June 15, 2002
GRID'S THE FIRST VICTIM AT REED
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amThe figures may say that the economy is slowly improving, but two of the biggest publishers in the business aren't reacting that way. Reed Elsevier shut down three and a...
TROUBLED PRIMEDIA SHAKES UP CONSUMER MAG. GROUP
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amNew York and Seventeen magazines just got a new group boss as parent company Primedia shook up its 150-title consumer magazine division. Former BusinessWeek publisher David Ferm was named to...
EMPIRE FOR SALE: SCHRAGER'S W. SIDE HOTELS TO GO ON BLOCK
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amIan Schrager, dinged with others by weakness in the New York hotel business, is putting his West Side Empire on the block. Schrager bought the Empire and the Barbizon for...
JUDGE RULES AGAINST ARTHUR ANDERSEN
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amIn a boon to prosecutors, the judge of the six-week-old Andersen trial told deadlocked jurors they could convict the former Big-Five accounting firm without agreeing on who led the shredding...
IS WHAM! BAM! PAMMIE...: TOO SICK TO KICK BUTT? HEPATITIS COULD HAVE ENDED 'VIP' ROLE
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amPAMELA Anderson's "VIP" has gone bust. Producer Columbia TriStar has axed the highly rated syndicated series after four seasons, citing financial considerations pertaining to Kirch, its cash-strapped German media partner....
BERGMAN DOES SCHILLER AT BAM
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amMARIA STUARTBAM Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn. BAM Ticket Services: (718) 636-4100. INGMAR Bergman's direction of Friedrich von Schiller's 1800 "Maria Stuart" with the Royal Dramatic Theatre...
BANNED FIGHTS BACK ON CABLE
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amTHE sport deemed so violent that former Mayor Rudy Giuliani banned matches from being held in New York City is coming to basic cable for the first time ever. A...
YOU CAN'T FOOL MOTHER NATURE
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amIT was difficult enough to walk Bethpage Black yesterday. Trying to play golf in such miserably wet conditions bordered on impossible, except, of course, for Tiger Woods, who seized control...
FATHER KNOWS BEST (MOSTLY) : A FEW GOOD MEN TELL US THEIR SECRETS
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amFatherhood is one of the wonders of life - and one of its mysteries. How do you guide your kids without occasionally driving them - and yourself - up the...
BOOMING INDUSTRY
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amLike sports, but not so keen on rubbing sweaty elbows with a swarm of liquored-up fans? Steer clear of ESPN Zone and head to the East Village, where the mellow...
... AND A FEW THINGS HE MIGHT LIKE
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amWhether he's the guy behind the deli counter or the lawyer at the courthouse, nothing says he's No. 1 like a Father's Day gift he can really appreciate. TOUGH-GUY DAD:...
STEAK-OUT
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amIt's hard to beat the primal pleasure of grilled steak. If dad's a meat-lover, this could be the Father's Day pick. With tips from Evan Lobel of Lobel's Prime Meats,...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amDinner Party Cheat Sheet was always fond of John Gotti. The former head of the Gambino family always made eating out fun - just ask Paul Castellano. HIGH WIRE The...
DE LA SOUL
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amSpanish Harlem-based artist James De La Vega has been making a name for himself for years with his Picasso-esque paintings and sidewalk chalk sketches. The 30-year-old artist is committed to...
FINAL SALUTE FOR EX-TOP COP WARD
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amHundreds of New York's Finest, friends and family filled St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday to pay their final respects to Benjamin Ward, the "tough but compassionate" former police commissioner. Ward, 75,...
B'KLYN SERIAL RAPIST JAILED FOR 40 YEARS
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amYesterday was Andy Josephs' turn to shake and cower. The Brooklyn man who went on a one-man rape and robbery spree last year shook and buried his face in his...
$TAMPS PUSHING ENVELOPE
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amOne of the rarest stamp sheets in American history goes up for auction tomorrow: a set of New York Stock Exchange commemorative stamps with their pictures printed upside down or...
COUNCIL SCHEMES TO SQUIRM A WAY OUT OF TERM-LIMITS LAW
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amTERM limits are supposed to send eight more City Council members packing next year - but they're aiming to change that. Sources said Speaker Gifford Miller, one of those who'll...
MIKE FLOATS PUBLIC-TOILET PLAN
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amFlush with his school-control victory, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday he'd like to tackle another longtime problem: public toilets. "I think it's a great idea," Bloomberg said on his weekly WABC...
HERE'S THE SLUG THAT PLUGGED LINDH
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - American Taliban John Walker Lindh's lawyers yesterday released a photo of a 21/2-inch bullet they say was lodged in his leg during three U.S. interrogations. The photo of...
DELI THUG HAMMERED IN CLOSING
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amClosing arguments finished yesterday in the Carnegie Deli Massacre case, with a prosecutor blasting accused mastermind Sean Salley as a remorseless, gun-slinging liar. Salley is lying when he claims his...
'MORE ATTACKS COMING' : OSAMA-LINKED GROUP IN PAKISTAN HITS U.S. TARGET
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A previously unknown Pakistani militant group claimed responsibility for yesterday's car bombing outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi and warned more attacks are on the way. But an...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amLucky for Tiger Woods, Tom Terrill isn't playing this year's U.S. Open. Terrill hit an amazing two holes-in-one during the same round on a Virginia Beach, Va., golf course this...
TIGER GETS NO RELIEF FROM FANS
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amFans at the U.S. Open have become obsessed with Tiger Woods - and a Port-A-John. A little Port-A-John for players that sits between the 14th and 15th holes has become...
HERE'S THE SCORE ON REAL-LIFE SIGN BOYS
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amThey say they have the best job on the course - but all week, they've been making fans snicker. Meet the real-life "sign boys." Officially known as the U.S. Open's...
TIGHTER EATERY SMOKING BAN DUE
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Smoking in all New York City restaurants will be banned under a sweeping new law expected to pass the state Legislature next week. The measure would supersede all...
WISEGUYS HAD SCAM THEY COULD BANK ON
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amTalk about full-service banking. A Bonanno-family underboss pleaded guilty to racketeering yesterday for running loan-sharking, money-laundering and gambling operations from a Long Island bank branch. Salvatore "The Chief" Vitale and...
MAYOR WANTS JOHN Q. PUBLIC'S IDEAS FOR SEPT. 11 ANNIVERSARY
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amGot any ideas for how the city should mark the one-year observance of the Sept. 11 attacks? Mayor Bloomberg wants to hear from you. The city has set up a...
THE IRRESISTIBLE LURE OF A LEGEND
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amA WOMAN, heavyset, stood in the Queens downpour for God-knows-how-long, just to place a small, stuffed bear into the hands of John Gotti's widow, Victoria. It wasn't just wiseguys or...
CLERIC PAL OF RUDY'S TO BE PROBED
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amNassau County prosecutors are investigating a Catholic priest who is one of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's best friends for allegedly molesting a teenage boy years ago. As a result, Monsignor...
DEVILS MAY ADD EX-HAB AS BURNS AIDE
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amThe old I-87 pipeline to New Jersey may be back in action. One former Montreal coach may bring another previous Habs mentor as his Devils assistant. New Devils coach Pat...
SEARCH FOR REMAINS IN DEUTSCHE BANK
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amWorkers searching for human remains have started removing debris in the Deutsche Bank building just south of Ground Zero - ending a tense dispute over access to the building, officials...
BEEPS PUT THE BITE ON MIKE FOR $1M IN ED. BOARD COSTS
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amThe city's borough presidents have asked Mayor Bloomberg to cough up $1 million to provide salaries and staffs for their appointees to the revamped Board of Education, The Post has...
BUBBA'S $9M BLATHER : SPEECH MONEY FOR EX-PREZ DETAILED IN HILL'S RECORDS
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amCall him "Dollar Bill" Clinton - the $9.2 million man. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's financial disclosure statements filed yesterday offer the first in-depth look at how her ex-president hubby raked...
FIEND MAKES FBI WANTED LIST
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amA pedophile Pied Piper who molested at least six girls after using ducks and Barbie games to lure them to his California home was placed yesterday on the FBI's 10...
PISTOL-WHIPPED IN 200G HEIST
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amThe NYPD Major Case Squad is looking for three hoods who pistol-whipped a Brooklyn man on a Midwood street and stole $200,000 in jewelry he was carrying. Police said Ezra...
GOP IN FLAP OVER DISK THAT SLIPPED
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amDemocrats were chortling yesterday about how the secret-loving Bush White House managed to lose a computer disk with the inside scoop on how Team Bush sees the fall elections. The...
FANS STRIKE OUT IN YANK-TV SUIT
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amYankee fans haven't made it off first base in their attempt to convince a federal judge to force Cablevision to carry Bombers games. Judge Thomas Platt yesterday dismissed the fans'...
CONGRESS PUTS STEWART IN PRESSURE COOKER
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amCongressional investigators are turning up the heat on household high priestess Martha Stewart, saying she's been slow in coughing up the goods they've requested. "We have made a verbal request...
DEMS FLEEING MESSY MARTHA : SENATORS CALL OFF FUND-RAISING BASH WITH TAINTED TRADER
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amMartha Stewart has turned radioactive for Democratic senators who have called off a gala fund-raiser that was supposed to be hosted by the troubled domestic diva. The $1,000-a-head political party...
CHOI WEATHERS BETHPAGE STORM
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amThe son of a rice farmer seemed right at home in the rain-drenched paddy that Bethpage Black became yesterday. On the day that South Korea did the U.S. soccer team...
LOOPHOLE STILL LETS MOLESTERS THROUGH
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amDALLAS. AFTER years of struggling with the issue of priests who sexually molest children, America's Catholic bishops still can't get it completely right. The policy they approved yesterday to remove...
3 CHINESE NABBED AS TERROR SUSPECTS
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amThree Chinese nationals said to be Muslim extremists were arrested last week in Pakistan for plotting to blow up American embassies in Khazakstan and Kyrgystan, it was reported last night....
GANGLAND GALA AT GOTTI GRAVE : 300-CAR MOTORCADE, 10,000 MOURNERS EXPECTED AT BURIAL
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amDapper Don John Gotti will be buried today with all the pomp and circumstance accorded a head of state - or a kingpin. The bronze casket carrying his body -...
HUMAN TORSO FOUND IN ALLEY
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amSanitation workers made a grisly discovery in a Brooklyn alley yesterday - a human torso stuffed in a black garbage bag, police said. The men were cleaning the alleyway, located...
FAMILY'S EULOGY FOR A 'WARRIOR'
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amON THE last night they'd spend with their father, the Gotti family poured their hearts out - in poem, in letters and a eulogy delivered by John Gotti's visibly shaken...
BISHOPS IN BALANCING ACT : PERV-BOOT RULE WON'T PUSH ZERO TOLERANCE
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amPU.S. Catholic bishops played Solomon yesterday by approving a national policy to bar child-molester priests from working as clergy, but not to expel them from the priesthood. "From this day...
JOE TO ROG: JUST PITCH YOUR GAME
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amSubscribing to the mindset that what you can't control isn't worth stressing over, Joe Torre is more concerned with what Roger Clemens does on the mound today instead of what...
SHUG OK AFTER SURGERY
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amTrainer Shug McGaughey is recuperating well following triple bypass heart surgery Thursday at Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, according to his top assistant, Buzz Tenney. "Shug's doing just fine,"...
KNICKS TO LOOK AT WILCOX
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amThe Knicks wined and dined Maryland's Chris Wilcox last night, bringing him to The Palm restaurant before his big show today at the Garden. Don Chaney, Knicks GM Scott Layden...
'SUPER' JOB AT BETHPAGE
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amWhen I answered my cell phone at about 2:45 yesterday afternoon, the voice on the other end sounded like a frantic pet owner searching for lost Sparky. "Who's this?" asked...
PETTITTE PASSES HIS FIRST TEST
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amIf you judge the shape of Andy Pettitte's left elbow by the amount of pitches he threw at the Mets last night, then Pettitte's hinge is OK. Of course, he...
U.S. IS BACK IN THE HUNT : AMERICANS REACH ROUND TWO DESPITE POUNDING FROM POLES
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amGROUP D Poland3 USA1 The U.S. soccer team owes South Korea its thanks. Or is that Kamsa-Hamnida? Forget about backing in, this was a stumbling, bumbling headlong fall into the...
TIGER TAKES OVER AT WET, WILD BETHPAGE
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amLet the Grand Slam talk gain momentum. Load up the private jet. It's onward to Muirfield and the British Open for the third leg of the Slam. The 102nd U.S....
BLACK LEAVES 'EM BLUE : BAFFLED GOLFERS GIVE TRYING COURSE AN 'F'
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amIt's pretty difficult to tick off Nick Price. He's might be one of the most affable professional athletes around. But yesterday, after enduing what he felt was an unfair challenge...
WEATHER MAKES DAY 2 A NIGHTMARE
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amIf you only get one chance to make a first impression, then Bethpage Black's introduction to the world's best golfers was downright rude on Thursday. Only six players broke par...
METROS HOPING TO DUST THE RUST
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amA three-week layoff, the presence of the World Cup and several player movements have threatened to derail the Metro- Stars' season. Mired in a six-game winless streak (0-4-2) , the...
PADDY MAKES SPLASH IN SOGGY 2ND ROUND
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amThe Emerald Isle didn't get that way from drought. But Dubliner Padraig Harrington says Irish rain isn't the reason he was able to handle the torrents that brought the U.S....
WATSON : WARNINGS WERE OK
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amThe last Met a Yankee pitcher would want to hit is Jeromy Burnitz. He entered last night batting .197 and by the time he came up in the fifth inning...
'INK', CONGAREE AT FOUR-FRONT
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amHorse of the Year Point Given and Kentucky Derby winner Monarchos, last season's top-gun 3-year-olds, have long since retired to stud. But today the colts that finished 2-3 in the...
BEST REVENGE: DON'T BEAN ROG - BEAT HIM!
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amWHATEVER hurting the Mets inflict - if any - on Roger Clemens today cannot equal what the Yankees put them through last night. For the home team, Shea became the...
SERGIO SAYS TIGER WAS GIVEN BREAK
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amSergio Garcia's one-man Tiger hunt is in full bore. Garcia, considered the one young player in golf who can challenge Tiger Woods for supremacy, took aim at the king of...
AZINGER CLAIMS CAN BE CAUGHT
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amPaul Azinger might be the only person in the free world who believes it, but he declared the U.S. Open far from over despite Tiger Woods' nearly flawless record when...
WILPON WANTS WINS INSTEAD OF RETALIATION
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amWith the Mets heading into this weekend one game under .500, co-owner Fred Wilpon is interested in wins, not retaliation. "The only thing that matters is winning the game," Wilpon...
PIAZZA-CLEMENS FLAP NO SURPRISE TO PODRES
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amJohnny Podres was raised in an era when Sal Maglie routinely threw at batters and was a teammate of Don Drysdale, one of the most intimidating pitchers in history. So...
MO LOOKS FORWARD TO LEARNING FROM CHAMBLISS
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mo Vaughn said he was looking forward to working with new Mets hitting coach Chris Chambliss, although Vaughn's personal guru, Mike Easler, wasn't even interviewed or considered seriously...
UMP'S REACTION OFF TARGET
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amTHE easiest out in town stood at the plate with two outs, his team leading by a pair of runs, a runner on first base. The count was one ball...
EX-AMAZIN'S DON'T EXPECT MORE FIREWORKS
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amWhen Benny Agbayani wakes up in his Denver home today, he will turn on Fox. Agbayani wants to see what will happen when Roger Clemens pitches at Shea. Before watching,...
VENTURA HOMER DERAILS METS
June 15, 2002 | 4:00am10 Innings Yankees 4 Mets 2 Just in case the Mets hadn't noticed, Robin Ventura proved last night there is life left in his bat. Ventura, who has taken the...
NEXT STOP: ROG AND MIKE SHOW: JOE TO EDGY ROCKET: JUST PITCH YOUR GAME
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amSubscribing to the mindset that what you can't control isn't worth stressing over, Joe Torre is more concerned with what Roger Clemens does on the mound today instead of what...
FELLER: PAYBACK'S OK, HEAD-HUNTING'S BUSH LEAGUE
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amRAPID Robert Feller, Hall of Fame pitcher, World War II hero, living legend, old-time country hardball player, takes the pulse of the modern sports world daily. Once I identified myself...
SUBWAY SERIES DRAMA AS CLEMENS STEPS TO PLATE
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amAncient history or unfinished business? It's almost impossible to predict what's going to transpire this afternoon when Roger Clemens' turn in the batting order comes up. Will Shawn Estes drill...
CHOI JOYFUL AFTER WEATHERING STORM
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amThe son of a rice farmer seemed right at home in the rain-drenched paddy that Bethpage Black became yesterday. On the day that South Korea did the U.S. soccer team...
GARCIA: TIGER GETS THE BREAKS
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amSergio Garcia's one-man Tiger hunt is in full bore. Garcia, considered the one young player in golf who can challenge Tiger Woods for supremacy, took aim at the king of...
METS CAUGHT IN A ROCKET DILEMMA
June 15, 2002 | 4:00amAS TEMPTING as the battle is - and is it tempting - the Mets must keep their focus on the war. Or else surrender may be near. This is not...