January 28, 2006
SITE TAKES BETS ON SUPER BOWL ADS
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amFiguring that Super Bowl ads are almost as big as the game, an Internet gambling site is now taking bets on the most popular commercial. Oddsmakers at PinnacleSports.com are basing...
HERMES TIES UP DOWNTOWN LEASE
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amThe God of Merchants is staking a pioneering claim downtown. Luxury retailer Hermes has signed a lease for a 5,500 square-foot store at the corner of Broad and Exchange Streets,...
PROFITS LIGHT UP THE DOW
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amWall Street is surprising itself with a quaint trading playbook from yesteryear - stocks jumping due to real companies earning real profits. "It was a refreshing change to see Wall...
TAKE TWO TALKS; CASH-STRAPPED CO. LOOKING TO BUYOUT FIRMS
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amWith its cash dwindling and regulators circling, the edgy Take Two Interactive is looking for a financial lifeline from buyout firms. Take Two, which makes the popular "Grand Theft Auto,"...
GIMME SHELTER
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amGoodbye to Drake ONE of the choicest parcels of developable real estate on Park Avenue is about to change hands. Sources tell us the Drake Swissotel at 56th and Park...
HOME SHOPPING CLUB - BROOKLYN STYLE
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amRico 384 Atlantic Ave., at Hoyt Street, Brooklyn (718) 797-2077 Sale: through Feb. 28 Open: Sat., Sun., noon-7 p.m./Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Overstock, floor samples and custom orders are up...
SOULFUL BRIT IS LEGIT
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amLEWIS TAYLOR UNKNOWN in American mainstream music, London's blue-eyed soul man Lewis Taylor set about to change that Thursday with a towering concert at the Bowery Ballroom that connected the...
BEAUTY OF THE BEAST - DOES ANYONE ON 'IDOL' OWN A MIRROR?
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amMAYBE it's the age-old draw of the freak show that we don't get to see in this modern, p.c. world. Or maybe it's because it's just flat-out hilarious. Or maybe...
FREY FRACAS NO BOOST FOR OPRAH
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amTHURSDAY'S face-off between Oprah Win frey and embattled memoirist James Frey on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" resulted in no significant increase in the show's ratings. The show made headlines around...
AID BACKLA$H AT 'HAMAS-IDE'; WORLD COULD CUT OFF A BILLION TO TERROR GOV'T
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amThe world threatened yesterday to put the squeeze on Hamas - denying as much as a billion dollars in promised aid to the Palestinians unless the terror group recognizes the...
ANGER AS TREES FALL IN B'KLYN
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amBrooklyn Heights residents are up in arms over the loss of five beautiful trees cut down in the prime of life last week. The city Parks Department hauled off the...
COPS FOLD BIG L.I. POKER DEN
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amSix people were being held by police after cops busted an illegal poker operation run from a Long Island warehouse. Nassau police and members of the DA's Squad raided the...
PAIR LEFT 'DRUGS' ALL OVER DEAD COKE TOT'S PAD: COPS
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amA Bronx couple busted after the woman's toddler daughter died with cocaine in her system went to no great pains to keep drugs from her kids, court documents show. Cops...
L.I. THUGS DOUBLE UP
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amThe victim of a beating and robbery on Long Island was attacked twice by a group of thugs. The victim saw his three assailants run into a home on Wellesley...
HUMILIATING LOSS IGNITES FIERY FATAH FURY IN GAZA
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Some 20,000 angry members of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' defeated Fatah Party protested in the Gaza Strip yesterday, burning abandoned cars, shooting in the air and demanding corrupt...
'PSYCHO' BROOKLYN WOMAN SLAYS HER GRANDMA: COPS
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn woman with a history of mental illness killed her grandmother with a pair of scissors yesterday, then called 911 to confess, police said. Officers found Zoila Mosquera, 45,...
GUNS BLAZE IN BX.; TRIGGERMAN KILLED IN A HAIL OF 30 BULLETS AFTER FIRING ON COPS
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amVice cops shot a body-armor-clad gunman dead in The Bronx yesterday morning after he walked into an illegal after-hours joint they were busting up and opened fire on the officers...
'SHOPLIFTER' IN FIERY PANTY RAID; STEAMY LINGERIE IS ARSON-NICKED IN HARLEM HEIST
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amA pyromaniac panty pirate set off a series of fire sales at Harlem clothing stores - setting undergarments ablaze as a diversion to make off with shoplifted lingerie, fire officials...
HEROIN RING SMACKED DOWN
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amCops and the feds busted an elaborate dope smuggling ring - "dubbed the Panama Express" - that used dozens of "swallowers" to transport heroin from Latin America to New York,...
MIKE RAISES HOPE FOR WTC
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg sounded downright optimistic yesterday that developer Larry Silverstein would relinquish control of part of the Ground Zero site, as the mayor has been urging. "I think we can...
SMART CAM TAKES AIM
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amSmart cameras - which can detect a gunshot and rotate in that direction to capture the shooter on video - will be the latest high-tech weapon in the war against...
AID BACKLA$H ; AT 'HAMAS-IDE' ; WORLD COULD CUT OFF A BILLION TO TERROR GOV'T
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amThe world threatened yesterday to put the squeeze on Hamas - denying as much as a billion dollars in promised aid to the Palestinians unless the terror group recognizes the...
YUKS AT KERRY'S 'YODEL'; W. DERIDES SKI BUM
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush's spokesman yesterday ridiculed Sen. John Kerry's decision to go "yodeling" for a filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito "from a five-star ski resort in the...
FANATICAL NO. 1 THUG EYES RETURN FROM EXILE
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amHamas' exiled leader survived an Israeli poisoning plot. Now he feels it's safe to come home. Khaled Mashaal, who runs Hamas from the relative safety of Damascus, Syria, has phoned...
CONEY CAROUSELLING POINT
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amPart of a famous Brighton Beach bathhouse could be reassembled near the historic Coney Island Parachute Jump to house another Brooklyn seaside attraction - the old B&B Carousell, The Post...
ARBITER'S TASK
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amThe decision whether or not the contract dispute between transit workers and the MTA should be sent to binding arbitration now rests with one man. Rick Curreri, director of conciliation...
GENDER SPENDERS; GALS AND NOT GUYS CONTROL $$ CHOICES: STUDY
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amMen get to pick the family car - but it's women who sit in the driver's seat and call the shots on most other purchases, a new study has found....
ACCUSER 'ABRASIVE' TOWARD EX-KNICK
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amKnicks sex-harassment accuser Anucha Browne Sanders claims team president Isiah Thomas turned the players against her - but she did that all by herself, a former co-worker charged yesterday. Contrary...
EVEN ARAB WORLD IS SAYING RENOUNCE VIOLENCE
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Even the Arabs are leaning on Hamas to renounce terrorism. The militant group which now controls the Palestinian parliament should recognize Israel, Arab League Secretary General Amr Mousa...
BUS FUSS OVER KIDS' TUTORING
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amCity education officials said yesterday that providing busing for new mandatory tutoring sessions beginning next month would cost $24 million through the end of the school year. The cost of...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** Two thieves held up an Upper East Side coffee shop early yesterday, police sources said. The suspects walked into a Dunkin' Donuts on First Avenue near East 93rd...
MISS AMERICAN FLY ; 'PIE' STAR FUGITIVE SKIPS COURT DATE
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amDrug and illness-plagued "American Pie" fallen star Natasha Lyonne is a fugitive from the law again. A Manhattan Criminal Court judge yesterday signed an arrest warrant after the former indie-film...
A RED-HOT 2005 FOR FDNY
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amLast year broke a longtime mark for FDNY emergency calls, torch ing the record set in 1977, the year The Bronx was famously burning. "Two thousand five will go down...
1ST DEPUTY PAY BEATS MIKE'S
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amIt looks like a new tradition has been established in the Bloomberg administration: a higher salary for the first deputy mayor than for the mayor himself. Records made public yesterday...
SARAH-SLAY SUSPECT IN FIGHT TRIAL
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amThe prime suspect in the grisly Sarah Fox murder will go on trial Tuesday in an unrelated assault case - but already the young Juilliard student's ghost is hovering over...
JUDGE EYES NIXZMARY-SIB CUSTODY
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn judge swatted down a request yesterday by the mother of murdered 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown for telephone access to her five surviving children, but said she'd consider custody and...
PARTY'S OVER FOR RIGGED JUDGE ELEX
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amA federal judge yesterday stripped political party bosses of their power to pick judges, handing a stunning victory to reformers who want to inject democracy into a system tainted with...
OPRAH IN DISS OF LIFE; SPURS FREY'S SALES
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amA kick from Oprah is as good as a kiss - at least when it come to book sales. Embattled author James Frey discovered that yesterday when sales of his...
'RACE ATTACKER' IN BRIBE RAP
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amProsecutors have an audio tape that they say proves the accused ringleader of a race attack last summer offered cops a $700 bribe when they arrested him for spray-painting a...
I NEVER TRIED TO GET HER TO HAVE SEX WITH ME ; TEARY-EYED ISIAH DENIES GAL'S HARASS CLAIMS IN GARDEN TALK
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amAfter days of being battered by claims he is a sexual harasser, Knicks GM Isiah Thomas broke down with emotion before last night's game at Madison Square Garden as he...
DEATH-GUN FURY; CHANCE MISSED TO SEIZE COP-SLAY PISTOL
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amThe gun used to kill Officer Daniel Enchautegui could have been taken off the streets four years ago. But a Westchester County detective whose job it was to track it...
COP, 31, COLLAPSES AND DIES
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amAn NYPD cop died yesterday after collapsing during a struggle with a teen shoplifter on the Upper East Side, authorities said. The tragic death of Officer Kevin Lee, 31, occurred...
HEAT ON ARBITER
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amThe decision whether or not the contract dispute between transit workers and the MTA should be sent to binding arbitration now rests with one man. Rick Curreri, director of conciliation...
NO VIN, NO WIN - ACHING CARTER SITS AND NETS FEEL PAIN
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amBlazers 88Nets 83 PORTLAND - At the beginning of the game, the Nets saw just how much they miss Vince Carter. And they were painfully reminded how much they miss...
'JAM' HEADS PAUMONOK FIELD
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amWild Jam, who came from off pace to win Brutally Frank Stakes at Big A Jan. 8 off two-month layoff, is one to beat under Ramon Dominguez in today's $65,000...
DIPIETRO BACK IN ISLES' NETS
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amBOSTON - The Islanders will go back to Rick DiPietro in net tonight, looking to string together two straight wins for the first time in more than a month. DiPietro,...
BAILEY'S FINAL RIDE TODAY
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amHighlighted by Cigar's 16-race winning streak and two straight Horse of the Year titles, along with dozens of other Grade 1 winners dating back to Fraise's victory in the 1992...
GATTI'S GOAL: BE ON 'GAARD
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amATLANTIC CITY - From the devastating beating he suffered by Lloyd Mayweather in June, Arturo Gatti's tears finally are dried out. But no longer is his body. "I came in...
RANGERS SEEK A QUICK START
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amWith Tuesday's 2-1 loss to the Sabres fresh in their minds, the Rangers want nothing more than to avoid another disappointment this afternoon against the Penguins. The Blueshirts were outhustled,...
QYNTEL LOOKS FOR CHANCE
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amSometimes, for prodigious talent to reach its full potential, a player has to have his hubris tempered by humility. Sometimes hard-learned lessons and hard-earned maturity turn a sense of entitlement...
PEDRO'S NO LOCK ; WBC HINGES ON RIGHT-TOE INJURY
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amOmar Minaya insisted that if Pedro Martinez is "not 100 percent" early in spring training, the Mets would urge their ace not to participate in the World Baseball Classic in...
DOLAN STILL AN ISIAH FAN ; MSG BOSS HAS THOMAS' BACK (FOR MOMENT)
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amMSG chairman James Dolan finally broke his silence on Isiah Thomas yesterday, saying through his spokesman last night that his high opinion of Thomas as the team's president "has not...
UNLUCKY JAMES NOW SPORTING NECK BRACE
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Knicks center Jerome James showed up yesterday for the morning shootaround in a neck brace. His first season as a Knick has almost become comical and, sure enough,...
KNICKS CAN ONLY WIN BY LOSING PREZ
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amNOBODY and nothing is going to tell Jim Dolan he has to get rid of his basketball boss. Not the fans, not columnists, not even the NBA standings, which had...
NETS NOT LIKELY TO MAKE DEAL
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES PORTLAND - The Ron Artest trade finally went through. And then Boston and Minnesota combined on a big seven-player, three-pick swap. But just because others are dealing, don't...
FANS: WE BACK ISIAH
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amIt remains to be seen how former marketing director Anucha Browne-Sanders' sexual harassment lawsuit against Isiah Thomas plays out in a court of law. But in the court of public...
NEW DEAL FOR MARTY
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - Martin Brodeur is signed as a Devil through age 40. "It was supposed to be [yesterday] or [today], but somebody jumped the gun," Brodeur, now 33, said...
DEVILS CAN'T SCORE, AGAIN
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amPanthers 4Devils 0 SUNRISE, Fla. - The Devils took that Sunshine State stuff too seriously. They looked like the Sunshine Boys, shut out back-to-back for the first time since 1983....
STEPH HURT AS SKID ENDS
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amKnicks 97Magic 94 Even the wins are painful. The Knicks' six-game losing streak was snapped at the Garden last night, but so nearly was Stephon Marbury's left shoulder. The Knicks...
NO VIN, NO WIN- ACHING CARTER SITS AND NETS FEEL PAIN
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amBlazers 88Nets 83 PORTLAND - The Nets saw just how much they miss Vince Carter at the start of the game last night. And they were painfully reminded again just...
R.J. SAYS THIS LOSS IS ON HIM
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES PORTLAND - Richard Jefferson who missed three straight free throws during the final 2:39 after committing two turnovers earlier in the fourth quarter, took the blame for the...
FANS TAKING ISIAH'S SIDE
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amIt remains to be seen how former marketing director Anucha Browne Saunders' sexual harassment lawsuit against Isiah Thomas plays out in a court of law. But in the court of...
DOLAN STILL AN ISIAH FAN - MSG BOSS HAS 'FULL CONFIDENCE' IN THOMAS
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amMSG chairman James Dolan finally broke his silence on Isiah Thomas yesterday, saying through his spokesman last night that his opinion of Thomas as the team's president "has not changed...
LOW POINTS - NETS NEED BETTER DEFENSE TO COUNTERACT LOSS OF VINCE'S OFFENSE
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amPORTLAND - Vince Carter was face-down on the trainer's table, receiving more treatment for his aching lower back. In the adjacent room, coaches and teammates talked about the best way...
BRODEUR NOW DEVIL FOR LIFE - GETS 6-YEAR, $34M EXTENSION
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - It's all settled but for the formal announcement: Martin Brodeur is signed as a Devil through age 40. "It was supposed to be [yesterday] or [today], but...
PIAZZA, PODS CLOSE - CATCHER MAY LAND IN SAN DIEGO
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amMike Piazza is moving closer to signing with the Padres, but the Yankees and Phillies still have not completely closed the door on the 12-time All-Star, sources told the Post...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
January 28, 2006 | 5:00amA high-school teacher in Lexington, Ky., apparently thought there were four R's to education - reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic and R-rated movies. He was suspended - and later quit - after...