May 24, 1999
GATEWAY TO THE CITY - PC SELLER ROLLS OUT 1ST OF 3 N.Y. STORES
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amAfter testing the waters outside New York City for the past year, Gateway opens its first store in Manhattan today. The 4,000-square-foot Gateway Country Store at Columbus Circle will be...
SIX DOWN, BUT SEC'S STILL GOING FOR BROKERS
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amCAN traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange finally exhale in relief? Six people pleaded guilty last week to a modest number of charges related to illegal...
FLASHY NEW EATERIES CATERING TO MIDTOWN MARKET
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amChef Jean-Georges Vongerichten is finally looking to open his own hotel. After teaming up with hoteliers including Donald Trump, Steve Wynn and Andre Balasz, Vongerichten and partner Kerry Simon are...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amWITH Father's Day just around the corner, it seemed appropriate to take a look at the men's magazines. Their results were mixed. Thanks to a strong possibility of early release...
TV TICKER
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amL(E!)aving John Henson has left E!'s ''Talk Soup'' for a production deal at ABC. It was long-rumored that Henson - who took over ''Talk Soup'' from Greg Kinnear in 1995...
'MELROSE' FOR SALE: THIS POOL WATER'S JUST $300
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amFOX's "Melrose Place" ends its storied run tonight (8 p.m. on Ch.5) after seven seasons of infidelity, back-stabbing and greed. Who wouldn't want to own a piece of that kind...
ABT DEBUTS NEW CROP OF MALE CORPS
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Young Turks are Coming! Indeed, so far as American Ballet Theater is concerned, the Young Turks - a new generation of remarkably gifted male dancers - are already here....
GEEK CHIC
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amNext month's TNT movie 'Pirates of Silicon Valley'' - the stories of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs - started us thinking: What do descendants of Silicon Valley's founding fathers wear...
NOTHING SAD ABOUT A GOODBYE TO 'MAD'
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE was a time when we were mad about "Mad About You." But tonight, as the series ends its seven-year run with a self-congratulatory, long-winded, too-cute-for-G-rated words sign-off, we can...
WHITE'S NIGHT: NEW UPN SHOW: JALEEL'S BACK IN 'GROWN-UPS' SITCOM
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amSTEVE Urkel is nowhere to be found when you meet Jaleel White. The suspender-wearing nerd White played from age 12-21 on "Family Matters" may still reside in the not-so-distant past,...
HE'S ANGRY...AND BACK IN A 'HULK' MOVIE
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Incredible Hulk" is returning, this time as a big-screen movie. Marvel Studios and Universal have inked a deal to co-produce a movie tentatively titled "Hulk." The movie will be...
CLEANING SUBWAYS NEXT JOB FOR WELFARE RECIPIENTS
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amThe city and the MTA have agreed to permit welfare recipients to work 20 hours a week cleaning up litter in subway stations, starting next month. The deal, to be...
WHY CAN'T CUNY TEACH TEACHERS?
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amANOTHER possible reason why so many schoolkids can't read and their teachers can't write: the abysmal quality of teacher education in this city. Two weeks ago, this column presented the...
COUNCIL PUTTING BRAKE ON MAYOR'S BOOST IN 'DOLLAR VANS'; EXCLUSIVE
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amThe war over "dollar vans" is back. The City Council is attempting to block 150 of the low-fare commuter vans from serving commuters in areas underserved by mass transit, The...
SHELLY HEADS FOR THE SUBURBS
May 24, 1999 | 4:00am'Silver knows that his power base- minority legislators and hoaryWest Side liberals - really has no placeto go if he moves toward the center.So that's where he's headed.' WHATEVER it...
SPY-TECH SNOOPING AIDS ALLIES
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amWhen 1,000 Serbian soldiers deserted their units in Kosovo last week, NATO knew about it instantly - thanks to an RC-135 "Rivet" spy plane flying thousands of feet above Serbia....
GIANT COP NEARLY CRUSHED CHAIR - THEN CRUSHED VOLPE DEFENSE
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amThe lumbering cop who broke the back of Officer Justin Volpe's defense strategy nearly broke the witness chair in the Abner Louima torture trial before uttering a word. "Whoa!" said...
SOMETHING ABOUT MARY - ICON BRINGS THREATS IN B'KLYN JEWISH NABE; EXCLUSIVE
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amFor Italian immigrants, a Mother Mary statue in the front yard is a way to bless a home and proudly proclaim faith. But the stone carving of Mary and Jesus...
FIREFIGHTERS STEAMROLLED BY NYPD GRID STARS, 13-0
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amThe NYPD's football team continued its six-year winning streak by crushing the Fire Department's gridiron squad, 13-0 - giving the Finest a shot at another national championship. The cops first...
INS RELEASES ETHIOPIAN JEW AFTER 9 YEARS BEHIND BARS
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amAn Ethiopian immigrant who spent more than a quarter of his life as a prisoner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service has finally been set free. ''I'm in a state...
GUY: 'RUDY CAN BEAT GEORGE'
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amSTATEN ISLAND Borough President Guy Molinari says he'll urge Mayor Giuliani to challenge Gov. Pataki if Pataki announces for the U.S. Senate today. The outspoken Molinari, who bitterly denounced Pataki...
IT'S BONKERS THAT YONKERS CAN KEEP MAKING NYERS PAY
May 24, 1999 | 4:00am"It really does stink. I pay Yonkers to work there, and they don't pay us." HERBERTO RUIZ OF BROOKLYN HERBERTO RUIZ has never relaxed in a Yonkers park. And the...
PARALYZED GYMNAST: I'LL BE BACK - ON MY FEET!
May 24, 1999 | 4:00am"I'm determined to walk again. I believe the day will come when I will be able to stand up and get out of my wheelchair." PARALYZED GYMNAST SANG LAN Sang...
PHIL RUSHES TO WED FOR ILL MOM
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amPhil Collins has moved his wedding up four months because he wants his seriously ill mom to be able to see him walk down the aisle. The 49-year-old pop star...
'PHANTOM' MAKES 'JURASSIC' RECORD EXTINCT
May 24, 1999 | 4:00am"Star Wars" skyrocketed to a new box-office record yesterday - grabbing an estimated $102.7 million in its first five days. "We feel great, and it's just the beginning. We're going...
'TITANIC' MOVIE AIDS RESCUE IN SEA DRAMA
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amThe captain of the cruise ship that burned and sank off Malaysia says the smash movie ''Titanic'' motivated his passengers and crew to evacuate safely. Capt. Sven Hartzell said all...
I SPY . . . YET ANOTHER CLINTON LIE
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amTOMORROW we are going to get some very bad news that perhaps there is a reason we are in the season for treason. We will get evidence that suggests on...
PANEL BACKS EMBRYO STUDY
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amA federal ethics panel has recommended that the government fund research on human embryos - insisting there is more good than bad to be gained. The National Bioethics Advisory Commission...
PATAKI MOST LIKELY TO JOIN BUSH LEAGUE
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amAll signs continue to indicate that Gov. Pataki will likely endorse Texas Gov. George W. Bush today, although insiders yesterday cautioned a "surprise" could come. The likelihood that Pataki would...
WEST COVERED UP KHADAFY'S LOCKERBIE ROLE: PAPER - VICTIMS' FAMILIES OUTRAGED
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amLibyan strongman Moammar Khadafy personally ordered the bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland - and the British government has known about his role for years, it was...
COUNCIL DOWN TO BRASS TAX - $430M IN CUTS MAY BE SCRATCHED
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amPreparing for life after the commuter tax, the City Council today holds its last round of hearings on a hastily retooled budget that kills more than $400 million in proposed...
BIPARTISAN ATTACK ON RENO OVER SPY SCANDAL
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Top Democrat and Republican senators yesterday criticized Attorney General Janet Reno - charging her with stonewalling the probe into thefts of nuclear secrets by the Chinese. "It's time...
SERBS BOMBED INTO DARK AGES - POWER GOES OUT IN 80% OF YUGOSLAVIA
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - NATO warplanes knocked Serbs back into the dark again yesterday, destroying power plants and depriving 80 percent of Yugoslavia of electricity. On the 61st day of bombing, Secretary...
FANS TO PARCELLS: LAND JETS IN N.Y. - MOST WANT COACH TO BUY TEAM: POLL
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amFootball fans have a resounding message for Jets head coach Bill Parcells: Buy the team and move it back to New York! In a new Post Poll, 60 percent of...
POLICE GRILL SUSPECT IN 'MOLOTOV' KILLINGS
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amPolice last night were questioning a man they believe tossed a Molotov cocktail into a Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone and ignited a fire that killed three men, officials said. Cops suspected the...
GOP SENATE PROSPECT BEATS UP ON HILL & RUDY
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amA likely GOP New York Senate candidate yesterday dismissed Mayor Giuliani as a "reluctant Republican" and mocked First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as "not fit to campaign." Clinton, who has...
DOG OWNER BITES MAN, COPS CHARGE
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amA fight over an unleashed dog yesterday left a park officer nursing a bite wound - inflicted not by the pooch, but by the woman who owns it, the Parks...
'SERBS MADE US HUMAN SHIELDS' - KOSOVAR SURVIVORS BARE CHILLING STORIES
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Kosovar men reaching the Albanian border this weekend told harrowing tales of being used as human shields to protect Serb military units. Yugoslavia has labeled the human-shield stories...
'THE BLUE BLAZER' WAS BORN TO GRAPPLE
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amOwen Hart - the 33-year-old younger brother of WCW wrestler Bret ''Hitman'' Hart - was born to his career. Bret and Owen are second-generation wrestlers, the sons of Stu Hart,...
HEARTACHE & HORROR STALK TEXAS CLAN
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amNo pro-wrestling family has seen as much tragedy as the Adkissons of Texas. Family patriarch Jack Adkisson, who died in 1997, had five sons who went into the wrestling business....
TRAGIC STUNT KILLS TOP WRESTLER
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amA popular pro-wrestler, making a grand entrance during a World Wrestling Foundation tournament, fell 50 feet to his death in the ring last night in a sold-out Missouri sports arena....
COPS NAB SUSPECT IN 'MOLOTOV' SLAYS
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amA 39-year-old homeless man was charged last night with tossing a Molotov cocktail into a Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone, igniting a fire that killed three men, officials said. Cops believe Dexter Bartley,...
REPORT: KHADAFY ORDERED THE BOMBING OF PAN AM 103 - SPY-FILE COVER-UP ALLEGED
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amLibyan strongman Moammar Khadafy personally ordered the bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland - and the British government has known about his role for years, it was...
LITTLE PETEY STILL HAS BIG AMBITION
May 24, 1999 | 4:00am"I'm not going to give up, no matter what happens. I'm not going to stop until I know I can't play anymore."PETE ROSE, JR. Since the father was known for...
LUKAS WARY OF BIGGEST TEST
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amThe sparse crowd at Belmont Park was soggy and subdued yesterday on a wet, dreary afternoon. How different the atmosphere will be 12 days from now, Belmont Stakes day, June...
RICKY'S NO SAINT TO AGENTS
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amRunning back Ricky Williams has been accustomed to being a marked man. In four seasons at Texas, where he was essentially a one-man offensive wrecking ball, defenses stacked eight or...
PACERS PRIMED FOR KNICKS INDY SWEEPS SIXERS, WAITS FOR ROUND 5
May 24, 1999 | 4:00am"It would only be fitting because of the history between the two teams."REGGIE MILLER GAME 4 Pacers 89 Sixers 86 PHILADELPHIA - The message on the blackboard in the Pacers'...
GIANT KILLER MULLS HIS 'BEST' MOVE IN BELMONT
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amIn the over/under on how many times "The Giant Killer" appears in print over the next two weeks leading up to the June 5 Belmont Stakes, bet the over. 'The...
SCORING DROUGHT DIDN'T PANIC INDIANA
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The shots were to the right, to the left, long and short, everywhere but in the basket. For more than an entire quarter, 12:10 to be precise, spanning...
HE WASN'T 'BAD' ENOUGH NBC NOTICES DUMARS - 10 YEARS TOO LATE
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amAT HALFTIME of yesterday's Hawks-Knicks, NBC aired a terrific piece on the recently retired Piston great, Gentleman Joe Dumars. Everyone from Doug Collins to Chuck Daly to Isiah Thomas were...
JASON GETS AMAZIN' CALL
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amWith Al Leiter and Bobby Jones ailing and struggling, the Mets finally are ready to see what a post-surgery Jason Isringhausen can do for them. Isringhausen will make his first...
FOR IZZY, BACK TO THE FUTURE
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amIT IS that time again to celebrate an annual rite of the Met baseball season, the anticipatory moment when a member of Generation K comes on the horizon to save...
HAWKS ON VERGE OF TEARS: ATLANTA'S OUSTER FOREGONE CONCLUSION
May 24, 1999 | 4:00am"I'm shocked. I just don't want to get swept."DIKEMBE MUTOMBO First there was a bold guantantee. Now there is humility, disbelief and soul searching. Next come the tears. When those...
MR. SMITH GOES NOWHERE: STEVE SILENCED AFTER STRONG START
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amThis is what the Hawks had been waiting for. Finally, in this series of offensive angst against the resurgent Knicks, somebody was going to step up and take charge. Steve...
DAD FEELS VG'S PAIN
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amHe sees the heavy bags under his son's eyes. He hears the reports that the Garden is pursuing Phil Jackson. And he realizes the pressure is becoming almost unbearable. So...
FRANCONA: I HAD CONFIDENCE IN CURT
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amIf it were almost any other pitcher in the game, he would have been gone. But if it were almost any other manager in the game, it wouldn't have mattered...
WILKENS: OUR PRIDE IS ON LINE
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amHe is a walking, breathing example of class and success. Lenny Wilkens has done everything in basketball. He's been inducted into the game's Hall of Fame as both a player...
METS' SCHILLING SHOCKER: AMAZIN' RALLY IN 9TH DENIES PHILLIES' ACE
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amMets 5 Phillies 4 You could've received pretty Amazin' odds that the Mets weren't going to come back in the ninth inning against the NL's elite pitcher, Curt Schilling, yesterday....
DUD IS SOME STUD
May 24, 1999 | 4:00am"That was the best game I've ever seen him play."ALLAN HOUSTON ON CHRIS DUDLEY IT CAN'T possibly hurt to be Patrick Ewing these days any more than it does to...
OTB TO OFFER AC, CALDER
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amOTB will offer full-card wagering from Atlantic City and Calder beginning this week. The Atlantic City meet will last only five days, tomorrow through Friday. All the races will be...
KNICKS EASE PAT'S PAIN DUDLEY AND MATES PICK UP AILING CENTER
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amWasn't it only a few years ago when Patrick Ewing had to carry the Knicks? Well, times have changed. For perhaps the first time in his career, the Knicks have...
ROLL PAST HAWKS, EYE SWEEP TONIGHT
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amGAME 3 Knicks 90 Hawks 78 KNICKSThe second the Pacers finished off the Sixers yesterday, the Knicks knew the job at hand: Bury the pretenders from Atlanta and prepare for...
BALK-AND-ROLL SHOW; YANKEES STEAL ONE FROM CHI
May 24, 1999 | 4:00am10 INNINGS Yankees 8 White Sox 7 CHICAGO - A team Joe Torre lovingly refers to as grinders ground out a victory yesterday that Torre hopes will get his World...
VAN'S THE MAN FOR KNICKS: JEFF'S BEST COACH FOR THIS TEAM
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amTHE LOOK was laced with an attitude, which is so rare for Allan Houston that it was apparent the subject matter was too invasive. Houston politely but firmly ended any...
LJ: SPREE GAVE US A LIFT AGAIN
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amWith their locker stalls next to each other in the Garden, Larry Johnson knows well enough how much Latrell Sprewell despises his sixth-man role. But while Sprewell is eager to...
NELSON LOOKS RUSTY
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Jeff Nelson's first relief appearance since May 2 did nothing to alleviate concerns over the Yankees' bullpen. Summoned yesterday in the seventh inning of a 4-3 game with...
HOUSTON GETS ACT IN GEAR
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amNot only has Allan Houston proved able to co-exist with Latrell Sprewell, but he's thriving. A few of Sprewell's four assists yesterday went to Houston on the break, all-but breaking...
QUITE A TRANSITION FOR KNICK 'O'
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES It's strange to hear a team talk about stopping the Knicks' transition offense. It's like hearing a baseball pitcher fearing Luis Soho as a home-run threat. "We need...
CHECKETTS PHILS US IN, DENIES MEETING WITH JAX
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES The Knicks yesterday denied they have had any face-to-face meetings with Phil Jackson or phone conversations with Jackson or his agent, but did admit that last month Garden...
MARCUS MAKING MINUTES PAY OFF
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amThe secret is not that Marcus Camby has suddenly become a monster or has gained strength or watched so many Charles Oakley tapes that he now understands what it means...
KNICKS: 8TH WONDERS
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amLarry Johnson on the Knicks being the No. 8 seed and stunning everyone they play: ''We definitely don't have eighth-seed talent, but the reality is we had an eighth-seed record....
BOBBY V GOES TO VIDEOTAPE TO FIX LEITER
May 24, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Bobby Valentine went to the videotape again yesterday to show reporters exactly how Al Leiter's knee pain is effecting the follow-through on his normally "violent" delivery. Valentine, who...