April 16, 2005
KANN SENDS S.O.S. FOR TURNAROUND TEAM
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amIn an admission his efforts aren't working to solve The Wall Street Journal's four-year ad slump, chief Peter Kann is finally shuffling his management team. Kann yesterday promoted the Journal's...
SAKS DROPS AMID PROBE
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe shares of Saks Inc. declined 7 percent yesterday, after the company said that it would miss the deadline to file its annual report with regulators, amid a widening probe...
FUDGING ON TOP JOB AT Y&R
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amResponding to persistent rumors, Y&R head honcho Ann Fudge confirmed she is looking to install a new chief executive to oversee the flagship ad agency but said she would remain...
GIMME SHELTER
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amCHRISTIE'S $13M HOPE Infomercial mannequin Christie Brinkley wants out of North Haven. The former Cover Girl and her architect husband, Peter Cook, who've been trying to rent their never-lived-in waterfront...
SECRET WEAPONS - HOW A SECOND OPINION CAN HELP YOU IN TODAY'S MARKET
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amHELP WANTED When 32-year-old Karyn Schmeidler fell in love with a 700-square-foot one-bedroom on "It was my decision to make," says Schmeidler, a first-time buyer who works as a genetic...
DESIGNER DUDS
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amDigs 115 Wooster St., between Prince and Spring streets, 2nd floor (buzzer 2R) (212) 966-7352 Sale: April 20-24 Open: Wed.-Sat., noon-7 p.m./Sun., noon-5 p.m. Home accessories normally sold at ABC...
THIS WEEK'S PRANK: PICTURE THIS: TWO LOWER EAST SIDE RENTERS PUNK A REAL-ESTATE BROKER
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amWhen you walk into an open house, you might be prepared for a bad paint color or a dirty kitchen. But at a recent showing of an apartment on the...
JOINT VENTURE
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amEven without chemical enhancement, some movie- musical enthusiasts will find a lot to like in 'Reefer Madness' "Reefer Madness" Tonight at 8 on Showtime ½ (two and a half stars)...
AN OBSESSION WITH ORCHIDS
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S not a flower - it's a passion. How else to explain all the dazzled faces at the 25th New York International Orchid Show? Spread out over the (temporarily) carpeted...
BELL OF THE BALL
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amERASURE has rubbed out the myth that electro-pop is a snooze in concert. At Thursday's opening-night gig, the first of a 10-show residency at Irving Plaza, the British duo -...
WHAT'S UP? YOUR BEST BETS THIS WEEKEND
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BIG PIG-TURE: Who but Maurice Sendak would offer a Yiddish take on "Peter and the Wolf"? Projected artwork (see left) from the artist's "Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer...
3RD ARREST IN 1990 PALLADIUM SLAY
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amProsecutors yesterday charged a third man in a 15-year-old murder of a security guard at the Palladium nightclub. Thomas "Spanky" Morales was arrested yesterday and charged with second-degree murder in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amThis Goodwill customer certainly lived up to the store's name. Larry Hoffman of West Bend, Wis., bought a shirt in his local Goodwill thrift shop, took it home and found...
MAYOR TAKES SLAP AT 'JEW-BAITER' FULANI
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg distanced himself yesterday from Independence Party leader Lenora Fulani, who created an uproar earlier in the week by defending her statement that Jews "function as mass murderers of...
STRAD ABOUT YOU ; 306-YR.-OLD VIOLIN ON THE BLOCK
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amA rare public auction of a violin made by Antonio Stradivari will take place next week in New York. The 306-year-old "Lady Tennant," with a high-end estimated value at $1.2...
CHOKE-SLAY COP WALKS OUT OF JAIL
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amFormer city cop Francis Livoti is free and "just wants to get on with his life" after serving seven years in prison for the choking death of a Bronx man....
BLOOMBERG: CABLEVISION'S TO BLAME FOR METS TV BLACKOUT
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg blasted Cablevision yesterday for keeping the Mets' winning streak off most city residents' TV sets - and he accused the company of not caring about New Yorkers. "We...
SETTLERS SLAM '2ND PULLOUT' ; NEW UPROAR IN ISRAEL
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A new storm over Israel's plan to pull settlers out of the Gaza Strip erupted yesterday after a report that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is already planning a...
OIL SLEAZE TRACED TO KOREAN'S '93 TALKS
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amA 1993 Geneva meeting - secretly arranged by indicted South Korean con man Tongsun Park - between then-U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz is being...
S.I. MAN: FIRE LT. BEAT ME UP
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amA Staten Island man accused an on-duty FDNY officer of flipping him off and beating him up after he parked in a fire lane yesterday, cops said. The flap erupted...
'CURIOUS' FLIERS HELD
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amTwo men on a flight from Detroit to the Big Apple were detained yesterday after they walked up to the cockpit and said they wanted to get in, the FBI...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BRONX *** Detectives are probing the apparent murder of a man found wrapped in a plastic bag and left inside a Dumpster near a Marble Hill housing project. A...
SICILIAN 'SLAY' MOBSTER IN BX. BUST
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe feds have nabbed a reputed Sicilian mobster wanted in Italy for allegedly helping a notorious Mafia boss evade arrest in the high-profile 1992 assassination of a judge. After nearly...
SEX-SLEAZE TEACHERS BIG TURN-OFF FOR MAYOR
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe lurid sex scandals that rocked the school system this week had Mayor Bloomberg shaking his head yesterday in disbelief - and fearing it could take years to purge the...
MIKE SAYS NAY TO GIVING NONCITIZENS THE VOTE
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amImmigrant advocates yesterday rallied to back a measure that would allow noncitizens to vote, but it was opposed by Mayor Bloomberg while the only Democratic mayoral candidate to back it...
SHOT COPS SUE BOSS IN CANINE CAPER
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amTwo NYPD cops are suing their supervisor for accidentally shooting them when he was aiming at an escaped guard dog. Officers William Hennessy and Wilfredo Rivera, of the 33rd Precinct,...
STIFFED READERS LOOK TO $CRATCH OUT NEWS IN COURT
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe Daily News' trouble-plagued "Scratch-n-Match" contest could be coming to a premature end, as lawyers next week will seek an injunction halting the game until the paper can prove its...
DRIVING LESSON HORROR ; TEEN KILLS MOM
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amFriends, relatives and neighbors yesterday tried helplessly to comfort a grieving 16-year-old girl who accidentally ran down and killed her mother while practicing parallel parking on their quiet street in...
'HI HO' HARASSER ; 'CRIMINAL'MIDGET MOCKERY
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe yellow brick road ended in court after a Brooklyn man allegedly harassed a midget mother and her equally diminutive daughter, mocking them relentlessly with chants like "Hi ho, hi...
HE WAS GOING TO KILL ME; HAMMER GAL TESTIFIES
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amA Queens woman on trial for bashing in her boyfriend's skull with a hammer told jurors yesterday she acted in self-defense to fend off her abusive beau. "I took the...
WRITER'S 'KILLER' BUSTED; COPS: TRASH MAN RAPED CAPE GAL IN '02 MYSTERY
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amAn ex-con who hauled garbage from a fashion writer's Cape Cod cottage was charged yesterday with raping and killing her three years ago in a sensational case that mystified cops,...
BLOODY MESS OVER PAPER'S FAKE STORY
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amIt appears the Boston Globe is trying a little too hard to emulate its big brother, The New York Times. In a scandalous editor's note yesterday, the paper revealed that...
JUILLIARD-SLAY SUSPECT: DOG-WALKER DESERVED BEATING
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe prime suspect in last May's murder of a Juilliard drama student was released on $250 bail yesterday after allegedly attacking a man and his dog in Inwood Hill Park...
'PORN, BOOZE & BOYS' ; MA SLAMS NEVERLAND SEX ROMPS
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - J'accuse Jacko! The mom of Michael Jackson's accuser launched the most dramatic confrontation of the Pop King's trial yesterday, as she pointed her finger at him...
DANCE OF DEATH IN BROOKLYN
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn family has nothing but tears and questions after their daughter mysteriously collapsed and died in a popular nightclub early Thursday morning. Amanda Darceuil turned 18 two months ago...
ASIAN COPS HIT PA WITH RACIAL-BIAS LAWSUIT
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amA group of veteran Asian police officers slapped the Port Authority with a job-discrimination suit claiming they were denied promotions because of their race. The complaint filed in Manhattan federal...
TAX DAY $TINGS LEADERS; POLS PAY BIG
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amAttorney General Eliot Spitzer's extensive real-estate holdings helped double his income last year to a hefty $1.46 million, according to his tax returns released yesterday. The millionaire Spitzer had a...
$$ VANISHED LIKE MAGIC ; STAR TESTIFIES VS. 'CHEAT'
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amMagic Johnson cried foul yesterday over a cagey Westchester businessman who stands accused of cheating the basketball legend and some 60 other luminaries. Johnson was the latest celebrity to take...
SHEFF'S RAGE; YANK STAR BLEW UP AFTER NIGHT OF 'ROID RAZZING FROM FANS: WITNESS
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amRed Sox Nation cruelly taunted Gary Sheffield throughout Thursday night's game in Boston until the Yankee star blew up when a fan touched him as he reached for the ball,...
NEW PARK TO SIT WELL WITH YANK DEVOTEES
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe Yankees' plans for a new Bronx stadium will be a hit with fans who want a closer view of the action - with an extra 10,000 seats to be...
CITY WILL PAY 230G TO GOP-GALA PROTESTERS
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe city will shell out $230,000 to settle claims with people who were jailed during the Republican National Convention despite a judge's order they be set free. The deal between...
CAREY ON, MY WAYWARD SUN ; HOT STUFF IS IN OUR FORECAST
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amIt was one sweet day yesterday for sun-loving songbird Mariah Carey - and the rest of the city. And it's going to be even sweeter tomorrow, as temperatures soar past...
KOCH TAPPED FOR PANEL ON HOLOCAUST
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday announced he'll appoint former Mayor Ed Koch - a Democrat who backed Bush's re-election - for a five-year term on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council....
S.I. COPS HURT IN PERV CHASE
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amTwo police officers were injured yesterday trying to nab a man caught allegedly masturbating on board a Staten Island train. Nelson Rainet, 32, of Brooklyn was pleasuring himself on a...
RAP STAR RAMS BRONX SQUAD CAR
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amTroubled rap star DMX was arrested for driving with a suspended license last night after his 2005 Dodge Magnum collided with a cop car in The Bronx. The rapper was...
COPS NAIL DOUGLASS HOUSES DRUG RING
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amA violent $3 million-a- year crack-dealing operation at the Frederick Douglass Houses on Manhattan's Upper West Side has been wiped out by cops, who have locked up five key members...
IT'S SURF CITY - HANG 10 AT ROCKAWAY
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amHey, dude, it's time for a surfin' safari - in Queens. The city's surfers finally have a beach to call their own. A stretch of Rockaway sand used by wave...
MIKE HITS CABLE FOE ON METS
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg blasted Cablevision yesterday for keeping the Mets' winning streak off most city residents' TV sets - and he accused the company of not caring about New Yorkers. "We...
CAREY ON, MY WAYWARD SUN - HOT STUFF IS IN OUR FORECAST
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amIt was one sweet day yesterday for sun-loving songbird Mariah Carey - and the rest of the city. And it's going to be even sweeter tomorrow, as temperatures soar past...
BIRDS' WRATH ; 7-RUN 6TH BURIES YANKS
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amOrioles 8Yankees 1 BALTIMORE - Leaving Boston was supposed to relax the Yankees. But who slipped a bucket of Quaaludes in their water jug last night at Camden Yards? The...
VETERAN EAGER FOR METROS DEBUT
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amThere will be some sizzle, at least, when the MetroStars play their home opener tonight. And perhaps something special to watch. Invention and precision are what the MetroStars are hoping...
CLASSIC CAPPER TO FIELDS' SEASON
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amLevance Fields was in the middle of a disastrous senior season when he found out in February that he had been chosen to play in the Jordan Classic. "When I...
ZITO HOPES TO FEAST ON STAKES
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amThe final two significant mile-and-an-eighth prep races for the May 7 Kentucky Derby will be run today - the Grade 1, $750,000 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland and the Grade...
CENTER OF KNICKS' ATTENTION ; CAVS' BIG MAN MOVING TO BIG APPLE
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amCHARLOTTE -When Zydrunas Ilgauskas travels for his expected recruiting trip to the Knicks in July, he can do it by subway. The Cavs' 7-3 free-agent center, the exact piece the...
COMELY STAKES HEADS CARD
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amToday's feature at Aqueduct is the Grade 2, $150,000 Comely Stakes at a mile for 3-year-old fillies. The only graded stakes winner in the field is Toll Taker, winner of...
WELCOME BACK CARTER ; 'AIR CANADA' MAKES FIRST RETURN TRIP TO TORONTO
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amTORONTO - Nearly a dozen TV cameras were catching every word for posterity or at least the 6 p.m. newscast. Twice that many reporters were crammed notepad to tape recorder...
HELP NOW NEEDED FOR NETS' PLAYOFFS
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amNET NOTES TORONTO - For the past three seasons, the Nets did it on their own. This is different. And things are not going as planned. "We counted that as...
NO EXCUSING THIS EXCUSE
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amCHRIS HOUSE isn't the kind of guy who ever would have tried to bust Gary Sheffield's lip. We know this because House told his fiancee, and his fiancee told the...
JETER: FAN'S 'AN IDIOT'
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The Yankees don't think Gary Sheffield did a thing wrong. "When you are reaching down and the next thing you know you are hit or shoved across the...
METS' MIENTKIEWICZ HAS SHEFF'S BACK
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amJust as NBA players stuck up for the Pacers' Ron Artest after the Auburn Hills brawl, Mets first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz showed similar support for Gary Sheffield, a day after...
DON'T EXPECT SHEFF TO SIT ; SUSPENSION UNLIKELY FOR FENWAY FAN FRACAS
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Don't expect Gary Sheffield to be suspended for his part in Thursday night's encounter with a Fenway Park fan who hit Sheffield in the face with his hand...
PEDRO, LEITER HOOK UP
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amToday the King of Queens will finally make the Shea Stadium mound his royal throne. All this week, the Mets have gone up against opposing aces. They withstood the challenges...
CAM STILL ISN'T READY
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES The injury news continues to be bad for the Mets. Mike Cameron was in town yesterday to receive a cortisone shot in his surgically repaired left wrist and...
LINEUP-CARD SHUFFLE ; TORRE SWITCHES THINGS UP VS. O'S LEFTY CHEN
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - Joe Torre said the fact Orioles left-hander Bruce Chen was pitching last night was the main reason he drifted away from his new lineup. Torre shook...
BASEBALL MUST PUNISH GARY FOR 2 GAMES
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Major League Baseball has to slap Gary Sheffield with its left hand while shaking the right hand that fisted, cocked and didn't fire. In the nick of time,...
BIRDS' WRATH ; 7-RUN 6TH INNING BURIES YANKEES
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amOrioles 8Yankees 1 BALTIMORE - The theory was the Yankees would emerge from an early-season funk by getting away from seeing the Red Sox. After dropping two of three to...
WHOLE LOT OF SHAKING STILL GOING ON IN LINEUP
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - Joe Torre will insert Ruben Sierra into the DH spot today and play Jason Giambi at first base in an attempt to shake the Yankee hitters...
1-HIT WONDER ; HEILMAN HURLS RARE GEM AS METS FILET FISH FOR FIFTH IN ROW
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amAaron Heilman was recalled from Norfolk earlier this month, replaced Kris Benson in the starting rotation, got roughed up in his first start and was booed during Opening Day introductions....
CAMERON RETURN IS DELAYED
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mets right fielder Mike Cameron was in town yesterday to receive a cortisone shot in his surgically repaired left wrist and will not be ready to come off...
WELCOME BACK CARTER
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amNets 101Raptors 90 TORONTO - Yesterday morning, nearly a dozen TV cameras caught every word for posterity, or at least the 6 p.m. newscast. Twice that many reporters, crammed notepad...
SCALABRINE PROVIDES A SPARK
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amNET NOTES TORONTO - Nenad Krstic, usually the third scoring option for the Nets, was in foul trouble. Jason Collins was hobbling on a bum ankle. The Nets needed some...
COMING HOME - PEDRO'S SET TO FACE FISH THIS AFTERNOON IN SHEA DEBUT
April 16, 2005 | 4:00amToday the King of Queens will finally make the Shea Stadium mound his royal throne. All this week, the Mets have gone up against opposing aces. They withstood the challenges...