December 28, 2000
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR IS SET FORNEW W. 34TH ST. DIGS
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amInstitutional Investor may soon be abandoning Midtown and its eponymous building - not for New Jersey, but for Vornado-owned offices at Eighth Avenue and West 34th Street. The magazine is...
DEEPAK EXPLAINS THE DOT-COM IMPLOSION
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amAt long last, New Age guru Deepak Chopra has explained why the Internet bubble burst. It was a lack of spirituality, of course. Oh, and a whole lot of greed....
MARKETS GAIN, BUT WARNINGS ABOUND
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amStocks continued their post-Christmas rally yesterday, boosted by newly resurgent retail and semiconductor shares. The Dow Jones industrial average powered out a 110.72 point gain to close at 10,803.16 -...
TRIBECA CONDO OWNERS SCORE PAYOUT FOR SHODDY WORK
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amOwners of a fancy TriBeCa condominium are getting a $900,000 payout from the sponsor of the building where shoddy work left them with less than the luxury they were promised....
QUEPASA NO MAS ; HISPANIC PORTAL FOLDS AFTER ESTEFAN EXIT
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amDumped by Gloria Estefan and now worth just pennies a share, Hispanic portal Quepasa.com has finally decided to pull the plug. Quepasa's board voted yesterday to liquidate what's left of...
DOT-COM SCROOGES: LAYOFFS JUMP 19% IN LAST MONTH ALONE
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amSilicon Alley's recession is going full blast. A report yesterday said that layoffs are up a staggering 700 percent in the last six months following the tech crash that wiped...
NEW ANNE FRANK 'MINI' STARTS
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amABC has begun filming a new miniseries based on the short life of Holocaust victim Anne Frank. It will be the ninth time Frank's story has been put on film...
BE THE RAVE OF YOUR NABE: HOW TO SPRUCE UP THAT LITTLE BLACK FROCK -- BLOCK BY BLOCK
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amFOR many people, the three days leading up to the new year will be devoted to coming up with a New Year's resolution. But for the fashion-obsessed among us, the...
I'M MAKING NO PROMISES
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amSUNDAY is New Year's Eve, so I decided to make a resolution not to judge people anymore - no matter how stupid, ugly or pathetic I truly know they are.And...
THE STARR REPORT
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amCourt TV garners 'Rockford' collection James Garner has found a new home. Court TV has snagged the rights to "The Rockford Files" movies starring Garner and spun off from his...
CLUB SCENE DOWNTOWN: RING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH SLAMMIN' HOT SOUNDS
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amWHY would you even think about watching the ball drop in Times Square when you can count down to 2001 from the comfort of a crowded club with a band...
CRYING GAMES; YOU'LL CRY, TOO, AT THE COURAGE OF OLYMPIC HEROES WITH HANDICAPS
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amROLE MODELS FOR 21ST CENTURY, THE 2000 PARALYMPIC GAMES Sunday on WCBS/Ch. 2 at 4 p.m. 1/2 ONCE again TV suits misjudged their audience. Last summer's low-rated Olympic Games, which...
BETTER GET A MOVE ON
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amAFTER cocooning last New Year's Eve, we'll bet you're good and ready to paint the town red this Sunday night. What, no reservation? Don't let a little detail like that...
ABC IS THROWN FOR A HUGE LOSS ; 'MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL' AT ALL-TIME LOW
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amABC's "Monday Night Football" scored its lowest ratings ever this year - but the hoopla over comedian-turned-sportscaster Dennis Miller may have helped slow the show's precipitous decline. The show's overall...
HE DOES TIME AS COPS, DMV FEUD OVER TICKET GOOF
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amA Manhattan businessman was forced to spend a harrowing night behind bars after a computer goof led cops to arrest him for allegedly not coughing up a $5 surcharge on...
TOP 10 U.S. & GLOBAL NEWSMAKERS OF 2000
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amIn Day Four of our weeklong Year in Review, we look at the Top 10 newsmakers around the nation and the world. We also offer a list of people we'd...
COPS BREAK UP HUGE S. KOREA STRIKE
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amAbout 8,000 South Korean riot cops yesterday broke up a sit-in by 10,000 striking bank workers that embarrassed the government and closed about a quarter of the country's banks. The...
RIOTING CONS COULDN'T WAIT TO SEE LOPEZ
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amSome folks want their MTV, but inmates at a Colorado jail wanted their Jennifer Lopez - and rioted when they didn't get her. Officials at the Denver County Jail said...
'DESERTER' LIVED WEEKS IN SNOWDRIFT ON M&M'S
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amA despondent Air Force airman who allegedly went AWOL miraculously survived while stranded for 16 days in an arctic-like snowdrift on a remote Oregon road -thanks to a package of...
ISRAELI SEX DRIVE A CASUALTY OF WAR
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amOy vey! Our sex drive is going away! That's the word out of Israel, where the ongoing conflict in the Middle East has strained relations between men and women so...
PARIS COPS NAB BRINK'S-HEIST SUSPECTS
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amQuick-acting French police arrested six suspects yesterday in the dramatic robbery of an armored Brink's truck in Paris. Authorities also recovered $4.26 million and about 50 weapons when they seized...
3 OUT OF 4 NYERS CLAIM CITY SCHOOLS ARE A FLOP
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY - An overwhelming number of New York City voters believe public schools are "not so good" or even worse, a new poll shows. The poll, conducted by Quinnipiac University,...
THE REAL ARIEL SHARON ; ISRAEL'S BEST HOPE FOR A TRUE AND LASTING PEACE
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amARE Israeli voters prepared to elect as prime minister a former general who has repeatedly lied to his colleagues and to the public, someone who will likely go off half-cocked...
PACKAGE-PILFERING FEDEX'ER WILL BE DELIVERED TO PRISON
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amA Los Angeles FedEx driver with the heart of a Grinch stole packages worth $14,000 from his delivery route and gave them to family members as Christmas gifts, authorities said...
FIDO CAN BE A REAL LIFESAVER FOR DIABETICS: DOCS
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amDogs have a miraculous ability to detect when their diabetic owners are about to go into comas - and can even nudge them into lifesaving action, researchers say. In one...
DOWNEY JR.: I'M NOT GUILTY - OR SUICIDAL
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amINDIO, Calif. - Troubled actor Robert Downey Jr. pleaded not guilty to felony drug charges yesterday as defense lawyers shot down reports that their client teeters on the brink of...
CIG BIG BARES BID TO FIX IMAGE
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe head of America's third-largest tobacco company testified in Brooklyn federal court yesterday that his job is to "rebuild the credibility the industry has lost" in denying for years that...
M&M MIRACLE FOR SURVIVOR IN SNOWDRIFT
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amA despondent Air Force airman who allegedly went AWOL miraculously survived for 16 days in an arctic-like snowdrift on a remote Oregon road - thanks to a package of M&M's....
GOV'S DMV PICK ADMITS TO DWI BUST
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki's DMV commissioner-designee admitted yesterday he once had his license suspended for drunken driving. Raymond Martinez, whose nomination as the state's new commissioner of motor vehicles was...
MINORITY COPS SAY COKE YUPPIES GET 'RACIAL' LENIENCY
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amLetting white, yuppie cocaine customers walk while jailing black and Hispanic crack and marijuana buyers is "racial profiling at its highest," a group of black police officers said yesterday. The...
BABY TAKES 'BATH' ON STOX: BROKERAGE GLITCH SCREWS UP ACCT.
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amA top securities firm threatened to seize an infant's college fund after a company computer claimed she had placed losing trades on margin. The parents of 6-month-old Shayna Glanzer insist...
FUND FOR TRAGIC COUPLE WHO LOST 2 KIDS IN BLAZE
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amA Washington Heights church has launched a recovery fund to help the victims of a tragic Christmas-tree fire that killed two children and left their parents recovering from severe burns....
MADONNA'S DAUGHTER BECOMES A MARTIAL GIRL
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amYou can call Madonna's little girl the karate kid. The Material Mom has enrolled 4-year-old daughter Lourdes in a martial-arts class, the Sun newspaper of London says. The curly-haired youngster...
RUDY PRAISES THE UNSUNG 'HOLIDAY HEROES'
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday gave thanks to dozens of everyday heroes who spent Christmas Day giving New Yorkers a helping hand. Calling them the "very, very best of our municipal workforce,"...
BLOOMBERG: I MAYOR MAY NOT RUN
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amMedia mogul Michael Bloomberg openly flirted with the idea of running for mayor yesterday - but the billionaire bachelor said he isn't ready to commit. "I've certainly thought about it,"...
GET OFF MY CLOUD, MICK: HALL TELLS JAGGER SHE NEEDS SPACE
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amHe may be good for carving the turkey on Christmas Day, but rock god Mick Jagger is getting his marching orders as soon as the tree comes down. As holiday...
GIULIANI: I'M RESPONSIBLE FOR HARLEM RENAISSANCE
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe Giuliani administration has done more to spur Harlem's revitalization than any other in the past 50 years, the mayor asserted yesterday. Indicating that his work for Harlem would be...
REPORT: A-ROD'S DEAL WORTH 'ONLY' $165M
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amPity poor A-Rod. Newly signed Texas Ranger superstar Alex Rodriguez thinks he inked a $252 million contract. But in reality, the contract is worth only a mere $165 million. That's...
GRUESOME DETAILS OF A 'METHODICAL' SPREE ; POLICE: GUNMAN BLEW AWAY DOOR TO REACH VICTIMS
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amMassachusetts massacre gunman Michael McDermott executed seven co-workers with incredible cruelty - riddling them with bullets as they cowered under desks or ran for their lives, officials said yesterday. The...
THIS GUYS SHOOTS FILM, NOT FIREARMS
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amOregon photographer Michael McDermott attained instant notoriety when people looking for news of the Massachusetts mass murder found the shutterbug's Web site declaring: "Nobody shoots like Mike." "So much for...
VACATION'S OVER FOR BUSH AS HE PREPARES TO FILL CABINET
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amPresident-elect George W. Bush wraps up his post-election Florida vacation today and will fly to Washington, where he will focus on the task of filling out the rest of his...
FREEZING TENANTS BURN UP THE CITY'S COMPLAINT HOT LINE
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amBaby, it's c-c-c-cold inside. That's why there's been a dramatic increase in the number of heat complaints this year. From Oct. 1 through Tuesday, the city logged 71,607 complaints, compared...
CONN. FAMILY SLAIN
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amA woman and two young children were found dead under "suspicious" circumstances in a house in Guilford, Conn., yesterday, police said. The deaths were not accidental and did not appear...
ROBBERS KILL BODEGA DUO
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amTwo men were shot and killed at an East Harlem bodega, and a third escaped with his life only by playing dead, during a brazen Tuesday night robbery, police said....
FEDS 'NET A SUSPECT IN EBAY FRAUD
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amWarning that the Internet is a becoming a haven for con artists, the feds have nabbed one Los Angeles man and are hunting for another on charges of ripping off...
ISRAEL GIVES THUMBS UP, BUT PLO NIXES NEW PLAN
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel conditionally accepted President Clinton's Mideast peace plan, Prime Minister Ehud Barak's office said today. But the plan still faces a crisis after the Palestinians called it "worse"...
COPS I.D. CHAIN-SNATCH SLAY SUSPECT
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amCops have identified the suspect in the cold-blooded shooting of a young Manhattan man slain on Christmas Eve for his gold chain and medallion. Witnesses to the heartless killing of...
ROB SUSPECT A 'GOOD GUY'
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man arrested yesterday in connection with a two-year string of 18 bank robberies that netted $73,618 is a diligent family man with a good job who pulled the...
B'KLYN TEEN SURVIVES 6-STORY FALL
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amA Brooklyn teen and her family were counting their blessings last night after the girl miraculously survived falling six stories to concrete. Celina Buah, 14, was in guarded condition at...
GRUESOME TALE OF''METHODICAL' SHOOTING SPREE: KILLER BLASTED DOOR TO REACH VICTIMS: COPS GRUESOME DETAILS OF METHODICAL SHOOTING SPREE
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amMassachusetts massacre gunman Michael McDermott executed seven co-workers with incredible cruelty - riddling them with bullets as they cowered under desks or ran for their lives, officials said yesterday. The...
PARENTS GO THROUGH TORTUOUS TRIAL OF SON'S ARRAIGNMENT
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amMALDEN, Mass. THE woman sat in the courtroom motionless as she waited for the man the world knows as a stone-cold killer to show up. He's the man Rosemary Martinez...
TRAIL OF BROKEN HEARTS: NOTHING PREPARED FAMILY & FRIENDS FOR THE SLAUGHTER
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amJeff Capobianco searched for words - but found only tears. A Boston paramedic, he has seen his share of tragedies. But nothing could have prepared him for this. Capobianco's heartbreaking...
VAN GUNDY CONVINCES CAMBY TO 'BE SMART'
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES WASHINGTON - Jeff Van Gundy had a talk with starting center Marcus Camby before yesterday's shootaround at MCI Center, telling him he didn't want him to play on...
KEITH CAN SEE LIGHT: BUT WARNS, I'M NO SAVIOR
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amKeith Van Horn yesterday provided a target date for his return from the broken left leg he suffered in preseason. Van Horn is hopeful of playing Jan. 6 in the...
WIZARDS OF WHINE: STRICKLAND & HOWARD EAGER TO CLEAR THE 'AIR'
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - You have to admit that Knick wannabe Rod Strickland has moxie. One day after sleeping through a practice, then showing up two hours late, Strickland called it "not...
NEW JACKET FITS ODELEIN
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amCaptain Columbus admits no regrets, other than wishing Larry Robinson had been installed a month earlier. For 3 3/4 seasons, Lyle Odelein was a fixture on the Devil defense, a...
HE'S 'PRIDING' HIMSELF ON 'D'
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amRick Apodaca's Hofstra teammates couldn't contain their laughter. A reporter had just asked Apodaca, a sophomore guard who did a sensational defensive job on Todd Billet of Rutgers in Tuesday...
POWER RANGERS MISSING IN ACTION: MAN-UP UNIT GOES FROM LETHAL TO LOUSY IN HURRY
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amRALEIGH - Every power play runs in cycles, even the best of them. And now that the Rangers entered last night's match here against the Hurricanes in the midst of...
ISLES' HAMRLIK SITS OUT SECOND IN ROW
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amIf the Islanders were ever going to get in the playoff race, it was during their current seven-game homestand. But after starting off on the right track with a victory...
FULHAM KEEPS MARCHING ON
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amLONDON - The uniformed doorman at Harrods, in London's well-to-do Knightsbridge area, checks out all customers who enter through its doors. Those carrying backpacks or wearing scruffy sportsgear can expect...
BARRETT POINTS WAY FOR HALL ; FROSH GUARD KOS HARTFORD UPSET BID
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amSeton Hall 85 Hartford 67 Seton Hall had the look of a team grown satisfied by its press clippings and fat on holiday egg nog. The Pirates, ranked 18th in...
C.C. WON'T BE RIDER FOR 10 DAYS
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amJockey C.C. Lopez was handed a 10-day suspension yesterday, which he appealed, for careless riding in the first race last Saturday. That's the race in which Lopez, riding Tom's Thunder,...
MONTGOMERY MAY GET CALL FOR PLAYOFF
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Out of nowhere, could it be that Joe Montgomery plays a major role in the playoffs for the Giants? It might happen. As the forgotten man on the...
RED-HOT RAVENS AREN'T SATISFIED
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amAfter ending the Jets' season last week, Baltimore heads into the playoffs one of the hottest teams in football. The Ravens come into Sunday's noon AFC wild-card tilt at PSINet...
PRIMED FOR PRIME TIME: JINTS NOT DAUNTED BY PLAYOFF SPOTLIGHT
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amThe traditional place of honor, reserved for what is considered to be the main event of playoff weekend, is the late game on Sunday. It is the time and day...
DAYNE FEELING HEAT TO PRODUCE
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amTiki Barber's injuries could have a greater effect on Ron Dayne than on Barber himself. Good thing the Giants don't play again until Jan. 7, as Barber is hobbled by...
VAN HORN WARNS: I'M NOT A SAVIOR
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amKeith Van Horn yesterday provided a target date for his return from the broken left leg he suffered in preseason. Van Horn is hopeful of playing Jan. 6 in the...
ROBIN FLIES BACK TO FORDHAM NEST
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amAfter dreadful games against Holy Cross and Siena, and the news that their best player was out indefinitely, the mantra "it can only get better" sputtered from Fordham lips. Well,...
ISLES KEEP GOING FROM BAD TO WORSE
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amBruins 5 Isles 2 With yet another malodorous loss last night, the over and done with Islanders are probably due for another visit from owner Charles Wang. But actually, it's...
RANGERS SEARCHING FOR HELP: KHABIBULIN LONGSHOT; TKACHUK IN LINE
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amHurricanes 4 Rangers 3 RALEIGH - Yes, that was a Russian-born goaltender in nets for the Rangers in their 4-3 loss here last night to the Hurricanes, but his name...
DEVILS DOMINATE... KNOT!
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amDevils 2 Blue Jackets 2 Too much was not enough, not enough for the Stanley Cup champs to beat the expansion Blue Jackets at home. Too much it would have...
NOT PRETTY, BUT... SPREE & HOU POWER KNICKS PAST WIZARDS
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amKnicks 89 Wizards 82 WASHINGTON - This was not a game to bronze - not with 63 free throws and 57 fouls. No, this 89-82 Knick victory over Michael Jordan's...
STRICKLAND & HOWARD EAGER TO CLEAR 'AIR'
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Knick wannabe Rod Strickland has some moxie. One day after sleeping through a Wizard practice and showing up two hours late, Strickland called it "not a big deal"...
PENN ST. SPOILS HOFSTRA 3-PEAT
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amHOLIDAY FESTIVALPenn St. 74 Hofstra 71 There will be no Three-peat for Hofstra. But there also will be no regrets. In the best college basketball game played at the Garden...
MARCUS PLAYS IT SMART, AND SITS
December 28, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES WASHINGTON -Coach Jeff Van Gundy had a talk with Marcus Camby before yesterday's shoot-around at MCI Center, telling his starting center he didn't want him to play on...