May 29, 2001
N.Y.C. IS ON CISCO'S ROUTE
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amKEEP your eyes on the city's next will-they-or-won't-they project: the proposed office tower on top of the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The scheme, announced 18 months ago, calls for a...
BRACE YOURSELVES - DISMAL NUMBER$ ALERTS START THIS WEEK
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amFasten your seatbelts. We're still in for a bumpy ride, folks. On the heels of last week's stock slide, market pros are bracing for more of the same as they...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN super-editor Bonnie Fuller first came to town, she shot across the industry like a Flare - the mag she left in Canada - and scored an impressive grand slam...
CASE MAY EXPOSE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S GOLDEN HANDSHAKE
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amSOME of the alleged secret financial dealings between the Clinton administration and the financial markets could soon be made public. No, Monica's not blabbing again. These secrets could come out...
GAP TAPS '80S NOSTALGIA WITH DURAN DURAN
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amThere were no bigger pop heartthrobs in the '80s than Duran Duran - and now The Gap is banking on that love not being lost. The chain is reportedly hiring...
SMITHSONIAN MAY NAB SMITH
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amINSIDERS at U.S. News & World Report were buzzing last week that their embattled editor, Steve Smith - said to be under pressure from owner Mort Zuckerman - would soon...
GOO GOO GOOD GOOD
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amGOO GOO DOLLS "What I Learned About Ego, Opinion Art & Commerce" [ 1/2] Warner Bros. The Goo Goo Dolls were once tagged America's best-known unknown band. Then, three years...
MUDDY WATERS - SALMON FISHING IN THE TUNDRA TOWN OF BETHEL
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amTO get to the island of Nunivak, you must pass through the mainland gateway of Bethel (pop. 7,000), located just inland from Alaska's west coast, midway between civilization (Anchorage) and...
CITY BALLET SHOWS ITS SPREE DE CORPS
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amNEW YORK CITY BALLETNew York State Theater at Lincoln Center, (212) 870-5570. Through July 1. ------- LIKE a great sports team, a great ballet company needs a great bench. New...
'IRON CHEF'SHOWDOWN: HOT-STOVE LEAGUE'S BIG GRUDGE MATCH
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amGRANTED, it's not exactly Ali and Frazier in the "Rumble in the Jungle." Perhaps a more appropriate comparison would be the Mike Tyson/Evander Holyfield "Bite Fight." Foodies are looking forward...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amRecline time Japan Airlines, which does business class right, is now besting itself. The line has announced that the seats in Seasons Executive Class are being renovated to a just-this-side-of-flat...
OH, 'BROTHER'! LAST SUMMER, 'BIG BROTHER' PUT VIEWERS TO SLEEP. NOW, IT'S MAKING A COMEBACK. ARE WE MISSING SOMETHING?
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amWHAT'S wrong with us? Are we slow or something. How can you explain why we are getting a second chance to fall in love with what may be the most...
AN ARBOR DAY - BEST TIME TO VISIT MICHIGAN'S PREMIER COLLEGE TOWN IS DURING ITS OFF-SEASON; DON'T MICH. OUT
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN the University of Michigan slows down for the summer, Ann Arbor, like college towns everywhere, comes out of hiding. When the students pack up and leave for break or...
STARR REPORT
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amCrystal's clear on B'way 'Annie' role Former "Wings" star Crystal Bernard is replacing Reba McEntire in the lead role of Annie Oakley in "Annie Get Your Gun" beginning June 23....
KICK BACK ON NUNIVAK - THIS ALASKAN ISLAND IS THE END OF THE LINE
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amWHAT nobody tells you is that if you fall into the Bering Sea, you have approximately three minutes left to live. So you can understand the uneasiness that takes over...
SEX CREAM FOR WOMEN: A LITTLE DAB'LL DO YA?
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amA Viagra-like cream is in the works to help women who have trouble getting aroused during sex. Now in the testing stages is Femprox, a topical cream which, when dabbed...
KIN OF SALEM 'WITCHES' WANT COVEN CLEARED
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe descendants of five "witches" hanged in Massachusetts 300 years ago are demanding their sullied kin be pardoned. Susannah Martin, Bridget Bishop, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott and Wilmot Redd were...
FOR SALE: TESTICLES TO PAY FOR SEX CHANGE
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amAn Oregon man desperate to become a woman has offered to sell his testicles for research to fund a sex-change operation. Jerald De Rossett - who now goes by the...
'PIECE' AT LAST: SPY PLANE TO COME HOME
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amChina yesterday granted the United States permission to take apart its stranded spy plane and ship it home in pieces aboard a commercial cargo jet. The Chinese Foreign Ministry did...
HIP, HIP HOORAY FOR WIDE WOMEN
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amGood news for big-boned women. Gals with wide hips are less likely to have heart attacks or diabetes than their sleeker cousins. Swedish researchers have found that women with hips...
VATICAN ORDERS WEDDED BISHOP TO LEAVE PULPIT
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amA maverick Roman Catholic archbishop who got married in Manhattan over the weekend is officially banished from the pulpit and risks being excommunicated, a furious Vatican warned yesterday. The marriage...
KISSINGER GETS CALL TO TESTIFY
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amHenry Kissinger has been asked to testify in the investigation into the disappearance of French citizens in Chile during the rule of dictator Augusto Pinochet, police officials said yesterday. The...
IRON OUT THE WRINKLES WITH DOCTOR'S FACE-SAVING DIET
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amWant to wipe away wrinkles? Forget expensive lotions and potions. You might be able to find a face lift in your fridge. Yale University dermatologist Nicholas Perricone sees a link...
MIKE'S THE LONE DEFENDER OF A WEST SIDE STADIUM
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Democratic mayoral candidates have wasted no time shooting down a West Side stadium plan, making Republican Michael Bloomberg the only one willing to consider it. A spokesman for the...
THE 'PEARL'Y GATE: $75M, FOR OPENERS
May 29, 2001 | 4:00am"Pearl Harbor" blitzed the box office with a whopping $75.1 million take over the Memorial Day weekend - while the No. 2 film, "Shrek," soared past the $100 million mark...
CAST OUT BY CHURCH
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amArchbishop Emmanuel Milingo, who risks being excommunicated, joins a long list of people who've taken on the Catholic Church, including: * Martin Luther: Augustinian monk who in 1519 nailed a...
SILVER SLAMS GOV FOR BUDGET DELAY
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver blasted Gov. Pataki yesterday as a do-nothing governor responsible for the state's ongoing budget deadlock. Silver, in his harshest attack of the year on...
LATINO CLERGY: ED. BOARD BIG SHOULD DO PENANCE, TOO
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amA group of Hispanic clergymen demanded yesterday that a Board of Ed administrator accused of instructing a Bronx school official to not report a sex attack be suspended, saying a...
BRUCE SHOWS HE CAN BOSS THE WEATHER
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amBruce Springsteen gave a surprise concert at a packed New Jersey club - and his fans credit the veteran rocker with helping chase away a tornado. The Boss stormed on...
CAR-TROUBLE KITTY RESCUED BY COPS
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amCall it the freeing of the fettered feline. Police Officer Brian McDonnell has pulled drowning people from the murky East River and stopped others from jumping off skyscraper ledges, but...
U.S. HOSTAGE PLEADS FOR HELP - PHILIPPINE CAPTORS AIR HIS DRAMATIC APPEAL
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amAn American missionary kidnapped by Muslim extremists in the Philippines delivered a radio appeal for negotiations yesterday as the rebels threatened to harm him and 19 other hostages. But Philippine...
HEADING BACKWARD - NEW YORK STATE'S RETROGRADE GOVERNMENT
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY THERE'S rare agreement between left and right that a climate of regression has enveloped New York's Capitol. Back in the post-Watergate 1970s, when the current generation of state leaders...
STRIP-CLUB BIG TO TELL OF HOOKING UP HOOP STARS
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amA key witness in an Atlanta strip-club racketeering case is expected to testify this week about procuring exotic dancers to have sex with NBA stars in the mid-1990s. Thomas "Ziggy"...
WWII MONUMENT GETS GO-AHEAD FROM BUSH
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday OK'd a new memorial to honor World War II vets. The Memorial Day bill-signing paves the way for construction to begin this summer on the...
FAILURE NOT AN OPTION AT THIS HARLEM SCHOOL
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amTEACHERS at the Children's Storefront School earn lower salaries than their counterparts in the city's public system. The suburbs, you can forget about. Every student who attends this institution is...
NEW YORK POST FROM MAY 29, 1830
May 29, 2001 | 4:00am"The Indian bill was passed today, 102 to 97: An act to provide for an exchange of Lands with the Indians residing in any of the States or Territories, and...
MASS. CONGRESSMAN DIES OF LEUKEMIA
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amU.S. Rep. Joseph Moakley, an old-time Boston Democrat who served Massachusetts for 15 terms on Capitol Hill, died yesterday of complications from leukemia. He was 74. Moakley, who announced in...
FORD SUVS' FATAL FLAW TRACED TO '89 MEMO
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amAlthough Firestone tires may be a factor in Ford Explorer rollovers, company engineers were wrestling with the stability and handling of the best-selling SUV before it hit the market in...
BLOOMBERG: I'D WIN WITH WEALTH
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amSpending his second day in a row in campaign mode, media magnate Michael Bloomberg said yesterday he would outspend any of his Democratic rivals in a head-to-head race come November....
COPS FISHING FOR FROG FIENDS
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amSomething fishy is going on at a Brooklyn high school. Cops say that over the weekend, someone broke into Nazareth HS on East 57th Street in East Flatbush and killed...
KERIK KOS KILLINGS - BIDS TO KEEP TOTAL BELOW 600 FOR FIRST TIME SINCE '60S
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amPOLICE Commissioner Bernard Kerik is on a quiet mission: to hold New York City to fewer than 600 homicides this year, for the first time since the 1960s. "I'd love...
'WE CANNOT FORGET' - WAR HEROES RECOGNIZED ACROSS CITYN
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe weather turned from ominous to glorious as New Yorkers celebrated Memorial Day with backyard barbecues, parades, picnics and an awesome show of military might on the Hudson River. More...
ARREST IN QNS. CEMETERY SPREE
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amA vandal was busted yesterday for overturning 60 tombstones at a Queens cemetery and then mugging a woman in the graveyard, police said. Alexander Bedoya, 25, spent Sunday night boozing...
TORAH STOLEN FROM QNS. TEMPLE
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amThieves broke into a Queens synagogue and stole a valuable Torah scroll - casting a pall over the festival of Shavuot, which celebrates the revelation of the Ten Commandments. "It's...
HOSP OFFERS 'MORNING AFTER' HIV DRUGS
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amAn experimental "morning after" drug treatment that can prevent the onset of HIV is being offered to the general public at Beth Israel Medical Center. The emergency treatment, until recently...
JAILED SHARPTON ON HUNGER STRIKE
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton began a jailhouse hunger strike early today to protest the naval bombing of Vieques and his 90-day sentence for demonstrating against military exercises on the Puerto...
FACING DOWN DEMONS - SLASHING NEARLY DROVE MODEL TO SUICIDE
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amMARLA HANSON remembers being branded a liar and a seductress at the trial of the thugs who carved up her perfect face - but it wasn't until years later that...
100 GRAVESTONES TOPPLED IN QUEENS
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amVandals overturned some 100 tombstones at a Queens cemetery, police said yesterday. Officials at St. Michael's Cemetery, 72-02 Astoria Blvd., Astoria, notified the police early yesterday when it was discovered...
VIEQUES PROTESTERS RALLY IN PR & B'KLYN
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amTens of thousands of protesters swarmed outside a federal building in Puerto Rico yesterday to blast the jail sentences given the Rev. Al Sharpton and three others demonstrating over Vieques....
WHAT PRICE APARTMENTS? MURDER, COPS SAY, AFTER 2 TENANTS ARE SLAIN
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amTwo Manhattan residents were murdered - one choked and tossed into the river, the other strangled and dismembered in his tub - by a pair who wanted to take over...
GOOD TO THE LAST DROP - O'NEILL DELIVERS IN DEBUT IN 6 HOLE
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - When ballplayers stay around long enough to close in on the age of 40, nearly every slump is greeted with whispers about what the career gravestone should say...
THE 'BOOK' IS PURE FICTION - ROBOTIC MANAGERS AFRAID TO STRAY FROM THE SCRIPT
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amONE of the recurring oddities of modern big-league baseball is that the game's played by "the book." But there is no book. Never has been. Managers, GMs, broadcasters, players, sportswriters...
LONGSHOT 'STORY' CAPTURES MET MILE
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amShocking a Memorial Day crowd of 18,568, Canadian invader Exciting Story, the longest shot on the board at 55-1, came charging up the rail under Patrick Husbands to win yesterday's...
VS. ARMANDO, BURRELL'S PERFECTLY AMAZIN'
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amMemo to the Mets, and especially Armando Benitez: When you see Pat Burrell, duck. Or hide. Or intentionally walk him. Do not - repeat, do not - pitch to him....
IT'S A 'DANDY' MEMORIAL DAY
May 29, 2001 | 4:00am1st RACE - The rains stopped and the track was listed as muddy for the opener. People that play names were rewarded if they were in a patriotic mood for...
PAUL TAKES A FALL - CONCERNED TORRE DROPS O'NEILL TO SIX HOLE IN LINEUP
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - Less than a week ago, Joe Torre said none of his bats was hot enough to replace Paul O'Neill in the high-profile No. 3 spot in the batting...
PHILS PERCHED ON TOP, BUT THEY AIN'T CHIRPIN'
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amFirst, the Phillies spanked them. Then they patted the Mets on the head, saying nice things about the opponent they just vanquished. Arriving at Shea yesterday for the first of...
WHO'LL BE BACK IN BLACK?
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amSO TOTAL WAS the Lakers' domination, dismantling, destruction and degradation of the San Antonio Spurned, David Stern has refused to allow any more ABA teams to join the NBA. So...
SINKING FEELING AT SHEA - NOT TOO EARLY TO BURY CHAMPS, PRAISE PHILLY
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amTWO questions were repeated to Met personnel before yesterday's series opener against Philadelphia. Do you think you could hurt the Phillies' confidence by beating them? Do you think the Phillies...
GOING TO PLAN B - DOWN A GAME, DEVILS REVAMP LINES
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amDENVER - For a defending Stanley Cup champion, the Devils' utter revamp is a drastic and dramatic reaction to one loss. And entirely necessary. They simply cannot afford to lose...
JAY'S RIGHT LEG MAKING BIG STRIDES
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES As his teammates took batting practice yesterday, Jay Payton played solitaire on a laptop computer. The disabled list can make for a solitary feeling, but the good news...
US AGAINST THE WORLD - DEVILS KNOW THEY HAVE FEW FRIENDS
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amDENVER - Maybe it's that they've done so much winning over the last two years, so much winning, really, over the last eight years. Maybe it's that they like to...
BOOM AND DOOM - BENITEZ SERVES UP HR AS MET FALL 10 BACK
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amAnything the Phillies can do, the Mets can do worse. Whether it was closers serving up gopher balls or misplayed balls in the outfield, the Amazin's definitely one-upped their NL...
BOMBERS READY TO STAND PAT IN 'PEN
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Thanks to Ramiro Mendoza being well-rested and Carlos Almanzar on board, the Yankees believe they can survive without stellar reliever Brian Boehringer until they get home...
CONE FADES TO RED - AGING DAVID KOD AS ANDY & YANKS PREVAIL OVER SOX
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - David Cone worked in the home whites with RED SOX stamped across his chest for the first time. Paul O'Neill, a Yankee staple in the No. 3 hole...
JOE WON'T BAN BOOMER : DIFFERENCES WITH WELLS ARE OVER, TORRE SAYS
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - Sitting in the dugout out of which he walked to home plate with lineup card in hand upon his return from prostate cancer, Joe Torre got a little...
YANKS STAND PAT IN 'PEN
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - Thanks to Ramiro Mendoza being well-rested and Carlos Almanzar on board, the Yankees believe they can survive without stellar reliever Brian Boehringer until they get home Friday against...
NO PLACE LIKE CONE: TAKES ON EX-MATES 1ST TIME AT FENWAY BUT RESULT IS SAME
May 29, 2001 | 4:00amYankees 4 Red Sox 3 BOSTON - David Cone in the home white with RED SOX in red block letters across his chest. Paul O'Neill batting sixth. Change was definitely...