October 24, 2001
AMEX IS FIGHTING OFF ISLAND ECN
The battle between the American Stock Exchange and a new kid on the block just got hotter. Island ECN - an upstart computer network that electronically matches trades - is...
FRESH START AT EMPIRE STATE
A LAW firm that lost everything in the collapse of the World Trade Center has moved up to another prominent location - the Empire State Building. While a few tenants...
VIRGIN KICKS BERRY OUT OF BED
Virgin's Nancy Berry was given the boot yesterday as the newly appointed chiefs of Virgin-parent EMI began cleaning house. Alain Levy, the recently-named CEO of EMI Recorded Music, announced yesterday...
FAT CATS CUT BACK - MACK SLICES CSFB BANKERS' PAY UP TO 60%
Determined to shrink Credit Suisse First Boston's bloated cost structure, the firm's chief executive, John Mack, is asking bankers with guaranteed contracts to cough up 25 percent of their pay,...
COACH'S Q1 PROFITS SOAR 65%
Giddyup, Coach. The leather and handbag company giant is bucking the retail slump by reporting whopping sales and earnings increases for its fiscal first quarter. For the quarter ended Sept....
MARTHA DOES EUROPE
MARTHA Stewart plans to do Europe. On the brink of a December launch of a Japanese edition of her magazine, Martha Stewart has now set her sights on expanding her...
STARR REPORT
Recalling the horror of AA Flight 77 ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross has an exclusive interview with Danielle O'Brien, the air traffic controller who handled hijacked American Airlines...
CAN'T DIG DOGG'S 'BONES'
BONES [ 1/2] Bury this Dogg. Running time: 96 minutes. Rated R (gory violence, sexuality, profanity, drug use). At the East 86th Street, the Loews 84th Street, others. ----- THERE...
GET REAL AT ZOE
ZOE [ 1/2] 90 PRINCE ST. (212) 966-6722 ------ 'WHY would you set me up with anybody like him?" The three ravishing young things at Zoe, dishing the men in...
BODIES OF WORK
A CHRONICLE OF CORPSES []Running time: 83 minutes. Not rated (violence). At the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, Third Street and Avenue A. ------- IT looks as if Andrew Repasky McElhinney,...
KEEPING THE FAITH
TREMBLING BEFORE G-D [ 1/2] -------IT'S clearly a hard thing to be a homosexual man or woman and to remain a practicing Hasidic or even just an Orthodox Jew. In...
RESTAURANT WEEK SECOND HELPING
LAST week's New York Restaurant Week provided such a boost to the city's struggling restaurants that the program has been extended through the end of the month. Special three-course $20.01...
JOAN BACK ON THE E! CARPET ... BUT IT'S NOT ABOUT FASHIONS
JOAN Rivers is back on as co-host of E!'s Emmy pre-show coverage - but she's canning her usual "I can't believe you wore that" attitude in light of current events....
VIETNAMESE ON AVENUE C GETS AN A FOR CUISINE
VICALA [ 1/2] 111 AVENUE C (BETWEEN SEVENTH AND EIGHTH STREETS) (212) 254-2229 ---------- WHATEVER you do, don't call Michael Huynh's kitchen "pan-Asian." The chef and owner of Vicala is...
MUCH TO DO ABOUT 'NOTHING' - 'NOISES' SET FOR REVIVAL
MICHAEL Frayn, the celebrated British playwright, recalls "with appalling clarity" the first and last time he acted in a play. It was while he was a student at Cambridge in...
STARS SLINK INTO NY
TV stars and film crews from shows like "NYPD Blue" and "The West Wing" say they're ready to fly back East to film exterior scenes in New York, Washington and...
TWO PUBLIC BACKERS BACK OUT
THE two largest donors to the Public Theater have resigned from its board, raising questions about the tenure of artistic director George C. Wolfe. The donors, Larry E. Condon and...
ROSSOS YOUNG AT HEART
THERE'S a democratic impulse among some of Italy's noblest wines. The same people who make power-packed Amarone make Ripasso - a lighter-bodied red at a friendlier price. And Brunello di...
CONCERT RATINGS ROCK
LAST Saturday's "Concert for New York City" proved to be a ratings bonanza for VH1 and Ch. 13 - the two local outlets that aired the all-star concert to raise...
HE WROTE THE BOOK OF LUST - AUTHOR TURNS THE PICKUP INTO 'ART'
ROBERT Greene doesn't seem like a Don Juan. He's pleasant looking, but the crooked Buddy Holly glasses don't exactly scream sex. And when asked to produce a sultry look for...
WANT FUN? TRY '68' PRONTO
AT the moment, it's New York's quirkiest channel, but it won't be for long. Come January, Ch. 68 will begin carrying a new Spanish-language network owned by Univision. For now,...
SCARE UP SOME SWEET TREATS - CANDY PUTS ON A NEW FACE FOR HALLOWEEN
HALLOWEEN means candy - and not just for trick-or-treating tots. A quick spin around town on our broomstick scared up some pretty sophisticated spooks at the city's sweet shops. We've...
KIDS MISS THE MARK - 8TH-GRADERS FAIL MISERABLY IN MATH AND READING
The city's eighth-graders continue to perform abysmally in math and reading, new student-achievement test results show. Despite historic increases in school aid the past several years, performance among eighth-graders has...
HILL, CHUCK BATTLE TOM FOR N.Y. $$
WASHINGTON - Sens. Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer went toe-to-toe with Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle yesterday after learning that a proposed economic-stimulus package does nothing special for New York....
ANTHRAX HITS W. HOUSE MAIL - LETHAL SPORES FOUND AT OFF-SITE POSTAL FACILITY
The White House said yesterday it suspects terrorists linked to the Sept. 11 attacks on America are behind the anthrax crisis - just before the bombshell discovery of the deadly...
FUGITIVE DURST MAY BE TAKING SHELTER WITH HOMELESS
Police are canvassing homeless shelters nationwide after learning that real-estate scion Robert Durst pretended to be homeless last summer and asked the head of a Galveston, Texas, community center for...
IS ARAFAT'S GAME FINALLY UP?
ARIEL Sharon and Yasser Arafat both seem to be playing a game of political brinksmanship with the United States. And neither one is bluffing. The big questions: Will Arafat finally...
CUNY BIGS SLAM ANTI-U.S. RALLY
As 100 protesters chanted outside, City University's trustees voted to condemn the Oct. 2 hate-filled faculty "teach-in" at City College. That event featured rants by faculty members who thought America...
B'KLYN COURT PAYS TRIBUTE TO VICTIMS
Six weeks to the day after the terrorist attacks, a memorial service was held at Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday to honor the victims - especially the three Manhattan court officers...
ISRAEL: WE'LL PULL OUT ON OUR TERMS
JERUSALEM - Israel, caught off guard by an "insulting" U.S. statement, plans to begin withdrawing troops from Palestinian towns in the West Bank at the end of the week, sources...
CALYPSO KING SINGS THE BLUES - BELAFONTE'S VALUED BAG LEFT IN TAXI
There's a travel bag floating somewhere in this town with Harry Belafonte's name all over it. The calypso singer, movie star and social activist said his black, wheeled tote bag...
LIRR ON THE RIGHT TRACK, SAYS RIDERS' REPORT CARD
Commuters say the Long Island Rail Road is running smoother - but it's still got miles to go before it's perfect. Almost 35 percent of riders believe service is better...
BORN-AGAIN GREEN
A FEW weeks ago, I wrote: "Mark Green is the worst possible mayor for New York City - except for Freddie Ferrer." Those unkind words reflected a profound distrust of...
OSAMA BOUGHT A BATCH FOR 10G
WASHINGTON - Terror master Osama bin Laden bought samples of anthrax by mail from shady laboratories in Eastern Europe and Asia for as little as $10,000, a former follower has...
FASHION STATEMENT BOOSTS TWIN TOWERS FUND
Here's to Hizzoner! Mayor Giuliani joined the Council of Fashion Designers of America yesterday morning to celebrate its "CFDA/Vogue Fashion for America" initiative to raise money for the Twin Towers...
A PRINCELY SUM FROM MONACO
Prince Albert of Monaco yesterday handed Mayor Giuliani a check for more than $700,000, made out to the Twin Towers Fund, on behalf of the Mediterranean principality and the Americans...
OUR SURVIVOR'S GOT A NEW JOB
Days after the New York Post highlighted his plight, Ricardo Rodriguez is going back to work. "At last, I have a chance to earn some money again," said the stockbroker,...
CITY SLICKERS NOW HICKS IN THE STICKS
Real-estate offices in the suburbs - and as far north as the Adirondacks - have been besieged by terror-rattled city residents anxious to pick up stakes and find sanctuary far...
POLS BACK AT WORK WITHOUT OFFICES
WASHINGTON - Congress sprang back to life yesterday but legislators held meetings in hallways and did business by cell phone, as staff offices remained closed while authorities screened anthrax tests....
TALIBAN MOSQUE-ERADE - COWARDS HIDING TROOPS & WEAPONS IN HOLY SITES
WASHINGTON - The Taliban is hiding troops, vehicles and artillery in mosques and residential neighborhoods to avoid being hit by U.S. airstrikes - a tactic a top Pentagon official yesterday...
BARGAIN-HUNTERS HEAD DOWNTOWN
While rescue workers continue to sift through the World Trade Center carnage, real-estate speculators are busy combing the neighborhoods hardest hit by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks for bargains. "This...
REASON TO CHEER
Kids at some of the city's lowest-performing schools have showed the biggest improvement on the state's eighth-grade math exam. Hard work plus initiative equals better results, said Sheila Richards, principal...
THANKS, YANKS! - TEAM BRINGS SMILES TO GRIEVING CITY
The Yankees' powerful drive into the World Series is just the thing city dwellers need to lift the grief and anxiety that have covered the Big Apple like a shroud...
L.I. MURDER MYSTERY - BANKER IS FOUND SLAIN IN HAMPTONS
The multimillionaire Manhattan investment banker who served as chairman of Jazz at Lincoln Center has been found murdered in his posh Long Island summer home, police said yesterday. Cops have...
WALL ST. VEEP FIRED OVER HOAX
A vice president with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. said yesterday he was fired last week because of an anthrax joke played on him by a co-worker. Walter Robokoff, a...
RAILY SCARY RIDES - 'THREATS' SLOWING SUBWAYS
Suspicious powders and packages are wreaking havoc on the city's transit system - grinding subways to a halt and making commuters late to work. None of the hundreds of police...
PAIR CHARGED IN THEFTS AT GROUND ZERO
Virtually everyone at ground zero went to help others. But prosecutors say Johnny Dunham of The Bronx went to help himself - to tens of thousands of dollars in stolen...
SLAY-WITNESS COP BARES HIS ANGUISH
Officer Anthony McLane has seen a lot in his 11 years on the NYPD, but nothing like the horror of the night of Jan. 9, 2000 - the night he...
WTC BURN VICTIM LOSES WEEKS-LONG STRUGGLE
For 41 days, World Trade Center attack victim Jennieann Maffeo clung to life, refusing to surrender to the torturous burns that covered 90 percent of her body. Her tenacity amazed...
MAIL WORKERS WAIL: WHAT ABOUT US?
Mail handlers and letter carriers went postal yesterday after hearing two of their Washington colleagues died from anthrax - complaining little has been done to protect them. Workers blasted officials...
BUSTED TERROR SUSPECT HAD HOLY-WAR GUIDE
German authorities arrested a Turkish student about to board a plane for Iran after they found a hazardous-materials protective suit, material to make explosive detonators, and a CD-ROM with instructions...
REASON TO FEAR
New state test results show several city schools in a freefall to failure. At IS 243 on the Upper West Side, the number of students making the grade dropped a...
COPS WORK BOTH SIDES OF THE LINE
IT MAY have been the oddest bribe an NYPD cop ever was offered. "Get me in front of the line and I'll sign up for anything," a man screamed at...
HATE MAIL: MAD MESSAGES INSIDE THE ANTHRAX LETTERS
The envelopes were laced with deadly grains of anthrax. The letters were filled with threats and taunts. The words delivered messages of hate. "This is next," warned the tainted notes...
A 'BETTOR' WAY FOR N.Y. - DEAL OPENS THE DOOR FOR SIX CASINOS
ALBANY - Gov. Pataki and state lawmakers yesterday agreed to the biggest expansion of gambling in state history - six new Indian-run casinos, including three in the Catskills, Powerball lottery,...
MYSTERY DEATHS IN POSH NABE
Two Glen Cove residents were found dead yesterday in a car parked on a cul-de-sac in the exclusive community of Upper Brookville, Nassau police said. Julio Espino, 50, and Johanna...
BLOOMY'S AIDE: WELL-RED GREEN PRAISED STALIN
Dragging the Cold War into the mayoral race, a top aide to Michael Bloomberg yesterday accused rival Mark Green of once "praising" former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Bloomberg adviser Bill...
DNA TESTS HELP IDENTIFY 8 VICTIMS
DNA testing has turned up matches for eight Twin Tower disaster victims, and Mayor Giuliani yesterday urged relatives to submit samples to help identify their loved ones. Chief Medical Examiner...
BID TO CLOSE B'KLYN 'BROTHEL' & 'BETTING' BIZ
City lawyers are looking to shut down two Brooklyn locales, one they claim is a whorehouse, the other an illegal betting parlor. The corporation counsel is demanding that the Dahill...
3 TEENS CHARGED IN FATAL STABBING
Two brothers and a third teenager were arrested on manslaughter charges yesterday for allegedly killing a 25-year-old Queens man who confronted them when they tried to talk to his girlfriend,...
EUROS BATTLE AT BELMONT - COOLMORE, GODOLPHIN RENEW COMBAT IN CUP
Every sport, in certain eras, is dominated by two top rivals who clash head-to-head on the world stage to determine who's king of the hill. In thoroughbred racing right now,...
TORRE MAY ADD HITTER FOR SERIES
WORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK With possibly four World Series games slated to be played on the Diamondbacks' home field and without the DH, Joe Torre's bench will probably have a different...
BILL IN CONGRESS MIGHT HARM TROUT FISHERIES
AMERICA's largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization says that an obscure provision in the energy bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives - and under consideration in the Senate -...
'LIGHT,' SAKHEE DIG THE DIRT
BREEDERS' CUP NOTEBOOK Fantastic Light and Sakhee, the Godolphin Stable's big guns for Saturday's Breeders' Cup, worked like plow horses last Friday, their first time over the main track at...
TEAM OF DESTINY LIFTING CITY'S SPIRITS
For the Yankees, winning championships has become a fait accompli. With four World Series rings in the past five seasons, they'll need to move on to their thumbs if they...
'O'-FULLY SAD
GIANT REPORT CARD QUARTERBACKS: D Kerry Collins (21 of 33, 162 yards) dumped the ball off and was hesitant in the pocket. He missed a few openings, held onto ball...
BUCK BUILT STAGE FOR THIS SHOW
THERE WILL be plenty of Buck shots in the coming days as the most obvious link between the World Series competitors is analyzed. Buck Showalter managed the Yankees from 1992-95,...
LOOKING PAST WAYNE SURE TO CAUSE PAIN
NO serious horseplayer should even dream of handicapping Saturday's Breeders' Cup without first carefully scrutinizing the horses saddled by the unchallenged maestro of the event, D. Wayne Lukas. The Hall...
FASSEL'S JUST FURIOUS - BACK-TO-BACK HEARTBREAKERS DISGUST GIANTS COACH
Prior to Monday night's unentertaining red-zone follies, the Giants had been 27-1 playing for Jim Fassel when they had the lead at halftime, a Mariano Rivera-like closing streak. Prior to...
RANGERS GO FROM BOOM . . . TO BUSTS
Three year later and the Rangers are still seeking to replace Jeff Beukeboom. Consecutive losses to the Lightning have alarm bells ringing on Broadway. The Rangers have been passive, undisciplined...
VOID AIMS TO FOLLOW IN GARNES' FOOTSTEPS
Dennis Void knows the odds are against him becoming a college football star. "People don't give kids from New York City much of a chance," said Void, a senior who...
UP AND DOWN WON'T GET JETS INTO PLAYOFFS
IF you're a Jets fan and you've watched this team perform each week this season you've undoubtedly detected a pattern - one of infuriating inconsistency. In the first game of...
NOW YANKS PLAY DOUBLE JEOPARDY - DEREK SAYS BOMBER ARMS CAN OUTGUN CURT & RANDY
The Yankees respect Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson. However, when it comes to fearing the modern-day version of Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, it's not happening. Nor are the Yankees...
NEW YANKS HAVING TIME OF THEIR LIVES
IN ADDITION to the ongoing ones, the Yankees need new reasons to win every year. Blessedly, in the cases of Mike Mussina and Alfonso Soriano, they have become primary reasons...
BIG BLUE NEEDS A BIG REBOUND . . . AND SOON
GIANT NOTES They cannot get the games back, but it remains to be seen just how quickly the Giants can shake off the after-effects of a pair of troubling losses....
EISLEY ODD MAN OUT IN POINT-GUARD DERBY
PRESEASON: Knicks 76 - Jazz 72 No matter how much Jeff Van Gundy tried to soften the blow, the bottom line is this: Howard Eisley is the odd man out...
DANEYKO TRADE TALK PICKING UP STEAM
KANATA, Ontario - His patron owner is a year removed from the team, and that may mean that the All-Time Devil could be removed from it, as well. There has...
DEVS GET 3RD WIN IN A ROW
Devils 2 - Senators 1 KANATA, Ontario - The power line to this arena may have been shaky, but the A Line provided all the juice the Devils needed for...
CAMBY OPTIMISTIC FOR OPENER
KNICK NOTES If Marcus Camby is healthy enough to play in Tuesday's season opener vs. Michael Jordan and the Wizards, the Knicks center will have six minutes of preseason time...
LAST DAYS OF AN ORIGINAL? - DANEYKO MAY BECOME DEVIL TRADE BAIT
KANATA - His patron owner is a year removed from the team, and that may mean that the All-Time Devil could be removed from it, as well. There has been...
COUNTDOWN TO THE BREEDERS' CUP
RACE 5: THE FILLY & MARE TURF ANALYSIS: Both runnings of this race were won by New York-based fillies, Soaring Softly and Perfect Sting, who were the acknowledged leaders of...