June 5, 2006
CONDÉ NAST'S NEW PORTFOLIO
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amAfter weeks of suspense and more than a little dithering, Condé Nast Portfolio is the name of the much-heralded arrival in the business magazine wars. The subject of much speculation,...
DOWNTOWN DONALD PLANS LUXURY SOHO CONDO-HOTEL
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amDonald Trump is submitting plans to construct a 45-story luxury high-rise condominium hotel on the outskirts of SoHo, The Post has learned. And barring any glitches in the approval process,...
SPIN EDITOR MAY BE NEAR EXIT
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amThe editor of Spin may be spinning out the door as early as today. Relations between Spin Editor-in-Chief Andy Pemberton and the new owners of the music title are said...
CINDER BLOCK
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amCINDERELLAAmerican Ballet Theatre at Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center at 65th Street. (212) 362-6000. Season runs through July 15. OH well, back to the drawing board! And keep that Champagne...
STARR REPORT
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amNow that Katie Couric is gone from NBC, the late Fred Facey's voiceover is no longer being used to introduce the "Today" show. Facey's voice was heard, for the final...
ONE TRICK TONY - 'SOPRANOS' FINALE TURNS WARM 'N' FUZZY
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amTHE most hotly anticipated - but ultimately disappointing - season of "The Sopranos" went out last night like a lamb - a nice, slightly overdone Christmas lamb. Aside from the...
'HELL' REHEATED - FIVE LOCALS REALLY COOK
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amMEET the denizens of "Hell's Kitchen 2." Almost half of these would-be super-chefs are from the New York area. Viewers will get to see them go under the knife of...
THE 'TRUTH SQUAD' HURTS (CRIMINALS)
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amCall it the NYPD "Truth Squad." They're nearly one dozen newly trained detectives skilled in administering "lie detector" exams - tests given to several hun dred witnesses and criminal suspects...
CASH CRISIS FOR STRICKEN HEROES
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amJOHN the firefighter fights off sleep, fearing the reoccurrence of a nightmare of falling to his death off the blazing Twin Towers. Vince the cop is haunted by anxiety attacks,...
LEWD BEACH TOILET BREAK
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amAfter years of watching beachgoers use million-dollar waterfronts as toilets, wealthy Hamptons homeowners were thrilled over the weekend when local officials agreed to build a restroom facility near a notorious...
'BREAK'OUT FOR PANNED ANISTON
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amThere was no love lost between critics and Jennifer Aniston's "anti-romantic" comedy "The Break-Up" - but audiences fell for the flick this weekend, buying up $38.1 million in tickets. It...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amBROOKLYN *** A Crown Heights man was arrested for slashing his landlord's son during an argument over computer games, authorities said yesterday. John Harden, 47, was busted Thursday and charged...
PAL: BUSH 'POLITICAL' ON GAY NUP
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush doesn't give a hoot about gay marriage - despite its being a big issue in his 2004 campaign, a friend claims. "I think it was purely...
BROOKLYN CASH BASH
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amA private group raising money to support the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park raked in more than $350,000 last week - and supporters and opponents of the project have radically different...
KIDNAP TODDLER FOUND IN B'KLYN; 13-YEAR-OLD 'OBSESSED' WITH BX. TOT
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amCops hunting for the kidnapper of a 3-year-old Bronx boy were focusing early today on a 13-year-old runaway who wanted to be a mother and was obsessed with the tot....
CANCER GAL DELIVERS MIRACLE BABY
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amA Manhattan woman who founded a nationwide group to help young cancer patients preserve their fertility has delivered her own miracle baby. Lindsay Nohr Beck, 29, who fought off cancer...
OLMERT WANTS SUMMIT
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday that he'd meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to urge the resumption of talks on a U.S.-backed "road map" for peace...
FEDS ADD IN$ULT TO INJURY VS. N.Y. ; NOW OUT TO SLASH BIO-TERROR FUNDS
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amNow, the feds are plotting to whack New York City's bio-terror funds by 15 percent, too, an outraged Sen. Charles Schumer revealed yesterday. "These proposed cuts in bio-terror preparedness are...
TALKING TRASH
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amA proposed law would provide relief for city homeowners ticketed for trash on their sidewalk. The bill would require a warning for first-time violators and 30 days' probation for second-timers,...
37 MORE MAYORS JOIN MIKE'S WAR ON GUNS
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg has recruited some heavy political firepower in his war on illegal guns - mayors from 37 cities around the country have signed on as allies. The latest are...
WHY APPLE LEFT SOUR TASTE IN D.C.
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amNew York got shafted on federal anti-terror funding because of the "poor" quality of its grant applications, a new report said yesterday, as local elected officials vowed to press their...
BIDDER END FOR CHECKER
June 5, 2006 | 4:00am"Janie," the last Checker cab ever to pick up a fare in New York City, sold at auction yesterday for only $9,400 - or nearly $125,000 less than what it...
THOUSANDS HAIL ISRAEL ON 5TH
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amThousands of people lined Fifth Avenue yesterday to celebrate the 42nd annual Salute to Israel parade - proof, Mayor Bloomberg said, that New York City is indeed "the world's second...
GIRL IS SOUGHT IN BOY'S KIDNAP; 13-YEAR-OLD OBSESSED WITH TOT: KIN
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amCops hunting for the kidnapper of a 3-year-old Bronx boy were searching yesterday for a 13-year-old runaway who was obsessed with the tot and wanted to be a mother. Cops...
ED. DEPT. SUED OVER LYE IN EYE
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amA 12-year-old Bronx boy is suing the city's Department of Education because a schoolmate threw lye at him- burning his left eye and leaving him in need of glasses. Shaborn...
DONALD THE DADDY; TRUMP SHUNS HIS, UH, DUTY
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amDONALD TRUMP does not do diapers. Not a one. More than two months after little Barron Trump was born into a fabulously charmed existence, his daddy, The Donald, has yet...
SUE THIS,PAL! ILLEGAL GOES TOO FAR
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amFirst he entered the country illegally by using another man's passport. Then he continued to perpetuate a fraud by living under the assumed identity for years. Rut Randall Roye's luck...
'GOLD COAST' PLANNED FOR S.I.'S EX-NAVY PORT
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration wants to turn a former Navy homeport on Staten Island into a vibrant waterfront community highlighted by market-rate housing, new parkland and a sports center already being...
VANDALS SMASH CANADA MOSQUE
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amVandals smashed windows at a Toronto mosque after 17 suspected al Qaeda sympathizers were busted for allegedly acquiring explosives to launch bombs in Canada. Although cops said there was no...
19 DEAD IN IRAQ ETHNIC SLAUGHTER
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amThe merciless sectarian slaughter in Iraq reached a gruesome low yesterday when 19 people, including a group of students heading for an exam, were dragged off buses near Baghdad and...
RACING PIGEONS IN DRUG FLAP
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amA Westchester County man has sued the leaders of the Bronx Homing Pigeon Club for $500,000, saying their claim that he fed illicit drugs to his "racehorses of the sky"...
WING 'NUT' SUES; 'JUICED' PIGEON FLAP
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amA Westchester County man has sued the leaders of the Bronx Homing Pigeon Club for $500,000, saying their claim that he fed illicit drugs to his "racehorses of the sky"...
'BUM' CHECK TEACH; RAP VS. FINANCE WIZ
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amHe teaches New York University graduate students the finer points of finance, but Jack Bloom couldn't stop bouncing rent checks. Now, the 49-year-old NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies...
PDA NIXES DAD'S PLEA OF POVERTY
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amIt's a strategy thousands of dads have used to avoid high court-ordered child-support payments: plead poverty to the judge. But it didn't work out so well for one Queens man...
DAD RATTED OUT BY PDA
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens dad who pleaded poverty to avoid high child-support payments was done in by his personal digital assistant. Timothy Gooden, 32, a freelance graphic designer, told a Family Court...
S.I. TEEN: 'SO AWESOME'
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amDaniel Castro was a social recluse, a 17-year- old weighing a knee-buckling 410 pounds. Now, meet Daniel Castro, man about town. One short year later, the 6-foot college freshman from...
FASO'S INNER DEM-ON; GOP'S GOV DESIGNEE RAISED AS A LIBERAL
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - John Faso, the newly minted Republican designee for governor who opponents say is too conservative to win in New York, spent his youth in Long Island and Queens...
GONE IN A FLESH; TEENS LOSING FAT & GAINING HOPE
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amSome severely obese teenagers are shrinking. Eighty-one supersize 14- to 17-year-olds who enrolled in an NYU Medical Center fat-busting program have collectively shed 7,300 pounds after undergoing gastric-band surgery that...
'FEET' WEEK'S GOAL 'TENDING
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amWorld Cup madness is set to strike the city this week, and sports bars are hauling in extra televisions, preparing to open in the early morning, and hoarding beer in...
HEAT ON WELD TO PULL OUT ; UNITY BID VS. ELIOT
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amSTATE Republican Chairman Stephen Minarik, until now Bill Weld's most important backer, will urge Weld to quit the race for governor after his stunning loss at the party's nominating convention,...
PREZ GAY-WED MEETING
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush doesn't give a hoot about gay marriage - despite it being a big issue in his 2004 campaign, his friend told Newsweek magazine. "I think it...
HOUSING PLAN FOR S.I. PORT - NEW 'GOLD COAST'
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration wants to turn a former Navy homeport on Staten Island into a vibrant waterfront community highlighted by marketrate housing, new parkland and a sports center already being...
SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS -- STUDENTS AMONG 19 DRAGGED OFF BUSES AND KILLED IN IRAQ
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amThe merciless sectarian slaughters in Iraq reached a gruesome low yesterday when 19 people, including a group of students heading for an exam, were dragged off buses near Baghdad and...
CANADA MOSQUE HIT AMID BUSTS
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amVandals smashed the windows of a Toronto mosque after 17 people with suspected ties to Muslim terrorists were busted for allegedly acquiring explosive materials to launch bombing attacks in Canada....
WIE BIT OF PRESSURE ; MICHELLE TAKES OPEN QUALIFYING SHOT
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amAt 8:35 this morning, the No. 1 tee at Canoe Brook Country Club's South Course will look like it never has looked before. It'll look like a major championship is...
FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE TRULY LASTINGS
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amHE'D BEEN angling for a fast ball, dying for a fastball, begging for a fastball. If there is anything about the minor leagues worth missing, there it is: high heat,...
ANNIKA PLAYS SECOND FIDDLE
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amGALLOWAY, N.J. - The Annika Drought means champagne showers for others. The others are making hay while Annika Sorenstam struggles with her longest winless streak since 2001. Even a final-hole...
GW, MONROE ON FINAL TRACK
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amPSAL PLAYOFFS Dan Carela was a little-used pitcher as a sophomore when George Washington made it to the PSAL title game at Shea Stadium two years ago. That game did...
CALL BENITEZ ARMAN-DOH
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amMaybe there's something in the Flushing air that gets to Armando Benitez. Whatever the case, no matter how dominant the San Francisco closer had been this year, yesterday he did...
PICKIN' A RAZZ BARRY ; SHEA FANS BLAST BONDS
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amAfter her 100-meter victory at Randall's Island Saturday, Marion Jones had said she wanted to let her performances speak for themselves. Barry Bonds - like Jones, accused of taking steroids...
HEY, LOOK AT ME! ; METS' MILLEDGE LEARNED TO SHOW OFF FROM STARS
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amFUNNY, how stories are presented. Lastings Milledge, Mets rookie, for example. It seems important that we know that his brief minor league career has included episodes in which he behaved...
AMAZIN'S HAVE NOTHIN' EXTRA ; PEN, GLOVES FAIL METS AS GIANTS WIN IN 12
June 5, 2006 | 4:00am12 INNINGS GIANTS 7 METS 6 It is strange that when the future arrives, it can inspire you to say things that don't seem to fit the outcome. So even...
MILL LOW AFTER FANS' HIGH-FIVES
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Willie Randolph reprimanded Lastings Milledge for celebrating his first major-league homer - a dramatic game-tying solo shot in yesterday's 10th inning - by taking a detour to high-five...
BOWA BLASTS PATTERSON
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - When Corey Patterson stole second and third in the seventh inning with the Orioles leading by six runs Larry Bowa believed Patterson was rubbing it in...
THE OYS ARE BATTLE IN THE BRONX - SHORT-HANDED YANKS READY FOR RIVALS
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amORIOLES 11 YANKEES 4 BALTIMORE - Mike Mussina enjoys the give and take with reporters more than anyone in the Yankees' clubhouse. He listens, agrees, disagrees and voices his educated...
MAKE WAY FOR BOB & JOHN
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amIt often pays to forgive a horse one bad race. That was certainly true in the Kentucky Derby, when Bluegrass Cat, after throwing in a clinker in the Blue Grass...
JETER'S THUMB INJURED IN DEFEAT
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Watching Derek Jeter writhe in pain transported Yankee hearts into their throats. In the sixth inning of a game the Yankees were well on their way to losing,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 5, 2006 | 4:00amIt's not a crock that a British farmer has opened the nation's first crocodile farm. Andy Johnson, 36, is raising eight Nile crocs, imported from Africa, in a heated building...