September 19, 2001
LEHMAN TAKES 660 ROOMS AT SHERATON
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amDisplaced Wall Street area businesses are now checking into Midtown hotels, as firms scramble for makeshift office space. Among the largest moves is Lehman Brothers takeover of all 660 rooms...
HOW FED'S RATE CUT HURTS YOU
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amSTOCKS may have stabilized a bit yesterday, but interest rate markets were having a big problem with the post-attack environment. By the end of the day yesterday, many of the...
AMEX LEASES IN STAMFORD 8 - SCRAMBLE FOR SPACE SINCE WTC TRAGEDY
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amWith its 3 World Financial Center headquarters covered in dust, American Express is quickly finding new space for its employees. In Stamford, the firm will lease 175,000 square feet at...
BUSH BACKS AIRLINES - BAILOUT TALKS AS BOEING, UAL MULL MASS CUTS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe White House is getting behind a bailout of the airline industry - as reports surfaced that Boeing and United would announce massive layoffs. Airline bosses went hat-in-hand to the...
BIN LADEN BOOK DUE EARLY
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amTERRORISM expert Peter Bergen, one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden, learned this week that Simon & Schuster plans to speed his book on the...
INVESTORS BAILING OUT ON YANKEENETS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amWas it an objectionable family tie or the worsening economic condition that caused two key investors to pull out of the YankeeNets new sports cable television network this week? Nobody...
ROMANIA'S UNWANTED 'UNDERGROUND' KIDS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amCHILDREN UNDERGROUND [] Hard-hitting documentary. Running time: 108 minutes. Not rated (violence, profanity). At Film Forum, Houston Street, between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street. ----- FOR those who haven't experienced...
FUND SET UP FOR KIN OF LOST WORKERS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Manhattan restaurant community is raising money to help the relatives - including as many as 500 children - of the food-service workers killed at the World Trade Center. Among...
ATTACKS HIT TOO CLOSE TO HOME FOR PHILBIN ; REGIS' SON IN PENTAGON WHEN TERROR PLANE HIT
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amFOR Regis Philbin, last week's attack struck close to home. His son was in the Pentagon and on the telephone with his famous dad when one of the hijacked airliners...
BROTHERS MUM OVER WTC FILM
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amA documentary by two French directors who captured the only shot of the first plane as it hit the World Trade Center has been put on hold because the filmmakers...
LIVING BLAND-TO-MOUTH
September 19, 2001 | 4:00am92 [ 1/2] 45 E. 92ND ST. (AT MADISON AVENUE) (212) 828-5300 ------ 'LOOK how crowded this place is," one of us observed at the new brasserie 92 one night...
CNN EXEC RIPS TV NETS FOR OVERSEAS BLACKOUT
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amA top CNN executive has launched a searing attack on the major U.S. television networks, accusing them of failing to give adequate coverage to foreign news. In an op-ed piece...
AKA NEARLY TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amAKA CAFE [ 1/2] 49 CLINTON ST. (BETWEEN RIVINGTON AND STANTON STREETS) (212) 979-6096 ------- LOW meal tabs always mean sacrifice. Maybe a budget eatery has terrific food, but the...
BACKGROUND CHECKS - WTC, BIN LADEN BOOKS ARE SELLOUTS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amLONG before the dust settled at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, New Yorkers were snapping up books on the World Trade Center and Osama bin Laden - the man accused...
BUSH TO OPRAH: SUFFER THE CHILDREN
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Laura Bush told Oprah Winfrey yesterday that the first thing she did after learning about the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center was "call my girls." The...
UNITED B'WAY FALLS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amLAST week, as Broadway watched ticket sales plummet in the wake of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the industry's party line was: If we don't hang together,...
ABC BANS OFT-USED VIDEO OF TRADE CENTER CRASH
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amABC News appears to be the first network news organization to establish a policy that virtually bans the airing of videotape showing the hijacked jets slamming into the World Trade...
JAY: RESCUERS ARE 'GREATEST'
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amBURBANK, Calif. - Late-night king Jay Leno paid homage to heroic airline passengers, cops and firefighters last night, calling them "the greatest people of our generation" during his first show...
PROUDLY THEY COOK - MILITARY WIVES SET 'FREEDOM'S TABLE'
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S been some time since many of us have had to think about going to war. Now that our troops are mobilizing, it's reassuring to remember that this country has...
CITY OF D.C. BOTCHED ITS WAY THROUGH THE PENTAGON DISASTER
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - New York has been lauded for its quick response to last week's terrorist attacks - but the nation's capital really blew it. Washington's emergency plan was virtually non-existent....
LOCAL ARABS NIX BAN ON ATTACKING MUSLIMS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amAn influential Islamic cleric yesterday ordered Muslims not to be a part of any U.S. military retaliation for the terror attacks - but local Arab immigrants rejected his edict. Sheik...
AMERICA-HATERS WITHIN
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amTHIS really isn't the moment to hate America, but not to worry - the hate-America crowd is still right there, still dripping with contempt for the nation's politics, its leaders,...
UNCLE OF TRAGIC ROCKAWAY DROWN GIRLS MISSED ATTACK
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe family of the three girls who drowned in a riptide at Far Rockaway Beach in July were relieved to hear that the girl's uncle, Asmat Ali, wasn't on duty...
JOB APPLICATIONS POUR IN AT CIA
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Americans are rushing to join the CIA as spooks, analysts and computer geeks in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks. Job applications at the Central Intelligence Agency...
A NEWSMAN'S TEARS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amIn a strange way, Dan Rather breaking down in tears was the most reassuring sight of the past week. Not because it was Dan Rather (who did it twice on...
TEARFUL REUNION - WTC WORKER AND FIREMAN HUBBY SURVIVE DISASTER
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amWhen the north tower collapsed, firefighter Dan Potter knew his wife was dead. Jean Potter knew her husband was out of danger at an FDNY training course on Staten Island....
OSAMA'S ONLY THE BEGINNING - U.S. IS TARGETING HIS TOP AIDES, TOO
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Even if Osama bin Laden is killed or captured, the war on terrorism will go forward with several of his top henchmen on the hit list, administration officials...
CANADA KID'S SCHOOL DRIVE COULD RAISE $1M
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amMONTREAL - A 10-year-old boy's simple idea to get every Canadian schoolkid to donate a dollar to help New York City is expected to raise almost $1 million this week...
LEBANESE IMMIGRANT PREDICTED NEW ATTACK
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amJude Moussa, a Cantor Fitzgerald bond trader at the World Trade Center, always knew he would die at the hands of terrorists. He lived through the bombings in Beirut, Lebanon,...
EXPERTS' ADVICE: RESIST HIJACKERS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amAirline passengers should turn into real-life Rambos if hijackers take over their flights, top aviation safety experts and pilots' groups advised yesterday. "Passengers should be ready to jump into the...
REALTORS RALLY TO RESCUE HOME-OWNER VICTIMS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amRealtors, bankers and home builders are raising millions of dollars around the nation to ensure that no family stricken by last week's terror attack will ever lose their family home....
CITY'S LEBANESE KNOW ALL ABOUT HORRORS OF WAR
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amLEBANESE Christians in New York are suffering through the World Trade Center tragedy as perhaps no others. Many of them fled war with Muslims in their homeland, only to have...
ALL N.Y. WANTS TO 'HANG' OSAMA
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amOsama bin Laden wanted posters were plastered all over the city yesterday by people wanting to show their patriotism and display "the face of hate." The posters, from the center...
IRAQ MISSION'S FLAG EXCUSE HALF-BAKED
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amAT THE building housing the Permanent Delegation of Iraq to the United Nations at 14 E. 79th St. in Manhattan, there was something wrong with the picture. It was 2:10...
JEWS MARK HOLY DAY OF SURVIVAL
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Jewish people have survived more than 5,000 years of expulsion, persecution and attempted annihilation, fueled by little more than faith and a stubborn refusal to die. I have survived...
U.N. BOSS AT TEMPLE SERVICE CALLS FOR ACTION
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amU.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, joining Jewish, Muslim and Christian leaders at a special Rosh Hashanah service at Temple Emanu-el yesterday, called for united global action against terrorism. Under extremely tight...
BOMB SQUAD'S 'HEART AND SOUL' - MEMORIES OF MISSING HERO KEEP UNIT GOING
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amClaude Richards is a man other NYPD heroes turn to for inspiration. A former Army Airborne Ranger who served as a peacekeeper in Bosnia, Richards is "the whole heart and...
PREPARING FOR GRIM REALITY - RUDY SAYS SURVIVAL HOPES 'VERY SMALL'
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amA grim Mayor Giuliani yesterday acknowledged that the chances of finding any miracle survivors amid the World Trade Center wreckage are now "very, very small." "We don't have any substantial...
SUBWAY SLOWDOWN - ROUGH GO FOR RIDERS HEADED DOWNTOWN
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amStraphangers heading through the Financial District yesterday were stuck in a subway shuffle, forced to switch two and three times to navigate a makeshift system. With two major subway systems...
SHOULD TOWERS BE LOGO NO-GO?
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amCompanies across the city are being forced to reconsider their corporate logos that feature images of the World Trade Center. Variety, the entertainment trade publication, yanked the logo from its...
FEDS SEARCH FOR TERROR KING'S MONEY
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden's money trail is as hard to track as his terror cells. His war chest is usually estimated at $300 million, but some experts say it...
FAST-BUCK WALL ST. BIGS FOIL PATRIOTIC BUYERS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amKUDOS to the patriotic Americans who went out and bought shares of stock yesterday. They were responding to a grass-roots e-mail campaign asking investors to show their support for America...
CAT LADY OF HARLEM IS AMONG THE MISSING
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amChantal Vincelli cared for 24 cats in her two-bedroom apartment in Harlem. She adopted them from shelters or took them in as strays. She gave some silly names such as...
GAS MASKS FLYING OFF SHELVES IN CITY
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amAs experts warn of the rising possibility of terrorist attacks with biological weapons, New Yorkers are scooping up gas masks as fast as stores can stock them. A survey of...
BLOCK BY BITTER BLOCK, CITY FINDS A NERVOUS NORMALCY
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amThings are getting back to normal - on the outside. The inside will need a lot longer to heal. That was the sentiment of many New Yorkers yesterday as workers...
SURVIVORS WORK THROUGH GRIEF - HARDEST-HIT FIRMS FIND NEW DIGS, NEW HOPE
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amIn between answering phones and taking notes, tears seem to help the most. Survivors at Cantor Fitzgerald as well as Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, two of the Wall Street firms...
ARMY OF WORKERS TACKLES GRISLY TASK AT S.I. LANDFILL
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amIn one of the biggest evidence searches ever attempted, hundreds of cops, firemen, volunteers and others are carefully combing through tons of World Trade Center rubble at a Staten Island...
PRISON BARS GUARD'S STARS & STRIPES
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amA federal prison guard in Pennsylvania was temporarily yanked from his duties after refusing to take down Old Glory from his office window, which officials feared could incite inmates to...
FIREFIGHTER HAUNTED BY AWFUL MEMORY
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amFirefighter Billy Green escaped from the 37th floor of the north tower - four of his buddies didn't. Now all he can do is replay that terrible morning in his...
HE HARDLY HAD A HONEYMOON - NEWLYWED ONE OF BRAVEST BURIED
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amFirefighter Robert Curatolo, 31, and his young sweetheart saved for years for the wedding of their dreams - then didn't even get the chance to mark its one-month anniversary. Curatolo,...
SYMPATHY FROM COLE VICTIMS' KIN
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe families of victims of Osama bin Laden's prior terrorist attack on Americans - the USS Cole bombing - said yesterday that their wounds were reopened by Tuesday's attacks, but...
BELOVED EATERY SERVES FRIENDSHIP
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amBattery Park City's Foxhounds, a dining-out staple for hundreds of Wall Streeters and a neighborhood anchor for the thousands who live there, has emerged from the Twin Towers attack unscathed....
SOME BIG CHANGES COMING YOUR WAY
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe destruction of the Twin Towers by terrorists laid waste to a major transportation hub and will impact the way commuters get to work in lower Manhattan for years to...
STOCK RALLY FIZZLES AT LAST MINUTE
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amPatriotic Americans did their best to prop up stocks yesterday, but uncertainty over the economy and reverberations from last week's attacks took their toll and dragged markets slightly lower. Stocks...
MEGASTARS FLOCK TO TV BENEFIT
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amTom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Robert De Niro and Bruce Springsteen are among the megastars who have agreed to appear on an unprecedented telethon that will air simultaneously on at least...
FRANCE VOWS TO BACK U.S. - CHIRAC TELLS BUSH HE'LL JOIN FIGHT AGAINST TERROR
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush won France's pledge of "total solidarity" last night as he began rallying a world coalition to go to war against terrorism. French President Jacques Chirac, first...
GROUND ZERO TO GROUND HERO - MAYOR: SURVIVAL HOPES 'VERY SMALL'
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amA grim Mayor Giuliani yesterday acknowledged that chances of finding miracle survivors amid the "Ground Hero" wreckage are now "very, very small." "We don't have any substantial amount of hope...
GIULIANI VOWS TO STEER DONATIONS TO NEEDIEST KIN
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani's office yesterday said it will make sure the millions of dollars in donations for the Twin Towers Fund, meant for the families of cops, firefighters and other uniformed...
MYSTERY OF POUGHKEEPSIE MAYOR'S HUBBY
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amAFTER 20 years as a detective in Poughkeepsie, Walter Horton is tackling what is probably the most difficult case of his career. He's in the chaos in the Wall Street...
5-BOROUGH MEMORIAL PLANNED FOR SUNDAY
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amPlans for a citywide memorial service for the Twin Towers victims - that would be staged in all five boroughs and Yankee Stadium Sunday - will be discussed by city...
BULLISH ON AMERICA - SMALL INVESTORS SHORE UP MARKETS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amPatriotic small investors came to the rescue of the stock market yesterday, as Mayor Giuliani warned there was little chance of finding any more survivors amid the WTC rubble. The...
JAILED WISEGUY OFFERS HIS HELP
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amEven the Mafia wants to lend a helping hand. Carmine Agnello, son-in-law of Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, watched the attack on the World Trade Center from his Brooklyn...
EX-AFGHAN CART VENDOR LEFT REELING
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amBashir Popal, a former Afghan refugee and now a U.S. citizen, yesterday returned to his coffee cart where he left it a week ago - a few blocks from ground...
5-BOROUGH MEMORIAL IS PLANNED FOR SUNDAY
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amA massive Twin Towers memorial service - to be staged in all five boroughs and Yankee Stadium this Sunday - will be discussed by city officials today. Deputy Mayor Rudy...
THEY CAN'T KILL OUR SOUL: BUSH - PREZ PROPS SPIRITS WHILE PREPARING NATION FOR WAR
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush tried to help America smile amid tragedy yesterday as he hailed the charities that raced to help on America's day of terror. "I herald the soul...
SUBWAY SLOWDOWN
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe destruction of the Twin Towers by terrorists laid waste to a major transportation hub and will impact the way commuters get to work in lower Manhattan for years to...
BAT MITZVAH GIRL: SEND DONATIONS INSTEAD OF GIFTS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amIt's no ordinary 12-year-old who'd rather give than receive. But these are no ordinary times. Gillian Sagansky, who turns 13 on Nov. 12, wants friends and family attending her Bat...
WEEK OFF GETS IRISH ON TRACK
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amAs the country tries to find some semblance of normalcy after last week's tragic attacks on the Twin Towers, college football is gearing up to resume to play. Coaches, such...
BELMONT REOPENS TODAY
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amAfter canceling five days of racing in the wake of last week's terror attacks, Belmont Park reopens today with a nine-race card. A moment of silence will be observed from...
YANKEES IN WINDY CITY, BUT HEARTS IN BIG APPLE
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amCHICAGO - The schedule has taken the Yankees out of New York. Nothing, however, can take New York out of the Yankees. To honor the schedule, the Yankees have relocated...
CITY STANDS TALL AS UNITED FAMILY
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amI HAVE to address a few things before we get back into the world of the great outdoors. These are just things I have to get off my chest. First,...
DEVILS, RANGERS DO WHAT THEY CAN
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe hockey is incidental. The Game, the return to Manhattan of sport and the small but vital slice of life it represents, is the immense import tonight. This will be...
JETS WIN AT HEALING GAME
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amIt was their small part in the midst of the most overwhelming physical and psychological recovery effort America has ever known, but it was significant in its own way. Since...
NFL: 16 GAMES, ONLY TWO WILD CARDS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe NFL has figured out how many more games it wants to play this season; now it has to work on getting the regular referees to call them. Commissioner Paul...
VENUES TAKING PRECAUTIONS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amFor all the increased security that's expected to be employed at local and national sports arenas, the harsh reality is there's only so much anyone can do. "If someone wants...
LONGLEY'S BUYOUT IN THE WORKS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe Knicks and Luc Longley are discussing an injury buyout for the three years and $20.7 million remaining on the ailing 32-year-old center's contract, league sources acknowledged. Longley, acquired in...
NETS PROVIDE FAMILY AID
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe Nets announced yesterday that proceeds from walk-up ticket sales from their two home preseason games will be donated to the families of police and firemen who died as a...
HOUSTON BELIEVES JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amWhile polls show a heavy majority supporting massive military retaliation, Knicks co-captain Allan Houston clings to a different belief. A Christian, Houston is one of the NBA's most religious players....
UNIFORMLY STRONG: SHEA SET VS. BRAVES WILL GO ON
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - The Mets will return to Shea for a weekend series against the Braves, after all. After debating whether to play the series in Flushing - as scheduled -...
METS' MESSAGE TO WTC HEROES: HAT'S THE SPIRIT
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES PITTSBURGH - The tribute was more complete last night. When the Mets took the field to take on the Pirates at PNC Park, they wore hats that featured...
GARDEN: METAL DETECTORS FOR TRINIDAD BOUT
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amFight fans will pass through metal detectors for the first time in the long history of Madison Square Garden boxing when the Felix Trinidad-Bernard Hopkins middleweight title fight, originally supposed...
FAN'S LETTER HAS FASSEL, GIANTS PUMPED UP
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amAs an NFL coach, Jim Fassel gets droves of letters from fans. Some are suggested plays, or lineup changes; others are complaints or advice. But he has never received a...
STAND UP & BE COUNTED
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - Parking at Shea Stadium will be a bigger hassle than normal Friday night, when baseball returns to New York for the first time since satanic forces struck. The...
UNIFORMLY STRONG: METS HONOR HEROES, THEN HIT .500 MARK
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amMets 7 Pirates 5 PITTSBURGH - A bit of normalcy returned to the ballpark last night - a bit. The Mets were down a run in the eighth when No....
JETER'S CLOSING IN ON ANOTHER ELITE MILESTONE
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amCHICAGO - It is not the way anyone wants to make baseball history, not with death and destruction abetting the process. Nevertheless, the cancellation of one week of games due...
YANKEES RETURN - WITH HEAVY HEARTS
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amCHICAGO - We fight to find the right compromise between not letting go of our patriotism, compassion and anger spurred by last week's horrific events, yet trying to move back...
BROSIUS: RETURN ISN'T EVERYTHING
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - When Scott Brosius was working his way back from a broken left hand, he believed the biggest obstacle to overcome would be the rust. Of course,...
CHEERS AMID THE TEARS : YANKEES GIVE FANS A BOOST WITH WIN
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amYankees 11 White Sox 3 CHICAGO - They wanted to give New Yorkers a three-hour diversion from the crater in their hearts. The Yankees, wearing hats bearing the American flag,...
FOR FRANCO, IT'S PERSONAL
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - John Franco, captain of the Mets, was the winning pitcher in Monday night's 4-1 victory over the Pirates and it came on his 41st birthday. He wasn't in...