October 1, 2000

WEB COMPANY BUYS DOWNTOWN WAREHOUSE FOR $47M

A globe-spanning, Web-hosting company has bought an old Downtown warehouse for $47 million. Globix Corporation is headquartered in the Puck Building in SoHo and intends to use the newly-purchased, 173,000-square-foot...

CAPTAIN CORNERSTONE IF IT'S A BIG DEAL IN NY REAL ESTATE, CHARLES GARGANO HAS A HAND IN IT

THE clouds over Charlie Gargano's head have scattered - for now. Elaine's and Le Cirque, the state economic czar's favorite haunts for squiring gal-pal Phyllis George, buzz with autumn energy....

AUCTION HOUSE BOMBSHELL ; EXEC'S AFFAIR WITH SOCIALITE LED SCANDAL TO SURFACE

Could it have happened just over love? As lawyers tie up loose ends in the $512 million settlement of a price-fixing scandal that nearly wrecked the art auction world, insiders...

HOT TOWNHOUSE, HOTTER KITCHEN

IT'S a home with a helluva kitchen. The townhouse, which houses half of restaurant Arizona 206 - the half with the actual kitchen and the bar - is for sale...

LONG ISLAND LOLITA WRITES AGAIN

Get ready for the Long Island Lolita, Volume Two. Amy Fisher, who monopolized tabloid headlines for months before she was sent off to prison in 1992 for shooting Mary Jo...

CUTTING OUT THE BULL QUOTE: THERE'S A LOT OF INSECURITY BEHIND THOSE (ARMANI) SUITS, A LOT OF BRAVADO - DARREN STAR, CREATOR OF 'THE $TREET'

GREEDY stockbrokers may not, at first, seem likable enough to comprise an entire TV show. But, heck, everybody hates lawyers - and look how many TV shows they have. That's...

HIGH TIME FOR HIGH TEA: FORGET COFFEE, THERE'S A HOT NEW BEVERAGE IN TOWN

In a city powered by skim lattes, many people are making time for tea. And not just tea, but all the trimmings -- scones, sandwiches, clotted cream . . ....

SOUTHWESTERN FARES WELL AT NEW GRAMERCY CANTINA

Los Dos Molinos 119 East 18th St. (between Irving Place and Park Avenue) (212) 505-1574 When Sandy and Gilles Zonca vacationed in New York in June, little did they suspect...

VIDAL FIGHTS THE POWER: WRITER RAILS AGAINST 'RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY'

Gore Vidal has a big idea, a theory so plain, circular and all-encompassing that it attempts to explain everything in the political life of this vast, roiling nation. It goes...

A DOG-GONE GOOD PARTY! - CINDY ADAMS THROWS A FETE FOR HER NEW COMPANION, JAZZY

There's a new love in Cindy Adam's life, and the object of her affection is no ordinary male: He's Cindy's cherished little Yorkie, Jazzy, tiny dog that's barely five pounds...

FALL LINEUP IS TOTALLY UNREAL

THE new fall TV season doesn't officially start until tomorrow, yet the schedule you see on these pages is already obsolete. The reason can be summed up in one word:...

MY CRAZY IDEA: BE A SHRINK

JoBeth Williams got on the Hollywood radar playing "the other woman" in "Kramer vs. Kramer." Last season, she was John Larroquette's wife in "Payne," the American version of "Fawlty Towers."...

BOOK REVIEW

"SHATTERED" BY DICK FRANCIS PUTNAM 320 PAGES, $25.95 For the past 38 years, Dick Francis has been spinning out race track mysteries at the rate of one a year, all...

FINAL CHAPTER FOR B'KLYN BOOKSHOP?

One of the city's last independent African-American booksellers, the Nkiru Center for Education and Culture, at 76 St. Mark's Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn, closes its doors today. The shop...

STYLE & SBUSTANCE: GENA LEE NOLIN

Gena Lee Nolin certainly had a lot of commercial success before landing her own television series.The former "Baywatch" babe is set to star in "Sheena," a syndicated show that begins...

LATEST AUSSIE SCREEN HUNK REALLY KEEPS HIS COOL

Like the slew of hunky Australian actors currently casting their spell over Hollywood, Adam Garcia has talent, a casual sex appeal - and oodles of self-deprecating charm. Though touted as...

COUNTRY CROONER LYNN MINES HER PAIN AGAIN

No matter how much fun Loretta Lynn may have had while performing during her 40-year career, she's never graced the audience with an encore. Lynn, the legendary country crooner and...

QUOTE: THE STORY REVOLVES AROUND A CLAN WITH TOO MUCH MONEY, TOO MANY MUSCLES, AND TOO MANY MARRIAGES. IN OTHER WORDS, A '90S VERSION OF 'DALLAS' AND 'DYNASTY' THE BITCH IS BACK!

What do you call something with big hair, big lips, big breasts, big houses, big cars, too much makeup, surgically altered humans, horrible costumes and Victoria Principal? A big hit,...

TEARS FOR 4TH 'GOLDEN GIRL' SAD GOODBYE FOR NURSE WHO HELPED 1,000S

Weeping priests joined hundreds of others in mourning St. Vincents nurse Mary Ann Dono at her Brooklyn funeral yesterday, where she was tearfully hailed as a gentle "surrogate mother to...

WOMAN SHOT DURING IN-LAW SPAT: POLICE

A 33-year-old Queens woman, angry with her brother-in-law because he hasn't worked in three years, bit him on the nose - prompting him to get a gun and shoot her,...

FBI EYES LOW-DOWN BUSH AIDE AS 'MOLE'

WASHINGTON - The FBI opened a full criminal investigation into whether a low-level Bush aide mailed debate-preparation material to the Gore campaign, sources said yesterday. But the Bush campaign stood...

L.I. FUNERAL A LATE FAREWELL FOR LONG-LOST CUBAN SON

Bureaucratic red tape kept him from his dying mother's bedside, but Cuban national Jorge Febles Sanchez was able to say farewell to "the perfect woman" at her funeral in Long...

HILLARY'S SCHEMES CAN COST TRILLIONS, WATCHDOG CLAIMS

Hillary Rodham Clinton's mammoth spending plans add up to a staggering $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years - six times more than Rick Lazio's, according to a study by...

130,000 KIDS WILL MOVE TO MEDICAID

Some 130,000 children enrolled in a state's insurance program for low-income families will move "seamlessly" into the Medicaid program, and most won't even have to change doctors, officials said yesterday....

GEORGE & AL PREP FOR ; VITAL DEBATE

WASHINGTON - George W. Bush and Al Gore prepped in seclusion yesterday for Tuesday's big debate, but Bush took a break to satisfy Christian conservatives with a videotaped speech. Bush...

BUZZ ON SOUTHBOUND SKEETER VIRUS

The deadly West Nile virus is gradually spreading down to the southern states after two back-to-back outbreaks in New York, and there's no telling where next year's outbreak will occur,...

PUTIN RUSHIN' TO HELP DEFIANT MILOSEVIC

Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic rejected a Russian offer to help defuse a potentially explosive political crisis yesterday, while opposition forces vowed to shut the country down. The proposal by Russian...

DOCS FORESEE CURING CANCER WITH TINY CUT

Breast cancer is the leading overall cause of death in women between the ages of 40 and 55 - and the most common form of cancer in America. A new...

PARAMEDIC 'PRACTICE' TURNS REAL AT AIRPORT

Paramedics at a simulated flight crash at Newark International Airport yesterday found themselves in a real-life emergency, aiding two technicians set ablaze by an electrical explosion at a cargo terminal...

CLONED COW AN UDDER TRIUMPH

Send in the clones? Don't bother, they're here. Mandy, a champion Holstein cow, has been cloned, and her exact copy will be auctioned this week. It's the first time an...

MOTORCYCLIST'S DEATH PLUNGE FLEEING POLICE

An ex-con fleeing police near Kennedy Airport on a motorcycle lost control of his bike, smashed into a guardrail and plunged 35 feet to his death early yesterday, police said....

MY BOVINE BID FOR REDEMPTION

IT was terrifying. Thursday night's charity CowParade 2000 auction, I mean. It's not that I have a fear of cows, it's that I have a fear of auctions. The minute...

A GILDED GAMES FOR THE AGES

SYDNEY - Can Athens possibly measure up? A toy wombat, "Oi Oi Oi," and hospitality that puts Atlanta's 1996 "Coca-Cola Games" to shame mark these as one of two best...

AIRLINE EYES A CONCORDE COMEBACK

British Airways officials are reportedly planning to resume Concorde flights by Christmas, even though an inquiry into the fiery Paris crash that killed 113 people is still underway. London's Daily...

RETURN TO U.K. LEAVES ROYAL GOSSIPER EXPOSED

A royal servant who defied a court injunction and published a book revealing intimate secrets of Prince Charles and Princess Di could end up in jail after returning to Britain...

SEN. THURMOND, 97, COLLAPSES

Sen. Strom Thurmond was hospitalized yesterday after he collapsed in an Alexandria, Va., restaurant. The 97-year-old Thurmond, the oldest person ever to serve in the Senate, was expected to remain...

ISRAEL DEATH TOLL RISES 500 INJURED AS CLASHES SPREAD TO GAZA STRIP

Israeli troops opened fire on thousands of rock-throwing Palestinian rioters yesterday, killing at least 12 - including a 12-year-old boy - and wounding over 500. It was the third day...

RICK'S COFFERS FULL AS TV BATTLE HEIGHTENS

BUFFALO - GOP Senate candidate Rick Lazio has more than twice as much cash in his campaign coffers as Hillary Rodham Clinton - giving him a big financial edge over...

ARREST NO. 32 IN PARK GROPES

A Maryland man became the 32nd suspect busted for his involvement in the Central Park wilding sex attacks, police said last night. Onel Carrasquillo, 20, was nabbed at his Silver...

GOP DEATH WATCH LAZIO'S WOES COULD MEAN STATEWIDE DISASTER

IT'S not just Rep. Rick Lazio's political life that's on the line in the Nov. 7 election: It's the survival of the New York Republican Party itself. That's the growing...

ON TV, GOOD ORATORS EMOTE CONTROL

When all is said and done - and overhyped - it's worth remembering a simple truism: The guy who wins the presidential debate is the guy who looks most like...

OLD CITY RIOTS PUT BARAK'S ; FUTURE IN DOUBT

JERUSALEM. SOME 2,000 years after the destruction of their second Temple in Jerusalem, Jews are struggling to keep full control of their historic capital. Thousands of police, soldiers and security...

IS SPIELBERG PAD NOW 'HILLARY HILTON'?

If Hillary and Bill Clinton's search for a Manhattan pad doesn't pan out, the first lady can always keep using filmmaker Steven Spielberg's pied-a-terre. Residents of Trump Tower say the...

FAB FOUR WERE A BOYS-ONLY BROTHERHOOD

The new Beatles anthology has sold over 1 million copies in advance. The Beatles sent teenyboppers into fits of frenzy with just a flick of their mop-top haircuts, but girls...

A TITAN-IC TURNAROUND? JINTS NEED TO BOUNCE BACK FROM FIRST LOSS

NASHVILLE - You know them. You know how they operate. The very mention of their name conjures up an image, a feeling, a persona that is unmistakable. The Tennessee Titans?...

RUNNERS ADD TO UGLY U.S. REP

SYDNEY - The world's fastest man has some explaining to do. Less than an hour after bringing glory to the United States by handily winning the 4x100-meter relay, Maurice Greene...

JOHNSON CAPS CAREER WITH MORE GOLD

SYDNEY - That's a wrap for Michael Johnson's Olympic experience, which has been colored every bit as golden as his famous shoes. Johnson ran in his last Olympic race last...

MARLA'S METTLE SHINES THROUGH

SYDNEY - There was no athlete, medal winner or otherwise, happier with their performance last night than Marla Runyan, the legally blind U.S. middle distance runner. Runyan, 31, finished eighth...

HEY, BOBBY, JUST GIVE LEITER THE DAMN BALL!

IT WAS back in spring training, weeks before the regular season began that the Mets and Mike Hampton decided to end talks on a contract extension. The two sides were...

MARION MANAGES TO TAKE THE FIFTH

SYDNEY - Order the crown, Marion Jones is the queen of the Summer Games. The 24-year-old track phenom capped off a stellar 2000 Olympics by winning her fourth and fifth...

P-EW! THIS PLAN STINKS: BY SHIPPING OUT PATRICK, CHECKETTS PUTS KNICKS IN HOLE LOTTA TROUBLE

AS a wise old (general) man(ager) recently told me following an NBA summer like no other of rosters being blown to smithereens and the inevitable arguments that ensue regarding which...

BAD BACK KEEPS DALUISO ON BENCH

GIANT NOTES NASHVILLE - Brad Daluiso won't play today because of a bad back, so the Giants have signed Jaret Holmes for the game against the Titans. "I just felt...

LOU: THE MASTER REBUILDER ; EXPERIENCE WITH JETS TURNED HIM AROUND

ALMOST 25 years after he walked out on New York and resumed his role as the rebuilder of dormant college-football programs, Lou Holtz still regrets the one job he quit....

QUEENS OF THE COURT: LESLIE, JACKSON TUSSLE AS U.S. GRABS GOLD

U.S. 76 Australia 54 SYDNEY - Lauren Jackson, just 19, has got game and can talk smack. All she is missing is teammates to honor her talent. In a final...

EDWARDS RETIRING - AGAIN

SYDNEY - The most decorated Olympic basketball player of all time - male or female - said yesterday that she is now retired. Again. Teresa Edwards earned her fourth gold...

DEVILS STILL BELIEVE IN 'D' ROOKIES

The pipeline continues to gush defensemen, and the Devils hope they've struck it rich at the bottom of the draft barrel. Last year, the Devils poured forth Brian Rafalski and...

SUDDENLY, DOC'S A PART OF THE PLANS

YANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - Four months ago, Dwight Gooden was at his St. Petersburg home wondering if his checkered career was over. After all, he had been dumped by the...

IT'S ARMS, NOT LEADERS, THAT'S KEY FOR YANKS

BALTIMORE - Genuine leaders are so rare in baseball it's possible to win three World Championships in four seasons without one. The Yankees did, as Joe Girardi came closest to...

THE ROTATION'S ROTTEN:BOMBER PITCHING A WORRY

BALTIMORE - Just because the Yankees woke up yesterday morning wearing the AL East crown for the third straight year didn't put an end to the ocean of questions facing...

WHO'S UP NEXT? WHO KNOWS?

BALTIMORE - Even those Yankees who didn't chug a magnum of champagne Friday night woke up yesterday morning a little hazy as to what team they would face in the...

BYRON'S BUNCH PLANS TO HIT NOTHIN' BUT NETS

Defend and block shots. Score inside. Rebound. Win Rookie of the Year honors. Lead the Nets to a winning record and the playoffs. Yup, looks like Kenyon Martin has a...

BC COACH SEES NEED FOR SPEED

CHESTNUT HILL - Boston College coach Tom O'Brien knew it when he got here from Virginia three years ago. Speed, which that was a trademark of elite Atlantic Coast Conference...

BLAST FROM THE PAST: FORTY YEARS LATER, BILL MAZEROSKI RELIVES HOMER THAT BEAT YANKS IN SERIES

How do you celebrate the most electrifying moment in baseball history? What can you do to put it all in perspective? If you are 24-year-old Bill Mazeroski and you hit...

CASEY, MATES HELPED TERRY GET OVER THE PAIN

FORTY years later, there is no bitterness, only class. Ralph Terry says he was able to get over the pain of surrendering Bill Mazeroski's World Series-winning home run in 1960...

MATHIS ACQUISITION MADE M'STARS SHINE

To say that Clint Mathis has left a lasting impression in his first season with the MetroStars would be a gross understatement. He was voted as the team's MVP. He...

'SPIRITS' SOARS

Yesterday was a bad day for favorites in Belmont Park's stakes double-header on turf. Just a half-hour after Adcat finished up the track in the Ashley T. Cole for state-breds,...

'CURRENCY' IS KING OF COLE

With a furlong left to run in yesterday's $75,000 Ashley T. Cole Handicap at Belmont, trainer Gary Sciacca knew he had the race won. He just wasn't sure which of...

'KID' WORKING LIKE A CHAMP

Lemon Drop Kid breezed four furlongs over the main track yesterday in :48 4/5. His first quarter was clocked in :24 and he was out five-eighths in 1:01 4/5. He...

LONGSHOTS PACK PUNCH IN BIG B STAKES SWEEP

The favorites flopped like a bad Broadway show yesterday in Belmont Park's stakes double-header on turf. Just a half-hour after Adcat finished up the track in the Ashley T. Cole...

HOKIES CLAIM VICK-TORY

Va. Tech 48 B.C. 34 CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Michael Vick has reached the point where the only person who can make him better is Vick himself. And Vick gets...

BYRON'S BUNCH MAKE NET GAINS

Defend and block shots. Score inside. Rebound. Win Rookie of the Year honors. Lead the Nets to a winning record and the playoffs. Yup, looks like Kenyon Martin has a...

BIG PROBLEMS FOR EWING-LESS KNICKS

The Knicks start training camp Tuesday once again with their championship hopes hinging on Patrick Ewing's health, his creaky legs, his ... Oops! Old script. The new script is still...

LONGLEY OUT 8-10 WEEKS

SYDNEY - Luc Longley's Knick career will begin with a limping first step. The man with the job of replacing Patrick Ewing at center confirmed today that an initial diagnosis...

FIRE-FIGHTIN' METROS GOIN' BACK TO CHICAGO

Game 2 MetroStars 2 Fire 0 ing physically battered and verbally ripped by Chicago in Game One of the MLS Cup semifinals, after being pushed around the pitch and shoved...

WHO'S NEXT? WHO KNOWS?

BALTIMORE - Even those Yankees who didn't inhale a magnum of champagne Friday night woke up yesterday morning a little hazy as to what team they would face in the...

TORRE'S PITCHERS ARE IN ARMS' WAY

BALTIMORE - As each day passes and another Yankees loss goes in the books, the question changes. It no longer seems appropriate to ask what's wrong with the Yankees these...

JOE TABS ROCKET FOR PLAYOFF OPENER; NEAGLE TO 'PEN

BALTIMORE - Joe Torre is turning to the Power of Three theory when it comes to his pitching plans for the ALDS. Torre doesn't know who the Yankees are going...

GOODEN NOW A BIG PART OF BOMBER PLANS

YANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - Four months ago, Dwight Gooden was at his St. Petersburg, Fla., home, wondering if his checkered career was over. After all, he had been dumped by...

PLAYERS MUST RETHINK TRASH & BURN

SYDNEY - No one told British rower Steven Redgrave to stay home and not go for a fifth straight gold medal. Russian Alexander Karelin was not told to stick to...

DREAM TEAM GETS GOLD: BUT CROWD BOOS U.S. SQUAD

Men's Hoops U.S. 85 France 75 SYDNEY - The Americans won the gold and lost the Dream. The U.S. men's basketball team captured the Olympic title it was expected to...

YANK WRESTLERS WIN BRONZE

SYDNEY - Two U.S. wrestlers won their bronze medal matches yesterday, the only two medals the U.S. team won here. Terry Brands, the 128-pounder from Omaha, defeated Damir Zakhartdinov, of...

U.S. BOXERS NOT GOLDEN

SYDNEY - The U.S. Olympic boxing program could use a few rounds in the gym after heading home from the 2000 Summer Games without a single gold medal, the first...

STANLEY CUP WILL EXIT AT 16W - AGAIN ; DEVILS STILL TOO GOOD; ISLANDERS IN, RANGERS OUT

IN WHAT was proclaimed far-and-wide as the Hockey Trial of the Century, Marc Crawford, enthusiastically testifying on behalf of the Crown in its case against Marty McSorley, revealed himself to...

PROSPECTS DIM FOR LAND CONSERVATION PROPOSAL

DESPITE overwhelming bipartisan appeal, it looks like prospects are fading for the Conservation and Investment Act, a widely heralded $45 billion land conservation proposal that has fallen victim to a...

MONEY TALKS (ON TAPE DELAY) ; NBC LONE WINNER IN $705M DEAL FOR GAMES

JUST because NBC Sports boss Dick Ebersol is the most arrogant, haughty and self-inflated executive in sports television doesn't mean he should be held solely responsible for butchering these Olympics....

THE OL' BALLOT GAME: CHIN MUSIC VOTES FOR BASEBALL'S BEST

TWO baseball writers from each city in both leagues will fill out award ballots and mail, e-mail or fax them to the secretary-treasurer of the Baseball Writers' Association of America....