February 27, 2001
SQUARE BAGELS AND PLANS TO COSI UP TO AN IPO
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amXando Cosi, the coffee bar and sandwich shop chain that merged less than two years ago, is looking to go national and has some big plans on the table to...
DEVELOPERS HAVE PLANS FOR CHELSEA - RESIDENTIAL UNITS TO RISE ON 23RD ST.
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amTwo more major residential developments are being planned for the West 23rd street block where another project is already underway. The Related Cos. plans a twin-towered $117.5 million rental designed...
BIG CHANGES ON TAP FOR 42ND - MAD, 5TH, 6TH DUE FOR UPGRADES
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amFOR a street that's just about synonymous with New York, 42nd Street east of Times Square is pretty dull - at least until you get to Grand Central. But change...
RATE-CUT RALLY BOOSTS MARTS; DOW UP 200
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amAs hopes grew for a surprise interest rate cut this week, the Dow Jones industrial average posted its biggest one-day gain since Jan. 3 - the last time the Federal...
ABC'S 'EFFICIENCIES' MEAN 135 JOB CUTS
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amThe deck-clearing continues at Walt Disney Internet Group, where 135 were laid off at ABCNEWS.com and ABC.com yesterday. Most of the cuts were in New York, although others in Hollywoood...
JUDGES SKEPTICAL OF CASE AGAINST M'SFT
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. appeals court judges yesterday signaled yesterday they may reject portions of the Justice Department's antitrust case against the Microsoft Corp., paving the way for deal with...
TAKING A RIDE ON PONY - FIRM AIMS TO BRING BACK SNEAKER BRAND
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amRemember Ponys? Well, they're back. The Los Angeles-based music management company The Firm, home to such artists as the Backstreet Boys, Michael Jackson, Korn and Limp Bizkit, has acquired the...
BAD NEWS AT WEEKLIES - ADS OFF 20% AT TIME, NEWSWEEK, U.S. NEWS
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amThe nation's three major newsweeklies - Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report - are reeling with ad page freefalls of more than 20 percent apiece this year. The...
IDEALABS IS BURNED BY E-FAILURES - REFER.COM, ETOYS BITE ONLINE DUST
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amIt was double-whammy time for Bill Gross yesterday, as eToys and another of his Idealabs' firms bit the dot-com dust simultaneously. Terminally tired eToys admitted it was going under -...
PLUNGING XFL RATINGS GIVE NBC AFFILIATES JITTERS
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amIt was another dismal weekend for the XFL - fueling speculation that the troubled start-up football league may soon be looking at its final play. Saturday night's ratings for the...
NAPSTER RIVAL OFFERS $3B TO MAJOR LABELS
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amIn a move designed to embarrass Napster and open up the debate about the value of digital downloads, a little known Minneapolis company made its bid for the world's pop...
BUZZ
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amBeating the Type A Stereotype Type A's, rejoice - your personality has little bearing on your blood pressure. So say researchers at the State University of New York at Stony...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amDigging Degas The first exhibition to tell the story of how works by Edgar Degas were first acquired by pioneering collectors in America opens Saturday at the High Museum of...
DID PREMENSTRUAL 'CURE' INVENT THE DISEASE? - OLD DRUG, NEW MARKET FOR REPACKAGED PROZAC
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amAN irate woman shrieks hysterically at her confused husband. Another sobs plaintively. A third glumly stares at her bloated figure in a dressing-room mirror. "Think it's PMS?" a female voice...
A FAMILY 'SAVED' BY DO-GOODER
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amSAVEDAmerican Place Theatre, 111 W. 46th St. Through March 18. ---------- 'SAVED," the 1965 play by Edward Bond, might be called "The Play About the Baby," for its most infamous...
SINGLE SENSATION - READY FOR 'SEX AND CITY' AS REALITY TV?
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amIF good TV tries to make fiction look and feel real - then why not take real people and put them into a fictional setting? Case in point: the latest...
ROD'S EX: WHY I LEFT HIM - RACHEL HUNTER COULDN'T 'LIVE A LIE'
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amRACHEL Hunter spent sleepless nights plotting her escape from her ex-husband, Rod Stewart, because she couldn't continue "living a lie" as his devoted wife. In a bombshell interview this week,...
HARDLY WORKING: DAYTIME TV UP
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amSUDDENLY, more people in New York are watching TV during the day and early evening - suggesting that more viewers are out of work and sitting home in front of...
THE STARR REPORT
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amABC not counting Nader out - yet "All My Children" star Michael Nader's status at ABC remains murky at best after his arrest on drug charges last Saturday night. "The...
SURVIVOR HAD HOT DATE
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amBEFORE Jeri Manthey was a bossy, back-stabbing contestant on "Survivor II," she was a canoodling player-dater on "Blind Date." Manthey, 30 - an aspiring actress from Los Angeles - appeared...
MATTHEWS ROCK SOLID
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amDAVE MATTHEWS BAND "Everyday" () RCA Records The Dave Matthews band, one of the top touring acts in America, has finally crafted a brash, bold, electric album that is aggressive...
'BABE' FARMER SQUEALS
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amFOLKSY actor James Cromwell, who got an Oscar nod for playing a ham-handed pig farmer in the 1995 movie "Babe," ripped CBS yesterday for allowing the killing of a wild...
ALL THAT JAZZ WILL GIVE HARLEM KIDS A BOOST
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amWhile watching the Grammy Awards last week, Samuel Holmes was pleasantly surprised by a Folgers coffee commercial offering cash grants to schools for music education. Just days before the commercial...
THE PARDON BLAME GAME - NEW YORK CRIES 'OOPS'
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amWELL, New York, nice going. We told you. We told you that Hillary Rodham Clinton should not be elected this state's newest U.S. senator. Not because she's a carpetbagger -...
HIS TOUGHEST ROLE - DENZEL TELLS OF A BITTER BATTLE WITH THE BOTTLE
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amDenzel Washington has revealed that he barely escaped becoming an alcoholic while struggling to make a living as a young man. The Oscar-winning star says he found himself "on the...
BUSH SENDS JAPAN ENVOY WITH APOLOGY
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amA chagrined President Bush has dispatched a senior Navy officer to Tokyo to hand-deliver a letter to Japan's prime minister apologizing for a submarine collision that sank a Japanese fishing...
ONE FINAL TOAST TO A RESTAURANT LEGEND
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amFamed restaurant owner Warner LeRoy was remembered yesterday for his love of food and his "fantastic imagination and sense of style." Some 600 people packed Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue...
DOCS HAIL FERTILITY BREAKTHROUGH
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amScientists have developed an amazing new technique for freezing human eggs that could boost fertility and help more cancer patients become moms. "It will offer hope to women who lose...
WHERE ARE ALL OF BILL'S GALS NOW?
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amBEFORE dawn, as he collapses into that big, lonely bed in Chappaqua, hoarse from ranting about the injustice, Bill Clinton looks back wistfully to the easy, crazy '90s. Back then,...
RICH FLORAL BATTLE BLOOMS
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amThe florist who provided $11,500 worth of his creations for a fund-raiser last fall at Denise Rich's penthouse - starring President Clinton - is charging he still hasn't been paid,...
CALL HIM BERNIE BUST: KERIK COLLARS TWO MORE
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Bernard Kerik may have to give himself a medal soon - he's made two more arrests. The crime-fighting top cop helped capture two ex-cons - one a parolee...
GOP'S POWERS CONFIRMS HE'S SET TO RESIGN
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Longtime state GOP Chairman William Powers confirmed yesterday he'll resign next week, and Gov. Pataki backed a top appointee to replace him. Powers, confirming a report in yesterday's...
CITY MURDER TOTALS BACK DOWN FOR '01
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amThe city's murder rate - which jumped in the past two years - has plummeted by 26 percent this year, police officials said. The steep decline in homicides is also...
DIALLO MOM RECRUITS BRUCE - WANTS BOSS TO PERFORM AT BENEFIT SHOW
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Amadou Diallo's mother plans to ask rocker Bruce Springsteen to perform a benefit concert for a new foundation honoring her slain son, The Post has learned. Springsteen made...
SEX-DRENCHED IMAGE BELIES GOD-FEARING GIRL
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amShe's only 4-foot-11, but everything else about Lil' Kim is larger than life. The blond wig, blue contact lenses and breast implants, the barely-there wardrobe and the sex-drenched hit records...
QNS. BLVD.'S NORTHERN NEIGHBOR IS DEADLIER
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amNorthern Boulevard is the deadliest road in the city - taking the lives of more pedestrians, drivers and cyclists combined than its notorious neighbor, Queens Boulevard, The Post has learned....
CHUCK: LET STATE FUND MEDICAID
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Billions of dollars in Medicaid costs would be shifted from the city and counties to the state under a plan being explored by Sen. Charles Schumer. New York...
N.Y. BOY SCOUTS: END GAY BAN
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amNew York's Boy Scout brass publicly blasted the national organization's anti-gay policy for the first time yesterday, and revealed they've asked the home office to lift the ban on gay...
W. SET TO PUSH TAX CUT IN FIRST CONGRESS PITCH
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush tonight will try to sell Americans on his vision for the nation - a whopping $1.6 trillion tax-relief plan and the painful spending cuts to help...
DOC, SON NAILED IN $1.8M STOCK SCAM
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amA Manhattan doctor and his son - who the feds say claimed to manage money for Al Gore - were charged yesterday with swindling $1.8 million out of trusting investors....
FBI: STOCK $CAM A REAL 'CON' JOB
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amA Long Island man used an upstate prison pay phone to defraud investors of several million dollars, federal investigators charged yesterday. Ira Monas, already behind bars on an unrelated fraud...
PARDON MY DREAMS - EX-CON GETS A SECOND CHANCE AT PRO HOOPS, THANKS TO CLINTON
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amDERRICK CURRY doesn't care about the controversy swirling around Bill Clinton's pardons. Since the former president commuted his 20-year prison sentence last month, Curry is focused on just one thing:...
MAN HURT IN HERALD SQ. ACID ATTACK
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man was badly burned after an unknown attacker splashed acid in his face as he walked in busy Herald Square early yesterday morning, cops said. Adil Bakkal, 22,...
CITY WARNS WTC BUYER: WE WANT $100M
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amThe Giuliani administration has warned the winning bidder for the World Trade Center not to rely on Port Authority promises to take care of the hefty annual property-tax bill. In...
'DOZO' DEMS' DOLLAR DOLLY
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Beth Dozoretz was the Democrats' dollar dame. The attractive Dozoretz, married to a multimillionaire, didn't let her newcomer status stop her when she left New York and arrived...
HIGH SUSPENSE OVER J.LO - TEAM 'PUFFY' MULLS CALLING HER
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amSean "Puffy" Combs had his best day yet in court yesterday - but his lawyers are still mulling the risky legal move of calling him and Jennifer Lopez to the...
ANOTHER FIRM GETS COLD FEET ON BUBBA
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amLeery of association with the pardon and gift scandals, a top investment bank has "reduced its involvement" at a conference today at which ex-President Bill Clinton will speak, the Web...
'FRIENDS' STAR BACK IN REHAB
February 27, 2001 | 5:00am"Friends" hunk Matthew Perry, who has battled painkiller addiction and other health woes, is in rehab again. The 32-year-old actor recently entered an undisclosed rehabilitation facility at the urging of...
HOSPITAL SUSPENDS 4 MORE DOCS IN BOTCHED OP
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amA Brooklyn hospital quietly suspended four more doctors and a nurse late last week in the widening probe of a brain-surgery mix-up, The Post has learned. In all, six doctors...
RAP DIVA HAS LIL' TO SAY ON SHOOTING
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amHip-hop diva Lil' Kim pleaded ignorance yesterday in the street-corner gun battle that erupted after her crew and another rapper's posse crossed paths outside a radio station. "Lil' Kim and...
SHARPTON RAPS PRIVATE-SCHOOL PLAN
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday said he's opposed to turning five of the city's worst schools over to private management. "I'm against privatization," Sharpton said. He was referring to Schools...
DROPOUT RATE JUMPS AGAIN FOR APPLE'S HS STUDENTS - LEVY: WE NEED FUNDS
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amThe city's high-school dropout rate is soaring. It jumped 11 percent last year - with 1,520 more students quitting than in the preceding year, The Post has learned. Over two...
NEW PARDON-PROBE TARGET ZIPS HER LIP - DENISE PAL TAKING THE 5TH
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A key player in the probe of Bill Clinton's pardon spree yesterday became the second person to take the Fifth with congressional investigators. The refusal by Beth Dozoretz,...
REPORT: PREZ BILL WENT FOR BAT FOR PAL'S TV DEAL
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amBefore leaving office, President Clinton phoned the head of CBS on behalf of Hollywood pals Harry Thomason and his wife, who were locked in a multimillion-dollar dispute with the network,...
WHO SAYS EW CAN'T GO HOME? - KNICKS MUST RISE ABOVE EMOTION OF BIG FELLA'S RETURN
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amOn the eve of Patrick Ewing's grand Garden return, Jeff Van Gundy called the Big Fella' a champion without a championship. "I've long believed you can't define players by whether...
CAN HE GET UNTRACH-ED? - METS THINK THEY CAN FIX STEVE'S LOSING WAYS
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Steve Trachsel evokes one of baseball's eternal questions: Do winning pitchers win and losing pitchers lose? In the Met rotation, Trachsel essentially replaces Bobby Jones. By...
PAT DESERVES A HERO'S WELCOME
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amTHE standing ovation will begin during introductions and last through the one-minute video tribute the Knicks will show for Patrick Ewing. Only the Prince of Pessimism, Jeff Van Gundy has...
IS JONSSON HEADED OFF THE ISLES?
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amFurthering speculation that he's on the trading block, defenseman Kenny Jonsson has not yet been offered a new contract by the Islanders, The Post has learned. Jonsson, who has played...
M. CENTER FLOORED BY LAYOFF
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amCharles Jackson knows one thing about his team's chances in its second-round PSAL playoff game against sixth-seeded Frederick Douglass tomorrow at Lehman College. "They are going to be winded," said...
RICE IS COOL ON HIS REDUCED ROLE
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Of the six players the Knicks obtained for Patrick Ewing, three were released, one is on the injured list (Travis Knight) and one never plays (Luc Longley). And...
TORRE SHUTS DOWN DEREK - JOE'S TAKING NO CHANCES WITH JETER'S STIFF SHOULDER
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - The most expensive right shoulder in the history of New York sports was stiff enough yesterday that Joe Torre scratched Derek Jeter from an intrasquad game at Legends...
BLUESHIRTS BACK IN SAME OLD SPOT
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amSame time last year. Or was it the year before that or the year before that . . . or even the year before that? And if you answered, all...
BOMBERS YAWN THROUGH UMP'S RAP
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - A year ago, umpire Jim McKean was dispensed to the Yankees' clubhouse as part of a spring training information session. He told them a pitch several ball-widths off...
EL SID FINDS PARADISE
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - A college professor by the name of Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman, aka Dr. Beach, bills himself as the nation's foremost beach expert. Dr. Beach ranked Lanikai as the...
STORM IN NO TROUBLE IN WOLFINGER CASE
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amSt. John's athletic director Ed Manetta Jr., moved swiftly yesterday to assuage concerns that former playere Jack Wolfinger violated NCAA regulations by using former star Ron Artest's car. Manetta checked...
VALENTINE SEES REY OF HOPE IN FLA. SUNSHINE
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Bobby Valentine sat behind home plate, protected by a screen so he could see his team close up during yesterday's first intrasquad game at...
EL DUQUECITO EARNS EARLY EDGE FOR 5 HOLE
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - The first intrasquad game of spring training doesn't provide much insight. However, the evaluation process of a pitcher has to begin somewhere. For Adrian "El Duquecito"...
BARBER WAITS PATIENTLY AS GIANTS DEAL WITH SEHORN
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amThere is an order to this Giants process, and the priority at the moment is Jason Sehorn. His contract negotiations have heated up, which means the status of Tiki Barber...
JERSEY JONES OUT OF MET DOG HOUSE
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - "I respect him now more than I respect anyone in baseball," Jersey Bobby Jones said yesterday regarding Met manager Bobby Valentine. These words were almost unimaginable...
MAYBE IT'S TIME TO PLAN AHEAD
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amSenators 3 - Rangers 2 While the Rangers were predictably losing 3-2 at home to the Senators last night, it was a loss that the Blues sustained in St. Louis...
EW COMES THROUGH, BUT SONICS BUST
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amCeltics 85 - Sonics 82 BOSTON - He has admitted it will be emotional, that he has looked forward to it for months, that he will be nervous. But now...
DEVILS' THIRD-PERIOD RALLY TAMES PANTHERS
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amDevils 5 - Panthers 3 Their key players are starting to come back. So are the Devils. "Maybe things are starting to turn," Larry Robinson said last night after the...
STARKS' UNDERCUT WAS DISGRACEFUL
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amFROM what I saw (and there were certainly enough revolting replays throughout the afternoon), John Starks earned an instant ejection and a severe suspension Sunday for submarining Shawn Marion, in...
EW MAY HAVE NIAMI PLANS
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amIn preparation for tonight's return to the Garden, Patrick Ewing, on what should be his "I'm not faring well" tour, went for a 38-minute jog against the victorious Jazz last...
ANDERSON, COACH FEEL FOR EWING
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amBOSTON - Kenny Anderson had heard all the rumors and read all the stories leading up to Patrick Ewing's departure from New York. But he never thought it would happen....
DEVS DRAFT DAGENAIS INTO ACTION
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amIt looked like punishment for someone who dared to buck Lou Lamoriello. It looked like an unhappy coincidence - teams strangely ignoring the Quebec League's leading goal-scorer. The Devils drafted...