March 8, 2001
MURRAY HILL SET TO BUY 1450 B'WAY FOR $95M
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amMurray Hill Properties is in contract to buy Times Square's 1450 Broadway for about $95 million from Japan's Orix Realty Partners. The deal is expected to close at the beginning...
IDEALAB SHUTS VALLEY OFFICE, SHIFTS 33 STAFFERS
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amEven as Idealab was packing away its most high-profile failure, eToys, the cursed incubator also closed its Silicon Valley hatchery. The eToys Web site was scheduled to go dark early...
BLUE CHIPS' RALLY REACHES 3RD DAY
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amThe stock market enjoyed its third straight day of moderate increases as another top Wall Street investment adviser gave equities the green light. Abby Joseph Cohen, strategist at Goldman, Sachs...
WORLDCOM BOOSTED BY TALK OF SALE
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amRumors that Bernie Ebbers may sell WorldCom drove up his battered stock by 50 cents to $17.19 in a trading flurry of nearly 38 million shares yesterday. WorldCom has lost...
HERZOG GETS USA REINS - PROGRAMMING VET LAUNCHED 'SOUTH PARK,' 'THE DAILY SHOW'
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amDoug Herzog was named president of USA Network yesterday - just one year after leaving Fox. Herzog, who will report to USA cable president Stephen Chao, replaces USA's general manager,...
TIGER BEAT AIMING TO STALK TWEENS' $ BY MAKING CLOTHES
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amComing soon to a store near you - Tiger Beat brand clothes for pre-teen girls. The magazine that regularly serves up teen heart throbs from *NSYNC to "Dawson's Creek" is...
YAHOO! WARNS ON PROFIT: NONE AHEAD! - KOOGLE OUT; STOCK SINKS, MARTS QUAKE
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amThe New Economy was dealt a giant blow yesterday at the suprise news that Yahoo! would report absolutely no profit for the first quarter, and the company's fair-haired chief executive...
DOW JONES TAKES A PASTING - WARNS ON PROFITS AS WSJ ADS SLIDE; LAYOFFS IN OUTLOOK
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amThe Wall Street Journal's publisher had a bad day on Wall Street yesterday. The Journal's parent company, Dow Jones, saw its stock fall 7 percent, or $4.38, to $56.97 after...
ART WORLD IS AGHAST AT KRAVIS' SOTHEBY'S 'SLAP'
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amWall Street billionaire Henry Kravis is causing a firestorm in the art world in a possible double-cross to sell two of his Renoirs. Art dealers say the deal could also...
EEOC DEALS MORGAN STANLEY A BLACK EYE
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amPhilip Purcell's Morgan Stanley was hit with another public relations disaster yesterday when a government agency said firing former bond salesperson and whistle-blower Allison Schieffelin was an act of illegal...
FCC CABLE CAP REVIEW IS BIG VICTORY FOR AT&T
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amBeleaguered AT&T chief Michael Armstrong got a big break yesterday when regulators indicated they might let him keep more of his cable systems. Armstrong has been under pressure from the...
REPORTS OF LAPTOP'S DEATH EXAGGERATED
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amIS the age of the laptop over?With handheld computers, we can wirelessly surf the Web (even at frustratingly slow speeds); with cell phones, we can e-mail, buy products and check...
IN DEADLYEARNEST: TIME MAG ACCUSES UP AND COMER EDWARD OF FAKING IT
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amJUST as psychic John Edward's white hot cable show "Crossing Over" is poised to become even bigger, Time magazine is calling the Long Island native a fraud. This week's edition...
THE PUBLIC'S MESSAGE: IT'S DOG EAT DOG IN MANILA
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amDOGEATERSPublic Theater, 425 Lafayette St. Through March 18. Call Telecharge at (212) 239-6200. ------------- THERE was in the late 1930s a theatrical innovation known as "The Living Newspaper." The Federal...
'ARREST & TRIAL' GETS DEATH SENTENCE
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amDICK Wolf's "Arrest & Trial" has been sentenced to late-night Siberia - which could mean its ultimate cancellation. Chris-Craft-owned Ch. 9 is moving "A&T" from 7:30 p.m. to a late-late-night...
READERS MALE & READERS FEMALE
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amTHIS past week, not only did I receive my favorite magazine, "Dry Cleaners News," but also lots of letters - many of which were written by cutting and pasting magazines...
'A MOBSTER WOULD NEVER GO TO A SHRINK'
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amREAL-life FBI mob mole Joe Pistone has a message for "The Sopranos" writers: More fuggedaboutits! Pistone, the undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the mob - and was portrayed by Johnny...
WHY JERRI IS THE WOMAN WE ALL HATE
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amIF Jerri isn't the next contestant to get the boot on "Survivor," I'll turn in my credentials as a TV columnist. Yeah, right. The truth is, I learned last summer...
THE STARR REPORT
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amLoo dropping anchor in the Windy City Ch. 7's morning and noon news anchor Nancy Loo is heading for Chicago, where she will join Fox-owned WFLD/Ch. 32 as a morning...
PRETTY BOY FOR A DAY : HERE COMES THE GROOMING: OUR MAN IS RUBBED, SCRUBBED, SLATHERED AND BUFFED -- AND HE LIKES IT
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amI'm not the man I once was. I'm smoother, softer, blonder, less hairy and nicer smelling, thanks to a day at a Manhattan spa. Publicists like to talk about all...
HOW MUCH WOULD YOU SAVE?
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amPRESIDENT Bush is touring the country plugging his tax-cut plan - while the Democratic leadership is working the halls of Congress to try to defeat it. Also being debated: Whether...
LATE BUDGET COULD GUN DOWN QUICK DRAW
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Players of the keno-like Quick Draw lottery game could soon be out of luck. The state law that authorizes the 6-year-old electronic video game - dubbed "video crack"...
COPS QUIZZED IN MOLINARI CRITIC'S BUST
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amAn NYPD Intelligence Division supervisor and some detectives have been grilled about their roles in the "mistaken" arrest of a man for writing a harsh letter to Staten Island Borough...
PERVERTS CAUGHT IN THE 'NET - NYPD DETECTIVES GO 'UNDERCOVER' ON THE WEB TO HUNT DOWN PEDOPHILES MAKING DATES WITH TEENS
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amWHEN a millionaire Manhattan advertising executive made a date for sex with a 13-year-old girl he met on the Internet, he told her to wear her school clothes for their...
GREEN WELL AHEAD OF DEM RIVALS
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amPublic Advocate Mark Green has opened a 16-point lead over his closest rival in the four-way Democratic primary for mayor, a new poll says. The Marist College survey shows Green...
MASSACRE STUNS FORMER NY'ER WHO'S SANTANA SUPT.
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amDuring his three years as head of Manhattan's public high schools, Granger Ward was well educated on the subject of violence in the classrooms and corridors. But that experience was...
PATAKI GETS SURPRISING AFL-CIO BOO$T
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - The state AFL-CIO, which usually backs Democrats in statewide races, will hold an unprecedented campaign fund-raiser for Gov. Pataki, it was learned last night. AFL-CIO President Denis Hughes...
QUESTIONS FOR JESSE
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amAT long last, Jesse Jackson comes out of hiding today in Chicago to face questions from reporters looking into his dubious financial dealings and related issues of public interest. Let's...
BURGLAR BAGS 370G AT CITY HOME OF ACTOR'S DAUGHTER
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amA thief looted the East Side home of movie star Dennis Hopper's oldest daughter of $370,000 worth of big-ticket jewelry and other items, police said yesterday. John Antonopoulos, husband of...
BX. FIREFIGHTERS IN PURR-FECT RESCUE
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amSeven hero firefighters yesterday rescued four people after a raging fire swept through their Bronx apartment building. The three-alarm blaze erupted at about 10:40 a.m. on the first floor of...
CHIPPER CHENEY: I'M HERE TO STAY
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney insisted yesterday his heart's in his job, he's "having the time of [his] life" - and he's not going anywhere. "I very much enjoy...
CITY PUTS $6M VOTER-GUIDE DEAL ON HOLD
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani got into another battle with the Campaign Finance Board yesterday, this time over the cost of producing millions of voter guides. Nicole Gordon, the board's executive director, testified...
BRATTON TO TAKE ON CRIME-RIDDEN CARACAS
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amFormer NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton - an architect of the city's successful war on crime - is tackling the mean streets of Caracas, Venezuela, one of the most dangerous Latin...
BREAST-CANCER SURPRISE - MANY WOMEN FEEL STRESS IS KEY TRIGGER
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amNew York doctors are deeply divided about a controversial new study that reveals that almost half of all breast-cancer survivors believe their illness was caused by stress. Researchers from the...
CHILLING TALE OF THE TAPE BARES SUSPECT'S FURY - GUN VIDEO: 'I HATE IT THERE'
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amHigh-school massacre suspect Charles "Andy" Williams showed off his father's gun collection and ranted about how much he loathed his new classmates in a chilling home video. "My school's horrible....
EMBASSY BOMBINGS JUST A START, TERROR DEFENDANT TOLD FEDS
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amA terror suspect admitted that bombings of U.S. embassies abroad were just the first phase in Osama bin Laden's plan to launch attacks on American soil, an FBI agent testified...
ANOTHER SHOOTING, ANOTHER CLOSE CALL
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amAn eighth-grade girl was arrested for shooting a schoolmate in Pennsylvania yesterday, and two California teens were busted for a plot against fellow students marked for death on a hit...
NEW YORK NOWHERE ON PRESIDENT'S MAP
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amTHE New Yorker magazine has a famous Manhattan-centric cartoon where the real world ends at the Hudson River - nothing west of New York counts. President Bush seems to have...
TORTURE TALES FROM THE TRENCHES OF THE TORMENTED
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amTHE question is not, "Why do school shooting sprees happen?" The question is, given how cruel American teenagers are, "Why don't they happen more often?" My heart breaks for Andy...
GOP HAS HOUSE IN ORDER FOR TAX-CUT VOTE
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Part I of President Bush's $1.6 trillion tax plan should pass its first hurdle today, with Republicans banking on a sure win and Democrats hoping to stem defections....
FERRER CAMPAIGN BANKS 55G IN TAINTED DONATIONS
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amMAYORAL candidate Fernando Ferrer took $55,150 in donations raised by executives of three scandal-plagued construction companies that have left several major botched projects in their wake, The Post has learned....
LEVY TO LET EDISON FOES HAVE A SAY
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy announced major concessions yesterday to a group opposed to Edison Inc. taking over failing schools - and said he expects parent elections on the issue to...
REV. AL SELLS HILL ON RACE-PROFILING BAN
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday promised to support a bill banning racial profiling after meeting with the Rev. Al Sharpton and the mother of shooting victim Amadou Diallo....
TURNER'S REP IS IN ASHES - CNN BOSS CALLED A BIGOT AFTER 'JESUS FREAKS' SLUR
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amOutraged leaders of Christian groups labeled Ted Turner a bigot yesterday after the Mouth from the South called staffers who wore ashes on their foreheads for Ash Wednesday "Jesus freaks."...
PHONE CALLS TO WITNESSES A HANG-UP IN PUFFY'S CASE
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amTestimony in the Sean "Puffy" Combs guns-and-bribes trial ended poorly for the hip-hop honcho yesterday - with phone records suggesting he lied to jurors about having no relationship with key...
SLAY TRIAL PITS 'MOB BOSS' VS. TATTOO THUGS
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amWhom to believe: the pet-loving, pigeon-racing senior citizen and alleged Mafia boss, or the "crazy, tattooed children" said to have murdered and robbed on his orders? That was the key...
CITY TARGETS CANDLE SAFTEY
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amSpurred by the skyrocketing number of deaths resulting from blazes started by candles, the Giuliani administration is stepping up its fire-prevention campaign. Cable-television spots have already begun warning of the...
B'KLYN MOM SEES HER TOT KILLED BY BUS ON 2ND B'DAY
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amA Borough Park mother watched in horror yesterday as her son was run over and killed by a school bus on his second birthday. The bus was stopped at 1528...
MARY JO MAY STAY TO PROBE PARDON
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White is likely to stay on the job a little longer to investigate Bill Clinton's controversial pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich, sources...
THUGS SET FREE TO STRIKE AGAIN: TIME AND AGAIN, PATH TO 'OUTRAGEOUS' CRIME SPREES IS PAVED WITH PAROLES
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amPOST INVESTIGATION Thousands of ex-cons are allowed to roam the city's streets after committing parole violations, many of them ending up back behind bars only after going on violent new...
YANKS SHOOT 2 ALBANIAN REBS
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amU.S. peacekeeping troops shot and wounded two ethnic Albanian rebel fighters along the increasingly tense Kosovo-Macedonia border yesterday as fears grew that a dangerous new conflict is brewing in the...
CANDLE DANGER FOCUS OF NEW AD CAMPAIGN
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amSpurred by the skyrocketing number of deaths resulting from blazes started by candles, the Giuliani administration is stepping up its fire-prevention campaign. Cable-television spots have already begun warning of the...
LEON OK AFTER SCARY SPILL
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amJockey Filiberto Leon escaped serious injury after being thrown from his mount during the running of the third race. Leon, who was aboard Silver Issue, was racing in between Actuary's...
SELIG'S RULING ON SIROTKA LEAVES JAYS CAVEAT EMPTY
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amWorried about the ramifications of a commissioner trying to remedy a disputed trade, Bud Selig yesterday upheld the deal of David Wells to the White Sox for Mike Sirotka. Selig...
METS MAY FIND SPOT FOR TOCA'S LIVE BAT
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amEXHIBITION Mets 9 Expos 0 PORT ST. LUCIE - Obediently, the ball did what it's done all spring. In the sixth, there were two men on base and the right-handed...
GM PESSIMISTIC ON SHEFFIELD DEAL
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Despite his pessimism, GM Steve Phillips continues to meet with his staff to try to figure out a way to bring Gary Sheffield to the Mets....
JARVIS' JOHNNIES OUSTED BY HALL; MISS NCAA, NIT
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amSeton Hall 78 St. John's 66 Reggie Jessie, the team's lone senior, stood up in the locker room and told his teammates he didn't want the St. John's season to...
LUCKY 13 CHASING GULFSTREAM GLORY
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amHALLANDALE, Fla. - How wide open is the 2001 Kentucky Derby? So much so that a near-full field of 13 promising but unproven 3-year-olds was entered yesterday for Saturday's Grade...
JOHNSON HAS 1ST DIBS IF TINO LEAVES YANKS
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - A torn labrum in his right shoulder that needed surgery was the reason for Nick Johnson's first trip to New York in the middle of the 1998 season....
JETER PASSES LATEST TEST
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - The bat moved through the hitting zone swiftly to connect with a batting practice fastball. Thanks to being indoors, the sound of wood hitting the ball echoed off...
RICE IMPRESSED BY GIANTS' VISIT
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amSimeon Rice left town yesterday and, according to his agent, he came away impressed with the Giants as a potential new employer. "He's got a comfort level there," Roosevelt Barnes...
WILDCATS SCRATCH MOUNTAINEERS
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amVillanova 82 W. Virginia 71 He's the big man of the Big East and now Villanova center Michael Bradley gets to play the big game against Boston College, a place...
SORIANO'S BIG STICK HAS STAYING POWER
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTESIndians 6 Yankees 0 TAMPA - When camp opened, the question facing Alfonso Soriano was this: How could he find a way to stick. Today, the question has evolved...
IVERSON BLASTS NETS
March 8, 2001 | 5:00am76ers 102 Nets 94 PHILADELPHIA - Darn, there goes any shot at a .500 season. But the Nets didn't give it up easily. Shorthanded more than usual when they lost...
ACHY BACK SHELVES LJ
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Larry Johnson could be out for multiple games, as his back woes have reared up again. Though the Knicks did not put Johnson on the injured list, coach...
FREDERIC MR. CLUTCH IN TRIPLE-OT THRILLER
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amTRIPLE OVERTIME Holy Cross 78 St. Francis Prep 73 Holy Cross has played in plenty of close games this season. Every time, the Knights have looked to Chris Fileti, Joe...
ORANGEMEN KNOCK THE DOGS OUT
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amSyracuse 86 UConn 75 UConn, on the bubble? U-kidding? No kidding. At the moment, the good people in Storrs, Conn., are hoping and perhaps praying that reputation and pedigree mean...
GUM-SLINGER REG BANNED FOR GAME
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - Reggie Miller's gum put his team in a sticky situation last night. Two hours before the Pacers lost the Knicks at Conseco Fieldhouse, the NBA tossed...
THE REVENGE OF SPREE: LATRELL RALLIES KNICKS TO WIN
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amKnicks 79 Pacers 75 INDIANAPOLIS - Latrell Sprewell had heard the taunts from the Conseco Fieldhouse mob all night. He found no better revenge than lifting the Knicks from the...
WILDCATS CLIMB PAST MOUNTAINEERS
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amVillanova 82 W. Virginia 71 He's the big man of the Big East and now Villanova center Michael Bradley gets to play the big game against Boston College, a place...
NBA 'STICKS' IT TO REGGIE: SUSPENDS WAD-FELLA FOR TOSSING GUM AT REF
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Reggie Miller's gum put his team in a sticky situation last night. Two hours before the Pacers faced the Knicks at Conseco Fieldhouse, the NBA tossed Miller from...
LACK OF CONTROL PUZZLES GOODEN
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - The fastball had four miles more per hour to it than the first outing and he was constantly ahead in the count. Yet, for Dwight Gooden,...
NETS LOOK TO FUTURE
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - With less than a quarter of the season remaining and the chances of the playoffs equal to roughly that of purchasing a winning Powerball ticket, the Nets and...
PANTHERS PULL UPSET VS. 'CANES
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amPittsburgh 78 Miami 69 Ricardo Greer had already endured three years of embarrassment and torment at the Big East Tournament. One-and-done in the conference tournament was the last thing the...