June 1, 2004
NEW STREET SIGNS AT WTC ; LMDC REPORT ALLOWS EXTENSIONS OF DEY, CORTLANDT STREETS
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amIN an apparent concession to City Hall, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. has opened the door to extending two more downtown streets through a portion of the reborn World Trade...
YOU KNOW ME? DON'T BANK ON IT
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amTHE son of Jonas Savimbi, a rebel leader in Angola, recently e-mailed me with this sad story. It seems that before his father was "short" (sic) dead on Feb. 25,...
LYOR: DEAL ME IN - WARNER MUSIC CHIEF IS COURTING INDIE LABELS
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amLyor Cohen, chief of Warner Music U.S., is on the hunt for deals with independent record labels in a bid to grow the company's market share. The strategy was part...
TIMES SQ. NEW ANN TAYLOR HOME
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amAnn Taylor is primed to move its corporate offices to the center of Times Square. The women's apparel retailer is relocating into more than 200,000 square feet at Times Square...
HE'S ON HIS WAY TO JOINING ADRIANA ; 6 REASONS CHRISTOPHER HAS TO GO
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amHERE'S some advice for Christopher Moltisanti: * Take a long vacation. * Don't accept any rides upstate. * Watch your back. It's just a hunch, but I've been developing a...
STARR REPORT
June 1, 2004 | 4:00am'The View' tunes in "The View" will announce a new contest tomorrow, giv ing viewers the chance to write a new theme song for the show - with the winner...
STAR TRACK - HOLLYWOOD'S UP-AND-COMERS OF THE SUMMER
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amSUMMER'S a tough season for a Tinseltown rookie. You're battling for attention against Tom Cruise's Crest-white grin, Will Smith's boundless charisma and Nicole Kidman's traffic-stopping beauty, among others, as a...
BUBBLE RAP - ON A BAHAMAS VACATION, AN ADVENTURE-PHOBIC ALISON ROGERS DISCOVERS A MORE USER-FRIENDLY BRAND OF SCUBA DIVING
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amFISH look great, I think, garnished with a wedge of lime. And that striped flag scuba divers tote around would make a great stirrer in a pina colada. Basically, I'm...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amTHE BRONX *** Cops yesterday asked the public for help in finding a 66-year-old man who disappeared from his Bronx home last week. Fernando Gonzalez (above), who police say is...
BADGE BATTLE BLITZ; BRAVEST: COPS TARGET US
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amFirefighters in upper Manhattan and The Bronx are complaining that a "rogue" group of highway cops are "targeting and harassing" them with minor traffic infractions in the latest episode of...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amAn upstate schoolgirl is seeing red because officials wouldn't let her into graduation with pink hair. Danielle Intelisano, 15, is suing the Gloversville School District, which claims her wild hair...
HAPPY ENDING TO TAIL OF TORTURED DOG
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amSparky, the tortured and starved Bronx dog found earlier this year tied to a piece of concrete, has found a new leash on life after a Bronx man saved the...
MYSTERY HAND FALLS FROM SKY
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amA boat party in an exclusive area of Long Island Sunday night was interrupted - when a severed human hand mysteriously dropped out of the sky onto the deck of...
KID IN CAR AS DWI IDIOT FLEES: COPS
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amA drunken Long Island man who led cops on a high-speed chase with a 6-year-old boy in the front seat was arrested and charged with DWI and endangering the child,...
HAPPY ENDING TO TAIL OF TORTURED BX. DOG
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amSparky, the tortured and starved Bronx dog found earlier this year tied to a piece of concrete, has found a new leash on life after a Bronx man snatched the...
TRAGIC GI TOLL MOUNTS
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amTwo GIs died in clashes with Iraqi militiamen, and a car bomb in Baghdad killed four people and injured 25, U.S. officials said yesterday. They also disclosed that two other...
CABBY HAS FDNY TO 'TANK' - HAND FREED FROM GAS SPOUT
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amSkyrocketing gas prices may cost an arm and a leg, but just going to a Brooklyn Hess station almost cost one cabby a finger yesterday. Mahfuzur Rahman, 38, had his...
MAKING THE TRADE; B'KLYN 5TH-GRADERS WIN STOCKS CONTEST
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amA group of savvy kids from Brooklyn could show Wall Street investors a thing or two. Fifth-graders from PS 290 in East New York won the elementary-school division of the...
ZOO'S YOUR DADDY; DARLING BABY CRITTERS 'LITTER' NYC WILDLIFE PARKS
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amCome meet some of the youngest and cutest New Yorkers, including one infant you'll really be stuck on - Buford the porcupine. Binti the baboon and Sammy the fur seal...
W. SALUTES OUR BRAVE GIS ; 'FIERCE COURAGE' PROTECTS FREEDOM
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush observed Memorial Day by praising the "fierce courage" of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, declaring that "two terror regimes" are gone and America is safer because of...
MEMORIAL DAY FOR KERRY
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amJohn Kerry paid a solemn visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington yesterday, rubbing his thumb over one of the newest names to be added to the polished black...
DEAL WITH THE DEVIL; SAUDIS LET KILLERS FLEE SIEGE SCENE
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amThree suspected al Qaeda terrorists - who killed 22 people at a Saudi housing complex - were allowed to escape after making a deal with security forces who had them...
FOR THE RECORD, 'SHREK 2' IS NO. 1
June 1, 2004 | 4:00am"Shrek 2" proved it's easy - and profitable - being green, as the family flick grabbed a jaw-dropping $92.2 million in four days, apparently setting a new box-office record for...
BLAST FROM THE PAST; '52 SUTTON SQUEAL-SLAY FILE FOUND
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amA forgotten 52-year-old investigative file that details the biggest murder probe ever conducted by the NYPD has recently been found inside a tiny Brooklyn station house, The Post has learned....
ARIEL ALLY FEARS GOV'T 'COLLAPSE'
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Ariel Sharon's government may fall because of his controversial plan to abandon the Gaza Strip, a key ally of the Israeli prime minister said yesterday. Justice Minister Yosef...
HAMPTONS DIARY
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amSOUTHAMPTON Town Police braced for the worst over the Memorial Day weekend - and they got it. Cops are calling the opening to the summer season one of the rowdiest...
VANISHED-COP MYSTERY DEEPENS
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amThe Staten Island cop who disappeared last week, only to be found blocks away from his home on Saturday, is not talking to police, officials said yesterday. Ronald Shepard is...
HEROES REMEMBERED ON THE HOME FRONT
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg marked Memorial Day by tossing a wreath from the Intrepid aircraft carrier and urging New Yorkers to fight terrorism by not living in fear. "If we let anxiety...
HIZZONER RIPS W. SIDE FOES
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday slammed Cablevision's campaign to derail the West Side stadium project. Cablevision, which owns Madison Square Garden, is the major player in a coalition that just launched a...
VACATIONS FOREIGN TO MAYOR MIKE
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amHe's worked for 2½ years without taking off more than a day here and there and has no plans for a long vacation anytime soon, but Mayor Bloomberg says just...
SEINFELD HITS HOME RUN; BUILDS BALL FIELD AT HAMPTONS PAD
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amJerry Seinfeld's massive overhaul of the sprawling East Hampton estate he bought from singer Billy Joel is now nearly complete - the Mets megafan has built his own baseball field....
JUILLIARD FUNERAL TOMORROW
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amThe numbed family of tragic Juilliard student Sarah Fox prepared for her funeral tomorrow as cops asked the public for help in solving the pretty co-ed's vicious murder in an...
INJURED CYCLIST'S CHINESE PARENTS IN DESPERATE BID TO SEE HER
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amThe brother of a Brooklyn bicyclist clinging to life after being struck by a car Sunday is trying desperately to get their family here from China. Su Cheng Chan, 39,...
CABBY HAS FDNY TO 'TANK'; HAND STUCK IN GAS SPOUT
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amSkyrocketing gas prices may cost an arm and a leg, but just going to a Brooklyn Hess station almost cost one cabby a finger yesterday. Mafuz Rahman, 40, had his...
40 INJURED IN 'CASINO' CRASH
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amAs many as 40 people were injured yesterday when a bus headed to Atlantic City from Manhattan crashed on the Garden State Parkway, cops said. The Academy bus was traveling...
PAGEANT KOS KWAME; 'APPRENTICE' GUY ILLEGALLY MINGLED
June 1, 2004 | 4:00am"Apprentice" loser Kwame Jackson has been fired by Donald Trump - again. The former Trump protégé was supposed to be a judge in tonight's Miss Universe pageant in Ecuador, but...
SCHOOL OUT AT DRAKE; BIZ COLLEGE TO CLOSE
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amThe historic Drake Business School will close today, The Post has learned. The nonprofit school, which serves 1,000 low-income students on four city campuses, is calling it quits after 131...
CRASH KILLS FIVE
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amFive people from Paterson, N.J., including four teenagers, were killed in a weekend crash in North Carolina, police said. Both drivers were charged with driving while intoxicated and driving without...
BROOKLYN DA SENT TO THE 'PEN'
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amBrooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes has inked a deal with St. Martin's Press to publish a crime novel, tentatively titled "The Wall Came Tumbling Down," in the summer of 2005....
LOTTERY WIN IS HIS WIFE'S TICKET HOME
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amA building superintendent who's lived apart from his wife for 26 years will reunite with her - using $1 million he won in the lottery. Jorge Avila of White Plains,...
HIGHWAY HORROR; 3 DIE AS BX. CHURCH VAN FLIPS ON CANADA BORDER
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amA trip home from a Canadian prayer retreat ended in flames, pain and death for members of a Bronx church. The crash Sunday night near the Canadian border left a...
LAST CUSTODY SHOT FOR PLAYBOY MOM
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amLawyers for a former Playboy model set to lose custody of her twin 4-year-old girls to their married father will make a last-ditch effort to block the handover today. Family...
TRUCK TRAGEDY IN HAMPTONS
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amA Southampton, L.I., teenager killed in a fiery crash over the holiday weekend was road-testing a pickup truck he and a friend had built - with the gas tank temporarily...
HONORING THE BEST OF N.Y. - 2003 AMBASSADOR MEDAL WINNER: BETH LANDAU
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amBeth Landau, joyously pregnant with her first baby, plans to bring the child up knowing that firefighters are wonderful and that, "after Daddy, they're some of the greatest guys around."...
HONORING THE BEST OF N.Y. - 2003 LIBERTY MEDAL WINNER: ANTHONY GALLO
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amAnthony Gallo says the Liberty Medal he took home last year for his courage in tackling a deranged subway slasher inspired him to broaden his horizons. The 40-year-old Queens alarm...
HONORING THE BEST OF N.Y. - 2003 YOUNG HEART MEDAL WINNER: ASHLEY MARTINEZ
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amAll trails still lead to horses for champion teen equestrienne Ashley Martinez. "I love them," said the 18-year-old high-school senior from Staten Island, who will become a freshman at an...
DA SENT TO 'PEN'
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amBrooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is throwing the book at 'em. The veteran DA has inked a deal with St. Martin's Press to publish a crime novel, tentatively titled "The...
PEDESTRIAN ATTACKS DRIVER
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amA traffic accident escalated into a fistfight yesterday when a man who was hit by a livery cab attacked the driver. Garry Vayman said he was making a left onto...
DWI DUMMY DRIVES KID IN CHASE: COPS
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amA drunken Long Island man who led cops on a high-speed chase with a 6-year-old boy in the front seat was arrested and charged with DWI and endangering the child,...
SCHOOL OUT AT DRAKE - BIZ COLLEGE TO CLOSE
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amThe historic Drake Business School is set to close, The Post has learned. In an announcement that could come as soon as today, the school is expected to call it...
N.C. CRASH KILLS FIVE FROM N.J
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amFive people from Paterson, N.J., including four teenagers, were killed in a holiday weekend crash in North Carolina, local police said. Both drivers were charged with driving while intoxicated and...
BOXING PHENOM HITS THE BOOKS AND OPPONENTS
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amAneudi Santos is riding high in the boxing ring, but his feet are planted firmly on the ground. Read on about how he balances books and title bouts. Boxing and...
TAMPA TIES FINALS WITH SCRAPPY WIN
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amSTANLEY CUP / GAME 4Lightning 1Flames 0 CALGARY - The artistic void in the Finals between Tampa Bay and Calgary has been filled by antipathy following the late third-period Ville...
'KIPPER' CAN DO - FLAMES RIDING HOT GOALTENDER
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amCALGARY - Funny how it can all work out in the end, isn't it? One of the primary reasons Darryl Sutter was fired by the Sharks as their head coach...
GIANTS SET TO INK KURT
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amIt is strange that a team that's been busier than most in the offseason could head into June without a legitimate, experienced starting quarterback. But it's been a strange and...
RIP READY TO BLOW INDY AWAY
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amEAST NOTES AUBURN HILLS - The tornado that touched down four miles from Conseco Field House on Sunday was as fierce as the scoring whirlwind known as Richard "Rip" Hamilton,...
STORM GETS NCAA BERTH
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amIn the end, there was no need for worry. St. John's survived a shaky early-spring performance and a poor Big East Conference tournament to earn the league's lone at-large berth...
'CENTRAL' CAPTURES MET MILE
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amBrazilian import Pico Central, 3-for-4 since arriving in the U.S. last winter, proved yesterday his near-track-record victory in the April 10 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct was no fluke, bursting clear...
READY IN A 'FLASH'; GORDON QUICK TO QUIET YANKS' FOES
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amThe Yankees say they knew what they were getting in Tom Gordon. But they had no idea how quick they would be getting it. After the club struggled throughout 2003...
FINALS APPROACH - PUMPED-UP PISTONS ARE EAGER TO CLOSE THE DEAL
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - It was no different two weeks ago against the Nets in that Game 7. The Pistons are ready for the kill tonight. When the banged-up Pacers enter...
ESCOBAR ISSUES APOLOGY
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amJockey Edward Escobar, who misused his whip when striking Sayitlikeumeanit several times in the face in Friday's sixth race, contacted Through the Binocs to apologize for those actions. "I would...
'SMARTY' STAYS SHARP FOR BIG DAY
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amAll systems are still "go" for Smarty Jones as he preps at Philadelphia Park for Saturday's Belmont Stakes. "Super," trainer John Servis said yesterday after the "Philly Flash" galloped a...
HIDEKI'S A STEADY INFLUENCE
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Let's see: The Yankees' leading hitter for average is Hideki Matsui. Their leading RBI man is Matsui, and their leading run scorer is Matsui. Is there a trend...
'ROCK' READY TO ROLL
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amTHE die is cast - Rock Hard Ten is set to go after Smarty Jones right out of the starting gate in the Belmont Stakes Saturday, turning the final classic...
ASSIGNING PLAYOFF BLAME
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amIN back-to-back games, Larry Brown and Rick Carlisle took turns kneeling at the interview altar. They couldn't wait to confess their sins. It was their fault their teams were unprepared....
LUKAS IS ROOTING FOR 'JONES' MAGIC
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amConspicuous by his absence in this year's Triple Crown is legendary trainer D. Wayne Lukas, a no-show in all three races for the first time since 1979. For nearly a...
KAZ FOR OPTIMISM - MATSUI'SHEROICSLET METSEND SKID
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amMets 5Phillies 3 PHILADELPHIA - When he was introduced to lead off the game yesterday, Kaz Matsui was booed for no particular reason. Welcome to Philadelphia. But maybe the Citizens...
PIAZZA: 'HIS ERR-NESS'
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Mike Piazza has had better weeks in the field. Piazza suffered through a rocky past six days, committing two errors at first base, each leading to...
RIP READY TO BLOW 'EM AWAY
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amEAST NOTES AUBURN HILLS - The tornado that touched down four miles from Conseco Field House on Sunday was as fierce as the one that "ripped" through the Indiana arena....
GW PITCHER RULED INELIGIBLE
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amSteve Mandl won't be able to send Carlos Pichardo out to the mound today when George Washington faces Grand Street Campus in the PSAL quarterfinals at the College of Staten...
PACERS ON LAST LEGS ; ALL-OR-NOTHING TONIGHT
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - The Pacers' All-Star forward is hobbled with a sprained left knee. But Jermaine O'Neal is a picture of health compared to their starting point guard, Jamaal Tinsley,...
PUMPED-UP PISTONS ARE EAGER TO CLOSE THE DEAL
June 1, 2004 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - It was no different two weeks ago against the Nets in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. The Pistons are ready for the kill tonight. When...