July 30, 2001
ON THE NEWSSTAND
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amJUST when it seems that Lizzie-gate will completely overwhelm all coverage of The Hamptons, along comes a fresh batch of society mags to provide a breather of sorts.Quest magazine functions...
MORE BAD LUCK FOR AXED ED.
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amTHE river of blood continues to flow at Jim Dunning's Ziff-Davis Media. On Friday, Dunning took the ax to the company flagship, PC Magazine, and fired the magazine's editor, the...
TALKS HEATING UP - AOL, AT&T HEADS IN SECRET CABLE POW WOW
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amAOL Time Warner chief Gerald Levin and AT&T boss Michael Armstrong held a secret meeting Thursday night to work on details of a possible mega-merger of their cable systems, The...
LUXE TOWER TO GROW ON 57TH ST. LOT
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amA new luxury apartment tower is being planned for a ramshackle vacant lot at 52 West 57th St., The Post has learned. The 24-story project would rise on a narrow,...
YORN IN THE U.S.A. - SINGER FULL OF MUSICAL SURPRISES
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amPETER Yorn, a 26-year-old singer/songwriter, is riding high.Besides being picked to headline the first MTV2 tour, the 26-year-old New Jersey native was named Artist to Watch in 2001 by Rolling...
NEIL AND PRAYTO A LEGEND
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amLIVE BY REQUEST: Neil Diamond Tonight on A & E at 10 p.m. WHEN my daughter was little, I'd play Neil Diamond's "September Morn" until, even as a young child,...
O'REILLY SCOLDS RATHER
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amCABLE News heavyweight Bill O'Reilly says Dan Rather's take on the Chandra Levy-Gary Condit story is all wrong. In a rhetorical flourish in his syndicated newspaper column over the weekend,...
ROSIE O'DONNELL HAS CHOSEN HER SUCCESSOR
July 30, 2001 | 4:00am'SABRINA, the Teenage Witch" star Caroline Rhea will take over Rosie O'Donnell's daytime slot as the host of her own talk show launching in fall 2002. As The Post first...
STARR REPORT
July 30, 2001 | 4:00am'GMA' beats MTV to VJ punch ABC's "Good Morning America" is beating MTV to the punch by assembling all the original MTV VJs in one place - before they appear...
MOSTLY MOZART'S 35TH: HELLO & GOODBYE
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Mostly Mozart Festival celebrates its 35th season with Pinky and the Pearl (alias Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman), a Requiem and a farewell. The festivities start tonight, weather permitting,...
LAST TELETHON FOR JERRY LEWIS?
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amFOUR hosts, including perennial anchor Ed McMahon, will try to fill the void left by the ailing Jerry Lewis, who's planning to cut back significantly on his on-stage time at...
NEW FASHION LABEL 02 IS A-OK: THE DUO BEHIND THE OLD DUDS AT RESURRECTION VINTAGE DEBUT A BRAND NEW LINE
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amWhen other nine-year-olds were writing gushy letters to teen idols, aspiring fashion designer Katy Rodriguez penned fan mail to Calvin Klein, asking for career advice. Twenty years later, she's launched...
SAY BUY-BUY TO NEW FALL CLOTHES: HIT THE STORES FOR THESE DEISNGER ITEMS NOW - OR BE LEFT OUT IN THE COLD THIS AUTUMN
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amSummer clothes are still on the floor at most New York department stores. Nevertheless, many styles of designer clothing for next fall have already sold out. This is because in-the-know...
RITZY RUMBLE IN GRAMERCY PARK
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amForget the South Bronx or Hell's Kitchen - the toughest neighborhood in town these days is tony Gramercy Park. The area has been rocked by a highbrow battle royal at...
BOTCHED HIT SPARKS FEAR OF NEW MOB WAR
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amA recent attempt to assassinate a high-ranking Colombo soldier in Brooklyn could reignite a 10-year-old crime-family power struggle and explode into an all-out gang war, federal and local mob-busters say....
MODEL'S WORK NOT SLIGHT OF HAND
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amDON'T believe what you've heard: The life of a hand model is not so glamorous. Consider a recent day on the set with top hand model Leland Schwantes, in town...
SERBIAN FIEND MAY TRY HIDING IN CANADA
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amOn-the-lam Balkans butcher Radovan Karadzic - blamed for the slaughter of thousands in a 1995 Bosnian bloodbath - may be trying to sneak into Canada. The Mounties are investigating reports...
PIGLETS HOG-WILD ABOUT WOMEN
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amTalk about sexist pigs! Pig producers are proclaiming that the maternal touch of female caregivers results in happier hogs. Petite porkers raised by women are happier, healthier and heartier, producers...
EMINEM AND PM GET DOWN AND DIRTY DOWN UNDER
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amEminem declared war on the prime minister of Australia over the weekend - after the politician said he despised the rapper's music and warned he could be ejected from the...
NYPD WOULD CRACK CONDIT
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amIF THE Chandra Levy tragedy had happened here, I can promise that law enforcement in New York would have done three things: * Grilled Gary Condit like a steak rather...
'PERVERT' DUMPING GROUNDS
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amSCHOOL officials have long insisted tenured teachers accused of sex abuse are taken "away from children" and reassigned to desk jobs at district superintendents' offices. But what they fail to...
MIKE WANTS 'LIFE' SUPPORT - SAYS FOREIGNERS CAN RESCUE CITY FROM LIFEGUARD SHORTAGE
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amMichael Bloomberg knows one way to solve the city's lifeguard shortage: imports. "Think about it. We recruit teachers from outside the United States. Why not recruit lifeguards from the Southern...
GREAT 'APES' KNOCKS DINOS DOWN TO SIZE
July 30, 2001 | 4:00am"Planet of the Apes" made a monkey out of "Jurassic Park III" over the weekend, kicking the dinosaur flick out of the No. 1 spot at the box office. The...
THREE-SY DOES IT FOR TOUR-IFFIC LANCE
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amCall it the Tour de Lance. American cyclist Lance Armstrong won his third straight Tour de France yesterday, with a dominant performance in the grueling three-week race, which ended with...
COLOMBIA SOCCER WIN SPURS JUBILATION HERE
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amJubilant Colombians - from Bogota to Union City to Jackson Heights - staged raucous celebrations last night after the nation won the Copa America soccer tournament. Streets in Jackson Heights,...
STRAY SHOT HITS SLEEPING BOY, 6, AT QUEENS HOME
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amA 6-year-old Queens boy was wounded by a stray bullet as he slept in his bed yesterday morning, police said. The bullet - one of three to hit the two-family...
HARLEM A HOTTIE HEAVEN FOR BILL
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amBill Clinton has been handed helpful hints on everything Harlem has to offer - except where to watch girls. The former president and renowned ladies' man will find plenty of...
FLY-BUY GOV GETS 4 NEW $5M COPTERS
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amGOV. PATAKI, who once denounced "Air Cuomo" and vowed to get rid of the state's stash of executive aircraft, will soon be carried by a new, $20 million air fleet....
PITT TELLS WIFE: STOP 'ACTING' GAY
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amJennifer Aniston is being hailed as a gay icon after two lesbian romps on screen - and hunky hubby Brad Pitt reportedly doesn't like it one bit. Pitt has asked...
MAN NABBED IN WIFE SLAY
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was charged yesterday with choking and beating to death his common-law wife. Neighbors called cops to an apartment on New York Avenue in Flatbush at 12:30 a.m....
RIVER SEARCH URGED FOR INTERN
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amA former top FBI agent yesterday urged Washington police to drag the Potomac River, saying missing intern Chandra Levy could be lying at the bottom. "They're looking at abandoned buildings,...
VIEQUES VOTERS TO NAVY: ADIOS!
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amResidents of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques voted overwhelmingly yesterday for the Navy to immediately pull out of its bombing range there, officials said. Sixty-eight percent of voters on...
POST'S LIZZIEMOBILE DOES THE HAMPTONS
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amIf you spotted a black Mercedes SUV tooling around the Hamptons this past weekend, I hope you didn't run for cover. It wasn't "The Return of Lizzie Grubman." My "Lizziemobile"...
LOST GIRL SAVED BY CAB ANGEL
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amIt was a miracle on 34th Street yesterday for a 9-year-old girl who hopped a cab in Brooklyn to go find her mom at a Kmart in Manhattan, got lost...
CHINA TO COOL AIR RAGE: COLIN
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Chinese fighter pilots have stopped the kind of reckless hot-dogging that led one of them to crash into a U.S. spy plane in April, Secretary of State Colin...
BARGE HORROR OFF LIBERTY IS.
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amA worker fell off a barge and died after he was crushed between it and a tugboat in the water near the Statue of Liberty police said yesterday. The victim,...
COPS WEED OUT MARLEY TRIBUTE
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amBrooklyn cops yesterday busted more than 30 concertgoers attending a tribute to Bob Marley for remembering the late reggae legend as he would have wanted them to - by smoking...
IRONIC TWIST ON SOVIETS' FBI SPY
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amFormer FBI agent Robert Hanssen was deeply involved in spying for the agency on Americans suspected of being vulnerable to Soviet influence - at the same time he was funneling...
STREET-FIGHT GUNSHOT LEAVES TRAGIC BYSTANDER BRAIN-DEAD
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amAn innocent bystander, shot in the head on a Queens street, was brain dead and on life support early this morning, police said. The victim, whose name and age were...
NEW YORK POST FROM JULY 30, 1863
July 30, 2001 | 4:00am"Baltimore - General [Robert] Schenck has added another wreath to his justly earned laurels. He has broken up the infamous slave pens of our city - those black holes in...
BABY BOOMERS RAISE BRATTY KIDS: POLL
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amBaby boomers grew into pampering parents who spoil their kids, a new survey says. A whopping 80 percent of Americans surveyed think children are more spoiled today than kids were...
SECRET SHAME OF OUR SCHOOLS: SEXUAL ABUSE OF STUDENTS RUNS RAMPANT
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amAt least one child is sexually abused by a school employee every day in New York City schools, a Post investigation has found. Equally as disturbing is that one-third of...
JANSS TRIGGERS A POWER SURGE
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amEmily Janss wanted to be happy about being a part of the WUSA, playing soccer for a living. But it was getting hard for her to ignore the fact that...
COCKY EDELSTEIN WAS TOTAL FRAUD ; EX-ESPNER ALL TALK, NO ACTION
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amFRED Edelstein always gave us the creeps. On ESPN, where he served several years as the network's football insider, he was cocky, bombastic and given to the delivery of big...
BOMBERS JAY WALK AGAIN; YANKS SWEEP BLUE BIRDS, TAKE EIGHTH STRAIGHT WIN
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amYankees 9 Blue Jays 3 TORONTO - Thick fastballs to crush all weekend. Stupid baserunning. A middle infielder allowing a run to score from third on a pop fly he...
ROCKET TO TEST ACHY GROIN TOMORROW
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - All eyes will be on Roger Clemens when he takes a Yankee Stadium bullpen mound tomorrow to test his cranky right groin. Not until Clemens, who will be...
MCGAUGHEY'S RED-HOT AT SPA
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Trainer Shug McGaughey, who couldn't buy a winner at the recent Belmont Park meet, suddenly can't lose at the Old Spa. Yesterday he continued his remarkable opening-week...
PHILLIES' PEN SPRINGS A LEAK AGAIN
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amLike the Cheez Wiz on a steak from Pat's or Gino's, the Phillies' bullpen melted again yesterday, allowing a Mike Piazza game-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth...
GM SEES RED (INK) OVER METS' BIG PAYROLL
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES With the playoffs highly unlikely, GM Steve Phillips said yesterday he expects the Mets to lose money this year, because of their $95.5 million payroll. "I don't think...
TUPA CONFIDENT HE'LL BE READY FOR OPENER
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amJET NOTES Jets' punter Tom Tupa did his best yesterday to squelch any alarm over his recovery from April surgery to relieve what doctors term as a sports hernia. Though...
CURTIS HAS THIS SUPER IDEA ON TAP
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amThis wasn't a bold, stand-on-a-table and beat-your-chest declaration, but they were significant words considering that they came from Curtis Martin, the last player in the Jets' locker room who can...
GIANT 'D' FEELIN' SLY WITH FOX
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - His name never appeared on any transaction wire. Reports of the new contract he signed never made the news. When tallying up who the Giants lost and who...
ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING ; PIAZZA PROVIDES SECOND STRAIGHT WALK-OFF WIN
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amMike Piazza won't admit to carrying the Mets, yet he keeps lifting them to victory. "I try not to put myself there," Piazza said. "I realize that's my job, but...
JINT KICKING GAME COULD BE RATHER ROCKY
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - It figures to be quite a summer ride for the Giants and their kicking game. They are auditioning two place-kickers, rookie fifth-round pick John Markham and...
SHINJO KNEW IT WAS HIS TIME TO SHINE
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amTsuyoshi Shinjo, who failed to make an impact early in the Mets' 6-5 win over the Phillies, could have called his shot yesterday. After popping up in his first trip...
AT LEAST ONE ARM WILL HAVE TO GO
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amMets 6 Phillies 5WHEN Mike Piazza hits one into the clouds where Mets fans still dream, the ball carries as easily as it is to be carried away with their...
ARMANDO SHRUGS OFF 1ST FAILURE
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amArmando Benitez was all smiles as he prepared to leave for a road trip. He couldn't be brought down by a rare subpar performance in the Mets' 6-5 win over...
AMAZIN'S PLAN TO PACK POCKET
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amAs the hours dwindle toward tomorrow's 4 p.m. trade deadline, Steve Phillips is more likely to sell than buy. "I think there is a better chance that sort of a...
TRAINER HAS PAIR OF ACES
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Trainer Christophe Clement has been a powerful force on turf this summer in New York, winning stakes like the Manhattan Handicap with Forbidden Apple and the New...
TRADE RUMORS CIRCLE SKYDOME
July 30, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - SkyDome was flooded with scouts yesterday. With baseball executives expecting the Blue Jays to hold a fire sale before tomorrow's 4 p.m. trading deadline, clubs want...