February 19, 2002
MILSTEINS' TROPHY TO AUCTION
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amTWO prime Milstein family properties - a Midtown office tower and an Upper East Side luxury apartment building - will go on the auction block, a judge has ruled in...
INVESTORS CHARGE JPM CHASE WITH DIRTY ENRON DEALINGS
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. got hit with a class-action shareholder lawsuit alleging the bank violated securities laws by failing to disclose fully its exposure to now-bankrupt Enron Corp. The...
CITIGROUP FOLLOWED THE MONEY STRAIGHT TO TERRORISTS
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amTHERE'S a rule on Wall Street that brokerage firms need to "know their clients" - so customers can be put into appropriate investments. Well, that turns out to be pretty...
GOLF REIT OFF COURSE - INVESTORS FURIOUS ABOUT INSIDER DEAL
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amInvestors are teed off at golf magnate David Price for knocking their investment into the rough in what they're calling a shaky insider deal. Price, who controls the world's biggest...
BANK ON PUBLISHING - GOLDMAN SCOUTING MAGAZINE VENTURE
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amGoldman Sachs Group, the ultra-secretive Wall Street firm that usually tries to avoid the media, is now trying to break into it. Goldman is quietly trolling for deals in the...
AMEX NABS FIDELITY'S TECH GURU
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amLess than two weeks after stealing three top fund managers away from Fidelity Investment, American Express Financial Advisors has struck again - poaching Telis Bertsekas, Fidelity's best-known technology manager. Bertsekas...
STARR REPORT
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amShipman snags Enron exclusive for 'GMA' ABC's Claire Shipman has snagged the first TV interview with new Enron CEO Stephen Cooper - who will be interviewed inside the embattled energy...
GET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66 - TEXAS-SIZE SURPRISES AWAIT IN AMARILLO
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amAMARILLO claims to be the real Texas, which seems to mean really big steaks, real characters, and a canyon at least as grand as the one in Colorado. Even in...
BUFF 'SURVIVOR' EYED BY CH. 5 AS ON-AIR REPORTER
February 19, 2002 | 5:00am'SURVIVOR 2" star Alicia Calaway may be headed to Ch. 5 as a health/fitness reporter. Calaway, a personal trainer who lives in Manhattan, was seen last week shadowing Ch. 5...
WADING INTO THE BOGGS OF BROOKLYN
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amBROOKLYN'S own the Boggs will crash the roots rock party with a night of old-time music. Think folk music of the 1920s. Led by singer and guitarist Jason Friedman, this...
SMITH, FAMED TV NEWSMAN, DIES
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amHOWARD K. Smith, the outspoken TV newsman who enjoyed long-running stints at both CBS and ABC before quitting from each after clashes with management, has died. Smith died Friday of...
BRIT HIT FINDS U.S. NETWORK - FORMULA BEHIND TALENT SHOW 'POP IDOL' SELLS FOR $1M PER SHOW
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amFOX has bought the rights to a new talent-search show that was a huge hit overseas, according to published reports. The network has reportedly agreed to pay $1 million an...
DAYTONA WHEEL-Y WHIPPED UP A CROWD
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amSUNDAY's Daytona 500 telecast zoomed into the record books as the highest-rated auto race in nearly 20 years. With an average of about 18.7 million viewers, the race delivered a...
A SPIT IN THE EYE
February 19, 2002 | 5:00am* JOEY RAMONE "Don't Worry About Me" [ 1/2] Sanctuary Records There's plenty to gabba gabba hey about on Joey Ramone's posthumously released final album, "Don't Worry About Me" -...
$$$EA WORLD - RICH & FAMOUS LINE UP FOR ULTRA-LUXE HOUSEBOAT
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amIT'S billed as the ultimate address: The World.And there seems to be no shortage of rich, golf-loving dilettantes with a spare $7.5 million to drop on a cruise that never...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amGone to the birds If you want to support the arts and our fine feathered friends, visit the Interlaken Inn in Lakeville, Conn., for a winter wildlife weekend. Events of...
MISS USA IS NO CHICKEN
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amKandace Krueger will be giving up her Miss USA crown on March 1. She's also giving up her New York apartment and returning home to Texas. "I'm kind of sad,"...
SPITZER HOMES IN ON 'CHARITY' - BRAZEN 'JUG' COLLECTORS STILL WORK THE STREETS
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amThey're still out there. Street-corner fund-raisers for the United Homeless Organization haven't backed off their appeal to soft-hearted New Yorkers, even after The Post revealed that none of the cash...
SIMPLE TEST MAY DETECT HEART WOES
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amA revolutionary new device can predict whether someone is likely to develop heart trouble - simply by taking the person's pulse. A team at Scotland's University of Edinburgh spearheaded the...
OOPS! YEN TAKES DIP ON GOOF BY BUSH
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A verbal gaffe by President Bush sent the Japanese yen falling in international trading yesterday, but it recovered after the White House corrected the mistake. The flub -...
KILL? SHE JUST 'INTERRUPTED' 5 TINY LIVES
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amIT WAS like watching Andrea Yates' children die again. To hear the defense tell it yesterday, Yates did not kill her babies, she "interrupted their lives." When Yates chased down...
NEW DRIVER FACING CHARGES AFTER HITTING FAMILY OF THREE
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amA Long Island woman, driving with a learner's permit, yesterday mowed down a man, woman and their 11-month-old baby as the family walked across a street in Amityville, police said....
CITY WEIGHING OTB BONDS AS A 'BETTOR' WAY TO RAISE CASH
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amFearing that Albany won't approve the sale of the city's Off-Track Betting Corp., the cash-starved Bloomberg administration is examining a plan to sell OTB's future revenues for a single, up-front...
POL WANTS LONE-DRIVER BAN LIFTED
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amBanning single-occupancy vehicles in Manhattan during the morning rush is hurting both the city's pocketbook and its mindset, Councilman David Weprin said yesterday. "The mayor is telling the citizens of...
CUOMO GETS 'NEW DEM' NOD
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo was declared a "New Democrat" yesterday by a founder of the movement that helped bring from President Bill Clinton to power. Al From,...
SECRET TORMENT OF U.S.A. BOBSLED BATTLER
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amAmerican bobsledder's Jean Racine sweet smile will be masking bitter heartache when she goes for Olympic gold tonight. Racine, 23, of Pontiac, Mich. - one of the top-rated bobsledders in...
RELIEF CUT FOR THE DOMESTIC ABUSE YOU NEVER HEAR ABOUT
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amBURIED in the list of $1.8 billion worth of city budget cuts is a relatively small grant to an innovative Queens group trying to do something about an ugly problem...
'BANK SCANDAL' EXECS GAVE MCCALL 26G BOOST
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amState Comptroller Carl McCall took $26,500 in contributions from three executives of an investment company that is being sued by the state of California in a banking scandal, The Post...
MIKE'S A MAN ABOUT TOWN - JUST NOT OURS
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amWhere in the world was Mayor Mike? Less than seven weeks into his new job, Mayor Bloomberg seems to have taken a nice long break. The MIA mayor had no...
'BRIBE' JUDGE HAS BROOKLYN LEGAL EAGLES SWEATING
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amTHERE are some in Brooklyn's legal community, lawyers and judges, who are as nervous as a long-tailed cats in a room full of rocking chairs. Why? They don't know whether...
MORE GRISLY FINDS IN GA. CREMATION NIGHTMARE
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amDozens more corpses were discovered yesterday around the Georgia crematorium that was transformed into a macabre mausoleum, authorities said yesterday. Stunned investigators found skeletons sealed in vaults and bodies that...
HEAT'S ON U.S. ICE RIVALS - FEMALE FOES 'FIGURE' TO SWEEP
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amLike miniature shadow boxers, America's glam figure-skating trio, led by Michelle Kwan, stalked each other on the ice yesterday, setting up the most intense confrontation since Tonya Harding and Nancy...
SATAN, MEET YOUR MATCH: THE POPE IS AN EXORCIST
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amPope John Paul II has performed three exorcisms during his 23-year reign - with his most recent Satan-busting rite taking place just five months ago, the Italian newspaper La Stampa...
MYSTERY JET STIRS EERIE ECHO OF 9/11
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amFrightened New Yorkers - from lower Manhattan to Park Slope - thought they were reliving the Sept. 11 attacks when what appears to have been a military jet buzzed the...
FINAL RESPECTS FOR JAYSON'S CHAUFFEUR
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amServices will be held today for the limousine driver killed by a shotgun blast at ex-basketball star Jayson Williams' mansion last week. Costas "Gus" Christofi's wake in North Plainfield, N.J....
GRIEVING PALS EULOGIZE SLAIN HOT DOG VENDOR
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amMourners came to pay their respects yesterday at the wake of Dimitrios "Jimmy" Haratsidis, 45, the murdered Bronx hot dog vendor who not only cooked their food, but warmed their...
SKATING HONCHO PROPOSES MAJOR JUDGING REVAMP
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - The head of the figure-skating union yesterday proposed a radically reformed point system aimed at reducing the chance of vote-swapping, in the wake of the scandal...
STRIP-SEARCH JORDANIAN: FBI TRAMPLED MY RIGHTS
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amA Jordanian charged with lying to a grand jury recited to a federal judge a list of alleged law-enforcement abuses at his pre-trial evidence-suppression hearing yesterday. Osama Awadallah, 21, said...
FAMILY IS IN HER CORNER
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amThe heartsick family of Andrea Yates is standing squarely behind the killer mom, despite her horrifying and desperate acts of violence. And incredibly, one of her strongest supporters remains her...
HONEST! ABE, JFK & DUBYA LEAD THE GREATEST-PREZ POLL
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amHonest Abe tops the list of our country's greatest presidents, followed by JFK and George W. according to an ABC News poll. Not George W., the father of our country...
STAB KID I.D.S THUG - PICKS OUT SUSPECT'S PHOTO FROM HOSPITAL BED
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amAn 11-year-old boy, stabbed as many as 17 times and left for dead, managed to identify his attacker from a group of pictures detectives showed him in his hospital bed,...
MADMAN BITES OFF LOVER'S FACE: COPS
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amA crazed Queens man bit and tore at his girlfriend's face in a bloody attack straight out of a horror movie, police said yesterday. After receiving 911 calls reporting terrible...
NEW 'BARBIE' DOLL A MULTI-CULTI CUTIE
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amKayla is a real doll - but don't try to guess where the latest Barbie hails from. That's because Kayla is being touted as Mattel's first "multi-ethnic Barbie" - with...
ISRAELI JETS EXACT REVENGE AS SUICIDE SLAUGHTER KILLS 4
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli warplanes destroyed two Palestinian security buildings today after suicide bombers linked to Yasser Arafat's paramilitary force killed four Israelis yesterday. Witnesses said a missile from an Israeli...
HONEST! ABE, JFK & DUBYA TOP POLL
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amHonest Abe tops the list of our country's greatest presidents, followed by JFK and George W., according to an ABC News poll. Not George W., the father of our country...
POINT GIVEN NAMED HORSE OF THE YEAR
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amPoint Given, the only horse in history to win four $1 million races in a row, was named 2001 Horse of the Year last night at the annual Eclipse Awards...
HOUSTON PASSES ON JINTS
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amAs expected, the expansion draft came and went yesterday and the Texans said "no thanks" to all five Giants left exposed. That means there will be no immediate salary-cap relief...
THIS ONE GOES OUT TO JAYSON - TERRIBLE SPOT FOR A GOOD GUY
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amIT was the night of a big fight at the Garden and now, well past midnight, a lot of people had found their way to an after-party at the Park...
NETS CONFIDENT ON MAC
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amDepending on how you look at it, the news on Todd MacCulloch can be taken in one of two ways: Thank God or uh-oh. The Nets' center, who's been suffering...
BOBSLED TAKES ANOTHER TURN
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - The big story about the women's bobsled team has yet to be told. In fact, no one seems to be asking. The story that has been...
U.S. SKIERS NEED TO KICK IT INTO HIGH GEAR
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amOLYMPIC NOTEBOOK SALT LAKE CITY - Before these Games began, Bill Marolt, president of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, set an audacious goal for his team members: win 10...
ESTES LEARNS FROM MET MASTERS
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Shawn Estes received a welcome birthday present from his new teammates in his first spring training with the Mets. The team's newest left-hander spent his 29th...
BENITEZ EXPLAINS ABSENCE
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - According to his agent, Armando Benitez has explained his absence from spring training to Steve Phillips and Bobby Valentine. Whether the general public ever...
KNICKS NEED TO NAB LITTLE NICKY
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amI THINK you all know my position on Nick Van Exel: Miserable so-and-so. Definitive coaching conundrum. Recurring disruptive influence. Perhaps the NBA's ultimate disjointed guards. A perfect posterior, in other...
GLENN, TWO OTHER JETS GONE GREEN
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amThe Jets' losses in yesterday's NFL expansion draft came quickly as the Houston Texans selected two of their starters in their first three picks. Right tackle Ryan Young, considered the...
'OLD' GLORY FOR U.S. - AGING NHL-ERS ROLL INTO QUARTERFINAL ROUND
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amMEN'S HOCKEYU.S. 8 - Belarus 1 SALT LAKE CITY - Old-time hockey is winning at the Olympics. And, Holy Hanson Brothers, on that big ice, who would have ever thunk...
OHNO LETS SKATES TALK
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - The only portion of Apolo Ohno's body more stitched up yesterday than his left thigh was his lips. Ohno didn't talk to reporters yesterday after his...
SECOND EFFORT PLEASES WELLS
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - While David Wells' velocity wasn't what it was Saturday, the left-hander and Mel Stottlemyre were pleased with Wells' second turn throwing off a bullpen mound yesterday....
JASON'S JUST ONE OF YANKS' GUYS
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - When Joe Torre talks to Jason Giambi, the message from manager to superstar will be simple: Just play. Torre's antenna went up back in December at a Yankee...
PERFECT IN PINSTRIPES - GIAMBI BORN TO BE NYC STAR
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - Joe Namath came from western Pennsylvania by way of the University of Alabama. Clyde Frazier migrated north from Atlanta and Southern Illinois. Reggie Jackson apprenticed at Arizona State...
HATTEN-LED STORM MANHANDLE BC
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amSt. John's 71 - BC 62 When the final buzzer sounded last night at the Garden, Marcus Hatten tossed the ball toward the rafters with an ear-to-ear grin. It was...
KNICKS TREADING WATER AT DEADLINE
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amWith more than three decades of NBA experience, Don Chaney knows the business. As Thursday's 6 p.m. trade deadline approaches, the Knicks remain silent. This makes Chaney think it will...
LINDROS LEAVES ICE
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - Eric Lindros sat out the final seven minutes of Canada's 3-3 tie with the Czech Republic last night, holding his arm tight to his body. There...
THE GREAT RAMPAGE - GRETZKY LASHES OUT AT WORLD AFTER CANADA TIE
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY -Wayne Gretzky, the executive director of Canada's Olympic hockey team, lashed out last night at detractors of his team - directing particular anger toward the United States...
JUST ONE OF THE GUYS - GIAMBI SAYS: I DON'T HAVE TO BE LEADER HERE
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - When Joe Torre talks to Jason Giambi, the message from manager to superstar will be simple: Just play. Torre's antenna went up at a Yankee Stadium the press...
STORM'S SHAW HEATS UP AT RIGHT TIME
February 19, 2002 | 5:00amIn many ways, St. John's swingman Willie Shaw has been emblematic of the Red Storm season. He has been injured and inconsistent, in a constant struggle to find his way....