November 27, 2004
GADGET MAGIC ; ELECTRONICS SALES BRIGHTEN H'DAY OUTLOOK
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amRetailers selling consumer electronics were among Black Friday's big winners, as shoppers lined up for $17.99 DVD players, $29.99 MP3 players and $500 lap tops - giving a healthy start...
MARTHA BACKERS DUMP BIG STAKES
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amThe two biggest shareholders in Martha Stewart's company have been quietly cashing out - raising speculation that a surprise deal could be brewing while she's sitting in prison. The company's...
ONLINE SHOPPING CLICKS UP SALES FOR WEB RETAILERS
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amOnline retailers must have been good this year. Their significant gains haven't just been confined to giants Amazon.com and auctioneer eBay: smaller, specialty retailers such as Bluefly.com are racking up...
CHINA, RUSSIA TRIM DOLLARS
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amThe sliding dollar is rapidly falling out favor around the world, with China and others unloading their once almighty greenbacks. China, after Japan, is the second largest holder of dollars...
MY NEW HOME
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amDR. Eleanor Lipovsky moved as the result of a life checkup. Lipovsky, an internist originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, had been living in Sheepshead Bay since 1979. Busy with immigration...
HEY, WHO LET THE DOGS IN? - AS BOARDS MAKE IT TOUGHER TO BUY, POOCH OWNERS WILL TRY ANYTHING
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amIT'S the Big Apple - but New York City may as well be named the Big Rawhide Chewtoy. There are more than 500,000 dogs in New York City, according to...
CUSHY SETUP
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amFrette 560 Seventh Ave., at 40th Street, second floor (718) 747-1656 Sale: Nov. 29-Dec. 3 Open: Mon.-Thurs., 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m./Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Hotel-quality linen, including 600-thread-count sheets in Turkish...
FAB FOUR FETED AT CITY BALLET'S GALA
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amNEW YORK CITY BALLETAt New York State Theater, Lincoln Center; (212) 870-5570. Season runs through Feb. 27. TUESDAY'S gala program, "Ballet Four Ways," was a tribute to the four men...
PUTTING ON 'HEIRS' - 'PRINCESS' ANN A STINKER
November 27, 2004 | 5:00am"Love Is In The Heir" Tomorrow at 10 p.m. on E! (one star) JUST when you thought there was no room left for yet an other reality show, here comes...
SAKS & THE CITY - THE BEST STORE WINDOWS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON; STORE DISPLAYS A REAL GLASS ACT
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amWHAT did window dressers do before movies? We wondered about that this year, when two department stores went the reel route - and only one of those flicks concerned Christmas....
WE'RE GAME FOR MOVIES
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amAnother movie, another video game tie-in - especially this holiday season. But with all the choices out there, it's hard to decide what game is worth your time, money -...
HUNGRY FOR MORE THAN SCIENCE
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amMuseum-going can work up quite an appetite. Luckily, there are a few great family-friendly restaurants just a subway stop or two (or short car ride away) from the newly overhauled...
TOT FALLS INTO HUDSON RIVER
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amA 3-year-old boy plunged into the frigid Hudson River waters last night, but was fished out moments later. The boy, identified as Matthew Zakowski, of Bolton, Conn., and his father...
SNAKE IN THE GRASS; 'ATTACKS' PAL'S GAL IN BED
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amIt was a case of no good deed going unpunished on Long Island when a drunken man repaid a friend who picked him up from a bar by slipping into...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amLast Christmas season, the $150,000 holiday display outside Alan and Bonnie Aerts' mansion in Monte Serena, Calif., attracted 100,000 visitors. Everyone was impressed - except neighbors across the street, who...
ABBAS ENVOY: RIVAL QUITTING RACE
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Mahmoud Abbas may have clinched victory in upcoming Palestinian elections to succeed Yasser Arafat by convincing his only major rival to drop out of the race yesterday, according...
EMPIRE DEATH DIVE; MYSTERY MAN IN 80-STORY SUICIDE
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amA black-clad mystery man leaped from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building yesterday - plunging to his death while visitors watched in horror. Police said the man,...
ASSEMBLYMAN BLASTS MIKE'S LOBBYIST SLAP
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amAn Albany lawmaker lashed out at Mayor Bloomberg yesterday, charging that in the city's battle with Cablevision over the proposed West Side stadium, Hizzoner has launched scurrilous attacks on one...
CAPT. COURAGEOUS ; FIRE VET WALKS THROUGH KILLER INFERNO TO SAVE TOT
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amA hero fire captain walked through a wall of flames to pull a 2-year-old girl out of a blazing Bronx apartment yesterday morning but couldn't save her 10-year-old brother, authorities...
HUBBY SAYS SHELLEY WILL PULL THROUGH
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amThe estranged husband of bubbly blond "Cheers" star Shelley Long said yesterday that he expects his depressed ex to get through her apparent suicide bid. "She's OK," said Bruce Tyson,...
ALL EYES ON UKRAINE; BUSH BACKS PROTESTS AFTER 'TAINTED' VOTE
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amPresident Bush sent a fresh signal of support to pro-democracy protesters in Ukraine yesterday and said the whole world "is watching very carefully" how the former Soviet republic handles charges...
'ALEX' NOTSO GREAT ; WEAK AT BOX OFFICE
November 27, 2004 | 5:00am"Shlockbuster!" "Borefest!" "Trainwreck!" Oliver Stone's gay sand-and-sandal epic "Alexander" got a thorough critical roasting for its Thanksgiving opening - and Times Square moviegoers yesterday seemed equally allergic to the toga...
MAILMAN TURNS TAIL AT ROTT-EN HUMOR
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amNeither rain, nor snow, nor gloom of night can do it - but a cartoon has stopped a mail carrier delivering letters to one Connecticut couple. The U.S. Postal Service...
4 CORPSES FOUND BEHIND N.J. CHURCH
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amA church worker who thought vagrants were sleeping behind her Newark house of worship was horrified to discover she had stumbled upon the remains of three men and a woman...
'SLAY' DAD ARRAIGNED AT BELLEVUE
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amThe fiend charged with shooting his two children dead - the youngest as she sat eating in her highchair - listened zombie-like in a locked psychiatric ward yesterday as a...
DI SHOCKER - MY LOVER SLAIN BY THE ROYALS
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amNever-before-seen videotapes in which Princess Diana describes her sexless married life and claims her bodyguard was "bumped off" for having an affair with her are set to be aired on...
KOFI SON'S OIL PAY KEPT ON GUSHING
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amIn a new bombshell, the United Nations has admitted that Secretary-General Kofi Annan's son got paid all the way into 2004 by a company with a lucrative contract from the...
COPS: HOLD ON TO YOUR WALLETS
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amThe NYPD issued a pickpocket warning yesterday. Lt. Dan Hollywood, of the NYPD Grand Larceny Task Force, told The Post pickpockets are out in force now - and an undercover...
L.I. TURKEY WOMAN IS OUT OF ICU
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amThe Long Island woman whose face was shattered when a teenager hurled a turkey that crashed through her windshield has been moved from the intensive care unit to a standard...
BREAKING DOWN DOORS ; BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPERS IN STAMPEDE
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amEarly-bird Black Friday bargain-hunters broke the door at Target in Downtown Brooklyn yesterday in their frantic rush to make off with the hottest items and the best deals. Shoppers started...
CAPT. COURAGEOUS ; FIRE VET BRAVES DEATH IN DESPERATE BID TO SAVE TOT
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amA hero fire captain "walked through fire" yesterday in an attempt to pull two kids out of burning Bronx apartment where a 2-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother died, authorities...
CAPT. COURAGEOUS; FIRE VET BRAVES DEATH IN DESPERATE BID TO SAVE TOT
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amA hero fire captain "walked through fire" yesterday in an attempt to pull a toddler out of burning Bronx apartment where a 2-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother died, authorities...
STATE HAS THE RATE STUFF; AUTO INSURANCE PREMIUMS DIPPING
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amALBANY - New York motorists are seeing the first signs of relief from sky-high auto-insurance rates, The Post has learned. While state Insurance Superintendent Gregory Serio has summoned the state's...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amTHE BRONX *** A man was shot and killed and two others were wounded while walking to a subway station in Concourse Village, police said yesterday. The victims, whose names...
BREAKING DOWN DOORS - BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPERS IN STAMPEDE
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amEarly-bird Black Friday bargain-hunters broke the door at Target in Downtown Brooklyn yesterday in their frantic rush to make off with the hottest items and the best deals. Shoppers started...
TOP-SEED SHARKS A SURPRISE TO SNYDER
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amH.S. PLAYOFFS Fred Snyder expected to have a pretty good team this season, but the fact that his top-seeded Sheepshead Bay squad enters today's PSAL semifinal game against No. 6...
CIGAR HIGHLIGHTS HOLIDAYFEST CARD
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amThere is life after the Breeders' Cup. To prove that point, several horses that skipped the Oct. 30 World Thoroughbred Championships at Lone Star Park, but might well have won...
NICE DAY FOR DAYDREAMING
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amAfter lots of work by maintenance crew, Big A was back in action racing over "good" track after Thanksgiving cancellation due to unsafe conditions; upgraded to "fast" for eighth race....
PENNINGTON IMPROVES, STILL 'WEEK-TO-WEEK'
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amJET NOTES Slowly and steadily making his way along the road to recovery, quarterback Chad Pennington came through his two days of throwing this week unscathed and without any aches...
WILSON UNLIKELY TO PLAY
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Like every other team that has faced the Eagles this season, the Giants are trying to figure out a way to stop Terrell Owens. They thought rookie safety...
GIANT RETURN - FIERY GREEN'S SET TO TACKLE EAGLES
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amOf all the Giants who have been frustrated by the team's recent woes, perhaps no one has taken it harder than Barrett Green. "It absolutely [stinks] watching from the sidelines...
LIVING THE DREAM ; JET LB BROWN GETS HIS CHANCE TO START
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amInjuries are a part of football, and while some may curse them, others rely on the unfortunate staple of the game to realize their impossible dreams. Such is the case...
LIEBER'S AGENT PLAYING HARDBALL
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amAgent Rex Gary made it clear he wasn't getting into what the Yankees have offered Jon Lieber, or what his client is looking for. However the agent didn't avoid the...
PAVANO MAY GIVE METS BRUSHOFF
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amIf the Mets hope to piggyback on the Yankees' hospitality next weekend regarding Carl Pavano, they probably shouldn't hold their breath. Scott Shapiro, the agent for Pavano, suggested yesterday that...
STORM HIT HARD - ST. JOHN'S PUNISHES PROGRAM FOR PAYMENTS
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amHumiliated and humbled repeatedly over the past year, the spiraling St. John's men's basketball program yesterday received its worst news yet. Due to sins committed by no one still working...
HOU SHOOTING FOR NEXT WEEK
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amAllan Houston's timing was off yesterday, but at least he finally set a time. After competing in a halfcourt scrimmage in what he termed "a really big day," the long-ailing...
BATTLE OF ATLANTIC 'POWERS'
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES The mediocre Atlantic Division saw the Raptors (6-7) and Knicks (5-6) swapping first-place status Wednesday night despite middling records. Today, the Knicks get their rematch, completing a home-and-home...
DEAF PLAYER PUSHES PROVIDENCE PAST MICHIGAN
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amProvidence 72Michigan 63 Dwight Brewington realized one of his dreams last night. After Providence beat Michigan, 72-63, in the consolation game of the Preseason NIT in the Garden, Brewington and...
NETS LOOK TO DODGE 'D'-SASTER
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amSEATTLE - Now there's something else for the Nets to worry about. While the Nets were scoring with the frequency of leap years, they consoled themselves with the knowledge their...
DEACONS ARE TOO TOUGH FOR ZONA
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amW. Forest 63Arizona 60 Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser is a hardened product of the Steel City and a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. He's not very fond...
STORMY JUSTICE; ST. JOHN'S SANCTIONS TEAM; NCAA MAY ADD TO PENALTIES
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amAt first glance, the already humiliated St. John's men's basketball program hit rock bottom yesterday. That's when school officials announced the team will serve probation, lose scholarships and become the...
NETS GOING WITH BEST
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amSEATTLE - It's not like the Nets were overburdened with options. But coach Lawrence Frank admitted he wanted something, anything, to jump-start the Nets' weakened pulse and snap the longest...
GUARDS POINT WAY FOR WAKE, ARIZONA
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amIt was about this time last year that basketball experts were crowning Arizona's Mustafa Shakur as the next great freshman point guard. Wake Forest's Chris Paul was on the list...
NETS' SKID REACHES 8
November 27, 2004 | 5:00amSonics 92 Nets 79 seATTLE - OK, the Nets are now officially open for suggestions. Insisting the "ingredients to win" are on hand and that it is a matter of...