July 7, 2005
CRUNCH TIME FOR JOBS DATA
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S a do-or-die month on the labor front. Tomorrow morning the U.S. Labor Department will announce how many new jobs were created in June. This will be the last of...
SCHWAB TRADING PUTS PROS ON ALERT
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amSpeculators appeared to be betting that online brokerage king Charles Schwab Corp. is ripe for a takeover. Trading was unusually high in the company's call options, used by savvy investors...
WHERE'S HARVEY? - EX-MIRAMAX BOSS IS CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amSUN VALLEY, Idaho - It's just not the same here without Harvey Weinstein. In years past Weinstein, the ex-Miramax boss, was a familiar sight strolling the grounds, usually unshaven and...
DELL IS AIMING AT IPOD
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amDell made a major move yesterday to cut into iPod's commanding market share. The computer giant inked a deal with Napster that will put the digital music service's entire library...
WALL ST. TYCOONS AMONG BIGGEST ART COLLECTORS
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amSome of Wall Street's richest executives are quickly becoming the art world's most active collectors. ARTnews' top-10 list of active collectors reads like a who's who of Street compensation leaders,...
'THEY DIDN'T THINK ABOUT MY ROLE' - EREKA SPILLS ON GETTING CANNED
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amEREKA Vetrini says she's not bitter about losing her job as sidekick-turned-correspondent on "The Tony Danza Show." "I saw it coming, but I don't understand the reasoning behind it," Vetrini,...
A TEEN FOUR ALL SEASONS - HOOKAH BARS, CBGB'S: NEW CONCIERGE TIPS OFF THE KIDS
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amMARC SABBAH is stationed behind the massive marble concierge desk in the grand lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel. He wears the concierge un iform: a poly-blend three-piece version of...
GOLD-STAR TV MOTHER - HOW NATALEE'S MOM BECAME MEDIA IDOL
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amBETH Holloway Twitty has become a cable-news star for all the wrong reasons: the mysterious disappearance of her 18-year-old daughter, Natalee Holloway, in Aruba. Ever since her daughter failed to...
WHOA, KELLY! HUGE 'DANCING' UPSET
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amKELLY MONACO, who plays a mob chieftain's mistress on "General Hospital," whacked the heavily favored John O'Hurley last night to score a stunning upset on the season finale of "Dancing...
STARR REPORT
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe local 5 & 10 Ernie Anastos got off to a fast start in his inaugural Ch. 5 broadcast Tuesday. Anastos and Rosanna Scotto snared 621,000 viewers at 10 p.m....
WIMBLEDON WIN IN VENUS' SHOW
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amYOU won't see a lot of Venus Williams epic Wimbledon triumph on her and sister Serena's new reality show, "Venus & Serena: For Real" - but the producers are scrambling...
DIOR-GEOUS! - GALLIANO RAISES BAR FOR FASHION WORLD WITH MOST SENSATIONAL SHOW - EVER
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amYESTERDAY, John Galliano staged the most achingly beautiful fashion extravaganza in living memory, in Paris' swank Polo Club - a spectacle that's going to be difficult to top when N.Y.C....
A PATHETIC POLITICAL PANIC
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amWHY don't conservatives trust George W. Bush? Much of the right wing has launched a pre-emptive strike against widely rumored speculation that the president would like to appoint Attorney General...
A RAINBOW OF RACIST RATS
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amHOW'S this for justice? Take "Fat Nick" Min ucci and Westchester murder suspect Phillip Grant and lock them in a cell together. They deserve each other. Minucci, a white man,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A man was arrested for robbing a Coney Island amusement-ride ticket booth, assaulting a clerk and threatening to kill her, authorities said yesterday. Sources said James Goudy, 44,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amRuth Stewart celebrated her 100th birthday in the fast lane - strapping on a helmet and riding on the back of a Harley. "If I were 20 years younger, I...
THOMPSON GETS ROLE IN SUPREME DRAMA
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amSenator-turned-actor Fred Thompson, the deep-voiced district attorney on NBC's "Law & Order," will seek to shepherd President Bush's Supreme Court nominee through the Senate, the White House said yesterday. "Senator...
WEST BANK FENCE NOW A RUSH JOB
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel will speed up construction of its West Bank security fence and will ask the United States for hundreds of millions of dollars to evacuate settlers from the...
VICTIM'S MOM FINGERED 'MAFIA COP' FROM TV TALK SHOW
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amDisgraced former NYPD Detective Louis Eppolito was ID'd by the mother of an alleged victim - after she spotted the reputed mob cop hawking his book on daytime TV, reports...
BULLETS PUT SCHOOL ON SNIPER ALERT
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amOne day after a still-at-large-sniper shot at an upper Manhattan school, education officials said they are beefing up security to protect students. Additional school-safety agents were dispatched to IS 218...
GAME APPLE HIT BY 'TIME' BOMB - RECENT U.S. OLYMPICS HELP LONDON WIN
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amIn the end, it had nothing to do with the stadium fiasco. The timing was just wrong for New York, and popular support for the Games here wasn't great to...
WORLD SAVORS SORE LOSERS' FRENCH WHINE
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amHey, France, you got a nice big kick in the derriere - and that's exactly what you deserved. The resounding reaction around the world was joy, as the arrogant nation...
DEMS LIKE MIKE
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amHard-core Democrats like Republican Mike Bloomberg so much, he could even win a Dem primary, a new poll says. The Pace University/Observer poll found 62 percent of Democrats likely to...
MOM'S 'FLAT' BROKE - RENT'S TOO HIGH
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amEven before they doubled her rent, Hafeesa Nettles says she struggled to get by. Now, the single mom, like many tenants at the once subsidized Kips Bay Court apartment complex,...
COACH SPANKY BUSTED - S.I. HOOPS ABUSE RAP
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amA sleazy Staten Island high-school basketball coach has been arrested for abusing two 15-year- old players - by cutting a twisted deal in which he got to spank them when...
'16 NOT LOOKING SO SWEET EITHER
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amAfter being left an also-ran for the 2012 Olympics, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday would not endorse a campaign to land the Summer Games four years later. "It was a unique opportunity...
CAPE COD SLAY-TRIAL 'CONFESS' WRINKLE
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe Cape Cod garbage man accused of killing a Manhattan fashion writer was on drugs when questioned by cops and should have his statements excluded from his upcoming trial, his...
PUP-PUP HOORAY - JUDGE RETURNS DOG TO OWNER
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amRocco - the tiny Long Island Chihuahua at the center of a big custody battle - was returned yesterday to his original owners, following a judge's orders. The Workman family...
LOVE CON IN RENT 'SWINDLE'
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amSweetheart swindler Nancy Jace landed back in court yesterday, accused along with her husband of cheating five landlords by using bogus bankruptcy filings to avoid more than $86,000 in rent....
ZONGO COP WANTS TRIAL MOVED
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amA New York City cop has asked state judges to move his manslaughter retrial for killing an unarmed African immigrant anywhere but the media-saturated Big Apple. Officer Bryan Conroy's lawyer,...
DEMS ARE 'COURT'ING DISASTER
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amPRESIDENT Bush has yet to pick his Supreme Court nominee, but he's already won Round 1 of the fight - because Democrats have come on way too strong and sound...
OOPS VIRGINIA - FIELDS' PHOTOSHOP FOLLIES
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amOne hopes C. Virginia Fields is learning an important lesson this week: A candi date for mayor preaching diversity needs more than a Martin Luther King Jr. connection and a...
IMAGE PROBLEM - FIELDS PASSES BUCK FOR DOCTORED PICTURE
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amC. Virginia Fields yesterday blamed a direct-mail company hired by her mayoral campaign for the fake-photo flap in which a doctored picture was used on her fliers. Trying to stem...
SWILL AND KILL - WEDDING-CRASH DRIVER'S BLOOD TEST FINDS '18 DRINKS'
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe drunken driver who smashed head-on into a wedding limo, killing the driver and an angelic 7-year-old flower girl, had more than enough booze in his body to make three...
'M. DIDDY' DOES RIGHT BY CON KIM
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amREPEAT after me, Lil' Kim: "Thank you, Big Martha." Martha Stewart, the unrepentant felon who proudly wore the prison nickname "M. Diddy," has realized her fantasy of helping fellow convicts....
WTC CENTER'S CHANGE BIDS FOR MUSEUM PEACE
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amA controversial museum slated for Ground Zero would be scaled down in size and would include stronger ties to the attacks on the World Trade Center under a new plan...
LIL' LIAR GETS A YEAR - JUDGE CITES MARTHA IN GOING EASY
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amRacy rapper Lil' Kim will soon be wearing prison stripes after a federal judge sentenced her to a year and a day behind bars for perjury - and compared her...
2 COPS WOUNDED - HARLEM SHOOTOUT ENDS IN GUNMAN'S PLUNGE
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amA highly decorated police sergeant and his partner were wounded yesterday in a wild, running shootout with a gunman who later plunged 14 stories from a Harlem apartment window, authorities...
TEEN KILLS SELF OVER CAMP SPAT
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amA 14-year-old boy set fire to his family's Bronx home and then shot himself to death yesterday after fighting with his father - because he didn't want to go back...
JUMP BALL IN B'KLYN - NEW BID VS. RATNER
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amGame on! A deep-pocketed real-estate giant rose up yesterday to take on Bruce Ratner for the Atlantic Avenue rail yards and his dream of building a $3.5 billion NBA arena...
BUSH'S VICIOUS CYCLE - EASY-RIDER PREZ TAKES BIKE SPILL AT G-8 GABFEST
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amPresident Bush took a tumble off his bike and got scratched up yesterday when he collided with a Scottish policeman doing security patrol at the G-8 summit of world leaders...
MARIAH'S SISTER IN HOOKER ARREST
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amMariah Carey's troubled, HIV-positive sister has been arrested for prostitution - for a second time. Suffolk County police said they picked up Alison Carey, 43, after she solicited an undercover...
CHAT SHOW DID IN 'MOB COP'
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amDisgraced former NYPD Detective Louis Eppolito was ID'd by the mother of an alleged victim - after she spotted the reputed "mob cop" hawking his book on daytime TV, according...
FIELDS OF SCREAMS - MAN FUMES THAT HE'S IN FLIER'S PHONY PHOTO
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amOne of the people shown in a doctored photograph created by Virginia Fields' campaign yesterday expressed outrage that he is being used in the flier. "I was shocked," David Givens,...
L.I. SEAL HERO - KILLED IN AFGHAN AMBUSH
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amA Long Island man who achieved his childhood dream of becoming a Navy SEAL was among a group of Special Forces killed in a firefight late last month in Afghanistan,...
WAR ON JACKO 'PRIVATES' PIX
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Prosecutors want to keep pictures of Michael Jackson's penis, claiming he has no legal rights to the photos, according to court documents released yesterday. Jackson's legal team...
BX. FISHERMAN FINDS BODY PARTS
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amA Bronx fisherman last night found a woman's head, arms and legs stuffed in a box on an East River bank - leading cops to interrogate a man about the...
B'KLYN FIRE CLAIMS SECOND KID
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn fire that killed a 3-year-old boy early Saturday has claimed another victim - his 12-year-old sister, police said yesterday. Trina Dennis died of cardiac arrest Tuesday at Brookdale...
NEW BEAU KILLS LOVER'S EX
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amA jealous man was fatally stabbed by his ex-girlfriend's new beau inside the woman's Queens apartment last night, police said. The victim, whose name was not released by police, showed...
DESPERATE DEMS DIG DIRT ON 'FLIP-FLOP' MIKE
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amWITH Democrats struggling to dent Mayor Bloomberg's growing lead, two candidates plan to unleash a new charge against the Teflon incumbent - flip-flopping. Gifford Miller and Anthony Weiner, trailing in...
FEDS SUE 'MOB' UNION
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe feds filed a racketeering suit against the longshoremen's union yesterday, bidding to seize control of the New York and New Jersey waterfront from mob families that have held sway...
2 COPS WOUNDED - THUG INCREDIBLY SURVIVES 14-STORY PLUNGE
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amA highly decorated police sergeant and his partner were wounded yesterday in a wild, running shootout with a 21-year-old ex-con - who later plunged 14 stories from a Harlem apartment...
DEM DUO DIGS AROUND TO DENT 'FLIP FLOPPER' MIKE
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amWITH Democrats struggling to dent Mayor Bloomberg's growing lead, two candidates plan to unleash a new charge against the Teflon incumbent - flipflopping. Gifford Miller and Anthony Weiner, trailing in...
FEDS SUE 'MOBBED-UP' WATERFRONT UNION
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe feds filed a sweeping civil racketeering suit against the longshoremen's union yesterday, in an effort to take control of the New York and New Jersey waterfront from mob families...
KATIE 'GOWN' WILD - HER 'BRIDE OF TOM' LOOK
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amHey, Tom Cruise, can you take a hint? Actress Katie Holmes appears more than ready to walk down the aisle right now, donning a Commes des Garcons wedding dress in...
S.I. YANKS BLOW PAST CYCLONES, INTO FIRST PLACE
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amFeel free to call it a rivalry now. The Brooklyn Cyclones have won the McNamara Division the past three out of four years and lifted the New York-Penn League championship...
NETS GIVE SHAREEF FULL 'COURT' PRESS
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe Nets' courtship of Shareef Abdur-Rahim entered its second phase yesterday as the 6-foot-9 forward and his wife, Dee, began a two-day tour of the area, then dined with team...
LANCE'S WAKE-UP CALL SCHOOLBOY STAR WARY OF 'EARLY' NBA PITFALLS
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amLance Thomas, like most other players at the Reebok ABCD Camp at Fairleigh Dickinson, has hopes of playing in the NBA in the not too distant future. So he watched...
LEE MAKING FAST IMPACT
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amKNICK NOTEBOOK LAS VEGAS - As the third of the Knicks' three first-round draft picks, Florida power forward David Lee has been mostly overshadowed in his first week as a...
LIBS BRACE FOR SUN
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amDespite the worst intentions of the league office, the Liberty are poised to make a move in the second half of the season. Not so fresh off a 67-55 win...
MOOKIE ROLLS BASEPATH DICE
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amGet picked off, get a pat on the back. Believe it or not, that's the Brooklyn Cyclones' mantra this season. They aim to walk off the field, head down, in...
METS IN MARKET - MINAYA: 'WE'RE BUYERS' AS TRADE DEADLINE NEARS
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - On July 6 at least, the Mets saw themselves as trade-deadline buyers. "If you ask me today, today we're buyers," GM Omar Minaya said before last night's game...
REYES BACK IN TOP SPOT
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES WASHINGTON - After two games with the same lineup, the Mets changed it again last night. For two days, the Mets went with a configuration which had Mike...
PIAZZA SITS OUT AT START
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Even though the Mets' offense was struggling, Willie Randolph did not start Mike Piazza last night against the Nationals. Randolph said the recent weather had something to do...
LANCE'S WAKE-UP CALL - SCHOOLBOY STAR WARY OF 'EARLY' NBA PITFALLS
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amLance Thomas, like most other players at the Reebok ABCD Camp at Fairleigh Dickinson, has hopes of playing in the NBA in the not too distant future. So he watched...
MINAYA: METS ARE BUYERS
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - On July 6 at least, the Mets see themselves as trade deadline buyers. "If you ask me today, today we're buyers," GM Omar Minaya said before last night's...
JUST IN TOM FOR METS' BULLPEN - HEILMAN COMES TO RESCUE VS. NATIONALS
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amMets 5 - Nationals 3 WASHINGTON - With the Nationals' best hitter coming to the plate with two outs and the bases loaded last night, Willie Randolph called on Aaron...
JETER, MATSUI STAR SNUBBED IN FINAL VOTE
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Snubbed by the fans twice and the players once in the voting process, Derek Jeter has one more avenue to make the AL All-Star team: as a replacement....
ISIAH: STEPH'S NOT ON BLEEPIN' BLOCK!
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - Stephon Marbury is NOT on the trading block. Knick President Isiah Thomas went on a profanity-laced tirade here last night, denying recent reports that Marbury is available...
PIAZZA TAKES A SEAT
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES WASHINGTON - Even though the Met offense had been struggling, manager Willie Randolph gave Mike Piazza last night off. Randolph rationalized that the recent weather had something to...
MIXED REVIEW FOR FRYE DEBUT
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amKNICK NOTEBOOK LAS VEGAS - In his Knick debut last night, top pick Channing Frye looked fine on the offensive end, showed his quickness on the low post and his...
BRONX BATTLERS - AL BLEW ITS CHANCE TO BURY THE BOMBERS
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amTHEY are more flawed, more vulnerable, less complete and less talented than they have been since the days that the manipulative Buck Showalter made out the lineup card in The...
BLAST FROM PAST - YANKEES HOPE GIAMBI'S SURGE ISN'T A MIRAGE
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe same Yankee Stadium voices that viciously booed Jason Giambi across most of his disjointed Yankee career will greet Giambi with an ovation prior to his first at-bat tonight against...
HAIL TO THE CHIEF
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amSINCE it all came back to me with Monday's news of Hank Stram's passing, I have been largely smiling. This is the way to leave the world, whether we were...
SEREY BACK ON TRACK
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amOCEANPORT, N.J. - Trainer Juan Serey, once the terror of the claiming game in New York and New Jersey racing, roared back to action yesterday when he saddled three horses...
NEW MR. MAY COULD FILL IN FOR PAVANO
July 7, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES If Carl Pavano can't take the ball Saturday or the Yankees decide to play it safe with his right shoulder, the likely candidate to start against the Indians...