April 24, 2006
MARTHA'S BLUEPRINT HAS DESIGNS ON YOUNG WOMEN
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amBlueprint, the newest magazine from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, is being unveiled today in the domestic diva's bid to reach a younger demographic. The company hopes Blueprint, which will try...
6 TIMES SQUARE GETS A DUBAI-ER
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amLess than a week after it pulled out of a deal to buy 5 Times Square, Dubai-based Istithmar signed a contract last week to buy 6 Times Square for more...
CURTIS HUNTS MAGS BUYER
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amEntreprenuer William "Wild Bill" Curtis has decided to put his upscale magazine empire, Curtco Media, on the block and retained white shoe investment firm Goldman Sachs to handle what could...
REFCO'S RUINS - CLIENTS CAN'T GET $$ BACK FROM BROKEN BROKER
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amBankrupt and disgraced trading giant Refco has barred thousands of individual investors from taking cash out of their accounts - leaving many not only frustrated but financially ruined. The 17,000...
OFFICE DUNCE - THE WACKY WAYS OF THE WORKPLACE IDIOT
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN he isn't lambasting the caterers of the company-provided lunch for bringing him linguini instead of cappellini, he's showing photos of himself dead lifting weights to uninterested co-workers. He's the...
JAVA QUEEN - SHE'S A COFFEE BARISTA FOR A DAY
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amI'M a partner at Starbucks. What does this mean, exactly? Well, all employees - even $7-an-hour coffee workers - are dubbed owners in the wacky world of the omnipresent caffeine...
PEAS MUSHY IN THE MIDDLE, BUT SEX SELLS
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amSEX with a side of Black Eyed Peas was on the menu at Madison Square Garden's Theater Friday when the Pussycat Dolls joined forces with the Grammy-winning hip-pop band for...
POMPOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amALAN Bennett's "The History Boys," which came to the Broadhurst Theatre last night trailing clouds of glory and awards from London's National Theatre, could well emerge as the cult hit...
STARR REPORT
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amHe's a Hall of Famer Congratulations to Regis Philbin, who will be inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB Television Hall of Fame today in Las Vegas "for his...
DIANE DIDN'T STOP ABUSE
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amTHE shocking beating of a teenage girl by her father that aired during a Diane Sawyer report about dysfunctional stepfamilies has set off a firestorm. State police officials in upstate...
PAULA AB-JEWEL - 'IDOL' JUDGE STARTS THIRD CAREER
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amPAULA Abdul's debut as a QVC pitchwoman was witnessed in person by a studio audience of 57 people. More were watching at home, including Katie from Alabama, who called the...
UN-CHAPPELLE - SHOW DAVE DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE
April 24, 2006 | 4:00am'We wouldn't be putting this stuff on the air if we didn't believe in it' COMEDY Central is another step closer to its threat to air a new season of...
OLD BAGS (THAT SHOULDN'T BE RETIRED); HAND IT TO THESE VINTAGE BAGS
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amIT takes only weeks for Fendi B. bags and Chloe Paddingtons to go from must-haves to musty, but a good vintage bag is forever. "You see the trends come and...
COP-TALK SILENCER A CRIME - BLOOMY
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amMayors across the United States have good reason to ask state governments for help in tightening gun laws - Congress doesn't want cops to have a general idea of where...
PAIN IN THE GA$ - BUSH WARNS OF A 'TOUGH SUMMER' AT PUMP AS GOP DEMANDS PRICE PROBE
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush warned yesterday that Americans must brace for a "tough summer," as consumers worried that fuel prices will continue to soar. "We're going to have a tough...
DESPERATE BIN LADEN GROWLING FROM CAVE
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden resurfaced yesterday in a shrill, audiotaped diatribe in which he urged Muslims to rise up and fight against a "Zionist crusader war on Islam." In...
'SILENT' IS GOLDEN AT BOX OFFICE
April 24, 2006 | 4:00am"Silent Hill" made plenty of noise at the box office over the weekend, as the fright-fest based on a popular video game debuted as the No. 1 movie in North...
HOTEL'S GUESTS FLEE RAINWAKER
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amMore than 100 guests at a chichi hotel in Gramercy were forced to evacuate in the wee hours yesterday after rainwater gushed through a hole in the roof and flooded...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * A man was shot and killed yesterday in a Mott Haven housing project, police said. An unidentified gunman accosted the victim, in his 20s, in the lobby...
MAFIA COP'S LAWYERS QUIT
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amDisgraced mob cop Louis Eppolito and his lawyers have decided to part ways. In a court document filed Friday, defense co-counsel Bettina Schein said she and chief lawyer Bruce Cutler...
CATWALKER COULD GET THE BOOT
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amClawing catwalker May Andersen - whose alleged mile-high clubbing of a flight attendant got her locked up in a Miami jail - could be kicked out of the country today....
FACING UP TO JUSTICE - PORTRAITS OF 9/11 VICTIMS TO WATCH OVER ZAC JURORS
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amALEXANDRIA, Va. - They smile from beautiful, achingly innocent faces, their eyes - thousands of sharp, unblinking gazes - staring from a sea of now-lost souls. The nearly 3,000 faces...
'ACTIVISM' EXPOSED AS FRAUD
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amAs Roger Toussaint prepares to board the J-for-jail train, he takes pride in talking about being busted as a teenager in Trinidad for painting "Free Education Means Free Books" on...
JAVITS WILL HOST MEGA MEETINGS
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amThe new, expanded Javits Center is four years away - but it's already a red-hot ticket for convention planners. Nine large groups, ranging from the American Psychiatric Association to the...
STABBING VICTIM 'KIND & GENTLE'
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amA man found fatally stabbed in Brooklyn's Prospect Park over the weekend was mourned yesterday as a "kind, gentle person" dedicated to his family. A bicycle rider discovered the body...
POLICE SHOOT 'KILLER' - S.I. HIGHWAY DRAMA
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amCops responding to a disabled vehicle on Staten Island wound up gunning down the driver - an accused, on-the-lam murderer who tried to grab his loaded gun as they approached...
BOY, 11, CUFFED BY COPS: SUIT
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amA Bronx family has sued the city, saying their 11-year-old son was busted by cops for trespassing on city property - and then taken to a police station house and...
ROGER AND OUT - TWU BOSS PARTIES ON EVE OF JAIL
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amScofflaw TWU boss Roger Toussaint spent his last day of freedom bar-hopping around Brooklyn with fellow union officials and his supporters. Union toughs stood guard at the entrances of restaurants...
A 'LOT' OF GOOD NEWS IN SHEEPSHEAD BAY PLAN
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amThe city wants to bring new green space, an eatery and some much-needed parking spaces to a growing area off Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn. The city's Parks Department plans to...
LAST ACT OF KINDNESS BY TRAGIC COP
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amAn NYPD officer and mother of three who died suddenly over the weekend continued helping others even after death - 14 of her organs were donated to people awaiting transplants....
PATAKI TAPER HUNTED - FEDS LAUNCH PROBE
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amThe FBI and the Justice Department have launched a criminal probe into the origins of the explosive "Pataki Tape" - secretly recorded conversations involving Gov. Pataki, his wife, Libby, former...
UNION'S $2.5M IN CITY KITTY
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amThe transit union's loss is the city's gain. The $2.5 million fine the TWU must pay for last year's strike will go straight into city coffers, court officials say. Transit...
'SMOKING' GUN - DRUGSTORE GIANTS CAUGHT SELLING CIGS TO KIDS
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amHoly smokes! City snoops already have slapped bodegas and convenience stores with 2,094 violations for illegally selling cigarettes to kids this year - a projected 13 percent increase over last...
HERALD SQ. BOMB-PLOT TRIAL STARTS
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amThe feds say a Pakistani immigrant is a terror fiend who was hellbent on blowing up the Herald Square subway station - but his lawyer claims he's just a mouse...
MOMS' MERCY LETTER
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amFive black teen girls, convicted of a notorious Brooklyn hate crime, were spared jail after the mothers of the six white beating victims urged compassion for the culprits - citing...
CAR-INSURE RATES GO DOWNHILL
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - In some rare good news for drivers these days, auto-insurance rates in New York dropped an average of 3.3 percent last year. It was the second straight year...
REP. KING REVEALS A 'BUNKER' MENTALITY
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Long Island Rep. Peter King - who holds a powerful homeland-security post in Congress - wants the feds to build a multimillion-dollar homeland-security center in his own back...
NYPD TASK FORCE TARGETS WEAPONS
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amThe NYPD has begun interviewing cops to join an elite task force that will play a key role in the war against illegal guns. The team will question every suspect...
BODEGA MILK BUYERS ESCHEW THE FAT
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amMoo-ve over, whole milk. The city's new initiative to get bodegas to sell low-fat milk is catching on with shoppers. In January, the city Health Department started helping 15 bodegas...
HILLARY 'NETS NEW STAFFERS
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Where does Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton go when she's looking for new campaign hires? The same place Petco turns to for new dog groomers: Monster.com. Clinton ventured into...
SEND MIA TEAM TO WTC: CHUCK
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amSen. Charles Schumer called on the feds yesterday to send in a special military unit to boost the search for the remains of victims. Standing at Ground Zero with relatives...
CAR-INSURE COSTS CRASH
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - In some rare good news for drivers, auto-insurance rates in New York dropped 3.3 percent last year. It was the second straight year auto rates dipped after three...
B'KLYN KIDS CHESS KINGS
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amThey had all the right moves. Eight chess champs from Brooklyn's Edward R. Murrow HS outmaneuvered students of some 400 other high-schools yesterday to win this year's United Chess Federation...
DIPLOS DENY COP COLLISION
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amThe Russian mission to the United Nations denied that one of its diplomats struck a cop with his car, as the officer was released from the hospital yesterday. The Permanent...
HE NEVER HEARD HIS BABY'S 1ST WORD: 'DADA'
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amSHORTLY after a bullet took her daddy away, little Samantha Stewart said her first word. As the baby struggled to speak, the syllables cut like daggers into her mother's aching...
GOV WARNS JOE: KEEP MY VETOES
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki has delivered an unprecedented ultimatum to Republican Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, warning him not to override his nearly $3 billion in budget vetoes, The Post...
SLUM BUSTER A 'DEADBEAT' DAD - HOUSING BIG'S FAMILY HOMELESS
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amHe is one of the city's top slumlord-busting lawyers, charged with fighting courtroom battles on behalf of the city's neediest tenants. Yet his own children live in a rundown homeless...
FEDS NIX POL'S ARAB TOUR
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The State Department blocked a New York congresswoman from traveling to Qatar after being informed she planned to raise sharp questions about a high-ranking Qatar official's relationship with...
SILVER BULLET - SHEL MAY DOOM SOME DEMS
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amTHE state's most powerful Democrat is dealing a blow to long-shot gubernatorial hopeful Tom Suozzi and five would-be candidates for attorney general. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told The Post he'll...
WTC KIN BEG POW/MIA TEAM TO FIND LOST REMAINS
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amSen. Charles Schumer and a group who lost loved ones at Ground Zero called on the federal government to send in a special military unit to upgrade and widen the...
BLUE'S HUES FOR MESSING
April 24, 2006 | 4:00am"Will & Grace" beauty Debra Messing looks irresistibly glamorous in a blue and aqua gown in this elegant photo shoot featured in the upcoming issue of InStyle. Lots of sitcom...
FOR RIDERS, IT'S THREE AND OUT
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amTrack was sloppy, sealed for first three races after several inches of rain. Then, soon after rain stopped, jockeys caught everyone off guard by refusing to ride, saying track had...
AMAZIN'S ARE WARY OF BONDS
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES SAN DIEGO - Not surprisingly, the Mets will pitch Barry Bonds according to circumstances. "We'll just react as the game goes," Willie Randolph said yesterday before the Mets...
VINCE FALLS LIKE A TON OF BRICKS
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amTHE hope was that games like this were part of a distant and none-too-glorious past for the Nets. There was a time last year, with Richard Jefferson out and Jason...
A.J. BURNS OLD MATES
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amAnthony Johnson was Jason Kidd's trusted backup on the two Nets teams that advanced to the NBA Finals in 2001-2002 and 2002-2003. After the Nets drafted Zoran Planinic in the...
KRSTIC IN FOUL MOOD AFTER LOSS
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amNenad Krstic proved he could perform in the playoffs last year when he averaged 18.3 points per game in the Nets' first-round series against the Heat. The center did it...
WITH LAVAR, GIANTS CAN'T LOSE
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amIF this is indeed Ernie Accorsi's last season before retirement, then LaVar Arrington stands as the last big-name free agent signed by the Giants GM. Given the way Accorsi masterfully...
PERFECT PAIR SHOWING UP
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amTwice before in the Run for the Roses, two horses in the same year came into the race undefeated: Candy Spots and No Robbery in 1963, and China Visit and...
DEVS' WHITE LIKELY TO SIT OUT GAME 2
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amDEVIL NOTES This time, the Devils won't make the same mistake they got away with Saturday. The Devils are expected to replace defenseman Colin White in their lineup for Game...
BLUE MOOD - JAGR, HENRIK MAY WATCH TONIGHT
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amLet's not kid ourselves here. The Rangers might have carried lunch pails to work throughout the season, but their revival was forged predominantly through the spectacular work of two men...
NETS FALL OFF PACE - WASTED OPPORTUNITIES DOOM SERIES OPENER
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amGAME 1: Pacers 90 - Nets 88 For 47 minutes, 59.1 seconds yesterday, the Nets' defense was as consistent as a 3-year-old's birthday wish list, the offense was equally erratic...
NETS CAN'T CONTAIN JERMAINE
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amNET NOTES Jermaine O'Neal knew what was coming. These were the Nets after all. "This team always plays great defense on me," Indiana's star said. Yesterday was no exception. Jason...
FERGIE'S D'MAN UP FRONT
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amFifth in a series When the first day of the draft is complete, a lot of NFL offensive linemen will have a bad night's sleep. This is a solid, deep...
DH AGREEING WITH GIAMBI
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amWith a two-home run, five-RBI performance, Jason Giambi provided the power to go with Randy Johnson's pitching in yesterday's 7-1 rout of the Orioles. But as impressive as his blast...
PHILLIPS GETTING HIS SHOT
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Joe Torre wants to give Andy Phillips about 12 at-bats this week to try to get into a rhythm. And yet, the Yankees manager isn't sure that's realistic....
ZAM SLAMMED - PODS POUND VICTOR, OVERPOWER AMAZIN'S
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amPadres 7 - Mets 4 SAN DIEGO - It must be nice to go against Victor Zambrano. It probably helps to have someone who can initiate the festivities, and yesterday...
ZAM SLAMMED - FIRST BY PADRES, THEN BY RANDOLPH AS AMAZIN'S FALL
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amPadres 7 - Mets 4 SAN DIEGO - It was as if Victor Zambrano played the role of the woman who jumps out of the cake or the teacher who...
BIRDS BASHED IN THE BRONX - JASON AND JOHNSON JUMP ON ORIOLES
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 7 - Orioles 1 If not for Miguel Tejada, Joe Torre noted late yesterday afternoon, Randy Johnson might've had a no-hitter. It was a far cry from Tuesday's start...
RANDY A TRUE DANDY ... FOR ONE DAY
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amRANDY Johnson had barely changed out of his pinstripes into street clothes when he already was talking about his next start against the Blue Jays on Saturday. Never mind his...
RANGERS HOLD BREATH ON JAGR
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amThis fourth Battle of the Hudson is only 60 minutes old, yet desperation already stalks and fuels the Rangers tonight. The streaking Devils will be seeking a victory tonight that...
AILIN' WARD TO BE OUT REST OF SERIES
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amRANGER NOTES Jason Ward, a PK specialist who left Saturday's game with what has been diagnosed as an isolated MCL sprain of the right knee 6:39 into the match and...
CAN'T NB-SEE THE 1ST GOAL
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amIF THE plan was to wreck Saturday's Rangers-Devils playoff telecast, NBC gave it a good shot. NBC's flitting, follow-thedisc camerawork (if NBC just stayed high and wide, our eyes would...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 24, 2006 | 4:00amA lazy 8-year-old boy stole his teacher's car to drive a mile to his house. Akos Szabo of Koeszeg, Hungary, broke into the car, adjusted the mirrors and drove home,...