January 22, 2002
INVESTORS: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR
DOES America have the nerve to really look into corporate accounting? With Enron exploding these past few weeks, everyone has been screaming for more careful auditing of companies. That's good...
HIGH-END REALTY IN DECLINE
Residential real estate shoppers are downsizing their digs, says a recent industry report, leaving the luxury market in a state of decline. At the bottom of the hot properties list...
COLUMBUS IS REDISCOVERED
COLUMBUS Avenue rules. The stretch from 66th-86th Street, once laughed off as the Upper West Side's feeble attempt to replicate Madison Avenue, has quietly turned into Manhattan's healthiest retail mile....
KMART'S ON THE BRINK OF STARVATION
Soon the cupboards may be bare at Kmart. Fleming, the company that provides all of Kmart's food and pantry items, has cut deliveries to the beleaguered mass merchant while it...
CALL IT 'FEW YORK'; PRIMEDIA FLAGSHIP CUTS 4 ISSUES THIS YEAR
In the latest sign of woe at beleaguered Primedia, company flagship New York magazine has chopped its frequency by four issues, putting out only 46 issues this year instead of...
'80S' A DECADE EARLY; LIKE, WHO NEEDS PUNKS AND YUPPIES BACK SO SOON?
"That '80s Show" Tomorrow at 8 on Ch. 5 1/2 THE problem with a show about the '80s is that aside from, say, Men At Work and The Police, there...
PLANNER PONIES UP
ASBURY Park's legendary Stone Pony nightclub may escape the wrecking ball.An urban planner hired by the city has created a plan to build condos around the legendary rock spot -...
STARR REPORT
Poundstone addresses charges Comedienne Paula Poundstone breaks her silence - and tells Maria Shriver on tonight's "Dateline" (10 p.m./Ch. 4) that she's no child molester. Poundstone, in her first interview...
WIZARD OF BAZ
HE did it - successfully - to the stagnant musical genre, and now Australian wunderkind Baz Luhrmann plans to breathe new life into opera. Fresh off a Golden Globe win...
BOOK HIM! CABLE WOOS GOLDBERG
BERNARD Goldberg's CBS-bashing may get him a cable job. Goldberg, a former CBS newsman whose current best-seller slams the network and its execs for their alleged liberal political bias, is...
U2 RIGHT ON TARGET
IRISH rockers U2 released today an album of rarities exclusively for buyers at Target Stores in the United States. The band, which earned eight Grammy nominations for its latest album,...
A CLARKE SOLO WORTH THE 'SWAG'
GILBY CLARKE "Swag" ½ Spitfire Records Take ex-Guns N' Roses axman Gilby Clarke out of the what-ever-happened-to file with the release of "Swag," a crunchathon of rock 'n' roll guitar....
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
Take a powder Snow is falling on the Rockies, and even the time-challenged have no excuse to miss out on a day on the slopes, thanks to a new flight...
CAPITAL CHIC: DOWNTOWN D.C. IS HIP AND HOT
FOR years, downtown D.C. was about to make a comeback. Everyone was sure of it, but no one could say exactly when. Or how. It was daunting: department stores, hotels,...
THE GIRL WHO KILLED 'X-FILES'
THE timing tells it all: Jennifer Garner, the star of ABC's new freaky-deaky thriller "Alias," walks off with the best TV-actress Golden Globe the same week that Fox decides to...
IVANA BOD LIKE HERS: FOR LEGS LIKE MS. TRUMP'S, START MOVING
ALTHOUGH she's got a bank account bigger than most women -and men -Ivana Trump has something money can't buy: long, sexy legs. Now 52, the Czechoslovakian-born beauty has a body...
THE LOOKS AND WHY THEY WORKED
Poor Joan Rivers. AFTER weeks of waiting for her chance to trash the outfits of Sunday's Golden Globe-goers, the comedian-turned-fashion policewoman was faced with a red carpet crowd chock-a-block of...
SCHOOL GUARD HELD IN RAPE
A school safety officer was arrested last night after he allegedly raped his former girlfriend inside the home they once shared, police said. Luis Santiago, 35, lived with the woman...
THE BLOOD ARAFAT NEEDS
JERUSALEM THIS is how the new Middle East war works: A Palestinian suicide bomber or gunman kills and injures dozens of Israeli citizens. In response, Israel destroys inanimate objects -...
L.I. COPS BAG CASHIER IN WOMAN'S SHOOTING
A Long Island supermarket cashier - who cops say was packing more than groceries - was charged with shooting the girlfriend of a co-worker during an argument. Suffolk cops said...
RIKERS GUARD'S DEATH STILL A MYSTERY
An autopsy performed yesterday on a Rikers Island correction officer who died after eating candy was inconclusive and more tests are needed, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office said....
DMV PUTTING BRAKES ON PLATE THAT HONORS WTC
State officials are saying "4 GET IT" - for now - to a former city cop who wants to honor fallen comrades with a "WTC4EVER" license plate. "I'm disgusted," said...
KIN COMPLAIN ABOUT ANTI-TERROR ROUNDUP
Uzma Naheed watched her husband being arrested in their family home and thrown in jail four months ago - but she says she still hasn't been told why. She believes...
'86 SCANDAL FIGURE BACK ON APPLE'S POL $CENE
EXCLUSIVE Fifteen years after going to prison and leaving politics in disgrace, former Bronx political boss Stanley Friedman is backing candidates again - donating $12,500 to campaign war chests, The...
STATE GRABS $1.3B FROM DEADBEAT FOLKS
ALBANY - For the third straight year, child-support collections in New York topped $1 billion - but $2.7 billion remains uncollected to date, new state figures show. Of the record...
N.Y. POLS WILL PUSH FOR 9/11 RELIEF IN CONGRESS
WASHINGTON - New York lawmakers say they're hoping to shine the spotlight back on the city when Congress returns to work tomorrow so that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks don't...
300 MAYORS TO TOUR WTC SITE
WASHINGTON - Mayor Bloomberg will welcome 300 fellow mayors from across the country this week when the U.S. Conference of Mayors makes an unusual daylong trip from Washington to see...
HEY, I'M JUST LIKE DR. KING, GOV TELLS BLACK AUDIENCE
Gov. Pataki, who has been aggressively courting Hispanic voters, yesterday compared his actions to those of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. - in an appeal clearly aimed at black...
TOUGH-TO-CUFF EX-CON BUSTED
Police yesterday nabbed a Brooklyn ex-con who wiggled out of his handcuffs and went on the lam after socking a woman who helped put him away for nearly three years....
COME ON, BLOOMY, DON'T GIVE THIS FRAUD RESPECT
MAYOR Bloomberg, I hope you know what you're doing. Yesterday, as the nation celebrated the birth of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., Bloomberg schlepped up to Harlem to...
ARRIVING IN STYLE: CHELSEA DEBUTS 'HAUTE' NEW LOOK AT PARIS FASHION WEEK
Here's Chelsea Clinton as you've never seen her before - decked out in an eye-popping halter dress and stylish new hairdo, gossiping with Gwyneth Paltrow. The former first daughter joined...
BLAIR: BRIT PRISONERS HAVE 'NO COMPLAINTS'
WASHINGTON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair sought to quell the uproar over the prisoners at Camp X-Ray yesterday, reporting that three British detainees have "no complaints" about their living...
PS 89 PARENTS STILL WON'T LET KIDS GO BACK
Call it a tale of two Ground Zero schools. Students attending IS 89 near the World Trade Center disaster site return to classes in their own Battery Park City facility...
TALK ABOUT A PAY PHONE! IT 'CELLS' FOR 21G
At $21,000, it's the world's most expensive ring. Not the kind that you wear around your finger. It's the sound from a new luxury cell phone. The racy ringer, made...
PREZ CREATES MLK SCHOLARSHIP
WASHINGTON - President Bush walked arm in arm with Martin Luther King's widow, Coretta Scott King, and honored her husband by saying, "America is a better place because he was...
OLYMPIC STING: NBC LISTS STARS FOR OPENING
Olympic organizers were forced to reveal the stars of their opening ceremony yesterday after official Games broadcaster NBC spilled the beans - in front of millions of viewers. During the...
'TERROR' TOWN SEIZED ; ISRAELIS TRY TOUGH NEW STRATEGY
JERUSALEM - A brigade of Israeli tanks and troops seized the West Bank town of Tulkarem before dawn yesterday in what appeared to be a new strategy to wipe out...
SEPT. 11 KIN TO MEET BUSH
A group of relatives of World Trade Center victims will travel to the White House tomorrow for their first meeting with President Bush - ready with a list of concerns,...
SCHOOL WOES MULTIPLY: COST TO RETRAIN MATH TEACHERS ADDS UP TO $9M
Schools Chancellor Harold Levy wants to send math teachers back to school - to learn math. Levy proposes spending $9 million over three years to help teachers improve their math...
RAT HAS RIGHTS, LAWYER INSISTS
WASHINGTON - The lawyer hired by the parents of American turncoat John Walker suggested yesterday that the Pentagon is violating his rights by delaying sending him back to the United...
MAYOR MIKE MAKES NICE DUMPS RUDY'S STAY-AWAY POLICY TO CELEBRATE KING HOLIDAY WITH THE REV. AL
Mayor Bloomberg veered sharply away from former Mayor Giuliani yesterday - warmly celebrating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with the Rev. Al Sharpton. "Thank you for inviting me, pleased...
BX. HORROR: 3 SLAIN IN APT. RIGGED TO EXPLODE
A young woman and two men were found tied up and knifed to death in a ransacked Bronx apartment - where the killers left behind open gas jets and burning...
EX-ENRON EXEC SAYS FIRM KEPT SHREDDING
A former Enron executive charged last night that boxes of the company's financial documents were being shredded as recently as last week. "The shredding was going on until I left,"...
SLAY LANDLORD GEARS TO SMEAR 'SWEET OLD LADY'
Spinster librarian Barbara Kenna died horribly. She bled to death for an hour in the stairway of her Upper East Side apartment while the landlord who admits shooting her climbed...
TORTURING THE TRUTH: LET'S NOT FORGET THE REAL VICTIMS
The bleeding-heart liberals wringing their hands over the treatment of terrorists in Guantanamo should listen to firefighter Chuck Downey. "I'd lie these people who are so worried about these murderers...
DEAD CAT FOUND IN O.J. GAL PAL'S RANSACKED APT.
Florida firefighters broke into the home of O.J. Simpson's sometime-girlfriend yesterday - and found her apartment appeared to have been ransacked, authorities said. While Christine Prody was nowhere to be...
POOCH HOUNDED OUT OF THE CITY PARK SHE SAVED
The Parks Department is giving a once-commended canine a ruff time, the pooch's owner charges. The not-so-shaggy dog story dates back to 1982, when Max, a Weimaraner puppy, displayed her...
PETA'S FUR-COAT GIVEAWAY IS PRETTY COLD
ON THE surface, it seems like a warm and noble gesture, giving free fur coats to the homeless in the middle of winter. In truth, it is the cruelest sort...
BEYOND PROTEST
AS America moves from Martin Luther King Jr. Day to Black History Month, the time has come to ask if King's style of leadership - the politics of protest -...
SURPLUS BLUNTS PATAKI'S BUDGET AX
ALBANY - Gov. Pataki unveils his long-awaited, post-Sept. 11 budget today amid a widespread consensus that it won't be quite as bad as many had expected. Administration insiders and Pataki's...
A SNEAK PEEK AT POTTER II 'SECRETS'
Presto! Here's a peek at the next Harry Potter film - and it shows that the boy wizard is going to have a little competition in the love department. "Harry...
POLS SEEK A HALT TO AUDITORS' CONFLICTS
As repercussions from the Enron collapse continued to mushroom, plans were announced yesterday to introduce legislation requiring auditors to remain independent - and avoid potential conflicts of interest. Sen. Barbara...
STEELERS JUST DO EVERYTHING RIGHT
ONE year was all Marty Schottenheimer, a coach with a 158-104-1 track record, got to turn around the Redskins. He won eight of his last 11 games, but it wasn't...
RANGERS IGNORE GROSEK SOLUTION
They'll re-arrange the deck chairs for tonight's Coliseum match against the Islanders, but until a stubborn hierarchy recalls Michal Grosek from Hartford, the wounded Rangers won't be putting their best...
INEPT KNICKS TURN MSG INTO GARDEN OF BEATEN
Hornets 111Knicks 68IF their objective was to alienate the next generation of NBA fans, consider yesterday's Knick performance before a holiday crowd of school kids to have been an unqualified...
ROAD-TESTED ISLES SEEK HOME COOKIN'
The Islanders are looking to become bad hosts. Thus far this season, they have laid out the welcome mat and a plate of mints for opponents. But starting tonight against...
RAMS PLAN KURT RESPONSE FOR BLITZING BIRDS
Blitz at your own risk. That warning is the precursor to what figures to be the one of the most captivating and important storylines attached to Sunday's NFC Championship Game,...
NEWMAN: AXING ME WAS MISTAKE
NET NOTES DALLAS - Johnny Newman insists there is no bitterness but he believes the Nets "made a mistake" by not bringing him back. Regardless, Newman feels the Nets' best...
BURNITZ-TO-METS ; DONE DEAL
In recent days, Jeromy Burnitz thought more and more about becoming a Met, and grew more and more excited. Finally, his dream has became a reality. The Mets pulled off...
CHANEY: MARCUS MAY SIT
Don Chaney, citing Marcus Camby's ailing foot, said the Knicks' starting center may be pulled from the starting lineup tomorrow in Toronto or shut down for a brief period because...
CHANEY: KNICKS PACKED IT IN: GOES BALLISTIC AFTER 43-POINT HUMILIATION
When the MLK Day matinee massacre was over, Don Chaney took out his rage on the players during a 10-minute locker-room tirade. But Chaney's screaming session came way too late...
NETS DROP BRICK VS. MAVS ; 'O' WOES START TRIP ON SOUR NOTE
Mavs 113Nets 105 DALLAS - Let's play a little game called "Spot the Common Thread." See if you can figure out why the Nets blew a seven-point lead to Dallas...
LATRELL'S BEST SHOT AIMED AT MATES, COACHES ; SCORELESS SPREWELL PROVES TO BE REAL ZERO
On Martin Luther King Day, Latrell Sprewell took a day off from scoring. There were certainly enough Knick goats to keep Charles Barkley happy yesterday, but Sprewell was the main...
CALLS PRACTICES SOFT
KNICK NOTES When Don Chaney took over Dec. 8, Latrell Sprewell expressed concern the attitude would become too relaxed. Sprewell finally admitted yesterday that it has, citing practices that aren't...
PANTHERS KEEPING JINTS' FOX ON HOLD
Here's the deal regarding Giants defensive coordinator John Fox and the Panthers head coaching job: He's almost assured of getting it, unless Tony Dungy wants it. Dungy, recently fired by...
ARE YOU KIDDING, LOU? DEV GM WON'T REBUILD, EVEN AFTER LATEST L
Lightning 3Devils 2 TAMPA - The Devils have already lost as many games, both in regulation and in overtime, as they did all of last season, and yet GM Lou...
JEROMY WILL BE COSTLY DOWN THE ROAD
DALLAS Green didn't like Jeromy Burnitz. He thought he pouted. Davey Lopes, Burnitz' manager in Milwaukee, had a different take on the slugging right fielder who strikes out a ton,...
BURNITZ IS COMING BACK: BREWER SLUGGER RETURNS TO METS IN 3-TEAM TRADE
The more Jeromy Burnitz thought about returning to the Mets these last few days, the more excited he grew. Finally, his dreams became reality. His fate became his future. "This...
HEY, DOLAN, NOW'S THE TIME TO BURY THIS BUNCH OF STIFFS
CAN'T wait to hear James Dolan's memorable speech off this Knick season: "I had a bad dream." No need to adjust your offended six senses. Yesterday's 111-68 crying shame -...
NETS' WOEFUL 'O' MISSING IN ACTION
Mavs 113 Nets 105 DALLAS - Let's play a little game called "Spot the Common Thread." See if you can figure out why the Nets blew a seven-point lead to...
DEVILS HAVE NO INTENTION OF REBUILDING
TAMPA - He's going for it. Lou Lamoriello is aiming at winning the Cup again, rather than using this opportunity to rebuild his franchise. The Devils' GM yesterday told The...