November 3, 2003
TARGET EYES MEGASTORE ON WEST 23RD STREET
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amExecs at red-hot retailer Target have their eyes on a giant chunk of real estate across from the new Home Depot and Best Buy on West 23rd Street, The Post...
EMUSIC BUYER MAKING PLAY FOR INDEPENDENT MUSIC NICHE
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amVenture capital firm Dimensional Associates is to unveil today its plans for Emusic, the digital music service the firm is acquiring from Vivendi. The firm plans to closely align Emusic...
A BROADER VIEW ; IN BREAN MURRAY REQUEST, SEC EYES LEHMAN, BOFA
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe SEC has subpoenaed New York-based brokerage house Brean Murray in the agency's ongoing investigation of improper mutual fund trading practices, in an apparent attempt to dig deeper into some...
THE ONLY BOUNCE IN 'BOUNCE' IS SONDHEIM
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amBOUNCEKennedy Center in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON - Well, at least it's Sondheim. And sometimes very good Sondheim. After suffering through the first two bland-leading-the-bland Broadway scores of the new season,...
A HOT 'CAT'
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amCAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF 1/2 The Music Box Theater, 239 W. 45th St.; (212) 239-6200. MENDACITY and evasion - those tangled miseries of suppression - are the keys...
CBS' 'REAGANS' MAY BE SOLD TO SHOWTIME
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amCBS' upcoming miniseries "The Reagans" has created so much controversy that the network is considering selling the $9 million program to Showtime, a new report says. Not only has the...
SHALLOW GAL EX-CHEERLEADER NEARLY WALKS WHEN SHE SEES THESE 'AVERAGE JOES'
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amTALK about reality. The first few moments after sexy ex- NFL cheerleader Melana Scantlin met her 16 suitors on NBC's new reality dating series "Average Joe," did not go as...
WAS JESUS CHRIST A MARRIED MAN?
November 3, 2003 | 5:00am"Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci" Tonight at 8 on ABC/Ch. 7 (three stars) WAS Jesus married? And was Mary Magdalene his wife? Apparently, a lot of people will be upset...
STARR REPORT
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amSpecial 'Life' lesson "The Montel Williams Show" continues its "Life Journals" series tomorrow (9 a.m./Ch. 5) with the story of Barb Tarbox, a lifelong smoker who, after being diagnosed with...
POSING QUESTIONS: WHAT STARS' BODY LANGUAGE SAYS ABOUT THEM
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amIT'S not easy being a celebrity - what with all those premieres, parties, and miles upon miles of red carpets lined with hordes of photographers. But every time those cameras...
'MATRIX' TRICKS: AN ACTION-PACKED GUIDE FOR THE 'MATRIX'-CHALLENGED
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amIF you haven't watched "The Matrix" or its sequel, "The Matrix Reloaded," in recent days, the Wachowski brothers have two words for you: Tough luck. "The Matrix Revolutions," the third...
GOP FINALLY MAY HAVE A CHUCK RIVAL
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amTHE GOP's desperate search for a challenger to Democratic U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is close to coming to an end. Republican sources told The Post yesterday that Gov. Pataki, at...
SEXY DETAILS IN HELMSLEY HARASS SUIT
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amAn executive whose $9 million sex-harassment lawsuit against Leona Helmsley was tossed is having another shot at the so-called Queen of Mean - and this time his court papers leave...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amThey call Howard Albertson the "Marrying Man" for a good reason - the 75-year-old Minnesota judge is about to perform his 5,000th wedding. And Albertson, who began doing ceremonies in...
JAVITS MAKEOVER - $1.5B EXPANSION PLANNED FOR CENTER
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe Javits Center is planning a $1.5 billion expansion that will double the exhibit space and add a grassy rooftop park, a new report says. The expansion would also add...
STAMPS OF DISAPPROVAL
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amTo get your face featured on a U.S. stamp, it helps to be a dead president. In Mordovia, you only need to have had sex with a living president. Welcome...
DEMS UNCIVIL OVER DEAN'S DIXIE GAFFE
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Democrats yesterday dumped on presidential wannabe Howard Dean, after the former Vermont governor claimed he wanted votes from "guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks." They said...
BOY, HE'S MAD NOW - GEORGE BLASTS SUIT VS. ROSIE
November 3, 2003 | 5:00am"I relish the idea [though ridiculously untrue] that after meeting myself in London, Rosie became 'avant garde and edgy.'" - Boy George Boy George has come out swinging against charges...
VOTERS SEE FEW NEW FACES IN CITY COUNCIL RACES
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amTomorrow is Election Day, and while all City Council members are eligible for re-election, nine of them have no opposition and two districts will elect new lawmakers. The most closely...
STABBING IN BOOZY BRAWL
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amA verbal dispute outside an Upper East Side bar noted for its rowdiness led to a brawl and a stabbing that sent a man to the hospital for surgery yesterday,...
'RACY' WAY TO PROPOSE MARRIAGE
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amMARATHON MOMENTS Runner Melissa Shea got one of the biggest surprises of her life when she crossed the finish line. The 30-year-old lawyer from Hoboken was met by her boyfriend,...
FIRE-DAMAGED TRACKS FIXED
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amSubway service on the 2 and 3 lines is expected be normal by today's morning rush hour, said the Transit Authority, which had scrambled over the weekend to repair extensive...
A WAVE OF SUPPORT FOR SHARK-BITE SURFER GIRL
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amHang tough, Bethany - you will surf again! That's the word from top surfers who say Bethany Hamilton, the 13-year-old wave wizard whose arm was torn off by a 15-foot...
H'WEEN STABBER CONFESSES: COPS
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amA 15-year-old Queens boy yesterday was ordered held on $250,000 bail after confessing to stabbing a dad who was trying to protect his baby from eggs being thrown by the...
COPS RAID L.I. PORNO PALACE IN MID-'ORGY'
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amGays, straights and wife-swappers got dressed in a flesh, uh, flash and made for the exits when Suffolk cops raided a North Bay Shore pleasure palace. Three table dancers and...
A REMINDER THERE'S NO TURNING BACK
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe helicopter shootdown that killed at least 15 Americans sadly recalls another chopper downing where gleeful enemies danced at the deaths of U.S. troops - portrayed in the movie "Black...
FIX IS IN: DEMS - RIP MIKE'S NO-PARTY VOTE 'DEAL'
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amDemocratic leaders came out swinging yesterday, accusing Mayor Bloomberg of pushing nonpartisan elections in exchange for the support of the Independence Party during his re-election campaign. "This was the mayor's...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amTHE BRONX * A 15-year-old boy was stabbed in the stomach and thigh by a man during a dispute at a Webster Avenue house in Tremont, police said. The boy...
PARK VICTIM'S FATHER RAGES
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe angry father of the young woman who was viciously beaten and nearly raped in Prospect Park said his daughter is slowly healing from her wounds - and he's glad...
U. GO, GIRLS! GALS TROUNCE GUYS IN CUNY GENDER GAP
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amCall it City Girls University. Women rule on college campuses - and particularly so at the City University of New York, where 62 percent of students are female and only...
TAX AD APPLIES TO HOMEOWNERS
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe city has taken out ads in several newspapers, including The Post, asking homeowners to fill out an application proving they don't have to pay a 25 percent property-tax increase....
PARKING RELIEF FOR UPPER EAST SIDE
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amDrivers who park on the Upper East Side will have six weeks of relief because the city has temporarily suspended street-cleaning regulations while new signs go up, officials said yesterday....
MYSTERY MURDER ROCKS W'BURG
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amA Polish immigrant died yesterday after being mysteriously shot when he stepped outside a hip Brooklyn restaurant to smoke a cigarette, police said. Construction worker Tabaaka Lukaz, 21, had been...
B'KLYN REV. HIT WITH $5M TEEN-SEX SUIT
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amA 21-year-old born-again Christian from Brooklyn has sued her pastor and church for $5 million, saying he sexually abused her when she was 17. The woman charges in a six-page...
HILL AND RANGEL SLAM DAVIS FOR USING THEIR PIX
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rep. Charles Rangel are blasting the brother of slain Brooklyn Councilman James Davis for using their pictures in his campaign brochures without their permission. "We...
TV-SHOOT LAWYER: HOW I SURVIVED
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - The lawyer shot outside a Los Angeles courthouse as TV cameras rolled checked out of the hospital yesterday, saying basic survival instincts and a fortuitously placed tree...
16 GIS KILLED IN COPTER AMBUSH; TRAGIC TROOPS WERE HOMEWARD BOUND
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amSixteen American soldiers, headed for an R&R leave, were killed in Iraq yesterday when their transport helicopter was shot down in the deadliest single attack on U.S. troops since the...
PIANIST A PLAYER, NOT A SLAYER: PALS
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amColleagues of Judith Brown were stunned yesterday after learning the Cole Porter aficionado allegedly bludgeoned her elderly brother-in-law to death in the Poconos. "She is a wonderful and talented woman...
DRIVERS LACK DRIVE TO FIGHT TIX
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amParking penalties have soared, but that hasn't fueled a rush by motorists to contest tickets. Even after fines zoomed from $55 to $105 on Oct. 1, 2002, the percentage of...
MARATHON WINNERS STILL ; SHOWING UP U.S.
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amHOW can we compete? The Kenyans, who took the first four male and top three female places in the New York City marathon, run mountaintop spartan training camps without indoor...
THE PERSUASION MYTH; DEEDS, NOT WORDS, CHANGE MINDS
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amSUPPOSE the Saudi government launched an "information campaign" intended to convince Americans to adopt a strict Islamic lifestyle and that democracy, women's emancipation, open government, human rights and freedom are...
BX. TENANTS OVERCOME BY FUMES
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amAt least 10 people were treated after being overcome by carbon monoxide in a Bronx apartment building last night, fire officials said. Three men, two of them aged 34 and...
40TH ST. FIASCO; TIMES' NEW HQ SNAFU
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amPOISON warnings festoon the steel- gated, boarded-up east side of Eighth Avenue between West 40th and 41st streets. How long will the once sleazy-but-lively blockfront remain lifeless and toxic? Only...
COPS RAID L.I. PORNO PALACE
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amGays, straights and wife-swappers got dressed in a flesh, uh, flash and made for the exits when Suffolk cops raided a North Bay Shore pleasure palace. Three table dancers and...
FOLKS-AWAY RICH KIDS GO WILD ON EAST SIDE
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amA boozy Upper East Side party thrown by a teen while her wealthy parents were out of town turned into a violent, drunken melee that had to be broken up...
'PERV' PAROLE BOSS FUROR
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amALBANY - A state parole supervisor whose decorated Bronx unit deals with sexual offenders has been accused of sexually harassing one of his officers, but got only a slap on...
BANNED FROM THE BALLOT BOX
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amJohn O'Hara is the first New Yorker since suffragette Susan B. Anthony ever to be convicted of illegal voting - but he's asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strip him...
CODE OF CONDUCT - LESSONS IN CIVILITY FOR SCHOOLKIDS
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe Bloomberg administration has drafted an unprecedented and sweeping new school curriculum that teaches students about civility, safety and the consequences for misbehaving, The Post has learned. The 53-page guides...
15 GIS KILLED IN COPTER AMBUSH: TRAGIC TROOPS WERE HOMEWARD BOUND
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amFifteen American soldiers headed for an R&R leave were killed in Iraq yesterday when their transport helicopter was shot down in the deadliest single attack on U.S. troops since the...
DEATHS AN ECHO OF SOMALIA HORROR
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amThe helicopter shootdown near Fallujah that killed at least 15 Americans sadly recalls another chopper downing where gleeful enemies danced at the deaths of U.S. troops - portrayed in the...
KVASHA PILING UP POINTS, NOT SMILES
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amAt a time when Oleg Kvasha has plenty to be smiling about, playing some of the best hockey in his tenure with the Islanders, the brooding Russian left wing seems...
PETTITTE & CLEMENS GEAR FOR FREE AGENCY
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amIn both cases, it's nothing more than a formality. However, for one of them it could be his initial step out of the Yankees' universe. Some time this week, possibly...
NET SUBS PASS TEST
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amBrian Scalabrine wanted to get the refrigerator off his back. Brandon Armstrong wanted to shed the albatross around his neck. Both succeeded. Scalabrine and Armstrong, two third-season role players who...
THG: TROUBLE FOR ARNOLD?
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amTHIS BALCO THG thing is not about to go away. Nor should it. The "designer" steroid that is suspected to have been produced by Bay Area Lab Co-Op and has...
BYRON PINING TO REST KIDD
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES It has been a standard mission for Byron Scott and the Nets: Find more rest for Jason Kidd. So far, it's been tough. Kidd has played 40, 42...
HERM LETS FASSEL ESCAPE UNSCATHED
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amMORE than ever before, it has become abundantly clear that when Judgment Day arrives, when Armageddon hits, when the Apocalypse knocks on the front door, there will be only three...
SAME OLD STORY FOR THRILL-A-MINUTE BIG BLUE
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amA game the Giants had won and then blown was on the cusp of getting won again. A 14-point lead had vanished, overtime beckoned but when they won the coin...
CONWAY LEAVES JETS FOUR-LORN ; FIELD GOAL AT 14:56 OF OT GIVES GIANTS WACKY WIN
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIMEGiants 31Jets 28 Four seconds separated the Giants and Jets from watching their respective playoff hopes dashed simultaneously, together on the same field, playing each other to an unlikely but...
AMERICAN RUNNERS FINISH DOWN LIST
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amNOTEBOOK On the day of arguably the biggest road race in the country, to use a racing term, the Americans spit the bit. While Kenyans dominated the New York City...
KENYANS RULE DAY ; OKAYO SETS RECORD IN WOMEN'S RACE; LEL CAPTURES MEN'S
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amMargaret Okayo slumped to her knees, clasping her hands and praying, giving thanks for her New York City Marathon course record. Fellow Kenyan Martin Lel, the son of a Catholic...
CONWAY'S THANKFUL FOR CHANCE
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amAfter a long afternoon yesterday, Brett Conway thanked teammate Tiki Barber for tripping over his own feet, thanked him for not scoring a touchdown for the Giants. As mutinous as...
CHANEY: EFFORT IS THERE
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amORLANDO - Talk about not being on the same page. Yesterday, coach Don Chaney was surprised to hear that his three best players - Kurt Thomas, Allan Houston and Keith...
CHAOS REIGNS AS JETS BOTCH FG TRY
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amAnthony Becht didn't understand what was taking so long. Where was the field goal unit? "I remember looking at the sidelines and shaking my leg up," Becht said, recalling the...
CHAD EFFORT GIVES JETS SOME HOPE FOR FUTURE
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amTHE Jets locker room in the aftermath of their 31-28 overtime loss to the Giants yesterday was a collection of broken hearts and long, sad faces. None of the beaten...
BIG BLUE RULE N.Y., BUT BARELY ; GIANTS RUE LACK OF KILLER INSTINCT
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amIT WAS Blue or Die. And Blue was dying. Out of the coffin in the fourth quarter rose Chad Pennington and the Jets, and now, 79:52 into a stirring alley...
DEAD TEAM WALKING: LOSS ENDED JETS' HOPES FOR PLAYOFFS
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amMark it down. The Jets' season, in terms of their pursuit of a playoff berth, is over. For the first time in Herman Edwards' three years as head coach, the...
KERRY'S DRAW A SHOCKER
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES The two-point conversion run by Kerry Collins on a quarterback draw with 9:58 remaining in regulation was a play installed this week by the Giants, added for shock...
'FOOTNOTES' SCORES IN BIG A'S NASHUA
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amChalk players suffered a first-round knockout in yesterday's Grade 3, $100,000 Nashua Stakes for 2-year-olds at the Big A when 4-5 favorite Value Plus took a header at the break,...
MARTIN'S BACK ON PACE FOR 1000 YARDS
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amJET NOTES Lost in the barrage of big plays, comebacks and eventual heartbreak during yesterday's 31-28 Jets' loss to the Giants was yet another strong performance by Curtis Martin and...
PETTITTE, CLEMENS FILE FOR FREE AGENCY
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amIn both cases, it's nothing more than a formality. However, for one of them it could be his initial step out of the Yankees' universe. Some time this week, possibly...
SANTANA ARRIVES IN A BIG WAY
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amWrite down Nov. 2, 2003, and make sure you remember it as the day that Santana Moss arrived. In the Jets' 31-28 OT loss, the touchdowns kept coming and coming...
IT'S SAME FOLD STORY AT GARDEN
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amAvalanche 3 Rangers 2 They haven't learned yet, haven't learned that the only way to close out a game is to go for the jugular and pay attention to detail...
ALLEN GLAD JINT 'D' GOT 2ND CHANCE
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amA strange feeling was running through the mind of Will Allen yesterday as his team's kicker, Brett Conway, lined up for a potential game-winning field goal. The Giants had won...
LAYDEN'S CLINGING TO DOLEAC
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amORLANDO - Knick GM Scott Layden never spoke these words last season about Michael Doleac: "He's not available." But that's what some interested GMs have heard recently from Layden's lips....
ZIMMER STILL IN SHOCK OVER DEVIL RAY RUMOR
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amDon Zimmer has no idea where the rumor that he was going to be named Lou Piniella's bench coach originated. "I have never talked to anybody from the Devil Rays,"...
PERFECT PIRATES CAPTURE TOP SPOT IN PSAL PLAYOFFS
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amTottenville 43 Port Richmond 22 Johnathan Pitt-Coombs was a sophomore when Tottenville finished 3-7 and missed the PSAL playoffs in 2001. "We think about how hard that year was every...
HEISMAN CHASE HITTING HIGH GEAR
November 3, 2003 | 5:00amTRUE to our word, we have not mentioned the Heisman Trophy until November, after sufficient time had elapsed to evaluate players' seasons and determine who should be in the race...