May 19, 2001
LEVIN SQUEEZE PLAY INVESTORS LIKE AOL MOVE ON CABLEVISION
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amCablevision shares rocketed yesterday after AOL boss Gerald Levin publicly proclaimed his interest in acquiring the Long Island-based cable giant. The 6 percent jump in Cablevision stock indicated that the...
DOBBS GETS HEAT FOR $30K FEE FROM FORD
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amLou Dobbs insisted yesterday there's nothing wrong with earning $30,000 for speaking at a Ford Motor Co. executive bash just days after interviewing its CEO on his show - because...
ART.COM WAS NO MASTERPIECE
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amArs longa, vita brevis. And art.com even briefer. The art e-tailer snapped up by Getty Images in May 1999 for $115 million was put out of its misery Thursday. The...
CBS SURVIVES CASTOFF'S LAWSUIT
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amCBS won a round in its battle with against the ex-"Survivor" castoff Stacy Stillman - and can proceed with its breach-of-contract suit. CBS and the Survivor Entertainment Group (SEG) claim...
TORTOISE AT IRVING PLAZA: NEITHER HIDE NOR HARE
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amTORTOISE IT would be simple to slap a reactionary label on Tortoise to explain the music the band creates, but the Chicagoans were making avant-rock anti-pop long before Britney ever...
REGIS FEELS LIKE A MILLION WITH EMMYS
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amREGIS Philbin snapped his Lucci-like losing streak last night with an unprecedented one-two punch of Daytime Emmys - for game show host and talk show host. In accepting the first...
MAGICAL MYSTERY AND MORE: BREAK OUT YOUR BROOMSTICKS - IT'S TIME TO PLAY WIZARD
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amAbracadabra! It's going to be a spellbinding weekend at the Brooklyn Children's Museum as it transforms itself into a palace of magic - a world of wizards. It's all in...
GRAVITY CAN'T KEEP THEM DOWN
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amThey look like crash test dummies - not the rock group, but the silver-suited mannequins carmakers cram into vehicles for safety checks. Only these dummies are up for anything. Antigravity's...
SNAKE PUTS HALLE THROUGH LIVING HELL
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amMovie star Halle Berry is being stalked by an obsessive ex-lover who sends her dead snakes through the mail. "I feel really sorry for him. He's got problems," Berry said,...
WILDING FIEND GETS 5 YEARS IN STIR
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe last of 18 men found guilty of attacks on women after last summer's Puerto Rican Day parade was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday - the wilding spree's...
THE NEW YORK POST FROM MAY 19, 1913:
May 19, 2001 | 4:00am"The long, drawn-out controversy between the city and federal governments over ownership of a narrow strip of land alongside the old Sub-Treasury building on Nassau Street ended today in a...
VALLONE'S BUDDIES BEGINNING TO DESERT
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amTWO of Peter Vallone's longest-serving allies on the City Council look like they're bailing out of his mayoral campaign. Council members Archie Spigner and Morton Povman told The Post they're...
CHELSEA WILL PICK UP HER FATHER'S LEGACY AT OXFORD
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amChelsea Clinton is following in her father's footsteps - to Oxford University, it was reported yesterday. The former president's daughter will begin post-graduate studies in the celebrated institution in October,...
ACCUSED BRONX KID SLAYER WAS RELEASED EARLY
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe fiend charged with raping and killing an 11-year-old Bronx "angel" was able to commit his heinous crime because a Philadelphia judge let him off the hook on an earlier...
NO-SHOW BLOOMBERG TAKES MANHATTAN GOP ENDORSEMENT
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amAll-but-declared Republican mayoral candidate Michael Bloomberg yesterday scored his first GOP endorsement, but the media mogul was a no-show for the event. Bloomberg wasn't on hand to get the nod...
GOV TELLS CIG ACTIVISTS TO BUTT OUT
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki's administration yesterday abruptly snuffed out a just-launched program to dispatch anti-smoking activists to confront and "persuade" smokers in public places to give up their unhealthy habits....
TORCH-SLAY TEENS INDICTED
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amMurder charges were brought by a Manhattan grand jury yesterday against three young teens accused of fatally setting a homeless man on fire in Chelsea. Only the oldest teen, Louis...
ISRAELI JETS STRIKE BACK AS SUICIDE BLAST KILLS 5
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amA West Bank carpenter calmly walked into a posh mall and blew up himself and five Israelis yesterday - and Israel responded with its first F-16 attacks on Palestinians since...
RAGING REGIS OUT-LINKS NASTY ANNIE
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amRegis the Rude? Regis "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" Philbin is apparently launching a second American Revolution against "The Weakest Link" British browbeater Anne Robinson by adopting her snarling...
HOUSE HUNTING - DONNA SPOTTED CO-OP SHOPPING ON EAST SIDE
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amDonna Hanover may be ready to say "Goodnight, Gracie" - she's been out hunting for a new apartment. Mayor Giuliani's estranged wife was spotted last Saturday checking out a three-bedroom...
'SOPRANOS' GOING OUT WITH A BANG
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amIt's the No. 1 question that has Big Apple "Sopranos" fans all whacked out - who'll be sleeping with the fishes by tomorrow night's season finale of the hit Mafia...
HOFSTRA-SLAY INSANITY CLAIM : SUSPECT HAS DEFECT, SAYS ATT'Y
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe lawyer for the accused killer of a Hofstra honor student said yesterday he'll use an insanity defense, hinting at some dark force that fueled the grisly violence. "The Shaun...
GIRL HAS SURGERY AFTER PIT-BULL MAULING
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amA 6-year-old Staten Island girl - her legs shredded when two pit bulls pounced on her - was in serious condition yesterday after surgeons worked for three hours to save...
JURY RAPS COP FOR FATAL BLOW
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amA city cop who threw a radio at a fleeing suspect on a bicycle and killed him will have to pay the dead man's family $600,000, a jury ruled yesterday....
EMOTIONAL HALE RIPS BOARD FOR FIRING HER
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amLorraine Hale broke down yesterday as she tried to read a statement contesting her firing as president of Hale House, amid widespread allegations of mismanagement at the home for abandoned...
NYPD ON GUARD AGAINST PARADE TERROR
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amAbout 1,000 police officers will be assigned to tomorrow's Israel Day parade as city officials take precautions to ensure the latest Mideast escalation isn't felt here. Precincts have also been...
FEDS GIVING MUM 'JUNIOR' A PASS IN STRIP-CLUB TRIAL
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amATLANTA - A federal judge ruled yesterday "Junior" Gotti won't have to testify in the racketeering trial of the owner of one of the nation's most profitable strip clubs. According...
RUDY CROWING OVER COPS' LOW PROFILING
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday defended the NYPD against charges of racial profiling, and unveiled racially descriptive arrest statistics to back up his position. Under fire for stonewalling on arrest data, Giuliani...
JURY CONVICTS KNIFE THUG IN B'KLYN SLAYING OF AMY
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amMore than two years after a kitchen knife ripped through social worker Amy Watkins' back, a Brooklyn jury yesterday convicted David Jamison of second-degree murder. "We've waited for this for...
CAR-CRASH SUPERMODEL'S FIRST WORDS: 'COKE'
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe first word that supermodel Niki Taylor uttered after the car crash that nearly took her life was "Coke." Her manager, Lou Taylor, said after Niki was taken off a...
KILLER'S MOM AND VICTIM'S DAD BOND
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amThough devastated by the conviction of her son in the stabbing death of social worker Amy Watkins, Margo Jamison says she feels almost a spiritual bond with the victim's dad...
BROWN GETS BATTERED BY MET BATS
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amAny man with a bat in his hands is dangerous - even when he wears a Mets uniform, and even when he's facing Los Angeles right-hander Kevin Brown. Brown, who...
ASSEMBLY DEMS WANT TO KEEP LAW FOR TIX SCALP
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - The Democrat-controlled state Assembly wants to block efforts to ease or repeal New York's restrictive ticket-scalping laws, The Post has learned. A newly introduced bill to be taken...
COPS BLANK THE BRAVEST ON GRIDIRON
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amThe NYPD football team defeated the Fire Department's squad in a 25-0 rout last night - extending their winning streak to eight years. The stars of the 29th Fun City...
MYSTERY BEAU PAID FOR MISSING INTERN'S AIRFARE
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amWashington police are intensifying their probe into missing intern Chandra Levy's private life, as the congressman linked to the pretty brunette continues to stonewall. Yesterday, police were investigating why Levy's...
BLOODIED STUDENT SENT HOME ON BROOKLYN BUS
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amAn 8-year-old special-education student was hospitalized yesterday after returning to his Brooklyn home on the school bus bleeding from a back wound. School officials in the special-education program at PS...
L.I. PLANE CRASH HURTS 2
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amA small private plane crashed a short distance from Long Island's MacArthur Airport last night, injuring two people. The twin-engine craft went down in a wooded area off Lincoln and...
BERNIE STILL THINKS OF DAD
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Wrap-around sunglasses covered his eyes, but the tinted shades couldn't disguise the fact that while Bernie Williams was standing in a Safeco Field dugout, his mind remained in...
MONARCHOS LOOKS FOR A DERBY RERUN
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Monarchos, winner of the Kentucky Derby two weeks ago and the favorite for today's 126th running of the $1 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, is known by many...
BELEAGUERED BAFFERT NEEDS THIS ONE
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - With his customary good humor, sharp insights and coffee container in hand, trainer Bob Baffert professed yesterday that today's Preakness Stakes is a fun event, free of tension....
DEVILS GO FOURTH WITH PENS IN HAND
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - Their Game 4 fiascoes loom ominously over the Devils, who have twice faced disaster because of them. This is where these playoffs have gone so wrong each time...
STORM'S MANETTA CALLS IT QUITS
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amWhat will become of Alumni Hall? How will St. John's, which does not field a Division I-A football program, continue to support all of its intercollegiate athletic teams? If Mike...
JAGR A RANGER ISN'T TOO FAR-FETCHED
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - There is so much more to this whole Jaromir Jagr business than meets the eye. There just has to be. You don't go from being the league's leading...
TRACHSEL SENT TO MINORS
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amAfter being hammered for four homers in the third inning on Thursday night, Steve Trachsel was crushed by Bobby Valentine's words. The manager said Trachsel didn't follow the game plan...
FONZIE MAKES ILL TEEN'S DAY
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amEdgardo Alfonzo made a terminally ill teenager's lifelong dream come true yesterday when he visited Oscar Morales at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island. A Met fan since the...
ACHIN' CHUCK TAKES A SEAT
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amSEATTlE - Chuck Knoblauch wasn't in the starting lineup for the second straight game last night thanks to a bruised left side. "They said to give it one more day,"...
BOBBY TO MISS TODAY'S GAME
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amBobby Valentine has managed more than 2,000 games in his career in the majors, minors and Japan. Today, though, will be the first game he's missed. Valentine's son, Bobby Jr.,...
EWING EYES WIZARDS
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amFor the first time publicly, Patrick Ewing admitted the Wizards would be a nice landing spot for him next season following a lost year in Seattle. Appearing on TNT's post-game...
RELAFORD MAKING SHORT STATEMENT
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amLast year, shortstop Rey Ordonez was the Invisible Man as the Mets stormed to the NL pennant. This season, Desi Relaford's scorching bat and his own nagging back are nudging...
AL'S ALL THEY NEEDED ; BRILLIANT LEITER REVIVES METS
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amMets8 Dodgers0 The last-place Mets transformed back into the NL champions last night. They knocked Kevin Brown out after just four innings. Darren Bragg drove in four runs. Robin Ventura...
SHEFFIELD'S PLAY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
May 19, 2001 | 4:00amGary Sheffield took time to clear up a few misconceptions yesterday afternoon, much as he's done on the diamond all season. The perception that the Dodgers outfielder is a cancer...