November 2, 2006
LIVEBLOG/ISTANBUL: Missed connections
November 2, 2006 | 3:41pmToday I rode the Metro about 6 times. I think it was 6. It may have been 7. I can't really say. Going the same place repeatedly over a short...
9TH AVE. BLOCK A LOCK - BROOKFIELD'S BIG PLAN
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amBrookfield Properties, the real estate giant that owns the World Financial Center, plans a huge new office development across the street from the proposed Moynihan Station project, The Post has...
BRUCE SWEATING IT OUT - LAZARD PROFIT OFF 32%
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amLazard boss Bruce "Bid 'em up" Wasserstein watched his Wall Street boutique's profits shrink along with his once-prodigious waistline as the firm's advisory fees came up suprisingly short in the...
YONKERS FIRM EYES TIMES SQ. BUY
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA Westchester-based developer is negotiating to join the big leagues with a $1.3 billion purchase of 5 Times Square from Mort Zuckerman's Boston Properties, The Post has learned. Allan V....
MACK'S HEDGE EDGE - BUY$ INTO THIRD FUND
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amMorgan Stanley boss John Mack yesterday bought into a third hedge fund in as many days when his Wall Street giant pinched a minority stake in London-based hedge fund Lansdowne...
SALMI TO TRY WEAVING MTV SITES INTO WEB
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amViacom's MTV Networks yesterday tapped Mika Salmi for the unenviable task of making its group of fiercely independent Web sites as important as music television was 20 years ago. In...
BID-HURTING TRIBUNE MAY SELL OFF PIECES
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amPreliminary offers for Tribune Co. came in lower than expected and are leading the media giant to consider shedding individual assets such as the Chicago Cubs or The Los Angeles...
SAKS APPEALING - LONG-STRUGGLING LUXE BIG SHOWS SIGNS OF LIFE
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA walk through a typical Saks Fifth Avenue store a year ago would have revealed holes in the cosmetic cases where lipsticks were out of stock. Basic men's dress shirts...
BLOODY RED TAPE - LONDON'S AIM BAGS HOT U.S. LIFE SAVER
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amIn a horrific twist its framers never intended, the Sarbanes-Oxley reform law is doing more than killing startup firms - it could be preventing valuable medical advances. The red-tape law,...
GIMME SHELTER
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amWEST SIDE STORY THE Dakota apartment that was Leonard Bernstein's residence is on the market again. Featuring mahogany wood, soaring ceilings, several wood-burning fireplaces and spacious rooms, the secondfloor, northeast-corner...
JOY VS. ELISABETH ; WAR ON 'VIEW' OVER KERRY'S BOTCHED-JOKE BLUNDER
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amELISABETH Hasselbeck tussled on "The View" yesterday - but not, as expected, withRosie O'Donnell. This time it was Joy Behar, usually an ally, who tangled with Hasselbeck over John Kerry's...
LEGEND'S ACHE IS DULLED
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amOVER the years, George Jones has missed so many concert dates that he's affectionately known in Nashville as "No Show Jones." Unfortunately, he made it to his gig at Carnegie...
ESPN SUED OVER FIRING
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA former ESPN baseball analyst, accused of sexual harassment, is fighting back against the sports network with a $5 million lawsuit. Last July, ESPN fired Harold Reynolds - a former...
BIG' ARE ALL ABOUT THE LOVE
November 2, 2006 | 5:00am'ROB & Big" is a modern recasting of "The Odd Couple" - but not like Oscar and Felix. Lucy and Desi would be closer. Professional street skateboarder Rob Dyrdek and...
MONSTROUS DEATH - EKO A 'LOST' SOUL
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amONLY echoes of Mr. Eko remain, after the hulking black priest of "Lost" was torn apart by a monster last night. The show had intended to kill off the enigmatic...
STARR REPORT
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amDon deal for Fox Michael J. Fox, whose TV spot advocating stem-cell research raised Rush Limbaugh's hackles, tells CNBC's Donny Deutsch tonight that he thought Limbaugh's attack on him was...
WILD WEDDING - PREPARE FOR A RIOT OVER VIKTOR & ROLF
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amGET out the shoulder pads and helmets. It's riot time at H&M, as shoppers scramble for the next one-timeonly, guest-designer blockbuster. Following in the footsteps of Stella McCartney and Karl...
ELBOWS UP - SURVIVING THE H&M CRUSH
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amAS The Post reported this time last year in a piece succinctly called "Back Off My Dress, Bitch!" nothing short of 12 weeks of intense Krav Maga training can prepare...
KAZAKH IT TO ME! PLEASE FOR YOU ENJOY FUNNIEST FILM OF THE YEAR
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amBORAT CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN (four stars) Running time: 82 minutes. Rated R (graphic nudity, pervasive crude and sexual humor, profanity). At the...
ROLLING BONES - STONES BREAK RECORDS AND HIPS IN WHAT FEELS LIKE THEIR FINAL FLING
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amTHERE were plenty of jitters around the Rolling Stones campfire last night when the band readied to play their seventh New York gig in less than 18 months. The show...
WHY GRIEVING ANNA 'WED' ME - COUPLE FIRES BACK AT CRITICS
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amAnna Nicole Smith exchanged vows with her lawyer lover less than three weeks after her son died - and before she buried him - because the grief-stricken mom couldn't bear...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amBROOKLYN * A man was arrested for terrorizing waitresses in a Bedford-Stuyvesant restaurant several times last month, authorities said yesterday. Between Oct. 9 and this past Tuesday, Jayson Healis, 27,...
COPS KILL HOOD IN GUNFIGHT
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amTwo cops killed a gun-toting bandit during a shootout in the Bronx last night after they stumbled upon him assaulting another man, authorities said. The two narcotics officers, who were...
JILTED CLIENTS' GEM STONE WALL
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA Long Island jewelry store has abruptly closed its doors - leaving behind a $100,000 lawsuit and angry customers and suppliers who claim the owner still has their gems. One...
BABY-BASH DAD LEFT KID ALONE: COPS
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amThe raging Queens dad who shook, hit and bit his 2-month-old daughter, leaving her with brain damage, knew she might die from the injuries - but abandoned her inside his...
ANDY RIPS PIRRO 'STEALS' ON WHEELS
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Andrew Cuomo yesterday called on former Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro to return nearly $150,000 to the county to cover overtime expenses her driver incurred the last...
NO-LEASH LAW FOES BITE BACK
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amFoes of a proposal that would allow dogs off their leashes in city parks at night made their case yesterday at a Board of Health hearing. The current code bars...
PAIR GUILTY IN COURT STAB
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn jury yesterday convicted two cold-blooded murderers of attempting a violent escape from their own trial, stabbing a lawyer in the face with a homemade shiv and wrestling for...
MR. FREEZE CAN STOP ID THEFTS COLD - LAW LETS YOU BLOCK CREDIT ACCESS
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amID crooks might want to steer clear of New York. Empire State residents can now block access to their credit report under statutes that kicked in yesterday. The New York...
REICH & WRONG - HITLER KID GOOSE-STEPS BACK
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amFlouting a possible suspension and the scorn of Jewish groups, a Brooklyn high-school student ejected from class for dressing as Adolf Hitler on Halloween donned the controversial getup again yesterday...
HEVESI POL PAL 'PACTS' PUNCH - ALAN STEERED BID TO '02 ELEX AIDE
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - State Comptroller Alan Hevesi's office steered a 2 1/2-year, no-bid contract to a political worker and one-time aide in Hevesi's New York City Comptroller's Office, an internal document...
WTC ATTACKS TURNED FINANCIER INTO FIGHTER
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amJohn Maguire is a symbol of how America changed on Sept. 11. Maguire, 28, was a West Point graduate trying to start a new career as a finance officer on...
CITY'S OFF-COUR$E GOLF BUILDER CADDY-SACKED
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amThe Parks Department is ousting the developer selected by the Giuliani administration to build a spectacular golf course in the city - which still isn't close to completion after six...
DITCH JUDGE: MOB BOSS
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amThe Bonanno crime family big who allegedly threatened to whack the judge presiding over his case wants a new jurist on the case - because he fears Judge Nicholas Garaufis...
'GAY-BASH MURDERER' TOOK A NAP
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amOne of the suspects in last month's deadly robbery of a gay man in Brooklyn near the Belt Parkway told his cohorts he might have just murdered a man -...
O'DUMB'ETER: BETSY'S CAR $$ - SCANDAL SCRAMBLE TO PAY AUTO BILLS
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amPublic Advocate Betsy Gotbaum scrambled this week to reimburse the city for four years worth of personal use of her city car and driver, The Post has learned. The ombudswoman's...
YOU CAN'T CALL THESE RECRUITS GI SLOWS
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amGo to the back of the class, John Kerry. The men and women recruited to serve in the U.S. military in recent years are better educated than their civilian peers,...
WEIRD 'WEEN LINK - EGG-TOSS MA, FAT NICK
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amThe Queens mother facing assault charges yesterday for allegedly sparking a racially charged mob attack on a black police officer on Halloween had a son who was killed just before...
QNS. STUDENT'S 'KILLER' NAILED
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA homeless drifter has been charged with murdering a Queens college student and beating his mother with a baseball bat during a robbery, authorities announced yesterday. Emmanuel Polanco, 21, who...
BOUNCER LAWYERING UP AGAIN
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amAccused homicidal bar bouncer Darryl Littlejohn got his third set of lawyers in a month yesterday, signing on with the author of a popular jailhouse defense manual. Joyce David, author...
NEWARK STATS JUST 'PLANE' SCARY - AIRPORT INCIDENTS TAKING OFF
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amDangerous runway incidents are skyrocketing at Newark Airport, more than tripling over the last five years, new federal statistics obtained by The Post reveal. Reports of "runway incursions" at Newark...
WORKER IN FATAL PLUNGE
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA Manhattan building worker plummeted 19 stories to his death yesterday, the latest in a spate of accidents at city construction sites. Ramiro Jara, 25, was working on the façade...
HUNG JURY ON 421G FRAUD RAP
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA coke-addled grants administrator who allegedly embezzled $421,000 from the philanthropic Rockefeller Foundation is off the hook - for now - after a Manhattan jury deadlocked on the charges yesterday....
SCHOOL BIGS EYED IN S.I. KID-TEST 'CHEAT'
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amSeventeen teachers at a Staten Island high school claim that administrators ordered them to bump up scores on Regents exam given in June, officials said yesterday. A city Department of...
'PERV' GOT ME FIRED - PHONE GAL'S PAIN
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA longtime Verizon employee says she was canned after she hung up on her allegedly lingerie-loving, cross-dressing boss's phone-sex advances. "I can pleasure you in a way no one else...
9/11 AND IRAQ VET TO KERRY: STOP STEALING SADDAM'S OLD TALKING POINTS
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amIn a moving letter to The Post, a heroic New Yorker serving in Iraq had a blunt message yesterday for John Kerry - lay off the troops! U.S. Army Maj....
PALE MALE KIN IN ACCIDENT
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA year-old red-tailed hawk who is believed to be a daughter of Pale Male, the city's reigning raptor, is recovering from a flying accident. The bird plummeted to the ground...
GIS DROP SMART BOMB ON KERRY - HILARIOUS HEROES FIRE BACK OVER DEM AND DUMBER CRACK ABOUT IRAQ
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A group of GIs showed they are smart enough to take on condescending Sen. John Kerry - by deploying a hilariously misspelled sign mocking the failed presidential candidate's...
JURY SLAPS DEATH HOSP FOR $14 MIL
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA jury yesterday found a Brooklyn hospital negligent for allowing a patient to bleed to death - and awarded her family $14 million for the medical blunders, The Post has...
NEW LAWYER FOR BOUNCER
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amAccused homicidal bar bouncer Darryl Littlejohn got his third set of lawyers in a month yesterday, signing on with the author of a popular jailhouse defense manual. Joyce David, author...
LAWYER A $1.6M LOOTER - PREDATOR COPS PLEA
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA lawyer pleaded guilty in Manhattan yesterday to stealing more than $1.6 million from clients whose estates and accounts he handled. Campbell Holder, 58, of Brooklyn, admitted he stole the...
U.N. 'BRIBE' SLAP - OFFICIAL GOT APT. BREAK FOR $50M CONTRACTS: FEDS
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amAn unscrupulous U.N. official steered more than $50 million in contracts to a rich business pal who rewarded him with a pricey Midtown condo, where the official lived rent-free for...
HARLEM HIT-RUN BREAK
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amThe hunt for a hit-and-run driver who mowed down a 16-year-old boy on the Harlem River Drive Tuesday got a boost yesterday when a passenger in the runaway death car...
HARDHAT IN FATAL PLUNGE
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA Manhattan building-repair worker plummeted 19 stories to his death yesterday, the latest in a spate of accidents at city construction sites. Ramiro Jara, 25, was working on the facade...
HUNG JURY IN 421G 'FRAUD'
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA coke-addled grants administrator who allegedly embezzled $421,000 from the philanthropic Rockefeller Foundation is off the hook - for now - after a Manhattan jury deadlocked on the charges yesterday....
GEM STORE JILTS CLIENTS
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA Long Island jewelry store has abruptly closed its doors - leaving behind a $100,000 lawsuit and angry customers and suppliers who claim the owner still has their gems. One...
GRAND OPENING FOR TEAM ISIAH
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amMEMPHIS - At the end, after 63 often brutal minutes of basketball, after one well-placed steal and one well-timed official's call had put them in position to win a basketball...
'FAT NICK' LINK TO H'WEEN MA
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amThe Queens mother facing charges yesterday for allegedly sparking a racially charged mob attack on a black police officer on Halloween had a son who was killed just before he...
HARDHAT IN FATAL PLUNGE ON 5TH AVE.
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA Manhattan building-repair worker plummeted 19 stories to his death yesterday, the latest in a spate of accidents at city construction sites. Ramiro Jara, 25, was working on the facade...
WEIRD 'WEEN FAT NICK LINK
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amThe Queens mother facing charges yesterday for allegedly sparking a racially charged mob attack on a black police officer on Halloween had a son who was killed just before he...
$14M DEATH VERDICT - HOSP LET BLEEDING B'KLYN WOMAN DIE
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA jury yesterday found a Brooklyn hospital negligent for allowing a patient to bleed to death - and awarded her family $14 million for the medical blunders, The Post has...
NETS NOT KIDDING - PLAN TO REST JASON PAYS OFF IN OPENER
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amNets 102Raptors 92 The idea is to rest Jason Kidd. Let him start, let him run and direct the Nets, but save him for the fourth quarter. Then the coaches...
RIVALRY RENEWED IN MARATHON
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amRaces are won by great times, but sports are remembered forever for great duels and drama, like Ali-Frazier, Evert-Navratilova; and Sunday's New York City Marathon features a rematch of Paul...
LSU WON'T COME UP 'SOFT' AGAIN
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amLSU has been fighting the label to no avail. The Tigers have no one to blame but themselves. It happens when you crush bad teams at home and lose to...
PONIES NOT ONLY SHOW IN L'VILLE
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE - Howard Schnellenberger faced a lot of obstacles in 1995 when he first set out to try to breathe new life into the dead and rotting football program at...
BACKUP GETS MOORE TIME IN CLIFF'S SPOT
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES Ladies and gentlemen, in "Nets Opening Night 2006," the role of Cliff Robinson will be played by Mikki Moore. Moore, the second-time-around 7-footer, sought to be like Robinson...
MARC-ING TIME ; WILLIAMS' MINUTES WILL HELP KIDD, NETS
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amNets coach Lawrence Frank addressed the question of Jason Kidd's minutes again. "I'm taking a new public stance," Frank said. "Every year, I say they're going down. Every year, they...
JEFFRIES: TEAM OK WITHOUT ME
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES MEMPHIS - Jared Jeffries says the Knicks can win without him. "They'll be fine," Jeffries said. "The great part of this team is we're so deep." Quentin Richardson...
MARTY LOOKING TO FILL IN 'BLANK'
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amThose were the days. Strange days. Martin Brodeur will be trying to match - and clean up - his own team record of shutouts in three straight personal starts when...
BLUESHIRTS, JAGR PLUCK DUCKS IN OT
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amRangers 4Ducks 3 ANAHEIM - The Rangers owed a huge part of last season's success to being underestimated by their opponents. They said so themselves. That hadn't been the case...
ISIAH GETS IT DONE WITH UGLY SHTICK
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amMEMPHIS - At the end, after 63 minutes of basketball that was equal parts grueling, fascinating and unwatchable, David Lee saw a basketball floating high above his head and there...
ZEKE DEBUT RIGHT ON 'Q'; RICHARDSON PACES KNICKS TO 3-OT WIN
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amTRIPLE OTKnicks 118Grizzlies 117 MEMPHIS - Their fourth-quarter choke of a 19-point lead was as despicable as anything Larry Brown's team did last season. But throughout Isiah Thomas' first game...
LAST CHANCE TO ANSWER THE CALL
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amMEMPHIS, Tenn. - The phone started ringing early, and it never really stopped, not until Isiah Thomas finally shut the cell phone off late in the afternoon. Out of every...
NACHBAR CHIPS IN OFF BENCH
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amNET NOTES After he was acquired by the Nets in a trade last season, Bostjan Nachbar had a near permanent view of games from the bench - the very end...
HOT-SEAT COACH HAS 'BUTTERFLIES' BEFORE OPENER
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amMEMPHIS - For the first time since he became a Knicks executive, Isiah Thomas finally got to control his own destiny last night - on the sidelines, pulling all the...
DONE FOR SEASON; CAREER LIKELY OVER
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amCurtis Martin didn't retire, but he knows his bone-on-bone knee condition makes a comeback virtually impossible. Yesterday, the Jets' greatest running back of alltime announced he's done for the 2006...
NOT LOADED FOR BEAR - BIG BLUE WON'T BEGIN HUNT 'TIL THEY TAKE CARE OF TEXANS
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amFirst, Shaun O'Hara tried the logical approach.Then, he went with something a bit more dramatic. Finally, he resorted to some blissful ignorance. "I've never heard of a team called the...
MATSUZAKA BIDDING TO BEGIN
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amLet the bidding battle for Daisuke Matsuzaka begin. The Seibu Lions will post Japan's best pitcher today and open a window for major league teams to make sealed bids on...
GM: DONNIE NO SHOO-IN TO REPLACE JOE
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amThe smart money says 2007 will be Joe Torre's last year as Yankees manager. There is a chance Torre wins a fifth World Series and the marriage continues, but the...
BUSTED - MOTA BANNED 50 GAMES FOR USING STEROIDS
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amMets relief pitcher Guillermo Mota was suspended 50 games yesterday for violating Major League Baseball's drug policy, testing positive for a performanceenhancing drug. Mota, who filed for free agency earlier...
BERNARDINI 1-1 TO TAKE CLASSIC
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE - "East meets West in the Showdown at the Downs" reads a poster for Saturday's 23rd Breeders' Cup at Churchill Downs, promoting the day's climactic event, the $5 million...
BEWARE BOBBY'S 'BADGE' - FRANKEL READY TO SHOCK MILE WITH 12-1 SHOT
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE - Bobby Frankel, the trainer with the magic touch who pinned last year's Breeders' Cup on its ear when he sprang a bomb to beat the best filly in...
COUNTDOWN TO THE BREEDERS' CUP
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amThe Post continues its profiles of each of the eight Breeders' Cup races to be run Saturday at Churchill Downs. The Countdown spotlights potential nice-price winners as handicapped by reporter...
SEVEN RACES ON SATURDAY CARD
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amAfter the cancellation of 17 live races last weekend due mostly to strong winds, NYRA has decided to add a seventh live race at Aqueduct on Saturday. Five of the...
WEEKES GETS NIGHT (OR TWO) IN RANGER NET
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amANAHEIM - Kevin Weekes had played in one game not only since the beginning of the season, but since the end of last year because a groin injury sidelined him...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 2, 2006 | 5:00amA sheriff's deputy in Columbus, Ind., followed his instincts - and his nose - and ended up catching two cheesy thieves. He was questioning witnesses about the knifepoint holdup of...
Midseason All-Fantasy team
November 2, 2006 | 3:39amFantasy owners everywhere struggled with similar questions on draft day. Do I take Larry Johnson, LaDainian Tomlinson or Shaun Alexander with the first overall pick? Steven Jackson or LaMont Jordan...