September 20, 2001
TIME FOR THE FED TO STEP UP
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amBUYING stock as a patriotic gesture was a noble experiment, but now it's time for Washington and Wall Street to get serious about the stock market's troubles and do something...
TRAGEDY ROCKS FAMILY BUSINESS
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amBob Blumberg, the third generation to run his family office supplies company, has seen his world cave in. Blumberg Excelsior is known for two things: its specialist legal documents, and...
ENERGY STOCK SHOCK - WAR JITTERS, TERROR ATTACKS FUEL OIL SELL-OFF
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amEnergy stocks slid significantly lower yesterday on fears that any military action undertaken by American troops could disrupt oil operations in the Mideast and elsewhere. The Standard & Poor's oil...
TRAVELERS CHECK BACK IN AT NY HOTELS
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe city's hotel market began to spring back to life yesterday as weary travelers took a collective deep breath and plunged on with their lives. Hotel executives said they had...
BATTERY PARK RITZ ON HOLD - FOR NOW
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amA good cleaning and more time are what the new Ritz needs to get back on line. While water sommeliers, bath concierges and telescopes are ready for the planned new...
OFFICE BUILDINGS ARE HOT STUFF AGAIN
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amWith millions of square feet of office space turned to dust, the city's commercial buildings are once again hot commodities. Buyers were forecasting declining rents and income, but now believe...
81,900 AIR LAYOFFS - ALL MAJOR CARRIERS, BOEING TO CUT JOBS
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe airline industry had its hand out to the government in Washington yesterday - while the other hand was furiously slashing jobs. After the bell yesterday American Airlines announced it...
PRIVATE JETS HAVE POWERFUL NEW DRAW
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe rich and powerful swamped America's private airports yesterday in search of safe and quick flights. There's also a run on buying private jets and an increase of leasing shares...
STARR REPORT
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amFamily of Flight 93 hero needs your support Last week's tragedy affected us all, but there's no accounting for the grief being felt by people who lost loved ones in...
DISNEY POSTPONES N.Y. TERRORIST COMEDY
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amDISNEY'S Touchstone Pictures yesterday indefinitely put off its planned Christmas release of "Bad Company," a comedy in which New York City is threatened with nuclear holocaust by terrorists. "Due to...
DON'T CRY FOR DAVE
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amTHE ratings for Monday night's edition of "The Late Show with David Letterman" - where Dan Rather cried - were more than 100 percent higher than usual, according to early...
POP'S PATRIOT GAINS
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amCROSSOVER country star Lee Greenwood has found new life on American pop charts as patriotic fans clamor to buy the country/pop singer's 1984 hit, "God Bless the U.S.A" in the...
REMEMBER THE ELECTIONS?
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amTHEY'RE the forgotten men of local television. It was slightly more than a week ago that the six candidates for mayor dominated local TV. For weeks leading up to the...
CAMERAS ROLLING AGAIN: LIMITED PERMITS ISSUED FOR FILMS, TV
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amTHE city has resumed issuing limited movie and TV filming permits as officials move to preserve the $2.5 billion entertainment industry here in the wake of the World Trade Center...
STAMP THOSE TV TICKETS: ISLAMABAD
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amISLAMABAD - the jittery capital of Pakistan - is suddenly the No. 1 destination for TV reporters. Correspondents from every broadcast and cable news operation have been pouring into Islamabad...
3 MEN & THEIR BABES
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amBOYS' LIFEAt the PC2, 616 Ninth Ave., at 44th Street. Through Sept. 30. Call (212) 496-3743. EVERY now and again a play finally finds a group of people who know...
'SOPRANOS' SUIT TOSSED
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amA Circuit Court judge in Chicago has dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought against HBO and the producers of "The Sopranos" by a group of Italian-Americans. In an 11-page memorandum handed...
ALL-STAR SPECIAL ALL OVER THE DIAL
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amFROM ABC to Z100, a prime time telethon to raise funds for the victims of last week's terror attacks will air from sea-to-shining-sea on almost every TV channel and radio...
BIG-MOUTH BACKLASH ; AMERICAN 'COWARDS' QUIP HURTS MAHER - SPONSORS YANK ADS
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Sears and Federal Express have both yanked ads from ABC's "Politically Incorrect" after acid-tongued host Bill Maher characterized recent U.S. military actions as "cowardly." Overnight carrier FedEx...
OSCARS THREATEN RETURN TO SECURE SHRINE
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amCITING security concerns, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is threatening to move the Oscars from their new home in Hollywood back to the Shrine Auditorium. The Academy...
DEAL CAN'T SAVE 'KATE'
September 20, 2001 | 4:00am'KISS Me, Kate" is the latest Broadway musical to call it quits in the wake of the World Trade Center attack. The Tony Award-winning Broadway revival yesterday announced it will...
ROCKAWAY COPES WITH HUGE LOSS
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amLike any ordinary day in Rockaway Beach before Sept. 11, American flags are flying outside every home on Beach 93rd Street. The sun, the sound of ocean waves mixing with...
CANADA COP QUITS JOB FOR RESCUE
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amA Canadian cop - who rescued two men in the World Trade Center attack - turned in his badge when his bosses wouldn't let him return to New York. Daniel...
U.N. BRACES FOR DELUGE OF REFUGEES
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe United Nations drew up emergency plans yesterday to feed and shelter an avalanche of Afghan refugees trying to escape a U.S. bombing campaign. The United Nations, driven out of...
PAINFUL TO LIVE IN STRICKEN N.Y.
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amThis was my reply to a friend who wrote me recently, saying he wishes he were here:DEAR CHRIS, Thanks for your e-mail. I know how much you love New York...
THE FIFTH COLUMN
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amTHE FBI is looking for hundreds of men inside the United States suspected of playing a role in Osama bin Laden's terror network. The support network that made last week's...
RESTAURANT SACKS GRIEVING EMPLOYEE
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amWhile millions of New Yorkers have dropped everything to help out during the aftermath of the World Trade Center tragedy, one restaurateur has coldly fired a woman who lost two...
MARVEL COMIC HAILS N.Y. SUPERHEROES
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe people behind Captain America, Spider-Man and the Hulk are paying tribute to real-life superheroes: New York's Finest and Bravest. Marvel Comics is putting together a poster book in honor...
BELATED NEW TV SEASON AIRS MON.
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe 2001 fall TV season will finally kick off Monday, one week after originally planned and 13 days after the terrorist attacks that shook the nation. Beginning at 8 p.m.,...
MARATHON SAILORS ON JOURNEY OF TEARS
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amWith heavy hearts and tears in their eyes, two sailors yesterday embarked on what they hope will be a record-setting voyage from the Statue of Liberty to Australia. The 14,000-mile...
'GROUND ZERO' KIDS HEADING TO NEW SCHOOLS
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amAbout 8,000 students whose schools were closed by the World Trade Center disaster are expected back in class for the first time today - in other school buildings. Schools Chancellor...
NEW YORKERS EDGE BACK TO ROUTINES
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amDay by day, inch by inch, the city is getting better and better. The lights went on around the World Trade Center yesterday - at 3:51 a.m. to be exact....
HIDDEN PERIL FOR RESCUERS
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amAs rescue workers sift through tons of wreckage at the World Trade Center, they may soon face a hidden danger - the collapse of a huge retaining wall that encased...
UNDERGROUND BANK GREASES WHEELS OF ARAB TERROR INDUSTRY
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amAmong the ways Osama bin Laden is suspected of hiding his vast financial resources is with an ancient banking system in which there is no paper trail, and money never...
HOMELESS NEIGHBORS SCRAMBLE
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amAs many as 15,000 residents of downtown Manhattan were lucky to survive the Sept. 11 disaster - but many of them haven't been able to return home since. Battery Park...
TWO LANES OF B'KLYN BRIDGE REOPEN TODAY - CARS WILL BE ALLOWED THIS A.M.
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amCars will be allowed back on the Brooklyn Bridge this morning for the first time since the World Trade Center attack, Mayor Giuliani said yesterday. The partial opening of the...
VICTIM NEVER SAW HIS BABY - DELIVERED A WEEK AFTER DAD VANISHED
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amA week after Ari Jacobs disappeared in the World Trade Center disaster, his son, Gabriel, was born. "He looks exactly like his dad. He was cute right away," said new...
FOCUS ON BIN LADEN'S SECRET SWISS ACCOUNTS
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. investigators are working on getting access to secret Swiss bank accounts, as well as other shielded accounts, in their search for Osama bin Laden's terror money, sources...
FLY YOUR BANNERS - WHILE YOU CAN
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amLET their pathetic little flags flutter limply in our wind of freedom. The governments of Iraq and Libya think they're making a defiant statement by flying their missions' flags at...
PASSENGERS HAIL SECURITY HERE
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amAir travelers who headed to and from "the greatest city in the world" yesterday were somber and subdued - but grateful for heightened security measures at airports. "This guy was...
DISPLACED RESIDENTS ARE ALL BUT FORGOTTEN
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amBATTERY Park City refugees are angry and exhausted, and we have no place to rest or find solace. More than 10,000 of us have been evacuated from our homes after...
DEPLOYMENT IS BEGINNING OF THE END FOR TALIBAN
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amANALYSIS WASHINGTON - In making the opening moves of "Operation Infinite Justice," the Pentagon signaled yesterday that it plans to begin the war on terrorism with a massive bombardment campaign...
COUNTRIES THAT INSULT OUR DEAD - NYERS UNFURL IRE AT 'FULL-STAFFED' IRAQ AND LIBYA
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe United Nations missions of Iraq and Libya here are flying their national flags at full-staff - to the outrage of bruised New Yorkers still grieving over the World Trade...
WING AND A PRAYER FOR FLIGHT CREWS
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amNew York flight attendants, already horrified by the terrorist murders of their colleagues, now are dreading mass layoffs. "I'm going to be laid off this month. I've only had the...
TROOPS RALLY U.S. INVESTORS - STOCKS REVERSE COURSE ON WORD OF MILITARY MOVE
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amWall Street backed the war effort yesterday with a powerful rally. Stocks recovered from a perilous freefall yesterday, regaining almost 300 points on news that the Pentagon had deployed military...
MET OPERA'S $2M GIFT PUSHES FUND PAST $70M
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe Metropolitan Opera really hit the high notes with the Twin Towers Fund yesterday - pledging more than $2 million to help victims of the World Trade Center disaster. "We...
CITY LAYS TO REST 6 MORE RESCUERS - SLAIN COP ONCE SAID: 'THERE IS NO SINGLE HERO'
September 20, 2001 | 4:00am"There is no single hero's story," Port Authority cop George Howard once said after helping hundreds escape the mayhem in the 1993 Twin Towers attack. "Everybody just did his job....
ALABAMA TOWN REACHES OUT TO APPLE
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amA tiny town in southern Alabama hopes to raise $25,000 to help a Manhattan firehouse where 15 men are missing in the Twin Towers terror attacks. "We were really touched...
THE COALITION TRAP?
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amTHE Bush administration has wisely chosen to think carefully about where, when and how we will strike - rather than, as the Europeans and perhaps bin Laden expected, to reflexively...
FEDS EYE N.J. TERROR TIES
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amMore than 20 New Jersey residents are in custody as authorities continued to search apartments and grill people over last week's Twin Towers attack in an area once haunted by...
PREZ MAPS PLAN TO SAVE ECONOMY - BUSH LAUNCHES 'OPERATION INFINITE JUSTICE'
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe nation's economy took a direct hit in last week's terror attacks, but President Bush vowed to strike back - and will lay out his plan in a speech to...
FBI PROBERS ROUND UP 115 - 3 MEN IN QUEENS AMONG THOSE TAKEN AWAY
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amAt least 115 people have been detained in the FBI's probe of the strikes on Washington and New York, including three Michigan men busted with a disturbing cache of bogus...
MIKE RAPS 'BACKER' FULANI'S MESSAGE
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amMichael Bloomberg yesterday all but renounced the Independence Party's backing of his mayoral campaign, saying the third party's leader, Lenora Fulani, sent out an "anti-American" e-mail about the terrorist attack....
VALLONE STANDS BY RUDY
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amCouncil Speaker and mayoral underdog Peter Vallone has been at Mayor Giuliani's side throughout the WTC ordeal.N.Y. Post: Bolivar Arellano Although his mayoral campaign is technically on hold, City Council...
W. CHEERS AS TRUCE HOLDS
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday hailed the beginning of an apparent Palestinian-Israeli truce, saying the world crisis could be a historic window of opportunity for peace in the Mideast. No...
PREZ MAPS PLAN TO SAVE ECONOMY
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe nation's economy took a direct hit in last week's terror attacks, but President Bush vowed to strike back - and will lay out his plan in a speech to...
U.S. WARNS TERROR NATIONS: WE 'WILL NOT TOLERATE' THEM: ASHCROFT
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amAttorney General John Ashcroft wagged a finger yesterday at "foreign governments" for supporting the terrorists behind last week's strikes against New York and Washington - but he didn't name names....
STATUE A SURPRISE TRIBUTE
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amA bronze statue of an anguished firefighter was displayed in Midtown yesterday, causing passers-by to reflect, shed tears and pay respect to New York's rescue heroes. The statue, which needs...
MIDEAST TRUCE COLLAPSES AS ISRAELI MOM IS SLAIN
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A Palestinian-Israeli truce collapsed today as Palestinian gunmen ambushed an Israeli family in their car, killing a woman and wounding her husband as their children watched in horror....
EL DUQUE IN OCT. FORM
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amCHICAGO - When the Yankees resumed their march to a fourth straight AL East title Tuesday night at Comiskey Park, they were hoping to offer their grief-stricken fans three hours...
TUPA READY, WILLING & ABLE
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amJET NOTES When the Jets released Tommy Parks on Monday, they cast off their safety net at the punter position, a true show of faith that incumbent Tom Tupa is...
JETS' MISSION NOW CLEAR
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amHerman Edwards is a religious man. Early in the morning every day he reads the Bible before starting work. He's an emotional rock, and someone whom the players have come...
A SUBDUED DEBUT IN BLUE FOR ERIC
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amHis return to hockey and introduction as a Ranger took a back seat to the emotional scene that was the return of sport to Manhattan last night. The fanfares were...
METS DONATE DAYS' PAY TO RELIEF EFFORT
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - In a players-only meeting before yesterday's game with the Pirates, Al Leiter did most of the talking. Since the terrorist attacks on the United States, Leiter and John...
JIM'S BACK ON 'JOB' ; JINT COACH: IF HEROES CAN WORK, SO CAN WE
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe presence of death can change a man, the proximity to disaster even more so, and Jim Fassel clearly returned from his Monday visit to World Trade Center Ground Zero...
ALLEN MAY GET CORNER OFFICE
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Jim Fassel made no announcements, but it looks and sounds more and more as if rookie Will Allen will start ahead of veteran Dave Thomas at left corner...
SOMBER BELMONT IS BACK ON TRACK ; RACING RESUMES BUT IS HARDLY NORMAL
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amBelmont Park was back to racing yesterday for the first time since last week's terror attacks, but it was hardly back to normal. The small crowd of 5436, typical for...
AN UNDETECTED INCREASE IN SECURITY AT THE GARDEN
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amBy mid-afternoon, there were no metal detectors in place at Madison Square Garden, nor any outward signs of any increased security at the first sporting event to take place in...
AT NOTRE DAME, PAIN HITS CLOSE
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amNotre Dame likes to fancy itself as college football's version of America's Team. The Irish recruit nationwide, so when two planes being flown by madmen crashed into the Twin Towers,...
'UNITED WE STAND' ; DEVILS, RANGERS UNIFIED ON ICE
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amThey lined up 40 across the center line for the opening ceremonies that preceded last night's exhibition hockey game at the Garden, 20 Rangers and 20 Devils unified in their...
ONE SMALL STEP TOWARD NORMALCY
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amON Day Nine, people gathered in large and potentially terrifying numbers in our city for the first time since the World Trade Center and our sense of invulnerability came crashing...
SADDLER TRUE SUPERSTAR
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amIN ORDER to remember Sandy Saddler the way he deserves to be remembered, it is necessary to go back more than a half-century. On the night of Oct. 29, 1948,...
HOW SWEEP IT IS: METS BOP BUCS, TOP .500 MARK
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amMets 9 Pirates 2 PITTSBURGH - They are playing for something higher than the playoffs or World Series. They are playing for you, the policemen, the firemen, the EMS workers,...
RUSCH ROUGHED UP AGAIN
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES PITTSBURGH - Glendon Rusch's final pitch, a fastball, nailed Brian Giles in the ear-flap, causing Giles' helmet to flip off. Giles bent at the waist as a trainer...
HOCKEY FANS GRATEFUL FOR TIGHT SECURITY
September 20, 2001 | 4:00am"Better safe than sorry," said Frank Forbell of Elmhurst after opening a bag last night for security personnel at the entrance to Madison Square Garden. In truth, unbearable sorrow had...
DICKY PROVES THAT YOU JUST NEVER KNOW
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - The bases were loaded in the second inning and the Pirates' most productive hitter was at the plate. The book says this is no time for a 22-year-old...
YANKEES MULL TEAM DONATION TO RELIEF FUND
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - Yankee players have discussed donating money as a group to the victims of the Twin Towers disaster. However, don't expect to read about the total raised...
RANGERS UNITED IN VICTORY
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amRangers 6 Devils 1 They lined up 40 across the center line for the opening ceremonies that preceded last night's exhibition hockey game at the Garden, 20 Rangers and 20...
LINDROS FEISTY IN BLUESHIRT DEBUT
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amThe clock started ticking on the Rangers' Eric Lindros Era last night, and it looked like the start of something special unless and until that clock gets cleaned. "I knew...
CLEMENS BAGS 20TH
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amYankees 6 White Sox 3 CHICAGO - Add another pelt to Roger Clemens' Hall of Fame belt. In the wake of the Twin Towers horror, Clemens admitted he didn't know...
BERNIE: GAMES CREATE DIVERSION
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - Baseball cannot heal the ills New York is experiencing. Nor should it be asked to and the Yankees never promised they could. However, when the Yankees...