May 16, 2000
BUILDERS EERILY RELATED
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amTWO men hold the destiny of Midtown's northern frontier in their hands. Which will make his mark on the skyline first? Stephen M. Ross and Steven Roth have more in...
E*TRADE BAILS OUT OF BANKING
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amFaced with a slew of customer complaints, E*Trade Group Inc. agreed yesterday to offload its investment banking unit to rival Wit Capital Group Inc. for $328 million. But E*Trade's 2.6...
GREENSPAN READY TO END GUESSING GAME
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amAlan Greenspan will settle a Wall Street spat today. The chairman of the Federal Reserve, who's been meeting with other Fed officials since yesterday morning, will tell the market how...
POTTERY BARN'S OWNER UNVEILS A MASS CHAIN
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amWilliams-Sonoma wants to furnish the homes of the masses. The upscale foodie chain that also operates the Pottery Barn retail empire is set to launch a new brand - called...
IT'S BECOME OFFICIAL: UPI LANDS ON MOON
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amNews World Communications, the publishing company owned by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, said it has acquired the United Press International wire service - and pledged a hands-off editorial policy....
RETAIL STOCKS COME BACK INTO FASHION
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amRETAIL stocks, long battered and bruised, are showing signs of life. After sinking to 52-week lows in February, much of the sector is bouncing back. Fears that interest rate hikes...
FREE DISKS COST AOL $3.5M
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amAmerica Online is paying the price for some floppy accounting practices. The media giant will pay a $3.5 million civil penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission for deferring the...
BAITING FOR BILLION$ ; ICAHN IS BIGGEST WINNER IN NABISCO BIDDING WAR
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amCarl Icahn stands to make a killing of upwards of $1.2 billion now that he appears to have succeeded in drawing food giants into a bidding war for Nabisco. The...
BOO.COM ADDING IGNORANCE TO WOES
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amConfusion reigns at Boo.com. A New York spokesperson called reports that the struggling e-tailer will soon get a cash infusion "speculating" - despite published confirmation from the company's chief executive....
B&N LAUNCHES SAME-DAY DELIVERY
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amIt's not as fast as pizza, but Barnes & Noble says that starting today it will deliver to your door the books and music you buy online - and on...
MORISSETTE FILES TO SELL $1.2M WORTH OF MP3.COM
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amEdgy rock singer Alanis Morisette moved to sell a block of her shares in MP3.com, looking to cash in before the embattled Internet company cashes out. The 25-year-old singer, whose...
FT TO U.S.: THINK PINK - BRIT BIZ SHEET RE-UPS AYKROYD TO TARGET WSJ
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amTrying to shake its image as a stodgy, London-based publication, the Financial Times used pitchman Dan Aykroyd to ride a pink motorbike to the unveiling of the firm's new U.S....
YES SIR TO NOOSA ; AN UNSPOILED PATCH OF SUNNY VACATIONLAND IN AUSTRALIA'S QUEENSLAND
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amREMEMBER when you first got back from Nice, or Hawaii, or Florida, where you thought you had a spectacular time until you found out you didn't? "It was so lovely,"...
ANOTHER PEARL FROM VEDDER & THE REST OF THE JAM
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amPEARL JAM "Binaural" ½ Epic What's amazing about Pearl Jam is that despite the stardom they attained in the '90s - redefining mainstream music - they have managed to stay...
BIKE'S OUTSIDE THE FOLD
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS week marks National Bike to Work Week, but there are still many urban cyclists who hesitate pedaling to work because they don't want to leave their cycles on a...
A CANNES-DO GUY ; EX-'ER' STAR GEORGE CLOONEY IS THE TOAST OF THIS RESORT TOWN
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amCANNES, France - George Clooney, the most famous American celeb at the Cannes Film Festival and star of its most talked-about movie - the Coen brothers' new comedy "O Brother,...
FIGHT INSECT BITES WITH THE COLOR PURPLE
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS summer, more than ever, insect repellents are a necessity. Protection against bites from potential West Nile virus-carrying mosquitoes has to be on the minds of every parent setting up...
ULLMAN'S CLOTHES CALL
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amTRACEY Ullman took to the role of fashion victim in Woody Allen's new film with a kind of masochistic relish. "Oh God, I squeezed myself into some disgusting outfits," says...
THE STARR REPORT
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amHugh asked for it Leave it to Hugh Hefner to present TV's first "interactive erotic feature film." "Fast Lane to Malibu," debuting on Playboy TV this Saturday (11 p.m.), tells...
SAWYER FOLLOWS THE MONEY
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amDIANE Sawyer has been thrown a lucrative Thursday-night lifeline for next season. ABC is expected to announce today that Sawyer and Charlie Gibson will co-host "Prime Time Thursday" at 10...
WB'S VIEWERS SAVE 3 SHOWS
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amALIENS will be orbiting the WB next fall when "Roswell" comes back for its second season - but not before at least one red-hot intergalactic visitor shows some skin on...
RHINESTONE COWBOY TAKES A SHINE TO CITY
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amGLEN Campbell sang about subway tokens and the "dirty sidewalks of Broadway" in "Rhinestone Cowboy," but the crossover country legend has only played once in Manhattan - at Carnegie Hall...
(UN)'POPULAR' FINALE ; WB TEEN SERIES ENDS SEASON ON AN ILL-CONCEIVED, SOUR NOTE
May 16, 2000 | 4:00am"Popular" season finale 8 p.m. Thursday on WPIX/Ch. 11 THOSE darn kids on "Popular" - they're always getting into the funniest predicaments! In the season finale, the kids from Kennedy...
NOW 'TODAY' IS ON EVEN 'LATER'
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amSTARTING this Fall, one-third of the day will belong to "Today." The top-rated morning show, hosted by Katie Couric and Matt Lauer, will run for an extra hour, making it...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amWindy City savings Visitors to Chicago this year should make sure to get a copy of "Chicago for the Time of Your Life." The coupon booklet includes more than 100...
HILL: I'LL TAKE ON ALL COMERS
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton campaigned at full speed across Manhattan yesterday, saying she doesn't care if she ends up running against Mayor Giuliani - or "whoever the Republicans put up." Collecting...
VERDICT ON RUDY IS A NO-DECISION: STILL HASN'T MADE UP HIS MIND ON CANCER, SENATE
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani, one of the most decisive figures in New York politics, conceded yesterday that he's having a hard time choosing a course of treatment for his prostate cancer. "Sometimes...
HILLARY: I DON'T CARE WHO MY OPPONENT IS
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton campaigned at full speed across Manhattan yesterday, saying she doesn't care if she ends up running against Mayor Giuliani - or "whoever the Republicans put up." Collecting...
A MORALIST SHOULDN'T HAVE A MISTRESS
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amRUDY GIULIANI, the moralist with a mistress, is in no shape to continue his campaign for the Senate. The mayor who idolizes Fiorello La Guardia is turning into Jimmy Walker....
IT'S NOT THE ECONOMY ; SORRY, AL: IT'S LEADERSHIP, STUPID
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S conventional wisdom that in good economic times the White House gets the credit and in bad times the White House gets the blame - and these days, the American...
NORWAY GUNMAN FREES 35 HOSTAGES AT NURSERY SCHOOL
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amA Norwegian gunman seized about 25 children and 10 kindergarten staffers at a nursery school yesterday but freed all the captives unharmed after 10 hours. The unidentified man, enraged by...
IF RUDY DROPS OUT ... NOBODY'S LEFT
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY SO it looks like Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was right after all. No, I'm not talking about Bruno's headline-grabbing warning last week that Mayor Giuliani's soap-opera-like handling of...
SWEET SURRENDER: SACCHARIN OFF CANCER LIST
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amHow sweet it is! Saccharin, shunned for nearly 20 years because of its suspected link to cancer, is back in good standing. The National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, in...
DOCS: DRUG BRIGHTENS OUTLOOK FOR KIDNEY-TRANSPLANT PATIENTS
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amKidney transplant recipients may be able to keep their new organs longer, a new study shows. The University of Michigan survey found that a compound called mycophenolate mofetil, or MMF,...
SUPREME COURT TOSSES FED RAPE LAW
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amIn a ruling that could stymie federal action on everything from guns to abortion protests, the Supreme Court yesterday threw out a federal law allowing rape victims to sue their...
TAXI RULE WOULD OPEN DOOR FOR WHEELCHAIRS
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amThe Taxi and Limousine Commission has rolled out a proposal to require that all new cabs be wheelchair-accessible - a move that would reshape the face of the city's taxi...
BULLETPROOF VESTS FOR ALL COPS: PREZ
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday honored 139 police officers killed last year in the line of duty and vowed to buy bulletproof vests to protect every cop in America. At...
RUSSIANS BOMB REBEL HOLDOUTS IN CHECHNYA
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amRussian jets torched Chechen rebel positions in the southern mountains of the breakaway republic yesterday hours after a Kremlin amnesty program for rebels expired with few takers. The jets pounded...
WOUNDED CABBY HAILED FOR HELPING TO FOIL 'MUGGER'
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amA livery-cab driver who was shot on the Lower East Side last month was honored yesterday as a hero. Giovanni "Junior" Grullon, who is recovering from wounds he suffered when...
WILL CHANCELLOR'S SUBSTANCE MATCH HIS STYLE?
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amGET used to him. Harold Levy, the probably-schools chancellor, skips around town with the energy of a high-school track star and the bouncy enthusiasm of a hormone-charged cheerleader. At the...
COURT GETS A PAT ON THE FRONT
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The federal courthouse on Pearl Street in Manhattan will soon be renamed for retiring Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The House approved the measure yesterday, and the bill's signing...
RETIRED BISHOP IS SERVICING SEX SITE
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amJOHN SHELBY SPONG, recently retired Episcopal bishop of Newark, is not letting the grass grow under his feet. He's reinventing himself as the bishop of cybersex. Spong, ever the controversialist,...
'CHALK' ONE UP IN '76 B'KLYN SLAYING ; STICKBALL KIDS GOT SUSPECT'S AUTO TAG
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amJose Perez was a 12-year-old Brooklyn kid in 1976 when he scribbled down the license-plate number of a fleeing murder suspect's car - with a stub of chalk he'd been...
JUDGE RULES JURY CAN HEAR ABOUT PIRRO LOVE CHILD
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amThe husband of Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro lost a bid yesterday to keep the jurors in his tax-evasion trial from learning about his child from an extramarital affair. Albert...
LAZIO'S READY AS TEDDY DROPS OUT
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amRep. Rick Lazio moved a major step closer to becoming the GOP backup to Mayor Giuliani yesterday, as a potential alternative candidate dropped from the race. Wealthy businessman Teddy Forstmann...
PUFFY FAILS TO STALL 'STAMPEDE' TRIAL
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amSean "Puffy" Combs tried but failed to put his criminal travails to some use yesterday - claiming he can't face a fair jury on civil damages in the fatal 1991...
COLUMBINE KIDS SLAIN WITHIN 16 MINUTES
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amThe grisly minute-by-minute account of the Columbine HS blood bath was released yesterday, showing that the 12 students killed by two disturbed teen-age gunmen were dead within 16 minutes. That...
LEVY'S GOOD AS IN AFTER GETTING RUDY'S BLESSING
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani indicated yesterday he will back acting school boss Harold Levy's bid to become permanent chancellor - making him just about a lock for the job. Levy asked for...
'W' AND AL MIX IT UP ON SOCIAL SECURITY
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Eyeing the elderly and Baby Boom voters, George W. Bush and Al Gore yesterday duked it out over Social Security - slamming each other's plans and accusing each...
FIREWORKS BLASTS LEAVE LIVES IN RUIN
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amFireworks factories in Spain and Mexico exploded yesterday, killing at least six people, just days after a similar blast killed 20 people in the Netherlands. The Spanish accident occurred at...
PANEL WEIGHING FATE OF MOM-SON GRIFTERS
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amManhattan jurors started deliberating the fate yesterday of mother-and-son grifters accused of swindling and murdering an elderly Upper East Side millionairess in 1998. The start of deliberations caps a three-month...
HERO COPS SAVE NEARLY-DROWNED TOT
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amA Queens toddler, found unconscious in a backyard swimming pool by his mother, was revived yesterday after quick-acting cops rushed him to a hospital in their van, performing CPR on...
NO MORE HASSLING STUDENTS: SAFIR
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Howard Safir said he wants to train cops to be more respectful of students after hearing a chorus of complaints from teens yesterday. "We have to do more,"...
SHIRLEY'S LOVEMAKING RAISES DEAD ; BARES 1,100-YEAR FLING WITH CHARLEMAGNE
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amCharlemagne, the founder of the Holy Roman Empire known for spreading Christianity and knowledge throughout Europe, is in the news again - for a purported dalliance with the star of...
MAYOR: I'M 'INCLINED' TO RUN - RUDY STILL MULLING IF IT'S 'RIGHT THING TO DO'
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani said last night he's "very much inclined" to stay in the Senate race. Speaking to several supporters at a fund-raiser about his plans - now on hold -...
DONNA: WE HAVE 'WARM' DISCUSSIONS
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amVALENCIA, Calif. - Donna Hanover said last night she speaks regularly to her husband, advising and supporting him in "warm" discussions about his cancer and his political career. Mayor Giuliani...
HILLARY: I'LL RUN AGAINST ANY GOPER THEY PUT UP ; HILLARY: I'LL TAKE ON GOPER THEY PUT UP
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton campaigned at full speed across Manhattan yesterday, saying she doesn't care if she ends up running against Mayor Giuliani - or "whoever the Republicans put up." Collecting...
NEW OWNERS WISH LOU WOULD STAY
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - With a flowing endorsement, YankeeNets CEO Harvey Schiller yesterday said Devils GM Lou Lamoriello is the man he wants to continue running the team after the sale is...
LAZIO QUENCHES 26-YEAR THIRST
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - Seven short days after Lazio leveled accusations of favoritism toward Juventus within Serie A, all is La Dolce Vita within the Eternal City. In a strange, surreal climax...
WARD FINDS AN ADMIRER IN RILEY
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amHEAT NOTES MIAMI -Want to be an NBA player? Watch Charlie Ward. That was the core of some lavish praised heaped yesterday by Pat Riley upon the Knick point guard...
REPLACING RICKEY IS FIRST MET TASK
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amWANTED: Leadoff hitter with big-league credentials. Must be able to hit for extra-bases, and show at least marginal hustle. Home-run trots expressly forbidden. Blazing speed not necessary. Tablesetters looking for...
PSU QB PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN ATTACK ON COP
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amPenn State quarterback Rashard Casey pleaded innocent to assault charges yesterday in the racially-charged beating of a Hoboken cop. Police say Casey and another man, Desmond Miller, beat Patrolman Patrick...
FLYERS: DEVILS ARE TWO GOOD TO CATCH
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amVOORHEES, N.J. - It's one thing to fall behind the Penguins two games to none. It's quite another thing to do it against the Devils. And yet that's the scary...
GEORGE NOT READY TO HIT PANIC BUTTON
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner admits patience came to him late in an ultra-competitive existence. Yet, it has not extinguished his hankering for the Yankees to be the best. "I never used to...
LEDEE'S WOES SPOTLIGHTED BY TEAM SKID
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The Yankees remain in Ricky Ledee's corner but with the club on a four-game bender, it's hard to ignore Ledee's .217 batting average. "The ball is in his...
'PEGASUS' WORK OF ART ; DERBY HERO SIZZLES IN DRILL
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amAnyone who thought Fusaichi Pegasus might be suffering the after-effects of his Kentucky Derby victory, leaving him vulnerable for Saturday's Preakness, better think again. Sunday, trainer Neil Drysdale said all...
CHILDS PAYING STEEP PRICE FOR WHINE
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES As good a job as Charlie Ward has provided for the Knicks in their dead-even playoff series against Miami, that's how bad a job Chris Childs has done....
KNIGHTMARE ENDS WITH A REPRIEVE: ONLY AS A LOSER, HE BECOMES A JERK
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amFOR the past 10 years or so, it has become increasingly apparent that there was a problem with Bob Knight. The problem was not that he was ill-mannered, or quick-tempered,...
LUKAS CONFIDENT HIGH YIELD CAN BOUNCE BACK ; LUKAS WON'T QUIT ON HIS DERBY FLOP
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - High Yield, one of the great busts of the Kentucky Derby, sauntered through a half-mile workout at Pimlico yesterday in his final preparation for the Preakness Saturday. The...
NOW, THE DEPTH IS DANGEROUS ; POTENT OFFENSE HAS DEVILS ON A ROLL
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The offense remains built on depth, not superstars, just as it was in each of their past three years of disappointment. The difference in these Devils is that...
THAT OLD HAB MAGIC? ROBINSON, GAINEY WOULD BE PERFECT FOR RANGERS
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Take a good close look tonight at the legend behind the bench presiding over the Devils. It's Larry Robinson ... who, under a confluence of circumstances, could just...
PAK IS COMING BACK, SHOPPING FOR VICTORY
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amGALLOWAY TWP, N.J. - Se Ri Pak surveyed the crowd at yesterday's media day for the ShopRite LPGA Classic at the Seaview Marriott Resort and immediately realized that a year...
MENTAL EDGE KEY TO SERIES
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Knicks and Heat remain two bullies fighting in the schoolyard. There is no homecourt advantage. Whoever has the bigger heart and the smaller lump in his throat at the...
COLT DIES AT BELMONT AFTER FREAK ACCIDENT
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amIn what trainer Bill Badgett described as a "freak accident," an unraced 2-year-old colt by the stallion Rubiano died at 8:45 yesterday morning on the Belmont main track during workouts....
CARDOZO AGAIN KING OF QUEENS
May 16, 2000 | 4:00am10 INNINGS Cardozo 6 Lewis 5 Add another banner to the rafters in the Cardozo High School gym. The Judges yesterday defeated visiting Francis Lewis 6-5 to clinch the PSAL...
TEPID HEAT EFFORT HAS PAT ALL STEAMED UP
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Throughout the Eastern Conference semifinals with the Knicks, Pat Riley pretty much has been the Miami Riley. Laid back. Intense and dedicated to winning as always, but somehow...
HARDAWAY: I'M PLAYING ... AND RILEY DEFENDS AILING POINT GUARD
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Tim Hardaway emerged from a nine-minute sit-down chat with Pat Riley here yesterday and didn't wait for the question to be asked. "Yes, I'm playing on Wednesday," Hardaway...
JARVIS TO HEAR ABOUT NBA JOB TODAY
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amSt. John's coach Mike Jarvis was on his way into Manhattan yesterday to get briefed on potential Division I European prospects. By the end of today Jarvis could know if...
HILL'S GONNA BOLT MOTOWN: ITCHY RING FINGER NEEDS SCRATCHIN'
May 16, 2000 | 4:00amINITIALLY, I believed Grant Hill's playoff-ending injury might prolong his stay in Auburn Hills. Even if it were only for another year. Maybe the Pistons' franchise player wouldn't want to...