April 9, 2002
MARTHA SUBLETS SPACE TO BLUES
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amMartha Stewart, smarting from the bankrputcy of her partners at Kmart, is letting go of some of her Midtown space. Martha has subleased 18,506 square-feet on the 8th floor of...
EXPOSING THE SHELL GAME ON WALL STREET
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amIT'S getting harder for Wall Street to hide the pea. Just a week ago the investment community had this little shell game going: the economy was not only improving, but...
IBM CRASHES 10% - WARNING BY NEW CEO DRAGS DOWN MARTS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe market got a case of the "Big Blues" yesterday after International Business Machines issued its first earnings warning in 11 years. After the company admitted that first-quarter profit fell...
HELMSLEY HUNGRY FOR MAXIM'S
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amCARLTON House, the elegant Leona Helmsley-owned residential hotel at Madison Avenue and 60th Street, is in talks to reclaim the long-dark Maxim's restaurant space leased since the 1980s to Pierre...
P. DIDDY'S GUNNING FOR CFDA AWARD
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amWill the third time be the charm for Sean John? Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' fashion collection has been nominated for a CFDA Fashion Award in the menswear category for the...
STATE FUND ENTERS FRAY FOR 450 PK.
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amNew York State has decided to match a $158 million bid for 450 Park Avenue made last month by RFR Holdings, sending the bid war to court, The Post has...
COTY'S MANIFESTO - MAKEUP FIRM DITCHES ISABELLA AFTER J.LO HIRE
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amIsabella Rossellini has been dumped - in favor of Latino lovely Jennifer Lopez. The former Lancome model who was unceremoniously booted from her modeling contract at the French makeup giant...
DEBT-RIDDEN OFF BYBLOS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amAnd then there were none. First, Patrizio Bertelli's Prada SpA divested itself of partial ownership of Fendi, and now it's unloading Byblos less than a year after acquiring it, to...
ANDERSEN TO LAY OFF AT LEAST 7,000
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amArthur Andersen began its long-expected layoffs, paring at least 7,000 staffers in the wake of a criminal indictment that has wracked the scandalized Big-Five accounting firm and caused the defections...
'HELEN' IS NO BEAUTY
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amHELENAt the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St. Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. ---------- WHEN you retell the ancient mythic stories, you'd better have a strong, striking, possibly funny point of view....
STARR REPORT
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amBottoms up: SpongeBob hosts 'House Party' Old-timers might remember Art Linkletter and his "House Party" show, which aired on CBS. But now there's "SpongeBob's House Party," airing on Nickelodeon (CBS'...
A CABLE SENIOR MOMENT
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amIF I were Tom Snyder or Dick Cavett, I would stay near the phone. You simply never know when MSNBC might have the itch to hire another "retired" TV personality....
THE BUNNY IS FUNNY ...BUT JOHN CLEESE IS FAWLTY IN HORROR MID-SEASON SHAKEUP
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amTHIS midseason will go down as one of the So says industry worst in TV history. analyst Marc Berman of Mediaweek, who claims the bumper crop of shows that debuted...
ABC/KOPPEL KISS AND MAKE UP
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amTED KOPPEL'S embattled "Nightline" has received a huge vote of confidence from ABC. Disney chief Robert Iger and ABC News president David Westin sent an e-mail to ABC employees yesterday,...
KATIE'S BOOK CLUB
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amOPRAH who? The "Today" show is taking a page from the Oprah Winfrey playbook and launching its own book club - just days after Winfrey said she was scaling back...
ROOTSY RAITT RATES GREAT
April 9, 2002 | 4:00am* BONNIE RAITT "Silver Lining" [ 1/2] Capitol Records Bonnie Raitt may have a touch of gray in her copper coif, but her new "Silver Lining" nicely recalls her rootsy,...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amWhat a card! For an investment of $12.50, Americans and Canadians traveling in the Alsace, Burgundy or Champagne-Ardenne regions of France will find they've got a deal. The new ABC...
'SURVIVOR' IS THE FITTEST: REALITY TV REJECT FLEXES NEW MUSCLES
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amWHEN Alicia Calaway got voted off "Survivor 2," it wasn't because the players didn't like her. It was because she was a threat. They knew if she remained in the...
SHE'S TOP DOG: PLAYWRIGHT PARKS PULLS IN RAVE REVIEWS AND A PULITZER
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amYESTERDAY was a pretty amazing day for Suzan-Lori Parks. In the morning, she awoke to a fistful of rave reviews for "Topdog/Underdog," her comic drama about about sibling rivalry in...
WTC KIN SUE AIRLINE FOR $50M
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe family of a World Trade Center executive filed a $50 million lawsuit against American Airlines yesterday, charging its lax security led directly to her death. The suit in Manhattan...
SHARON DOESN'T WORK FOR BUSH
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amA "DEFIANT" Israel delivers a "slap" to President Bush with its "refusal" to "obey" Bush's "insistence" - no, his "demand" - that it begin an "immediate withdrawal." The words in...
BRITAIN HALTS FOR QUEEN MUM
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amWith First Lady Laura Bush leading the delegation representing the Unites States, Britain will bury its beloved Queen Mother today. The nation is expected to come to a standstill as...
UPSTATE DAIRYMEN CRY FOUL AS THEY SPILL POISONED MILK
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amMilk tampering in western New York has soured the bottom lines of numerous dairy farmers in a mysterious wave of barnyard blight. Cops say someone has been sneaking onto farms...
HOSP SALUTES SLAIN DOCTOR
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe eminent cancer doctor who was gunned down outside a Newark Airport hotel on the eve of his vacation has been named "physician of the year" by his Poughkeepsie hospital....
REV. AL: I'LL SUE FEDS FOR 'AD'PARTHEID
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amMinority media outlets aren't getting their fair share of government advertising money, said the Rev. Al Sharpton - and he's gearing up for a court battle to make the feds...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amEaster Islanders are furious that Hollywood is using images of their ancestors as film sets. Copies of the famous statues have turned up in everything from advertising and sitcoms to...
GAS PRICES RISING AS SADDAM SHUTS OFF OIL
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein brandished the oil weapon yesterday, announcing he was cutting Iraq's oil exports for 30 days because of Israel's invasion of Palestinian territories. The Butcher of Baghdad's...
ANDY TO CARL: GIVE BACK 'GLOBAL' $$
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amAndrew Cuomo yesterday called on his Democratic rival, state Comptroller Carl McCall, to return $29,000 in contributions connected with the troubled Global Crossing telecommunications company. Just three days after McCall...
YANKS' OPENER A HIT FOR CH. 2
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe ratings for the Yankees' home opener turned out to be a grand slam for WCBS/Channel 2. With about 504,000 area homes tuning in Friday, the telecast scored local television...
LASER REMOVAL TATTOOS TAXPAYERS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In what's being blasted as one of the worst examples of government waste, former gang members who regret getting tattoos are having taxpayers foot the bill to laser...
HEY, LET'S JUST IMPOSE A FEE ON ILLICIT SEX
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amIF YOU want a real "sin tax," I have a splendiferous idea . . . let's tax illicit sex. Mayor Mike Bloomberg, a very healthy bloke, wants me, an unhealthy...
JUSTICE DEPT. MULLS SETTING 2ND YANKEE TALIBAN FREE
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that American Taliban No. 2 could be freed to Saudi Arabia - while well-known Tali-Yank John Walker Lindh goes on trial for...
JAIL-SUICIDE HERO GETS NO BREAK FROM JUDGE
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amA reputed mob thug who saved a fellow inmate from hanging himself with his shoelaces tried to score points at his sentencing yesterday, but a federal judge sternly told him...
PULITZER PUTZES SNUB PICTURE-PERFECT IMAGE
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amTHE Pulitzer committee yesterday told the City of New York, our selfless firefighters, 3,000 victims of this nation's bloodiest terror attack, and the American flag to go to hell. Nice...
DISCO DELAY COST OD BOY'S LIFE, SAYS MOM
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amJames Wiest died from an "ecstasy" overdose at Twilo - but he might have lived if the now-defunct nightclub hadn't waited three hours to call an ambulance, his mother charges...
DEADLY BOMB BLAMED ON AL QAEDA HOLDOUTS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Al Qaeda and Taliban diehards are believed to be responsible for a bomb attack on Afghanistan's new defense minister that yesterday killed four bystanders and injured 16 others....
BLOOMY'S 'HALF BAKED' QUOTE USED IN PRO-MARIJUANA ADS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amBeing mayor can be such a drag. A pro-marijuana group is using a pot-positive quote uttered by Mayor Bloomberg last year, in a new $500,000 ad campaign to be unveiled...
RICKY WILL BE A CLASS ACT
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amLatin singing sensation Ricky Martin will be livin' it up - in the classroom. Martin is one of 1,200 entertainers, business leaders and politicians who will be a "Principal for...
JEWS RALLY AT PALESTINE MISSION
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amHundreds of Israel supporters rallied across from the Upper East Side office of the Palestine mission to the United Nations yesterday, with chants and speeches defending Israel's incursion into the...
MIKE: HAVE A BLAST ON 4TH
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amNew York has lifted a ban on fireworks displays that has been in place since Sept. 11, officials announced yesterday. "What July Fourth stands for is more important than ever...
APPLE IS ILL-'SUIT'ED FOR SURGE IN PAYOUTS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe cash-starved city coughed up $581.8 million to settle lawsuits last year, up 27 percent, officials said yesterday. "This is more money than most municipal budgets," said Corporation Counsel Michael...
PATAKI TO YANK HIMSELF FROM STATE TV ADS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Under fire from his Democratic rivals, Gov. Pataki will soon halt his controversial appearances in state television and radio public-service ads, a top aide said yesterday. Pataki adviser...
'MAN-BOY' PRIEST RAN N.Y. HOSTEL
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe leader of Boston's archdiocese allowed a child-molesting priest - who openly advocated man-boy love - to run a Catholic hostel in New York City, church documents released yesterday reveal....
DRUG THUG MAY GO ON TRIAL FOR HIS LIFE: FEDS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amAn alleged drug-ring kingpin could face the death penalty if convicted of gunning down a potential witness who was set to testify against a cohort, a federal judge revealed yesterday...
B'KLYN TYKE KILLED AS DRIVER RUNS LIGHT
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amA 3-year-old Brooklyn girl who loved dressing up was killed on her way to preschool yesterday when a driver blew a red light and rammed into her parents' car, police...
DA MULLS CHARGING 6 CLERICS WITH SEX ABUSE
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amAbout a half-dozen priests in the Archdiocese of New York who have been accused of molesting kids are being eyeballed for prosecution, The Post has learned. Last week, the archdiocese...
BEER AND A SHOT - MAN GUNNED DOWN AS HE LEAVES B'KLYN BAR
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amAn innocent stop for a nightcap left a Brooklyn man connected to a life-support machine after he was gunned down outside a bar early yesterday. Ivan Uruchima, 23, of 18th...
PROBE BACK IN GEAR - SLAIN TYCOON'S BUICK WAGON SEARCHED FOR EVIDENCE
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amLong Island homicide cops, probing the mysterious slaying of Ted Ammon, yesterday impounded another of his cars driven by Danny Pelosi, who wed the tragic millionaire's widow. Cops towed Ammon's...
MAFIA BABY BARRED - MOB WIFE PROTESTS JAIL BAN ON VISITS TO SPERM-SMUGGLE HUBBY
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe wife of a mob hit man claims prison officials have stopped her and her toddler daughter from visiting her hubby - because the baby was conceived with sperm smuggled...
BOXER LOOTED BY COUSIN: COPS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amBoxer Riddick Bowe's cousin and the cousin's girlfriend were collared in Manhattan as they tried to peddle fur coats they allegedly stole from the heavyweight's house on Easter, police said...
MERRILL LYNCH STOX SHOCKER
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amPrestigious investment firm Merrill Lynch & Co. yesterday was ordered to reform its disclosure practices after being accused of issuing misleading and "fundamentally flawed" research reports to clients. State Attorney...
COUNCIL COUNTING ON $1B TAX HIKE IN BUDGET
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe City Council yesterday proposed a budget to improve schools and pull the city out of financial straits by raising nearly $1 billion in taxes and fees. Council Speaker Gifford...
FAMILIES BLAST BLOOMY
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg faced harsh criticism from relatives of World Trade Center victims yesterday after a tense meeting at which he declined to name a victim's relative to the board of...
HOMELESS MAN IS SET ABLAZE
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amA homeless man who angered residents of the Bronx apartment building where he camped out was seriously burned yesterday by youngsters who splashed him with a flammable liquid and set...
JOE TEACHES MIKE A LESSON
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg is going to have to compromise if the state Legislature is to increase his control over the city's schools, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno said yesterday....
FEDS STIFF CITY ON TERROR $$
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Justice Department has failed to distribute hundreds of millions in anti-terror funds - and New York City is among the biggest losers - according to an inspector...
BATTLES STILL RAGING ON - BODIES PILING UP IN WEST BANK AS 2ND FRONT LOOMS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel yesterday pushed deeper into two West Bank towns already littered with bodies, while a fire broke out in the compound of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. Also,...
STAB SUSPECT ELUDES COPS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amPolice have lost the trail of a suspect wanted for the Easter stabbing death of an undercover cop after tracking him to a Miami bus station where he met with...
9/11 AID EXPANDED
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe agency in charge of redeveloping lower Manhattan announced yesterday that it has expanded its rental incentives and other grants to downtown residents. The $287 million plan now includes a...
SCHUMER: BAN GUN SALES TO MENTAL CASES
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amStanding on the steps of the Long Island church where a priest and a churchgoer were shot dead, Sen. Charles Schumer announced yesterday he's introducing legislation to close the loophole...
SPITZER GUNS FOR MERRILL
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe state attorney general blasted Merrill Lynch yesterday, saying its stock analysts issued research reports to the investing public that were misleading and "fundamentally distorted." And the nation's largest brokerage...
BRUNO: GIVE A BIT, MIKE
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY -Mayor Bloomberg is going to have to compromise if the state Legislature is to increase his control over the city's schools, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno said yesterday. "In...
JUSTICE DEPT. STIFFS CITY ON ANTI-TERROR $$
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Justice Department has failed to distribute hundreds of millions in anti-terror funds - and New York City is among the biggest losers - according to an inspector...
BUILDING KIDS BURNED HOMELESS MAN: COPS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amA homeless man who angered residents of a Bronx apartment block by camping out in the building was seriously burned yesterday by youngsters who splashed him with a flammable liquid...
MORE DOWNTOWNERS GETTING RENT-HELP BOOST
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe agency in charge of redeveloping lower Manhattan announced yesterday that it has expanded its rental incentives and other grants to downtown residents. The $287 million plan has been expanded...
DOLAN'S A DUNCE IF CHANEY RETURNS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amAS the proprietor of Madison Square Garden, Dave Checketts adhered to the philosophy of never allowing a coach to start a season with only one year remaining on his contract....
GARDEN PARTING FOR PAT
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amPatrick Ewing, arguably the greatest Knick ever, will play his last game at the Garden tonight - an historic event that will shake the arena for the final time this...
NETS WON'T DESPAIR OVER CELTIC DEFEAT
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amSure, the Nets blew a chance to clinch their first Atlantic Division title when they lost to Boston at the Meadowlands on Sunday. But they aren't too concerned about the...
AILING GRANDMA WEIGHING HEAVILY ON RONDELL'S MIND
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Rondell White's body will be in SkyDome Thursday afternoon. But his heart will be in Macon, Ga., where his grandmother, Tessie Pitts, is scheduled to undergo...
CANADA CLUBBERS: YANK BATS BASH JAYS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 16 Blue Jays 3 TORONTO - Lasers into gaps. Home runs that land in the second deck. Bullets between infielders. Base-runners aplenty. Welcome to Hitting Nirvana. "It's unbelievable the...
JINTS LOSE AGAIN AS JUREVICIUS SIGNS WITH BUCS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe Giants, already in the market for a wide receiver, will no doubt select a top pass-catching prospect on the first day of the April 20 NFL Draft now that...
REPENT OUT OF CROWN CHASE
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amRepent, considered a key contender for the May 4 Kentucky Derby despite sub-par efforts his last two races, is off the Triple Crown trail with a bone chip in his...
GRADY'S DOUBY PREPPED FOR FUTURE
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amQuincy Douby made it official yesterday: He won't be headed to Hofstra in the fall. "I'm only 17 and I think another year of high school will help me," the...
CAMPBELL'S IN SOUP AS DRAFT NEARS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amHe hears the buzz, because it's virtually impossible not to. "I've heard different things, that they want to get a guy like [Miami's Jeremy] Shockey," Dan Campbell said yesterday at...
KOMIYAMA GETS RAVE REVIEWS FOR PEN PERFORMANCE
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES CHICAGO - Steve Phillips isn't judging Satoru Komiyama on his final pitch. The Met GM thought Komiyama did an outstanding job on Sunday, despite allowing the game-winning, three-run...
EWING: WE CAN BEAT NETS
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amA reduced role has not robbed Patrick Ewing of his trademark brashness. Ewing, who delivered enough guarantees with the Knicks to make Joe Namath blush, said the Magic have what...
NOW HE'S THE SIT DOG - VAUGHN LANDS ON DL WITH BROKEN HAND
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Mo Vaughn has a high pain tolerance. You can tell by the fraternity insignia branded onto his arm, or the way he has played through a broken pinkie,...
HC STAR PLAYS WAITING GAME
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amThe next two days figure to be stressful ones for Holy Cross' Miguel Gonzalez, who played last night in the Wheelchair Charity Classic at LIU, which continues tomorrow. Despite leading...
ANOTHER BROADWAY DISASTER
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amIT'S really no mystery why the Rangers failed to make the playoffs for the fifth straight time even after finishing the first half of the season eight games over NHL...
TOO LATE, RANGERS WIN AGAIN
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amThey are proving champions of the consolation round, that much you have to give the Rangers, who won their fifth straight last night to climb back to NHL .500 for...
WANG PRAISES MILBURY
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amIslanders co-owner Charles Wang has never been to an NHL playoff game. But that all changes next week since his team has already clinched its first playoff berth since 1994....
ISLES FOLLOW BIG WIN WITH A HUGE LETDOWN
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amHurricanes 2 - Islanders 1 A game after clinching their first playoff berth since 1994, the Islanders - notorious this year for not being effective after a big win -...
CANADA CLUBBERS: YANK BATS POUND JAYS TO PULP
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 16 Blue Jays 3 TORONTO - Marbles let loose in a bathtub. That's what the Yankees looked like last night running around SkyDome's bases on their way to a...
JASON'S BASE-IC INSTINCT:GIAMBI PREFERS TO PLAY 1ST, NOT DH
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - Jason Giambi understands there are going to be days when it will be best for his valuable hamstrings that he be Joe Torre's DH. However, Giambi wants no...
SPREWELL GETS WILD OUT WEST
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES With six games left before summer vacation, Latrell Sprewell is ready to go out swinging, if not shooting. In what was a wild Western trip for the former...
ISLES WANT MORE THAN JUST A BERTH
April 9, 2002 | 4:00amSuddenly, the playoffs are not enough. A year after finishing with the worst record in the NHL, the Islanders are talking about winning the Atlantic Division. They're talking about winning...