July 6, 2000
MTA MAD AVE. HQ IS GOING ON BLOCK
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe MTA is putting its Madison Avenue headquarters up for sale in the coming weeks, The Post has learned. The vote to hire Eastdil Realty and sell the properties, which...
CYBER-SPYING PROBE - EUROS SUSPECT U.S. SYSTEM MAY TARGET BIZ SECRETS
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe European Parliament voted yesterday to launch a full-scale investigation of an ultra-secret U.S. spy system known as Echelon to determine whether it's being used to help American businesses gain...
TECH STOCK PROFIT WOES SPUR SELL-OFF
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe stock market took a turn for the worse yesterday as profit fears took hold of investors. After earnings warnings from several technology companies, shareholders began to sell, driving all...
COMPUTER CRASH DELETES $12.8B - ALERT ON PROFITS SLAMS CA STOCK
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amShares of Computer Associates plunged 43.5 percent yesterday - lopping $12.8 billion worth of value off of the company - after Wall Street responded angrily to a surprise July 4...
THEY'VE PULLED THIS BEFORE
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe dodgy duo has done it again. Upsetting investors is a habit for Computer Associates bosses Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar. While CA stock has been climbing steadily for a...
GIORGIO ARMANI MADE $100M LAST YEAR
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amJust call him the $100 million-dollar man. Giorgio Armani raked in $100 million last year, according to a published report. His Milan-based company is privately held. Armani's 1999 annual report...
GOLDMAN TO SELL 40M SHARES IN BIGGEST-EVER 2ND OFFERING
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amWhite-shoe brokerage Goldman Sachs is planning a giant secondary offering - and the firm's partners will be able to sell some of the shares they got when the firm went...
TOMMY EXECS BUY ASPREY & GARRARD
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amTommy Hilfiger may soon be dashing about in Queen Elizabeth's royal jewels, thanks to his owners' new acquisition: Asprey & Garrard. Lawrence Stroll and Silas Chou, co-chairmen of Tommy Hilfiger,...
WANG GOES AWOL AFTER PROFIT WARNING
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amCharles Wang was nowhere to be found yesterday. A Computer Associates spokeswoman said she had no idea why he wasn't at the conference call in which CA's No. 2, Sanjay...
PETPLACE.COM FETCHES TOP NEWS EDITORS
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amTwo former top editors at the Daily News have gone to the dogs - and the cats. Debby Krenek, former editor-in-chief of Mort Zuckerman's embattled daily, and Arthur Browne, the...
STAYING AWAKE AT THE WHEEL
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amSUMMER weekend getaways and family vacations mean lots of time at the wheel, sometimes covering long distances, other times simmering in long traffic jams. Sometimes, the toughest part of the...
YOU WANT IT? YOU GOT IT!
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amAT the new W Tuscany hotel, on East 39th Street, they really deliver - just push the "whatever/whenever" button on each room phone. Helicopter ride at the last minute? Absolutely....
THE STARR REPORT
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amMelinda's ruff collar "WB11 Morning News" chopper reporter Melinda Murphy helped rescue a dog she found wandering on the Upper West Side Tuesday night following the fireworks. Murphy says the...
SCORELESS IN GRAND HOTELS - EVEN THESE SUPER-LUXURIOUS DIGS COULD NOT OFFSET MY LOWLY STATUS
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amLAST Sunday night, my fan was on the fritz, my sheets hadn't been washed in weeks (not that anyone else would know) and my room had become a petri dish...
SHE'S SCARY 16! - YOUNG WRITER CASTS A SPELL ON PUBLISHER
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amFOR someone with a flair for bloodsucking fantasies, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes looks oddly ... wholesome. Her brown-eyed gaze is as somber as Wednesday Addams', but it's hard to believe she's written...
EARLY 'POTTER' READERS DIDN'T GO BY THE BOOK
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amFOR a book that isn't supposed to hit the shelves until Saturday, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" has materialized early, as if by magic. After rogue copies of...
CBS: NO APOLOGY FOR DEFIANT BRYANT
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amCBS is digging in its heels and refusing to apologize after "Early Show" co-host Bryant Gumbel allegedly cursed out a guest. The comment came moments after Gumbel had wrapped up...
GAY 'SURVIVOR' SUES OVER ARREST - CLAIMS BEING A CELEBRITY MADE HIM COP TARGET
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amRICHARD Hatch, the beefy "Survivor" contestant from Rhode Island who was charged with child abuse, is suing state officials claiming his notoriety triggered the arrest. Hatch, 39, was arrested last...
THE FLEET IS IN AND THE GUYS ARE ... SEE-WORTHY!
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amHELLO, sailors! Women around the Apple are going goo-goo-eyed over the 28,000 midshipmen who cruised into town for OpSail 2000, transforming the city into a sea of love - or...
'BROTHER' - I NEED THIS LIKE A HOLE IN THE HEAD
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe most significant thing I can say about last night's much-hyped premiere of "Big Brother," hosted by Julie Chen and Ian O'Malley, was that I didn't pull my own skin...
SEXY ADS ARE YANKED OVER FEAR OF ROYAL RACKET
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amRaunchy ads featuring supermodel Jodie Kidd have been banned from Wimbledon because officials feared they would offend the royal family. One of the ads - for a posh new London...
RATS! BARUCH RODENTS FORCED TO HIT THE ROAD
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amAn army of sanitation trucks rolled through a Lower East Side project yesterday, removing large piles of garbage a day after a Post expose on the rat-infested complex. The garbage...
SLEEPING TOT SMOTHERED IN BED
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amA 1-year-old Queens girl suffocated when her older sister rolled over on her while they slept in the same bed, police said yesterday. America Zendejas went to sleep the night...
COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU: VIRUS ALERTS
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A true story about fighting potentially killer bugs will be making its way to city theaters this summer courtesy of the state. "Fight the Bite" is not a...
HEART ATTACK STUDY A GENDER BENDER
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amMen are no more likely to survive heart attacks than women - although they usually get earlier treatment, the largest study of gender differences in cardiological care found. A new...
KIDS SURVIVE CLASSES BY THE SWEAT OF THEIR BROW
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy delivered a tough-love message yesterday to thousands of students who have to attend summer school in hot classrooms: Sweat it out. "I took summer programs in...
MOVIE 'VANITY DEALS' FADE TO BLACK - MEGASTARS ARE TOLD: 'PUT OUT OR GET OUT'
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amHOLLYWOOD studios are showing some of Tinseltown's top stars the door, virtually bringing to an end one of the favorite perks of stardom: "vanity deals" to produce movies that never...
QUAID'S 'THE BIG SLEAZY', SAYS 'GROPED' ACTRESS
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amActor Dennis Quaid was a sleazy skirt-chaser who endlessly harassed women extras on his movie sets - pawing them and "grabbing their butts," a shocking report says. Quaid - who...
LOTTO WINNERS CAN STILL GET THEIR LUMPS - CHANCE TO SWITCH FROM YEARLY PAY
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Lottery megawinners unhappy with their yearly payouts will soon be able to ask for their remaining prize money in a lump sum, The Post has learned. For years,...
POLS TOSS THEIR COOKIES INTO RING
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amAl Gore and George W. Bush take note - this year's election could all hinge on which way the cookie crumbles. At least that's what a Miami marketer is hoping....
MOSSAD HOT OVER SPY LEFT OUT TO DRY
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amMossad agents are threatening to refuse missions in protest of Israel's decision to hand over an operative of the spy agency to Switzerland. The agent, under the alias Isaac Bental,...
DRIVER SLAIN IN PARKING ROW
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amA Queens father of two is dead because he angered a teenager who didn't like the way he parked his van, police said yesterday. Vishnanauth Jadunath, 23, was out with...
DOC RELIFTS FACES THAT HAVE FALLEN FROM GRACE
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amWALK into Le Cirque 2000 for lunch and you'll see a roomful of aging socialites with the taut, drawn, hollow-eyed look that's the signature of a wrecked face lift. "You...
MADAME ANNETTE'S FOOT-IN-MOUTH DISEASE
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amHOWARD SAFIR, the police commissioner, today must show the same blood and guts he displayed when he shot a mutt through the heart after his partner had been wounded. Today...
GOOD KNIGHT, SIR SEAN
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe name's Bond - Sir James Bond. Sean Connery was knighted yesterday by Queen Elizabeth in what he called "one of the proudest days of my life." The heartthrob star...
4TH JUDGE PASSES ON PREZ'S DISBAR CASE
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A fourth judge refused yesterday to hear the Clinton disbarment case, clearing the way for Republican Judge Leon Johnson to rule on the lawsuit seeking to yank the...
DI'S SMOOCHY PIX 'A JEALOUSY PLOT'
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amPrincess Diana orchestrated the infamous photos of her kissing Dodi Fayed on his "love boat" in an attempt to make her true love jealous, a new book claims. "Diana, Her...
OY!! WHAT NUT APPROVED VW'S 'CHUTZPAH' ADS?
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amTalk about chutzpah. A Volkswagen advertisement appearing on the side of city buses takes the cake. The ad, featuring a picture of a turbo-charged VW Beetle, appears with the slogan:...
THE LATEST WORM IN A COMPOST-HEAP CULTURE
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amIN George Orwell's novel "1984," privacy is something precious stolen from people by the totalitarian socialist dictator Big Brother. What do you suppose Orwell would have made of "Big Brother,"...
THERE'S STILL TIME TO VISIT THE TALL SHIPS
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amThere's still time to see some of the tall ships that paraded in the Big Apple's OpSail extravaganza. More than 150 of them are open to the public from 10...
SHEA IT AIN'T SO - BLEACHER CREATURES COMIN'
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amBrace yourself, Queens. One hundred of them are on the way. One hundred singing, chanting, shouting, cowbell-ringing, fire-breathing, roll-calling Yankee Bleacher Creatures. Oh, yeah, baby. It's time again for New...
JUDGE SINGES FDNY COMMISH
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge had some scathing words for Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen yesterday. In a 12-page decision, state Supreme Court Justice Eileen Bransten sided with the fire officers union,...
BEING LOSER ON TV CAN GO TO YOUR HEAD: DOCS
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amBeing voted off voyeuristic TV game shows like "Big Brother" and "Survivor" under the watchful eye of millions can send a losing contestant reeling into depression, top shrinks said yesterday....
HISTORY BUFFS THRILLED BY AMISTAD REPLICA
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amFor those who came to see a replicated slice of African-American history, the actuality was much smaller than the legend - but still overpowering. "I can't believe it was so...
TENNIS' SIBLING RIVALRY - WILLIAMS SISTERS SET FOR SHOWDOWN TODAY
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amSerena and Venus Williams take their sizzling sister act to center court at Wimbledon today - and the overwhelming odds are that somebody's gonna get bruised. The dynamic siblings -...
DATELESS DOC HAS 200G RX FOR MATE
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amA doctor has written himself a $200,000 prescription to cure a critical case of heartache. Dateless and desperate, Paul Dantzig is putting his money where his heart is and offering...
COUNCILWOMAN LIKENS COPS TO PARK GROPERS - BROOKLYN OFFICIAL: 'CULTURE' IN CITY DEVALUES WOMEN
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amA City Councilwoman who heads a committee on police-community relations made a shocking suggestion yesterday that young cops might have joined last month's sex rampage in Central Park "were they...
AFTER DAY 1, LEVY TALKS TOUGH ON TRUANCY
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amTeachers will hunt down summer-school truants under a sweeping attendance crackdown announced by Schools Chancellor Harold Levy yesterday. And if yesterday's first-day attendance is any indication, the truancy snoops may...
KIMES ESCAPE BID FOILED BY RIKERS STOOLIE: COPS
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amFresh from her conviction for making an elderly millionairess disappear, Sante Kimes may have been plotting yet another disappearance: her own. A fellow female inmate at Rikers Island - the...
THUG ROBS PRIEST WHO HELPED HIM: COPS
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man will pay for the sins of harassing and robbing an East New York priest who tried to help him out, police said. Tyrell Washington, 22, was arrested...
PSYCHO KILLER COMMITTED TO MENTAL HOME
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amA celebrated schizophrenic who knifed his pregnant fiancee to death because he believed she was plotting to lobotomize him was committed to a mental institution yesterday. Michael Laudor, a Yale...
RICK FUND-RAISING LETTER LABELS HILL A 'DISGRACE'
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amIn his harshest attack yet in the muddy Senate race, Rick Lazio blasted Hillary Rodham Clinton and the president, saying they "have embarrassed our country and disgraced their powerful posts.''...
'BIG BROTHER' NOW IN THE HOUSE - CBS UNVEILS SISTER SERIES OF 'SURVIVOR'
July 6, 2000 | 4:00am"Big Brother" is watching them and CBS is betting millions of Americans will too. The network kicked off its second reality series last night, introducing the 10 contestants who will...
ULSTER COPS CLASH WITH BOMB-THROWERS
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amProtestant extremists yesterday threw gasoline bombs at cops and blockaded streets throughout Belfast as violence flared for the fourth night in a row in Northern Ireland. Despite appeals from police...
GORE LETS WOLF BACK IN PACK
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amCONTROVERSIAL feminist Naomi Wolf is back advising Vice President Al Gore - in yet another sign the trailing veep is willing to try just about anything to catch Republican George...
RUDY: SLOPPY PLAN HURT OPSAIL'S SEE-WORTHINESS
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani fired a shot across the bow of OpSail 2000 yesterday - accusing the armada's organizers of doing a less than ship-shape job. "This was not a terribly well-managed...
DID FBI KILL RUDY KIN? - COUSIN WAS MOBSTER: BIO
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amOne of Mayor Giuliani's cousins was a ruthless mobster who was gunned down by FBI agents in a 1977 Brooklyn shootout, according to an explosive new biography of the mayor....
MOM KILLED BY VAN AS SHE SAVES TOT
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn mom made the ultimate sacrifice for her 16-month-old daughter yesterday - pushing the tot to safety just as they were about to be hit by a delivery van....
PARTY WOES FOR BARAK CAST A PALL ON SUMMIT
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amPresident Clinton yesterday summoned the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to Camp David next week to try to reach a Mideast peace accord by mid-September. But two parties in Israel's ruling...
FERTILE GROUND FOR PREGNANCY DEBATE
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amIt's cheaper to douse women with fertility drugs to induce pregnancy, but it risks the lives of the triplets, quads or quints that may result - and doesn't work as...
ADWATCH
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amTITLE: "One Question." LENGTH: 30 seconds. PRODUCER: Hank Sheinkopf for the New York chapter of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. AIRING: Cable stations on Long Island, Westchester...
SLATS GIVING KEENAN OPEN MIKE - WILL GET CHANCE TO STATE CASE FOR RETURN
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe World According to Slats (as of yesterday afternoon): Amplifying on information reported in yesterday's Post, Glen Sather in a conference call with the media repeated that he had not...
MIFFED ISLES CAPT. MULLS SITTING OUT
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amFeeling slighted that he wasn't offered a raise for this coming season, Islanders restricted free agent Kenny Jonsson might sit out unless he receives a salary boost, The Post has...
DON'T CRY FOR ENGLAND; ENGLAND'S CUP COMES UP EMPTY
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - Staggering as it seems, England still harbors hopes that FIFA today will name it as World Cup host for 2006. Right, and Elvis will referee the opening game....
CAMBY JUST CAN'T CATCH A BREAK
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amMarcus Camby's plans of using this offseason to work harder have been set back. The Post has learned Camby received troubling news from the Knicks' medical staff after taking his...
POSADA'S PROUD TO BE ALL-STAR
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amJorge Posada didn't try to play it coy. He admitted to spending a sleepless night, wondering if Joe Torre would pick him for the All-Star Game. The 28-year-old Yankee catcher...
JOE GOES WITH HIS GUYS: GIVES YANKS 'STAR' EDGE - GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amJOE Torre won't apologize for being partial to his own players when it comes to selecting reserves for the 2000 All-Star team. "It's tough to leave people off," the Yankee...
D'ANTONI, BRATZ ON NETS' LIST
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amTwo coaches are definitely in, two more are being considered for Byron Scott's Nets coaching staff and the hunt for additional relief at the two guard spot has the team...
LEITER, ALFONZO EARN NATIONAL EXPOSURE
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Al Leiter, who could start this Tuesday's All-Star Game, says the first time is the best. Mets second baseman Edgardo Alfonzo will be able to experience his first...
SOPHIA LIGHTS LIBERTY'S IRE - WITHERSPOON SHOTS FIRE-UP EX-TEAMMATES
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amLiberty 62 - Fire 45 If this basketball thing doesn't work out for Sophia Witherspoon, she's definitely got a future in motivational speaking. Before the game, the Portland Fire's Witherspoon,...
PHILLIPS PANS INTER TWINBILL
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - While the whole city is excited about Saturday's day-night doubleheader in New York, Met GM Steve Phillips is not. "It was not my preference," Phillips said...
PETTITTE HAS ACE UP HIS SLEEVE
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe final line was far from Andy Pettitte's best, and he was hardly happy when Joe Torre came to pull him in the seventh inning. But he'd given the Yankees...
STARRY, STARRY NIGHT IN BRONX: TORRE PICKS HIS GUYS - GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amDON'T expect Joe Torre to apologize for being partial to his own players when it comes to selecting reserves for the 2000 All-Star team. "It's tough to leave people off,"...
HAMPTON WEARS SUNDAY BEST - LEFTY'S QUICK WORK VS. FISH MAKES HIM LIKELY TO FACE YANKS
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amMets 11 - Marlins 2 MIAMI - There were a lot of numbers to like from Mike Hampton last night. For one, the final score of 11-2, which allowed the...
YARNALL'S STARTING OVER
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amYNAKEE NOTES Ed Yarnall has been tapped as today's starter, but Saturday's pitcher against the Mets at Shea in the day game is still a bit of a mystery. Yarnall...
STARRY, STARRY NIGHT IN BRONX - ATLANTA-BOUND BOMBERS KEY BASHING OF BIRDS
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEES 12 - ORIOLES 6 Oriole starter Pat Rapp plunked Yankee catcher Jorge Posada on the elbow with the first pitch he threw at the just-named All-Star in the second...
PHILLIPS NO FAN OF INTER-BOROUGH TWINBILL
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - Mets GM Steve Phillips claimed he wasn't griping, but he is not happy about Saturday's day-night doubleheader with the Yankees. "It was not my preference," Phillips...
LIBERTY THANK STARS FOR TARI
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amThe Liberty have been beset by injuries, bad luck and rotten performance this season. They frequently say, in various forms, "It can't possibly get much worse." But they're wrong. It...
TRYING TO FIT IN - JUSTICE NOT YET COMFORTABLE IN HIS NEW, PINSTRIPED SUIT
July 6, 2000 | 4:00amIn David Justice's locker hangs the standard Yankee uniform items - windbreaker, T-shirt, uniform tops and pants - in white, navy and black. But in the top left corner of...