October 24, 2000
HOUSING BOOMING IN HARLEM
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amTHE days are over when Harlem "development" meant stalled schemes like the one that has left an gaping hole in the ground next door to the Apollo Theater for 15...
GM MAY PARK CARS IN HARLEM
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amGeneral Motors is exploring the possibility of a Harlem showroom and dealership, sources tell The Post. The Detroit-based company is not yet working with a real estate broker, but representatives...
TV GUIDE BAILING OUT OF MPA
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amBERMUDA.TV GUIDE, the nation's top-selling magazine, will drop out of the Magazine Publishers of America, the largest magazine trade group. The news, reported first on the MediaWeek Online Web site...
SHE'S RIGHT ABOUT EVE, BUT THEY GET THE MONEY!
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amEIGHT months ago, two Internet entrepreneurs came to my office and nearly convinced me I was wrong. That is no small feat, as anyone who knows me will attest. But...
STAMPS.COM CANCELS 40% OF ITS STAFF
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amStamps.com did the dot-com thing yesterday and let go of 40 percent of its staff. The ailing online postage site, which lost its president and CFO two weeks ago and...
STATIC ON AT&T'S LINE - STREET THUMBS-DOWN ON ARMSTRONG'S WEAK HAND
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amAT&T's "Project Grand Slam" failed to score with investors yesterday, as they continued to turn thumbs-down on Chairman C. Michael Armstrong's desperate efforts to save his company. AT&T shares rose...
LUCENT BOOTS ITS CHIEF
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amIn just a year, Lucent Technologies Chief Richard McGinn has gone from Wall Street golden boy to just another jobless chairman-CEO. Lucent's board yesterday ousted the 54-year-old McGinn after a...
FASHIONMALL.COM ISN'T BUYING THE OFFER
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe chief executive of Fashionmall.com said he was "skeptical" about an offer for his company yesterday - and he may have reason to be. Internet holding company Sitestar said it...
CITI EYES SWAP TO SELL CITICORP CENTER
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amCitigroup and Dai-Ichi Life Investment Properties are looking to swap half interests in two valuable properties so the very visible Citicorp Center could be sold. Real estate sources say Citigroup...
PS2: 1ST REVIEW
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amFor now, using the PlayStation 2 is like using your Aston Martin to go to the corner store. The PS2 leaves its predecessor in the dust with a new 300...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amDino-might Chicago's Field Museum is an anytime destination, but dino-lovers ought not to miss the Dinosaurs and More Festival, Nov. 11-13. The three days are devoted to the celebration of...
PLAYING HARD TO GET: MOVE OVER, HARRY. SONY'S PLAYSTATION 2 WILL BE THE CAN'T-GET-IT CHRISTMAS GIFT
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amHARRY Potter who? The newest entertainment craze is almost here, and stores are bracing for a Potter-style stampede Thursday when Sony's PlayStation 2 hits shelves. The $299 cutting-edge entertainment system,...
A FATE WORSE THAN DEAF? - CONTROVERSY OVER 'MIRACLE' EAR DEVICES
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amIF something could make your deaf child hear, would you go for it? The answer seems simple. But as a new film makes clear, the answer isn't always yes. "Sound...
THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE: HOW THE IMPLANT WORKS
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amUNLIKE hearing aids, cochlear implants don't amplify sound. Instead, they override the damaged nerve cells of the inner ear - the cochlea - by converting sound waves into electrical impulses...
WHEN AN AID TO HEAR CAN ENGENDER FEAR
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amAS a moderately deaf person who depends on hearing aids to communicate with others and do my job, there is no way I can calmly review this documentary: it made...
GONE FISHIN' - YOU CAN CHOOSE FROM A WIDE VARIETY OF OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES ON THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amSQUISH. Take a step onto the beach in this stretch of Gulf coast, and you'll feel sand as fine as talcum powder. This is the Florida Panhandle, home to hundreds...
MICKEY GROWS UP - AS DISNEY WORLD REACHES ITS THIRD DECADE, ADULTS FIND IT MAGIC
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amI JUST turned 30. To celebrate my increasing maturity, I spent a long weekend at Disney World. This may not seem an obvious way to mark the transition into adulthood,...
THE STARR REPORT
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amFox tracks bigWorld Series #s Fox's coverage of the first two "Subway Series" games got off to a roaring start both nationally and in New York. Game 1, a 12-inning...
RUCKER & CO. GIVE A HOOTIE
October 24, 2000 | 4:00am* HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH "Scattered, Smothered, and Covered" () Atlantic Often whacked for wearing his heart on his sleeve, Darius Rucker has a soulful baritone that's at its very...
FROM THE BIG TOP TO THE BIG APPLE
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amROCKIN' Texan troubadour Joe Ely, who rolls into the Bottom Line Saturday, has lived quite the musician's life. Now 53, Ely hit the road a la Jack Kerouac in the...
MIR-LY A SETBACK FOR 'SURVIVOR'-IN-ORBIT
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amNBC's outta-this-world plan for a reality show called "Destination Mir" are in danger of crashing to Earth. Russian officials are planning to bring down the Mir space station from its...
AYE FOR AN EYE; 'DETECTIVE KRAMER' HAS ALL THE RIGHT MOVES
October 24, 2000 | 4:00am"The Michael Richards Show" Tonight at 8 on Ch. 4 AFTER reading all the gossip for months that "The Michael Richards Show" was so bad that the theme song should...
ABORTION IS THE GREAT DIVIDE BETWEEN RIVALS
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amDAY 3: SOCIAL ISSUES One big surprise of the 2000 presidential race is how little attention has gone to divisive hot-button social issues, such as abortion, gay rights and affirmative...
CARDINAL: I DON'T WANT POPE TO GO
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amA Belgian cardinal who said that he wouldn't be surprised if Pope John Paul II abdicated next year denied yesterday that he wanted the pope to do so. Godfried Cardinal...
BLAIR'S WIFE IS 'ELECTED' AS BRITAIN'S TOP MUM
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amMum's the word for the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair - best mum, that is. Cherie Blair was named Britain's best role model for motherhood in a survey...
TEACHER BEATS STUDENT OVER PRANK: POLICE
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amA Manhattan high school teacher was charged with assault yesterday after he pummeled a problem student who played a prank on him, police said. Walter Murray, 48, was about to...
W. INVADING AL'S TURF: HE SHIFTS CAMPAIGN TO DEM 'MUST-WIN' STATES
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge W. Bush and Al Gore are playing high-stakes chess across the electoral map as they jump into the final stretch -- a strategy that lands both men in Gore's...
HE'S RICK & TIRED OF 'LESSONS' FROM HILL'S HEALTH DUD
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday she's learned "many lessons" from her failed 1994 health-care reform initiative - but her rival, Rick Lazio, insisted she's still wedded to it. As his...
AMERICA'S MIDEAST FORCES ON HIGHEST ALERT
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amU.S. forces in the Persian Gulf and in Turkey are on the highest state of military alert because of "specific threats" of possible attacks, Pentagon officials said last night. One...
ABORTION IS THE GREAT DIVIDE BETWEEN RIVALS: BUSH'S COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM' DISAPPOINTS SOME - BUT MAY BE A BRILLIANT TACTIC
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amDay 3: Social Issues Remember Bob Jones? Bet that's the first time you've seen that name in print since this spring -- and that tells you a lot about the...
BROOKLYN MOM GUILTY IN '79 CLOSET-TOT SLAY
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn mother was convicted of second-degree murder yesterday for beating her toddler to death in 1979 and entombing the girl's body in a steamer trunk tucked away in a...
SIR RICHARD RIPS MADONNA GUY'S MOVIE
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amOscar-winner Sir Richard Attenborough says the new Brad Pitt movie directed by Madonna's boyfriend is a "crap" film that wallows in the "pornography of violence." Sir Richard accused Guy Ritchie...
DRUG LAW $TINGS 7,000 STUDENTS
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amA new federal law has delayed or ruled out financial aid this fall for nearly 7,000 college students whose drug convictions returned to haunt them. The law, which took effect...
HEADS-UP LAZIO SIDESTEPS CLINTON 'SAND TRAP'
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amHEY, Rick, watch out for that ostrich! When Lazio stopped by the Syracuse zoo on Sunday, his half-hour visit was carefully orchestrated to avoid the ostrich pen - at all...
JURY DECIDING DOC'S FATE IN WIFE-SLAY CASE
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amManhattan jurors began deciding the fate of an accused wife-killing doctor yesterday - after hearing a chilling account of the pretty, young victim's death. "Think about the intimacy of strangulation...
ALZHEIMER'S LINKED TO HEAD INJURIES
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amA new study of World War II veterans indicates that serious head injuries can sharply increase chances of developing Alzheimer's decades later. The more serious the injury suffered in early...
BEEP HOPEFUL: TRANSIT BOND ACT LEAVES B'KLYN BEHIND
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amA candidate for Brooklyn borough president charged yesterday that his borough would be railroaded by the state's $3.8 billion Transportation Bond Act. City Councilman Ken Fisher urged voters not to...
MOM SHARES ELLEN'S JOY - NEW GAL PAL EASES PAIN OF HECHE SPLIT
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amBETTY DeGENERES is glad her daughter, Ellen, is no longer alone after her high-profile breakup with girlfriend Anne Heche. Betty told The Post yesterday that the 42-year-old comedian is cozying...
TOP BUSH AIDE IN TEXAS QUITS AFTER NEW RACE SLUR
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In an embarrassing flap, George W. Bush's health commissioner in Texas quit yesterday after being accused of making racial cracks to an underling. The exit of William "Reyn"...
CITY IN 600G AD WAR VS. RODENTS
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe city's Health Department launched a $600,000 ad campaign yesterday to rid the city of rats. "You feed them, you breed them. Help New York City send rats packing" is...
ALBRIGHT IN HISTORIC VISIT WITH N. KOREAN LEADER
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amSecretary of State Madeleine Albright shook hands with and toasted North Korea's reclusive leader, Kim Jong Il, yesterday in an ice-breaking visit to the Stalinist state. In the first-ever visit...
W. INVADING AL'S TURF - HE SHIFTS CAMPAIGN TO DEM 'MUST-WIN' STATES
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge W. Bush and Al Gore are playing high-stakes chess across the electoral map as they jump into the final stretch - a strategy that lands both men in Gore's...
'W' IS FOR WOOOSH AS AIR GOES OUT OF LAURA'S TOUR PLANE
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Laura Bush found out yesterday how bumpy the road to the White House can be when her plane made an emergency landing. The plane carrying the wives of...
LAWYER FINGERS 'A SENATOR' IN $$-LAUNDER TRIAL
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe lawyer for an accused money-launderer said in federal court yesterday that "a U.S. senator was bribed by" the government's star witness against the suspect. The whiff of scandal arose...
U.S. FORCES IN GULF GO ON HIGHEST ALERT
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amU.S. forces in the Persian Gulf and in Turkey are on the highest state of military alert because of "specific threats" of possible attacks, Pentagon officials said last night. The...
'RATS AS BIG AS CATS' OVERRUN BRONX
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amResidents in some sections of The Bronx are saying the rats run free - and people are the ones who end up trapped. "Someone in a neighboring building told me...
TEACHER BEATS KID OVER PRANK: COPS
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amA Manhattan high-school teacher was charged with assault yesterday after he pummeled a problem student who played a prank on him, police said. Walter Murray, 48, told The Post he...
COP KILLS WOMAN IN TRAGIC ENDING TO FAMILIES' FEUD
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amAn off-duty cop last night shot dead a woman whose family feuded with his parents at their Brooklyn apartment building, police said. Carmen Valentine, 24, died after Officer Hailoon Wang...
JOE GIVES VIZ START AT 2B
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amHow deep are the Yankees? They were able to dip down to their third-string second baseman to start the World Series. Jose Vizcaino got the nod at second over Luis...
THE WAY IT WAS
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amThis game is Subway Series history ... October 6, 1956 GAME 3 Yankees 5, dodgers 3 The Yanks' Whitey Ford pitches a complete game, giving up just eight hits and...
DEFENDING THEIR TURF - SLIGHTED JETS OUT TO FILLET SOME FISH
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe Jets went into last night's pivotal AFC East showdown against the Dolphins with a collective chip on their shoulder - particularly on defense. They entered the game with a...
A SLICE OF SPICE: UPPER WEST SIDE EATERY SERVES UP A LITTLE SUBWAY SERIES ON RYE
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe Bible says a house divided against itself cannot stand -- but the good book never said anything about a restaurant in the midst of a crazed Subway Series. At...
THIS SUBWAY SERIES IS ALREADY OVER
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amGoing At It - Fan to Fan "Bring on the Yankees," Mets fans pleaded after watching their team clinch a World Series berth. Funny how a couple of days can...
IT AIN'T OVER: METS CAN STILL WIN - YOU COULD LOOK IT UP
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amTHE beauty of sport is that no game is exactly like any other game. There is no script. We can make predictions, or cite history, or quote odds, but we...
BOBBY V HASN'T LOST FAITH IN ARMANDO
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amMets manager Bobby Valentine said he plans on using Armando Benitez to close tonight, if his team gives him the opportunity. "He's good and rested now," Valentine said yesterday after...
NELLIE EXPECTS TO CASH IN
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amABSTRACT: When the free agent waves start rolling in, Jeff Nelson expects the Yankees to be one of the teams offering him an ocean of money. "They will come hard...
METS BROUGHT LIFE TO HUMDRUM LIVES
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amGROWING up in Queens in the 1960s was a fate worse than suburbia. Your parents moved way out there to escape the creeping treacheries of The Bronx and to find...
SHEA WAS HIS FIELD OF DREAMS - MOSES ENVISIONED IT AS JEWEL OF COMPLEX
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amA young Robert Moses dreamed of turning a Flushing garbage dump into Paradise, and perhaps that dream comes true tonight for Mets fans at Shea Stadium - the House that...
FASSEL'S BYE CONSUMED BY GAME 1 OF SERIES
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES It's doubtful anyone who watched Game 1 of the World Series will forget about it any time soon. It's extremely doubtful Jim Fassel will forget where and how...
BYRON PUTTING HEAT ON KENYON
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amThroughout preseason, there have been flashes of obvious brilliance by Net rookie Kenyon Martin. He has given glimpses of the greatness that made him the overwhelming choice to be the...
CROWD FORMATION IN EAST ; VICTORIES BY NFC RIVALS PUT HEAT ON BIG BLUE
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amThey were warned by Jim Fassel that while they were away, someone would likely be gaining on them. When the Giants embarked on their bye weekend off, they owned a...
JEFF: CHILDS' 'D' NOT MAKING GRADE
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Chris Childs' offense looks much improved. Now if he could only remember where he left his defense. Childs, who has struggled with his shooting during his Knick career...
PRAISE PIAZZA FOR NOT BOLTING AFTER NUT
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amIF you are a fan of baseball and the human race, tonight you must cheer Mike Piazza. Not for what he did. But for what he didn't do. It doesn't...
IF IT WAS THE COFFEE, PASS THE POT
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amMOST baseball clubhouses have two pots of coffee brewing. The medium strength pot is for the coaches. The other pot is the strong stuff and sometimes it's really, really, really...
SHRINKS: ROGER REACTED IN HEAT OF THE MOMENT
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amNew York shrinks went to bat for hotheaded hurler Roger Clemens yesterday, saying the Rocket's broken-barrelled blast at Mike Piazza was instinctual. "It was something that happened out of emotion,"...
REED SETTLES HIS NERVES FOR GAME 3 START
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amMet starter Rick Reed admits his nerves got the better of him when he was pounded by St. Louis in the NLCS, that he let the magnitude of the moment...
STEARNS: TORRE'S OUT OF LINE
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amIt's all part of the act, Mets coach John Stearns said. The cause of Roger Clemens' actions in the first inning of Game 2 may have been irrationality or complete...
SEX & DRUGS BOOT GERMAN COACH
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - Accused by an old rival of being a drug-taking degenerate earlier this month, Germany coach-designate Christoph Daum reacted with total outrage and offered to take a drug test...
HAMPTON, HARRIS WANTED PIECE OF ROG
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amIt's not that the Mets are saying Mike Piazza should have broken his foot off in Roger Clemens' rear end Sunday night; but if you read between the lines, it...
RICE & CAMBY ARE KNICK SORE SPOTS
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amMight the Knicks be without Glen Rice to start the season? And is Marcus Camby's back too sore for him to play tonight's exhibition game against the Nets - or...
ILL DUQUE BODES WELL FOR METS
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amA sick Orlando Hernandez could be just the remedy the Mets need to get well in the Subway Series. Hernandez has the flu and if it weakens him enough to...
ROGER: I WAS FIRED UP - SAYS HE WISHES IT WASN'T PIAZZA
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amRoger Clemens told his side of the story Sunday night and stuck to it yesterday. Because it was the World Series, because the pitches would be his first to Piazza...
BEACH CHANNEL CRY: RUN, RICKY, RUN
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amCorey Dillon has nothing on Ricky Richardson. Richardson, a junior tailback for Beach Channel, rushed for an incredible 311 yards and three touchdowns (including an 80-yarder) on 21 carries in...
CALL BROWN LARRY LOSER
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amCHECK Larry Brown's record over the last few months. He is not in good standing(s), shall we say. The Sixer Sovereign has lost two intensely coveted jobs, one first-round pick...
GROSEK TO GRAB A SEAT
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amAs high as Ron Low was when he acquired Michal Grosek earlier this month, that's how dissatisfied he's become with the player now. Fed up with Grosek's tendency to take...
ROG CONDUCT WAS UNSTABLE, IDIOTIC - METS' BATTLE CRY: LET'S GET IT BACK TO ROCKET
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amAs the Yankees streak toward another World Championship, the Mets are on a mission as the Subway Series shifts to soldout Shea tadium tonight for Game 3: Get to the...
NEAGLE GETS GAME 4 NOD
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amThere were other factors in play when Joe Torre named Denny Neagle his Game 4 starter over David Cone yesterday. However, when Torre made his choice he listened to his...
JETER'S VIEW ON 4TH RING
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amDerek Jeter, of course, could care less about his 11-game World Series hit streak, or his .333 average in the Fall Classic or the fact he's reached base in 53...
YOU KNOW HE WAS WRONG, JOE - TORRE CAN'T ADMIT ROG WENT TOO FAR
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amMUCH has been said and written about how the 2000 regular season represented the pinnacle of Joe Torre's managerial career, considering how many potholes and land mines he had to...
ZEILE: ROGER LOST RESPECT FROM PEERS
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amMike Piazza was one of Todd Zeile's closest friends when the two played for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1997, and one of the biggest reasons Zeile signed with the...
AL: WE'RE PLAYING INTO THEIR HANDS
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amAl Leiter had a great question for the mass media yesterday. How come the Mets have to answer all these questions about Roger Clemens? Shouldn't the Yankees be responsible for...
METS THROW MORE ROCKET FUEL ON FIRE - BIG TALK CAN'T HIDE WEAK WALK
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amROUGH, tough Lenny Harris, who hails from Miami's Liberty City, where they "throw hands" in anger with more efficiency than he can get his glove around a baseball, says that...
PROBE MAY LAND ROG ON THE RUG
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amWhile the likelihood of Roger Clemens drawing a Subway Series suspension for his bat-throwing act in Game 2 Sunday night is remote, Major League Baseball officials have launched an investigation...
ALL HAIL LOSERS, TOO - CITY PLANS PARADE FOR YANKS & METS
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amExpect a Canyon of Heroes parade Friday or Monday for New York's baseball champs - with the exact day depending on how the World Series plays out, police and city...
METS MUM ON PAYBACK
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amAs to whether there is to be any payback exacted by Mets pitchers for Roger Clemens throwing a shattered bat in the direction of Mike Piazza in Game 2 of...
CHAMPS ON FIELD - BRONX BULLIES OFF IT
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Yankees had five security guards ringing a Shea batting cage yesterday during a workout, or five more than the Mets had deployed a few hours earlier. Heck, some teams...
PHILLIPS GLAD CLEMENS HAS DRAWN REVIEW
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe Mets are using the Bert Campaneris argument against Roger Clemens for Sunday's bat-firing incident. Met GM Steve Phillips yesterday pointed to the 1972 ALCS suspension of Campaneris, who flung...
CHUCK NOT UPSET ABOUT BENCHING
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amChuck Knoblauch does not like the word "relief" when asked how he feels to be dropped for Jose Vizcaino tonight at second base. "I do want to play," Knoblauch said....
UPS AND DOWNS FOR JETS' COLES
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES It was an eventful night last night for Jet rookie receiver Laveranues Coles. The best of it was a marvelous 30-yard touchdown reception of a pass from Vinny...
FOR FIEDLER & FISH, OT LOSS 'HARD TO BELIEVE'
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amFor the better part of six weeks, so much had gone exactly right for quarterback Jay Fiedler and the Dolphins. Forget that 30th ranking in the passing game. The Dolphin...
MONDAY NIGHT MIRACLE MEN!: JETS FRY FISH IN OVERTIME THRILLER
October 24, 2000 | 4:00amOvertime Jets 40 Dolphins 37 These are not your father's Jets. Last night's positively outrageous, indescribable and improbable Jets' 40-37, overtime victory over the Dolphins in what turned into an...