September 15, 2001
REGULATORS PLAN TO PROP UP MARTS
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amWall Streeters, along with the SEC, are planning to confound the experts and foil a predicted stock market sell-off when stock trading resumes on Monday. Although market analysts say that...
REAL ESTATE RUSH TO NEW JERSEY
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amNew Jersey is being assaulted by suddenly space hungry companies, dislocated from their Downtown offices. Others are sniffing around Westchester, Connecticut and, to a lesser extent, Long Island. For the...
HELPING HANDS: WALL ST. CHIPS IN TO CARE FOR ITS OWN
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amWall Street firms are digging deep to help their own. Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., the bond trading firm decimated by Tuesday's World Trade Center attacks, has established a donation program to...
GO ON, THROW STONES
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amTHE GLASS HOUSE A sub-par thriller.Running time: 101 minutes.Rated PG-13 (violence). At theVillage East, the Kips Bay, theOrpheum, others. IT feels very strange to be reviewing a big Hollywood movie...
MARATHON NEWS TERRORIST ATTACKS SET RECORD FOR NON-STOP TV
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amTHE wall-to-wall news coverage of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington have set a record.It is the longest continuous coveage of a news event since President Kennedy's assassination...
LIVE TV AUDIENCES NIXED
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amALL the laugher in comedy-land is canned this week. Comedies that were forced to resume production this week because of tight network schedules worked without live studio audiences out of...
STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amThere was a time, mostly during World War II, when Hollywood turned out patriotic, morale-boosting flicks for the folks at home. Things have changed, and movies these days take a...
AFTER TRAGEDY, FAMILY COMES FIRST: WE HAVE IDEAS ON THINGS YOU CAN DO TOGETHER
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amIn times of despair, people find comfort in nature, in art, in music - and each other. As New Yorkers struggle to cope with Tuesday's terrorist attack, mental-health experts recommended...
DOWNTOWN EATERIES DO THEIR BEST TO DISH OUT COMFORT FOOD
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amIt's been impossible for downtown restaurants to operate normally for the past few days. But as restrictions were lifted on pedestrian and vehicular traffic between 14th and Canal streets yesterday,...
REAL-LIFE N.Y. SUPERHEROES DARING RESCUE SHOWS THEY'RE BRAVEST
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amPEOPLE like you and I are mere mortals, obsessed with our own preservation. But God has made some supermen. And they won't even acknowledge it. "We are just like anyone...
SURVIVOR COP GETS OVERDUE THANK-YOU
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amFOR seven tough years, Officer Joseph Poliporo walked the streets, enduring hostile stares from New Yorkers who never understood what being a cop is all about. It took a terrorist...
HOLLYWOOD TRIES TO ERASE REMINDERS OF TRAGEDY
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amHollywood is scrambling to change its huge package of movies and TV shows for the fall season and next year to eliminate anything that reminds the audience of Tuesday's terrorist...
CAMPAIGN BOARD STOPS CASH FLOW
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amThe city's Campaign Finance Board yesterday canceled the checks - ruling that candidates in the upcoming primary can essentially spend no more taxpayer money before the vote. The board's action...
RUDY'S PUBLIC LIFE RULES
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amOK, show of hands: How many people care today that Rudy Giuliani has a girlfriend? Given Rudy's extraordinary leadership over the past five days, one is almost inclined to cast...
CLEANUP FIRM TACKLES ITS MIGHTIEST JOB
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amThey've seen typhoon destruction in the Philippines, horrific earthquake wreckage in Mexico City and tornado damage in Oklahoma City. But they've never seen anything like the devastation of the World...
BRAVE WIFE NOT GIVING UP ON PAUL
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amTHE search for Paul goes on. Paul Ortiz, 21, is one small man missing amid the acres of concrete and steel that were the World Trade Center. If hope were...
FBI LINKS BIN LADEN TO TERROR ALLIANCE
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The FBI is uncovering evidence that other Mideast terror groups worked with Osama bin Laden's operatives to orchestrate Tuesday's attacks on America, The Post has learned. The specter...
REALITY-TV CHAMP MISSING IN RUBBLE
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amHero fireman Angel Juarbe Jr. - the winner of Fox's reality show "Murder in Small Town X" - is one of the hundreds of New York's Bravest who are still...
SMALL HOSP BEARS THE BRUNT
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amJust five blocks from ground zero at what was the World Trade Center, NYU Downtown Hospital is the "little hospital that could." It's been treating more victims than any other...
MISS AMERICA WILL STILL BE CROWNED
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amThe Miss America Pageant will go on as planned next Saturday night despite this week's terrorist attacks - to show that the country and its traditions will not be held...
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amGutsy New Yorkers - determined to get the Greatest City in the World back on its feet - continued to join together in acts of compassion. Here are some of...
WORLD EYES REACTION OF ARAB PRESS
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amAs tears turn to anger, Arab-American news services are facing intense scrutiny of what they print following the atrocities committed by Middle East-based terrorists. While the majority of coverage of...
VOLUNTEERS ARE LINING UP BY THE THOUSANDS
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amThousands of willing workers from all over America began lining up at 2 a.m. yesterday at the Jacob Javits Convention Center to volunteer their skills and services to the World...
A TIME FOR PRAYER
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amNew Yorkers of all faiths will come out in droves this weekend to pray for healing in the aftermath of the terrorist slaughter at the World Trade Center that left...
EAST VILLAGE MUSLIMS ARE TERRIFIED TO VISIT MOSQUE
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amFridays are a major prayer day for the Muslim community, but yesterday, police were posted outside the Mandina mosque in the East Village and much of the usual congregation was...
SLOW TAKEOFF AT AIRPORTS
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amNew York's three airports got the green light again yesterday, but edgy travelers found themselves navigating long, zigzagging lines at ticket counters while others ran into flight cancellations. Runways at...
IMMIGRANTS KEEP KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amMany worried Middle Eastern immigrant parents have kept their kids out of school since the World Trade Center attacks because of fears for their safety. "I don't want to lose...
NEW REALTY REALITY UP TO 20% MAY BE LOST DOWNTOWN; GOUGING FEARED
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amThe attack on the Twin Towers has spurred a new real estate and construction boom - along with concerns about price gouging. "Unfortunately, it's a boon," said Lenore Janis, president...
ANXIOUS NYERS CLING TO HOPE REFUSE TO GIVE UP, BUT TIME'S RUNNING OUT FOR SURVIVORS
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amStubborn hope gave New Yorkers courage yesterday in the face of unrelenting time, as the families of the missing waited to see if anyone would emerge alive from the rubble...
RESERVISTS ARE EAGER TO ANSWER CALL TO DUTY
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amLocal military reservists yesterday braced for a possible call-up, as combat planes continued to patrol New York's air space to protect commercial flights. With Navy carriers in New York Harbor,...
FEARLESS CONN. MARINE SPRINGS INTO ACTION
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amDavid Karnes did not think twice when he saw the World Trade Center horror unfold on TV. A Marine sergeant, he jumped into his car and drove from his home...
MAN WHO ESCAPED HAS HOPE FOR SIBLING
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amAll the Perrotta brothers can do is wait. John, Edward, Michael and Robert grew up on Long Island, went to good schools, worked hard and loved to fish. John, 47,...
WTC LOVE STORY HAS A HAPPY ENDING
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amAt least one New York love affair survived the carnage in the World Trade Center's north tower. Arturo Griffith, 54, of The Bronx was working the freight elevator, on his...
WELCOME SIGNS OF LIFE DOWNTOWN
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amIn lower Manhattan's frozen zone - a dreary hell of choking dust, smoldering rubble and exhausted rescuers - hope assumes odd guises. For six men repairing the fiber optic lifelines...
FINEST HOUR FOR LEADER OF FREE WORLD
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amHAIL to the chief. After three days of appearing uncertain of himself in response to the crisis, George W. Bush finally found his voice, standing atop a pile of rubble...
1,200-MILE TREK TO FIND 'BROTHER'
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amFreddie Cox was more than just a best friend to Rob Nason. And more than just a brother-in-law-to-be. He was like a brother. And so, when he learned that Cox...
BOMBS AWAY - SOON PLAN TO NAIL TERROR CHIEF STARTS WITH AFGHANISTAN
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amAmerica is set to unleash bombs, special commando units and high-tech Apache helicopters on Afghanistan - part of a ferocious plan to annihilate terror chief Osama bin Laden's fiendish empire,...
CLOCK TICKING FOR STRANDED PETS
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amTime is running out for cats, dogs and other pets stranded in evacuated homes near downtown Manhattan. "Pets are going to start being in serious danger if they can't get...
BURIED BODIES AREN'T PUBLIC-HEALTH RISK: DOC
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amHealth experts say that even though bodies could be trapped under the World Trade Center rubble for weeks, the grim prospect does not pose a public health threat. "To a...
PREZ RALLIES N.Y.'S HEROES VOWS TO GET BACK AT TERROR PLOTTERS AS RESCUERS CHEER
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amStanding dramatically atop a pile of rubble from the World Trade Center terror attack, President Bush yesterday made a promise to rescue workers: "The people who knocked these buildings down...
THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS REASSIGNED
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amThe World Trade Center tragedy is forcing thousands of students to relocate to other schools outside the disaster area. Schools Chancellor Harold Levy announced yesterday that students at eight closed...
TWISTED COWARDS THINK THEY'RE MARTYRS
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amWhen Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali was captured in connection with the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya, he told officials he had expected to die as a martyr...
'ANGUISHED' MUHAMMAD ALI RIPS SAVAGES AS DISGRACE TO ISLAM
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amBoxing legend Muhammad Ali, in "anguish" over the horrific terror attacks, says that if the mass killers are fellow Muslims, they're a disgrace to his religion. "These radicals are doing...
ALL ONE 'BIG FAMILY' IN N.Y. VIGILS
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amThousands of candles lit the darkness last night as New Yorkers paid tribute to the victims of the World Trade Center terror attack. Large crowds turned out across the city...
OUR INNOCENT CHILDREN LEARN CRUEL LESSONS
September 15, 2001 | 4:00am'DADDY, we couldn't play outside at school today." "Why not?" the little boy's father asked. "Because the smoke came." "What smoke?" "The smoke from the plane." It was true. The...
THE MONSTERS IN OUR MIDST FBI BARES NAMES OF 19 KAMIKAZE KILLERS
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amThe FBI yesterday revealed the names of all 19 men who carried out the worst terrorist attack in American history - a loose band of suicidal fanatics with shady backgrounds...
N.Y. ARREST IS FEDS' FIRST IN MASSACRE ALL U.S. COPS GET FBI SUSPECT LIST
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amFederal agents made their first arrest yesterday in the globe-spanning probe of Tuesday's terror attacks, busting a suspect in New York, officials said last night. The unnamed "material witness" is...
STAGING A COMEBACK FROM B'WAY SHOWS TO HIGH-TECH WORK, CITY SPRINGS TO LIFE
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amWith equal parts of resilience and defiance, New York City is shuddering back to life. It's a resurrection pulled off by pickax and broom - by technicians cleaning explosion silt...
N.Y. URGES BIZMEN: STAY! HELPING DO DEALS TO SWAY FIRMS AGAINST RELOCATING
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amThe city and state are making every effort to keep shell-shocked businesses from leaving the city in the wake of the World Trade Center catastrophe. Last night, Mayor Giuliani went...
BUSH STEPS UP TO LEAD NATION
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush put the nation on war footing yesterday - then visited the "ground zero" World Trade Center disaster site to rally the spirits of rescuers. Weary, dirt-covered workers squeezed...
GIVE MEDALS TO PA. CRASH HEROES: POLS
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amThe hero passengers who battled terrorists aboard United Airlines Flight 93 before the doomed jet slammed into the Pennsylvania countryside should get the nation's highest civilian honor, the Keystone State's...
ALL U.S. COPS GET FBI'S LIST OF SUSPECTS: ONLY 1 HELD IN N.Y. AIRPORT RAIDS
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amFBI agents were combing every corner of the country for 100 people they want to grill about Tuesday's devastation - even as authorities released all but one of a dozen...
FUND WILL AID RESCUERS' KIN
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amPeople looking for a way to help the families of New York City police, fire and emergency-services workers killed during rescue efforts at the World Trade Center can now contribute...
ROBINSON'S CUTBACK BOTHERS BRODEUR
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amThe coach critiqued, the franchise player bristled, then tersely disputed the planned solution. Devils camp heated up yesterday, with Martin Brodeur on the hot seat. "I'll take a year like...
ISLES' FOES KEEP EYES ON AUCOIN
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amLAKE PLACID - The Islanders may sneak up on a lot of people this season, but opponents will always have their eye on Adrian Aucoin. Looking to fill a gaping...
BAD BREAK WILL KEEP SCATCHARD OUT A WEEK
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amIslanders center Dave Scatchard will be out one week with a broken left foot. Scatchard sustained the injury skating on his own last Thursday on Long Island before camp even...
TRAGEDY HITS HOME FOR NET
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amNets center Todd MacCulloch always loved flying. His dad, a pilot with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, frequently took his sons up so there never was a fear of airplanes....
FALSE ALARMS, REAL FEARS FIRE ALARMS FORCE GIANTS TO EVACUATE
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amLike everyone else, the Giants knew their lives would never be the same after the World Trade Center was attacked Tuesday morning. Yesterday they got their first taste of the...
OUT OF RESPECT, BELMONT TO STAY DARK UNTIL WEDNESDAY
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amBelmont Park yesterday cancelled plans to resume racing today. The track, dark since Tuesday's terror attacks, also will be closed tomorrow. Plans are to reopen Wednesday, with entries being drawn...
RANGERS WILL PLAY FULL PRESEASON SKED
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amBecause season subscribers have already paid for their tickets, because neither the Canadiens nor Red Wings wanted to absorb paying refunds of up to $1 million, the Rangers will be...
YANKS CHANGE PLANS, WILL RESUME TUESDAY
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amThe Yankees will report to the Stadium today for a 3 p.m. workout, but instead of boarding a charter flight afterward for Tampa as scheduled, the Yankees will stay put...
STEVENSON AGREES TO NEW DEAL
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amThe Devils' list of upcoming unrestricted free agents shrank by one yesterday when pugnacious winger Turner Stevenson agreed to a three-year deal that could be worth $4.5 million, The Post...
RAMS, LIONS REVERSE FIELD: NO GAME
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amIn a reversal of their positions Thursday, when the athletic directors at Fordham and Columbia stated that their football teams' game would be played today despite Tuesday's cowardly attack on...