May 22, 2001
THE REALITY OF THE RATE CUT
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S now a week since the last Federal Reserve cut interest rates, and this would be a great time for someone to tell you the truth. When the Dow Jones...
IS HEX FINALLY OFF ; 5TH & 42ND?
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amAFTER years of false starts, deliverance is at hand for the jinxed northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street - an address as romantic-sounding as Hollywood and Vine, and...
A WHOLE NEW MEANING TO 'WARP DRIVE' FROM BMG
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amBeam me up, Bertelsmann. The heads of the German media giant are hoping Capt. Kirk and Mr. Spock of "Star Trek" work a little magic on their company - so...
DETROIT'S CAR CLASH ; FIRESTONE BLASTS FORD, ENDS CENTURY-OLD PARTNERSHIP
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amFirestone stunned the automotive world yesterday by declaring war and angrily severing its 100-year-old tie with Ford - even though Ford's chairman is a Firestone family heir. The tire-maker came...
DE LUCA'S NEW SHOT ; EX-NEW LINE HEAD TALKING TO DREAMWORKS
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe 35-year-old Hollywood wunderkind who was booted from the top job at New Line Cinema after a string of box-office fizzles is on the comeback trail. Mike De Luca, the...
TECHS TAKE OFF! NASDAQ GAINS 106; DOW ALSO RISES
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amThey're ba-a-a-ack! Tech zealots confounded analysts and flooded the Nasdaq yesterday, handing Wall Street markets another record-setting day. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index soared a dizzying 5 percent in heavy trading...
GUCCIONE TO SELL ATLANTIC CITY LOTS
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amPenthouse publisher Bob Guccione Sr. has agreed to put his beloved Atlantic City vacant lots on the block after struggling to keep them 30 years for a casino dream. Just...
TECH VC FIRM COMING TO NY
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amOne of the West Coast's biggest venture capital firms opens an office in Manhattan today - but dot-commers can forget about it. Vantage Point Venture Partners invests in hard-core tech...
CARLYLE'S E-MAIL STUD BYTES THE DUST
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amSubject: The Story (Gone Awry) of a Private Equity "Stud" Another Wall Streeter apparently fell victim to the perils of the Digital Age last week, when an associate from prominent...
DOBBS' VIEWERSHIP KEEPS GOING DOWN
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amLou Dobbs' much-ballyhooed return to "Moneyline" has been a blessing and a burden for CNN. For his first week back behind the anchor desk at "Lou Dobbs' Moneyline," he averaged...
DANCEBRAZIL IS A KICK
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amDANCEBRAZILJoyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., at 19th Street; (212) 242-0800. Through Sunday. THEY call it capoeira - it originated in Brazil by protesting slaves - and it's partly martial arts...
SHE'SCRACKERSOVER PARROTS
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amJOANNA Burger loves parrots, and they love her back - one even saved her from an attack. Years ago, when a lustful colleague barged into her office one night and...
THE LAST WORD ON 'THE SOPRANOS' FINALE FROM A COUPLA WELL-CONNECTED CRITICS... 'THE WOIST; THEY DONE'
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amJUST because I'm a big know-it-all, doesn't mean I really know everything. But that's just between you and me. Like, for example, I don't know how to be a wiseguy,...
FINALLY, FUN JOVI GOES LIVE
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amBON JOVI "One Wild Night" ISLAND Records Bon Jovi's first-ever live album provides proof that the band is still a world class act and has not been compromised by the...
BUZZ
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amSex & butts Women have a harder time kicking butts than men do. A study by Dr. Kenneth Perkins of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine found that women...
DESERT DELUXE
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amMORE than in other places, the key to New Mexico is its landscape. Colors that change 10 times in the course of a sunrise hour, so many shades of brown...
OPRAH HAS REAL CLASS
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amOPRAH Winfrey has a TV show, a magazine and a TV movie deal. Now she has a college course all about her - and has to grade a stack of...
BARBARA READY TO QUIT '20/20' ; WALTERS GETTING 'OTHER OFFERS'
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amBARBARA Walters, upset over ABC moving "20/20" to Wednesdays this fall, says she's already received "other offers" from competing networks looking to scoop up the most powerful woman in television....
... AND PARTING SHOTS ON THE SHOW FROM POST READERS
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amDISAPPOINTMENT in the season finale of "The Sopranos" was not confined to the wiseguys and the critics only. Here's a sampling of fans' comments left yesterday on our bulletin board...
STARR REPORT
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amA Knight's tale: Thanks, grandma! "All My Children" star Michael E. Knight (Tad) used his Daytime Emmy victory speech last Friday to thank his 86-year-old grandmother - and says he's...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amBrew-haha Milwaukee hosts one of the country's best annual music festivals. From June 28-July 8, there'll be beer and brats for all, but not much oom-pah music. The sounds of...
A LITTLE ROMANCE & A STEINWAY
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN you're billed as "the Romantic pianist," it's only fair you'd fall in love with . . . a piano. "By chance, I walked into a piano store after rehearsal...
THE GOOD LIFE: ISLAND HOPPING ABOARD LUXURIOUS ARABELLA
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN you get to a certain age - OK, it's 40, which is fast approaching for both of us - you cherish simple pleasures like strolling through the park hand...
CARNEGIE CONFESSION: BUT 'ACCOMPLICE' DENIES HE WAS GUNMAN
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amA New Jersey man confessed last night to taking part in the Carnegie Deli massacre - but insisted he was only an accomplice and didn't shoot anyone, The Post has...
RUDY MONOLOGUES A SORRY SHOW
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amI DIDN'T want to know that Mayor Giuliani is sexually impotent and can't have sex with his mistress. I don't want to hear Rudy's Penis Monologues. And I don't want...
NEW YORK POST FROM MAY 22, 1900
May 22, 2001 | 4:00am"No Mail-Tube Extension," read The Post's headline about the failure to expand underground distribution of mail in Manhattan. The story went on: "Sen. Lodge's amendment to the Post Office appropriation...
ANTE UP, MIKE ; BLOOMBERG MUST START RACE BY GIVING UP HIS $14 MILLION NYC TAX BREAK
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amMICHAEL Bloomberg's appearance at the Israel Day parade on Sunday was the capper. Now, it only remains for the millionaire media mogul to formally announce that he'll be a candidate...
VIGIL TO MEMORIALIZE WENDY'S SLAY VICTIMS
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe families of victims of the Wendy's massacre will mark the first anniversary of the grisly Queens slaughter with a vigil this week near where the tragedy occurred. The event...
DA: DON JUAN HAD SHANGHAI SURPRISE FOR WOMEN
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amA Chinese Don Juan, who wooed women through lonely-hearts ads, posed as a multimillionaire short on cash to bilk them out of their life savings, authorities said yesterday. "He is...
BUSH TO YALIES: 'C' WHERE IT GOT ME?
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush joked yesterday about his days as a Yale party boy as he accepted an honorary degree from the elite Ivy League university, while hundreds protested the commencement ceremonies...
ED. BOARD BLOWING $2.4M TO RENT CRUMBLING SCHOOLS
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe Board of Education rented decrepit classroom space in run-down buildings - then shelled out $2.4 million to landlords who failed to make needed repairs, a state audit charged yesterday....
FERRER ALLY MCCALL MEETS WITH HEVESI
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amCARL McCALL is backing Fernando Ferrer for mayor, but that didn't keep him from secretly meeting one of the Bronx beep's rivals, city Comptroller Alan Hevesi. McCall - who infuriated...
INSURERS SEEK TO DRIVE RATES EVEN HIGHER
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Drivers across the state should get ready to dig even deeper into their pockets for auto insurance. Insurance-industry officials told The Post yesterday there are dozens of rate-hike...
HOW YOU, TOO, CAN BECOME A CELEBRITY
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amAnyone can become famous in New York City. That's the word from Sharon Krum, a free-lance journalist who has spent the past decade in the "celebrity zoo" of Manhattan studying...
THUGS STAB RESTAURANT DELIVERYMAN
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amA group of men slashed and robbed a Chinese-food deliveryman early yesterday in Brooklyn - the latest in a string of attacks on takeout workers. Zhou Zheng, 40, who works...
NO BOOST FOR REV. AL BID
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday he doesn't mind not getting any support for his 2004 presidential bid from the city's top Democrats - because he hasn't given them his....
BLOOMBERG TAKES A SWING AT LINK-ING UP WITH GIULIANI
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amForget Judi - Mayor Giuliani has a hot date with billionaire bachelor Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg, a likely GOP candidate for City Hall, openly courted Giuliani's endorsement yesterday - just before...
GRACIE NOW A JUDI-FREE ZONE: DONNA, DON'T SHUT OUT THE CHILDREN
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amIT TOOK a New York Supreme Court justice to carve into the record a contentious detail that should be obvious to monks meditating in Tibet: Judi Nathan isn't going anywhere....
MIDTOWN SHOP PUTS DYLAN'S HS ESSAY ON SALE FOR 35G
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amOh, the times are definitely a-changing. While high-school essays used to be worth, say, a B-minus, there's one going on sale Thursday for a shattering $35,000. Then again, it was...
'JUNIOR' RIPS FEDS IN STRIP-CLUB CASE
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amJohn "Junior" Gotti lashed out at the feds yesterday for trying to put him on the witness stand in a spicy Atlanta strip-club trial involving reputed mobsters, sports heroes and...
REV. JESSE'S BULLY PULPIT: YOUR PENSION
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amDO YOU want to put your retirement in the hands of the Rev. Jesse Jackson? You may not have a choice. The current issue of Barron's says the cleric is...
HEARTBREAKING SECRETS OF JAZZ SINGER'S SUICIDE NOTE
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amIn her lengthy suicide note, jazz singer Susannah McCorkle described her desperate need to end a battle with the blues, pals told The Post. Staggered by personal and professional setbacks,...
KITCHEN IS TOO HOT: LECHTERS IN CHAP. 11
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amLechters has gone from the frying pan to the fire. The housewares retailer, which was closing stores and laying off employees earlier this year, is undertaking a full-out reorganization of...
TEACHERS MISS TIME IN CLASS TO MENTOR ROOKIES
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amEXCLUSIVE Nearly 1,300 veteran teachers are pulled out of their classes at least three times a week to train rookie instructors - leaving their students with substitutes, The Post has...
MCCALL WILL GROUND 'AIR PATAKI'
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki's controversial use of luxury chartered jets will be blocked by state Comptroller Carl McCall in a dispute over the costs, sources told The Post yesterday. The...
POWELL TELLS MIDEAST FOES TO STOP THE KILLING - NOW
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe Bush administration leaped into the Middle East mess yesterday, calling for an immediate end to the "unbearable" bloodshed and dispatching envoys to steer both sides to the peace table....
FLOP GOES THE WEASEL: MAYOR VETOES FERRETS
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani bit back at the City Council yesterday, vetoing a bill that would have allowed New Yorkers to keep pet ferrets. The mayor said the weasel-like animals are "naturally...
COP GOES ON TRIAL IN TEEN'S SHOOTING
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe criminal trial of a Street Crime Unit cop who shot a 16-year-old boy opened yesterday with the prosecutor claiming the officer took "unreasonable" risk in trying to "illegally detain"...
BX. MAN GETS 15G BAIL IN KILLING OF THIEF
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amLawyers for a Bronx man initially charged with murder for killing a crack-addled crook convinced a judge yesterday to set $15,000 bail on lower charges voted by a sympathetic grand...
WHITE HOUSE HINTS THERE'LL BE MORE TAX CUTS
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill revealed yesterday that the White House plans a second wave of tax cuts in coming years. Looking past this week's certain passage by Congress...
UNWED MOTHERS UP 17 % IN APPLE
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe population of women raising children in New York City on their own jumped 17 percent over the last decade, according to new census data to be released today. The...
DOCS: MAD-COW SCARE MAY BREAK BLOOD BANK
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe FDA, fearful of mad-cow disease, may ban even more people from giving blood - possibly triggering a dangerous local shortage, experts warned yesterday. "We could lose about a third...
HERE'S HOW NOT TO ROB YOUR EX-LOVER'S PLACE
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amA bitter Queens woman broke into her ex-boyfriend's Long Island business to take back jewelry she had given him as gifts - but got trapped inside and had to call...
SPAIN NABS 'KINGPIN' OF CLUB DRUGS
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amAn alleged international drug kingpin - billed by the feds as the "largest 'ecstasy' smuggler ever apprehended" - has been arrested in Barcelona, Spain, authorities said. Oded Tuito allegedly put...
POLICE GRILLING DUO IN CARNEGIE MASSACRE
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amCops have been questioning two pals of the prime suspect in the Carnegie Deli murders - trying to determine if one of them was the coldblooded killer's accomplice. Police were...
LOCKOUT: RUDY, DONNA IN HOSPITAL SHOWDOWN AFTER JUDGE BARS JUDI FROM GRACIE
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani last night tried to boot Donna Hanover from the hospital where his critically ill mom was being treated - just hours after a court barred his "good friend"...
SHINJO DOES IT AGAIN: AMAZIN' ROOKIE LIFTS METS OVER 'SPOS
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amMets 6 Expos 3 MONTREAL - Two years ago, after each Met victory, their clubhouse would reverberate with the sound of Jim Morrison singing of Mr. Mojo Rising. These days,...
ANSWER'S BALKY BUTT IN QUESTION
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amJust one more pain in the butt to overcome for the Sixers. Philadelphia, which "has overcome more than any team I've been involved with and I've been through it all,"...
THE BOSOX ARE COMING! BOMBERS BRACE FOR WAR OVER 1ST PLACE
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amThey have spent April and May staggering around the AL East like a neophyte drunk trying to navigate Second Avenue in the wee hours. Now, with the Bosox and The...
OMAR'S DRAFT STOCK; IS COOKIN'
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe NBA pre-draft camp in Chicago still is three weeks away but several league and college sources told The Post that Omar Cook's stock is already on the rise. But...
NEXT 11 GAMES WILL TELL TALE FOR YANKS
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Yankees are trapped between the distress of last September and the distinction of last October. Their play so far in 2001 has been a hybrid of highlights and hijinks....
FOR SYKORA, IT'S A CASE OF FIRE AND PRAY
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amIt's all or nothing for Petr Sykora, the Devils' leading gunner, who is trying to put extra mustard on those black burgers he's shooting. The sniper who broke Darius Kasparaitis'...
THE BOSOX ARE COMING! MR. PERFECT NOW THE PERFECT ENEMY
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amJoe Torre thinks there's "no question" David Cone will be cheered tomorrow night in his return to the Yankee Stadium mound. Cone himself isn't quite as sure. "I really don't...
DEVILS: LET'S END THIS NOW ; SEEK TO OUST PENS TONIGHT
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amIt is the Devils' signature accomplishment this year, with only the "i" left to dot tonight to finish writing off those expensive Pens. They believe that completing this magnificent squelching...
ELIAS' STAR ON THE RISE
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amFIVE away from the 16 dubyas needed to win their third Stanley Cup with the Devils, we still don't know if Scott Stevens, Ken Daneyko and Martin Brodeur are given...
JETER, JUSTICE TURN IT AROUND
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Two weeks ago, The Post's back page read: "What's Up With Jeter?" His first 28 games of this year were compared to the initial 28 in each season...
RAPS CAN'T SAY NO TO VINCE
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - As the 76ers and Bucks cram for tonight's first Eastern Final exam, the casualties from the previous playoff round are suffering severe aftershocks. Particularly the Raptors. Cowed by...
REPORT: ISLES TAB COACH
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amSPORTS SHORTS The Islanders have reportedly chosen Bruins assistant Peter Laviolette to be the next coach of the hapless franchise. Laviolette, who was passed over for the Bruins head coaching...
GONZALEZ HOPES TO THRIVE AT 5
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amMONTREAL - His father would arrive home from work at 3 p.m. every afternoon and Dicky Gonzalez and his younger brother would go to the patio of their home in...
BOOMER CALLS BOBBY V A LOSER
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - The Mets still would like to acquire David Wells, but if the former Yankee left-hander still wants to be a Met he has a funny way...
KENYON'S A GOODWILL GUY
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amAny questions about whether Kenyon Martin will be ready for the start of Nets training camp will be answered long before the first bead of sweat hits the floor. Martin...
ZEILE LANDS IN NO. 2 SPOT AS BOBBY V SHAKES IT UP
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amMETS NOTES MONTREAL - Trying to resuscitate Todd Zeile's bat, Bobby Valentine put Zeile in the second spot in the lineup last night. Valentine knows that Zeile must produce more...
GONZALEZ HOPES TO THRIVE AT FIVE
May 22, 2001 | 4:00amMONTREAL - His father would arrive home from work at 3 p.m. every afternoon and Dicky Gonzalez and his younger brother would go to the patio of their home in...