December 9, 2004
JAY-Z TAKES A SUITE JOB AS ISLAND DEF JAM PRESIDENT
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amSuperstar rapper Jay-Z is moving from the recording studio to the executive suite. Island Def Jam Chief Antonio "L.A." Reid tapped Jay-Z yesterday to become president and CEO of legendary...
NEW YORK WINE LOVERS MAY SAVE BIG IN 2005
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amNew Yorkers could see wine prices drop by about 20 percent next year by ordering direct should the U.S. Supreme Court strike down the state's prohibition-era law which bars them...
HOY GOES FREEBIE IN TWO CITIES
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amTribune Co.'s Spanish-language daily Hoy, which overstated circulation at its New York edition by almost 50 percent, will stop charging readers for its Chicago and Los Angeles editions starting next...
SWEET REVENGE - LYNE STICKS IT TO ABC WITH NEW MARTHA SHOW
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amRevenge is sweet. For entertainment executive Susan Lyne, the splashy deal she arranged for Martha's Stewart comeback is nice payback for being fired from ABC by Disney chief Michael Eisner....
BIG PERKS AT COLGATE
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amColgate-Palmolive is drawing sharp rebuke for firing 4,400 people in time for Christmas while giving bosses perks of up to $11,500 a year for dog walkers, golf lessons and movie...
OVITZ PAY WAS WORTH IT: WITNESS
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amAn expert witness testifying in the shareholder suit over Michael Ovitz's $140 million payout said the jump in Walt Disney Co.'s stock the day his hiring was announced more than...
U.S. HOUSING DATA ARE IN TOUCH WITH UNREALITY
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amIT might come as a big surprise to anyone who bought a house in 2004 that prices were up just 2.7 percent from the year before. In fact, you might...
PLUNGING PRICES: HOT COMPETITION DRIVES DOWN ELECTRONICS COSTS
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amHot consumer electronic items like digital cameras and Plasma TVs that were priced out of reach of mainstream consumers last holiday season are now cheap enough to attract the masses,...
BOUTIQUES, DRUGSTORES GET PIECE OF DIGITAL ACTION
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amHoliday shoppers looking for portable radios, digital cameras and DVD players will find those items in some surprising locations, including specialty clothing shops and drug stores. With sales of consumer...
NEWSDAY AX PAUSES
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amNewsday will stop swinging the ax in the newsroom after enough volunteers apparently stepped forward to accept the company's buyout offer. But other departments, including the pressmen, were believed to...
NEW 'MASH' IS A SMASH
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amPROVING that rap and rock is a winning combination, "MTV Ul timate Mash-Ups Presents Jay-Z/Linkin Park: Collision Course" debuted at No. 1, dethroning last week's chart-topper, U2. The first legal...
GIRL TALK; FOR GASTINEAUS, 'IT'S ALL ABOUT MAKEUP, HAIR AND CLOTHES'
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amWATCH out, world - here come the "Gastineau Girls." Lisa Gastineau and Brittny Gastineau, the ex-wife and daughter of Jets legend Mark Gastineau, are headlining their own reality show for...
STARR REPORT
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amThe Sheen is off Fans of CBS' "Two And a Half Men" know that Charlie Sheen's character, Charlie Harper, is a helpless woman izer who's left a trail of angry...
CON AIR; MARTHA GETS LIVE SHOW AFTER RELEASE
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amMARTHA Stewart, the jailed diva of domesticity, will host her new daily show in front of a live audience - just like Oprah - officials said yesterday. The as-yet-untitled morning...
IT'S ANYTHING BUT OLD HAT
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amINTRODUCING the iHat. Burton's new "Headphone Beanie" - which was designed to keep snowboarders in tune while they're shredding - is also ideal for city slickers, thanks to the removable,...
DAN DRAGS 'SLAY PLOT' GENEROSA FROM GRAVE
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amAccused murderer Danny Pelosi yesterday claimed in bombshell testimony that the late Generosa Ammon had once asked him to whack her estranged millionaire husband Ted - but he refused. "Generosa...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amA Florida couple, fed up with their kids' refusal to do chores, have gone on strike and moved into a tent in the front yard. "This is war. I love...
SPITZER STOMPS PATAKI; HUGE LEAD IN GOV RACE: POLL
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amALBANY - A day after he threw his hat into the ring, a new poll showed state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer trouncing Gov. Pataki in the race for governor. "If...
THOSE DAD-BURNED LAPTOPS
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amResearchers studying male fertility have a warning for men who use laptop computers: Keep them off your lap. Doctors at the State University of New York at Stony Brook said...
N.Y. NOISY-NEIGHBOR NUISANCE
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amNearly a quarter of city residents surveyed said they had to ask their neighbors to quiet down in the past year. The survey, by the Council on the Environment of...
KID-SEX KILLER CAGED; FIEND'S SICK OFFER
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amA child-killing fiend got life behind bars yesterday in the chilling kidnapping of a 7-year-old who vanished 23 years ago - but not before he sickened the victim's mom by...
ELECTION DEAL MARKS NEW PEACE PROGRESS
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israel and the Palestinians yesterday agreed on how to hold next month's election to replace Yasser Arafat - the latest evidence of progress toward peace in the post-Arafat...
DNC 'BOSS' DEAN GIVES DEMS SCREAMING MEEMIES
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amSUDDENLY, Democrats are getting a queasy deja vu feeling that they're in danger of following Howard Dean right off a cliff - by tapping him as Democratic national chairman a...
POCKET SHOCK ROCKS YOUR CELLPHONE
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amOur cellphones are suffering - and tight pants are to blame. A new survey reveals the No. 2 cause of broken cellphones is squeezing them into the pockets of tight...
DICK CLARK LAID UP BY STROKE SCARE
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amDick Clark - the beloved pop music czar who's ushered in the New Year from Times Square for the past 32 years -suffered a stroke this week, it was revealed...
ARMED SIEGE AT L.I. HOME
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amA mentally disturbed man, known as a friendly neighborhood oddball, went berserk yesterday inside his Long Island home and fired several shots into the street, forcing cops to shut down...
N.Y. CHANNELS ITS HISTORY IN TV DEAL
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amThe History Channel made its own history yesterday by entering into an agreement to promote New York City through ads, historical tours and a program for restoring historical monuments. The...
W. INKS $388B '9/11' BILL; PACKAGE OKS MEDALS FOR WTC HEROES
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday signed into law a massive, $388 billion spending package that also contains a provision ensuring the hero cops and firefighters who died on 9/11 will...
MOTORIST KILLED IN DRIVE-BY
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amA man was shot dead in a hail of bullets in Queens yesterday by a thug with whom he had argued at a nearby bar, police said. Kraigory Odom, 31,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** Cops chased down and grabbed a teenager who assaulted a pizza deliveryman during a botched robbery in East Harlem, authorities said yesterday. The incident began at 11:25 p.m....
TRAGIC TRIBUTE; FEST TAPS B'KLYN TEEN'S FILM ON COP-SHOT BUDDY
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amThe story of an unarmed teen who was shot to death earlier this year by a cop on a Brooklyn rooftop has been immortalized by his best friend in a...
GOV OKS ADDITION TO JAVITS
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amConstruction on the expansion of the Javits Convention Center will begin next spring, now that Gov. Pataki has signed a bill authorizing the project. "This city deserves a convention center...
THIS NINNY SOUNDED MORE LIKE THE NANNY
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amHE TALKED rapidly through his nose, like a male Fran Drescher on Ritalin. And when he got excited, which was often, particularly when discussing his dearest subject - money -...
12 TEENS BUSTED IN HS MELEE
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amA dozen teenage boys were arrested yesterday after a massive brawl - possibly sparked by gang rivalry - at a Midtown high school, officials and witnesses said. One school safety...
DEM: FEDS DI$$ING N.J.
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A New Jersey senator yesterday launched a border war over homeland security funding by slamming New York's growing piece of the pie while decrying the Garden State's shrinking...
CITY SPENDING BLOWOUT SHOCK
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amSpending by the city is growing at nearly four times the rate of inflation, state Comptroller Alan Hevesi reported yesterday. Hevesi's latest review of the city's finances found overall city-funded...
PROPHETIC WORDS IN EXTORT PLOT
December 9, 2004 | 5:00am"I am just a loser!" That's what a 29-year-old Bronx man admitted when he was hauled in as the alleged kingpin of a plot to extort $3 million from NBA...
TOP-SPY POST UP FOR GRABS
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The creation of a new national superspy post touched off a flurry of speculation about whether President Bush will promote CIA chief Porter Goss to the new job,...
5TH AVE. ROOST ROUST; EVICTED HAWKS FAIL INBID TO RECLAIM 'LOFT'
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amTwo red-tail hawks evicted from their posh Fifth Avenue nest tried in vain to rebuild their destroyed home yesterday - as bird lovers squawked in protest 12 stories below. Pale...
JAILHOUSE ROCKED; GRID KID'S 'SLAYER' BEATEN AT RIKERS
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amThe suspect in the Brooklyn shooting death of college grid player Mark Fisher came to court yesterday with bruises on both sides of his face - the result of a...
CONDIT DUNNE IN ; FACES SEX GRILL IN SUIT VS. AUTHOR
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amFormer California Rep. Gary Condit must answer embarrassing questions about his sex life with Chandra Levy and other women as part of his defamation suit against crime author Dominick Dunne,...
FOX-SLAY SUSPECT: A LIFE OF HATE
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amIN A dog-against-dog confrontation in Inwood Hill Park three years ago, a woman's tiny Chihuahua had no chance against Dimitri Sheinman's big, unleashed Rhodesian ridgeback. The tiny pooch was leashed...
3-WAY DOOMED HOOKER HEAVEN ; 'JOHN' WITH BUCKS AN UNDERCOVER COP
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amA menage a trois turned into a mess of trouble for two hookers in a Manhattan madam's brothel when a john who walked into a bedroom turned out to be...
GARSON CRONY IN PLEA DEAL
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amA turncoat lawyer whose cooperation with authorities led to the bust of a Brooklyn judge is expected to plead guilty to a misdemeanor next week - in exchange for a...
LIBS ARE STICKING WITH COYLE
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amGM Carol Blazejowski said the search for the next coach of the Liberty was a thorough one. She said she looked at all kinds of candidates. But really, giving the...
CALLOUS CAPO'S VINTAGE WHINE ; DODGES FUNERAL $$ FOR VICTIM
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amIn a dramatic courtroom showdown, a Mafia leader going to prison for engineering a botched hit that killed a city judge yesterday coldly confronted the dead man's son - a...
80 YEARS FOR DINER SHOOTING
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amThe accomplice of a teenage gunman who shot up a crowded Brooklyn diner in January - hitting some customers but miraculously killing no one - has been put away for...
KOSHER PARTY SUIT - XMAS FARE 'UNFAIR'
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amAn Orthodox Jew is suing his employer - claiming he couldn't get kosher fare at his office Christmas party. Moshe Marc Cohen, a former supervisor at the Nationwide Provident, one...
GOTTI RAT A CASH COW ; MOB STOOLIE RECOUNTS MASSIVE KICKBACKS
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amMob rat Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo testified yesterday that he was a cash machine for reputed Gambino boss Peter Gotti and nephew John "Junior" Gotti - personally delivering more than...
KOSHER PARTY SUIT; XMAS FARE 'UNFAIR'
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amAn Orthodox Jew is suing his employer - claiming he couldn't get kosher fare at his office Christmas party. Moshe Marc Cohen, a former supervisor at Nationwide Provident, one of...
THREE-WAY TRYST HOOKED BROTHEL ; 'JOHN' WITH $3,750 AN UNDERCOVER COP
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amA menage a trois turned into a mess of trouble for two hookers in a Manhattan madam's brothel when a john who walked into a bedroom turned out to be...
DMX BEATS JAIL, GETS 'POPPED'
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amTough-guy rapper DMX copped a plea to avoid the clink yesterday, but ran into more trouble after he was slapped for a second time with paternity papers outside a Queens...
DICK CLARK SUFFERS STROKE
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amDick Clark - the legendary pop-music czar who has ushered in the New Year from Times Square for the past 32 years - suffered a stroke this week, it was...
PALS MOURN EBERSOL SON
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amMore than 350 people attended a memorial service last night for Teddy Ebersol, the son of NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol who was killed in a Colorado plane crash last...
'COP' HEIST SHOCK
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amA doorman at an Upper East Side building snatched $300,000 in jewelry from one of his tenants, then stored the hoard with his friend - an auxiliary cop who stashed...
DEADLY BLOODY BRO FIGHT
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amA tragic drunken brawl between two brothers on Long Island left one sibling stabbed to death and the other under arrest for the slaying, cops said yesterday. Robin Alvarado, 17,...
CLASSROOM EXTRA: EDISON LIGHTS THE CITY
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amThere was something strange and wonderful happening at 257 Pearl St. in lower Manhattan, the result of which would change the city and the world forever. New York is always...
NO WAY FOR WILSON
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES The medical news on Giants safety Gibril Wilson continues to be grim. The rookie sensation has missed three straight games with a neck burner he suffered after hitting...
LUZZI RIDES FOUR WINNERS
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amMike Luzzi notched four winners on card to shoot to fourth in jockey standings; Bejarano had double-bagger to keep him atop leader board, while sizzling Aaron Gryder also won pair....
TEAM BYRON'S LOST ITS STING
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES It was, Rod Thorn admits, one of his toughest moves. But the Nets president realized last January his team needed "a new voice." So he replaced Byron Scott...
UNION, NHL SET TO TALK
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amTORONTO -The June 20, 2000 Board of Governors resolution that Gary Bettman routinely cites as direction for seeking a fixed link between NHL revenue and team payrolls states that, "...the...
CAN'T FOOL FASSEL ; EX-GIANTS COACH HELPS OUT RAVENS
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amStudying tape of the Ravens offense, linebacker Nick Greisen noticed a certain play in which quarterback Kyle Boller hands the ball off to Jamal Lewis, who fires the ball back...
JASON GOING 20 FOR TIME BEING
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amSomething is better than nothing. Unless, of course, something is a pair of barbed wire socks. So 20 minutes of Jason Kidd (21 minutes if the doctors aren't looking) is...
STORM GAME PLAN: ; PLAY MORE THAN JUST 12 MINUTES
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amNorm Roberts has been having a tough time getting his head around the notion that there's long-lasting benefit from the 12 minutes of outstanding basketball the Red Storm played Saturday...
BIG BEN FOLLOWS CHAD'S FOOTSTEPS
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amTHE PITCH was simple, direct, and might have meant exactly nothing to a different kid harboring different ambitions. Ben Roethlisberger had gone away to quarterback camp the summer before his...
REALITY CHECK FOR ; HERM ; COACH SAYS JETS BELONG AMONG ELITE
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amHerman Edwards' dander is up this week. That means his team's dander is up, too. Edwards seems to have grown tired of his Jets being overlooked as one of the...
EDWARDS DUMPS ON NO-CAL BCS
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amJET NOTES Herman Edwards was on a roll yesterday, angling for more respect for his Jets. Then he brought up college football's forever-flawed BCS, and then he really got rolling....
SWEET FINDS HELPING HAND
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amAndre Sweet played with Andre Barrett for four years at Rice H.S., where the two developed into one of the best combinations in the country. The connection the pair had...
PLAYERS FAVOR TOUGHER TESTS
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amPHOENIX - The issue always was how willing the players were to open up the existing collective bargaining agreement. It was how willing they were to give up a little...
ISIAH COMMITTED TO KEEPING CRAWFORD
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES NEW ORLEANS - Jamal Crawford still remembers five years ago when he was ready to be drafted and how long Isiah Thomas spent interviewing him, even though the...
KNICKS GOING SOUTH - SHAKY 'D'WRECKINGROAD TRIP
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS - It was appropriate the Knicks played the Big Easy last night because they've been taking it easy. A sea of complacency has wafted into the locker room...
AL'S PARTING SHOTS - LEITER JOINS FISH, RIPS METS ON WAY OUT
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amYesterday morning, Al Leiter praised the Marlins for being honest, passionate and committed in their dealings with him. Basically, everything he indicated the Mets were not. Leiter, who signed a...
NOMAR LOOKED TO PLAY 2B IN BRONX
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amBefore signing a one-year deal for $8 million to stay with the Cubs, Nomar Garciaparra instructed agent Arn Tellem to find out if the Yankees wanted the former Red Sox...
OMAR: WE HAVE A LONG-TERM PLAN
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amMET NOTES In the wake of the "Pedro Martinez Pursuit," Omar Minaya tried to temper enthusiasm about his club. "Let's remember, guys, we're an organization in transition," the Met GM...
SOCKING STUFFER - BELTRAN STILL HIGH ON YANK XMAS LIST
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amWhile focusing on upgrading their rotation, the Yankees haven't forgotten about Carlos Beltran. With Jason Giambi's pinstriped future cloudy at best, the Yankees not offering John Olerud, Tony Clark and...
CRAWFORD WON'T BE PART OF DEAL FOR CARTER
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES NEW ORLEANS - Jamal Crawford said he still remembers when Knicks president Isiah Thomas called him at midnight last July 1, when he became a free agent, the...
HALL FIGHTS OFF TERRIER SCARE
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amSeton Hall 57St. Francis 56 It wasn't until John Allen caught an errant pass from Devon Neckles in the final second that Seton Hall was assured a victory against St....
AMAZIN'S 'FIRST' PRIORITY: SEXSON
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amMET NOTES The Mets have targeted the first baseman they prefer, and it's Richie Sexson. The club has made an offer to Sexson, and GM Omar Minaya plans to meet...
IT'S A STORM SURGE - HAMILTON, JOHNNIES TOP HOKIES
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amSt. John's 75Va. Tech 65 We have yet to see if St. John's can beat a Big East team, but last night it beat an ACC team, albeit a rookie...
KNICKS ROLL IN BIG EASY - HOUSTON SITS AGAIN
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amKnicks 86 Hornets 79 NEW ORLEANS - Lots changed last night in the Big Easy, even the color of Allan Houston's suit. With Houston still dressed as a banker for...
KNICKS ENJOY BIG EASY - HOUSTON SITS AGAIN
December 9, 2004 | 5:00amKnicks 86 Hornets 79 NEW ORLEANS - Lots changed last night in the Big Easy, even the color of Allan Houston's suit. With Houston still dressed as a banker for...