August 28, 2001
KENNETH COLE BRINGING SHOW TO ROCK CENTER
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amIt's been the location for live concerts, Christmas trees and, currently, an art installation of large spiders. Now, Rockefeller Center is getting into the fashion game. The tourist mecca will...
BOO FLACKS FLICK - BIG SCREEN BECKONS FAILED FASHION SITE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amFirst the Web site. Then the crash. Now the book. And, coming soon, the movie. Boo.com co-founders Ernst Malmsten and Kajsa Leander are shopping the film rights to the book...
THE BUDGET AND THE THREAT TO SOCIAL SECURITY
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amGET ready for the next assault on Social Security. Two separate news items that appeared in the papers late last week have to be put together for you to really...
SOCIAL SECURITY IN PERIL
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amGET ready for the next assault on Social Security. Two separate news items that appeared in the papers late last week have to be put together for you to really...
WEB SITE FOR WHAT'S AVAILABLE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amSTROLL past 340-342 Madison Ave., at 44th Street, and you'll see a scaffolded renovation in progress around the grimy, 1922 brick office building. Something big's going on, but what? You...
BIONDI SERVES UP TENNIS CHANNEL ; PLANS MATCHES, LESSONS AND CELEBRITY COVERAGE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amOften-ousted media honcho Frank Biondi is back on the playing field - this time in a launch of a tennis channel. Biondi and his well-heeled partners, Tom Dooley and Terry...
@HOME ON THE EDGE - LENDER CALLS $50M LOAN; SHARES SINK
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amExcite@Home moved one step closer to the brink of bankruptcy yesterday as its vulture capitalist investor asked for its $50 million back by Friday. Promethean Asset Management notified Excite@Home over...
AIG FACES 1ST LOSS SINCE '91
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amBuddy, can you spare a dime? Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the mogul behind gigantic insurer American International Group is out a cool $1 billion as the company he's sheparded since 1967...
POWER OUTAGE PLAGUES 'MONEYLINE'
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amLou Dobbs' big curtain-raiser for his new improved "Moneyline" show went off with a hitch - a power blackout just before airtime. A manhole explosion at the street level outside...
THE ONION FINALLY SETS A N.Y. DATE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amThe Onion is coming to New York at last. A print version of the satirical publication will hit the Apple on Sept. 27. In a lengthy memo that appeared almost...
BUZZ
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amBreathless in America More than 10 percent of all New Yorkers have been diagnosed with asthma at some point in their lives - and 7.7 percent of us are living...
FAIR THEE WELL - FARMERS STRUT THEIR STUFF THIS WEEK IN SYRACUSE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amI fell in love with the New York State Fair sometime between wagering $5 on the Junior Holstein Calf Raffle and the half-hour I spent watching the reining Culinary Arts...
MUCH A-BLIGED, MARY
August 28, 2001 | 4:00am* MARY J. BLIGE "No More Drama" [] MCA Mary J. Blige's excellent new collection, "No More Drama," is a cerebral record that moves your hips as well as your...
STARR REPORT
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amPrice was right: Dave's back on 'GDNY'Dave Price returns to "Good Day New York" today after being off the air since Aug. 7 during protracted contract negotiations. Price's agent, Todd...
NEW CUT IS OLD 'WORLD'
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amMichael Jackson "Rock My World" (single) [ 1/2] Epic/Sony Does Michael Jackson still have the "Thriller" instinct? Just out is the first single from the Gloved One's long-delayed, $30 million...
STOP THE BUS! CBS NEWS IS HOME
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amCH. 2 has moved the last of its newscasts out of the fancy new studio near the Plaza Hotel - and back to its old studio on West 57th Street....
'SURVIVOR 3' UP A TREE - TRIBE SECRETS AND NUDE CONTESTANT - OUT OF AFRICA
August 28, 2001 | 4:00am'SURVIVOR 3" has just finished shooting in Kenya - and bits and pieces of information about the top-secret show are leaking out. Among the news: the site of the Tribal...
SHIP OF FOOLS; COUPLING UP ON A CRUISE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00am"Shipmates" [ ] Weeknights at 11:30 on UPN/Ch. 9 -------- IT'S the feel-good, ship-bound, romance-reality series of the year! At least until "Love Cruise" comes along next month. In the...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amParis lowdown A vacation in Paris during the off-season (November through March) can be astonishingly inexpensive. France Vacations is offering a package that includes round-trip air from Newark via Continental...
THE GROCERY STORE SPA - MILK THESE CHEAP BEAUTY FIXES FOR ALL THEY'RE WART
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amWHO needs Sephora when you have Food Emporium? Your kitchen and bathroom are a veritable treasure trove of beauty treatments that work just as well as expensive lotions, potions and...
BLOOMBERG NOT EXACTLY A COMMON CANDIDATE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amMICHAEL Bloomberg, the billionaire Republican who wants to be mayor, thinks the minimum wage is $7.50 per hour. It's $5.15. Bloomberg flies to his various houses by private plane, yet...
PAULA'S SEX-RAP LAWYER SAYS SHE'S BEATING BOOZE IN REHAB
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amSANTA MONICA, Calif. - Paula Poundstone is winning her battle against booze, her lawyer said yesterday as a pretrial hearing was set in the embattled comic's sordid child-abuse case. "She's...
FIGHTING RUDY GIVES ALAN SHOT AT TITLE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amIs Alan Hevesi crazy? With only 14 days until the primary, why would the embattled mayoral candidate be spending precious time and capital continuing his weeklong battle over ethics with...
POLL BARES HOSTILITY BEHIND PRO-GAY ATTITUDE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amAlthough less than half of today's high-school seniors consider homosexual lifestyles "morally wrong," 88 percent have heard classmates use "gay" as a derogatory term, a new national survey has found....
FERRER GETS REV. AL NOD
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amFernando Ferrer yesterday took a big step forward in creating his much-hyped black-Latino coalition, going on a five-borough tour with the Rev. Al Sharpton after netting the fiery minister's endorsement....
POLICE GRILL DWI COP TODAY
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amAccused DWI cop Joseph Gray will be grilled by Internal Affairs investigators today - the first step toward a departmental trial. Gray, 40, allegedly mowed down a pregnant mom, her...
FINEST D.C.-BOUND AS RIOT PRECAUTION
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amA deal has been worked out to send 1,000 city cops to Washington to keep the peace when the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meets in September, police brass...
CROOK COP GETS MAX: 13 YEARS
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amA 28-year-old city cop convicted of robbing drug dealers and plotting to kill a detective broke down in tears yesterday as a federal judge slapped him with the maximum sentence...
JUDGE SAVES TOKEN BOOTHS
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge yesterday derailed the Transit Authority's plan to close down or cut back hours at 53 token booths around the city. The TA's plan to eliminate staffing at...
SLUMP LEAVES BUSH BUDGET $9B SHORT
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Due to a slowing economy and President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut, Congressional Budget Office experts say the White House and Congress will need to tap $9 billion...
CACHE AND CARRIED AWAY - B'KLYN MAN BUSTED WITH ARSENAL
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was busted on weapons charges yesterday after cops looking for the man's girlfriend found disarmed hand grenades and nearly 20 guns in his Borough Park apartment, authorities...
EX-TEAMSTER BOSS GOES ON TRIAL TODAY
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amA Manhattan jury will hear opening arguments today in the trial of former Teamsters boss Ron Carey - accused of lying to feds probing a funny-money mess in his election...
BIZMAN'S SUIT: NO PUBLIC $$ FOR BALLPARKS
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amAn angry Manhattan taxpayer yesterday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block the city and state from giving any public money to help build new stadiums for the Yankees and...
ADRIFT GOV BARGES OUT ON BUDGET
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - With budget negotiations still unresolved, Gov. Pataki and his wife, Libby, yesterday began a cruise along the Erie Canal. The Patakis boarded a rental canal barge at Holley,...
HIZZONER & HEVESI HISSING
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amThe Rudy Giuliani-Alan Hevesi slugfest exploded into its second week yesterday, with the mayor calling the comptroller "ethically challenged" and Hevesi accusing Giuliani of a cover-up. "He is an ethically...
FATAL LOVERS' SPAT
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amAn ex-lovers' quarrel turned deadly over the weekend for a 22-year-old man on the Lower East Side, cops said. Eric Rodriguez was fatally shot around 11:20 p.m. Sunday in front...
SHOCKING NET WORTH - FANS PAY BIG $$ FOR TENNIS FUN
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amThe U.S. Open tennis tournament is no place for those looking for cheap entertainment - the average family of four will pay nearly $240 for food, drinks and souvenirs each...
MAYOR: NO KID SHOTS, NO SCHOOL
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani is urging parents of 100,000 seventh-graders to make sure their kids get Hepatitis B vaccination shots before heading back to school next week - or risk getting kicked...
FEUD ENDS IN SHOOTING: COPS
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amA simmering feud between two partygoers at a Brooklyn birthday bash ended in a fatal weekend shootout outside a restaurant, cops said yesterday. Gocha Portselarze, a 31-year-old Russian émigré, was...
JURY HEARS PARTYGOER HIT BY LIZZIE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amAdam Wacht, one of the 16 people run down by publicity princess Lizzie Grubman at a Southampton hot spot, hobbled before a Long Island grand jury on crutches yesterday to...
ITALIANS' CASE VS. 'SOPRANOS' SET FOR TRIAL TOMORROW
August 28, 2001 | 4:00am"The Sopranos" will go on trial tomorrow in Chicago. That's when Judge Robert Seibel of Cook County Circuit Court will decide the fate of a lawsuit brought last April by...
QNS. BANK HEIST NETS 225G
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amTwo brazen, high-tech robbers threatened to blow out the brains of a bank customer in a bold Queens heist that netted $225,000 yesterday. The cocky duo, clad in security-guard uniforms,...
UFT BLASTS LEVY FOR HOUSING GAP
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amThe head of the teachers union flunked Schools Chancellor Harold Levy's office yesterday for botched planning that has left hundreds of international teaching recruits with a housing crisis. The 700...
COP SUSPENDED FOR IMPERSONATING DETECTIVE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amA veteran police officer was suspended yesterday for impersonating a detective as part of an extortion and bad-check scheme, authorities said. Officer Willie Thomas, an 18-year veteran in the 23rd...
NEW YORK POST: FROM AUG. 28, 1963
August 28, 2001 | 4:00am"Washington - By train and bus and plane and car, tens of thousands of civil-rights demonstrators cascaded into the sun-swathed capital today for a historic march from the Washington Monument...
JUSTICE IS (NOT) SERVED - YANK AVOIDS ON-FIELD SUBPOENA
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amA crafty process server struck out after he sneaked onto the field at a Yankee game and attempted to tag David Justice with a subpoena in his nasty ongoing palimony...
BILL & 'HANNIBAL' ARE BIKINI CANNIBALS
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amCall them the Boys from Ipanema. Mouths in Rio de Janiero were agape yesterday as former President Bill Clinton went bikini shopping near the city's picturesque beaches with "Hannibal" star...
MARSHAL-SLAY SUSPECT GETS COLD FEET ON WILD DEFENSE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amThe woman charged with murdering a city marshal during an eviction dispute changed her mind at the last minute yesterday after planning to tell a grand jury that Erskine Bryce's...
CONDIT SON HOPING HE DOESN'T RUN
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Scandal-scarred Rep. Gary Condit may not seek re-election, his son said yesterday, adding that he will urge his father not to run again. "I don't know if he'll...
B'KLYN PALS HUNT HASID HIKER LOST IN N.H.
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amHundreds of Orthodox Jews from New York combed the dense woods and rough terrain of New Hampshire's White Mountains yesterday, looking for a Brooklyn man who vanished on a hike....
PLO 'WAR' CRY OVER ISRAEL ASSASSINATION
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The Palestinians accused Israel of triggering "full-scale, unlimited war" by killing a top-ranking terrorist with a pinpoint missile strike yesterday. Undeterred, Israel followed up the slaying of Abu...
3 NABBED, 1 ON LAM IN GRISLY '96 SLAY
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amCops said last night they busted three people who tortured and murdered a Bronx couple in front of their three terrified kids - but are asking for help in finding...
DOUBTING DANNY - BX. TEAM MIGHT HAVE LIED ON AGE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amLittle League officials are investigating accusations the Bronx Baby Bombers' star pitcher is two years older than he claims - and ineligible to play. A Sports Illustrated article, published today,...
BUS-STOP BATTLE - POLS AT ODDS OVER MOVE TO AID B'KLYN BIZ
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amA battle over a bus stop led yesterday to an angry shouting match on a Brooklyn street between a state senator and a store owner. The brouhaha began when the...
POWERBALL WINNERS HAVE 'CEREAL' NUMBERS
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amA Maine couple - who hid their winning ticket in a box of cereal - and a Minnesota records clerk joined a 46-year-old ex-con from Kentucky yesterday to claim their...
FEDS WEIGH CONDIT OBSTRUCTION PROBE - GRAND JURY MAY CONVENE NEXT MONTH
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A federal grand jury could be convened next month to investigate obstruction-of-justice charges against Rep. Gary Condit and some of his top advisers, The Post has learned. Law-enforcement...
DUBYA IN TEXAS
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amOn Vacation Day 24, President Bush kept out of view in Crawford, Texas, marking time toward his return to Washington on Thursday. While his advisers kept busy defending Bush's tax...
ANOTHER LONELY FIGHT FOR HERMAN BADILLO
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amHERMAN Badillo faces long odds in his bid to win the Republican mayoral primary on Sept. 11 - to put it mildly. He's broke, and his opponent, Michael Bloomberg, is...
WE'RE LOSING OUR BEST NEIGHBOR
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amTV without Mister Rogers? It's almost too awful to contemplate, but contemplate it we must, for Fred Rogers is hanging up his sweater. And in so doing, television loses a...
RAFT'S AFLOAT, FOR NOW
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amAll signs are pointing to this being Patrick Rafter's last U.S. Open, his last Grand Slam. Asked yesterday what he still loved about the game, Rafter said, "That it's nearly...
SERENA STRIKES BACK; RETURNS HINGIS RIPPING AFTER WIN
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amSerena Williams was news yesterday because of what was said about her and sister Venus by some of her rivals. She nearly became news again after dropping the first set...
AGASSI ROLLS IN OPENER
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amMike Bryan grew up idolizing Andre Agassi. Last night, his hero let him have it. Second-seeded Agassi beat the 23-year-old Californian 6-4, 6-1, 6-0. "When you get to this point...
BENNY'S PROBABLY GOING, GOING, GONE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Benny Agbayani began this year as the Mets' starting left fielder. It would be pretty shocking if this were the case next year. Yesterday provided an example of...
TOE NEWS GOOD NEWS FOR POSADA
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amA clean X-ray on Jorge Posada's big left toe yesterday lessened the sting of watching Mariano Rivera and Mike Stanton flush a win Sunday night in Anaheim. When Posada left...
JOHNSON IN AWE OF RUTH'S HOUSE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amNick Johnson felt chills when Yankee fans in Anaheim chanted his name Saturday. Tonight, there is a chance Johnson's marrow will freeze. If Joe Torre isn't convinced Tino Martinez' cranky...
MR. SHINJO RISES
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amWith the Little League World Series champions from Japan at Shea, and with the Mets down by a run in the eighth, veteran Tsuyoshi Shinjo watchers knew he would turn...
BONDS SHOULD KEEP HIS DAY JOB
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amTO the fat paragraph in the Barry Bonds bio in the Giants' media directory headlined "The Actor," you can add one more credit. "The Diva" as Regular Guy. That is...
WHITE MAKES SLIGHT - RICK, METS SNOWED OVER BY J.T. BOMB IN 9TH
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amGiants 6 - Mets 5 It is the Curse of Turk. That's Rick White's problem. White is attempting to replace his good friend, Turk Wendell, as the Mets' right-handed setup...
SHANE'S BAT GETS TORRE'S ATTENTION
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Shane Spencer didn't need Chuck Knoblauch's stomach to act up to play Sunday night against the Angels. Joe Torre's original lineup had Spencer in right and Knoblauch in...
JETS TO GET EARLY LOOK AT DREADED VET TURF
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amThere was much talk yesterday about the questionable Veterans Stadium turf the Jets are scheduled to play on in their preseason finale Thursday night. Herman Edwards, a former Eagles cornerback,...
KNEE SCOPE LETS JINTS, JASON HOPE
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amThere were no surprises or complications yesterday as Jason Sehorn had his right knee flushed and the Giants remain hopeful their top cornerback can be in uniform and on the...
'RANSOM' SCORES IN TURF DEBUT
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA NOTEBOOK SARATOGA SPRINGS - Ransom's Pride, making her first start on turf for trainer Ramon Hernandez, took the lead turning for home and won yesterday's $75,000 Yaddo Handicap for...
SWISS MISS STANDS BY REMARKS
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK Perhaps it hasn't dawned on Martina Hingis the Williams sisters get endorsements because they win Gland Slams - something the Swiss Miss no longer does. Perhaps they get endorsements...
LIBS' DREAM DIES AT GARDEN
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amGAME 3: Sting 48 - Liberty 44 An hour after being eliminated in Game 3 of the WNBA Eastern Conference Finals last night, the Liberty looked and sounded like a...
LIBS REACHING FOR 'FINAL' GOAL
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amThe Liberty never shied away from putting the heavy weight of high expectation on their shoulders before the season started. Their goal was as clear as it was lofty: WNBA...
HINGIS STANDS BEHIND RACE REMARKS
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amU.S. OPEN NOTES Perhaps it hasn't dawned on Martina Hingis the Williams sisters get endorsements because they win Gland Slams - something the Swiss Miss no longer does. Perhaps they...
SERENA STRIKES BACK
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amSerena Williams was news yesterday because of what was said about her and sister Venus by some of her rivals. She nearly became news again after dropping the first set...
RAFT'S AFLOAT . . . FOR NOW - PATRICK WINS OPENER, STILL TALKS OF RETIRING
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amAll signs are pointing to this being Patrick Rafter's last U.S. Open, his last Grand Slam. Asked yesterday what he still loved about the game, Rafter said, "That it's nearly...
RAFT'S AFLOAT . . . FOR NOW - PATRICK WINS OPENER, STILL TALKS OF LEAVING THE COURT FOR GOOD
August 28, 2001 | 4:00amAll signs are pointing to this being Patrick Rafter's last U.S. Open, his last Grand Slam. Asked yesterday what he still loved about the game, Rafter said, "That it's nearly...