It was a week of waiting to see if things could get any worse.

As Derek Jeter bade the old Yankee Stadium farewell, Wall Street took a baseball bat to its own.

John McCain and Barack Obama temporarily stopped bickering and observed a moment of silence.

News of a minor metro baby boom seemed fitting for a week in which the entire city was talking about a pregnant teenager from Alaska.

Mayor Bloomberg gazed into his green crystal ball—where he saw wind-powered turbines atop skyscrapers and the Brooklyn Bridge.

Gas may have fallen to $4 a gallon in the city last week, but it didn’t seem like anyone else was getting their money’s worth.

Jets fans could be forgiven some giddiness at elderly quarterback Brett Favre’s arrival.

As Los Angeles was shaking from a 5.4 tremor, New Yorkers quaked as Governor ­Paterson delivered a nerve-racking budget speech.

The sound of numbers crunching could be heard all over the city last week.

Jesse Jackson’s accidental admission that he’d like to emasculate Barack Obama was hardly the week’s only awkward idle chatter.