June 3, 2006
FIGHT OVER MCALPIN CONDOS
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amA Midtown condo conversion has become embroiled in a complex legal battle and the building's sellers want a Manhattan judge to cancel the $125 million deal. Elected officials say the...
FLOOR TRADER FALL-OFF SEEN
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amStock specialist kingpin Michael LaBranche is either being stoic or brave, but he insists that the coming mega-merger between the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext is going to be...
BLANKFEIN IS TWOFER AT GOLDMAN SACHS
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amLloyd Blankfein, the Goldman Sachs trading chief, will succeed Hank Paulson as both chairman and chief executive officer - quashing speculation that the world's biggest securities firm would separate the...
REVLON LIP BOMB - PERELMAN LOSES $277M ON BAD SALES, DEBT NEWS
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amRon Perelman - who's already $20 million poorer from dumping fourth wife Ellen Barkin - lost a whopping $277.8 million yesterday when shares of his Revlon empire crashed amid new...
KISS MY ASH - GRITTY FIREFIGHTERS SMOKIN' IN 'RESCUE'
June 3, 2006 | 4:00am"Rescue Me" Tuesdays at 10 p.m. on FX (four stars) HOW is it possible that a bunch of FDNY firemen are that good-looking, have such gorgeous ex-wives, are funny and...
ALL-NIGHT JAM
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amPEARL JAM BY the 30th song - well-past the 11 p.m. curfew at the Meadowlands Arena - Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder won a battle of wills with the hall's...
'GMA' CHIEF OUT IN OCTOBER
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amBEN Sherwood has resigned as executive producer of "Good Morning America," but will remain with the show until Oct. 1. Sherwood, who joined "GMA" in 2004, will be moving to...
BAG STORE BREW-HAHA
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amAT Crumpler bags, it's all about spreading Down Under culture downtown. The Aussie bag company is launching "Beer for Bags," a booze for accessories swap in both of their Manhattan...
TODDLER-PALOOZA! JUNE IS BUSTIN' OUT ALL OVER, WITH LIVE MUSIC FOR SMALL FRY
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amMADISON Square Garden. Madison Square Park. The names are similar, but here's an easy way to tell them apart: At the Garden this month, 19,000 or 20,000 fans will be...
STAGE-ING A COMEBACK; DELI CLEANS UP AND OPENS UP
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe legendary Stage Deli is back in business after easily passing its latest health inspection - and diners yesterday were unfazed by the pastrami palace's recent sanitary pickle. "Cockroaches? They're...
HAYSEED MAYOR RIPS BIG APPLE
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amOMAHA, Neb. - The two-faced mayor of Omaha ripped victimized New Yorkers and told them to choke on their "sour grapes" after federal authorities shockingly slashed the Big Apple's anti-terrorism...
SOPRANO'S 'OUT'RAGE IN DIET; SAYS PILL FIRM AXED HIM OVER GAY ROLE
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe actor who played closeted gay mobster Vito Spatafore on the TV series "The Sopranos" has accused a diet-drug manufacturer of hating homosexuals - and claims the company is suing...
GRAND PLAN FOR PLAZA
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amBy all accounts, Grand Army Plaza - designed by the Central Park dream team of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and open as the gateway to Prospect Park since...
'LIARS' OUT OF RENT CONTROL
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amFive Brooklyn tenants were busted yesterday for allegedly lying or falsifying documents in order to qualify for unthinkably low rents, scamming the feds and city out of $69,911, city investigators...
HOSP $$ WOE
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amCash-starved Victory Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn stopped making payments to its employees' health insurance and pension funds - triggering a nasty legal war with the powerful health-care-workers union. Local 1199...
S.I. 'SHOOTER' IS MA'S DOPEY, DIRTY SECRET
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amIf you had a dopey daughter like hippie shooting suspect Rebekah Johnson, you probably wouldn't admit it either. The woman believed to have shot Jeff Gross, the co-founder of Staten...
SHRUGGING OFF ROGER
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amMTA officials said yesterday they're not concerned with Transport Workers Union boss Roger Toussaint's vow to defy the decision of an independent arbitrator. "It seems to me to be just...
LOBBYIST LEAPS TO TOP OF THE $$ PACK
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amThere's a new top lobbyist in town. It's Suri Kasirer, whose firm doubled its revenues in just two years, it was disclosed yesterday. "I suppose it's good," said Kasirer, sounding...
QUEASY LUNCH BREAK
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amDo not eat the green pills! That was the refrain yesterday in a Queens kindergarten classroom after a big-hearted 5-year-old shared a bag of unidentified green capsules with his friends...
MIX-UP GAL: 'YOU THINK I'M DEAD!' FIRST WORDS TO KIN IN AMAZING REUNION
June 3, 2006 | 4:00am"You think I'm dead!" Those were the cries of a frantic Michigan coed in her first words to her elated family - who thought they had buried their daughter in...
SUBWAY NAP A 2ND FOR AGENT
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe sleep-working station agent caught snoozing on the job has a history of dozing off in his booth, sources said yesterday. Kevin Wilson, 43, who was caught sleeping with his...
MAYOR: KEEP MEMORIAL COSTS IN LINE
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe anticipated operating costs of the Ground Zero memorial are too high, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. "I've done a study of all the memorials. I couldn't find any memorial that...
SCAMMER TAKES THE CAKE: DA
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amFed up with Flushing, Patricia Murtaugh longed to open a carrot-cake bakery on bucolic Block Island - and allegedly scammed two elderly women out of $245,000 to set herself up...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN *** Police are seeking the identity of a young man captured in the surveillance photo above after the attempted sexual assault on two Long Island women he met at...
HEY PAL, WE GOT YOUR LANDMARK - RIGHT HERE!
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amAngelyn McSwain is mad as hell at Michael Chertoff and the New Yorker is teaching the landmark-challenged Homeland Security boss a lesson. "How many national icons can you see on...
'RACIAL' TAUNT IN SLAYING
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amOne of the three men charged with killing a young New Jersey man outside a Chelsea club yelled: "Get the white motherf-----" as they set upon the victim and beat...
OUTFIELD ANGEL FOR BIRDS; ORIOLES MULL TAKING FLIER ON NEMESIS JEFF MAIER
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amOnce upon an unforgettable, improbable playoff moment at Yankee Stadium, a precocious angel in the outfield bedeviled the visiting team from Baltimore. Now that same team is thinking of drafting...
BITTER PA WIDOW'S THEFT WOE
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amA 9/11 widow whose apartment was repeatedly robbed - to the tune of $480,000 in jewelry - wasn't the only resident of her tony Fifth Avenue building to be so...
ANDY'S DANDY INCOME; BUT LITTLE TO CHARITY
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amAndrew Cuomo's income skyrocketed in 2004 while he was gearing up to run for state attorney general, but he made virtually no charitable donations over the last three years, according...
DADDY BRAUNSTEIN: I KNEW HIS BRAIN BROKE
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe father of accused "fire fiend" Peter Braunstein has one thing to say about the defense doctors who have pronounced his son crazy: Told you so. "All along I knew...
COURT COPS FOIL CON'S GREAT ESCAPE
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amHe started off like Houdini and ended up like David Blaine. An accused robber with a long rap sheet jumped out the second floor of a Manhattan courthouse in a...
KIN OF 'MAFIA COP' VICTIMS SUE NYPD
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe families of two Long Island garbage carters - rubbed out by the mob 17 years ago - are suing the NYPD, charging the department failed to "control" two rogue...
FASO AND WELD TRADE PUNCHES
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe Republican gubernatorial primary was in full swing yesterday with John Faso and William Weld taking shots at the other on the first day after the state GOP convention. Faso...
FALL GUY SUES; GAVE PRIVATE EYE TAILING HIM THE 'SLIP'
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amA private eye hired to find out whether a Manhattan man was actually injured in a slip-and-fall case really made sure he was hurt, court papers say. In papers filed...
HARLEM'S PROUDEST CAR DEALER
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe co-owner of Harlem's first auto dealership to open in more than 40 years grew emotional yesterday at a celebration with Mayor Bloomberg, declaring, "We have an opportunity some of...
HOW'S THIS FOR A TERROR THREAT, CHERTOFF
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe feds may not consider the Big Apple much of a terror target - but al Qaeda begs to differ. The NYPD yesterday released pictures from a jihadist Web site...
WEAPONS DISPOSAL
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amA lawyer was packing some serious heat when he walked into a Queens police station yesterday. Lawyer Brian Goldberg strutted into the 104th Precinct station house in Glendale and turned...
HARLEM CAR DEALER ON A ROLL
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe co-owner of Harlem's first auto dealership to open in more than 40 years grew emotional yesterday at a celebration with Mayor Bloomberg, declaring, "We have an opportunity some of...
TELLS MIKE HE'LL GIVE N.Y. CUTS A 2ND LOOK
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amEmbattled Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff blinked yesterday in his showdown with New York over his outrageous slashing of the city's anti-terrorism grants. Seeking relief from the spreading political firestorm...
BAT-BASH VICTIM'S 'DEMENTIA'
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe victim in the Howard Beach bat attack suffers from dementia and loss of cognitive skills as a result of the beating, a doctor testified yesterday. Dr. Steven Cercy, a...
BUST IN BABY BEAT-&-BURN
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens dad and his live-in teenage girlfriend face up to 25 years behind bars for abusing their 6-month-old son by punching him in the head and severely burning his...
EAGLE AYE
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe eagles have landed! Four jet-lagged baby bald eagles from Wisconsin were flown into town yesterday and got an enthusiastic welcome. They were given nests in a custombuilt tower overlooking...
BIG APPLE HELL FROM HIGH WATER
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amWild weather wreaked havoc on the city yesterday as driving thundershowers and lightning strikes (right) left umbrellaclutching commuters in a lurch as trains, and even a cab, came to a...
CAP'N CLUTCH SAVES YANKS; JETER'S SINGLE IN 9TH RESCUES YANKS 'PEN
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEES 6 ORIOLES 5 BALTIMORE - Johnny Damon anointed Derek Jeter the MVP last night, and it was impossible to disagree with him. "He has been that good," Damon said...
JETTING OUT; CHREBET CALLS END TO UNLIKELY CAREER
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amEleven years, 152 games, 580 receptions and 41 touchdowns after an improbable start to a long-shot NFL career, Wayne Chrebet said his ceremonial goodbye to life as a professional football...
VELAZQUEZ RETURNS A WINNER
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amAll-star jockey John Velazquez, sidelined for six weeks after a nasty spill at Keeneland, made a triumphant return to the races yesterday at Belmont Park, winning the fourth race by...
ANNIKA BACK IN OLD FORM
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amSEAVIEW CLASSIC GALLOWAY TWP., N.J. - Annika Sorenstam's five-year reign as LPGA Player of the Year in jeopardy, her last comeback bid was foiled by balls that kept coming back...
JONES, RUMORS RACE INTO N.Y.
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amREEBOK GRAND PRIX It's presumably just delicious irony that Marion Jones is in New York at the same time as Barry Bonds, each superstar at the epicenter of a sport's...
GOMEZ A GO-TO JOCK
June 3, 2006 | 4:00am1ST RACE - You have to respect every horse Garrett Gomez rides - even a confirmed bridesmaid like Western Revenge (1-for-25) - not only because Gomez is good, but because...
RAINOUT'S A HELP FOR ACHY BELTRAN
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amCarlos Beltran was hoping for a rainout, and that's exactly what he got. Beltran would not have been able to play last night, still hobbled by the bruise he suffered...
SHEFF OF THE SUTURE? 2 WEEKS WILL TELL
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The Yankees won't know for at least two weeks if Gary Sheffield's left wrist will require surgery. However, that hasn't stopped them from being prepared in case they...
CLOSE ENCOUNTER; LARRY & ISIAH SHOW HITS ROAD ... LITERALLY
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe Knicks' train wreck nearly became a literal car wreck yesterday between lame-duck head coach Larry Brown and his heir apparent, Isiah Thomas. You can't make this stuff up. In...
YANKS MUST WAIT FOR MO; RIVERA'S OUT DAY TO DAY; FARNSWORTH A BIGGER ISSUE
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Mariano Rivera's back improved from Thursday to last night, although not enough for him to be available to Joe Torre against the Orioles. Since Rivera's problem is due...
MO BETTER; SHEFF RX 2 WEEKS AWAY
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - There was good news yesterday on the Mariano Rivera injury front. But Gary Sheffield remains a big question, as the Yankees won't know for at least two weeks...
ST. JOHN'S BOOSTS RECRUITING IN CITY
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amThe hirings of Fred Hill at Rutgers and Bobby Gonzalez at Seton Hall have upped the ante in the recruiting battles for the top city prep players. St. John's coach...
VIRUS SHELVES A-ROD
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - No Yankee will start every game this season. Alex Rodriguez, the only player to start in each of the first 52 tilts, was scratched from last...
BARRY'S SLOW RIDE IS PAINFUL
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amToday's probable starters GAME 1 Orlando Hernandez 3-4, 6.04 ERA vs. Matt Cain 3-5, 5.07 ERA GAME 2 Tom Glavine 8-2, 2.59 vs. Jamey Wright 5-4, 4.43 ERA IN FAIRNESS...
DELAY OF SHAME - WEATHER MAKES FANS WAIT BEFORE RAINING BOOS ON BONDS
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amAll the negative reaction at visiting stadiums during this home run chase isn't affecting Barry Bonds. "It's OK. I don't think of it as really negative," Bonds said yesterday. "I...
SHORT REST OK WITH GLAVINE
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Because of last night's rainout, the Mets have a potential rotation issue for Wednesday. Because last night's starter, Tom Glavine, is now pitching today, the only way he'd...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 3, 2006 | 4:00amA Zambian magistrate has sentenced a British businessman to 15 days of tending the grounds at the immigration department for overstaying his visa. The Lusaka magistrate's court imposed the unusual...