March 14, 2002
MARKETS FALL AFTER POOR RETAIL REPORT
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amStocks fell yesterday after a retail report showed American consumers are staying out of stores. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 130.50 to 10,501.85. Broader market averages also lost ground....
TOP ANALYST QUITS BEAR STEARNS FOR CSFB SUITE
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amWall Street star analyst Amy Butte is bucking stock touting for a management position at CSFB. The big career shift for the top ranked securities industry analyst from Bear, Stearns...
THREE STOCKS TO AVOID, THREE THAT ARE SAFE TO BUY
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amWHAT are the three most dangerous stocks right now? I asked a research firm to stick a couple pounds of data into its computers and try to guess the next...
LAWYERS TO HOLD COURT
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amThe law firm Kirkpatrick & Lockhart is nearly doubling its space while moving from a Rock West building to Boston Properties' 599 Lexington Ave. The large national law firm just...
609 FIFTH IS SOLD FOR A HEFTY $65M
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amTwo entrepreneurial local investors, Jeff Sutton and Eli Gindi, have partnered with the Blackstone Group to scoop up the boutique office building at 609 Fifth Ave. for $65 million. Pricing...
OLD NAVY JUMPS SHIP IN SOHO
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amJust three and a half years after branching out in SoHo, the Gap's Old Navy is looking to get out, The Post has learned. As the Gap suffers through its...
ANDERSEN ON BRINK - DELOITTE, ERNST & YOUNG TURN DOWN MERGER
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amArthur Andersen's options in lining up a possible rescuer dwindled yesterday as Deloitte Touche and Ernst & Young bowed out of merger talks to save the embattled accounting firm from...
HOTEL KING TO SELL CASTLE - SCHRAGER ASKS $22M FOR CPW PENTHOUSE
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amHOTELIER Ian Schrager is putting his Philippe Starck-designed penthouse on the block for $22 million. Schrager and his estranged wife Rita, combined the 11-room duplex at 115 Central Park West...
FASHION WIRE DAILY CEO OUSTED, REVLON EXEC IS IN
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amThere's a big shake-up at little fashion news site Fashion Wire Daily. The founder, CEO and editor-in-chief, Brandusa Niro, has been kicked out and replaced by a former Revlon exec....
O'REILLY ADDS FEMALE FACTOR - HE'LL SHARE RADIO SHOW WITH WOMEN
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amFOX News Channel star Bill O'Reilly is not going into radio alone. O'Reilly - who will host "The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly" beginning May 8 - will share the...
OLSEN TWINS PARTED
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amIT finally happened - someone has broken up the Olsen twins. Yesterday, when the Daytime Emmy nominations were released, Mary Kate Olsen, 15, was nominated for best performer in a...
STEWART IN LATE-NIGHT HOT SEAT? - ABC CALLED HIM BEFORE DAVE
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amCOMEDY Central cut-up John Stewart wasn't kidding when he said on "Saturday Night Live" last week that he's interested in a gig on network television. Before ABC began negotiating with...
STARR REPORT
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amBikini bottom: Cindy draws teacher's ire Ex-"Cindy Margolis Show" star Cindy Margolis is one of several scantily clad women targeted by a Wisconsin elementary school teacher - who is pushing...
KELLY CAN TWO-TIME THE EMMY
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amDAYTIME TV darling Kelly Ripa and two of the most important men in her life - pal Regis Philbin and husband Marc Consuelos - came off as champs yesterday, snaring...
FIVE FOR FIGHTING PLAYS LIKE A ONE-MAN BAND
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amFIVE FOR FIGHTING IN an unlikely musical attack that combined contemporary pop and '70s anthem rock, Five For Fighting mastermind John Ondrasik played a low-fi, high-energy show at Irving Plaza....
RUNWAY RIVALRY
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amPARIS - The fashion world loves a good squabble. So the ongoing - if unspoken - rivalry between Stella McCartney, 30, and her former best friend Phoebe Pilo, 28, has...
MISS EVERS' REGRETS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amMISS EVERS' BOYSAt the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway. Call Ticket Central, (212) 279-4200. Through April 14. ---------- AMONG the most troubling events of 1930s America was the decision of government...
AMAZINGLY BAD 'GRACE'
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amSURVIVING GRACEAt the Union Square Theatre, 100 E. 17th St. Call Ticketmaster, (212) 307-4100. ------- OCCASIONALLY, there comes along something so tasteless, so preposterous that one can only gape in...
ACQUITTED COP VOWS TO FIGHT NYPD CHARGES
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amA high-ranking police officer who was cleared of state corruption charges vowed last night to keep fighting to restore his good name after the NYPD said it will file disciplinary...
KOOKY DOCS LET THIS NUT OUT OF CAN
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amPeter Troy should have been locked in the fruit factory a long time ago. He had been taken by cops to Nassau County Medical Center three times acting as crazy....
REWARDING TERROR - ARAFAT KILLS - AMERICA LISTENS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00am'AMERICA encourages and expects governments everywhere to help remove the terrorist parasites that threaten their own countries and peace of the world," President Bush declared this week. Unless, of course,...
NYPD PROBES NUMBERS GAME ON CRIME STATS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amA Bronx police precinct is under investigation by NYPD Internal Affairs for allegedly doctoring crime statistics - after The Post uncovered evidence that books were being cooked. Documents obtained by...
GOP BIDS TO WOO BACK SLICK RICK
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amSEN. Hillary Clinton's onetime nemesis - ex-Rep. Rick Lazio - sure is trying to drive a hard bargain with Republicans begging him to run for his old House seat on...
ROSIE HOPES TO KEEP HER KIDS ON STRAIGHT & NARROW
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amRosie O'Donnell is gay - but says she hopes her three adopted children won't be. "I think life is easier if you're straight," O'Donnell tells ABC's Diane Sawyer tonight in...
U.S. PINPOINTING NEW RATS' NESTS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. military forces have identified at least 12 new areas in Afghanistan where al Qaeda and Taliban die-hards are suspected of massing that could become targets for new...
COPS STEP UP EFFORT TO DEPORT ILLEGALS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amLaw-enforcement officials have begun tracking down illegal immigrants as part of a new nationwide program to deport them quickly, sources told The Post. The "alien absconder initiative," which was supposed...
MIKE'S WAR - THE MAYOR'S BATTLE PLAN FOR SAVING THE CITY'S SCHOOLS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amMike Bloomberg, the accidental mayor, arrived at City Hall without a mandate. Now he demands that his mayoralty be judged by progress in the public schools - a self-assigned mandate,...
CANNIBAL ROAMS FREE: SICKO UNSUPERVISED AT PSYCH HOME: PROSECUTOR
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amA cannibal who killed a teen and ate his genitals should be committed to a high-security mental facility instead of his current digs on Long Island - where he has...
SEX IN REHAB PUT DARRYL INTO LATEST STRAWBERRY JAM
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amFormer Yankee slugger Darryl Strawberry was bounced from a court-ordered drug-treatment program three days after he had sex with a female resident, according to a court report released yesterday. The...
BEEP BEGS BLUBBERY BOROUGH TO CUT CALS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amHERE is Marty Markowitz's dream: A juicy brisket-and-turkey sandwich piled high on twin rolls and a slice of his favorite Junior's cheesecake, the one with layers of fudge icing, chocolate...
BRONX BRIBE JUDGE WAS WIRED: TAPED TOP POL IN SCANDAL PROBE
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amA disgraced Bronx judge who was caught taking bribes and is now cooperating with prosecutors secretly wore a recording device taping conversations with a powerful assemblywoman and other targets of...
N.Y. TAXPAYERS' WELFARE VIAGRA BILL RISES TO $6M
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE ALBANY - New York taxpayers shelled out a whopping $6 million last year to buy Viagra for those who can't afford it, The Post has learned. The spending on...
BOMBER THIEF: I WAS WAY OFF BASE
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA, Fla. - Ruben Rivera knows what a colossal mistake he made when he took Derek Jeter's game glove and bat from the star shortstop's locker last week. Cut by...
PENTAGON PORN CHARGED TO TAXPAYERS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Pentagon employees are using government credit cards on everything from "adult entertainment" to LEGO toys - and hitting taxpayers with the bill, a new report yesterday showed. And...
SPLITSVILLE: 'SOPRANOS' STAR'S WIFE NEVER SAW IT COMING
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amJames Gandolfini's jilted wife, Marcy, is heartbroken after "The Sopranos" mob boss "blind-sided" her with divorce papers. "She has been crying all day," Marcy's lawyer, Norman Sheresky, told The Post....
NAME NAMES: CITY DAS DEMAND DETAILS ON 'SEX' PRIESTS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amAll but one of the city's district attorneys yesterday demanded that local Catholic dioceses turn over the names of priests accused of molesting kids, saying prosecutors - not the church...
ABUSED KID'S DAD: TELLING COPS WILL 'BREAK THE CYCLE'
March 14, 2002 | 5:00am'WHAT do you do when a kid comes in and says he's been raped by a priest?" the spokesman for the Brooklyn Roman Catholic Diocese was asked. "We do not...
GOTTI'S 'ARTFUL' BOOKIE NABBED
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amPlaytime's over for a slippery ex-bookie to John Gotti who was nabbed in Costa Rica yesterday - more than two months after he sneaked out of the United States to...
YATES FACES FATE IN DEATH PENALTY, USA
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amRussell Yates will beg for the life of his kid-killer wife today in a Texas county where juries have handed out the death penalty 71 percent of the time they...
BUSH KOS ISRAELI AID BID
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - The Bush administration is blocking an Israeli request for hundreds of millions of dollars in new aid, sources said yesterday - as the president made his sharpest criticism...
GAY-SOLIDARITY GOV RIVALS NIX ST. PAT'S
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amEXCLUSIVE Both Democratic candidates for governor will be skipping Saturday's St. Patrick's Day Parade because organizers won't allow a gay group to participate, The Post has learned. The decision by...
SUMMER SCHOOLS FACE BUDGET HEAT
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy, facing a half billion dollars in city budget cuts, will propose slashing in half the city's popular summer-school program for struggling students, Board of Education officials...
B'KLYN HS KIDS HIT WITH RASH
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amTwenty five students and staff at Fort Hamilton HS in Brooklyn have become the latest victims of rashes breaking out in schools - and the cause remains a mystery, authorities...
WELCH'S LIVE WIRE SIZZLES IN PRINT
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amAs the editor of the Harvard Business Review, Suzy Wetlaufer wrote a hypothetical tale that mirrors her real-life romance with ex-General Electric Chairman Jack Welch. And seven years earlier, Wetlaufer...
TEACHER HAD SEX WITH TEENAGE STUDENT WHILE DATING MOM: COPS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amA two-timing Bronx teacher had sex with one of his 15-year-old students while romancing her unsuspecting mom at the same time, cops said yesterday. Mark Levy, 31, a special-education teacher...
PROSECUTORS WILL SHOW NO MERCY
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amLong Island prosecutors said yesterday they may seek first-degree murder charges and the death penalty against accused Mass murderer Peter Troy. "We're considering it," said Fred Klein, head of the...
AN UNHOLY HIT LIST - CHURCH KILLER HAD MARKED 20 FOR DEATH: L.I. COPS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amThe deranged loner who gunned down a Long Island priest and a parishioner at Mass had at least 20 other church people in the cross hairs - on a "death...
NYPD RACE-PROFILE BAN ON THE BOOKS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amThe NYPD put it in writing yesterday - it will not tolerate racial profiling by New York's Finest. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly issued a written operations order to all cops...
FORGET OSAMA, SAYS BUSH - BUT LOOK OUT, SADDAM
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday the United States is "going to deal with" Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein - and that Osama bin Laden is an irrelevant "parasite." Bin Laden...
'99 COP-SLAY FUGITIVE BUSTED
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amA fugitive on the lam in Colombia was busted yesterday and charged with the 1999 murder of a retired NYPD detective. Pedro Cabrera, 41, of Queens, has been on the...
FADED CELEBS TAKE ONE MORE SHOT AT FAST BUCK
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amIN the good old days, disgraced celebrities got fat, got bad perms - and then faded into obscurity. Now, like roaches, you can't get rid of 'em. Unless you're living...
WATER WAY TO GO! CITY TO BOOST FERRY SERVICE
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amWorried that commuting hassles since Sept. 11 could drive businesses and workers from lower Manhattan, the Port Authority and the city have worked out a plan to boost ferry service...
JUDGE DELAYS SENTENCE IN HUSBAND-SLAY
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amJeffrey Richardson was supposed to be sentenced yesterday to 25 years to life in prison for killing his wife's first husband - so he could marry her. But Judge Anne...
4 IN RUNNING AS NEW TOP SCHOOLS PROBER
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amFour veteran prosecutors are candidates to succeed schools prober Ed Stancik, sources said yesterday. A top candidate to replace Stancik, who died on Tuesday, is Acting Schools Investigation Commissioner Regina...
BLOOMY SOOTHES SKITTISH GOP BIGS ON WTC AID
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Mayor Bloomberg yesterday tried to assure Republican congressional leaders that special aid to New York City won't be wasted. Bloomberg talked with several Republicans from Alabama, Oklahoma and...
TUB MOM FACES UPHILL FIGHT FOR LIFE
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amRussell Yates will beg for the life of his convicted tub-drowning wife today in a Texas county where jurors handed out the death penalty when offered the chance 71 percent...
CITY GOES HIGH-TECH TO 'NET NEW COPS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amThe NYPD is recruiting in cyberspace. The department on March 6 became the first city agency to accept job applications online (www.nyc.gov/NYPD) - and the move has so far yielded...
MAJOR OFFENSIVE PENTAGON PORN AND MORE CHARGED TO TAXPAYERS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Pentagon employees are using government credit cards on everything from "adult entertainment" to LEGO toys - and hitting taxpayers with the bill, a new report yesterday showed. And...
THE HEAT'$ ON SUMMER SCHOOLS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy, facing a half billion dollars in city budget cuts, will propose slashing in half the city's popular summer-school program for struggling students, Board of Education officials...
CITY TAPS FEDS TO HELP BOOST FERRY SERVICE
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amWorried that commuting hassles since Sept. 11 could drive businesses and workers from lower Manhattan, the Port Authority and the city have worked out a plan to boost ferry service...
ISRAELI PUSH OVERRUNS RAMALLAH
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - A top Palestinian security officer and an Italian journalist were killed yesterday as Israeli forces wound up a massive sweep with the capture of the main West Bank...
BLUESHIRTS CLOSE TO BURE DEAL
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amGlen Sather, offered Pavel Bure by the Panthers in exchange for Mike York, Igor Ulanov and Filip Novak, met in Manhattan yesterday with The Russian Rocket's agent in an attempt...
PROEHL VISITS GIANTS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amThe Giants, thus far dormant during the free-agency signing period, were visited yesterday by Ricky Proehl, the 34-year-old receiver who has caught passes for the Cardinals, Seahawks, Bears and most...
SURGERY GETS KVASHA STRAIGHTENED OUT
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amNot many people around the Islanders were rushing Oleg Kvasha back to the lineup after his knee surgery two weeks ago. "Nobody was pushing me," Kvasha said. "But I wanted...
MAYHEM'S MORE LIKE IT - DISTRACTIONS ABOUND AS JOHNNIES DEPART
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amEAST It wasn't exactly a hero's sendoff but St. John's is still getting the hang of being an NCAA Tournament team. With the band blaring and a gathering of fans...
MLB IGNORES WORSE OUTLAWS THAN RUBEN
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amIT'S COMFORTING to know that, in an era of rampant, unpunished lawlessness among our heroes of stage, screen and stadium, at least Major League Baseball knows where to draw the...
LEITER, D'AMICO BACK ON TRACK
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amMets 10 - Cardinals 7 It's still a day-to-day proposition, but it looks like the Mets' rotation won't skip another beat. Al Leiter didn't throw off a mound yesterday, but...
ARNOTT'S BACK IS A SORE SPOT
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amIt impacts everything, including the Devils' playoff hopes and trade deadline plans. With their season already in the balance, the Devils likely will have to survive with their No. 1...
TISCH: WE WANT SUPE IN 2007
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amGiants co-owner Bob Tisch said yesterday he is "very optimistic" that the 2007 Super Bowl will be played at Giants Stadium. "I know the commissioner [Paul Tagliabue] and his staff...
DEVILS JOIN HUNT FOR DARIUS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amWhile their offense has sputtered all season, sources continue to report that the Devils are trying to land a defenseman, with Darius Kasparaitis joining the list. The Devils have already...
NETS FAR FROM ROAD WARRIORS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amBOSTON - Another game. And another Judgment Day. The Nets ended their overall four-game losing streak, their longest this season. So the next chore on the "To Do" list was...
'OTHER' BLUE DEVILS DELIVER FOR COACH D
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amHOWIE Dickenman will likely never forget the day he visited the Central Connecticut State University dorm room of his daughter Erica to tell her he was going to take the...
COLLECTIBLES SALES PITCH ANGERS MO
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - Already very disappointed over the release of his cousin, Mariano Rivera was livid yesterday when told by The Post that a memorabilia company was using his name as...
WEBBER VISIT HAS CHANEY DREAMING
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amWe interrupt this nightmare that is the Knick season to dream: Imagine if Chris Webber had become a Knick? If instead of just walking into the Garden tonight, he was...
ESPN KOS KNIGHT PROFILE
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amESPN's undeclared "Bobby Knight Week" came to an abrupt halt yesterday when its heavily promoted "SportsCentury" profile on Knight was pulled at the last moment. The show was scheduled to...
BOSS KEEPS COOL DESPITE 4-12 MARK
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - George Steinbrenner has been walking around Legends Field with a "What, Me Worry?" expression all spring. Not even two Yankee losses yesterday that lowered the Bombers'...
MARQUETTE LIVING UP TO MCGUIRE'S LEGACY
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amEAST ST. LOUIS - March 28, 1977. Butch Lee and Bo Ellis were on a basketball court in Atlanta, putting the finishing touches on Marquette's first national title. Al McGuire...
HAMPTON ALWAYS A SEED OF DOUBT
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amEAST Chances are, you don't know him. But if you watched even a few minutes of last year's NCAA Tournament, chances are you'll remember him as an endearing reminder of...
BAN KOS EVANS TO JETS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amIt seemed curious last week that former Titans' defensive tackle Josh Evans would spend almost an entire week being wined, dined, entertained and even offered a four-year deal by the...
JASON'S RIB, THERE'S THE RUB
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amDevils 3 - Islanders 2 They valiantly closed ground on the Islanders, but the Devils' real battle now is just to make the playoffs, especially if their No. 1 center...
ALLEYNE POWERS RICE TO CROWN
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amCHSAA CHAMPIONSHIP: Rice 62 - All Hallows 57 For a team that lost just two games all season long, Rice had quite a few problems. First, Shagari Alleyne had a...
IRISH KNOW HOW TO WIN - SENIOR LEADERSHIP KEY TO ND HOPES
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amSOUTH GREENVILLE, S.C. - If there is a been-there, done-that air around Notre Dame, it's for good reason. The Fighting Irish have that rarest of combinations in college basketball these...
KENT STATE, WINTHROP SHOWING NO FEAR
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amNOTEBOOK GREENVILLE, S.C. - The games have yet to be played, but one thing is clear about the NCAA's South Region; the lower seeds are not lacking in confidence. Tenth-seeded...
THE BUZZ: HATTEN CAN MAKE DIFFERENCE
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amJudging by their meetings with their one common opponent - Tennessee - tomorrow night's first-round NCAA Tournament game in Washington between the eighth-seeded Wisconsin (18-12) and ninth-seeded St. John's (20-11)...
SHORT-HANDED RANGERS LOSE DVORAK, GAME
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amBruins 3 - Rangers 1 The Rangers began last night's game without Eric Lindros (foot), Mike York (flu), Michal Grosek (flu) and, of course, Mark Messier (shoulder surgery). They then...
HOLIK TALKS HIT THE ROCKS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amThe Devils' contract talks with Bobby Holik have hit a major snag, The Post has learned. Holik, a potential unrestricted free agent, appears uninterested in accepting a deal along the...
GET IT RIGHT: IT'S DREW GOODEN
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - Drew "Don't Call Me Dwight" Gooden let the world know last night what he thought of repeatedly being called by the troubled former Cy Young Award winner's...
NETS ARE HEARING CELTIC FOOTSTEPS
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amCeltics 97 - Nets 89 BOSTON - And now the number is three. Three, as in the Nets' lead over the rebuilt and charging Celtics in the Atlantic Division race....
GOOD NEWS: ISLES END POWER-PLAY FUNK
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amIslanders head coach Peter Laviolette said that when his team's power-play struggles were over and the "egg" finally broke, you would see four or five extra-man goals poured in. After...
CRIMSON TIDE SEEIN' RED: LAST YEAR'S SNUB HAS 'BAMA PRIMED FOR THE BIG DANCE
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amGREENVILLE, S.C. - The seeds for Alabama's stellar season were sown a year ago this week, on Selection Sunday 2001. It was the disappointment of one of the greatest sleights...
DARK HORSE KENT STATE GETTING RESPECT
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amSOUTH NOTEBOOK GREENVILLE, S.C. -There are some teams that upset-hunters look for come March. There are some programs that, despite what the seeds may say, the money in Vegas -and...
TEAM TUBBY'S HAD IT TOUGH
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - While playing point guard for his father, Saul Smith endured the taunts of angry Kentucky fans. Saul used up his eligibility and has been replaced at the...
CITY GAME TRYOUTS SET
March 14, 2002 | 5:00amThe first tryouts for the Sports Foundation City Game will be held on Sunday at 1 p.m. at John Jay College, which is located at 59th St. and 10th Ave....