April 9, 2005
VOOM'S DOOMED - BOARD VOTES FOR APRIL 30 SERVICE SHUTDOWN
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amCablevision said it is finally shutting down its money-losing satellite service Voom - but some are wondering if Chairman Chuck Dolan has another move up his sleeve. Apparently unable to...
SKI STAR MAY LET FAME PASS
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amDuring his World Cup victory lap, champion skier Bode Miller said he may not go out for the U.S. Olympic team this winter. Too much chance for stardom, he said....
WEITZMAN FINDS SOLE MATE IN BEAR
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amStuart Weitzman, the well-known designer of upscale women's shoes, is negotiating a deal to sell a significant stake in its operations to Bear Stearns Merchant Banking Group, The Post has...
HOME SHOPPING CLUB: TEAK TO ME
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amScalamandre 37-19 23rd St., between 37th and 38th avenues, Long Island City, Queens (800) 508-0022 Sale: through April 16 Open: daily, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. The renowned textile manufacturer is closing...
GIMME SHELTER
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amTRADING PALACES EDDIE MURPHY is trying to unload more of his pricey properties. The 44-year-old comedian, who listed his Englewood, N.J., property for $30 million in mid-December (as this column...
CITY RENTS COULD RISE
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amBrace yourself; your rent might be on its way up. According to the Citi Habitats First Quarter Vacancy Rate Index Report, the vacancy rate in Manhattan at the beginning of...
MY NEW HOME
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amPERSISTENT BIDDERS GET THEIR RAW SPACE WHAT THEY BOUGHT: 4,000 sq. fot Grammercy loft, $3.07M SEARCH TIME: 9 months IN a market where buyers are constantly being urged to offer...
WATCH YOUR ASH! 'SUPERVOLCANO' HEATS UP THE SCREEN
April 9, 2005 | 4:00am"Supervolcano" Tomorrow at 8 p.m. on Discovery (three stars) AFTER watching this TV movie about a volcanic eruption so gargantuan that it destroys much of the world as we know...
BLOC BUSTER
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amBLOC PARTY THE gods of cool who anointed Bloc Party the new "it" band finally got something right. At the Bowery Ballroom on Thursday, the Londoners acknowledged they're being blessed...
TOSSING HIS COOKIES - SESAME STREET' STAR CUTS BACK ON CARBS
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amSO it's come to this: The Cookie Monster's cutting back. On cookies. The furry blue carb-cruncher of "Sesame Street" fame can now be seen on the show's Web site, waving...
YO-YO, THEN AND NOW - THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR CELLO
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amHow do you get to Carnegie Hall? Ask Yo-Yo Ma - he's played there a lot. The Grammy-winning cellist and F.O.E. (Friend of Elmo) returns tomorrow for a Family Concert...
ROCK OF ALL AGES - GREAT NEW MUSIC, LIVE AND ON CD
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amA generation ago, there was Woodstock, billed as three days of peace and music. Now there's the Park Slope Kids Music Festival - more than two hours of peace and...
WHAT'S UP? YOUR BEST BETS THIS WEEKEND
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amENCHANTING: Live performances, film and a chamber orchestra make up the multimedia show, "Luna/Penguin," about a prince who discovers the mystery behind an enchanted tree. Today at 2 and 7...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amSTATEN ISLAND *** Police are asking for the public's assistance in finding a man wanted for stabbing a teenager to death outside a Port Richmond bar last week. Daniel Mujovic...
BASEBALL-BAT BOYFRIEND GUILTY OF ATTACK
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amA jilted ex-boyfriend pleaded guilty yesterday to slugging his former lover in the face with a baseball bat while he was on probation for federal securities-fraud charges. Rene Deperalta, 31,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amTalk about short-sightedness. Wacky Dallas artist James Sooy, 22, had his glasses permanently pierced through the bridge of his nose so they wouldn't keep slipping off. The Texas avant-gardist came...
WATER TORTURE: FAUCET TURNING ON 3% RATE RISE
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amWater rates are likely to go up by 3 percent starting July 1, the smallest such increase since 2001 - which was also an election year. The city's Water Board...
JUNK-FOOD JUNKIES NAILED IN SNACK HEIST
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amA quartet of munchies-crazed Long Island college students who burglarized a campus snack bar in the middle of the night had to settle for a jailhouse breakfast, police said. At...
$149M MAN PAYS, PLAYS: HARMONIOUSEND: HE & WIFE SPLIT MEGA POT OF $59 MIL
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amJuan Rodriguez is half the Mega Millionaire he used to be - but he's twice the harmonica player. The bankrupt parking-lot attendant who hit the $149 million jackpot in November...
WAR-ON-TERROR MEDALS - NEW HONORSFOR NATION'S LATEST HEROES
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - These are photos of the new medals the Pentagon will award to all U.S. soldiers in the war on terror. The Pentagon is making final preparations to issue...
W., BILL AT ODDS OVER THE LEGACY
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - As he flew home from the pope's funeral, President Bush yesterday said the pontiff leaves a "clear and excellent legacy" - and disagreed with former President Bill Clinton's...
WHALE A POSSIBLE HIT-AND-RUN VICTIM
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe whale that washed up on the eastern tip of Long Island this week may have died from an unexplained injury to its right side, marine biologists said yesterday. The...
GIRL 'BOMBER' QUIT HS OVER VEIL FLAP
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amOne of two teenagers detained after the FBI accused them of wanting to be suicide bombers dropped out of high school last year after she insisted on wearing traditional Muslim...
ANOTHER FIREMAN BUSTED FOR DWI
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amAn off-duty firefighter was arrested and charged with drunken driving after leading cops on a wild chase through the streets of Harlem last month, The Post has learned. Cops began...
'SNEAKY' CONN. SENATOR GOT 22G 'COPTER'BUTION
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd - who pulled a sneak attack to try to yank away from New York a $6.1 billion contract to build the new presidential helicopter...
JACKO 'GROPE' SEX ; COOK: MICHAEL PUT HAND IN CULKIN'S SHORTS
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Jacko's hankering for french fries one night led a member of his household staff to stumble upon the pop star with his hand in a child...
KILLER'S OBSCENE OUTBURST; TALKS DIRTY TO JUDGE
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amA convicted killer accused of pumping bullets into a Diamond District jeweler in a suspected slaying-for-hire fired off his mouth in court yesterday, shouting an obscene demand at the judge....
COURT HAMMERS BIASED SHEET-METAL UNION AGAIN
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amA federal judge held the sheet-metal workers' union in contempt of court yesterday for continuing to discriminate against its minority members. Sheet Metal Workers Local 28 has been under court...
REV. AL BACKERS HIT FREDDY OVER DIALLO
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amAppearing before the Rev. Al Sharpton's followers yesterday, Fernando Ferrer was pelted with hisses and cries of "Flip-flop!" by black voters seething over the Democratic mayoral front-runner's recent statement that...
HEAVY RAIN ZAPS PLAY AGAIN
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - One day after the Masters story of the day was 73-year-old Billy Casper and the opening-round 106 he carded; the story of the day yesterday was yet another...
BANKER ID'D AS HIT-RUN VICTIM
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe woman found dead late Thursday in the middle of Madison Avenue - a victim of a hit-and-run - was identified yesterday as a former investment banker at Merrill Lynch....
'60S POST MAN ABEL SILVER DIES
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amFormer Post reporter Abel Silver, who covered City Hall in the 1960s, died Tuesday at his home in San Diego. He was 84. Silver started working for The Post during...
ELEVATOR MAN: THANKS FOR DELIVERING ME FROM HELL
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe Chinese-food deliveryman who spent 3½ days trapped in a Bronx elevator came out of hiding yesterday to thank those who freed him and was joined by a city councilman...
S&M ABDUCTOR FREE BUT MAY FACE 2ND WHIPPING
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amIt was the kind of mistake anybody could make - an upstate man says he accidentally tried to kidnap the wrong woman to bring home to be his sex slave....
MEDALS DUE FOR NEW WAR HEROES
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Pentagon will award medals to all U.S. soldiers in the war on terror. The Defense Department is making final preparations to issue separate medals, established under a...
FACE OF A THUG; COPS PRESS HUNTFOR PARK ROBBER
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amThis is the face of the heartless robber who shoved a gun in the face of a 3-month-old baby after grabbing a mom's wedding ring in Central Park. Cops last...
WORLD'S PRINCES AND PAUPERS ARE UNITED IN LOVE AS THEY BID FAREWELL TO THEIR HOLIEST GOOD SHEPHERD
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amVATICAN CITY - It was a funeral grand enough for a king. And good enough for a pauper. Under the open sky, on a terrace of a basilica filled with...
SCULPTOR'S EXPRESSION OF DEVOTION
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amAS the 12 pallbearers gently held aloft the simple coffin in the sun-kissed square, Mieczyslaw Partyka Karol said in almost a whisper: "I feel I know him intimately." Karol, 46,...
ELEVATED MOOD - STRANDED GUY THANKS RESCUERS
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amThe Chinese-food deliveryman who spent 3½ days trapped in a Bronx elevator came out of hiding yesterday to thank those that freed him and was joined by a city councilman...
S & M FIEND'S BIG FLUB - KIDNAPPED WRONG GAL
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amIt was the kind of mistake anybody could make - an upstate man says he accidentally tried to kidnap the wrong woman to bring home to be his sex slave...
FOUR-LORN FEELING ; BRAVES LEAVE METS 0-FER SEASON
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amBraves 3Mets 1 ATLANTA - Four games into the Mets' season, it's already gotten embarrassing. The 2005 year is well underway, and the Mets are still looking for that simplest...
FORESTIER TAKES CLASSY MIRAGE
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amTodd Pletcher's Forestier, favored at 8-5 in field of six fillies and mares, pressed the early pace set by She Is Raging, took command turning for home and drew off...
ON-THE-SPOT STARTER ; HEILMAN GETS CALL IN PLACE OF BENSON
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amATLANTA - Aaron Heilman has never started a game for the Mets before August, so essentially he's always taken the mound for them without much at stake. That will change...
BOSS HOPES 'ROAD' ROLLS
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amTo most racetrackers, the Run for the Roses, now just a month away on May 7 at Churchill Downs, is a prize without equal. But according to George Steinbrenner, whose...
JETER BACK AT HEAD OF BOMBERS' LINEUP
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Even though medical tests Wednesday cleared Derek Jeter's head, so to speak, Joe Torre called his shortstop Thursday night to make sure Jeter was OK. Everything was fine,...
METS UNFAZED BY 0-3 START
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - Heading into last night's game, the Mets (0-3) were one of only two winless teams in baseball. Yet they continued to express little worry about their...
ROCKER'S NEW NEST SURPRISES EX-MATES
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amSome of John Rocker's former Braves teammates reacted with smiles yesterday when they learned that the reliever had agreed to play for the Long Island Ducks. The former closer became...
WHO CATCHES BREAK?
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - As if Augusta National doesn't already have enough obstacles to unnerve the world's best golfers, Mother Nature has added her own dose of adversity with two straight days...
BATTLE ROYAL ; VIJAY, PHIL IN NEAR-BRAWL OVER SPIKE SPAT
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - If you thought the most cantankerous feud among the "Fab Four" in golf was between Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh, guess again. Don't expect Singh and Phil Mickelson...
WEATHER WREAKS HAVOC
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - One day after the Masters story of the day was 73-year-old Billy Casper and the opening-round 106 he carded, the story yesterday was yet another round of inclement...
TIGER'S CAUGHT IN SCRAMBLE
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amMASTERS NOTEBOOK AUGUSTA - This 69th Masters has been an adventure for Tiger Woods, who's trying to end his 10-tournament drought without a major championship. Woods, who completed his first...
NO BACKING DOWN ; FIERY KIDD LEADS NETS ON AND OFF COURT
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amSo the day after leaving the Knicks in ruins when Jason Kidd finally verbalized some of the annoyance within the organization because of their second-class area appreciation status, the Nets...
ALL'S NOT WRIGHT IN JARET'S DEBUT
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amOrioles 12Yankees 5 Mariano Rivera isn't the only person booed around Yankee Stadium these days. Jaret Wright made his first Yankee start last night in front of 43,128 impatient and...
FROM 'BAD' TO WORDS - NO KIDDING: KNICKS NOT SURPRISED BY TIMING OF COMMENT
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amBulls 102 Knicks 94 The "Junkyard Dog" was barking last night, issuing a veiled threat to Jason Kidd. Jerome Williams said Kidd is a wise man for waiting to diss...
METS FOUR-LORN ; LOSS TO BRAVES LEAVES AMAZIN'S 0-FER THE SEASON
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amBraves 3Mets 1 ATLANTA - Will the fifth game be the charm? Four games into the Mets' season, it's already gotten embarrassing. The 2005 year is well underway, and the...
HEILMAN ON-THE-SPOT STARTER FOR BENSON TONIGHT
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - Last year Aaron Heilman made only five starts for the Mets and none before August 23. So it's been awhile since he's taken the mound for...
RANDY READY TO BE EVEN BETTER - TAKES ON O'S WITH SOX NEXT
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amRandy Johnson would've made an excellent professional wrestler on personality alone. It doesn't matter, of course, because the baseball thing has worked out OK. During his introductory Yankees press conference,...
ISIAH GIVES HERB COMFORT
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Isiah Thomas and Herb Williams huddled in the coach's office for more than 20 minutes following the Knicks' ninth straight defeat last night when they learned about their...
FROM 'BAD' TO WORDS - KNICKS: KIDD DISS CAME AT RIGHT TIME
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amKnicks forward Jerome Williams said Jason Kidd is a wise man for sharing his bitter feelings about the Knicks after the teams met for the last time this season. "We...
TIM THOMAS TAKES ON TENDINITIS TROUBLE
April 9, 2005 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Tim Thomas was relieved yesterday. An MRI revealed his right knee pain that's been bothering him for a couple of months is just tendinitis. "I thought it was...