April 11, 2001
AUCTION SITE ON BLOCK - CHRISTIE'S EAST MAY FETCH $23M
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHE building housing Christie's East is going on the sales block for $23 million, The Post has learned. The 36,000 square-foot former garage, located at 219 East 67th Street between...
TIFFANY BUYS STAKE IN LITTLE SWITZERLAND
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe quiet giant at 57th and Fifth has invested in yet another venture. Tiffany & Co. has agreed to purchase a 45 percent stake in Little Switzerland, Inc., a 16-store...
DOBBS OUT OF ORBIT - SPACEMAN TO MAKE 'MONEYLINE' RE-ENTRY
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amLou Dobbs has gone where no man has gone before - from Space to CNN's "Moneyline" anchor desk. Nearly two years after parting ways with CNN, the Space.com boss, who...
GREENHOUSEFORSTARTUPS.COM CAN'T GET ENOUGH HEAT TO THRIVE
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amWannabe incubator Greenhouseforstartups.com has closed. Jad Duwaik, founder of the San Francisco networking group that was designed to introduce entrepreneurs to Venture Capitalists, said yesterday he is giving it all...
CNN'S LEGAL WHIZ IN TALKS WITH NBC
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe revolving door at CNN keeps spinning. One day after veteran business news anchor Lou Dobbs was brought back to revive the faltering "Moneyline," industry insiders now say fellow CNN...
ALVIN AILEY FOUNDATION IS MOVING
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation is on the hunt for a new spread. "We are looking to move," confirmed their spokesperson. Its three divisions - the Ailey School, the Alvin...
FIRED J.P. MORGAN BANKER SUES OVER 'LEWD' SHOW AT PARTY
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amA fired investment banker at J.P. Morgan filed suit against her old employer yesterday, claiming the company was the site of "explicit, rampant, pervasive, and continued" sex discrimination. Amy Segal,...
A ONE-DAY WONDER - DOW ADDS 257, CLOSES ABOVE 10,000-MARK
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amBlue chips rallied again yesterday closing above 10,000 for the first time in weeks, while tech stocks gained 6 percent as the dizzy stock market continues to see-saw into the...
MOTOROLA'S BAD CALL DRAGS IT DOWN 8% AFTER-HOURS
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amMotorola scion Chris Galvin won't be able to help keep the tech rally alive today after dropping his earnings ball. The 50-year-old CEO and grandson of the founder missed his...
CLASSIC PHOTOS TO GET NEW LIFE IN THEIR OWN STORES
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amLIFE lives. Time Inc. is close to hammering out a deal that will open up Life Magazine retail stores nationwide to market the photos that once graced the pages of...
MEATING DEMAND - CARNIVORES WILL HAVE NO BEEF WITH THESE EXOTIC CUTS
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amFor carnivores, it's the best of times and the worst of times. Just as chic steakhouses are springing up faster than you can say "rib-eye" comes the sad news of...
RULES FLY AS ATLAS SHRUGS
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amATLAS () 40 CENTRAL PARK SOUTH ----------- 'MAY I?" Waiter A rescues waiter B at Atlas, when B can't explain that "ronnoade" of rabbit simply means "loin." A confused crew...
THE STARR REPORT
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amNo Ann-imosity as Reege dismisses 'Link' "Millionaire" host Regis Philbin is poo-poohing NBC's megahyped "The Weakest Link" and its tart-tongued British host, Ann Robinson. "She chews them out and sends...
'JOE DIRT' A TOXIC WASTE OF TALENT
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amJOE DIRT () You'll need a shower afterward. Running time: 86 minutes. Rated PG-13 (vulgar humor). At the Empire, the Chelsea, the Kips Bay, others. -------------- THE fitfully amusing "Joe...
'I CAN'T STOP FIXING UP MY FRIENDS' - COMPULSIVE MATCHMAKER FINDS MATCH IN 'BLIND DATE'
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amHI. My name is Linda and I am a compulsive fixer-upper. My love interest ("L.I.") says I have a psychological problem and need to seek professional help. I wouldn't pay...
THEY'RE FELINE GROOVY
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amJOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS ( 1/2) Girl power with a satirical edge. Running time: 98 minutes. Rated PG-13 (mildly risqué humor, mild violence). At the E Walk, the Kips Bay,...
'KINGDOM' MORE -DOM THAN KING-
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amKINGDOM COME () Inept, painfully saccharine comedy. Running time: 95 minutes. Rated: PG (toilet humor). At the Empire, the Nova, the Bay Plaza (Bronx), others. ----------- DURING the long, punitive...
'SURVIVOR' HISSY FIT - CBS SUES FOX OVER 'BOOT CAMP' CLAIMING IT'S A 'RIP OFF'
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amCALL it Battle of the Network Suits. CBS and the producers of "Survivor" are suing Fox's "Boot Camp" claiming it is a rip-off of the Eye Network's mega-popular reality show....
WINE OF THE WEEK: ROTHSCHILD REDS
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amBARONE Philippe de Rothschild was an innovator. In 1930 his Chateau Mouton-Rothschild marketed one of the first brand names in Bordeaux, Mouton Cadet. In the 1970s, he teamed up with...
BLOODY TALE OF AUSSIE CON
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amCHOPPER () Darkly comic - and gory - Aussie biopic. Running time: 94 minutes. Not rated (gore, violence, profanity, nudity, sex). At the Film Forum, Houston and Varick streets. -----------...
TERMINAL GETS SOME DIM SUM
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHE owners of Le Colonial will open Dimsum on the dining concourse in Grand Central Terminal tomorrow. Besides the headlining Asian dumplings, the specialty will be the made-to-order egg or...
'BOOT' SUIT DESERVES TO BE STOMPED OUT
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amHEY, CBS - I found another similarity between "Survivor" and "Boot Camp" for you to use in your lawsuit against Fox. Both shows last week contained a lot of pungent...
JUDGMENT TIME FOR CAST - PAY CUT CAN SAVE SHOW
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe actors in "Judgment at Nuremberg" have been asked to forgo a contractual increase in their weekly paychecks in a last-ditch effort to prevent the struggling show from closing. The...
PREZ DECLINES JESSE'S HELP - REV. WANTED TO BE CHINA ENVOY
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday handed the Rev. Jesse Jackson a polite but firm "No thanks" after the civil-rights leader offered himself as a special envoy to resolve the spy-plane...
BOXER-TURNED-'BUILDER' GIVES KIDS FIGHTING CHANCE
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Board of Education is usually the Culture of No, the bureaucracy that moves like a glacier. But over the last 24 hours, as I placed phone calls and asked...
NEW YORK POST: FROM APRIL 11, 1945
April 11, 2001 | 4:00am"Near Erfurst, Germany - Dr. Bela Fabian, Hungarian politician and author who is one of the few survivors of the Nazis' great killing plant at Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Polish Silesia,...
DOCTORS EYE VIRUS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amA virus that steals part of the human genetic code from cells may be linked to schizophrenia. Scientists say the retrovirus may have invaded human DNA millions of years ago...
TV'S MAFIA BLOODBATH
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amAfter two seasons of universal acclaim, a backlash suddenly is developing against HBO's "The Sopranos." The show this year has dramatically ratcheted up the level of on-screen violence, and people...
EMINEM AVOIDS JAIL TIME
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amRaunchy rapper Eminem beat a prison rap yesterday as a judge sentenced him to two years of probation for carrying a concealed weapon. The potty-mouthed superstar - whose real name...
A TALE OF TWO REVS - AL SHARPTON VISITS A LAND OF MODERN-DAY SLAVERY AND CIVIL WAR
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amSOUTHERN SUDAN THE first thing you notice is that there are no men. Some 750 souls, mostly women, and many with babies - but only a handful of boys, and...
WHERE ARE YOU, JESSE?
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amJESSE Jackson will arrive at the four-star Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif., today to kick off a three-day conference of his Silicon Valley Project, the Left Coast version of...
U.S. TROOPS RETURN FIRE IN KOSOVO
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amU.S. soldiers got into a firefight along the Kosovo-Macedonia border in an incident that created new complications for the Balkan peacekeeping mission, officials said yesterday. A spokesman for KFOR, the...
'MILLIONAIRE' WINNER HAS IT TWICE AS NICE
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amEngineer Kevin Olmstead snagged $2.18 million on last night's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" - the biggest single jackpot in U.S. game-show history. Olmstead, a quiz-show veteran who won...
BRITISH POLS WANT ROYAL WATCHDOG$
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amBritish politicians last night demanded more scrutiny of the royal family's finances after the queen's daughter-in-law was caught peddling her blue-blood connections. Fifty members of Parliament said a "register of...
NEW TITANIC DISCOVERY SMELLS LIKE MONEY
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amCall it Eau de Titanic. It's a fragrance that comes from 2 ½ miles beneath the ocean's surface, from the wreckage of the Titanic - and it soon may be...
TROUBLE'S BREWING FOR A NEW YORK WAY OF LIFE
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amIT RANKS right up there on the pleasure scale with wandering barefoot in Central Park. Or watching firemen comb the aisles at Key Food. From Brooklyn's Smith Street to Columbus...
BROOKE SHIELDS WEDS IN HUSH-HUSH CEREMONY
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amSuddenly, "Susan" has gotten hitched again. Brooke Shields - star of the TV sitcom "Suddenly Susan" - marched down the aisle with longtime boyfriend Chris Henchy in a top-secret ceremony...
'99 VICTIM'S MOM RELIVES NIGHTMARE
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe stabbing death of a 16-year-old boy in a fight outside the notorious Tunnel nightspot has brought back horrific memories to a Long Island woman whose son died of an...
DIALLO DAD BACKS GREEN PLAN - BUT NOT THE MAN
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe father of police shooting victim Amadou Diallo yesterday endorsed Mark Green's plan for curbing police misconduct - but he wouldn't endorse Green for mayor. "My being here, it's not...
BOOZE BAN WILL BE TOAST OF THE TOWN: HIZZONER
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani insisted yesterday his all-out ban on booze at street festivals and block parties will cut down on rowdy brawls and quality-of-life nuisances. "There will be far fewer fights,...
FELINE ALL RIGHT: BUSH 'EX'-CAT FOUND
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - It was a purr-fect ending with a cat-astrophe averted. Ernie, the cat who once belonged to President Bush, was found alive yesterday - although a little skinnier -...
HILLARY HEARS 'ARKANSAS' - AND RUNS FOR THE HILLS
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON. IT'S probably fair to assume that when someone says "Arkansas," the word conjures up conflicting emotions for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. But "home" isn't one of them anymore. Clinton...
HUGS WON'T CURE DRUGS, SHRINKS SAY
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amCharisse Strawberry can stand by her man - but she needs to remember there's a thin line between supporting and enabling a struggling drug addict, experts said yesterday. "If somebody...
S.I. FLIER'S 'CYBER' SISTER KEEPS HIS MORALE UP
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amBarbara DiStefano has never thought of herself as a historian, but every day, she's writing a small bit of history by sending e-mails to her Navy crewman brother who's being...
CITY USING PO$H HOTEL AS AIDS 'SHELTER'
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe city is spending $6,500 a night to put up homeless AIDS victims in a glitzy four-star hotel. Last Friday, the city reserved 20 rooms as emergency housing at the...
ARNOLD'S GOV HOPES MAY FADE TO BLACK
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amALREADY acting the part of a slick politician, Hollywood uberhunk Arnold Schwarzenegger used a brief photo-op yesterday to butter up key Republican ally Mayor Giuliani. Schwarzenegger, who recently admitted he's...
JACKSON'S GOAL: SAVE HIS NAME
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - It's not the first time the Rev. Jesse Jackson has offered help in bringing Americans home - but now Jackson's the one who needs help as never before....
TUNNEL MAY PROVIDE CLOSURE - GATIEN IS READY TO SELL BEFORE CITY PULLS PLUG
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amClub king Peter Gatien wants to do what the city and state have failed to do for more than five years - put himself out of business. Once ruler of...
NEW MATH CLASSES A ZERO: PARENTS
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amBill Tucker said his son was a fine math student - until his Brooklyn junior high school put in a radical new program two years ago. "All of a sudden,...
HOPE FOR SIAMESE TWIN GIRLS BORN HERE
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amA woman gave birth to Siamese twins at a Manhattan hospital yesterday, and doctors said tests will soon reveal if they can attempt to separate the baby girls, who share...
L.I. POL GRUCCI ON PREZ'S A-LIST
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - At a time when President Bush seems to be giving New York short shrift, Long Island Rep. Felix Grucci is being singled out for kid-gloves treatment by the...
LEVY HITS STATE ON LOSS OF CITY TEACHERS
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy charged yesterday the city had to turn away 2,000 certified teachers this year because of a state-imposed court order that required assigning them to failing schools....
KUDOS TO A COLLEAGUE WHO DRUBBED THE DISCO KING
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amJACK NEWFIELD, a liberal, a beloved colleague and political enemy of mine, and I agree on only two things - the boxing ring and life ain't fair. As an unreconstructed...
RENT WAR BEGINS AMID RISING LANDLORD $$
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amRents are rising, but landlords' revenues are going up even more, city figures revealed yesterday. Rents on stabilized apartments have increased an average 5.5 percent while their owners' revenues have...
CARNAGE AT JERSEY POSTAL FACILITY
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amCops shot and killed an ex-postal worker who stabbed four people last night at a New Jersey mail-sorting facility, authorities said. The carnage at the Kearny, N.J., mail-sorting plant might...
COUNCIL TO DUMP OTB SALE PLAN
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amCity Council leaders tried to close the gates yesterday on the administration's plan to sell the Off Track Betting Corp. to a private operator. Council Speaker Peter Vallone said he...
BOMBS AWAY IN 9TH - COLEMAN'S 1ST HOMER SPARKS RALLY BY YANKS
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Manager Jimy Williams and GM Dan Duquette of the Red Sox believed that Michael Coleman's mouth, and a lack of discipline, got in the way of a...
POSADA KAYOED BY BACK SPASMS
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Stiffness started to creep into Jorge Posada's back late Sunday night on an airplane. By the time he woke Monday morning, Posada had trouble getting it loose....
KEEP EYE ON DUBAI DUO
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amLeading up to the mile and a quarter Kentucky Derby, the $64,000 question always is, "who can get the distance?" In the weeks leading up to this year's Derby on...
CAMBY KEEPS GETTING BETTER
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amBefore this gets too far, realize the winner will be (and should be) Orlando's Tracy McGrady. But that doesn't mean Marcus Camby of the Knicks hasn't made a valid case...
JAX HAS NO AX TO GRIND WITH INDY
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Nothing personal, Pacers, Mark Jackson insists. It's strictly business. Yeah, right. Jackson, who last season went to the NBA Finals as a Pacer, tonight finds himself trying to...
DECISION EXPECTED TODAY ON TIMO'S STATUS
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets are likely to decide today if Timo Perez needs to go on the disabled list. Perez, who left Sunday's game in Montreal with a strained groin,...
A YEAR LATER, VILLALONA CAN FINALLY SMILE
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amH.S. BASEBALLG. Wash. 12 - Columbus 2 Bases loaded, one out, top of the first. Junior Villalona sensed a bit of deja vu. "I couldn't believe it was happening again,"...
REPEAT AFTER ME: HOOP DYNASTIES DEAD
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHE days of the dynasty are over in college basketball. Even a mini-dynasty isn't likely. The last 72 hours have offered a view of death row as one college program...
WUSA SET TO KICK OFF INAUGURAL SEASON
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amThey promise they're not the XFL. On Saturday, the players in the newly formed eight-team Women's United Soccer Association get their chance to prove it. "I liked a lot of...
LOOKS LIKE COOK'S STAYIN' WITH STORM
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amAs more college underclassmen declare themselves eligible for the NBA draft, it becomes more certain that Omar Cook will return to St. John's for his sophomore season, several sources told...
SELECTING A TIGHT END HIGH ON BIG BLUE LIST OF PRIORITIES
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amWith the NFL draft only 11 days away, the Giants remain in the market for a tight end and will likely take one with one of their first three selections....
HARLEM HOLD-UP - DESPICABLE DON STILL 'STEALING' FROM THE POOR
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amIT was called Seventh Avenue back then, and on the part of it that lies between 123rd and 124th Streets stood Sugar Ray's, a happening nightspot in the Harlem of...
FLUKE LOVERS ALARMED OVER NEW REGULATIONS
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amFRIDAY'S column on the new fluke regulations and what they will mean to recreational anglers brought a strong response from readers that just about filled my e-mail box. Just about...
DON'T EXPECT SURPRISES HERE - DEVILS SHOULD SEE CUP RUNNETH OVER ONCE AGAIN
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amIt's a shame, really it is, that the NHL can't mandate elimination of the opening two playoff rounds and move straight to a super round-robin semi-final round that would feature...
ISLES GET SECOND PICK
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe Islanders, who finished in last place in the NHL this season, will get the second pick in the entry draft in June, while the Rangers will pick 10th. Despite...
DANEYKO GIVES FRANCIS DUE RESPECT
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amDEVIL NOTES In reverential tones, the Devils said they believe that Hurricanes 38-year-old center Ron Francis has never received the acclaim that he's deserved. "He's an old warrior, he's been...
HEALTHY MCKAY'S SET TO PLAY
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amRandy McKay enters the playoffs able to sleep through the night, which, he will tell you, is no small feat. At this time last season, the Devils' relentless right wing...
REY'S RETURN MAKES MET 'D' TRULY AMAZIN'
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amThird baseman Robin Ventura looks over at Rey Ordonez at short and Ventura's eyes seemingly become blurry. He sees double. "He is almost like two people," Ventura said. "He is...
TOSSED BOTTLE A ROYAL PAIN FOR KNOBLAUCH
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES KANSAS CITY - Even though there is no excuse for throwing a beer bottle at anybody, as a Kauffman Stadium idiot did toward Chuck Knoblauch on Monday night,...
BOMBS AWAY IN 9TH - FIVE-RUN OUTBURST BURIES KC PEN
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amYankees 9 - Royals 5 KANSAS CITY - They started the night without Bernie Williams and then lost Jorge Posada early when his back went into spasms. For a lineup...
YANKS IN 5TH DIMENSION - KEISLER TAKING TURN AT BOTTOM OF ROTATION
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - When you're the Yankees and you can trot out Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Mike Mussina and Orlando Hernandez as your 1-4 starters, nobody wants to hear you...
JAX HAS NO AX TO GRIND WITH PACERS
April 11, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Nothing personal, Pacers, Mark Jackson insists. It's strictly business. Yeah, right. Jackson, who last season went to the NBA Finals as a Pacer, tonight finds himself trying to...