April 24, 2001
THINK TWICE BEFORE PLUNGING BACK INTO STOCKS
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amHERE we go again. Wall Street says you can now trust the stock market. And with share prices picking up nicely over the last few weeks some of you are...
MIDTOWN'S THE NEW HOT SPOT
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amIF you're one of those anti-development nags who prefers parking lots and porno to modern housing, you can savor what's likely a short-lived victory for the status quo: The Buildings...
LUX BUX TO VIE FOR TGIF'S SITE ON FIFTH
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amTGIF's red and white awnings have been booted off Fifth Avenue. The restaurant franchise, owned by Riese Restaurants, is operated out of a townhouse on the west side of Fifth...
WHO GETS SACKED? XFL HONCHOS PREPARE FOR PAYBACK
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amThe embattled XFL may have seen a minor ratings boost for its latest playoff game - but its still-dismal showing may signal trouble for the league's founders. The Saturday night...
TECHS TAKE 104-PT. DIVE: RATE-CUT RALLY RUNS OUT OF GAS
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amWall Street's hangover from the tech rally party got a lot worse yesterday - and left investors running for cover. Tech stocks tumbled nearly 5 percent yesterday after a record-breaking...
MICROSOFT THROWS NBC LIFELINE FOR FINANCE SITE
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amNBC is going back to square one. After the humiliation of its imploding NBCi project, the Peacock has announced the first of a series of new deals to keep it...
3M FIRES 5,000; COMPAQ AXING 2,000
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amCompanies stepped up more payroll cuts yesterday, with Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing firing 5,000 and Compaq axing another 2,000 workers - on top of 5,000 layoffs it targeted last month....
SOHO MORPHING RETAILERS ; STORES BASKING IN TRENDY AREA'S EDGINESS
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amThe beauty of shopping at a store with more than one location is you know what products you'll find - shopping Uptown, Downtown or out of town. Not so in...
BERNIE'S BIG PAIN ; EBBERS' WORLDCOM CAN'T UNLOAD INTERMEDIA
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amThings are pretty tough for WorldCom Inc.'s Bernie Ebbers. As if the chief executive of the second-biggest long distance company didn't have enough on his plate, now he's having trouble...
TEAMSTERS WATCHING WRITERS
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amEVERYONE from makeup artists to truck drivers - and tens of thousands of other film employees - are anxiously awaiting news from the bargaining table where screenwriters and Hollywood producers...
PLEASED TO HEAT YOU
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amJANET JACKSON "All for You" ½ Virgin Records On Janet Jackson's latest disc, "All For You" - the follow-up to her '97 hit disc, "The Velvet Rope" - the wispy-voiced...
GESUNDHEIT DAYS: IT'S SPRINGTIME
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amTHE trees are budding, the wind is blowing . . . your nose is running.And it's only going to get worse."The pollen counts now are pretty moderate," says Dr. Gillian...
THE WB, 'ANGEL' SLAYER? ; IT MARKS THE FIRST TIME A SHOW HAS CHANGED NETWORKS STRICTLY FOR ECONOMIC REASONS ; 'BUFFY' SPINOFF COULD FOLLOW SIB TO UPN
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amWITH "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" jumping to UPN next fall, WB execs may be getting ready to drive a stake through "Angel," the show's popular spinoff. But like the show's...
THE STARR REPORT
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amMore Ch. 2 changes coming down the pike Ch. 2 is rejiggering its 4 p.m. "New York Live" lineup, which will change tomorrow and will be renamed "First at Four,"...
'HARVEST' OF FAME ; GENETICALLY ALTERED FOOD ALMOST AS BAD AS 'CELEBRITY MOMS'
April 24, 2001 | 4:00am"InStyle Celebrity Moms" Tonight at 8 on WNBC/Ch. 4 "Nova: Harvest of Fear" Tonight at 9 on WNET/Ch. 13 1/2 SEVERAL years ago, I read a book which I loved...
GUMBEL DIVORCE NEAR
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amTHE nasty divorce battle between Bryant Gumbel and his estranged wife, June, is nearly over. The womanizing "Early Show" host and his wife of 27 years, have ironed out the...
BUZZ
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amLesbian health risks A new study suggests that the gay life, at least for women, may be hazardous to one's health. Higher rates of obesity and smoking and a lower...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amPig out Chapel Hill, N.C., may be a college town, but neighboring Hillsborough knows how to party. For the 19th annual Hillsborough Hog Day (June 15-16), the downtown gets all...
REGARDS TO OFF-B'WAY
April 24, 2001 | 4:00am'PROOF," David Auburn's drama about a woman who may have inherited her father's mental illness, yesterday won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Play. "Bat Boy," the new musical...
BILL'S 'GOOD' INTENTIONS MADE A MIDEAST MESS
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amTHIS past weekend, two bombs detonated inside Israel, killing a 53-year-old doctor and injuring more than 50 people. At almost the same moment, Bill Clinton was making an appearance in...
TEAMMATES ARE QUICK TO HELP
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amALLAN HOUSTON was on his way out the door when his wife called him back into the house. Tamara Houston told her husband she just heard on the news that...
BILL: YASSER GUN-HO FOR PEACE
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amFormer President Bill Clinton said Yasser Arafat wanted to wear a gun at the historic White House ceremony announcing the 1993 Middle East peace agreement. "I said, 'This is a...
FUROR OVER 'GUN' BOY AT B'KLYN PS
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amHundreds of parents at a Brooklyn elementary school vowed last night to keep their kids home for a second day today to protest the admission of a 10-year-old transfer student...
REV. AL HAS NO BRAVERY ON SLAVERY
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amSO, Al Sharpton endured physical discomfort, intense heat and the risk of a run-in with the tsetse fly to travel to Sudan, where he determined that, in fact, there is...
MISSIONARIES: U.S., PERU EXPLANATIONS OF TRAGEDY DON'T FLY
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amAn American Baptist group raised sharp questions yesterday about official U.S. and Peruvian explanations of the shooting down of a plane carrying missionaries. Peruvian authorities claim they thought the plane...
AD FIRM MAY RUE WOO OF TWO RIVAL SIDES
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amA MANHATTAN advertising agency that worked for Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign last year is trying to play both sides of the political fence in this year's mayoral race. The...
SUSPECT IS A REGULAR CONN. CON
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amSex offender, drug dealer, thief, forger and accused hostage-taker - Troy Crooms has crammed a lot of crime into his 28 years. He's on the state's "Megan's Law" registry of...
OTB BIG'S FIRM TIED TO CREDIT 'RIP-OFF'
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - A company headed by OTB Chairman and Republican state comptroller hopeful David Cornstein has been sued for credit-card "scams," it was learned yesterday. The suit, filed Friday by...
W. OPENS FIGHT FOR ED REFORM
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush yesterday kicked off his push for education reform - which is facing its first big test this week, with the Senate set to debate testing kids and spending...
SCOTTISH HEARTTHROB MAY BE THE NEXT 007
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amA hunky Scottish actor who recently played a super-sexed Attila the Hun and hot-blooded Count Dracula is being wooed to portray another famous lady-killer - James Bond. Gerard Butler is...
$2 PAIN IN GAS FOR DRIVERS
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amGas prices clobbered New York motorists yesterday, with a surprising, pre-summer spike that has sent some retail rates skyrocketing past a whopping $2 per gallon. "It went up another three...
BABY WAS ANSWERED PRAYER FOR INFERTILE MOTHER
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amPERUVIAN missionary Veronica Bowers had long prayed for a daughter - but months after adopting her beloved baby girl, she and her infant were killed by the same bullet. Roni...
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS' JUDGMENT DAY LOOM$
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amParents are praying for divine and financial intervention to prevent six cash-strapped Catholic schools from being shut down by Edward Cardinal Egan. The Archdiocese of New York yesterday started reviewing...
COPS EASE UP ON LETHAL LIVERY PICKUPS
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amTen of 12 livery drivers murdered last year were victims of passengers they picked up off the street - even as the city scaled back enforcement of the illegal practice,...
BUSH NIXES TAIWAN HIGH-TECH BOAT BUY
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush has decided not to sell high-tech U.S. destroyers with sophisticated combat radar to Taiwan - but he might reconsider if China doesn't move its nuclear missiles...
ALLAN NAMED POST'S NEW EDITOR IN CHIEF
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amVeteran Australian journalist Col Allan has been tapped as the new editor in chief of the New York Post. He replaces Xana Antunes, the editor of the paper, who resigned...
COPS GUARDING DA'S BUILDING
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amCops assigned a 24-hour guard to the apartment building where Brooklyn District Attorney Joe Hynes lives after gun-toting robbers responsible for a six-month plunder spree hit the building twice, officials...
UGLY IMAGES TARNISH BADGE IN KIDS' EYES
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN he was 10, Darnell Jones wanted to become a city cop. Not now. "I don't like it anymore," Darnell, now a 15-year-old Rice HS freshman, said. "I hear about...
NEW YORK COPS LEAVING IN FORCE - 3,000 READY TO RETIRE
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amA record-setting exodus of about 3,000 city cops this year - coupled with an inability to attract recruits - is shrinking the size of the NYPD for the first time...
SPECIAL-ED KIDS NOT MAKING GRADE
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amCity special-education students are flunking state exams at a far greater rate than in other parts of the state, Education Department statistics show. The number of special-ed kids in the...
DINKINS TO ED BOARD REP: QUIT
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amDavid Dinkins yesterday urged Manhattan representative Irving Hamer to resign from the Board of Education for voting to make Ninfa Segarra - an ally of Mayor Giuliani - the board's...
NIGHTMARE FOR KNICK'S SISTER - MARCUS HELPS CONN. POLICE END SEX SIEGE
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amKnick center Marcus Camby broke down in anguish yesterday after he helped free his sister from a terrifying hostage siege in which she was sexually brutalized and held at knifepoint...
ST. LOUIS SLAY SUSPECT BUSTED HERE
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amThe suspect in a vicious triple murder in St. Louis was busted yesterday by Manhattan housing cops who spotted him guzzling beer on the street, police said. Alleged drug dealer...
PRAYERS AND TEARS FOR TWO SISTERS KILLED IN CAR HORROR
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amTwo young sisters, killed by an out-of-control car, were mourned yesterday as girls who "always had a smile on their faces." Hundreds of relatives, neighbors and friends packed Nevsky Memorial...
S.I. MAN KILLS WIFE, SON AND HIMSELF
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amA Staten Island businessman, who may have been depressed over Wall Street losses, yesterday shot and killed his wife and grown son with a rifle before turning the weapon on...
NEW YORK POST: FROM APRIL 24, 1969
April 24, 2001 | 4:00am"The world's first recipient of a total eye transplant, John Madden, 55, was reported in excellent condition today at Methodist Hospital in Houston. It will be another three weeks before...
A PROFESSION NOT FOR THE FAINT OF FAITH
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S HARD enough for most Americans these days to understand why anyone would be a missionary. But when you bring children into the equation, as Jim Bowers and his late...
$25M SUIT IN PORSCHE SIDEWALK MOW-DOWN
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amThe parents of a Brooklyn boy mowed down by a car that killed two girls and critically injured their mother said yesterday they're praying for the driver's parents - even...
TEARS FOR TWO SISTERS KILLED IN CAR HORROR
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amTears and prayers resounded through a Brooklyn chapel yesterday at the funeral of two sisters killed when an out-of-control Porsche plowed into them last week. Hundreds of mourners packed into...
GRAPPLING GUMBELS CLOSE IN ON TRUCE
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amThe nasty divorce battle between Bryant Gumbel and his estranged wife June is nearly over. The womanizing "Early Show" host and June Gumbel, his wife of 27 years, have ironed...
MADONNA'S NEW PANTY MAN
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amMadonna's autographed leather bra-and-panties outfit is bound for a small Nebraska city, where a mild-mannered man plans to hang the unmentionables on his wall. "I'm proud to have it. I'm...
WILL THIS SELECTION BACKFIRE ON JINTS?
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amTHE three incriminating words were not printed any bigger or bolder than the others, but they nonetheless leaped off the page. They might as well have been flashing in neon....
TINY WEIGHS IN BIG ON WARD
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amNate Archibald played in plenty of playoff basketball games during his NBA career, 47 in fact. So the post-season musings of the man they call "Tiny" certainly carry some big-time...
WAYNE: M.J.'S STILL DRIVEN
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amTAKE IT from the greatest hockey player who ever lived. If the best basketball player who ever lived comes back after a three-year retirement, it is because Michael Jordan hasn't...
JOYNER-KERSEE STILL IN AWARD BUSINESS
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amTechnically, Jackie Joyner-Kersee retired from track and field in 1998. But who are we kidding? She still engages in a daily heptathlon of events, whether it means speaking at various...
VINNY APPLAUDS MOSS PICK
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amHE'D been rather quiet during the process. But then, keeping a low profile is what he's all about anyway. That's the way Vinny Testaverde is. He doesn't impose himself on...
LEWIS NEVER HAD CHIN TO BE CHAMP
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amWANNA hear a good one? It goes something like this: "Gee, now that Lennox Lewis got beat by Hasim Rahman, the door is wide open for Mike Tyson to become...
'JUNKYARD' MAY OPEN IN METRO AREA
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amRAPTOR NOTES TORONTO - If the Junkyard Dog is unleashed from Toronto as a free agent this summer, he wouldn't mind romping in New Jersey or New York next season....
BE AFRAID; BE VERY AFRAID ; LEAFS CAN EXPOSE DEVIL WEAKNESSES
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amTHEY outscored their first-round victim 20-8. They won when they had to, and won big, without their top center. And they overcame their haunting first-round bugaboo. Still, the Devils should...
CAMBY MAN LEAVES OAK BOARD STIFF
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Charles Oakley is a tough guy to impress. Even after Marcus Camby danced all over the Raptors for 18 rebounds in the opening game of the first-round play-...
HITCHCOCK'S BEING WATCHED
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES MILWAUKEE - The Mets are tracking the progress of Padres lefty Sterling Hitchcock's rehabilitation from Tommy John surgery, viewing him as an option if they need another pitcher,...
N.Y.'S STILL APPLE OF HOU'S EYE
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amAllan Houston does not want to leave the Knicks after the season, but he is prepared to do just that. Houston already has sold his house and is now renting...
ANSWER'S SIMPLE, SHOOT THE ROCK
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - While Vincible Carter (5-22) and distanced cousin Tracy McGrady (12-34) went down in Game 1 of their respective series with their barrels empty, Allen Iverson left way too...
EL DUQUE GETS GREEN LIGHT
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amThe Yankees were off yesterday, but ailing pitcher Orlando Hernandez picked up an important victory when a second exam showed his right elbow to be sore but structurally sound. El...
MADISON'S MOTIVATED TO WIN
April 24, 2001 | 4:00am5 INNINGS Madison 13 Midwood 1 Vinny Caiazza couldn't put his finger on it before his team's game yesterday, but something was bothering him. "I don't know what it is...
BENNY HAPPY RETURNS ; WITH HAMATE HEALED, AGBAYANI IS READY TO REJOIN AMAZIN'S
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - When Benny Agbayani was put on the disabled list two weeks ago, GM Steve Phillips estimated the recovery for Agbayani's chip fracture of the left hamate bone at...
JUST VIN, BABY! RAPTORS' HOPES HINGE ON CARTER GETTIN' IN GEAR
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - No one player is special enough to win this series for Toronto against the Knicks, the Raptors agree. But Toronto is not going to win this series without...
NEW YEAR, NEW ROLE FOR THOMAS
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amDuring last year's playoffs, Knick forward Kurt Thomas found a home in Jeff Van Gundy's doghouse. Then a reserve who occasionally struggled with bad fouls and worse defense, Van Gundy...
YANKNETS DEAL WITH JERSEY
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amYankeeNets has not been able to hammer out a deal yet with New Jersey regarding financing for its proposed Newark arena, but the parent company of the Yanks, Nets and...
KNICKS' WORLD ROCKED AGAIN: ALLEGED ASSAULT ON CAMBY'S SISTER PUTS HOOPS ON HOLD
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amThis was supposed to be a day of rest and relaxation for the Knicks to savor their emphatic, 92-85, Game 1 first-round victory over the Raptors. Instead, when the Knicks...
KNICKS' WORLD ROCKED AGAIN: WARD APOLOGIZES AFTER STERN ADDS FUEL TO FIRESTORM
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amNBA commissioner David Stern became the latest Jewish figure to condemn Charlie Ward for his published remarks about Jews and Jesus yesterday on the same day Ward said he will...
JAX: VINCE'S 'CHOKER' LABEL A BUM RAP
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES If Vince Carter ever gets the chance to play in the postseason against another team besides the Knicks, Mark Jackson said, maybe we'd be singing his praises as...
GIANTS SIGN TIGHT END
April 24, 2001 | 4:00amSPORTS SHORTS The Giants did not think they needed to fortify their offensive line or find a tight end in the NFL Draft nearly as much as outsiders did, which...