March 9, 2001

LUXURY CONDOS PERMIT DANCE THEATER TO RISE DOWNTOWN

The $14.4 million redevelopment of the Dance Theater Workshop site at 219 West 19 Street is being enabled by the creation of $1 million-plus condominums above the new facility. Developers...

GUCCI-PPR DEAL AGAIN FACING DUTCH PROBE

Gucci and its dealings with Pinault-Printemps-Redoute S.A. are once again under investigation. The Enterprise Chamber of the Amsterdam Court of Appeals has granted the request of luxury king Bernard Arnault's...

MSDW TO SWING THE AX - DESPITE '98 VOW, 10% MAY BE CUT

They said they wouldn't do it. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. is preparing to lay off staff -with some reports pegging the cuts as high as 7 to 10...

ANOTHER YAHOO! BOMB - NASDAQ STOCKS CREAMED

Yahoo! is truly a dog for most traders. Not only did it 'fess up to even worse earnings than it disclosed just a day earlier - it dragged down any...

NAPSTER'S NEW FRIEND - GERRY LEVIN HINTS THAT HE'S OPEN TO A DEAL

Madonna on Napster? Proving he is up on all the latest trends, Gerry Levin says Napster could become a channel to distribute Warner Music's songs. The AOL Time Warner CEO...

BILLIONAIRES LOOTED - COPS: I.D. THIEVES TRIED TO NAB $30M FROM TYCOONS

Two Brooklyn men allegedly used the Internet to steal the identities of a dozen of "America's Richest People" - including Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen - and then tried to loot...

MICHAEL WOLF QUITS BOOZ-ALLEN FOR MCKINSEY

Powerful media-and-entertainment consultant Michael Wolf shook-up the industry yesterday when he de-camped from Booz-Allen & Hamilton for rival McKinsey & Co. Wolf, 40, was the youngest senior partner ever at...

'TOKYO JOE' SETTLES FRAUD BEEF WITH SEC

The popular Internet stock guru known as "Tokyo Joe" has settled with the feds to the tune of $754,690 for defrauding his customers. "Tokyo Joe," whose real name is Yun...

BLODGET'S NEWEST REVELATION: IT'S REALLY HARD TO MAKE MONEY

Merrill Lynch Internet analyst Henry Blodget might not have much in his portfolio, but he still has his sense of humor. "Guess what this is?" he asked the audience at...

AMAZON.COM'S BEZOS FACES INSIDE TRADER PROBE: REPORT

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos reportedly faces insider trading allegations for selling 800,000 shares of his company before a Wall Street analyst issued a negative evaluation. Securities and Exchange Commission probers...

A BLOW-DRIED WOOLLY BULLY ; DISCOVERY THAWS THE HAIRY BEAST

"Land of The Mammoth" Sunday at 8 p.m. on Discovery Channel 1/2 ( if you love woolly mammoths) LAST March, when the Discovery Channel premiered "Raising the Mammoth," it was...

SEAMY STORY GETS BY CHINESE CHECKERS

SO CLOSE TO PARADISE Chinese triangle drama with an intriguing crime background.Running time: 95 minutes. Not rated (sex, violence). In Chinese with subtitles. At the Screening Room, Canal and Varick...

DOUR 'MAN' IN HAVANA

COMPANY MANHalf a star Exceedingly lame, if starry, spoof on the Bay of Pigs invasion.Running time: 81 minutes. RatedPG-13 (sexuality, mild violence andprofanity). At the Empire, the Chelsea, the Angelika,...

'MAGNET' HAS PULL

THE MAGNET Eight boyz in the French 'hood.In French, with English subtitles. Running time: 100 minutes. Not rated (violence, crime). At the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, Avenue A and East...

TOO-CUTE ROMANTIC COMEDY IS FUNNY IN THE END

WHEN BRENDAN MET TRUDY Shy teacher, woman burglar and lots of classic film clips.Running time: 95 minutes. Not rated (sex, profanity). At the Loews State, Broadway and West 46th Street....

INDIE A 'HIT' AND MISS FLICK

HIT AND RUNWAY 1/2 Cliche-ridden but occasionally funny indie comedy about an unlikely gay/straight screenwriting duo.Running Time: 108 minutes. Not rated (bare breasts, sex talk). At the Empire 25, the...

OSCAR INDICATORS FROM DIRECTORS, ACTORS ON TAP

AWARDS this weekend will provide key clues to whether Tom Hanks will make history - or doubly-nominated Steven Soderbergh goes home empty-ended on Oscar night. The Directors Guild of America...

NOT WORTH THE TIME

15 MINUTES 1/2 "Natural Born Killers" meets "Backdraft" and any number of other police buddy flicks.Running time: 120 minutes. Rated R (violence). At the 42d Street E Walk; the Loews...

TONY GET YOUR GUN - BROADWAY LOOKING TO REBA MCENTIRE TO BOOST AWARDS SHOW

THE Tony Awards telecast has been damaged goods of late - tarnished by low ratings, bad reviews, petty in-fighting and an unhealthy dependence on Rosie O'Donnell. But this year the...

TALKIN' THAT TALK ; FROM PUNK ROCKER TO STORYTELLER, ROLLINS IS ALWAYS HOT NEWS

HENRY Rollins has remained one of the essential players in the L.A. punk scene for more than 20 years - first as Black Flag's frontman, then as the mastermind of...

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AN ISOLATED MAN

TEN UNKNOWNSAt the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lindoln Center. Through April 15. ---------- WHO really is the author of art? What causes a 40-year gap in a man's career? Why...

MORRIS MARKS ITS 20TH WITH JUBILANT RETURN TO BAM

MARK MORRISHoward Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette St., (718) 636-4100. Through March 25. CELEBRATION is in the air at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Gilman Opera...

SPRINGER TO HOST BRIT-VERSION OF 'GREED'

JERRY Springer is now adding "Greed" to his checkered TV resume. The controversial talk show host is set to host a new version of "Greed" on British TV. The original...

N.Y. INTERNET WHIZ IS LOGGED OFF 'SURVIVOR'

JEFF VARNER, a 34-year old Internet guru, became the sixth contestant booted off "Survivor 2" last night, and the first to feel the swift sword of reality-show justice from the...

JUDGE MARILYN TEARS UP THE SCRIPT

IT'S a good bet no one ever had utter the words "Don't be shy!" to Marilyn Milian. "I find it difficult not to speak my mind," says Milian, the 39-year-old...

FLAK FOR THE TAX CUT - THE SOULLESS CENTER

ONE of the key phenomena in modern politics is the gradual elimination of the Center - the area between the ideological poles of Left and Right. The Center dominated Washington...

ALL THEY HAVE TO DO FOR A CLUE IS LOOK UP AT JEFFERSON

THERE is a democratic credo painted into the ceiling of the City Council chamber, where repeal of term limits was debated yesterday. If all 51 council members had shown up,...

SUSPECT IN '88 COP SLAY IS ARRAIGNED

Dominican fugitive Pablo Almonte finally faced a Manhattan judge on murder charges yesterday, pleading not guilty 12 years after allegedly taking part in the slaying of a young police officer....

RIGHT IN THE WAY - DOES A CONSERVATIVE BELONG IN THE MAYOR'S RACE?

DID this year's New York mayoral race suddenly just get interesting? Word that Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long has approached Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, to carry the party's...

POL DEMANDS RESPECT: 'I'M #@&*ING LEADER'

ALBANY - Senate Democratic leader Martin Connor of Brooklyn has been caught on camera furiously cursing that he's not getting the respect he deserves. "People don't know that I'm the...

N.Y'S WOULD GET SOME KINDEST CUTS OF ALL

WASHINGTON - New York taxpayers will be among the biggest gainers if the full Bush tax cut gets passed, according to a study by the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan think...

JESSE: NEW TAX FILING WILL LIST EX-MISTRESS

CHICAGO - The Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday he will amend a tax return for one of his nonprofit organizations to add the name of a staffer who was his...

HEARTBREAK KIDS ENJOY NORMAL CHILDHOODS

Their names blared from headlines they were too young to read or understand, and their pictures became the painful faces of contested adoptions. Yet the children known to America as...

KEY COUNCILMAN RECONSIDERING TERM-LIMITS VOTE

Legislators trying to repeal term limits suffered a setback yesterday when an ally said he was having second thoughts about allowing the explosive measure to come up for a vote....

MILLENNIUM TERRORIST COPS PLEA

An Algerian terrorist pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to plotting a bomb attack in the United States just before millennium New Year's celebrations, authorities said yesterday. Abdel Ghani Meskini,...

'NEW' GOP WOOS MINORITIES, GAYS

ALBANY - New state Republican Chairman Alexander "Sandy" Treadwell said yesterday he plans to expand the party by courting gay and minority groups. "I want to reach out to groups...

SANTEE TRAGEDY SPARKS COPYCAT THREATS

SANTEE, Calif. - Cops guarded San Diego high schools yesterday after the deadly Santana HS rampage spawned a wave of copycat incidents in California and 11 other states. At least...

CLINTON ADDS ED-BILL RIDERS

WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton scored a coup yesterday, convincing the GOP-controlled Education Committee to add four of her amendments aimed at hiring teachers to a Bush-backed education bill it...

HE'S A MYSTERY MENSCH

WASHINGTON - Rabbi Ronnie Greenwald - an affable man whose swaggering hat makes him look almost like a cowboy - is a mysterious spy-swapper straight from the hush-hush world of...

HILL'S ANGEL TO HOP A HOG WITH HER

WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton says she'll be a biker babe come spring - donning denim, boots and a helmet to ride the motorcycle of a ponytailed Republican senator from...

HELD-BACK KIDS STILL FLUNKING

More than half the kids who flunked eighth grade last year flunked again, despite getting special help in an innovative, anti-dropout program, The Post has learned. Midyear Board of Education...

FERRER: I'M RETURNING TAINTED 7G TO DONOR

Mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer last night announced he's refunding $7,000 in campaign contributions raised by the head of a Connecticut company banned by the city from school construction work. After...

DOTING FOLKS 'SPOILED' THEIR SON

Life on the lam was no treat for Judith and Barry Smiley, but they made sure the baby they adopted - and refused to give back - never lacked for...

FEDS GRILL RABBI LINKED TO RICH - EYE VOTES FOR HILL AFTER BILL CLEARED FOUR SWINDLERS

WASHINGTON - A New York rabbi who did business with pardoned fugitive Marc Rich was quizzed by the FBI yesterday about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's possible role in the controversial...

FEDS BEGIN PROBE OF L.I. 'STRIP' COP

Federal authorities have launched a criminal civil-rights probe into charges a Suffolk County cop forced several women to take off their clothes to avoid being arrested for drunken driving. "The...

W. DECLARES A VICTORY AS HOUSE OKS HIS TAX PLAN

WASHINGTON - President Bush scored his first big win in Congress last night as the Republican-controlled House passed the heart of his tax-cut plan - even though only 10 Democrats...

RUDY RIPS CUNY FOR GRADE FADE

Mayor Giuliani rapped the City University of New York yesterday for lowering the passing score on English tests that decide if students are ready for college. "Great disappointment. It's precisely...

ARREST ALSO CRACKS MYSTERY OF DA AIDE'S STOLEN IDENTITY

The puzzle of what happened to a little boy who disappeared after an illegal adoption in 1980 helped solve another conundrum yesterday - a mysterious tax bill for an aide...

ROGER & FEE? FBI EYES 'SHAKEDOWN'

WASHINGTON - The FBI is probing whether Roger Clinton was involved in an alleged $200,000 pardon shakedown of a Texas family, the family's lawyer told The Post yesterday. Guy Lincecum...

DAD & 'KIDNAPPED' BOY MEETS 21 YRS. LATER - KID WAS WHISKED AWAY OUT OF NEW YORK BY ADOPTIVE COUPLE

A Long Island dad has been reunited with the son snatched from him two decades ago - a tear-jerking twist in a cross-country saga of adoption, abduction and deception. "I...

CABBY-SHOOT SUSPECT NABBED

A Bronx man busted on a drug charge was arrested in the March 2 shooting of a livery cabdriver, authorities said last night. Anderrious Perry, 20, was nabbed by cops...

MARSHAL EVICTS WRONG TENANTS FROM BRONX APT.

A Bronx family had a brief - but terrifying - bout with near-homelessness when the city marshal wrongly evicted them from their apartment. The ordeal occurred because the marshal never...

MOB RACKET NETS 600G FROM TENNIS GREAT

Tennis ace Steffi Graf lost more than $600,000 in just three months in a massive mob-run stock scheme that bilked investors out of $50 million over four years, the Post...

WHOO-AH! AL SEEN SMOOCHING KIM

Just weeks after filing for divorce from Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger took comfort last night in the sexy embrace of co-star Al Pacino on the set of their new movie....

PAL NABBED IN CHURCH SLAY

An ex-con who has spent more than half his life behind bars was arrested yesterday for the bludgeoning death of a woman whose nude body was dumped in some garbage...

PREGNANT HERO DIES IN BX. FIRE

A pregnant Bronx woman heroically ignored her own safety yesterday, guiding neighbors out of their burning building before being trapped and killed by billowing smoke. Fire investigators who questioned area...

UNION SUES TO STOP SALE OF OTB

And ... they're off! Fearing the loss of 1,700 jobs, the city's largest municipal employees union yesterday sued to block the sale of the Off-Track Betting Corporation to a private...

COP COLLEGE DUO NABBED IN STABBING

Two students at the city's premier college for criminal justice stabbed a fellow classmate and his friend yesterday during a dispute over a coat, police said. The violence erupted at...

MOB RACKET NAIL$ TENNIS GREAT: GRAF LOST 600G IN $50 MILLION STOX SCAM: FEDS

Tennis ace Steffi Graf lost more than $600,000 in just three months in a massive mob-run stock scheme that bilked investors out of $50 million over four years, the Post...

WITNESS FINGERS BOMBING SUSPECT

A witness identified a terror-bomb suspect in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday, saying he saw the defendant drive up to the U.S. Embassy in Kenya seconds before a deadly bomb exploded....

PREGNANT HEROINE DIES SAVING OTHERS IN BX. FIRE

A pregnant Bronx woman heroically ignored her own safety yesterday, guiding neighbors out of their burning building before being trapped and killed by billowing smoke. Fire investigators who questioned area...

SUSPECT IN '88 COP SLAY ARRAIGNED

Dominican fugitive Pablo Almonte finally faced a Manhattan judge on murder charges yesterday, pleading not guilty 12 years after allegedly taking part in the slaying of a young police officer....

'PUFF' PROSECUTION MAY WIN WAR OF WORDS

In heated arguments over the wording of legal instructions to jurors yesterday, defense lawyers fought hard to keep Sean "Puffy" Combs' name clean -and to dirty the names of prosecution...

DOCS: SLASH RISK OF BREAST CANCER

Women can cut their risk of developing breast cancer by eating less and exercising more, scientists say. Researchers from the Institute of Public Health in Poland found that diet and...

GOOD DIET CUTS RISK OF BREAST CANCER

Women can cut their risk of developing breast cancer by eating less and exercising more, scientists say. They found that diet and energy are linked to concentrations of the hormones...

FISHING TOURNEYS IN TIZZY

A PROPOSED rule issued by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service during the waning days of the Clinton Administration has tournament anglers and numerous industry sponsors up in arms. The...

MASTER PLAN GIVING WARD A ROSY FUTURE

HALLANDALE, Fla. - If luck is the residue of design, then trainer John Ward is a very lucky guy. In a year when the Kentucky Derby is anybody's ballgame, the...

GULFSTREAM'S BIG DAY STARTS EARLY

Fans are reminded that tomorrow, Gulfstream Park will have a special noon post time for its Florida Derby program. At Aqueduct, wagering will be available for the Gulfstream Park first...

CALLERS STONE CH. 5 PROMO

Ch. 5's newsroom Wednesday night was "swamped with angry calls," according to station sources, after it ran a new promo for the station's Yankee telecasts that favorably equated the team...

HALL'S SELLING A BILL OF GOODS

BASEBALL'S gold standard used to appear in plain sight. Two out, man on second. That told the story. If they tried to pitch around the guy - or just cut...

HEBERT HOPING FOR GOOD 1ST IMPRESSION

Nothing against his friend Mike Richter, but Guy Hebert plans on proving to Ranger brass he should be the starting goaltender next season. "Mike's got a long rehab ahead of...

PRO LACROSSE LOOMS IN JUNE

Brooklyn native Jake Steinfeld, known for his "Body by Jake" workout show that aired on ESPN in the early 90's, has constructed the first outdoor professional lacrosse league that begins...

TITANS' HOLMES, GIANTS SIZE EACH OTHER UP

There are issues with Simeon Rice. Is he simply a sack artist? Can he stop the run? Is he a one-dimensional player confused by too much losing in Arizona? There...

FEELIN' HALL RIGHT ; PLUCKY PIRATES STUN HOYAS

Seton Hall 58 G-town 40 Georgetown's Mike Sweetney was alone under the basket, gathering himself for a layup. Seton Hall's Eddie Griffin was at the foul line, out of position...

BC PROVES IT'S REAL DEAL: WORST-TO-1ST EAGLES NIX 'NOVA

BC 93 Villanova 79 They were fitting exclamation points on Boston College's worst-to-first season - Jon Beerbohm's two length-of-the-court inbounds passes which resulted in baskets in the waning moments of...

HERE'S HOW STORM CAN BOUNCE BACK

Now we know where Patrick Ewing got his penchant for issuing guarantees. His high school coach was Mike Jarvis. After St. John's had its season end Wednesday in a 78-66...

NO SHEA FOR SHEFF ; PHILLIPS PULLS PLUG AS METS, L.A. CAN'T SEE EYE-TO-EYE

FORT LAUDERDALE - Gary Sheffield won't be a Met. Last night, GM Steve Phillips said he and his Dodger counterpart Kevin Malone see Sheffield's trade value so differently that the...

WHAT'S LEFT? SHEFFIELD IN THE BRONX

LAKELAND - Why do so many baseball people believe Gary Sheffield is the eventual answer to the Yankees' muddled left field situation? "That's because of George Steinbrenner and the way...

KNICKS MUST STAY ON ROLL VS. SOFTIES

The time is now for the Knicks to take advantage of the cream-puff schedule ahead of them and surpass Miami for the all-important third seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs....

ISLES GETTING WILD

Losers of five of their last six games, the expansion-like Islanders take on the expansion Wild at the Coliseum tonight. In their only other meeting this season, the Isles were...

SCOTT: MARBURY NOT GETTING RESPECT FROM REFS

Blame the record. And the Nets do. But they're still trying to seek relief in the case of Stephon Marbury and the lack of foul calls. Byron Scott acknowledged yesterday...

JEFF TROOP NEEDS A TOUCH OF ALLAN

You wish Allan Houston maniacally stared down a rowdy mob of Pacers' fans after hitting a big shot. You wish he stood up in the locker room after a bad...

PITT ROLLS PAST IRISH, GAINS SEMI

Pittsburgh 66 Notre Dame 54 Since 1983, when the Big East Tournament was born, Pittsburgh's stays at Madison Square Garden have annually consisted of nothing more than a brief, disappointing...

ST. RAY'S RAY DELIVERS

St. Ray's 69 CTK 67Xaverian 66 Loughlin 60 Allan Ray hadn't hit a shot since midway through the first quarter, but when he let a three-point attempt go with 26...

LEMAIRE'S RETURN SPOILED BY DEVILS

Devils 6 Wild 2 If the Devils were truly set for the playoffs, this would have been Chris Terreri's third victory of the season instead of Martin Brodeur's 33rd. With...

SORE KNEE KOS PIAZZA

EXHIBITION Orioles 4 Mets 1MET NOTES FT. LAUDERDALE - Mike Piazza was held out of last night's game with the Orioles, because of a sore left knee. The injury is...

JETER'S ARM ON THE MEND

EXHIBITION Tigers 3 Yankees 0 LAKELAND - When Derek Jeter woke up yesterday morning there were various levels of discomfort in his right arm and other areas of his body....

UNFLAPPABLE ORANGEMEN HOLD OFF FRIARS

Syracuse 55 Providence 54 When times get tough and the game gets tense, Jim Boeheim is able to remain calm. This year's Orangemen have made him that way. "They've been...

THE BEST DEALS NEVER MADE: YANKEES STILL ON TOP BY NOT PULLING TRIGGER ON WOULD-BE BLUNDERS

THE seriousness of Albert Belle's injury was obvious this spring. No, not his limp. The normally surly slugger was chatting up reporters in Orioles camp. More evidence that too many...

PHILLIPS: DON'T GET PHYSICAL ON TRADES

QUIZ: Name the only team with five pitchers in camp who worked at least 180 innings in the majors last season (answer below). Late in 1996, the Yankees traded Bob...

BOEHEIM: OUR VETERANS WERE KEY

Way back when, before the season started, Jim Boeheim took a look at the makeup of the Big East, took a look at the supposedly hot-shot teams with their hot-shot...

BOEHEIM: VETERANS WERE KEY

Way back when, before the season started, Jim Boeheim took a look at the makeup of the Big East, took a look at the supposedly hot-shot teams with their hot-shot...

DEVILS STILL IN A TRADING MOOD

It was manna from up north, the deal that brought the Devils Sean O'Donnell from the Wild for prospect Willie Mitchell. It lets them do so much more before Tuesday's...