November 30, 1999
VNU TAKES ADWEEK, BILLBOARD TO NOHO
You'll soon have to go downtown to get to the top of the charts. Influential trade newspaper publisher VNU is moving the staff of Billboard, Adweek and the New York...
BIZ PUNDITS BATTLE IN DISSING MATCH
"Wall Street Week" host Louis Rukeyser and columnist Alan Abelson -- two of the most well-known financial commentators in the country -- are having a very ugly public spat. In...
THE BRONX CHEERS ITS NEW B&N STORE
Bronx residents will finally get today what their Westchester and Manhattan neighbors have long taken for granted -- a big book store. A 25,000-square-foot Barnes & Noble opens tonight in...
E-TAILERS BOAST BIG KICKOFF FOR SEASON
Online shopping was up over the Thanksgiving weekend, but the big players were keeping their cards close to their chests when it came to hard numbers. Wall Street, which has...
SONY RISES PAST UNIVERSAL ON NEW RELEASES
Boosted by a heap of new releases by artists like Celine Dion and Will Smith, Sony Music edged out industry powerhouse Universal -- becoming the No. 1 record label of...
CURIOUS GEORGE PICK: POLITICAL NOVICE LALLI GETS TOP JOB
Veteran magazine editor Frank Lalli has been named editor of George -- a move that has some industry watchers scratching their heads. Many had been expecting owner Hachette Filipacchi to...
IRS OKS SPINNING OFF CABLEVISION'S RAINBOW GROUP
After a year of waiting, Chuck Dolan has gotten the taxman's green light for a tax-free spinoff of his Rainbow Group -- the majority owner of Madison Square Garden, the...
LOTS OF $4,000 RENTALS GOING UP ; A BIG BUCKS BLDG. BOOM
A few weeks ago, a new 31-story rental apartment tower going up on First Avenue at 76th Street took away my view of LaGuardia Airport. Around Manhattan, lots of views...
GRAND NEW DOSE OF DRE
DR. DRE 2001 Dr. Dre ½ Aftermath/Interscope "Dr. Dre 2001" -- a hip hop odyssey -- is an unusual rap album, but Dr. Dre is an unusual artist. With assured...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
Quick getaway If you're the type who tends to take off at the last minute, The Educated Traveler, a quirky and literate newsletter, is offering a nifty new service. A...
JAMAICA JIVES ; AN ISLAND TROVE OF KID-FRIENDLY RESORTS
JOHN Steinbeck may have had the right idea in "Travels With Charley." Taking your pet poodle on vacation can be a lot easier than traveling with children, especially teenagers. A...
'TIS THE SEASON FOR LIVE RELEASES
LIKE tangerines and sidewalk Santas, live albums blossom in the days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. This week at least six live collections are in stores vying for your stocking-stuffer stash.HAMPTON...
IT'S A GIVENS AS ; LOVE LEAVES
FORGIVE or Forget" has dumped Mother Love -- and replaced her with Robin Givens. The sassy Love -- whose real name is Jo Anne Hart -- had been hosting the...
FOR THE LOVE OF MOTHER!
FIRE Mother Love? Unforgiveable! Boy oh boy, I knew TV was a tough business, but this story provides graphic proof that some TV executives truly have ice in their veins....
THE STARR REPORT
Arnold's 'End' aroundArnold Schwarzenegger will be the first non-Hispanic superstar to guest on Cristina Saralegui's talk show on Thursday. Schwarzenegger will be plugging his new movie, "End of Days," on...
ORCHESTRAL MANEUVERS BALLET CHAIR SAYS IT'S THE PITS
WITH the New York City Ballet using canned recordings for "The Nutcracker" because of a labor dispute with its musicians, the ballet's chairman yesterday admitted orchestra members are not up...
BIG DEBUT SET FOR 'NEUTRON'
JIMMY Neutron, Boy Genius" is a new computer animated character that Nickelodeon wants to make as famous as the "Rugrats." Jimmy Neutron is a brainy, 10-year-old who periodically saves the...
NEW PACT SAVES B'WAY HOLIDAY SEASON
BROADWAY stagehands struck a deal with theater producers yesterday, putting to rest talk of a strike that would have dimmed the lights of the Great White Way for the holiday...
MAGIC POTIONS SPELL TROUBLE - WARNING: MERCURY AND OTHER METALS USED IN SANTERIA RITUALS ARE DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH; EXCLUSIVE
THE sharp smell of incense wafts through the air in the cramped backroom of a South Bronx religious shop as Santeria priestess Juanita Gonzalez prepares a secret ritual designed to...
WEIGHTING FOR THE NEW YEAR
Rejoice! There's good news for New Yorkers this holiday season. You'll likely gain only one pound between Thanksgiving and New Years, according to a study presented recently at the North...
CONSERVATIVE BOSS FIRM ON RUDY & ABORTION
MAYOR Rudolph Giuliani is looking at a 350,000 to 400,000 deficit -- as in votes. That is the estimate of Mike Long, head of the state Conservative Party. "Giuliani has...
. . . AND SHE 'DIED' GREEDILY EVER AFTER
AS THE holiday season begins breathing down our necks, we bring you this fable about the deadliest of the seven sins: gluttony. Be forewarned. Once upon a time, in the...
CARDINAL: FALL WON'T KEEP ME DOWN
John Cardinal O'Connor dug into hours of desk work yesterday, and is determined to keep celebrating public Mass, despite a fall Sunday, his spokesman said. "He's planning on putting in...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY IS AL'S GAL
ALBANY -- Vice President Al Gore beat Bill Bradley on the glamour front yesterday, naming supermodel Christie Brinkley to his New York delegate slate. Brinkley, who lives in Bridgehampton, L.I.,...
EVEN OUR COURTS GIVE FATHER CUSTODY: EXPERTS
Elian Gonzalez -- the 5-year-old who survived a harrowing trip to Florida only to find himself in a custody battle between his father in Cuba and relatives in Miami --...
CALL IT A VICTORY FOR THE NEW TIMES SQ.
In the 1930s, the Republic Theater on Times Square was the place where serious bump-and-grind aficionados could ogle scantily clad babes. Today, in the same hall -- now dubbed the...
SUIT SLAMS STARBUCKS' 'ORGAN GRINDER'
Ow, Canada! A tourist from Toronto claims he's "unable to reproduce naturally" after being grinded by a defective toilet seat at a Manhattan Starbucks coffee shop. Edward Skwarek, 37, charges...
ULSTER CHOOSES CABINET OVER HARD-LINE PROTESTS
BELFAST -- A new era of hope for Northern Ireland began yesterday when bitter rivals elected a new government -- but not before Unionist hard-liners tried to keep Catholics out...
YELTSIN HOSPITALIZED WITH PNEUMONIA
Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, whose frequent battles with serious illness and alcohol have destabilized his presidency, was rushed to the hospital last night -- this time with pneumonia. Yeltsin, 68,...
SOTHEBY'S SEEKS $2.5M FOR JFK JR. LOFT; EXCLUSIVE
The TriBeCa loft where John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette spent their brief married life has quietly been put on the market for $2.5 million. Sources say the downtown...
MAKE SHOPPING WITH YOUR KIDS CHILD'S PLAY
Savvy Shopper reveals tips andtrends for holiday gift-buying inwhat is shaping up as the biggestholiday season of the '90s.T HERE'S only one thing worse than hitting crowded stores during the...
BRADLEY BLASTS VEEP OVER ; BORIS 'OBSESSION'
WASHINGTON -- Bill Bradley yesterday criticized his Democratic presidential rival, Vice President Al Gore, for allowing U.S. policy toward Russia to become obsessed with sickly Russian President Boris Yeltsin. "Our...
COURT COP PLEADS GUILTY IN $2M STOCK SWINDLE
A Manhattan court officer admitted yesterday to collaborating with a reputed Mafia "concrete king" and snookering fellow officers into investing in a bankrupt Florida recycling plant. With his guilty plea,...
SLAY-CASE GIRLFRIEND MAY TESTIFY - WITH BEAU AFTER HIS PARENTS WERE KILLED; EXCLUSIVE
The girlfriend of the Long Island man accused of killing his parents and setting their upstate vacation house ablaze is likely to testify in a grand jury hearing that begins...
BABS GIVES NO BREAKS TO CHARITY
Hollywood's "Funny Girl" didn't leave a cash-strapped museum laughing yesterday -- it had to shell out $125,000 for two cabinets it thought Barbra Streisand should have donated. "We're relieved to...
EX-BUILDING BIG: RUDY AIDE AXED ME FOR CITING VIOLATIONS
A former city buildings official told Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes yesterday that he suspects he was fired because he refused to overlook violations at a construction site. Joseph Trivisonno,...
HOLOCAUST ASSETS - SURVIVORS SPLIT ON HOW TO DIVIDE SWISS FUNDS
HUNDREDS of Holocaust survivors and supporters packed a Brooklyn courtroom yesterday to argue over the $1.25 billion Swiss bank settlement -- while the little old woman who started it all...
LAW FIRMS OUTBID CITY FOR NEW LEGAL EAGLES
Soaring salaries at private law firms -- as high as $120,000 for recent graduates -- may make it tough for the city to attract the best and brightest lawyers, says...
MASS GRAVES FOUND IN MEXICO
As many as 100 people killed in drug violence, including several U.S. citizens, may be buried in two mass graves discovered in Mexico near the Texas border, officials said yesterday....
PETE PILES UP 'HITS' ON WEB - USES 'NET TO BOOST HALL BID
Pete Rose is embarking on a long-shot plan to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame -- he's endorsed a Web site that asks visitors to vote on whether he...
LATINO COPS TO HAIL CHOKEHOLD VICTIM'S FAMILY AT POLICE HQ; EXCLUSIVE
For the first time, the parents of a police brutality victim who died in custody will be honored at a ceremony inside NYPD headquarters today by a police fraternal organization....
BRAVE GIRL TELLS ELIAN: I SURVIVED, SO WILL YOU
SISSY PEREZ, 12, knows exactly how Elian Gonzalez feels after his nightmare experience at sea and his first days in a new and strange land. She went through it all...
NAVY MAN AN OFFICER & A SPY: FEDS
A Navy petty officer is under arrest on charges of selling the Kremlin secret details of U.S. eavesdropping on undersea communications cables. Daniel King, an 18-year Navy veteran, is being...
GALA FOR PRO-LIFER IS A HILL-RAISER
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton last night stepped into the crossfire of a bitter Democratic civil war when she hosted a gala fund-raiser for an anti-abortion Queens congressman. Clinton ticked...
GEORGE W. TO LEAN ON ABORT FOES FOR GIULIANI
Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush yesterday promised to lobby New York's Conservative Party to back Mayor Giuliani in his expected Senate race. "I think the Conservatives will support me...
VOLPE KIN BEG FORGIVENESS IN HARLEM
The tearful parents of sex-torture cop Justin Volpe pleaded for forgiveness for his "few minutes of madness," at a Harlem church service last night for police-brutality victims and accused officers....
CUBAN KID SPARKS FAMILY FEUD - POP BOUND FOR FLORIDA
MIAMI--The father of the 5-year-old Cuban boy whose rescue at sea triggered an international custody fight said yesterday he's ready to fly to Florida to bring his son home. But...
COPS GRILLING SUSPECT IN BRICK ATTACK
Manhattan detectives last night were questioning a panhandler with a long criminal record as the suspect in the savage Midtown brick attack, police said. The 34-year-old Bronx man -- who...
DA HEARS CONSTRUCTION STUNNER
A former buildings official who says he was forced out after he refused to overlook violations at a construction site told his story to the Brooklyn DA yesterday. Joseph Trivisonno,...
KING OF 'POP' JACKO WANTS 8 MORE KIDS
Watch out, world Michael Jackson says he wants to have eight more kids. "I told my father I'm going to match his record - he had 10," Jackson says in...
TRANSPLANT MOM BEATS THE ODDS - AND HEARTLESS FEDS
A Queens mother left the hospital yesterday with a new kidney and "a new life," thanks to her sister - who won a five-month struggle with State Department bureaucrats who...
TA TO UNION: WALK, AND YOU MIGHT GET THE BOOT
City transit bosses yesterday warned their unionized employees they face dismissal if they walk off the job. The Transit Authority is reminding workers that under the Taylor Law - which...
MAGNET PREDICTS HEART ATTACK
Take heart - there's a noninvasive way to identify potential heart-attack victims by detecting artery-clogging soft plaque, researchers said yesterday. Doctors use a magnetic-resonance imaging machine equipped with an enhanced...
SEATTLE TRADE TALKS MAY SPARK FIREWORKS
SEATTLE - A powder keg of high-level diplomacy and street-level protests could explode today at the World Trade Organization meetings here. The future of global trade, human rights in China...
UPSET ODELEIN MAY WANT OUT
The time has come for Lou Lamoriello to decide if Robbie Ftorek is really the man he wants coaching the Devils. Ftorek's confrontational style has fractured this team, far worse...
STANTON: WE COULD WIN WITHOUT CONE
Cornered on a conference call yesterday to announce his signing a three-year deal worth $7.35 million, Mike Stanton fielded as many questions about David Cone as he did himself. Stanton...
CURTIS KNOWS IT CAN COUNT ON GOODMAN
Fort Hamilton coach Vince Laino shook his head and said, "He's some player. We set out to stop him and we couldn't do it. I guess it was a failure."...
KEYSHAWN'S HAD ENOUGH ; WR EXPLODES AFTER PLAYOFF HOPES FADE
Sure, the Jets play the Giants Sunday in a rare regular-season meeting between the two locals. But if you came to Weeb Ewbank Hall yesterday seeking passion from the Jets...
CHREBET: I'LL CATCH NEXT ONE
JET NOTES Fallout from the Wayne Chrebet missed catch. A day later, neither Chrebet nor Ray Lucas had seen the replay and neither was in a hurry to see it....
MAZZILLI JOINS BROOKLYN BOMBERS
The Bronx Bombers will be all Brooklyn on the coaching lines next season, meaning Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez will have to find a new interpreter. With Willie Randolph, who played...
ROY AT RADIO CITY GOOD DEAL FOR CHECKETTS ; ROY CAN GIVE RADIO CITY 'CHEAP' THRILL
HE PRESIDES over an empire that grows ever more expensive, in reverse proportion to the amount of success it enjoys. The Knicks, at $68 million a year, are a .500...
METS' GM CONFIRMS AN OFFER TO OLERUD
The waiting game continues as the Mets and Mariners fight it out for the heart and bat of John Olerud. Mets GM Steve Phillips continued his negotiations with Olerud's agent...
STRAHAN BLITZES FASSEL & OFFENSE
This was the State of the Giants as seen through the eyes of Michael Strahan, and it is not a picture that Jim Fassel will enjoy viewing. On a day...
BATTERED KNEE ENDS WAY'S YEAR
GIANT NOTES This has been a disappointing, injury-filled season for Charles Way, whose days of playing through pain appear to be at an end. The Giants expect that their starting...
CHARA'S LONG ON SCORING SKILLS
BOSTON -- For those who never saw him in the Czech junior leagues, Zdeno Chara has news for you: He played center. Really. Yes, the Islanders' 6-foot-9 Chara, the tallest...
THE HALL STANDS TALL: SALEMBERT MAKES BIG IMPRESSION
Seton Hall fans have heard much about how bright the future looks. Last night they got a chance to see it. Samuel Dalembert, the 6-foot-11 freshman from St. Patrick's who...
EWING RETURNING SOON
With four full practices under his belt, Patrick Ewing returning for the weekend is a distinct possibility, with Thursday in Milwaukee the earliest possible scenario. Asked if Ewing could play...
DON'T RUSH BACK, PAT
GIVE Patrick Ewing some credit. When it comes to keeping secrets, he is among the best, especially when the secret concerns himself. Last night, the Knick center wasn't about to...
THANKS A LOT, DON ; NELSON'S MAVS CURE KNICKS' PROBLEMS
Knicks107Mavericks82 Charlie Ward goes for a career-high 25 points, making like Reggie Miller from the 3-point line. Kurt Thomas provides a rare low-post scoring presence in tying his career-high with...
LAYDEN NOT PUSHING PANIC BUTTON
Despite coach Jeff Van Gundy's alarmist ravings, Knick GM Scott Layden told The Post yesterday he's satisfied with the club's start this season, considering the schedule and the team's injury-wracked...
BACKCOURT BLUES IN INDY: PACER GUARDS FALTER AFTER NOT GETTING RAISES
STAGGERING into last night's game in Portland's Rose Garden, Reggie Miller had six straight games manufacturing five field goals or fewer. How bad was Cheryl's baby brother in the Pacers'...
RAMS FLY HIGH DESPITE ROBIN'S OFF NIGHT
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when Fordham had to play near-perfect just to win a game. But on a night when the Rams' best player suffered through...
CAMBY BACK, PAT NEAR - EWING MAY JOIN KNICKS AS EARLY AS THURSDAY
Apparently, Marcus Camby isn't taking Dr. Ewing's advice. After sitting out two games, Camby and his tendinitis- wracked left knee returned to action last night when the Knicks hosted Dallas....
PATRICK BADLY NEEDED
WHEN we last saw Patrick Ewing in a Knick uniform, he was limping heavily up and down the court in Market Square Arena doing his best to help the Knicks...
DEMARCO DELIGHTED AFTER DEBUT
DeMarco Johnson doesn't even have a locker. The Knicks' 24-year-old rookie dresses in a triangular nook between two rows of wooden cubbies in the Knicks' locker room. "All in good...
