August 11, 2005
TRUMP, PARTNERS TRADE CHARGES OVER $ALE
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amDonald Trump says his business partners in a West Side development project are trying to "blackmail" him into keeping his famed big mouth shut - and he's striking back by...
DON'T FALL FOR OIL/GAS HYPE
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amBLAME the media for gasoline hitting a record $2.37 a gallon this week and crude oil peaking at an unprecedented $65.01 yesterday. Why? Because instead of being a watchdog, the...
HOME COOKED BOOKS - DEPOT SCAM WIDENS
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amA Home Depot case of overcharging suppliers to cover the cost of damaged merchandise went beyond a single store and was common practice at other locations throughout the company, say...
FOUNDRY GOES TO REIT FOR $87.6M
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amA West Side rental building, the Foundry, was quietly sold to Archstone-Smith this week for about $87.6 million. The Foundry, at 505 W. 54th St., was developed and sold by...
NYSE GROUP WANTS MORE
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amIt appears that the only people remaining happy with the structure of the proposed New York Stock Exchange-Archipelago merger are Archipelago shareholders. The Exchange Member Association's board of directors sent...
NEWS CORP. PROFIT HIT $717M
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amNews Corp.'s profit jumped in the fourth quarter on strong subscriber growth at Sky Italia, and gains in advertising at both the Fox News Channel and the company's many newspapers....
GOLDMAN REVIVES D'TOWN PLAN
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amThe plan for Goldman Sachs to build a new, two million-square-foot headquarters in lower Manhattan has returned from the dead. Sources told The Post the Wall Street giant is close...
MARK SET TO GO - ABC SPORTS WHIZ SHAPIRO MAY LEAVE FOR SIX FLAGS
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amIn a move that would have a huge impact on the television industry, ABC Sports/ESPN big Mark Shapiro may leave the networks to work for Daniel Snyder, according to network...
MARTHA'S BACK ON CIRCUIT
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amMartha Stewart the felon is back on the speaking circuit - sharing the keynote dais with the possible next U.S. president, Sen. John McCain, and other heavyweights at a global...
NEWS CORP. Q4 PROFIT HIT $717M
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amNews Corp.'s profit jumped in the fourth quarter on strong subscriber growth at Sky Italia, and gains in advertising at both the Fox News Channel and the company's many newspapers....
MARTHA'S SET FOR HER SECOND ACT
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amMartha Stewart the felon is more in demand than ever - she's booked to share the keynote dais with the possible next U.S. president, Sen. John McCain, at global media...
GWEN & WEAR IT - THREE SHEERS FOR STEFANI STYLE; THE ZEN OF GWEN
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amGWEN Stefani's been a singer, a cheerleader, Jean Harlow, a ska-punk girl, a blonde, a brunette and a pink. But her style is always about fusing inspirations into something original...
STARR REPORT
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amTotal Tyra on 5, 9 Telepictures is ramping up for the launch of "The Tyra Banks Show" by airing a 30-minute "Special Preview" on the show, which launches Sept. 12...
HIS FINAL DAYS - HE THOUGHT HE'D BEAT IT: JENNINGS' EX
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amCANCER-stricken Peter Jennings fought for his life until the end. "He fought like a tiger, the way he fought for every story," his ex-wife, Kati Marton, said yesterday. "I don't...
COHN BAILS ON 'GMA'
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amMARC Cohn, the husband of ABC News anchor Elizabeth Vargas shot in an attempted carjacking last Sunday, won't be on this morning's "Good Morning America" after all. "GMA" promoted Cohn's...
CARMEN MIRANDA'S RIPE FOR FILM FORUM FUN
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amFILM Forum is celebrating next week's 60th anniversary of V- J Day with two of the campiest movies released during World War II - or perhaps ever. Both of these...
BROTHERLY LOVE - HOCKEY HELPS 'FOUR' BREAK ICE
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amINSTEAD of an adventurous weekend of extreme sports, all it took for the cast of John Singleton's latest film, "Four Brothers," to start behaving like actual brothers was a rousing...
LOSERS BACK ON THE ISLAND
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amTHE new cast of the 11th edition of the reality show "Survivor" will include several castways who were thrown off last time, according to reports. Popular castaways Stephenie LaGrossa and...
SIMON SEZ: IT'S MY 'MILLION DOLLAR IDEA'
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amSIMON Cowell and ABC are being accused of stealing the idea for the upcoming reality show, "Million Dollar Idea." Producers Jean Golden and Todd Walker, who launched a syndicated show...
'WING' PLANS TO GO LIVE
August 11, 2005 | 4:00am'THE West Wing" is planning a rare, live episode this fall that will feature a presidential debate between the show's two candidates, played by Jimmy Smits and Alan Alda. "We...
MORE HEADS ROLL IN RADIO LOAN SCANDAL
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amThe Bronx social-services organization that made a controversial loan to the Air America radio network has been rocked by more high-level staff departures, sources said. Just days after the executive...
BASEBALL 'SCAM' STRIKES OUT
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amBrooklyn police yesterday arrested the organizer of a kids' baseball league who disappeared with thousands of dollars he collected from East New York parents, cops said. Julian Santos, 34, had...
REV.'S SECRET 'LOVE' SHACK - ST. PAT'S BIG AND GAL PAL USED ALIASES SNEAKING INTO HAMPTONS HOTEL
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amSt. Patrick's Cathedral's top priest and his longtime leggy assistant turned a quaint Hamptons hideaway hotel into their personal love nest - keeping their tryst so hush-hush, they didn't even...
COURTNEY'S 'HIGH' JINKS
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Two judges ruled yesterday that Courtney Love fell off the wagon and violated probation, putting the oft-rehabbed rocker in danger of playing her next gig behind bars....
PLUNGE KID IS SAVED - HERO MAKES CATCH
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amNice catch! A Brooklyn hero made a midair catch of a 6-year-old girl falling from the roof of a three-story building yesterday, police said. Amazingly, the little girl wasn't badly...
PLUNGE KID IS SAVED - HERO GRABS TEETER TOT
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amA terrified 6-year-old girl, teetering precariously two stories above the ground on the railing of an outdoor staircase, was rescued yesterday by a passer-by who got to her just in...
'SORRY' KILLER TAKES PLEA - COLDLY ADMITS HE KILLED WIFE AS THEIR 3 KIDS SLEPT
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amThe suntanned Long Island beach bum who plunged a knife into his wife's chest more than a dozen times - then left her body in a pool of blood to...
MOM FINDS GIRL DEAD IN S.I. HOME
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amA mother discovered the nude body of her 18-year-old daughter under a mattress in their Staten Island home yesterday, police said. Aliza Parsy's hair was still wet, and a pillowcase...
IT'S MU$IC TO CBGB'S EARS
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amMusic mecca CBGB's owner hopes a judge's ruling yesterday that it doesn't owe any back rent and should be "recognized as a landmark" will get the club a new lease...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amA 4-year-old New Hampshire girl threw her rubber ball out the window of her parents' car - and got slapped with a $288 fine for littering. "This is the most...
500G CAN SPRING 'FAT NICK'
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amNicholas "Fat Nick" Minucci moved one step closer to freedom yesterday, after a judge set bail in his racial bat-beating case at $500,000. "We're thrilled," said Minucci's mother, Maria. "My...
SUBWAY 6 APPEAL - RANKED BEST AS STUDY FLUNKS NOW-&-THEN 'N'
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amFor the second straight year, the No. 6 is New York's top subway ride and the N line is the pits, according to report issued yesterday by the NYPIRG Straphangers...
'LINE'-JUDGE COMMUTERS AGREE ON SUBPAR SERVICE
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amN-train riders say it's no surprise that the line finished last for a second straight year in an annual report that ranks subway lines. "It's always filthy, never on time,...
PLAYING FOR A HERO - POLICE-FIRE RUGBY MATCH TO BENEFIT ENGELDRUMS
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amSEARED into his face, legs and eyes was that moment at 10:15 a.m. in northwest Baghdad, Nov. 29, last year. "We were going 60 mph on Route Rams in the...
HOR$E THIEF HAS SEEN BETTOR DAYS
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amA federal fugitive accused of stealing $175,000 by using stolen credit card numbers to funnel cash through horse-racing betting accounts was sentenced to 1 1/3 to 4 years in prison...
GOP HITS ROBERTS AD 'LIE'
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republicans are demanding CNN stop airing a TV attack ad blasting Supreme Court nominee John Roberts as a supporter of anti-abortion violence after independent analysts flatly said the...
QAEDA BOUND FOR GAZA: BIBI - BLASTS PULLOUT AS 'EVIL'
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday bitterly denounced his government's "evil" plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip next week, saying it will create a terrorist base...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Two people were hit by stray bullets yesterday after a gunman opened fire on a group playing basketball in East Flatbush, trying to hit a man with whom...
N.Y. TO GET $16.6B AS BUSH INKS TRANSIT BILL
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday signed into law a massive transportation-spending plan that pumps $16.6 billion into New York's transit systems and $442 million more into special city construction projects....
D.A. HAS PAUSE FOR CONCERN
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amDESPITE the hair, the nails, the makeup, the bazillion-dollar dark-blue suit and shoes Imelda Marcos would die and kill for, it wasn't Perfect Pirro's most perfect moment. Or even minute....
MIKE'S A LAB RETRIEVER - $700M BIOTECH CENTER
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration scored a biotech breakthrough yesterday, announcing that a private developer will spend $700 million to build an 872,000-square-foot bioscience center on the Bellevue Hospital campus. The announcement...
SPY SNAFU 'HORRIFIES' 9/11 KIN
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sept. 11 families are "horrified" at new revelations that elite military spies didn't tell the FBI they had found hijackers Mohamed Atta and three others setting up a...
JETS SAY A SHEA 'MAYBE'
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amAfter a 20-year layover in Jersey, the New York Jets are considering a return flight to Queens. Throughout the ill-fated campaign to build a West Side stadium, the team insisted...
GREASE AND DESIST: CITY - EATERIES TOLD TO UPGRADE OILS
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amFrench fries, chicken nuggets, pizza, cakes, cookies and many other beloved foods may never taste the same again if the city has its way. The city Health Department yesterday urged...
BRAVEST'S SON RAPED WOMAN, 73: COPS
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amIn custody yesterday. The son of a city firefighter knocked down an elderly woman as she did her morning tai-chi in a Queens park yesterday morning, dragged her into bushes...
NEW POLL GIVES A PIRRO'S WELCOME - HILL IN 14-POINT STUMBLE AS JEANINE JOINS THE RACE
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - An overnight poll found big movement away from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton just as Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro officially jumped into the race yesterday. The Marist College...
SULTAN OF SOT - SLOSHED SWAN-DIVING FAN IS VILLAGE IDIOT
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amThe dopey teen who leaped from the upper deck of Yankee Stadium in a pathetic bid to make the ESPN highlight reel is the "local knucklehead" in his hometown -...
LOVE'S 'HIGH' JINKS - BREAKS PROBATION
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Two judges ruled yesterday that Courtney Love fell off the wagon and violated probation, putting the oft-rehabbed rocker in danger of playing her next gig behind bars....
BLOOMBERG'S DOMINICAN-DO
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg stepped up his effort to woo Dominican voters yesterday by opening a campaign office in Inwood and rolling out a converted school bus to visit neighborhoods around the...
MIKE'S MAGIC BUS - ON A ROLL AS HE BIDS TO WOO DOMINICANS
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg stepped up his effort to woo Dominican voters yesterday by opening a campaign office in Inwood and by rolling out a converted school bus to visit neighborhoods around...
CANARY TURNS CLUELESS AS HE SINGS AT GOTTI TRIAL
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amIf John "Junior" Gotti hung up his gangster hat as he claims, it's news to mob turncoat Frank "Frankie Fapp" Fappiano - but then so is a lot of well-known...
TEEN HOOKER OD'S - TRAGIC SCHOOLGIRL LEFT FOR DEAD AFTER 1ST TRICK: COPS
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amA sweet-faced New Jersey schoolgirl, described as a "gifted student," was found dead in her underwear by the side of a road - and authorities believe she died of a...
CBGB GETS STAY OF EXECUTION
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amThe owner of CBGB hopes a judge's ruling yesterday that it doesn't owe back rent and should be "recognized as a landmark" will get the club a new lease on...
AMAZIN' 1-2 PUNCH - WRIGHT (6 RBIS) & BENSON POWER METS
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amMets 9 - Padres 1 SAN DIEGO - David Wright had the best game of his career last night. Kris Benson was pretty spectacular, too. Combined, their marvelous efforts helped...
MONTY'S MAJOR GOAL - COLIN'S COMEBACK MAKES HIM CONTENDER
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amColin Montgomerie has weathered past abuse of these rude colonials and come back for more. Coming back in his career, too, he figures to be one of the fans' favorites...
TIGER LOOKS LIKE HE'LL SLAM FIELD - WOODS AT TOP OF GAME GUNNING FOR 3RD MAJOR
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amNever mind the what if. So what if this week's PGA Championship at Baltusrol is a mere two U.S. Open putts by Tiger Woods away from playing host to the...
TAKING SWING AT HISTORY
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amWHAT makes these major golf tournaments so appealing, so enticing, is that History lurks behind every dogleg now. It hides in every pot bunker. It stakes out every double-breaking putt,...
WOW! - WRIGHT'S CATCH AN AMAZIN' EYE-POPPER
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - The story of Tuesday night's game was Pedro Martinez' terrible outing. The play of the game was David Wright's. In the seventh inning of the Mets' 8-3...
VIJAY WON'T BEG FOR LOVE
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amLove me the way I am or don't bother to love me at all. This was the essence of a refreshingly frank rant that Vijay Singh delivered with conviction yesterday...
YANKS ONE RUN CHI AGAIN - OFFENSE ANEMIC AGAIN AS BOMBERS FALL 5 BACK
August 11, 2005 | 4:00am10 INNINGS: White Sox 2 - Yankees 1 Not wanting to be a distraction to his team Joe Torre says he will address anything George Steinbrenner has to say when...
STREAKY FLOYD'S NOW HOT
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - Cliff Floyd's streak of hot and cold months this season looks as if it's continuing. Entering last night, Floyd was having a strong August, hitting...
BOUT COULD PUNCH UP HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amIt's clear the sad heavyweight division needs a boost. Who knew that shot in the arm would come from a non-title fight, a crossroads bout between an untested knockout artist...
'ESTRANGER' IN PARADISE - O'HAIR KEEPS FOCUS DESPITE FEUD WITH DAD
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amThey don't speak, haven't for a year and a half, and they certainly don't play father-and-son outings. Instead, Sean O'Hair, the Son, is teeing it up today at Baltusrol in...
BOO BIRD - PALMEIRO SILENT AS RETURN NEARS
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - For a guy who has another side of the story to tell, Rafael Palmeiro sure is staying quiet. The disgraced Orioles slugger returns from his 10-day steroids suspension...
AMAZING AARON REDUCED TO SMALL ROLE
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amIF, after only eight runs and 22 hits over 27 innings, the pitching-desperate Yankees aren't quite convinced Aaron Small is for real, we suggest they pitch him next week in...
SECOND STRAIT - JET CB EXPECTS STRONG FOLLOW TO ROOKIE SEASON
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amThe Jets nickel back prefers to play it Strait. No trash talking at receivers. No chippy shots. No yakking at players on the opposing sideline. But Derrick Strait doesn't mind...
BECKY: WE KNOW WHAT WE HAVE TO DO
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amBecky Hammon is confident that the Liberty will be able to hold on to the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference of the WNBA, but she is still bothered...
SECOND STRAIT - JET DB EXPECTS STRONG FOLLOW TO ROOKIE SEASON
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amThe Jets nickel back prefers to play it Strait. No trash talking at receivers. No chippy shots. No yakking at players on the opposing sideline. But Derrick Strait doesn't mind...
CYCLONE SS PLAYS WITH HEAVY HEART
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amFour years ago, Cyclone shortstop Jonathan Malo sighed in relief. Finally, he thought, it was over. His mother, Linda, had just undergone surgery to clean out cancer cells that ravaged...
RELENTLESS BECKY 'SPARKS' LIB WIN
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amLiberty 74 - Sparks 69 This was a game the Liberty have lost too many times this year. A late-game lull or a lack of focus down the stretch in...
NEW KILLER B'S GET METS BUZZIN'
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - Their world is up and down. One day good, another day bad. If the Mets are to ever get the consistency needed to make a run at...
BELTRAN GETS STEAL OF PLATE
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - For the first time in more than three years, a Met stole home last night. In the first inning of the Mets' 9-1 win over...
FEW AND FAR BETWEEN - CLOSING PAR 5S CHALLENGE BEST
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amTHEY are the only par 5s on a course where length is a sadistic word and hard-earned birdies will feel like eagles. After enduring some of the most grueling par...
RICH HISTORY PAR FOR COURSE - PAST MEETS PRESENT AT HISTORIC BALTUSROL
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amAhh! Baltusrol. It's a big, bad pastoral wonderland which happens to be the fiercest battleground in American golf history. No club has such a rich, colorful history as Baltusrol, which...
GIANT DEFENSE 'PICKS' UP PACE
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - After stressing all summer the need to create more turnovers, the Giants yesterday morning on defense finally showed some ball-hawking prowess, intercepting three passes, including two...
RANGERS EYE PACT AU GRATTON
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amChris Gratton, the center who became a free agent when the Avalanche declined to pick up his $1.9M option, turned 30 last month. In the unique perception of Glen Sather,...
NICKLAUS HAS LITTLE CONCERN
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amPGA NOTES Big Jack thinks the little guy is being knocked out of pro golf, and he doesn't like it. "Distance is of no issue anymore," Jack Nicklaus said yesterday,...
STEWARDS SHOW HORSE SENSE
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Today's feature, $65,000 De La Rose for fillies and mares at mile over inner turf, was split in two divisions. Bright Abundance, coming off hard-fought score at...
HEFTY LEFTY FACES SLIM ODDS
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - It's been more than 20 months since mammoth quarterback Jared Lorenzen last played in a game, and despite his loquacious nature, he admits the excitement he's feeling about...
YANKS GOTTA GET THIS IDIOT
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amSAN DIEGO - If you looked closely in the stands behind home plate the last two nights at Petco Park you would have spotted super agent Scott Boras taking in...
PUZZLING PAVANO IS SHUT DOWN INDEFINITELY
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amIt looks as if Carl Pavano won't be shouldering his share of the load this season. The Yankees announced yesterday that their $40 million free-agent signee has been shut down...
PROCTOR TO START; UNIT TO WAIT
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Randy Johnson isn't starting tonight against the Rangers. That assignment goes to Scott Proctor for the first time in the big leagues. And don't expect Johnson to hurl...
YANKS ONE RUN CHI AGAIN - OFFENSE ANEMIC AS BOMBERS FALL 5 ½ BACK
August 11, 2005 | 4:00am10 INNINGS: White Sox 2 - Yankees 1 Not wanting to be a distraction to his team, Joe Torre says he will address anything George Steinbrenner has to say when...
CALM TORRE SIDESTEPS BOSS BLAST
August 11, 2005 | 4:00amJoe Torre is picking his battles, and he chose not to go toe-to-toe with George Steinbrenner over Tuesday night's 2-1 loss to the White Sox. But just wait until the...