November 2, 2001
LEFRAK TO GET APPROVAL ON CITY PROJECT
It looks like a long-stalled Lower East Side urban redevelopment is finally getting underway, as the city plans to tap the LeFrak Organization as the developer, The Post has learned....
BIG CROWDS SEEN AT LATINO EXPO
Planners of the Latino Expo and Job Fair are expecting record attendance at this year's event because of the softening economy and job losses resulting from the World Trade Center...
TECHNOLOGY RALLY LIFTS REST OF MARKET
U.S. stocks got a big lift yesterday after word of a settlement in Microsoft's antitrust battle helped boost investor sentiment, despite some discouraging economic data. Microsoft's good news helped drive...
SAFRA FAMILY FEUD - SISTERS, WIFE IN COURT OVER $60 MILLION
The puzzle of banker Edmund Safra's mystery death is finally getting an airing in court in a nasty family battle over the estate. His high-society widow, Lily Safra, who inherited...
TIGER ASKS SI FOR A MULLIGAN
TIGER Woods has opened negotiations with the Newhouse-owned Golf Digest about renewing his exclusive seven-figure print arrangement with the publication when his current contract expires next spring. "You always talk...
GATES GETS IT ALL; BUSH TEAM FOLDS; M'SOFT CHIEF WINS A 'BUNDLE'
Bill Gates appears to be getting his way - and a lot richer. The federal antitrust team trying to harness Microsoft's Goliath monopoly blinked yesterday and agreed to settle its...
BUFFETT MAKES $835M FRUIT-FUL DEAL
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. struck a deal with creditors to buy Fruit of the Loom, the troubled underwear and apparel maker trying to emerge from bankruptcy, for $835 million...
AOL TW GIVES KELLY COO SPOT
On the same day AOL Time Warner CFO Michael Kelly was brandished a stonewaller for refusing to speak with Merrill Lynch analysts who downgraded the company, the company moved him...
STARR REPORT
The son also rises: Ford has cooking show Ben Ford, the son of actor Harrison Ford, is launching a cooking show targeted for PBS. Ben Ford, who owns Chadwick, a...
'DISTURBANCE' SHAKES FAMILY TREE
DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE 1/2 Welcome back, John Travolta.Running time: 88 minutes. Rated PG-13 (moderate violence, sexuality, profanity). At the E Walk, the Loews 34th Street, the Harlem USA, others. AFTER starring...
JET'S DOUBLE TROUBLE
THE ONE Mediocre sci-fi/martial arts hybrid.Running time: 87 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence). At the E Walk, the Kips Bay, the 84th Street, others. FOR what it's worth, there's some impressive...
AS GOODY AS IT GETS
AMELIE A French movie for people who don't like French movies.In French, with English subtitles. Running time: 120 minutes. Rated R (several quick sex scenes). At the Paris and the...
GHETTO BLASTER SOUNDS PHONY
"Uprising" Sunday at 9 on WNBC/Ch. 4 WE'VE seen so many movies about how the Jews suffered and died during the Holocaust that it seems as though Hollywood didn't even...
'OFF' LAUGHS GO ON & ON
NOISES OFF 1/2At the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 219 W. 48th St.; (212) 239-6200. MICHAEL Frayn's "Noises Off" is the funniest farce ever written. If it isn't, tell me what is.Never...
SHE'S SEXY, BUT IS SHE FASHION-ABLE?
MUCH is made of Britney Spears' fashion sense. At the MTV Video Music Awards last year, she shocked the nation and sparked fashion debates with a black pants suit that...
ANOTHER SIDE OF BRITNEY SPEARS ; POP ICON GETS REAL SERIOUS
AT the tender age of 19, Britney Spears is a pop icon, but she isn't just another brainless babe with a body.Sexy, sassy Spears has sold more than 23 million...
LITTLE REASON FOR LAUGHS IN 'WONDER'
WONDER OFTHE WORLDManhattan Theatre Club, 131 W. 55 St. Through Jan. 2. Call CityTix, (212) 581-1212. FARCE has to be grounded in reality. That way, when it takes off from...
NATHAN LANE CAN'T PRODUCE
NATHAN Lane, the Tony Award-winning star of "The Producers," appears to have developed a polyp on his vocal chord and will be out of the hit show indefinitely, his spokesman...
YANKS NAIL-BITER HALLOWEEN MAGIC
DEREK Jeter wasn't the only one to hit a home run in the10th inning of Game 4 of the World Series. The TV ratings for the storybook finish of the...
MEMO EMMYS: TIME TO GIVE THE KIDS A BREAK
FRANKIE Muniz - meet Fred Savage. You've got about as much chance of winning an Emmy Award this year as Fred did back in '89 and '90. And that's why...
GERALDO IN A FOX HOLE ; QUITS CNBC AND GOES TO WAR
GERALDO Rivera is jumping from NBC to become a war correspondent for Fox News Channel. Rivera, who has hosted "Rivera Live" on CNBC for seven years, will join FNC Nov....
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PARIS
HAPPENSTANCE 1/2'AMELIE" isn't the only movie featuring the lovely French actress Audrey Tatou that is opening today. She's also in this cute little comedy, which takes place, mostly in Paris,...
ISRAEL KILLS TERROR TEAM - FOILS PLOT TO SLAY 50 IN SUICIDE BOMBING
JERUSALEM - Two Palestinians - preparing to kill about 50 Israelis in a record-setting suicide bombing - were hunted down yesterday and killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank,...
THE COMEBACK KINGS - YANKS NEED ONE MORE AFTER 2ND STRAIGHT MIRACLE
It was another miracle in The Bronx early this morning - a second come-from-behind, extra-inning and extra-suspense win in what Yankee fans will forever recall as a November to remember....
EARTH TO MIKE - WHY CAN'T BLOOMY CONFRONT THE CITY'S GRIM NEW REALITIES?
MICHAEL Bloomberg might be an appropriate choice for mayor - of a city called Fantasyland. That is the place where Bloomberg appears to reside, judging from an exchange between the...
BUILDER TAKES REINS OF SCHOOL-CONSTRUCTION AGENCY
The School Construction Authority yesterday hired a new chief executive to take over the agency, as the Board of Education struggles with a $2.8 billion spending gap amid the repercussions...
MISSING THE MARK ON RAPE REMARKS
MIKE BLOOMBERG, the rapist's friend? What garbage. In a move smacking of desperation, front-runner Mark Green has piled on to a ridiculous Bloomberg smear now snowballing out of control in...
DIALLO COP FIRED UP - GRADUATES WITH CITY'S NEW BATCH OF BRAVEST
From New York's Finest to New York's Bravest. The tarnished former cop Ed McMellon - one of four officers to shoot and kill unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo in 1999...
WTC MAY BE DOME OF THE BRAVE
The city is exploring building a giant umbrella over ground zero so cleanup can continue through the winter, an official told the City Council yesterday. "We actually did have experts...
TALIBAN IN REAL TROUBLE: REV. AL WANTS TO VISIT
Fresh from his recent jaunt to Israel, the Rev. Al Sharpton is moving ahead with plans to fly into Afghanistan to visit the eight jailed Western charity workers charged by...
PROSECUTORS SHOULD RESIGN IN SHAME
THERE are two forms of rape The first is the obvious and unimaginable violence that deprives people of their humanity. The second form of rape is when you are stripped...
N.Y. MUST WAIT FOR $10B OF ITS BAILOUT: WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON - The White House said yesterday that New York state will have to wait for the rest of its $20 billion bailout package - but tried to soften the...
SON'S SAD FAREWELL: 'I LOVE YOU, DADDY'
Wearing his father's loose-fitting uniform, jacket and cap, the teenage son of fallen firefighter Terry Farrell yesterday recounted for hundreds of mourners one man's lifetime of on-the-job bravery and off-the-clock...
OLLIE BEATS THE RAP IN 'CYBERSEX' CASE
Accused "cybersex fiend" Oliver Jovanovic strolled out of a Manhattan courthouse a free and happy man yesterday - cleared after a five-year legal battle on charges that he'd kidnapped and...
THE MOTHER OF ALL PRANKS
Chauffeur is a job lots of suburban moms perform for their kids - but cops say an East Islip woman went too far when she drove her son and his...
OSAMA INDICTED (NO, NOT THAT ONE)
A San Diego student charged with lying to the grand jury probing the Sept. 11 terror attacks had videos about Muslim martyrs and photographs of Osama bin Laden, officials said...
POOR DEER LOSES BRAVE FIGHT
Cops guided a migrating deer from the Hudson River yesterday morning, but the stag was struck by a car after reaching land and died on the way to the hospital,...
AWARDS GO TO FED SLEUTHS
A group of federal terror probers were honored yesterday at a Midtown ceremony - including one FBI agent whose work is so top-secret that officials wouldn't even say why he...
CLINTON: I'D BE BETTER WAR LEADER
Bill Clinton has reportedly said he is better trained to handle America's terrorism crisis than President Bush. Heather Mills, the blond fiancée of Paul McCartney, said the former president made...
FOX NEWS CHANNEL LANDS GERALDO
Acclaimed newsman Geraldo Rivera is jumping from CNBC to Fox News Channel in a huge "get" for the cable network. Rivera will join FNC as a war correspondent, stationed in...
LENDER: WE WERE FOOLED BY FAKE GOLD
A Manhattan company says it was duped into lending nearly $200,000 to a Queens pair after they put up as security "several boxes of gold" that turned out to be...
MAN HELD IN POSTAL SCARE
A Palestinian man who allegedly dumped handfuls of yellow powder in a Brooklyn mailbox will remain in custody pending test results on the substance from the city's Department of Health....
BUSH'S BIG GUNS STEP UP PROPAGANDA WAR
WASHINGTON - The Bush White House is launching its own "war room" to try to win the propaganda war against "lies by the Taliban" while America is literally asleep. Bush...
GOP'S AIRPORT-SECURITY BILL PASSES IN HOUSE
WASHINGTON - President Bush and House Republicans, with an assist from Mayor Giuliani, last night eked out a narrow win on a historic aviation-security bill, trumping Democrats who'd wanted to...
ON SECOND THOUGHT, ED PICKS BLOOMY
Backtracking on his pledge to stay on the sidelines in the mayoral race, Ed Koch yesterday endorsed Michael Bloomberg - saying he did so because he thought the billionaire Republican...
CONCERT TAKE IS $WEET MUSIC
"The Concert for New York City" has raised more than $30 million for World Trade Center relief efforts, and the cash keeps on rolling in. The Oct. 20 star-studded event...
NGUYEN CASE LINKED TO CITY & D.C. GERMS
The anthrax that killed beloved hospital worker Kathy Nguyen is indistinguishable from the deadly germ sent to Sen. Tom Daschle, NBC and The New York Post, officials said yesterday. A...
BOY SOLDIERS TAKE ON TALIBAN
These chilling photos show how young Afghan children are taught the ways of war - as a feared anti-Taliban rebel commander instructs his 5-year-old son in the use of a...
BILL BACKS GREEN AT HARLEM POWER LUNCH
Mark Green and Bill Clinton yesterday campaigned across 110th Street, where the two Democrats talked politics over lunch and held a press conference so the former president could tout Green's...
TINO'S BLAST IS THE STUFF OF LEGENDS
They are living legends now, forever bonded in pinstripe history. Tino Martinez's two-out, two-run, game-tying homer in the ninth inning of World Series Game 4 Wednesday night, followed by Derek...
MORE POSTAL MACHINES CONTAMINATED
Anthrax screening at the Postal Service's massive Morgan processing facility in Midtown has revealed spores in seven machines - including a dust extractor that recirculates air, officials said yesterday. The...
HAVE NO FEAR, J.LO'S HERE!
Is J.Lo scared of the Big Apple? No way. She loves New York. The Bronx-born beauty said so herself last night after she flew in from Miami to attend a...
WAS A TERROR PLOT BEING HATCHED BEHIND THIS DOOR?
They came to the United States together from their native India in 1992. They lived together, worked together and traveled together - and they're now in federal custody together in...
KOCH AND CAREY ENDORSE BLOOMBERG
Backtracking on his pledge to stay out of the mayor's race, Ed Koch yesterday endorsed GOP candidate Michael Bloomberg - saying he did so because he thought the billionaire businessman...
RUDY TO BOMBER FANS: NEVER SAY DIE
Never give up. That's the advice Mayor Giuliani offered yesterday to Yankee fans - and the entire nervous city - after the Bronx Bombers' awesome and inspiring comeback in Game...
TINO'S LEGENDARY BLAST HOMER RANKS AMONG TOP 10 YANK MOMENTS
They are living legends now, forever bonded in pinstripe history. Tino Martinez's two-out, two-run, game-tying homer in the ninth inning of World Series Game 4 Wednesday night, followed by Derek...
GREEN IS BUBBA'S 'CHOW' MAIN MAN: BILL'S ENDORSEMENT IS DESSERT FOR DEM
Mark Green and Bill Clinton yesterday campaigned across 110th Street, where the two Democrats talked politics over lunch and held a press conference so the former president could tout Green's...
MARK AND MIKE HIT THE DIRT: MUD FLIES IN FINAL DEBATE BEFORE VOTE
Michael Bloomberg and Mark Green rolled in the mud last night, with Bloomberg charging Green practices the "politics of personal destruction" while Green accused his mayoral rival of "hypocrisy." The...
NGUYEN CASE IS LINKED TO D.C. ANTHRAX
The anthrax that killed beloved hospital worker Kathy Nguyen is indistinguishable from the deadly bacteria sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, officials said yesterday. Experts said this suggests the...
WAYNE NOT MIFFED BY FEWER TOUCHES
It was painful enough for Wayne Chrebet to sit at home resting the after-effects from a concussion watching his Jets stumble through their 13-12 win over the Panthers last Sunday....
ISLES REVVING UP FOR MOTOR CITY
The year 1940 has always been associated with the hated Rangers and has been the chorus with which the Islanders have serenaded their crosstown rivals - even after the Blueshirts...
JINTS PREPARE FOR ANYBODY
After last week's meltdown against the Redskins, the Giants are aware that they are in no position to take anything for granted. But the prospect of going against a Dallas...
CAMBY MAY BE WEEK AWAY
Marcus Camby has circled Nov. 9 on his calendar. The Knicks' injured starting center predicted he will return to action as soon as he's eligible to get off the injured...
BLUESHIRTS NEED OLD DVORAK
RALEIGH - On a team where just about everyone is on the other side of midnight, Radek Dvorak stands out as one of the few Rangers whose career is ascending....
VAN GUNDY GIVES THE 'SPOON A LIFT
Jeff Van Gundy approached Clarence Weatherspoon following yesterday's practice to lift his spirits. Again during practice, Weatherspoon's low-post shot was awry and he's concerned the new Knick was getting down...
IT'S A REEL GOOD TIME FOR FISHIN'
THE days for saltwater fishing are getting fewer, but if Mother Nature is kind to us this weekend it could be an excellent opportunity for getting that trophy striped bass....
CAN'T 4-GIVE BRENLY ; BULLET BOB BLEW IT WHEN HE YANKED SCHILLING
"HE tried to win Game 7 before he had finished winning Game 4." When the final story of the 2001 World Series is written, that may turn out to be...
CHIEFS WARY OF SHARKS
THE last time Sheepshead Bay and Canarsie met, the Chiefs seemed poised to get to the PSAL title game, but Sheepshead Bay got in the way. "We all remember last...
WAS IT GREATEST SERIES GAME EVER? HARD NOT TO PUT YANKS' DAZZLING GAME 4 WIN NEAR TOP
The best World Series game ever? There isn't enough time left in our lives or booze in New York to settle that argument. However, when baseball historians catalog Wednesday night's...
ONLY A GAME 7 WILL DO THIS MATCHUP JUSTICE
THE four central figures advertised in this World Series have proven even greater than advance billing. Diamondbacks co-aces Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson have dominated the Yankees the way they...
DEENA FACES TOUGH GOIN'
Despite never having run a marathon in her life, Deena Drossin is being hailed as America's best hope in the grueling event. But the 28-year-old Californian clearly isn't the sort...
JEFFERSON'S RE-WRITING NETS HISTORY
AUBURN HILLS - Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Well, Richard Jefferson wants to know nothing about Nets history. Repeat it? He says defeat it. "So many...
PACERS ARE IN GOOD HANDS WITH TINSLEY
JAMAAL TINSLEY, drafted /acquired No. 27 by the Pacers and already so fluently in command of the offense he's diagramming plays to assistant coaches, is the only NBA rookie starting....
SHARP DEVS NOTCH 6TH STRAIGHT WIN
Devils 5 Coyotes 2 Finally, the Devils look worthy of their six-game winning streak. "Throughout this whole streak, we've won games but we haven't felt good about ourselves because we...
JOE'S PUNCHING CLOCK
WORLD SERIES CONFIDENTIAL Ninety minutes before October folded into November, Derek Jeter sat next to Joe Torre on the Yankees' dugout bench and wondered about Torre's contract status. "He started...
KIM HAS COMPANY ON BOMBERS' ALL-VICTIM TEAM
Never leave your seat. The finest comeback in this Yankee post-season run lasted 24 hours. For the second consecutive night, the Yanks were down two runs with two outs in...
ANOTHER KIM CRASH SOCKS IT TO SEOUL
The Yankees' thunderous bats once again have jolted baseball fans from 32nd Street to Seoul. As Yankee sluggers capped another most memorable World Series rally with their dramatic home runs,...
D'BACKS' BARAJAS HAS ROLLERCOASTER NIGHT
The Diamondbacks thought so highly of Rod Barajas, he had appeared in only one postseason game and hadn't batted before last night. But, when Damian Miller's right calf strain worsened,...
THAT OLD YANK MAGIC STRIKES AGAIN: ANOTHER MIRACLE FINISH PUTS BOMBERS ON BRINK OF CROWN
Game 5 / 12 innings Yankees 3 D'backs 2 Tomorrow night, Luis Sojo hits the World Series winning home run off Randy Johnson. You want to bet he doesn't? Didn't...
MYSTIQUE, AURA WEAR PINSTRIPES: ANOTHER YANKEE VICTORY DANCE
IT TURNS out Curt Schilling was wrong, after all. Mystique and Aura are not two nightclub dancers. They live at Yankee Stadium. A sign hanging off the grandstand during last...
D'BACKS NOT FEELING SNAKEBIT AS THEY PREPARE TO STRIKE BACK
After the Diamondbacks' second consecutive improbable loss in to the Yankees, a Yogi-ism seemed appropriate. "It was deja vu all over again," said Rod Barajas, the D'backs catcher last night,...
CRAFTY BATISTA KEPT BOMBER BATS AT BAY
Miguel Batista, who is a novelist, besides being a poet, did everything but finish the story last night. The Yankees supplied that in another improbable extra-inning victory, last night's 3-2...
KNOBBY'S FIRST HIT IS BIG
The Yankees haven't had to hit much to take a three games to two lead in this World Series. To be exact, they are hitting .177. Chuck Knoblauch hasn't had...
O'NEILL'S KIND OF NIGHT ; PAUL'S LAST GAME IN BRONX IS WIN-DERFUL
PAUL O'Neill so badly wanted this to be another routine day at the office. He ate pancakes for breakfast like always and, as usual, called his kids back home in...
RIVERA: I THOUGHT WE WERE GONNA WIN
Mariano Rivera was calm. Scary calm. Like he did during an 11th inning jam, the Yankee closer presented a look of serenity while he explained how he was able to...
BUNGLING BRENLY JUST CAN'T SEEM TO HELP HIMSELF
NEXT TO SINGING the Afghan national anthem while going through airport security, or hanging an effigy of Paul O'Neill directly in front of the Yankee Stadium right-field bleachers, the most...
MUSS MAKES AMENDS FOR GAME 1 FLOP
Mike Mussina buzz-sawed his way through seven-ninths of the Arizona lineup, but Steve Finley and Rod Barajas gave him more than he could handle. Mussina rebounded from a rocky World...
GREAT SCOTT!
BY the time Scott Brosius had rounded second base on the latest Yankees home run trot from fantasyland, Byung-Hyun Kim, the short reliever who will see Yankee Stadium in his...
HERO SORIANO: IT'S INCREDIBLE ; DIVING CATCH, HIT SAVE YANKS
Alfonso Soriano's youth is occasionally maddening, but his skills are simply awesome. The Yankee second baseman made a game-saving catch with the bases loaded in the 11th, then singled home...
YANKS HAVE BECOME KINGS OF COMEBACK
THEY are a team of veterans, yet the comeback kids. Characterized by character, these Yankees have authored more surprise endings than Agatha Christie. You think you have seen it all,...
O'NEILL GOING OUT STRONG: YANKEE TITLE WOULD BE FIT END FOR MOODY RF
He sounded almost like he was apologizing, which was ridiculous. Paul O'Neill, who likely played his last game at Yankee Stadium last night, let his true self show through Wednesday....
SPENCER'S QUIETLY TURNING INTO POSTSEASON LUMINARY
Players like Shane Spencer tend to be portrayed as overnight success stories - shooting stars - when in fact the reverse is true. The media easily forgets about Spencer's nine...
YANKS HAVE 'ZONA PENNED IN
IT ONLY appeared the Yankees couldn't have cut it any closer in Game 4 when, all along, it was just a matter of time. At some point during every post-season...
BRENLY: GAME 7 AFFECTED JUDGMENT
When confronted with more questions about lifting Curt Schilling in Game 4, Diamondbacks manager Bob Brenly insisted yesterday he made the right move. "Could Schilling have gone out for the...
STYLE AND GRACE: MARK'S SOAKING UP SERIES WITH CLASS
When Mark Grace arrived at Yankee Stadium on Monday, he visited Monument Park. As he looked at all the tributes, he took off his cap, remembering his father's words about...
KIM COLLAPSE ACHES TO THE SEOUL
Tino Martinez and Derek Jeter's thunderous bats jolted baseball fans from 32nd Street to Seoul. Not only did the Yankee sluggers cap a most memorable World Series rally with their...
FOX SPINNING WEB OF IRRELEVANCE
DA-da-dot, da-da-dah! "Should Roger Clemens brushback after every meal?" Da-da-dot, da-da-dah! "Is Bob Brenly crying out for help?" Da-da-dot, da-da-dah!" Should Joe Torre travel the galaxy in a rocket ship?"...
PREZ GAVE US A SCARE
GEORGE W. Bush, leader of the free world, in a symbolic act of resolve, defiance and courage, stood alone on the mound in Yankee Stadium, about to throw out the...
DEVS' MADDEN KNOWS SCORE
His defensive prowess has been clearly established by his Selke Trophy. Now John Madden is being asked to score goals as well. "It's a role I wanted, but at the...