May 30, 2001
TWEENED-IN PRIMEDIA BUYS UP GURL.COM
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amDot-coms keep dropping like flies, but that isn't stopping Primedia from continuing to buy them at a furious pace. This time the magazine and online biz picked a site in...
DOT-COM BOMBS DOUBLED IN MAY AS 13,419 GET AX
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amThe death rate of ailing dot-coms has more than doubled this month. Shutdowns hit a near record for May, causing at least 13,419 tech jobs to disappear, said a report...
MTA TO KEEP MIDTOWN BLDG. COULD DEVELOP
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amTHOSE looking to buy the MTA's prime Madison Avenue headquarters are going to have to wait. The MTA is now planning to keep the Midtown site, and instead consider selling...
CEO RESIGNS AS EMAP DINES ON CROW
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amKevin Hand, the chief executive of Britain's Emap plc, the executive who led the media giant's disastrous charge into America two years ago, has abruptly resigned. He's being replaced by...
SUN BURNS WALL ST. - WARNING ON SALES FROM NETWORK GIANT
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amMore bad news from Sun Microsystems knocked Wall Street for a loop yesterday - and might do the same again today. After the bell last night, the one-time tech overachiever...
TALKING HEADS' HOME ON HOLD - CNBC DELAYS HQ, SPARKING RUMORS OF SALE
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amNo extra closet space for the Money Honey - at least for now. CNBC's plans to build a new, state-of-the-art headquarters in New Jersey have been delayed at least one...
MYSPACE.COM GOES TO THE GREAT BEYOND
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amFree online storage space MySpace.com has nowhere left to run. The site, which like Xdrive and FreeWay, allowed users to store their files on a remote server for free, announced...
LUCENT, ALCATEL MERGER DISCONNECTED
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amIn a surprise move, Lucent Technologies Inc. and Alcatel SA called off their extensive merger talks yesterday after their negotiations hit a snag. In a brief joint statement released after...
MONTROSE SALE MAY FETCH $60M
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amThe Clarett Group could fetch up to $60 million with the sale of its residential rental building, the Montrose, near the Midtown Tunnel. The building's oddly cantilevered shape over an...
TEEN VOGUE TO BE GROUNDED
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amTHE buzz in the fashion world is that Teen Vogue is going to fall victim to the withering economic environment and quietly disappear from the Conde Nast fold after a...
PRINTS CHARMING - THE MET'S PHOTOGRAPHY DEPT. MAY STILL BE A RELATIVELY NEW KID IN TOWN, BUT AN UPCOMING SHOW HIGHLIGHTS GROWING AWARENESS OF PHOTOGRAPHY'S IMPORTANCE IN ART HISTORY
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amPhotography is the baby of the fine arts family. Just look at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that shrine of all that is excellent and important in art history. Photography...
LOOK WHO'S TALKING (& SHOULDN'T BE) - THE SILLY COMMENTARIES ON DVDSHAVE MUCH TO SAY ABOUT NOTHING
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amMOVIE directors are running off at the mouth - and sometimes making fools of themselves - on the commentary tracks that are becoming a standard feature on new DVDs. The...
SURE SHOTS - THE CREAM OF THE CURRENT CAMERA CROP
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amThe time when you had to give your irreplaceable party pictures to some guy at the pharmacy who might ruin the best shot has come to an end. The digital...
DJ A REAL RECORD BREAKER
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amWFMU DJ Glen Jones not only broke the world record for staying on the air - he absolutely mauled it. When he signed off a little after 1 p.m. yesterday,...
MERRY AND ENCHANTING 'WIDOW'
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amAMERICAN BALLET THEATERMetropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center. (212) 362-6000. Season runs through June 23. ---------------- 'THE Merry Widow," Ronald Hynd's homage both to Paris' Belle Epoque and the Viennese operetta,...
WANT WINE? FOR ME, ARGENTINA - THAT'S THE TICKET
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amTHE grape known as Malbec was brought to Argentina along with other French varietals in the 1860s. Since then Malbec has nearly disappeared from Bordeaux - where it was once...
BOISTEROUS AVENUE B BISTRO'S A BIG BARGAIN
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amBELMONDO [ 1/2] 98 AVE. B (BETWEEN SIXTH & SEVENTH STREETS) (212) 358-1166 -------- 'IT was named after an actor from the '50s," the waitress at Belmondo tells us. The...
ESPRIT DE CORPSE - 'SIX FEET UNDER' A FAMILY OF STIFFS
May 30, 2001 | 4:00am"Six Feet Under" HBO on Sunday at 10 [ ] (or maybe none) ------ IF YOU'VE ever slowed down to look at a car wreck, stood behind a police barricade...
WHAT A NO-CONCEPT!
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amMIDWAY [] 145 CHARLES ST. (212) 352-1118 ----- 'TWO for din-din?" the host at Midway greets our guests one evening. Anywhere else, it would sound moronic. But on this peaceful...
THE BARFLIES COMETH
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amMONOSurf Reality, 172 Allen St. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8. Call (212)358-3447. -------- THERE'S a kind of theater that seems to come out of the reality of the street...
BOMBER BROKAW'S PEARL HARBOR BLOWS 'EM AWAY
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amIN the broadcast battle between competing "Pearl Harbor" news specials, NBC sunk the competition. The network specials, NBC's "Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack" and ABC's decade-old documentary "Pearl Harbor: Two...
STARR REPORT
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amSmiley set for rare triple play Former BET personality Tavis Smiley is expected to announce tomorrow or Friday that he has inked deals with ABC News, CNN and Buena Vista...
A LEAN CUISINE MACHINE - BACK IN THE KITCHEN, MINUS 65 POUNDS
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amMANHATTAN chef Mark Strausman - who left cooking eight years ago because he had gained so much weight - is back in the kitchen. The famed chef and restaurateur misses...
BIG BAD BUGS - WASCALY WABBIT A WACIST?
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amMAYBE the people who made the Bugs Bunny cartoons were a bunch of racists. You ever think of that? How else can you explain all the ethnic stereotypes in the...
MELODIES FOR 'MARTY' - STROUSE AND ADAMS TEAM UP FOR NEW MUSICAL
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amIF you like show tunes, you'll be happy to know that one of Broadway's finest songwriting teams - composer Charles Strouse and lyricist Lee Adams - have gotten back together...
MALE NURSE CHARGED IN GAY-SLAYING SPREE
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amA pediatric nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital is suspected of murdering four gay men and leaving their dismembered bodies strewn over three states, cops said yesterday. Richard Rogers, 50, of...
BUSH BOOSTS N.Y. HEALTH CARE
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Gov. Pataki has gotten his first big boost from President Bush - the go-ahead for a new health plan to cover 600,000 lower-income New Yorkers. The plan will...
NEW YORK POST: FROM MAY 30, 1879
May 30, 2001 | 4:00am"The privilege of choosing pews in the new St. Patrick's Cathedral was sold by auction last evening. About 600 persons were present in the church. It was announced that in...
NO GOP CHALLENGERS NEED APPLY
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amHERMAN Badillo says he's determined to run for mayor in the Republican primary. This despite the fact that every top Republican - from Gov. Pataki on down - is trying...
MOM SERVES THEM WELL
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amVENUS and Serena Williams are no strangers to controversy. But, unlike many of the divas on the women's tennis circuit, they are famous for their grace under fire. Whether they're...
KERIK GOAL RILES RUDY
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday shot down top cop Bernard Kerik, dismissing the police commissioner's goal of holding the city to less than 600 murders this year as "very highly unrealistic." With...
CLOONEY GAL'S BARE MINIMUM PIX PRICE
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amGeorge Clooney's girlfriend says she's ready to take it all off - but only if the price is right. Lisa Snowdon confirmed that Playboy has twice approached her about doing...
KIDS TO GET CHARACTER ED.
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amGov. Pataki yesterday announced the launch of a new state program that requires schools to start building character in their students. The program, called Schools Against Violence in Education, kicks...
ABOUT-FACE: EX-MARINE ENLISTS - IN A CONVENT
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amShe's gone from the gunnery to the nunnery. After more than 20 years in the Marines, "tough as nails" former Gunnery Sgt. Mary Perrot, 47, has enlisted with the Ursuline...
COP CHARGED IN FATAL DWI CRASH
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amAn off-duty NYPD sergeant has been charged with drunken driving after a car accident that left two dead. William Miley, 28, of East Meadow, L.I., was arraigned yesterday in his...
WWII FLIER'S FAMILY FOUND - BRONX KIN FINALLY LEARN HIS FATE FROM POST STORY
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amNearly 60 years after John Joseph Creighton's plane went down during a World War II mission, the Bronx-born airman's remains are to be reunited with his long-lost family. On Memorial...
FEDS: MAFIA FUELED CHEAP-GAS SCHEME
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amMaybe the Mafia saw the gas crunch coming sooner than anyone. Brooklyn federal prosecutors indicted seven alleged Russian and Italian mobsters yesterday in what they say was a four-year scheme...
FLAKE'S FOR HEVESI, PRIMARILY - BUT FLOYD MIGHT BOLT TO BLOOMBERG IF COMPTROLLER LOSES
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amThe Rev. Floyd Flake threw his support behind Alan Hevesi's mayoral bid yesterday - but wouldn't rule out backing Republican Michael Bloomberg if the comptroller flops in the Democratic primary....
HIGH COURT 'DELETES' TEN COMMANDMENTS
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Call it the 11th commandment - thou shalt not post the Ten Commandments on public property. The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday gave the nod to yanking the Ten...
DID VIEQUES BOMBS CAUSE GIRL'S CANCER?
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amMilivy Adams has already had five cancerous tumors removed from her head and stomach. She is just 4 years old, the youngest of several thousand people in Vieques who some...
FORENSIC EXPERT: CHASE-SHOOT COP BROKE NYPD RULES
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amA prosecution expert is set to testify that Officer Mark Conway may have violated NYPD procedures when he used his police vehicle to chase Dantae Johnson before shooting him. "If...
NEW COP-GRAD CLASS: A GORGEOUS MOSAIC
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amThe most diverse NYPD class ever graduated from the Police Academy yesterday with Mayor Giuliani reminding the new cops that saving lives and treating the public with respect are the...
HILL'S BUILDING 'PIT BULL' REP BY BASHING BUSH
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON. IN JUST five months, Hillary Rodham Clinton has growled her way into the role of top Democrat attack dog when it comes to tearing into President Bush. New York's...
LOUIMA-CASE PROSECUTOR TAPPED AS U.S. ATTORNEY
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amAlan Vinegrad, the controversial federal prosecutor who convicted the cops involved in the brutal station-house bathroom attack on Abner Louima, yesterday was named interim Brooklyn U.S. Attorney. Vinegrad's temporary appointment,...
DA FINALLY GIVES DEATH SENTENCE - TO THE VICTIM!
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amBRONX District Attorney Robert Johnson, a passionate opponent of the death penalty, has finally relented. There is great fire in his eyes. He has finally stood up for law and...
REPORTS OF SCHOOL SEX ASSAULTS RISE
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amReported sex attacks in city public schools shot up nearly 13 percent this year - with even more dramatic increases in special-education and junior high schools, police statistics show. There...
SECURITY ALERT AS BIN LADEN HENCHMEN ARE FOUND GUILTY
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amNew York is on renewed security alert as a mass murderer for terror chief Osama bin Laden heads to court today to try to dodge a death sentence for slaughtering...
LOOKING OUT FOR THE LITTLE GUY - SPITZER, JUDGE STEP FORWARD TO PROTECT IMMIGRANT WORKERS
May 30, 2001 | 4:00am'I'D LIKE to know why you're not doing anything to get rid of these . . . damn illegal-immigrant spics, instead of writing articles about raising sympathy for them." The...
MICROSOFT'S NEW $HOT AT AOL - SPENDING MILLIONS TO UNDERCUT PRICE-HIKING RIVAL
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amBill Gates is feeling cocky and is once again trying to cut the legs out from under rival America Online. Gates' Microsoft is coughing up $50 million for advertising for...
VERDICT DOES NOTHING TO EASE VICTIMS' PAIN
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amThe mother of a young Marine killed in the embassy terror blasts winced and rubbed a tiny gold pendant around her neck as she listened to the jury read its...
HIGH COURT: DISABLED GOLF PRO CAN USE CART
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amDisabled golfer Casey Martin got the best birthday present of his life yesterday when the Supreme Court ruled that he could use a cart when golfing in PGA Tour events....
TEEN IN BRUTAL SLASH ATTACK ON HIGH-SCHOOL CLASSMATE
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amA 17-year-old Bronx high school student slashed a classmate yesterday - partially severing his ear and causing gaping wounds to his throat, back, chest and leg, cops said. "It will...
BLAKE WAS ACCUSED BY COPS: ATT'Y
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Cops accused Robert Blake of murder shortly after his wife's mysterious death, demanding to know when and where he committed the crime, a lawyer for the embattled...
CALIF. GOV THROWS FUEL ON BUSH'S FIRE
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush went to California for the first time since taking office yesterday - and the state's embattled Democratic governor promptly threatened to sue him over high energy...
KOCH VISITS FASTING SHARPTON BEHIND BARS
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton, on a hunger strike but in good spirits, chatted with former Mayor Ed Koch and other visitors yesterday as he waited in jail for a federal...
BRONX COPS: WERE WERE CONNED BY BODY-PART KILLER
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amBronx prosecutors and cops admitted last night they were conned by an alleged murderer caught squatting in his victim's apartment - and set him free to kill again. Bernard Perez,...
WAS POLICE GRAD B'KLYN BOMB TARGET?
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amA small bomb smashed a wall in the basement of a Brooklyn Heights apartment building yesterday - and cops suspect the bomber's target was a woman who graduated from the...
MCVEIGH TAKES STEP TOWARD AN APPEAL
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amOklahoma City bombing fiend Timothy McVeigh has authorized his lawyers to draft an appeal to halt his execution. "Mr. McVeigh believes that the [FBI] information that we have discovered is...
NAVY SAYS DOWNED SURVEILLANCE PLANE COULD SPY AGAIN AFTER IT'S REPAIRED
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Navy's crippled spy plane could go back on patrol now that China has agreed to let the United States haul it home in big chunks so it...
BRONX COPS: WE WERE CONNED BY BODY-PART KILLER
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amBronx prosecutors and cops admitted last night they were conned by an alleged coldblooded murderer - caught squatting in his victim's apartment - and set him free to kill again....
KERREY SAGA'S NEW CHAPTER
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Bob Kerrey's memoirs could hit bookstores this summer - just weeks after revelations that he led a deadly raid on unarmed Vietnamese villagers. Kerrey's spokesman, George Arzt, last...
TYCOON'S CHOPPER GROUNDED
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amAn appeals court has grounded high-flying multimillionaire Norman Peltz - ruling that he can't commute to and from his lavish Westchester estate by helicopter. Peltz, the chairman of Triarc Companies,...
NASSAU BARES W. NILE PLAN
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amNassau County Executive Thomas Gulotta yesterday announced his 2001 mosquito-control program, designed to combat the spread of the deadly West Nile virus. Gulotta said no birds have yet tested positive...
MCVEIGH IS EYING APPEAL OF EXECUTION
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amOklahoma City bombing fiend Timothy McVeigh has reportedly authorized his lawyers to draft an appeal to halt his execution. The plan is to have the appeal papers filed in federal...
INDY WINNER STILL LIVING IN FAST LANE
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amJust when Helio "Spiderman" Castroneves thought he had comprehended all that the word "hectic" encompasses by winning the Indianapolis 500, he spent yesterday in New York. The day started with...
THEY'LL PADDLE TO BATTLE ALZHEIMER'S
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amTHREE avid kayakers whose families have been impacted by Alzheimer's disease will paddle with a purpose around Long Island beginning on Friday to heighten awareness of the dreaded disease and...
MURPH OUT WITH PNEUMONIA
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amBob Murphy, the Mets Hall of Fame announcer, will not be in the radio booth for the near future because of pneumonia, Mets VP Dave Howard announced yesterday. Murphy is...
SUPREME COURT LETS CASEY RIDE HIS CART - GOLF'S BLUEBLOODS LOSE LAME ARGUMENT
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amWHEN all else fails, golfers love to play their hole card, a 25-year-old phenom with the unlikely name of Eldrick (Tiger) Woods. Being of African-Thai-Chinese-Native American descent, Woods singlehandedly gives...
BEANTOWN SHOWDOWN - PEDRO, MOOSE LOCK HORNS AGAIN AT FENWAY
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - They ache to litter New England's living room with line drives to all fields and to watch balls vanish over the Green Monster. How delicious would it be...
STRAIGHT-FACED MIKE'S A SILENT ASSASSIN
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amIN the espionage film, he is the one wearing black gloves. He clicks open the brief case and systematically assembles the gun. He finds the target, squeezes the trigger, breaks...
LIFT, THEN LETDOWN - METS GET LUCKY AND STILL FALL 11 BACK
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amThe Mets are playing better, but their situation becomes worse and worse. They lost another game last night. It was another one in which it felt as if they were...
YANKS STARRING IN GLOVE STORY
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - There may not be a Gold Glove winner among them, but the Yankees have tightened their defense up in the past six games and it's not...
THE WEAKEST LINK - AT BAT, HE'S A REY OF HOPELESS
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amThe statistics that baseball people think are best to grade offensive players are a combination of slugging percentage and on-base average. Met shortstop Rey Ordonez entered last night with a...
KNICKS MAY SWAP UP FOR FIRST-ROUND PICK
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTEBOOK Knicks GM Scott Layden told The Post he will shop his two second-round picks to see if he can move up and snatch a first-rounder in the June...
'POINT,' 'A P' READY TO GO
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amPoint Given and A P Valentine, the winner and runner-up in the Preakness, both had their next-to-last workouts yesterday morning for the June 9 Belmont Stakes. At Churchill Downs, Point...
THIS 'PEN IS PURE BULL
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amFOR the Mets to dig out from their own grave, the Phillies will have to come back to earth. Two days from June, all the defending champions shovel in what-else-are-they-going-to-say...
SUPREME COURT LETS CASEY RIDE HIS CART - INTEGRITY OF GAME IN JEOPARDY
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amJUSTICE John Paul Stevens is said to be an avid golfer. If so, he must be the type who rides a cart whenever he plays and is probably annoyed when...
BETTMAN: DEVS NOT MOVING
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amDENVER - While the groups seeking more than $200 million in public financing for a Newark arena keep invoking the spectre of a Devil move to Stamford, NHL commissioner Gary...
MONROE FEELS GRAND IN WIN
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amPSAL QUARTERFINAL: Monroe 8 - Grand Street 4 With only four regular-season losses, a No. 3 seed and seven returning starters from last year's championship team, Monroe figured to be...
BENITEZ FINALLY FACES THE MUSIC - SAYS QUESTIONS ARE UNFAIR
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amClosers have feelings, too. That's the message Armando Benitez had for the media yesterday afternoon. Benitez, who served up a two-run gopher ball to Philly's Pat Burrell on Memorial Day,...
TRACHSEL THROWS MINOR NO-NO
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amWhen Norfolk pitching coach Rick Waits spoke before Steve Trachsel's first minor-league start, Waits said results would matter. If Waits is right, then Trachsel is rehabbing nicely. Trachsel threw a...
BALKY BACK SHORTENS NIGHT FOR FONZ
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amThis season has been a pain for Edgardo Alfonzo, and last night was more of the same. It's bad enough the Met second baseman is having a subpar offensive year....
FASSEL BACK ON JOB
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amStill smarting from last week's surgery and sporting a two-inch scar on the back of his neck, Jim Fassel was back at work yesterday, exactly a week after a procedure...
DEVILS GET EVEN STEVENSON - TIE SERIES ON TURNER'S GAME 2 GOAL
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amGAME 2: Devils 2 - Avalanche 1 Denver - The Devils' dream to repeat lives large, thanks to two unlikely Devil heroes fighting for their first Cup. "My biggest goal...
WAITING GAME IS ON WITH CHISOX
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES The White Sox still plan on trading David Wells and he still could land at Shea. But everything will need to play just right for a deal to...
THE CAPTAIN LEADS THEM
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amDENVER - He is the face of the defending Stanley Cup champions, the smirking, sneering face the rest of the NHL has come to despise. The face that the NHL...
PHILLIPS TRYING TO WAIT OUT WHITE SOX
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES The White Sox still plan on trading David Wells and he still could land at Shea. But everything will need to play just right for a deal to...
JUST ONE, NOT DONE
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amDENVER - They'd been sitting on it for nearly three days, sitting on their most embarrassing performance since becoming Stanley Cup champions. For three days the Devils had taken a...
DEVS OUT OF THE SHADOW - WON'T ALLOW SAKIC TO ALTER DEFENSE
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amDENVER - With the Stanley Cup essentially on the line, the coach had to be correct. There was no more room for gameplan error. The Devils simply had to shut...
FASSEL'S SORE BUT WORKING
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amStill smarting from last week's surgery and sporting a two-inch scar on the back of his neck, Jim Fassel was back at work yesterday, exactly a week after a procedure...
METS CAN 'PEN COMEBACK
May 30, 2001 | 4:00amFOR the Mets to climb out of the grave, the Phillies will have to come back to earth. If the front-running National League East leaders continue at their current .633...