May 14, 2005
SINGING CANARY; FUND FOUNDER STERN SETS SIGHTS ON SIHPOL
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amBillionaire Eddie Stern doesn't mind giving less affluent investors a kick in the wallet. The 38-year old money manager, whose family built a $3 billion fortune by selling birdseed and...
HANK GETS HIS UNDIES BACK
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amHank Greenberg can re-holster that legal six-shooter. The embattled former chairman of AIG has once again gotten his hands on his underwear and other personal property the insurance company had...
BLACK WANTS $6.8M REFUND FOR LEGAL BILLS
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amPushy ex-publisher Conrad Black is demanding his former company cough up $6.8 million in legal fees he's run up defending himself from sweeping probes - involving the looting of his...
PLAZA OWNER SEEKS PARTIAL SALE
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amThe new owner of the Plaza Hotel is seeking to sell all or a portion of his stake in the 300-room hotel to a luxury brand. Elad Properties, run by...
MARKET REPORT
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amIt might be only a matter of time before your luxury building starts breaking out the Molton Brown soaps and the fluffy towels. Amid all the buzz about hotels like...
EAST END GERES UP
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amAFTER a long winter hibernation, Hamptons celebs are moving again - or at least considering it. Last week, Richard Gere surprised some local brokers as a walk-in customer in search...
LIGHTS FANTASTIC
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amOggi Lighting 153 and 166 Bowery, at Delancey Street (212) 226-6444 Sale: Sunday-June 6 Open: 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sale items will include Murano vases for $640 to $2,000 (reg. $800...
MY NEW HOME
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amNEWLYWEDS SEEK NEW HOME SEARCH TIME: 4 months THEY BOUGHT: East Village one-bedroom walk-up, $335,000 --- FOR newlyweds Anthony and Mackenzi Pergolotti, showing up to an open house too early...
'APPLE' POLISHER
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amTHE APPLE TREE City Center, 130 W. 55th St., (212) 581-1212. Two performances today and one performance tomorrow. WITH "The Apple Tree" briefly replanted at the Encores! series at City...
RUN'S'HOUSE'CALL
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amRUN DMC's Reverend Run is back in the house for real. Well, reality that is. Run, one of the most influential hip-hop artists of all time, has landed an MTV...
SPACE CRAWL - WHAT IF WE INVADED AN ALIEN PLANET?
May 14, 2005 | 4:00am"Alien Planet" Tonight at 8 on Discovery * * * (three stars) HAVE you noticed the seismic shift? Serious science channels and those devoted to the study of real life...
A 'CLASSICAL' SERIES - NO KIDDING
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amNOT since that wonderful, old book, "My Little Bunny," has there been as sweet and gentle an amusement for babies as "Classical Baby" a four-star special from the Emmy-winning producers...
FISCHER PRICELESS
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amFISCHERSPOONER THE bad old days when Casey Spooner lip-synched to dance tracks for Fischerspooner are gone. The Brooklyn outfit is a real band now, with real chops, and it killed...
DINO-MITE! SUPERSIZE YOUR MUSEUM VISIT WITH ALL KINDS OF COOL STUFF
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amYou probably think you know all about "Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries," the colossal exhibit opening today at the American Museum of Natural History. Sure, you've read about that 700-square-foot...
DESTINATION: DESIGN FROM AROUND THE WORLD IN NY
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amNeed ideas on how to turn your drab digs into a Architechtural Digest-worthy palace? New York Design Week kicks off today - and we've got the scoop on the three...
CINEMA SHOPPING
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amThe fifth annual Arlene's Grocery Picture Show winds up tonight and tomorrow. This truly-indie flick fest, which unreeled 80 films at one venue its first year, has expanded to 500...
WE'VE GOT GAME
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amSTAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH Format: PS2, Xbox Multiplayer: Yes Rated: Teen What's it about: Lightsabers, The Force, and epic battles from the movie and beyond. As...
HORSES GO BUGGY ON 14TH STREET
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amIn New York's first stagecoach accident of the century, two horses led authorities on a wild and woolly chase yesterday, as they broke loose and charged pell-mell along 14th Street....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amRealtor Wendy Heath of Long Beach, Calif., is showing more than property to prospective homebuyers these days - she's posing in a fetching bikini in a giant billboard ad that...
RACKET RAP STICKS TO GOTTI JR.
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amA federal judge yesterday shot down John "Junior" Gotti's request to toss out racketeering charges filed against him - including one that he ordered thugs to rub out radio talk-show...
CHUTIN' FOR THE TOP AT CONEY ISLAND
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amConey Island is bigger than Broadway - at least among architects. Nearly 900 competed to design a restaurant and park to be at the base of the long-defunct Parachute Jump....
DEM HOPEFULS DO BATTLE IN TV HARUM-SCARUM FORUM
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amThe Democratic mayoral candidates squared off yesterday in a feisty joint television appearance that turned into a four-way free-for-all filled with potshots. The heated question-and-answer session - by far the...
NYU MARINE CLEARED IN 2 IRAQ SLAYS
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A military investigator has cleared New York Marine 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano of murdering two suspected Iraqi terrorists and recommended that all criminal charges against him be dropped,...
YANKEE LEGEND PASSES - VENDOR FOR 50 YRS.
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amManny Gluck, who never missed a day in 50 years of hawking programs at Yankee Stadium, witnessing such historic moments as Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series...
STONEWALL MIKE; CITY NOT PAYING FOR WEST SLIDE: MAYOR
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amSomeone's gonna pay big time for the West Side wall disaster - and it won't be the city, Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday. "This is private property," Bloomberg said. "And the...
'SNACK SHOOTER' GETS FIVE YEARS
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amA drywall worker who shot another worker in the head at a Greenwich Village construction site in a dispute over the morning snack run was sentenced in Manhattan yesterday to...
TAX-I TIMES FOR DJ; JAIL FOR BRAGGING IRS CHEAT 'CRAZY CABBIE'
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amA federal judge blasted DJ "Crazy Cabbie" for making bizarre on-air boasts that he didn't pay his taxes during the Howard Stern Show as he sentenced the radio personality to...
'VIAGRA DEFENSE' SICKO 'FESSES UP
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amIn a last-minute change of heart, a convicted Long Island child molester yesterday took full responsibility for abusing two young girls, abandoning his defense that erectile dysfunction - and a...
HAUL TO THE CHIEF - 26G IN GIFTS FOR W.
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush last year accepted $26,346 worth of personal gifts - including a Trek bike, a shotgun and a gold bracelet for his wife from a New York...
EARLY-RISING DOUGH:BLOOMY SPENDS $10M
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amChalk up nearly $10 million in early-bird campaign spending for Mayor Bloomberg - and that's not counting the TV ad barrage featuring endorsements from Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani that...
WORKER PULLED FROM HOTEL FIRE
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amA disabled desk clerk was carried from an Upper West Side hotel in critical condition yesterday after a fire trapped him in his room. Residents and employees who fled the...
JACKO'S FALL GUY - AXED LAWYER TAKES BLAME FOR BULLYING BOY'S FAMILY
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson's former lawyer seemed to be holding no grudges yesterday as he helped the Gloved One's defense by taking the blame for heavy-handed tactics used...
MIKE'S TAX FORMS SHOW $139M IN GIVE-IDENDS
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg upped his charitable contributions to $139.3 million last year, aides said yesterday as they released severely edited versions of his 2004 tax returns. Bloomberg gave $135.6 million in...
ARTIST 'RIGHTS' HAVE STATUE OF LIMITATIONS
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amA federal judge yesterday refused to order a SoHo commercial condo board to replace a famed minimalist aluminum sculpture it had removed from the side of its building. And Manhattan...
'STABBING' PASSENGER BUS-TED
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman was charged yesterday with stabbing, biting and menacing a city bus driver. Charlene McEaddy, 44, boarded driver Francis Mittnight's bus in Bensonhurst at 12:30 p.m. Thursday without...
SIBLINGS SLAIN - LOVE TRIANGLE MAY OFFER CLUE IN STABBING OF A QUEENS WOMAN AND HER KID BROTHER
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amA young Queens woman - who'd been involved in a heated love triangle - and her teenage brother were bound in duct tape and brutally stabbed to death in their...
GIANTS CUT QB MILLER
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amThe brief, almost non-existent Giants career of Jim Miller ended yesterday when the team reached an injury settlement with the veteran quarterback, who was signed to mentor Eli Manning but...
XBOX'S QUANTUM LEAP ; CONSOLE TO LEAVEOLD GAMES IN DUST
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amThey're four years apart, but when it comes to fast-paced gaming, the original Xbox and the upcoming Xbox 360 might as well be in separate galaxies. It's the difference between...
SCANT TURNOUT IN VOTE FOR SCHOOL PANELS
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amNearly two-thirds of all parent leaders eligible to select members for the city's 34 community education councils didn't even bother to cast a ballot, according to voting results released yesterday...
STREET JUSTICE FOR SLASHING SUSPECT
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amA furious mob delivered some hard-core street justice in the form of a vicious beating to a teenager who allegedly slashed a pretty young woman earlier this week, witnesses said...
KILLER CANDY - KIN BLAME THIS MINT FOR DEATHS - FAMILIES RIP COMPANY'S SWEET BUT DEADLY TREAT
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amThe families of two little girls who choked to death say the candy that killed their daughters were Jumbo Mint Balls made by a Colombian company. "That killed my baby,"...
TEARS FLOW AS CANDY KIN UNITE FOR 2 LOVING KIDS 'IN HEAVEN'
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amThe devastated families of two little girls who died after choking on the same type of mint candy two days apart wept in each other's arms yesterday as they consoled...
JACKO'S FALL GUY ; AXED LAWYER TAKES BLAME FOR BULLYING BOY'S FAMILY
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Michael Jackson's former mouthpiece came to his rescue yesterday by tearing into a family now accusing the pop star of molestation, and justifying hardball defense tactics....
SIBLINGS SLAIN ; LOVE TRIANGLE MAY OFFER CLUE IN STABBING OF A QUEENS WOMAN AND HER KID BROTHER
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amA young Queens woman - who'd been involved in a heated love triangle - and her teenage brother were bound in duct tape and brutally stabbed to death in their...
SIX INJURED IN HOTEL FIRE
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amSix people, including four firefighters, were injured yesterday in a blaze at an Upper West Side hotel that led to the evacuation of the 16-story building, authorities said. Firefighters were...
STONEWALL MIKE ; CITY NOT PAYING FOR WEST SLIDE: MAYOR
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amSomeone's gonna pay big time for the West Side wall disaster - and it won't be the city, Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday. "This is private property," Bloomberg said. "And the...
N.Y. MARINE IN THE CLEAR ; KILLING IRAQ TERRORISTS WAS JUSTIFIED: PROBE
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A military investigator has cleared New York Marine 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano of murdering two suspected Iraqi terrorists and recommended that all criminal charges against him be dropped,...
TAX-I TIMES FOR DJ ; JAIL FOR BRAGGING IRS CHEAT 'CRAZY CABBIE'
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amA federal judge blasted DJ "Crazy Cabbie" for making bizarre on-air boasts that he didn't pay his taxes during the Howard Stern Show as he sentenced the radio personality to...
'FITTY' AVOIDS BEING CENT TO JAIL
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amEmbattled rapper 50 Cent has dodged another bullet. "Fitty," who was charged with assaulting three people in Massachusetts last year, will avoid jail time as long as he stays out...
DEATH OF A STADIUM SALESMAN
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amManny Gluck, who never missed a day in 50 years of hawking programs at Yankee Stadium, witnessing such moments as Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series and...
DOGS IN PARK HORROR ; KILLED BY ROTTWEILER
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amA rampaging Rottweiler fatally mauled two tiny, trembling pooches - one a champion show dog - in Central Park as their terrified owner watched helplessly. The grim episode unfolded late...
TAKE THAT, QAEDA ; U.S. MISSILE KILLS BIG
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amA senior al Qaeda operative has been killed by an air-to-surface missile fired from a CIA drone airplane in Pakistan near the Afghan border, officials said yesterday. Intelligence officials confirmed...
BUTCHER WRITING BLOODY CHAPTERS
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amGet ready for "Saddam Hussein: My Life." The Butcher of Baghdad has been using his imprisonment in an Iraqi jail to polish off his autobiography, it was reported yesterday. Saddam...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN *** Police are trying to solve the murder of an unidentified man on an East Flatbush street corner, authorities said yesterday. The victim, who was not carrying identification, was...
HUNTING KIDDIE 'RAPIST'; PEEKSKILL PERV SOUGHT
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amWestchester cops triggered a nationwide manhunt last night for a fiend who repeatedly raped a 10-year-old girl over a period of three years, police said. Richard Bell, 68, of Peekskill,...
TAKE THAT, QAEDA; U.S. MISSILE KILLS BIG
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amA senior al Qaeda operative has been killed by an air-to-surface missile fired from a CIA drone airplane in Pakistan near the Afghan border, officials said yesterday. Intelligence officials confirmed...
FLEEING SUSPECT HAS GUTS - TOO MUCH GUTS
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amLong Island cops used the long arm of the law earlier this week - to drag a super-sized suspect out from under a porch. Acting on an anonymous Crime Stoppers...
DOGS IN PARK HORROR - KILLED BY ROTTWEILER
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amA rampaging Rottweiler fatally mauled two tiny, trembling pooches - one a champion show dog - in Central Park as their terrified owner watched helplessly. The grim episode unfolded late...
SIX FEAT THUNDER ; YANKEES BOMB A'S TO EXTEND WIN STREAK
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 9Athletics 4 OAKLAND - Like he does everything else, Mike Mussina is quietly beginning to resemble the pitcher he has been across what is slowly evolving into a borderline...
CASHMAN: JASON NOT ON BLOCK
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - Brian Cashman scoffed at the notion Jason Giambi's return to the lineup last night was a showcase for his former team, the A's. "We are just...
YOURI'S BACK FOR METROS
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amMetroStars forward Youri Djorkaeff has heard all the cautious, patient talk from trainers and coaches, but he knows better. A veteran of the English Premiership, German Bundesliga and Italian Serie...
CAM TOUGH ; RED-HOT MIKE WON'T STOP WORKING
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amCliff Floyd got off to a sizzling start that included a 20-game hitting streak, but yesterday afternoon was talking about the mental differences he encountered in following that tear by...
MEDIA'S KEPT OFF ROCKER
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amNEWARK - The John Rocker circus rolled into town here last night with everyone on high alert. On instructions from the Long Island Ducks, the Newark Bears' staff held reporters...
WINKY ALL SET FOR TRINIDAD
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - A few days ago, Ronald "Winky" Wright played golf with someone described as a "Mandalay Bay honcho" and took him for $35,000. In that respect, it has...
PROFESSOR PEDRO - RIGHTY HAS PLENTYTO TEACH THE METS
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amBy now, it's apparent that Pedro Martinez is still a phenomenal pitcher and a great drawing card. His start this afternoon against the Cardinals should bring thousands of people into...
DECISION CLOSE ON STRICKLAND
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets weren't willing to reveal their plans regarding Scott Strickland yesterday, but one of two things will likely happen by tomorrow. Either Strickland will be a Met,...
FLORES, PRADO GET PREAKNESS NOD
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amA pair of horses that ran up the track in the Kentucky Derby, Greeley's Galaxy and High Limit, will have new jockeys aboard when they try to turn the tables...
AMY BRINGS HOME 'LYCENSE'
May 14, 2005 | 4:00am1ST RACE - Darlington Guard gunned to front under Javier Castellano, opening daylight down backside tracked by 8-5 favorite Wistano, Cornelio Velasquez up, with King Umberto chasing outside. Entering turn,...
GOING FOR SIX - YANKS, TINO HOPE TO STAY HOT
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amGOING FOR OAKLAND - The Joy of Six. A week ago the Yankees were the worst team $200 million could buy. George Steinbrenner ripped them. Joe Torre called two meetings....
EXPERTS: MARTINEZ HR SURGE NO SHOCK
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Reggie Jackson knows a thing or 563 about hitting homers. Lee Elia is considered one of the best hitting gurus in baseball. And Don Mattingly understands hitting with...
OUT TO LAUNCH ; FLOYD FEASTS ON CARDS
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amCliff Floyd stood in front of his locker before last night's game against the Cardinals and talked about the simple reason behind an ugly 2-for-22 skid and the recent death...
GOLD GLAV ; KOS CARDS WITH HELP FROM FLOYD HRS
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amMets 2Cardinals 0 Tom Glavine wasn't ever at rock bottom, wasn't ever in the purgatory where Jason Giambi currently lives. But Glavine's 2005 numbers had been woeful, and they had...
MARTINEZ' HR STREAK ENDS AT 5
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Reggie Jackson knows a thing or 563 about hitting homers. And Don Mattingly understands hitting with the best of them. Both men agree they couldn't be more pleased...
JASON SNAPS 0-FER SKID
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Beginning last night, Jason Giambi had six games to show Joe Torre his bat still has life in it. And proving they are going to give Giambi every...
NO SHAME IN IT ENDING
May 14, 2005 | 4:00amTOO QUIETLY, but not in the least bit insignificantly, one of the greatest streaks in the history of sports came to an unceremonious and unfortunate end yesterday. When Tiger Woods...