July 6, 2004
NYC OFFICE LEASES SLOWLY WARMING UP
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amDESPITE brokers' optimism, the leasing market - Midtown as well as downtown - runs warm but not hot. Wall Street, the locomotive that pulls the train in every strong market,...
IMPATIENT WITH FED, RATES ARE DROPPING ON THEIR OWN
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amDON'T look now, but interest rates are declining. Yeah: Declining! Not the rate that the Federal Reserve controls - the so-called Fed funds rate, which last week moved up one-quarter...
FORD FAVORS FILM, NOT FASHION
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amTom Ford has set up a production company in Los Angeles to actively scout for movie projects, and he has told friends that he is not planning another foray into...
MEXX ADDS STORES, STYLE IN CLAIBORNE RETAIL PUSH
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amLiz Claiborne is poised to expand its chain of Mexx specialty clothing stores as the apparel giant seeks new areas of growth. Four new Mexx stores are scheduled to open...
NEW MEANING TO TV DINNER
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amTALK about the food channel. The newest thing on the gadget market is a refrigerator with a cable-ready TV built into the door. Or a TV - with a refrigerator...
STARR REPORT
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amHair's the story "Joey" co- star Drea de Matteo will make a special appearance Thursday in Times Square for a 40th anniversary Head & Shoulders event featuring celebrity stylist Jason...
'RACE' RAVE - 'AMAZING' DOESN'T EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE THIS WACKY GROUP
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amThe Amazing Race 5" [*** 1/2] (Three and one-half stars) Tonight at 10 on CBS HOW do I love thee? Let me count the teams. This season of "Amazing Race,"...
'REAL' NICE RATINGS
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amTHE latest edition of MTV's "The Real World" was real-ly big. More than 3.8 million viewers tuned into the San Diego installment's season finale last week, according to cable ratings...
LINE OF FIRE - 'RESCUE ME': SAVING SURVIVORS OF 9/11
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amTHE rookie firefighter, decked out in about half of his heavy FDNY safety gear, stands baking in the hot sun just off 121st Street and watches as a bunch of...
AL-JAZEERA SEEKS INVESTORS IN BID TO SELL STOCK
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amAL-Jazeera, the controversial Arabic news channel, is planning to become a publicly traded company. The Qatar-based broadcaster, which is terror mastermind Osama bin Laden's network of choice and has aired...
WHO LOVES YA, VING?
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amHE'S bald, he's back and this time around, Kojak is black. The USA Network is producing a revival of "Kojak" starring Ving Rhames as the hard-nosed, lollipop-licking cop "who loves...
THEY'VE GOTTA HAVE IT - SPIKE'S WIFE AND HER CO-WRITER ADD COLOR TO CHICK LIT
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amYOU'VE watched the outrageous rich-girl antics of Paris Hilton and maybe even read "Bergdorf Blondes." Now comes a new glimpse at the spectacular wealth of the Upper East Side -...
TROUPE'S NEW SHOW IS A TOSSUP
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amPILOBOLUS Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., at 19th Street; (212) 242-0800. Season runs through July 17. IN Elizabethan times, so I am told, summer was traditionally heralded by village idiots...
SENIOR MOMENTS - SEASONED ACTRESSES ARE AMONG SUMMER'S PRIME ATTRACTIONS
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amPERHAPS the most delightful surprise in "Spider-Man 2" is the sight of Peter Parker's Aunt May - played by 76-year-old Rosemary Harris - hanging from a skyscraper by her cane...
CABBIES PICK MEDALLION MAIDENS
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amForget the swimsuit competition, these beauty queens might want to figure out the fastest way from Midtown to JFK. This month the New York Federation of Taxi Drivers will kick...
CURSING LIKE HILL - BIO BARES FOULMOUTHED CLINTON'S VICIOUS SIDE
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton may have grown up in middle-class suburban Chicago, and graduated Wellesley and Yale Law School, but she swears like a sailor and can slice up enemies with...
CROOKS' BUCKS IN CHUCK'S COFFERS
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Sen. Charles Schumer has accepted thousands of dollars in campaign donations from convicted criminals, The Post has found. Only after told of the donations by The Post did...
CHUCK RIPS WEB 'SPAM SCAM'
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amA Web site that claims to be a national do-not-e-mail registry is actually a spam scam, Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday. Schumer said the site, ethicalemail.com, tells consumers it can...
10 DIE AS U.S. BOMBS TERROR HOUSE
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amAt least 10 people were reported killed in Iraq yesterday when U.S. warplanes blasted a suspected terror safe house in the embattled Sunni bastion of Fallujah. Four 500-pound bombs and...
SUBWAY SAMARITAN - RUSHED TO HELP MODEL
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amMost subway riders fled in panic after a man shot Monica Meadows - but Ashley Ruprecht ran to the model, wrapped a sweatshirt around her wound, "and pushed with all...
SHARON EKES OUT 'WIN'
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon barely survived a no-confidence vote yesterday, as security around him was intensified because of fears of violence due to his plan to withdraw...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amThey briefly had to rein in the July 4th parade in downtown Brighton, Utah, when two young bull moose crashed the celebration. The massive critters came trotting up the street,...
2 BUSTED IN NASSAU DRUG-STORE BOMBING
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amTwo Long Island men set off holiday fireworks, then exploded a home-made bomb outside an Oceanside drug store that ripped open its rear door early yesterday, cops said. Police on...
QNS. SLAY BUST - STRIP-CLUB 'SHOOTER'
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amCops have busted a 26-year-old Queens man and charged him with the fatal shooting of a strip-club manager during a street altercation four months ago, The Post has learned. Joseph...
SLAY MOST FOWL - 6 DUCKS KILLED
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amParks officials are hunting a Queens quackpot who snapped the necks of six defenseless ducks nesting under the Flushing Meadows boathouse. There's no suspect yet, but officials said the senseless...
DIDDY'S 'PARTY' POLITICS
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amIt was diamonds, stars - and politics - at Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' annual White Party in the Hamptons as the rap mogul-cum-actor used a massive July 4 bash to...
TEACHERS ENDORSE KERRY - EDWARDS ADDS NEW VEEP TWIST
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - John Kerry yesterday picked up an endorsement from a powerful teachers union, but kept mum on the question dogging him at every campaign event: whom he's going to...
HARLEM RALLY TO RIDE JOEL OUT ON A RAIL
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amOutraged Harlem residents today plan to protest kid killer Joel Steinberg's presence in their neighborhood by carrying a casket symbolizing his dead 6-year-old adopted daughter, Lisa, past his halfway house....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * An argument between two men inside a Kingsbridge Heights eatery turned bloody when one stabbed the other early yesterday, police said. The trouble began inside the Shalon...
HAMPTONS DIARY - PARIS AND RAGING NICK IN 'FIREWORKS' DISPLAY
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amWILL Nick Carter's jealous rage doom his relationship with Paris Hilton? That was the question being bandied about at the Star Room early yesterday morning after the two were seen...
MARINE ALIVE: THUGS - VOWS TO GIVE UP MILITARY, CAPTORS SAY
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amIraqi militants yesterday said the U.S. Marine hostage reportedly beheaded over the weekend was actually alive and had been moved to "a place of safety" after he promised not to...
MOTHER OF ALL LAWSUITS - AX FOR 'PREGNANCY'
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman has sued her former boss and their firm for $1 million, saying he maliciously fired her because she was pregnant. Annel Lene, 31, says she was working...
CLASSIC HOT WHEELS - FIRE RUINS COMMISH'S '69 DODGE
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amWayward fireworks caused a freak blaze that badly damaged a New Jersey police commissioner's classic car - wheels he used when courting his wife. But Dennis Quinlan, the top cop...
FIREBOMB HORROR - L.I. MOM DIES, KIDS & HUBBY CRITICAL
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amA 26-year-old Long Island mom was killed early yesterday when a firebomb was smashed against her apartment door - just a month after her SUV was destroyed in a suspicious...
'DRAG RACE' CRASH KILLS 3 IN JERSEY
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amA suspected drag race claimed the lives of three young men and left another person critically injured yesterday after their car struck a utility pole at high speed in Paterson,...
NYPD RIPS BRAVEST-DISS COP
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amThe NYPD yesterday tried to distance itself from the remarks of a now-retired cop who called city firefighters "amateurs" on a nationally televised documentary aired last week. Deputy Commissioner Paul...
COP BULLET HITS BOY IN WHEELCHAIR
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amA police officer pursuing a man who had just robbed a shoe store in Park Slope shot and wounded a 12-year-old boy sitting in his wheelchair in front of his...
MATTRESS INFERNO - BLAZE WRECKS B'KLYN FACTORY
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amLightning struck a Brooklyn mattress factory yesterday, causing the city's biggest fire of the year, a spectacular six-alarm inferno that gutted the building and injured 11 people. Thick gray smoke...
CABDRIVERS' PAGEANT TO HAIL 'QUEEN'
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amMeter, meter, on the wall, who's the fare-est of them all? The New York Federation of Taxi Drivers wants to know - and is planning a beauty pageant this summer...
PRESIDENT PEDALS CLEAR OF PEEPING PRESS
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A day before his 58th birthday, President Bush took to the mountains yesterday to ride his bike over rugged trails at a heavily wooded Secret Service training camp...
CHUCK'S TAINTED BUCKS - CONS' CASH IN COFFERS
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Sen. Charles Schumer has accepted thousands of dollars in campaign donations from convicted criminals, The Post has found. Only after told of the donations by The Post did...
PREZ PEDALS CLEAR OF PEEPING PRESS
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A day before his 58th birthday, President Bush took to the mountains yesterday to ride his bike over rugged trails at a heavily wooded Secret Service training camp...
BIO BARES THE CURSE OF HILLARY
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton may have grown up in middle-class suburban Chicago, and graduated Wellesley and Yale Law School, but she swears like a sailor and can slice up enemies with...
TRAGIC FAMILY ROCKED AGAIN AS CRASH GIRL, 4, DIES
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amA grief-numbed Westchester couple yesterday lost their third young child to injuries sustained in a horrific car crash last week. Little Jesenia Ascensio, 4, died of massive injuries around 12:30...
3 DEAD AS 'DRAG' CAR SLAMS POLE
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amA suspected drag race claimed the lives of three young men and left another person critically injured yesterday after their car struck a utility pole at high speed in Paterson,...
COP'S STRAY BULLET - TARGETS B'KLYN CROOK - HITS WHEELCHAIR KID
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amA police officer chasing a suspect in a Brooklyn shoe-store robbery yesterday shot and wounded a wheelchair-bound 12-year-old boy, cops said. Eduardo Vidals, who has been paralyzed since birth, was...
FIREBOMB HORROR - L.I. MOM DIES, KIDS AND HUBBY CRITICAL
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amA 26-year-old Long Island mom was killed early yesterday when a firebomb was smashed against her apartment door - just a month after her SUV was destroyed in a suspicious...
ID IN SLAY OF INNOCENT B'KLYN TEEN
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amThis is the man who shot and killed a 17-year-old Brooklyn youth - an innocent victim struck by four bullets Sunday as he stood on a Canarsie street, police said...
NETS EYEING HELP FROM SUMMER SQUAD
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amWhile Kenyon Martin lines up visits to potential suitors such as Denver, Utah and Atlanta, the Nets hope to find gold - or at least one rotation player - through...
THREE DIE IN N.J. 'DRAG RACE' CRASH
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amA suspected drag race claimed the lives of three young men and left another person critically injured yesterday after their car struck a utility pole at high speed in Paterson,...
EXPANSION FOR GAY HS IS $TALLED
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration might be having second thoughts about promoting an experimental high school serving gay and lesbian students. The Department of Education's budget halts the planned expansion of the...
MATTRESS INFERNO - LIGHTNING BLAZE WRECKS BROOKLYN FACTORY
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amLightning struck a Brooklyn mattress factory yesterday, causing the city's biggest fire of the year, a spectacular six-alarm inferno that gutted the building and injured 11 people. Thick gray smoke...
$PIDEY SWINGS TO SALES RECORD
July 6, 2004 | 4:00am"Spider-Man 2" soared high over the Tinseltown competition during the holiday weekend and broke box-office records by racking up an estimated $180 million in ticket sales since it opened last...
RIDING A SEE$ORE - PLAYGROUND ADULTS GET TIX UNLESS WITH KIDS
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amThe NYPD has stepped up its enforcement of an obscure rule barring adults from the city's 950 playgrounds unless they're with a child, a Post investigation has found. The rule...
WEASELS BLOCKED U.S. PROBE OF U.N. OIL SCAM
July 6, 2004 | 4:00am"I am duty-bound to bring the matter to the U.N. Security Council." - Benon Sevan (left), in a letter to Mohammed Al-Douri (right) regarding dirty deals in the oil-for-food program'...
HAMMERIN' HIDALGO SETS MET HR MARK
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - At this point, it will become surprising when Richard Hidalgo plays a game and does not hit a home run. Hidalgo went deep in his fifth...
ART'S MOVE WOULD HAVE BEEN BRILLIANT - IF ONLY...
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - It worked, all the way up until it didn't. Art Howe pushed back Tom Glavine's start one day to save him for the Phillies and the Mets swept...
HEY, DOLANS: WE'RE SMARTER THAN YOU THINK
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S probably too late for the James Dolans of New York sports to get it, but we'll give it a try: Derek Jeter made a torpedoes-be-damned catch against the Red...
COYLE SEEKS HELP IN COACHING DEBUT
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amOn winter nights, Rutgers Prep girls basketball coach Mary Coyle-Klinger would call her more famous twin sister and ask for help. "Stop by a practice, Patty, or come see us...
WONDER AGAIN BEST IN N.Y.
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amAfter a disappointing campaign as a 4-year-old, the 5-year-old mare Wonder Again seems poised to join the ranks of other top turf fillies trained by Jimmy Toner after a rousing,...
METS NOT PHIL OF THEMSELVES - MUST FOCUS ON 1ST-PLACE FOES
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Lately, the calls have been coming in more frequently to Art Howe's telephone. "I guess I'm getting a lot more popular," Howe said before adding, "but it's mainly...
CAM MAINTAINS HIS GOOD CHEER
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - When he walked over to his locker yesterday, all Mike Cameron could do was wave a miniature blue-and-orange pom-pom. "This tells you all you need to...
KNICKS NEED SIGN-&-TRADE TO GET JAMAL
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amThe agent for Jamal Crawford told The Post yesterday that the Knicks' mid-level exception will not be enough to land the Bulls' combo guard. In citing the marketplace changing since...
TOM TERRIFIC ONCE AGAIN
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - It worked. Art Howe pushed back Tom Glavine a day for the Phillies, the team the Mets began last night only two games behind, and they swept the...
FEELING THE STRAIN - PULLED MUSCLE, SLUMP CAN'T DETER A-ROD
July 6, 2004 | 4:00am"I am seeing the ball very well." -ALEX RODRIGUEZ Alex Rodriguez's abdominal muscle problem was not bad enough to keep him out of the starting lineup last night against the...
TORRE GOES THROUGH WITH PROTEST
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES After watching the replay countless times, Joe Torre changed his mind and will go through with the protest he filed Sunday when Jorge Posada was called out by...
GLAVINE GLOW FLICKERS OUT - TOM COMES UP FLAT IN PHILLY
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amPhillies 6 - Mets 5 PHILADELPHIA - It was all set up for the Mets, the victory seemingly already counted, the continued march to first place apparently inevitable. Tom Glavine...
HEY, DOLAN - LISTEN UP! - JETER'S SHEA CHEERS PROVE APPLE FANS ARE SMART & CLASSY
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S probably too late for the James Dolans of New York sports to get it, but we'll give it a try: Derek Jeter made a torpedoes-be-damned catch against the Red...
RANGERS RETAIN RENNEY - 5-11-0-4 COACH KEEPS JOB
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amGlen Sather has eliminated some of the uncertainty surrounding his Team Nobody Knows. The Rangers actually have themselves a head coach for 2004-05, presuming there is an NHL 2004-05. Tom...
TORRE GOING THROUGH WITH PROTEST
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES After watching the replay countless times, Joe Torre changed his mind and will go through with the protest he filed Sunday when Jorge Posada was called out by...
THE BOSS CAN'T BE VERY HAPPY
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amSo how did George Steinbrenner react after the Yankees were beaten over the weekend in the Mets' first Subway Series sweep ever? Not well. Even though the Yankees had only...
UMP DEALS SWIFT JUSTICE AFTER YAN BUZZES ALEX
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amAlex Rodriguez' eyes grew as big as saucers as Esteban Yan's pitch came straight for A-Rod's head. Rodriguez hit the deck, and before he'd even gotten off his backside, plate...
BACK ON TRACK - YANKS STOP SKID WITH POWER, PITCHING
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 10 - Tigers 3 Hours before Alex Rodriguez broke out of an extended slump and led a band of angry Yankee bats into a hitting orgy against the Tigers...
LUMBER & LIEBER - YANKS STOP SKID WITH POWER, PITCHING
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 10 - Tigers 3 Home runs knifed through the thick Bronx air as the Yankees put the Tigers in an early grave. Detroit pitchers issued nine walks to help...
GIAMBI GETS BACK IN SWING
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amEven though an intestinal parasite is still sapping Jason Giambi's strength, even though he can't work out and claims some mornings he can barely get out of bed, he sure...
CHEERLEADER CAM FAILS IN THE PINCH
July 6, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHILADELPHIA - When he walked over to his locker yesterday, all Mike Cameron could do was wave a miniature blue-and-orange pom-pom. "This tells you all you need to...