February 14, 2004
QUEENS JEWELS - VICTORIANS ABOUND IN HISTORIC RICHMOND HILL
February 14, 2004 | 5:00am6-BR COLONIAL $579,000 Two-plus baths, formal dining room, front porch, fireplace. Agent: Regina Santoro, Park Side Realty, (718) 846-3008 RICHMOND Hill resident Nancy Cataldi doesn't exactly live in the past,...
MICROSOFT'S CODE ON 'NET
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amMicrosoft faced new security headaches yesterday, as portions of its secret Windows "source code" was passed around on the Internet. The code contains trade secrets, private remarks and a blueprint...
FLEET ADMITS MARKET TIMING KIDS' FUND
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amFleetBoston mutual fund employees conducted improper trades in three of the firm's mutual funds - including one that was targeted to teach young investors the merits of mutual fund investing,...
KMART ACCUSES MARTHA OF RIPPING OFF ROYALTIES
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amKmart wants to mark down Martha. In yet another blow to the domestic diva, Kmart sued Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia this week, saying the company double-billed the retailer. Kmart wants...
CONRAD SUES: 'MY NAME IS BLACK'
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amDeposed press lord Conrad Black is slamming his former board colleagues with a $644 million libel suit, claiming they concocted fat lies to make him a "loathsome laughing stock." The...
EISNER HAS A BAD SHARE DAY
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amMichael Eisner got a bruising yesterday on Wall Street, making it harder for him to fight off Comcast's hostile bid for Walt Disney. Shares in Disney plunged nearly 4 percent...
TOWNS WORTH MEETING - COMMON SPACES AND ROOM TO STROLL MAKE THESE VILLAGES YOU'LL LOVE
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amYou had new houses ... an indoor pool, a meeting house with a huge gym, the shuttle bus." - Michael Maizes, one of Bellefair's first buyers Bellefair, a neighborhood in...
THE HOUSE OF KLEIN
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amIT'S official - nothing has come between Calvin and his castle. When we first broke the story last July 3 that Calvin Klein was about to buy a 55,000-square-foot castle...
SOAKING IN IT
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amTHE hottest thing in bathrooms may be infinity pools made a little smaller. Kohler's new sok tub (it's pro-you don't need capital letters) is a bathtub set in an outer...
COWELL'S FAT LIP FURY - 'IDOL' JUDGE RIPS ROLY-POLY RUBEN
February 14, 2004 | 5:00am'AMERICAN Idol" judge Simon Cowell says beloved bluesman Ruben Studdard is just too fat. "He's bigger than he ever was," Cowell says of the 300-plus-pound winner of "American Idol" in...
'CAN-CAN' RENDERS COLE COMFORT
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amCAN-CAN At the City Center, 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues, through tomorrow. Call CityTix, (212) 581-1212. ---- COLE Porter's penultimate show, 1953's "Can-Can," is the latest musical to...
ELMO D.C. DREAMIN' - MUPPET AND PALS VISIT 'THE WEST WING'
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amELMO is going to the White House. The beloved "Sesame Street" character, along with his Muppet pals, will be featured on an upcoming episode of NBC's "The West Wing." It'll...
DONNA & RALPH'S TIMELESS STYLE - VETERAN DESIGNERS SHINE ON
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amTalk about saving the best for last! Yesterday, the final day of Olympus Fashion Week's runway presentations, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan showed two of the best shows of the...
A SEXY BERTOLUCCI FESTIVAL STEAMS UP QUEENS
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amWith Bernardo Bertolucci's NC-17-rated "The Dreamers" on screens around town, the American Museum of the Moving Image is giving the respected Italian filmmaker a complete retrospective. The festival presents 16...
SHOEMAKER TO THE STARS
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amLong before Jimmy Choo or Manolo Blahnik, Hollywood's cobbler was Salvatore Ferragamo, who from the '20s to the '60s shod the famous feet of Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Brigitte Bardot...
SCHOOL'S OUT - IT'S A WONDERLAND FOR KIDS
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amNO more pencils, no more books, no more teachers - well, at least for a week. School's out for winter break, and the city is your playground. So get ready...
CANCER PATIENT KILLED AS SPEEDER RAMS AMBULETTE
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amA 65-year-old woman who had been battling cancer for five years was killed at a Queens intersection yesterday by a speeding driver who plowed into the ambulette taking her home...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amAnimal-rights activists want the central Oklahoma community of Slaughterville to change its name - to Veggieville. Slaughterville "conjures up images of the violent and bloody deaths of terrified chickens, pigs...
COURTHOUSE CHRISTMAS FOR JACKO
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson could be spending some of his Christmas holidays in criminal court, a judge said yesterday as lawyers agreed to target December for the King...
U.S. DIPLO TEAM DROPPING IN ON ARIEL
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amSenior U.S. diplomats are headed to Israel next week to size up Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plans to "disengage" from the Palestinians - and figure out whether the Bush administration...
MIKE ENDS TAX BREWHAHA
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amLatte drinkers can relax - Mayor Bloomberg won't be raising the price of your java jolt anytime soon. Responding to an Independent Budget Office study this week that found a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amTHE BRONX * Cops are searching for a man suspected of attempting to abduct a 15-year-old girl in Throgs Neck. The suspect, described as a white man in his 40s,...
PIT BULLS' 'NEW YORKIE' MINUTE OVER
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amGoodbye, New Yorkie. Hello, pit bull. The city animal shelter has scrapped an idea to rename the pit bull in the image of another breed with a bad reputation -...
CHUCK LIGHTS INTO SMOKING BAN
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amSen. Chuck Schumer wants to snuff out Mayor Bloomberg's strict smoking ban. For the first time publicly, New York's senior senator has come out against the controversial anti-smoking law -...
1971 'PANTHER' COP KILLER: I WAS FRAMED
February 14, 2004 | 5:00am'I didn't commit this offense ... I was unaware. If I could have stopped [the slayings], I would have stopped it.' - Herman Bell, denied parole in the 1971 killing...
WHAT CHOICE DO I HAVE BUT TO SEND MY KID TO A PRIVATE SCHOOL?
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amMY little family has taken to waiting by the mailbox each day, our hearts filled with equal parts anticipation - and dread. Anticipation that the acceptance letter will arrive, inviting...
'ANGELS' IN HEAVEN - MOURNERS PACK B'KLYN CHURCH FOR FUNERAL OF TRUCK-CRUSH KIDS
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amThe schoolboy angels crushed to death by a dump truck on their way home from school in Brooklyn were laid to rest yesterday in two white coffins as nearly 1,000...
2 WOMEN NAILED IN CAB STAB
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amA Bronx livery driver was stabbed with a knife by two female passengers in a fight over which route to take to their destination, police said yesterday. Manuel Caceres, 56,...
TEAM TYSON PUNCHY OVER MIKE'S CRIMINAL PAST
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amIf Mike Tyson takes the stand during his assault trial stemming from a brawl with two fans at the Brooklyn Marriott hotel, Brooklyn prosecutors said yesterday they want to be...
'VICTIM' CHANGES RAPE STORY
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amThe alleged teenage rape victim who told cops yesterday she was snatched at gunpoint off a Brooklyn street and brutally raped in an abandoned building changed her story in an...
KELLY REVERSES UNION-PERK JERK
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Raymond Kelly put the brakes on a plan to yank the parking permits of police union officials yesterday after reading about the edict in The Post. After Kelly...
4 HURT IN ELEVATOR PLUNGE
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amFour furniture restorers went on the ride of their lives yesterday when the freight elevator in their Upper East Side building made an express plunge from the third floor to...
PARTY-GUN COP ON HOT SEAT
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amThe NYPD yesterday said it will interview the off-duty lieutenant photographed partying with pals in a Bronx bar with a gun in one hand and a drink in the other....
AL QAEDA 'SPY' NUT'S GUN SCARE
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The National Guard soldier busted this week for offering to give military information to al Qaeda has been in trouble before - as these dramatic pictures show. In...
BOTTOM-BUFFERS THE BUTT OF LAWSUIT
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amA Manhattan woman is going to court over her deep-seated resentment about a butt-broadening procedure gone bad. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Elizeth Aponte said she went to...
YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING - 26G KINDERGARTEN TOPS HARVARD
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amTalk about sticker shock! It's going to cost more to enroll kindergartners in some private schools in the city next year than to send their big cousins to Harvard. Tuition...
LAWYERS' BITCHY STRATEGY IS HER BEST DEFENSE
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amPOOR, poor Martha. Everyone's out to get her. And she's a bitch. That, court-watchers, is the sad, two-prong strategy that was cemented yesterday by Martha Stewart's highly paid lawyers, as...
BRAVEST - BASHED FIREFIGHTER THANKS CAPTAIN FOR SAVING HIS LIFE
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amIF guts were made from gold, Terry Sweeney and Bobby Walsh would be billionaires. Yesterday, the two firefighters got together in public for the first time and talked about what...
-'QUOTA' COPS BOUNCED - TRANSFERRED OVER 'POOR' SUMMONS COUNT (M)-'QUOTA' COPS GET ONE-WAY TICKET (S, LCF)
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amSix Brooklyn police officers were transferred out of the 75th Precinct yesterday for failing to meet a ticket-writing quota imposed on them by NYPD brass, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association charged....
'CORRUPT' QNS. COP IN PAYOLA SCAM
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amA Queens police officer under investigation for corruption allegedly demanded payments of $200 to help local residents with their immigration paperwork, The Post has learned. It is unclear whether Rudranauth...
KERRY ON INTERN RUMORS: IT'S NOT TRUE - DEM FAVORITE SLAMS AFFAIR ALLEGATIONS; JOHN RIPS INTERN RUMORS
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amDemocratic front-runner John Kerry yesterday said allegations of a relationship with a young woman are "untrue" and told his supporters not to worry about anything in his past. "I just...
WINNING RECIPE - MARTHA JUDGE PUTS DENT IN FRAUD CHARGE
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amThe judge presiding over the Martha Stewart trial yesterday dealt a savage blow to the prosecution's attempt to prove she committed securities fraud, the most serious charge against her. The...
'W. DID HIS GUARD DUTY' - EX-OFFICER VOUCHES FOR 1972 SERVICE
February 14, 2004 | 5:00am"I saw him each drill period ... He was very aggressive about doing his duty there. He never complained about it." - Retired Lt. Col. John "Bill" Calhoun A retired...
HS SLASHING OUTRAGE - GIRL VICTIM SUING CITY FOR $10M IN QUEENS ATTACK
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amA 16-year-old girl slashed inside a Queens high school after she had requested a transfer to a safer school is suing the city for $10 million for failing to protect...
1971 COP KILLER YELLS 'FRAME-UP'
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amALBANY - New York City cop killer Herman Bell claimed he's innocent in his first parole hearing, insisting he was implicated in the execution-style double murder only because of his...
'BRIDE' PARADE - GAY COUPLES LINING UP TO WED NATIONWIDE
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amHundreds of same-sex couples rushed to tie the knot in San Francisco yesterday before the opportunity slipped away. All day long, the marble passages beneath City Hall's ornate gold dome...
SHOW BUZZ
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amIt was bound to hit the runways - we're just surprised it didn't make it sooner. A Sapphic kiss between models Omahyra and Daria closed the show at Richard Tyler's...
ISLES SPRING COYOTE TRAP - 3-GOAL THIRD NETS FIRST 'ZONA WIN
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amIsles 5 - Coyotes 2 GLENDALE, Ariz. - The local golf rules here indicate that all carts must yield the right of way to coyotes. Really. But apparently the same...
DINGED DEVILS HAVE SEPARATION ANXIETY
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amWhile the Devils try this afternoon to avoid their longest losing streak since November 2001, The Post has learned that sparkplug winger Christian Berglund has undergone abdominal surgery to repair...
MARCIN LIKES JETS' LINE
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amOn Denny Marcin's cell phone, the veteran defensive line coach refers to himself as "the old ball coach." That's exactly what the Jets have in energetic, hard-nosed Marcin, who was...
STIRLING NOT ABOUT TO LET ISLES COAST - COACH WON'T CALL CLUB PLAYOFF LOCK
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amGLENDALE, Ariz. - Things are eerily similar to the way they were last year for the Islanders, as they seem a lock to make the playoffs for a third consecutive...
NO SURPRISE: JAGR OUT - TYUTIN TO MAKE DEBUT FOR INJURED JAROMIR
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - So no Jaromir Jagr for this afternoon's match here against the Flyers. That's not much of a surprise, what with No. 68 having been forced out of Thursday's...
IONA'S AT A LOSS - RULAND'S TEAM 'STRANGE BUNCH'
February 14, 2004 | 5:00am"Bizarre" is the only way Jeff Ruland can describe what has happened to his Iona basketball team. It entered last night's game at Manhattan with a record that brings up...
TIME FOR UNION TO COME CLEAN
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amTHIS is the Players Association's time, its moment to do right by its members and the people who keep those members housed in gated communities, cloaked in designer suits. This...
USA'S TRACK COACH KNOWS ALL ABOUT HEAT
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amThe U.S. baseball team will be conspicuously absent from the Olympics this summer in Athens. The soccer team was eliminated Tuesday by Mexico. That leaves track as the crown jewel...
COX'S LATE SHOTS ALLOW MIDWOOD TO ADVANCE
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amPSAL PLAYOFFS: Midwood 45 - Robeson 40 Victor Gjecaj had a simple message for Daniel Cox late in Midwood's upset of Robeson yesterday. "With about three minutes left, I told...
'FOOTNOTES' SEARCHING FOR FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH SUCCESS
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amGulfstream Park is throwing a Valentine's Day party this afternoon for 3-year-olds taking their baby steps on the Triple Crown trail. Eight colts with Kentucky Derby aspirations will clash in...
FLEXING THEIR MUSCLES - PLAYERS CONFIDENT STEROID NAMES SECRET
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amIT'S NOT THE BEST THING FOR THE GAME TO GO THROUGH THIS. - MIKE STANTON If the federal investigation of BALCO results in Major League Baseball players' drug tests results...
1 JOHNNIE REINSTATED; 2 AWAIT WORD ON FATE
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amSuspended St. John's hoopsters Lamont Hamilton and Mohamed Diakite will have to wait at least until Monday to learn their fate in the wake of the basketball team's sex scandal....
COX SHOTS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amPSAL PLAYOFFS: Midwood 45 - Robeson 40 Victor Gjecaj had a simple message for Daniel Cox late in Midwood's upset of Robeson yesterday. "With about three minutes left, I told...
A-ROD TO BRONX? - RANGERS NIX YANK TRADE BID - BUT DOOR'S NOT CLOSED
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amOperating with the attitude that the answer is always no unless you ask, Brian Cashman approached the Rangers about a deal that would have brought Alex Rodriguez to the Yankees,...
JONES BACK; 2 JOHNNIES AWAIT FATE
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amSuspended St. John's hoopsters Lamont Hamilton and Mohamed Diakite will have to wait at least until Monday to learn their fate in the wake of the basketball team's sex scandal....
PAYBACK'S ACHIEVED
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amManhattan 88 - Iona 69 Manhattan coach Bobby Gonzalez wore a bright pink tie last night, but it should've been red because he and his team were out for blood....
KOBE WANTS TO TEST MARKET
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amALL-STAR NOTES LOS ANGELES - When the season began, the Lakers, with the addition of Karl Malone and Gary Payton, seemed to be a lock to win the 2004 NBA...
ISLES SPRING COYOTE TRAP - HUNTER'S PAIR KEYS FIRST 'ZONA WIN
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amIsles 5 - Coyotes 2 GLENDALE, Ariz. - The local golf rules here indicate that all carts must yield the right of way to coyotes. Really. Apparently the same does...
YANKS, BUT NO THANKS - CASHMAN ASKED RANGERS IF HE COULD GET A-ROD
February 14, 2004 | 5:00amOperating with the attitude that the answer is always "No" unless you ask, Brian Cashman approached the Rangers about a deal that would have sent Alex Rodriguez to the Yankees,...