September 26, 2000
AT LAST! PRIME SPACE HITS MARKET
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amNO one knows whether the city's real estate market is peaking, but some people think it is and don't want to miss out on the action; think of all those...
LONG-DARK FASHION DISTRICT TO SEE THE LIGHT
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amLeon Charney, who helped bring some peace to the Middle East in the 1970s, hopes to bring light to Midtown Manhattan below 42nd Street. Most New Yorkers know Charney for...
VIVENDI MOVES TO CALM EU ON SEAGRAM DEAL
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amWith just one more hurdle to clear in its attempt to buy Seagram, Vivendi told the European regulators it would soothe their concerns over open access issues. "The parties have...
FASHION WEEK: THE BODY COUNT
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amNEW Yorkers survived another Fashion Week. But not everyone emerged unscathed. Hence our Fashion Week Winners and Losers.WINNERS * FERN MALLIS: If the longtime head of 7th on Sixth really...
CLANCY SCARES UP $45M, 2-BOOK DEAL WITH PUTNAM
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amTop-selling thriller author Tom Clancy is re-upping with G. P. Putnam Sons for a two-book deal that sources estimate to be a whopping $45 million - topping the previous two...
COMEDY CENTRAL BUCKING THE TIDE AGAIN - ONLINE
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amFunny peculiar, or funny ha-ha? Comedy Central is shifting the focus of its Web site from passive brochureware to an active destination site featuring original content. While entertainment sites are...
$500K BID FOR JFK JR. BOOK - IT'S AUTHOR'S LATEST TOME ON KENNEDYS
September 26, 2000 | 4:00am"The Kennedy Curse," a new tome being peddled by veteran Kennedy scribe Ed Klein, reached an estimated $500,000 at an auction that ignited yesterday. The book is expected to dwell...
SOTHEBY'S LIKELY TO FACE FINE, NO CHARGES
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amSotheby's and its former top execs will likely have to cough up as much as another $40 million in government fines to keep people from going to jail in its...
HISTORY AND COMFORT, ALL LAVISHLY UPSCALE
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amThere's always something to do in Newport. What attracts most visitors is the incomparable array of Revolutionary era buildings, many of which have been converted into cozy bed and breakfast...
GETTING ALL DRESSED UP FOR THE HOLIDAYS
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amThree of the fabulous "cottages" built by the railroad, coal and shipping tycoons of a previous era will be decorated for the holidays. Each season, the Preservation Society of Newport...
AUTUMN IN NEWPORT
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amIf you've never been to Newport before, autumn is an ideal time to visit. The crush of summer tourists has ended, the foliage is at its most colorful prime, and...
CAVIAR EMPTOR - LIVING IN HIGH STYLE ABOARD THE LUXURIOUS SEABOURN GODDESS
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amGO TO Greece, birthplace of gods and goddesses, and let a Goddess take you there. The Seabourn Goddess I is the way to do it: a leisurely, seven-day cruise from...
CRUISING SPEED - OLYMPIC VOYAGER RACES AROUND THREE CONTINENTS IN JUST A WEEK
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS is about speed. How fast? Three continents in seven days aboard the Royal Olympic Voyager, reputedly the fastest cruise ship afloat. The vessel, whose atmosphere is urbane yet family-oriented,...
FREEDOM BY DEGREES
September 26, 2000 | 4:00am* 98 DEGREES "Revelation" () Universal Despite the sweet harmonies, catchy pop and all the boy-band bells 'n' whistles, "Revelation" by 98 Degrees is a declaration of independence. On this...
BRITISH TROUPE, IN N.Y. DEBUT, NOT ON ITS TOES
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHREE hearty cheers for David Bintley's Birmingham Royal Ballet - one of Europe's finest - finally making its Manhattan debut at City Center, starting last Thursday night. Rather fewer cheers...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amFor the birds Fans of feathered friends should flock down to St. Petersburg Oct. 5-8 for the Florida Birding Festival & Nature Expo. Timed to coincide with the autumn migration,...
COMIC STRIP PUTS HUMAN FACE ON FIGHT AGAINST BREAST CANCER
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE'S nothing comic about breast cancer. But cartoonist Tom Batiuk has done what he can to give it a face and a story sketched with sensitivity and humor. For six...
THE STARR REPORT
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amControversial Hillaryad homeless in N.Y. The Virginia-based Christian Action Network is seeking a New York TV home for ads questioning U.S. Senate candidate/First Lady Hillary Clinton's sexual orientation. Two local...
RYAN ADAMS' 'HEARTBREAKER' MARKS RETURN TO ROOTS
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amAS a youth in Jackson, N.C., Ryan Adams was drawn to the quiet songs of the Dead Kennedys, Black Flag and Sonic Youth. His first band, the Patti Duke Syndrome,...
MARTIN TAKES A REAL SHEEN TO LIEBERMAN
September 26, 2000 | 4:00am'WEST Wing" star Martin Sheen says he agrees with Democratic VP candidate Joseph Lieberman that Hollywood is "sleaze." "Half the business called Hollywood is sleaze," Sheen said Sunday while in...
WRINKLIES RULE! YOUNG SELLS BUT OLD IS GOLD FOR THE 3 TOP HOSTS. TOTAL AGES: 184 YEARS!
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amWHILE all the brilliant suits in TV are competing like rug salesmen over who can grab their most desirable demographic - 18 to 34-year-olds, preferably male - the over 40's...
KATHIE LEE GOING 'MAD'?
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amKATHIE Lee Gifford was spotted yesterday with the Hollywood producer who created "Mad About You" - apparently talking about developing a sitcom. Gifford was spotted by our photogrpaher lunching yesterday...
OFFSPRING SETTLES OVER 'CONSPIRACY'
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHE plan was pretty fly, but in the end it didn't.Offspring's plan to pre-release its next album, "Conspiracy of One" online in October, a month before its due date, was...
'BUFFY' BACKFOR BATTLE OF BLOODSUCKERS
September 26, 2000 | 4:00am* WARNING: Some readers may not want to know some of the advance information in the following story about the season premiere of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" before it airs...
DOSES POSE LOW RISK: EXPERTS
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amDon't panic. Women who took contaminated doses of the fertility drugs Metrodin and Pergonal sold between 1991 and 1996 ran a risk of suffering a potentially serious illness. But chances...
PRISON COULD BE RABBI'S RX - FEDS HUNT VICTIMS OF HIS TAINTED-DRUG SCHEME
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe Justice Department is trying to track down the victims of a Brooklyn rabbi convicted of selling counterfeit, contaminated fertility drugs to pharmacies in the early '90s. Moshe Milstein, 54,...
LIBERIANS MAY GET BOOT
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amAbout 10,000 Liberians who fled to the United States during more than a decade of political chaos in their homeland may be forced to leave by Friday. The special immigration...
COURT: STATE'S GE SUIT ALL WET
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A state judge yesterday dismissed as "meritless" a controversial suit over Hudson River PCB contamination brought by Attorney General Eliot Spitzer against General Electric. Spitzer's suit contended that...
JUDGE BACKS CITY'S W. NILE SPRAY PLAN
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amA federal judge yesterday gave the city the green light to continue its spraying campaign against mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus - rejecting a legal bid from environmental groups...
DISPOSABLE DIAPERS POSE DANGER: DOCS
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amScientists say disposable diapers may be linked to both male infertility and testicular cancer. They believe wearing disposable diapers heats up baby boys' testicles to such a degree, it stops...
SENATE FOES' BIG GUNS ARE MCCAIN & WIESEL
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amRick Lazio yesterday stumped with Sen. John McCain while Hillary Rodham Clinton stood alongside Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel as both campaigns recruited star power to appeal to key voting...
BRONX VOTE WILL CAST LIGHT ON A DARK, UNHOLY ALLIANCE
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amALL eyes are on Roberto Ramirez, the Democratic Party boss of The Bronx. People want to know if the bipartisan ganging up on Lorraine Coyle Koppell is finally over. For...
IT'S A COMPETITION FOR THE AGES
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe two presidential candidates crisscrossed the nation's generations yesterday - George W. Bush promised to save youth with education reforms while Al Gore courted seniors by boosting Medicare. Today both...
STRUGGLING TO KICK IT INTO HIGH GEAR - SOCCER GALS GO FOR GOLD, DESPITE SLUGGISH START
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amThey're still America's sweethearts and the reason soccer moms are so busy chauffeuring girls to games - but the darlings of U.S. women's soccer aren't nearly the presence they used...
JOHN LENNON'S MURDERER: HE'D WANT ME FREED
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe jailed psycho killer who blew away John Lennon 20 years ago insists the slain Beatle would have forgiven him - and even would want him freed from prison. "I...
'LOSER' SLOBBO ISN'T GOING QUIETLY
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amWestern leaders stepped up the pressure on Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic to step down yesterday - declaring he was the loser in Yugoslavia presidential elections. But Milosevic, the indicted war...
OIL PRICES DIP AMID RELEASE OF RESERVES
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amOil prices fell slightly yesterday as the impact of President Clinton's decision to tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserves began to be felt in world markets. The price of crude...
IS 'HARRY POTTER' TOO WICCA FOR KIDDIES TO READ?
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amPhenomenally popular Harry Potter has cast a spell on the best-seller lists - and now the child wizard has also popped up on a list of books people would most...
BUILDING INSPECTORS SEARCH FOR ANSWERS
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amVirginia Beach, Va., building inspectors were trying yesterday to determine why a barrier wall crumbled - allowing the car carrying four New York nurses to hurtle off a parking-lot roof....
AMERICA IS LAND OF THE WUSSES
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amWE'VE devolved into a nation of wusses. Power is out. Manipulation is in. Accomplishments are out. Hiring help is in. Personal responsibility is out. Liability suits are in. Heroism is...
HEDGING JOE KEEPS SENATE OPTION OPEN
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amDemocratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman yesterday took a break from the 2000 race to campaign for his Senate seat - but refused to say if he'll show up to...
TEAM LAZIO WILL 'CALL' ON GORE VOTERS
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amRICK LAZIO'S campaign is already plotting ways - including a massive phone-bank effort - to convince Al Gore voters to pass up Hillary Rodham Clinton and pull the lever for...
FAMILIES OF WENDY'S MASSACRE VICTIMS PLANT MEMORIAL TREE
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amFamily and friends of the seven people gunned down at a Flushing Wendy's in May gathered yesterday to come to grips with the tragedy - and to plant a tree...
SCHOOL BD. MAY FORCE SCOUTS TO HIT THE TRAIL
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amA Manhattan school board is expected to vote tonight to boot the Boy Scouts for excluding gays from the organization. Community School District 2 would be the first in the...
ED. BOARD TO PAY FOR TEEN'S FUNERAL
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe Board of Education will pay for the funeral of a 16-year-old Gompers HS student with a heart condition who died after collapsing outside his gym class last week. Dantese...
FDNY RESCUER TELLS JURORS OF SUBWAY-SHOVE HORROR
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amBoth legs severed, Edgar Rivera lay moaning and bleeding nearly to death under the wheels of a subway car until a fearless fire captain leapt down to help - ignoring...
NEW TA ESCALATORS AREN'T AS RELIABLE AS THE OLD: GREEN
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amNew isn't always better when it comes to elevators and escalators in the subways, where equipment installed since 1994 is the most likely to break down, Public Advocate Mark Green...
... HE WINS BY 'LOSING' - TYCOON'S STOCK SOARS AFTER HIS $186M IN SCANDAL AID
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amLEAVE it to Alfred Taubman to figure out a way to make money off having to pay $186 million to make a scandal go away. Taubman is reaching into his...
TRAGIC NURSES AS CLOSE AS SISTERS - ST. VINCENTS WEEPS FOR 'GOLDEN GIRLS'
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe four beloved city nurses killed in a horrifying vacation accident in Virginia Beach, Va., were so close to each other in life, it seemed almost fitting that they would...
B'KLYN PARENTS CLASH OVER 'GIFTED' CLASSES
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amParents at a top Brooklyn elementary school are engaged in a tug-of-war over whether to get rid of its "gifted" program for bright kids, who attend classes separate from other...
RAPE CASE SPURS TWIN TRAGEDIES
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amWoe begot woe for a 15-year-old who said she was raped in a Brooklyn housing project - her aunt died of a heart attack when she heard the news, police...
GOP $OFT CORPS TAKES AIM AT HOLLYWOOD HILL
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe state Republican Party yesterday launched a new round of soft-money fund raising, in a mailing that rips Hillary Rodham Clinton's ties to Hollywood as her "California Cash Connection," The...
CITY HUNTING POLICE MOLE IN INSURANCE SCAM - ACCIDENT REPORTS ARE FAKED WITH COP DATA
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amCity investigators are trying to find out who's been lifting information from hundreds of NYPD accident reports to generate phony police reports for fraudulent medical claims, The Post has learned....
THREE MISSING IN CRASH BLAST AT GAS STATION
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amThree people were missing early today after a minivan collided with a fuel tanker outside a Long Island gas station, setting off a huge explosion that sent flames leaping 100...
N.Y. STEWARDESS MISSING IN IDAHO
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amIdaho police are searching for a New York-based flight attendant who mysteriously disappeared after she left her hotel on Sunday. Lynn Henneman, 38, told colleagues she was going for a...
IT'S GOTTA BE THE PINSTRIPES
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amThey walk into the most fabled clubhouse in sports and are reborn. Old, infirmed, addicted, fat, finished, the door opens and they are bathed in the light. They beg forgiveness...
ROCKET'S RETURN NOT A STRETCH
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amRoger Clemens woke up yesterday morning, and felt the multi-colored bruise on his hamstring. He stretched out his injured right leg, extending it as far as he could - further...
SOFTBALLERS BACK FROM BRINK
September 26, 2000 | 4:00am10 INNINGS USA 3 China 0 USA 1 Australia 0 SYDNEY - America's Olympic softball team has come all the way back from the edge of disaster to play in...
BEACH SPIKES V-BALL
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amOLYMPIC NOTEBOOK SYDNEY - Last weekend, the U.S. women's volleyball team played a thrilling match against host Australia, beating the Aussies in straight sets with two of its best stars...
TORRE MULLS HIS DH PLATOON
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES After three starts at designated hitter, Chuck Knoblauch was back at second base last night against Detroit right-hander Steve Sparks. But after Joe Torre admitted he liked what...
ROMA FANS DRIVEN INTO CAR-TRASHING FRENZY
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - The actual season has yet to get under way in Italy, but Roma's fans have already decided they don't like the way their club is shaping up. Driven...
SHAUN ACCEPTS BLAME FOR BEVY OF MISTAKES
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The praise tossed his way in past weeks were easier to handle than the balls thrown his way, which is why Shaun Williams yesterday fired blame directly at...
PAUL SCHWARTZ' GIANT REPORT CARD
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHE JOYRIDE'S OVERQUARTERBACKSGuess no one goes down this highway without hitting a few speed bumps. Not a good night for Kerry Collins (21 of 44, 210 yards, 1 TD, 1...
MARK CANNIZZARO'S JET REPORT CARD
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amA's all around (almost) QUARTERBACKSVinny Testaverde (22-of-42, 181 yards, 1 TD, 3 INT) had his worst game as a Jet - in every way except for the fact that he...
'SKINS LOSS EXPOSES GIANT DEFICIENCIES
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amIt could be worse. No, not the Giants' inability to prevent the Skins from striking with huge pass plays. No, not the leaky offensive line that turned Kerry Collins' attack...
SHE'S HOME FREEMAN ; ABORIGINE WINS 400 FOR HER COUNTRY, PEOPLE
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - About 30 feet beyond the finish line, Cathy Freeman sat. Competitors arrived to offer congratulations, a crowd of 110,000 flashed cameras and crashed ear drums, and an entire...
JOHNSON'S HISTORIC FEAT OVERLOOKED
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Michael Johnson made history last night, yet was both the second-most-discussed M.J. and second-most-discussed 400-meter victor at the Olympic Stadium. Johnson became the first man in Olympic history...
DRAGILA AN OVER-THE-TOP SUCCESS
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Stacy Dragila failed to break her own world record. But she did earn the first-ever gold medal in women's pole vault with a clearance of 15-1 to hold...
PHILLIPS: NOT WILD PARTIES AT SHEA - GM BANS CELEBRATION IF BRAVES CAN BE CAUGHT
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe thought is an ugly one to GM Steve Phillips. Phillips doesn't want the Mets' nemesis, the Braves, celebrating their ninth straight NL East crown at Shea. "We certainly don't...
MCEWING, FRANCO ON BUBBLE AS METS MULL PLAYOFF ROSTER
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES It's hard to imagine either Timo Perez or Darryl Hamilton being left off the Mets 25-man playoff roster, so it appears Joe McEwing could be out in the...
VIN STILL STEAMED OVER HOOK
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amThey stride into their bye week with chests puffed, and with the admiring eyes of the NFL upon them. And why shouldn't the Jets be euphoric about their surprising and...
GAME-WINNING PLAY IS TALK OF THE TEAM
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES Jet players still were buzzing yesterday about the electric game-winning play that lifted them to the 21-17 victory over the Bucs a day earlier. At one locker stall,...
LOU'S TALK WITH SCOTT IS FRUITLESS
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amWhile he insists he won't budge on terms, Devils GM Lou Lamoriello went the wrong sort of extra mile last week, trying to convince Scott Niedermayer to accept what he...
PHILLIPS: NO WILD PARTIES AT SHEA - AMAZIN'S ARE BATTLING BRAVES AND PARANOIA
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHE psychosis that overcomes the Mets when confronted by the Braves extends beyond the diamond and into the front office. For example, consider that a paranoid Mets official took it...
EWING STILL HAS TITLE DREAM
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - A smiley Patrick Ewing raised his new white-green-and-gold home Sonics jersey yesterday, talked about having a championship parade on "Fourth Avenue" in downtown Seattle and said his new...
PATRICK FINALLY FINDS PEACE
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Patrick Ewing smiled and giggled more yesterday than in his entire 15 years in New York. Ewing claims that during this "fresh start" in the Pacific Northwest, he's...
MACLEAN FIGHTING FOR JOB
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amSeventeen spots on the Ranger roster appear pretty well accounted for, with the 18-skater protected list due at 4 p.m. today for Friday's NHL waiver draft. It's the other one...
U.S. JOINS CHEAT CLUB
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - The Olympic ideal is now that you have to check in every zippered bag and blood cell to see what is there. Yet, the invasion of privacy does...
JETER HUSTLES WAY TO 1000TH HIT
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amIt says something about Derek Jeter - three-time all-star, matinee idol, etc., etc. etc - that the 1,000th hit of his brilliant career came the way it did: Hustling down...
NOW THE AUSSIES HATE US, TOO!
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY- They were starting to worry me a little bit, with their relentless cheerfulness, their tireless backslapping, their seemingly endless reservoir of sportsmanship and good wishes. All around you in...
NOT WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED: GOODEN, CONE DRUBBED BY DETROIT
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amTigers 15 Yankees 4 It was hardly the way the Yankees had hoped to close out their regular-season home schedule. In his first start in eight weeks, Doc Gooden got...
CONE FAILS IN FIRST PEN AUDITION
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amOUT of the bullpen into a chilly night and an even colder reality came the $12 million-a-year mop-up man. Auditions for the last position in the Yankees' postseason bullpen were...
JONES STANDS BY MAN AT BIZARRE CONFERENCE
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Flanked by his wife, Marion Jones, and with O.J. Simpson attorney Johnnie Cochran standing in the wings, a tearful C.J. Hunter today expressed his innocence against charges he...
U.S. RULES GOLDEN SANDS OF SYDNEY
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - The U.S. is king of the beach. Underdogs Eric Fonoimoana and Dain Blanton took it to one of the hottest beach volleyball teams in the world early this...
EX-CONVICT BENNETT FALLS TO SAVVY CUBAN: U.S. HOPEFUL OUTBOXED BY FELIX
September 26, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - The convict was no match for the communist. Michael Bennett, who had come to prominence as the arm robber who found redemption in the ring, only found a...