November 26, 2000
SMALLER'S NOW BETTER FOR BRURAN TRIBECA PROJECT
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amAFTER a nearly decade-long quest to construct something in TriBeCa, Brewran West has received city permission to create Hudson Center, a residential complex that will be about half the height...
VIVENDI WATCHING SEAGRAM'S VALUE GET WATERED DOWN
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amVivendi's Jean Marie Messier may be getting a lemon with Seagram's disintegrating booze business. Vivendi said this month it still expects to sell Seagram's liquor business for between $8 billion...
GERE'S NEW $2M HAMPTONS SHACK FOR BABY & BABE
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amNEW parents Richard Gere and Carey Lowell have a new Hamptons home for the holidays. The Dalai Lama disciple and his model/actress girlfriend just purchased a "South of the Highway"...
THE XEROX REPAIRWOMAN - ANNE MULCAHY'S TRYING TO FIX THE ONE-TIME MONEY MACHINE
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amANNE Mulcahy's woes are rapidly reproducing. The president and COO of Xerox Corp. is having a hard time mopping up the mess left behind by former CEO Richard Thoman. The...
ST. MARTIN'S IS WOOING RUDY: BID FOR HIZZONER'S BIO RISES TO $1.7 M
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amST. MARTIN'S Press is actively negotiating with Mayor Rudy Giuliani for his memoir. Rudy has not yet said "yes" or "no" - even though the price tag is now close...
FAMILY TV'S 7 SMALL; BLESSINGS ...AND, YES, THEY INCLUDE THAT PURPLE DINOSAUR
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amIN the spirit of my little pilgrim's first Thanksgiving pageant at Brooklyn's Immaculate Heart of Mary, I'd like to give thanks for the blessings of family television in the past...
STREET FOOD DOES A BODY GOOD
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amKAYA A truck parked on 51st Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues) You don't have to speak Sanskrit to get the message at Kaya. The name means "body" in that...
GOURMET FOR A DAY: DINNER KITS GIVE HOME COOKS A TASTE OF WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A TOP CHEF
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amTo most Manhattanites the holiday season means one thing: tourists. Besides jamming our stores and streets, they're inundating our restaurants. At no time is the frustration more biting than when...
CHANUKAH: FESTIVAL OF LIT
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amHere's the ideal book for the eight days of Chanukah -- "Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology" (W.W. Norton, $39.95), which highlights the contributions of 145 artists in 1,200 pages...
LET IT BE THE BEATLES
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amThinking of the ultimate baby-boomer gift package? All you need is love of the Beatles -- in print -- and you're there. After all these years, Britain's greatest exports have...
ASSORTED SAMPLERS
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe sampler tradition -- getting a little bit of a lot of good stuff -- also applies to books. Anthologies and short-story collections abound this holiday season and are an...
ONLINE SHOPPING: WHY NOT TRAIN YOUR SITES ON THE 'NET THIS SEASON?
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amBrave the cold, crowds and chaos of holiday shopping no longer. Why stand online when you can simply go online and buy all your gifts in a matter of minutes...
WHEN BROADWAY NEEDS A REPLACEMENT: THE SHOW MUST GO ON, BUT NOT ALWAYS WITH THE SAME STAR. WE GO BEHIND THE SCENES AS THE SMASH MUSICAL 'CABARET' GROOMS A NEW LEAD
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amThere comes a time in every Broadway show when the lead performer has to be replaced. So it was this fall with the Roundabout Theater Company's 3-year-old revival of "Cabaret"...
AYCKBOURN VS. SIMON: ALTER-EGO PLAYWRIGHTS SHOULD TRADE PLACES
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amIt sometimes occurs to me that Alan Ayckbourn and Neil Simon are the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of the Anglo-American theater, but never the twain shall meet. Well, I seem to...
WHAT I WATCH
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amLYNN HEILERPUBLISHERBON APPETIT MAGAZINEI'M A "FRASIER" FREAK. HE'S MY PERSONAL BAROMETER TO FINE FOODS, WINE, MUSIC AND DAILY NEUROSIS.ROBIN LEACHTV HOSTI WAKE UP TO CNBC. IT TELLS ME HOW THE...
DUTCH TREATS & A TEEN TERRORIST
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amHugo and Goof are a pair of lowlifes living in Amsterdam. Their idea of fun is to get young female backpackers into the sack, rob them, then steal the ID...
4 QUESTIONS FOR BRIDGETTE WILSON-SAMPRAS ; ALMOST A ROCKET SCIENTIST
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amWho are your heroes? My parents and, more important, my entire family just because of the way I look up to them and how they've managed to create a life...
DEMS' TACTICS CREATE CYNICISM IN HEARTLAND
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amDALLAS. THE governor may live in relatively liberal Austin, but there may be no more pro-Bush city anywhere than this Republican stronghold deep in the heart of Texas. And boy,...
SERIAL SEX FIEND NABBED: COPS
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe 35-year-old fugitive parolee wanted for four sex attacks and seven robberies has been busted, nabbed by a trio of workers at a posh Upper West Side building after another...
HARRISON: HOUSE HAS 'BAD KARMA'
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amEx-Beatle George Harrison and his wife, Olivia, have moved out of their luxurious $14 million mansion because they fear bad karma. The couple, devout followers of the Hare Krishna religious...
FIRE CHOKES QNS. TUNNEL TO MIDTOWN
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amHoliday shoppers and theatergoers expecting holiday traffic got that and much more yesterday afternoon when a car fire in the Queens Midtown Tunnel turned the Manhattan-bound tube into a parking...
SOCIETY GALS SEEK GUY-DANCE PICK ESCORTS FOR ANNUAL DEBUTANTE BALL
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amIt was high society as dozens of the world's debutantes-to-be descended on Midtown yesterday to choose their hunky escorts for next month's International Debutante Ball. "This is so exciting for...
DEMOCRATIC SPIN IS JUST PLAIN 'BANANAS'
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amWEST PALM BEACH. ELEANOR Holmes Norton is a very brilliant lady. But once again, she shows that Democrats can put a spin on a 1-ton cube. "Democrats believe in the...
RIVALS WAITING AND PLOTTING
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - George W. Bush and Al Gore played it cool and discreet as they waited on today's certified vote totals from Florida, but privately they plotted battle. Gore was...
U.S. ASKED TO PUT REAL IRA ON ITS TERROR LIST
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amBritain and Ireland yesterday asked the United States to place the Real IRA on a list of designated terrorist groups. "By making this request, the two governments are once again...
FIREFIGHTERS SAVE 3 IN B'KLYN BLAZE
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amFirefighters saved three Brooklyn family members from tragedy yesterday - plucking them from a blaze that trapped them inside their home. "They lost everything. School bags, clothes, furniture - everything...
SKATEBOARD DOG HAS A SWIPEOUT
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amMISSING: A four-year-old Staffordshire terrier/pit bull cross, answers to the name Thai, likes sleeping and skateboarding. Thai's owner is begging for help, fearing the cold-hearted thieves who stole his skateboarding...
LEGAL-EAGLE HIGH FLYERS: HOT NEW ATTORNEYS MAKING THEIR MARK
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amSINCE Johnnie Cochran and his "Dream Team" pulled off a legal miracle for O.J. Simpson, trial lawyers across the nation have become about as newsworthy as their clients. Nowhere is...
STREET DEATH COLD-RELATED?
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amA homeless woman was found dead in Manhattan early yesterday morning, possibly from the cold weather, police said. The woman, believed to be in her 40s, had been drinking with...
EAGER SHOPPERS DEFY BIZ EXPERTS BUT SOME LIMIT THEIR SPENDING
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amHoliday shoppers were out in force yet again yesterday despite estimates by analysts that this season would be a slow one for retailers. Families were lining up around the block...
YOUNG FANS HAVE A BALL AT 1ST KNICKS KIDS DAY
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amLet the games begin! Hundreds of pint-size fans got a big treat yesterday as the lobby of Madison Square Garden was transformed into a playland of fun and games for...
MISSING MODEL LED A DOUBLE LIFE: MAG
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe stunning model who vanished without a trace in Manhattan last month may have been turning tricks as a hooker in the city's posh hotel bars, a new report says....
VOTING OVERSEER IN LINE OF FIRE AGAIN
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amFlorida Secretary of State Katherine Harris is stepping back into the spotlight today as her office opens to receive the recounted tallies in the deadlocked presidential race. Harris, 43, will...
BONES FOUND NEAR REMAINS OF L.I. WOMAN
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amInvestigators yesterday searched for new clues about a the death of a pregnant Long Island woman - scouring the site where her remains were found, where they discovered two new...
NIAGARA FALLS HARD RED STORM DOESN'T EASE UP ON EAGLES
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amSt. John's92Niagara59 As long as basketball has been played, upsets have been a fiber of the game. Remember Chaminade beating Ralph Sampson's Virginia? Remember Valparaiso in the 1999 NCAA Tournament?...
CHIMP WILL APE LENO
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amHeeeere's Johnny - the chimp! A Russian television company, made famous for bringing viewers topless news anchors, is relaunching itself this week with a new talk show hosted by a...
EXPERTS WARN FERGIE: DIETING NOT KID STUFF
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amPound-plagued Fergie is turning her two kids into obsessive calorie counters, health experts warn. The self-confessed binge-eating Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, has admitted making 12-year-old Beatrice and 10-year-old Eugenie...
NEW TEST REVEALS AN EMBRYO'S IQ
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amBritish scientists have developed a method to test embryos for low intelligence. It's the first time researchers have been able to test for low IQ in a human embryo. The...
BUSH OPENS NEW FRONTS IN WAR OVER MILITARY TALLY
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - George W. Bush's campaign filed suits in five Florida counties late yesterday to force a review of disputed absentee military ballots - after dropping a statewide suit earlier...
INSPECTOR TOOK BRIBE TO TURN BLIND EYE: COPS
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amA fire inspector was busted taking a bribe from the owner of a Bronx restaurant, law enforcement authorities said yesterday. William Recalde, 29, was arrested Friday night after cops videotaped...
REVLON DUMPS CINDY FOR NEW FACE
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amRevlon has reportedly traded in Cindy Crawford for a younger supermodel. Revlon, whose value has dropped from billions to millions since the '80s, says the 34-year-old Crawford's look is out...
LOW'S GOTTA TINKER - RANGERS STARTING TO SHOW HOLES
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amDID you know that Theo Fleury, who leads the NHL with 16 goals, hasn't scored at even strength in his last nine games, since getting one in Montreal on Nov....
VOTE-COUNT BOARD BOOTS AN OBJECTING GOP LAWYER
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amFORT LAUDERDALE - The recount in Broward County turned ugly yesterday with the canvassing board tossing out a Republican lawyer who had scolded the panel for "trolling for votes" for...
RANDALL'S TOT IN HIGH-RISE SCARE
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amActor Tony Randall's young son gave onlookers a horrific scare at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, when he was spotted standing - apparently alone - at an open window high...
LEVY TEAM A PRICEY SCHOOL ASSEMBLY
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy, in the job for less than a year, has assembled a new team of high-paid managers - including over two dozen at salaries of more than...
AL'S TEAM: WE WON'T CLOSE GAP BUT DEMS VOW TO PRESS BATTLE FOR NEW COUNTS
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amAl Gore's supporters expect the veep to fall about 300 votes short in his battle to win the presidency through manual recounts in Florida, but they vow to continue the...
PALM BEACH LABORS ON AS BROWARD COUNT ENDS
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amBleary-eyed ballot-counters completed a grueling hand recount in Florida's Broward County last night, giving Al Gore almost 600 extra votes. Palm Beach County officials, meanwhile, worked through the night to...
REVIVED DEVILS
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amSAN JOSE - The trip to California is finished, but the Devils' honeymoon continues as they head home with a five-game winning streak. Completing their first-ever sweep of the Golden...
'SHOCKED' OWNERS STICK TO PARTY LINE
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amWho's responsible for policing the coke craze in the city's hottest clubs? Club owners told The Post that they were "shocked" to hear about coke use in their establishments. Tony...
WHY NOT 'ADOPT' A NEW APPROACH TO CHARITABLE GIFT-GIVING?
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe holiday season is a time for generosity - but being surrounded by consumerism can get to anyone. So how do you break the cycle and get back to the...
DEFIANCE IN KILLING FIELDS OF GAZA STRIP
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amKFAR DAROMDRIVING through the Gaza Strip to the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom, nothing told me we were in killing fields except for the Israeli border police who accompanied our...
WELCOME TO THE 'POWDER' ROOM
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe Post's investigation began in the bathrooms of trendy clubs, where well-heeled men and women snort cocaine from the tops of toilet-paper dispensers. Shine, Saci, Upstairs at Studio 54, Spa,...
PERFECTLY NAUSEATING MARTHA
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amMARTHA Stewart ruined my Thanksgiving. Again. It's that magazine of hers. It makes me feel like a home-crafting loser. It was bad enough when all we had to tolerate was...
THE WHITE LINES BEHIND CITY'S VELVET ROPES 'HIGH'-END HOT SPOTS TEEMING WITH DRUG USE
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amAt $20 to $50 a gram, coke offers the cheapest bang for the buck. Alcohol is more expensive.'I'VE got the best stuff," said a fast-talking man who invited two young...
JFK REVAMP TAKES OFF FACELIFT WILL SEE AIRPORT FLYING INTO THE FUTURE
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amNew York is getting a brand new airport. There's just one catch - the $10 billion project is being built at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Piece by piece over...
GRAD-RATE DECLINE REALLY NO MYSTERY
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amNewscaster: "A large hole was discovered in downtown St. Louis, this morning. Police are looking into it."STOP me if you've heard this one. The NCAA last week released a report...
OH, SAY YOU CAN'T SEE HOLIK DEVIL A U.S. CITIZEN, BUT INELIGIBLE FOR OLYMPIC TEAM
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amBOBBY Holik is as much an American as Brian Leetch, but unless the IOC changes its rules of eligibility, the Devils' unique weapon in the middle won't be allowed to...
BETTER BEWARE OF BEARS! JETS MUST AVOID ANOTHER LETDOWN
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe Jets' mission today as they play the Bears at Giants Stadium - should they choose to accept it with a sense of urgency - is to hold serve at...
TUPA CAN HELP GANG GREEN WEATHER STORM
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amJET NOTES The weather is expected to be rainy, cold and windy for today's Jets-Bears game at Giants Stadium, which makes it the kind of game in which the Jets...
ANDERSON PROVING TO BE BEST JET NOBODY KNOWS
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amHE HAD endured the Fake Spike, then somehow survived the nightmare of the Kotite years, and now came the dark day when he found himself standing helplessly on the sidelines,...
PARASITE END OF LINE FOR RAINBOW TROUT
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amMORE than 175,000 rainbow trout from New York State-run fish hatcheries have been destroyed after a parasite known to cause whirling disease was detected in samples of fish at the...
JASPER COACH WARY OF EXPECTATIONS
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amTo say that Bobby Gonzalez has resurrected the Manhattan College basketball program would be an understatement. Brought in to restore pride and dignity to a team that finished 5-22 in...
FASSEL PROVIDES FUEL JINTS SAY THEY'LL USE PLAYOFF GUARANTEE AS MOTIVATION
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amJIM Fassel's eyes were still ablaze on Friday. They were intense, determined and focused. There was a bus to catch in less than an hour and then a flight to...
'TWO ITEM' TAKES DEMOISELLE
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amTwo Item Limit, fresh off an easy triumph in the Grade 3 Tempted at Aqueduct three weeks ago, made it two in a row taking yesterday's Grade 2, $200,000 Demoiselle...
WINDSOR CASTLE ROLLS IN REMSEN
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amAs with trades in baseball, in horse racing sometimes the best sales are the ones you don't make. Just ask Frank Alexander, who yesterday saddled Windsor Castle, a 2-year-old colt...
CARDS NOT OFFENDED BY DISS
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES TEMPE - Let's see: Jim Fassel guaranteed the Giants will make the playoffs, and the odds are his team needs to win at least three of the last...
WIN, OR DON'T COME BACK BIG BLUE NEEDS TO PREVAIL IN 'ZONA
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amTEMPE - The flight is long enough without heartache along for the ride. There is nothing worse, nothing even close, to traveling far away, getting beat up on the football...
NETS' ROAD WOES ARE OFFENSIVE
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amPORTLAND - A lot can happen in six minutes. Unless you happen to be the Nets' offense going through one of "those" streaks again. Then nothing happens. And nothing good...
THE OFFICIAL STRIKE ZONE: CALLING IT BY THE BOOK
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amSCOTTSDALE -- Obscene contracts are being bartered, teams are reshuffling the deck in the hopes of getting a shot at the Yankees in October 2001, but the most startling change...
A SHORT-SIGHTED RISK: YANKEES MUST SIGN JETER NOW, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe more money you spend, the fewer questions you should have about your purchase. That goes for buying a car, a house or a baseball player. It is why the...
DEPTH THE DIFFERENCE IN DEVILS' CHARGE BACK TO TOP
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amSAN JOSE - Fourth-liners love it, top trios don't. The way responsibility and ice-time is leavened throughout the Devils' lineup has been a team trait for years now. On the...
FALCONS PUT ON REALLY GOODE SHOW
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amGrady 60 All Hallows 55 Everyone knew Grady was supposed to be good in the PSAL this season. Given the chance, the Falcons might have fared pretty well in the...
'CORREDOR' DESERVES CIGAR
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amLast year California-based trainer Bob Baffert took New York by storm, winning major races at Belmont Park and Saratoga with horses like Silverbulletday, River Keen and Forestry. This year, though,...
BIG EAST POINT WELL TAKEN NYC'S FINEST GUARDS MAKING CONFERENCE HOME-GROWN AFFAIR
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amThey spring from the same vineyards of concrete and blacktop, year after year, one vintage better than the next. Sometimes the city's playgrounds yield just one great point-guard seed per...
WILL RACE FOR WENDELL FLOAT AWAY FROM METS?
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amMET NOTES Turk Wendell seems to be playing the market perfectly. His value is going up, up, up. But is he going away? Wendell, whose agent, Gregg Clifton, thought it...
DEADLY GUNFIGHTS SPUR ISRAELIS TO FEAR FULL-FLEDGED ARAB WAR
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Another attempt to stem the violence in the Middle East ended in failure yesterday, as skirmishes between Israelis and Palestinians continued unabated. Officials said gunfights in the Gaza...
BRAVO IN N.Y. STATE OF MIND
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amJoe Bravo, the perennial leading rider on the New Jersey circuit, has switched agents in order to establish his roots on the NYRA circuit. For the inner track meet, Bravo...
FORDHAM WITHSTANDS STIFF GAELS
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amFordham85Iona82 Iona guard Earl Johnson's fadeaway three point attempt sailed through the air and the Rose Hill faithful all held their collective breaths. If made, Iona would tie the game...
IF THE GLOVE DOESN'T FIT . . . ; PAYTON, NOT PAUL, SHOULD BE THE ONE TO QUIT
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amPAUL Westphal showed what kind of coach he is by reaching out to Gary Payton and arranging a meeting to repair damage his star player's public insubordination had caused, and...
CHARLIE HOPES TO BE BACK SOONER THAN EXPECTED
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTESWhen Charlie Ward could not play in Atlanta Wednesday night, Jeff Van Gundy knew something might be more severely wrong than Ward's usual right-knee problems. Ward never asks out...
KNICKS FIGHT NO MORE GARDEN NO LONGER INTIMIDATING TO FOES
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amTHERE once was an intimidating aura when a team came to play the Knicks in the Garden. A physical defensive game was expected along with other elements of intimidation. "They...
KENNEDY KOS CURTIS
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amAll year long, the Kennedy players said they had a different team than the previous two seasons when they were eliminated in the first round of the PSAL playoffs. More...
THREE WAS JOHN'S MAGIC NUMBER
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amWhen John Franco told his eight-year-old son yesterday morning he was staying with the Mets, his son was excited, but also a little incredulous when he learned the length of...
MENDOZA'S FEARS JUST CLICK AWAY
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amA click in Ramiro Mendoza's surgically repaired right shoulder has the Yankee pitcher's head fighting off the injury demons again. "He is panicking and freaking out," a friend of Mendoza's...
DOUBLY TROUBLING - KNICKS FAIL DOWN STRETCH, LOSE WARD 6-TO-8 WEEKS
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe Knicks received a double dose of agita from yesterday's Garden matinee. First, Toronto's Vince Carter continued his high-flying regular-season mastery over the Knicks, while Glen Rice and Latrell Sprewell...
FALLING, AND THEY CAN'T GET UP DOUBTS CREEPING IN AS ISLES' SKID REACHES EIGHT
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amAfter the losing streak reached eight last night, Kevin Haller was asked if the Islanders are beginning to doubt themselves. "You mean, are we beginning to doubt if we can...
KENDALL: I KNEE-D TO GET HEALTHY
November 26, 2000 | 5:00amPORTLAND - In preseason, Kendall Gill was by far the Nets' most reliable shooter. Back at his two-guard position, Gill, who was trying to respond from the three worst shooting...