August 7, 2004
G+J PLANS TO CUT 105 JOBS
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amMagazine publisher Gruner + Jahr USA is getting ready to ax about 105 people across its stable of magazines. "The industry has changed and so must we," the new CEO,...
JUDGE'S RULING SOCKS NEWSDAY
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amA federal magistrate issued a stern rebuke to Newsday, saying he was "troubled" by how the Long Island daily was dealing with some of the advertisers involved in a suit...
MARKET REPORT
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amIF you're shopping for a home, you probably have some questions: Is that walk-up studio really going to sell for $300,000? Is that $500,000 one-bedroom really five blocks from the...
GREEN ACRES - NEW YORKERS RUSH TO GRAB CHEAP LAND
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amSURE, Robert Hilbert and his wife, Tanya, like living in New York City. Having lived on the Upper East Side for three years, they enjoy the pace of Manhattan and...
CHIAT'S PET PAD
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amIT'S shaping up to be a battle of the brokers for the oceanfront home of late advertising exec Jay Chiat. Schneider, the Corcoran Group and Sotheby's - are tri-brokering the...
FIND ME A HOME! - MISSION: $1,000 GREENPOINT RENTAL
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amLAUREN Silberman has lived in a three-bedroom share near the Graham Avenue L-train stop for over two years now. She's decided that it's time to find her own place. She...
HE'S STILL A SURE BETTS
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amDICKEY BETTS IT was old men gone wild - and we're not just talking about guitar great Dickey Betts and his band, Great Southern. Betts and company lived up to...
SKIN GAMES - A NUDE LOOK AT THE OLYMPICS' SURPRISING HISTORY; NAKED CAME THE SHOT-PUTTER
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amTHE competition at next week's Olympics will be brutal, but it'll be nothing compared with the first battle in 776 B.C. In the inaugural games, acceptable fighting tactics included finger-breaking,...
ROCK ROLLS INTO TOWN
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amRock history lands in New York when the roving Hard Rock Cafe "50 Years of Rock Mobile Tour" makes its only area pit stop this weekend. The colorful triple-wide trailer...
MULL OVER 'MULHOLLAND'
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amYou say you didn't quite understand "Mulholland Dr." the first time you saw it. Now, courtesy of the American Museum of the Moving Image, you have a second chance to...
TAKE A FEST REST FOR SNACK ATTACK
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amSometimes music, clowns and puppets aren't enough - kids need to eat. And when you can't find a snack when you need one - that is, immediately - that great...
WHY LINCOLN'S THE CENTER OF FUN - HOT HULA, & A THRILLA 'ZILLA AT OUTDOOR FEST
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amThe hula dancers are coming - and so are those wild drummers from Taiwan, the clowns from the Big Apple Circus, tribal dancers from South Africa and New Zealand, and...
YOU GO 'YU-GI-OH'!
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amFor parents pondering how not to seem dumb after accompanying their kids to "Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie" (Aug. 13), all you need to know are a couple basics. "The magical thing...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amAn Oklahoma man's attempt to protect himself after an escaped prisoner ran loose in the area turned out to be a pain in the butt - literally. Drew Patterson of...
POL DELAYS 'HARASS' TRIAL
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amIt looks like the saga of City Councilman Allan Jennings - who is facing charges of sexual harassment - isn't going to end too soon. Officials said yesterday the council's...
TECH GENIUS OUTED FIENDS - THE MOLE
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amThe Pakistani computer expert at the heart of al Qaeda's communications network has been cooperating with an anti-terror sting operation, it was disclosed yesterday. But the revealing of Mohammad Naeem...
MAYOR HITS W. $IDE STADIUM FOES
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amCritics of the financing deal for redeveloping the far West Side are not only using faulty data, they are also "professional screamers" lacking education credentials, Mayor Bloomberg charged yesterday. A...
GANSAS' BROTHER STICKS BY HIM
August 7, 2004 | 4:00am'MY brother didn't jump overboard, run home and try to commit suicide." Speaking was Joe Gansas, brother of embattled Staten Island Ferry Capt. Mike Gansas, in a slap at assistant...
B'KLYN PAIR CHARGED IN RAPE-KIDNAPPING
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amTwo Brooklyn residents were arraigned yesterday on charges of abducting a 14-year-old girl and viciously sodomizing and raping her during a horrifying two-hour attack. Tyrell Averhart, 22, and Christina Pratt,...
FERRY PLEA DEAL DUE
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amThe captain of the crashed Staten Island ferry may be close to sealing a plea deal that could help him avoid prison time in exchange for testifying against his former...
L.I. MORON 'FORGER' NO EVIL GENIUS
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island man with the same name as the author of the James Bond spy novels lacked the evil genius of a Bond villain, say Nassau County cops who...
DOLLARS AND $CENTS: 300G PERFUME
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amIf you think Victoria's Secret's diamond-encrusted fantasy bra is over the top, get a whiff of this - now it's offering a $300,000 diamond-collared fragrance bottle to launch a new...
EVIL JOEL WHINES: 'I WAS A GOOD DAD'
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amAfter 17 years in prison, notorious child killer Joel Steinberg insists he was not to blame for the death of his illegally adopted daughter Lisa - and claims he was...
HAMPTONS DIARY
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amAFTER losing out on a house on East Hampton's Further Lane, shock-jock Howard Stern is considering suing the real estate firm of Brown Harris Stevens, sources tell Diary. As readers...
STRIP-CLUB COP WALKS FOR NOW
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amA New York City cop, busted for shooting up a Staten Island nudie bar, was freed without bail yesterday after pleading not guilty to charges of reckless endangerment. According to...
CRACKDOWN ON QAEDA CREEPS * MORE THAN 20 ARRESTS THIS WEEK * PAKISTAN COPS PLAY MAJOR ROLE * COMPUTER GENIUS IS BIG CATCH
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amA week that began with frightening terror threats to New York is ending with dramatic - and hopeful - developments around the world in the war on terror. The good...
NAVY TURNCOAT - U.S. SAILOR BETRAYED MATES TO AL QAEDA - THE TRAITOR
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A U.S. sailor aboard one of America's high-tech Navy warships sent e-mails to a suspected London-based al Qaeda terrorist and may have revealed sensitive military secrets, authorities announced...
PROBIE GONE TO POT - COP CADET'S DOPE BUST
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amA probationary cop at the Police Academy has been busted on charges of selling marijuana on a Brooklyn street corner, authorities said yesterday. Undercover narcotics cops collared the probationary officer,...
BANK-BANDIT CONVICT A DOPE-OSITOR
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amHe gave them the slip - and that's how they caught him. A Queens man who handed over a signed and addressed deposit form during a 2003 bank robbery got...
VICIOUS FIEND RAPES DAUGHTER: DA
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amAn unemployed Washington Heights ex-con is in jail on charges he raped his own daughter in an attack so brutal that Manhattan prosecutors said the girl required multiple stitches. The...
N.Y. LOST MORE FED $ECURITY
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Despite ominous new threats of attacks, New York state's share of federal anti-terror money actually went down this year, according to a startling new congressional report released yesterday....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * A man's body was found on a bench in an East Harlem Park early yesterday morning, police said. The unidentified man was discovered on a bench inside a...
JIHAD GEEK'S EVIL SHIP PLOT - BRITON WAS SCHEMING TO HIT U.S. NAVY IN MIDEAST - THE COMPUTER BIG
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amA British man used the Internet in the United States to raise money and promote terrorism - and had a copy of an attack plan to use against an American...
RUSSIA TENNIS HOTTIE IN A PHOTO SUIT
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amA sexy Russian tennis star is making news in a different kind of court. Anastasia Myskina yesterday slammed GQ magazine and its photographer with a $1 million lawsuit, claiming they...
KIDNAP MOM IN TUG-OF-LOVE
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan woman who says she kidnapped her son to escape an abusive husband told a judge yesterday she wants the boy returned to her, saying she spent her time...
SLEEPING IN SEATTLE - VILI FLIES TO WASH. FOR REUNION WITH MARY KAY
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amSEATTLE - A judge yesterday lifted a no-contact order between Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau, paving the way for the cradle-robbing teacher and her former schoolboy lover to legally...
'DOC' DUPES HOSP - ID BADGE BLUNDER
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amA man who isn't a doctor scored a physician's identification badge from Coney Island Hospital - sparking a three-day hunt by frantic administrators and raising concerns about the Brooklyn medical...
WEB NERD PLOTTED IN HOME OF PARENTS
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amThe alleged mastermind of a worldwide terror training and fund-raising Web site is a 30-year-old British computer geek who just recently moved out of his parents' home. Babar Ahmad lived...
CELEBS BAGGING FREE VUITTONS
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amMany of the rich and famous don't have to worry about affording expensive Louis Vuitton bags - they get them for free. Top company officials admitted in Manhattan federal court...
CRAZED HUBBY SETS SELF ABLAZE
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amA deranged man set himself ablaze in front of an Upper East Side television studio yesterday, police said. The 45-year-old man, who had been cajoling the station to investigate his...
CITY FIGHTS COP-SEARCH LIMIT
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amThe city filed legal papers yesterday challenging a judge's order that limits blanket police searches of protesters during the Republican National Convention at the end of the month. City lawyers...
FERRY CAPTAIN WORKS ON DEAL
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amThe captain of the doomed Staten Island Ferry may be close to sealing a plea deal that could help him avoid prison time in exchange for testifying against his former...
KIDNAP MOTHER IN PLEA FOR SON
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amA Manhattan woman who admits she kidnapped her son to escape an abusive husband told a judge yesterday she wants the boy returned to her, saying she spent her time...
POL PUTS OFF 'HARASS' TRIAL
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amIt looks like the saga of City Councilman Allan Jennings - who is facing charges of sexual harassment - isn't going to end too soon. Officials said yesterday the council's...
BIKE GIRL KILLED IN QNS. CAR CRASH
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amA 10-year-old Queens girl riding her bicycle was killed last night when a minivan mowed her down after she rode into the street, cops said. Little Alexia Reid was riding...
ELDERLY QUEENS WOMAN BATTERED
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amAn 88-year-old Queens woman was clinging to life early this morning after she was found unconscious in her home with her hands and ankles bound, police sources said. A relative...
L.I. TEEN IN GRIM JOYRIDE MISHAP
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amHorseplay turned to tragedy when a 16-year-old boy joyriding with four Long Island pals fell out a car's open door headfirst onto the pavement, police said yesterday. Daniel Gonzalez, 16,...
JOYRIDING STUNT PUTS KID IN HOSP
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amHorseplay turned to tragedy when a 16-year-old joyriding with four Long Island pals fell out a car's open door headfirst onto the pavement, police said yesterday. Daniel Gonzalez, 16, of...
BIKE GIRL DIES AFTER CAR RUNS HER OVER
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amA 10-year-old Queens girl riding her bicycle was killed last night when a minivan mowed her down after she rode into the street, cops said. Little Alexia Reid was riding...
SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS - NEW GLASSES CAN'T HELP ERROR-PRONE KAZ
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amCards 6 - Mets 4 ST. LOUIS - Despite the wishes of many Met fans - and possibly some teammates - Kaz Matsui returned to shortstop last night after a...
TRAINER JOHNSON DEAD AT AGE 78
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amThoroughbred racing lost a beloved Hall-of-Fame trainer yesterday when Phil "P.G." Johnson, who capped his career saddling Volponi to upset the Breeders' Cup Classic in 2002, passed away at his...
'PEACE' HEADS WHITNEY FIELD
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - If the Travers Stakes is the premier prize every summer at the Old Spa, then the Grade 1, $750,000 Whitney Handicap is a close second, with a...
TOM RIDGE IS READY - WORLD RECORD PREDICTED AT MEADOWLANDS
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amIf Tom Ridge finds his way to the Meadowlands Racetrack winner's circle this afternoon, the nation's Secretary of Homeland Security will end up with a very prestigious trophy. Co-owner Ken...
EMMONS SAYS RECOVERY'S GOING SWELL
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - Tom Coughlin yesterday said, "I am concerned" about the apparent setback that had linebacker Carlos Emmons missing the past two days of Giants practice because of...
JETS GET KENDALL FOR LINE
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amJET NOTES The Jets dramatically improved their offensive line yesterday when they announced the signing of guard Pete Kendall, an eight-year NFL veteran and former first-round draft pick. Kendall, 31,...
PETERSON PRINCIPLE - BENSON EAGER PUPIL OF COACH
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Kris Benson was traded from Pittsburgh, whisked on a private plane to Atlanta and asked to pitch in one of the biggest series of the year in...
GIANTS, JETS GUNG HO FOR DUAL DUEL - BLUE LOOKING FOR 'SOMEONE ELSE TO HIT'
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Of all the benefits the Giants hope to glean out of today's dual practices with the Jets, the most basic can be summarized quite succinctly: "Just someone else...
HERM UP FOR EARLY, LONG TRIP
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amThe Jets will wake up before the crack of dawn this morning, take a three-hour drive up to Albany and run through two practices against the Giants - one this...
WILLIAMS AT HOME WITH NETS
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amEric Williams is the lone New Jersey resident who doesn't feel the Nets have fallen from their perch as an Eastern Conference power. Williams, a Newark native who's maintained his...
JAMAL WANTS TITLE - SAYS KNICKS ARE CONTENDERS
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amJamal Crawford hasn't won all that many basketball games. He played two years in high school, part of one season at Michigan, and with a lousy Bulls team for his...
ALL EYES ON CUBAN SLUGGER
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES When Major League Baseball allows teams to negotiate with Cuban refugee Kendry Morales, the Yankees will be among the clubs seriously vying for the 21-year-old switch-hitting outfielder/first baseman....
KAZ BACK AT SHORT; REYES RETURNS TO 2B
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES ST. LOUIS - Kaz Matsui may not be the best shortstop on his own team, but he was back at the position last night. Matsui, who missed the...
CEDENO BOOS MET FANS; WALKER A CARD
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES ST. LOUIS - Entering last night's game, Roger Cedeno was batting .316 with two homers and 11 RBIs for the Cardinals. Last night, he beat out an RBI...
SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS - NEW GLASSES NO HELP FOR ERROR-PRONE KAZ
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amCardinals 6 - Mets 4 ST. LOUIS - Yesterday afternoon, someone asked Art Howe if it was worth keeping Kaz Matsui on the bench rather than mess with a winning...
GODZILLA ROARS - HIDEKI'S TWO HRS LIFT JAVY TO VICTORY
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 11 - Blue Jays 4 What's the best remedy for pink eye? Hideki Matsui's bat. Javier Vazquez spent yesterday filling his eyes with a river of drops to battle...
BATTLIN' BERNIE - WILLIAMS FIGHTS TO FIND OLD FORM
August 7, 2004 | 4:00amBernie Williams is smart enough to understand his statistics aren't going to be what people have come to expect from him. Now, with two months remaining in Williams' 12th big-league...