February 4, 2006
CARL'S BACKUP - WASSERSTEIN HELPS BUDDY ICAHN FIGHT TIME WARNER
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amLegendary dealmaker Bruce Wasserstein plans to make a rare appearance in the public eye - to help fellow billionaire Carl Icahn prove Time Warner should be broken to bits. The...
$55M PAD, NEEDS TLC
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amNEWS MANHATTAN has a new benchmark asking price for a townhouse - and the place needs some work. Banker Jacqui Safra and his longtime squeeze, Jean Doumanian, the former business...
WALK THE HIGH LINE - NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND HOT SPOTS ARE RAISING THE STAKES IN CHELSEA
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amA resident of West Chelsea for a bit over a year now, technology consultant Elcio Salgado cites the neighborhood's quiet as one of its main selling points. "I can go...
CHAPPELLE SPEAKS: 'WHY I WENT AWOL'
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amWACKO comic Dave Chappelle didn't even tell his wife that he was leaving last year after he walked off the set of his hit Comedy Central show - and disappeared...
CALL THIS REMAKE A HARD CELL
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amINEPTLY directed by Simon West ("Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"), the scare-free "When a Stranger Calls" is the worst of the seminal horror movies from the late '70s and early '80s...
SCARE-HAIRED GIRL - BELLE DOESN'T JUST PHONE IT IN
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amCAN'T our horror-movie starlets just be ditzy and shrill, for old times' sake? Take the 1979 cult film "When a Stranger Calls," in which a creepy crank caller terrorized Carol...
PAWS IN ACTION - PLAYFUL PUPS A NICE BREAK FROM OTHER 'BOWL'
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amTHE Super Bore. Not for nuthin' but why did a game in which giant men crash into each other until someone's seriously injured become a revered national holiday - that...
ABC AIRS WOODRUFF IRAQ TAPE
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amABC News last night broadcast the videotape that was being shot when anchorman Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were wounded in Iraq by a roadside bomb last Sunday. The...
MASSAGE TABLE FOR TWO
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amVALENTINE'S Day is traditionally the second busiest restaurant night of the year (more people have mothers than lovers), so you might want to come up with a romantic alternative to...
WOUNDED GIS HIT THE SLOPES
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amNew York firefighters are in the Catskills this weekend to train severely injured veterans of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan in how to ski. For most of the 30...
CASINO-BOUND BUS FLIPS IN N.J.
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amIt wasn't a lucky night for 55 passengers riding a bus to Atlantic City after their bus slid down an embankment yesterday, flipped over and landed on its wheels, authorities...
MIKE'S NEW MIND GAMES
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe city might still be carrying a torch for the Olympics, Mayor Bloomberg hinted yesterday. For the first time since the city lost its bid for the 2012 games, Bloomberg...
POLITICAL RAY OF HOPE FOR KELLY
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly (left) might want to rethink his strategy of steering clear of elective office, after a poll yesterday showed him with the highest approval ratings of his...
CITY VOTERS HAVE A HEART FOR WAL-MART
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amDespite the reservations they have about Wal-Mart, most New Yorkers support allowing the retail giant to open here and two-thirds would shop at one of the stores if it were...
POL SHEPHERDS AN OFFICIAL STATE DOG
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amBet you thought the hot dog was New York's official state dog. Actually, there is no Empire State dog - but that will soon change if state Assemblyman Vincent Ignizio...
MAKING UP FOR LOST 'TIME' - KIN RECOVER FALLEN WTC HERO'S TREASURED WRISTWATCH AT LAST
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe family of a volunteer firefighter who died a hero's death on Sept. 11 reclaimed a priceless memento yesterday - the gold watch Glenn Winuk was wearing when he rushed...
ALBANY PULLING LEASH - DRUG-DOGGY LAW
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Call it "Labs' Law." A top state assemblyman is readying legislation that would make it a felony to use animals in the commission of a crime. Assembly Republican...
S.I. BUS PARENTS RIP EVIL EMPIRE
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amStudents who rode the "Death Cheese Bus" said yesterday the Emperor's goon squad lorded over a lawless domain, wildly shoving other kids and putting them in headlocks as the bus...
GOING ATOMIC OVER A COMIC - LOONY GOONS IN UN-PROPHET-ABLE RIOT & HATE SPREE
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe insane fury over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed escalated sharply yesterday as tens of thousands of Muslim protesters vented their rage in more than a dozen countries - chanting...
SCHOOL 'PERV' NABBED
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amA Bronx middle-school speech therapist boozed up one of his 13-year-old students and repeatedly fondled him during sleepovers at his Queens home, police charged yesterday. William Piccione, 59, was spotted...
'TERROR SHAKE' TO SPEND 15 YRS. IN STIR - ICE CREAM MAN FUNNELED $$
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amA Yemeni ice cream shop owner with reputed terrorism ties was sentenced to 15 years behind bars for using his Brooklyn business to illegally funnel millions of dollars overseas. "I...
ROCKAWAY DRUG THUGS BUSTED
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amCops rounded up 43 members of a violent Far Rockaway drug gang who held residents of a city housing project and a nearby private apartment building in a vise-like grip...
CORETTA QUACK OUTRAGE - FAKE DOC FLEES MEX DEATH CLINIC
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe cancer "doctor" who runs the Mexican clinic where Coretta Scott King died this week abruptly closed up shop and has not been seen since, officials said yesterday. Dr. Kurt...
'SOPRANOS' BAR BRAWL
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens man active in conservative politics was arrested yesterday for punching out a former friend in a fight that stemmed from an affair the man had with his ex-pal's...
HILL'S DUST STORM - RIPS W. FOR 9/11 TOXIC 'COVER-UP'
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amFederal environmental officials - with White House prodding - deliberately misled New Yorkers about the danger posed by toxic dust after the 9/11 attacks and are now covering it up,...
'HIP-HOP' COP A DRUG ROBBER: PAL
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amCaught in Washington Heights last month behind the wheel of a Chevy Tahoe full of guns, a Queens cop wisely kept his mouth shut. But a chatterbox in the back...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amTHE BRONX * Police are asking for the public's assistance in identifying a murder victim found burned in an Olinville park last month. A Parks Department worker made the gruesome...
SURPRISE SHOWER SUIT
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amSomething old, something new, something borrowed, something . . . wet. A landmark Hudson Valley hotel is suing a Manhattan woman for $87,637.51 because two years ago she "unlawfully" hung...
HILL CHILLS ABORT PALS
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The nation's most prominent pro-choice spokeswoman blasted Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for giving $10,000 to right-to-life Pennsylvania Democrat Bob Casey and accused the former first lady of "putting...
SHOT COP'S DAD HAILS DOCTORS
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe father of the off-duty cop brutally beaten at a Bronx White Castle - and later shot by a fellow officer in a tragic case of mistaken identity - offered...
I'M RIGHT ON SKEDS: KLEIN
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein yesterday defended his plan to extend the school day for some 340,000 struggling students starting next week against criticism that it will be a scheduling nightmare...
SNUB - MAYOR SKIPS W. GALA AFTER GAL PAL JOB DISS; MIKE: SNUB YA, DUBYA
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg is snubbing President Bush - declining to show up at a White House gala after his gal pal's bid for a top Washington job was shot down by...
EPIPHANNY REGRETS RECORD SCORE - SORRY HER COACH TOOK ALL THE HEAT
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amBasketball phenom Epiphanny Prince underwent a real-life epiphany yesterday after critics lambasted her coach for letting her run up the score against a weaker high-school team with a record-setting 113...
DIRTY TRASH TRICK - HAULER 'EXTORTION'
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amA Long Island woman says a trash-hauling company played a dirty trick on her when they dumped tons of wood, plastic, glass and other construction debris on her front lawn...
CAR SMASH PUTS TEEN GIRL IN HOSP
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amA teenage girl was badly injured trying to cross a busy street in Queens yesterday when a car slammed into her, police and witnesses said. The accident happened in front...
LANCE, SHERYL HIT BRAKES - CYCLIST & SINGER SPLIT UP
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amPower couple Sheryl Crow and Lance Armstrong officially called off their engagement yesterday, ending speculation about their status. A spokesman for Armstrong, the 34-year-old seven-time Tour de France champion, released...
BX. STEPDAD'S 'DEADLY RAGE'
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amA Bronx man accused of savagely beating his girlfriend's 4-year-old son to death claimed he was "blind with rage" when he allegedly hit the tot, the mother's lawyer revealed yesterday....
BX. TEEN STABBED TO DEATH
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amA Bronx teen died yesterday after he was viciously beaten and stabbed by a gang of men outside a liquor store near his home, police said. Michael Canselmo, 17, was...
PARENTS RIP NEW SCHOOL SCHEDULES
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Joel Klein yesterday defended his plan to extend the school day for some 340,000 struggling students starting next week against criticism that it will be a scheduling nightmare...
POL GROOMS SHEPHERD AS A NEW YORKIE
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amBet you thought the hot dog was New York's official state dog. Well, it isn't. Truth is, there is no Empire State dog - but that will soon change if...
BUS KIN RIP EVIL EMPIRE
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amStudents who rode the "Death Cheese Bus" said yesterday that the Emperor's goon squad lorded over a lawless domain, wildly shoving other kids and putting them in headlocks as the...
DUMPED-ON GAL TALKING TRASH - SAYS 'EXTORTION' HAULERS DID DIRTY DEED
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amA Long Island woman says a trash-hauling company played a dirty trick on her when they dumped tons of wood, plastic, glass and other construction debris on her front lawn...
COPS BUST 43 DRUG THUGS
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amCops rounded up 43 members of a violent Far Rockaway drug gang who held residents of a city housing project and a nearby private apartment building in a viselike grip...
CHENEY RAPS 'LEAKY' TIMES
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Cheney yesterday said The New York Times' revelation of a top-secret intercept program to track al Qaeda was "most egregious" and did "enormous damage to our...
HOLDING HER LIQUOR: ROD'S VODKA-VIXEN DAUGHTER 86'D AT SIXTY
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amD'YA think she's tipsy? Pampered rock princess Kimberly Stewart was barred from the Miss Sixty show Thursday night after she refused to put down her vodka-on-the-rocks. Rod Stewart's leggy blond...
LOHAN-TAILORED - STAR JOINS ROCK KIDS FOR HEARTY, ARTY SHOW
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amRed-hot starlet Lindsay Lohan brought down the house at the Heart Truth Red Dress show yesterday, throwing up a devil-horn salute to get Fashion Week rock-'n'-rolling. Striding down the runway...
GI SNOW JOB
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amNew York firefighters are in the Catskills this weekend to train severely injured veterans of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan in how to ski. For most of the 30...
LAGAT IS CLASS OF MILE FIELD
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amMILLROSE GAMES The fabled Wanamaker Mile moved back to its traditional spot as the Millrose Games finale, the linchpin of the meet and the deepest mile field ever assembled in...
STRATTON COMES UP SHORT
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amTrack was muddy, sealed for first four races, harrowed for fifth, upgraded to good for eighth. Jose Santos notched career win 3,999 taking feature on 3-5 favorite Flaming Heart. 1ST...
ONLY ONE QB CAN BE KING - THIS COULD BE MATT'S LAST SHOT TO WEAR CROWN
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amDETROIT - This will be the defining moment for one of them, the exact instance when one gets admission into the Quarterbacks Who Can club and the other glumly retreats...
RANGERS BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amRANGERS at FLYERS Today 5:00 - MSG; ESPN (1050) Nearly four months have passed since Opening Day - the last time the Rangers visited Philadelphia. That night, a 5-3 Rangers...
NETS FACE HEAT WAVE
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amHEAT at NETS - Today 1:00 - YES; WGAN (660 AM) The Nets got 51 points from Vince Carter when they played the Heat in December. It was a Miami...
PERSONAL PAIN TRUMPS CARSON'S HALL HOPES
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amDETROIT - The new inductees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame will be announced today, but while Harry Carson, the Giants' nine-time Pro Bowl middle linebacker, is a finalist...
FEELY HELPED MAKE HAWKS SUPER
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amSUPER BOWL XL CONFIDENTIAL DETROIT - Among the many players from other NFL teams who have flocked here this week, one had more to do with the Seahawks advancing to...
A STEP BACKWARD - NFL IGNORES MINORITIES AGAIN
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amDETROIT - When Tony Dungy was guiding the Colts to what looked to be a magical season, when Marvin Lewis had the Bengals back in contention and Lovie Smith was...
MARTY RECALLS STEVENS' GRIT
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amTo most in and around hockey, Scott Stevens will be remembered most for his bone-crunching, open-ice hits. They were textbook bellringers, usually during the postseason, and the recipients almost always...
HARD ROAD FOR RED STORM
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amAfter St. John's finished practicing yesterday, coach Norm Roberts advised a reporter against waiting for junior Daryll Hill, who was on the other side of the court doing some extra...
ROSE-Y OUTLOOK - KNICKS SAY JALEN WORTH HIGH SALARY
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amTORONTO - Knicks owner James Dolan was unwilling to pay a million bucks to let a sexual harassment lawsuit against his team president disappear, but yesterday he signed off on...
METS GET INSURANCE AT 1ST
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe Mets have signed Michel Abreu, a Cuban defector expected to provide some insurance at first base. According to a baseball official, Abreu will get a one-year minor league deal...
ISIAH: I'M NOT QUITTING
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amTORONTO - In the first instance in which Isiah Thomas took questions since a sexual harassment lawsuit was filed against him nine days ago, Thomas yesterday was asked if he...
MARBURY HAPPY WITH 'NEW BLOOD'
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES TORONTO - Stephon Marbury may not be ready to join new teammate Jalen Rose in combat tomorrow when Rose is expected to make his Knicks debut against the...
THIS CAPTAIN ONE OF A KIND
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amTHE CAPTAIN did not hoist the Stanley Cup above his head one final time last night, but that's quite all right. Scott Stevens had done it enough when it actually...
'IT'S GOOD TO BE WANTED'
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES TORONTO - Moments before tipoff last night, Jalen Rose arrived at Air Canada Centre all smiles, dressed in a gray, tweed jacket and greeted joyfully on the bench...
NEW FACE, OLD STORY - KNICKS ACQUIRE RO$E FOR DAVIS, THEN LOSE AGAIN
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amRaptors 104 - Knicks 90 TORONTO - Knick owner James Dolan was unwilling to pay a couple of million bucks to make a sexual-harassment lawsuit against his team president disappear....
CAPTAIN 4-EVER - DEVS FANS CHEER STEVENS ONE LAST TIME
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amDevils 3 - Hurricanes 0 They hoisted Scott Stevens' number and, for the first time, it felt like it was really over. When the Devils retired No. 4 last night,...
BRODEUR RECALLS SCOTT'S GRIT DURING CUP PURSUIT
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amTo most in and around the NHL, Scott Stevens will be remembered most for his bone-crunching, open-ice hits. They were textbook bellringers, usually during the postseason, and the recipients almost...
PEYTON TO ELI: FOLLOW SHOCKEY AND PLAX IN OFFSEASON
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amDETROIT - Tom Coughlin assuredly doesn't want to hear this, but no less an authority than Peyton Manning believes that younger brother Eli should head down to Miami and work...
BATTLE OF TROY - POLAMALU 'PROBABLE' FOR TOMORROW'S TITLE FIGHT
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amDETROIT - The mild hysteria surrounding an ankle injury to safety Troy Polamalu, the linchpin of the Steelers' defense, was calmed a bit yesterday when he returned to practice. Polamalu...
BRODEUR RECALLS STEVENS' TRUE GRIT
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amTo most around the NHL, Scott Stevens will be remembered for his bonecrunching, open-ice hits. They were textbook bellringers and the recipients almost always were stars. Eric Lindros. Slava Kozlov....
ROSE-Y OUTLOOK - SINKING KNICKS ADD JALEN TO MIX
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amTORONTO - Knicks owner James Dolan was unwilling to pay a couple of million bucks to let a sexual harassment lawsuit against his team president disappear, but yesterday he signed...
SCOTT LOOKS BACK - SKATES DOWN MEMORY LANE
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amHis change of mind changed everything. Even Scott Stevens claimed to have forgotten that, yes, he did actually try to leave the Devils by signing to go back to the...
FOOT SOLDIERS FOOT SOLDIERS - KICKERS AIM TO BE SUPER IN CLUTCH
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amDETROIT - If the last several years are any indication, Super Bowl XL between the Steelers and Seahawks tomorrow at Ford Field will be decided by three points or fewer....
JAMAICAN CAPTURES 60 BY EYELASH
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amThree-thousandths of a second. Barely enough time to blink, or think a random thought. But it was enough to separate the runners from the winner in last night's Millrose Games,...
MILLROSE DISPLAYS GEN NEXT
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amIn track & field, the term "turnover" usually applies to leg speed, about as important in the sport as hitting is to baseball or shooting, to basketball. But from the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 4, 2006 | 5:00amPigeons in San Jose, Calif., will soon be outfitted with miniature cameras and mobile-phone backpacks - to monitor local air quality. The homemade cellphones - equipped with GPS tracking chips...