August 24, 2005
TONY BUYS FROM TRUMP
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amDONALD Trump's buildings are attracting more than just plain folks. The latest celeb buyer is crooner Tony Bennett. He's been renting a pad at Trump Parc but now he has...
WARNER TO START A DIGITAL LABEL
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amWarner Music Group is launching a digital-only record label that will allow new artists to release songs individually rather than wait for a full album. Warner is tapping Jac Holzman,...
BRIT RECORD LABEL SANCTUARY NEAR COLLAPSE
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amSanctuary, the debt-laden U.K. music outfit that manages such artists as Beyoncé, is close to a complete meltdown. The company, which has held buyout talks with companies such as Warner...
FEDS TAKE ON KMART
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amTwo former high-ranking Kmart Corp. executives, including Charles Conaway, the onetime chief executive, misled investors about the company's financial health in the months preceding its bankruptcy, according to a lawsuit...
TIE-INS KEEP EVER-HOT STONES IN GREEN
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe Rolling Stones are making "A Bigger Bang" even bigger with some heavy plugging. The legendary rockers have inked a number of new sponsorships and promotional tie-ins to get maximum...
PEEK INTO NAKED SHORTS
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amSecurities regulators are in the middle of a sweep designed to ferret out brokerages breaking rules designed to eliminate "naked short selling," a practice critics claim is used to drive...
AMAZON SELLING 'THE O.C.' APPAREL
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amFor those who just can't get enough of "The O.C." the Warner Bros. show with the Southern California lifestyle, now there are halter tops and gaucho pants to go with...
WAL-MART VOGUES INTO MAG
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amVogue is mixing mass with class in its glossy pages. The magazine is running ads for huge discount retailer Wal-Mart alongside upscale designers such as Gucci, Oscar de la Renta...
OIL CRISIS (NO, NOT THAT OIL) - THE BATTLE OVER TRANS FATS IN N.Y. RESTAURANTS
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amHAVING saved the world from cigarettes, the city has set its sights on a new scourge - fat. The Health Department is asking eateries to voluntarily purge partially hydrogenated oils...
STONES BACK TO GARDEN
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amTHE Rolling Stones are taking the phrase "a rolling stone gathers no moss" to heart. After strong ticket sales for their September shows in New York and critical raves for...
JIM RYANLANDS AT 2 ; REUNITES WITH DAVE AND MARIO
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amJIM Ryan is joining Ch. 2's early morning newscast - where he'll be reunited with former "Good Day New York" colleagues Dave Price and Mario Bosquez. Ryan, who left "GDNY"...
'9/11' MINI SETS RECORD
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amNATIONAL Geographic Channel attracted record viewership for its two-part Sept. 11 special, "Inside 9/11," which aired Sunday and Monday night. Sunday's "Part One: War on America," averaged over 2.1 million...
HOW 'STUFF' MAY HAPPEN; THE PUBLIC IS THINKING OF STAGING IRAQ PLAY
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amA year and a half after generating great buzz and excitement in London media, political and theater circles, "Stuff Hap pens," David Hare's riveting docudrama about the war in Iraq,...
STARR REPORT
August 24, 2005 | 4:00am'Desperate' times "Extra" was at last night's "Desperate Housewives" party in L.A. hosted by Marcia Cross and Nicolette Sheridan, hoping to get the lowdown on Cross' upcoming wedding (she's engaged...
EPIC FIGHT OVER 'ROME': CAVEAT EMPEROR
August 24, 2005 | 4:00am"Rome" Sunday night at 9 on HBO (two stars) Call it "Doogie Howser A.D." OK, I know HBO's "Rome" takes place in 52 B.C. - not A.D. - but when...
EPIC FIGHT OVER 'ROME': MY ROMAN HOLIDAY
August 24, 2005 | 4:00am"Rome" Sunday night at 9 on HBO (three and a half stars) Since I am a fool for a good spectacle, it was with great trepidation that I watched HBO's...
ON THE SIDE - BLOOMIE'S IS BURKE'S NEW DEPARTMENT
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amDAVID Burke will be minus his partner, the lovely Donatella Arpaia, when he opens two new eateries in Bloomingdale's. Sources tell us that the talented executive chef/partner of davidburke&donatella will...
SPICE IS RIGHT, BUT CENTRAL NOT GRAND
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amHavana Central (one and a half stars) 151 W. 46th St. (between Sixth and Seventh avenues) (212) 398-7440 HAVANA Central, its publicity material says, "evokes Cuba's golden era" before Castro,...
LOVE FUELS MEN IN A TRAFFIC JAM
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amNeed a little quiet time with your boyfriend or husband? Steer him toward a Labor Day weekend traffic jam. Sixty-six percent of men would rather be stuck in traffic with...
FINEST COURAGE SAVES PAL'S LIFE
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amBullets were flying and Officer Erik Hansen's partner was lying out in the open, bleeding from gunshot wounds to his torso, head and leg. Hansen knew he was Lt. Patrick...
ROADSIDE STAB-SLAY HORROR ON LONG IS.
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amA woman's chilling screams ripped through a sleepy Long Island community early yesterday morning as she was being slashed to death, cops said. Suffolk County homicide detectives yesterday were searching...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amYou've heard of the Singing Nun. Now there's the Dirty Dancing Nun. Sister Johanne Vertommen of Belgium is in hot water for gyrating with a male missionary during Catholic World...
JOHN'S OWN GUARDIAN 'ANGEL'
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amANGEL GOTTI was seething after watching king rat "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo hit the "high C" on her brother John "Junior" Gotti. "That man Scars is a pimp, a pervert, a...
$WAG 'EM TO BAG 'EM; STARS GET 26G IN FREEBIES AT MTV AWARDS
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amConsider it Diddy-free shopping. The performers at this Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards - including Kanye West, Green Day, Shakira and Mariah Carey - will each receive a gift bag...
PROBE OF BLIND SHEIK LED TO ATTA
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A Pentagon secret intelligence team identified 9/11 plot leader Mohamed Atta through a probe of blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman - the mastermind of the first attempt to destroy...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BRONX *** Police yesterday were searching for a man who allegedly shot and killed a teenager on a Morrisania street. Cops said Kip Peterson (above), 19, drew a gun...
BITTER END FOR SETTLERS; EVICTIONS COMPLETE 2 WKS. EARLY
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli forces overwhelmed two militant West Bank settlements yesterday and completed the massive "disengagement" nearly two weeks ahead of schedule. President Bush hailed the historic pullout and said...
DEM RIVALS IN SCHOOL PUSH
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amThree weeks before the Democratic mayoral primary, C. Virginia Fields yesterday unveiled an ambitious education plan for city schools and Gifford Miller unveiled a new education ad. Fields' plan calls...
FORKLIFT KILLS L.I. BYSTANDER
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amA popular social worker was crushed to death by a forklift as it moved construction supplies outside a Long Island school. Lauren Ludwig, 53, was knocked down and killed at...
STATE OF NEW PORK
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amAre New Yorkers in good shape? Fat chance! The Trust for America's Health, a nonprofit agency that works for disease prevention, found an alarming 21.2 percent of adults in New...
'LUCKY TO BE ALIVE' HIKER SURVIVES 40-FT. CLIFF DROP
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amA New Jersey coed is "lucky to be alive" after she and her boyfriend walked off a 40-foot cliff while wandering in the dark through the Oregon wilderness. Emily Gannaway,...
MAKE ZOOM FOR CHIHUAHUAS
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amCalling all hot-dogging Chihuahuas - finally there's an athletic competition that's just your size. On Saturday, hundreds of the tiny dogs will compete in major cities across the country for...
POINT OF 'ORDER'; MORGY FOE USES SHOW TO BASH HIS LONG REIGN
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amNo one should serve as Manhattan DA for as long as Robert Morgenthau, Democratic rival Leslie Crocker Snyder declared in a new ad yesterday comparing his tenure with that of...
PALS MOURN SOLDIER DAD
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amFriends and family gathered in Manhattan yesterday to remember a soldier killed in Iraq as a dedicated young man who died too soon to really know his newborn daughter. José...
HEFTY 200G BAIL FOR FAT NICK'S 'BASH' PAL
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amA judge granted the second suspect in the alleged Howard Beach racial bat-beating a $200,000 cash bail yesterday - but his family left the courthouse in anger, doubtful that they...
SHOT MAN IS SITTIN' KITTY; DESSERT SELLER OWNS MIRACLE CAT
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amA miracle cat must have donated at least one of its nine lives to save the owner of a Manhattan Tasti-D-Lite from a cold-blooded robber's bullets. As Farshad Eshghi, 52,...
PLOT SICKENS AS WIDOW CLAIMS KIN STOLE GRAVE
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amA dying 86-year-old Bronx widow is suing her stepson - claiming he swindled her out of her cemetery plot. Adlin Cammack, of the Williamsbridge section, says she gave Errol Cammack...
GOV: I WANT JUSTICE OVER TAPE 'CRIME'
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday demanded "justice" in the case of secretly recorded and leaked tapes of administration phone conversations that have been published this week in The Post. "Someone...
W. RAPS CALL BY GI MOM - 'WOULD WEAKEN U.S.'
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday said anti-war mom Cindy Sheehan doesn't speak for many of the military families he's met and her call to quickly pull U.S. troops out of...
WOBBLY BLDG. WOES HALT PATH SERVICE
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amA sagging wall on a Hudson Street building forced PATH trains to halt at the beginning of the evening rush hour yesterday as the structure threatened to give way near...
I ROBBED 'MEAN' CELEBS - MAID'S BIZARRE DE NIRO GEM CONFESSION
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amIn a stunning police confession, the maid to the stars has admitted she stole diamonds and clothes from housekeeping clients Candice Bergen and Robert De Niro's wife - but only...
JETS STADIUM GETS A RAHS OUT OF POLS
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe Jets kicked off their drive for a Queens stadium yesterday alongside two dozen cheerleading legislators. "Queens is the heart and soul of the New York Jets," team president Jay...
NEW DOWNTOWN HQ GOOD AS GOLDMAN
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amGoldman Sachs clinched a long-awaited deal yesterday to build a new, $2 billion headquarters tower in Battery Park City, bringing sighs of relief from those who feared the Wall Street...
HOOPS KID DIES AFTER COLLAPSING ON COURT
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amA 13-year-old Brooklyn boy went into cardiac arrest on a basketball court and died yesterday as his horrified grandmother and playmates begged for help. "My son is the world to...
TOT PUNCHED TO DEATH
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amA month after the death of a 2-year-old Staten Island girl, her mother finally received the results of the autopsy yesterday - and learned that her baby had been beaten...
TURNCOAT LEAVES 'JUNIOR' IN TEARS - EX-BEST PAL RATS HIM OUT IN COURT
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amJohn "Junior" Gotti dissolved into tears as his former best friend - now a star government witness - testified how he attempted suicide at the mere thought of betraying their...
'BOGUS DUD' DAD, SON HELD
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe NYPD yesterday capped a two-month investigation into trademark counterfeiting by raiding a Queens warehouse, where cops arrested a father and son and seized a variety of fake designer goods...
POLICE, FDNY TENSIONS SIMMER OVER MAIL FIRE
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amA smoldering mailbox that triggered terror fears tested the cooperation of cops and firefighters - and came up short. Sources said the flap erupted yesterday when the FDNY got a...
BROADWAY SMASH - COP-DRAG DRIVER RAMS INTO CROWD
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amMayhem erupted in Midtown yesterday when a drug suspect fleeing in his SUV dragged a police officer down Broadway, then plowed the getaway vehicle into a lunchtime crowd, injuring six...
WOMAN DIES IN FORKLIFT HORROR
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amA popular social worker was crushed to death by a forklift as it moved construction supplies outside a Long Island school. Lauren Ludwig, 53, was knocked down and killed at...
JACKO-KID MOM $$ RAP
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson dodged conviction on kiddie-sex charges - but his accuser's mom may not be so lucky on a welfare-fraud rap. Janet Arvizo, 37, yesterday was charged...
GOTBAUM:I'VE GOT A STALKER
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amSomeone is stalking Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum. Gotbaum made the disclosure yesterday during a contentious televised debate with three Democratic opponents when one challenger, businessman Andrew Rasiej, pressed her on...
HOOPS KID COLLAPSES, DIES AT 13
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amA 13-year-old Brooklyn boy went into cardiac arrest on a basketball court and died yesterday as his horrified grandmother and playmates begged for help. "My son is the world to...
TUNNEL 'VISION' - LOCKHEED TO START IMMEDIATELY PUTTING 1,000 CAMS AND 3,000 MOTION SENSORS IN EVERY SUBWAY STATION
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amWithin three years, all New York subway stations will be wired with surveillance cameras. The MTA yesterday announced that defense giant Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $212 million contract...
OLIVIA GUY A ME$$; 'LOST' BEAU A DEADBEAT
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The missing beau of singer Olivia Newton-John was a deadbeat dad mired in bankruptcy and a nasty battle with his ex-wife, who dragged him into court as...
JUDGE 'KIDNAP' CAR - MILLS LENT AUTO TO REV. WHO TRIED TO GRAB BOY: COPS
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amDonna Mills, the Manhattan judge who beat a DWI rap after claiming the cops who busted her were racist, lent her car to a minister boyfriend - who used it...
TUNNEL 'VISION' - MTA UNVEILS $212M DEAL THAT WILL PUT HI-TECH CAMERAS IN EVERY SUBWAY STATION BY 2008
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amWithin three years, all New York subway stations will be wired with surveillance cameras. The MTA yesterday announced that defense giant Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $212 million contract...
JACKO-KID MOM IS CHARGED - HIT WITH RAP ON 'WELFARE FRAUD'
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson dodged jail after being acquitted of kiddie-sex charges - but his accuser's mom may not be so lucky on a welfare-fraud rap. Janet Arvizo, 37,...
MORE NEGATIVE MO-MENTUM - LATEST MISFIRE A REAL WORRY
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amEVERYONE understands that he is human. Everyone recognizes that he operates on a pinstriped credit card without an expiration date. But at the same time, everyone recognizes that when Mariano...
POUND-FOR-POUND, BLUES ARE TOUGHEST
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amBLUEFISH may have been replaced by the striped bass as the No. 1 game fish in our waters, but make no mistake they are still pound-for-pound the best fighters in...
BELLAMY ROAD SET FOR TRAVERS
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - George Steinbrenner's star 3-year-old colt Bellamy Road will run in Saturday's $1 million Travers Stakes, trainer Nick Zito finally confirmed yesterday, barring an unexpected defection of undefeated...
ELIAS RE-UPS WITH DEVILS
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe Devils have signed five-time leading scorer Patrik Elias, The Post has learned. But before Elias can play, the team faces $5 million in salary-cap cuts. Elias put aside negotiations...
NOT BAD, FOR STARTERS - ROTATION GOING IN RIGHT DIRECTION
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amIF Bill Clinton's campaign advisers said it once, they must have said it a thousand times: "It's the starting pitching, stupid." Or maybe that was Joe Torre. Yes, come to...
SHEFFIELD CONCERNED ABOUT DOC
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amGary Sheffield of course was worried when he heard about Dwight Gooden's latest run-in with the law, the most recent in a long list of substance-abuse woes. The Yankees right...
NO MORE ROAD KILL ; WILLIE, METS ANTICIPATE BOUNTIFUL TRIP
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amPHOENIX - This is the 10th road trip the Mets have been on this year. And manager Willie Randolph has a hunch it's not going to be like most of...
RODDICK: I FEEL OK
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amAndy Roddick found himself in a familiar spot last weekend when he lost in the finals of the Cincinnati Masters to the top-ranked player, Roger Federer. It was his 10th...
SHOCKEY: GIVE PEACE A CHANCE ; JEREMY WON'T FIGHT BACK IF JETS ATTACK
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - What happens if, on the first play Friday night, three of the Jets come charging at Jeremy Shockey, pushing, shoving, instigating, hoping to start a brawl with the...
PAT MAC: ANDRE AIN'T DONE YET
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amPatrick McEnroe doesn't believe Andre Agassi's game and health have slipped enough to warrant this being Agassi's last U.S. Open. "He's not the superstar he was, but there's still a...
AS EASY AS M-V-P - A-ROD MAKES HIS CASE BY LEADING YANKS
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amWhen Alex Rodriguez won American League MVP in 2003, many critics said he didn't deserve it. Despite his prolific numbers, A-Rod's last-place Texas team finished 25 games out of first...
JETS' PUNTING DUEL HARD TO IG-KNORR
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amHere's a tidbit of advice for anyone who happens to bump into Micah Knorr: Don't mention the name Ben Graham. Knorr, a six-year NFL veteran, is competing for the Jets'...
CABLEVISION GETS NHL FREEZE-OUT
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amAS of now, Cablevision customers will not be able to watch the Rangers' season opener against the Flyers on Oct. 5 because of the NHL's new agreement with the Outdoor...
SHOCKEY WON'T LET ELI DOWN
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - The sight of Eli Manning getting hit by Carolina defensive end Julius Peppers on the play that sprained Manning's right elbow Saturday was so unpleasant for...
CHAD NOT EXPECTING FIGHT NIGHT
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amJET NOTES Listening to the Jets speak about their upcoming preseason game against the Giants hardly leads you to believe it'll be Friday Night at the Fights. Jets players, all...
SHEFF WORRIED ABOUT DOC
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amGary Sheffield of course was worried when he heard about Dwight Gooden's latest run-in with the law, the most recent in a long list of substance-abuse woes. The Yankees right...
LEITER GETS THE JOB DONE
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe 50,528 on hand at Yankee Stadium last night showered Al Leiter with applause as he walked off the field, showing their gratitude for an outing that made up in...
BOMBER, CYCLONE ALL-STARS SPARKLE
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amThere was a plethora of talent on hand last night at the inaugural NY-Penn League All-Star Game at KeySpan Park in Brooklyn, but none displayed more than the Brooklyn Cyclones...
OH, WHAT A FELIX! ESCALONA'S HIT GIVES YANKS WIN IN 9TH
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 5Blue Jays 4 It was so improbable, even the guy who came through with last night's game-winning hit for the Yankees couldn't believe it. In the top of the...
FORMER UNIT COACH HIRED BY BOMBERS
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES For almost 30 minutes yesterday, Randy Johnson spoke with pitching expert Joe Kerrigan at his locker. Kerrigan, the former Boston pitching coach and manager recently hired by the...
ON TRACH TO COME BACK
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHOENIX - On Friday, Steve Trachsel will make his first Met start of the season. Trachsel, who's been out all year with a herniated disc, was activated last...
FLOYD BACK IN SPOTLIGHT
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES PHOENIX - Cliff Floyd is having the best season of his three-year Met career. And it might come with a reward at the end of the season. Floyd...
BELLAMY ROAD SET TO GO IN TRAVERS
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - George Steinbrenner's star 3-year-old colt Bellamy Road will run in Saturday's $1 million Travers Stakes, trainer Nick Zito finally confirmed yesterday, barring an unexpected defection of undefeated...
NO MORE ROAD KILL - BATS AMAZIN' IN DESERT ROUT
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amMets 14 D'backs 1 PHOENIX - So far this week, the road-challenged Mets are finding that Phoenix is lovely this time of year. After Monday's victory over the Diamondbacks that...
LEITER GET THE JOB DONE
August 24, 2005 | 4:00amIt was exactly what the Yankees had hoped for when they got Al Leiter. The lefty threw cutter after cutter, pounded the zone and fought tooth-and-nail for every out. When...