March 13, 2004
LANDMARKED CHURCH FETCHES $14M
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amPraise the Lord! The Los Angeles-based Crenshaw Christian Center has been blessed with a $14 million contract to buy the First Church of Christ, Scientist's landmarked church on 96th St....
BIG N.Y.C. RETAIL BROKER ON BLOCK
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amOne of the city's most prestigious privately owned store-leasing companies is in talks to be sold or merged. Chairman Charles Aug is in negotiations with several groups, including residential management...
ELIZABETH ARDEN SIGNS ON BRITNEY
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amElizabeth Arden - a brand known for making graying women look great - is now aiming for teens by hiring Britney Spears to create a beauty line. The pop princess...
ANOTHER $74.4B VANISHES FROM WORLDCOM'S BOOKS
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amBernie Ebbers has left an even more stunning mess than thought - an additional $74.4 billion in profits have vanished. The indicted 62-year-old founder of WorldCom claims he has done...
NASD HIT WITH SUIT ON SALE OF AMEX
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amA group of seat owners and members at the American Stock Exchange have sued the NASD, which owns the Amex, to halt a March 18 vote to transfer the exchange...
GRAND OPENING - NEWLY CONVENIENT CHINATOWN HAS DOWNTOWN LIVING FOR LESS
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amIT'S near SoHo, but cheaper. It has newly restored subway access. It has a bunch of fancy lofts rising like a Wall Streeter's stock portfolio. And, oh yeah, it smells...
GIMME SHELTER - MARTHA'S MANSIONS
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amWITH Martha Stewart's prospects for future earnings diminishing almost daily, she's more motivated than ever to unload much of her real estate portfolio. Before the ImClone scandal broke, Stewart owned...
HOME SHOPPING CLUB
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amCozy 'n' cushy XYZ Total Home 15 E. 18th St., between Fifth Avenue and Broadway (212) 388-1942 Sale: through March 20 Open: Sun., noon-6 p.m./Tues.-Sat., 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Furniture, lamps,...
CONCERT FLIES ON WEST'S WING
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amKANYE WEST EVEN though it wasn't supposed to go down that way, LIFEbeat's AIDS benefit turned into a wild Kanye West show by the time the multi-act hip-hop variety concert...
WOR TO DROP NETS B'CASTS
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amWOR Radio (710 AM) won't carry the Nets after this season, the station announced yesterday. "We have enjoyed a wonderful and profitable relationship with the New Jersey Nets since 1996,"...
OF COURSE IT LOOKS LIKE MICHAEL JACKSON - HOW TO BLUFF YOUR WAY THROUGH THIS WEEKEND'S BIG ART SHOWS
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amART is everywhere this weekend, with the 2004 Whitney Biennial on the East Side, and the sixth annual Armory Show sprawled over two piers along the Hudson. All told, we're...
GOT THE MUNCHIES? GRAB A LATE-NIGHT BITE IN THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amIt's Saturday night, 2 a.m. You're drunk and you're hungry. What to do? You could always get a gluey piece of pizza at that dodgy hole in the wall or...
FOUR 'DOS FOR GUYS
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amWhen it comes to haircuts and highlights, guys want in on the action. But the hot cut this season depends on where you go. The garage-band look is big at...
ROOM TO GROOM
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amBody wash, pomade and hair gel: They're not just for girls anymore. Out this month is a whole lineup of grooming products for guys ages 9 to 16 who, market...
THE BIG JIG GIGS
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amIt's that time again, when the world's finest Irish bands visit. Here's a guide to the best musical St. Patrick's Day events. Altan - Featuring the entrancing vocals of Mairead...
MORE OUTRAGEOUS THAN THE REV
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amTO see how truly absurd the federal election system has become, look no further than last week's Federal Election Commission hearing on Al Sharpton's bid for $100,000 in tax dollars...
3-YEAR JAIL STAY DUE FOR HOTEL MOGUL
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge yesterday ordered a tax-dodging hotel magnate to check into a federal prison for almost three years - and investigators nailed his fugitive mom with fraud charges involving...
A RUN FOR THE MONEY; WILD HEIST CHASE
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amA bank robber tried to ditch his dollars by tossing wads of cash out of his getaway van as cops chased him for six miles through Queens and Long Island,...
ORDER RESTORED AT ASBESTOS SCHOOL
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amA morning of chaos gave way to a calm afternoon as hundreds of Brooklyn elementary school students were sent to different schools after authorities discovered asbestos had been released by...
KERRY JOINS AIR WAR; ADS RIP 'MISLEADING' W. - BUT IGNORE TERROR
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - John Kerry yesterday launched a new ad to counter President Bush's "misleading" attacks - but Kerry was silent on Team Bush's charge that he's soft on terror. In...
THIS CAMPAIGN IS CATCHING FIRE WITH YOUNG VOTERS
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amYoung voters are more tuned in to the 2004 election campaign than they were the 2000 race, a new voter survey reports - and analysts say Iraq is a prime...
COMMUTER COMFORT ; EXTRA COPS A WELCOME SIGHT FOR APPLE RIDERS
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amCommuters said yesterday they were glad to see the stepped-up police presence at transit hubs in the wake of the Madrid bombings. Skitch Henderson, the former "Tonight Show" bandleader and...
DIRTY LAUNDERING; NEW CHARGES FOR ROGUE 'DRUG' COPS
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amThe two rogue NYPD detectives at the center of the department's worst corruption scandal in a decade were arraigned yesterday on new charges stemming from what prosecutors call their long...
HIGH-TECH BOMBS WERE DETONATED BY CELL PHONES
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The bombs used in this week's Madrid massacres were sophisticated devices that contained copper detonators and were set off by cell phones, U.S. and Spanish investigators said yesterday....
SLAY & SUICIDE TRY AT BX. FIRE
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amFirefighters battling a blaze in a Bronx apartment building yesterday made a gruesome discovery - a murder and attempted suicide by a boyfriend. While extinguishing a fire in a sixth-floor...
MIKE FACES D-DAY ON ED 'HOLD BACK' PLAN
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg heads for a key showdown Monday to get the 13-member Board of Education to approve his controversial plan holding back third-graders who do poorly on standardized reading and...
UTILITY: IT'S SAFER NOW
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amCon Edison said yesterday it should not have to face a multimillion-dollar fine for the electrocution of an East Village woman, saying it had accepted full responsibility for the accident...
BLOOMY: I'M 'FIRING' A WARNING SHOT
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amThe forced ouster of two top officials at the Department of Education over the hubby-hiring scandal sends a strong message to the city work force that he has "zero tolerance"...
DISTILLER IN SPILL OVER GAY FALLOUT
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amThe owners of an Irish brand of vodka say they have been barred from participating in the upcoming St. Patrick's Day Parade after sponsoring a band that marched in last...
CON ED IN EXPLOSIVE NEW FEAR
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amLike ticking time bombs, hundreds of Con Ed transformers are waiting to explode beneath city streets - and company workers say nobody knows when they could blow. That's because many...
COPS FLUSH OUT TUNNEL RAT
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amA stolen-car suspect was found cowering in a subway tunnel after leading police on a high-speed car chase through The Bronx, authorities said yesterday. Two 40th Precinct cops in a...
COMMUTER COMFORT; SHOW OF POLICE FORCE AT APPLE TRANSIT HUBS
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amThe bombing of several crowded trains in Madrid should not stop New Yorkers from riding the subway and commuter rails, officials said yesterday. "We're prepared. A lot of the security...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amMaybe his arrest will serve as a wakeup call. Eric Palmer, 34, of Akron, Ohio, was nabbed by cops as he slept in the garage of a Brimfield Township home...
DODGING DEATH - MIDTOWN CROWD FLEES FALLING BRICKS
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amA section of a Midtown hotel's brick façade blew off in gusty winds yesterday and crashed down 15 stories, piercing the rooftop of a second-floor office annex and narrowly missing...
FEDS ON TRACK IN 'RUNAWAY' TRAIN PROBE
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amFederal investigators have found no evidence of mechanical failure on a runaway locomotive that injured four people, but have not ruled it out as a possible cause, officials said yesterday....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amMANHATTAN A city correction officer was arrested in Washington Heights when cops discovered that the luxury car he was driving was stolen, police said yesterday. Rafael Tatis, 44, was pulled...
ICE MISHAP FLOES INTO 120G LAWSUIT
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amAn Upper West Side couple are suing after a 300-pound chunk of ice from a water tower fell 10 stories, crashing through their ceiling and nearly killing them. Lesley and...
KIN MEET DA IN 'WRONG CAR' SLAY
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amThe family of a man shot dead by an off-duty customs agent during a struggle in Brooklyn last month over the "wrong car" met with District Attorney Charles Hynes yesterday...
FIRST HITS KAZ FOR CELEBRATION
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amMET NOTES LAKELAND, Fla. - Kaz Matsui came into yesterday's game against the Tigers with no hits in five at-bats this spring. He left with two hits, an RBI and...
METS PLAY PAIN GAME ; INJURIES HOBBLE BIGGEST BATS
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amTigers 5Mets 1 LAKELAND, Fla. - Ankle sprains, Achilles troubles, groin tears. Hey, you name the injury, the Mets suffered from it in 2003. Which is why it's been a...
NEW RANGER STARTING OVER
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amTAMPA - Glen Sather finally let the dogs out, opening the kennel gate at the trading deadline to turn eight largely underachieving pros into 14 NHL wannabes and six draft...
WOEFUL GIANTS STILL BOOST TICKET PRICES
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amYou are a fan of the Giants. You watched them win their season-opener last season, beating the Rams 23-13. Then you watched the Giants lose. And lose. And lose. They...
TIME IS RIGHT FOR BREAKOUT
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amThey must do nothing less than reverse their last half-season this afternoon to make a Stanley Cup repeat believable. This vital visit to the Flyers could renew or dash their...
RELAXED WRIGHT AWAITS BIG NIGHT
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - Ronald "Winky" Wright was perched at one of the craps tables at Mandalay Bay last Wednesday night, looking like any other patron trying to make a fast...
JON ON THE SPOT ; LIEBER MAKES YANKEE DEBUT TODAY
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amYankees 2Astros 1 TAMPA - Is there such a thing as a big game in March? When it comes to Jon Lieber, Joe Torre believes the answer is yes. "It's...
LOFTON'S STYLE GETS CRAMPED
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Bernie Williams is still on the mend from an appendectomy and won't be ready for Opening Day. That left the door open for Kenny Lofton to...
'FOOTNOTES' WARY OF FLORIDA BOUNCE
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amRead the Footnotes, whose ultimate goal this spring is to become the second-straight New York-bred to win the Kentucky Derby, looks to cement his leadership of the 3-year-old division when...
LA SALLE'S GUY PROVES RIGHT ONE
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amCHSAALa Salle 62St. John's 60 William Guy entered last night's game hoping that La Salle could pull off another upset, much like it had 50 years ago to the day,...
UCONN, PITT SET FOR THREE-PEAT; PANTHERS CLAW WITH KRAUSER
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amSEMIFINAL Pitt 62 Boston Col. 53 The question for Pitt's Carl Krauser: What's tougher, playing UConn tonight in the Big East Tournament final or growing up in the Soundview section...
JASON HITS MILESTONE IN NET WIN
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amNets 88Bulls 76 The game was about a microsecond old, and the Nets were laughing as the Bulls provided ample evidence why they have the worst record in the league,...
'MY LAST CHANCE' - GRATEFUL VIN INKS KNICK PACT
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Calling it his last chance, Vin Baker broke into tears yesterday at the close of his inaugural news conference as a Knick. The Knicks' Baker Era began -and,...
DOUBLY PAINFUL - KNICKS FALL SHORT IN TWO OVERTIMES
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amDOUBLE OT Sixers 99 Knicks 94 PHILADELPHIA - The Knicks had a million chances to win last night. Which is why their double-overtime, 99-94 loss to the Allen Iverson-less Sixers...
UCONN, PITT SET FOR THREE-PEAT - HUSKIES TOO TOUGH
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amSemifinal UConn 84 Villanova 67 With all of the audacious talent on this breath-taking Connecticut team, the one doubt is whether coach Jim Calhoun's squad is tough enough to win...
HUSKIES TOO TOUGH
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amSEMIFINAL UConn 84 Villanova 67 With all of the audacious talent on this breathtaking Connecticut team, the one doubt that has reared its ugly head is if Jim Calhoun's squad...
GRIEVING WILLIAMS PLACED ON INJURED LIST
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES PHILADELPHIA - With Frank Williams still grieving over the loss of his mother last week, the Knicks placed the second-year point guard on the injured list yesterday, activating...
NET GAIN FOR BRIAN - SCALABRINE PILING UP MINUTES - AND RESPECT
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amThe chants were more embarrassing than encouraging. As a blowout win or loss wound down, Brian Scalabrine inevitably heard it. "Scal-a-bree-nee, Scal-a-bree-nee..." You don't hear those chants much anymore. Scalabrine...
FRASER'S SHARP - 'NOVA STAR RISING AT GARDEN
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amA star is emerging right before our eyes, right here in the Garden, where the Big East Conference Tournament is being decided. Right here, less than an hour from where...
'MY LAST CHANCE' - NEW KNICK VIN VOWS HE'LL WORK HARD TO STAY CLEAN
March 13, 2004 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Calling this his last chance, former Celtic Vin Baker broke into tears yesterday at the close of his inaugural news conference as a Knick. The Knicks' Baker Era...