January 7, 2006
SKY'S THE LIMIT - ANALYST'S ESTIMATE FOR GOOGLE SHARES HITS $2,000
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amThe meteoric rise of Google's stock and the Internet darling's apparently boundless potential has giddy Wall Street analysts partying like it's 1999. Yesterday, investors were buzzing about Caris & Co....
MINE TRAGEDY SLAMS FUNDS
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amSeveral high profile hedge funds experienced sharp losses in International Coal Group's stock, extending the financial fallout from West Virginia's mining disaster. The funds, betting on Wilbur Ross' golden touch...
NEW YEAR'S BOOST PUSHES DOW TO BRINK OF 11K
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amWall Street held its great starting pace for the first week of the year with stocks scoring their best close in 4½ years. Even gold and oil speculators got a...
ITALIAN JOB - NEW PLACES & FRESH FACES GIVE LITTLE ITALY A DIFFERENT FLAVOR
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amBig changes, Little Italy - Old-world nabe sees fresh places, new faces THOUGH it's easy to mock the alphabet soup of new New York City neighborhoods, many of the monikers...
GIMME SHELTER
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amMeryl's moving AFTER spending a year and a half on the market and undergoing multiple price reductions, the townhouse on West 12th Street belonging to Meryl Streep has officially been...
HOME SHOPPING CLUB - BEDS AND BREAKFAST
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amEvanson Studios 1 Bond St., suite 5B, between Broadway and Lafayette streets (212) 777-6943 Sale: through Monday Open: Sat., 11 a.m.-3 p.m./Sun., 11 a.m.-3 p.m./Mon., 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Best known...
'GRANDMA' GOT RUN OVER BY A FILM CRITIC
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amGRANDMA'S BOY* (one star) Dazed, confused.Running time: 83 minutes. Rated R (nudity, drugs, crude language). At the Empire, the Union Square, the East 86th St., others. THE year's first major...
NOT SUCK-CESSFUL
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amBLOODRAYNE* (one star) Heads will roll.Running time: 94 minutes. Rated R (gory violence, nudity, sex scene). At the Empire, 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue. THE semicoherent vampire flick "BloodRayne" has...
COLLEGE OF HOT FLASHES - 'CAMPUS' FUN TURNS UGLY
January 7, 2006 | 5:00am"Campus Ladies" Tomorrow at 10 on Oxygen * * ½ (two and a half stars) FROM out of nowhere comes a new comedy series that, at first glance, comes across...
CAN YOU DIG IT? SANDHOGS - NEW YORK'S ORIGINAL UNDERGROUND BAND
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amYOU take the A train, they take the "muck train." You get stuck in traffic, they're stuck between walls of bedrock. They're sandhogs - and they're indispensable. Technically, a sandhog...
PRIEST TO GET HIS TRIBUNAL
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amAfter four years of trying to clear his name, a Bronx priest accused of sexual abuse will get his day in court - or at least a Vatican-ordered tribunal, the...
MIKE FIRES ON POLS
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amRatcheting up the rhetoric in his recently declared war on guns, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday accused lawmakers who kowtow to the gun lobby of being cowards. Bloomberg continued an assault begun...
JACKO 'STIFFED' NEVERLAND VET
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - The veterinarian who cares for Michael Jackson's exotic animals wants "The King of Pop" to make good on an overdue bill that's reached nearly six figures, according...
MAYOR PLEA FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amImmigration policies enacted since 9/11 are keeping some of "the best and brightest" foreign students out of U.S. universities, Mayor Bloomberg says. And that has him so concerned that he's...
MARTHA'S PLEA FLOPS
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amLifestyle maven Martha Stewart's bid to clear her name has flopped like a bad soufflé. An appeals court issued a written opinion yesterday upholding a federal jury's conviction of Stewart...
HORRENDOUS CALL; EMTS RADIOED BAD RUMOR ON MINERS
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amAn erroneous exchange between EMTs as rescuers revealed they had found the last of the 13 miners trapped in a West Virginia coal mine morphed at lightning speed into the...
KIN TAKE COMFORT IN VICTIMS' LAST SLEEP
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amBUCKHANNON, W.Va. - The final words to loved ones left in notes by several of the 12 tragic Sago miners have helped friends and family come to terms with their...
SURVIVOR NOT OUT OF WOODS: DOC
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amRandal McCloy Jr., the sole survivor of this week's disastrous West Virginia mine blast, remained in a medically induced coma in a Pittsburgh hospital yesterday. His doctor said he'd made...
NEW YORK'S BUSY SKIES
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amNearly 100 million travelers used the New York area's three airports in 2005 as our skies surpassed Chicago's to become the busiest in the nation. Port Authority officials said that...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** Police are looking for this man (above) in connection with an ATM robbery in Midtown last month. The suspect approached the victim inside a Chase Manhattan ATM kiosk...
'FATHER WILL LIVE,' ; SON SAYS AFTER 3RD CRISIS OP
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's surgeons reported "significant improvement" yesterday after his third operation in two days - and his youngest son declared, "My father will live." Sharon...
FANATICS TOLD: DON'T EVEN THINK OF ATTACK
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Syrian and Palestinian leaders are being warned to rein in anti-Israeli extremists amid fears they may try to take advantage of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's health crisis. "I...
CRACKING A WHIP; HANSOMS RACK UP ASPCA CITATIONS
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amAnimal-control authorities slapped hansom-cab drivers and horse and stable owners with violations ranging from poor animal treatment to erratic driving an average of once every five days last year. Officials...
ARIEL'S LAST PEACE QUEST; TOLD INTERVIEWERS DAY BEFORE STROKE: I SEE A DEAL WITH PALESTINIANS 'WITH GOD'S HELP'
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - In his last interview before suffering a stroke, Ariel Sharon firmly stated his creed: As a Jew, he would never do anything that would compromise Israel's security, but...
JURY NAILS BIRTH-MOTHER STALKER
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amDespite donning a snowflake-covered ski sweater, a man shivered in his seat yesterday as a Brooklyn jury convicted him of stalking his biological mother with thousands of hate-filled phone calls....
SCOTT'S EVIL GRIN FOREVER BURNED INTO LACI MOM'S MIND
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amLaci Peterson's mother stared down her daughter's killer in the courtroom, waiting for Scott Peterson to acknowledge her presence. Instead, he chuckled. "He was laughing while I was up there...
SPECIAL-ED BOSS IS OUT
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amThe superintendent of the city's troubled special-education system, recently disciplined for directing subordinates to ignore subpoenas to testify about the future schooling of an autistic boy, announced yesterday she would...
GO TO HELL- THIEF STEALS POORBOX AT LITTLE ITALY CHURCH
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amA shocking video (above) captures a true fiend at work - a thief robbing the curch poorbox on Christmas Eve. Parishioners at Most Precious Blood Church in Little Italy -...
MILLION-$ MADAMS ARE GUILTY
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amTwo owners of a lucrative escort service known as New York Elites pleaded guilty to using their business as a front for a multimillion-dollar prostitution ring, prosecutors announced yesterday. Elena...
B'KLYN GRANDDAD KILLED COLLECTING FOR NEEDY
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn grandfather who fled Nazi Germany and "accomplished the American dream" was killed when he was hit by a truck while doing charity work yesterday, cops said. Arron Montal,...
COPS: DOPEY PLAYED DOC
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens beautician was arrested for posing as a doctor who promised to eliminate fat from overweight patients - a scheme authorities say was really designed to help her get...
GOTCHA, 'ROGUE'; MYSTERY WITNESSTO TESTIFY VS. 'MAFIA' FED
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amA new star witness has surfaced with details about a rogue FBI agent and his Mafia capo snitch, the late Gregory "The Killing Machine" Scarpa Sr., sources told The Post...
BUSH: TAX CUTS PUT US AT 'FULL $TEAM'
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A bullish President Bush yesterday said the economy now has "a full head of steam" with the jobless rate down to 4.9 percent thanks to his tax cuts...
KEYPAD TWIST IN 100G ATM SCAM
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amThe thieves who ripped off $100,000 from at least 50 ATM users in the last few months employed a sophisticated new way of stealing data, cops said yesterday. Police initially...
VICTIM: THEY CLEANED ME OUT
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amLike most identity-theft victims, April Migliaccio learned she was a victim too late. Migliaccio, of Staten Island, said she discovered she had been ripped off when she went to an...
9/11 COP'S LUNG DEATH
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amA police detective has died from lung disease, which the NYPD believes he contracted while working at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks. The tragedy makes James Zadroga, 34, the...
COPS EMPTY IMAM'S HOME
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amThe arrest last week of a Bronx Muslim cleric led FBI and NYPD investigators to an Albany apartment yesterday where they seized documents and computer equipment. Imam Warith Deen Umar,...
KILIMANJARO TEARS - L.I. MOM'S ASHES COMING HOME
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amThe remains of a Long Island woman killed in an avalanche while hiking Mount Kilimanjaro with her family will be returned to Huntington after her body is cremated, friends and...
'MOM' STALKER GUILTY - YEARS OF HARASSMENT
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amDespite donning a snowflake-covered ski sweater, a man shivered in his seat yesterday as a Brooklyn jury convicted him of stalking his biological mother with thousands of hate-filled phone calls....
LOCAL SKIES ARE BUSIEST IN AMERICA
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amNearly 100 million travelers used the New York area's three airports in 2005 as its skies surpassed Chicago to become the busiest in the nation. Port Authority officials said that...
'ESCAPE' PROVES TOO TOUGH
January 7, 2006 | 5:00am2ND RACE - Towering Escape is promising 3-year-old N.Y.-bred filly by Giant's Causeway out of half-sister to Affirmed Success. Off as 4-5 choice under Fernando Jara after finishing third first...
STRAHAN TO MATES: ACT LIKE YOU BELONG
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amIf it hasn't hit them yet it will soon, surely before tomorrow afternoon's kickoff at Giants Stadium. "Guys have been pretty good so far, but we will see come [tonight]...
HERM-INATED! JETS BRASS GIVES COACH THE BOOT
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amA year removed from leading the Jets within a 43-yard field goal of the AFC Championship Game, Herman Edwards is out as the Jets' head coach - unceremoniously booted away...
FOURTH ROUND NO FIELD OF GREEN
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amThe Jets' keen negotiators wrested a fourth-round draft pick out of the Chiefs as compensation for Kansas City's rights to coach Herman Edwards. Here's a look at some of the...
MANNY'S NOT IN MET PLANS
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amManny Ramirez' trade saga is playing out like a bad reality TV show, and the Mets yawned at the latest episode. Ramirez reportedly said Thursday that he wanted to stay...
JUDAH'S HOPING FOR A HUGE YEAR
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amYou get the feeling Zab Judah understands. He understands 2006 could be the year he becomes a star, the year he takes his place among boxing's best pound-for-pound fighters, the...
TARGET: TIKI ; PANTHERS PUT BULL'S-EYE ON GIANT'S BACK
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amCHARLOTTE, N.C. - For all of the talk of Tiki Barber being underrated, there is one place recently where that has def initely become untrue: the opponent's locker room. In...
RANGER PK WOES PUZZLING RENNEY
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amWhen asked why the Rangers have struggled on the penalty kill, Tom Renney paused for a moment yesterday to try and figure it out. "I have to think before I...
PLAYOFFS REAL FUN FOR FANS; GOING WILD ABOUT RETURN
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amIT'S been a good time to be a Giants fan, because when you're a fan there's nothing better than a playoff week. Fans have been at this a lot longer...
GOMEZ NEEDS ROOM TO ROAM
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amBUFFALO - It's the Gomez Factor, and it looms even more important in the hiring of the Devils' next coach than the size of the whip the still-unselected bench jockey...
TOOMER HANDS IT TO PANTHERS
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES According to Giants wide receiver Amani Toomer, cornerbacks can be separated into two distinct categories: Those who can and those who cannot. Catch the ball, that is. Toomer...
SHOCKEY 'DEFINITELY' WILL PLAY
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amThe uneasiness and obvious concern had been lifted, leaving Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey free of fear that his sprained left ankle would leave him either on the sideline or...
CAROLINA FEELS FINE ON ROAD
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amCHARLOTTE - When the Panthers take the field tomorrow at Giants Stadium, they know what will meet them. Boos, then some more boos - and yet more boos. There will...
FASSEL'S FUELED BY A SUPER CRAVING
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amThe most intriguing - and perhaps logical - choice staring the Jets in the face as a replacement for Herman Edwards is Jim Fassel, who told The Post yesterday he...
SECOND CHANCE; SKINS AIM TO AVENGE LOSS TO BUCS
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amTAMPA - Redskins coach Joe Gibbs would rather face a team he hasn't played before, but considering the improbable journey his team completed to reach the playoffs, he won't complain...
RESTLESS NETS READY TO ROLL
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amWhen the Nets last played, the general consensus held the Earth was flat, the Incas were thriving and the wheel was the can't miss gadget of the decade. OK, so...
REPENTANT JAMES IS BACK AT WORK
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amA repentant Jerome James, officially released of his suspension before last night's game against Washington, promised to change for the New Year. "My New Year's resolution is come out and...
WHAT NOW, JETS?
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amAT the end of the movie "The Candidate," Bill McKay, the freshly elected senator from California played by Robert Redford, sneaks into a room with his campaign manager, played by...
BREAK UP KNICKS!
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amKnicks 113Wizards 92 As Larry Brown walked down a crowded hallway in the bowels of the Garden, receiving congratulations, the Knick coach cracked, "Break up the Knicks." The Knicks can...
NETS DRESSED TO THE NINES
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amNets 113Magic 106 When the Nets last played, the general consensus held that the Earth was flat and the wheel was the new can't-miss gadget of the decade. OK, it...
TOUGH SKED IRRITATES
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amIona coach Jeff Ruland may not have many fans at the MAAC offices after this weekend. Then again, considering the schedule the Gaels have been given this season, he may...
GONZALEZ ENDS SKID VS. IONA
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amManhattan 87 Iona 68 Bobby Gonzalez has quite a list of accomplishments in seven seasons as coach at Manhattan College. Two MAAC Tournament titles, two NCAA Tournament appearances, 116 wins....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 7, 2006 | 5:00amPolice in Laurel, Neb., had no trouble finding Arlie Bichlmeier after he fled a local bank following a botched robbery attempt. That's because witnesses noticed the unique vanity license plate...