January 14, 2006
DEUTSCH RECLAIMS $60M IKEA AD BUSINESS
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amCall it the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton of advertising romances. Five years after Swedish home-furnishings giant Ikea dumped New York creative shop Deutsch Inc., the two firms announced yesterday...
BENNETT STILL WANTS $1M
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amPhillip Bennett, the shamed and indicted former head of Refco Inc., said yesterday he may still make a play for his $1.1 million salary package, even as he was booted...
BIG JUMP IN WHOLESALE PRICES
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amThe economy is slowing faster than expected, as shoppers forsake store aisles for gas pumps in the worst wave of wholesale inflation in 16 years. Government reports yesterday said retail...
INTERPUBLIC BATTLES FORMER EXEC
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amAdvertising giant Interpublic Group is fighting the former chairman of one of its agencies, Lowe Worldwide, after he poached a big account. Interpublic said yesterday it would pursue legal action...
TOP HOME DEPOT EXEC LEAVES
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amHome Depot said yesterday that a senior employee with oversight of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. has left the company. The circumstances surrounding the departure of the...
A BILLION DOLLAR BABY
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amIT'S hard to believe that Manhattan's residential real-estate market is slowing down, with sales at 15 CPW just surpassing the billion-dollar mark. "We've sold just over 100 apartments [out of...
WATER WORLDS - 3 HOT AREAS OFFER LUXE NEW BUILDINGS AND, OH, THOSE VIEWS
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amNEWPORT THE entire marketing campaign for the Shore Club - a luxury condo building that's rising on the riverfront in Jersey City's New-port community - consisted of a billboard at...
WE'RE DOOMED - IF A CAT-3 HITS, LINDA'S BUYING PRADA
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amLAST summer The Weather Channel produced a documentary - which was to be the first in their series of disaster-prediction shows, called "It Could Happen Tomorrow" - about what would...
TIME IS ON THEIR SIDE? - THE ROLLING STONES PUT ON THEIR GAME FACE; FOSSILS FUEL UP FOR TOUR
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amAS Rod Stewart would say: Every picture tells a story, don't it? As the Stones get set to hit the Garden Wednesday night and the Super Bowl in a couple...
STROKES DON'T SHOW ANY FIRST IMPRESSIONS
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amYOU might wonder how a concert of great tunes, played well, in an exclusive setting could be a disappointment. Fledgling music television station Fuse scored a major coup Thursday by...
FBI'S GEM OF A G-MAN
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amFBI Special Agent Daniel McCaffrey of the bureau's Brooklyn-Queens office will be honored today by the Jewelers' Security Alliance. McCaffrey, one of the leading experts in U.S. law enforcement on...
MIKE'S TAB
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg's record-shattering re-election bill just keeps growing and growing - hitting $84.1 million as of the most recent filing period, his aides revealed yesterday. And though his campaign ended...
WATCH IT, IRAN - BUSH WARNS FANATICS: WORLD WON'T LET YOU HAVE NUKES FOR 'BLACKMAIL'
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush bluntly warned yesterday that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a "grave threat" because it could "blackmail" the world. But Iran's America-hating leader said he would not...
HURT SOULS NOW BID TO SAVE THE NEXT NIXZMARY
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amDANNY DONLON never met Nixzmary Brown in life. He is Irish-American, not Puerto Rican. He lives out on Long Island, not in Brooklyn. But this self-described "regular Joe," who builds...
ACTRESS-SLAY TEEN FIT FOR TRIAL
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amThe accused teen shooter in the fatal Lower East Side mugging of an aspiring actress is mentally fit to plead guilty - and may have been "malingering" by pretending otherwise,...
CLEAN GREEN FOR QUEENS
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amA bit of green from the city is adding a lot of green to the Queens waterfront - 10.6 miles, to be exact. The dilapidated area near the East River...
ABBAS TO NAIL HAMAS AFTER ELEX
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - If Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wins key elections this month, he will finally begin cracking down on terrorists, U.S. officials are telling Israel. The message being delivered to...
WELD ON JAIL CALL: ROGER THAT
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Former Massachusetts Gov. and current New York GOP gubernatorial hopeful William Weld yesterday added his voice to calls that Transport Workers Union President Roger Toussaint (left) be jailed...
VIAGRA $$ FACING AX
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday said he will seek $1.3 billion in Medicaid cuts and cost savings in his budget proposal, including the elimination of public funding for erectile-dysfunction drugs...
TUB-DROWN TOT MOM'S COURT PLEA
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amA young Brooklyn mom accused of letting her toddler son drown in a filthy bathtub pleaded not guilty yesterday before being sent back to jail. The death of 16-month- old...
BUST'S A 41-GUN SALUTE TO HEROES
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amThey put their lives on the line with every gun they take off the street - and they do it for their fallen comrades. "These weapons are very powerful, and...
DEFIANT SUOZZI: I'D TAKE GOP GOV NOD
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - A defiant Tom Suozzi yesterday said he would welcome Republican backing in his race for governor - even as he seeks to defeat Eliot Spitzer in the Democratic...
POOR LI'L DU PONT SCION - 'DESTITUTE' TYCOON SUES TRUST FUND'S BANKERS
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amOnce, he had 13 bathrooms. Now, a seventh-generation descendant of the original du Pont patriarch is claiming he doesn't have a pot to you-know-what in. "I'm basically destitute," said Alexis...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amQUEENS * A hulking Woodside man was busted in a string of early morning street robberies throughout the borough, police sources said. Abraham Rios, 29, who is 6-foot-2 and 260...
LAURA DRIES TEARS - CALL TO MRS. ALITO
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - First Lady Laura Bush made a comforting phone call to Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's wife, Martha-Ann, a day after she broke down in tears and fled her...
SIBLING SAID VICTIM HAD 'FALL' INJURY
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amChild-welfare investigators ignored a younger sibling's statement that tragic Nixzmary Brown had been battered by her stepfather, because a doctor backed up her parents' claim that injuries to her eye...
SHRIMP BATTER 'KLUTZ' - WIDOW RIPS CHEF
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amA widow suing because her husband died after dodging a burning-hot shrimp thrown by a Benihana cook testified yesterday that the chef was a complete klutz who ignored their pleas...
PUSH-IN PUNKS ROB MAN, 95
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amA cocky gang of young Brooklyn punks - including two girls - terrorized and robbed a 95-year-old wheelchair-bound man and his 60-year-old home attendant in his apartment after flashing a...
JEWISH POL PASSES ON GAY VOTE
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amThe vote to install Christine Quinn as the City Council's first openly gay speaker presented something of a problem for Councilman Simcha Felder, an Orthodox Jew. Felder supported Quinn over...
FOUR-DECADE COP RETIRES
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amGrowing up in Queens, all Joseph Ferrara ever wanted to do was be a cop. Yesterday, Lt. Ferrara retired after 40 years. Ferrara, who turns 63 on Monday, was in...
TRAGIC CHILD TOLD ME HER SAD SECRET: 'I WISH THEY WERE DEAD'
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amA week before she died a violent death at the hands of her sadistic stepfather, a battered and forlorn Nixzmary Brown confided, "I wish my mommy and daddy were dead."...
ZAWAHIRI MAY BE DEAD IN U.S. STRIKE ON AFGHAN BORDER
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. aircraft blew up a high-level al Qaeda compound on the Pakistan-Afghan border yesterday - and may have killed Osama bin Laden's chief deputy, sources said last night....
VICIOUS ABUSE ON ALL HIS STEPKIDS
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amSavage child-killer Cesar Rodriguez took out his aggression on the three other stepchildren he lived with, regularly beating them, police sources said yesterday. In addition to beating tragic 7-year-old Nixzmary...
FOOL'S GOLD RUSH ON FIFTH AVE.
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amWannabe gold diggers had a field day on Fifth Avenue yesterday. A cluster of metallic, misshaped golden balls - from baby-tooth to marble-sized - sparked a spontaneous panning frenzy when...
SNAPSHOTS OF HORROR LEAVE KIN REELING
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amNixzmary Brown's grandmother, aunt and cousin staggered out of the Kings County Hospital morgue yesterday haunted by photos they had just seen of the battered little girl after her final...
'REUNITE THE FAMILY' POLICY MAY BE TOSSED
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amThe head of the city's child-welfare agency said yesterday he's prepared to put the brakes on the longtime policy of trying to reunite families and abused kids "if it's the...
GAY-SLAY TEEN IN JAIL SUICIDE
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amThe teenager accused of tying up, strangling and robbing a gay Israeli prostitute - and then setting his Chelsea apartment on fire to cover up the crime - hanged himself...
GOTCHA! U.S. HITS 'ZAWAHIRI' HOUSE - QAEDA NO. 2 MAY BE DEAD IN CIA STRIKE
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A U.S. plane blew up a high-level al Qaeda compound in Pakistan yesterday - and may have killed Osama bin Laden's chief deputy, sources said last night. The...
SEX-FIEND INVADER STRIKES VILLAGE
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amA savage sex fiend preyed on a Greenwich Village woman this week, forcing his way into her home and subjecting her to a brutal attack, police revealed yesterday. The assault...
POOR LI'L DU PONT SCION - 'DESTITUTE' TYCOON SUES ]]TRUST FUND'S BANKERS
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amOnce, he had 13 bathrooms. Now a seventh-gener-ation descendant of the original du Pont patriarch is claiming he doesn't have a pot to you-know-what in. "I'm basically destitute," said Alexis...
MONSTER ALSO A KID-SEX PERV - NIXZMARY'S KILLER MOLESTED HER AND GOT BOOT FROM ARMY FOR CHILD PORN: PROBERS
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amThe sadistic stepdad who beat little Nixzmary Brown to death sexually abused her repeatedly over the past few months - and also had a twisted history of perversion that got...
LAURA'S PEP TALK - DRIES MRS. ALITO'S TEARS IN CALL
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - First Lady Laura Bush made a comforting phone call to Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's wife, Martha-Ann, a day after she broke down in tears and fled her...
B'KLYN FUGITIVE CAUGHT
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amCops lasso a masked varmint in Brooklyn yesterday - no, not a wanted criminal suspect, but a possibly rabid raccoon precariously perched on a Sunset Park apartment-building fire escape. The...
TOUGH TO SEE WHAT WENT ON
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amBinocs weren't of much use yesterday as fog was heavy for first race, got heavier as afternoon progressed. Fog was so thick, track announcer Larry Collmus, subbing for vacationing Tom...
TIME FOR NEW CAPTAIN
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amCANUCKS at ISLES - Tonight - 7:00 FSN; WBBR (1130) Things got so bad on Long Island that Mike Milbury fell on his sword and agreed to step out of...
ARTEST FOR MAGGETTE DEAL DEAD
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amLate Thursday the Pacers notified the Clippers that Corey Maggette's left foot failed scrutiny by their doctors, therefore their proposed deal for Ron Artest is dead. An LA source claims...
RIVALRY DRIVEN BY FRIENDLY FIRE
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amEach day in practice, for eight years, wide receiver Muhsin Muhammad and safety Mike Minter would go at each other. Muhammad would catch a pass and let Minter know about...
CAREER PEY-OFF - MANNING WON'T DEFINE LEGACY BY ONE SEASON
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Peyton Manning says his judgment day should be postponed, not through any lack of interest, of course. There is plenty of that, he knows too well. Still, a...
HE'S HOT FOR JETS - MANGINI WOULD RESIST TUG OF BELICHICK
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amDENVER - If the Jets want Eric Mangini as their next head coach, the feeling is very mutual, The Post learned exclusively last night. Although Bill Belichick has been trying...
JEFFERSON TOO SORE FOR ACTION
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES MEMPHIS - The good news for the Nets was that an MRI taken on Richard Jefferson's back yesterday was negative. The bad news was he still was stiff...
WINGS ARE TOUGH TEST FOR RANGERS
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amRANGERS at WINGS - Today - 2:00 Ch. 4; ESPN (1050) Since losing in Ottawa on Dec. 26, the Rangers have earned points in seven consecutive games (4-0-3) and built...
JAKE WRITING BRONCS TALE - PLUMMER HOLDS DENVER KEY IN SHOWDOWN WITH PATRIOTS
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amDENVER - If you're to pick the one wild card in tonight's playoff game between the Patriots and Broncos at Invesco Field at Mile High, it is, without question, Jake...
BULLS DISPLAYING A 'BRAD' ATTITUDE
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amST. JOHN'S at SO. FLA. Tonight - 7:00 MSG; ESPN (1050) The South Florida Bulls knew Bradley Mosley wouldn't score a point or grab a rebound for them this season,...
JASPERS' STREAK REACHES 9
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amManhattan 87 - Rider 81 On his right sneaker, Manhattan forward C.J. Anderson has a blunt message written by his toes. Call it a motivational slogan. A daily reminder, perhaps,...
NUMBERS GAME - KNICKS' SIXTH STRAIGHT GIVES BROWN 1,000
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amKnicks 105 - Hawks 94 One night after Mark Messier's "11" was raised to the Garden rafters, another local sporting legend, Larry Brown, achieved another milestone in the World's Most...
DEVILS BLANK CANUCKS FOR 5TH STRAIGHT
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amDevils 3 - Canucks 0 The Devils don't own a perfect defense. They're just playing like it lately. They've turned in back-to-back shutouts for the first time since the Stanley...
BENCH MARK FOR JAMAL
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES If Jamal Crawford keeps this up and the Knicks keep up their renaissance, Crawford may play himself into the NBA Sixth Man Award. Crawford scored 25 points in...
A REAL NET-MARE - GRIZZ STIFLE CARTER & CO.
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amGrizzlies 81 - Nets 69 MEMPHIS - This nightmare was still in the first half when Net observers went scrambling for the record books. So what was their lowest point...
PATS HAVE PLENTY UNDER THE HOOD
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amDENVER - The world would be a better place today if the unrelenting energy Bill Belichick expends chasing Super Bowl championships had been marshaled toward, say, curing cancer or fighting...
SIXTH SENSE - JAMAL ADAPTS TO VITAL ROLE OFF KNICKS' BENCH
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amIf Jamal Crawford keeps this up, and the Knicks sustain their renaissance, he may play himself into Sixth Man of the Year contention. When Crawford was excelling in December, Larry...
MORE THAN SKIN DEEP - 'HAWKS HAVE TOO MUCH FIREPOWER
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amSEATTLE - Two things are certain about today's NFC divisional playoff game between the Redskins and Seahawks today at Qwest Field: The Redskins will have to perform much better offensively...
DEVS MAY BE LEANING TO OLCZYK
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amA familiar name has moved to the forefront of the Devils' coaching search - Eddie Olczyk. It is believed that Lou Lamoriello has decided that New Jersey's next coach should...
JACQUE TO SYSTEM - BACKUP GUARD INVALUABLE TO NETS
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amMEMPHIS - When Jacque Vaughn wasn't playing earlier this season, he was ready. When he was eased back into the Nets' rotation, Vaughn was ready. So what would you expect...
GONZALEZ BACK ON 'A' LIST'
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amCollege basketball dwells in a "What have you done for me lately" society, perhaps now more than ever. Coaches are judged, and, more important, courted by other schools, based on...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 14, 2006 | 5:00amJackie and Brian Lawson of Chimacum, Wash., got more than they bargained for when they called the Internal Revenue Service to request an instruction book. Instead of a single copy...