January 26, 2002
'BICYCLE' A CINEMATIC JOYRIDE; 'HAPPY' IS ANYTHING BUT
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amBEIJING BICYCLE SEVERAL fine recent films from developing countries have depicted the confusion and humiliation that can await poor rural folk who come to the big city for work. It's...
CHOP PHOOEY! NO ART IN PAINFUL, BRAINLESS MARTIAL ARTS SPOOF
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amKUNG POW!ENTER THE FIST Half a star Inept, endless martial arts spoof.Running time: 90 minutes. Rated PG-13 (gross humor, violence). At the Murray Hill, Chelsea, Nova, others. SOME studios choose...
GO SUBA DIVING
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amThe Bar Belles would happily drink in a barn, but that doesn't mean we don't appreciate a well-appointed booze haven. The brand spanking new Suba, on the Lower East Side's...
SEND IN THE HOUNDS: A FOUR-LEGGED WALK THOUGH PHOTO HISTORY
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amDogs are good. Dogs are also noble, knowing, sassy, smart and sometimes more glamorous than the people who think they own them. For proof, look no further than "A Thousand...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amI met the girl of my dreams at a dinner party last week. I had to have her. So I cast a spell, lighting a bowl of onions, ammonia and...
ACE THE ART OF ICING
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amThere's something sort of charming about a lopsided iced cake, if it's home-baked. But there are some simple ways to get a more professional look: * Cool the cake completely...
PUTTING ON THE DOG : WHAT KIDS WEAR WHEN THEY HIT THE RED CARPET
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amSometimes Abercombie & Fitch doesn't cut it, even when you're a kid. Like when you're up for a Golden Globe or Grammy - or even a major-league bar mitzvah. For...
OUT OF THE RUBBLE
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amThey may be lost, but they're not gone. That's the case with 14 works of art - sculpture, photographs and paintings - by the winners of the 2000 Scholastic Art...
CALM KIDS WEREN'T DRIVEN CRAZY
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amOLEY, Pa. IN little Victoria Ehrhart's heart, the real trauma of spending six hours with a crazed kidnapping school bus driver came at the end of the ordeal. "She didn't...
MAKING TEACHERS THE SACRIFICIAL LAMBS
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amA BROOKLYN teacher insists her only crime was speaking the truth. As payback, the forces of political correctness soon may end her career. Shortly after Sept. 11, Deborah Schwartz tried...
NAVY YARD EXECS STITCHING THEIR GOLDEN PARACHUTES
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amEXECUTIVES at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. have suddenly decided they need golden parachutes. Bernard Dushman, vice president for administration and policy, said the 20-year-old not-for-profit corporation, which manages...
PREZ EYES CUTTING TIES WITH ARAFAT
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - President Bush, saying he was "very disappointed" with Yasser Arafat, yesterday discussed ways of punishing the PLO chairman for trying to smuggle Iranian weapons to the Gaza Strip....
JACKSON WILL SPEAK TO KIDS AT TROUBLED MLK
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amRev. Jesse Jackson is expected to speak to a student assembly at scandal-plagued Martin Luther King HS on the Upper West Side on Thursday, sources within the school said. Jackson...
BUSH WANTS TO BEEF UP INS
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - In his latest anti-terror proposal, President Bush said he plans to boost the INS budget by 29 percent and double the number of immigration agents on the Canadian...
PARK GATES TO CLOSE ON STERN
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amThe end has finally come for Henry Stern. Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday that Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, one of the city's longest-serving commissioners, will step down next month. Bloomberg tapped...
MOB SON CUT OFF FROM 'CHIN'
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amThe son whom Vincent "The Chin" Gigante allegedly used to run his powerful mob family from behind bars must cut off all contact with his crazy-acting father, a judge ordered...
DURST TO FACE MUSIC IN TEXAS
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amWearing classic charcoal-gray huge glasses and Converse All-Star sneakers, cross-dressing millionaire Robert Durst yesterday waived extradition to Texas to face charges of beheading and carving up an elderly neighbor. "He...
UNITED IN TEARS ON A FALLEN HERO'S BIRTHDAY
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amFAMILY and a giant, close-knit community said a heartwarming, sometimes humorous and always heartbreaking farewell to firefighter Teddy White yesterday - his 31st birthday. Father John O'Neill, who married Teddy...
'DERAIL' TRAIN MAN WAS HIGH
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amPolice are investigating a Staten Island Railway motorman who tested positive for cocaine after a derailment this month - but can't charge him with DWI because the law doesn't apply...
PRISON TERM FOR CLOTHES CHEAT
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amA former supervisor at a city clothing bank was sentenced to two years behind bars for taking cash in exchange for diverting vanloads of clothes meant for the homeless to...
BLOOMY'S 700G GIFT FOR GOP
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg personally contributed a whopping $705,750 to the New York Republican Party in October, a month before his election victory, The Post has learned. The massive, previously...
BRIBE PROBERS FOLLOW JUDGE'S $$ TRAIL
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amProsecutors have subpoenaed records at six banks and financial institutions where a judge accused of demanding a $250,000 bribe holds accounts, The Post has learned. A search of Judge Victor...
PS 89 PTA WINS REOPENING DELAY
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amParents and teachers of PS 89 in Battery Park City filed an emergency motion against Schools Chancellor Harold Levy yesterday to block their kids from going back to class near...
DROWNING OF TOT SEEN AS ACCIDENT
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amCops believe the drowning of an 11-month-old boy left alone by his baby sitter was an accident, a police source told The Post. But the Brooklyn district attorney's office is...
S.I. TEEN HELD IN DEATH OF HER NEWBORN
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amA 14-year-old Staten Island girl was arrested yesterday on manslaughter charges for the Christmas death of her newborn son, police said. Police said the mother, whose name is being withheld...
SCOUT SEX SUSPECT: I WON'T DEAL
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amThe accused boy-sodomizing Scoutmaster of the Upper East Side's Troop 666 rejected his last chance for a plea deal yesterday - meaning his alleged victim will have to testify against...
MIKE DITCHING MAYORS FOR BUSH BASH
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg is skipping a tour of Ground Zero today with mayors from around the country to attend an exclusive dinner with President Bush. Bloomberg will travel to Washington after...
COAST GUARD SINKS CASINO BOAT'S DEBUT
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amA controversial casino boat was docked in Brooklyn last night after flunking a Coast Guard inspection - putting a temporary halt to the choppy issue of gambling off the city's...
RAISING 'HELL' OVER PIGEONS
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amResidents of a Hell's Kitchen apartment building want their "Pigeon Lady" to fly the coop. In papers filed in Manhattan Housing Court, residents of 504 W. 48th St. charge Sally...
HS MEANS 'HOOKY SCHOOL' ON THIS SHAMEFUL CITY LIST
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amNearly a third of students at the city's worst high schools are absent on any given day, according to startling new attendance figures released yesterday. For the first time, Schools...
SLAY-CASE TAIL OF WOE AMMON WIDOW ABANDONED DOG BEFORE FLEEING U.S.
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amHeiress Generosa Ammon left behind her children's beloved pooch, Buddy, when she moved to England because the dog was more attached to her slain husband, Ted, The Post has learned....
BUS-NAPPER A PSYCH CASE PAL SAYS DRIVER WAS OFF MEDS
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amA Pennsylvania school bus driver's alleged abduction of 13 youngsters was more sad than sinister, his lawyer said yesterday as friends raised questions about his mental condition. Otto Nuss, 63,...
HATE-ATTACK SUSPECT: 'HE' WAS A 'SHE'?
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amA strange Manhattan assault case turned even stranger yesterday as a one-legged bike messenger testified it wasn't a hate crime when he punched a 320-pound transsexual - because he assumed...
PARK AVE. TENANT 'LODGING' LAWSUIT
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amA Park Avenue woman is charging that no one ever told her next-door neighbor that a home is not a hotel. In papers filed in Manhattan state Supreme Court, former...
LEONA HIT WITH GAY-BIAS SUIT
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amA Manhattan man says in a $5 million lawsuit that "Queen of Mean" Leona Helmsley fired him on his first day working for her because he is gay. Michael Ward...
CHENEY'S 'X-RAY' VIEW: CUBAN COOP ACTUALLY TOO GOOD FOR TERROR THUGS
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amVice President Dick Cheney yesterday said Osama bin Laden's fighters, imprisoned at a U.S. base in Cuba, are being treated "better than they deserve." Countering some allies' criticism of the...
'ONLY GOOD GUY AT ENRON' L.I.-BORN EXEC WAS LIKED BY EVERYONE
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amJohn Clifford Baxter was the Enron executive nearly everyone liked - from his Amityville, L.I., high school pals to the smokers who puffed with him outside the building. "We called...
TRAFFIC TICKET$ DOWN SINCE 9/11
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amNew York state and local municipalities may have lost millions of dollars of revenue after ticket-writing state troopers, who patrol the Thruway and interstates, were reassigned to help with 9/11-related...
PAUMONOK 'CAP ON TAP
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amHere's Zealous seeks his third consecutive victory when he heads a field of seven for the 94th running of the $75,000-added Paumonok Handicap at Aqueduct today. The Richard Dutrow trainee...
YANKS GIVE COOMER MINOR-LEAGUE PACT
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amIn an attempt to find righty balance for lefty swingers at first base (Jason Giambi), third base (Robin Ventura) and DH (Nick Johnson), the Yankees yesterday signed veteran Ron Coomer...
HOME NOT SO SWEET FOR ISLES
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amMaybe they ought to put more Downy in the home jerseys. Whatever it is, the Islanders have been awful on their home ice the last two games, both losses featuring...
BLUESHIRTS LOOKING TO CAPITALIZE
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amSix teams - maybe even eight - competing for the final three playoffs spots in the East; two of them colliding today at the Garden. It doesn't take a seer...
DEVILS CAN'T IGNORE STEVENS' MISTAKES
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amST. PAUL - The sun rose anyway for Larry Robinson. But for the Devils' coach to quell the internal disturbance in his locker room, he must risk setting off the...
LAYDEN AIMS FOR DAMPIER
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amWhile all the talk has centered on the Knicks trying to pry third-string big man Marc Jackson from the Warriors, GM Scott Layden actually has worked harder on obtaining Golden...
'ROTTEN' SUGAR SELLS MUCH BETTER
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amIT IS a safe assumption that Shane Mosley will never be caught rolling around on the floor with his opponent at a press conference. His name is not likely to...
RAGING LAWYER MAKES PATS' CASE
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Patriot safety Lawyer Milloy had heard and seen enough. Enough with the Steelers making Super Bowl plans, enough with quarterback Kordell Stewart standing on the podium yesterday and...
PHILLY, BE WARNED: KURT FEELS FINE
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - He walked to the podium and actually did not need physical assistance. Kurt Warner did not wait for a question to be asked. "My ribs are fine,"...
GRUNFELD: KNICKS STILL DANGEROUS
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE - Being that their core players - Latrell Sprewell, Allan Houston and Marcus Camby - were brought to New York by Ernie Grunfeld, it's not surprising their former GM...
STORM'S EMANUEL PRIMED TO START
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amDonald Emanuel is playing his best ball at the best time for St. John's. When the Red Storm (13-5 overall, 4-3 in the Big East) play Providence (11-9, 2-4) tonight...
RILEY RELISHES SCOTT'S SUCCESS
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amMIAMI - Pat Riley remembered the rookie who had talent but was, after all, a rookie. There was the right way, the wrong way, the rookie's way and Riley's way....
EAGLES NOT FEELING PRESSURE
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amNFC NOTES ST. LOUIS - Loose. That was the operative word for the Eagles last night. Hugh Douglas, the fun-loving defensive end, finished up his entertaining session with the media...
FOX FINALLY GETS HIS WISH
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amIt was never a secret that John Fox, although extremely happy with his position as defensive coordinator with the Giants, wanted more. "I know how badly he wanted to be...
DOESN'T PAY TO BET AGAINST MICKELSON
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amSCOTTSDALE - Phil Mickelson will be trying to win his second straight PGA Tour tournament this weekend at the Phoenix Open. But he'll also keep one eye on tomorrow's NFC...
RAVENS' GROUP EFFORT PAYS OFF
January 26, 2002 | 5:00amH.S. HOOPSSt. Ray's 77Xaverian 68 Since losing Villanova-bound guard Allan Ray to a broken foot before the season began, St. Raymond's head coach Gary DeCesare had been looking for a...