September 13, 2003
DESIGNERS SEW UP $$ WITH PRODUCT PLACEMENTS
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amTHE POST GOES TO FASHION WEEK Product placements aren't just for movies anymore. Companies are increasingly turning to the fashion runway to showcase everything from birth control to cameras. And...
BANKERS' PAY HEADED UP: SURVEY
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amBucking trends of other professions, investment bankers will see a pay increase of 10 to 20 percent by the end of this year, according to a recent survey. Bankers were...
GRASSO CORNERED: NYSE CALLS MEMBERSHIP MEETING TO AIR GRIPES
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amNew York Stock Exchange directors are calling a meeting of exchange members for next week to gauge the level of discontent on the floor amid a rising tide of outrage...
ROOM WITH A VIEW: JERSEY CITY, LONG ISLAND CITY OFFER DRAMATIC BACKDROPS
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amYou can have your river view without the hassles of Manhattan life in stylish new luxury buildings in Jersey City and Long Island City. Jersey City's Hudson Point, a 182-unit...
GIMME SHELTER - INDIANA JONES & THE CHELSEA CO-OP
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amHan may no longer be living Solo. Seems that many high-profile types are flocking to Harrison Ford's building to check out the loft space under his 5,000-square-foot penthouse. That Chelsea...
CHIMP CHEETA PROSPERS IN RETIREMENT; NEEMA FREDERIC
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amTHE hardest-working chimp in showbiz is spending his twilight years in California. But life isn't as much fun as a barrel of monkeys for Cheeta, the chimp who starred in...
WIN THE NEW YORK CHEAPSTAKES: IF YOU'RE STILL BUYING YOUR OWN DRINKS, READ ON . . .
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amNEW York is great if you can afford it - and the new book "How to Live Big in Manhattan Without Going Broke" aims to help. It's a treasure-trove of...
FREE FOR ALL
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amYOUR LUCKY DAY Itching to keep abreast on the latest fashion trends? Check out Get Lucky on 5ive at Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue. Lucky Magazine editor Allyson Waterman will...
ALLEY CATWALK
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amNotice an unusual number of gorgeous people roaming the streets of Manhattan? That's because Fashion Week has officially hit town again. Unfortunately, most of us can't get into the big...
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amCheck out the acoustics for yourself at the newest, coolest hall in town - Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall's beautiful underground performance space. There may be just the faintest rumble of...
QUICK ON THE DRAW
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amAs a kid, Roz Chast used to draw all the time. She was in the seventh grade at Brooklyn's Ditmas Junior High when her English teacher found a caricature Roz...
ROCK STARS RISING: WHEN IT COMES TO MUSIC, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amElvis was 11 when he got his first guitar - a birthday present from his parents. Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin was just 14 when she recorded her first album....
'GMA,' 'TODAY' SWINGIN'
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amNOW it's getting nasty. "Good Morning America" called yesterday to report that it beat rival "Today" in softball 20-7. In the cutthroat world of morning TV, those bragging rights are...
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT IN THE SNATCH GAME
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amIsraeli commandos know how to expel Yasser Arafat - because they've been practicing his abduction for more than two years. Security sources first confirmed the mock raids last fall -...
ANIMAL FLINGDOM ; NEW DVD SHOWS THE WILD THINGS DOING THE WILD THING
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amBIRDS do it, bees do it - but do you really want to see rhinos do it? That's what's been captured by "Call of the Wild: Sex in the Animal...
TEEN GRIDDERS 'SODOMIZED' IN HAZING HORROR
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amOne of the three alleged victims in a Long Island high school hazing horror has told police that he was held down by three older boys at football camp and...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe California Supreme Court has given the cold shoulder to a Contra County judge who was yanked from the bench for rudeness. The court refused to reverse a judicial panel's...
DAVE MATTHEWS' $CHOOLHOUSE ROCK
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe Dave Matthews Band will be really jamming the city schools' coffers when they put on a benefit concert in Central Park this month. "There's going to be an enormous...
TEEN DENIES OWNING GUN THAT KILLED CUZ, 3
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe teen charged with owning the gun that his 9-year-old brother used to accidentally shoot their 3-year-old cousin last month allegedly committed two earlier armed robberies, but said yesterday that...
IMMIGRATION SCAMMER GETS 10 YRS.
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amA former INS inspector convicted of swindling nearly $1 million from Chinese families with phony promises that he could help their relatives immigrate continued to assert his innocence, even as...
GA. HEROES ON DUBYA'S MIND
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush paid tribute yesterday to the soldiers of Fort Stewart, Ga., who led the invasion into Baghdad and suffered more deaths than any other division. "You made...
REACHING THEIR GOAL
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe downtown soccer kids are playing in their own backyard again. Their old stomping ground - black-topped and used as a staging area for emergency and demolition vehicles involved in...
MIKE ASKS: HOW'D YOU DO AFTER LIGHTS WENT OUT?
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe city is surveying New Yorkers to find out how they handled last month's blackout and whether the city can do better in responding if it happens again, Mayor Bloomberg...
WHAT AN ASH! HIT-PLOT HUBBY COPS PLEA
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amThe Long Island man who tried to hire a hit man to kill his estranged wife - and then store his wife's cremated remains in an urn marked "Bitch's Ashes!"...
ARNOLD'S A RUNNING-AWAY MAN
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Radio talk-show hosts ambushed Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday, setting up the actor-turned-candidate for a surprise confrontation with his chief Republican rival, who challenged him to debate. Schwarzenegger, who's...
RUTGERS PREXY LEFT 'HOMELESS'
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amRutgers University has bought a $1.2 million historic home to be the new official residence for its president, but the school can't afford to renovate the place so the president...
GEPHARDT SAYS DEAN'S A NEWT MAN
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt yesterday blasted front-runner Howard Dean, comparing him to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Gephardt told a union crowd in Iowa that Dean, with...
ACTOR'S 'RULES' WERE GOLDEN FOR ABC
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amIf there were eight simple rules for saving ABC, actor John Ritter was near the top of the list. Ritter was the star of ABC's biggest hit from last season,...
TRIPPER TROUPER'S LEGACY OF LAUGHS
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amAn appreciationTHIS time, no one laughed when John Ritter fell down. Ritter shot to fame as pratfalling randy womanizer Jack Tripper on "Three's Company," but there was only shock and...
FARE BONUS BOOMS
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amEXCLUSIVE Straphangers are gobbling up monthly and weekly MetroCards in an effort to cut down on the cost of their bus and subway ride after fares went up in May....
LAW SPEEDS AIDS TESTS FOR N.Y. NEWBORNS
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Babies whose mothers don't get tested for HIV during pregnancy will automatically be tested within 12 hours of being born under a new state regulation, The Post has...
TRUMP IN WTC SLAM; CALLS DESIGN PLANS A BIG 'MONSTROSITY'
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amDonald Trump trashed the plans to rebuild Ground Zero yesterday, branding the design plans a "monstrosity of garbled nonsense." Trump, one of New York's biggest real estate developers - and...
BLOOMBERG BLASTS GUN MANUFACTURERS
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday compared gunmakers to drug dealers. He also sent a letter to the U.S. Senate earlier this week, urging opposition to a bill to block lawsuits against gunmakers....
KLEIN PLAN GIVES BREAKFAST TO ALL
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amAll the city's 1.1 million public school kids will be offered free breakfasts under a revamped school meal program, Chancellor Joel Klein announced yesterday. But the price for lunch for...
CAMERAMAN SUES OVER TAPE
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amA fight over the ownership of the recently discovered video of both hijacked planes striking the World Trade Center turned ugly yesterday when the amateur cameraman sued his boss for...
RAPE MONSTER GETS 34 YEARS
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amA depraved Upper East Side rapist stormed off to prison yesterday, cursing at the prosecutor and telling the judge what he could do with the sentence. Heavily guarded Stephan Peppaceno,...
SNEAK PEEK AT RED HOT FASHION WEEK
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amWireImage photoIf the folks hanging out around Bryant Park this weekend look a bit slicker than usual, there's a good reason. The first show of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week kicked off...
CRISIS IN THE MIDEAST ; ARAFAT BACKERS STONE TEMPLE MOUNT JEWS
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Several hundred Muslims on Jerusalem's Temple Mount stoned Jewish worshippers at the Western Wall yesterday to protest Israel's decision to "remove" Yasser Arafat. Four policemen were injured in...
DAD FRACTURES BABY'S SKULL: COPS
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amA 2-month-old infant was fighting for her life yesterday after her crazed father flew into a rage and punched her in the head as he tried to beat up the...
RARE AILMENT A SURPRISE ATTACKER
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amAortic dissection - the rare silent killer that felled actor John Ritter - generally strikes without warning. Sudden onset and quick death are common with the lethal and hard-to-detect heart...
NO MERCY FOR MOB'S 'FIREMAN'
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amA retired firefighter who launched a second career as a Bonanno capo scored few points with a federal judge with his tales of heroism yesterday as he was sentenced to...
FIREMAN BUSTED; 'RAMPAGE' IN EX-GIRLFRIEND'S PAD
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amA city firefighter in full dress uniform trudged over to his ex-girlfriend's apartment near Ground Zero during the solemn 9/11 ceremony, pushed his way in and assaulted her during a...
VICTIMS' ADVOCATES TAKE STEP BACK
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amTHE tireless champions for the rights of 9/11 victims' families have decided to take a break. The Cartier family, who suffered their own loss on that day, had no money...
COURT UNPLUGS TIMES 'HACKER'
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amA computer geek charged with hacking into The New York Times' computer system to illegally access more than $300,000 worth of news information was yesterday ordered to quit surfing the...
SQUEALS AT CLASS SQUEEZE; UFT RAGES AT CROWDING
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amAn eye-popping 8,721 public school classrooms are severely overcrowded, the teachers union charged yesterday - announcing it's taking legal action to force the Bloomberg administration to correct the violations. The...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amBrooklyn Police are seeking Thompson Garnell for questioning in connection with the fatal shooting of a Brooklyn woman. Garnell, 37, is described as 6-feet tall and 240 pounds, with black...
STABBING ON METRO-NORTH
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amA man was stabbed in the back as he stepped off a Metro-North train at the Mamaroneck station in Westchester County yesterday, police said. Nicholas DeJulio, 30, who was on...
RAGS TO RIPOFF: CONCIERGE BUSTED
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amA concierge to the stars hired by Fashion Week organizers to get limo rides and Broadway tickets for rag-trade luminaries is accused of ripping off $80,000 from an Astoria, Queens,...
COLE ROLLS IN SPRING STYLES ; STARS SALUTE HIS 20TH YEAR
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amNEW York Fashion Week returned with a bang to Bryant Park yesterday as designers debuted their spring/summer 2004 collections. Kenneth Cole kicked off the eight-day week of shows with a...
SITCOM STAR'S ; SHOCKING END ; BAD HEART FELLS HIM ON TV SET
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amJohn Ritter, the affable funnyman best known for his portrayal of boyish, bumbling Jack Tripper on the 1970s and '80s sitcom "Three's Company," died of a rare heart ailment after...
MIKE'S MAN TAKES CONVENTION POST
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amA top aide to Mayor Bloomberg is leaving tomorrow to join the city's host committee for the 2004 Republican National Convention. Kevin Sheekey will probably be gone from the mayor's...
COLE ROLLS IN SPRING STYLES; STARS SALUTE HIS 20TH YEAR
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amNEW York Fashion Week returned with a bang to Bryant Park yesterday as designers debuted their spring/summer 2004 collections. Kenneth Cole kicked off the eight-day week of shows with a...
TORRE TABLES RIGHTY PLATOON VS. RAYS
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES With the Devil Rays starting four right-handers this weekend, Joe Torre abandoned his right-field platoon last night and started right-handed hitting Juan Rivera against Victor Zambrano instead of...
NASHVILLE'S HARD-BITTEN HELL-RAISER DEFIED ALL LABELS
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amJOHNNY CASH was a walking, talking contradiction. The 71-year-old singer, who died yesterday, was a devout Christian and a hellraiser whose music reflected the reckless abandon of rock 'n' roll...
RUNNING-AWAY MAN: ARNIE DUCKS DEBATE
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Radio talk show hosts ambushed Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday, setting up the actor-turned-candidate for a surprise confrontation with his chief rival, who challenged him to debate. Schwarzenegger, who's...
KERRY MAKES LIGHT OF TUNA SITUATION
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Sometimes the best way to deal with a potentially sticky situation is just to laugh at it. That was the approach adopted by Kerry Collins when thinking back...
TORRE TABLES RF PLATOON VERSUS RAYS
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES With the Devil Rays starting four right-handers this weekend, Yankee manager Joe Torre abandoned his right-field platoon last night and started righty-swinging Juan Rivera instead of lefty-hitting Karim...
ARMED & READY ; JINTS, COLLINS SET TO AIR IT OUT
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amA full week of preparation, all that painstaking planning, was junked before the Giants completed one quarter of their very first game last week. "It was a weird game," Kerry...
ST. RAY'S GRANT CHOOSES 'PACK
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amWhen former St. Raymond's coach Gary DeCesare left The Bronx school to become an assistant at the University of Richmond, many thought the Ravens would begin a pipeline to the...
IRISH FACE MICHIGAN TEST
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amANN ARBOR - Seldom do two undefeated teams meet with so many still unconvinced that either squad is any good. Notre Dame takes on Michigan today in the Big House...
POLY PUMPED FOR FRIARS
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amPOLY PREP always ends its season with a familiar feeling. "We want to keep playing," said Poly coach Craig Jacoby. "We're not in a league, so we don't get to...
JOE SAYS 'S' WORD ADMITS JASON IS IN 'SLUMP'
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amIt's not a slide. Nor a funk. Or a cold spell. No, according to Joe Torre, Jason Giambi is in the throes of something players, managers and coaches rarely admit....
TERRIFIC TWOSOME ; ELLIS AND ABRAHAM 1-2 PUNCH OF JET 'D'
September 13, 2003 | 4:00am"The better Shaun [Ellis] gets, the better it is for me. I wouldn't be the same player without him."JOHN ABRAHAM Shaun Ellis was picked one selection before John Abraham in...
BROTHERLY GLOVE METS CALL UP MIKE GLAVINE FROM MINORS
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amMONTREAL - If you want, criticize Mike Glavine's major-league callup as the worst example of nepotism since Sofia Coppola was cast in "The Godfather Part 3." But you should at...
NEWCOMER WATSON GETS TO MEET HIS FORMER CLUB
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - Matt Watson may not have a famous brother like Mike Glavine, but his major-league call-up yesterday had its own interesting twist. Watson, an offensive-minded outfielder who...
FRANKEL HOPES TO MAKE UP FOR SPA FIZZLE
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amOver the first seven months of 2003, trainer Bobby Frankel marched through the nation's major stakes races like Sherman through Georgia. Heading to Saratoga, he had 15 Grade 1 victories...
ISLES SEE STIRLING POTENTIAL
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amWHEELING, W.Va. - You could make a case that the Islanders suffered a two-year setback with the way they ended last season - but that could be a good thing....
OSCAR SET FOR SUGAR ; DE LA HOYA SAYS HE'LL QUIT IF HE LOSES
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - Oscar De La Hoya has said repeatedly he will retire if he loses to Sugar Shane Mosley tonight in their long-awaited rematch of Mosley's victory by split...
DEV HOPEFUL KEEPING KIDNEY WOE IN CHECK
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amOne of front-runners to break into the Devils' defense has another battle to wage - against a kidney disease that has no known cure. "It's not a big deal. It...
JASON'S LUMBER WAKES AT LAST
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amTo say that Jason Giambi is all the way back from the basement of Hitters' Hell would be premature. However, the Yankees certainly got a rush from their first baseman's...
EXPOS LEIT IT UP ; BASH AL TO HAND METS EIGHTH STRAIGHT LOSS
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amExpos 7Mets 4 MONTREAL - Anytime Al Leiter is giving way to Orber Moreno, it's a bad sign for the Mets. When the opposing batter is Vladimir Guerrero, it's a...
GLAVINES AN AMAZIN' BROTHER ACT
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES MONTREAL - If you want, criticize Mike Glavine's major-league callup as the worst example of nepotism since Sofia Coppola was cast in "The Godfather: Part III." But you...
CAMP SATHER FEELS FOCUSED FROM THE FIRST
September 13, 2003 | 4:00amBURLINGTON, Vt. - A series of drills that highlighted puck pressure, defensive assignments and other game-specific situations - some repeated until properly executed. ... Brief scrimmages, occasionally halted for a...