunist, while State Sen. Carl Andrews said he “has the right to run.”

Just two and-a-half weeks to go until the September 12 primary . . .

I Guess This Just Goes To Show How Few Actually Read The Post

After shining the light on the establishment’s health department violations, the Post returns to Shake Shack to see if everyone got the message:

The city’s trendiest outdoor snack bar continued to draw long lines of customers yesterday, but most of them hadn’t gotten the dirt on its latest Health Department inspection and the huge number of violations it’s racked up.

“I’m very upset by the violations,” said James DePrima, who quickly got off the Shake Shack line when told of the report.

“It’s especially upsetting because I had my family in the park recently and I insisted we eat at the Shack.”

One customer blamed the eatery’s location in Madison Square Park.

“When you have a restaurant in the park, there is going to be an inherent risk of vermin,” said Terry Fortunate, who also made a quick exit from the line.

The Post Is Saying What The Times Is Thinking

Foreign-born New Yorkers make up 37 percent of the city’s population, according to the latest census data:

Immigrants have continued to surge into metropolitan New York since 2000, according to census figures released today, and that increase, combined with high birth rates, has elevated the foreign-born and their children in New York City itself to fully 60 percent of the population. The rate of change was even more pronounced in the 24 suburban counties around the city, where a record 20 percent of the residents are now born abroad.

The figures, while showing that the city’s gains from immigration were not nearly as marked as they were in the 1990’s, are nonetheless striking in their detail and magnitude.

In the city, the number of people who identified themselves as Mexicans, here legally or not, soared 36 percent in five years, and not merely as a consequence of improved counting. More than half the residents of Queens and the Bronx do not speak English at home. Nearly one in three black residents in New York City was born abroad.

The trends are reported in the American Community Survey, a new annual version of the federal Census Bureau’s long-form questionnaire designed to capture the nation’s demographic profile in a more timely moving picture, rather than a once-a-decade snapshot.

Meanwhile, the Times buries the Post’s lede (note the descriptive word the paper uses in the URL for this story):

Among children younger than 15, white residents who are not Hispanic have become a minority in the metropolitan area, an indication that within just a few years the New York region will become the first large metropolitan area outside the South or West where non-Hispanic whites are a minority.

The Post, on the other hand, doesn’t bury the Post’s lede:

The number of whites in New York City has been shrinking the last five years, while the Asian and Hispanic populations have been climbing, according to new figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Then again, the Post’s headline is “Whites Decline In City” . . .

Other interesting or notable data:

New York ranks first in the proportion of men and women — 35.2 percent and 30.2 percent, respectively — who have never married. The median age for first marriages by women is highest in Connecticut, at 27.5, and for men in New York, at 29.3. New York State also has the lowest proportion of households composed of married couples, 45 percent. Barely half the children in the city, 53 percent, are being raised by a married couple.

As ever, within the borders of the city there were great differences. In Manhattan, where the number of black and Hispanic residents declined, married couples with children living at home made up about 10 percent of households, but the rate is 27 percent on Staten Island. In the Bronx, more than half the families with children are headed by women.

The census counted more American Indians, about 33,000, than in any other city. Chinese is spoken by more than 350,000 New Yorkers, Italian by 103,000, Yiddish by 77,000.

While the number of Puerto Ricans in the city declined slightly, they remain the largest group among Hispanics, with 787,000. Dominicans, who number 532,000 — the largest number among foreign-born — are catching up with Puerto Ricans. More city residents still identify their ancestry as Italian than any other group, but West Indians are closing.