February 16, 2000
GEEKS INVADE CHELSEA ; SILICON ALLEY SET BUYING UP BIG-BUCKS LIVING SPACES
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amSilicon Alley millionaires are outbidding hip Wall Streeters to claim Chelsea as a high-priced Geekville where they can walk to work. The .com crowd has been plunking down as much...
SMALL TECH COMPANY GETS INVESTORS' NOTICE
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amA small Internet software and services company became one of the most actively traded stocks on the Nasdaq yesterday after it made a strategic acquisition and gained a new "buy"...
DIAMONDS AREN'T ENOUGH FOR THE BOSS
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amGeorge Steinbrenner wants the world to be his oyster. The Boss of the Bronx Bombers sees the reach of the recently formed YankeeNets organization spanning the globe as it acquires...
PAPER CHASE COMING; THOMSON IS UNLOADING 130 NEWSPAPERS
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amIn one of the largest ever selloffs of newspapers, Canadian media giant Thomson Corp. will unload all but one of its 131 profitable newspapers. The 130 newspapers on the block...
WAL-MART PICKING FRUIT OF THE LOOM
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amIs Wal-Mart trying on Fruit of the Loom? Insiders say the world's biggest retailer may buy the bankrupt maker of T-shirts and underwear. Representatives from both companies refused to comment,...
BONY BANKERS MAY GET WITNESS PROTECTION
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amThe husband and wife charged in a $7 billion Bank of New York money-laundering scandal may be offered a place in the federal witness protection program in exchange for testimony...
BARGAIN HUNTERS' SPREE ; BLUE CHIPS JUMP 198 POINTS
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amStocks jumped yesterday, as investors sought bargains in recently ignored sectors like financial services and industrial concerns. Even the long high-flying technology stocks joined the rally in a late-day spurt...
$400G FOR MOTHER OF ALL SHARK STORIES
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amHENRY Holt paid big bucks for two nonfiction tomes tied to wars -- one regarding the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the waning days of World War II and...
IVILLAGE, UNILEVER START MAKEUP SITE
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amConsumer products giant Unilever and iVillage, the leading online women's site, are heading to the makeup counter. Unilever will provide $200 million in capital to create a new beauty portal...
YOU'LL FLIP FOR CREPERIE'S FRENCH-STYLE FLAPJACKS
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amRUE DES CREPES 104 Eighth Ave. (between 15th and 16th) LOOKING around at Rue des Crepes, my lunch mate has a revelation. "Oh, I get it," she announces, "We're supposed...
REAL BRASSERIES DON'T EAT HYPE
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amL'Express 249 Park Ave. South (at 20th Street) WELCOME to the accidental review. Why L'Express, an inexpensive, 4-year-old bistro, when ambitious new restaurants are yipping and squealing for attention? Because...
GLITTERING GALA FROM BALLET'S ALL-STARS
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amDANCE REVIEW ANY gala performance needs a certain indefinable chemistry for it to stick together. And when you are dealing with a dance gala, where one bit may look dangerously...
THE STARR REPORT
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amThis space for rent "Good Morning America" is unveiling a quirky new outdoor kiosk/billboard campaign here today to advertise the show's home on Ch.7. The colorful ads feature photos of...
WHERE TO BOOK ON THE WEB
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amTHERE are about 25 online reservation sites on the Web, with varying degrees of usefulness.Some provide instant results, while other sites take hours to confirm reservations through e-mail correspondence. Here...
'NET A TABLE WITH EASE? ; RESTAURANT BIGS BANKINGON CYBER-RESERVATIONS SITES
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amMAKING a reservation at a hot New York City restaurant is rarely pleasant.First comes the Muzak. Then the interminable wait. Then, the inevitable news: There's nothing available between 5 and...
ON THE SIDE
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amGRAY Kunz will open his long-awaited eatery in SoHo, not the Meat Packing District, with the Chatwal family, close-knit owners of the Time Hotel, Palladin and Bombay Palace restaurant. In...
END OF THE 'LINES?'
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amCBS has pulled the plug, for now, on its short-lived game show "Winning Lines." The complicated show, hastily thrown together to capitalize on the success of "Who Wants to Be...
PAWS FOR A SHAGGY DOG STORY
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amWHEN my boyfriend isn't devising new and ingenious ways to meet "La Femme Nikita" he's sleeping with my real-life, rival, Leo. He claims he loves me as much as Leo,...
MANKIND'S WIFE BD+]]SLAMMED; WWF CHIEF THROWN BY HER '20/20' INTERVIEW
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amWWF honcho Vince McMahon has slammed the wife of one of his star wrestlers, comparing her appearance on "20/20" to Robin Givens' famous rip on Mike Tyson. Colette Foley --...
IT'S A REEL HORSE RACE
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amFASTEN your seatbelts -- March 26 is going to be a bumpy night.Spreading nominations relatively equally among four of the five Best Picture nominees yesterday, Academy Award voters have set...
BOMBS AWAY! WILL KEVIN COSTNER SINK 'PEARL HARBOR,' THE MOVIE WITH THE BIGGEST BUDGET EVER?
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amKEVIN Costner is not exactly on a hot streak.Following a string of box-office disappointments, Costner was nominated this week for a Razzie award for Worst Actor of the Century. So...
WOMAN CLEARED IN TERROR PLOT
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amA Canadian woman who was busted with a ring of suspected terrorists was ordered freed yesterday - because prosecutors said she did not know about the bomb plot and has...
BILL GATES' MANSION IS WORTH $1M TO TAX MAN
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amBill Gates now has a million more reasons to hate the tax man. The Microsoft founder's home in suburban Medina, Wash., will cost him $1,076,231 in property taxes alone this...
SHE'S BEEN HOMELESS BUT ]]NEVER HEARTLESS
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amFifteen-year-old Felicia Smith hopes to go from homeless to Harvard. Her childhood memories are of days and nights living in shelters surrounded by danger and uncertainty. But her future is...
'IZZY' GOOD ENOUGH TO TRIUMPH IN AFGHAN WAR
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amThe underdog triumphed early on yesterday at the 124th annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show as the favored Afghan hound Tryst was ousted by feisty fellow Afghan Izzy. "I didn't...
'W' AT ANY COST WILL DOOM HIM AFTER S.C.
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amCOLUMBIA, S.C. THE Republican fistfight here is ugly. How ugly? Well, John McCain has become the object of an Internet whispering campaign conducted by a George W. Bush supporter, who...
GOP RACE GETS STUCK IN MUD :TOUGH ADS COULD BE WORKING FOR BUSH
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amCOLUMBIA, S.C. - Republican John McCain's staff yesterday claimed South Carolina's hot primary race is the ugliest they've ever seen - amid hints that hardball may be paying off for...
31 ARRESTED AS CITY GARDEN TURF WAR GROWS UGLY
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amA city construction crew leveled a community garden on the Lower East Side yesterday and 31 protesters were busted -- just as a state judge was moving to bar the...
IRA THREATENS THE PEACE BY PULLING OUT OF ARMS TALKS
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amThe Northern Ireland peace process suffered a stunning blow yesterday when the IRA said it was breaking off talks about disarmament -- and pulling its breakthrough proposal off the table....
WHEN AMERICA NEEDS A HERO ; WISELY AND NOT, THE NATION OFTEN VOTES THE MAN, NOT THE 'ISSUES'
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amIT'S more than 30 years old, but Paul Simon's song "Mrs. Robinson" turns out to be a prescient description of the political forces at work in this year's campaign for...
RIVER OF CYANIDE RECALLS A POISONED ERA
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amThe devastating cyanide spill in an East European river awakened dark memories of a time the waterway carried thousands of Hungarian Jewish boys to slavery and slaughter in the Holocaust....
FACE LIFT FOR TKTS JUST THE TICKET
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amJust because you have to stand in line to get half-price theater tickets in Times Square doesn't mean you shouldn't have a place to sit afterward. That's the main principle...
WHY FILM HAS ALL-'AMERICAN' APPEAL
February 16, 2000 | 5:00am"AMERICAN Beauty" accomplishes what no popular form of entertainment -- with the possible exception of the Clinton White House -- has done so well in recent years. It peeks behind...
HASIDIC WIFE FIGHTS BACK ; SUES RABBIS WHO BRANDED HER CRAZY
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amHelen Chayie Sieger says she is everything a good Hasidic wife should be. She covers her head with a strawberry-brown wig. She wears dark, conservative clothes that cover her arms...
'LONE' STAR HOUSE HOLDOUT SNUBS CARDINAL
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amThe House overwhelmingly voted yesterday to award John Cardinal O'Connor the country's highest civilian honor -- but a lone holdout called the minting of a Congressional Gold Medal in his...
COP GOES THROUGH HELL & LOW WATER TO SAVE PUP
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amA starving stray puppy was saved from death yesterday after a kind-hearted cop slogged through the Gowanus Canal to pluck him from the frigid seawall nook in which she'd been...
PREZ HOLDS SUMMIT TO STOP CYBERHACKS
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amPresident Clinton held a cyber summit with high-tech executives and academics yesterday to discuss Internet security as the FBI prepared to question hackers about last week's Web attacks. Clinton met...
OSCAR LEAVES CARREY REEL-ING - SNUBS HIM AGAIN, BUT IS IN LOVE WITH 'BEAUTY'
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amOscar snubbed comedy king Jim Carrey yesterday for the second straight year -- and fell hard for "American Beauty." It was the latest Oscar nose-thumb for Carrey, who got rave...
BRADLEY HITS PRO-CHOICERS BACKING AL
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amPresidential contender Bill Bradley -- who got an impromptu endorsement yesterday from a group of East Coast Teamsters -- lashed out at a powerful abortion-rights group for supporting Al Gore....
RUDY AD ASKS BILL TO LOOSEN GRIP ON OIL
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday launched a Senate campaign radio ad denouncing President Clinton for not releasing federal oil reserves to help drive down sky-high heating costs. "Mr. President, why don't you...
COPS TELL OF SHOOTOUT TERROR ; 'I'M GOING TO DIE,' 1 OFFICER THOUGHT DURING DIALLO SLAY
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- The two cops who fired the fewest bullets at Amadou Diallo testified yesterday that they were so convinced he had a gun, one thought, "I'm going to die,"...
TEACHERS WANT $$ HIKE FOR SUMMER SCHOOL
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amThe head of the teachers union warned yesterday that the Board of Education won't be able to attract enough teachers for its massive summer-school program without raising their pay. United...
GRIFTERS' LAWYERS: NO BODY, NO PROOF, NO CASE
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amProsecutors may have a mountain of evidence against Sante and Kenneth Kimes but they don't have a pebble of proof that the mother-and-son grifters killed Irene Silverman, their lawyers said...
CASE CLOSED: MURPHY AND BOSS SHOULD WALK
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amIT'S time to let two of the cops involved in the tragic death of Amadou Diallo off the hook. Officers Richard Murphy and Kenneth Boss should be exonerated, not because...
GEORGIA 4 INDICTED AS HARLEM GUN-RUNNERS
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Rocker isn't the only one from Macon, Ga., that New Yorkers can do without. Four residents of the hate-spewing Atlanta Brave's hometown were indicted in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday...
I TOLD COPS TO CLAM UP, PBA BIG TELLS LOUIMA JURY
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amA high-ranking police-union official acknowledged on the stand in the Abner Louima conspiracy trial yesterday that he told cops at "several" roll calls at the 70th Precinct not to talk...
FUROR AS POPE SIDES WITH PLO ON JERUSALEM
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amThe Vatican and the PLO signed an agreement yesterday challenging Israel's control of Jerusalem -- creating new tensions with Israel just weeks before Pope John Paul's Holy Land visit. The...
WALL STREET WORKER IS WOWED BY WWW.INDFALL
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amCity resident Josh Kantrowitz became a dotcom millionaire yesterday, getting $1 million for just pointing and clicking his way around a Web search engine. Kantrowitz, of Manhattan, will collect $40,000...
GEORGE RAISES HIS GAME AGAINST FIERCE RIVAL
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amCOLUMBIA, S.C.JOHN McCAIN needed a knockout blow against George W. Bush in last night's crucial debate. He did not get it. This race will go down to the wire. A...
THERE'S NO DEBATING BUSH WON ON THE ISSUES, BUT . . .
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amWHO won the South Carolina debate? Unquestionably, Alan Keyes, the most eloquent speaker on politics and moral issues in America today. Now that we have that settled, let's journey back...
EX: WHISTLE-BLOWER JUST BLOWING SMOKE ; SAYS HE'S NOT HERO 'INSIDER' PORTRAYS
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amIt's garnered seven Oscar nominations, but Disney's fact-based drama "The Insider" might yet be derailed by a major credibility problem. In the movie, Oscar-nominee Russell Crowe plays whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand...
SPRINGER TIME FOR WINNING SPANIEL
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amA floppy-earred underdog bow-wowed the judges to trot off with top honors at the Westminster Kennel Club show last night -- her swan song before retiring to motherhood. The quietly...
BUSH, MCCAIN IN S.C. SLUGFEST ; GOP RIVALS ACCENTUATE THE NEGATIVE IN DEBATE
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amCOLUMBIA, S.C. -- Republican rivals George W. Bush and John McCain angrily blamed each other for the nasty tone of last night's GOP debate amid one of the ugliest races...
NUKE STEAM LEAKS INTO AIR AT W'CHESTER INDIAN POINT PLANT
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amA leak in the cooling system of the Indian Point 2 nuclear reactor in northern Westchester resulted in a brief release of radioactive steam outside the plant last night, Con...
ABSENT KEITH ADDS TO NET BOARD WOES
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA - The rebounding situation has been in a shambles. The saying goes that rebounds equal rings. But on the Nets of late, rebounds equal frustration. And that frustration didn't...
OAK SLAMS CARTER :SAYS DUNK CHAMP NEEDS TO IMPROVE
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amTORONTO - Leave it to grizzled Raptor veteran and ex-Knick warrior Charles Oakley to bring Vince Carter back to earth. Oakley, while touching on a handful of Knick-related items, including...
HERE'S A WEB SITE TO FALL BACK ON
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amIT is late afternoon on the slopes and the temperature has plummeted to 20 degrees, tights burn and calves ache. In stiff boots the ankles and feet feel frozen at...
MAKING DERBY FUTURE BETS
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amThe first of three rounds in the 2000 Kentucky Derby Future Wager begins at noon tomorrow, with betting available until 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Churchill Downs, which hosts the Derby May...
OBEN'S CAREER AT CROSSROAD
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amLike it or not -- and it seems he does not -- Roman Oben visits Tampa tomorrow, where he no doubt will be impressed with Tony Dungy, the warm Florida...
MUCKLER'S A RE-A-RANGER
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- A coach at this point in the season doesn't dramatically shake up his lineup off of one bad game, no matter how inferior the effort. So it was...
SHAZAAM! SHAQ PUTS DUNK.NET ON THE LINE
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amTHE biggest difference between men and boys, it is said, is the size and cost of their toys. It's also the biggest difference between superstar athletes and mere mortals. Take...
YARNALL DETERMINED TO CASH IN CHANCE
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- It is one thing to receive the chance of a lifetime. It's another to truly understand how fortunate you are to get it. How many times has the...
SHANE REVERSES FIELD, WANTS TO STAY
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA -- Last season, reduced at-bats and being left off the Yankees' post-season roster caused unhappy left fielder/DH Shane Spencer to say it probably was time for him...
HAMPTON TO METS: TIME'S UP - AN AMAZIN' BLUNDER
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- The Mets are fond of changing jersey colors every other day. Blue shirt today, black one tomorrow, white one the day after that. Based on yesterday's...
HAMPTON TO METS: TIME'S UP ; ALL-STAR LEFTY SLAMS DOOR ON CONTRACT DISCUSSIONS
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- Cy Young runner-up Mike Hampton drove away from the bargaining table yesterday, telling the Mets that negotiations are off until after the season. Now, the Mets...
GRIFFEY-LED REDS WORRY VALENTINE
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- Managers can dream, too. Bobby Valentine wrote out a lineup this winter that answered the nagging question about his No. 3 hitter and made the Mets...
ST. RAY'S FRIES RICE FOR TITLE
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amSt. Ray's 76 Rice 57 Last night was supposed to bring redemption to Rice High School. Instead, it brought disaster. St. Raymond's came to Riverbank State Park -- Rice's home...
OAKLEY -- CARTER NOT IN-VINCE-IBLE
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amTORONTO -- Leave it to grizzled Raptors veteran and ex-Knick warrior Charles Oakley to bring Vince Carter back to earth. Oakley, while touching on a handful of Knick-related items, including...
NEW PROBE TARGETS BARKLEY ; NCAA: DID SJU STAR ACCEPT AGENTS' GIFTS?
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amCHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- Erick Barkley could be the innocent victim in a high-stakes battle between agents, which has prompted the NCAA to begin another probe of St. John's, The...
SALE POINTS LOU TOWARD EXIT 16W
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amWith the sale of the Devils to YankeeNets expected to be closed after the playoffs, Lou Lamoriello is one of the three owners who will share in the $175 million...
POSTELL HITS 24 TO CARRY STORM
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amSt. John's 73 Boston Col. 69 CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- Perhaps it has been the strain of so many close games, agonizing struggles that come down to the last possession....
CARTER & CO. HUMILIATE ICY KNICKS
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amRaptors 91 Knicks 70 TORONTO -- Let's put this as gently as possible. Pray the Knicks don't get matched up with Vince Carter's rising Raptors in the first round. The...
BRODEUR SAVES, SCORES
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amDevils 4 Flyers 2 Game-winning goalie, game-winning goal. Bogus or not, Martin Brodeur has found another way into the record book. This time, the Devils' franchise player didn't even shoot...
ODJICK SENT TO PHILLY
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amLike a porn star who decides to do Shakespeare, Gino Odjick mostly abandoned his goon-like tactics during his three seasons with the Islanders. This year, in particular, Odjick took great...
AGENT: MANAGEMENT SHAKEUP HURT TURKCAN
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amTORONTO -- Marc Fleisher, agent for recently waived Knick forward Mirsad Turkcan, believes things might've worked out better for the Turkey League gunslinger if the franchise hadn't undergone a recent...
NETS STILL A BASKET CASE
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amHawks 103 Nets 86 ATLANTA -- This was going to be the "new beginning" for the Nets. Only it sure looked like an old, familiar story -- another woeful defeat....
BLUESHIRTS MISS POINT ; TIED BY TERRIBLE TAMPA
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amRangers 2 Lightning 2 TAMPA --The effort wasn't good enough, the execution wasn't good enough, the result wasn't good enough. And now there is serious question whether these Rangers are...
LATEST ISLANDER LOSS IS DIFFICULT TO WATCH
February 16, 2000 | 5:00amSharks 4 Islanders 1 If your neighbors' argument was keeping you from getting an early night's sleep last night, you should have come to the Coliseum. With neither Fox Sports...