August 23, 2005
THE NEW HAMPTONS - BROOKLYN SEASIDE: HOT SUMMER SPOT
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amIN an age of home-buying on the edge, the edgiest pioneers might be New Yorkers who are choosing summer retreats not in the Hamptons or upstate, but along Brooklyn's Brighton...
I-CAHN DO PHILOSOPHY
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amBILLIONAIRE Carl Icahn says the trouble with public companies like Time Warner Inc. is they aren't private. "Shareholders of public companies shouldn't micromanage," says Icahn, who is trying to shake...
QUIET EMMYS DRESS UP ADS
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amAfter drawing a near record-low audience last year, the organizers of the Emmy Awards are plotting a 20-minute commercial to be shown in-flight on United Airlines to help reverse a...
NORDSTROM GETS A HIP TRANSPLANT
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amNordstrom, the department store chain known more for its exceptional service than for cutting-edge fashion, has turned to a pioneer of downtown chic to help boost its offerings of designer...
NAKED TRUTH - POST EXPOSES OVERSTOCK ALLY
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amA self-employed West Coast businessman operating under the Web pseudonym "Bob O'Brien" in investing chat rooms is aligned with Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne in his campaign against short-sellers targeting his...
USING YOUR BRAIN TO FIND SOME ZZZZZ'S
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amNOT everyone wants to pop a pill when he or she can't fall asleep. If counting sheep and a warm glass of milk won't do it for you, you might...
SECOND HELPING - MARTHA DAUGHTER THE NEW CAROLYN
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Donald may have George and Carolyn, but Martha will be flanked by family. Martha Stewart's daughter, Alexis, and Charles Koppelman, chairman of the board of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia...
DAWG! TALK TO RANDY
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amRANDY Jackson, "American Idol" judge, is being groomed to host a morning show in 2006, according to reports. The once-rotund music biz whiz would team with Lauren Sanchez, host of...
JACK GETS WHACKED IN RATINGS
August 23, 2005 | 4:00am'Jack" is being roundly ignored by New York radio listeners after the station dropped its famous oldies format last June, according to Arbitron preliminary ratings. The unofficial monthly Arbitrends -...
BO BICE IN THE HOSPITAL
August 23, 2005 | 4:00am'AMERICAN Idol" rocker Bo Bice underwent emergency surgery Friday to fix a "kink" in his intestines, according to reports. Bice was rushed to a Las Vegas hospital on Thursday shortly...
STARR REPORT
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amBruce juiced to talk Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow is adding a talk show to his growing presence on Sirius Satellite Radio. Brucie kicks off his Saturday Sirius show this weekend...
FAMILIES IN NEED OF SWIFT 'KICK'
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amAS it launches headfirst and butt backwards into the world of phony-reality entertainment, ABC Family should think about changing its name to "ABC Dysfunctional Family." In the virtually unwatchable "Kicked...
HIGH TECH HAUTE COUTURE
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amIF Cinderella had worn a Plexiglass Shoe instead of a glass slipper, Prince Charming wouldn't have had to look for her. The shoes would have told him exactly where she...
MR. NICE GUY - HE BUYS YOU FLOWERS, WRITES YOU POETRYAND WON'T EVER GET ANY. HE'S THE BAXTER.; 'HE'S SO NICE, BUT ...'
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amLOOK around any New York restaurant, and you can spot one: He's the straight-laced, nice-guy type with the slightly bored-looking date. In movies, he's the odd man out: Think Ben...
NANTUCKET ON A BUDGET - A YOUTH HOSTEL ON ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST EXCLUSIVE ISLANDS? BELIEVE IT. SUSANNAH CAHALAN REVEALS THE SECRETS TO AN AFFORDABLE END-OF-SEASON FLING
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amIF you think Nantucket is filled with Lilly Pulitzer-clad trophy wives and their corporate hotshot husbands - whose megamansions and 100-foot yachts make a Trump condo look like a hovel...
BUY ME! - IS IT A BOUTIQUE OR A HOTEL? THESE DAYS, WHO CAN SAY. MARK ELLWOOD REPORTS
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amAGATA Podedworny, a 30-year-old Brooklyn, attorney has an odd souvenir from her last vacation:: a showerhead from the Westin hotel where she stayed. "I live in a 200-yearold brownstone, where...
THE REAL IRAQ NEWS - ARMY RE-ENLISTMENT BOOMING
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amWHAT was the big "Iraq" story in August? Which vital issue got the most air-time and ink? The camp-out of a sad, tormented woman who had lost her son, her...
MAD. AVE. ICE-CREAM MAN SHOT
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amThe owner of a Manhattan Tasti-D-Lite ice-cream store was fighting for his life early today after he was shot - as his horrified wife listened in by telephone. The 52-year-old...
GAZA GHOST TOWNS - FORMER JEWISH SETTLEMENTS STRIPPED BARE
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip has transformed settlements into ghost towns. Morag, on its southern tip, had more than 200 residents, many of whom barricaded themselves in...
U.N.-TOUCHABLE: LUCKY SEVAN MAY BE HOME FREE
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The lawyer for the disgraced former head of the U.N. oil-for-food program hinted yesterday his client may have left the United States. for good - deepening suspicion among...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amJames Lubeck had long forgotten about his wallet falling into Marblehead Harbor in Massachusetts as he secured his sailboat during a storm in 1966. That is, until this month, when...
GOTBAUM TROTS OUT BIG GUNS
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amPublic Advocate Betsy Gotbaum kicked off her re-election campaign at City Hall yesterday with a boisterous show of support from a crowd that included a Who's Who of city politics....
MIKE HAILS POST WINNER
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg and Post General Manager Geoff Booth yesterday awarded 10-year-old Elizabeth Budhai of Queens a family vacation to Puerto Rico for submitting the winning essay in The Post's Classroom...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * This man (above) was photographed by security cameras at a Union Square bank stealing nearly $10,000 yesterday, cops said. He entered the Independence branch at 251 Park Avenue...
COMPTROLLER SCOLDS MTA ON $URPLUS PLANS
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amCity Comptroller William Thompson raised concerns yesterday about an MTA plan to use more than half of its $833 million surplus to build a huge platform over the West Side...
TRANSFER BIDS SOAR AT FAILING SCHOOLS
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amDespite record gains in reading and math scores, the number of city students who demanded a transfer from their failing school more than doubled this year to 11,011, officials said...
GRAFFITI FEST JUDGE: GO WRITE AHEAD
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amLet the party begin! Mayor Bloomberg's legal attempt to quash a Chelsea block party - claiming an artist's plan to paint graffiti on 10 mock subway cars would encourage copycats...
POWER HUDDLE TODAY ON NEW JETS STADIUM
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amThe New York Jets and Queens Borough President Helen Marshall will meet today to map out a game plan for building the team a new stadium in Flushing Meadows Park....
VICTIM NOW A VICTOR - ABUSED GAL'S FIGHT TITLE
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amA Long Island mom, who took up fighting after fleeing her abusive husband, has just been crowned martial-arts champion of the world. "I feel confident no one's going to beat...
REV. AL HAILS 'ANTI-LABOR' WAL-MART
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton is honoring Wal-Mart, the low-cost superstore chain that unions and local pols have kept from gaining a foothold in the city, for its outreach to minorities,...
L.I. MAN IS SLAIN IN HIS DOORWAY
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amCops on Long Island were searching last night for two thugs who gunned down an innocent man just inside his own doorway - shocking his neighbors and relatives, including his...
3 N.Y. WED GUESTS KILLED IN FLA. CRASH
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amThree members of a wedding party - including the best man - were killed and four others injured when their SUV was slammed by a tractor-trailer on a Florida highway...
ANTHONY: THROW GREEN'S BOOK AT FREDDY
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amA scathing 114-page report on Democratic mayoral front-runner Fernando Ferrer prepared by Mark Green's campaign four years ago is fair game for use in the current race, challenger Anthony Weiner...
TAX OPPONENTS DEAL WEINER A 'LOW' BLOW
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Rep. Anthony Weiner is now touting himself as a tax-cutter and waste-slasher in his Democratic mayoral bid - but three anti-tax groups flunk him for his record in...
SONG FOR DADDY - 9/11 GIRL TO PERFORM AT W'CHESTER TRIBUTE
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amAn Illinois girl who wrote a touching tribute to the father she lost in the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, will perform the song at a ceremony marking the...
DIVORCE IS PITT-IFUL - COURT GRANTS JENNIFER-BRAD SPLIT
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amIt's official - Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's divorce is as real as the sexy pout on Angelina Jolie's lips. A Los Angeles court has signed off on the split...
FINISHING WAR IS A TRIBUTE TO FALLEN: W.
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday said America must finish the war in Iraq to honor the troops who have died there - and to keep this country safe - as...
IR-REV-ERENT MOMMY GETS KID VISITS
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amThe alleged temptress of St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday was denied temporary custody of her kids in her ongoing divorce battle with her estranged husband. Instead, heavenly hottie Laura DeFilippo, 46,...
LAURA LOOKS AS SMOKING AS CHURCH INCENSE
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amHER jaw angrily working a wad of gum, the sexiest church secretary since Jessica Hahn marched into court yesterday hiding behind sunglasses and sky-high spike heels. She looked ready to...
CAMERA PLAN ON 'TRACK' - $300M SUBWAY 'EYES'
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amDefense giant Lockheed Martin is expected to get a huge contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to provide New York subways with an extensive network of surveillance cameras to...
COPS: EMS WAS LATE TO CRASH
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amNewark police admitted yesterday that it took 15 minutes for EMTs to reach the scene of a car crash early Sunday morning that killed three people. All three victims -...
GOV DEMANDS FEDERAL PROBE TO FIND PHONE SNOOPER WHO CROSSED 'LINE'
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - An angry Gov. Pataki yesterday called for a federal investigation into who recorded and leaked the explosive secret tapes of private telephone conversations involving him, his wife, Libby,...
TRAGIC DISNEY FAMILY - 4 FROM N.J. DIE IN DWI
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amA drunken driver speeding the wrong way on a California highway all but wiped out a vacationing New Jersey family who had gone to Disneyland - claiming the lives of...
SLIWA RELIVES ORDEAL - TELLS GOTTI JURORS OF ESCAPE FROM 'NIGHTMARE' CAB SHOOT
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amRadio host Curtis Sliwa gave jurors a dramatic account of how he was allegedly kidnapped at the hands of the Gambinos and shot several times in a stolen cab -...
COPS EYE BABY-SHAKE NANNY LEADS
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amThe Manhattan DA's Office yesterday was investigating leads from six callers in connection with a nanny who confessed she brutally shook an infant girl, causing the child to suffer brain...
JEANINE MIA FROM CAMPAIGN TRAIL
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Jeanine Pirro, the feisty Westchester DA who wants to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, has been virtually out of sight since her rocky first week in the race....
1,000 SUBWAY CAMS - $300M PLAN ON TRACK
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amDefense giant Lockheed Martin is expected to get a huge contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to provide the subways with an extensive network of surveillance cameras to help...
CRASH KILLS 3 WED GUESTS
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amThree members of a wedding party - including the best man - were killed and four others injured when their SUV was slammed by a tractor-trailer on a Florida highway...
TRAGIC VACATION - CALIF. CRASH KILLS 4 FROM N.J. FAMILY
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amA drunken driver speeding the wrong way on a California highway all but wiped out a vacationing New Jersey family who had gone to Disneyland - claiming the lives of...
'ATTA' TALE BOOSTED
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A respected Naval intelligence officer stepped forward last night to confirm that a secret Pentagon program raised alarm bells about the 9/11 ringleader more than a year before...
MIKE CHIDES FERRER OVER FAKE ESSAY
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amDemocratic mayoral front-runner Fernando Ferrer's campaign "embarrassed" its candidate by sending out an e-mail mocking Mayor Bloomberg for attending an essay-awards ceremony, the mayor's campaign said yesterday. Purporting to be...
OLIVIA'S BEAU MISSING IN FISHY L.A. PUZZLE
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The longtime lover of cutie-pie crooner Olivia Newton-John mysteriously vanished from a California fishing boat called "Freedom" seven weeks ago - and baffled officials now suspect everything...
SURVIVING SISTER WEEPS FOR BOAT VICTIM
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amA teen cried yesterday as she recalled holding her dying kid sister moments after an allegedly drunken boater ran down her family's craft. "While holding Brianna's broken body in my...
CITY 'WELQOMS' NEW TEACHERS
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amThousands of new teachers were welcomed into the city public-school system yesterday with a pamphlet promoting "high uality" professional development to "enrich the uality of instruction." And those weren't the...
JARET HELPS WRIGHT SHIP - YANKS WIN, GAIN TIE FOR WILD-CARD LEAD
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 7 - Blue Jays 0 Jaret Wright's return to Yankee Stadium was a long time coming. Perhaps naturally, he labored in the first inning. Wright, who walked off The...
TRACH IS BACK . . . BUT WHERE WILL METS USE HIM?
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHOENIX - Steve Trachsel will be activated from the disabled list today, but the Mets still need to decide when he'll pitch and how he'll be used. "Being...
INFECTION HITS GORDON HARD
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Tom Gordon recently went through a dead-arm period. Last night, he was sidelined with something far more painful. The Yankees' bullpen specialist was diagnosed with a urinary tract...
METS RING BELL AGAIN - REPLACES DEMOTED KOO
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHOENIX - Heath Bell is back. The Mets sent Dae-Sung Koo down to Triple-A Norfolk and recalled Bell from the Tides before last night's opener of a four-game...
FOR NOW, AL LOOKS ALL LEIT
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amAl Leiter broke into the majors as a Yankee, and in two tours of duty in The Bronx, he understands the pinstriped way. The team can say all it wants...
'CHANCE' PAYS OFF FOR FRAGOSO
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amNew York Racing Association's deferred prosecution agreement, due to be resolved today, has been extended to Sept. 13 because, according to letter from U.S. Attorney to federal judge, vacation schedules...
HAZELTON PREPS FOR STARDOM
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amVidal Hazelton spent most of the summer touring the best football colleges in the nation. Last week, the wide receiver who would have been a senior at Moore Catholic, left...
DEREK RESTS A BUM THUMB - JETER EXPECTED BACK IN LINEUP TONIGHT
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amDerek Jeter's pain threshold is as high as his desire to remain in the lineup. But the Yankee captain has been nursing a slightly jammed right thumb, so Joe Torre...
JETER GETS NIGHT OFF
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amDerek Jeter's pain threshold is as high as his desire to remain in the lineup. But the Yankee captain has been nursing a slightly jammed right thumb, so Joe Torre...
ESCALONA SILENCES THE JEERS
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amIt took Felix Escalona 17 months to get his first hit as a Yankee, the better part of two seasons from the time the minor-league journeyman signed last March to...
GLAV HIM A HAND - TOM TERRIFIC IN ROAD WIN
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amMets 4 - D'backs 1 PHOENIX - Six months from now, Tom Glavine will turn 40. But right now, there aren't any signs that the senior citizen of the Mets'...
GETTING WILD AT LAST
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amA FUNNY thing will happen this morning when the Yankees sleepily greet the day and snap open their morning newspapers. It might even surprise them, since their ears are still...
GLASS STILL HALF-FULL
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amA FUNNY thing happened yesterday morning, amid all the Randy-Johnson-driven panic, among the lingering residue of the Tampa tumult. One by one, as the Yankees greeted the day and snapped...
PETERSON WILL BE READY FOR SEASON OPENER
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - Will Peterson knows there was nothing illegal about the cut block by Carolina receiver Steve Smith that led to an injured left knee, but that doesn't...
MANNING THE SITUATION - ELI IS 'WEEK-TO-WEEK' WITH ELBOW INJURY
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - There are 19 days remaining until the Giants open their season against the Cardinals and the availability of Eli Manning is no longer certain. Although the secondyear quarterback...
ROAD WORRIERS - METS A MESS AWAY FROM SHEA
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amPHOENIX - The Mets' road woes started on Opening Day. They had that game in Cincinnati on April 4 all but won, taking a 6-4 lead into the ninth inning....
GORDON HIT HARD BY INFECTION
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Tom Gordon had recently gone through a dead-arm period. Last night, he was sidelined with something far more painful. Gordon was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection yesterday...
COUNTDOWN FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS? - ALL EYES ON DONNIE AS FRIDAY NEARS
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amJET NOTES Don't expect any animosity between Jets' defensive coordinator Donnie Henderson and Giants' head coach Tom Coughlin when their respective teams meet Friday night in their annual preseason showdown....
BALLER OF THE SUMMER: COREY "HOMICIDE" WILLIAMS
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amNYC has such a glow that sometimes it's hard to spot the stars. This summer, there was no such problem as the five borough's courts were full of them, making...
PLAN B, AS IN BACKUP, HARDLY SEEMS SETTLED
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - That breeze from the north you felt yesterday afternoon was a collective exhale from Giants training camp after learning Eli Manning had suffered a sprained throwing elbow that...
REED FILLS A NEED
August 23, 2005 | 4:00amWhen the Jets' 2004 season ended, so too did James Reed's undistinguished four-year career with the team. Or so it seemed. Reed, after all, had started two of 64 games...