July 13, 2006
ROCK TO GET ANN TAYLOR
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amFashion firm Ann Taylor is taking a corner of the Rock. The retailer just inked a 15-year deal for a new Ann Taylor store at 600 Fifth Ave. on the...
NEW CLOTHES FOR LIVE NATION
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amLive Nation, the world's largest concert promoter, is planning a major expansion into merchandising by acquiring a majority stake in apparel company Trunk. Live Nation, formerly a division of Clear...
HOLY HOT STOCKS! VATICAN UP $12.4M
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amDespite a decline of millions of dollars in donations from the faithful, the Vatican is celebrating its biggest cash surplus in eight years. The global investment portfolio of the Vatican...
REFCO CUSTOMERS TWISTED OVER SALE - KEEPS CASH OUT OF REACH
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amFuming customers of disgraced futures giant Refco, already unable to get the cash from their frozen accounts, are calling the shattered firm's move to sell their accounts to a rival...
WPP ADDS SOCIAL NET
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amWPP Group is joining the ranks of advertising firms getting serious about social networking. The ad giant is forming a joint venture with LiveWorld, a small marketing firm, to create...
THE DOTS SCAM - KEY ISSUE AT NYSE TRIAL
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amYOU'VE heard the expression "connecting the dots." Well, the biggest scam going on during the last decade at the New York Stock Exchange was "not connecting the dots." More specifically,...
ELGINDY FBI GAL GETS THREE YEARS PROBATION
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amA disgraced FBI agent was given three years probation yesterday for rifling through bureau computer files to feed information to a colleague and an Internet stock adviser convicted of securities...
A BITE WITH MIKE - EISNER RECOUNTS ABC DEAL AT MOGUL FEST
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amSUN VALLEY, Idaho - No deal is more linked to the lore of Allen & Co.'s annual confab here than Disney's 1995 deal to acquire ABC/Capital Cities. As Michael Eisner...
'SAATCHI 17' MUTINY LAWSUIT IS SETTLED
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amAd agency Saatchi & Saatchi settled a lawsuit yesterday against Mike Burns, a former top exec the company had accused of masterminding a corporate mutiny known as the "Saatchi 17."...
GIMME SHELTER
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amOOPS - JUST $4M 3-BR penthouse - NoHo After a couple of years and a few price cuts, mom tart Britney Spears is finally unloading her NoHo penthouse apartment. The...
RENEWARK - 2 REASONS TO LIVE HERE: MAYOR CORY BOOKER AND THOUSANDS OF NEW HOMES
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amNEWARK AND IMPROVED - NEW MAYOR & THOUSANDS OF NEW HOMES GIVE CITY NEW LIFE "IT all depends on what kind of person you are, an optimist or a pessimist,"...
NOTHING EXCELLENT HERE
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amEXCELLENT CADAVERS [**] (Two stars) EXCELLENT Cadavers" is an uninspired TV documentary about the long-running war between Italian authorities and the Mafia, based on a book of the same name...
ALL-STAR'S HOME RUN
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amTHE National League's leaky pen and a thrilling American League comeback translated into healthy All-Star Game numbers on Fox. Over 14 million viewers tuned into Tuesday's All-Star Game, which was...
CLAIM TO FRAME - $135M KLIMT NOW HOME ON FIFTH AVE.
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amHE'S called her Gustav Klimt's Mona Lisa - and as cosmetics king and Neue Galerie President Ronald Lauder yesterday unveiled the painting for which he reportedly paid a record $135...
TAYMOR WOWS BUT 'GRENDEL' HARD TO SWALLOW
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amAFTER all the hue and cry over mechanical malfunctions in Los Angeles, it was a relief when the New York premiere of "Grendel" arrived Tuesday night without a hitch at...
'COMIC' FAVE TOSSED OVER PHONE CALLS
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amA comedian who was among those favored to win it all was disqualified from "Last Comic Standing" for violating rules prohibiting communications with the outside world. Cameras on the NBC...
STARR REPORT
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amComedy Central has renewed "Mind of Mencia" (Carlos Mencia) for a third season, which will premiere, in cablespeak (since they can't ever give firm dates), in "First Quarter '07." The...
'CLOSER' ENCOUNTERS - SUMMER HIT MAKES A CASE FOR FALL
July 13, 2006 | 4:00am'THE Closer" is getting too big - and too good - to be a summer show. Police dramas come and go, but the hit TNT program starring Kyra Sedgwick as...
D-LIST DON - IF YOU'RE ON FAME'S LAST LEGS, THIS IS YOUR AGENT
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amAGENT Roger Paul doesn't like the term D-list. "I've always had a good thing with reviving careers," says Paul, a soft-voiced Manhattanite in his early 40s whose roster of clients...
LORD OF THE BLINGS - CELEBS FLAUNT AT ENVY EXPO
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amTHE sure sign "bling" has jumped the shark? It has its own convention. The Envy Expo, which hit the Los Angeles Convention Center this week, was a showcase of the...
CITY RESIDENCY RULE MAY END
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amCity Hall is in negotiations with the city's largest municipal labor union to wipe out the residency requirement forcing workers to live within the five boroughs, The Post has learned....
ISRAEL BLITZES LEB INVADERS - HEZBOLLAH TERROR THUGS KILL 8 TROOPS & SNATCH 2
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Hezbollah terrorists killed eight Israeli soldiers in Lebanon and kidnapped two others yesterday in what Israeli officials called "an act of war" as they dispatched warplanes, gunships and...
HER SHINING EXAMPLE - WINNER INSPIRES KID SIS
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amLong before she stood with other heroes to accept a New York Post Liberty Medal after taking a bullet for her sister, Brooklyn teen Kharisi Bonner had always dreamed of...
SKAKEL'S SUPREME GAMBIT
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amLawyers for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel want the Supreme Court to toss his conviction for the 1975 murder of Connecticut teenager Martha Moxley, claiming he never should have been tried...
CELL-BAN FOES BRRRRING SUIT
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amA prominent citywide parent group was expected to sue the city Department of Education today to lift its ban on cellphones in public schools. Civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel said...
PETER GOTTI LOSES APPEAL ON RACKETS
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amPeter Gotti has lost his bid to toss his racketeering conviction and slash a $3.8 million forfeiture. Appeals court judges rejected arguments by Gotti's lawyers that the mob leader should...
LOUD GRIPING - NOISE IS APPLE'S TOP PROBLEM: POLL
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amStreet noise is so out of control that frustrated and sleep-weary New Yorkers cite it as the Big Apple's No. 1 problem, a new survey has found. Horn-hunkers, blaring music,...
FRAT BRAT'S JOKER-POKER BANK ROBBERY
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amA one-time university class president pleaded guilty yesterday to robbing a bank in a bid to help pay off a stack of online poker debts. Greg Hogan - the 20-year-old...
'GRAFT' POL STUMPS FOR VOTES
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amJust two days after her arrest on corruption charges, Assemblywoman Diane Gordon hit the campaign trail yesterday, stumping for votes in senior centers and promising supporters she'd beat the rap....
PIRRO'S FAST TIMES - HUBBY CLOCKED AT 90 MPH
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Republican attorney-general candidate Jeanine Pirro's bad-boy husband is in hot water again, facing the possible suspension of his driver's license after police say they clocked him driving 98...
'WINDFALL' PARTY GUY SHOT DEAD
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens man who had just come into a nice chunk of money - at least $80,000 - was gunned down yesterday before he had a chance to spend it,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * A woman was found dead last night on the roof of a Morrisania apartment building, police said. Her neck had been slashed and suffered several stab wounds...
KT BROTHER: EVIL SIS LIED ON 'DAD ABUSE'
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - The brother of GOP Senate candidate Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland accused his sister yesterday of being "evil" and he vehemently denied her charges that their father was abusive....
PUBLIC'S VIEW OF GOVS IS.
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amWhen it comes to a new park planned for Governors Island, New Yorkers are showing a decidedly southern disposition. Early results of an online poll show most respondents want the...
NYERS DON'T LIKE MIKE FOR PREZ
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amNew Yorkers think Mike Bloomberg's a good mayor but they don't think he'll run for president - and even if he does, they wouldn't rush to the polls to vote...
HULK FROM HELL - FITERMAN HALL BLIGHTS ON
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amON his first day in office, the next governor should send in the bulldozers to take down Fiterman Hall, the sickening relic of 9/11 that the state has inexcusably let...
MURDER MENU - POSH-EATERY WORKER 'KILLS HOOKER'
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amA dishwasher at a haute cuisine Upper East Side restaurant was charged with strangling a prostitute and dumping her body outside his Queens apartment, authorities said yesterday. The suspect, Miguel...
PUTIN OUT SHOOTIN' - RIPS 'BAD HUNTER' CHENEY
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday took a shot at Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting skills as he warned against criticism of Russia at this weekend's G-8 summit. Putin...
2 GUILTY IN POST WHACK
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amTwo members of the Bonanno crime family were convicted in Brooklyn federal court yesterday of murdering a New York Post employee to make sure he kept his mouth shut. Family...
MY DOGGY HERO KEPT ME ALIVE - BARK WAKES UP ASTHMATIC'S KIN
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amMan's best friend proved to be girl's best friend when the caring canine saved the life of a 10-year-old Long Island girl on the verge of suffocating, family members said...
FOXY MOVE DELAYS ASSAULT TRIAL
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amHip-hop hottie Foxy Brown fired her second lawyer and hired yet another one yesterday - a switch that won her a five-week delay in her Chelsea manicurist-slapdown case. Foxy had...
ALIEN 'SCAM' ARTIST NAILED
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amA Manhattan ex-con scammed 45 immigrants out of more than $288,000, police said yesterday. John Nevarez, 54, allegedly began his scheme in January, when he opened up "Tickets-R-Us" on East...
PUSH-IN BANDIT SHOOTS 3
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amA ski-masked gunman pushed his way into a Bronx apartment and shot three people in their ankles as four kids cowered for cover. The violence began when the thug barged...
POWELL AIDE SEEN AS NOVAK'S LEAKER
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Renewed speculation centered on Colin Powell's top aide Richard Armitage as the original leaker in the Valerie Plame case yesterday after columnist Robert Novak's latest revelations. Novak was...
$$ SICKOS STOLE 9/11 AC FUNDS
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Thousands of coldblooded cheats scammed taxpayers out of millions after 9/11 by ripping off a government program to provide air conditioners, investigators told Congress yesterday. "They were still...
POOL FOOLS - BATTLE OVER BACKYARD SWIMMING HOLE
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amIn the dog days of summer, everybody wishes they had a pool in their back yard. Ted Papas does have a pool in his back yard - but he's not...
BAD SANTA GUILTY IN DOO TO-DO
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amThe city's notorious "Bad Santa" pleaded guilty in Manhattan yesterday to harassing a 13-year-old girl by smearing her Chihuahua's droppings on her after the tiny dog pooped on his East...
PERVERT GIANT'S A HORSE'S REAR 'END'
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amCLEAR the courtroom and hide the kids. The divorce battle between Giants defensive end Michael Strahan and his lovely bride, Jean, devolved yesterday into a sordid suburban saga of liposuction,...
BID TO BOOST COP RANKS A BUST
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amThe mayor's plan to hire an additional 800 cops by January has fallen behind schedule, department statistics reveal. The hiring goals were announced amid much fanfare in March. But the...
BLAZING CRASH KILLS 5 IN QNS. - GROUP-HOME MEN BURN ALIVE
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amFive men living in a Brooklyn home for the mentally challenged were killed yesterday when their van slammed into a tree in Queens and trapped them in flames. Five others...
DOWNBEAT SPLIT OF UPTOWN GIRL - CHRISTIE'S 4TH MARRIAGE CRACKS
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amUptown girl Christie Brinkley just might be looking for a downtown guy again - she's splitting with hubby No. 4, Peter Cook. "They have separated," her publicist Elliot Mintz confirmed...
SICKO STRAHAN TAPED MY SIS: WIFE - '30G PAYOFF' UPROAR IN DIVORCE BATTLE
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amThe Michael Strahan divorce trial turned into an episode of America's Sleaziest Home Videos yesterday as it was revealed that the Giants star made a $30,000 payoff to his wife...
SLAYING TWISTS & TURNS
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amThe bouncer accused of a fatal shooting rampage outside a Chelsea bar put on a bizarre fitness display for cops - dropping to the ground into a full split in...
BEAUTY'S BLOWN AWAY - GAL SEEN SECONDS BEFORE SCARY BLAST
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amThis is the nightmare that Jennifer Panicali will relive for the rest of her life. It's her close call with death as she walked down East 62nd Street on Monday...
COPS: WE GOT SERIAL ARSONIST
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amDetectives nabbed a suspected serial firebug after he was caught on camera trying to ignite the lower Manhattan building housing the detectives union, sources said. Jimmy Esdades, 51, a homeless...
POOL FOOLS' WATER FIGHT
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amIn the dog days of summer, everybody wishes they had a pool in their back yard. Ted Papas does have a pool in his back yard - but he's not...
EYE ON TEMPLE SAFETY - $25M FOR SYNAGOGUES
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff said yesterday he'll change course and release $25 million to protect nonprofit facilities facing terror threats - like New York City synagogues. The...
BLAZING CRASH KILLS 5 IN QNS. - BURNED ALIVE IN GROUP-HOME VAN
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amFive men who live in a Brooklyn home for the mentally disabled were killed in a fiery crash yesterday when their van - operated by a driver with a suspended...
TWO GUILTY IN POST WHACK
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amTwo members of the Bonanno crime family were convicted in Brooklyn federal court yesterday of murdering a New York Post employee to make sure he kept his mouth shut. Family...
RESIDENCY RULES MAY GET NIXED
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amCity Hall is in negotiations with the city's largest municipal labor union to wipe out the residency requirement forcing workers to live within the five boroughs, The Post has learned....
PIRRO'S SPEEDY HUBBY TICKETED
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Republican attorney-general candidate Jeanine Pirro's bad-boy husband is in hot water again, facing the possible suspension of his driver's license after police say they clocked him driving 98...
AMBER IN WHITE: KILLER'S EX WEDS
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amHere's Amber Frey, the picture-perfect bride. The woman who brought down Scott Peterson shared her happiest day with People magazine, which published the first photographs of her wedding near Lake...
LIBERTY MEDAL AWARDS - OUR 'OTHER' N.Y. HEROES
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amAway from the glare of the spotlight, our city's unsung heroes strive to help others without expectation of fame or fortune. We are seeking candidates for the fifth annual New...
CITY UNIONS IN TALKS ON WORKER RESIDENCY RULE
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amCity Hall is in negotiations with the city's largest municipal labor union to wipe out the residency requirement forcing workers to live within the five boroughs, The Post has learned....
IT'S WAR VS. HEZBOLLAH - ISRAEL INVADES LEB FOR THUGS' KIDNAP-SLAY RAID
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon killed eight Israeli soldiers and kidnapped two others yesterday in what Israeli officials called "an act of war" as they dispatched warplanes, gunships and...
ZIDANE SORRY FOR HEAD BUTT - SAYS MOM, SIS WERE SLURRED
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amPARIS - French soccer star Zinedine Zidane offered apologies but no regrets yesterday for brutally head-butting an Italian opponent in the World Cup final, saying he was spurred by cruel...
SHANNY MAY STAY LONGER
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amThe single-season contract looks suspicious, especially on a franchise so familiar with carpetbaggers. Brendan Shanahan, the Rangers' latest aging addition, sought to allay any such concerns. "I'd like to stay,...
DOCS DOWNGRADE BARBARO CONDITION
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amWith a press briefing to "update Barbaro's ongoing treatment" set for 11 a.m. today at the New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa., signs were ominous yesterday afternoon that the...
NETS: ROOKIES SHOULD BE OK - AND ROBINSON WILL BE BACK
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amLast summer, the Nets looked primarily for veterans to answer their depth needs. The result? They could have saved time and aggravation by going out and burning an $11.2 million...
VA. LINEBACKER ON GIANT RADAR?
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amOf the seven players available in today's NFL supplemental draft, the most intriguing is Ahmed Brooks, a talented but troubled linebacker in whom the Giants are rumored to have keen...
WNBA STARS TAKING GAME TO NEW LEVEL
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amAfter 10 years, the WNBA is on the rise. The league, which held its annual All-Star Game last night at the Garden, is on the way up, but that has...
BUTLER SIGNS SPURS' $7M OFFER
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amIn a shock to the Knicks, center Jackie Butler signed a staggering three-year, $7 million offer sheet with the Spurs on the first day of the free-agent signing period yesterday,...
LARRY'S ON DEAN'S LIST - UNC LEGEND TRIES TO CHEER BROWN
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amAs Isiah Thomas and the Knicks' summer-league team frolic in Las Vegas, Larry Brown spent the last three days at his home in East Hampton, playing golf with his UNC...
BIG RETURN FOR COMMENTATOR
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amFriday twilight racing, until now restricted to summers at Belmont Park, will make its first, inevitable appearance at Saratoga for one evening this upcoming meet, which begins July 26. On...
GIRLS GONE WILD - LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN STILL FACES IDENTITY CRISIS
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amTHE WNBA held its annual All-Star Game last night, draped in nostalgia since it marked the 10th anniversary of a league some doubted would survive its infancy. There was a...
GOOD ENOUGH TO WIN, FRAGILE ENOUGH TO FAIL
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amIT WAS worse last season. Much, much worse. How easy it is to forget, but the Yankees were in a far more dire spot than their current plight when the...
SUMMER TO REMEMBER - METS, YANKEES COULD MAKE THIS BIG APPLE'S GREATEST SEASON EVER
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amTHE METS weren't supposed to be here, 12 games clear of the rest of the NL East, with more wins than any other team in National League. They were supposed...
TOAST OF TOWN - DAVID HAS 'LATE NIGHT' VISIT WITH DAVE
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amYesterday afternoon, the Mets third baseman was in room 602, which was labeled for Guest Dressing. Later he would head over for makeup. Then he hung out in the Green...
EAST SLAMS WEST IN WNBA DUNK-FEST
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amEast 98 - West 82 The game was virtually over, the score lopsided and the final buzzer was about to put an end to last night's WNBA All-Star Game at...
GIRLS GONE WILD - IT'S STILL A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amTHE WNBA held its annual All-Star Game last night, draped in nostalgia since it marked the 10th anniversary of a league some doubted would survive its infancy. While most of...
CAUSE & DEFECT - CUBAN TRIES TO MAKE IT 'BIG' WITH METS
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amALTOONA, Pa. - Blair County Ballpark is the only park in the country where a roller coaster practically hangs over the right-field fence. Binghamton Mets first baseman Michel (pronounced Michelle)...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 13, 2006 | 4:00amA pregnant woman, due to give birth to twins any day, rushed into a blazing building to rescue a paralyzed woman trapped in her apartment. Jessica Bates, 22, of Albion,...