September 17, 2001
ON THE NEWSSTAND
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amNEWSPAPERS and TV have been furiously writing the first draft of the history of the attack on the World Trade Center. Several mags rushed out special issues, and now they...
SADDENED TRADERS ARE MARCHING BACK TO WORK
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amWall Streeters returning to Ground Zero today feel a strong need to return to work - while coping with trepidation, fear and sorrow. "I got to go back. It's our...
MARKET JITTERS - SELL-OFF FEARED BUT REBOUND IS LIKELY
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe nation's markets are re-opening today - but rampant fears that shattered investors will sell off big have practically tossed out the free-market rule book. The concern is from analysts'...
TISCH, MODIGLIANI SAY ECONOMIC LIFE GOES ON
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amI am just about opinioned out, so I have asked some extremely well-respected friends of mine to assess what last week's tragic events mean for our country and New York....
AMERICANA IN HIGH DEMAND
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amPatriotism is soaring back to favor among collectors. "It had been out of fashion for so long that one really wanted it," said Alex Shear, a Manhattan collector with one...
BON JOVI IS ALLY'S SURPRISE LOVER BOY
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amROCKER Jon Bon Jovi is poised to replace Robert Downey Jr. as Ally McBeal's romantic interest on "Ally McBeal" this season. Elton John is also reportedly negotiating for a recurring...
STARR REPORT
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amCoping with grief in wake of WTC tragedy Ch. 4 has launched a public service campaign, "We Shall Overcome," in the wake of last Tuesday's World Trade Center tragedy. The...
WHEN WILL WE LAUGH AGAIN - LATE-NIGHT SHOWS RETURN TOMORROW BUT WONDER WHAT THEY'LL SAY NOW
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amLATE-night TV comics are gingerly getting ready to go back on the air again. Since last Tuesday, production of the late-night comedy and talk shows - three of which, "The...
SHOWING OUR STRIPES - ALL-AMERICAN FASHION LOVERS PARADE THEIR PRIDE WITH A MEDLEY OF RED, WHITE AND BLUE
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amAnyone who thinks dour New Yorkers have only black clothes in their closets hasn't walked the city in recent days. Out there everywhere are patriotic reds, whites and blues. In...
OUR FELLOW AMERICANS - THE FRIENDS WITHIN
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amIT is a mark of this nation's moral and spiritual greatness that along with the rage, there is concern - concern for the safety and security of Arab-Americans and Muslims...
PA. CRASH SPURS ANGUISH ON MAIN STREET
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amSOMERSET, Pa. THERE are no skyscrapers in Somerset County. Instead, majestic mountains that brush the clouds. The only sign of international terrorism is a 30-foot crater in the middle of...
HER HOPE BECOMES A CRUEL WAITING GAME
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amTHE ORTIZ FAMILYTHE waiting, the hoping, is giving way to more ordinary concerns. Like living. "All the money we ever had is in my husband's name," Star Ortiz was telling...
FORGET BASEBALL
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amICAN'T believe I'm even having this conversation. It's Thursday afternoon, just two days after the World Trade Center has been pulverized in an unprecedented terrorist attack. There's a still-smoking hole...
TERROR WAR HITS HOME TWICE
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amSHANKSVILLE, Pa. - For Michael Gallagher, there is no escape from the terrorist attack. After surviving the airline assault on the Pentagon last week, he came home to Pennsylvania -...
SKY-HIGH ART STUDIO FEARS FOR MEMBER
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe World Trade Center was the titanic symbol of America's capitalist might, but it was also home to a group of artists inspired by its massive scale and spectacular location....
ALBANY NIXES EXTENDING HIS TERM
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Key state officials have considered - but rejected - delaying the November election so Mayor Giuliani could remain at the helm of city government, The Post has learned....
WAR ROOM'S LEADING LADY
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amThere's only one woman in President Bush's war Cabinet but she's a top player - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. She quarterbacks his foreign-policy team - her job is to...
ROUGH WATERS FOR FISH SELLERS
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe once-bustling Fulton Fish Market, the city's largest seafood supplier, has been reduced to a vacant row of closed-up shops, with irate vendors forced to flee downtown Manhattan for a...
U.S. REJECTS BIN LADEN'S LATEST DENIAL
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Saudi terror master Osama bin Laden, facing a massive U.S. military campaign to destroy his network, denied yesterday he orchestrated last week's airborne suicide attacks on the World...
SAINT OF THE BURNING TOWERS - WORKER SACRIFICED LIFE TO STAY WITH QUADRIPLEGIC PAL
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amAbe Zelmanowitz and Ed Beyea overcame the odds to become best friends in life - they weren't about to be separated by cowards in death. Abe, an Orthodox Jew, refused...
168 RISE IN FIRE RANKS - PROMOTIONS ON BRAVEST'S 'SADDEST DAY'
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amDevastated but determined to keep going, the Fire Department yesterday promoted 168 firefighters to fill its decimated leadership ranks. Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen tapped Daniel Nigro as new chief...
THUG MAY HAVE TOURED AIR TOWER
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - Federal officials yesterday said they are investigating whether one of the hijackers visited the Logan International Airport control tower three days before the deadly skyjackings. An aviation source...
KIND & GENEROUS DONORS PACK LOVE ALONG WITH LUNCH
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amAmong the tons of aid packages stuffed with medical supplies or food donated to the WTC effort from across the country, many boxes hold something extra - handwritten messages of...
RESCUERS' HOPE FADING - ANOTHER FRUSTRATING DAY WITH NO SURVIVORS
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe grueling search for World Trade Center survivors continued yesterday - with no success. The smoldering rubble, tons of concrete piled precariously in places and sheer weariness of rescue workers...
DREAD DECISION: DOWN THE PLANE - BUSH: I ORDERED UNTHINKABLE STEP TO SAVE U.S. LIVES
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush yesterday said he gave the order to shoot down a hijacked jetliner on a kamikaze mission aimed at the nation's capital because he had to do whatever it...
CRIME'S DOWN
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amCriminal activity has taken a dive in the city since the World Trade Center disaster. Overall, crime has dropped about 30 percent for the week to date, Police Commissioner Bernard...
CENTRAL PARK REFUGE FROM HORROR
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amWe are at war - but in Central Park yesterday, it almost felt like peacetime. With the ruins of the World Trade Center still smoldering downtown, thousands of New Yorkers...
'KIDS': WHERE DO WE SIGN UP?
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe nation's military services - as well as the NYPD and FDNY - are bracing for a flood of recruits this week as young men and women seek to help...
PREZ 'PAL': I'M NO HERO
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amBob Beckwith, the retired firefighter around whom President Bush draped his arm at ground zero, yesterday insisted he's no hero - only a symbol of the Finest and Bravest who...
OUR SECURITY MIGHT FOLLOW ISRAEL'S HARD LINE
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Anti-terrorism experts expect to see what amounts to an "Israelification" of America in the wake of last week's terror attacks. The changes could be both small and large....
'N.Y. AT ITS BEST' UNITES IN PRAYER - EGAN CALLS FOR FAITH & COURAGE
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amEdward Cardinal Egan led a powerful and up-lifitng memorial service at St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday, bringing people to their feet cheering for the emergency workers as he renamed ground zero...
MUSLIMS IN B'KLYN CALL FOR PEACE
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amMore than 500 Muslim Americans marched through Brooklyn yesterday afternoon to show their solidarity with those lost in the World Trade Center attack. "We are very, very, very sad about...
WIDOW MAY ALSO LOSE HER HOUSE
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amA World Trade Center widow - who met and lost her husband in the Twin Towers - faces another tragedy in the wake of her husband's death: the loss of...
TARGET: TALIBAN - PENTAGON MAKING LIST OF SITES IN CROSSHAIRS
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Pentagon, with the aid of Russian and Pakistani intelligence agencies, has begun preparing a list of targets for airstrikes and commando raids inside Afghanistan, The Post has...
MASS TRANSIT ON TRACK FOR INFLUX
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amWorkers are set to return to the Financial District today, but the only way in will be by subway or on foot. The Transit Authority worked through the weekend to...
RUDY KEEPS HIS WORD - ESCORTS TRAGIC FIREMAN'S SISTER AT HER WEDDING
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amDiane Gorumba of Brooklyn beamed with pride yesterday as Mayor Giuliani walked her down the aisle - and helped erase a nightmarish year of tragedy for the Brooklyn bride's family....
CAPITALISM SET TO REIGN AGAIN - WALL ST. TRADES FEAR FOR OPTIMISM
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe Bull is ready to roar back today. After a Herculean effort, Wall Street will reopen for business this morning in an act that city officials say will defy the...
HUNT FOR SUSPECTS CENTERING ON JERSEY
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amNew Jersey has emerged as a major focus of the FBI's furious hunt for terror collaborators, with investigators detaining at least 14 men for questioning about the hijackers or their...
POST OFFICE DIGS FOR WTC MAIL
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amPostal workers are sifting through the mountains of mail that never made it to its destination at the World Trade Center last week, and is now piled high at the...
VALIANT ACTS ROUTINE FOR MISSING PA COP
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amPort Authority Police Officer Liam Callahan became a hero Sept. 9, 1982, when he saved the life of a distraught young man who tried to jump from the PA Bus...
MIRACLE MECHANIC'S BASEMENT ESCAPE
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amWorking in the World Trade Center's subterranean levels proved lucky for Hursley Lever. The 58-year-old mechanic for ABM Engineering Service was working Tuesday on the B-4 level, deep in the...
'N.Y. AT ITS BEST' UNITES IN PRAYER - EGAN BUCKS UP CITY WITH APPEAL FOR FAITH
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amEdward Cardinal Egan led a powerful and uplifting memorial service at St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday, bringing people to their feet cheering for the emergency workers as he renamed ground zero...
RUDY'S COURAGE A BEACON FOR US ALL - HOW GIULIANI AND HIS TEAM LED CITY OUT OF THE DARKNESS
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani got the most chilling phone call of his life on a sedate day at City Hall, when the primary election was on everyone's mind and the usually hard-driving...
LOST VOICE OF COURAGE KEPT RESCUER GOING
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amIt was James Leahy's voice that kept Officer Victor Laguer going while he saw and experienced horrors so awful they're beyond imagination. Now that voice is silent. Officer Leahy hasn't...
PASSENGERS STRUCK BACK WITH CRY OF 'LET'S ROLL!'
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe playful rallying cry Todd Beamer often used with his family was the same one he called out to his fellow passengers just before they tried to wrest United Airlines...
IT'S UP TO YOU, N.Y.- BUSH GAVE ORDER TO SHOOT DOWN HIJACKED JETLINER
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amShaken but determined New Yorkers geared up to return to work today, the day after prayer services across the city unleashed a river of tears and the feds asked for...
BACKSTREET ROADIE WILL NEVER SEE HIS NEW BABY
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amA Backstreet Boys roadie who was flying home to Los Angeles to be with his wife for the birth of their second child died when terrorists crashed his plane into...
CEMETERY GIVES PLOTS TO RESCUERS
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amA New Jersey cemetery is donating burial plots for police and firefighters who died in the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. "We decided as soon as we heard the...
LET YOUR GRIEVING PALS KEEP HOPING
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amWhat can you say to a friend whose husband, whose wife, whose child is missing in the rubble? Is it kinder to say, "Let go?" Or to encourage your friend...
PA'S GRIM TOLL: 74 FEARED DEAD
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amAs officials revealed the names of the dead and missing Port Authority cops, colleagues who escaped with their lives swapped tales of heroism. At a gathering yesterday attended by Gov....
RATS HELP TRAP BIGGER RODENTS
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amJOE COFFEY, the toughest gunslinger ever to fight organized crime, made it crystal clear: "If you don't have a rat, you will fight like a mouse." Coffey was commenting on...
CENTRAL PARK IS REFUGE FROM WEEK OF HORROR
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amWe are at war - but in Central Park yesterday, it almost felt like peacetime. With the ruins of the World Trade Center still smoldering downtown, thousands of New Yorkers...
TALE OF LOVED ONES' BRAVE FIGHT SOOTHES GRIEVING KIN
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amInside doomed United Airlines Flight 93 there was bravado, heroism and tearful goodbyes, as the passengers vowed to battle back against the terrorist who planned to make America's darkest day...
BIG BLUE GETS BACK TO WORK
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amBack to work. As cold and callous as that may seem, it is what the Giants intend to do today as they gather at Giants Stadium and hold a short...
FAN: LOVE FOR GIANTS A LIFE-SAVER
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amAround every corner, there are stories of luck or utter misfortune that led to life or death in the World Trade Center terrorist attack. This was hammered home to Giant...
STORY AFTER CHILLING STORY - FAMILY TELLS TALE OF SONS AT WTC AND PENTAGON
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amTHE stories - staggering, devastating, chillingly ironic - go on and on. Waynesburg College, a small Presbyterian school in southwestern Pennsylvania, could not have been more politically, economically and culturally...
GANG GREEN NEEDS ITS FOCUS ON FOOTBALL
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amTHE HORRIFIC, jarring images will never go away, but for the Jets today is a time when they must do everything in their power to return their wary minds to...
PLAYERS KNOW WHO THE REAL HEROES ARE
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amAS America continues piecing itself back together and preparing for a war against pure evil, sports will have its place. It just won't be quite the same place it had...
POSTPONEMENTS WILL RESHAPE TITLE PICTURE
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amON THE day I planned on covering the Georgia Tech at Florida State game, my wife and I strolled through our town of River Edge, N.J. We passed too many...
OTB OPENS DOORS TODAY
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amAlong with the rest of New York City, the Off-Track Betting Corp. today begins the task of getting back to business. OTB, closed since Tuesday, plans to take bets on...
METS HOPE GAME GIVES FANS RELIEF
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES When policemen, firemen, medical workers and volunteers take a break tonight, the Mets want to be relievers. A momentary substitute for the reality of the terrorist attacks. That...
RUSSIAN'S SPEEDY SUCCESS
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amLAKE PLACID - He was just a throw-in. But through the first week of training camp here with the Islanders, Russian right wing Alexander Kharitonov has made GM Mike Milbury...
BOBBY STAYS TO DO HIS PART - V AIDS RELIEF EFFORT AS METS FLY TO PITT
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amLike the countless volunteers surrounding Shea Stadium yesterday, Bobby Valentine just tried to make a difference. The past few days he's done what he does best. He's managed people, organizing...
FLYING SECURE IS NOT NEW AT MSG
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amWhile passengers on commercial airline flights confront an entirely new world of travel, it will be business nearly as usual for the Rangers and Knicks as they charter flights across...
EL DUQUE WILL TAKE THE MOUND - TORRE TABS ORLANDO VS. CHISOX
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Orlando Hernandez will be on the mound and Derek Jeter hopes to be at short when the Yankees resume their season tomorrow night at Comiskey Park against the...
YANKEE HEARTS FEEL THE PAIN
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amUnderneath their Pinstripes, the Yankees are humans. So when they walked into the Armory on 23rd St. early Saturday evening and met the families of those people missing from the...
SPOILED ATHLETES DISPLAY THEIR HUMAN SIDE
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amAS MUCH as we love to watch what professional athletes do, we zigzag back and forth between idolizing and resenting them. This is not just because they dash our vicarious...
HABS, RANGERS DISCUSS NEDVED
September 17, 2001 | 4:00amLast summer they signed Mark Messier, who pretty much ran Petr Nedved out of town the first time around, and then this summer they traded for Eric Lindros, who pretty...