September 29, 2001
A SPIRITED RALLY GOOD ECON NEWS SENDS STOCKS HIGHER
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe U.S. financial markets ended the week with a powerful rally, but the benchmark Dow is still 758 points below where it closed before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Better-than-expected...
BRILL CLOSES CONTENTVILLE
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amSteve Brill is shutting down the Web portal Contentville in the latest retrenchment by the struggling Brill Media Holdings. The Web site was started as a way to sell everything...
AT&T, COMCAST GET SERIOUS
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amMedia giants AT&T Corp. and Comcast Corp. agreed to exchange proprietary information as talks resume for Comcast to buy AT&T's cable-television business. In exchange, Comcast agreed to restrict its discussions...
JUDGE URGES M'SOFT SETTLEMENT
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amSettle already. That was Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's message to both sides in the Microsoft antitrust case yesterday. At a joint status hearing yesterday she told Microsoft and the government's lawyers...
SPARKLEHORSE MANURE JUST SAY NEIGH TO SPARKLEHORSE
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amMARK Linkous - the lead singer and mastermind of the band Sparklehorse - is the anti-Elvis. At the Bowery Ballroom, this Virginian moped his way through a too-long set as...
PARADISE FOUND NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL FLICKING UP ITS REELS
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amWELCOME to movie heaven.The 39th edition of the New York Film Festival kicked off last night with screenings of Jacques Rivette's French romance "Va Savoir," followed by a party (no...
LINCOLN CENTER PREZ QUITS LINCOLN CENTER HONCHO RESIGNS
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amUNLIKE the brief, stormy tenure of Franz Ohnesorg at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center president Gordon Davis' resignation after less than a year was preceded by few fireworks. Sources paint him...
LIFTING A VEIL OF TEARS
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Jay Leno's wife Mavis, a longtime critic of fundamentalist rule in Afghanistan, has urged Americans to rally around the plight of Afghan women, calling them the "first...
'BAINES' NO GAIN IN DRAMA DEPT.
September 29, 2001 | 4:00am"Citizen Baines" [Zero stars] Tonight at 9 on WCBS/Ch. 2 ------- YOU might think that a series called "Citizen Baines" would be all about a guy named Baines, but it's...
IF IT'S SATURDAY, THIS MUST BE SOCCER - SO MUCH TO DO, SO LITTLE TIME
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amHe already had violin lessons, chorus, soccer, swimming and, of course, homework. So the French lessons had to go. "It was too much," says Suzanne Khuri, the mother of 9-year-old...
WHAT A SILLY GOOSE
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amTo quote the Marx Brothers, Why a duck? Why not a goose? In "Martha," opening Friday at the New Victory Theater, the featured player is fowl indeed a gregarious goose...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amGo out and have some fun tonight. There are still some people who need to be cheered up. Whip out these stories and you're guaranteed a grin. WHAT A HEEL...
RED, WHITE & BREW
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amParty with a purpose at O'Flanagan's Irish bar on the Upper East Side. The bar is holding a benefit tomorrow night with all proceeds going to the Firefighters 911 Disaster...
LET'S GET PICKLED - FIRST ANNUAL LOWER EAST SIDE FOOD FEST WORTH ITS SALT
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amDidn't you just always know you had something in common with Cleopatra? It's said that nothing made the Egyptian queen pucker up like a good pickle, and no matter what...
TROUBLED WATERS FOR BOAT TOURS
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amTwo weeks after the brutal Twin Towers attack, most commercial waterway operations are back in action - but the tourists are staying home. The companies say they've been hit with...
KID BUSTED IN 150G BLAZE
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amA 13-year-old boy was busted yesterday on charges of setting a spectacular blaze that caused $150,000 in damage to an unoccupied Long Island home. The boy, who lives in Bellport,...
RESTAURANT'S WOE: 'THE CUSTOMERS WERE ALL KILLED'
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amEduardo Amorgado's businesses are casualties of war. The falling Twin Towers demolished his popular restaurant on Greenwich Street - and left his two others devoid of customers. "I was serving...
AIR FORCE MORALE IS SKY-HIGH AT HOME BASE
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amMcGUIRE AIR FORCE BASE, N.J. - They don't know when they're going or where - but the men and women based here say they're set to do what it takes...
COP NABBED ON DWI RAP
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amAn off-duty Bronx cop was arrested for drunken driving early yesterday after he got into a fender-bender with another motorist and refused to submit to a Breathalyzer test, police officials...
EMPIRE STATE ON DECK FOR TOURISTS
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amTourists say they'll trump terror and bolster the Big Apple by visiting the observation deck of the Empire State Building when it reopens today. The observatory had been closed since...
'HONEYMOONERS' STAR DOES HER PART
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe woman who endlessly nagged Ed Norton on "The Honeymooners" is urging New Yorkers to get behind Mayor Giuliani's Twin Towers Fund. Joyce Randolph - Trixie in the classic '50s...
SILVER THROWS MAYOR A CURVE TELLS GIULIANI: WAIT TWO WEEKS FOR MY DECISION
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday had a blunt message for Mayor Giuliani: Not so fast. Silver - who single-handedly has the power to crush Giuliani's dreams of staying...
'IT'S FINALLY OVER' WRONGLY JAILED MEN THANK 'CONFESS' PRIEST
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amTwo men exonerated after spending 13 years in prison for a murder they didn't commit said yesterday they want to thank the priest whose revelation of a decade-old confession helped...
MRI-DEATH HOSP FINED 22G
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - The state Health Department yesterday slapped a $22,000 fine on a Westchester County hospital where a 6-year-old boy undergoing an MRI exam died after getting hit in the...
TERROR-FIGHTING FED LAID TO REST
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amATLANTIC CITY - More than 1,000 friends and colleagues bid farewell yesterday to John O'Neill, a former FBI terrorism expert who tried to warn America of the danger of Osama...
KEEP RUDY, FOR THE HEROES
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amFERNANDO FERRER disgraces the city he pretends to love. The mayoral candidate who likes to talk about poor and disenfranchised New Yorkers has proved he stands for no one but...
7 PALESTINIANS DIE IN DAY OF PROTEST
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amSeven Palestinians, including a 10-year-old boy, died yesterday as thousands of demonstrators marked the one-year anniversary of their uprising with marches, rock-throwing and gunfire. One of the seven - a...
ALBANY DEMS TO RUDY: FAT CHANCE
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - New York City's Democratic Assembly members yesterday gave a cool reception to Mayor Giuliani's hopes of winning a three-month extension to his term. Eighteen of 30 assemblymen reached...
MAYOR'S 'MORALE' GROUND
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani offered another reason yesterday for extending his term for three months - the need to maintain morale in the emotionally drained Police and Fire departments. "My focus is...
MOST CRIED OVER ATTACKS
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amMost Americans broke down in tears over the Sept. 11 hijacked airplane attacks on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, a new poll shows. The Time/CNN also found the unprecedented terrorism...
JESSE BACKS DOWN ON VISIT
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Rev. Jesse Jackson backtracked yesterday and said he's "not inclined to go" to Afghanistan to talk to the Taliban about turning over terror king Osama bin Laden....
BIN LADEN MOCKS GRAB AT HIS ASSETS
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Terror master Osama bin Laden taunted the Bush administration from his mountain hideout yesterday, saying efforts to freeze his financial assets won't stop his global mission of mayhem....
WHERE DID YVETTE GO? BRONX WOMAN LEFT WTC & DISAPPEARED
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe mother of missing World Trade Center receptionist Yvette Moreno was beginning to lose hope for her daughter when the telephone rang. The news sent her heart racing - the...
TUNNEL OPENING & CAR BAN HELP GET CITY ROLLING
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amNew York City traffic never will be perfect, but it could get a bit better next week. One positive factor was the re-opening of the Holland Tunnel to New Jersey-bound...
MAYOR'S NEW AND DIFFERENT VISION OF WTC
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday for the first time offered his own vision of how lower Manhattan should be rebuilt - and said he opposes putting up carbon copies of the 110-story...
PROBERS BEARING DOWN ON 6 TRUCKERS IN WTC-SCRAP SCHEME
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amUp to six truck drivers were involved in a mob plot to steal scrap metal from the World Trade Center disaster site, a law-enforcement source told The Post. The Post...
DIVIDED DEMS TACKLE THE ISSUE
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani's political future became the only issue in the mayoral race yesterday - with Fernando Ferrer saying he's no one's "apprentice" and Mark Green insisting that extending the mayor's...
STAR POWER HELPING RE-LIGHT GREAT WHITE WAY
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amGlenn Close, Bebe Neuwirth, Alan Alda and Susan Lucci joined the casts of every Broadway show yesterday to film a television commercial in Times Square promoting New York's struggling theater...
'TRIAL' RUN ON CENTRE STREET
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe first Manhattan jury assembled since the World Trade Center attack got to work yesterday hearing about alleged bribes taken by a city Buildings Department honcho. Manhattan Supreme Court, located...
BUSH CHEERED BY JORDAN KING'S SUPPORT
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday said he's "most pleased" by help from the Arab world as Jordan's King Abdullah predicted most Muslims will join the "united front" against terror. It...
AIRPORT-LUGGAGE BOMBSHELL
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amJust a small percentage of checked luggage on U.S. airlines is screened for explosives, industry insiders told The Post. Even more shocking - only 132 airports out of more than...
IN 'HOT PURSUIT' OF AFGHAN TERROR
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday U.S. forces are in "hot pursuit" of terrorists behind the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, as senior officials confirmed commandos and CIA agents...
MONSTERS' MANUAL FOR MURDER FEDS BARE LETTER LINKING SKYJACKERS
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amAt least three of the Islamic militants who took part in the kamikaze hijack attack on America had copies of the same handwritten set of "instructions" - a spiritual and...
GOTCHA! BRITS SAY THEY'VE NABBED TERRORIST TRAINER
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amBritish authorities yesterday said an Algerian man held in London gave flight training to the four hijackers who crashed an airliner into the Pentagon - making him the first suspect...
FARRIOR: WEAKSIDE WARRIOR FOR JETS
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amHe has been a disappointment for four seasons and was suddenly thrust into the most important position on the Jets' defense last week. For one game, at least, linebacker James...
JINTS LAY IT ON THE LINE
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amThe last time he faced La'Roi Glover was three years ago, and Giants center Dusty Zeigler recalls the experience was an opportunity lost. Financially, that is. "I was playing with...
RANGERS HAVE TIME ON BERARD
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - The long-term upside of getting a competent Bryan Berard for just money is incalculable, but the short-term process necessary to evaluate the defenseman's competency is likely to represent...
BRONX SALUTES RETIRING RIPKEN
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amBlue-collar work ethic wrapped in Hall of Fame tools. That's the baseball package Yankee fans are saying goodbye to this weekend, when Cal Ripken Jr. makes his final appearance as...
PIAZZA GIVES THUMBS UP TO PLAYING
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - When Mike Piazza walked into the Mets' clubhouse at Turner Field yesterday, he fiddled with some socks in his right hand. He then walked over to...
ISLES' PICK IS OSGOOD AS IT GETS
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amSo what do the Islanders get for finishing dead-last in the NHL last year? Red Wing goalie Chris Osgood, that's what. As reported in yesterday's Post, the Islanders used the...
LJ KNICK FUTURE'S IN DOUBT
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amWith Scott Layden looking to add another big man with his $2.9 million injury exception, the Knick GM cast doubt on Larry Johnson's future yesterday, refusing to say whether the...
ACHING YANKEES NURSING WOUNDS
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amTo his right, Paul O'Neill had just finished talking about not being able to play until the stress fracture in the left foot allowed him to run. Across the Yankee...
LEITER WILL KEEP HIS COOL
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - When Al Leiter takes the mound this afternoon, there won't be extra nerves. Been there, done that. That is Leiter's attitude for big games. He won't...
THUMBS UP FOR MIKE IN SHOWDOWN
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amATLANTA - When Mike Piazza walked into the clubhouse yesterday, he fiddled with some socks in his right hand. He then walked over to the cabinet where the Mets locked...
DEJA-BOO AS ANDRUW TORMENTS N.Y. TEAM
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amATLANTA - Five Octobers ago, Andruw Jones homered in his first two World Series at-bats, starting the Braves on a two-day bullying of the Yankees in The Bronx. The Yankees...
MET DREAM TAKES A TURNER FOR WORSE - THREE BRAVE HRS PUT 'MIRACLE' IN JEOPARDY
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amBraves 5 - Mets 3 ATLANTA - The Mets last night gave a reminder of why, despite their miraculous late-season run, their situation is so improbable. Their run started too...
TINO POWER LIFTS YANKS - BIG BAT BACKS MUSSINA 3-HITTER
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amYankees 7 - Orioles 0 Roger Clemens won all summer and is a Cy Young lock. Mariano Rivera established a club record for saves and is a strong candidate for...
IT'S A MET-AMORPHOSIS - LATE-SEASON RENAISSANCE HAS BEEN AMAZIN'
September 29, 2001 | 4:00amATLANTA - The most remarkable in-season Met-amorphosis in franchise history began in mid-August, when the Mets ended a seven-game losing streak and began a march toward contention without anybody noticing....