January 18, 2006
STONEHENGE DEAL - PARTNERS SCORE QUICK $11.5M IN TURNOVER OF W. 86 ST. BLDG.
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amWHO can turn down doubling their money? The Stonehenge Partners, Ofer Yardeni and Joel Seiden, bought Stonehenge West last year for $16.5 million as part of a package and recently...
CASH TO BURN - WALL ST. BONUSES TRICKLE DOWN TO LUXURY RETAILERS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe New York area's purveyors of things bright, beautiful and fast are starting to see their boats literally floating on a sea of Wall Street bonus cash. As the city's...
GOOGLE BUY HINTS AT AD-MANAGING STRATEGY
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amWith an eye on expanding beyond the Web, Google is cracking the market for radio advertising with a deal to acquire dMarc Broadcasting. Google agreed to pay $102 million in...
NYMEX NERVE - SEAT OWNERS FUME OVER FAT EXCHANGE BONUSES
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amA group of influential New York Mercantile Exchange seat owners is fuming at the lucrative bonus checks awarded to the energy market's top executives. Last week, the Nymex's board of...
TINA TAKES A BREAK
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amWITH a year-end deadline fast approaching for her bio on Princess Diana, Tina Brown has decided to temporarily drop her weekly column in the Style section of the Washington Post....
JACKS OF ALL TRADE
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amTHE typical advertising agency isn't concerned with "gross national happiness," nor does it conduct important business meetings over a blackboard masking as a kitchen table. But thehappycorp isn't the typical...
CELL PHONES RING UP $$$
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amCELL phones are ringing up close to $200 million worth of sales for Israeli-born New Jersey resident, Nathan Yanovitch. Yanovitch, who is 41, launched his company, American Telecommunications Inc. -...
THE EGO HAS LANDED - PRESUMPTUOUS GILT FACES TRIALS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amIF you're headed for dinner at Gilt, the beautiful new restaurant in the Palace Hotel, take along this food for thought: Chefs don't come more charmingly full of themselves than...
EX-PREZ TABOO IN PERU
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amALBERTO Fujimori is such a charming gentleman that I'm kind of sad he's a world-class sleaze. As we learn in Ellen Perry's absorbing documentary "The Fall of Fujimori," he ruled...
WALTER TO WED? - LONGTIME WIFE DIED IN MARCH
January 18, 2006 | 5:00am"MY WIFE HAS ONLY BEEN GONE LESS THAN A YEAR. I'LL WAIT UNTIL THAT YEAR HAS PASSED, AT LEAST." WALTER Cronkite looks like he's getting married to his new girlfriend,...
GOOD NITRO, AND GOOD LUCK
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amLIQUID nitrogen isn't just for welders anymore. Some top chefs use it, too. Roiling at minus 320 Fahrenheit, it's become a muse of Spain's Ferran Adria and Heston Blumenthal of...
CALLING KELLY TO GET SONGS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00am'AMERICAN Idol" producers have some words for first- season winner Kelly Clarkson: Don't forget your roots. The pop singing sensation has apparently failed to sign off on allowing "Idol" to...
BERNADETTE'S BOUNCE BACK
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amBERNADETTE Peters, the beloved musical theater star who made her name appearing in shows by Stephen Sondheim, will take part in a reading of "Bounce," a troubled musical Sondheim has...
STARR REPORT
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amPrime-time murder "ET" co-anchor Mark Steines, a trained actor and improv guy (The Meisner School, The Groundlings) plays himself on tonight's episode of "CSI: NY" (10 p.m./Ch. 2). In the...
GAY BLADES - 'SKATING WITH CELEBS' SPINS FAMILIAR TALE WELL
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amSURE it's a skating ripoff of "Dancing with the Stars." And sure, most of the celebrities haven't had their faces in the news - excluding mugshots and features on "plastic...
THEY'RE GOLDEN - YOUNG STARLETS TAKE STYLE AWARDS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amTHE popular colors of the evening were red, white and blue, but it was young, foreign actresses who swiped the fashion awards at the Golden Globes. Pundits drooled over Chinese...
MUSIC BIG SOLD TON OF POT A WEEK
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amA well-known Jamaican reggae producer's bid for freedom went up in smoke yesterday - he was convicted of running a major pot ring that sold a ton of marijuana each...
MAN SHOT ON UPPER W. SIDE
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amA man working at an Upper West Side eatery was shot last night by a brazen robber who made off with $400, police said. The wounded employee, who works at...
MURDERER PELOSI IN JAIL NUPS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amDanny Pelosi wed the mother of his love child in an ultra-secret prison ceremony - with a fellow convict standing in as his best man, sources said yesterday. The ceremony...
'PHONY COP' TERROR ON THE L.I.E.
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amA man and his son driving on the Long Island Expressway were terrorized by a cop impersonator who brandished a fake badge and gun during a high-speed road-rage incident, police...
PARROT IS CHEAT'S CANARY
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amChris Taylor discovered his girlfriend was cheating on him after his parrot kept squawking out her secret lover's name. Ziggy, an 8-year-old African grey, screeched out "Hiya, Gary" in Suzy...
STATE ARMORY-TWISTING
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amON THE walls of the magnificent building, there are living documents of what sacrifice in blood and love of country are all about. It is the Seventh Regiment Armory on...
'ELIOT THREATENED ME' SOUVENIRS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - A conservative-oriented Web site has decided Democratic Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's alleged penchant for threaten ing critics is a moneymaker - at least when it comes to T-shirts,...
REP. KING RIPS RURAL SECURITY-$$ PIGS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amPoliticians from rural states are unfairly grabbing federal terror-prevention dollars at the expense of areas that are actually at risk, Long Island Rep. Peter King said yesterday. Speaking before the...
TEARS FOR CONEY FIRE KIDS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe boy who dreamed of basketball stardom, the girl with the big grin and dancing feet and the baby called Dora the Explorer were buried yesterday, the victims of a...
HUNK NOW PLAYS THE 'HEAVY' - SEXY LETO AS LENNON'S KILLER
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amNo, that wasn't Mark David Chapman lurking outside the Dakota apartment building yesterday - it was actor Jared Leto playing John Lennon's pudgy killer. The 34-year-old star has forgone his...
CITY: PATAKI BUDGET A PAIN IN THE CLA$$
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki proposed a record-high $110.7 billion budget yesterday - but city officials charged it shortchanges schools and hospitals. Pataki's plan barely addresses a court order requiring the...
JULIA A BROADWAY 'RAIN'MAKER - SIZZLING $7M IN ADVANCE TIX SALES
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amNow Julia Roberts is Broadway's pretty woman, too. Tickets to "Three Days of Rain" - a contemporary drama in which Roberts is making her Broadway debut this spring - went...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amBROOKLYN * An assailant was arrested for beating a man and shattering the car window of the victim's wife, authorities said yesterday. The incident began at 7 p.m. Monday, when...
KENNEDY GETS WISE AND QUITS OWL CLUB
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Just days after trying to tar Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito as a sexist, a crimson-faced Sen. Ted Kennedy yesterday hastily severed all ties to a club that...
BX. FULLY 'BOOKED' - $50M LIBRARY IS INAUGURATED
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amA new $50 million, state-of-the-art library opened its doors in The Bronx yesterday. The Bronx Library Center, at 310 East Kingsbridge Road, will replace the nearby Fordham Library Center, which...
REALTY IS $LOW GROWING - 9% RISE DISAPPOINTS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe Big Apple's scorching real-estate boom is cooling off, new figures show. City officials estimate that real-estate market values jumped 9.3 percent since May, bringing the overall market value to...
'SHRIMP' WIDOW: HUBBY WAS NEVER THE SAME
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amA distraught Long Island widow who claims her husband died after dodging a flying shrimp at a Japanese restaurant said he became a shell of himself after surgery. "He was...
LONG I. 'FAIL' ROAD - TRAIN MISHAPS UP
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amRiders on the Long Island Rail Road suffered more delays and train accidents in 2005 than in years past, according to a report released yesterday. The number of train accidents...
ANGEL'S FUNERAL IS TODAY
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amMourners will gather this morning to bid farewell to tragic little Nixzmary Brown. Hundreds are expected to attend the 9 a.m. Mass at St. Mary's Church, at 440 Grand St....
TESTERS FAIL ON 'ABCS' - EXAM-SHEET MESS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amStressed-out seventh-graders taking a standardized exam to determine whether they'll be promoted got an unusual English lesson yesterday: A means F, B means G, C means H, and D means...
GRIZZLED 'VETTE - DRIVER REUNITED WITH CAR THAT WAS SWIPED IN 1969
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amAn emotional Alan Poster was back in the driver's seat of his 1968 Corvette yesterday - nearly 37 years after the curvy convertible was swiped from a Manhattan garage. "This...
SPACE ODYSSEY ON HOLD - WINDS GROUND PLUTO CRAFT
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe world's fastest spacecraft has been put on hold. High winds forced NASA to scrub yesterday's launch of the unmanned New Horizons craft on a 9-year, 4-billion-mile voyage to Pluto,...
BUSH GIVES HILL HELL - RIPS PLANTATION COMMENTS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - In a rare attack, President Bush's spokesman yesterday said Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was "out of bounds" when she used the racially charged term "plantation" to blast Republican...
ROAD RAGER RAISES CANE
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amA crazed motorist nearly ran down a Brooklyn woman and then whacked her husband over the head with a cane when the man protested, police sources said yesterday. The bizarre...
L TRAIN GOES ON AUTO-PILOT
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe MTA pitted motorman versus machine on the L train early yesterday morning with the first tests of computer-controlled subways during real train service. For now, the system is merely...
TRIAL AT LAST IN HUNTER RAPE-SLAY
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amTwo men accused of kidnapping a Hunter College student and then raping, torturing and killing her in a Brooklyn basement three years ago will finally face jurors - and the...
PORN-AGAIN STAR - BALDWIN BROTHER OUT TO KO SEX SHOP NEAR HIS HOME
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amActor Stephen Baldwin has his shorts in a bunch over a sex shop opening near his estate in Rockland County - so much so, he plans to destroy the lives...
'GUN RUNNERS' TRIED TO RIP OFF COPS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amBronx cops smashed a gun-trafficking ring after three smugglers tried to rip off undercover detectives, prosecutors said yesterday. An NYPD detective, who was not identified, testified in Bronx Supreme Court...
GIRL'S TEACHER: 'WE NEED EACH OTHER TO GET INVOLVED'
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amNixzmary Brown's school teacher yesterday made an impassioned plea for neighbors to prevent abuse like that which took the 7-year-old's life. Jamila Bush, the girl's second-grade teacher, speaking to the...
MURDER CAUGHT ON TAPE - JURY HEARS SHOT
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amA chilling videotape of a murdered cabby's final, terrifying moments - his futile cries for help and the awful sound of the single shot that killed him - were played...
B'KLYN 'PERV' STRIKES AGAIN
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn father was busted yesterday for the knifepoint rape of a 15- year-old girl - his second arrest in three months for sexually assaulting a teen. Jofre Bautista was...
FEDS SEIZE 440 LBS. OF COKE
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amA road-tripping drug crew hit a dead end when the feds seized millions of dollars in cocaine that had been trucked across the country, authorities said yesterday. Fernando Pulido-Avila and...
MURDER RAP FOR MA, TOO - DA: SHE BEAT NIXZMARY BEFORE FATAL DAY
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amLittle Nixzmary Brown's mother was slapped with murder charges yesterday for taking part in earlier beatings of the child and cruelly ignoring her daughter's pleas for help after her husband...
FEDS LEAN ON OIL 'BRIBER' - FIGHT TO KEEP KOREAN BIZMAN PARKED IN JAIL
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amShadowy South Korean businessman Tonsgun Park was hauled into federal court in Manhattan yesterday as prosecutors seek to put maximum pressure on him to spill the beans about bribery and...
'COP KILLER' SAID: I WAS ATTACKED
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe Brooklyn ex-con accused of gunning down two cops told police he was attacked by the pair in his car - and had no idea the assailants were detectives, a...
JAILED 'RACQUETS' MOBSTER GETS EYE WHACKS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amLife at Club Fed can apparently be pretty dangerous. Reputed Bonanno boss Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano was smacked in the face with a ball during a game of racquetball inside...
2 ROBBED IN MIDTOWN OFFICE
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amBandits tied up, beat and robbed two men in a Midtown office building yesterday, police sources said. The victims, Mazid Diallo and Lamin Barrie, both 26, were working inside 1225...
LAWSUIT SAYS NUTS TO NETS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amFoes of an NBA arena in Brooklyn are filing a lawsuit today in state Supreme Court, The Post has learned. The suit, filed by a half-dozen community groups, seeks to...
BLOOMBERG'S SURPRISE VISIT COMFORTS KIN AT TRAGIC WAKE
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg last night attended the final, tearful wake for Nixzmary Brown - after saying he would not attend today's funeral. "Lo siento [I'm sorry]," the mayor whispered to the...
TON OF GRANITE CRUSHES WORKER
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amA construction worker was crushed by more than a ton of granite in a horrific accident in Queens yesterday, police sources said. The 27-year-old worker, whose name was withheld, slipped...
BIRTH DAD MOURNS CHILD HE NEVER MET
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amWeeping, his head bowed, he quietly showed up to see his young daughter for the first time yesterday - her stick-thin, bruised body laid out in her rose-filled coffin in...
440 POUNDS OF COCAINE SEIZED
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amA road-tripping drug crew hit a dead end when feds seized millions of dollars in coke, officials said yesterday. Fernando Pulido-Avila and José Hernandez were nabbed after they drove a...
HATE CRIME RAP FOR TEEN SISTERS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amTwo teenage sisters were arrested yesterday for scrawling 15 swastikas and other racial epithets on the walls of a Brooklyn apartment building, police said. Katie Wasson, 17, and her 15-year-old...
LANGUAGE GHETTOS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amNEW York City spends $10 million a year to translate school report cards and other educational documents into eight different languages. But the City Council is demanding another $20 million...
FUNERAL TEARS FOR CONEY FIRE KIDS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe boy who dreamed of basketball stardom, the girl with the big grin and dancing feet and the baby called Dora the Explorer were buried yesterday, the victims of a...
MOBSTER GETS EYE WHACKS - 'GORGEOUS' HURT IN JAIL
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amLife at Club Fed can apparently be pretty dangerous. Reputed Bonanno boss Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano was smacked in the face with a ball during a game of racquetball inside...
CESAR'S SIS: I'LL BE AT FUNERAL
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amTension continues to boil over among relatives of the Brooklyn couple charged with beating to death their 7-year-old daughter - even as they prepare today to bury little Nixzmary Brown....
THE POST'S TOP 25
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amRank(prev) TEAM RESULT NEXT 1 Connecticut (14-1) Beat Syracuse 88-80 at Louisville (1) Here's hoping Jim Calhoun is OK after leaving the 'Cuse game with dehydration. 2 Duke (14-0) Beat...
CAN'T WE ALL GET ALONG?
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amPUBLIC tiffs between Big East coaches have been an anomaly because former commissioner Dave Gavitt and now Mike Tranghese masterfully used behind-the-scenes calls and even golf outings to keep the...
NOT HIS PICK - SZCZERBIAK'S SHOT COULD SNAP STEPH'S START STREAK
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amDuring his consecutive games streak, Stephon Marbury figured that about 50 times he was injured badly enough to sit out. Instead, he gutted it out through 280 straight contests, but...
HE'S NOT A BILL 'CLONE'
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amUnlike most media members, Sirius NFL Radio's Pat Kirwan has a strong relationship with new Jets coach Eric Mangini. Kirwan said he doesn't think the Jets just hired a Xerox...
STRUGGLIN' WEEKES WORRIES RANGERS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amIt's not so much that Henrik Lundqvist is playing far superior to Kevin Weekes, it's that Lundqvist camouflages the mistakes the Ranger defense makes better than the backup. But with...
AMAZIN'S GIVE ZAMBRANO $3M
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe Mets came to terms with their final two arbitration-eligible players yesterday, inking Victor Zambrano and Chris Woodward. Zambrano came to terms on a one-year deal for $3 million plus...
NETS IN A HURRY TO STALL IVERSON
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amNETS at SIXERS - Tonight 7:00 YES; WFAN The only thing Vince Carter remembers from the Nets' last game against the 76ers is that Philadelphia's Kyle Korver was "shooting like...
MOLLOY'S CURRAN GLAD TO BE BACK
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amJack Curran was on the bench on Monday, guiding Molloy to a 70-48 win over Holy Trinity. It was the 869th win in Curran's 48 years at the school, but...
AGE-OLD QUESTION - FORMER KID COACHES FOUND WAYS TO SUCCEED
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amBefore Don Shula was a Hall of Famer, he was a lot like Eric Mangini. Shula was a 33-year-old defensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions in 1963 when Colts owner...
HOLIDAY ON ICE - DEVILS WHISTLING TO WINNING TUNE
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - Sure, there's Patrik Elias' return and the eruption of Scott Gomez. But there's at least one more reason for the Devils' perfect start to 2006. It wasn't...
FUTURE GAME PLAN FOGGY
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amSo, now that Eric Mangini has been hired as head coach of the Jets, what can anyone expect from him in terms of what kind of team he'll put on...
COACH FITS JETS' BILL
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amNearly one-third of the NFL's 32 teams will have a new head coach for the 2006 season and only one of them, the Jets, opted to bring Eric Mangini in...
CURRY IS READY FOR RETURN TO CHICAGO
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES For a professional athlete to admit he's nervous, there usually has to be a great reason. Well, before he was traded to the Knicks in October, Eddy Curry...
AMAZIN'S SIGN JAPANESE RIGHTY
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe Mets have agreed in principle to a deal with pitcher Yusaku Iriki, according to a source familiar with the situation. Iriki, a 32-year-old righty who spent last year with...
GAELS BLOW PAST FAIRFIELD
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amIona 89 - Fairfield 72 Iona's senior class has logged thousands of minutes, played hundreds of games, attained a host of accomplishments. But none had ever walked off the court...
DEVS REMAIN PERFECT IN '06
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amDevils 5 - Blues 3 ST. LOUIS - In a mediocre Devils season, this has been a very good year. Perfect, in fact, even if last night's triumph over the...
STORM SURGE - JOHNNIES POUND PITINO'S CARDINALS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amSt. John's 68 - Louisville 56 When the final horn sounded on one of the most stunning upsets of the college basketball season, the coach with the national championship ring...
LOTS OF WORK TO BE DONE
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amTHE ultimate hope has to be that Eric Mangini eventually will elevate the Jets to a place where their institutional arrogance is matched by their performance on the football field....
HE'S A REAL BOY WONDER - JETS' GAMBLE MAKES MANGINI YOUNGEST COACH
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amThere was a time when Eric Mangini was not the youngest guy in the room, when he wasn't this whiz kid wowing all the grizzled veterans around him. It was...
GUEST OF HONOR - PITINO'S CARDS INVADE GARDEN TO BATTLE STORM
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amRick Pitino walked into the Garden last night and took his place in front of visitor's bench, just as he did when he was the coach at Providence or when...
NO A-ROD FOR U.S. ON VERGE OF DEADLINE
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe deadline for submitting the USA Baseball preliminary roster was extended by seven hours yesterday, which meant Alex Rodriguez's status remained unknown into late last night. It's still uncertain whether...
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY - A-ROD COMMITS TO U.S FOR 'CLASSIC'
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amThere were three choices for Alex Rodriguez regarding the upcoming World Baseball Classic: He could bypass it, play for the USA or play for the Dominican Republic. A-Rod is going...
SEVENTH HEAVEN - DEVILS REMAIN PERFECT IN '06
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amDevils 5 Blues 3 ST. LOUIS - In a mediocre Devils season, this has been a very good year. Perfect, in fact, even if last night's triumph wasn't. The Devils...
METROS, AMADO NEAR SPLIT
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amIt appears the MetroStars and former league MVP Amado Guevara - their disgruntled and deposed team captain - are likely to part ways. His war of words with the team's...
IT'S NOW OR NEVER FOR GAELS
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amAt Iona, the winningest basketball program in the metropolitan area over the past decade, seasons are measured by banners on the wall and trophies in the case. The Gaels haven't...
CHI RETURN HAS CURRY ON EDGE
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES For a professional athlete to admit he's nervous, there usually has to be a great reason.Well, before he was traded to the Knicks in October, Eddy Curry had...
JINTS AX DB COACH
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe Giants' defensive shortcomings this season were evident: They were weak against the pass, and those in their secondary were mostly incapable of making big plays or holding the football....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 18, 2006 | 5:00amThe Rev. James Rual Chalk has tied the knot for the third time - at the age of 100. And since his bride is a spry 68, you might say...