September 5, 2001
DOT-COM MELTDOWNS SCORCH TELECOM HOTELS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amMORE than half of a Web-hosting building believed to be completely owner-occupied is for rent, we've learned, adding to the city's dismal outlook for that sector of the real estate...
MACKLOWE ON A DRIVE FOR UNITY
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amBD+>HARRY Macklowe faces a holy hurdle before he can turn an oddly shaped, obsolescent Madison Avenue office building into a normally shaped modern one. About 20 percent of the gap-toothed...
EISNER, ARMSTRONG DISSED IN VF'S MOGUL RANKING
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amGeneral Electric's Jack Welch and former BMG Entertainment chief Strauss Zelnick are out. Vivendi Universal's Jean-Marie Messier and Tom Cruise are in. And Disney's Michael Eisner is somewhere in between....
2ND-RUN THEATER MAY BE NBC STUDIOS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amFormer cheapo movie theater Worldwide Plaza Cinemas may soon be back in action - but not showing movies. General Electric Co.'s NBC television division is reportedly in talks to convert...
EX-AURORA CEO COPS TO COOKING THE BOOKS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe former CEO of Aurora Foods - makers of Duncan Hines cake mixes and Mrs. Paul's seafood - pleaded guilty yesterday to frying the company's figures to try to boost...
BEARS MAUL RALLY: DOW GIVES BACK MOST OF BIG GAIN; NASDAQ IS ALSO HIT
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe bulls were back, briefly. Wall Street bulls whipped up a buying frenzy yesterday that sent stocks soaring above 10,000 but bearish news soon choked off the rally and could...
IT'S A BAD MERGER: WALL ST. DISLIKES A COMPAQ-HP COMBO
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amWall Street held its nose yesterday at Carly Fiorina's $20 billion plan to combine her shaky Hewlett-Packard with the stumbling Compaq. Stocks of the two companies skidded, wiping out $10.5...
EU'S MONTI IS LURKING IN THE SHADOWS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amEuropean mergers czar Mario Monti is looking at the Hewlett-Packard and Compaq deal as his possible newest trophy. After killing the mother of all mergers this year - the General...
LOVE CHILD PIX FOUND
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amMEDIA Ink has obtained the controversial photo of Rosamunda Neuharth Ozgo and the man she believes to be her father, USA Today founder and onetime chairman of Gannett Corp., Al...
HOW SWEET IT IS: BERRIES THAT ARE WORTH THEIR WAIT
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amLIKE Christmas, Bissinger's chocolate-covered blackberries come but once a year. When the large, black-purple berries arrive from the Pacific Northwest, they're quickly dipped and shipped overnight from the St. Louis...
THOM IS ALL THUMBS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amRESTAURANT REVIEW: THOM - 60 Thompson St. (60 Thompson Hotel) - 212-219-2000 STAR and ½ 'ARE there specials?" we ask our cheerful waiter at the new, aching-to-be-hot Thom one recent...
SCHOOL GRAZE: HERE'S WHAT'S COOKIN' IN CULINARY COURSES THIS FALL
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amGOING back to school's a piece of cake when the subject is food.For food lovers - and who isn't, really? - the learning process doesn't get much sweeter than when...
CINDY TAKES 'ROCKY': GOSSIP MAVEN MAY TELL IT ALL AT 'SHOW'
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amCINDY Adams. World famous New York Post gossip columnist. "The Rocky Horror Show." Struggling Broadway musical. Cindy may ride to its rescue. Here's what I know. Not what I think...
FOR A QUICK FIX, DIG INTO DISHES
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amDISHES - 47 E.44TH ST. (between Vanderbilt & Madison Avenues) - 212-687-5511 THREE STARS THERE are salad bars and then there are salad bars. The lettuce-loading dock at Dishes is...
END OF THE ROAD: NBC'S 'LOST' CAUSE FALLS AT STARTING LINE
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amAS exciting, hilarious, and real as tonight's premier episode of CBS's "The Amazing Race" is, oddly enough, the exact opposite is true about NBC's premier reality show, also on tonight,...
STAR CHEF TO SHINE IN APPLE
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amA culinary star of the Big Easy is coming to the Big Apple.New Orleans chef Dominique Macquet will open Dominique's at the Rihga Royal, the Marriott-managed hotel on West 54th...
STUDIO EYES 'WOLF' FOR LION'S SHARE OF PROFITS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00am'THE Brotherhood of the Wolf" isn't your typical French movie - it's got kick-ass martial arts sequences, a rampaging monster to scare the pants off audiences and lavish special effects...
'MILLIONAIRE' MAKES 'JEOPARDY' COUGH UP PRIZE MONEY DOUBLES AFTER 18 YEARS - $11,000 GOES TO $22,000
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amTHE clue is: A popular quiz-show that is doubling is prize money for the first time in nearly 20 years? The correct answer: What is "Jeopardy!"? Starting the last week...
BRAVO GETS A HELPING HAND AS NYC CABLE SWITCHES AGAIN
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amTIME Warner cable is not finished shuffling channels. A major overhaul of its channel assignments takes place today - but another, smaller shift is set for later this month, the...
WWF QUITS THE
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amPRO-WRESTLING'S WWF is taking a dive for MTV's Video Music Awards this week."WWF Smackdown!," the highest rated show on Viacom-owned UPN, aired last night instead of Thursday thanks to a...
YOUNG, RICH & SINGLE: FORTUNE SMILES ON THE RICH AND (OFTEN) FAMOUS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amTHEY'RE young, superwealthy - and not necessarily boring! Last year, it was all about the tech geeks. But Fortune magazine's 2001 list of the 40 richest Americans under 40 is...
CITIBANK ATMS SPIT OUT ONLY SORRY EXCUSES
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amMillions of Citibank's ATM customers were out of luck - and bucks - yesterday when a nationwide system meltdown put its machines out of order and made its bank cards...
NEW YORK POST FROM SEPT. 5, 1882
September 5, 2001 | 4:00am"The Workingmen's Parade," read The Post's headline about New York's celebration of the first Labor Day. "Several thousand persons were assembled in and about City Hall Park by 10 o'clock...
WITHOUT NEGATIVE ADS, THE PUBLIC'S THE LOSER
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amWITH less than a week to go, none of the would-be mayors has launched a media campaign criticizing one of his rivals. The only targets have been Rudy Giuliani, who...
COPS: FAKE INS AGENT PREYED ON DESPERATE ALIENS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amA man posing as a corrupt immigration agent has been busted for taking $60,000 in bribes from illegal aliens desperate for green cards, law-enforcement officials said yesterday. Luis Falete, a...
WHO'S GOING TO WIN?: YOU ONLY THINK YOU KNOW
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amANYBODY who tells you he knows who the next mayor of New York is going to be is either kidding you or kidding himself. Anybody who tells you he's sure...
WE ALL KNOW HER ROTTEN RECORD AS CLINTON'S STOOGE
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amTHE news that Janet Reno is running for the job of governor of Florida is about as funny as a comedian telling jokes to a guy suffering a sneezing attack...
POLL SHOWS FERRER ON A TEAR: BX. BEEP NOW AHEAD OF GREEN
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amMayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer - lifted by support from the Rev. Al Sharpton - is surging as the race for City Hall hits the home stretch, according to a new...
EX-FBI CLERK ADMITS HE TIPPED OFF N.Y. MOBSTERS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amA former FBI clerk is facing up to 30 years in jail and $1 million in fines after pleading guilty in federal court yesterday to stealing classified FBI documents and...
EX-TOP COP IS RARIN' TO RIP FREDDY OVER CRIME
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amFormer Police Commissioner Bill Bratton yesterday vowed to go mano a mano with Fernando Ferrer for attacking his crime-fighting record. Bratton, who's supporting Mark Green, called The Post to rip...
HECHE TELLIN' ON ELLEN: SEX WAS 'THE BEST'
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amAnne Heche will go on national TV tonight and declare that with her former lover Ellen DeGeneres, she enjoyed "the best sex I ever had." "I felt sensuous and sexual...
'KID PORN' JAILER TURNED IN BY WIFE
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amA Rikers Island correction officer was busted yesterday for possession of a kiddie-porn collection starring himself and young boys - after his infuriated wife told cops where to find the...
GOP STALWART GRAMM BOWING OUT OF SENATE
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, a veteran Republican from President Bush's home state, yesterday said he won't seek reelection, adding a new twist to GOP efforts to retake control...
ISRAEL VOWING REVENGE IN NEW SUICIDE ATTACK
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amMOSCOW - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to retaliate against the Palestinians and welcomed the collapse of a European peace initiative yesterday after another suicide bombing in Jerusalem. The...
TEACHERS ARE BOLTING FOR THE 'BURBS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe number of city teachers flocking to suburban school districts has jumped a whopping 65 percent since 1998, while the Board of Education is grappling with a shortage of qualified...
LIMELIGHT'S NEIGHBORS VENT BOTTLED-UP FURY
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amSwitch off the Limelight, neighbors of the notoriously noisy Chelsea club begged state officials yesterday. "My bed trembles" from the thumping music, next-door neighbor Bill Dubilier complained at a packed...
SPIELBERG: 'POTTER' TOO EASY FOR ME
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amPhoto courtesy Vanity FairSteven Spielberg has finally broken his silence on the reason he decided not to direct the "Harry Potter" movie, saying it wasn't challenging. "I purposely didn't do...
DANNY'S DAD FACES RAP: HE'S CHARGED WITH FALSIFYING BIRTH RECORD
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amToo-big Little Leaguer Danny Almonte's dad was charged in the Dominican Republic yesterday with falsifying his son's birth certificate, and could face jail time if he goes home, a government...
$TUNNING TWIST IN TRIAL OF TEAMSTERS EX-BOSS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe key witness against former Teamsters boss Ron Carey was caught yesterday in yet another double-dipping scam - but insisted it was all just "an accident." Jere Nash, in his...
FURIOUS GEORGE SUES JEWS FOR JESUS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amCurious George has been born again as a Jew for Jesus - and the lovable monkey's publishers are going bananas. Houghton Mifflin sued the religious group yesterday, claiming their best-selling...
N.Y.S. ON-DUTY COP DEATHS DROP
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe number of police officers killed in the line of duty in New York state dropped sharply in the first half of the year while rising about 10 percent nationwide,...
EX STALKED SLAIN BUS DRIVER, HIS KIN SAY
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn bus driver shot dead while serving his ex-girlfriend with court papers was being stalked by the "crazy and violent" woman and wanted to make a clean break with...
RIFT OVER RACE-TALK SNUB
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Jewish leaders yesterday hailed President Bush for pulling out of the U.N. conference on racism for its anti-Israel tone, but black leaders voiced distress. In South Africa, where...
COPS ON TRAIL OF B'KLYN RAPIST
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amCops are hunting for a 34-year-old maintenance worker in the rape of an elderly Williamsburg woman last week. Santos Flores entered his 77-year-old victim's Brooklyn apartment around noon Aug. 30...
GO FIGURE: STILL NO STATE BUDGET IN SIGHT
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki and state lawmakers failed again to reach a budget agreement yesterday, even as the Legislature convened for a special session called by the governor. Legislative insiders...
SHARK LOVERS YANK ADS: PETA CITES 'RESPECT FOR VICTIMS AND KIN'
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amAn animal-rights group yesterday called off an ad campaign encouraging compassion for sharks following weekend attacks that claimed two lives. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals yanked plans to...
LIZZIE DAD'S DEFENSE: VICTIMS ARE TO BLAME
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amLizzie Grubman's dad is using a "blame the victim" defense - saying one of the people run over by his daughter was responsible for his own injuries. Allen Grubman -...
'BUSINESS AS USUAL' FOR CONDIT? YEAH, RIGHT
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Radioactive Rep. Gary Condit returns to Capitol Hill today, promising to focus on congressional business - but he faces growing scrutiny from colleagues and cops over his disastrous...
IS VENUS A 'FOXXY' LADY OR A FRIEND?
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amVenus Williams' hunky Italian boyfriend better watch out or he'll be out-foxed - by Jamie Foxx. The Post caught the sexy tennis queen and the red-hot actor together minutes after...
DRUG-DILUTE SCANDAL WORSENS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amInfamous diluter druggist Robert Courtney may have watered down at least two more chemotherapy potions meant for ailing cancer patients, widening the potentially deadly effect of his hideous actions, probers...
VICTIM'S KIN SUE LANDLORD IN EAST SIDE TENANT SLAY
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amAn Upper East Side landlord who allegedly murdered an elderly rent-control tenant was yesterday hit with a $55 million wrongful-death lawsuit. The suit, by Barbara Kenna's family, came on the...
HE MIGHT GET 'LEFT' BEHIND
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amANALYSIS Fernando Ferrer's strategy of courting black, Hispanic and anti-Giuliani voters seems to have him poised to enter a Democratic mayoral runoff against Mark Green. But Ferrer has yet to...
YESHIVA GUNNING FOR KIDS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe public education crisis has turned nasty - a violent street poster showing a gun being pointed at the head of a boy is being used by a Jewish school...
STAR-SPANGLED BANNER GETS BOUNCED
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amThey may call it the U.S. Open, but tennis officials don't want to be too American. They are steering clear of playing The Star-Spangled Banner before the daily matches, and...
'DWI' COP CHARGED IN DEATH OF BABY
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn district attorney yesterday hit alleged DWI cop Joseph Gray with a new manslaughter charge for the death of victim Maria Herrera's baby, despite a city medical examiner's finding...
MOM DENIES ABUSE OF 'KIDNAPPED' GIRL
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amA Bronx mom yesterday tearfully denied that her daughter - allegedly held captive for a year in a basement boiler room - had run away from home because she was...
GREEN & MCENROE IN TV LOVE MATCH: MAYOR HOPEFUL MARK A 'SMASH' HIT AT TENNIS TOURNEY
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amInstead of just talking tennis, commentator John McEnroe served up easy political lobs to Mark Green when the mayoral candidate made a surprise on-air appearance in the broadcast booth at...
SENIORS' POLLS WILL STAY OPEN
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amUnder pressure from the U.S. Department of Justice, the city Board of Elections decided yesterday to keep polling sites at 49 nursing homes and senior centers open, even though the...
CITY SCHOOLS CONSTRUCTION CHIEF QUITS AMID FIA$CO
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amSchool Construction Authority boss Milo Riverso is resigning - as the Board of Education struggles with a $2.8 billion shortfall in its capital plan. Riverso, president and chief executive officer...
KIDS CUT IT CLOSE AS THEY SHOP & LOP
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amFrom new books to buzz cuts, Big Apple students are cramming all their back-to-school chores into summer vacation's twilight hours. Stores and stylists were bursting with business yesterday as parents...
N.Y. ON-DUTY COP DEATHS DROP
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe number of police officers killed in the line of duty in New York state dropped sharply in the first half of the year while rising about 10 percent nationwide,...
COPS: DRUG DILUTER MAY HAVE TAINTED OTHER MEDS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amInfamous diluter druggist Robert Courtney may have watered down at least two more chemotherapy potions meant for ailing cancer patients, widening the potentially deadly effect of his hideous actions, probers...
ORDONEZ FLEXING MUSCLES AT PLATE
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Now that the weight of the Mets' altogether disappointing offense is no longer resting on the shoulders of the hired (at $4 million a year) scapegoat...
ANDY'S RANCID AGAIN: SLUMPING PETTITE TATTOOED IN TORONTO
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - His elbow isn't sore, the shoulder isn't cranky. His back is strong and his legs powerful. Mechanically, he is sound. It's Andy Pettitte's math across the last four...
BROSIUS ON TRACK FOR NEXT WEEK
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Scott Brosius took live batting practice yesterday in Tampa and reported no pain in his left wrist which was fractured Aug. 1. It was the first...
TRACHSEL KOS PHILS 4TH TIME
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Much like the waivers reportedly recently asked on Steve Trachsel, the first 4½ months of the Mets' season are irrevocable, their 13 wins in the last 17 games...
POSADA: INCIDENT WAS A MIST-UNDERSTANDING
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Jorge Posada admitted yesterday if given a do-over he would have acted differently than he did Monday when he snapped on plate umpire Andy Fletcher in the ninth...
JETER EXITS WITH SORE HAMMY
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Never having a hamstring injury, Derek Jeter admitted he has no idea how to judge the severity of the one he suffered last night. But the tone of...
RODDICK'S SERVE ROCKS ROBREDO
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES Andy Roddick has been widely hailed as the future of American tennis. But he's looking more like the present, after drilling Spain's Tommy Robredo 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 last...
GIANT BLUE GIVES SKIPPER A BATTLE TO REMEMBER
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amLAST Thursday's shark trip aboard the charter boat Montauk started off like any other, but the outcome was to be different from any the captain had experienced in all his...
NHL OKS FLEURY
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe formality closed the book on last year's Ranger nightmare, just in time to start fresh this year. The NHL yesterday reinstated Theo Fleury to active eligibility, seven months after...
FASSEL: WE'RE NOT COMPLACENT
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amWITH less than a week until the Giants head to Denver for their season opener, coach Jim Fassel sat down with The Post for a one-on-one:Q: Who was the biggest...
HINGIS OVERCOMES DAJA VU
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amYou can tout either Venus Williams or Jennifer Capriati. But if you ask Martina Hingis, she's as good as anybody. And Hingis still has the computer ranking to prove it....
IMPROVED JETS READY TO ROAR
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amTHIS is the time of year when I'm asked the same question by everyone from my father-in-law to my barber to the guy behind the liquor-store counter to the cop...
HAYES CATCHING ON FAST AS DEPENDABLE RECEIVER
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amJET NOTES Quick quiz: Who led the Jets in receptions this summer? A. Wayne Chrebet; B. Matthew Hatchette; C. Santana Moss; D. Laveranues Coles? Answer: None of the above. Windrell...
POCHMAN: KICKOFF INSURANCE
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Teams rarely climb up on a mountaintop and shout, "We screwed up!" but the Giants might as well do just that after their place-kicking carousel continued yesterday with...
HUSKERS HAVE EXTRA MOTIVATION
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe Nebraska players said a prayer for head coach Frank Solich after Saturday's 42-14 win over Troy State. It was not a thanks for victory, but rather a prayer of...
ISLES, YASHIN AGREE: CENTER TO INK 10-YEAR DEAL
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amToday is the day fans in Islander Country have been waiting all summer for. Maybe even all decade. The Post has learned that the Islanders are prepared to sign center...
IT WON'T BE EASY BUSTING BRONCOS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amThe first test likely will be the most difficult. So it goes for the defending NFC champions and their marquee defense. An impending clash of titans awaits the Giants and...
THE KINGS IN THEIR COURT: AGASSI, SAMPRAS SET FOR SHOWDOWN
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amThey were juxtaposed again yesterday, practicing on opposite ends of adjacent courts. While Pete Sampras worked on his dominating serve with fellow tour player Vladimir Voltchkov, Andre Agassi was honing...
SERENA MARCHES INTO SEMIFINALS
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amSerena Williams and Lindsay Davenport, a pair of former Open champions, hooked up in a classic quarterfinal clash last night that had the punch-counterpunch feel of a heavyweight bout. And...
ANDY'S RANCID AGAIN: SLUMPING PETTITTE TATTOOED IN TORONTO
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - The hair-hurting hangover you expected the Yankees to suffer through Monday arrived last night. After taking three straight from the Red Sox in Boston, many believed the Yankees...
JORGE: I JUST MIST: POSADA DENIES SPITTING AS HE WAITS FOR BAN
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - Jorge Posada tried to put the beer back in the keg yesterday when he admitted if given a do-over he would have acted differently than he did Monday...
KEISLER DOESN'T GET CALL
September 5, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Randy Keisler was the favorite to win the No. 5 starting spot in spring training and failed. He was brought to the majors in early April...