May 29, 2006
KIDVILLE COMPLEX EXPANDS IN THE CITY
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amIn yet another sign of the family-zation of Manhattan, Kidville NY - an upscale center of classes, lunches, baby haircuts and grown-up manicures for the stroller set - has just...
SLOW & STEADY - MARKET BREATHER COULD BUILD INVENTORIES, CREDIT
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amWith the Hamptons now open for the season, Wall Street expects to begin its official summer tomorrow with another bounce left over from last week's global rally. Despite rising inflation...
IDOL TOUR SELLS OUT
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amTHE upcoming "American Idol Tour" is beginning to look like it will be as big a hit as the TV show. Some 20 new dates were added to the tour...
FAILING FATHER - GENERAL GEORGE LEARNED WAR ON THE JOB
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amSOME day, in the not too distant future, you just know that there will be a Sept. 11 national holiday - and eventually people forget that it's a day of...
HOLY MOSES SUIT - FIGHT FOR ANCIENT SCROLLS
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amFrance's National Library has filed suit against a Brooklyn artifacts dealer, demanding the return of a stolen 13th-century Hebrew manuscript he purchased at auction in New York. The lawsuit against...
SINATRA JR.'S 'N.Y., N.Y.' MOMENT
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amOl' Blue Eyes' son did it his way - and was stunned to find himself being honored yesterday outside a Little Italy church for "his contribution to Italian-American culture and...
SWING VOTERS ON '08 BID: HILL NO!
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amSen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is a polarizing figure who's short on the crossover appeal needed to win the White House, a new poll shows. The poll found 42 percent of...
POLS BACK OFF FBI-RAID FIGHT
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amKey lawmakers yesterday suggested the FBI had a right to seize documents from the office of Democratic Rep. William Jefferson in a bribery probe that has rocked Washington. Richard Durbin...
ARIZONANS START WALLING OFF BORDER
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amVolunteers began building a reinforced metal and barbed-wire fence along private land on the Mexican border over the weekend as lawmakers debated how to stop the flood of illegal aliens....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A man who fatally stabbed his girlfriend in her Sheepshead Bay apartment last week was arrested yesterday in the Catskills and charged with her murder, police said. David...
EVEREST MIRACLE - LEFT-FOR-DEAD CLIMBER FOUND DAZED, DANGLING
May 29, 2006 | 4:00am"I imagine you are very surprised to see me here." Australian miracle man Lincoln Hall was dazed, half-undressed and dangling his legs over a 6,600-foot precipice near the top of...
ISRAELI JETS HIT LEB GUERRILLAS
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli jets attacked Syrian-backed Palestinian and Lebanese guerrillas in Lebanon yesterday after an Israeli soldier was wounded by rockets fired deep into northern Israel. Gun battles broke out...
W. POINT OF DEPARTURE - BIG APPLE CADET GRADS ARE BRACING FOR IRAQ
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amThey entered West Point just weeks before 9/11 - and found themselves spending the next four years preparing for the war it spawned. Today, some of them are finally set...
MIKE VOWS GAY NUPS
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amShould the state Court of Appeals rule that gay marriages are legal, the Big Apple will start performing them, Mayor Bloomberg promised yesterday. And should the state's highest court -...
BLOOMY A HOUSE HASSLER - BLASTED BY FLA. SELLER
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amA Florida woman who sold her estate to Mayor Bloomberg for nearly $9 million is reportedly sniping that Hizzoner's nitpicking lawyers acted "like they were going to put up the...
BBQ BULLETS - RAP STAR AT BLOODY QNS. BASH
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amDozens of shots rang out yesterday at a Queens barbecue attended by G-Unit rapper Lloyd Banks, leaving one man paralyzed by a bullet in the neck, witnesses said. "It sounded...
KENTUCKY FRIES SAFE-PORT IDS
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - It will be more than a year before airports and seaports are staffed by workers with identical, tamper-proof IDs - in part due to one lawmaker's efforts to...
CAB SLAMS GUN VICTIM
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amA 24-year-old man fleeing a gunman who had shot him in the leg ran into traffic in Brooklyn yesterday and was hit by a livery cab, which dragged him screaming...
FLA. SELLER RAPS MIKE'S HOME-HASSLING LAWYERS
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amA Florida woman who sold her estate to Mayor Bloomberg for nearly $9 million is reportedly sniping that Hizzoner's nitpicking lawyers acted "like they were going to put up the...
CRUISE 'DEATH' LEAPER - WIFE, KIDS WATCH IN HORROR
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amA man jumped overboard from a Caribbean cruise ship in front of his wife and two young sons as the couple argued over his hefty bar tab, a passenger said...
'REALITY' BITES - 'IDOL' ONLY UNSCRIPTED TV SHOW TO GAIN IN RATINGS
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amCouch potatoes just aren't that into reality anymore - but they still can't get enough of their Idols. Prime-time TV ratings for the season just ended reveal that former reality...
HERO LIVES ON IN HIS CHILD - ENGELDRUM'S GIRL TAKES AFTER FIREFIGHTER POP
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amShe is preparing to celebrate her daughter's first birthday next week - but first, she will honor her husband, fallen hero soldier Christian Engeldrum, at today's National Memorial Day Parade...
QNS. TEEN IN SUBWAY SUICIDE
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amA troubled 15-year-old boy, who confided to pals that he wanted to kill himself, apparently jumped down to the subway tracks yesterday and was struck and killed by a train...
TRAGIC FISHERMAN'S BODY FOUND
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amA body believed to be that of a fisherman who fell off his boat in Jamaica Bay was found yesterday, authorities said. The body was discovered by another boater off...
NAMIBIAN CITIZENSHIP FOR BABY BRANGELINA
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amThe spawn of Brangelina is healthy - and Namibian. African officials yesterday said Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, the daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, will be granted Namibian citizenship in...
WHY THEY FIGHT - SAILING INTO NEW YORK HARBOR WITH THE NAVY AND MARINES
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amABOARD USS KEARSARGE IT'S been 56 months since the onset of the Long War. Time for a break. So this most modern of the Navy's warships - recently back from...
ED. RULING LEAVES VETS UP IN ARMS
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amVeterans are blasting a city plan to keep public schools open on the observed Veterans Day in November, calling it "absurd" and "a disgrace" with the country at war. The...
SHRINKING HOSPITALS SCRAMBLE TO SURVIVE
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amA dozen hospitals have submitted proposals to merge or consolidate - in order to avoid having some of their ailing medical facilities shut down by the state, The Post has...
WELD'S HOPES WANING - LACKS GOP MAJORITY
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amTOP backers of former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld's bid for the Republican nomination for governor are increasingly pessimistic about his chances of defeating John Faso, The Post has learned. One...
ALONG COMES A SPIDER-MAN
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amSpider-Man, who really knows how to sweep a gal off her feet, swings into action with actress Bryce Dallas Howard yesterday on the Midtown set of the superhero's third movie....
WESTCHESTER MAN LEFT BROKEN BY BONE-SNATCHERS
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amA Westchester man has become the latest patient to sue alleged bone-harvesting ghouls and associated companies, claiming he endured psychological trauma when he was told tainted tissue may have been...
CRADLE OF AFRICA: NAMIBIAN CITIZENSHIP FOR BABY BRANGELINA
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amThe spawn of Brangelina is healthy - and Namibian. African officials yesterday said Shiloh Nouvel JoliePitt, the daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, will be granted Namibian citizenship in...
WILL THIRD BOUT BE THIRD RATE? - CORRALES-CASTILLO III FOLLOWS FABLED I, FOULED-UP II
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amTHE first fight between Diego Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo won just about everyone's award for Fight of the Year in 2005. If there were an award for Disaster of...
AROUND THE CAPE WINS JAIPUR
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amAround the Cape, trained by Bill Mott and ridden by Cornelio Velasquez, stalked early pace, charged down center of course to win Grade 3, $100,000 Jaipur Handicap by three-quarters of...
PLETCHER IS BANKING ON PAIR
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amTrainer Todd Pletcher, still in search of his elusive first win in a Triple Crown race, could have his best chance ever in the June 10 Belmont Stakes, when he'll...
HR MAKES DAMON STAR IN LEAD ROLE
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amJohnny Damon's leadoff home run helped lead the Yankees to a quick 6-0 lead in the second inning yesterday against the Royals. "Unfortunately, after that, everything stopped," Damon said. "We...
'EL' OF A DEBUT - DUQUE BATTLES TO WIN HIS FIRST METS START
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amMets 7 - Marlins 3 MIAMI - Orlando Hernandez' performance was so-so. He wasn't overpowering or impeccable. But El Duque now has victories for both New York teams. Hernandez, the...
OLD ENEMIES SET TO BATTLE IN MET MILE
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amThe last time Bandini, Sun King and Wilko faced each other on the field of battle - going a mile-and-a-quarter in the 10th race at Churchill Downs on the first...
PAVANO PAINED HE CAN'T PITCH IN
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Carl Pavano knows he's not the most popular teammate right now. Pavano, who underwent surgery on Wednesday to remove a bone chip from his right elbow, received treatment...
KAZ NOT FIRST AT SECOND ANYMORE
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - The Mets plan to use their backup second basemen more rather than Kazuo Matsui all the time. Willie Randolph explained before yesterday's game that who plays...
U.S. BOOTERS ON THE MEND BEFORE CUP
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amEAST HARTFORD, Conn. - U.S. soccer team coach Bruce Arena admitted he didn't even scout last night's foe and couldn't even name a single player on Latvia's roster. These three...
AMERICANS GET LEG UP ON LATVIA
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amUSA 1 - Latvia 0 EAST HARTFORD - For the U.S. soccer team, this stretch of three games in six days was more about preparation than about victory. Wins this...
LET'S TIP OUR HATS TO HANK
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amTHERE is only one positive to be gleaned now that the Babe has been passed, now that there is only one man separating Barry Bonds from what has always been...
YANKS AVOID A ROYAL PAIN - BOMBERS WASTE LEAD, CALL MO TO COLLAR K.C.
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 6 - Royals 5 When the Yankees batted around in the first inning and piled up a six-run lead by the second, it looked as if they'd breeze to...
PITCHING AND MOANING LIE AHEAD
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amWith the temperature a breezy 80 degrees, with the Royals in town, spray or roll-on never was a question in Joe Torre's pre-game media session. When the Yankees' first four...
EX-YANK NETTLES FEELIN' THE CHEAT
May 29, 2006 | 4:00amFormer Yankees third baseman Graig Nettles is hardly thrilled that Barry Bonds, with his 715th home run, has finally passed Babe Ruth and moved into second place on the all-time...