June 22, 2002
DURST DODGES DEFAULT BID
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amFor the second time in two months, Douglas Durst, developer of the gleaming Conde Nast Tower that symbolizes the new Times Square, narrowly avoided falling into technical default on the...
DOWN IN THE DUMPS: DOW TUMBLES 177, S&P SLIPS BELOW 1,000
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amStocks plunged again, pushing the S&P 500 index under 1,000 - where it hasn't been since last September when the market was in a panic because of the terrorist attacks....
A FAIR SHARE : HAMPTONS HOUSE SURVIVAL: PLAY BY THE RULES
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amCASUAL sex, all-night parties and full-throttle arguments over food.Welcome to another weekend in a Hamptons share house. But an East Hampton summer share doesn't have to become an Amityville horror...
KID'S PLAY - AND LOTS OF IT - UNDER ONE BIG ROOF
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amWhere can a kid get a handle on a Honda, blow bubbles to her heart's content - or be a TV sportscaster? All three are possible in Garden City, which...
CIN-ERGY
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amTucked away amid a tract of concrete blah-ness on Eighth Avenue is a little drinking oasis called Cinnabar. Ostensibly an upscale Chinese restaurant, it has one of the most innovative...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amMy buddy Curley told me to stop writing this column and get a real job. Do you know how hard it is for me to find gainful employment when I'm...
THE 'FIN' CROWD: SEXY SIRENS PARADE THROUGH CONEY ISLAND TODAY
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amSome of the sultriest creatures of the deep will let it all hang out today as Coney Island's 20th annual Mermaid Parade kicks off - marking the official beginning of...
GUAC AND ROLL
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amCool avocado is made for summer meals: The lush green fruit adds a rich note to salads and sandwiches. Guacamole makes not only an insanely popular dip, but also a...
ARAFAT: ON 2ND THOUGHT, I LIKE BILL PLAN
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amYasser Arafat now says he's willing to accept a sweeping U.S. peace plan - the one proposed by President Clinton almost two years ago - it was reported yesterday. Arafat,...
BUDGET CRITICS PREDICT TAX HIKE
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amTHE ink's barely dry on the deal for the new city budget, but insiders are already taking bets on when it falls apart. The $42.3 billion spending plan contains so...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amDoctors in Kazakhstan have made a hairy discovery. A team of physicians in the former Soviet republic is baffled after finding a 6-year-old boy covered head-to-toe in apelike hair. The...
HARSH PENALTIES EYED FOR TRANSIT ATTACKS
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Spurred by a spate of attacks against bus drivers and other mass-transit workers, the state Legislature is set to approve a bill making any such assaults a felony,...
LIZZIE LOCKUP LOOK : HER LAWYER TAKES TOUR OF L.I. JAIL
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amOne of Lizzie Grubman's lawyers visited a Long Island jail to inspect the women's accommodations she would have if she accepted a possible 30-day jail sentence, a source told The...
GIULIANIS GET DIVORCED FROM THEIR $$
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe bad blood between Rudy Giuliani and estranged wife Donna Hanover is translating into big bucks for their lawyers, court papers show. Hanover's side has already racked up about $300,000...
ISRAELI TANK MISTAKENLY KILLS 3 KIDS AT MARKET
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel said yesterday its tanks mistakenly fired on a fruit and vegetable market in the West Bank, killing four Palestinians who thought a curfew had been lifted. Palestinian...
MIKE OPEN ON TERM LIMITS
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg said for the first time yesterday that he might be willing to "adjust" the city's term limits law. "I've always basically been in favor of term limits in...
HERO DUO SAVE MAN FROM RIVER
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amTwo quick-acting men dived into the East River yesterday to save a man who had jumped from the 59th Street Bridge in an apparent suicide attempt, police said. Hank Vought,...
'BREAKFAST OF HEROES' HAILED : HILLARY URGES CEREAL BIG TO HONOR BRAVEST, FINEST
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amMove over, Tiger. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday jumped into the petition drive to put real-life heroes - New York firefighters and cops - on the Wheaties cereal box famed...
TANKER TRUCKS FUEL LATEST TERROR FEARS
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe NYPD yesterday dispatched extra cops to Jewish neighborhoods after the FBI alerted police nationwide to watch out for terrorists who might use fuel trucks to strike synagogues or Jewish...
COPS EYE BURGLAR IN SLAY OF LADY, 95
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amCops have set their sights on a petty burglar as a possible suspect in the strangulation of a frail 95-year-old Manhattan woman found in the closet of her upper Manhattan...
PBS YANKS 9/11 SONG FROM SHOW
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amMusic legend Charlie Daniels dropped out of a Fourth of July TV special on public television after organizers refused to let him perform a song paying tribute to the victims...
LIBERTY MEDAL SHINES FOR HEROES' BOSSES
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amThere are many fighters in the city - and those who battle fire, sudden illness and crime are shining examples of those who deserve The Post's Liberty Medal Awards, their...
'DWI COP' SHOULD ROT IN PRISON: VICTIM'S DAD
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amBrooklyn prosecutors yesterday demanded the NYPD speed up its testing of DWI suspects, as the father of a motorcyclist allegedly run down by a drunken cop called for the suspect...
UTAH DRIFTER NABBED : KIDNAP PROBERS FIND HIM IN W.VA.
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe drifter wanted for questioning in the abduction of a 14-year-old Utah girl was caught yesterday after he checked himself into a West Virginia hospital for a drug overdose, federal...
SEX SUIT: BANK BIGS LIKE IT WAY TOO HOT
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amHow do Wall Street execs at Deutsche Bank liven up dull business meetings? By playing with scantily clad Marilyn Monroe impersonators, a disgruntled senior banker charges. Virginia Gambale, a managing...
FEDS PRESCRIBE CRIMINAL CHARGES FOR RITE AID 'FRAUD'
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amRite Aid execs have been charged with being all wrong. The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges of accounting fraud against Rite Aid's former CEO Martin Grass, former chief...
SHIRT FLAP AT PS GRADUATION
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amA 10-year-old Queens student, whose working mom got behind in the laundry, was barred from being on the stage with his graduation classmates because he wasn't wearing a white shirt....
COPS RUNNETH OVER IN BADGE BUST
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amAn angry motorist who used a fake badge to impersonate a cop pulled over the wrong taxi when the cabby turned out to be a real NYPD undercover officer, police...
WOMAN BEATEN, RAPED AFTER BAR PICKUP
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amA 21-year-old Manhattan woman was in critical condition yesterday from being slashed and raped after she and her roommate met a man in a West Village bar, police said. The...
U.S. SAYS IRAQ HAVEN FOR AL QAEDA
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amSome of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorists have fled to Iraq, but there's no sign that Saddam Hussein is setting up a safety zone for them, a U.S. official...
MIXED-RACE JURY PICKED FOR SCHWARZ
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amTen whites and two blacks were picked to hear the case against ex-cop Charles Schwarz yesterday, after lawyers on both sides accused each other of unfairly tampering with the jury's...
THE 'RAPIST' REV. : PRIEST COLLARED IN TEXAS ON B'KLYN ASSAULT CHARGE
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amA visiting priest from Nigeria was busted in Texas yesterday on charges of raping and sodomizing a woman two years ago while working at a Brooklyn church. Cyriacus Udegbulem, 38,...
POLS ROLL OUT PORK BARREL : HIGH-ON-HOG BUDGET BOOSTS PET PROJECTS
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe city may have a budget crisis, but City Council members are still doling out millions in "pork" for everything from a doll museum to a dog-owners association, it was...
FEDS OPPOSE SUITS VS. AIRLINES
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amFamilies of victims killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks who are suing the airlines are facing a government attempt to stymie their cases, The Post has learned. A letter...
HUNG JURY IN ST. JOHN'S SHOOTING
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amA Queens judge declared a mistrial yesterday after jurors deadlocked in the case of a man accused of shooting into a crowd and paralyzing a St. John's University football player....
DR. STRANGELOVE AXED FOR SEX WITH PATIENT
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe state Health Department yesterday revoked a Staten Island psychiatrist's license for having sexual contact with a patient he was treating for "hypersexuality." The department's board for professional conduct found...
MAYOR EYES SCHOOL BOSS CANDIDATES
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amCity Hall already has started to winnow down the list of candidates for new schools chancellor - just a little more than a week after Mayor Bloomberg won control of...
SUSPENDED: MARTHA'S BROKER ORDERED ON LEAVE
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amMerrill Lynch yesterday suspended splashy society stock jockey Peter Bacanovic, who sold ImClone shares for lifestyle guru Martha Stewart. Merrill acted against Bacanovic and his first-year brokerage assistant Douglas Faneuil,...
PILOT GRILLED IN RESERVOIR SCARE
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe pilot of a single-engine plane was questioned last night at a North Jersey airport, a day after a suspicious aircraft was spotted throwing something into a reservoir, authorities said....
COPS NAB 'MUGGER' OF OLD LADIES
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amCops have arrested a vicious bespectacled thug who had been roughing up and robbing elderly women in his Lower East Side building, officials said yesterday. Clemente Rivera, 33, allegedly stole...
BRONX BUS DRIVER'S SLAY TRIAL STARTS
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amVictor Vicenty, the struggling bus driver who shot and killed a notorious neighborhood thief last year, says he is "a Christian man, and I am devastated by this." Vicenty went...
CALIFORNIA HIGH ON GRASS FIREFIGHTING SCHEME
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amFour hundred goats have been hired to eat grass and weeds in California before it can catch fire, a report said yesterday. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has hired...
CHECK THIS AMAZIN' WIN
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amWith two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Mo Vaughn checked his swing. His initial reaction when he hit a soft grounder toward third - like everyone else surrounding...
THUMB JAMS UP GIAMBI
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Jason Giambi was a late scratch last night due to a jammed right thumb he suffered trying to block a pickoff throw by catcher Alberto Castillo Thursday...
LONG TEST FOR 'FEVER' IN PHIPPS
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amFormerly called the Hempstead, today's Grade 1, $300,000 Ogden Phipps Handicap for fillies and mares at Belmont Park was renamed this year in honor of the legendary turf titan who...
YOUNG, WILD AND WINNING : PADRE ROOKIE PEREZ BEWILDERS YANKS, WELLS IN SERIES OPENER
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amPadres9 Yankees1 SAN DIEGO - Hampered by a severe case of wildness, the youngest player in the big leagues still was able to beat the Yankees last night at Qualcomm...
LAST-PLACE POWER STILL CHARGED UP
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe Power's attitude and work ethic have vastly improved over the past month, but the team still finds itself locked in the basement without a key. The Power (2-7-1) have...
KNICKS WEIGH DRAFT OPTIONS
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe Knicks' consolation prize at No. 7 isn't a bad one - Camden combo guard Dajuan Wagner - but GM Scott Layden continues to have conversations with No. 5 Denver...
BIG TRADE COULD SPARK MOVES AT NHL DRAFT
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amTORONTO - Everyone here, it seems, is waiting for the first trade rather than the first pick in this afternoon's NHL Entry Draft. Thing is, the first trade just might...
PAIR OF BRUISES KEEP ROCKET IN HOLDING PATTERN
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - The condition of Roger Clemens' bruised right forearm has taken a backseat to the black and blue mark near his right kidney. "I was worried about that...
THIS BP PITCHER'S JUST A PHIL-IN
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amPhil Simms had a blast throwing a ball of a different sort yesterday. The quarterback who took the Giants to victory in Super Bowl XXI, was invited to throw early...
GRANT'S RETURN HITS ROAD BUMP
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amAiling Met reliever Grant Roberts threw 35 pitches off the mound yesterday - but the news wasn't great. Roberts, on the DL with a right rotator-cuff strain, is eligible to...
NEAR NO-NOS NOTHING NEW FOR TRACHSEL
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amSteve Trachsel knows about no-hitters -at least of the seven-inning variety. And he knows about near-misses. So even though the Met right-hander was perfect for 19 hitters Thursday night, he...
SECOND TO NONE AT THIRD: VENTURA MAKING POWERFUL CASE HE'S BIGGEST YANK ACQUISITION
June 22, 2002 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - When you consider the alternatives at third base between the time Scott Brosius retired and Robin Ventura was acquired, you can make a case that getting Ventura...