June 21, 2006
GOTHAM SELLS KEY WEST FOR $120M
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amMIGHTY Archstone is buying Key West for close to $120 million - not the Florida tourist village but the rental building on the Upper West Side. We've learned the Picket...
TIFFANY BLUE GOING TO WALL STREET
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amLegendary jeweler Tiffany is opening a store on Wall Street, joining a quickening rivulet of high-end retailers taking the plunge in the heart of the old Financial District. Tiffany has...
GERMAN BID GETS EURO'NIX'
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amEuronext rebuffed a new merger deal from Deutsche Boerse of Germany to stick with its agreement to link its electronic European stock market with the New York Stock Exchange. Despite...
YEAH IT'S A F***ING BOWLER HAT - WHAT'S IT TO YOU?
June 21, 2006 | 4:00am"Deadwood," the gritty, expletive-filled Western now airing its third season on HBO, is coming to a retail store near you. HBO and western-wear retailer Billy Martin's USA plan to announce...
HANKY SPANKY - GREENBERG SLAPS AIG FOR BUNGLED DEAL WITH GOV'T
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amInsurance titan Maurice "Hank" Greenberg turned up the heat on AIG - which unceremoniously dumped him from its top job after 40 years - alleging the company mismanaged a $1.6...
GIVING THE BUSINESS; VANITY FAIR TWEAKS CONTENT AHEAD OF CONDE NAST PORTFOLIO
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amGRAYDON Carter, the Vanity Fair editor-in-chief, is planning to rev up business coverage at the monthly magazine. Oddly, it comes at a time when Condé Nast is putting much of...
BUYOUT BIG BET ON GAS; XETHANOL UP 14%
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe latest company in the ethanol fuel scramble debuted in a makeover yesterday with a hefty 14 percent price jump - but until last spring it had been just a...
THE $1 MILLION WARDROBE OF 'THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA'
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amTHE most coveted, up-to-the-second wardrobe of any film - and nearly the most expensive - belongs to "The Devil Wears Prada," a spectacle of $12,000 handbags and $40,000 fur coats....
'LAW & ORDER': I DO
June 21, 2006 | 4:00am'LAW & Order" creator Dick Wolf, the reigning king of crime TV, landed a new queen last Saturday. Wolf married former fashion publicist Noelle Lippman, 36, in a small ceremony...
STARR REPORT
June 21, 2006 | 4:00am"A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story," starring J.D. Pardo and Mercedes Ruehl, scored big numbers Monday on Lifetime, averaging 5.1 million viewers (9-11 p.m.). That's second only to...
SUPER SCIENCE - HOW MAN OF STEEL COULD REALLY EXIST
June 21, 2006 | 4:00am"There are a lot of things in the Superman myth that were initially based on 'scientific principles" IT turns out there may actually be a real-life explanation behind why bullets...
'MONK'-EY LOVE - AFTER 10 YEARS, 'BIG NIGHT' BOYS RE-UNITE FOR PI SERIES' OPENER
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amTHE upcoming season premiere of "Monk" will be a big night for Tony Shalhoub and his old friend, Stanley Tucci. That's because Tucci - who co-starred with Shalhoub in "Big...
DASHING DIRECTOR DEAD AT 99
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amVINCENT Sherman, the last surviving director from Hollywood's Golden Era - and a legendary ladies' man who romanced stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Rita Hayworth - is...
SIRIO FIT TO BE TIED OVER DRESS CODE
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amTHE new Le Cirque is a funkier circus than its staid Palace Hotel predecessor. While chef Pierre Schaedelin is rattling the cages with dishes like Mozambique langoustine in curry, ginger...
RAMSAY EYES OTHER SPOTS
June 21, 2006 | 4:00am'HELL'S Kitchen" dictator Gordon Ramsay has been in the city checking out his competition. Last Thursday, Britain's only three-star Michelin-rated chef was spotted at Le Cirque, Lever House and The...
COMING UP SHORT
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amWHEN Martin Short workshopped his Broadway-bound revue "Fame Becomes Me" last spring in front of an audience of theater insiders, the laughter echoed through Times Square for days. "One of...
HACK THIS! CELEBS GET NEW SIDEKICK
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amHEY Paris! Instead of getting played by your Sidekick, now your Sidekick can play you - or, at least, your new single. T-Mobile's Sidekick 3 - an updated, higher-tech version...
PARIS SCORES (AGAIN)
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amParis Hilton - heiress, actress and now songstress - is turning out to be a dominatrix of all media on the strength of her single "Stars Are Blind," which was...
MAKE LIBYA PAY: N.Y. POL
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A House committee went on record yesterday against any normalization of relations with Libya until it pays all compensation due to families of people killed in the 1988...
SPITZ JOINS 'DNA' BLITZ AGAINST SHEL
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - With just days left in the legislative session, the pressure mounted on Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to expand the state's DNA databank, as another rape victim and Attorney...
B'KLYN TEEN GUILTY IN IPOD-THEFT SLAY
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn jury convicted an East Flatbush teen yesterday of murder for sparking a melee when he demanded an iPod from another boy on a crowded street corner last summer....
RATHER DEPARTS 'EYE'-SORE; EXITS CBS ON BITTER NOTE AFTER 44 YEARS
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA combative Dan Rather traded shots with CBS yesterday as the Tiffany Network kicked him out the door after 44 years. "My departure before the term of my contract represents...
SLAY-CASE EVIDENCE IN DOUBT
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn cold-case murder prosecution got even colder yesterday when a judge suggested that the evidence against a Florida fishing boat captain tying him to a 1989 drive-by shooting might...
KIDNAPPED GIS SLAUGHTERED ; THROATS ARE SLIT BY QAEDA'S NEW FIEND
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Al Qaeda terrorists tortured and murdered two captured U.S. soldiers and then "desecrated" their bodies in throat-slitting savagery that the terror group boasted was the personal handiwork of...
BID TO BOOT DA IN PIX-MIX CASE
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amLawyers for three Brooklyn men accused in a Christmas Eve 2004 drive-by shooting have asked that a special prosecutor be appointed after bombshell revelations that cops used the wrong photo...
WHEN IS A WOMAN GOING THROUGH HER PURSE SUSPICIOUS? WHEN 'SHE'S' THIS GRIZZLED GUY: COURT
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amGet your eyes checked, your honor. That's what a panel of appeals judges had to say yesterday to a lower-court Manhattan judge. The jurist, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice James Yates,...
ALBANY STRIKES DEAL FOR DNA DATABASE
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Legislative leaders yesterday reached a deal to dramatically expand the state's DNA database - but not nearly to the extent Gov. Pataki had sought. The leaders also agreed...
RONALD REAGAN - 40TH PRESIDENT, 1981-1989
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amThis Hollywood leading man became one of the nation's most popular presidents. RONALD Wilson Reagan was born on Feb. 6, 1911, in Tampico, Ill. He worked his way through Eureka...
TORTURERS' HOPE - EXPLOITING OUR DIVISIONS
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amTHE horrific deaths of two American servicemen kidnapped in Iraq on Friday may bring the war into a new phase - and force politicians, media stars and Americans generally to...
ATM THIEF GOES BALLISTIC
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA man set off a small explosive device last night in a failed attempt to rob an automated teller machine in the West Village, police said. No one was hurt...
TOW-AWAY AN EXTRA $35 THROW-AWAY
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe Department of Finance confirmed yesterday it is raising towing fees by $35 next week. The move won't put an extra dime into city coffers, but will make more than...
CITY $ICS COLLECTORS ON EX-POL
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amMore than a year after slapping then-City Councilman Allan Jennings with a $5,000 fine for sex harassment, city lawyers have turned to a private collection agency to get the money,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amBROOKLYN *** A belligerent passer-by threw up on a man's car - then threatened him and a woman with a broken bottle in two separate incidents, authorities said yesterday. The...
CHUCK TWICE AS GOOD AS HILL: POLL
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Score a big win for Chuck Schumer in his quiet rivalry with potential Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. A poll released yesterday found New Yorkers rating Sen....
HEALTHY APPLE; CITY STUDY HAILSNYERS' HARDINESS
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amNew Yorkers are taking better care of themselves - 340,000 more residents regularly see a doctor than they did three years ago, according to a city Health Department report card...
COMMUNE KOOK IN PAPER CHASE
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amSon of Sam, meet Rebekah Johnson. The disgruntled Staten Island commune member who cops say shot the kooky collective's leader appears to be following in David Berkowitz's footsteps - by...
BABY 'KILLER' FEARED BUST-UP
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA deranged Brooklyn man charged with fatally stabbing his baby and wounding the 1-year-old's mother was set off by a belief his girlfriend was ending their relationship, cops said yesterday....
STADIUM TEEN FOULS IN REHAB
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA dopey teen who jumped into a net at Yankee Stadium last year balked at the opportunity to make his criminal case go away by doing well in drug rehab,...
MIKE TO PLAY NICE IN D.C.
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amDon't expect any screaming and yelling when Mayor Bloomberg testifies today at the congressional Homeland Security Committee in Washington. "We've just got to keep working with them and convincing them...
S.I. HERO'S MOM HAS 'HOLE' IN HEART
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amEvelyn McLeod was still very much in shock yesterday. Even five days after hearing the news that her son, Sgt. Ian Sanchez, 26, a Staten Island native, had become one...
RENTERS GET $LUGGED
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amNew York City residents who didn't have the foresight to buy their own home and are living in a market-rate apartment got hammered by a 68 percent increase in costs...
QNS. ADA FEAR: COP EX-BEAU COULD KILL
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA prominent Queens prosecutor feared her ex-lover - a retired NYPD lieutenant - was "going to kill me" after the married man made two dozen "alarming, threatening" calls to her...
ACCUSED FRAT KID'S JAG VICTIM GIVES THUMBS-UP
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe Long Island bouncer brutally mowed down by an alleged drunken frat boy is still on a respirator and couldn't speak when told his attacker was behind bars yesterday. But...
BIG APPLE GRADUATION RATE ROTTEN
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA new report released yesterday ranked New York City's on-time public high school graduation rate 48th out of the country's 50 largest school districts, placing the Big Apple ahead of...
DEMS PUSH DEC. TROOP WITHDRAWAL
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Senate Democrats scrambled yesterday to build party support for a plan to call for the United States to begin pulling troops out of Iraq in December. "Everyone -...
MOVE OVER, 'CUPCAKE'
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amForget "Cupcake" - Giants sack star Michael Strahan apparently has a scrumptious new sweetie, "America's Next Top Model" winner Eva Pigford. The beefy tackle and mouth-watering model have been dating...
JILTED HUBBY SNAPS; N.J. SLAY-SUICIDE
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA week after being served with divorce papers, a New Jersey dad pumped a bullet into his wife's chest and then turned the gun on himself in the master bedroom...
U.N. FRAUD IS BUILDING
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The cost of U.N. building renovations has skyrocketed by hundreds of millions of dollars, as the world body practically invites fraud and fails to set up an independent...
RIPPER VICTIM GIVES TEXAS-SIZE THANKS TO N.Y.
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amOne week after he was viciously attacked on the subway by a crazed, knife-wielding man, Texas tourist Christopher McCarthy left the hospital, declaring he loves New York. "That's why everyone...
BOOM 'N' BUSTS
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amFireworks arrests are soaring like bottle rockets on the Fourth of July - New York cops have made four times as many illegal-pyrotechnics busts this year than last. Police yesterday...
PRICE IS RIGHT; POLS GET THEIR $500M MEMORIAL
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA scaled-down plan for the World Trade Center Memorial was unveiled yesterday, a design that will cut the project's $1 billion price tag in half while preserving two massive reflecting...
KIDS' B'DAY SLIPS MIND OF 'GREATEST DAD' STRAHAN
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amJean Strahan no longer believes the words she wrote on the Father's Day card she lovingly made for her estranged grid-star hubby two years ago - the card on which...
RUNNING FOR SCHOOL BUS
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA "very sweet" 5-year-old Brooklyn girl was struck and killed yesterday when she darted out from between parked cars to catch her school bus, police said. Chana Friedlander died after...
MTA BOSS BALKS AT GIVING UP 'PLATFORM'
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amPeter Kalikow insists he hasn't come to the end of the line as MTA chairman - whether or not the next governor likes it. His term was set to expire...
THE LAST WORDS OF VAN MA; 'I TAKE CARE OF YOU'
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe suicidal wife who guided a minivan carrying her kids over a cliff in Bear Mountain State Park asked her husband minutes before the deadly plunge: "Don't I always take...
JUMBO VET'S FINEST HOUR
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amAn NYPD detective got a surprise on his last day on the job when fellow cops honored him yesterday by flashing a picture of him taken when he was a...
'KNOCKOFF' COP DENIES PEDDLE PAY
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amAn accused on-the-take Chelsea cop testified yesterday that he would never sell his badge for the knockoff football jerseys and Coach handbags that prosecutors say he took as bribes. "I...
'SAUSAGE' COOKED IN MOB-EXTORT CASE
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA Genovese crime family captain pleaded guilty in Manhattan yesterday to racketeering and extortion, admitting he worked with crooked city roofing union bosses to squeeze contractors for some $250,000 in...
'CHIN' KIN IS OFF THE HOOK
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA judge has tossed out charges against late Genovese boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante's nephew, a restaurateur who was accused of cooking up a scheme to stiff the IRS out...
HINT JINT HIT 'SACK' WITH DOC PAL
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA bitter Jean Strahan yesterday accused her estranged sack-star spouse of playing for the other team. Outside court, she said that after she and the Giant split in March 2005,...
KIDNAPPED GIS SLAUGHTERED; THROATS ARE SLIT BY QAEDA'S NEW FIEND
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Al Qaeda terrorists "barbarically" tortured and murdered two captured U.S. soldiers missing since Friday, and then "desecrated" their bodies, officials said yesterday. The terror group boasted that the...
TEEN GUILTY IN 'IPOD' MURDER
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn jury yesterday convicted an East Flatbush teen of murder for sparking a melee by demanding an iPod from another boy on a crowded street corner last summer. Darran...
ONE-ARMED & 'DANGEROUS'
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA homeless man missing his right arm was charged yesterday with luring an autistic teen into a Brooklyn alley and trying to molest him. Juan Armando Barasona, 53, was busted...
HOUSE 'HEARING RAID' ON SENATE'S 'ALIEN' BILL
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - House Republicans yesterday unveiled plans to give the kiss of death to President Bush's plan for legalizing millions of illegal aliens - by holding hearings to rally public...
N.C. ST. RELEASES DAVIS
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amLarry Davis finally got what he wanted. North Carolina State coach Sidney Lowe called the former Christ the King guard and told Davis he will finally get his full release...
NYC FISHIN' IS GR-EIGHT!
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amIN my travels around the world, I've always touted New York City as one of the best places to fish. Usually that claim leads to some strange looks. But, in...
ANTI-DOLAN PROTEST HEADED FOR GARDEN
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amJames Dolan's lawyers already stopped Selltheknicks.com from peddling dunce-cap T-shirts with his likeness, but the Knicks' eccentric owner can't do anything about a draft-night protest planned for next week by...
BIG APPLE TURNOVERS: MISTAKES PAIN LIBERTY
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe Liberty didn't exactly spring off to a good start at 2-9, but with the commencement of summer today, they hope they can begin to turn their season around. "What's...
NETS BIG ON SMALL GUYS
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe Nets never have tried to hide their wants and needs for the upcoming draft. They seek backup help at point guard, power forward and center. And yesterday they staged...
SPEEDY REYES ON FAST FORWARD
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amJOSE Reyes lashed a double to left to lead off the bottom of the first last night and, fittingly, because this is the Mets' speedy shortstop, the team was off...
STEVE A HIT AT BAT, TOO
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe Mets have been hoping to solidify the back of their rotation all year, recently inserting pitchers Alay Soler and Orlando Hernandez into the mix. Steve Trachsel is showing lately,...
JETER'S KNEE & FOOT HURTIN'
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Derek Jeter limped out of Citizens Bank Park last night with a compression wrap on his bruised left knee and a problem with his right foot...
METS GET BACK ON RIGHT TRACH ; PITCHER POWERS METS PAST REDS
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amMets 9Reds 2 Duaner Sanchez pointed up and pumped his fist. It was a double play that merited a celebration. The Reds had loaded the bases with nobody out in...
NADY TIPS HIS CAP TO BELTRAN
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Carlos Beltran yesterday provided some help for Xavier Nady at the plate. Looks like it worked. Nady, who started his second game last night since coming off the...
BATS SOCIETY - ANOTHER ABLE ARM SHOULD BE TOP PRIORITY
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Absolutely, Melky Cabrera is still the regular left fielder, said Joe Torre, showing more patience in the kid than he is showing the manager. "He's had this magic...
CLUTCH HIT PROVES CABRERA NO MELK DUD
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Melky Cabrera's swing was getting as long as this road trip, on which the Yankees had lost three of their first four while their rookie left fielder was...
JOE BACKS MELKY DESPITE DOWNWARD SWING
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Melky Cabrera's swing was getting as long as this road trip. "He's had this magic wand where every time he's swung he hit the ball somewhere," said Joe...
BOMBERS BASH RELIEVER TO OVERCOME HOWARD'S HUGE NIGHT
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEES 9 PHILLIES 7 PHILADELPHIA - There are times when the baseball gods get it right. When they deliver the delicious match-up that hushes packed stadiums and bathes the middle...
YANKEES'DEAD - MELK DUD TAKES SEAT FOR SLUMPING BOMBERS
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - To blame the Yankees' lame hitting on Melky Cabrera would be stupid. To believe he wasn't part of the problem would be naive. With Cabrera in a 4-for-29...
METS GET BACK - PITCHER POWERS METS PAST REDS
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amMets 9 Reds 2 Duaner Sanchez pointed up and pumped his fist. It could have been a double celebration because it was such a big double play. It killed the...
IT COULDN'T LAST - MILLEDGE LIKELY BACK TO MINORS
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amLastings Milledge's first stint in the majors appears to be coming to an end, with Cliff Floyd set to come off the disabled list as soon as tomorrow. And though...
CABRERA DELIVERS IN CLUTCH
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES PHILADELPHIA - With Melky Cabrera in a 4-for-29 slump, the first of his very short big-league career, Joe Torre sat the switch-hitting 21-year-old last night against Phillies right-hander...
GRIFFEY ISN'T THINKING DEAL NEAR DEADLINE
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Ken Griffey Jr. glanced at a calendar in the visitors clubhouse and said, "When is the trading deadline?" Nobody needs to tell the Reds center fielder it's July...
EX-MATES RIVERA, GORDON REMAIN CLOSE
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Tom Gordon and Mariano Rivera were Yankees teammates for two seasons and the friendship they formed is very deep. So strong, in fact, Rivera has told...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 21, 2006 | 4:00amA section of Salt Lake City International Airport was evacuated after security screeners saw a suspicious image while they were X-raying luggage. Turned out it was a belt buckle resembling...