April 28, 2002
IT'S NEW FLIP CITY : INVESTORS BUY UNBUILT APTS. FOR CHEAP, THEN SELL
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amA stealthy group of apartment buyers is making hundreds of thousands of dollars in the rising real estate market by signing onto newly announced projects and then reselling the units...
STAYING WATERPROOF : WATER UTILITIES HIT HARD BY DROUGHT & OTHER DOWNERS
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amDon't water your lawn. Don't wash your car. Don't run the ornamental fountain. And if you're looking for a quick buck this drought-ravaged summer, don't expect it from a water...
CHERTOFF OUT FOR BAD GUYS' BLOOD
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amMichael Chertoff, the nation's aggressive, hard-nosed top prosecutor readying for trial against scandalized accountants Arthur Andersen, is not a man to be trifled with. "Chertoff can be described as either...
HE'S NOT YOUR USUAL DESK JOCKEY
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amOne of the most powerful people in the fashion industry only works half-days. What Calvin Klein's co-founder, Chairman and CEO Barry Schwartz, does with the rest of his day as...
YET ANOTHER WINNING YEAR FOR VICTORY DIVERSIFIED FUND
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amVICTORY Diversified Stock fund is expensive, but it's worth it. You may pay a fee of 5.75 percent just to get in, plus annual expenses of 1.09 percent, but what...
BULL'S EYE
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amUPCOMING CEOS KNOCK OWN SKILLS Two-thirds of executives think their future leadership skills are no good. The Conference Board recently surveyed people who are in the ranks to be the...
WHAT I WATCH
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amKATE BURTON ACTRESS, "THE ELEPHANT MAN" "THE OSBOURNES." IT'S A SOURCE OF SUCH PLEASURE AND HILARITY. THE OSBOURNE FAMILY MIRRORS MY OWN. LOUISE PITRE ACTOR, "MAMA MIA" A&E'S "BIOGRAPHY." THE...
THE REAL REASON THEY FELL
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amTuesday night's edition of"Nova" Tuesday at 8 p.m. on Ch. 13 BACK in March, we TV critics were on the receiving end of a mountain of hype emanating from CBS...
CHECK INTO 'HOTEL'
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amA film festival grows in Brooklyn. Five years ago, Marco Ursino, a young filmmaker from Italy, began a modest fest here. Each year, the Williamsburg Film Festival got bigger and...
MAY THE FORCE GET LOST
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amCall me a purist, but whenever I visit an art museum, I expect to doze off halfway through the featured exhibit before moving on to the permanent collection for a...
ON STAGE, IT'S REVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe trouble with the theater today is that there are too many revivals, right? Wrong. First off, there aren't as many revivals on stage now as you might think. Taking...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: FERNANDA TAVARES
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amShe may be only 21 years old, but Fernanda Tavares is already a veteran of the fashion world. The raven-haired Brazilian bombshell has graced the covers of top magazines like...
'FULL' SPIN : EX-SITCOM DAD JOHN STAMOS DOES A RACY 'CABARET' TURN AND A NEW MTV SEX SERIES
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amJohn Stamos is best known as the wholesome TV dad from "Full House" who sported a monster mullet. So fans of the hit '80s sitcom are in for a surprise...
RUNNING THE GAUNTLET AT A SINGLES SOIREE
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amAn Internet millionaire, a neurosurgeon, an economics professor, a fabrics designer for Tommy Hilfiger - it's quite amazing who turns up at singles evenings in New York. Yes, these gatherings...
GALLAGHER'S PLAYS RACE CARD IN HONOR OF TRIPLE CROWN
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amFeel like horsing around? Trot on over to Gallagher's Steak House for a Triple Crown Power Lunch. The Midtown landmark (228 W. 52nd St., between Broadway and Eighth Avenue) celebrates...
SOBE IT : NEW YORKERS RIGHT AT HOME AT THESE MIAMI LOUNGES
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amIf you've been bar-hopping in Miami's South Beach lately, you might be forgiven for thinking you'd stepped off the sand and into New York. An astonishing number of Gotham-style lounges...
LEVYS STILL HOLD OUT HOPE OF FINDING DAUGHTER ALIVE
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amFor Susan and Bob Levy, the last 12 months have been the longest year of their lives. The round-the-clock media barrage, which they had hoped would unearth clues about their...
HOW TEACH HALTED GERMAN KILLER
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amA courageous teacher described how he put a stop to a deadly shooting spree at a German high school by confronting the teen gunman and locking him in a classroom....
AGING GRACIE GETTING A MAYORAL MAKEOVER
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amSay thank you, Gracie. The official mayoral mansion is getting a major face-lift thanks to the only mayor in 60 years who's opted not to live there. Mayor Bloomberg started...
CATTRALL SET TO SWEAR OFF 'SEX'
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe sexiest cat on "Sex and the City" is reportedly calling it quits. Kim Cattrall, who plays the sex-addicted Samantha on the show, told a British TV station that she's...
GWYNETH: FROM GLAM TO GOTH TO GRUNGE
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amOscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow has traded in her hot designer duds for tattered grunge - stepping out in public again with another unflattering look just weeks after freaking fans out...
3 DEAD IN CASINO SHOOTOUT
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amRival biker gangs yesterday turned a crowded Nevada casino into a shooting gallery, leaving three dead and 12 wounded as terrified gamblers ducked for cover, authorities said. The wild west-style...
JETS READY TO NAME NEW RADIO PLAY-BY-PLAY MAN
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amLater this week, the Jets will announce Eric Reid - who grew up in Massapequa - as their radio play-by-play voice, sources confirmed yesterday. Reid has called games for the...
RUMSFELD BRAVES WAR ZONE IN AFGHAN VISIT
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amRockets rained down on Kabul's airport just hours before Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Afghanistan for a daylong visit yesterday. International peacekeepers responsible for Kabul's security said it was...
ANOTHER LAID-BACK WEEKEND FOR MIKE
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg chose to enjoy yesterday's gorgeous, spring-like weather the way thousands of other New Yorkers did - by taking the day off. Bloomberg had no public events yesterday and...
100TH-BIRTHDAY GIFT: CITIZENSHIP
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amItalian-born Rosa Puccio (right) wants something special for her 100th birthday tomorrow: to be a U.S. citizen. "I love America," the Bronx resident, who immigrated to the United States in...
STEADY FREDDY STILL IN POLITICAL GAME
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amGONE is the city car that shuttled him around, and the army of aides who carried out his every command. Fernando Ferrer, who once ruled the Borough Hall on the...
BONNY LEE'S FAMILY SET TO SUE BLAKE
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The family of Robert Blake's murdered wife will sue the actor and accused killer tomorrow, just beating the deadline to file a civil complaint, a lawyer said...
COPS NAB 'STRANGLER' GRANDPA
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amA 65-year-old Manhattan man has been arrested in the strangulation murder of his elderly neighbor inside their Chelsea housing project, police said yesterday. Juan Colon is alleged to have strangled...
IRA 'EXPORTS' BOMB SKILLS
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe IRA has been giving the Palestinians a few lessons in terrorism, a British explosives expert working in the Jenin refugee camp has told a London newspaper. He found that...
EVIL INVADERS HAD NO MERCY : KILLERS LEAVE TRAIL OF BLOOD & HORROR
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amBlood-soaked sheets, beds and plastic figures of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are some of the all-too-painful images left in the wake of the Sabbath slaughter. The tears of the...
$NAPPISH MAGS HURL HURLEY TOT PIX ASIDE
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amBet Liz Hurley's wishing she hadn't gotten so greedy. The new mom was on the brink of peddling the first snaps of her baby for $1.4 million to one of...
LEFT EYE'S TRAGIC HERB QUEST : R&B 'DEATH TRIP' DIVA SOUGHT SPIRITUAL REBIRTH
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amLisa "Left Eye" Lopes often went to Honduras so she could get a jolt from an herbal-alternative practitioner and be spiritually reborn before working on an album. Lopes would stay...
KILLED IN HER CRADLE: TOT AMONG FOUR SLAIN AS DADS PRAYED
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amAn adorable 5-year-old Israeli girl was slaughtered in her bed yesterday - her mom looking on in horror as her daughter's blood spilled out across the covers. The girl, Danielle...
RAPE SUSPECT LINKED TO CASINO HEIST: COPS
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amAn alleged Bronx pimp suspected of playing a role in an Atlantic City casino heist was charged with rape and promoting prostitution last night after two underage prostitutes ratted him...
MY LI'L 'SOPRANO' IS A SOFTIE: MOM
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amHE plays the angry son of a Mafia boss on TV, but the real Robert Iler is no Soprano. Forget the headlines that portray the 17-year-old as a hit man...
SHOT COP WAS SAVED BY THE BELT
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amA rookie cop shot in a Brooklyn alley is talking, joking and looking forward to returning to full duty - thanks to the metal case that held his spare bullets....
ROYAL COED IN BIG SPLASH ON THIS SIDE OF POND
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amMeet the Ivy League coed who's put the beauty back into British royalty. She's Lady Gabriella "Ella" Windsor, a fetching, blond senior at prestigious Brown University in Rhode Island. Just...
VICTORIA GOTTI
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amDESPERATE? Three young teens set out on a mission to kill and the Palestinians label them "desperate." I say, try "brainwashed." The Palestinian parents of these boys betrayed them and...
TALI-THUGS REMAIN COOL ON THE GRILL
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. military interrogators have made little progress in squeezing information from the al Qaeda and Taliban detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay, with many of the accused terrorists...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amThree bandits broke in to a San Francisco coffee shop, freed an ATM from the bolts that held it to the floor and carried it off - for about a...
CONDIT IS DUCKING GRAND JURY
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - One year after the disappearance of Chandra Levy, Rep. Gary Condit remains an elusive witness in an ongoing grand jury probe of the case, The Post has learned....
FEDS PROBING HILL : BIZMAN: SHE LIED ON CAMPAIGN $$-RAISER
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amSenior Justice Department officials have traveled to Brazil twice to interview runaway business- man Peter F. Paul about his financial dealings with Bill and Hillary Clinton, The Post has learned....
HATRED HITTING HOME : NYU JEWS AND ARABS IN CLASH
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amArabs and Jews are at each other's throats - at New York University. Some say a mediator is needed to bring about peace at the downtown campus, just like in...
MING'S MUSCLE A BIG QUESTION FOR TEAMS
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amDuring the Chinese Basketball Association playoffs earlier this month, 7-6 center Yao Ming sat next to Shanghai Sharks teammate David Benoit on the plane and asked him his honest opinion:...
TURKEY SEASON LOOKS GOBBLEY-GOOD
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amA mild winter and a great wild turkey population have set the stage for good-to-excellent hunting in New York's spring gobbler season, which begins Wednesday. For the past several weeks,...
MLB, SELIG HOPING FOR WORST
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amI don't mean to go off on a rant here, but can the Expos' early success finally stop the Commissioner's Office hawks and their media lackeys from telling us about...
GERALD MCCLELLAN WAS ONCE ON TOP OF THE WORLD, NOW HE'S . . . THE FORGOTTEN CHAMPION
April 28, 2002 | 4:00am"HOW . . . long . . . I . . . was . . . a . . . champ . . . for, Teddy?" "About two years, G-Man....
HERE'S NHL IN A NUTSHELL: DIRTY HITS, AWFUL ZEBRAS
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amTHE NHL's ugliest week since the lockout featured wall-to-wall obstruction, horrible hockey, disgraceful officiating, absurd posturing, parades of shutouts, and finally, injuries caused by thugs on ice with no respect...
IT'S POST TIME ON THE WEB
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amHallelujah! Local golfers are now allowed to post their scores directly online through the Met Golf Association's website. Golfers with MGA handicaps are still encouraged to post scores at the...
RUN FOR ROSES UP FOR GRABS
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - A cure for the common cold? No problem. Peace in the Middle East? Easy as pie. Picking the winner of this year's Kentucky Derby? Now that's difficult. With...
SHOCKEY'S CATCHING ON QUICKLY
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amIt is natural for coaches, scouts and management to gush about top draft picks, mainly because they're the ones who selected the guy, so when he looks good, they look...
ISLES WILL HAVE TO DIG DEEP
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - Either the Islanders or the Leafs will push themselves through this series right into a brick wall. Whatever team is lucky enough to draw the winner in the...
MULLIN OVER A TEMPTING OFFER : WARRIORS WANT ST. JOHN'S STAR TO RUN TEAM
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - While the Grizzlies are only a Jerry West autograph away from attaching themselves to instant credibility for the first time in seven seasons and two countries, the Warriors...
O'NEAL SHOULDERS THE BLAME
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS-His ego might be bruised, but Jermaine O'Neal still believes his Pacers will defeat the Nets - despite being down two games to one in their best-of-five playoff series. "If...
AMAZIN'S: NAIL BITERS 'R' US
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amIT WAS ONLY fitting Pedro Astacio, like Shawn Estes, got close to a no-hitter. These are the Mets. Everything they do is close. They beat the Brewers 2-1 yesterday. Sure,...
PYRUS CAPTURES FORT MARCY 'CAP
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amPyrus set the pace and then held on determinedly in the stretch to win the Grade 3, $112,100 Fort Marcy Handicap by a neck at Aqueduct yesterday. Proud Man closed...
THE ERA OF DOMINANCE : ENDS WITH A WHIMPER PUNCHLESS DEVILS GO OUT QUIETLY
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amGAME 6 Hurricanes1 Devils0 Turn on the lights. The sun has set on the Era of the Devils. It was as inevitable as night follows day, once Lou Lamoriello ignored...
BAILEY MAY LAND KINANE'S MOUNT
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE -With Coolmore Stud's stable jockey Mick Kinane, the regular rider of Johannesburg, forced to miss the Kentucky Derby because of a suspension, the question of who will ride the...
TIME RIPE FOR KIDD TO REAP PLAYOFF FRUIT
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amWith Jason Kidd, there have been turnarounds that were simply staggering. He transformed Cal from Pac-10 doormat to an elite team. He has directed the Mavs, the Suns and now...
MCKAY: DEVILS MISLED ME
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amThe controversies now will swirl around Petr Sykora's ankle, whether he should have been playing all along. The upcoming surgery of ex-Devil Randy McKay provides a little insight into the...
NO CIGAR ONCE MORE : ASTACIO FOLLOWS ESTES, LOSES NO-NO IN SEVENTH
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amMets2 Brewers1 With the sky perfectly blue, Jeromy Burnitz looked at the scoreboard before the bottom of the fifth inning. "This is two days in a row," Burnitz thought to...
'SKY' ROMPS IN TRIAL RUN
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - It's been 11 years since the Grade 3, $100,000 Derby Trial, run at a mile on the opening day of Churchill Downs' spring meet, has produced a runner...
DEVS GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amTHIS is exactly what the Devils deserved, a first-round playoff loss in which they were shut out in their elimination game playing in front of a less than capacity crowd...
SCOTT: NET NOTES
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amIce-cold Kerry Kittles' delivered the shot with confidence. More importantly, he sent it with accuracy. After the ball settled through the rim with :22.5 left in Game 3, the Nets...
CHREBET SEEKS NEW JET DEAL
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amWayne Chrebet was standing at his locker passing out a picture of his five-month son Lukas and beaming. "He's got painful cheeks doesn't he? [It] looks like he's storing up...
PEDRO, PARKING LOT SET SHEA ON FIRE
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amThroughout the middle innings yesterday, a thick, black smoke billowed beyond the center-field wall. While Pedro Astacio nearly tossed a no-hitter, many heads rubber-necked as eight cars were damaged -...
WAIT 'TIL NEXT YEAR FOR PECA
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amIslander Country was rocked with the announcement yesterday that captain Michael Peca is lost for the rest of the season, and parts of next year, with a torn left ACL....
LATE PENALTY KICK CAUSES POWER OUTAGE
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amCharge2 Power1 Playing across the street from Nassau Coliseum, the New York Power failed to absorb the recent Islanders' playoff magic. The Power lost their home opener to Philadelphia last...
WELLS STILL WAITING ON FINE RULING
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amSEATTLE - David Wells got one fine reduced, but if he is hit with another there will be a lot of noise coming out of the Yankees' universe. After meeting...
IMPERFECT ENDING : LILLY LOSES NO-NO (AND THEN GAME) ON M'S ONLY HIT
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amSEATTLE - On the night Ted Lilly pitched the best game of his life - a complete-game one-hitter - he needed to be better to win. Relying on his herky-jerky...
MCCLINE'S FISTS HAVE LAST WORD VS. BRIGGS
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amShannon Briggs talked the talk. But Jameel "Big Time" McCline walked the walk, jabbed the jab and won a unanimous heavyweight decision last night in the Theater at The Garden....
THIRD PERSON, SINGULAR: YANKEES' 3-HOLE NOW DEREK'S ALONE
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Derek Jeter has hit at the top and the bottom of Joe Torre's order. Now the manager has the All-Star shortstop where he belongs: third. When Torre moved...
YANKS LOVE ROCKET LAUNCHER
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Nobody admits it because they don't want to be fined. However, there isn't a player in pinstripes who doesn't adore what Roger Clemens did Friday night at Safeco...
THE INSIDERS: THE POST TAKES YOU BEHIND THE LOCKER-ROOM DOORS
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amNO SUGAR-COATING IN CHOCOLATE THUNDER TELL-ALL Charley Rosen's captivating book, The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball, is heading into its second printing and...
BOXER TAKES LONG, HARD ROAD TO MSG
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amIn the ring, it doesn't matter if the guy in the other corner is black or white, righty or lefty, Arab or Jew. No fighter knows this better than Yuri...
SHOWING THEIR PRIDE: IN SPIRIT OF GEHRIG'S BRAVE LEGACY, SISTERS JOIN FIGHT AGAINST ALS
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amLou Gehrig would have loved Jenifer Estess. He would have loved her fighting spirit, her bond of family and her willingness to give to the very end so that someday...
STARS COME OUT IN TRIBUTE TO LOU
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amSopranos star James Gandolfini will read Lou Gehrig's farewell speech June 1 before the Yankees-Red Sox nationally televised (FOX) game at the Stadium. Celebrities also will read the speech at...
WHALEN VOWS TO REPLENISH POWER SUPPLY
April 28, 2002 | 4:00amWhen Sara Whalen punctured a lung and cracked her ribs in a collision during the All-Star Game in February, doctors feared the Power defender would miss the entire WUSA season....