December 19, 2000
$5,000 PER SQUARE FOOT! TIME WARNER CENTRE LOFTS COULD SET A NEW RECORD
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amNEW York has an affordable-housing crisis. But "affordable" means different things to different people. And soon, a handful of the world's ultrawealthiest will have a crack at the scarcest dwellings...
REEBOK TO BE EXCLUSIVE OUTFITTER TO THE NFL
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amReebok International is jumping back into the football apparel business in a big way. The NFL and Reebok are expected to announce today that the Stoughton, Mass., sporting goods maker...
AND DONNA PULLS ANOTHER RABBIT OUT OF HER HAT
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amI used to think Donna Karan was just another creative genius who couldn't or wouldn't understand the finer points of making money. Then I decided she was incredibly lucky, because...
MEN'S JOURNAL SHOOK UP ; EDITOR BRYANT OUT AFTER CLASHES WITH WENNER
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amMark Bryant is out suddenly after only one year as editor of Wenner Media's Men's Journal. A former Men's Journal hand, Sid Evans - who had jumped to be senior...
TIME WARNER'S BIG MISS; SURPRISE WARNING SOCKS SHARES; AOL DOWN, TOO
December 19, 2000 | 5:00am"Little Nicky" proved to be a problem for "Big Gerry" Levin yesterday as a surprise earnings warning from Time Warner sent shares into a nosedive. Time Warner stock fell $9.47...
MVP.COM GOING TO HALF-STAFF
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amSporting goods e-tailer MVP.com is firing half its staff. The firm, in which aging superstars Michael Jordan, John Elway and Wayne Gretzky have invested time and dollars, announced yesterday it...
685 THIRD SELLS FOR $210M TO CLARION CLIENT
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amA client of Clarion Partners purchased 685 Third Ave. last week for $210 million. The 630,000-square-foot building is at the northeast corner of 43rd Street, just east of Grand Central...
BIZ IS SLOW, SO MORT SELLS OFF FAST COMPANY
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amMercurial media mogul Mort Zuckerman is about to further prune his shrinking media empire today by selling off the high technology, Boston-based Fast Company to raise badly needed cash. Gruner...
BIDDING WAR FOR DK? LVMH MOVE COULD SPARK OTHER LUXURY FIRMS' OFFERS
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe pending LVMH/Donna Karan International deal could turn into a bidding war. Though the Gabrielle Studio deal is done, with Karan and husband Stephan Weiss pocketing up to $450 million,...
LAST SITES FOR FUNERAL WEB PORTAL HEAVENLYDOOR.COM
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amDeath becomes them. Funerary portal HeavenlyDoor.com slipped peacefully away yesterday as it agreed to sell its Web assets to rival cyberundertaker Remembered Ones.com Inc. HeavenlyDoor.com was a biopharmaceutical company until...
JINGLE BELL ROCK
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amWHILE most of us like a good holiday tune to get us in the Yuletide spirit, record companies know jingle sells. That's why every year there seem to be more...
AUSTIN POWER: TEXAS' CAPITAL IS A CONSERVATIVE CITY WITH A PROGRESSIVE FACE
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amJUST when you thought you had Texas pegged, along comes Austin. Around the corner from the most famous Governor's Mansion in this fair Union is Little City Espresso, an atmospheric...
BETTER LOVING THRU SEX-ERCISE ; FITNESS BOOK LAYS OUT THE HOT ROUTINE
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amSEDUCTION will take you only so far. If you want your sex life to sizzle, stretch - with your partner.At least, that's the gist of "Sex Flex," a how-to fitness...
HANNIBAL'S SECRET ; 'SILENCE' FROM DIRECTOR ON ENDING OF 'LAMBS' SEQUEL
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amTHE top-secret ending of the upcoming "Hannibal" film will be a big surprise - even for those who have read the novel.For the hotly anticipated sequel to "The Silence of...
'SEX FLEX' WORKS FOR ME
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amIN the interest of enlightened journalism, my husband, Bruce, and I tried a few of the "Safe Flex" exercises at home, on our living room floor. Let's just say we...
'FINDING' FAVOR WITH 'FORRESTER'
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amFINDING FORRESTER 1/2Enjoyable but sentimental and predictable combination of "Good Will Hunting" and "Scent of a Woman."Running time: 133 minutes. Rated PG-13 (language). At the Lincoln Square and the Loews...
THE STARR REPORT
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amBartelstein gets shot at a.m. anchor slot Ch. 7 is giving sportscaster Steve Bartelstein the chance to anchor hard news from 5 to 7 a.m. in place of Robb Hanrahan....
THE BEST MUSICAL BUMMERS OF NOTE
December 19, 2000 | 5:00am'GIGS Gone Bad: An Evening of Stories by and about Musicians" promises tales of "cosmic bummers, exploding drummers, getting booed, getting sued, sorely tested, Pete Bested . . ." tonight...
MR. BILL'S SHOW; NOT SO FAR FETCHED, TALK SHOW FOR THE EX-PREZ
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amJUST because they are losing their DC digs, don't think they are going away. In fact, there is no escaping the Beverly Hill Billys. If it wasn't horrifying enough to...
'SURVIVOR' TAKES ON 'FRIENDS'
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amCBS is scheduling "Survivor II" opposite "Friends" - boldly taking on TV's top-rated comedy in a battle for ratings supremacy. "Survivor II: The Australian Outback" will air Thursday at 8...
KNIVES ARE OUT FOR THE 'IRON CHEF' ; BOBBY FLAY'S COOKIN' FOR REVENGE IN TOKYO REMATCH
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amNEW York superchef Bobby Flay is locking soup ladles again with "Iron Chef" Morimoto Masaharu in an eagerly anticipated rematch of culinary combatants. The faceoff on the cult-favorite TV show...
MILLER BACK TO CONFUSE YOU; COMIC KEEPS GIG IN FOOTBALL BOOTH
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amLOVE him or hate him, expect to see Dennis Miller back in the "Monday Night Football" booth next season. "Everyone at ABC thinks Dennis is terrific," says ABC Sports spokesman...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amMush better For those of you who believe that New York winters are never quite cold enough, God invented Minnesota. Bundle up and head to the magical northwoods, where Twin...
TEXAS ECLECTIC ; THE HISTORIC CITY OF SAN ANTONIO IS MORE MEX THAN TEX
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amSTANDING in San Fernando Cathedral, one's sense of place is easily lost. It's San Antonio, Texas, but everything about the experience calls up Mexico. Saturday mornings, especially. While the downtown...
SAFE SUN TIPS FOR AN ECLIPSE
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amCONSIDER it a gift from Mother Nature: On Christmas Day, we'll be able to see a partial eclipse of the sun.But as rare as such sightings are - the last...
DOUBLE-DIPPERS SIGN UP TO VOTE IN N.Y. AND FLORIDA
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amThousands of metropolitan-area residents are illegally registered to vote in both New York and Florida, a Post investigation has found. A review of voter registration databases turned up more than...
JUICED UTAH GETTING IN 'SPIRIT' OF GAMES
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amUtah officials are working overtime to make sure spirits don't run dry during Salt Lake City's 2002 Winter Olympic Games. The state with the lowest consumption of alcohol in the...
REV. AL LEVELS WHOPPER OF A BOYCOTT THREAT AGAINST FAST-FOOD 'SLAVERY'
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton wants to turn up the sizzle on Burger King with a class-action lawsuit and nationwide boycott. The roly-poly activist decried yesterday the dismissal of a suit...
BILINGUAL-ED STUDY: EVEN TEACHERS DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ENGLISH
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amThousands of bilingual education students don't learn English because many of their teachers aren't qualified to teach it, a report released yesterday by Mayor Giuliani found. "Too many teachers of...
'REVERSE ELIAN'S' DAD IN CUBA
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amAn American father, admitting the odds are against him, arrived in Cuba to try to bring back his 5-year-old son in what's been dubbed the "reverse Elian" case, officials said...
FIND HOLIDAY HAUL AT A CITY MALL
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe Savvy Shopper offers gift-buying tips throughout the holiday season.SO THE weather outside is frightful, and you're dreaming of warm, dry suburban malls. Don't forget that we've got a few...
DOCS: START SOY DIET EARLY TO BEAT CANCER
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amTeen girls who eat soy products may be reducing their risk of getting breast cancer later in life by as much as 50 percent. That's the conclusion of a study...
MILAN CHURCH BOMBERS FOILED
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amItalian police defused a powerful time bomb found on the roof of Milan's landmark Duomo cathedral hours before it was set to explode, officials said yesterday. The bomb, with about...
FERRET FANATICS CRITTER-CIZE CITY FOR NO-PETS RULE
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe fur was flying at City Hall yesterday as dozens of ferret owners argued that having the slinky creatures as pets should not be illegal. The City Council's Committee on...
MADONNA BARS BROTHER FROM WEDDING
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amMadonna landed in Scotland yesterday to put the finishing touches on her wedding - but one member of her family has been frozen out of the gala event. The Material...
MORE TOURISTS (AND THEIR $$) ON THE WAY, RUDY BOASTS
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amNew Yorkers competing for sidewalk space with wide-eyed tourists had better brace themselves for another record horde next year. In his second press conference in four months on the topic,...
THEY'RE THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW ULSTER
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amIT WAS a sunny August day and wedding plans were in the air when the bomb went off on Omagh's Market Street in 1998. Donna-Marie McGillion and her fiancé, Garry,...
AND THE OSCAR HOST IS . . . STEVE!
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amIt's sure to be one wild and crazy Oscar ceremony next year - with Steve Martin playing host with the most jokes. The wacky, white-haired comic yesterday copped the coveted...
FANCY DIGS OR NOT, SHE'S NO JACKIE KENNEDY
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amA WEEK ago, Hillary Clinton, the nomadic senator-elect about to represent the state of New York, was all about renting. With her mom, daughter Chelsea and a cast of security...
METER-BEATER RAP RAISING PARKER'S IRE
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amAn outraged accountant is giving the Department of Transportation no quarter after parking agents accused him of tampering with a meter, slapped handcuffs on him and tossed him in a...
CHANCELLOR POISED TO PRIVATIZE FIVE OF CITY'S BAD SCHOOLS
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy plans to tap the nation's largest private education-management firm to run five of the city's failing schools, Board of Education officials said yesterday. Levy will recommend...
TA SERVICE TO CLIMB, BUT MISS PEAK
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe Transit Authority rolled out a package of subway- and bus-service increases yesterday - but the changes slated for early next year won't do much to improve most morning commutes....
HILL TEAS OFF WITH LAURA AFTER HOUSE-WARMING TOUR
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Holding hands like longtime girlfriends, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush met yesterday at the White House for tea, a tour and a chat. But their visit had an...
'JAPANESE JETER' READY TO ; TAKE A BOW IN N.Y.
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amMove over, Mike Piazza. Make room, Derek Jeter. There's a new heartthrob in town with a killer smile, a penchant for drop-dead gorgeous women and a closet full of hip...
DUBYA WHO? GREENSPAN'S OUR SAVIOR
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amTHE most powerful man in the world gripped and grinned with the president-elect yesterday, and the stock market soared. Yea, brethren, despite the Late Unpleasantness and its nettlesome resolution, Alan...
A COMMON THREAD FOR TOP TEXANS
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amFirst Lady-elect Laura Bush and the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders have more in common than their home state. The conservative former librarian and the jiggly pompon pushers are both fond of...
IT'S OFFICIAL! 271 ELECTORS VOTE FOR W.
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amFinally, George W. Bush won an election with no surprises, no twists, no recounts. His 271 electors voted for him yesterday in their state capitals, just as expected, meaning Bush...
JURY DELIBERATES IN JUDGE-'HIT' BID
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amDid an indicted Wall Street honcho hate the tough judge who tossed him in jail so much that he agreed to pay another inmate $35,000 to have her bumped off?...
INTERNET MAKES STEAMY E-MAILS (F)RISKY BUSINESS
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amIT'S the classic e-mail horror story: The most intimate details of a night of passion - sent in a private message - are forwarded to millions all over the world....
WHY KARAN CASHED OUT: DESIGNING WOMAN: 'I KNEW THIS WAS THE RIGHT THING AT THE RIGHT TIME'
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amDesigner legend Donna Karan says she made the biggest business decision of her life - selling her brands for a possible half-billion dollars - using her heart, not her head....
SEN. HILL MAY BE LOOKING TO BUY $4.4M HOME IN D.C.
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amHas money to burn.What about Chappaqua?Flush with an $8 million book advance, Hillary Rodham Clinton is eyeing a mammoth $4.4 million Washington mansion that Jackie Onassis' mom once lived in....
BUSH MAKES PUSH FOR BROAD TAX CUTS: BUT FIRST MEETS WITH FED BOSSBUSH PUSHES FOR BROAD TAX CUTS
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President-elect Bush got down to serious business yesterday, meeting with the country's top money man, then coming out swinging hard for his $1.3 trillion tax cut. Bush refused...
KENDRA'S LAW WINS A ROUND IN QNS. COURT
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amA Queens judge yesterday ruled the controversial Kendra's Law - which allows courts to order treatment for mental patients after they're out of the hospital - doesn't violate their constitutional...
QNS. SUPERMARKET KILLER MADE OFF WITH $4,000
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe two workers stabbed to death in the basement of a Queens supermarket died for just $4,000 - the amount cops yesterday said their attacker stole from a desk in...
LACK OF $$ IMPERILS FIX OF FIRETRAP RR TUNNELS
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amA top federal transportation official yesterday warned that potentially life-threatening conditions in Penn Station's six aging railroad tunnels won't be fixed for another 28 years at the current rate of...
TEACHER ACTS CRUMMY IN COOKIE FRAY: COPS
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amFirst, PS 191 teacher Elizabeth Blakney lost her cookies. Then she lost her cool, cops said. Blakney, 37, was observed hitting and shaking a boy, 12, in a stairwell at...
JURY MULLS RAPE-SLAY SUSPECT'S FATE
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amFamily members of a killer-rapist's seven teen victims will gather in a lower Manhattan courtroom today, hoping for a guilty verdict for the accused as a jury begins its second...
CITY'S CRIME DROP OUTPACES STICKS'
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amCountry hayseeds wanting refuge from spiraling crime might think about a move to the Big Apple, new government statistics show. Crime in New York City is down 5.6 percent through...
EX-CON NABBED IN MAIL-THEFT KIDNAP
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amFresh from prison, Joey Mobley kidnapped an acquaintance and forced him at gunpoint on a three-day spree robbing apartment mailboxes in Brooklyn, cops said. During the spree, Mobley, 33, drove...
IT'S A BIG BREAK FOR BARAK AS BIBI PULLS OUT OF RACE
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel's embattled Prime Minister Ehud Barak dodged a bullet this morning as his chief re-election rival took himself out of the race. The latest Mideast twist came as...
LATE BUC TO MAKES PLAYOFFS DUNN DEAL
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amBucs 38 Rams 35 TAMPA - The defending Super Bowl champion Rams are on the brink of elimination from playoff contention, and they have an offense that for one night...
KEY'S COLLECTING RUST, NOT CATCHES
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA - Humiliated by their lack of offense in an 11-6 loss to the Rams in last season's NFC title game, the Buccaneers cleaned house in an attempt to spruce...
RANGERS PASSED ON MANNY MOVE
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amIf Glen Sather was sly enough to have waivered Stephane Quintal to Chicago for Michal Grosek and Brad Brown in order to avoid a trade-related bonus in the defenseman's contract,...
NETS TRY TO FINALLY GAIN A STEP UP
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe Nets win three games in a row. Then they lose nine straight. They upset Phoenix. Then they fail to show up against Dallas. They regroup, knock off Minnesota in...
YANKS, JETER TAKE STEPS TOWARD DEAL
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amLike everything in Derek Jeter's five-year career, things are looking up when it comes to the all-star shortstop and the Yankees agreeing on a multi-year pact. According to an industry...
JAMAICA'S PARKER TOO GOOD FOR HIS OWN GOOD
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amNat Parker doesn't have too many good memories from his junior season. An unproven talent early in the year, Parker blossomed into Jamaica's go-to player, putting up three triple-doubles. And...
FASSEL WARNS: WE'VE GOT A LONG WAY TO GO
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amThe message was clear from Jim Fassel: Calm down, and don't cue the confetti just yet. "By no stretch of imagination am I looking at [winning the division] as the...
WIN MEANS CHRISTMAS IS HOLIDAY
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES There is so much in the way of incentive out there for the Giants, all wrapped up into Saturday's game against the Jaguars at Giants Stadium. Of course,...
PSST! HEY VG, KEEP IT QUIET
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amATLANTA - When Jeff Van Gundy says something for public consumption, know one thing: It is never a slip of the tongue. Van Gundy is more calculating in his statements...
'V' CLASSIC TO BE HALL OF A TOURNEY
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amCollege basketball junkies in need of a high-powered hoop fix won't have to wait until March Madness rolls around. At tonight's Jimmy V Classic at the Meadowlands, they can see...
JEFF'S DOING A GREAT JOB - LAYDEN
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES ATLANTA - Knicks GM Scott Layden raved about the job performance of Jeff Van Gundy yesterday, saying he's done a "masterful job with this team" under trying circumstances....
FLAWED BUT FEISTY
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amDESPITE all the problems the 5-10 Cowboys have endured, despite blowing a 13-0 halftime lead through a loss of composure and other physical and mental breakdowns, despite the fact that...
JETS' LEADERS GOTTA GET STARK RAVEN MAD
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amThis is a time when leaders must stand up and be heard. What the Jets are mired in right now is a full-blown crisis. In times of crisis, leaders must...
CAN SHINJO SHINE IN N.Y.?
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amWhen Tsuyoshi Shinjo walks into the Mets' locker room in February, none of his teammates will care that his popularity in Japan has been compared to Derek Jeter's in the...
HO HO HOME! JINTS EYE JAN. IN JERSEY
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amThey have been transformed, either miraculously or by design, into a team you can trust. A team to believe in. A team to respect, not as something spectacular but as...
ISLES EYE ROLE FOR TORREY
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amReaching out to the franchise's gloried past, Islanders' ownership has contacted Panthers president and former Islander general manager Bill Torrey about returning to Long Island to help straighten out the...
NEW KICKER MAY GIVE HALL BOOT
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amJET NOTES On Sunday, in the emotional moments after he missed a potential game-tying field goal with nine seconds remaining in the Jets' 10-7 loss to the Lions, John Hall...
KARL'S NOT IN CHARGE ; BUCKS' ANTLERS NOT TUNED IN TO COACH
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amHOW'D you like to coach the Bucks? Up three on the Knicks in the final frantic seconds of regulation, they don't follow George Karl's orders to foul (Allan Houston) off...
PANTHERS RX FOR RANGER ILLS
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amRangers 6 Panthers 3 Sometimes, a little perspective is all it takes to put sunshine in your life. As was the case last night when the Rangers, who thought they...
LATE BUC TD MAKES PLAYOFFS DUNN DEAL
December 19, 2000 | 5:00amBucs 38 Rams 35 TAMPA - In these parts, it will become known simply as "The Drive." It spanned 13 plays and 80 yards and ate only one minute and...