November 6, 2001
TRUMP COMPETES FOR DELMONICO AS OFFERS TOP $100M
Bids to acquire the famed Hotel Delmonico have topped $100 million, The Post has learned. Four bidders, including Donald Trump, are vying for the hotel, with its prominent location at...
FREEDOM FORUM'S D.C. MOVE
THE fancy foundation that Al Neuharth launched to dish the media is pulling out of the nation's media capital, leaving behind a trophy retail space on midtown Madison Avenue. On...
BUSH'S WALL STREET FIXER IS JUST DOING HIS JOB
MEMBERS of the Bush administration had barely left their first butt prints in the White House chairs earlier this year when someone recognized a problem. The appointments at the Treasury...
MARTS TAKE AN INTEREST: RISE BEFORE FED MEETING; INFLATION IS KEY
Stocks rallied in anticipation of an interest-rate cut today, driving the Dow Jones industrial average up 117.49 points to close at 9,441.03. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to cut...
STATES CAVE TO GATES; ONLY MASS. PLEDGES TO CONTINUE ANTITRUST SUIT
The last wall of resistance to Bill Gates and his Microsoft monopoly showed signs of buckling yesterday, making Gates another $1.23 billion richer. Shares of Microsoft rose $1.87 to $63.27...
SOHO OCCUPIED BY SWISS ARMY
A new Swiss Army store aims to make the most of our renewed support of the military. The store, the first for the Swiss Army brands, will function as the...
CISCO 1Q PROFITS REBOUND
The tech wreck isn't over just yet. Although Cisco's John Chambers reported slumping sales continued at the big tech bellwether, the former high-flyer beat Wall Street gurus' estimates, boosting the...
ZIFF TIFF GETS UGLY: OUSTED CEO IN COURT WAR WITH FORMER BACKERS
Ousted Ziff Davis Media CEO James Dunning is furious at his former close friends and financial backers - Avy Stein and John Willis - and has filed suit seeking more...
ZD FOLDS TWO MORE INTERNET TITLES
Ziff Davis Media closed Interactive Week and Smart Partners and tossed another 75 people out of work. It brings to four the number of magazines that the company has shut...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
Bag Lady Mama's got a brand new bag. Actually, 400 new bags, all of which are a part of St. Louis City Museum's new exhibit, "Purses from the Collection of...
HOUR VERY BEST: '24' IS THE MOST-ANTICIPATED NEW SERIES FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS
"24" Tonight at 9 on WNYW/Ch. 5 1/2 I forgot just how good an actor Keifer Sutherland is. Really, of the hundreds of leading men that Julia Roberts fell in...
POOR, POOR 'HERMAN'
HELLO HERMANGrove Street Playhouse, 39 Grove St. Through Nov. 18; (212) 946-5411. THERE'S nothing more tired than a piece of politically correct propaganda about a no-longer-hot subject.Like, say, a stinging...
ABT'S NEXT GENERATION STEPS UP
AMERICAN BALLETTHEATER AMERICAN Ballet Theater, pumped on all cylinders right to the end of its annual City Center season over the weekend, with the fourth of its premieres, Kirk Peterson's...
GLAM-SLAM
WHEN Britain's Mick Rock started taking photos in the '70s, Ziggy Stardust was just a twinkle in David Bowie's eye and glam was just beginning.The scene was London, where Rock,...
MEMPHIS BLUES: THIS TOWN OFFERS GOOD TIMES, GOOD MUSIC AND GREAT BARBECUE
THE BEST thing about the city of Memphis is that it doesn't feel much like a city at all. Especially on a sultry week day afternoon, where there's not much...
SPEARS' 'BRITNEY'SHARP AND SEXY
BRITNEY SPEARS "Britney" Jive Records With the subtlety of a sledgehammer cracking eggs, the album "Britney" announces Britney Spears is a woman - as if we didn't notice. Over a...
WHAT WAS SHE AFRAID OF?
BARBRA Streisand was too nervous to make an acceptance speech when she won an Emmy Sunday night, but closing the awards show with song was not a problem, she said....
NY1 STARTING NEW NIGHTLY WAR NEWSCAST
NY1 is adding a nightly newscast devoted to the war on terrorism and its effects on New Yorkers. The show, called "New York Tonight," begins Wednesday and will be hosted...
THE MORNING AFTER FOR ELLEN
HER performance as host of Sunday night's Emmy Awards earned Ellen Degeneres a standing ovation, but her CBS sitcom still looks like a goner. "I know that CBS used [the...
ROMAN HOLIDAY ; DINING AND SHOPPING ARE A BARGAIN IN THIS ITALIAN CAPITAL
IN CASE you haven't heard, they're giving Italy away. With an exchange rate of nearly 2-to-1, it's cheaper to shop, eat and stay in Italy than it is to stay...
STAR OF THE WEEK CLUB: WHO'LL SHINE, WHO'LL BURN IN 'ROCKY HORROR' ROLE?
OVER the next nine weeks, eight celebrities will rotate through the role of the "Time Warp"-ing Narrator in "The Rocky Horror Show" at the Circle in the Square Theatre. Some...
KNICK DANCER'S GOT THE KNACK
Ashley Hosbacher, captain of the Knicks City Dancers, is one reason few people will get out of their seats at halftime during a game this year. The 26-year-old blond beauty...
DAD BEAT HIS INFANT SON: COPS
A Long Island man told police he critically injured his 2-month-old son because the tot wouldn't stop crying, authorities said yesterday. John Nuzzi, 34, of West Babylon, brought his son,...
MATCH WOES SPARK ARSON-BID BUST: COP
A Long Island man was charged with attempted arson for encircling his married sister's home with a ring of gasoline and trying to ignite it with matches, police said. Nassau...
GIRL GIVES 60ó 'TREASURE' TO FUND
A 4-year-old Utah girl has touched the hearts of New Yorkers by sending 60 pennies from her piggy bank to Mayor Giuliani's Twin Towers Fund. Jayde Cluff of St. George...
VOTERS GET TO BREAK THE TIE: BLOOMY POLL-VAULTS INTO DEAD HEAT ON LAST DAY
The mayoral race has turned into a dead heat as Mike Bloomberg rides Mayor Giuliani's coattails to new popularity while Mark Green's favorable rating nose-dives, according to a poll released...
IF GREEN FAILS ... . . . THE VICTORY BELONGS TO THE RACE-BAITERS
IT'S delicious to contemplate the meaning of a Mark Green defeat in today's mayoral election. The repudiation it would represent of every aspect of his career is a little like...
FRENZY TO FEND OFF A 'FLORIDA': ELEX BD. RACES CLOCK TO GET VOTE MACHINES WORKING
Frantic Board of Elections officials - hoping to avoid a Florida-style recount disaster - have spent $1 million and hired dozens of technicians in a mad dash to get 69,000...
ED. BOARD LUNCHES PANNED FOR VEGGIE SHORTAGE
The Board of Education's school-lunch program gets poor marks for serving too much meat and not enough greens, a survey by a doctors group found. The Physicians Committee for Responsible...
ARIEL TALKS OF PEACE & VOWS TO HIT TERROR
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday he was discussing a peace plan - but also would adopt "new methods" to fight terrorism born of the 13-month-old Palestinian...
WORLD SERIES BATTERS EMMYS IN RATINGS GAME
The World Series crushed the Emmy Awards in Sunday night's incredible ratings race. Game 7 of the Series outscored the ratings for the 53rd Emmy Awards, with a national audience...
NAME-CALLING GREEN IS GRASPING AT STRAWS
TO hear Mark Green tell it, you'd think Mike Bloomberg was in favor of burning children at the stake. This much is true: Five years ago Bloomberg said, "The first...
BUSH 'RIGHT' TO BE MIA FROM GOP: AIDE
The White House yesterday defended President Bush's decision against personally campaigning in today's elections - and sought to distance him from the results. "In all cases, you have to take...
'MOCK' GREEN WINS IN CITY SCHOOLKIDS' ELECTION SQUEAKER
A mock mayoral election of 6,500 junior high-school students resulted in a razor-thin, 17-vote victory for Mark Green over Michael Bloomberg - close enough to demand a recount. Members of...
2 MAYORAL CLOWNS PALE COMPARED TO REAL MAN
TODAY'S battle between two rich egomaniacs for a desk in City Hall seems so trivial when you view the magnificent life of Ray Downey. Chief Downey, 63, the most decorated...
LIAR RAP FOR HIJACK 'PAL'
A San Diego student was arraigned yesterday on charges of lying to probers about his relationship with a Sept. 11 hijacker. Osama Awadallah, 21, pleaded not guilty at the hearing...
LEASE-HOLDER COMPANY SUES WTC INSURER
The multibillion-dollar insurance fight over the World Trade Center attacks expanded yesterday as the company that held the lease on the buildings sued one of its insurers. Larry Silverstein's companies...
CITIZENS PELT SPEEDING CARJACKER
Bystanders watching a wild high-speed police chase of a carjacking suspect through the Florida Keys lobbed bricks and rocks - and even a bicycle - at the stolen vehicle as...
JILTED BRIDE ENJOYS WEDDING PRESENCE
The jilted bride who defiantly discoed to "I Will Survive" after her groom got cold feet is now dancing to a new title - Mrs. Different groom. Same gown. Nicole...
17 YEARS' PRISON IN HIV KID-SEX STING
An HIV-positive pedophile was sentenced to 17 years in prison yesterday for plotting to have sex with a young boy. John Weisser, of Oakland, Calif., was caught trying to arrange...
BOSS YANKS MORE GAMES OFF FREE TV
Yankee boss George Steinbrenner blew a fastball by millions of loyal fans yesterday a day after the Bombers' heartbreaking loss in the World Series. His newly formed YES Network is...
'NAUGHTY' COCKTAILS STIRRING TROUBLE: SOON THEY'LL QUIT SERVING COCKTAILS ALTOGETHER
If you're looking for a "Screaming Orgasm" or "Sex on the Beach," you may be out of luck at TGI Friday's. The famous restaurant chain is considering renaming two of...
HER SECOND JOB COULD HOLD KEY TO THE PUZZLE
Medical sleuths trying to determine how hospital stockroom clerk Kathy Nguyen contracted a deadly case of inhalation anthrax said yesterday she may have worked a second job - at a...
2 SURRENDER IN WTC MELEE: VIDEOS COULD SNARE MORE FIREFIGHTERS
As many as 20 more members of New York's Bravest and their union leaders could face charges in connection with last Friday's melee at ground zero. Top police brass and...
'A GREAT, ANGELIC WOMAN': PALS, CO-WORKERS MOURN HOSPITAL ANTHRAX VICTIM
Vietnamese immigrant Kathy Nguyen had no relatives in the United States, but her adopted family of friends and co-workers packed a South Bronx church yesterday to pay tribute to the...
TALIBAN TROOPS 'INN' BIG TROUBLE
WASHINGTON - U.S. forces yesterday launched a precision rocket attack on a Kabul Hotel where Taliban soldiers were hiding out. Witnesses said they heard helicopters just before the rockets blasted...
RUDY'S ROCKET LAUNCHES MIKE: BLOOMBERG'S $50M DOESN'T HURT, EITHER
A late endorsement by Mayor Giuliani - combined with more than $50 million in campaign spending - has made Republican Mike Bloomberg an unlikely even-money shot to capture City Hall...
RIVALS BRING OUT BIG GUNS FOR FINAL BATTLE
The wild and woolly mayoral race stormed down to the wire yesterday with Michael Bloomberg campaigning for the first time with Mayor Giuliani, and Mark Green getting big support at...
PROPAGANDA WAR 'TARGETS' MULLAH
WASHINGTON - Mullah Mohammad Omar, the Taliban's spiritual and political leader, is in the cross hairs of a new U.S. propaganda leaflet being dropped in Afghanistan. The leaflet includes one...
WARNING: NEW D.C. SPORES JUST THE BEGINNING
Officials in Washington yesterday revealed that anthrax has been found at both the Pentagon and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, with one investigator predicting there are more discoveries to come....
ROCKETS TAKE BIG BITE OUT OF FOES
WASHINGTON - Taliban fighters using civilians as human shields felt the sting of U.S. strikes yesterday with a precision rocket attack on a hotel in Kabul where the extremist soldiers...
SCHUMER: SAFEGUARD PLUM IS. LAB
Sen. Charles Schumer is demanding an immediate security review of the federal animal-disease research lab on Plum Island - off Long Island's North Fork - to guard against a possible...
YANKS GET WELL-EARNED RELIEF
PHOENIX-There was no champagne in the Yankee clubhouse after Game 7 of the World Series. The visiting team's carpet remained dry. So, too, did most of the eyes. It was...
SEARCH FOR A PUNTER BEGINS
GIANT NOTES Remember Tommy Parks? He's the eccentric punter who made a brief splash with the Jets this summer, and he soon could be the new Giants punter. Rodney Williams,...
SORIANO'S SIGN OF THINGS TO COME
PHOENIX - Two images from Game 7 of the 2001 World Series will endure for as long as the memory of the Diamondbacks stealing the World Championship with two ninth-inning...
WOODS: KNICKS BLEW IT BY NOT DRAFTING ME
MINNEAPOLIS - Loren Woods believes Knicks fans have every right to be angry at club management that he is not on their team tonight when the Knicks face the Timberwolves...
JINTS SAY COMEBACK CAN BE SPRINGBOARD
Not that they would have minded a nice, easy, routine victory, mind you, but knowing what they now know, the Giants yesterday portrayed their escape-job against the Cowboys as just...
VAN'S RIP: WE'RE NOT TOUGH ENOUGH
KNICK NOTES Let's not mince words. The Knicks' fourth-quarter defense so far has, in Jeff Van Gundy's words, been "deplorable." And offensively, they've handled the ball like a live grenade....
CONFIDENT GANG GREEN: BRING ON THE WORLD!
Something momentous occurred with the Jets during their 16-9 victory over the Saints, Sunday night in New Orleans, and it had nothing to do with voodoo or black magic or...
OFF-TARGET KNICKS FACE MINNY CRISIS
Three games in, and all anybody wants to talk about is the Knicks' failure to solve zone defenses. Thing is, that's really not the problem. "We watched the film, and...
ISLES PLAY CONFIDENCE GAME: 'SWAGGER' BACK, SAYS COACH
Duck season? No it's Islander season, as the Isles suddenly find themselves the hunted - with opponents regarding a win over them as a real trophy. Yes, they're the hunted,...
SAINTS' WILD MAN TURLEY STILL FUMING
JET NOTES Long after the controversial play was over, there's still talk and expected fallout regarding the Kyle Turley head-hunting incident in Sunday night's Saints' loss to the Jets. Turley,...
TORRE DESERVES HIS DUE
PERHAPS if Joe Torre stays back at second and short, Derek Jeter gets to Luis Gonzalez's blooper and the Diamondbacks and Yankees are still playing. Perhaps Luis Sojo homering in...
ACQUIRING GIAMBI PINSTRIPE PRIORITY ; THE BOSS WANTS A'S BOPPER TO BOOST BATS
PHOENIX - George Steinbrenner is proud of his Yankees. He just isn't in love with all of them. So, in the wake of Game 7's heart-breaking, 3-2 loss to the...
KNICKS CAN'T HIDE NOW
SINCE it's never too premature to depress the panic button in this space, I suggest the Dolans seriously consider scrambling the picture tonight when the 1-2 Knicks visit undefeated Minnesota,...
STRONG VOTE FOR 'APPROVAL'
With Aqueduct open for Election Day today on a rare Tuesday card, 2-year-old colts get their chance to earn black type on turf in the $75,000 Pilgrim Stakes at a...
ACQUIRING GIAMBI PINSTRIPE PRIORITY: GEN. GEORGE RELOADING FOR NEW BATTLE
MYSTIQUE and Aura have left the building. Yankee Stadium was a cold, dark and windy place yesterday. Early in the morning, after the most red-eye of flights imaginable, the Yankees...
MIKE GETS TASTE OF BITTER END
Mike Mussina, who had never reached the World Series in his brilliant career, came to New York to be part of a winner. The Yankees gave him an $88.5 million...
WE WON'T SEE LIKES OF THESE GUYS AGAIN
PHOENIX - George Steinbrenner railed at major league officials Sunday night because, in the top of the ninth, a podium was constructed in the Yankee clubhouse, anticipating a World Series...