May 16, 2001
MARCHFIRST IS EVICTED
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe dot-bombs and their fellow e-travelers continue to leave carnage in their wake. Internet consultants MarchFirst Inc., which tumbled from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 liquidation, just had about 150,000...
WHO'S LAUGHING NOW, CHAINSAW? - SEC FILES FRAUD CASE, WANTS BAN
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amInfamous corporate hatchet man "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap is getting his payback. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed fraud charges yesterday against the 63-year-old former head of Sunbeam for allegedly cooking...
ZANY BRAINY BLAMES BEANIE BABIES FOR CH. 11
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amWhen it came down to it, Zany Brainy just couldn't digest Noodle Kidoodle. And soft beanie baby sales didn't help any. Zany Brainy, which specializes in educational toys and games,...
DOBBS WINS FOR 'LOU'-SING
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amLou did it. The CNN business news king who returned to the network to help the struggling "Moneyline" regain its audience, did just that on his first night Monday. Dobbs...
BERTELSMANN CLOSES THE BOOKS ON BOL
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amBertelsmann AG gave up on its European online bookseller BOL.com yesterday, unable to see it making a profit on its own. The company spent big on the outfit in an...
CARTIER'S 9 U.S. DIVISIONS SCALE OLYMPIC TOWER
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amEXECUTIVES at nine different Cartier businesses will be taking over two giant floors at Olympic Tower. The tony group in the new digs includes the North American division heads and...
INVESTORS SHRUG OFF LATEST CUT
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amWall Street got what it wanted from the Fed yesterday - but you wouldn't know it by watching the stock market. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, a master at throwing...
BY GEORGE, INSTYLE'S GOT A PRESIDENT!
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe feud between the Newhouse family and the AOL Time Warner empire was ratcheted up another notch yesterday when the Newhouse-owned Fairchild Publications was raided for the new top executive...
THE FED MAY CHOP RATE AGAIN IN '01
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amHoping to bolster a sluggish economy, the Federal Reserve Board slashed benchmark interest rates to their lowest in seven years - and suggested it is poised to cut again if...
BIDS FOR POPE'S BOOK
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amPOPE John Paul II, holder of the record for a non-fiction book advance, is said to be back in the market with a new eight-volume book of prayers - and...
'SHREK' IT OUT: AN UNLIKELY LOVABLE OGRE CAVORTS IN AN INSTANT FAIRY-TALE CLASSIC
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amSHREK * * * * A FAT green ogre with a grouchy disposition and worse manners, "Shrek" is the sort of unlikely hero that nobody could love - except just...
SIMPLY A ROOMFUL OF SEOUL
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amEMO'S 1564 SECOND AVE. (BETWEEN 81ST & 82ND STREETS) (212) 628-8699 MY first dinner at Emo's was so delightful, I almost levitated from the seat. The Upper East Side's lively...
NY'S WEIRDEST EATERY
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amAFTER reviewing restaurants for 2½ years and thinking I'd seen some strange joints, I finally found the weirdest place in New York.What does "weirdest" mean in a town where waiters...
THE STARR REPORT
May 16, 2001 | 4:00am'Nightly' takes 'World' beating Peter Jennings and ABC's "World News Tonight" have broken Tom Brokaw's year-long stranglehold on the evening news race. For the first time in 53 weeks, "World...
ELLEN'S NOT SO RADICAL RETURN TO TV
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amELLEN DeGeneres, who made TV history when she came out as the first openly gay main character on a network, is returning to TV. But it is a far different...
EIFMAN'S 'JUAN' FOR THE BOOKS
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amEIFMAN BALLETCity Center, 131 W. 55th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues; (212) 581-1212. Through Sunday. THE Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg's annual residency at City Center opened last weekend...
SOME LIKE IT COLD
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amTHE GRAPEVINE WHEN the weather starts to get hot, there's nothing like a nice cold glass of - red wine?Yep. That's how they drink it in the Beaujolais region of...
HBO GRATEFUL FOR THE DEAD: TALK ABOUT A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW! AS 'SOPRANOS' TAKES A BREAK...
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amHBO grateful for the dead HOW do you follow "The Sopranos"? HBO is counting on a new series, about another dysfunctional family that is surrounded by death, to keep viewers...
CENTRAL PARK GOES GLOBAL ; ALL THE WORLD'S A SUMMERSTAGE
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Cowboy Junkies' singer Margo Timmons, "Carbaret" star Gena Gershon and old-school rapper Doug E. Fresh were on hand last night at the downtown club Joe's Pub with Parks Commissioner...
A BUMMER FOR BABS: WALTERS BUMPED TO MAKE WAY FOR DIVORCÉE ROMANCE
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amABC News icon Barbara Walters is taking a bullet for the network's struggling drama, "Once and Again." In an effort to save the Sela Ward family drama, ABC is booting...
POLISHING A PIECE OF THE ROCK ; LOCAL LURE: DRINK AT THE RINK!
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amEVEN landmarks can use a makeover now and then.So when Rockefeller Center's famous sunken outdoor dining area that replaces the skating rink during the summer reopens next week, it will...
WILL DISPIRITO RULE THE WORLD?
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amON THE SIDE DONALD Trump has zeroed in on a new chef for his restaurant space in the new Trump World Tower. Sources say he's about to ink a deal...
NEW YORK POST FROM MAY 16, 1939
May 16, 2001 | 4:00am"ROCHESTER- Ralston Thayer, a sandy-haired machinist who has been out of work since last July, walked through the rain this morning to the old post office building with four $1...
PHONE FIEND TERRORIZES WOMEN
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amA nasty phone pervert has been terrorizing Long Island women by telling them their mother or daughter will be gang-raped unless the phone victim performs sex acts for him. In...
2ND ARREST IN QNS. CABBY SLAY
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amA second suspect is under arrest in last month's slaying of a livery driver in Queens. Ronald Coleman, 45, is charged with second-degree murder, police said yesterday. He was arrested...
A LIFE ON THE LEFT - AND LEAVING IT
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S hard not to envy the life that historian Ronald Radosh has led. It's also difficult not to be awed at the skill with which he eventually navigated his often-painful...
SEEING THROUGH DONNA'S DIRTY TRICKS
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amHERE'S a news flash for those who've lived in a cave for eight years: Rudy Giuliani does not mince words. Our mayor is direct. Abrasive, even. Admit it, New Yorkers....
DAD: 'COWARDS' DESERVE DEATH
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe father of one of the Carnegie Deli massacre victims yesterday called his son's killers "cowards" who should "pay big time" when the NYPD tracks them down. Stephen King, 32,...
MEN OF MIRTH EXPLAIN THIS VILLAGE IDIOCY
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amJACKIE MASON, the ultimate articulator of the English language, a renowned scholar of the law of spelling, knew how Bleecker became Bleeker. "That sign could have been there for toity...
PIGEON POOP POISONING 70% OF OUR CHILDREN
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amNearly three-quarters of Big Apple kids may have been exposed to a pigeon-poop fungus that can cause vomiting, fever and other illnesses, a new study revealed yesterday. According to researchers...
'DEAD' VOTERS A LIVE ISSUE
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Senate Republicans want to crack down on dead voters. A proposed package of election reforms released yesterday calls for a statewide voter registration database that GOP lawmakers said...
RUDY, LEVY LOCK HORNS
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani and Schools Chancellor Harold Levy took off the gloves yesterday in their school-funding fight. Levy blasted the mayor's spending plan as depriving the Board of Education of $432...
PAUL TEED-OFF AT YOKO AGAIN
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amA bitter Paul McCartney still blames Yoko Ono today for keeping him from getting all the credit for the song "Yesterday." The song, which McCartney says he alone wrote, has...
FRAUD WAS IN THE CARDS - COP ACCUSED OF STEALING IDS FOR CREDIT SCAM
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amA Manhattan cop was busted yesterday for using internal NYPD promotions lists to rack up massive credit-card bills in the names of recently promoted police brass. Investigators say Thomas Perry,...
'THE BIRDS' ATTACK 'THEIR' AUTHOR'S SON
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amNovelist Daphne du Maurier wrote the story that inspired the classic Alfred Hitchcock horror flick "The Birds" - and now, her son has been terrorized by creatures eerily reminiscent of...
STREET NAMED FOR N.Y. POET
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amOne of the best-known streets in Greenwich Village - once a hotbed of anarchists, suffragettes, artists and writers - was, appropriately, named after a writer. Anthony Bleecker was a 19th-century...
GRAVANO, SON FACE JOINT TRIAL
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn federal judge yesterday ruled that Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano and his son, Gerard, will be tried together on drug charges. Calling it "unnecessary," District Judge Allyne Ross yesterday...
DEM LOOKS FUEL-ISH ON CONSERVATION
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt yesterday called for more conservation to ease the energy crisis - after hitching a ride to his news conference in a gas-guzzling SUV....
'BLEEKER' SIGNS SPELL TROUBLE FOR CITY DEPT.
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amRed-faced Department of Transportation officials deserve a big fat F for a street-sign spelling blunder - but what they really need is a C. Eight brown signs recently installed in...
ATLANTA SEX-CLUB TRIAL GETS WACKY
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amATLANTA - An FBI agent threw a videotape at a defense lawyer, while another lawyer began a mock strip yesterday as tensions rose in the trial of an allegedly mob-connected...
GOTTA GIVE FED CREDIT: CUT MAKES IT CHEAPER TO BORROW
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amYour credit-card bills next month likely will be shaved by as much as $10 in interest charges, thanks to Alan Greenspan. But whether you should go out and charge more...
SHE SHARED HER REEFER GLADNESS:DONATED HER POT TO THOSE WITH AIDS, CANCER
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe marijuana dealer slain in the Carnegie Deli massacre enjoyed the profits from her illegal business, but she also donated pot to AIDS and cancer sufferers, she said in an...
AX WAX ARAFAT, POLS SAY
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amMore than 50 state lawmakers are demanding Madame Tussaud's yank a statue of a smiling Yasser Arafat from an exhibit of world leaders - but the 42nd Street wax museum...
TAXI RECEIPT KEY TO $4M CELLO RESCUE
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amA world-renowned cellist was singing a happy tune yesterday after recovering a $4 million instrument he absent-mindedly left in the trunk of a taxicab. Luckily for soloist Lynn Harrell, he...
HILL DOESN'T 'NURSE' GRUDGE WITH GOPER
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON has forgiven the withering attacks from Republican Rep. Sue Kelly, who a year ago ripped Clinton as a "carpetbagger" with a "radical liberal agenda." Clinton told...
METAL DETECTOR DETAINS BULLET-BITING PRISONER
May 16, 2001 | 4:00am"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" took on a new meaning yesterday for a Rikers Island inmate who swallowed a bullet in his bologna sandwich. Accused drug dealer Louis...
GRACIE WAR JUDGE BEGINS 'PAPER WAIT'
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe judge in the heavyweight divorce fight between Mayor Giuliani and Donna Hanover is going to the scorecards today to decide whether the mayor's "good friend" should be allowed in...
FUROR OVER 'DOMESTIC PARTNER' PUSH
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe four Democratic mayoral hopefuls are backing a little-noticed bill that would force companies to provide benefits to "domestic partners" as a condition for doing business with the city -...
SEWER WAR ON SKEETER VIRUS
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amDon't call the cops if you see people dropping things in sewers all over town. It's just Health Department workers who've started adding larvicide pellets to the city's 145,000 catch...
ACCUSED MOM SAYS NFL GIANT KILLED SON
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amA teenage mother held in the shaking death of her 4-year-old son yesterday said her boyfriend, a New York Giant rookie, "killed my baby." Although prosecutors said evidence suggested that...
HE MAKES HIS LIVING BRINGING COP KILLERS TO JUSTICE
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amTHE "Dumbfella" trial of Henry Vega - charged with gunning down an off-duty cop in 1987 - is sweet justice for one NYPD detective who devoted 12 years to bringing...
GOOD NEWS ON READING TESTS HERE
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe city's fourth-grade reading scores jumped 3 percentage points this year - but a majority of students still fail to meet state standards, The Post has learned. Results of the...
JENNIFER WASN'T HOME FIRST TIME
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amSean Salley, the prime suspect in the Carnegie Deli murders, went to Jennifer Stahl's apartment two weeks earlier with a gun in his waistband and robbery on his mind -...
BILL ACCEPTS B'KLYN TEEN'S GRAD INVITE
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn girl who wrote a letter to former President Bill Clinton asking him to speak at her high-school graduation said yesterday she was thrilled that he will make her...
'JACKSONS' ARE AUCTION HEROES
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amMichael wasn't the only Jackson who brought down the house last night at a Sotheby's auction. A larger-than-life ceramic statue of the Gloved One with his favorite chimp, Bubbles, went...
HEVESI KING OF QUEENS
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amComptroller Alan Hevesi is expected to win the backing of the Queens Democratic organization - giving a big boost to his mayoral campaign while dealing a sharp blow to his...
MCVEIGH'S LETTER: NO 'JOHN DOE'
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amTimothy McVeigh told a Texas newspaper there never was a "John Doe No. 2" who helped him blow up the Oklahoma City federal building, it was revealed yesterday. Many of...
27 ARRESTED FOR BLOCKING U.N. IN VIEQUES PROTEST
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amCops yesterday arrested 27 protesters who oppose bombing on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques when they tried to block the entrance to the United Nations. The 27 - including...
'CATASTROPHIC' DAY OF MIDEAST KILLINGS
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - An Israeli woman was fatally ambushed and four Palestinians, including a Hamas leader's bodyguard, were killed yesterday as Arab militants marked the "catastrophe" of Israeli independence. More than...
MCVEIGH LETTER DISMISSES DOE NO. 2
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amTimothy McVeigh told a Texas newspaper there never was a "John Doe No. 2" who helped him blow up the Oklahoma City federal building, it was revealed yesterday. Many of...
TEXAS CAN BAR PRO-O.J. JURORS
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amPeople who think O.J. Simpson is innocent of murder can be excluded from serving on a Texas jury, an appeals court has ruled. A Houston appeals court has signed off...
GAS-GUZZLIN' DEM URGING AMERICANS TO CUT DOWN
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON -Top House Democrat Dick Gephardt yesterday called for more conservation to help ease the energy crisis -after hitching a ride to his news conference in a gas-guzzling SUV. As...
BLAKE ADDS TOP LAWYER TO HIS DREAM TEAM
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES -Actor Robert Blake formed his own legal Dream Team yesterday as cops rifled through a mountain of clues -including tapes that murder victim Bonny Bakley made of talks...
PENS' HEDBERG STANDING TALL
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe Devils went Moose hunting last night and learned that Johan Hedberg is more than a feel-good story who's making these NHL playoffs his personal proving grounds. Hedberg got bombarded...
JONES: IN '01, FELIX
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amRoy Jones Jr. did not watch Felix Trinidad dismantle William Joppy last Saturday night, but a friend of Jones' was at the Garden and reported back to the light heavyweight...
RICK TO THE RESCUE: REED GEM SYTMIES SAN DIEGO, STOPS AMAZIN'S SLIDE
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amMets 1 Padres 0 It had been years since the Mets had been this bad for this long, a last-place punching bag in mid-May. They'd come home from a disastrous...
VALENTINE SHOWS FAITH IN ARMANDO
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Bobby Valentine showed marked faith in Armando Benitez, sending him in to finish off Rick Reed's 1-0 win over the Padres last night at Shea. Benitez had struggled...
'A P' PRIMED FOR REBOUND
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - One of the soundest truisms in horse racing is: forgive a good horse one bad race, never forgive him two bad races. For those who liked A P...
IT'S VALENTINE'S DAY FOR ESPINOZA
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - After searching all week for a jockey to ride A P Valentine in Saturday's Preakness Stakes, trainer Nick Zito announced late yesterday afternoon that Victor Espinoza, the top...
CHECKETTS LEAVES GARDEN IN TURMOIL
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amWith six weeks left until Allan Houston and Chris Webber become free agents, with the NBA Draft coming up in late June, with a slew of off-season questions regarding a...
GARDEN JOB IS WAY TOO BIG FOR ONE MAN
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amTHE sum total of the Dave Checketts Era at Madison Square Garden is as follows: 10 years served. Countless millions spent. One championship delivered. And that came from the team...
MET SIT LIST GROWS ; AILING ROBIN, FONZIE JOIN UNHEALTHY CLUB
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amFollowing a disastrous road trip with a vital homestand, if there was ever a time the Mets needed to be healthy physically and mentally, and ready to turn around their...
DOLAN'S RISE WAS HARDLY SURPRISE
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amPROFILEDecision by James Dolan (above) to ax Dave Checketts yesterday proved that MSG chairman has Knick and Ranger fans' interest at heart, according to sources inside Garden.N.Y. Post: David Rentas...
ON ICE, DAVE'S LEGACY IS PURE DINKY-RINK
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amTHREE titles between two teams in 61 years. That's 112 out of 115 seasons (the Knicks didn't exist until 1946) in which all of Madison Square Garden's resources couldn't get...
CHECKETTS LEAVES GARDEN IN TURMOIL: NOW JEFF'S DIRECTLY IN LINE OF FIRE
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amGIVE Jim Dolan credit. For all of Dave Checketts' person-to-person business sense, time ran out on the Teflon Man. Someone had to pay the price for the Knicks' current state...
OZARIO'S HIT SPARKS GW
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amH.S. BASEBALL GW 5 Brandeis 4 Carlos Ozario hasn't had many big at-bats in his short high school career. Actually, he hasn't had many ABs of any kind. "This was...
JONES SOLID IN RETURN
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amOn his way to the bullpen to warm up last night, former Met Bobby Jones was serenaded by fans who wished he still pitched for the Amazin's. His start did...
QUICK TURNAROUND ; DEVS BLOW 2-0 LEAD, LET PENS KNOT SERIES
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amGAME 2 Penguins 4 Devils 2 The comeback thing, the refugee from retirement has down pat. Last night's version, the Devils all but did for Mario Lemieux. Somehow impaling themselves...
METS KEEP THE FAITH - IT'S ALL THEY'VE GOT
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amFRED Wilpon, Steve Phillips and Bobby Valentine ate and talked turkey yesterday. They shared a common reaction when asked about their lunch meeting at Wilpon's Long Island office - that...
DEVILS LOSE POISE, EDGE
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amJUST over six minutes into the second period of an NHL conference final game that had all the electricity of a mid-January match (and a bad one, at that), Mario...
BERNIE'S AIMING FOR FRIDAY RETURN
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - Bernie Williams, in Puerto Rico to attend his father's funeral, hopes to rejoin the Yankees in time for Friday night's game against the Mariners in Seattle....
YANKEES FALL IN LATE-LATE SHOW
May 16, 2001 | 4:00am12 INNINGS A's 3 Yankees 2 OAKLAND - Energy is a major concern for California residents as spring turns to summer in an area where there has been a serious...
RICKEY TAKES HIGH ROAD ON METS, STEVE
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amLast May, when the Mets were struggling through the first quarter of the season, Rickey Henderson was the first man tossed overboard. Yesterday, a rejuvenated Henderson returned to Shea Stadium...
H-ROD TO JOIN BOMBERS SOON
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - The Yankees will likely be shuffling their roster again before they open a series against the Red Sox next Tuesday at Yankee Stadium. With Henry Rodriguez'...
WAITING OVER FOR NIEDS
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amIF IT just about killed Scott Niedermayer not to play last Wednesday's Game 7 against the Maple Leafs, the sobering fact of the matter is that playing in that ultimate...
JAGR JUST SAYS NO: PENS' CAPTAIN NIXES PAIN-KILLING INJECTION
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe Penguins' captain hoped one less shot in the shoulder would be a shot in the arm. Jaromir Jagr decided to forego his usual pain-killing injection in his right shoulder...
JONES: TITO BOUT'S GOTTA BE THIS YEAR
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amRoy Jones Jr. did not watch Felix Trinidad dismantle William Joppy last Saturday night, but a friend of Jones' was at the Garden and reported back to the light heavyweight...
PENS CAN'T USE TIRED EXCUSE
May 16, 2001 | 4:00amIf the Penguins won Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals last night against the Devils, then the $10,000 fine they paid the NHL for returning to Pittsburgh after Saturday...