November 15, 2003
BOARD SEEKS INVESTMENT BANK TO AUCTION MEDIA GIANT
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amDirectors of Conrad Black's Hollinger media empire are demanding that the company be sold at auction, The Post has learned. The company held a special board meeting yesterday and is...
SEC, STATE TARGET SCHWAB
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amCharles Schwab, the nation's largest discount broker, announced yesterday it was a target of state and federal regulators' investigations of improper mutual fund trading. The firm said it had uncovered...
CONRAD'S BLACK EYE: HOLLINGER FILED BOGUS FINANCIAL REPORTS WITH SEC
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amNewspaper baron Conrad Black's Hollinger has filed false financial statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission - a disclosure that could trigger an SEC investigation and increase pressure on Black...
SPITZER RIPS SEC 'BUREAUCRATS'
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amThe war of words between Eliot Spitzer and the SEC is getting nasty. Spitzer tore into his regulatory rivals in Washington for the second day in a row yesterday, bashing...
BROOKLYN'S NEW FRONTIERS
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amImagine tree-lined streets full of brownstones costing as little as half the price of comparable ones on the more established streets of Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens or Park Slope. This...
BILLY JOEL MOVIN' OUT
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amGIMME SHELTER Billy Joel is setting the record straight about his ever-changing real estate portfolio, which has kept this and other such columns busy for years. "I'm just sellin' away,"...
THAT'S A LOFT?
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amNew Yorkers may be guilty of "supersizing" everything from sandwiches to egos, but when it comes to lofts, they're positively shrinking. "The definition of 'loft' really changed in the last...
WHAT A VIEW
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amLooking out your apartment window, do you wish you could boast a more exotic view than Ugly Naked Guy (shudder)? Check out these four finds - they've got views of...
SAY BYE-BYE: A GUIDE TO MOVING WITH KIDS SMALL AND BIG
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amIt's totally bogus: Just when you've got it down - which kids to hang with, what teachers to avoid - your parents move. Different school, different town . . ....
NBC TO JUSTIN: SEE YOU A LITTLE LATER
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amNBC has chopped Justin Timberlake's prime- time concert out of November sweeps. The pop-star's special, "Down Home in Memphis," was supposed to air at 9 p.m. on Nov. 25 -...
VICTORIA'S VICTOR : WINNER OF POST'S CONTEST FINDS HER CUP RUNNETH OVER
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amIN the end, it was a bra that put the winner of the New York Post Victoria's Secret contest over the top. "As an avid Post reader, I'm the ideal...
AN ENTERTAINING AUCTION: CHRISTIE'S DISPLAYS MEMORABILIA FROM LENNON, BRANDO AND MORE.
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amThe upcoming Christie's auction of entertainment memorabilia will be entertaining, to say the least. Where else could you offer a bid for John Lennon's opium pipe or a door that...
WE'RE SHOPPING AT . . . LACE
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amWhen Colleen Brennan got tired of traipsing around town in search of quirky shoes, she didn't sit around and complain. Instead, she opened Lace, a gorgeous little shoe salon in...
CITY CENTER OF ATTENTION
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amIt has been 60 years since then-Mayor Fiorello La Guardia waved his wand over a meeting hall owned by the Ancient Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine -...
A PARADISE FOR CHOCOHOLICS
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amIt's been called "the food of the gods," and some of the best on earth can be sampled at this weekend's Chocolate Show. The salute is in its final two...
HOW THEY GOT THAT 'LOONEY' LOOK
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amIt's not easy being bested by Bugs Bunny or punched out by Yosemite Sam's goons - but that's what happens to Brendan Fraser and the rest of the flesh-and-blood cast...
THE JOYS OF YIDDISH
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amIF you don't know your kepele from your epele - that is, your head from your apple - the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater has just the ticket: this year's installment of...
UP IN THE AIR
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amFlying through the air with the greatest of ease isn't for everyone - especially those who haven't conquered their fear of heights. But there's one gymnastics show in New York...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amMaybe Denise Butterfield of Ponce Inlet, Fla., thought the Motor Vehicle Bureau office was a drive-through - because she crashed into it when she went to renew her driver's license....
SMALLER NYPD STILL HAS CRIME SHRINKING
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amSerious crime in the Big Apple is dropping for the 13th consecutive year despite a shrinking NYPD and the new demand to combat terrorist threats, police statistics show. For the...
B'WAY BREAD LINE
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amWhen tickets go on sale Sunday for the hot revival of "The Producers" - starring the original cast - many of those snapping up front-row seats will be homeless. About...
KERRY NIXES PUBLIC CAMPAIGN FUNDS
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said yesterday he's taking a personal loan for his campaign and opting out of the public-financing system. The Kerry loan - his wife Teresa...
MIKE A BIG BOOSTER FOR BUSH IN '04
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg said yesterday it is "in the interest of the country" to re-elect President Bush. He gave the endorsement while introducing Vice President Dick Cheney at a Midtown fund-raiser....
GIFFIE'S MAYOR GAFFE; AIDE BARES SPEAKER'SPLANS IN WEB JOB AD
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amCity Council Speaker Gifford Miller was red-faced yesterday after a staff member's e-mail surfaced revealing his political plans. Miller aide Fred Baldassaro sent an e-mail to a Web site for...
WOMAN, 83, LOSES LEG AS BUS HITS HER IN B'KLYN
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amAn 83-year-old woman was critically injured yesterday when she was struck by a city bus as she tried to cross a busy Brooklyn street, police said. The accident occurred about...
CHOPPER UNIT BLOWS AWAY THUG SQUAD
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A U.S. helicopter crew wiped out a pro-Saddam artillery team that was about to launch a massive missile attack on an American base yesterday as GIs continued their...
BIG APPLE ABOUT TO LOSE MUCH OF ITS BLUSTER
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amA second day of windy weather yesterday knocked down power lines and left thousands of people without electricity around the metropolitan area, as gusts hit 51 mph in the five...
CITY HALL HAS A BALL ON 200TH B'DAY
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amTop city officials yesterday commemorated the 200th anniversary of City Hall, the oldest in the nation still with its original government function. Mayor Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Gifford Miller and...
DAD REJECTS PLEA DEAL IN TEACH FIGHT
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amThe father of a Brooklyn third-grader charged with assault for allegedly pummeling his son's teacher so hard he rendered the man unconscious at the start of this school year has...
UNIONS STILL 'PRINCIPAL' CAUSE OF WOE
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amIMAGINE Michael Eisner in a union. Nuts, right? If Eisner makes lousy movies for Disney, the directors give him the boot. This makes him very accountable. Now, consider the CEO...
'79 L.I. BAR KILLER GOES TO JAIL
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amA Long Island man was sentenced yesterday to three to nine years in prison for killing a man 24 years ago. Authorities said Amerigo Vespucci, 55, fled the state shortly...
FULL SPEED AHEAD ON FERRY PROBE
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amThe feds are wasting no time now that they've taken the helm of the criminal probe into last month's Staten Island Ferry crash - meeting with one key witness yesterday...
FAMILY PRAYING L.I. KID 'KILLER' GETS LIFE
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amThe family of slain Long Island teen Kristin Scarabelli wants her accused killer behind bars for the rest of his life. Prosecutors say Stephen Manolis, the 16-year-old's neighbor, strangled her...
CRISIS IN OUR SCHOOLS
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amCity education officials charged yesterday that it's "next to impossible" to fire some lousy school supervisors because, like teachers, they have "de facto lifetime tenure." At a City Council hearing...
LOTTERY SAYS NIX TO $7M TIX BUY
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amA super-rich Chicago man had a lotto nerve - he tried to buy $7 million in Massachusetts lottery tickets to give himself a fifty-fifty chance of winning $38.9 million. Lottery...
MACHETE-ROB VICTIM GIVES MIKE EARFUL
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amOne of a slew of victims of a pair of machete-wielding thugs who mugged at least 10 Brooklynites called Mayor Bloomberg yesterday to talk about his brush with terror. The...
B'KLYN TEEN ARRAIGNED IN PARADE SLAY
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amThe Brooklyn teen charged with murdering a new father at the West Indian Day Parade earlier this year - in what a witness said was a show of bravado by...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amBrooklyn Police in Bedford-Stuyvesant need the public's help finding a suspect in the slaying Monday of a 24 year-old man. Jamel Albritton, 34, (above) is wanted for questioning in the...
MOM: HE'S A KILLER ; NAMES EX-BEAU IN DAUGHTER'S MURDER
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amThe angry parents of an 18-year-old woman found dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs in her Bronx apartment building said they "have no doubt" her ex-boyfriend killed...
INN BLAZE KILLS LAW RECRUITERS FROM TOP N.Y. FIRM
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amA prestigious Manhattan law firm's recruiting trip to a Virginia law school turned tragic yesterday when two colleagues died after fire ripped through the historic bed-and- breakfast where the group...
PARIS-SMUT SUIT ; EX SAYS PORN BIZ GOT TAPE ILLEGALLY
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Paris Hilton's former boyfriend, who videotaped himself having steamy sex with the hotel heiress, has filed an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against an Internet pornography distributor and the man...
TRAIN-SURF HORROR; CADET DIES, ANOTHER HURT IN SUBWAY STUNT
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amOne maritime college cadet was killed and another student critically injured early yesterday morning during a risky - and deadly - game riding on the roof of a moving subway...
MIKE RIPS RED RANDI; COMPARES UFT TO SOVIET BLOC-HEADS
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg's battle with the teachers union turned into a Cold War yesterday after the mayor said the United Federation of Teachers contract reminds him of how things were done...
SCHOOL REFORM TO ROCK QUEENS
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amEducation officials are launching a sweeping reorganization of schools in the racially divided Rockaways - including closing middle schools, opening new K-8 schools and launching programs for brainy and motivated...
CHEF COOKS UP DEAL IN 9/11 $PAT
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amStar chef David Bouley has settled a bitter insurance dispute that erupted after his two TriBeCa restaurants were damaged in the 9/11 terror attacks. Settlement papers were filed with the...
PARALYZED STAB VICTIM ON MEND
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amThe fashion student paralyzed when her spinal cord was severed in a crazed attack by her ex-boyfriend - who's accused of killing her new beau in the same attack -...
SADDAM-OSAMA LINK; EVIL DUO TOGETHER SINCE '90: BOMBSHELL MEMO
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amIraqi dictator Saddam Hussein gave terror lord Osama bin Laden's thugs financial and logistical support, offering al Qaeda money, training and haven for more than a decade, it was reported...
CONEY I. 'DRUG DEALERS' GET A BREAK
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amConspiracy charges were tossed out yesterday against a gang of suspected drug dealers accused of terrorizing a Coney Island housing project. Defense lawyers hailed the decision by state Supreme Court...
B'WAY BREAD LINE FOR 'PRODUCERS'
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amWhen tickets go on sale Sunday for "The Producers" - starring the original cast - many of those snapping up front-row seats will be homeless. About a dozen shivering "fans"...
BROKER BLASTS MARTHA IN COURT
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amThe government's star witness against Martha Stewart, former rookie broker Douglas Faneuil, yesterday blasted the domestic diva as a manipulating celebrity who "does not care about anyone's rights but her...
TEENAGER ARRAIGNED IN PARADE SLAY
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amThe Brooklyn teen charged with murdering a new father at the West Indian Day Parade earlier this year - in what a witness said was a show of bravado by...
NAMES THE SAME - MIKE & ASHLEY
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amAs "Destiny" would have it, two new entrants made it onto the list of most popular baby names in the city last year - while the namesake of Beyoncé Knowles'...
IOWA DEMS SHUT OUT HILL 'DRAFT'
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amDES MOINES, Iowa - A group working to convince Sen. Hillary Clinton to run for president next year is fighting its banishment from a convention center where Clinton is speaking...
BACK TAX AT JORDAN'S NO SMALL STAKES
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amMichael Jordan's Steak House in Grand Central Terminal isn't giving the city a fair cut, according to an audit that found the famed eatery owes $114,482 in back taxes. City...
PARIS-SMUT SUIT; PORN BIZ SAYS PAL SOLD VID ILLEGALLY
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Owners of the porn Web site that once had Paris Hilton's infamous sex video filed a $10 million lawsuit yesterday against the man who sold it to...
B'KLYN COP SLAYS BARBER BANDIT
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amChaos erupted on a Brooklyn street yesterday when a cop shot and killed an ex-con who had just committed a robbery in a Fort Greene barbershop, police said. "It looked...
FATHER-SON HIT IN ROAD SHOOTING
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amA father and son were shot in the face as they drove up the Harlem River Drive last night in what cops believe may have been a road rage incident....
KIN PRAY L.I. KID 'KILLER' GETS LIFE
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amThe family of slain Long Island teen Kristin Scarabelli wants her accused killer behind bars for the rest of his life. Prosecutors say Stephen Manolis, the 16-year-old's neighbor, strangled her...
NO SECRET VICTORIA'S THE BREAST
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amThe New York Armory became the hottest - and sexiest - place in town as the Victoria Secret Fashion Show attracted superstars like musical guests Eve, Sting and Mary J....
'79 BAR KILLER GOES TO PRISON
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amA Long Island man was sentenced yesterday to three to nine years in prison for killing a man 24 years ago. Authorities said Amerigo Vespucci, 55, fled the state shortly...
TYCOON LOON LOSES BID TO BUY $7M IN LOTTERY TIX
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amA super-rich Chicago man had a lotto nerve - he tried to buy $7 million in Massachusetts lottery tickets from the headquarters to give himself a 50 percent chance of...
GET A GRIP ON YOURSELF, HALLE
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amHalle Berry seems to be falling out of her dress after learning she'd been "Punk'd" by MTV prankster Ashton Kutcher in Los Angeles. Berry was told by a "fire marshal"...
BIG PAY BOOST STEERED STOTT BACK TO BOMBERS
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amMel Stottlemyre could have retired after eight seasons as Yankees pitching coach and forever relieve himself of the stress that is George Steinbrenner. Instead, he'll be back for the 2004...
ISLANDERS OUT TO STOP ROAD SKID IN NASHVILLE
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amOne slide snapped, the Islanders work on ending another when they visit the Predators in Nashville tonight. Winless in last four (0-2-2) road games, the Isles halted a two-game losing...
NELSON'S GEM CARRIES HAWKS
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amSt. Joseph's 73Gonzaga 66 Jameer Nelson cradled the ball under his arm - breaking out his megawatt grin and pointing at his roaring, adoring fans - before heaving it into...
DEVILS BRACE FOR SPLIT HOME CROWD
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amThe cold hearts, those of the elder, unrepentant, unconverted New Jersey Ranger fans, Martin Brodeur concedes. "We're going right for their kids," the Devils' franchise goalie said yesterday. "It's hard...
AQUEDUCT WIPED OUT SECOND STRAIGHT DAY
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amHigh winds forced live racing to be cancelled at Aqueduct yesterday for the second straight day after the jockeys met and voted not to ride. They then informed the stewards,...
JULIE COMES BACK
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amHall-of-Fame jockey Julie Krone, fresh off her historic victory aboard Halfbridled in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita, rides in New York tomorrow for the first time in...
1ST START PUTS HEAT ON GIANT ROOKIE CB
November 15, 2003 | 5:00am"I'm still the same old me - cocky, nasty."FRANK WALKER He's done virtually nothing in his already improbable Giant career, yet Frank Walker will fight anyone who dares to speculate...
BUCKEYES MUST STAY THE COURSE
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amCOLUMBUS - Is it possible for a national champion to have a legitimate respect gripe? Sure it is. Consider the Ohio State Buckeyes. They are your reigning champs, not unbeaten...
BOATENG KEEPS DRAWIN' CROWDS
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amEVERY week, defenses try to figure out a way to stop Lincoln wide receiver Nyan Boateng. Usually, they fail. But even when they don't, the junior has an impact on...
INTRODUCTION TO EAGLES STILL STINGS JINTS' TYREE
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES The last time he lined up against the Eagles, the Giants' David Tyree, in punt coverage, was getting blocked off the play by Ike Reese, thereby helpless to...
YANKS COOK UP PURSUIT OF SHEFF
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amPHOENIX - Welcome to Phase II: the wooing of Gary Sheffield. As the general managers meetings came to a close in the desert, Yankees GM Brian Cashman again said pitching...
ZAGS, HAWKS IN PRIME TIME
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amSt. Joseph's and Gonzaga are 2,500 miles apart, but in many ways are closer than one might imagine. They're kindred spirits, Jesuit brothers, perennially-underrated powers in mid-major leagues. Last night,...
SCOTT WON'T COACH SCARED
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amBYRON Scott will not go qui etly. That is his vow. He is in the last year of his contract, everyone knows that, certainly his players, especially him. He was...
ANTONIO HOPING FOR FRIDAY DEBUT
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK, NET NOTEBOOK Friday's road game in Detroit appears the earliest Antonio McDyess could suit up for the Knicks. He's expected to miss the next three contests, including tonight against...
PIAZZA SILENT - AND THAT MIGHT SPEAK VOLUMES
November 15, 2003 | 5:00am"They would be nuts not to move him, but ... who's going to take [on] that kind of money?"ONE MLB EXEC ON MIKE PIAZZA The Mets didn't get the go-ahead...
COMPLEX INFERIORITY ; NET SUCCESS CAN'T MATCH KNICK LEGACY
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amThey have been the single most exciting entity to hit the Metropolitan area in ages. They have been to the Finals two years running, averaging more than 50 victories in...
ACHY COLTS COULD STILL HURT JETS
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amJets defensive lineman Shaun Ellis doesn't care that Marvin Harrison might not play for the Colts tomorrow when Gang Green visits Indianapolis. Or that Colt tight end Marcus Pollard will...
VANISHING VS. THEIR OLD MATES
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amThe two ex-Nets on the Knicks' roster resembled Jersey fans last night. They were no-shows at the Meadowlands. Dikembe Mutombo and Keith Van Horn were invisible in last night's 85-80...
KRAUSER DELIVERS FOR PITT
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amPittsburgh 71Alabama 61 Coaches vs. Cancer Classic at the Garden, just before the first start of his career in the building he grew up dreaming about, Bronx native Carl Krauser...
KNICKS MAY ROLL DICE ON FRIDAY
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK-NET NOTEBOOK With just two Knick practices in the next six days, Friday's road game in Detroit appears the earliest Antonio McDyess could finally suit up. The Knicks' next practice...
DON SLIPS STRUGGLING EISLEY INTO THE LINEUP
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amDon Chaney, trying to wake point guard Howard Eisley out of his six-week funk, moved him into the starting lineup for last night's game in New Jersey. Eisley was brutal...
BIG PAY BOOST BRINGS STOTT BACK TO BOMBERS
November 15, 2003 | 5:00amMel Stottlemyre could have retired after eight seasons as Yankees pitching coach and forever relieve himself of the stress that is George Steinbrenner. Instead, he'll be back for the 2004...