October 11, 2003
HUNG-OVER WORKERS ABOUND
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amSome 88 percent of New Yorkers have come to work hung over, a survey found. Meanwhile, 17 percent have come to the office slightly intoxicated. The survey was commissioned by...
ONE SWEET DEAL ; EX-NYSE PREZ JOHNSTON GOT $30M IN 5 YEARS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amBilly Johnston scored big during his brief tenure at the New York Stock Exchange. Former Chairman Dick Grasso's close pal picked up about $30 million worth of compensation in just...
SINGLETON GROUP COULD SEIZE FAMILY-RUN CHAIN
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amMediaNews Group, turning up the heat in the bidding war for Freedom Communications, is joining forces with Gannett Co. to make a serious run at the family-owned media company, The...
WHAT HE WANTS, WHAT SHE WANTS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amWhen John Gilstrap and his wife, Andrea London, returned to New York last year after a stint in England, they immediately began looking for a place to live. They knew...
THAT TOUCH OF BLASS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amGIMME SHELTER The trustees of late fashion designer Bill Blass have finally sold his 23-acre Connecticut country estate for a stylin' price. The four-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot antique manor home - originally...
LIVE HERE & GET LUCKY
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amLisa Saper, 23, moved into Zeckendorf Towers - also known as One Irving Place - nearly two years ago and made friends right away. It's the kind of place where...
RENT THIS! GET FURNITURE WITH STYLE RIGHT NOW, WITHOUT BUYING ANYTHING AT ALL
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amSick of sleeping on the floor but can't bear to buy a whole mess of furniture you're just going to have to pawn off on your friends when your lease...
COULDN'T SCARE LESS; ZOMBIES VS. BABES IS 'DEAD' ON ARRIVAL
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amHOUSE OF THE DEAD Zero stars Low-rent schlock.Running time: 91 minutes. Rated R (gory violence, profanity, nudity). At the E-Walk, the Union Square, the Sutton, others. WHEN a studio declines...
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amNever mind the view from the bridge: How about a gander from the top of the Jefferson Market clocktower? Normally, anyone trying to climb up this 1877 West Village landmark...
THEY STRUM, YOU HUM
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amBanjos and fiddles will add to the ambience of Staten Island's Historic Richmond Town today, when the living history museum's eighth Bluegrass Music Festival tunes up. After buying some penny...
BREEZY RIDERS : MANHATTAN BIKE TRIP IS A LOOPY GOOD TIME
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amWe didn't exactly run into Mayor Bloomberg on his Schwinn, but Hizzoner was on our mind during our recent bike trip around Manhattan. Last week, the mayor - who was...
TAKE A BOW (WOW, WOW)
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amWhen you hear dogs speak fluent English, you've either eaten too many Cocoa Puffs or you're watching "Good Boy!" In the film, 12-year-old Owen Baker (Liam Aiken) walks his neighbors'...
VROOM WITH A VIEW
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amGet your motor runnin' and roll on down the West Side Highway this weekend, as the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum hosts the first-ever Gotham Motorcycle Classic. The Intrepid's flight deck will...
END OF LINE FOR 'PORNO' BUS DRIVER
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amA 35-year-old Long Island school bus driver, who was arrested and charged with posting kiddie porn pictures on the Internet, has been suspended from his job. Jeffrey Roter, of Kings...
FEDS $UE WAKSAL'S FATHER
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amSam Waksal's 82-year- old father is staring down the barrel at $8 million in fines and forfeitures after the feds sued him yesterday for being roped into his son's ImClone...
L.I. COP IS 'STRIPPED' OF FREEDOM
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amThe Long Island highway cop who admitted stopping four separate women at night, driving them to deserted spots and forcing them to undress for his amusement, was sentenced to more...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amManhattan A man and woman were arrested yesterday in the fatal stabbing of a 40-year-old man during an apparent drug-related attack in a Harlem apartment, police said. David Jenkins, 44,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amCollecting pop-up toasters sort of makes sense - if you're used to dealing with people who've flipped their lids. Anyhow, toasters are what psychiatrist Kenneth Huggins of Columbia, S.C., collects....
MAYOR'S POL PICK STIFFS GIFF
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg dissed one of his key allies yesterday - City Council Speaker Gifford Miller - by endorsing Miller's Republican challenger. The mayor's move infuriated aides to Miller (D-Manhattan), who...
FRAUD RAP IN NYPD 'BLUE' PHONE BILLS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amA top NYPD official who allegedly looted $113,000 from a jailhouse charity to help pay for thousands of inmates' calls to X-rated chat lines was hit with a second mail...
LAURA TAKES A STAND; DEFENDS PREZ ON IRAQ WAR
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - First Lady Laura Bush jumped into the debate about Iraq yesterday, passionately defending her husband's decision to go to war. "I'm proud that this oppression has ended," Mrs....
NYU TEEN'S DEATH LEAP; LIBRARY'S 2ND SUICIDE IN 5 WEEKS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amA member of the NYU diving team plunged 10 floors to his death yesterday inside the university's Bobst Library - a place where students say "suicide runs deep" - landing...
'AILING' ARAFAT APPEARS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Yasser Arafat defied reports of his failing health yesterday when he attended Muslim prayers and knelt and got to his feet without help. Israel also continued "Operation Root...
ARNIE RESTS AFTER HEAVY LIFTING
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger finally took it easy yesterday after an exhausting week that included a stunning recall victory and kickoff of his whirlwind transition to power. The...
'POUND OF FLESH' $LAY PLOT
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amCall it a murder for hire - charged by the pound. Manhattan prosecutors divulged kooky details yesterday about a foiled plot in which the hit man - actually an undercover...
WRIST SLAP FOR CYBERSEX RABBI
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amA prominent rabbi received a no-jail sentence in Manhattan yesterday for explicitly cyber-propositioning a male cop he thought was a 13-year-old girl. Rabbi Israel Kestenbaum, 55, of Highland Park, N.J.,...
9/11 RIPPLES THREATEN TO SINK LUNDY'S
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amA landmark Brooklyn fish restaurant is on the brink of closing its doors after a financial collapse linked to 9/11. The owners of Lundy's - a cavernous Sheepshead Bay institution...
DOZENS OF COPS NAILED IN OVERTIME SCAM
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amIn one of the largest mass disciplinary actions in NYPD history, more than 25 detectives have been slapped with departmental charges stemming from an overtime scam - and another 25...
EVIL 'GAME': HITTING ASIANS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amChinese immigrants who live along a stretch of the Staten Island Expressway are being targeted by a gang of teens who play a vicious and brutal game called "knockout." The...
MARTHA'S BROKER: GRILL ME AND I'LL TAKE THE FIFTH
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amThe government's star witness against Martha Stewart, rookie broker Douglas Faneuil, will take the Fifth when the domestic diva's lawyers try to grill him months before her trial. A federal...
GOV'S ED. EXPERTS MAY LOWER THE BAR
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amGov. Pataki's panel on school reform dropped a bombshell yesterday, revealing it is considering supporting dumbing down graduation requirements. But Mayor Bloomberg came out swinging against any effort to lower...
RADIO TITAN'S DEVOTED 'DITTOHEADS' WILL STAY TUNED
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amRUSH Limbaugh's loyal listeners are unlikely to desert him now that he's admitted to an addiction to painkillers. That's the word from talk-radio experts, who say Limbaugh made the right...
INDICTED DEM BOSS GOES TO COURT IN CUFFS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amWhile the district attorney vowed that the probe of Clarence Norman isn't over, the Brooklyn Democratic boss was all smiles when he arrived in a court in handcuffs yesterday, holding...
GAY KIDS JUMPED ME: DAD
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man accused of starting a fracas outside the city's gay high school turned the tables yesterday by saying he was the victim. Vernon Jones, 23, was trying to...
'THIEF' REV. MADE SHOW OF OUTRAGE
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amThe Queens priest-teacher suspected of skimming $88,000 from the collection boxes of a Long Island church told his students someone was ripping off the parishioners he served. The Rev. John...
PRESSURE'S ON TEAM KOBE ; HORRIFYING SEX TALE DEALS HIM SETBACK: EXPERTS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amA detective's account of a woman's rape allegations against Kobe Bryant dealt his image a punishing blow - but not necessarily a fatal one to his case, according to several...
UPROAR OVER SWASTIKA VANDALS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amSwastikas were discovered spray-painted at two locations in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn yesterday. In the first reported bias incident, at 4508 Fort Hamilton Parkway, five swastikas were painted...
BUY-AND-BUST COPS IN SHOOTOUT WITH DRUG SUSPECT
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amAn undercover drug buy in Harlem went awry early yesterday, resulting in four cops firing a fusillade of at least 21 shots at a suspect believed to have been armed...
HER FINAL MYSTERY ; AUTHOR, 77, ACTS OUT SUICIDE PLOT
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amFeminist trailblazer Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, better known by her mystery novel nom de plume Amanda Cross, was found dead in her Manhattan apartment, a victim of her own hand who...
HER FINAL MYSTERY; AUTHOR, 77, ACTS OUT SUICIDE PLOT
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amFeminist trailblazer Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, better known by her mystery novel nom de plume Amanda Cross, was found dead in her Manhattan apartment, a victim of her promise to take...
BABY SITTER AND TODDLER MISSING
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amA toddler and his teenage baby sitter were missing from the child's East Flatbush home, and police were frantically looking for them yesterday. Xavier Anderson's mom last saw him around...
KIDNAPPED TOT TAKEN TO PRECINCT
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amA toddler kidnapped from his East Flatbush home turned up at a Canarsie police precinct last night, and the circumstances under which he was found were more mysterious than his...
CUBS SURVIVE
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 3/ 11 INNINGS CUbs 5 Marlins 4 MIAMI - The Cubs lost a gut-wrenching, 11-inning NLCS home opener on Tuesday, and it was hard to fathom a defeat could...
WACKY 'POUND OF FLESH' $LAY PLOT
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amCall it a murder-for-hire - charged by the pound. Manhattan prosecutors divulged kooky details yesterday about a foiled plot where the hit man - actually an undercover cop who was...
TWIST IN MILK HS BRAWL
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man accused of starting a fracas outside the city's gay high school turned the tables yesterday by saying he was the victim. Vernon Jones, 23, was trying to...
'EXTRA' INCENTIVE ; GLANVILLE GIVES CUBS GAME 3 WIN
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amGAME 3 / 11 INNINGSCubs 5Marlins 4 MIAMI - The Cubs lost a gut-wrenching NLCS opener on Tuesday despite Sammy Sosa's game-tying reprieve with two outs in the ninth. It...
'WRIGLEY SOUTH' IS NO PLACE FOR REAL CHI FANS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amMIAMI - The only ivy here may grow on Grandpa Jack McKeon. In this humidity, Ernie Banks might beg off after playing only one. But Chicago is doing the best...
'HEROIC' LOWELL CAN'T GET BACK IN
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amNLCS NOTEBOOK MIAMI - Jack McKeon fielded questions about Mike Lowell's absence from the starting lineup again yesterday. It will likely be a daily routine until the Marlins' playoff run...
HUMILIATED ISLES TURN TO DIPIETRO
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amBUFFALO - Of everything that took place Thursday in the Islanders' season-opening, 6-1 loss at Washington, there were no positives, according to coach Steve Stirling. "None," he said. "Well, maybe...
BRODEUR TRYING SOMETHING NEW
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amRALEIGH - Shooters can start hoping again next week - if they're not blinded by the glare off Martin Brodeur's new pads. The Vezina Trophy netminder is breaking in a...
MOUNTIES TOUGH TEST FOR FRIARS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amSOMETIMES, a 21-game winning streak can be a dangerous thing. Just ask Rich Reichert. "When the season started, that's all anyone talked about," said Reichert, the head coach at St....
KICKEN KRIS IS ONE TO BEAT
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amA rash of short-priced favorites - Qais and Alchemist at 1-5, Rodney Bay at 2-5, Geometry and House Party at 3-5, He's Crafty at 4-5 - got their clocks cleaned...
METROS LOOK TO PLAYOFFS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amJust try to psyche yourself up for this one if you're a MetroStar. You've already clinched a playoff berth. It's almost impossible to catch first-place Chicago and move up a...
DAIGLE ENJOYS WILD COMEBACK
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amST. PAUL - This is the time of opening games. This is the time of new beginnings. What better way is there to explain Alexandre Daigle's presence in the Wild...
BEAT PEDRO? HERE'S HOW BOMBER BLUEPRINT HAS WORKED IN PAST
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amTHE Yankees know how to beat Pedro Martinez. Actually, they know how to beat the Red Sox when Martinez starts. They know it better than any other team in the...
GIANTS PREPARED FOR TRICKERY FROM PATS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amIt's coming. The Giants don't know when, but they're certain they'll see the Patriots try a reverse, or an end-around, if you prefer, against their defense at some juncture of...
TYREE'S FORGING 'SPECIAL' IDENTITY
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES When identifying the Giants' players he feels present a challenge to his Patriots team, coach Bill Belichick this week rattled off the usual suspects, until he made one...
POSADA'S CATCHING FIRE NOW
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Disagreement is the fabric that binds Red Sox fans and Yankees fans in eternal strife. Who's the better pitcher - Pedro Martinez or Roger Clemens? Who's the better...
SPREWELL FIRES AWAY AT MSG BIGS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amLatrell Sprewell can forget the video tribute now. The Timberwolves guard fired some venom toward Knick owner James Dolan, Garden prez Steve Mills and GM Scott Layden, saying they "didn't...
BOXING WITHOUT BLOOD
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - They can juice baseballs and biceps. They can shorten fences, lengthen careers, turn ballparks into pinball machines and players into pharmaceutical lab rats. They can read market surveys...
DEKE ACCEPTS KURT'S CHALLENGE
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amDikembe Mutombo has taken Kurt Thomas up on his challenge. Thomas said it will be "tough" for Mutombo to supplant him as the Knicks' starting center and that the newest...
MATSUI SAVORS FIRST POSTSEASON IN USA
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Playoffs can do weird things to an athlete. The adrenaline pumps. The muscles twitch. The results are unpredictable. When the lights get brighter, there's no telling who will...
FREE HIM, GEORGE! SIGN HIM, METS!
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - There would be no greater piece of baseball justice than this: for Brian Cashman to walk across the street, hang a shingle outside Shea Stadium and prove once...
CASHMAN TO SHEA? LIVID BOSS TOLD GM HE CAN CROSS TOWN
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - In the course of a heated discussion between George Steinbrenner and GM Brian Cashman during Game 2 of the ALDS versus the Twins, The Boss was so down...
ALONZO SHOWING FLASHES OF OLD FORM
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amAlonzo Mourning is the first to stress it: It is still far too early, to gauge what impact he will have on the Nets. So don't get too excited. Too...
ROCKET, PEDRO SET FOR FENWAY FIGHT ; YANKS, BOSOX IN GAME FOR AGES
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Roger Clemens against Pedro Martinez isn't new. But it never gets old. Especially when as much is on the line as there is today. Clemens and Martinez, two...
BOSOX GM: DAMON NO SURE THING IN GAME 3
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Johnny Damon says he's "absolutely" playing today. His GM wasn't ready to make the same claim. Damon, the Red Sox center fielder who suffered a significant concussion when...
JOSE TAKES BALL AWAY FROM JEFF
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Jeff Nelson was certainly disappointed about not getting the call in the seventh inning of Game 2 Thursday night against the Red Sox. Joe Torre needed a right-hander...
PLAYING FAVORITES ; ENRIQUE GETS RICH PICKING ON PEDRO
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - No one can explain this freak of baseball. Not Enrique Wilson. Not his father. Not Derek Jeter. Not Grady Little. Not Joe Torre. Not Jason Varitek. And, presumably,...
FOR JETER, PAIN'S PART OF GAME
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amAS the Yankees worked out in the late-afternoon sun of Fenway yesterday, the shadows stretched across the outfield grass to create the picture-perfect autumn baseball scene. Only the most important...
ROCKET'S TOUGH OUT: THE VOTE'S FOR NIXON
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - Roger Clemens' toughest out today won't be Manny Ramirez, Nomar Garciaparra or David Ortiz. His toughest out will be batting seventh in the Red Sox lineup. In 35...
TODAY'S SOUNDTRACK COULD FEATURE CHIN MUSIC
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amBOSTON - If Roger Clemens wants to send a message or intimidate by pitching inside today, the Red Sox say that's fine. They'll be digging in, the way they always...
WILLIS OUT TO WIN ; BATTLES CLEMENT IN TRADE FACE-OFF
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amMIAMI - When Matt Clement and Antonio Alfonseca were dealt from Florida to Chicago during spring training in 2002, the only recognizable player going the other way - if you...
ELLIS STANDS OUT ; DE IS ONE OF JETS' FEW BRIGHT SPOTS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amIt hasn't all been bad for the Jets in this miserable 0-4 season entering tomorrow's 4:15 p.m. home game against the favored Bills. There has been one particular ray of...
METS GM JOB STILL UP FOR GRABS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amMIAMI - Met officials wrapped up three days of organizational meetings in Port St. Lucie yesterday and digested their late-night Thursday interview of Houston GM Gerry Hunsicker. The next step...
'WRIGLEY SOUTH' IS NO PLACE FOR REAL CUBS FANS
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amWRIGLEY FIELD SOUTH - The only ivy here may grow on Grandpa Jack McKeon. As for the Dishes at South Beach, Deep certainly are the tans and cleavage, but any...
WELCOME TO ICE FOLLIES RANGERS BRUTAL IN OPENER
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amWild 5Rangers 3 ST. PAUL - If old habits didn't suddenly die, the Rangers had better hope they eventually fade away. Because while it would be absurd to draw too...
DONTRELLE'S DEAL - BATTLES CLEMENT IN TRADE FACE-OFF
October 11, 2003 | 4:00amMIAMI - When Matt Clement and Antonio Alfonseca were dealt from Florida to Chicago during spring training in 2002, the only recognizable player going the other way - if you...