New champ Carl Frampton is apple of New York’s eye

EVEN Manhattan can do sleepy Sundays.

But as New Yorkers strolled care-free around Bryant Park yesterday, across East 41st Street, there was nothing sleepy about the private shindig in Annie Moore’s bar.

Boxer Carl Frampton rose yesterday morning with the most precious piece of excess baggage for the trip back across the Atlantic — the WBA featherweight title. The previous night was one for the ages, the Jackal awakening the wider world to his supreme prizefighting talents with an enthralling victory over Leo Santa Cruz, in Brooklyn’s raucous Barclay’s Center.