September 23, 2003
RUBIN, LEVITT MAY STILL BE CANDIDATES FOR NYSE TOP JOB
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amTHERE will be lots of people interested in heading the New York Stock Exchange despite the requisite denials last week while the corpse of Dick Grasso's career was still warm....
150 FIFTH FLIPS FOR THIRD TIME
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amTHE Romanesque office building at 150 Fifth Ave. just sold for a cool $102.5 million. And David W. Levinson, a principal of L&L Acquisitions, has pulled off a hat trick,...
CADWALADER HIGH ON DOWNTOWN DIGS
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amCadwalader Wickersham and Taft's planned move to the World Financial Center promises the law firm a double-barreled boon. It gets a jumbo new lease at bargain rates, and a windfall...
BMG EYES SONY DEAL - NEW TALKS START AS RACE TO MUSIC MERGER BEGINS
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amUnable to reach deals with either Warner Music or EMI, BMG has begun exploring a merger with Sony Music, The Post has learned. With Warner Music and EMI now knee-deep...
WSJ UNION SEEKS TV BOYCOTT
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amThe increasingly bitter contract squabble between Dow Jones and its in-house editorial union took a turn for the worse yesterday with the union calling on its members to boycott all...
POWELL LOOKING FOR AN EXIT - FCC CHAIRMAN TALKS OF FRUSTRATION WITH PERSONAL ATTACKS
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amHMichael Powell, the controversial head of the Federal Communications Commission, may be preparing to step down, observers said. "I've heard that folks in his inner circle are looking for other...
SEARS TIRE UNIT GOES FOR $260M
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amSears, Roebuck & Co. yesterday took another step toward becoming a pure department store retailer when it agreed to sell its National Tire & Battery division to TBC Corp. for...
HBO SCREEN GRAB - BIG EMMY WINS COULD TRANSLATE TO FAST CASH
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amThe biggest bottom-line winner in television's Emmy awards was HBO and its debt-wracked parent AOL Time Warner. The cable network, which swept Sunday night's awards with 18 wins, could generate...
SMITH BARNEY ADS TRY TO 'EARN' RESPECT
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amSmith Barney is burnishing its scandal-scarred image by drawing from its past. The Citigroup brokerage unit - which was dealt a public relations black eye earlier this year regarding the...
TUMBLING GREENBACK SETS OFF MARKET PLUNGE
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amA weak dollar is playing new havoc with Wall Street and threatening hopes for an economic rebound this autumn. The White House has allowed the greenback to slide all year...
STATES PLAN CALL FOR NEW NYSE BOARD
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amThe heads of some of the nation's largest pension funds are preparing to call for dramatic changes at the NYSE, including an overhaul of the exchange's board of directors. "If...
A TOP AIDE TO DICK GRASSO IS LEAVING THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE ...
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amA top aide to Dick Grasso is leaving the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE executive vice president Frank Z. Ashen said he would retire from the Big Board, an exchange...
KIDS' STUFF
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amNew Orleans, the capital of adult fun, also serves up pint-size offerings. If you have little ones in tow, hotel staffers may warn you to avoid Bourbon Street. Ignore them....
KING OF HICK HOP - FIDDLING WITH HIP-HOP
September 23, 2003 | 4:00am* BUBBA SPARXXX "Deliverance" [ 1/2] Interscope Records On his sophomore effort, hick-hop rapper Bubba Sparxxx again interpolates his formidable MC skills with backwoods instrumentations ranging from banjo to fiddles....
EMMYS HELP FOX SEIZE TOP P.M. SPOT
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amEmmys lure fewer eyes for FoxSUNDAY'S Emmys averaged nearly 18 million viewers - down more than 2 million viewers from the year before. The awards show averaged 17.7 million viewers...
NY1 REPORTER STILL CRITICAL
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amNY1 reporter Rebecca Spitz remained in critical but stable condition yesterday at St. Luke's Hospital, three days after being hit in the head by a rear-view mirror while covering a...
BEYOND RECOGNITION WHEN YOU TURN ON 'THE PRACTICE' AND 'WEST WING' THIS WEEK, ONLY THE MUSIC WILL SEEM FAMILIAR
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amTWO veteran series, "The Practice" and "The West Wing," have undergone extreme makeovers for the new fall season. "The Practice," entering its eighth season Sunday, has injected new cast members...
THEY MIGHT BE SIBS
September 23, 2003 | 4:00am"One Tree Hill" Tonight at 9 on WB/CH. 11 * (one star) FOR a one-tree town, "One Tree Hill" sure is complicated. This new teen soap - premiering tonight on...
STARR REPORT
September 23, 2003 | 4:00am"Bachelorette" star Ryan Sutter, who's marrying Trista Rehn Nov. 26 on ABC, has spun his reality- show fame off into some modeling gigs - including the holiday issue of the...
BATTLE OF GRAND CENTRAL GYMS
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amWESTCHESTER fitness freaks now have two gyms to choose from in Grand Central Terminal. Last week, New York Sports Club opened a 24,000-square-foot branch on the opposite side of the...
LOOK OUT OSCAR! EMMYS: NEW BIG NIGHT FOR FASHION
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amEMMY fashion is no longer an oxymoron. The TV actresses who sashayed down the red carpet at Sunday night's awards show in Hollywood looked as good as any movie star...
BRIBE OFFICIAL GETS SMOKED
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amAn ex-city housing official who was fired after The Post exposed his excessive smoking breaks lit up a cigarette yesterday after being sentenced to a year-and-a-day in prison for extorting...
BANDIT DIES IN DRUGSTORE GUNFIGHT
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amA wild gun battle between police and a robber at a Long Island drugstore sent terrified patrons diving for cover and ended with the suspect shot dead, police said yesterday....
WHAT THE TIMES DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
September 23, 2003 | 4:00am'Good news on Ground Zero in every paper but the Times.' AM I dreaming, or has The New York Times not bothered to report that Cadwalader Wickersham and Taft, arguably...
EVEN RED SOX FANS WANT YANK TIX
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amBronx Bomber boosters, be warned - you're not the only ones desperately seeking tickets for playoff games at the Stadium. Red Sox fans are, too. "I'm a huge fan of...
GOV WOULD TOP SPITZER
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki would defeat Attorney General Eliot Spitzer but lose to Sen. Charles Schumer in a head-to-head contest for governor, a poll showed yesterday. The just-completed Marist College...
NYERS WANT RUDY BACK ON DUTY
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - New Yorkers to former Mayor Giuliani: Run, Rudy, run! That's the overwhelming message delivered by a new statewide Marist College poll, in which 62 percent of voters surveyed...
DIPLOS FEAR QAEDA GETTING WMD
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amExperts told a U.N. terrorism conference yesterday that their biggest concern is a group like al Qaeda will obtain weapons of mass destruction. Security for the conference was so tight...
'SINGLE' FILES - DATING HABITS OF THE UNHITCHED ARE COASTS APART
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amOut West, singles spend more money on their first dates, while here in the East, couples make out better - kissing more on their first rendezvous, a new survey claims....
DEADLY BLAST AGAIN HITS U.N. IN BAGHDAD
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The U.N. presence in Iraq was thrown into turmoil yesterday after another suicide bomber - possibly linked to the al Qaeda terror network - detonated a powerful car...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amInterstate 40 in Oklahoma City was transformed into a giant sty when 800 baby pigs spilled onto the road when the truck carrying them flipped over. Cops, who closed the...
JUDGE: CON'S INNOCENT - & STAYS IN JAIL
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amIn an unusual move, a judge has denied a man's bid to overturn his manslaughter conviction even though the jurist found that it's more likely than not that the defendant...
BOUNTY ON GANG - 10G REWARD TO NAB L.I. TRAIN STALKER-KILLERS
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amOn what would have been Anthony Battaglia's 38th birthday, Long Island officials yesterday announced a $10,000 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of the vicious killers who stabbed, beat...
ST. JOHN'S SHOOT TRIAL
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amA Queens man was trying to murder a St. John's University football star and two of his friends when he fired into a crowd in a campus parking lot in...
THROW BOOK AT ALL BIAS THUGS: MIKE
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amThe city's five district attorneys got a wake-up call yesterday from Mayor Bloomberg - a letter urging them to prosecute bias attacks "to the full extent of the law." Bloomberg...
WTC BIGS MAKE NICE
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amWorld Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein got a personal tour of Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin and the two key downtown figures seem to have formed a bond -...
ANOTHER BILLIONAIRE IS DONATING MILLIONS OF HIS FORTUNE TO HELP EDUCATE CITY KIDS ...
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amAnother billionaire is donating millions of his fortune to help educate city kids - philanthropist Eli Broad, a pal of Mayor Bloomberg. Broad announced yesterday that his foundation is contributing...
HILL: DEMS OK WITHOUT ME - BUT RUDY THINKS SHE MIGHT JUMP INTO PREZ RACE
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday she is sticking to her decision not to enter the presidential fray in 2004, boasting that the Democrats have several candidates who would be...
ISRAEL MAY EXCHANGE PRISONERS
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese guerrilla group, are in secret negotiations for a large swap of prisoners, officials on both sides said yesterday. The talks, conducted through German...
CLINTON MONEYMAKERS FALL IN STEP BEHIND CLARK
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amSome of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's top New York fund-raisers last night jumped on board the surging candidacy of retired Gen. Wesley Clark, as a stunning poll shows him running...
MILLIE IS HUM-MING HAPPY TUNE
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amThe New York Post has put lucky reader Millie LaRocca in the driver's seat. That's because the 52-year-old New Jersey grandma is the grand-prize winner of a fabulous 2003 Hummer...
THOMPSON DAD: INDICT DEM BIG
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amThe retired judge whose son is the city's comptroller stunned a special commission probing ways to clean up the courts - by calling for the indictment of Brooklyn Democratic Party...
BLOODY NIGHT AT MIDTOWN CLUB
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amTwo bloody brawls at the trendy Midtown club Vue early yesterday left a bouncer with a slashed face and another man fighting for his life after being stabbed in the...
'SPECTOR' OF MURDER - CORONER RULES MUSIC LEGEND'S PAL DIDN'T KILL HERSELF
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - County coroners yesterday ruled the death of B-movie queen Lana Clarkson a homicide - and not self-inflicted, as claimed by the prime suspect in her slaying, Phil...
BRIBE BUREAUCRAT GETS SMOKED
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amAn ex-city housing official who was fired after The Post exposed his excessive smoking breaks lit up a cigarette yesterday after being sentenced to a year-and-a-day in prison for extorting...
ON THE BUTTON - GANDOLFINI'S N.J. POL PAL STUNNED BY EMMY PLUG
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amWhen James Gandolfini stepped forward to accept his Best Actor Emmy Sunday night, Joe Renna was one stunned man. It wasn't a chic Hollywood red ribbon on Gandolfini's lapel or...
BOB CAN'T SHAKE GHOST OF HIS LONG-VANISHED WIFE
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amGALVESTON, Texas - In a grim courtroom in this humid, honky-tonk town at the edge of the world, where bums and billionaires panhandle in greedy anonymity, Bobby Durst's past finally...
PSYCHO STABS BOY, 11
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amA weekend play date for two Brooklyn youngsters turned into a bloodbath when one of the 11- year-old boys was stabbed multiple times by his pal's crazed uncle, police said...
BROOKLYN DIVORCEE WANTS GARSON JUDGMENT TOSSED
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman yesterday asked to have her June 2000 divorce thrown out because it was handled by embattled Judge Gerald Garson, who faces trial for allegedly accepting bribes to...
SHOOTING WAS FAILED HIT: COPS
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amRockland County cops are investigating whether a 70-year-old man shot while working in the yard of his Airmont home was the victim of a botched mob hit. Vincent De Vito,...
STATE DEMS BACK GAY MARRIAGES
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amThe state Democratic Party yesterday endorsed gay marriage - ending its previously neutral stance on the controversial issue. "We want to make sure that these folks can have the same...
UFT SUES CITY OVER CLASS-SIZE BALLOT
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amThe teachers union sued the city yesterday after charging that the Bloomberg administration knocked its proposal for reducing class sizes off the Election Day ballot. Bloomberg's office shot back that...
'BULL' HORNS IN ON PAL'S TRIAL
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amThe feds are fighting to stop Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano from testifying in defense of a reputed wiseguy whom he considers a close friend - even though the defendant's accused...
BUSH: NON SURRENDER - HE'LL REJECT FRENCH PLAN IN U.N. TALK
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amAn unapologetic President Bush today will tell the United Nations that French demands for a quick surrender of U.S. control of Iraq won't work, and urge the world body to...
CHIRAC HAILS NEW CITY SCHOOL
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amFrench President Jacques Chirac yesterday dedicated a new Upper East Side building for the Lycée Francais de New York at a ceremony attended by hundreds of students and parents. Chirac,...
KID-SLAY TV STAR - MONSTER JOEL'S GIG WHEN HE GETS OUT
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amInfamous child killer Joel Steinberg is getting ready for his close-up - he has a TV job waiting for him when he gets out of prison. Steinberg, the abusive monster...
BEN & JEN GO GREAT GUNS - REUNITE TO GET LICENSE (FOR HIS WEAPON)
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amFirst, the good news. Less than two weeks after abruptly nixing the wedding, Ben and Jen suddenly showed up again - together - strolling into a Georgia courthouse yesterday hand-in-hand....
'BULL' HORNS IN ON MOB PAL'S TRIAL
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amThe feds are fighting to stop Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano's bizarre plan to testify in defense of a reputed wiseguy - who's accused of plotting to whack him - because...
CANCER VICTIM HOPES FOR MIRACLE
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amA Queens native, suffering from a deadly form of cancer so rare that only 39 other people have been diagnosed with it, is desperately searching for a bone-marrow transplant. But...
TEEN GANG-BASH HORROR - B'KLYN KIDS CLUB & STAB RIVAL, 14
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amA gang of bat-wielding teens savagely beat and stabbed a kid from a rival group just blocks from his Brooklyn middle school yesterday, cops said. The 14-year-old victim, a student...
E. SIDERS RAIL AGAINST SUBWAY PLAN
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amEast Siders blasted the MTA's plans for a Second Avenue subway yesterday, arguing that placing station entrances inside buildings would be a "major disruption." "The reality is that this will...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A security guard stabbed a man who hit him in the head outside a Prospect Heights supermarket, authorities said yesterday. Jason Jeffrey, 24, who was guarding a Pathmark...
MAN KILLED IN NIGHTCLUB BRAWL
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amTwo bloody brawls at the trendy Midtown club Vue early yesterday left one man dead and another with a slashed face. Cops said the first fight began at 2:07 a.m....
CLASSROOM EXTRA: FALL'S COOL AND COLORFUL DANCE- THE WARM COLORS OF AUTUMN LEAVES GET US READY FOR WINTER'S CHILL. PULL UP A BLANKET AND SEE HOW.
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amThis year's autumn equinox falls on Sept. 23. From here on, the days will gradually get shorter and temperatures will slowly drop. This is a pleasant time of year. Summer's...
STATE DEMS SAY YES TO GAY MARRIAGES
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amThe state Democratic Party yesterday endorsed gay marriage - ending its previously neutral stance on the controversial issue. "We want to make sure that these folks can have the same...
ABC TAPS MICHAELS FOR NBA COVERAGE
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amAl Michaels was named by ABC as its new lead NBA play-by-play voice yesterday, replacing Brad Nessler. While ABC publicly said Nessler would be retained, it was known throughout the...
YANKEE REIGN DELAY ; HR OFF WEAVER KEEPS BUBBLY ON ICE
September 23, 2003 | 4:00am10 INNINGS White Sox 6 Yankees 3 CHICAGO - Jeff Weaver sat in a chair facing his locker and tried to stare through the varnish on the wood. A nightmare...
MOOSE GETS GAME 1 CALL; SORIANO SETS HOMER MARK
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - Joe Torre's action spoke louder than his words yesterday when he pushed Mike Mussina's start from tonight to Wednesday. While Torre didn't admit it, the move...
NOT VINNY'S FAULT
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amMARK CANNIZZARO'S JETS REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKSDon't blame this one on Vinny Testaverde (25-43, 264 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT, 74.2 rating), even though his INT was returned for a TD and...
ALMOST A 'D'-BACLE
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amPAUL SCHWARTZ' GIANT REPORT CARD QUARTERBACKSHow about those rollout passes from Kerry Collins (24 of 39, 276 yards, 3 TDs)? His arm is great, but his poise and calm down...
LEBRON'S A HIT WITH KIDS
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amKids are hard to impress these days. Especially the third-graders at PS 8 in Washington Heights. Yesterday, the NBA's best young talents, including Dahntay Jones, Manu Ginobili and T.J. Ford,...
WEEK OF UPSETS MAKES 'EM MAC DADDIES
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amCOLLEGE NOTESON and off the field, this has been a bonanza week for the Mid-American Conference. You know that Northern Illinois went into Tuscaloosa and beat Alabama. And Marshall went...
TRAP HAS ISLANDERS ENERGIZED
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amIslanders GM Mike Milbury wanted his team to use training camp in West Virginia to work hard and to learn to play for one another. Thanks to the trapping systems...
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, SAM HUFF?
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amIT'S always been about defense with the Giants. The defense has authored the team's folklore, going back to Sam Huff, on through Lawrence Taylor, all the way up to Michael...
LESS TIME FINE WITH MADDEN
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amHere's a switch: someone who'd almost welcome less ice time. There's no trace of a shirker in John Madden, the NHL's 2001 Selke Trophy winner as its best defensive forward,...
BATS THE TICKET
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Last year it was their vaunted starting pitching that let the Yankees down and escorted them out of the ALDS. Ever since their season ended in Anaheim last...
HOLIK TO ASSUME RIGHTFUL ROLE
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amNothing that transpired on the ice during the opening weekend of exhibitions was remotely as significant as Glen Sather's assertion yesterday that he intends to use Bobby Holik the way...
A MUCH-NEEDED BYE GIANTS PLAN TO REPAIR THEIR D
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amNot before the game. Not as the Redskins were charging back. Not in overtime. Not ever. "I didn't think about losing the game," Giants' coach Jim Fassel said yesterday. "It...
MIKE MOVE ON HOLD
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amMike Piazza might indeed play first base sometime during the next three games, but don't expect the Mets to make an official announcement. Last week in Chicago, manager Art Howe...
COOL HEADS PREVAILED IN GAME HEAT
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Remember all those reports from training camp in which Jim Fassel ranted and raged when one of the Giants got a little too emotionally overheated at practice? The...
BOMBERS UP IN ARMS
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amCHICAGO - David Wells started last night with a chance to win his 200th game and Mike Mussina is scheduled to go tomorrow with the same achievement at hand in...
IT'S A BAD TIME TO ORDER SOME TUNA ; PARCELLS WILL FACE 0-3 JETS
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amSigns of a mass hangover were thick in the air inside the walls of Weeb Ewbank Hall yesterday. The Jets' costly afternoon of missed opportunities that resulted in their 23-16...
HOT JORGE: SWEET LOU WILL GET HIS
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - Bernie Williams wasn't talking yesterday about what angered him so much Sunday in St. Petersburg, but a still-simmering Jorge Posada was. Williams had to be restrained...
FOR GANG GREEN, IT'S RUN OR DONE
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Jets have, through three games, become seduced by the passing game and as a result have neglected the rushing attack, particularly in the red zone (inside the...
SORI SETS LEADOFF HR RECORD
September 23, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - Alfonso Soriano, who established a major league record by hitting his 13th leadoff homer last night, was named AL Player of the Week for Sept. 15-21....