May 29, 2003
NYSE BOARD IS STARTING TO WORRY ABOUT GRASSO'S FUTURE
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amTHE NYSE's board of directors is apparently getting nervous. I'm told by a very reliable source that at least one director recently asked Chairman Dick Grasso if he had a...
NEW YORK RENTERS GIDDY AT APT. GLUT
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amSo many Manhattan rental apartments will be coming on the market in the next three years that developers are worried they won't be able to command the same lofty prices...
$90K RIPOFF CLAIM EMERGES DURING WAKSAL COURT DATE
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amDisgraced entrepreneur Sam Waksal ripped off a shareholder in his biotech company ImClone Systems to the tune of $90,000 nearly two decades ago, prosecutors allege. That claim - which Waksal...
'TWEEN RETAILER GOES DISCOUNT
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amChalk another one up for the discounters. Too Inc., a retailer whose stores for young girls are located primarily in suburban malls, said yesterday that it was packing up one...
MEN'S FITNESS TO MOVE FROM L.A. TO BIG APPLE
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amMen's Fitness wants to flex some muscle and will soon be dashing across the country from Los Angeles to a new home in the Big Apple. It's unclear how many...
DOLLAR DUMPED BY GOLD DIGGERS
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amA touch of gold fever is sweeping the world, and could worsen into a deadly allergy to the dollar. Some investors think gold is ready to hit $400 an ounce...
BIG BOARD BASHED BY NASDAQ, INSTINET
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amTrying to pry business away from the embattled New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market e-mailed big investors, telling them they could trade faster and more quietly on Nasdaq...
ICAHN IS DUMPING HIS 6M VISX SHARES
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amAfter months of pitching laser eye-surgery firm Visx as a takeover candidate, investor Carl Icahn is abruptly dumping his entire stake in the company. Icahn, the largest shareholder of the...
DOLLAR BEING DUMPED BY GOLD DIGGERS
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amA touch of gold fever is sweeping the world, and could worsen into a deadly allergy to the dollar. Some investors think gold is ready to hit $400 an ounce...
SHOWS METAL
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amMETAL is back at the top of the charts, but Marilyn Manson is already old news. His"Golden Age of Grotesque" tumbled from No. 1 to No. 21. In his place,...
PLAYMATE POSE JUST ONE FOR THE 'ROAD'
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amMARY Beth Decker, the sexy Texan from the cast of the latest season of "Road Rules," has a Playboy past. About a month before Decker spent weeks traveling through Fiji,...
NETWORKS SWITCH VOTE GETTERS
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amTHE Associated Press will be the official vote counter for the TV networks and cable-news channels during the 2004 election after the old agency, Voter News Service, was disbanded following...
'IDOL' HATE STUNS STAR - E-MAIL ATTACK ON 'VIEW' CO-HOST
May 29, 2003 | 4:00am'THE View" co-host Star Jones says she's received hundreds of hateful e-mails for her on-air support of "American Idol 2" winner Ruben Studdard. "I have to tell you, being on...
KICKING UP YOUR HEELS ON A SHOESTRING
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amYOU may be too strapped for cash to shell out $100 for a theater ticket, but there are plenty of great entertainment bargains in New York City.MOVIES All movies, all...
THE BOOK CLUBS THAT ATE MANHATTAN!
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amIN one Manhattan book club, all members and book choices must be approved by a self-appointed leader, known - not exactly affectionately - as the "Book Nazi." If a member...
RAISING CAINE : BRIT STAR FLATTERED BY CAPER COPIES
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amAt 70, Oscar winner Michael Caine is as hip as ever - and so are those super-stylish British heist movies that first made his name back in the '60s. Over...
STARR REPORT
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amLeslie's a 'Prowl' gal on new Metro show Leslie Gold, Q-104's "Radio Chick," is branching out into television. "The Radio Chick on the Prowl" kicks off June 13 on Metro...
FAST LANE TO A BIG, FAT FIZZLER
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amNATHAN Lane's TV hopes have once again been derailed - this time by a big, fat Greek phenomenon. CBS - and Lane - once had high hopes for Lane's latest...
INDULGE ME, I'M FROM HOLLYWOOD
May 29, 2003 | 4:00am"Out of Order" [Zero stars] Sunday night at 10 on Showtime ---- WHAT would you get if David Mamet and Ingmar Bergman were TV writers and collaborated on a cable...
NYC IS A FRUGAL BUFFET: YOU'LL FIND BARGAINS ALL OVER TOWN
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amLIKE everything else, even the economic downturn has its up side. If you're still working and saving, you've never had it so good. But even if you've just been pink-...
FDNY KIN PLEAD FOR OWN 9/11 TRIBUTE
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amDozens of firefighters and their relatives made an emotional plea yesterday to give the fallen rescue workers special recognition in a Ground Zero memorial. "If it wasn't for them, you'd...
UTILITY $OAKED FEDS: STAFF - WORKERS SAY WATER BIZ RIPPED OFF 9/11 FUND
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amA Westchester water-utilities giant ordered workers to falsify their timesheets to make it look like they did security-assessment work to justify a post-Sept. 11 federal grant, the employees and their...
STRIP-CLUB HS COACH BARES BIG-BUCK SUITS
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amA veteran Long Island high-school baseball coach yesterday filed a $10 million lawsuit against two parents of his players - claiming they conspired to destroy his career because their sons...
BUSH MAKES THE CUT - INKS DEAL TO PROVIDE $350B IN TAX RELIEF
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday added $350 billion worth of "fuel" to America's economy, signing one of the largest tax cuts in the nation's history with a promise that it...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amQUEENS * A pistol-packing thug was arrested yesterday after a cop fired at him during an encounter in a Bellerose apartment building, police said. Ralph Gonzalez, 25, got into a...
GANG-RAPE SUSPECTS ENTER PLEA
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe five suspects in the heinous gang rape and beating of a woman in Flushing Meadows just days before Christmas last year pleaded not guilty in court yesterday. Speaking through...
MIKE WANTS JUDICIAL CLEAN-UP
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amIn a thinly veiled swipe at Brooklyn Democratic boss Clarence Norman, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday called on party leaders to "clean house" to fix the tainted judicial-nomination process. In a speech...
ANOTHER TIMES SCRIBE FEELS HEAT
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amNew York Times columnist Maureen Dowd appears to be the latest star in the galaxy of executive editor Howell Raines to come under fire. Outraged critics charged ellipses inserted into...
POLS PROBE DOUBLE-DIP STATE POST FOR GOV PAL
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Three Assembly committees yesterday began probing the hiring of Gov. Pataki's former bodyguard in a state job providing $220,000 annually in special pension and salary benefits, The Post...
SMOKE-BAN TWEAK BID
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amAssembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday raised the possibility of only a "very limited" modification to the statewide smoking ban - but the change would have virtually no impact in New...
COPS GET A KICK IN BRASS
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Raymond Kelly ordered a major shakeup of the department's upper ranks yesterday, transferring the veteran commander of the Special Operations Division whose unit led a botched raid that...
THE ODD COUPLE: JETER & GEORGE MOCK THEIR FEUD IN NEW AD
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amIt would be cuter if the Yankees were still playing good baseball. But with the Bronx Bombers in the midst of another George Steinbrenner storm thanks to their sloppy play,...
THEY'RE ROBBING THE SHIRT OFF MY LITTLE KID'S BACK
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amIF ONLY my kid would just stop growing. They've done it. The bandits in your City Council yesterday joined forces with the sharks in Albany, and the Boston-bred dilettante who...
TWIN MIDEAST SUMMITS FOR BUSH
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amPresident Bush will take his biggest plunge into Mideast diplomacy next week when he attends two summits, including a joint meeting with the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers. Even before...
CRUEL TWIST: SELF-DEFENSE SLAYER MAY FACE DEPORTATION
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amA HARLEM grocery clerk-turned-vigilante could face an even greater opponent if he is convicted of gun charges, the U.S. government said. José Acosta, 69, who has been a legal resident...
JETS $ORE & JEALOUS OF GIANTS
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe J-E-T-S say they aren't getting any R-E-S-P-E-C-T from Giants Stadium. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Gang Green say the home of Big Blue treats them like third-class...
'GODZILLA' ATTRACTS LEGIONS OF JAPANESE
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amHe may be in a hitting slump, but Yankee slugger Hideki Matsui is an all-star when it comes to luring Japanese tourists to New York. Cristyne Nicholas, president of NYC...
BABY, HE'S A RICH MAN: PAUL & HEATHER DUE
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amPaul McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills, want you to know a secret - they're going to have a baby. The former Beatle, 60, and his second wife, Heather, 35,...
BIG TIPPER RUDY GIVES GRACIE 50G
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amFormer Mayor Rudy Giuliani paid a hefty price to get married at Gracie mansion: $50,000. "The mayor contributed $50,000 to the Gracie Mansion Conservancy, and he did so with pleasure,"...
COPS MAKING IT HARDER TO KEEP GUNS IN STORES
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe NYPD has made it increasingly tough for Big Apple businessmen to legally own a pistol here, according to department statistics and handgun experts. Business owners are generally entitled to...
SPECIAL-ED 'EVALUATORS' ORDERED BACK INTO CLASSROOM
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein has ordered 1,000 teachers into the classroom in the fall after eliminating their desk jobs as "education evaluators" of disabled students. The former full-time evaluators will...
CAR-BOMB SUSPECT IN DENIAL
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amA man charged with planting a pipe bomb in a cop's car pleaded not guilty yesterday at his arraignment in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Andrasan Scott, 29, entered his plea before...
CITY MIGHT SOON REHIRE SANITMEN
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe city is spending $2 million in overtime to replace 515 sanitation workers who were laid off 12 days ago - and it may soon have to hire some of...
SAUDIS BUST CHIEF RIYADH BOMB THUG
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia has arrested the mastermind of the deadly suicide bombings in Riyadh along with four other al Qaeda-connected fanatics in a series of raids this week, it...
B'KLYN JUDGE RAPS FDNY ON NOTICE OF CLOSING
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn judge ruled yesterday that the FDNY gave "insufficient" notice to a local community board about the closing of a Queens firehouse - but he did not order it...
FEDS REST ON 'HONEST' MAFIA
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amFour rats who testified against alleged members of the DeCavalcante crime family are "telling the truth," a prosecutor said yesterday, urging jurors to dismiss claims that murderous tales about the...
9/11 MADE ME DO IT: LADY ROBBER GAVE TELLERS SOB STORY: FEDS
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amA female bandit on two-day bank-robbery spree blamed her one-woman crime wave on Sept. 11, telling one bank worker she lost a loved one in the World Trade Center attacks,...
CITY SALES-TAX CHAOS - HIKE WINS COUNCIL OK, BUT FOR WHEN?
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe City Council approved the sales-tax hike yesterday, but sparked massive confusion about when the increase will go into effect. Retailers and city officials had wanted the higher city rate...
JURY NAILS 1988 COP-KILL DRUG DUO
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amA Manhattan jury took just six hours yesterday to convict two men in the 1988 murder of a cop during a botched drug robbery. Pedro Almonte, 51, and Jose Fernandez,...
DIALLO'S DAD AT ZONGO PROTEST
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amMore than 100 protesters, including Amadou Diallo's father, gathered last night at a Chelsea warehouse to demand an independent prosecutor be appointed to probe last week's police shooting death of...
MOM DIES DURING BX. SCHOOL FIGHT
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amA mother died of an apparent heart attack yesterday while trying to break up a fight between her daughter and another girl in the yard of a Bronx middle school,...
MORE PILL POPPERS AT SCHOOL
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amTwo Brooklyn elementary school students swallowed antidepressant pills they found while rummaging through their teacher's purse yesterday - the second time in two days city students ingested prescription drugs in...
'HONEST' MAFIA TURNCOATS
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amFour rats who testified against alleged members of the DeCavalcante crime family are "telling the truth," a prosecutor said yesterday, urging jurors to dismiss claims that murderous tales about the...
CAR-BOMB SUSPECT DENIES PIPE SCHEME
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amA man charged with planting a pipe bomb in a cop's car pleaded not guilty yesterday when he was arraigned in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Andrasan Scott, 29, entered his plea...
GAY RAP VS. COP: CUFFED SUSPECT CLAIMS [[CD5;KA-2]]SEXUAL HARASSMENT
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amA Virginia man charges he was repeatedly hit on and sexually harassed by a detective who arrested him on puffed-up charges. In a $1.2 million Manhattan federal court lawsuit, George...
OOPS! 'RAT' IN PEN WITH MOB BOSS
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amAn alleged mob capo who is considering singing for the feds yesterday found himself caged with the man he likely fears the most - reputed Bonanno boss Joseph Massino -...
CLASSROOM EXTRA: THE VILLAGE IN THE PARK
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe land that became the citys communal playground was home to Manhattans first community of African-American property owners Seneca Village. Before Harlem was known as the Mecca of the African-American...
ZIM TAKES BITE OF BIG CHEESE - ANGRY COACH UNLOADS ON BOSS
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amDon Zimmer has had it with George Steinbrenner blaming Joe Torre for the recent Yankee struggles. He is sick of hearing hitting coach Rick Down is the reason for the...
GIAMBI MIGHT GET GURU BACK
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES One of the issues being discussed by George Steinbrenner and his inner circle the past two days is restoring Bobby Alejo's full access to Jason Giambi. Alejo, who...
YANKS ESCAPE MO'S MISHAP
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amAn ice pack smothered his right shoulder, and disgust washed over his face. Mariano Rivera was the winning pitcher against the Red Sox last night, but he didn't look like...
AGENT: MO NOT LIKELY TO PLAY IN '03
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Mo Vaughn is almost certainly out for the season and could sign off on surgery as early as tomorrow, The Post has learned. After a lengthy afternoon meeting...
DUCKS SOARING UNDER BABCOCK
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amMike Babcock likes to say his Mighty Ducks got to the Stanley Cup Finals by playing "greasy" hockey, a buzzword for grit, passion and pride on the ice. Babcock's teams...
THE HAPPY HACKER - BURNITZ HAVING FUN WITH NEW APPROACH
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Jeromy Burnitz sounded almost like a Zen master talking about hitting yesterday. A uniformed Yoda, if you will. Burnitz, who struggled mightily in 2002, has been on a...
TEUFEL VOWS TOUGH LOVE FOR CYCLONES
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amTim Teufel pledges his Brooklyn Cyclones will play sound baseball this summer. Infielders will remember to cover the correct base. Outfielders will remember to hit the relay man. Cyclones will...
YANKS MISSING SOME 'THING'
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amTHERE is a war under way in baseball between an encroaching army of statistical analysis and the entrenched forces of baseball lifers who make decisions by eyeballs and guts. The...
NETS SHOWING SOME SWAGGER
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amByron Scott didn't need San Antonio's fourth-quarter fold against Dallas on Tuesday night as further evidence his Nets have a legitimate chance of winning their first NBA title. Still, the...
FRANCO SET TO LACE 'EM UP FOR REAL
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - It seems likely John Franco will be activated from the disabled list as early as tomorrow, even though the Mets haven't uttered a word about it...
BONDERMAN: I'M READY FOR ROCKET
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amJeremy Bonderman was a year old when Roger Clemens earned his first major league victory. Nineteen years later, the 20-year-old Tiger hurler will try to stop Clemens from notching his...
TOUGHER THAN EVER - GRITTY DEVILS COVET CUP
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amIt has become the identity of these Devils. They are one tough team. Not hoodlums. Tough of mind. Resolute. Thick-skinned. Responsible. "It is scary," John Madden said. "This is definitely...
'FUNNY' GETS SERIOUS
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amThe first salvo, a sharp :59 2/5, five-furlong bullet work, was fired yesterday by Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide in his assault on the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes and...
JASON FIRES BACK AT CHEEKY CHUCKY
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amNET NOTES Jason Kidd wasn't as offended at the message as much as the messenger. Kidd certainly didn't want to hear any guff from Piston point guard Chucky Atkins, who...
NEW SARS ALERT HAS SOX ON EDGE HEADING TO TORONTO
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amWhen you're a ballplayer, you tend to worry about various initials. Things like ERA, RBI, OBP. But with the Red Sox heading to Toronto today, a new acronym has taken...
FRIESEN CHILLY TOWARD DUCKS
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amWELL, well, well, well, well. Maybe we've got something going here. If not, maybe we can get something going. Or perhaps that's what Anaheim GM Bryan Murray was attempting to...
BROOKLYN'S MALIGNAGGI TALKS TOUGH
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amPaulie Malignaggi resembled a cross between Al Capone and P. Diddy. He wore a black pinstriped suit with a white tie. Dark reflective glasses shielded his eyes, a gold chain...
TEUFEL VOWS TO KEEP CYCLONES ON THEIR TOES
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amTim Teufel pledges his Brooklyn Cyclones will play sound baseball this summer. Infielders will remember to cover the correct base. Outfielders will remember to hit the relay man. Cyclones will...
SPURS ARE MASTERS AFTER DISASTERS
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - For a team supposedly in the lightning lane to the Larry O'Brien trophy, the Spurs sure spend a lot of time pulled over on the service road....
ABRAHAM, JETS CATCH 2ND WIND
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amThere have been times when John Abraham looked inexplicably winded despite seemingly being in world-class condition. There were times when the Jets' sack specialist would just about ask out of...
GARCIA'S BAT WIPES OUT CARNARSIE
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amPSAL PLAYOFFS: Lehman 16 - Canarsie 2 Alvin Garcia knew about the person on the mound but had never seen him before. "We heard he was pretty good," the Lehman...
FRANCO WILL BE BACK FOR BRAVES
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - It seems likely that John Franco will be activated from the disabled list as early as tomorrow, even though the Mets haven't disclosed their plans yet....
BOSS HAPPY WITH WIN
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amForty-eight hours did wonders for George Steinbrenner's spirits. Aside from declining to address Don Zimmer's pointed comments, the Boss was practically giddy over his club's 6-5 win against the arch...
IN BLAME GAME, ZIMMER SAYS DON'T PICK ON TORRE
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amTHE final pitch slid past Jorge Posada, low and inside, a ball from the moment it left Brandon Lyon's shaky fingers. Hideki Matsui came trotting in from third base to...
THESE BOMBERS ARE MISSING SOME 'THING'
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amTHERE is a war underway in baseball between an encroaching army of statistical analysts and the entrenched baseball lifers who make decisions by eyeballs and gut. The nerds vs. the...
METS GOPHER BROKE - ASTACIO SERVES UP THREE OF PHILLIES' FIVE HRS IN ROUT
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The best thing that can be said about Pedro Astacio's outing? It allowed David Cone to get some work in. Astacio served up three gopher balls and allowed...
YANKS SURVIVE MO MELTDOWN
May 29, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 6 - Red Sox 5 George Steinbrenner looked like a motivational genius for eight innings last night at Yankee Stadium where his club was perched to take two of...