February 26, 2002
DUMBO TO GET MAJOR FACE LIFT
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amA glamorous jumbo is coming to Dumbo, the cutely named Brooklyn neighborhood that sounds a lot better than "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass." Light Bridges, a wavy-looking new apartment...
MARTS RALLY ON POSITIVE INDICATORS; DOW UP 177
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amStocks rallied powerfully to start the week - pushing the Dow Jones industrial average into a gain for 2002. The best-watched indicator of U.S. stock market health soared 177.56 to...
GAP PUTS $1B ON THE RACK
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amThe Gap is shopping for some cash. The beleaguered specialty retailer is expected to announce it will offer as much as $1 billion in convertible bonds when it reports its...
HUEY HIT LIST GROWS " EW'S SEYMORE NEXT TO GET AX: SOURCES
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amThe next head on John Huey's chopping block as he reshapes Time Inc. in his image and likeness will be Entertainment Weekly Managing Editor Jim Seymore, according to sources. At...
NEW $5B HANG-UP ; WILLIAMS GIVES WARNING ON BANKRUPTCY
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amWilliams Communications Group Inc. is scrambling to line up a strategic partner in the hopes of filing a pre-arranged bankruptcy protection plan, sources familiar with the situation tell The Post....
J.P. MORGAN CHASE IS BIG LOSER AGAIN
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amAnother bankruptcy, another hit to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s balance sheet. The bank, which has already taken huge write-offs because of its exposure to bankrupt companies like Enron and...
IS 40,000 YEARS IN JAIL ENOUGH FOR ENRON EXECS?
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amSome scandal-scarred former Enron chief execs could theoretically be looking at a lifetime in prison, if charged and convicted. While the facts clearly are not yet in, and there's probably...
RELIEF COSTS LEVEL 3 $139M
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amLevel 3 Communications, one of a string of struggling telecommunications companies, struck a deal yesterday to keep its head above water. The high-speed fiber-optic network operator agreed to buy business...
D.C. BUREAUCRATS GOING AFTER YOUR COST OF LIVING
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON lies and cheats. I could end there and you'd probably already understand. But the fleecing that you and every other American are about to receive at the hands of...
MSDW RATINGS GETTING MORE COMPLICATED
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amMorgan Stanley set a new standard for its analysts' stock rating system. But the changes have caused some head-scratching on Wall Street. Morgan has changed its ratings from "strong buy,"...
SAMBA ENCHANTED EVENING ; SAILING FROM BUENOS AIRES TO MONTEVIDEO ON THE MERCURY
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amTHERE are two types of people in the world: Those who like cruises and those who ridicule people who like cruises. For years, I considered myself in the second camp....
THE FIRST QUEEN OF MEAN
February 26, 2002 | 5:00am"Elizabeth" Tonight at 9 on The History Channel WHAT would you call a show about a woman who was born a bastard in most people's eyes, had a father who...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. CASH
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amTHE Man in Black turns 70 today - and Johnny Cash has lots to celebrate. His health is improving, he's recording a new album and his old ones are finding...
SLIP-SLIDING AWAY
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amGALOSHES were a girl's best friend on the rain-soaked red carpet at British Academy of Film and Television Awards on Sunday night.The U.K. equivalent of the Oscars went off during...
STARR REPORT
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amBing-o: Perry on 'Ally McBeal' role So just why did David E. Kelley cast "Friends" star Matthew Perry in "Ally McBeal?" "I bumped into a producer at a dinner party...
DR. GREENE, YOUR RESULTS ARE IN...
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amWARNING: This article contains spoilers for "ER" fans. Things aren't bad enough for Dr. Mark Greene - now he's gonna die. Dr. Greene, who's played by Anthony Edwards, will be...
ROSIE AND FLASHER ARE BREAST PALS
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amROSIE O'Donnell has a new bosom buddy - the woman who flashed the "Rosie O'Donnell Show" audience on live TV last week. Yesterday, O'Donnell told viewers that she found the...
ABC GOING AFTER COSTAS
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amAFTER 22 years at NBC, Bob Costas could be going to Disney World this summer. Costas, whose NBC Sports contract expires in June, has reportedly been in early talks with...
MORISSETTE'S 'RUG' CUTS IT
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amALANIS MORISSETTE "Under the Rug" Maverick Records J.Lo may have a million-dollar booty, but it's much more interesting to listen to a woman with a sweet frontal lobe. There's been...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amDouble deal A new package from France Vacations combines Paris with a cruise through the Grand Canal of Venice. For $1,069, you fly with Air France from JFK to Charles...
BIKINI SECRETS: FITNESS HABITS OF THE SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SWIMSUIT MODELS
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amNOT every woman in Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue came by those flat tummies and tight butts naturally. But for every tummy tuck, crash diet or bulimic episode, there are just...
MAY BUYS INTO THEKNOT.COM
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amMay Department Stores has tied the knot with TheKnot.com. The two companies have entered into a strategic alliance, with May putting up $5 million for 19.5 percent of The Knot....
HISTORIANS AND THIEVES
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amDORIS Kearns Goodwin seems like a very nice woman on television. She loves baseball, the Kennedys and the Roosevelts. People adore her books, particularly "No Ordinary Time," her hagiographic account...
NOT-SO-SECRET SERVICE FOR VP AT OLYMPICS
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amTwo Secret Service agents earned Olympic gold in doubles dimwittedness after they lost top-secret security plans for Vice President Dick Cheney. The document - turned over to the Salt Lake...
L.I. LADY ADMITS MILKSHAKE SLAY
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amA wealthy cosmetics consultant accused of murdering her longtime beau entered a surprise guilty plea yesterday - admitting she slipped a deadly toxin into his milkshake. Ann Perry, 60, pleaded...
CELEBS THINK THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH MURDER
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amTHERE'S more than enough heartbreak to go around for the family of limo driver Costas "Gus" Christofi and, yes, for Jayson Williams, too. But simply put, Williams - who allegedly...
GOTTI'S NEW PALS: THE ACLU
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amCivil-liberties watchdogs say federal prison officials mocked the Constitution by taking the rare step of barring John Gotti's lawyers from meeting with him. Gotti, 60, is in the final stages...
SHARON SET TO STRIKE, BUT WEIGHS SAUDI PLAN
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hinted at major military moves against the Palestinians because of yesterday's terrorist attacks - but said he also wants to hear more about...
MCCALL WILL PAY VISIT TO WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE Inserting himself into the middle of a volatile debate in the Middle East, state Comptroller Carl McCall next week will be visiting two Israeli settlements on the West Bank,...
BLOOMY'S BLADES: HIZZONER TOOK COPPER CHOPPER FOR A WHIRL
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg - a licensed pilot - said yesterday it was no big deal that he took the controls of a police helicopter last month, because he routinely flies "more...
RUDY GIULIANI ON PRIVATE LIFE OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amFormer Mayor Rudy Giuliani yesterday urged reporters to butt out of his successor's private life - while Mayor Bloomberg refused to say where he'd spent the weekend. "Just leave him...
FEDS HAVE SEVERAL ANTHRAX SUSPECTS
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amA narrow list of suspects has emerged in the hunt for the anthrax mailer who killed five people, the FBI and White House confirmed yesterday. The announcement comes hot on...
'REAL KILLER' WINS BID TO HELP JAILED BROTHER
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amA man who says he accidentally killed a friend and then let his own brother take the rap and go to prison for life will be permitted to tell his...
MANHUNT IN FATAL STABBING
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amPolice want to interview more than 40 people who attended the Brooklyn party that ended in tragedy when one of the partygoers fatally stabbed a Samaritan who tried to help...
PUBLIC DEFENDERS ARE CRYING POOR
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amPublic defenders in Manhattan Family Court say they have stopped taking new cases because of a pay dispute. The lawyers are paid $40 an hour for in-court work and $25...
SWINDLE SECRETARY SENTENCED
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amA secretary who used erasable ink to snooker one of the city's savviest brokerages out of $800,000 fessed up to the embezzlement yesterday - but gets a sentencing break because...
FED INDICTMENTS KICK ASSESSORS: SLEAZY INDUSTRY SINKS ONCE AGAIN INTO DEED GREED
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amSO, AS a taxpayer, you're shocked - shocked! - by the assessment bribery scandal that costs the city treasury $40 million a year? Get real. More than any city on...
MIKE DIGS IN OVER BID TO KO ED BD.
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg could be headed for a showdown with state lawmakers who are resisting giving him total control of the city school system. Bloomberg - so far - is sticking...
CASE CLOSED: FATHER CRUSHED AS DA NIXES CHARGES IN '79 PATZ KIDNAP
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE There will be no criminal charges in the disappearance of Etan Patz, the 6-year-old child who vanished from a SoHo street nearly 23 years ago. At an emotional meeting...
WTC BOARD RIPPED COUNCIL: 'WHITE MAN' PANEL ISN'T DIVERSE
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amThe agency in charge of rebuilding lower Manhattan is overwhelmingly white and male, with almost no women or minorities on its staff or board of directors, City Council members charged...
COP MISCONDUCT EYED IN HS FIGHT
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amAn assistant principal who took some hard knocks in a turf battle with three gym teachers over a school pool was cleared of assault charges yesterday as police launched an...
JAYSON SLAM-DUNKED: BUSTED BOOKED IN DEATH ]]OF DRIVER
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amEx-New Jersey Net All-Star Jayson Williams was charged yesterday with the reckless manslaughter of a limo driver - then forked over eight weapons, his passport and a $250,000 bail check...
HS TRANSLATES INTO SUCCESS
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amThe Board of Education is creating a new school of global studies that will be the first in the city to require students to learn two foreign languages before graduating....
STAR CORONER AIDS KILLER LANDLORD'S CASE
February 26, 2002 | 5:00am"Coroner to the Stars" Cyril Wecht, who's had a hand in the autopsies of Elvis, JFK and JonBenet Ramsey, took the stand in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday, coming to the...
TRAIL-BLAZING MEDICO SHATTERED GLASS CEILING
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amGrowing up poor and black in a Detroit housing project, few would have expected her to become a pioneer. But Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee - the sister of singer Diana Ross...
FED INDICTMENTS KICK ASSESSORS: PROPERTY-TAX BIGS RAN SCAM FOR 35 YEARS, AUTHORITIES SAY
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amA massive payola scheme led to the indictment yesterday of 18 people - including a cadre of allegedly corrupt city assessors - on charges they ran a decades-long scam to...
GUEST-STAR GOV BEARS GIFT FOR W.
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Gov. Pataki had his first sleepover at the White House yesterday and gave President Bush the famous bullhorn that he used when he stood atop a ruined fire...
PAGANS PLOTTED HELL FOR ANGELS: FEDS
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amLeaders of the Pagans motorcycle gang carefully planned Saturday's deadly brawl with Hells Angels during the Angels' tattoo-and-motorcycle show on Long Island, federal investigators said yesterday. The Pagans' national organization...
CONDIT IS HEADED FOR GRAND-JURY HOT SEAT
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Embattled Rep. Gary Condit is expected to be summoned soon to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the disappearance of Chandra Levy, law-enforcement officials said last night....
SARAH TUNES UP FOR SCHOOL WITH GRAMMY TRIP
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amAs her parents head home to Long Island, skating sensation Sarah Hughes and her coach are taking a few days off to go sightseeing in L.A., where they'll enjoy tomorrow...
RUDY GIVING CALIF. POL LIFT
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amNEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -Rudy Giuliani criss-crossed California yesterday, campaigning furiously for a political newcomer whose stock has risen steadily since the former mayor began stumping for him. Bill Simon, a...
BRAWL PROVES L.I. COP SHORTAGE: UNION
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amCalling for the hiring of more officers, a Nassau County police union used the weekend's fatal biker rumble as an example of why retiring cops need to be replaced in...
LIFE SENTENCE IN GRISLY PARK SLAY
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amA drug-addled vagrant was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for a Central Park bludgeoning murder so horrible, even the judge said he's still haunted by the crime-scene photos. The...
LOOK WHO PUPPED IN: WAYWARD SEAL LANDS OFF QNS.
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amA seal pup on her way from the Arctic to spend the spring in the Big Apple went off course and washed up on a beach in the Rockaways yesterday,...
SARAH 'TUNES' IN: TAKING IN GRAMMYS THEN BACK TO SCHOOL
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amAs her parents head home to Long Island, Sarah Hughes and her coach are taking a few days off to sightsee in Los Angeles - where they'll enjoy tomorrow night's...
'72 HOOPSTERS TAKE THEIR SHOT AT JUSTICE
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amThe 1972 U.S. Olympic basketball team has fired off a letter to the International Olympic Committee in hopes of receiving the gold medal they were denied 30 years ago -...
MIDEAST MIRACLE BIRTHS: BABIES OK AFTER ISRAELI, PALESTINIAN MOMS SHOT
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM -Two pregnant women, an Israeli and a Palestinian, became the latest West Bank casualties yesterday when they were shot in separate incidents -yet both managed to give both to...
MO MOTTO: EASLER SAID THAN DONE ; VAUGHN PUTS HIS FAITH IN EX-TEAMMATE
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - As Mo Vaughn stepped to the plate in the second inning of his first competitive Mets game, his mentor was right behind him. While an assortment...
DEVILS HIRE HENNESSY
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amJohn Hennessy, of late the play-by-play man for the Devils' Albany River Rats AHL farm club, has been named the Devils' radio play-by-play man for the rest of the season....
ISLES SET FOR STRETCH RUN
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amFifty-seven down, twenty-five to go. "You're down to the last month-and-a-third of the season," Islanders coach Peter Laviolette said. "Everybody knows it." The Isles pick up the post-Olympic portion of...
BUM HAMMY PUTS JASON ON SIDELINE
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - There must be something about high-priced Yankees and first intrasquad games. Last year, Derek Jeter, fresh off a $189 million signing, was scratched with a barking right shoulder....
ROBINSON RETURNS AS ASSISTANT
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amLarry Robinson swallowed his pride that was so recently and wrongly battered, answering the distress call of the GM who took the easy route and fired him as head coach...
NHL MUST KEEP PLAYING GAMES
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - There is no turning back now. The games were too good, the patriotism of the players too strong, the fans in the best-hockey playing nations on...
SHAUN: I WANT TO STAY IN BLUE
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amHis best friend might be gone. His most respected teammate might be gone. But Shaun Williams unquestionably wants to return to the Giants. He just wants to know where he'll...
HUMBLE KID LIVES IN RIVERA
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - Wife Claraat at his side, Mariano Rivera was driving on the Jersey side of the Hudson River when he felt moved to comment on a sight New Yorkers...
TRUE HEROES OVERSHADOWED BY SCANDALS
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amSALT LAKE CITY - The Olympic flame that had burned high above Rice-Eccles Stadium was extinguished Sunday night. But the firestorm of these games may last forever. These Olympics won't...
JETS RELEASE TUPA; JONES SET TO FOLLOW
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amWeakening their starting defensive lineup even further, the Jets will release linebacker Marvin Jones today, perhaps ending his nine-year career with the team. They, too, yesterday released punter Tom Tupa,...
FONZ HOPES HAPPY DAYS ARE 'BACK'
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Don Mattingly walked like a man trying to balance glasses of water on his shoulders, sidling along gingerly with his torso arched downward. He was going...
KELLY'S THE RIGHT MAN TO ; HANDLE TYSON BOUT
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amTHIS was back in 1988 or 1989, back before all the bad stuff, before Robin Givens and Desiree Washington and Buster Douglas and Evander Holyfield showed us just how brittle...
WEATHERS FORECAST SUNNY
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amMETS NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - David Weathers hadn't even thrown live batting practice. And here he was mowing down hitters. As a starter. The Mets' new set-up man was...
BLUESHIRT SAGA CONTINUES
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amWhen we last left the Rangers in Dallas on Feb. 13, Mike Richter was in net, Mark Messier was playing one-armed hockey, Tomas Kloucek was out of the six-man defense...
JOHNSON CAUGHT UP IN OUTFIELD DEBUT
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Although he's in line to be the Yankees' DH, Nick Johnson made quite an impression yesterday with his glove while playing left field in a game...
NO PLACE TO GO BUT DOWN: HOPELESS KNICKS IN WORLD OF TROUBLE
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amThe Knicks have replaced the 1993 Mets as "The Worst Team Money Can Buy." They have the league's highest payroll ($85.3 million) and the league's sixth-fewest wins (20). Consider that...
KITTLES BACK, DOING HIS PART
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amThose Nets are something, huh? That Jason Kidd has made all the difference. Even though he's hurt now, Todd MacCulloch has been a massive upgrade at center. Then you've got...
PARK WEST PRESERVES LATE LEAD
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amPark West 61 Banneker 58 Canarsie 69 Beach Channel 35 Ramel Bradley had seen this before. Against Frederick Douglass earlier in the season, Park West had blown a late lead...
GHOST OF VG MUST HAUNT DOLAN & CO.
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amTHINK maybe Knick management might've committed a mortal boo-boo last summer by not giving Jeff Van Gundy the two-year extension he requested? When James Dolan deputizes a search party after...
SHOOTING SPREE MIFFS HOUSTON
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amThe battery of losses has seemed to have done nothing to improve the relationship between Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell. According to sources, Houston was ticked off at Sprewell following...
OUT FOR SEASON : IT'S OFFICIAL: HIP TEAR SHELVES CAMBY
February 26, 2002 | 5:00amWith the trading deadline past, the Knicks last night announced Marcus Camby is expected to miss the rest of the season following an MRI on his torn hip muscle. That's...