January 21, 2006
MORGAN'S MACK BUSTS A MOVE
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amMorgan Stanley chief John Mack's rebuilding effort may bring top-shelf money manager BlackRock under the mammoth investment bank's roof. The possible deal, first reported yesterday by CNBC, would be Mack's...
MAYS, BENZINO ARE OUT-SOURCED
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amDavid Mays, founder of the hip-hop magazine The Source, has left the building after more than 16 years at the title's helm, taking with him his muscle man and president,...
GAMBLING HIT FOR ALLEN PUB
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amMicrosoft co-founder Paul Allen has been a bad boy. The Sporting News, which is owned by Allen's Vulcan Ventures, agreed to a $7.2 million settlement with the feds over claims...
GIMME SHELTER
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amPrince of thieves EVEN a prince can sometimes look like a pauper. Papers have been filed by the board of directors at Trump Park Avenue against a member of Qatar's...
MY NEW HOME
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amA PERFECT FIT SHE BOUGHT: West Village studio, $305,000 SEARCH TIME: One month IT'S not easy finding space to stash your stuff in a 400-square-foot studio - but as first-time...
WORD OF MOUSE - WANT TO KNOW WHICH LUXE NEW CONDOS SUIT YOUR LIFESTYLE? VISIT THE WEB SITES
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amAS any developers worth their salt will tell you, selling units in a luxury building isn't just a matter of selling an apartment. It's also about selling a lifestyle. To...
HOME SHOPPING CLUB - ABSOLUTELY FABRIC
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amThe New York Botanical Garden Shop Bronx River Parkway, at Fordham Road, The Bronx (718) 817-8073 Sale: through Jan. 31 Open: Tues.-Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Gardening gadgets, botanical accessories and...
GIVES DARWIN A BAD NAME
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amUNDERWORLD EVOLUTION* (one star) Fangs for nothing.Running time: 105 minutes. Rated R (gory violence, profanity, partial nudity). At the E- Walk, the 84th Street, the 34th Street, others. 'UNDERWORLD Evolution"...
BACK TO MUNICH
January 21, 2006 | 5:00am"Munich:The Real Assassins" Tomorrow at 10 p.m. on Discovery Channel * * * (three stars) YOU really have to hand it to the Israelis. Throughout its short his tory (just...
HEIRLOOM SUPPLY - ANTIQUES AWAIT THIS WEEKEND
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amARE there such things as antique-istas? If so, they'll be out in droves for the shows. Not those shows: Call it fashion week for the Chippendales set - and we're...
INSIDE JOKERS - CATCH A RISING SEINFELD - EVERY NIGHT OF THE WEEK
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amSURE, anyone can turn on cable to watch a club-circuit comedian offering his top line, but how many can say they played a drinking game with one of them?At How...
'NANNY' KNOW-HOW - CHILD-REARING TIPS, REAL AND REEL, WITH EMMA THOMPSON
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amTO Emma Thompson's dismay, it took only an hour to transform from her glamorous, Oscar-winning self into the uni-browed, potato-nosed Nanny McPhee. "My makeup artist, Jeremy Woodhead, just slapped all...
DIG IT! THE AUTHOR OF 'HOLES' STEPS INTO A WHOLE NEW TALE
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amPLEASE don't call it a sequel. Louis Sachar, the author of "Holes," prefers to call his new novel a "follow-up." Out this week, "Small Steps" follows Armpit, one of Stanley...
PAINT LAW DEFIE$ MIKE
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amA new lead-paint law passed over Mayor Bloomberg's veto has cost one-third of what Hizzoner predicted when he tried to kill the law, a city watchdog agency has found. The...
ONE LULU OF A COUNCIL $$ CUT
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amCity Councilman Tony Avella (D-Queens) - who has turned down his $8,000 annual stipend, or lulu, for chairing a council committee each of the last five years - is campaigning...
JURY NAILS COURTHOUSE TV GUNMAN
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Jurors yesterday convicted an elderly gunman who made national headlines two years ago when he shot a lawyer in an attack captured by TV cameras. It took...
OSAMA'S FAVE WRITER IS PLEASED
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A Brooklyn-born writer said yesterday he had "no problem" being quoted by Osama bin Laden in his latest diatribe and added he shares the arch-terrorist's opposition to American...
WHAT QUOTAS? MIKE DEFENDS PARKING TIX
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amThe public wants the traffic laws enforced, Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday as he tried to fend off an official finding that cops have to meet parking-ticket quotas - hugely unpopular...
BUSH BOOST TO SPY GUYS
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush is visiting the headquarters of the super-secret National Security Agency next week, the latest move in a campaign to bolster support of his domestic surveillance program....
80G THIEF BAGGED FOR A YEAR
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amA Kennedy Airport baggage screener who used his job to steal $80,000 from a passenger's checked suitcase was sentenced to a year in jail, the Queens district attorney announced yesterday....
STABBED OFFICER'S BRAVERY
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amThe hero court officer who tackled one of the knife-wielding goons in a Brooklyn courthouse said yesterday he was so focused on taking the man down that he didn't realize...
SCHOOL FLUNK SHOCK; MORE ON 'FAILING' LIST
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amIn a surprising reversal of a six-year trend, more city public schools were added to the state's list of poor performers than dropped, state and city education officials announced yesterday....
EARTH TO TWU; TIME TO GET REAL, GUYS
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amOK. No more Mr. Nice City. If New York's transit workers dare to strike again, they should be arrested by the thousands and fired en masse. Their first strike, back...
NEW PRINCE OF WHALES; CRITTER THRILLS LONDON
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amThar she blows! Thousands of Londoners crowded the Thames embankment yesterday for a glimpse of a small whale that lost its way and swam upriver, past some of the world's...
DEPUTY DAN'S THE MAN AT CITY HALL
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amThe reshuffling of Mayor Bloomberg's inner circle has left one official standing tallest: Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff (left). One source described him as now the most powerful staffer at City...
L.I. 'GATSBY' SLAY CHARGES
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amThe boyfriend of a young mother bludgeoned to death - and dumped near the Long Island estate that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel "The Great Gatsby" - was charged...
MIKE: $PARE KID WELFARE
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg plans to save the city's embattled child-welfare agency from his across-the-board budget ax. But he doesn't think a fiscal shortfall led to the Administration for Children's Services' failure...
SCHOOL SLASHERS; 'GANG' PUNKS IN QUEENS MAYHEM
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amA gang of haywire teens in yellow bandannas cut a trail of terror through Queens yesterday, slashing one student on his way to Hillcrest HS, pummeling another with a bat...
WEB SITE A HOT HOSP RX
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - New Yorkers took to their computers en masse over the last two days to check out a new state Web site profiling hospital performances. The state Department of...
JUDGE 'BELTS' BIBLE; B'KLYN QUOTE SQUAWK
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amA newly elected Brooklyn judge is considering removing a Biblical quote that adorns her courtroom, saying she finds it too "patriarchal." Surrogate Margarita Lopez-Torres told The Post she's thinking about...
SUBWAY-PUSH LUNATIC TO HIGH COURT
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amManhattan prosecutors will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the murder conviction Andrew Goldstein, the psycho who shoved an actress in front of an N train. Their announcement came...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amBROOKLYN *** Police are asking for the public's help in identifying and locating this man (above), who has held up three banks in Gravesend and Starrett City in the past...
BLING, BANG, BOOM; HIGH-ROLLING LIFE OF SLAIN PAWN GUY
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amMoney, music, cars, women - murder. That was the life, and death, of Queens pawn-shop owner Richard Schoenfeld, who was killed by a shot to the face while behind his...
'I'M FREE!' REVLON RON CROWS AFTER HE DUMPS MOVIE STAR
January 21, 2006 | 5:00am"I'm a free man again," billionaire financier Ron Perelman boasted to a pal yesterday of his impending divorce from actress Ellen Barkin - a split sources say is rooted in...
PUNCH IN THE FACE FOR ROGER LIKELY TO FLATTEN TWU'S RANK AND FILE, TOO
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amTRANSPORT Workers Union boss Roger Toussaint is a labor "leader" in name only now. The transit workers' repudiation of Toussaint in rejecting the contract that he negotiated with the MTA...
7 VOTES CAUSE TRAIN WRECK; TRANSIT UNION'S SHOCKING SLAP AT TOUSSAINT AND COULD SET STAGE FOR YET ANOTHER ILLEGAL ; KILLS DEAL WALKOUT
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amRoger struck out. In a stunning and unprecedented move, bus and subway workers rejected their new contract by a mere seven votes yesterday, igniting fears of a second transit strike...
END OF LINE:DEAD MAN RIDES THE Q
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amAs Patricia Reilly slept alone in Thursday's wee hours, the Q train, passing just feet behind her Midwood, Brooklyn, home carried her husband's body - back and forth - for...
JUNKIE JUSTICE: BUS KILLS DRUGGIE
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amA drug user racing home after scoring some heroin was struck and killed by a school bus yesterday as he tried to scamper across several lanes of traffic in The...
IRAN MANIAC MEETS BOMB THUGS
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Iran's extremist president met with Palestinian terrorist groups - including one that bombed an Israeli restaurant the day before - and pledged support in "their struggle." Israel's defense...
TRIP PUT DEVS BACK ON TRACK
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amThey're back, in more ways than one. Finally over .500 for the first time since Dec. 3, the Devils return from a perfect road trip to face the Islanders at...
LATEST FIASCO PROVES JOHNSON SHOULD SELL
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amIF this is the kind of low-rent, two-bit organization Jets owner Woody Johnson is going to run, then he should do one of two things as soon as possible: He...
RECHARGED CAMPOLI'S SET TO GO
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amIt doesn't get any easier for the Islanders today when they face the Devils, the only team in the league as hot as the one they just played. The Isles,...
COMING SOON TO YOUR ARENA: FAN-FREE SEATS
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amI'M SURE the NBA hopes what happened in Chicago on Wednesday night is an isolated incident. Just as it hopes what happened in Auburn Hills 14 months ago is an...
SEALY A TRUE SJU LEGEND
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amMalik Sealy was a renaissance man before he was a man. When he wasn't leading Tolentine High School to the state championship, Sealy was taking up sewing and planning a...
'ROID MEMO EXPLAINS THE PITFALLS
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amThe Major League Baseball Players Association sent a memo to each member this week about the game's new drug-testing agreement, which goes into effect next month in spring training. The...
NO APOLOGY ; DEFIANT DAVIS RIPS INTO CHICAGO SECURITY
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amAntonio Davis said he has no regrets he took matters into his own hands Wednesday night, blaming the United Center security staff for inaction. Despite being banned five games and...
STATE TO TEST FOR MILKSHAKING
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amFollowing in footsteps of NYRA, which has been conducting its own random pre-race "milkshake" testing for past year, the N.Y. State Racing and Wagering Board has adopted an "emergency" rule...
RANGERS ROYALTY ; LEETCH IMPRESSED BY KING HENRIK
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amBOSTON - It's not that Brian Leetch saw it coming exactly, but the veteran defenseman, who spent 17 years with the Rangers, isn't exactly shocked by his former team's revival,...
BOOTHE DOES IT WITH 'D'
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amH.S. HOOPSCTK 50Rice 47 Malik Boothe isn't known for his offensive skills or scoring a lot of points, but that doesn't bother the Christ the King junior. Rather, the 5-8...
BROWN IRKED AT COMMISH
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES The testosterone continued to flow at Knicks camp yesterday, as Larry Brown questioned commissioner David Stern's judgment and said he would've been right behind Antonio Davis in the...
NETS REFUSE CELTICS' GIFT
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amCeltics 99Nets 96 BOSTON - The Celtics gave the Nets gift after bow-laded, pretty-papered, nicely-packaged gift. There were missed free throws. There were turnovers in bushels. And the Nets simply...
PIRATES RALLY TO SNAP SKID
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amOVERTIME S. Hall 94So. Fla. 89 Say this much for Seton Hall: What the Pirates lack in talent, they make up for with tenacity. Booed off the court down 13...
LET US OUT! MESS FOR MANGINI AS UNHAPPY AIDES ARE HELD 'HOSTAGE'
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amIt has come to this at Weeb Ewbank Hall: A stern gag order has been instituted by Jets management to all coaches about speaking to reporters. The team threatened legal...
SMOOTH SAILIN' - NETS BEST NAVIGATORS IN ATLANTIC
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amBOSTON - There was a period in the not-so-distant past when the NBA's Atlantic was known as the "Titanic Division." No one was at .500. Every team was a loser....
FORMER JET IS NOW PLAYING A MILE HIGH
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amDENVER - Sometimes, good things really do happen to good people. Such is the case with former Jet and current Broncos safety Nick Ferguson, who's gone from special-teams role player...
BROWN IRKED AT LEAGUE
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amThe testosterone continued to flow at Knicks camp yesterday, as Larry Brown questioned commissioner David Stern's judgment and said he would've been right behind Antonio Davis in the United Center...
SMALL WONDER - PINT-SIZED SMITH IS PANTHERS' BIG-PLAY OPTION
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amRarely does one player creep into the thinking, redirect a gameplan, attract the attention and summon up the fear that Steve Smith has created, seemingly bursting onto the scene in...
PIRATES BACK TO BOARDS
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amWhen Seton Hall wins, it does so on the strength of rebounding and defending. But in each of the Pirates' three straight losses going into last night's match with South...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 21, 2006 | 5:00amGuess who thinks it's the pits when celebrities give their kids ridiculous names? It's Peaches Geldof, the 16-year-old daughter of Sir Bob Geldof and the late Paula Yates. "My weird...