October 18, 2003
LIVING ACROSS THE HUDSON ; LOCATION, CHEAP RENTS KEEP REVITALIZED HOBOKEN YOUNG
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amWHEN director Elia Kazan was in Hoboken, N.J., filming the 1954 classic On the Waterfront, he hired bodyguards. But Hoboken today, with its vibrant nightlife and tidy streets lined with...
HOBOKEN, JERSEY CITY OFFER DIFFERENT OPTIONS
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amWHEN writer Adam Duerson moved to the tri-state area after college, he knew he wanted to live in New Jersey. Like many, he was attracted to the slower pace of...
MONEY WOES HIT FAO STOCK
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amShares of FAO Inc. fell 12 percent yesterday, on concern over the company's financial situation. FAO, which owns the FAO Schwarz, Zany Brainy and Right Start toy chains, has struggled...
FUND FLOW WOES ; SCANDALIZED INVESTORS PULL OUT $7.9B IN MONTH
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amAngry investors are yanking billions out of mutual funds being probed for improper trading that's stacked against them. At least four of the 11 funds being investigated by New York...
TECH STOCKS PUMMEL MARTS
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe economy's rosy report on new home building got blown down yesterday by tumbling Internet stocks. Two big Internet companies that have led the tech rally's enthusiasm, eBay and DoubleClick,...
'MY OFFICE IS A CLOSET'
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amStep into the average closet and you're likely to find a world of linens and shoes. But step into Jonathan Pont's closet and you'll find a desk, a computer, a...
DE NIRO EYES UPTOWN
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amGIMME SHELTER When asked what made him such a talented actor, Robert De Niro replied: "The talent is in the choices." But it seems De Niro has had an easier...
AUCTION HOUSE
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amNow eBay junkies can feel a little less guilty about getting their fix: from this Wednesday through Oct. 30, if you purchase select home furnishings on eBay, all proceeds will...
FROM CHAISES TO CRYSTALWARE
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amLale 200 Mott St., between Spring and Kenmare streets (212) 941-7641 Sale: through Oct. 26 Open: Tue.-Sun., noon-8 p.m. A pre-holiday blowout sale offers up to 50 percent off on...
WATCHING SPORTS IN STYLE
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThis time of year is heaven for the sports nut. There's a cornucopia of fun - the World Series, plus football, basketball and hockey. And when you can't get to...
YANKS FOR EVERYTHING: BOMBERS HIT GRAND SLAM ON FOX
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amTHE Yankees dramatic, pennant-winning victory over Boston propelled Fox to some of the best baseball ratings in years. Aaron Boone's 11th-inning homer gave the Yanks a 6-5 Game 7 victory...
ZANES REIGNS ON 'PARTY'
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amOn their last CD, "Night Time!," Dan Zanes and friends sung about that time of day when there's only one thing parents want their kids to do. And parts of...
CHIC BARS, CHEAP ART AND LOTS MORE IN .... DUMBO
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amWith an elephantine name like DUMBO, you might expect the area Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass to be gray and lumbering. Instead, it's been Brooklyn's hippest and fastest-growing neighborhood...
SICK AIRLINE HOAX; ARREST AFTER CUTTERS, 'BOMBS' SPUR SEARCH OF 7,000 JETS
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amA prankish terror scare on two Southwest Airlines jets prompted the FAA to order searches of every commercial airliner yesterday - and soon afterward, the FBI had a suspect in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amHere's a junkyard that specializes in body parts. And we don't mean auto-body parts. According to cops in Columbus, Ohio, an auto-salvage dealer and his girlfriend have been running a...
L.I. MAN SENTENCED FOR '79 KID SLAY
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amA man was sentenced yesterday for the horrific murder of a 13-year-old Long Island boy - almost a quarter-century after a gang of four teens suffocated the child by stuffing...
CRISIS IN THE MIDEAST ; YASSER IS TOO HOT TO TOUCH: SHARON
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday ruled out expelling Yasser Arafat despite his government's vow to remove the Palestinian leader. "The likelihood of expelling him without harming him...
SHE ATE, PAID HER CHECK, THEN SLAUGHTERED 21 ISRAELIS
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A Palestinian woman calmly ate a full lunch and paid her check before blowing herself up in a Haifa restaurant two weeks ago, killing 21 Israelis, according to...
WISEGUY TURNS FUNNY GUY AS BULL ROARS
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amSALVATORE Gravano walked into federal court at 11:15 a.m. yesterday looking more like a sickly calf than a bull. Hairless, frail and changing eyeglasses on a constant basis, the rat...
SICK AIRLINE HOAX ; CUTTERS, FAKE EXPLOSIVES SPUR SEARCH OF 7,000 JETS
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe FAA ordered searches of every commercial aircraft in the U.S. yesterday after a terrorism scare in which a sicko prankster left bags containing box cutters and false explosive materials...
JOE HECKLED FOR SUPPORT OF ISRAEL
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amDemocratic 2004 contender Joe Lieberman got heckled by angry Arab Americans over his support for Israel yesterday as he spoke about the need to restore trust between Jews and Muslims...
B'KLYN BANK BOOB; LOUD-DRESSING NOTE-PASSING TEEN BUSTED
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amSome criminals end up on "America's Most Wanted." Daquan Pitts looks like a candidate for "America's Dumbest Bank Robbers," police said. For about an hour on Thursday afternoon, Pitts attempted...
HIGH-FLYING BROKER IN BRIBE RAP
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amProsecutors say he's the bribin' broker. James Meiskin, president of Manhattan-based Plymouth Partners, was arrested yesterday on grand-larceny and bribe-taking charges in a crazy scheme that started last month after...
NAUGHTY AND FLEISS; 'SOPRANO' JAMIE TO PLAY HEIDI
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe Mafia princess is about to become a Hollywood madam. Jamie-Lynn DiScala, better known as Meadow Soprano on "The Sopranos," has been signed to play "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss in...
TAXI SEAT BELTS MADE MANDATORY
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amALBANY - City cabs and livery vehicles must have seat belts that are in working order and easily accessible to passengers under a bill signed into law yesterday by Gov....
ELECTION BIG RAPPED OVER CAR-FLAG FLAP
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amA top official of the Board of Elections agreed to remove a Confederate flag decal from his car window yesterday during a tense hearing at City Hall about alleged racism...
TEARS FOR MARK; KIN'S ANGUISH AT PARTY-SLAY VICTIM'S FUNERAL
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amMark Fisher's former high school football teammates helped carry his coffin into a New Jersey church yesterday where the slain teen was hailed as someone "everyone loved" - while New...
FORMER STOX BOSS QUITS REBUILD PANEL
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amDisgraced former Big Board boss Richard Grasso yesterday quit another board - the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. Grasso had been appointed to the 16-member LMDC board by then-Mayor Giuliani shortly...
'GANGSTA' SHOOTS 3; TEEN BOYS INJURED NEAR B'KLYN HS
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amTwo teenage boys were shot and a third was grazed yesterday when a gunman opened fire at them from across a Brooklyn street. Police believe the 3 p.m. attack outside...
FISHING FOR ANOTHER FLAG ; BOMBERS SET TO SPEAR MARLINS IN WORLD SERIES OPENER TONIGHT
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amYankee fans are snatching up T-shirts, making party plans and daydreaming of World Series glory once again as the Bombers get set for tonight's Fall Classic opener against the Florida...
NONPARTISAN ELECTIONS BID GETS MIKE'S $
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg is going to use his own considerable wealth to promote nonpartisan elections, aides disclosed yesterday. Ending months of speculation about his intentions, Bloomberg filed "The Committee to Empower...
FERRY PILOTS GO BY THE BOOK ; CAUTIOUS CAPTAINS HAVE 3 HANDS IN WHEELHOUSE
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amStaten Island Ferry pilots were sticking to protocol yesterday with two captains and a deckhand sharing the cabin each time a boat entered or left a pier. Pilots were on...
10TH STATEN ISLAND FERRY VICTIM ID'D
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe 10th victim in the Staten Island Ferry disaster was identified yesterday, two days after the fatal crash that also injured 72 people. Carmen Huertas, 42, of Pendleton Place on...
MARITIME LAW MAY KEEP DAMAGE$ LOW
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe law of the sea could limit the city's legal liability in the Staten Island Ferry disaster, a legal expert said yesterday. If the city is found negligent, the money...
SEARCH ON FOR STOLEN COP CAR
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe NYPD Counter Terrorism Division is on the lookout for an unmarked MTA police car that was swiped in Yonkers this week. The 2001 Chevy Impala, with official plate number...
HERNANDEZ' MISSING WORLD SERIES RINGS
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amRetired Mets star Keith Hernandez yesterday reported two of his World Series rings missing from his Turtle Bay apartment, police said. The rings, from the first baseman's championship seasons with...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amTHE BRONX A man was in stable condition after being stabbed during an argument with another man on a Morrisania street, police said yesterday. The victim was stabbed three times...
15 PAINFUL YEARS SINCE HERO COPS SLAIN
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe heartache and loss remain for family and friends of NYPD cops Christopher Hoban and Michael Buczek, who were slain in upper Manhattan 15 years ago today. A memorial Mass...
BRAVEST SAVE 3 FROM HIGH-WATER HELL
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThree workers were trapped in the basement of a Washington Heights furniture store with water up to their necks after a burst main flooded the streets of Upper Manhattan -...
BROKER BUSTED IN BRIBE SCHEME
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amProsecutors say he's the bribin' broker. James Meiskin, president of Manhattan-based Plymouth Partners, was arrested yesterday on grand larceny and bribe-taking charges in a crazy scheme that started last month,...
WEASEL GAGS EU OVER 'JEW' SLUR
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amFrench President Jacques Chirac blocked the European Union from condemning Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's vicious anti-Semitic tirade that "Jews rule the world by proxy." Other European leaders had drafted...
HUNT ON FOR STOLEN POLICE CAR
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe NYPD Counter Terrorism division is on the lookout for an unmarked MTA police car that was swiped in Yonkers this week. The 2001 Chevy Impala, with official plate number...
CITY SUES TO FILTER OUT WEB CIGS
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe city stepped up its war on Internet cigarette distributors yesterday, filing a lawsuit against seven out-of-state Web sites for illegally shipping cigarettes to New York. The city Corporation Counsel...
BOAT HIT AT FULL THROTTLE, PROBERS SAY
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amFederal investigators said yesterday the ferry was traveling at full speed when it hit the pier. "It was not speeding up but ... it was under what we'd say full...
COOL CATCH FOR FAITHFUL FOLLOWER WHO BAGGED BOONE-BALL
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amRick Peterson was the lucky fan who caught Aaron Boone's historic home-run ball. And yesterday, the 47-year-old Manhattan sociologist and big-time Bomber booster had a ball when he met the...
A BOONE BOOM ALL OVER TOWN
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amAaron Boone's historic home run against the hated Red Sox was a boon for businesses selling Yankees merchandise yesterday as Bomber fans scooped up T-shirts, game jerseys and sweatshirts bearing...
ANOTHER NIGHT BRINGS ANOTHER CHALLENGE
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThey keep coming at the Devils with bigger axes to grind, vengeful motives the Stanley Cup champs lack, because, well, they won. So far, the Devils have tied the Bruins,...
YOUNG FISH GETS ALONG SWIMMINGLY
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe Marlins pull 'em out from three runs down and five outs to go in the eighth, subliminally from Moises Alou's glove when all seems lost. The National League champions...
IKE'S PAIN GAME HURTING'S OLD HATFOR GIANTS' HILLIARD
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amGiants wide receiver Ike Hilliard will line up tomorrow afternoon, run his routes and, if history is a guide, take a beating. Some bigger and stronger Eagle will lay a...
ISLES SEEKING HOME REMEDY
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe reasons why the Islanders were so bad at home toward the end of last year are plentiful. Some said that the team wasn't working hard enough, that the Isles...
REVENGE NOT PART OF MITCHELL'S PLAYBOOK
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Brian Mitchell this week purposely avoided all requests for interviews by Philadelphia media outlets, as he did not want as important a game as Giants-Eagles to be in...
IF YOU DOUBT THE MARLINS THEN YOU DON'T KNOW JACK
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amWHEN Marlins manager Jack McKeon talks about his love of baseball and people, he's not just offering lip service. The last time McKeon was out of work, long before he...
BANGED-UP LEHMAN WARY OF KENNEDY
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amWHILE Kennedy's 4-1 record in the PSAL (4-2 overall) comes as a surprise to some, it doesn't to longtime Lehman coach Carmine Colasanto. "In the PSAL, you never know what's...
YANKEES MAKE D.J. A BELIEVER
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amAfter the soul-lifting, mind-boggling, Yankee-affirming, extra-inning 6-5 win over the Red Sox that sent the Yankees into Game 1 of the World Series tonight against the Marlins, Derek Jeter said...
CHREBET OUT VS. TEXANS ACHY HEAD & BACK PUT WAYNE ON SHELF
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amDizzy and groggy, and suffering from a sore back, Jets wide receiver Wayne Chrebet will not play at Houston tomorrow. With Chrebet's symptoms not improving, the Jets sent him for...
SATHER BEMOANS BROADWAY CRITICS
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe 2003 Red Sox are now saddled with an 85-year burden, and the Cubs' burden has reached 95 years; not all that long ago, the 1993-94 Rangers' were carrying the...
CALIFORNIA, HERE WE COME ; SANTA ANITA ALL SET FOR BREEDERS' CUP
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amARCADIA, Calif. - The brown haze of smog that shrouds the Los Angeles basin is a strange sight to visitors, but it's a fond remembrance for the Breeders' Cup, which,...
PUDGE LOOKS FOR REVENGE
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amIvan Rodriguez doesn't mind if people still think of him as a Ranger instead of a Marlin. But he undoubtedly wants to put his playoff experiences with Texas behind him....
YANKS LOOK TO FEAST ON FISH ; BOOMER GETS FIRST SHOT TO TAKE BIG BITE OUT OF MARLINS IN GAME 1
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amWhen is the ticker-tape parade up Broadway? No, the Yankees didn't win the World Series early Friday morning on Aaron Boone's 11th inning home off Tim Wakefield, it just felt...
LOWELL ONE THAT GOT AWAY ; SLUGGING 3B WAS STOLEN FROM YANKS
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amTrading away Mike Lowell might be the dumbest deal the Yankees have made during their championship run, considering Ed Yarnall won't be able to help the Bombers during the next...
MATSUI GETS HIS WISH
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amHideki Matsui has made it all sound and seem so simple this season. After setting new standards in Japan, he signed with the Yankees because, "I wanted to play in...
COYLESS JOE: HAVEN'T PICKED THE LINEUP YET
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amWORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK Joe Torre said he wasn't being coy when he declined to announce a lineup for tonight's World Series Game 1 against the Marlins. Torre's explanation was he...
GRIFFIN DEAL BETTER THAN NETS COULD HAVE KNOWN
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amPRESEASONCeltics 95Nets 90 It was draft night 2001 and the Nets had just sent the seventh pick, local hero Eddie Griffin of Seton Hall, once touted as a potential No....
ALLAN SITS; KNICKS WIN
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amPRESEASONKnicks 88Spurs 74 SAN ANTONIO - Allan Houston's slow rehab from right-knee surgery continued when he decided against suiting up for last night's game but Keith Van Horn ensured the...
MARLINS' WILLIS TALKIN' ABOUT BULLPEN
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amOn Thursday night's plane flight to New York, Dontrelle Willis learned his next destination is the bullpen. In a move best described as intriguing but not stunning, the Marlins' left-handed...
CALL HIM MR. DURABLE: BOOMER: GIVE ME THE BALL, I'M OK
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amSomehow you can pick any day of the year, and David Wells' magical left arm still manages to deliver. "He can get up Christmas morning," Yankee manager Joe Torre said,...
HEART OF A CHAMP: NEW FACES STARTING TO GET THAT OLD YANKEE LOOK
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe enduring images of the ALCS are Yankees face down in the ground. Don Zimmer kissing Fenway Park turf after being flipped by Pedro Martinez during the hostilities of Game...
YANKS COW-BOONE UP! CITY LOVES NEW HERO
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe phone rang yesterday morning and Aaron Boone awakened to dual realities: He had not been dreaming. And he had been partying. Hard. "Wake up," said the voice on the...
THEY FEEL WELLS RESTED: TIRED YANKS TAP DAVID FOR GAME 1
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amEVERYONE was available. Joe Torre made that clear beforehand, and he was true to it. As the Yankees and the Red Sox plunged deeper and deeper into Game 7 Thursday...
RIVERA: READY FOR MO
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amEven Superman needs a day off every now and then. After firing three scoreless innings Thursday - his longest stint since Sept. 6, 1996 - Mariano Rivera is questionable for...
LAYDEN: VAN HORN WILL MAKE NOISE IN GARDEN
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Knicks GM Scott Layden believes it's only a matter of time before Keith Van Horn wins over the Garden. Layden is impressed with his new acquisition, who's...
CAN'T KEEP TORRE DOWN: LOSS IN '02 CATALYST FOR TITLE RUN
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amTWELVE months ago, he reclined in his office chair, a "Ben Hogan" golf cap on his head, wearing blue jeans and an untucked blue work shirt, sipping from a steaming...
MR. OCTOBER FOREVER: REGGIE STILL BASKING IN NY'S GLOW
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amTHE man with the broad shoulders stood by the batting cage before Game 7 of the ALCS, the late Mickey Mantle talking on the scoreboard behind him, and Reggie Jackson...
HOT PUDGE! SIZZLING MARLINS' BACKSTOP A REEL BARGAIN AT $10 MILLION
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amTHE 15-room house in South Florida has Persian rugs, oil paintings, sculptures and presumably, good mirrors in which the owner decided to take a good, hard look at the best...
GODZILLA A BIG-GAME MONSTER
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amDESPITE the nickname Godzilla, Hideki Matsui is as mild and humble as any player in the Yankee clubhouse, usually sitting in front of his locker drinking green tea before games....
GREAT MOMENTS THAT DEFINE A CHAMPION: FROM BAMBINO TO TINO, THE MOST MEMORABLE PLAYS IN YANKEE WORLD SERIES HISTORY
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amTHE Yankees have participated in 38 World Series and brought home 26 titles in their century of excellence. The building blocks of those incredible numbers are the many clutch hits,...
SQUISH THE FISH: EXPERTS SEE MANY FLAWS IN UPSTART NL CHAMPS
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amFOR much of Thursday night's ALCS Game 7, the Yan-kees were closer to chasing free agents Vladimir Guerrero, Gary Sheffield and Sammy Sosa than readying for the Marlins tonight in...
SAY HIP, HIP, PARADE FOR THE YANKEES: MARLINS DON'T HAVE ENOUGH LUMBER,
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amMISMATCH? According to several scouts, the Marlins-Yankees World Series Yankees World Series that opens tonight with Game 1 at Yankee Stadium is closer than some expect. "On paper, the Yankees...
A WING AND A PRAYER: LARSEN'S MEMORY STILL PERFECT AFTER 47 YEARS
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amDON Larsen was one out from being the imperfect man who pitched The Perfect Game in the World Series, and 47 Octobers later, he remembers the moment as if it...
WELLS ON TOP AGAIN AFTER TURBULENT RIDE: HEFTY LEFTY LEAVES BAD TIMES IN DUST
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amHE is fat and 40 and trouble. He is infuriating and outrageous and politically incorrect and self-absorbed. His idea of conditioning is beer and late nights at Veruka. His beloved...
GIAMBI'S SURGE HAS NICE RING TO IT
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amIf you're Jason Giambi, you don't stop celebrating after a Game 7 like that. So after hitting two homers Thursday, the Yankees slugger went out with a few teammates, still...
TORRE WONDERS ABOUT ZIM
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amWith regard to Don Zimmer, Joe Torre said he hopes it was just emotion talking. According to a published report yesterday, the Yankees' bench coach issued comments after Thursday's Game...
URBINA SAVES BEST FOR LAST
October 18, 2003 | 4:00amThe Marlins could've pulled the trigger on Armando Benitez. Instead, they chose Ugueth Urbina. That's proof people down in Florida knew what they were doing this season, and that move...