Kirsten Fleming
Kirsten Fleming is a features columnist at the New York Post.
Background
Kirsten writes about a variety of topics across pop culture, sports and politics. Previously, she was a senior features reporter covering the intersection of sports and culture, lifestyle and quirky New York City-centric tales. She also reported on city crime and local news. Kirsten lives in Manhattan and graduated from Providence College.
Latest Articles
Hey, Anna Wintour — I dare you to put Usha Vance on the cover of Vogue
January 22, 2025 | 6:58pmSecond Lady Usha Vance is everything Vogue claims to champion. But the magazine has become all about naked partisanship and looks like a de-facto arm of the DNC.
Head wounds, freezing temps — nothing stopped Trump super fans from getting to his inauguration
January 20, 2025 | 6:46pm"I expected to see protesters, but I guess they couldn't withstand the cold," one Trump supporter said of the lack of antagonists outside the inauguration.
Is the MTA trolling us all with this latest attempt at stopping fare-beating?
January 17, 2025 | 6:22pmNew York will do anything to combat farebeating — except actually arresting people for it.
Both sides stink to high heaven in the viral fight between Eagles and Packers fans
January 16, 2025 | 7:08pmThere are no heroes here. One party is a foul-mouthed man child; the other, an enthusiastic participant in our pervasive snitch culture.
How Gavin Newsom has failed California and set fire to his own political prospects
January 10, 2025 | 6:56pmThe emperor has no clothes — and no empathy. It's likely, though, he still does have a standing reservation at the French Laundry. Of course, it's Gavin Newsom, of whom...
If MTA boss thinks gaslighting New Yorkers will fix the subways, it's in his own head
January 8, 2025 | 8:13pmMTA boss Janno Lieber is gaslighting New Yorkers, claiming that subway crime is in our heads.
Farewell to Justin Trudeau — the wokest man ever to wear blackface — taken down by his own virtue-signaling
January 7, 2025 | 6:00amCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that he's calling it quits. Adieu to the wokest man to ever wear blackface.
Hilaria Baldwin's latest cooking caper shows her Spanglish grift is here to stay, no matter how delusional
December 31, 2024 | 6:10pmBoston bred Hillary Hayward-Thomas – who at some point in her life swam in the glistening waters off Majorca and re-christened herself Hilaria – is back with another Spanglish ooopsie...
Underwear ads, the KHive and roasted Tom Brady: the big winners and losers of 2024
December 27, 2024 | 6:25pmThis year came in like a drunk on a weeklong bender — and left like a glue-sniffing drunk on a yearlong bender. In other words, what the hell just happened...
Why did no one help her? Fatal subway burning exposes New York City's sad disconnect to humanity
December 23, 2024 | 6:58pmThere's a chilling apathy toward our fellow citizens — and a gross fascination with filming on our phones, not intervening.
'Perversion of compassion' and Gov. Hochul's lack of leadership are dooming NYC: Rep. Ritchie Torres
December 19, 2024 | 8:13pmRep. Ritchie Torres is speaking the truth: That New York City, the greatest city in the world, has accepted woefully subpar conditions on our subways and streets — and it has...
Harry & Meghan can't read the room — and their 'Polo' dud and try-hard Christmas card prove it again
December 18, 2024 | 7:07pmThese two are great at one thing: exploiting the royal family. Not producing TV shows or podcasts or, I predict, selling jam.
Latest Caitlin Clark controversy plays into the worst stereotypes about women — and wages war on merit
December 16, 2024 | 6:42pmGet over it: Without Caitlin Clark, the WNBA isn't even sniffing a fraction of the relevance it's had this year.
Nearly 1K drone sightings reported in NJ in less than a month
December 14, 2024 | 2:00pmThere have been nearly 1,000 reported drone sightings in New Jersey in less than a month, according to data collected by the state's Office of Emergency Management.
The Daniel Penny acquittal was exactly what NYC needed: a reminder to protect each other
December 9, 2024 | 8:53pmThis case had the potential to completely destroy the delicate and implicit understanding that we, as New Yorkers who live and travel in sometimes-unnatural intimacy, are here for each other.
Daniel Penny has proven there's no case against him -- he should be cleared today
December 9, 2024 | 6:01amThe negligent homicide charge Daniel Penny faces today as the jury reconvenes is a face-saving measure for a farce, the last-ditch effort for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Daniel Penny case closing arguments bring pressure and tension to Manhattan court, as case nears the jury
December 2, 2024 | 7:20pm“He was not dying due to Danny squeezing him to death. He was dying because he was being deprived of oxygen internally due to his medical condition,” said defense attorney...
Daniel Penny’s family praying for him as trial is set to go to the jury: 'His strength has encouraged us'
November 29, 2024 | 6:34pm“We’re blessed and grateful for everything we do have. We have each other,” Penny’s mother Gina Flaim-Penny told me on the eve of Thanksgiving.
Sharon Stone and Alec Baldwin told us what they really think of Americans — and it's incredibly insulting
November 27, 2024 | 6:07pmAlec Baldwin and Sharon Stone believe they will be the ones to enlighten us — to save civilization from the marauding MAGA-ites running roughshod over our union.
Straight-talking defense witness for Daniel Penny planted real, reasonable doubt about chokehold death
November 22, 2024 | 5:41pmChundru said Neely had already expired or was going through the dying process when he went limp.