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GEHRY LUXURY TOWER - DOWNTOWN APT. PLAN

Developer Bruce Ratner plans to use high-wattage architect Frank Gehry to design a 55-story, $210 million luxury apartment tower in lower Manhattan, after signing a deal to buy the site...

GOLDMAN PUSHES FOR 'GREEN' TOWER

Goldman Sachs is pushing ahead with plans for a 2-million-square-foot downtown office tower that would have a rounded glass façade overlooking the Hudson River and environmentally friendly features that could...

FEDS LEVEL CHARGES IN 2 INVESTOR SCAMS

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have leveled charges in two separate scams that ripped off investors of more than $3 million, officials said yesterday. U.S. Attorney David Kelley said Artour Arakelian...

LIL' BIT OF TROUBLE - INDICTED KIM COULD FACE 45 YEARS IN JAIL

Bad-girl rapper Lil' Kim became the hip-hop equivalent of Martha Stewart yesterday when she was indicted for lying to feds looking into a shooting outside a Greenwich Village radio station....

QUATTRONE JURORS UNNAMED - JUST BE-KOZ

A Manhattan federal judge selecting a jury for the retrial of banker Frank Quattrone yesterday took the unusual step of ordering the media not to print or broadcast the names...

GAY GARCONS SERVE UP BITTER SEX-HARASS DISH

Harassment was on the menu at the fancy Manhattan eatery Town, according to two gay waiters who charged yesterday they were abused by other staffers, including a saucy sommelier who...

LIL' KIM LYING RAP; WILL SURRENDER IN '01 SHOOTOUT PROBE

Rap star Lil' Kim is expected to turn herself in - as soon as today - to answer charges that she lied to authorities investigating a 2001 shootout in Greenwich...

GREEN-CARD SEX-HARASS SUIT

A Queens woman is suing the federal government, charging that an immigration officer considering her husband's green-card application took her into an empty hallway, called her "sexy" and made lewd...

$7.5M SUIT OVER FAMED ART FOTOG

Charges and countercharges are flying in the art-photography world, with the son of pioneering lensman Ralph Eugene Meatyard suing a powerhouse Manhattan gallery for $7.5 million over "missing" prints. Christopher...

ART WAR OVER VINTAGE FOTOS

Charges and countercharges are flying in the art-photography world, with the son of pioneering lensman Ralph Eugene Meatyard suing a powerhouse Manhattan gallery for $7.5 million amid accusations of disappearing...

33 MONTHS INSIDE - GOLDMAN EXEC SENTENCED FOR ILLEGAL BOND TIP

A Manhattan federal judge yesterday sentenced a former Goldman Sachs economist to nearly three years in prison for passing on a tip that netted the investment bank $3.8 million in...

TERROR SHEIK'S SON OFF LIMITS: FEDS

Attorneys in the terror-conspiracy case of lawyer Lynne Stewart said yesterday they want to interview the son of blind sheik Omar Abdel Rahman as a possible trial witness - but...

'MARTHA' RIPS FEDS ON RETRY BID

Lawyers for prison-bound Martha Stewart yesterday blasted federal prosecutors for asking a judge to throw out her claim that she deserves a new trial because a juror lied to get...

COP HELD IN '96 BX. DRUG-SLAY

A Vermont deputy sheriff was in Manhattan federal court yesterday to face a murder charge for the long-unsolved killing of a Bronx man - in a case in which prosecutors...

ART OF THE DEAL - GUGGENHEIM EYES JETS SITE

The Guggenheim Museum has expressed interest in building a Frank Gehry-designed outpost on Manhattan's far West Side as part of the redevelopment that would include a new Jets stadium and...

JESSICA SUES CONCERT PROMOTER

Blond hottie Jessica Simpson is suing a production company that she says canceled a concert she was supposed to perform at the Grand Prix of Puerto Rico, and stiffed her...

PROSECUTORS ROAST MARTHA'S RETRY SUIT

Federal prosecutors yesterday accused disgraced domestic diva Martha Stewart of trying to save her own skin by seeking to "humiliate and embarrass" one of the jurors who convicted her of...

EX-SOLOMON BIG IN GRAFT BUST

The FBI yesterday arrested a former Solomon Smith Barney manager on charges of demanding kickbacks on printing contracts. Federal prosecutors said that in early 2000, Solomon manager Maria Shaw told...

TAXPAYERS SHELL OUT FOR BROKE MOBSTER'S ATT'Y

Accused gangster Anthony Colombo - charged with raking in large sums through extortion, loan sharking and gambling - pleaded poverty yesterday, saying he scrapes by on a $681-a-month government disability...

YOU PAY FOR BROKE MOBSTER'S ATT'Y

Accused gangster Anthony Colombo - charged with raking in large sums through extortion, loan sharking and gambling - pleaded poverty yesterday, saying he scrapes by on a $681-a-month government disability...