February 21, 2002
ISABELLA IS A SELLIN' FOR $5.49M
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amSTAR of "Blue Velvet," Isabella Rossellini is selling her predominately pink penthouse apartment on East 85th Street for $5.49 million. The sprawling prewar spread has 3,000 square feet of interior...
LULU GUINNESS BAGS GET SHOES TO MATCH
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amA woman's shoes should always match her handbag. Or so believes Lulu Guinness, who is introducing a collection of shoes and boots that coordinate with her handbags. The collection of...
SETTLEMENT SLAP IN FACE FOR MILSTEIN
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amA settlement in a savage court battle between feuding real estate cousins Philip and Howard Milstein has left Philip with a judgment nearly $29.8 million short of what he'd hoped...
CSFB FINES EXECS $2M FOR IPO SCANDAL
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amI Several CSFB employees will pony-up $2 million for their role in the IPO scandals that rocked Wall Street. Three employees were fined $500,000 each and two others were fined...
WALL ST. BULLS IN COMEBACK
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amMarkets see-sawed yesterday, handing triple-digit gains to blue chips as a buying mood struck investors who gobbled up stocks that had been untouchable only days earlier. Shares of General Electric,...
MACK ATTACK FAILS : EFFORT TO HIRE TOP MSDW DEALMAKER REBUFFED
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amAfter a brutal tug-of-war with his former firm, Credit Suisse First Boston Chief Executive John Mack failed to lure Walid Chammah, one of Morgan Stanley & Co.'s top-ranking executives, to...
CHAMMAH GOING TO STAY PUT AT MSDW
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amAfter a brutal tug-of-war with his former firm, Credit Suisse First Boston Chief Executive John Mack failed to lure Walid Chammah, one of Morgan Stanley & Co.'s top-ranking executives, to...
EXEC MAKEOVER AT REVLON
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe revolving door continues to spin at Revlon. Cheryl Vitali, the executive vice president responsible for the cosmetic giant's marketing efforts, abruptly resigned her position. Her resignation follows the departure...
GOTCHA! EVERYONE WANTS TO CATCH IBM RED-HANDED
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amLET'S play a game. The Game: Catch IBM doing something wrong. The Rules: Shoot to kill, check the DNA later. The Contestants: Every journalist in the country not already busy...
MULDER BACK FOR THE END
February 21, 2002 | 5:00am'X-FILES" star David Duchovny is officially back on the case for the show's two-hour series finale. The 41-year-old actor who played the FBI's Special Agent Fox Mulder for 7½ seasons...
THE EARLY TEARS: $65 MILLION AND KATIE HARPS ABOUT THE HOURS
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amWHAT'S the difference between working on the "Today" show and enlisting in the army? If you're Katie Couric, about $65 million - which isn't exactly buck-private money. That's what she'll...
IKE TURNER SEEKS TV JUSTICE
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amIKE Turner has a history of legal problems - but this time he's making the accusations on Friday's episode of "Judge Joe Brown" (11 a.m./Ch. 5). Turner, the ex-husband of...
WESTWARD HO! BABY SOCIALITES SKIP TOWN FOR THE QUIET LIFE IN L.A.
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amTHE city's rich young things are fleeing New York for the sunnier clime of Los Angeles.Fed up with the constant scrutiny of their parents, childhood friends and, of course, the...
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE HUMAN KIND
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amFOUR At the Manhattan Theatre Club, 131 W. 55th St. Call City Tix (212) 581-1212. Through March 31. A new, thrilling and dangerous American voice can be heard in Christopher...
NEW LIFE FOR AN OLD STORY
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amCRESSIDA AMONG THE GREEKS Ohio Theatre, 66 Wooster St. Through March 3. Call (212) 966 4844. REWRITING the old dramas in modern settings is one popular way to pump new...
REEL NEW YORK: CITY STARS IN MUSEUM FILM SERIES
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amWITH pride in the city at an all-time high, what better time to celebrate the romanticism and gritty reality of New York as seen through the eyes of some of...
WHO'LL DEFEND MIKE FROM HIS DEFENDER?
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amFORMER Mayor Ed Koch and Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) say they're putting together, on their own initiative, a "Mike Bloomberg Defense Squad." The idea, Koch told The Post's David Seifman...
ISLAND SUN COULD BURN HIZZONER
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amIF THE late, great, dashing, debonair John Vliet Lindsay were alive today, he would tell Mayor Mike that the sun can be hazardous to one's political health. It was between...
MIKE SCRATCHES RUDY PLAN TO SELL OFF OTB
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday yanked the "for sale" sign from the Off Track Betting Corp., reversing one of the most prized initiatives of former Mayor Giuliani. "We are not trying to...
'AXIS OF EVIL' & ITS CRITICS
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amPRESIDENT Bush's "axis of evil" coinage has been the target of considerable sniffing in the world's op-ed pages, particularly in Europe. The critics insist that the phrase's deliberate echoes of...
IT'S U.S. SHEA ALL THE WAY: 3RD-GENERATION OLYMPIAN WINS GOLD FOR GRANDPA
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - After winning a gold medal yesterday, skeleton sledder Jim Shea Jr. pulled off his helmet and pried out the funeral card of his grandfather, Jack, who...
AL'S GOT A SCREWY SENSE OF HUMOR
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amI MAY live to regret this. But if you don't look too hard and don't stand too close to Al Goldstein - the man is a spitter, after all -...
GOV LOOKS FOR NEW NO. 2: FEELERS GO OUT TO REPLACE DONOHUE ON TICKET
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE ALBANY - A top campaign aide to Gov. Pataki has secretly discussed replacing lackluster Lt. Gov. Mary Donohue with another upstate running mate, sources have told The Post. Pataki...
BOSS AT KILLER CLINIC GETS 11 YEARS
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe owner of a Manhattan plastic-surgery clinic where a liposuction patient died was sentenced yesterday to 11 years and three months in prison for leading a massive insurance scheme. Sonia...
X-RAY'S NO CLUB FED: ONLY PRAYERS BREAK BOREDOM
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amGUANTANAMO BAY. IT'S shortly after noon at Camp X-Ray and it's time for the midday call to Muslim prayer. As the melodious voice of Navy Lt. Abuhela Saiful-Islam, the military...
SPITZER WANTS CITY WATCHDOG ON RUDY'S TWIN TOWERS PANEL
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE ALBANY - Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has asked former Mayor Giuliani to make changes to the Twin Towers Fund, including adding a city appointee to the charity's board, The...
GOODEN BUSTED FOR DWI IN FLA.
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - Twelve hours after George Steinbrenner praised Dwight Gooden as living proof that people can overcome substance abuse, the former pitching star was busted for drunken driving, and jailed...
ARIEL CAUGHT BETWEEN ROCK AND HARD PLACE
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amANALYSIS JERUSALEM - Ariel Sharon is caught in a crossfire - and looking for a middle way out of the spiraling Mideast violence. The Israeli prime minister finds himself with...
'GALE' FORCE STRIKES IN WOMEN'S SKELETON
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - We haven't seen a bundle of energy like this since Mary Lou Retton. Meet Tristan Gale, a 5-foot-2, 115-pounder who chose the Olympics to win her...
LAWSUIT: BRAVEST BEAT ME UP AFTER MIS-TREATING MY MOM
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amA New Jersey man has lobbed a $40 million lawsuit at the Fire Department, claiming firefighters beat him up during an emergency call in December 2000 after he protested the...
STOLEN CHAGALL BACK IN JEWISH MUSEUM
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe granddaughter of the late painter Marc Chagall yesterday said she feels "extremely lucky" that a rare, $1 million Chagall work stolen from The Jewish Museum in uptown Manhattan last...
'MIRACLE' MOTHER COMES HOME
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amBrooklyn's Chana Daskal finally went home yesterday after a "miraculous" seven-month recovery from burns she suffered in a tragic helicopter crash last August. Daskal, who lost her husband, David, and...
FAMILY-MAN LAWYER ADMITS SECRET LIFE WITH SEXY STRIPPER
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amA respected lawyer and devout family man who led a double life as a two-timing swindler yesterday admitted cheating his clients out of more than $1 million as he got...
PBA FIGHTS 9/11 HEROES' PROMOTIONS
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amIn an highly unusual move, the city's police union went to court yesterday to try to block the NYPD from promoting 15 senior members of the elite Emergency Service Unit...
MOM MADE ME PLAY HOOKY: TEEN
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amA Queens teenager walked into her local police station and told startled cops her mother wouldn't let her go to school. "I haven't been to school since eighth grade. My...
THE WEEKEND MAYOR: UNKNOWN AT HELM WHEN MIKE'S AWAY
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amMeet Mayor Mike's understudy - who sometimes gets a starring role. Little-known Marc Shaw, first deputy mayor for operations, becomes the city's chief executive when his boss is out of...
DIRTY START TO PORN KING'S TRIAL
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe harassment trial of pornographer Al Goldstein got under way in Brooklyn criminal court yesterday in a flurry of profanity, obscenity and vulgarity. Under the stern eye of Judge Daniel...
SHARON FIGHTIN' MAD: BLASTS ARAB TARGETS, POISED TO STEP UP ATTACKS
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli reprisal raids killed at least 23 Palestinians yesterday and early today - as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon prepared to announce a sharp escalation in anti-terror tactics. Israeli...
THUG KILLS DELI MAN WITH 6 KIDS
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amA hard-working immigrant who put in 70 hours a week at a Queens deli to provide for his family in the Dominican Republic was killed yesterday by a gunman who...
RENOWNED CITY CANTOR BUSTED ON KID-SEX RAP
February 21, 2002 | 5:00am.A beloved cantor at New York's largest synagogue was arrested yesterday and charged in a series of sickening sexual attacks on a young nephew. Howard Nevison, 62, the cantor at...
GROUND ZERO BARGAIN: TENANTS GET 30% CUT BUT MUST COMMIT FOR 2 YRS.
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe city-state agency rebuilding Ground Zero will today unveil $220 million in rent breaks to help tenants living in the area and draw new ones downtown, officials said yesterday. It's...
B'KLYN PATRONAGE JUDGE TRANSFERRED TO QUEENS
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amA judge linked to an explosive patronage scandal has been reassigned from Brooklyn Supreme Court to Queens - one month after he was censured by the Commission on Judicial Conduct...
BX. TOT SHOT IN THE FACE
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amA stray bullet struck a 5-year-old Bronx girl in the face yesterday, and cops were on the hunt for the shooter. Mayor Bloomberg visited the little girl and her family...
MOVERS AND 'SHAKEDOWN' TRIO BUSTED
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amOwners of a group of moving companies were hit with federal charges for advertising low-ball rates on the Internet and then jacking up their fees on moving day, holding customers'...
KILLER POOCHES' VIOLENT HISTORY
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - The killer dogs who fatally mauled a San Francisco woman last year had a long history of violence and even "ate" their own doghouse as pups, a...
DEVELOPER FELLS BELOVED BX. OAK
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amA group of Bronx protesters failed to stop a real estate developer from cutting down a century-old rare white oak yesterday. Rep. Eliot Engel railed against the developer, Shiraz Sanja...
COURT WEIGHS SCHOOL CHOICE
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments in a closely watched case about whether it's constitutional to let state tax dollars go to religious schools to help poor kids...
HILL RIPS W.'S CUTS TO HOSP 'JEWELS'
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amSaying it would "devastate the crown jewels of our health-care system," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday called for the state's teaching hospitals to be spared from proposed federal budget cuts....
TRAGIC TALE OF TAPE:PILOTS OF FLIGHT 587 WERE WARNED OF TURBULENCE
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amAir-traffic controllers warned the crew of doomed American Airlines Flight 587 it could encounter wake turbulence from a jumbo jet that had taken off moments earlier from the same runway...
NEW FAMILY TWIST IN BIZARRE L.I. BOYFRIEND POISON-MURDER CASE
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe cousin of a Long Island woman accused of poisoning her lover to death was arrested for brutally beating the victim a month before the mysterious murder, The Post has...
BIG SHOT: REVEALED - JAYSON WILLIAMS' GUNPLAY SECRETS
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amThis is former basketball star Jayson Williams as you've never seen him before - standing at his multimillion-dollar New Jersey estate with one of his beloved shotguns. And today, The...
CANADA REFUSES TO GO AWAY
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amCanada 2Finland 1 SALT LAKE CITY - All of a sudden, the way is clear for the Canadians to the gold-medal game, despite all the awful things being said about...
PRIED OFF THE YANKEES ; TINO STILL HURTING OVER PINSTRIPE PARTING
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amJUPITER, Fla. - View the exit of Tino Martinez from the Yankees as one of his don't-go-down-easy at bats, one where he fouls off quality pitches before finally having to...
AN OCTOBER SHOWDOWN IN MAKING
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amJUPITER, Fla. - The Yankees and Cardinals haven't met in a World Series since Mel Stottlemyre was a rookie in 1964. They could play for the World Championship again this...
SLEDDING FANS, FOES HAIL NYC PARAMEDIC
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - Michael Voudouris got off his skeleton sled and ran down the chute high-fiving fans. He didn't win a medal in the skeleton, but the Queens resident...
WELLS FEELS GOOD AFTER THIRD OUTING
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Considering the Yankees didn't think David Wells would be throwing off a mound until Feb. 28, the veteran lefty was asked yesterday if he has been...
MATTHEWS MOURNS FOR DARR
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amMET NOTES The wake-up call Gary Matthews Jr. received at 6 a.m. last Friday was chilling. His father called to inform him that his former minor-league roommate, Mike Darr, was...
'TRIO GRANDE' DEBUTS
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - He hustled over from the clubhouse to Field 7 with a black Mizuno bat that misspelled his name as "Roberto Alomr" and a pullover jacket replacing...
ROG & JASON CO-STAR IN SUPER SPRING SHOW
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - Some days, baseball makes you forget it's a miserable business, and just reminds you it's a wonderful game. Yesterday morning at the Yankees' Legends Field training complex was...
A GAME OF CYCLES
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - By 9 a.m., it was Groundhog Day at Legends Field. Again. Word had spread through the facility that Dwight Gooden was in trouble once more, charged with drunken...
JUGGERNAUT ON ICE ; RUSSIA NEXT AFTER U.S. RIPS GERMANY
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amUSA 5Germany 0 SALT LAKE CITY - The only miracle this time will be if the furniture holds up. This U.S. Olympic hockey team, unlike the last one that broke...
KNICKS, MAVS TALK ABOUT CAMBY DEAL
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amCHICAGO - The Knicks were having serious negotiations with Dallas yesterday about a Marcus Camby-for Juwan Howard deal that would finally give Don Chaney's gang a low-post offensive threat, sources...
RAYE NAMED JET ASSISTANT
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe Jets yesterday hired veteran coach Jimmy Raye as a senior offensive assistant. The 55-year-old Raye, a veteran of 25 NFL seasons as an assistant coach, was the Washington Redskins'...
JUGGERNAUT ON ICE ; RUSSIA'S NEXT AFTER U.S. DRILLS GERMANY
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amUSA 5Germany 0 SALT LAKE CITY - It is a little spooky. Not the way Phil Housley handles the puck, we don't mean, rather the coincidences Jeremy Roenick rattled off...
APOLO HAS BLOCK PARTY ; GRABS FIRST GOLD AFTER KOREAN DQ
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - Controversy bubbled over again last night at the Olympic roller derby - but this time fortune favored American whiz kid Apolo Ohno. Only four days after...
HORRI-BULL LOSS FOR LOWLY KNICKS
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amBulls 113 Knicks 109 CHICAGO - The Knicks could not beat the trade-ravaged Bulls last night, another reason to compel GM Scott Layden to make a trade at all costs...
U.S. WOMEN GUNNING FOR GOLD
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - The Big One that the small world of women's hockey has been awaiting is the same one Sarah Tueting couldn't wait to play. But the woman...
DO YOU BELIEVE IN BELARUS? YES!
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amBelarus 4 Sweden 3 SALT LAKE CITY - A blooper goal, from outside the blueline, put Belarus in the semifinals. And Sweden will watch it for 1,000 years before it...
SWEDEN BOUNCED BY FLUKE GOAL OFF SALO'S HEAD
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amBelarus 4 Sweden 3 SALT LAKE CITY - A blooper goal, from outside the blueline, put Belarus in the semifinals. And Sweden will watch it for 1,000 years before it...
MAVS OPEN DOOR FOR CAMBY DEAL
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amCHICAGO - The Knicks continued shopping Marcus Camby around the league yesterday and have gotten a nibble from the Mavericks, sources said. Obviously, the Mavs have always are on the...
RAY CAN'T SAVE RAVENS
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amSt. Anthony 78 St. Raymond 58 Normally, when a team loses by 20 points, it's hard to find any positives. But last night wasn't a normal game for St. Raymond's....
JUST KWAN MORE TO GO: MICHELLE ON VERGE OF GOLDEN DREAMS, BUT SASHA AND SARAH STAND IN WAY
February 21, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - Tara Lipinski, the Olympic champion who stole Michelle Kwan's thunder four years ago, has one piece of advice for the participants in the gold-medal skate off...