June 21, 2004
W. 52ND SITE SOLD FOR $9M
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amVikram Chatwal's Hampshire Hotel Group has scooped up SIR Studios' mid-block building at 310 W. 52nd St. to create a development site that can hold a 37-story residential tower. Hampshire...
CNNFN'S NEW SKED AXES STOX, ADDS HOME
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amStocks are out; real estate is in. Cable news network CNNfn is tweaking its programming schedule and will announce today that it will replace a stock market show with a...
ON THE HIRING LINE - KOHL'S LAUNCHES SEARCH FOR TOP EXECS, NEXT CEO
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amRecent management defections have left Kohl's, the once high-flying but now troubled department store chain, grappling with succession issues, even as its chief executive struggles to turn the company around,...
NEW YORK SPLITS OVER SEXY COVER
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amNew York magazine attempts to strut its stuff in this week's issue with a split press run that yields two covers - but you have to be a subscriber to...
JESSICA JAMS RADIO CITY
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amJESSICA SIMPSON DESPITE her Barbie doll looks, Jessica Simpson wanted everyone to know she was a real live human woman at her Radio City Music Hall debut Friday. To make...
NYCB CAPS BALANCHINE FEST WITH SPLENDID 'MUSAGETE'
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amNEW YORK CITY BALLETNew York State Theater, Lincoln Center. (212) 870-5570. Through June 27. AS a final big gesture to cap New York City Ballet's yearlong Balanchine Centennial Celebration, on...
LETTING AIR OUT OF NBA - SHUFFLING '20/20' DRUG REPORT 'SUSPICIOUS'
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amApparently, the NBA season isn't quite over. There seems to be something else going on, something odd, suspicious and unsettling. Jeff Benedict, an investigative journalist, wrote a just-out book, "Out...
'AFTERBIRTH' SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN BORN
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amAFTERBIRTH: Kathy and Mo's Greatest HitsAt the Second Stage Theatre, 307 W. 43rd St. Through July 11. Call (212) 246-4422. IN "Afterbirth: Kathy and Mo's Greatest Hits," Kathy Najimy and...
LOST TIME - DOCU POINTS TO A NEW JONBENET THEORY
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amTHE PRODUCERS SAY THAT NO U.S. BROADCASTER IS INTERESTED BECAUSE THE DOCUMENTARY THEORIZES THAT SOMEONE BESIDES JOHN AND PATSY RAMSEY SHOULD BE THE MAIN SUSPECTS. A new British documentary claims...
MODEL LIFE - GLITZY 'STAR' WANTS TO MAKE YOU OVER
June 21, 2004 | 4:00am"A WOMAN MIGHT SAY HER HUSBAND NEEDS A MAKEOVER AND THAT HER FAVORITE STAR IS BRAD PITT - SO WE'LL TAKE HER HUSBAND TO BRAD PITT'S STYLIST." THE producers of...
STARR REPORT
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amRare Rosanna role TV-shy Rosanna Arquette will come out of her big- screen shell to guest-star on an upcoming episode of "Summerland," which has gotten off to a strong start...
WOW! - HOW CHELSEA PULLED OFF HER AMAZING TRANSFORMATION (AND YOU CAN TOO!)
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amCHELSEA Clinton's chic new look is turning heads. With her sleek, honey-blond coif and understated but deftly applied makeup, the former first daughter has undergone a dramatic transformation from bookish...
HOW TO DO 'THE CHELSEA' - THREE GALS TRY HER SLEEK LOOK
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amTHE urban chic makeover clearly did wonders for Chelsea, but we wanted to know if it would work its magic on other curly girls. So The Post recruited three New...
HIGHER 'DEGREE' OF HS KIDS SEEK GED
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe number of Big Apple students under 21 who have enrolled in alternative high-school GED programs has skyrocketed 40 percent, a new state report shows. A total of 37,010 students...
PREZ VOTE IS KEY TO RUDY GOV. BID
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amRUDY GIULIANI is "very unlikely" to run for governor if President Bush is defeated in November, GOP insiders who know the ex-mayor say. Giuliani has made it clear that he's...
APPLE FOLLY-BALL - EXPERTS WARN OF SPORTS-ARENA GLUT
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amPlans to build new indoor sports facilities on both sides of the Hudson river would leave the New York metropolitan region with a glut of indoor arenas all competing for...
MOB WIFE GEARS UP FOR RAT BRO
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe wife of reputed Bonanno boss Joseph Massino is bracing herself for a nightmare come to life as her brother prepares to take the witness stand against her husband as...
MALLS AT RISK FOR ATTACK: CHUCK
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe federal government isn't doing enough to protect shopping malls from terrorist attacks, Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday. Schumer (D-NY) wants malls equipped to detect chemical, biological or explosive devices...
CO-ED: CHEST SAY NO - SICK FROM BUST JOB
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amA college co-ed - poisoned and now chronically ill from breast implants she got as a teen - has a message for girls who want the surgery and the parents...
TRANSIT BUFF BOASTS OF TRAIN THEFTS
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amAn obsessive transit buff says he drove a Metro-North train full of passengers from Westchester County to Grand Central Terminal in the weeks before he was busted for allegedly trying...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amWhile most kids get out of final exams by merely skipping them, a 17-year-old California girl did the job by setting off tear gas. Her fellow test-taking students began to...
SADDAM BIG LINKED TO QAEDA
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON One of Saddam Hussein's elite Fedayeen militiamen also was a top-level member of al Qaeda, a member of the 9/11 commission revealed for the first time yesterday. The startling...
APT. DWELLERS PU$H FOR GOP TO TAKE OVER IN THE 'HOUSE'
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amA slew of amateur entrepreneurs are looking to cash in on this summer's Republican National Convention by offering up their apartments for big bucks during the four-day gala. More than...
'HAIL TO THE CAB' COULD BE BILL'S THEME SONG
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe country's 42nd president once dreamed of becoming a doorman at The Plaza. In his book "My Life," Bill Clinton says that while going to school at Oxford, he thought...
AIR CONDITIONER IN NEAR-MISS FALL
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amA 79-year-old woman narrowly escaped death yesterday morning in Brooklyn when an air conditioner accidentally fell four stories onto the sidewalk. The woman, who was not identified, was taken to...
SAUDIS' ENEMIES WITHIN
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe terrorists who beheaded American engineer Paul Johnson were helped by sympathizers in the Saudi security forces who provided them with uniforms and cars so they could stage a fake...
TWO HEROIC PASSERS-BY FOIL MIDTOWN SEX ASSAULT
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amTwo pedestrians captured a pair of would-be rapists as they tried to drag a 25-year-old woman into an alley early yesterday, cops said. The woman was headed home around 5...
ROOMS AVAILABLE FOR REPUBLICAN 'INN' CROWD
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amEven with tens of thousands of delegates, media members and protestors flooding the Big Apple for this summer's Republican National Convention, the majority of city hotels still have their "vacancy"...
GRAND JURY TO PROBE GRID-KID SLAY
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn District Attorney's Office plans to present the Mark Fisher murder case to a grand jury in hopes of forcing witnesses to finally tell the truth, The Post has...
BRUSH WITH FAME - INSIDE THE GARAGE STUDIO OF BILL & HILL'S PORTRAIT ARTIST
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amNow that he's famous for painting a former president, you would think Simmie Knox would have hired someone to answer his phone. But Knox is on the other end, still...
BUSH NOMINEE UNDER SCRUTINY
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amPresident Bush's nominee for the federal appeals court in Washington - who was the lead counsel for the Senate during the impeachment of President Clinton - has been practicing law...
BUBBA: I WAS BLIND TO BROTHER'S COCAINE COLLAPSE
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amAn ambitious Bill Clinton was so caught up in his political career that he missed the obvious signs of his little brother's destructive cocaine habit, the ex-president reveals in his...
NUMBERS RACKET HITS NYC MARATHON
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amCall them the city's new numbers runners. Some marathoners who were shut out of next November's New York City race are willing to spend hundreds of dollars to buy the...
HEROES FOIL SEX ASSAULT
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amTwo pedestrians captured a pair of perverts as they tried to rape a 25-year-old woman early yesterday, cops said. The woman was headed home at around 5 a.m. when the...
HAMPTONS DIARY
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S tough enough to get a birdie out of a sand trap. Environmentally conscious golf fans got into panic at the U.S. Open, believing a rare pair of breeding piping...
SUBWAY SLAY DRAMA - ROB SUSPECT KILLED CHARGING AT COP IN TUNNEL
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan transit cop fatally shot a robbery suspect who charged at him in a subway tunnel near a live third rail yesterday, police said. A subway motorman in a...
LYNNDIE LOSES BUSH-BRASS BID
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amLynndie England - whose grinning face came to symbolize the Iraqi prisoner-abuse scandal - gets her day in court tomorrow, but her lawyers say they can't defend her because they...
DOC'S UNPAID BILLS - DEADBEAT CUFFED AT MEDICAL CONFAB
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amA prominent cancer doctor spent Father's Day in the slammer after being busted for being a $300,000 deadbeat dad, authorities said yesterday. Dr. Gregory Berk, a former New York Hospital...
CAB SPURS PARK AVE. SMASH-UP
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amA frantic leap saved a woman from being crushed between two parked cars in Manhattan yesterday. The cars were in a four-vehicle smash-up caused by a rookie cabby who ran...
KAYAK COMMUTE COMING
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amNew Yorkers may be able to row to work in the not-so-distant future. City kayakers are slowly building a network of friendly ports along the East and Hudson rivers that...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Two people were shot - one fatally - after a thug accosted them on a Brownsville street, police said yesterday. The victims, ages 18 and 32, were approached...
DAD'S SUV KILLS TOT IN HORROR ACCIDENT
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amA Father's Day celebration ended in tragedy yesterday when a 2-year-old Long Island girl was accidentally struck and killed as her dad backed his SUV into a driveway, police said....
KILLERS WITH CAMERAS - AL-JAZEERA - ENEMY COMBATANT
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amIMAGINE if, on D-Day, the Nazis had been allowed to place camera teams on Omaha Beach - with our suffering soldiers forbidden to interfere. What if, on top of that,...
SCHOOLS AX 'SEX GABBER'
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amEducation officials fired a Bronx guidance counselor after school probers alleged he made sexually vulgar comments to three of his learning-disabled students, The Post has learned. IS 162 special-education counselor...
'DODGEBALL' A HIT - FLICK SLOWS 'TERMINAL' VELOCITY
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amBen Stiller and Vince Vaughn teamed up to beat Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg as "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" soared to No. 1 at the box office, easily flying...
KAYAK COMMUTE COULD BE COMING
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amNew Yorkers might be able to row to work in the not-so-distant future. City kayakers are slowly building a network of friendly ports along the East and Hudson rivers that...
A TEARFUL FAREWELL TO DEAD GIRL
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn couple yesterday said a sorrowful goodbye to their 12-year- old daughter, who was fatally mowed down on Saturday on a street while playing with friends. Frieda Chirazi's parents,...
GO-CART GOON KNIFES 2 PALS
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island man - furious at being thrown off a go-cart course for reckless driving - stabbed two friends who tried to stop him from arguing with staffers at...
CHURCH PRAISES PASTOR'S EXODUS
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amIn the end, the elderly parishioners of a Harlem church said it was no contest - God scored a TKO victory for them over a bully pastor. Members of the...
QUEENS TOT NEAR DEATH BY SHAKING
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amA 2-year-old Queens boy was fighting for his life last night after his baby sitter shook him violently, cops said. "It doesn't look good for him," said a source at...
GRID KID JURY - DA PUSHING CASE
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn District Attorney's Office plans to present the Mark Fisher murder case to a grand jury in hopes of forcing witnesses to finally tell the truth, The Post has...
GAGNE NAILS DOWN 81ST
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - It takes a special guy to hold the interest of 55,157 attention-span challenged Angelenos. Hollywood's best ongoing series continues to be mind-blowing Dodger closer Eric Gagne, who...
NBC FINE, BUT WE WANTED TO WATCH, NOT READ
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amWHEN did the Sci-Fi Channel buy U.S. Open rights? Only once a year - all we can and should take - do we see fist-pump bogeys and the world's best...
HALSEY'S A POPULAR GUY
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Brad Halsey had barely stepped off the Dodger Stadium grass as the winning pitcher in his big league debut Saturday when popularity beat him to the clubhouse....
HALSEY WILL GET NOD AGAINST METS
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES LOS ANGELES - Thanks to Kevin Brown's balky back, Brad Halsey will get a chance to prove the success he experienced in his major-league debut Saturday wasn't a...
HARMON DEFENDS HIS TIGER BASHING
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES The feud between Tiger Woods and Butch Harmon may never end. Harmon, Woods' former swing coach, offered more public words yesterday, one day after Woods shot back at...
OH, DADDY! VALENT HAS A BIG DAY
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amMet utilityman Eric Valent became a father on Monday, and yesterday made his first Father's Day a memorable one on the baseball field, too. The 27-year-old backup got just his...
TRACHS GRINDS IT OUT
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amThe measure of a pitcher's mettle is not how he pitches when he has his best stuff, but how he fares when he doesn't. Yesterday, unable to control his curveball...
STINK OVER LINKS
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amAmid the carnage, the debate began: Does Shinnecock accurately reflect American golf courses enough to deserve to be the site of the national championship three times in 19 years? The...
WIND BLOWS PHIL AWAY
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amIT looked as if Phil Mick elson was headed for his second straight major championship. He had the momentum, he had the crowd and he had a one-stroke lead over...
METS STRIKE IT RICH - HIDALGO HOMER KEYS AMAZIN'S SWEEP OF TIGERS
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amMets 6 - Tigers 1 You go 175 at-bats without a homer, you start to get concerned. You start to question whether you still have your power. And when you're...
USGA HOSES EARLY BIRDS BY WATERING
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amIt's like bringing in the fence for Babe Ruth. Plain and simple, the USGA cheated. It bans balls, outlaws drivers and grandfathers square grooves. Yesterday, the self-appointed Guardian of Golf...
JUST CALL KAZ MR. MATSU-EEEE
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES Kaz Matsui charged the ball, just like he's been working on. But once again, his arm betrayed him. In the eighth inning of yesterday's 6-1 win over Detroit,...
BIG EASY ENDURES A DIFFICULT SUNDAY
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amIt was over almost as soon as it started for Ernie Els. The Big Easy experienced the big hurt on the 1st hole of his final round in the 104th...
THIS GOOSEN'S GOLDEN - RETIEF PASSES PHIL TO TAKE SECOND OPEN
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amThis day appeared destined to be all about Phil Mickelson. The huge crowds around Shinnecock Hills yesterday urged him on as if cheering for their horse at the track. They...
NO WHINING, JUST WINNING FROM 'TIEF
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amFINALLY, at the end of a day when the best golfers in the world couldn't stop whining about fast greens and stiff winds and the terrible plight of playing a...
NO MAGIC FOR MAGGERT
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amHe had Shinnecock's number, its best number. But he ended up at familiar No. 3. Jeff Maggert can take solace that his momentary 7-under Saturday was as deep into par...
IN DEFEAT, FURYK STILL A CHAMP
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amForget the score. Jim Furyk wasn't in this Open to win it. Not after undergoing wrist surgery three months ago. This was about a golfer honoring the title of defending...
DAY OK FOR DADS AT OPEN
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amThis is a story about two father-and-son combinations that got to spend Father's Day together yesterday at Shinnecock Hills. For Jay and Bill Haas, it was a day to remember....
TIGER'S SOUR GRIPES - WOODS BLASTS COURSE SET-UP
June 21, 2004 | 4:00am"The USGA lost the course today." -TIGER WOODS (m) Oh, how times have changed. As Tiger Woods walked off the 18th green he had nothing but sour words to say...
NO WHINING, JUST WINNING BY CHAMP
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amTHE right guy won. Forget what your heart may have been yelling, forget how much you might like Phil Mickelson, how much you cheered him on at Augusta, how much...
HALSEY A POPULAR GUY
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Brad Halsey had barely stepped off the Dodger Stadium grass as the winning pitcher in his big league debut Saturday when popularity beat him to the clubhouse....
YANKS ARE ROAD KILL - DROP 2 OF 3 VS. L.A. AS GAGNE SLAMS DOOR
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amGagne posted his 18th save and extended his record to 81 straight. Dodgers 5 - Yankees 4 LOS ANGELES - Dodger Stadium was swimming in stars last night. Kobe Bryant...
HALSEY LIKELY SUB FOR BROWN
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES LOS ANGELES - Thanks to Kevin Brown's balky back, Brad Halsey will likely get a chance to prove the success he experienced in his major league debut Saturday...
YANKS ARE ROAD KILL - DROP 2 OF 3 IN L.A. - BUT JOSE LOOKS SHARP
June 21, 2004 | 4:00am"He pitched a helluva game. It doesn't show, but I thought he did a good job." - JORGE POSADA ON JOSE CONTRERAS LOS ANGELES - The Yankees are never about...
BOMBERS' OFFENSE HITTING A LULL
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES LOS ANGELES - With a pitching staff that is missing Kevin Brown and Mike Mussina and struggling with Felix Heredia as the lone lefty in the bullpen, the...
STARKS REALITY - '94 STILL HURTS, 10 YEARS LATER
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amJohn Starks and Patrick Ewing are great friends. But to this day, for 10 years, they have never discussed Game 7 of the 1994 NBA Finals against the Houston Rockets....
JOSE'S IN SPOTLIGHT - YANKS' PLANS HINGED ON CONTRERAS L.A. START
June 21, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Brad Halsey's feel-good performance Saturday had become part of the L.A. fog the Yankees woke up to yesterday because in their universe today is always the most...