August 11, 2006
CORCORAN BUYS INTO EAST END
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amThe last of the big independent residential real estate firms on Long Island's East End has been sold. NRT, the largest residential real estate brokerage company in the United States,...
TIME TO BE A DAY LATE, A DOLLAR SHORT
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S been one week since we started the imaginary Make Us Rich Hedge Fund and we've already made a nominal $3.9 million. And boy, we are walking on a make-believe...
WIE & SONY TO TEE OFF SERIES OF HOLIDAY TV ADS
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amTeen golf sensation Michelle Wie hasn't won a single tournament since turning pro, but sponsor Sony still plans to get its money's worth. Wie will be at the center of...
PIN$TRIPE PAYDAY - GOLDMAN EYES SALE OF YES NETWORK STAKE
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amGoldman Sachs and several other investors in the YES Network are eyeing a sale of a majority stake in the Yankees television network - which could sell for close to...
ODYSSEY DELAYS A FILING A 2ND TIME
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amA key unit at troubled insurer Fairfax Financial Holdings announced Wednesday that it was delaying filing its quarterly financial statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Odyssey Re, a Connecticut-based...
JUDGE WANTS MORE GREEN FROM BLACK
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amDethroned newspaper baron Conrad Black has to cough up another $1 million to secure his freedom. Black, who is facing charges in Chicago that he orchestrated a massive fraud at...
MAVERICK WANTS TO BE FIRST TO BUY MONSTER TV
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amThe world's largest plasma TV was unveiled in Manhattan yesterday, with billionaire Mark Cuban making a play to be the first to buy one in America. But the outspoken owner...
IMAX-IMUM NIGHTMARE
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amImax continued its nose-dive yesterday punishing investors including New Jersey money manager Penn Capital Management, which placed big bets on a potential buyout of the big-screen theater chain. Shares of...
IT'S THE LEASH MTV CAN DO
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amMTV yesterday refused to rule out re-airing a controversial cartoon in which women are treated like dogs. The 'toon, part of a series called "Where My Dogs At," airs on...
THIS TALK ISN'T CHEAP
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amREMEMBER Helena Bonham Carter? "Conversations With Other Women" jolts us back to who she was before her partner Tim Burton started dressing her as an ape ("Planet of the Apes")...
DANCE PIC OUT OF STEP
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amTHE teen dance drama "Step Up" seems like it was not only inspired by a Janet Jackson video but entirely written during one. As a petty criminal with hip-hop moves...
FIRE IS OUT
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amABC has abrubtly broken off its summer romance with the Fire Island reality show, "One Ocean View." After just two weeks on the air, the show was canceled. Ratings were...
HIGH & J.LO FOR MARC
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amMOST artists rent Madison Square Garden. For one night, salsa sensation Marc Anthony owned it. Serenading Wednesday's sold-out house in Spanish during his hourlong set, the charismatic singer only referenced...
BROADWAY'S GOLDEN 'BOYS'
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amTHEATER is a collaborative effort. So it's little wonder that many of Broadway's most beloved shows were scripted by teams: Lindsay and Crouse ("The Sound of Music"), Lawrence and Lee...
COOKIN' IN HELL'S KITCHEN
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amGREG Garing, who grew up in Erie, Pa. - where he played ragtime and boogie-woogie piano at a VFW Hall at age 10 - might be labeled a country artist...
UNFINISHED, UNIMPROVED
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amUNFINISHED and virtually unknown, Mozart's opera "Zaide" arrived Wednesday night in a bizarrely modish production concept by Peter Sellars, providing a strange mixed blessing for the Mostly Mozart Festival. A...
MARY'S HOT PICK
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amTOMORROW'S "Soul to Soul" concert at Central Park SummerStage (3 p.m.; Rumsey Playfield; summerstage.org) brings New Orleans to New York and will raise money for one slice of the ravaged...
CASINO BEAT
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amNEW JERSEY * VH1 Decades Rock Live! presents the PRETENDERS and friends including Garbage's SHIRLEY MANSON and IGGY POP, tonight at 9 p.m. in the Trump Taj Mahal's Decades Rock...
DON'T GET HUNG! HOW TO ACE MONDAY'S TRYOUTS AND BE AN 'AMERICAN IDOL'
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amIF you think you're cuter than Carrie, hotter than Kelly and can make America forget about wholesome (and handsome) Taylor Hicks, listen up - "American Idol" producers are waiting for...
'GOOD DAY' JODI GETS SIDEKICK
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amFORMER ABC overnight anchor Ron Corning is joining Ch. 5's "Good Day New York" as Jodi Applegate's co-host. Corning, who's expected to start later this month, anchored ABC's "World News...
STARR REPORT
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amEllen in for 3 on 4 Fans of Ellen DeGeneres can count on seeing her show at least through the 2009-10 season - under a new deal that will keep...
CLASS WARFARE - INSPIRATIONAL STORY TO START SCHOOL YEAR
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amIf ever a made-for-TV'er had "sappy" written all over it, it was supposed to be "The Ron Clark Story" - TNT's "inspired by a true story" movie starring Matthew Perry...
VOX NEWS CHANNEL - SUDDENLY, NETWORK NEWSCASTS WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU
August 11, 2006 | 4:00am'THE NBC Nightly News" has a new feature - viewer e-mail. At least three times in the past few weeks - most recently on Wednesday - anchorman Brian Williams has...
DESTINATION: STALEMATE - BOTH SIDES WILL CLAIM VICTORY
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amTEL AVIV NO one knows exactly how or when the war in Lebanon will end. U.N. resolutions could interrupt hostilities - or the guns still may be blazing a month...
ISRAEL'S 'MR. IRAN'
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amNOW 80, Uri Lubrani is the grand old man among Israel's Iran experts. As his country's last ambassador to Tehran before the shah's fall, he was the single senior figure...
TWO TIMES A HERO - SUBWAY SAVIOR TWICE AT 1 STATION
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amShe was already a New York Post Liberty Medal nominee, and this week, Margaret Tarulli again proved why. The off-duty Human Resources Administration police officer rushed to help a man...
A GRIM WAKE-UP CALL
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S been all but impossible not to get the sense, over the past six months or so, that sophisticated opinion across the political spectrum has begun to question just how...
'PLAN B': WHAT SCIENCE CAN'T TELL US
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amSEN. Hillary Clinton says the federal Food and Drug Administration is being politicized, and she'll hold up the confirmation of its new commissioner until it stops. President Bush nominated acting...
PUCK STOPS HERE - 'MOB BIZ'-HOCKEY LINK
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amA mobbed-up Connecticut trash tycoon diverted millions of dollars from his businesses into his minor-league hockey team, no-show jobs, race cars and questionable stockholder repayments, federal authorities said yesterday. James...
SICK 'DOG TRICK' - BOOBY-TRAP HAM STICKS CENTRAL PK. POOCH
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amDog owners are being warned to be on the lookout after a loving Lab ate a hunk of ham riddled with pins and needles - apparently left in Central Park...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * A bird-brained thief named - of all things - Brian Brain was busted just blocks from where he and two cohorts had attacked and robbed a man in...
COPS NAB 3 MORE EGYPT STUDENTS
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amThree more Egyptian students who were part of a group that disappeared in New York last month were apprehended yesterday, leaving five of their classmates still at large, authorities said....
DEMS URGE SUOZZI TO BAIL OUT
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amSeveral Democrats called on Tom Suozzi to drop out of the governor's race yesterday, claiming that his campaign is all but over and he'd be more useful helping the Democrats...
H'WOOD MORONS SUDDENLY CLAM UP
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amA STRANGE and unfamiliar sound emanated from Hollywood yesterday - total silence. It now looks as if the 9/11 attacks were just meant to be a tepid dress rehearsal for...
LIQUID BOMB HIT KOREA JET
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amTerrorists used a liquid explosive to destroy a Korean airliner in a plot to disrupt the 1988 Summer Olympics, which were being held in Seoul. Officials said 115 people died...
NITRO PLOT HAD ROOTS IN 1995 SCHEME
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amSame plan, different ocean. The foiled plot to use liquid explosives to blow up airplanes from London en route to the United States was actually hatched more than a decade...
'I'LL KILL YOU' ... AND HE DID - L.I. DAD SHOOTS SON'S FOE: COPS
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amA Long Island father shot to death an unarmed 17-year-old boy - after the victim confronted the man's teenage son in a late-night screaming match in front of his home,...
WOODY WINS 95G
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amWoody Allen can take his old producer's money and run, a Manhattan judge has ruled. In a decision made public yesterday, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Bernard Fried awarded the director's...
BIG APPLE IS ALREADY PREPARED: HIZZONER
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amThere's no need to further tighten security in New York following the London arrests. So declared a confident Mayor Bloomberg yesterday, explaining: "The place you will see added security is...
EVIL LUST FOR BODY COUNT TO TOP 9/11
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The London terrorists were plotting a massive attack that might have surpassed the carnage, symbolism and economic turmoil of 9/11, government officials and terror experts say. "This was...
'HEZ' PRISONERS EYED AS IRANIANS
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli officials are trying to establish the identity of a number of Hezbollah prisoners nabbed in Lebanon that they suspect are Iranian, The Post has learned. The prisoners...
SCARE DOESN'T DETOUR N.Y. TOURISTS
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amIt was almost business as usual on the New York tourism front yesterday as hotels and sightseeing venues reported few cancellations and city employees reached out to calm jittery visitors....
ALERT WREAKS AIRPORT HAVOC - SCORES DELAYED AS FEDS CHANGE RULES ON THE FLY
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amThe new security measures instituted in response to the foiled terror plot caused mass confusion and missed flights at the city's area airports yesterday. Passengers departing from Kennedy, La Guardia...
SCHUMER CAUGHT IN HEATHROW TRAVEL HELL
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) became an unexpected victim of London terror plotters when he couldn't find his luggage amid the resulting chaos of London's Heathrow Airport. "It almost...
'KITCHEN' DEVIL'S BREW
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amBuilding a bomb that can cripple a passenger jet is as simple as pulling everyday liquids off your kitchen and bathroom shelves and mixing them together, experts say. The plot...
ALLEGED ART THIEF'S LINE: NOT GUILTY
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amConvicted thief Thomas Doyle pleaded not guilty yesterday in Manhattan to tricking Sutton Place art collector Norman Alexander out of a $600,000 Degas bronze. Doyle faces up to 15 years...
CITY FLUNKS NIGHT SCHOOL
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amAfter serving generations of undercredited high-school students, the city's night-school program has gone quietly into the night. City education officials yesterday said Evening High Schools, which offered 30,000 students night...
JUDGE: WHOA, JUNIOR! - HORSE TRIP NIXED
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amJohn "Junior" Gotti wasn't horsing around when he asked for a break from house arrest so he could take his son to an equestrian barrel-jumping competition, but the judge reined...
DEM DOVES ON DEFENSE - LIEBERMAN & GOP SEIZE ON BUSTS TO RIP 'SOFT' FOES
August 11, 2006 | 4:00am'If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to . . . it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow...
'NET MEGA 'PERV' - 300 NEW VICTIMS
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amCops have found 300 new victims of an alleged cyber-sicko charged with going online as a college co-ed to trick female students into sending him their nude pictures. Chubby Hunter...
LIQUIDS BAN WILL FORCE PLANES TO BE DRY IN THE SKY
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amAir travelers had to fly dry yesterday as new security regulations banned passengers from taking any fluids on board. Fearing that bomb-making ingredients could be hidden inside water bottles or...
THOSE RUFF-IANS! - SUIT OVER AD WITH DEAD DOGS
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amA SoHo woman says she got the shock of her life when she discovered that her two beloved Chihuahuas were doing advertising work from beyond the grave for a pet-cremation...
27 HEAT DEATHS
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amThe sweltering heat has killed 27 New Yorkers this month, officials said yesterday. The latest person to die was a 74-year-old Manhattan woman, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the...
'CASUAL' ROBBER HITS E. SIDE
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amPolice are searching for yet another Upper East Side bank robber. A suspect casually dressed - in shorts, a T-shirt and a Yankee cap - walked off with an undetermined...
DOOMSDAY PLOT TO KILL 4,000+ - * QAEDA TARGETED 10 LONDON-U.S. JETS * SUICIDE 'LIQUID BOMBS' IN BOTTLES * 24 BUSTED JUST DAYS FROM ATTACK
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amBritish authorities yesterday smashed a cunning terror plot that within days would have used carry-on liquid explosives hidden in bottles to simultaneously blow up 10 planes flying to the United...
INSIDE FIENDS' MASTER PLAN - SUICIDE FLIERS WOULD BUILD THEIR SIMPLE BOMBS IN MIDAIR
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amThe terror plot foiled yesterday was chillingly simple. The bloodthirsty masterminds behind the scheme knew it was virtually impossible to sneak an explosive device onto a plane, so they opted...
GOOD NIGHT, NIGHT SCHOOL
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amAfter serving generations of undercredited high-school students, the city's night-school program has gone quietly into the night. Education officials yesterday said Evening High Schools, which offered 30,000 students night classes...
'HEZ-RANIANS' - ISRAELIS SUSPECT CAPTIVES
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli officials are trying to establish the identities of several Hezbollah prisoners nabbed in Lebanon who they suspect are Iranian, The Post has learned. The prisoners are among...
NITRO PLOT HAD ROOTS IN '90S SCHEME
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amSame plan, different ocean. The foiled plot to blow U.S. airliners out of the sky over the Atlantic Ocean with liquid bombs was a copycat of a grisly scheme hatched...
DOOMSDAY PLOT TO SLAY 4,000 - * QAEDA TARGETED 10 LONDON-U.S. JETS * SUICIDE 'LIQUID BOMBS' IN BOTTLES * 24 BUSTED JUST DAYS FROM ATTACK
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amBritish authorities yesterday smashed a cunning terror plot that within days would have used carry-on liquid explosives hidden in bottles to simultaneously blow up 10 planes flying to the United...
SCHUMER IN TRAVEL CHAOS
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) became an unexpected victim of London terror plotters when he couldn't find his luggage amid the resulting chaos of London's Heathrow Airport. "It almost...
THE 5TH ANNUAL LIBERTY MEDAL AWARDS - GIVE THEM THEIR DUE
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amThey are the hidden heroes of our city - and now, at last, it's time to give them their moment in the spotlight. We are seeking candidates for the fifth...
MO TALKS BALK THAT NEVER WAS
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Many eyes missed Mariano Rivera's ninth-inning balk Wednesday night when the White Sox had runners on first and third with two outs and trailed the Yankees by a...
BULLPEN WORKING OVERTIME ON TRIP
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - When the Yankees odyssey of 21 games in 20 days started Tuesday night, Joe Torre hoped his bullpen wouldn't be taxed too much. However, Tuesday's game...
MANGINI SPINNIN' ROTATION
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES TAMPA - Don't be fooled or misled by any starters or position rotations in tonight's preseason game between the Jets and Buccaneers. That's a direct message from Eric...
FISHING'S A BREEZE OF LATE
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amTHE winds out of the north seemed to turn the fishing on, especially in the fluke department where we got solid reports from Ambrose Channel to Montauk Point. The offshore...
LIBERTY'S SEASON CAN'T END TWO SOON
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amThe Liberty long ago gave up any hope of making the WNBA playoffs, but the past few weeks have been about salvaging their pride. Now even that goal hangs by...
UNKNOWN SIMS READY TO RUN
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES BALTIMORE - After Tiki Barber gets his hands on the ball a few times, after Brandon Jacobs gets to rumble some, Giants fans who invest time watching tonight's...
BABBLING ON BROOKS - ROBINSON'S STAR TARNISHED BY YES CREW
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amLET'S call this, "Aaaargh! A Midsummer's Night Scream." It doesn't let up, not for a minute. This has been a record-shattering baseball season. Never have New York viewers been presented...
DEVILS' INJURIES OFFER CAP RELIEF
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amThese are dark Devils clouds with a silver lining. Deadline acquisition Jason Wiemer may miss the entire season while defenseman Richard Matvichuk may not be ready for the October opener,...
BELTRAN GIVES KNEE DAY OFF
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Carlos Beltran did not play in yesterday's 7-3 win over the Padres, and although he said he could have, the All-Star center fielder said his right knee was...
RED BULLS HOST EURO JUGGERNAUT
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amThe Red Bulls' exhibition game against powerhouse Barcelona tomorrow night at Giants Stadium means different things to different people. For the surging Red Bulls, it's the debut of coach Bruce...
BELTRAN RESTS SORE KNEE
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES Carlos Beltran did not play in yesterday's 7-3 win over the Padres, and although he said he could have, the All-Star center fielder said his right knee was...
YANKEE RUNNERS LEFT OUT TO DRY - BOMBERS STRAND 15 IN LOSS TO WHITE SOX
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amWhite Sox 5 - Yankees 4 CHICAGO - They complained about an awful performance from plate umpire Bill Miller, who admitted to hitters he didn't see certain pitches, and was...
HIRAPOUR, GOLD & ROSES PROVE MUCH THE BEST
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Trainer Doug Fout's steeplechase star Hirapour, coming off knee surgery during eight-month layoff, was even money under staggering 158 pounds and jockey Matt McCarron making first start...
KING OF SWING - TIGER'S STROKE IN UNBEATABLE GROOVE
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amIf CBS' Gary McCord traded in his media credential to become a bookie, he'd offer just one bet for the PGA Championship: Tiger Woods or the field. "If I get...
SUPE WITH 'SIDE' ORDER - CBS WILL USE ON-FIELD REP ORTERS FOR BIG GAME
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amWhile CBS Sports has rid itself of sideline reporters for the NFL's regular season, its executives have decided to use game analysts Solomon Wilcots and Steve Tasker on the sidelines...
5 QUESTIONS FOR SHANNON SHARPE
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amThis week, NYP TV Sports' Andrew Marchand spoke with CBS NFL Today analyst Shannon Sharpe. Sharpe, 38, played 14 seasons and owns three Super Bowl rings. Q: What do you...
MARCHAND'S MEMO OF THE WEEK
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amTo: Mike Francesa From: Andrew Marchand Re: Vacation CC: Chris Russo Dear Mike: You can't take vacation anymore. The Memo needs you on the air. For the last two weeks,...
PUT TO SWEEP - IT WAS VALENTIN'S DAY IN AUGUST
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amT HE composition of the Mets' lineup yesterday reflected a day game after a night game, the comforts that come from an ever-swelling, double-digit lead and a confidence that, in...
PLAYS OF THE TWEAK - MINOR INJURIES DON'T KEEP DAMON, GIAMBI OUT OF LINEUP
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amCHICAGO - It appeared the Yankees avoided big problems with Johnny Damon and Jason Giambi last night at U.S. Cellular Field. When Joe Torre's lineup was slapped on the clubhouse...
EL DUQUE GIVES METS 14-GAME BULGE
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amMETS 7 PADRES 3 The total was zero major-league starts for Orlando Hernandez in 2003, shoulder surgery taking him out for the year on May 12. El Duque, though, says...
'7' HEAVEN - REYES HELPS METS ROLL PAST PODS
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amJust like David Wright, part of the beauty of Jose Reyes' game, is it can't just be measured with statistics. How much does his worldclass speed scare defenses? How much...
DAVID DELIVERS LATE YET AGAIN
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amIt is just a feeling you get watching certain athletes. You felt it when Michael Jordan had the ball late in a game or when Joe Montana took over with...
DIFFERENT SHADE OF GREEN - PLENTY OF QUESTIONS FOR NEW-LOOK JETS
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amTAMPA - When the Jets take the field against the Buccaneers tonight in the preseason opener for both teams, it will represent more than the usual unveiling of another new...
A GIANT CHANCE - LORENZEN GUNS FOR NO. 3 QB JOB TONIGHT
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - There was no live scrimmage. No other team was brought in for one of those joint-session workouts. Heck, there hasn't even been much as far as fullcontact goal-line...
NO BULL! SOCCER IS A DREAM FOR NASH
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amThe Red Bulls are preparing for tomorrow's friendly vs. Champions League champion Barcelona and FIFA Player of the Year Ronaldinho, but another MVP stopped by practice yesterday, when two-time NBA...
BALK THIS WAY - UMPS MISS CRUCIAL MISTAKE BY MARIANO
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Many eyes missed Mariano Rivera's ninthinning balk Wednesday night when the White Sox had runners on first and third with two outs and trailed the Yankees by a...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 11, 2006 | 4:00amThis holdup man was just plain fuelish. He robbed a 7-Eleven in Royal Oak, Mich., sped off in his pickup truck and ran out of gas a mile later. Cops...