March 16, 1999
BRONX SQUEEZE PLAY ; ANY YANKEES-BRONX DEAL IS FIRM'S DOOM
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe last big factory left in The Bronx stands to be razed when and if City Hall and George Steinbrenner reach a deal to keep the Yankees in the House...
TRUMP LOSES A ROUND IN EMPIRE STATE TITLE BOUT
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amDonald Trump has lost the latest battle in his war with Leona Helmsley over control of the Empire State Building, with a Manhattan judge ruling the storied skyscraper doesn't have...
'SYRON' SONG FOR AMEX'S CEO
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amAmerican Stock Exchange CEO Dick Syron is stepping down four months after he agreed to merge with Frank Zarb's Nasdaq. Syron, 55, who saw his responsibilities diminished and his influence...
VALUE MANAGERS MISS THE PARTY; FOR DOW 10,000 HOOPLA
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amNOT everyone is getting ready for a Dow 10,000 celebration. Value-oriented mutual fund managers, for example, say they are feeling very left out of this party. "We're pretty agnostic about...
ANCIER, AT LAST, LANDS PEACOCK POST
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amAfter months of anticipation, hotshot TV programmer Garth Ancier is returning to his roots - he'll become president, NBC Entertainment on May 10, when his contract at The WB network...
BIG APPLE DINERS DEVELOP APPETITE FOR 3RD PALM STEAKHOUSE
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe largest Palm ever is sprouting up in the Times Square area. Palm pilot Alfred L. Thimm is opening a 9,000 square-foot, 245-seat franchise - almost as large as the...
BRONFMAN'S MOVIE BIZ DEBT MAY GO TO DILLER IN DEAL
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amEdgar Bronfman Jr. is under increasing pressure from his family to reduce the mountain of debt he created while transforming Seagram from booze biz to entertainment giant, say sources close...
GEORGE MAG IN PLAY: KENNEDY TALKS DEFECTION WITH CONDE NAST
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amGeorge founder John Kennedy Jr. rocked his partners at Hachette Filipacchi Magazines - threatening to take his magazine to Conde Nast Publications. The comments come following the loss of Kennedy...
TOWN'S WILD ABOUT HARRY ; TRUMAN BOYHOOD HOME IN INDEPENDENCE, MO., POSITIVELY PRESIDENTIAL
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amMUCH of President Truman's past is still present in Independence, Mo. You'll find his boyhood home, the house in which Bess Truman was born and Clinton's drugstore (now a luncheonette),...
SLOPING TOWARD CATAMOUNT ; THIS N.Y. MOUNTAIN OFFERS REMARKABLY GOOD SKIING IN A RELAXED SETTING
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amF INDING a suitable, nearby spot to ski isn't easy for New Yorkers. I loathe the long drive to Vermont as much as the hormonal teen frenzy that can overrun...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amBlueprint special If you've already got your ticket to ride, bring it down to the grand opening of the new Hagstrom Map & Travel Center at 125 Maiden Lane on...
DAWN OF THEYOUNG DIVAS
March 16, 1999 | 5:00am*THE ORIGINAL FOUR SEASONS Vanessa-Mae Angel Records Vanessa-Mae, the sexy violinist who has given many a hard rocker an appreciation for the classics, reworks Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" on her...
A MOVING MACBETH
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amTheater Review PETER Brook has a lot to answer for - good and bad - in the way classics are staged today. The English director created, especially with his productions...
COUNTOWN TO THE OSCARS
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amBEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OUR ODDSJudi Dench(3-1) Kathy Bates(3-1) Rachel Griffiths(10-1) Lynn Redgrave(5-1) Brenda Blethyn(7-1) IN a year of tight races, best supporting actress is one of the squeakiest. We loved...
THEATER NEWS
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amACTOR Brian Dennehy, star of the Broadway revival hit ''Death of a Salesman,'' was rushed to the hospital early Sunday after feeling ill. Doctors diagnosed hypertension, due to high blood...
LOCKLEAR TO PACK BAG ; FOR YEAR ON '90210'?
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amSULTRY "Melrose Place" vixen Heather Locklear might be moving to a more upscale neighborhood - "Beverly Hills, 90210." Insiders say TV titan Aaron Spelling has offered Locklear a role on...
(W)NBC YA LATER! ; CH.4 LEADS THE EMMY COUNT
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amWNBC/Ch.4 is proudly flashing its peacock feathers after scoring the most local Emmy nominations. Ch.4 leads the local Emmy race with a whopping 25 nominations for The 42nd Annual New...
FLAWED 'CRIME' STORY ; JOCK RAPIST SAGA LACKS CONVICTION
March 16, 1999 | 5:00am"Crime in Connecticut:The Story of Alex Kelly" WE don't need to tell you that "Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly" is ripped from the headlines. We can't tell...
TV TICKER
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amParade day WNBC/Ch.4 will air live coverage of tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day Parade (11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.). "Extra" host Maureen O'Boyle will anchor the parade, joined by sportscaster Al McGuire, Ch.4...
LOVE PUTS 'LIFE' IN THE VILLAGE
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amWATCH out 'Felicity,' Jennifer Love Hewitt is moving to New York. Hewitt was in Manhattan Sunday to shoot scenes for the pilot episode of a 'Party of Five'' spinoff tentatively...
AS SHE PREPARES FOR HER BIGGEST OSCARS EVER... GWYNETH SPEAKS OUT!
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amAt the ripe age of 25, Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is having the time of her young life. Her every move, from changing boyfriends to changing hairstyles, is exhaustively chronicled. She's...
COME TO THE DANCE
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amJohn Whelan Narada Music If there is a single disc of traditional Celtic music that you'll nab for tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day celebration, John Whelan's ''Come to the Dance'' should...
FAN BOYCOTT CAN KNOCK KING OUT
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amMONEY talks. It's Don King's favorite sound. Therefore, the most effective tactic to show our disgust with his endless chicanery is a consumer boycott of all future Don King-promoted fights....
PARKS DEPT. MAKES LEASH LAW STATUE-TORY; EXCLUSIVE
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amNow the Parks Department's crackdown on unleashed dogs apparently applies to statues of dogs. Sculptor Jack Dowd found that out when a Parks Department official told him that he'd have...
CARTILAGE PROTEIN MAY KO CANCER
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe folks who bought into the shark-cartilage craze of a few years back may have been onto something after all. Researchers today report that when purified, a protein in cartilage...
L.I. MARINE WON'T FACE SLAY RAP IN SKI HORROR
March 16, 1999 | 5:00am"We're happy that the charges have been dropped. It's been a long time. It is a burden off his shoulders."JOSEPH SCHWEITZER SR., FATHER OF CAPT. JOSEPH SCHWEITZER Manslaughter charges have...
PARADE WEATHER WILL BE IRISH SPRING
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe luck of the Irish is working its magic on the bitter March weather. When the 238th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade steps off tomorrow from 44th Street and Fifth...
RUDY ZOOMS PAST HILLARY IN NEW POLL
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - A new poll yesterday showed Mayor Giuliani with a clear lead - 11 points - over First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in a possible race for the U.S....
THE STATUS QUO, SADLY, IS WINNING CRUCIAL BATTLE OVER EDUCATION
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amIf there were evidence of real improvement of any sort, surely Livingston Street would have trumpeted it. It didn't. BOIL down the battle over public education in New York City,...
DINKINS, RANGEL BUSTED AT DIALLO PROTEST
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amA former mayor, two congressmen and two City Council members managed to get themselves arrested at yesterday's police-brutality protest sparked by the killing of Amadou Diallo. But it wasn't easy....
SUPPLIES HELP SPELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEST & WORST
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe latest reading scores tell the continuing tale of two cities in New York's public schools. Parents and principals at schools failing miserably complained they don't have books and computers...
NYERS HAVE OWN IRISH SWEEPSTAKES ; LINING UP FOR $45M ST. PAT'S LOTTO
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amNew Yorkers are clutching their four-leaf clovers in hopes of seeing Lotto green on St. Patrick's Day. Wishful New Yorkers lined up at local stores around the Big Apple yesterday,...
WALDORF VICTIM'S PAL HURRIED BACK TO BRAZIL
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe mystery companion of a Brazilian businessman murdered at the Waldorf-Astoria fled to his native country and is being sought for questioning, The Post has learned. The possible suspect came...
RINGSIDE COMMENTATOR BLAMES DON
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amDON KING may be part owner of the videotape of Saturday night's controversial boxing telecast, but he may not want to view his property anytime soon. If the wild-haired promoter...
METRO-NORTH MAY ASSIGN YAPPERS TO "CELL'
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amLoud and annoying cell-phone users could get quarantined on the train if they don't shut up. Spurred by numerous complaints from tranquil riders who prefer to read, relax and sleep,...
I BLEW IT, FIGHT JUDGE NOW ADMITS - SAYS HE 'FEELS SORRY FOR LENNOX'
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe British boxing judge who scored the Evander Holyfield-Lennox Lewis fiasco a draw said yesterday he goofed - but the New Jersey judge who voted Holyfield on top jabbed back...
SERBS WARNED AS REBS 0K DEAL
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton said yesterday NATO will have "little option" but to use force if the Serbs show "aggression" now that the ethnic Albanians are on board a Kosovo...
FOX'S INVITE TO HS BAND THORNY ISSUE FOR ROSIE
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe high-school marching band kissed off by Rosie O'Donnell appeared on a rival morning show yesterday - which apparently struck a sour note with the gab diva. Patrick McLaughlin, senior...
TORRE WILL UNDERGO CANCER SURGERY
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amA somber Yankee skipper Joe Torre yesterday told his World Series championship team he'll have prostate-cancer surgery Thursday, and could be away from the helm from one to three months....
MY PET PEEVE: QUIT HOUNDING OUR DOGS!
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amFOR centuries, they have given their lives in war. For centuries, they have been celebrated as man's - and woman's - best friend. And yet there is a bunch of...
SCANDAL JOLTS EUROPEAN UNION ; ENTIRE COMMISSION QUITS OVER FRAUD
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amAll 20 members of the European Union's executive commission, including its president, quit today after an investigation uncovered widespread fraud and corruption. The resignations plunged the 15-nation alliance into a...
READ THIS AND WEEP
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amReading scores on a statewide test dropped last year, with the greatest decline among New York City schoolchildren, officials said yesterday. Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew dismissed the test - which...
FATAL BLAST THREATENS IRISH PEACE
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amA prominent Catholic lawyer was killed by a car bomb in Northern Ireland yesterday - igniting fears of a new wave of violence that could imperil the region's shaky peace...
BRUCE'S BAND STRIKES SOUR NOTE AT HALL OF FAME BASH
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amBruce Springsteen made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last night - but members of his E Street Band griped that The Boss is getting all the...
B'WAY STAR IN TERRIFYING TUMBLE FROM HOTEL STAGE ; FAINTS AT TRIBUTE TO ROSIE
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amA star-studded audience of Broadway's leading lights gasped last night as one of theater's biggest names took a frightening fall from the stage at The Pierre hotel. Audra McDonald, 28,...
COPS KILL SUSPECT IN BODEGA ROBBERY
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amPolice shot and killed one of three suspects in a Brooklyn bodega robbery last night, authorities said. Officers called to the bodega at 728 Rogers Ave. in East Flatbush at...
NEARLY HALF FAIL REGENTS ENGLISH TEST - BUT MORE KIDS TAKE THE EXAM
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amSlightly more than half of the city's high-schoolers who took the Regents English exam in January passed it - causing some to fear the city's slowly rising graduation rate may...
TOP DRAW? - MEET THE OFFICIALS INVOLVED IN THE MSG MUGGING
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Eugenia "Jean" Williams Stanley Christoudoulou Larry O'Connell
IRISH EYES ARE SMILING
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: This year, the Parade's Grand Marshal is celebrated actress Maureen O'Hara. Star of over 50 movies, at 78 the screen legend is as lively, vivacious and enchanting as ever....
CASSELL, GATLING: DON'T BLAME CAL
March 16, 1999 | 5:00am"It's not the coach's fault. It's the players' fault. ... Right now, guys aren't stepping up."EX-NET SAM CASSELL MILWAUKEE - In the wake of John Calipari's firing as Net coach,...
DEVILS LOOK PAST ; EAST CROWN
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amVANCOUVER - They are still in the chase, very definitely, for their third straight Eastern Conference title. But after the way the Devils followed up those crowns in the playoffs...
FONZ: 2ND TO NONE
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Edgardo Alfonzo will be an improvement over what the Mets played at second base last year because nearly anyone would be over Carlos Baerga. But Alfonzo...
MILSTEIN NFL VOTE PUSHED BACK A DAY
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe Islanders, held hostage by co-owner Howard Milstein's bid to buy the Redskins, will likely have to wait another day to learn if his purchase will be approved by the...
CUBAN IMPORT HARDLY SMOKIN'
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amToca underwhelming Mets PORT ST. LUCIE - When Jorge Luis Toca was a slugging first baseman in Cuba, all he wanted was a chance to escape to the United States...
TRUST & CONSEQUENCES
March 16, 1999 | 5:00am"I have a group of kids that have learned how to trust."MIKE JARVIS SJU took off when it began to believe in Jarvis They started the season as strangers -...
NOMO PROBLEMS FOR HIDEO
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Hideo Nomo had an encouraging outing yesterday, holding the Orioles to two hits and no runs over four innings in the Mets' 1-0 win....
MANNY'S NOT SHOWING HIS AGE
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amA statistic that supports the Rangers' playing 18-year-old Manny Malhotra in every game from here on out is their record with him in the lineup. Admitingly, it might be due...
PROMOTERS ALWAYS GET WHAT THEY PAY FOR ; JUDGES WON'T BITE HAND THAT FEEDS 'EM
March 16, 1999 | 5:00am16 SIX YEARS ago this very week, I had a rare opportunity to see how professional boxing works, truly from an insider's perspective. It was also, I now realize, a...
AN OUTBREAK OF POISON IVEY
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amWith no points in the first half of the most important game of his life, Royal "Poison" Ivey was contaminating the Garden. So in the locker room at halftime of...
JOE TO YANKS: YOU'LL ; MANAGE WITHOUT ME ; TORRE SAYS HE'LL HAVE SURGERY, BUT WILL BE BACK
March 16, 1999 | 5:00am"Today puts closure on what's going on. Now [the team] can concentrate and know I am going to do this, that I am staying in touch but don't look for...
MILLER WARNS METS GETTING ARMFUL IN BENITEZ
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Bob Apodaca's credentials are long, admits Ray Miller, and so had better be the Met pitching coach's patience. "He has had success with a few guys,"...
JOE TO YANKS: YOU'LL MANAGE WITHOUT ME: BOMBERS REASSURED BY MEETING
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - At the end of Joe Torre's meeting with his players yesterday, he decided the time was right for some levity. He told his World Champions to kick up...
VG SAYS CALIPARI GOT JOBBED
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTESMILWAUKEE - Jeff Van Gundy thinks John Calipari got a bad deal from quick-hook Net ownership. "What's lost there is how bad they were when he took over," Van...
TERPS' SPEED WORRIES SJU
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe Red Storm's first practice since their 86-61 demolition of Indiana Saturday in the NCAA Tournament was more mentally taxing than it was physically draining - just as Thursday's showdown...
ADAM TAKES $12M TO STAY
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amFor Adam Graves, it's all about loyalty. Which is why, despite the opportunity to test the unrestricted free agent market this summer, the left winger yesterday signed a three-year, $12...
THERE'S A CATCH TO PETTITTE INJURY REHAB
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Just because Andy Pettitte didn't feel any discomfort in his left elbow doesn't mean he was encouraged by playing catch yesterday for the first time since...
VAN GONE-DY RUMORS 'SICKEN' BUCKS' KARL
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE - Buck coach George Karl said yesterday "it makes my stomach sick" to hear speculation about Jeff Van Gundy's Knick job status. "This league never surprises me with their...
JOE TO YANKS: YOU'LL MANAGE WITHOUT ME: STRAWBERRY KNOWS FIGHT HAS JUST BEGUN
March 16, 1999 | 5:00am"You're talking about a deadly disease that has to be cleaned out of your body. You just hope that you catch everything in time."DARRYL STRAWBERRY TAMPA - The riveted Yankee...
CAL AX A MERCY KILLING
March 16, 1999 | 5:00am"I watched each and every game and saw the pain, saw the misery, realizing it was not the fair thing to do, to keep the train rolling."NETS MANAGING OWNER LEWIS...
ANATOMY OF A CAL-AMITY
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amNobody blameless in Nets' fiasco Calipari's organizational competence was uncanny, his communication skills grating, his coaching cocky and clever. When it came to players and the media, he thought he...
PLAYERS INSIST THEY'LL MISS COACH
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amCalipari says quick goodbye TORONTO - As he has always done for more than two years, John Calipari addressed his players before they practiced yesterday. But this address was definitely...
ENERGY CRISIS CONCERNS CASEY
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amTORONTO - Before he goes after victories, before he goes after anything else, Don Casey wants to see one thing from the Nets' players. "Energy," Casey said as he was...
GRAVES SIGNS FOR $12 MILLION
March 16, 1999 | 5:00am"I look forward to finishing my career in New York."ADAM GRAVES For Adam Graves, it's all about loyalty. Which is why, despite the opportunity to test the unrestricted free agent...
KARL CAN'T STOMACH VAN RUMORS
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES MILWAUKEE - George Karl said last night it made him sick in his stomach to hear speculation about Jeff Van Gundy's job status. "This league never surprises me...
SPREE'S 28 HELP KNICKS REPAY BUCKS
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amKnicks 108 Bucks 102 MILWAUKEE - Three days removed from one of their worst performances in a decade and still well in the midst of rampant rumors about Jeff Van...
NDUR'S FIRST IS A KEEPER
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amGraves gets 3 years, $12M. Thankfully for Josh and Patricia Ndur, parents of the Rangers' Rumun, the Rangers' 1-1 OT tie with Washington last night was switched to the MSG...
BLUESHIRTS FIT TO BE TIRED ; BATTLE FATIGUE AND CAPS IN DEADLOCK
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amRangers 1 Capitals 1 Playing their sixth game in nine nights, the Rangers were running on fumes, anyone could see that. And so after a second period in which Washington's...
STEVENS HURT IN DEVIL VICTORY
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amDevils 2 Canucks 1 VANCOUVER - Suddenly, the injury-free Devils were hit right where it hurts. They'll probably be without captain and top defenseman Scott Stevens for the remaining two...
REAL MADRID HOPES BOOT'S AIM IS TRUE
March 16, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: LONDON - With its European title on the line, Real Madrid goes from sultry Spain to chilly Kiev tomorrow night counting on the Golden Boot for salvation before 100,000...