May 4, 2001

$300M FOR 10 AOL P'HOUSES

DESPITE the techno-recession, developers of the AOL Time Warner Centre will ask nearly $300 million for 10 of its penthouse condos. Two of the penthouse apartments in the planned twin-towered...

APRIL JOB LOSSES SET A GRISLY RECORD ; COULD TOP 1M FOR '01; NO SIGN OF QUICK RELIEF

Job losses are at their worst levels in more than eight years - with even more layoffs ahead. April's job cuts were the worst ever recorded by outplacement firm Challenger...

ZIFF DAVIS MEDIA GIVES 50 WALKING PAPERS

Ziff Davis Media said it will cut 50 people - about 5 percent of its work force of 1,000 people - in the latest round of axings to shake the...

RUBIN IS BACK TO FLACKING

Being a house husband and stay-at-home dad is not enough for Jamie Rubin any more. The former chief spokesperson for the State Department during the Clinton administration - now known...

EX-BANKER BAILS OUT ON DOT-COM, RETURNS TO M&A

A year and a half ago Jonathan Foster, a managing director at Lazard Freres & Co., joined a mini-exodus of bankers to dot-coms when he headed to Toysrus.com. Now he's...

NEXT CEO AT MERRILL COULD END A TRADITION

An old-guard departure makes it likely that, for the first time in Merrill Lynch's 85-year history, the nation's largest brokerage firm will be run by an investment banker - not...

HEADS ROLL AT SOFTWARE FIRM THAT SECURED KING E-BOOK

DigitalGoods, the software company responsible for the encryption of Steven King's "e-book "Riding The Bullet," which was cracked within 48 hours of its release, is on its way out. The...

DOW DIVES 80, NASDAQ OFF 74 ON RISE ; IN UNEMPLOYMENT

Rising unemployment and the prospect of more stingy consumers helped stop the stock rally in its tracks yesterday. Many analysts said there's no cause for alarm because the pullback was...

RAZORFISH FOUNDERS CUT

Razorfish founders Jeff Dachis and Craig Kanarick finally got the soft shoe in the pants yesterday and resigned their top executive positions. As the Web shop announced its second losing...

SKEPTICISM OVER QUATTRONE DEFENSE

Frank Quattrone sent out a sincere-sounding e-mail to his friends and clients yesterday, declaring his innocence in all matters pertaining to the myriad investigations of IPOs at his tech group...

BLAME 'THE 'SOPRANOS'; IT'S TURNED ME OFF 'THE JUDGE'

"The Judge" Sunday at 9 on NBC THE real problem with television these days is "The Sopranos." It's written so well, cast so impeccably, and acted so realistically that it...

THE STARR REPORT

More or Les: 'Celeb Survivor' could happen Last July, we ran a "Starr Report" item in which tough-guy actor Frank Stallone had a message for CBS chief Les Moonves: "Put...

'MUMMY' IS YUMMY ; SEQUEL CAMPIER BUT ENTERTAINING

THE MUMMY RETURNS 1/2 Big, jokey, effects-heavy sequel to the 1999 pyramid actioner.Running time: 125 minutes; Rated PG-13 (fights, scary creatures). At the 42nd St. E-walk, the Union Square, the...

BYRNE HOLDS HIS FIRE: A WORKAHOLIC ONE-MAN BAND FINALLY FINDS A SPACE THAT FITS

DAVID Byrne, best known as the voice and mastermind of Talking Heads, the seminal New York band, doesn't want to talk about big suits or old bands regrouping for a...

'FROM THE SUN' CUTS NO 'ICE'

ICE FROM THE SUN Half a star ERIC Stanze's film seems to be a long spoof of the most juvenile and pretentious low-budget "avant-garde" filmmaking, though it's mischievously billed as...

THE OTHER 'AIDA' IS AT THE OTHER MET

IMAGINE hearing "Aida" - the Elton John-Tim Rice version - in the shadow of an ancient Egyptian temple. You don't have to fly to Egypt to do it. Monday night...

TREASURES LIE BENEATH 'SAND'

UNDER THE SAND Elegant story of a middle-aged woman devastated by the disappearance of her husband of 25 years.In French, with English subtitles. Running time: 90 minutes. Not rated (sex)....

MORMON MYSTERY

BRIGHAM CITY Middling thriller with an intriguing setting.Running time: 120 minutes. Rated PG-13 (moderate violence). At the Two Boots Pioneer, Avenue A and East Third Street. 'BRIGHAM City" is a...

'PAVILION OF WOMEN': THE BUCK STOPS HERE

PAVILION OF WOMEN One from column Z.Running time: 119 minutes. Rated R (sex, violence). At the Empire, the Quad, the First & 62nd, others. CHINA'S official state newspaper recently hailed...

'GONG' RINGS NO BELLS

MARK MORRISAmerican Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center. (212) 362-6000. Season runs through June 23. MARK Morris is one of three modern-dance choreographers - the others being...

CULKIN CLASS ACT IN MAGICAL 'MELVILLE'

MADAME MELVILLE At the Promenade Theatre, 2162 Broadway, at 76th Street; (212) 580-1313 or Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. MACAULAY Culkin turns out to be quite the actor.He plays, in Richard Nelson's...

EX-'SURVIVOR:' IT'S SO PAINFUL

EMBATTLED former "Survivor" contestant Stacey Stillman - who is suing CBS over the way she was treated on the original series - can't figure out how watching people suffer became...

WINDOW SHOPPING FOR SEE-NN

CNN is actively considering building a street-level studio - like those used by the "Today" show and Fox News Channel - in the Time Life Building on Sixth Avenue. "We...

BLOOD FEUD OVER 'BUFFY' AS... SORE LOSERS SAY THE SHOW'S OVER BEFORE IT SWITCHES TO UPN

BITTER WB execs - rankled that the network lost "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" to UPN - are promoting the season finale as the "WB series" finale. Despite being technically correct...

IT'S A LONG SHOT, BUT.... 'PRODUCERS' MAY BE THE 'LITTLE SHOW' THAT COULD

I am going to go out on a limb today and make a breathtakingly bold prediction: "The Producers" is going to get a lot of Tony Award nominations Monday morning.Now...

JUSTICE STUCK IN SPIRALING SLUMP

Yankee Notes BALTIMORE - Joe Torre hoped a pre-game chat with David Justice would help his DH get out of a very deep funk. Instead, Justice went hitless in four...

CARGO KITTY SURVIVES OVERSEAS ODYSSEY

A brave kitty survived a tortuous three-week ocean voyage from the Middle East to Britain - trapped inside a shipping container. The scrawny gray feline - who's been nicknamed Felix...

WHAT'S POWELL'S EXCUSE?

SO far, only three of the 14 members of the Bush Cabinet have had a rocky time of it. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Environmental Protection Agency chief Christine Todd...

NEW YORK POST: FROM MAY 4, 1970

"Four students - including two girls - were killed at Kent State University in Ohio today in a confrontation with National Guardsmen and police in an antiwar rally at the...

FAB FOUR'S GEORGE HAS LUNG TUMOR REMOVED

Former Beatle George Harrison, who survived a cancer scare four years ago, recently had a malignant tumor removed from his lung, his lawyers revealed yesterday. Harrison, who gave up smoking...

MUSLIM GROUPS RIP FDNY'S BID TO HIRE DIALLO COP

Muslim leaders yesterday urged city fire officials to search their souls about hiring one of the cops who killed Amadou Diallo - and said a Muslim chaplain should help them....

OH, BABY! CLOSE CALL - MEDIC HELPS DAD DELIVER AND SAVE INFANT VIA PHONE

A quick-thinking paramedic helped a jumpy Long Island dad deliver his first child over the phone - then instructed him how to resuscitate the baby girl when she wouldn't breathe....

WATCH FOR THESE CLUES FROM YOUR KIDS

Parents on the lookout for sexual abuse of their children need to play the role of detective, looking for subtle changes in behavior that are most often the sign of...

AXED LOTTO GAL HAS KUBY IN HER CORNER

The Manhattan woman fired as a lottery announcer is hoping to improve her odds by hiring high-profile lawyer Ron Kuby. "It's possible we'll file an employment-discrimination suit," said Kuby, who...

PATAKI REPAYS STATE FOR 'POLITICAL' FLIGHTS

ALBANY - Gov. Pataki revealed yesterday he reimbursed the state $7,400 for politically connected trips in the past two years, but his office provided few details. Pataki, under attack from...

RUDY RIPS 'WACKY' JUDGE FOR TOILET-SEX COP RULING

Mayor Giuliani yesterday ripped into a Manhattan judge for reinstating a cop canned for having sex with a hooker in a courthouse bathroom, calling the move "wacky" and "totally crazy."...

MARK THESE NAMES - THEY BUNGLED IT

EVERYTHING you need to know about PS 78 in The Bronx - the school that harbored an accused serial child-rapist on its faculty - I learned in a two-minute telephone...

COUNCIL TARGETS AREAS TO CUT INFANT MORTALITY

The City Council today plans to allocate $5 million to help reduce infant mortality in 10 neighborhoods around the city, The Post has learned. The funding boost comes in response...

W. NILE TACTICS SHIFT AWAY FROM JUST SPRAY - NEW AIM: PREVENT SKEETERS

The city's war against the West Nile virus will rage on this summer - with less pesticide spraying, but stiff fines for those who let mosquitoes breed. Mayor Giuliani and...

IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, DON'T BAR THIS HERO

HER name is Jill Gregor and she has the admirable fault of being innocent for her 24 years. Born in Michigan but educated at Byram HS in Westchester, she was...

ANOTHER SCORCHER FORECAST

T-shirts and tank tops ruled yesterday as Mother Nature treated the Big Apple to an early dose of sizzling summer weather. It was the second record-breaking day in a row,...

NIKI STILL 'FIGHTING' AFTER 8-HR. SURGERY

Supermodel Niki Taylor underwent eight hours of surgery yesterday to repair her damaged liver - and told her sister she'll fight to stay alive. Niki, 26, entered the operating room...

GREAT TRAIN ROBBER: IT'S THE END OF THE LINE FOR LIFE ON LAM

THE world's most famous fugitive, Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, says he wants to end his 35 years on the lam, return to England and give himself up. Biggs, 71,...

HILL: NO EMBRACING SUHA'S LATEST 'OFFENSE'

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who got into trouble for hugging and kissing Suha Arafat, blasted the PLO chairman's wife yesterday for her latest "offensive and very disgusting" comments. Mrs. Arafat,...

3 CHINESE CHARGED IN SPY RING AT LUCENT

Another U.S.-China spy imbroglio erupted yesterday after two scientists were charged with stealing secrets from Lucent Technologies and selling them to a Chinese state-run firm. Chinese computer scientists Hai Lin,...

BUDGET BLABBING DRAGS ON

WASHINGTON - Congress was still haggling last night over the fine print in next year's federal budget - agreeing only that President Bush's tax cut won't exceed $1.35 trillion. The...

STATE POLS NO-SHOWS FOR YANKS' DAY IN D.C.

Most of New York's congressional delegation will be AWOL this morning, when baseball-loving President Bush toasts the Yankees at the White House. Only six of the state's 33 House and...

MOM RELIVES SON'S MOLEST NIGHTMARE

The face still haunts his dreams. Despite three years of therapy, a 12-year-old Bronx boy still sees the face of teacher Milton McFarlane when he sleeps. And though he has...

THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW: RUDY

A furious Mayor Giuliani yesterday asked the City Council to draft a new law that would force educators to report crimes in public schools to the police. "Obviously, I'm outraged...

COP VAN HITS MAN DURING CHASE

A police van chasing another van that jumped a red light through Midtown traffic struck an elderly pedestrian near the Queens-Midtown Tunnel yesterday. Ubencio Baez, 78, of Manhattan was hit...

CITY PAID FARE FOR MRS. HEVESI'S FREE RIDES

City Comptroller Alan Hevesi's wife has used a city driver to ferry her to and from medical appointments and public appearances with her husband, The Post has learned. The highly...

CHARITY FOUNDATION DISSOLVED

One of the city's largest foundations is going out of business - and that's great news for the charities it helps, the state attorney general's office said yesterday. Eliot Spitzer...

WOMAN NABBED IN WELFARE SCAM

A Brooklyn woman was arrested yesterday for collecting $51,578 in welfare benefits over a five-year period while her husband worked for the city's welfare agency. Authorities said Rosie McKnight-Wheeler began...

STUDENTS SKIP TESTS WITH PARENTS' BLESSING

Eighth-graders at one of the city's premier alternative schools will boycott five state exams over nine days because their parents believe it's overkill and a waste of time. The revolt...

BUSH RIPS SUDAN, CHINA ON HUMAN RIGHTS

WASHINGTON - President Bush last night blasted Sudan for its slavery and China for religious persecution, saying some crimes are so "monstrous" that America must speak out. It was a...

DICTATOR'S SON IN DAFFY DISNEY BUST

The son of North Korea's Stalinist dictator, Kim Jong Il, posed as a Dominican Republic citizen so he could sneak into Japan to visit Tokyo Disneyland, Japanese media report today....

PARENTS: HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN? - OUTRAGED THAT 'KID SEX' TEACHER WAS STILL ON JOB

Furious parents last night demanded to know why a Bronx teacher charged with sodomizing one student and molesting two others remained on the job despite similar accusations in 1998. More...

SEQUEL SLOUCHES TO MIND-NUMBING END

WAKE me when it's over! That thought occurred to me at least a dozen times during last night's marathon finale of "Survivor 2." A number of adjectives came to mind...

TINA TOPS 'EM ALL FOR A MIL

Tough Tina Wesson, the sentimental favorite to win "Survivor: The Australian Outback," won the $1 million grand prize last night. Wesson, a private nurse from Tennessee, learned she had won...

ARSONIST TORCHES L.I. FIREHOUSE

A Long Island arsonist succeeded yesterday in his second attempt to destroy his target - a firehouse. The first fire at the Bellmore Fire Headquarters, which took place 4 a.m....

BLOOMBERG FUMES OVER CYBER-ROASTING

Michael Bloomberg may have millions and hopes of being the next mayor of New York, but he won't get any votes from the folks at a Web site called "michaelbloombergsucks.com."...

SUBWAY-SINKING ON NEW COURSE

The Transit Authority is still searching for a state willing to let the city's aging "Redbird" subway cars sleep with their fishes. Now that New Jersey and Maryland have snubbed...

BUDGET WAR IS DOWN TO NICKELS AND DIMES

WASHINGTON - Congress was still haggling last night over the fine print in next year's federal budget - agreeing only that President Bush's tax cut won't exceed $1.35 trillion. The...

3 CHINESE CHARGED IN SPYING RING AT LUCENT

Another U.S.-China spy imbroglio erupted yesterday after two scientists were charged with stealing secrets from Lucent Technologies and selling them to a Chinese state-run firm. Chinese computer scientists Hai Lin,...

S. POLE DOC IN U.S. HOSP FOR SURGERY

A doctor, rescued from the South Pole in a first-ever winter airplane landing there, is in Colorado, preparing for gallbladder surgery. Dr. Ronald Shemenski could be operated on as early...

DIRTY DOMI, LEAFS KO DEVILS

GAME 4 Maple Leafs 3 Devils 1 TORONTO - The other disgusting thing is that Tie Domi may have dethroned the Stanley Cup champs by nearly decapitating Scott Niedermayer. "They'll...

SORIANO GIVES YANKS A LEG UP ; ROOKIE'S SPEED THE DIFFERENCE VS. ORIOLES

Yankees 7 Orioles 5 BALTIMORE - Young legs. There is no substitute for them anywhere. In erecting the latest baseball dynasty, the Yankees have blended the electric arms of Andy...

NCAA NOT FIXING PROBLEM ; SHUTTING OUT LAS VEGAS SHIFTS ACTION TO BOOKIES

THE NCAA, in its war against gambling on college games, is driven by good intentions, public relations and a distinct ignorance of the enemy. Let us say, for the moment,...

MIXED BAG IS ON MENU

IT seems as if we've gone from winter to summer and just passed over spring, but the saltwater action right now has a little bit of everything. Striped bass are...

EXPRESS TOUR WORKS

LOUISVILLE - Sheikh Mohammed's Dubai dandy Express Tour, a sleeper for tomorrow's Kentucky Derby, took an express tour over a fast track at Churchill Downs yesterday morning, working four furlongs...

TWO MINUTES FOR WHINING ; DEVILS SCOFF AT LEAFS' COINCIDENTAL-PENALTY THEORY

TORONTO - Lucky to be leading this series, Larry Robinson accused the Maple Leafs of whining yesterday. The Leafs, who trailed this series 2-1 as they played Game 4 here...

STEAMED METS CAN'T CATCH FIRE

A LOT HAS BEEN made about all the guys the Mets didn't sign in the offseason. Alex Rodriguez, Mike Mussina and Mike Hampton top the list. But, like Hampton, another...

ONLY 10 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN

LOUISVILLE - The weather forecast for Derby Day tomorrow is partly cloudy, with the temperature hitting 80 and a 10 per cent chance of rain.

IT'S GONNA BE A CLASSIC

LOUISVILLE - The 127th Kentucky Derby, set to go tomorrow, might be the most perfectly designed horse race of the decade. In a word, it's a blockbuster. Headed by a...

LEITER TO TEST ELBOW

MET NOTES First, the Mets hoped Al Leiter's left elbow injury, diagnosed April 21, would push his next start back two days to April 28 in St. Louis. Then they...

ADELPHI LANDS ROBESON STAR

It's not often that a player from the city goes to a college that went through the regular season undefeated and then reached the Elite Eight in tournament, but that's...

DUARTE HEADING TO MONMOUTH

1ST RACE - Alittlebitbrassy again ducked in at the start, but this time Julio Pezua gathered her up and used the whip to hustle her hard to the lead. The...

PREP STAR FITZ IN AT TWO SPORTS

Iona Prep 13 Mt. St. Michael 7 Brian Fitzpatrick could be one of the best pitchers in the city, but he's pretty busy doing other things - especially playing golf....

VG: PRACTICE NOT PERFECT

KNICK NOTES If the Knicks needed another reason to build their own practice site, they got it yesterday. Because of a student circus show, the Knicks were shoved into an...

WAR OF THE ROSES RESULT IS A 'GIVEN'

LOUISVILLE -There are two schools of thought when it comes to handicapping tomorrow's 127th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, "the most exciting two minutes in sports" (Ch. 4, 5-6:30 p.m.,...

STRAIGHT FROM HORSEMEN'S MOUTH

Here is how some of thoroughbred racing's top horsemen analyze tomorrow's Kentucky Derby:D. WAYNE LUKAS (trained Derby winner Thunder Gulch, sire of Point Given): "If anyone's going to win it,...

OAK'S NO TNT FAN

RAPTOR NOTES TORONTO - The latest installment of "Oak Against the World" yesterday featured our hero, Charles Oakley, taking on a prominent cable network after it aired an interview with...

FIRED-UP KNICKS IN FIGHTIN' MOOD: LIVID SPREWELL TELLS MATES: NO MORE EXCUSES

Latrell Sprewell and Mark Jackson said they expect to spend Sunday in Philadelphia. Spree challenged Marcus Camby to bring his "A" game tonight, no more sympathy, no more excuses. He...

DEFEAT'S NOT AN OPTION FOR JEFF TROOP

DO or die. Three little words form the biggest sports cliche of them all. Once again it's a face-to-face meeting with fate tonight for the Knicks when they battle the...

KNICKS CREATED A MONSTER

KNOW the difference between genuine title contenders and authentic pretenders? The former goes for the jugular, while the latter gets something caught in their throat. The Heimlich Hi-jinx was very...

CAMBY HAS TO STEP UP

NO, there are no Charles Oakleys on the Knicks anymore. No one in blue and orange threw it down at Marcus Camby's feet yesterday, or stuck it in his face,...

VINCE RIM-ROCKER STILL IRKS KNICKS

He was disgusted when he experienced it and repulsed when he re-lived it. Film doesn't lie, and right there, for all to see during yesterday's tape session, the Knicks were...

RAPTORS FLYING INTO THE UNKNOWN

TORONTO - Individually, some have been there with other teams, like Chris Childs and Charles Oakley with the Knicks or Antonio Davis with the Pacers. Collectively, the Raptors are venturing...

KNICKS MISSING IN MIDDLE

It is a measure to how far he has come as a player that Kurt Thomas views an eight-point, 10-rebound game with disdain. It is also an indication of how...

IT'S MATCH POINT FOR CHRIS, JAX

It is often complex to measure who got the better of a blockbuster trade. In the Knicks-Raptors case, it has never been so simple. Tonight's winner of Game 5 -...

A SMIRKING PUNK DISGRACES THE GAME

TORONTO - It can be a brutal and vicious game, everyone who takes the ice in an NHL playoff match understands that. It is part of the territory that comes...

JACKSON, CHILDS SET FOR MATCH POINT

It is often complex to measure who got the better of a blockbuster trade. In the Knicks-Raptors' case, it has never been so simple. Tonight's winner of Game 5 -...

YANKS STUMBLE PAST UGLY O'S - BULLPEN, SORIANO GROUND BIRDS

Yankees 7 - Orioles 5 BALTIMORE - Last night's game between the Yankees and Orioles at Camden Yards would have to ride an elevator a few floors up in order...

GIAMBI ON BRONX HORIZON - AL MVP CAN SEE HIMSELF IN PINSTRIPES THIS SUMMER

BALTIMORE - When it comes to looking at making changes, it's never too early in the Yankees' universe. And with the Yankees at 15-13 last night thanks to a lot...

TORRE BELIEVES TWINS HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR

YANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - Despite several Twins players being concerned for their safety when they open a three-game series at Yankee Stadium Tuesday night, Joe Torre hopes Yankee fans don't...

WINNING TAKES STING OUT OF A LINE'S SLUMBER PETR MAKING NO EXCUSES

TORONTO - Petr Sykora may not have recorded so much as a point in the first three games of the Eastern semis, and the usually dominant A Line on which...