October 22, 2002
KEEP AN EYE ON THE BUBBLE IN THE U.S. HOUSING MARKET
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amNOW you can start worrying about the housing bubble. Housing prices are obviously too high in many parts of the country. And they are much too high in some places....
EARNINGS BOOST MARTS - DOW UP 215.84 FOR 7TH GAIN IN 8 SESSIONS
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amStrong profit news outweighed weak economic news in the minds of investors, and stocks rose for the seventh day of the last eight. It is the first time stocks have...
LAST PIECE OF 42ND ST. PUZZLE
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amAT long last, ground will be broken today on Times Square Plaza, Howard and Edward Milstein's $400 million office and retail tower at the southeast corner of Eighth Avenue and...
QUATTRONE LOOKS LIKE THE NEXT TARGET
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amAlthough CSFB's star tech banker, Frank Quattrone, was not named as a defendant in the administrative lawsuit filed by Massachusetts' top securities cop yesterday, insiders said the trouble's not over...
UBS WARBURG'S NEW 'SIMPLE' STOCK RATINGS PROVE TRICKY
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amUBS Warburg announced yesterday that it will join other brokerages in "simplifying" its stock ratings - but the firm's new system is anything but simple. The company intends to replace...
MASS. SUES CSFB OVER BAD ADVICE
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amMassachusetts regulators leveled a $1.9 million civil suit against Credit Suisse First Boston, charging the firm's research reports were used to support the shares of companies it took public in...
MARKETING MARTHA - AS CHARGES FLY, KMART PLANS MARTHA CHRISTMAS
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe government could be the Grinch that stole Christmas from Martha Stewart. While Kmart is banking on the domestic diva to lead holiday sales at its stores, news that the...
ROSIE TELLS HER SIDE IN COUNTERSUIT
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amRosie O'Donnell fired back. In legal filings made in New York State Supreme Court, the former funnywoman accuses former partner Gruner + Jahr USA and its CEO, Dan Brewster, of...
WEIDER BIDDING NARROWS
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amTHE auction for Weider Publications is heating up and appears to have topped the $300 million barrier in a difficult climate. Sources at the annual magazine pow-wow in Phoenix said...
VIVENDI HUSTLES TO CLOSE AUCTION, RAISE CASH
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amVivendi Universal rounded up bids for its giant publishing unit yesterday, moving one step closer to a key cash-raising sale to possibly counter a move by German phone company Vodafone...
FRENCH KISSES
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amAMOUR []The Music Box Theater, 229 W. 45th St. (212) 239-6200. ------------ Where are the parapluies of yesteryear? Michel Legrand - composer of that wonderful, bittersweet movie tear-jerker "The Umbrellas...
STARR REPORT
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amLeeza's 'Extra' incentive: Her mom Leeza Gibbons will only anchor "Extra" during sweeps (November, February and May) for now - and is establishing a foundation to help fund Alzheimer's research....
HEY, IT'S A LIVING . . .
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amPHOTOGRAPHER Nancy Rica Schiff admits she's never had any odd jobs of her own - a couple of stints teaching typing and shorthand at the Taylor Business Institute on 42nd...
PRIMO DONNAS
October 22, 2002 | 4:00am* THE DONNAS "Spend the Night" [] Atlantic Records With Rolling Stones chops and a Go-Go's attitude, San Francisco band the Donnas' "Spend the Night" is a fantastic tour through...
LINDA THOMPSON BETTER 'LATE' THAN NEVER
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amIT'S been 17 years since British folk-rock singer Linda Thompson's last solo album. She exited the music scene after divorcing legendary folk singer and guitarist Richard Thompson and developing an...
'PUSH' LEAVES $1M PUZZLE
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amTHE final episode of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's quirky drama series "Push, Nevada" airs in two days - but ABC still won't say how or exactly when it'll give...
CAB DUDE TOO RUDE; 'SOUTH PARK'S' TAXI FENDER RENDERING ON THE NOSE
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amNEW York City taxi officials have put the kibosh on those naughty "South Park" kids advertising on city taxicabs. As part of a pilot program with the Taxi and Limousine...
SWING AND A MISS AS BASEBALL GOES WEST
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amTHE all-California World Series is already behind in the count. After two exciting games, the audience for the Anaheim Angels-San Francisco Giants series is down 16 percent from the first...
LIGHTS OUT IN 'PROVIDENCE'
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amSAY goodbye to "Providence." NBC is cancelling the series, which premiered in January 1999, and will air a two-hour, tie-up-all-the-loose-ends finale Dec. 20 (8-10 p.m.). The Friday-night show, starring Melina...
RHEA OF SUNSHINE
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amTAKING over for Rosie O'Donnell wasn't easy for Caroline Rhea. The star of "Sabrina and the Teenage Witch" took countless red-eye flights - she's up to 1.4 million travel miles...
GOLD MINE: SOME CALL JOHANNESBURG A MUST-MISS: DAVID LANDSEL SAYS THEY'VE GOT IT ALL WRONG
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amIF contrast were prized as the most beautiful trait any city could possess, Johannesburg would surely be considered as one of the world's loveliest. Glittering shopping malls and Third World...
CONN. QUEST ; BETHEL'S A BLAST FROM THE PAST, SAYS HOMETOWN BOY ERIC LENKOWITZ
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amBETHEL hasn't changed. You can still pull up to the Sycamore Diner and have a thick, juicy burger, fries and a homemade root beer delivered to your car. You can...
BORDER RUN
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amQ: I'm headed to Phoenix, and would like to pick up some inexpensive prescription drugs. Which of the Mexican border towns is best? A: By virtue of location (within a...
'DEBBIE' DELIVERS: '70S PORN FLICK CLEANS UP ITS ACT FOR OFF-BROADWAY
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amTAKE a porn flick, remove the sex - and let everyone sing and dance and keep their clothes on. What have you got? "Debbie Does Dallas," a cheerful, nudity-free retooling...
WHERE TO?
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amNew Yorkers on the move Cynthia Engelker, 26 Market researcher - "A couple of weeks ago, I went to Bermuda and stayed at the Elbow Beach Club for five days....
WHEN IN LONDON... ORDER A DOUBLE, AND OTHER PUB TIPS FROM BRIDGET HARRISON
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amYOU may think that a bar is a bar, be it in London or New York. Not so. Here are some rules that even the most diehard drinkers should known...
GUNMAN: PAY OR I'LL KILL AGAIN - PHONE TIP LEADS TO NOTE TACKED ON TREE
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe Psycho Sniper says he wants blood money to end his terrifying murder spree - and he's opened a dialogue with cops to negotiate the payout. The Beltway sharpshooter made...
MARTHA'S FRAUD RAP - FEDS: WE'LL HIT YOU WITH INSIDER CHARGE
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amMartha Stewart's goose - and her stellar career as America's corporate queen of domesticity - could be cooked. The scandal-fueled smoke pouring from her kitchen erupted yesterday into a career-threatening...
L.I. RAP FOR 'HOT' PANTS & HOT HEAD
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amA Long Island man who stuffed a bottle of cologne and a salt-and-pepper shaker down the front of his pants while shopping was busted by an alert security guard who...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amIt made plenty of cents for Mark Horowitz to cash in his penny collection - he amassed $26,461 in the coins over 50 years. Horowitz, 53, of Homewood, Ill., began...
'DEAD END' JOBS ARE LOTS OF STRESS
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amIf you think your stressful job is killing you, you may be right. People whose work stresses them out double their risk of death from heart disease compared with those...
TEARS & LAUGHTER FOR FBI VICTIM
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amARLINGTON, Va. TWELVE candles flickered on the altar of the Mount Olivet Methodist Church here yesterday. They represented the 12 shots fired in ugly madness at innocents. And one of...
'JOGGER' DELAY UPROAR
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amA judge yesterday gave Manhattan prosecutors until Dec. 5 to wrap up their review of the 1989 Central Park jogger case, a deadline not close enough for the dozens of...
RUDY TO THE RESCUE IN JERSEY RACE
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani is going to bat for Republican Doug Forrester, who trails Democrat Frank Lautenberg by 5 points in the latest poll of the New Jersey Senate race....
DONNA'S 'NEW' SQUEEZE - CITY'S FORMER FIRST LADY HAS A SECOND GO WITH OLD BEAU
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amSO WHO is the new guy in Donna Hanover's life? Meet Ed Oster, 51, a California attorney who is not only the man who escorted Hanover to last night's Project...
SON OF SAM FEELS THE PAIN
October 22, 2002 | 4:00am"Son of Sam" fiend David Berkowitz says he, too, is being victimized by the Psycho Sniper, at least emotionally. "Since these shootings began, my life has become very difficult," Berkowitz...
'5' HIVE'S FEEBLE OUTCRY
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amTHINGS have changed in this city since 1989: Back then, a mob chanting, "No justice, no peace!" could be counted on to stop traffic, at the very least. Yesterday, the...
SUBWAY-SURFING TEEN KILLED IN BX.
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amA risky game of "subway surfing" turned deadly for an 18-year-old Bronx man, whose high-speed ride ended abruptly when he slammed into an overhead beam and tumbled to the tracks....
DURST SLAY TRIAL STAYS PUT
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amA Texas judge ruled yesterday that the murder trial of cross-dressing millionaire Robert Durst will remain in Galveston. But state District Judge Susan Criss granted a prosecution request to have...
SUPREMES OK DEATH FOR UNDER-18 KILLERS
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court yesterday allowed the continued execution of young killers, despite complaints from four justices who urged a halt to the "shameful practice." In a bitter 5-4...
MINORITIES HOLD THEIR OWN AT TOUGHER CUNY
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe City University of New York's new, stricter admission policy has not led to a dramatic reduction in its minority enrollment as some critics had predicted, new statistics obtained by...
'ADDICT' BOYFRIEND SOUGHT IN BROOKLYN STRANGLE
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman was found strangled and suffocated in her apartment yesterday, and cops are looking to speak to her boyfriend - an addict whose own mother wouldn't harbor him....
MCCALL 'SNIPES' AT GOV ON GUNS
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amCarl McCall yesterday brought the Beltway sniper attacks into the governor's race yesterday - charging that Gov. Pataki has failed to require ballistic fingerprinting for rifles. "It shouldn't take tragic...
N. KOREA TALK 'LEVEL' HEADED
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday said he'll try to raise U.S. relations with China "to a new level" as he works with North Korea's neighbors to peacefully pressure one of...
COP HAD TO USE FORCE: LAWYER
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amA Brooklyn cop accused of bashing an unruly suspect's face with his radio, causing a gash that required 17 stitches, was justified in using force, his defense lawyer said following...
LIZZIE'S 'KISS-AND-TATTLE' EX WANTS TO KISS AND MAKE UP
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amAfter turning on his ex-girlfriend and becoming the prosecution's star witness in the case against her, Andrew Sasson says he wants Lizzie Grubman to be his friend again - although...
GOV DASHES BLOOMY'S COMMUTER-TAX HOPES
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amGov. Pataki told Mayor Bloomberg yesterday in no uncertain terms that he can forget about a new commuter tax - no matter how desperate the city is for revenue to...
TERRORIST HELLFIRE - ROLLING CAR BOMB DESTROYS ISRAEL BUS, KILLING AT LEAST 14
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian homicide bombers drove an explosives-rigged jeep at a bus in northern Israel yesterday, turning the bus into a fireball that killed at least 14 people, including some...
LANDLORD A TOXIC TASKMASTER
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amA greedy Brooklyn landlord cut corners at the expense of his workers' health by having them remove asbestos with no training or protection, a jury has found. Marvin Rubenstein, 56,...
CELL BAN PANNED - THEATER PHONE RULE WOULDN'T WORK: CITY BIG
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amIf the City Council passes a law banning cell phones in theaters, there'll be no one to enforce it, a top city official warned yesterday. Christopher Ward, city commissioner of...
'COPYCAT' SLAYING DEVASTATES BX. KIN
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe heartsick wife of a slain Bronx cabby who was blown away by a possible Beltway-sniper copycat says the coldblooded murder has left her and her three kids shattered and...
LAKER FAKER GETS JAIL TIME
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A California man yesterday was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for pretending he was the son of L.A. Lakers owner Jerry Buss in a...
BUSH BARES RX FOR PRE$CRIPTIONS
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Moving to address an important Election Day issue, President Bush yesterday proposed a prescription-drug plan that he said would save Americans $3 billion a year. The proposal -...
KLEIN WANTS PUBLIC'S HELP
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein yesterday announced that he's launching a citywide campaign to gather public input on how to overhaul the school system. Klein said he would hold "town hall"...
BRONX DA TO PROBE FRAUD IN WILL CASE
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amBronx District Attorney Robert Johnson said yesterday his office will look into allegations of criminal wrongdoing stemming from a Post investigation into a 19-year-old estate fight. The probe found a...
WAR IS ON ICE: REPORT
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON -There's been a delay of two or three months in planning for war with Iraq, a report said last night - and Pentagon officials are now preparing for it...
SNIPING GRIPING CAN'T KEEP HESTON OFF-TARGET
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amSeemingly unfazed by calls for gun control spurred by the psycho sniper shootings in Maryland and Virginia, National Rifle Association President Charlton Heston showed off a rifle yesterday at a...
WHAT A DUMP: BARGAIN-BASEMENT WAKSAL UNLOADS HAMPTONS PAD
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amLike ImClone stock, the properties of the company's embattled former CEO are selling cut-rate. Sam Waksal, indicted for insider trading, has unloaded his oceanfront house in Sagaponack for $3.125 million...
BLOOMY'S ST. PAT'S SURPRISE
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg is set to pull another "Sopranos" - threatening to celebrate St. Patrick's Day at an Irish pub instead of at the parade - if organizers object to the...
3 COPS NABBED IN INSURANCE SCAM
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amThree city cops were busted on bribery and insurance-fraud charges yesterday for helping to rip off insurance companies by writing phony accident reports, police said. Officers Jennifer O'Malley, Susan Lavin...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Cops arrested 19 demonstrators yesterday in separate incidents at the United Nations and the U.S. Mission. The U.N. incident occurred around noon in the General Assembly Hall, when...
2 DANGLE ABOVE B'WAY FOR 30 MINS.
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amTwo construction workers plunged from a collapsing scaffold in Midtown yesterday morning - and precariously dangled upside down by safety ropes. They were finally rescued 30 minutes later, when firefighters...
COPS NABBED IN INSURE SCAM
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amThree city cops were busted for bribery and insurance fraud yesterday in allegedly helping to rip off insurance companies by writing phony accident reports, police said. Officers Jeanine O'Malley, Susan...
BUSH GIVES IRAQ DIPLOMACY ONE LAST TRY
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday said he's giving diplomacy one last chance against Saddam Hussein and could even accept letting Saddam stay in power if he disarms - but the...
HAMPTONS 'DUMP': IMCLONE FOUNDER UNLOADS BEACH HOUSE FOR $3M
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amLike ImClone stock, the properties of the company's embattled former CEO are selling at a cut-rate price. Sam Waksal, indicted for insider trading, has unloaded his oceanfront house in Sagaponack...
NO BAIL FOR ACCUSED LIE-WITNESS
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amMatthew Dowdy, the ex-con accused of misleading sniper task force cops with a bogus eyewitness account of one of the Beltway sharpshooter's fatal attacks, was denied bail at his arraignment...
PLENTY OF SELF MOTIVATION
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amAfter rushing for 324 yards on Saturday, Anthony Self had plenty of incentive to go out and celebrate. So what did the South Shore senior do? "I went right home...
BUT NEW-AGE CLASSIC NEVER FELT SO RIGHT
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - For once, we can take that "Kick Me" sign off the backside of Bud Selig. The nerdy commish has engineered exactly what he wants in this 98th...
KELLY RACING'S COMEBACK KID
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Racing's biggest comeback story of the year could have a fairy-tale ending Saturday if Evening Attire wins the $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic for his New...
FRANKEL RUNNERS TUNE UP
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amBREEDERS' CUP NOTEBOOK ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Hall-of-Fame trainer Bobby Frankel, whose 1-for-42 record in the Breeders' Cup is one of the most aberrant stats in racing, sent out his...
THANKS, VIKINGS - JET REPORT CARD
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amQUARTERBACKSChad Pennington (24-29, 324 yards, 1 TD) was just short of perfect, managing the game well and completing 15 passes to the WRs. He deserved his first win as a...
BUDDY'S ONE PROUD PAPA BELL
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Envy was overwhelmed by pride, regret by parental joy. "I would give up all my years in baseball just to see this for my son," Buddy Bell...
ISLES: WE'LL BE SPECIAL SOON
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amOperating with as much life as you find in a cemetery, the Islanders' power play and penalty kill have been deathly quiet and have coach Peter Laviolette dying for some...
WIN EARNS GANG GREEN DAY OF REST
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amJET NOTES At last - a "Victory Monday" for the Jets. It's been 45 days since the season began, and until yesterday, Jet players had not basked in a "Victory...
MUTOMBO: NETS FOCUS ON TEAM
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amByron Scott needed two seconds to offer unconditional agreement when team president Rod Thorn proposed the Nets' big summer trade of Keith Van Horn and Todd MacCulloch for Philadelphia's Dikembe...
LOSS IN PHILLY WOULD MAKE JINTS GO WILD
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amThey did not play over the weekend, but the Giants still lost ground on the Eagles. The Giants don't play this weekend, either, but come Monday night, they can again...
BIANCONE GANGS UP ON SKY MESA
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Two young colts who appear headed in opposite directions stepped onto the track at Arlington Park shortly after 9 a.m. yesterday to get some exercise for...
WATCH OUT FOR THESE GUYS
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amWITH merely seven sleepless nights left until the games count (relatively speaking), far be it from me to allow my faithless flock to get caught unaware. Thus, here's a sneak...
KIRBY: I'M INNOCENT
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amHall of Fame slugger Kirby Puckett declared yesterday he was "innocent" of the lurid sex allegations leveled against him. The former Twins center fielder is accused of dragging a woman...
MLB SAYS BALLS DON'T HAVE JUICE
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amGIANTS POSTPOURRI WORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK SAN FRANCISCO - There are plenty of healthy juice joints in California where you can load up on a fresh refreshing drink, but no juiced...
SPREE'S A BAN MAN - GM LAYDEN SLAPS LATRELL WITH 1-GAME SUSPENSION
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe relationship between Latrell Sprewell and Knicks management reached a new low yesterday when GM Scott Layden suspended his already-exiled swingman for one game for failing to adhere to the...
'HEADY' COUNSEL HAS CHAD SOARING
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amThe turning point for Chad Pennington came long before he finally realized his dream and was named the Jets' starting quarterback three weeks ago. It came at the end of...
D-RAYS TO MAKE BID TODAY FOR LOU
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amLou Piniella might become the next manager of the Devil Rays as early as today. And for the first time, Mets officials and major-league executives are facing the reality that...
ANGELS SING: KNOT SO FAST!
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Two games into the World Series, the Angels must still be considered the favorite even though three of the remaining five tilts will be played in Pac...
SPREWELL: I COULD RETURN IN 2 WEEKS
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amDespite his one-game suspension for failing to adhere to his rehab program, Latrell Sprewell said he's ahead of schedule in returning from a broken right pinkie. He said he could...
TAMPA SUMMIT MERITS YANK A-LIST
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The Yankee brass is set for a second round of meetings in Tampa this week and there is a strong possibility Joe Torre will join the organizational...
RANGERS RAP AFTER LOSS
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amLightning 4, Rangers 2 And on the seventh day, the Rangers closed the locker room doors and talked among themselves. "Whether it's the seventh game, 47th game or 80th game,...
GIANTS SAY THEY'RE GLAD TO BE PAC
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amGIANTS POSTPOURRI WORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK SAN FRANCISCO - No team loves its ballpark more than the Giants. They love the feel of Pac Bell Park, they love the closeness to...
DVORAK WINGS IT: DESPITE BENCHING, WON'T RUSH RECOVERY
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amRadek Dvorak knows that he can't rush himself or his reconstructed knee, no matter how fast he can skate. The winger knows something else, too: that it's waste of energy...
COUNTDOWN TO THE BREEDER'S CUP
October 22, 2002 | 4:00amRACE 4 - Sprint 3&UP; PURSE: $1 million. Distance: six furlongs. Post time: #:10 p.m. Bets: WPS, exacta, trifecta, superfecta, Pick 3 ANALYSIS: The Sprint is invariably the wildest, most...