April 25, 2005
LANGONE'S LULU - EX-NYSE DIRECTOR MOUNTS BIG BOARD BID
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amFormer New York Stock Exchange director and billionaire investor Ken Langone is looking to topple the NYSE-Archipelago merger. Langone has called friends up and down Wall Street since last week's...
BROKER TO BATTLE AG ELIOT
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amTed Sihpol, the former Bank of America broker accused of fiddling with $1.2 billion of mutual fund trades, is expected to stroll into court tomorrow to pick a jury that...
DIDDY HUNTS FASHION BIG
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amSean "P. Diddy" Combs is in negotiations with Bob Wichser, the former chief executive of Joseph Abboud, about taking on a similar role at his Sean John apparel company, The...
SUTTON EAST HOTEL SOLD
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amAlchemy Properties has purchased the Sutton East Hotel at 330 E. 57th St. for $52.25 million. The seller, Lenny Litwin's Glenwood Management, owns primarily East Side and Downtown rentals, and...
FANS PICK FIVE TOP 'GILMORES'
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amFANS of the spunky "Gilmore Girls" are getting a coffeepot full of classic Rory and Lorelai this week. ABC Family Channel, which airs reruns of the WB "dramedy," is set...
ROSIE FEUDS WITH DAVE
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amOLD grudges die hard with Rosie O'Donnell. The former talk-show host says that she turned down an invitation last week to appear on the "Late Show with David Letterman" because...
SHORT OF CASH? PAY WITH CLAY
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amTIME was, they named a sandwich or a turnpike rest stop after you when you got famous. Sign of the new times? "American Idol" heart-throb Clay Aiken is getting a...
ALMOST-FAMOUS AMOS - PHILLY EX-TEACHER OPENS FOR DYLAN
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amSONGWRITER Amos Lee, who was a Philadelphia public schoolteacher just three years ago, has gone from the front of a second-grade classroom to the front of the stage - opening...
STARR REPORT
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amYou did what?! If you've ever wondered how far someone would go to be on TV - and, let's face it, some people would go pretty far-VH1 has a new...
RUTHLESS SOB - '24' BAD GUY BASED ON 9/11 HIJACKER
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amARNOLD Vosloo isn't a terrorist, but he plays one on TV. And he's not just any terrorist, but the vilest, most cold-blooded villain on TV this season or perhaps any...
'BACHELOR' FOUR-PLAY - SARAH W. OUT FRONT IN RACE FOR THE LAST ROSE
April 25, 2005 | 4:00am'The Bachelor" tonight enters the "home" stretch - literally - when Charlie O'Connell visits the four remaining women where they normally live, work and fight over guys with girls they...
GO WITH THE FLOW - THE TUNIC IS REBORN FOR SPRING; FINE-TUNIC YOUR SPRING
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amTHE tunic-tangy-colored, ethnic-inspired or gem-embellished -is topping the must-buy list for spring. The easiest instant update of the new season, the tunic packs such a versatile punch it's being hailed...
'INTERPRETER' TRANSLATES WELL AT BOX OFFICE
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amThe nation united to make the United Nations thriller "The Interpreter" the No. 1 movie over the weekend. Despite tepid reviews, the Nicole Kidman-Sean Penn drama earned $22.8 million, easily...
EX-ISRAEL PREZ DIES AT 81
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amFormer Israeli President Ezer Weizman, a military commander who built the nation's air force, died yesterday at 81. A moderate for much of his political career, Weizman was elected to...
ARMENIANS MARK 1915 GENOCIDE
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amHundreds of Armenian-Americans gathered in Times Square yesterday to observe the 90th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, in which 1.5 million people died at the hands of the Ottoman...
IRAQI BOMBINGS LEAVE 21 DEAD
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amMilitants set off two car bombs in a Baghdad market and two more in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit yesterday, killing 21 Iraqis and wounding at least 73 in one...
CONDOM PLAN SET TO UNROLL
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration is launching a major new program to distribute free condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS, The Post has learned. "We need to cover this city in...
HUNGRY-RAT HORROR IN CITY SHELTER
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amA wheelchair-bound woman is suing the city, saying rats feasted on her flesh as she slept in a homeless shelter. Luz "Lucy" Pagan Ortiz, a paraplegic whose spine was broken...
VILE OUTBURSTS ARE FANNING FLAMES OF HATRED
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amTHERE were two bias crimes in Brooklyn. The first happened when a group of black girls allegedly attacked a group of white girls over the use of a basketball court,...
VW JETTA MAKES AN IMPACT IN CRASH TEST
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amThis year's Volkswagen Jetta was a smash hit - in the latest insurance-industry demolition derby. Front and rear seat occupants of a Jetta have a better chance to survive a...
HEARTBEAT FROM DYING - ONE TINY HOPE FOR SURVIVAL
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amA gravely ill 3-month-old baby is fighting for his life in a city hospital - and if he doesn't get a heart transplant soon, "he will die," his distraught mother...
FANDEMONIUM - GRAMMY-NOD RAPPERS SLASH BOOING AUDIENCE MEMBERS IN BRONX: COPS
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amThe Grammy-nominated hip-hop band Terror Squad lived up to its name early yesterday morning when members became embroiled in a bloody melee as a Bronx audience booed them, police said....
1 IN EVERY 138 AMERICANS BEHIND BARS
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amThe United States' prison population swelled last year to 2.1 million - with one in every 138 Americans serving time. The nation's prisons took in nearly 900 inmates per week...
HOLY FRAUD, BATMAN, GOTHAM POL CHEATED
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amAn aspiring city councilwoman admitted to forging dozens of signatures, including those of "Batman" and "The Joker," on her petition to get on the ballot, The Post has learned. Germania...
RATZINGER BEGAN PAPAL CAMPAIGN 18 MONTHS AGO
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amAided by powerful Vatican cardinals and Pope John Paul II, Joseph Ratzinger began quietly campaigning for the papacy 18 months ago, a new report says. The cardinals, who belong to...
SLAYBOY MANSION - HOME WHERE AMMON DIED WILL BE 295G SUMMER RENTAL
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amThe stately English "cottage" in East Hampton where millionaire Ted Ammon was murdered in 2001 can be yours for the summer - for a cool $295,000. The former crime scene...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * A teen was arrested early yesterday and charged with shooting a man during an argument on a Belmont street, police sources said. Andres Serrano-Irizarry, 19, shot his...
FANDEMONIUM - FAT JOE'S RAPPERS CAUGHT UP IN BLOODY BOXCUTTER BRAWL WITH BOOING BX. CROWD
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amThe Grammy-nominated hip-hop band Terror Squad lived up to its name early yesterday when members became embroiled in a bloody melee as a Bronx audience booed them, police said. Three...
A GREAT JOB IF YOU TRULY DIG THE CITY
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amThe Parks Department is hiring its own Indiana Jones to search for artifacts and human remains beneath city playgrounds and ball fields. This raider of the lost park - the...
SONG HITS A SHLOCKING SOUR NOTE
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amAS IF New York needed another theme song. "New York: For the Time of Your Life," you're no "New York, New York." Frank Wildhorn's schlocky Las Vegas nightmare of an...
2 SLAIN IN 'DRUG' BUILDING
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amTwo men were shot dead last night in a corridor of a Bedford-Stuyvesant building, cops said. The double homicide took place at 7 p.m. at 1851 Fulton St. in the...
VICTIM OF '83 HORROR WILL FIGHT FOR OTHERS
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amAt 6, she was kidnapped on her way home from school, raped in a pickup truck and left chained to a mineshaft in a freezing California desert. Now 27 and...
LI'L FISTS O' FURY - L.I.'S 6-YEAR-OLD KARATE KID
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amHere's a 6-year-old girl no mugger wants to meet in a dark alley. Sydney Levy of Port Washington, L.I., is one of the youngest karate black belts ever, her teachers...
GUARD DUO'S DOMINICAN 'DRUG' LINK
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amTwo National Guardsmen charged with using military aircraft to smuggle millions in the drug ecstasy from overseas are tied to a network of Dominican traffickers, The Post has learned. The...
MURDER MOST POSH - MAN KILLS WIFE IN RITZY UPPER E. SIDE TOWN HOUSE: COPS
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amA wealthy property owner stabbed his wife to death with a kitchen knife - and then plunged the blade into his own stomach in their opulent, three-story Upper East Side...
INFANT A HEARTBEAT FROM DEATH
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amA gravely ill 3-month-old baby is fighting for his life in a city hospital - and if he doesn't get a heart transplant soon, "he will die," his distraught mother...
ISRAEL EX-PRESIDENT WEIZMAN DIES
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amFormer Israeli President Ezer Weizman, a military commander who built the nation's air force, died yesterday at 81. A moderate for much of his political career, Weizman was elected to...
SCHOOL ON BIAS ALERT - UPPER E. SIDE FURY
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan junior high school has been ordered to undergo "sensitivity training" by the city Department of Education after an 11-year-old girl was bullied one too many times by racist...
PRISON POPULATION SOARS
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amThe United States' prison population swelled last year to 2.1 million - with one in every 138 people in the nation doing time. U.S. prisons took in nearly 900 inmates...
HOLY FRAUD, BATMAN, POL CHEATED
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amAn aspiring city councilwoman admitted to forging dozens of signatures, including those of "Batman" and "The Joker," on her petition to get on the ballot, The Post has learned. Germania...
CAP TRAP FOR GIFF & FREDDY
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amBecause they blew through spending caps in the years running up to the election, mayoral hopefuls Gifford Miller and Fernando Ferrer have less to dole out this year as they...
CRUCIAL CONFERENCE ON GOV'S FUTURE POSTPONED
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amA CRITICAL meeting tomorrow to decide Gov. Pataki's political future has been unexpectedly postponed, The Post has learned. The session - which was to include top Pataki political advisers Arthur...
BUSH WILL PUSH SAUDI OVER OIL
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush plans to push Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to bring down soaring oil prices during their meeting today at the president's Texas ranch. Saudi Arabia promised last...
DIRTY WATCHDOGS - 13 'ANTI-CORRUPTION' COPS SLAPPED IN NYPD SCANDAL
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amThirteen veteran supervisors and detectives from an NYPD watchdog unit that was supposed to prevent corruption and wrongdoing in a major police division have been slapped with misconduct charges, The...
IT PAYS ($4.4 MILLION) TO HIRE BRUNO'S SON
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - The son of Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno arranged to have $4.4 million in Medicaid funding restored to the new state budget - just days after he was...
KOFI'S GRIP SLIPPING - OIL SCANDAL PUTS LEADERSHIP ON BRINK
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Embattled Kofi Annan's hold on leadership of the United Nations is growing increasingly fragile in the wake of new revelations of corruption within his inner circle - as...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amWhen Alexander Vance and his wife, Leola, married 63 years ago and vowed to stay together 'til death do them part, they truly meant it. The couple ended up dying...
COMIC BOOK CAUSES KING-SIZED COMMOTION
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amHe's taken on the X-Men with no problem, but evil mutant mastermind Magneto is no match for King Juan Carlos of Spain. Marvel Comics is yanking a painting of its...
RIGHTS AGENCY BARS STAFF KIDS
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amStaffers at the City Commission on Human Rights are furious that for the past two years, their agency has prohibited "take your child to work day" - a day intended...
BUSH PICK BOLTON IS UNDER FIRE FROM BRITS
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's beleaguered nominee for U.N. ambassador is now taking direct hits from allies on the other side of the Atlantic, according to a new report. British officials...
END OF 'ROCKY' ROAD
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amAnother one bit the dust. Rockport Harbor, who began the year boasting a 4-for-4 slate as a 2-year- old, including a victory in the Nov. 27 Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct,...
ESPN ATTITUDE ALL ABOUT TRASH
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amHOW much longer before ESPN finally backs off, before it's satisfied that it can't possibly do any more dirt to sports or help turn any more sports fans into punks?...
GUTSY 'GROCER' FALLS SHORT
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amOne has to wonder if Remsen last Nov. at Big A, with Rockport Harbor and Galloping Grocer battling gate-to-wire in photo finish, took starch out of both colts; neither has...
NETS DROP THEIR GUARDS IN GAME 1 - LEFT ALONE, WADE AND JONES SCORCH JERSEY
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amGAME 1: Heat 116 - Nets 98 MIAMI - Shaquille O'Neal felt he just wasn't himself, about 40 percent of his usual Dieselness. But it didn't matter all that much...
BETTOR & WORSE - REPORT: DYKSTRA ADVISED GAMBLER AND USED 'ROIDS
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amFormer Mets outfielder Lenny Dykstra has been hit with allegations that he used steroids and gambled illegally during his 12-year career. According to a report in yesterday's Los Angeles Times,...
MATSUI'S BUNT NOT A GOOD IDEA
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES With men on first and second and none out in the second inning yesterday, Kaz Matsui tried to bunt for a base hit. It is not what Willie...
ACHY JARET GETS SOME GOOD NEWS
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amBetween the pain in his right shoulder, the start he kept replaying in his mind and a pending MRI, Jaret Wright's mind was racing Saturday night. Last night, Wright might...
JETER CALLS HUSH-HUSH MEETING
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES George Steinbrenner ripped them. Joe Torre used meetings to remind them. Yesterday, it was Derek Jeter's turn to attempt getting the Yankees out of their funk. Jeter called...
WE'LL KNOW SOON IF METS ARE REAL
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amTHERE were plenty of available Band-Aids at the Mets' disposal to cover the wounds suffered in their 11-4 loss to the Nationals yesterday at Shea. Winning the first two games...
VICTOR KILLS THE BUZZ
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amNationals 11 Mets 4 Before yesterday's game, the atmosphere around Shea was almost giddy. During infield drills, manager Willie Randolph playfully caught balls at first. As Randolph met with the...
UNIT COMES UP BIG IN CLUTCH - POWERS YANKS TO MUCH-NEEDED WIN
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 11 - Rangers 1 Is there such a thing as a Big April Game? When the Yankees inhabit last place in the AL East, the answer is an emphatic...
CRAFTY JOHNSON ACES KEY TEST
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amEVEN Big Units live and learn. Randy Johnson has seen one team after another take aggressive hacks against Yankee pitchers this April - Boston, Baltimore, even Tampa Bay. So as...
SHOCKEY'S ABSENCE IRKS COACH
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amTom Coughlin had been silent on Jeremy Shockey's conspicuous absence from the Giants' offseason workout program. As a matter of fact, no Giant - other than quarterback Eli Manning -...
BIG BLUE EARN 'B'
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amThe Giants had just four picks in this weekend's NFL draft, thanks to last season's acquisition of Eli Manning. They drafted for need on all four of them, and still...
DRAFT MAKES JETS FEEL GOOD
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amThe NFL Draft is a lot like opening day in every sport in that hope permeates every team, leaving them all believing they're made of championship timber. No team ever...
'DIESEL' DOESN'T DO MUCH
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - The scary part is the Heat didn't need Shaquille O'Neal's usual "A" game yesterday to blow out the Nets in Game 1. Or even his "B" game. After...
FRANKLY, NETS' PLAN NEEDS AN OVERHAUL
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - If he can figure this out, then the four-year, $10 million contract that Lawrence Frank currently works under should be ripped up at once, then instantly doubled. Or...
JEFFERSON GOES ABOVE AND BEYOND IN RETURN
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amNET NOTES MIAMI - The Nets planned on getting 8-to-12 minutes from Richard Jefferson yesterday. He gave them 23. "I was a little surprised with my wind," said Jefferson, who...
CAN'T KEEP UP WITH JONES - DAMON MAKES NETS PAY FOR FOCUSING ON SHAQ
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amMIAMI - The challenge was set before yesterday's tip-off by Miami's free-spirited point guard Damon Jones. "The road to the Eastern championship comes through Miami," Jones said. "You might say...
JONES TAKES SHOT AT STEPH
April 25, 2005 | 4:00amDamon Jones and Stephon Marbury were teammates with the Nets in 1998-99. The journeyman guard felt he never got a fair chance with the Nets to get minutes behind Marbury...