February 6, 2001
MACKLOWE SCORES HIS SITE ; GASNICK DEAL EASES WAY AT 53RD & 2ND FOR LUXE TOWER
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amHARRY Macklowe just scored a big breakthrough in his high-stakes Midtown East assemblage. And it dooms the funky and media-savvy hardware store that's been a neighborhood institution for 90 years....
PAINEWEBBER LEASING NEW ; JERSEY CITY TOWER
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amPaineWebber is expanding its presence in Jersey City by leasing the next 1.2 million-square-foot office building to be built at Newport, the LeFrak Organization's waterfront community. The per-square-foot cost will...
NOW, THERE'S LESS VARIETY; SHORT-LIVED EV FAILS TO SIZZLE, AND NOW IT FALLS TO DOT-COM FIZZLE
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amVariety is the latest victim of the dot-com doldrums. The venerable showbiz trade paper that just a few months ago launched eV, a monthly magazine devoted to the converging worlds...
7TH ON 6TH SALE TO IMG ROCKS FASHION
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amFashionistas are up in arms over plans to sell the 7th on Sixth fashion shows to sports giant IMG. Though details of the deal have yet to be worked out,...
BLUE CHIPS ARE CHIPPER IN DOW HIKE ; INDEX JUMPS BY 101; TECHS BOUNCE BACK
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amInvestors ran in circles yesterday looking for a safe haven - jumping into blue chips and bonds and avoided the techs. Blue chips rallied, with the old standbys of Coca-Cola...
RODALE SHORTS BOYS TITLE MH-18; REVS UP WOMEN'S MAGS
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amRodale Press is postponing the next issue of teen title MH-18 until May, as it cuts back frequency from six times a year to quarterly. In a flood of magazines...
BERTELSMANN MOVES TO GO PUBLIC
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amGerman media giant Bertelsmann paved the way to going public with a deal to swap 25 percent of its shares for control of Europe's largest broadcaster, RTL Group. Bertelsmann will...
JAN. JOBLESS TOTAL IS KEY CLUE TO STATE OF ECONOMY
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amAll eyes will be on the leading economic indicator when it is issued this morning at 10 a.m.: Challenger, Gray & Christmas' jobless total for January. The December total of...
DOW JONES ON THE HOOK ; TOTAL COST OF THE TELERATE DISASTER MAY REACH $1.6B
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amDow Jones just can't seem to get past its troubles over Bridge Information Systems. After losing $1.2 billion on its ill-fated business information group, Telerate, Dow Jones faces yet another...
NASTY CUTS BOOST VALUE OF RAZORFISH STOCK
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amShares of Razorfish rose rapidly yesterday after the company confirmed rumors it has been on a firing spree. The Alley-based Web shop said it cut 400 jobs, or 21 percent...
BERTELSMANN TAKES STEPS TOWARDS IPO
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amGerman media giant Bertelsmann paved the way for an IPO with a deal to swap 25 percent of its shares for control of Europe's largest broadcaster, RTL Group. Bertelsmann will...
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IS SURE TO SURPRISE
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amHISTORICALLY, there have been more surprises in Oscar's Best Supporting Actress category than any other slot (remember Marisa Tomei won for "My Cousin Vinnie"?). So any predictions for next Tuesday's...
BURN, BABY, BURN: FITNESS GURUS SAY TO LOSE FAT AND BUILD MUSCLE YOU GOTTA TAKE IT SLOOOOW
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amHARD to believe anything slow would catch on in New York, but more and more fitness buffs are turning to glacial-paced workouts to build muscle and lose weight. Super Slow,...
JODIE DINO-MITED ; 'HANNIBAL' PRODUCER WOULD THROW HER OUTTA BED
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amVETERAN producer Dino De Laurentiis is glad Jodie Foster refused to be in his "Silence of the Lambs" sequel - he says the original Clarice Starling is nowhere near as...
THE STARR REPORT
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amEye team launchesinvestigative unit Ch. 2 is launching an investigative unit featuring veteran reporters Marcia Kramer, Vince DeMentri and Lou Young. "CBS 2 Investigates" will be under the direct supervision...
REGE GIVES KELLY GIRL A STEADY GIG
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amIT'S official - honey-haired soap star Kelly Ripa is the new Kathie Lee. Regis Philbin's popular morning show will change its name to "Live with Regis and Kelly" next Monday...
HEY NOW! 'MORAL' GAL SHTICKS IT TO HOWARD
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amHOWARD Stern fans have been known to go to some pretty far-out lengths to get to "The King of All Media." Add "Moral Court" reporter Vivian Guzman to that list....
MOVIE STARS NEVER DIE... ..THEY STAR IN 'THE LAST PRODUCER'
February 6, 2001 | 5:00am"The Last Producer" Tonight at 9 on USA WHAT happens when old, former Hollywood cool guys meet young Hollywood cools guys? Mostly the young cool guys win. That's the premise...
PAINFUL SNOB IN THE BOWTIE; I THINK THE PEOPLE WHO PRODUCE AND HOST 'THE SPIN ROOM' ARE SADISTS
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amIDON'T personally know anyone who's read Bill O'Reilly's book, but that doesn't mean no one has read it. Tucker Carlson doesn't know anyone who's read O'Reilly's book, either. He says...
BUZZ
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amWHEN YOUR BRAIN TELLS YOU TO GORGE Overeaters who say they just can't help themselves may have a point. Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory say they've found a link between...
IT'S HARDTO SAY NO TO MOE.
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amMOE. "Dither" ½ Fatboy Records While New York's hottest jam band, Moe., calls its latest record "Dither," the Buffalo boys are totally focused. The dozen songs here display zero indecision....
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amChill thrill If the idea of getting away from it all to a cooler clime doesn't freeze your knees, consider Fairbanks, Alaska, in March. That's when the 2001 World Ice...
'BEAST' STILL A BEAUT
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amBEAUTY AND THE BEAST ½ Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 W. 46th St. (212) 575-9200. For a special New York Pulse series, Post critic Clive Barnes has been revisiting Broadway favorites to...
CANADA'S OTHER FRENCH FIND: QUEBEC CITY IS INTIMATE, WITH TWISTY STREETS, GALLERIES & CAFES
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amI'M standing inside Québec City's new Ice Hotel when I recall the heroine's words in "Sense of Snow" by Smilla. "I think more highly of ice and snow than of...
THE REAL REAGAN ; THE IMPENETRABLE PRIVACY OF A VERY PUBLIC MAN
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amTODAY marks the 90th birthday of Ronald Reagan, the last man of the 19th century. I don't mean that literally - Reagan was, of course, born not in the 1800s...
IS HOT-TUB GUY ALL WET IN QUEST TO BE 'TRUMP?'
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amCHAD MILLIGAN may be only a hot-tub salesman from small-town nowhere - but he's making life miserable for Donald Trump. The billionaire building mogul was forced to dispatch a slick...
TRYING TO CHEAT TERM LIMITS
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amI AM against capital punishment - except in the case of Adolf Eichmann. And I am against term limits - except in the case of the City Council. Tomorrow, 22...
'EARL THE PEARL' KNEW HOW TO JAZZ UP A GAME
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amIf you could personify jazz and put it on a basketball court, most purists say you would get Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, the Knicks' impresario Hall of Fame guard. So,...
5 COPS CLEARED IN RIGHTS CASE
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amA federal jury cleared five Bronx cops yesterday of charges that they violated the civil rights of a man acquitted in the death of a fellow officer three years ago....
WORKPLACE KILLINGS TOO FAMILIAR
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amThe massacre at an engine plant in suburban Chicago comes just a month after a post-holiday shooting spree that left seven dead at a high-tech company outside Boston. It was...
POLL POSITIONS PATAKI AHEAD OF DEM RIVALS
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki leads his potential Democratic opponents by about 10 percentage points - even though his own tally is under 50 percent, a new poll yesterday found. The...
HACKERS FILCH WORLD LEADERS' PERSONAL DATA AFTER CONFAB
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amHackers stole credit-card numbers and other data of prominent business and government leaders who attended the recent World Economic Forum in Switzerland, officials admitted. Red-faced organizers of the Jan. 25-30...
GREEN PAINTS SELF AS A TRUE-BLUE FRIEND OF COPS
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amPublic Advocate Mark Green - once attacked as anti-cop by the mayor - moved yesterday to position himself as a pro-police crime fighter, rolling out a plan to "build on"...
TOM AND NICOLE CALL IT SPLITS
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amMarriage: Impossible. It's over for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman - and the Hollywood power couple is blaming their split on an overbearing third party: work. Cruise and Kidman, the...
FUEL-ISH FEUD IMPERILS TAX RELIEF - HEATING-HELP BILLS BOG DOWN IN ALBANY
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amA plan to lift the city's 4 percent sales tax on home heating fuels got snared in a political dispute yesterday that left homeowners out in the cold. Two bills...
PALS STUCK WITH MONSTER THEY CREATED
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amTHE VAST conspiracy of Clinton enablers - the crowd that created and fed the pornographic robber barons for eight years - is experiencing a sudden spasm of guilt. Now Bill...
PRESCRIPTION FOR FINDING BEST DRUG PRICES IN TOWN
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amPrescription-drug prices can bust a budget in no time, but city consumer advocates have a remedy: Shop around. Bargain-hunting consumers can save hundreds, and even thousands, of dollars - sometimes...
MORE WOMEN BLAST SUFFOLK 'SEX' COPS
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amThe wife of an NYPD cop yesterday claimed a Suffolk County policeman sexually harassed her on separate occasions - 13 years apart. The alleged victim, identified only as "Ellie," joined...
STATE PROBES FAULTY SCHOOL WINDOWS
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amGov. Pataki's investigators are launching a probe into why tens of thousands of defective windows were installed recently in nearly 500 city schools. "We're looking at the window contracts. We...
HEVESI BANKING HEAVILY ON RUDY'S '97 DONORS
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amMAYOR GIULIANI'S backers are betting on Alan Hevesi in this year's race for City Hall - funneling $733,900 into the city comptroller's war chest. A Post database analysis of campaign...
REGENTS REBUFF LEVY - WON'T LET ANY KIDS SKIP TEST
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amState education officials yesterday rejected city Schools Chancellor Harold Levy's call to exempt vocational students from some Regents exams. A committee of the Board of Regents unanimously approved a plan...
HEF'S BEDDING A MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, AT ONCE!
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amHugh Hefner really has his hands full now - he's taken on seven new girlfriends at once, one for every day of the week! And the 75-year-old founder of Playboy...
PARDON PROBERS WANT TO HEAR FROM RENO DEPUTY
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A congressional panel looking at Bill Clinton's controversial pardon of Marc Rich will focus this week on former Justice Department official Eric Holder's role. Rich's link to the...
RUDY SINGS PRAISES OF BELEAGUERED PARKS COMMISSIONER
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani offered unqualified support yesterday to besieged Parks Commissioner Henry Stern - describing him as "a legend in his own time" - as Stern faced a City Council probe...
JUST SNOW WAY TODAY AS BAD AS YESTERDAY
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amMother Nature should be more of a fair-weather friend to the Big Apple today, after delivering a windy wallop of rain, sleet and white stuff yesterday. The city dodged the...
BOMB BOAST BARED AT TERROR TRIAL - EMBASSY SUSPECT JUST 'PAWN': LAWYER
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amAn accused bomber for Osama bin Laden boasted that he helped blow up a U.S. embassy in Africa - but was really just "an expendable pawn" in a worldwide plot...
TAXING TIMES FOR 'SOPRANOS' STAR
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amShe thought Tony Soprano was scary - before she crossed the Taxman. The IRS has a $518,000 contract out on "Sopranos" star Lorraine Bracco - and it aims to collect,...
HI-TECH? BACK TO THE 'DRAFTING' BOARD
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amThe high-tech, high-security courtroom where four accused terrorists went on trial yesterday had an unexpected visit from a cold, unwelcome guest - the snowstorm. The Manhattan federal court building is...
LIVER VICTIM GETS SECOND CHANCE AT LIFE
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amA Brooklyn woman on the verge of death after her failing liver was replaced with a cancerous one has received yet another transplant, and now is expected to survive. Svetlana...
WITNESS FIRES BACK AT 'PUFFY' - INSISTS HE PULLED A TRIGGER
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amDespite a brutal attack by defense lawyers, a 30-year-old mother of two - with seven lead shards still in her head - stuck to her guns yesterday, insisting Sean "Puffy"...
JURY SLAMS DOC FOR $31M
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amA jury hit a Manhattan doctor with a $31 million judgment for failing to diagnose breast cancer in a woman whose disease has now become incurable. The state Supreme Court...
NEIGHBOR REMEMBERS GUNMAN AS 'INSULTING'
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amMassacre gunman Willie Baker's former neighbor says he was a hothead who didn't hesitate to get in someone's face. "I never liked the guy," said Judy Deem, who lived next...
EX-WORKER KILLS 4 IN ILLINOIS RAMPAGE
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amAn ex-con with a grudge and a golf bag full of guns killed four workers at an Illinois engine plant and then blew his brains out - one day before...
W. TO CONGRESS: DON'T MESS WITH MY TAX-CUT PLAN
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday said he wants his $1.6 trillion tax cut retroactive to Jan. 1 - and doesn't want anyone loading it up with more tax-cut goodies. "I...
NEW FIGURES PUSH RENT FOR BUBBA'S OFFICE UP TO 800G
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amRent for the office space that ex-President Bill Clinton covets would be more than $800,000 a year - far more than his staff has previously acknowledged, sources told The Post...
68 TRAVELERS INJURED AS TRAINS CRASH IN SYRACUSE
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amSixty-eight people - including a group of the elderly and blind - were injured yesterday when a New York-bound Amtrak train rear-ended a freight train in Syracuse. A switch operator...
61 TRAVELERS INJURED AS TRAINS CRASH IN SYRACUSE
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amSixty-one people were injured yesterday - four of them critically - when an Amtrak train crashed into the back of a freight train in Syracuse. The Amtrak Empire Service, on...
DOCS FEAR NEW STRAIN OF HIV
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amA newly discovered form of HIV may have spread around the world, scientists fear. And they warn that current treatments and experimental vaccines will prove ineffective against the latest strain...
PARDON PANEL WANTS TO HEAR AIDE'S STORY
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A congressional panel looking at Bill Clinton's controversial pardon of Marc Rich will focus this week on former Justice Department official Eric Holder's role. Rich's link to the...
METS KEEP BROOKLYN REGIME IN THE FAMILY
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amIf his first pupil is any evidence of what type of teacher Edgar Alfonzo is, then the new manager of the Mets' Brooklyn farm team must be pretty good. "He...
VINCE'S GAME IS NFL MINUS THE HYPOCRISY
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amMESSAGE to Paul Tagliabue, commissioner of the National Football League: Be afraid. Be very afraid. Vince McMahon may not have your game, but he's certainly got your number. In its...
FOR RANGERS, POSTSEASON IS FAR AWAY
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amWell, not much has changed since we met here last, when the Rangers went into the All-Star break nine points behind the eighth-place Bruins and eight points behind the ninth-place...
CHMURA WANTS TO WORK ; NFL TEAMS WON'T CLOSE THE DOOR ON ACQUITTED TIGHT END
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amIn scoring a touchdown with a Wisconsin jury Saturday, former Packers tight end Mark Chmura knows he still might be a hot commodity for NFL general managers desperately seeking a...
LONG SEASON GIVES KENYON TRUE HEALING
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amKenyon Martin heard the early-season criticisms and bit his tongue. Bit his tongue and pretty much massaged his leg. Martin, the Nets' No. 1 draft pick who suffered a hideously...
VBK DECIDES HE WANTS TO STAY WITH ISLES
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amAfter grappling hard about his future with the Islanders over the weekend, goaltender John Vanbiesbrouck notified general manager Mike Milbury yesterday that he has decided to stay with the team...
HE HAS GRADE EXPECTATIONS
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amSean Dantzler has learned his lesson - and lately, his lessons. He just hopes it's not too late. Dantzler, a 6-foot-3 senior basketball star at Columbus High in The Bronx,...
CHMURA WANTS TO WORK: AGENT SAYS 6-12 TEAMS INTERESTED
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amMark Chmura, cleared this weekend of legal wrongdoing in his ballyhooed sex trial, has insisted that he's mentally and physically ready to return to the NFL despite having not played...
DEVILS HOPE TO END FUNK AGAINST HABS
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amStill stinging from their humiliating 3-2 loss to the Islanders last Wednesday, the Devils will try to regroup tonight against the Canadiens at the Molson Centre. With 31 games left...
NETS GIVE GM NASH HIS WALKING PAPERS
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amNET NOTES John Nash is out as the Nets general manager. Nash, league sources confirmed, has been informed that he will not return next season to the position he has...
RED STORM WAVE THE WHITE FLAG; ASSISTANT SAYS JOHNNIES QUIT
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amNotre Dame 83 St. John's 73 SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Notre Dame's Troy Murphy got his revenge last night, but that's not what beat St. John's. Ryan Humphrey had his...
RECURRING DREAM: OLAJUWON TAKES PAGE FROM '94 VS. KNICKS
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amRockets 100 Knicks 86 HOUSTON - The Knicks should pray that Miami doesn't get its main trade target - Hakeem Olajuwon. Because last night, the Knicks' dream first half was...
KURT BACK WITH TEAM BUY STAYS IN CIVVIES
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES HOUSTON - Kurt Thomas rejoined the Knicks last night in Houston after spending the previous few days in Dallas to be with his grieving family after his grandfather...
RECURRING DREAM: OLAJUWON FINDS OLD FORM, HELPS STUN KNICKS
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amHOUSTON - The Knicks' dream first half was wrecked by "The Dream." Wasting a first-half scoring orgy, the Knicks watched 38-year-old Hakeem Olajuwon turn back the clock and sock it...
A-WARD WINNING : CHARLIE'S CLUTCH PLAY GETS VG'S APPROVAL
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amHOUSTON - Charlie Ward brings steps up against the Heat and Tim Hardaway more than he does versus any other team or player. Since returning from his knee surgery, Ward...
BATTLE FOR RECOGNITION : RED STORM, ND'S MURPHY HAD SOMETHING TO PROVE
February 6, 2001 | 5:00amSOUTH BEND, Ind. - The best player in the Big East isn't the least bit enamored with St. John's coach Mike Jarvis. Troy Murphy, the league's Player of the Year...