September 14, 2001
CANTOR BACK UP - DECIMATED FIRM RESUMES BOND TRADING
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amCantor Fitzgerald heroically resumed trading yesterday from its backup operation in New Jersey. The 57-year-old partnership was the dominant U.S. government bond broker before a terrorist attack decimated its World...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amFOR the first time in history, Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report have all come out with special issues that hit most newsstands today. Time is sending 3...
IT'S TIME TO CHANGE THE WAY WE TRADE STOCKS
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amBACK in 1792, 24 stockbrokers got together on a downtown New York street corner and started what has become the greatest financial institution in the world - the New York...
AIRLINES HIT HARD - COULD LOSE $10B DUE TO TRAGIC TERROR
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amThe world airline industry is expected to take a massive $10 billion hit this week because of Tuesday's vicious sneak attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The...
STOCKS TRADE MONDAY - BONDS OPEN MIXED; OVERSEAS MARTS RECOVER A BIT
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amThe titans of Wall Street have banded together in an unprecedented show of unity to get stock trading up and running next week. But some Wall Streeters fear a Black...
CEO LUTNICK'S LIFE IS CHANGED FOREVER
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amCantor Fiztgerald CEO Howard Lutnick was late for work Tuesday - and it saved his life. Lutnick missed the 8:45 a.m. attack on the north tower of the World Trade...
WTC CHAINS' PROFITS HIT
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amRetailers with stores in the World Trade Center will be taking a hit to their bottom lines. The stores - including The Gap, Banana Republic, The Limited, Inc.'s Express, Structure...
A RACE AGAINST TIME - BANKS SCRAMBLE TO GET READY TO TRADE
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amwall Street firms decimated or dislocated by the World Trade Center blast scrambled yesterday to get themselves in shape to resume trading as soon as possible. One Liberty Plaza and...
WOOLWORTH CONDOS MAY BE OFFICE SPACE AGAIN
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amThe Woolworth building may change directions and return to full commercial use following the World Trade Center disaster. Talk of possible new plans surfaced at an emergency meeting between Mayor...
IT'S BACK TO BUSINESS - BANKS SCRAMBLE TO GET READY TO TRADE
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amWall Street firms decimated or dislocated by the World Trade Center blast scrambled yesterday to get themselves in shape to resume trading as soon as possible. One Liberty Plaza and...
STARR REPORT
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amSearch continues for missing engineers Today's column is dedicated to the local TV engineers and technicians who worked in the World Trade Center - and are still missing as of...
LOOKING A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amCARMENCity Center, West 55th Street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues. Season runs through Sept. 23. (212) 581-1212. --------- NORMALCY comes very slowly. For a tragic moment, this show was the...
THE TIME SHE OWNS - NANCI GRIFFITH KNOWS HOW TO LIVE FOR TODAY
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S easy to be upbeat when everything is going your way. The test comes in the face of adversity.Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith has had two bouts with cancer - breast and...
SEX & THE SINGLE GIRL
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amTALKING with Heather Graham about sex is never dull. The saucy actress has a string of raunchy roles to her name - most notably, roller-skating porn star Rollergirl in "Boogie...
NO LIGHT AT END OF THIS 'TUNNEL'
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amHAIKU TUNNEL [Half a star] Fatuous, inept office comedy. Running time: 90 minutes.Rated R. At the Empire 25 andthe Angelika. ----- OFFICE comedies come along all too rarely (it's been...
'BIG BRO' MONICA'S RELATIVE IS AMONG THE WTC MISSING
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amPERHAPS the only people in America who have not seen the pictures of the World Trade Center tragedy are the three remaining contestants on he reality TV show, "Big Brother...
CAUTIOUS NETS GET OUT THE SCISSORS
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amNETWORK and studios officials are pouring over episodes of both new and old shows this week - and say they will edit out any references to the World Trade Center,...
FALL LAUNCHES PUSHED BACK A WEEK
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amNBC and CBS have moved the launch of their fall schedules to at least Monday, Sept. 24. As of this writing, ABC had yet to announce whether they would follow...
BROADWAY BRACES - PRODUCERS FEAR REVENUE DROP IF AUDIENCES STAY AWAY
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amTHERE is growing concern in the theater industry that the attack on the World Trade Center, coupled with an already fragile economy, will put an end to the flush times...
RENEWED GRIEF FOR FATHER'S DAY WIDOWS
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amTHE widow of one of the Magnificent Three who perished fighting the Father's Day inferno was once again battling tears. "I can't even explain how I feel, it hurts so...
DUST MASKS ARE A MUST, SAY DOCS
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amThe clouds of deadly dust enveloping lower Manhattan shouldn't be faced without a mask, a leading respiratory expert said. Dr. Dorsett Smith said many rescue workers involved in the effort...
DAUGHTER DISAPPEARS AFTER CALLING MOTHER TO SAY, 'I'M FINE'
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amIvy Moreno breathed a deep sigh of relief when her son, Roland, told her he had gotten a call from his sister, Yvette. "She told Roland that a plane had...
NOTHIN' LIKE THE REAL THING - HOLLYWOOD FANTASY VS. HORIFYING REALITY
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amFOLLOWING the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Frank Sinatra saw to it that two movies he had made involving presidential assassination attempts - "Suddenly" and "The Manchurian Candidate" - were...
BRAVE PILOT SENT ALERT IN SECRET
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amFlight controllers heard a hijacker's chilling warning to the pilot of one of the planes that crashed into World Trade Center because the pilot quietly triggered a radio, it was...
QUEENS SCHOOL HAS TWO FIREMAN DADS MISSING
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amA Catholic school in Glendale, Queens, has been hit hard by the World Trade Center tragedy. Teachers and kids returned to Sacred Heart school today to discover that two firefighter...
BITTER LESSON FOR RETURNING KIDS
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amThousands of shell-shocked students played hooky during yesterday's school re-opening following the World Trade Center disaster. For kids who showed up, the tragedy dominated classroom discussions in school across the...
STANDING UP IN A - TAKING UP THE BURDEN
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amIN 1850 Don Pacifico, a Sephardic Jew living in Athens, who happened to be a British subject, had his home and warehouse burned by a Greek mob. The British Foreign...
HOW TO USE YOUR GRIEF TO BEGIN THE HEALING
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amYOU'RE allowed to be mad. You're allowed to be pissed. But don't let your anger marinate into destructive behavior. Find ways to channel it effectively and patriotically. The city is...
BESIEGED CIA CHIEF HAS PREZ'S SUPPORT
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush has full confidence in CIA Director George Tenet, despite reports that some senators are calling for Tenet's head because U.S. intelligence failed to stop the terror...
U.S. MAY SOCK BIN LADEN FROM RUSSIAN BASES
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Bush administration is talking with Russia about using former Soviet military bases in central Asia as staging areas for massive military assaults on Osama bin Laden, The...
LAWMEN HAVE GRISLY TASK OF DIGGING FOR CLUES AT S.I. DUMP
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amInside the secret field of death in the huge Staten Island landfill, mangled firetrucks, scorched police vehicles and crushed cars are piled next to a grisly mortuary tent. The long...
PREZ: 'I MOURN WITH AMERICA' ; TEARY AS HE VOWS A VICTORY
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amGrave as a general going into combat, President Bush yesterday vowed to lead the world to victory against terror in "the first war of the 21st century." Bush fought tears...
N.Y. 'VILLAGERS' UNITE
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amScenes rarely seen before in New York's history unfolded as the city pulled together to share its heartbreak, anger and fear. "New York City is now like a village -...
OLD GLORY WAVES AS NEVER BEFORE
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amTuesday's attack has sent Americans scrambling for star-spangled banners in a massive show of patriotism that retailers say dwarfs the demand during the Gulf War. Flag dealers around the country...
THE RIGHT, ALAS, WAS RIGHT
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amIt would be downright wrong for the right to brag it was right. This is hardly a time for "we told you so." But, understandably, conservatives - particularly, terrorism hawks...
MUSLIM MOM CHASED ; COPS: L.I. MAN AIMED CAR AT HER
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amA 24-year-old Long Island mom from Pakistan narrowly escaped with her life when a drunken man shouting, "I'll kill you! I'm defending my country!" tried to run her down with...
COUNCIL VOTES FUNDS FOR MASSIVE CLEAN-UP EFFORT
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amForced out of City Hall for the first time in memory, the City Council yesterday held a special meeting at the New York Public Library to praise Mayor Giuliani and...
HE'S COMING TO APPLE TO PAY RESPECTS
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush today comes to New York today to "thank and hug and cry" with the city that took the brunt of the attack on America, but he probably won't...
PUTTING FACES ON VICTIMS OF AN ABOMINATION
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amMELANIE York clutched a plastic Rite Aid bag tightly against her chest as she looked at each of the 40 or so missing-person signs taped to the wooden police barricades....
APARTMENT DWELLERS CALL 'LUNAR LANDSCAPE' HOME
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amA handful of people in the devastated blocks around the World Trade Center have opted to rough it in apartments lacking utilities and access to food in the days since...
PA. JET MAY HAVE BEEN SHOT DOWN
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amDebris from United Airlines Flight 93 was found six miles from the crash site yesterday, raising the possibility the hijacked plane was shot down. Several hours after the discovery, searchers...
WEDDING IS A 'GO' IN FACE OF WTC TRAGEDY
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amThree of their wedding guests are missing in the World Trade Center rubble, but a Manhattan couple still plans to marry this weekend - to show that love and hope...
THEY DIG WITH THEIR FINGERS ; BUT THREAT OF COLLAPSE THWARTS BID
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amUnderground WTC rescue crews - driven by faint tapping sounds they prayed were from survivors trapped under tons of rubble - were stopped in their tracks yesterday by warnings of...
PENTAGON BIG: WE'LL HIT WITH A VENGEANCE
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amThe Pentagon's No. 2 official yesterday vowed that the United States will hit terrorists and their allies again and again and again - and even wipe out states that sponsor...
ERICKA'S LONELY HUNT FOR PAUL
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amI AM staring into the mouth of the devil, searching for one small, little man. His name is Paul Ortiz, and he is 21 years old. I try not to...
VISIONARY SEES DREAM COLLAPSE
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amThe driving forces behind the construction of the World Trade Center are devastated by its destruction. Builder John Tishman, 74, whose company Tishman Realty & Construction erected the Twin Towers...
LIST MISSING PERSONS ON OUR WEB SITE
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amThe New York Post's Web site, nypost.com, and Fox News are teaming up to provide a World Trade Center Missing Persons File, where people can submit the name and personal...
FOUR MILITANTS DIE AS ISRAELI TANKS ROLL
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli tanks rumbled into Palestinian towns in the West Bank for the second straight day yesterday, and there was more Mideast fallout from the terrorist attacks against the...
MUSLIM CABBIES STAY OFF THE JOB
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amMany of the city's yellow-cab drivers are calling in sick because they fear being attacked after Tuesday's terror onslaught. "They're all afraid they'll be hit by angry people," cabby Luis...
TEAM RUDY RISES TO TASK ; AIDES WORK ROUND THE CLOCK TO KEEP CITY RUNNING
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amWhile Mayor Giuliani has been the public face of the city in the wake of the terror crisis, he's been bolstered by a crack team of low-profile advisers who've been...
CLINTON COMES BY TO COMFORT FAMILIES
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amFormer President Bill Clinton visited a shattered city yesterday, offering words of solace to the families of those missing in the World Trade Center carnage and regretting that his own...
RUDY: LET US UNITE IN PRAYER
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani plans to hold an interfaith prayer service today to emphasize that religion should bring people together instead of tearing them apart. "One of the points we want to...
ASBESTOS IN DUST FROM THE COLLAPSE
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amTons of dust from the mangled World Trade Center towers contain cancer-causing asbestos - and federal officials want to use Superfund money to help clean it up. Tests on debris...
SICK HOAXERS POST BOGUS 'SURVIVORS' ON WEB
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amSick pranksters - not giving a damn about the thousands who died at the World Trade Center - gave relatives false hope yesterday by posting names of missing people on...
FLA. HOME WAS MONSTERS' LAIR ; FANATICS GOT PILOT LESSONS ALL OVER STATE
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amThis is the ordinary-looking Florida home where two of the bloodthirsty militants who died in Tuesday's terror attacks began their extraordinary training as flying messengers of death. Mohamed Atta, 33,...
STAR-CROSSED BEST PALS HAD PLANNED DISNEYLAND SURPRISE FOR TRAGIC 4-YEAR-OLD GIRL
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amEarly Tuesday morning, Ruth McCourt and Paige Hackel woke up in a Boston suburb, planning a very special surprise. The best friends - as close as sisters - were on...
THEY DIG WITH THEIR FINGERS
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amExhausted firefighter Ray Ryan, gingerly picking his way through a four-story mound of the World Trade Center's mangled south tower yesterday, first heard the gentle tapping around lunchtime. It was...
CITY EDGES BACK TO ROUTINE ; CORDONED-OFF AREA RECEDES TO CANAL ST.
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amFrom Broadway to the White House to lower Manhattan, things are getting back to normal - if they can ever be the same again. The biggest bit of good news...
AMID ALL THE DESPAIR COMES REASON TO CHEER ON THE DAY RESCUERS BECOME THE RESCUED
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amTwo fearless firefighters - searching for victims of the World Trade Center disaster - narrowly escaped death yesterday when they became lost and trapped in the smoldering rubble. The battered...
TORRENT OF THANKS FOR BRAVEST
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amWhile the city's Bravest continued to search for survivors in the ruins of the World Trade Center yesterday, the New Yorkers they serve were visiting their firehouses to offer sympathy...
CITY AIRPORTS SHUT AGAIN IN WAKE OF JFK 'TERROR' SCARE
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amAir travel sputtered back to life yesterday as passengers were greeted with a small fraction of the nation's normal flights - and a big increase in no-nonsense airport security. But...
IN SEARCH OF KIN AND HOPE ; FAMILIES FLOCK TO ARMORY FOR NEWS
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amArmed with photos and medical reports, hundreds of parents, siblings and friends of the World Trade Center's missing descended on the 69th Regiment Armory searching for word of their loved...
BRINK OF COLLAPSE ; RESCUE EFFORTS ENDANGERING WEAK BUILDINGS
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amThe desperate efforts of heavy-construction crews to move wreckage in the search for survivors appears to have further weakened some already dangerously damaged Financial District buildings. Most at risk yesterday...
JUSTICE CLOSES IN ON BUTCHERS ; 50 TERRORISTS ID'D AMID ARREST BLITZ
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amChasing thousands of leads across the globe, investigators nailed down the identities of 50 people involved in this week's terrorist slaughter - and rounded up new suspects at New York...
TEXAS WOMAN'S DESPERATE TREK
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amWhen she heard about the terror attack on the World Trade Center, Pushapa Sreenath jumped in a car in Dallas and drove 30 hours until she got to New York...
NEW TERROR SCARE AT JFK - 3 WITH BOGUS ID, 1 FAKE PILOT NABBED AT AIRPORT; 6 FIREFIGHTERS, RESCUERS PULLED ALIVE FROM TRADE CENTER; U.S. CAPITOL EVACUATED; VICE PRESIDENT SPIRITED TO SAFETY; BUSH VISITS NEW YORK CITY TODAY
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amFour men carrying bogus ID's were stopped from boarding a JFK flight late yesterday on suspicions they're linked to the World Trade Center terrorist attack, sources said. One was charged...
WAS MYSTERY CALL FROM WTC RUBBLE?
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amA mysterious call brought hope that a friend is alive in the rubble of the World Trade Center. At 11:27 a.m. yesterday, Matt Walton got an eerie call on his...
SISTER PRAYS, HOPES AND KEEPS LOOKING
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amRichard Fraser is a smiling face in a snapshot and a hope in many hearts, and his family prays they'll find him soon as something much more tangible - a...
BROTHER STILL HUNTS FOR 'VIVACIOUS' SUZIE
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amIt was because Sean Geraty was late for work that he was watching the World Trade Center disaster and wasn't a part of it. But as he saw the second...
PRIMARIES RESCHEDULED FOR SEPT. 25
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amGov. Pataki and legislative leaders agreed yesterday to reschedule New York City's primary election to Sept. 25, giving candidates 12 more days to campaign. The action, made necessary by Tuesday's...
AMID ALL THE DESPAIR, SIX LIVING MIRACLES EMERGE FROM THE RUBBLE - AND SUDDENLY, HOPE BURNS BRIGHT
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amSix victims of the World Trade Center disaster - including three firefighters - were miraculously pulled alive from the smoldering rubble yesterday. The lucky survivors were transported to Bellevue Hospital,...
TERROR GANG BUSTED AT JFK - FOUR KNIFE-ARMED MIDDLE EASTERN MEN BUSTED AT JFK
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amAnother apparent kamikaze hijacking attempt was prevented at JFK Airport late yesterday when cops seized four men carrying sharp weapons and trying to board an L.A.-bound flight, sources told The...
OTB RESUMES TODAY, BELMONT TOMORROW
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amNew York City OTB, closed since Tuesday's terror attacks, will begin taking bets again today on 12 racetracks. Belmont reopens tomorrow. It is undetermined which OTB branches will be open,...
JETS MAY HAVE FORFEITED
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amAn overwhelming sense of relief engulfed the Jets yesterday as word from the NFL came down that this weekend's games won't be played. Word, too, filtered out in the wake...
ISLES SEEMINGLY ARE GOOD TO GOAL
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amLAKE PLACID - The goaltender is the most important player on any hockey team. When it comes to the Islanders, the man between the pipes - no matter who he...
NFL FINALLY MAKES THE PROPER CHOICE
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amTHIRTY-EIGHT years later, the NFL finally got it right. You don't play games when the rest of the country is preparing to fight. You don't play games when, just across...
GIANTS: IT'S NO TIME FOR GAMES
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amTuesday night, Jason Whittle was sitting at Bellevue Hospital, seeing the horrific aftermath of a terrorist attack. He was holding the hand of Randy Drake, the older brother of his...
TIME IS OUT FOR NFL & BASEBALL - TAGLIABUE AGREES WITH PLAYERS, CALLS OFF WEEK 2 SLATE
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amNFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, listening to the voices of players anguished, heartsick, shaken and apprehensive over the World Trade Center tragedy, sidelined professional football this weekend and set into motion...
ICY START TO BLUESHIRT SCRIMMAGE
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amAnd on the ice . . . Though he skated through the first set of drills, Mike Richter did not participate in either of the Rangers' opening training camp scrimmages...
IT'S SAFETY FIRST AS RANGERS OPEN CAMP
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amTraditionally, the first team meeting of an NHL training camp is devoted to speeches about winning the Stanley Cup. But this is a year unlike any other. And so when...
DEVS' FETISOV GETS OLYMPIC NOD
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amBeware the Bear, now that Slava Fetisov is running the Russian Olympic team. For too long, the Russian national team has been hamstrung by division and dissent, ambivalence and antipathy...
FORDHAM-COLUMBIA ON
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amAlthough the Fordham campus lies just 20 miles from the World Trade Center tragedy, athletic director Frank McLaughlin and his counterpart at Columbia, John Reeves, last night were wrestling with...
YANKS APPLAUD PLAY DELAY
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amAt 4 p.m. yesterday, the Yankees gathered at the Stadium for a team bus that was to drive them to Newark Airport for an evening flight to Tampa. Fifty minutes...
TIME IS OUT FOR NFL & BASEBALL - SELIG: NATIONAL PASTIME WILL RESUME ON MONDAY
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amThirty Major League Baseball stadiums will remain dark through Sunday, prolonging the longest non-labor-related stoppage of play since 1918, commissioner Bud Selig said yesterday. When teams return to the field...
METS WERE HEADED FOR MINOR PARK
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amHad Major League Baseball followed its initial plan to re-start its schedule today, the Mets not only would have played out of the country, they would have played in a...
NO WAY JINTS COULD'VE PLAYED SUNDAY
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amHOWARD Cross had a numbing thought when he learned one of the hijacked airplanes involved in the most deadly terrorist attack in American history had originated from Newark Airport, where...
METS TO RESUME IN PITTSBURGH
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amThe Mets' next series has been moved from Shea to Pittsburgh's PNC Park and will be played Monday, because of the terrorist attacks on the United States. The Mets decided...
IN ALL ITS FORMS, FANATICISM IS A BIG DEAL
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amOutside in the cold distance,A wildcat did growl.Two riders were approaching,And the wind began to howl.- from Bob Dylan's "All Along theWatchtower." ; *IT was five months ago, after Charlie...
NO WAY COULD GIANTS PLAY SUNDAY
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amHOWARD Cross had a numbing thought when he learned one of the hijacked airplanes involved in the most deadly terrorist attack in American history had originated from Newark Airport, where...
DEVASTATION SINKS IN AS METS RETURN HOME
September 14, 2001 | 4:00amTheir city was the victim of a kamikaze blitzkrieg. Their ballpark had become a staging area for the FDNY. Some still had friends or acquaintances among the missing. And yet,...