March 21, 2002
PLANNED PARENTHOOD PLANS MOVE WEST
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe parent organization of Planned Parenthood is working on a deal to relocate to a former West Side printing building, The Post has learned. The group expects to lease 104,000...
ANDERSEN KICKS OFF DEFENSE PLAN WITH PLEA OF 'NOT GUILTY"
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amLegal eagles for accountants Arthur Andersen won the first round in their fight to defend the embattled firm against a criminal indictment while hundreds of employees demonstrated outside. As Andersen...
BLOWOUT IN SALES FOR GUN DEALER
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amTerrorist fears have sent Smith & Wesson gun sales soaring more than seven-fold, pushing its stock to a new high yesterday. The once-ailing firearms firm said it had just gotten...
REMNICK'S NEW YORKER LEADS RACE FOR ELLIES
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe New Yorker once again tops the list of titles up for National Magazine Awards with nine nominations in eight categories - including the closely-watched general excellence category. The coveted...
DOW SINKS 133, TAKING BIGGEST DROP OF MONTH
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amStocks fell yesterday on concerns that profit growth will not be strong if the Federal Reserve tries to keep the economic recovery from gathering too much steam. The Fed said...
MARTHA, OTHER LABELS STAY AT KMART AFTER WINNING PAYOUTS
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amMartha's getting paid, and in the process, Kmart gets to keep all its big names in the house. Kmart won approval to continue selling products under agreements with five of...
DATEK SALE COULD FETCH $1.4B
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amDatek Online Holdings Corp., a company which helps investors trade on the Internet, is close to making a trade of its own. Datek, the nation's sixth-largest discount brokerage firm in...
SAFRA SELLING 5TH AVE. DIGS AFTER A SHORT STAY
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amAFTER spending millions of dollars in renovations, socialite Lily Safra is selling her Fifth Avenue apartment before she's had a chance to fill her closets. The widow of billionaire banker...
URBAN TAP TAKES MORE THAN TWO TO TAMANGO
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amURBAN TAPThe Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., at 19th Street, (212) 242-0800. Season runs through March 29. ----------- TAMANGO, who left his native French Guiana for Paris at the age...
WHAT THE 'ELLIE' IS HAPPENING? - SHE'S DOWN ANOTHER MILLION VIEWERS HEADING INTO THE 5TH WEEK. WHO SAID CURSE OF SEINFELD?
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amFEWER people are "Watching Ellie" each week. For the fourth week in a row, the heavily promoted NBC comedy starring "Seinfeld" alum Julia Louis-Dreyfus lost more than a million viewers....
OY VEY! OSCAR BANS DANCING
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amTHE Oscars aren't dancing this year. The awards show's signature, over-the-top dance routines are being dropped, producers say. "Not that I don't love dancing - and I do think there's...
STARR REPORT
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amSmith drops by 'Queens' for a day Oscar nominee Will Smith ("Ali") stopped by the Sony lot on Tuesday to visit the cast of CBS' "King of Queens." Smith stopped...
IT'S FOX NEWS VS. PENTAGON
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amFOX News Channel officials are outraged that Pentagon cops confiscated a videotape shot by an FNC cameraman - after cuffing the cameraman, arresting him and demanding he turn the tape...
WILL JOEY SCORE HIS OWN SHOW?
March 21, 2002 | 5:00am'FRIENDS" may end at the end of next season - but Matt LeBlanc's dimwitted actor, Joey Tribbiani, may not. According to published reports, "secret plans" are in the works to...
WHERE WOMEN REALLY HAVE IT TOUGH
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amIF Gwyneth Paltrow thinks Hollywood treats women badly, she should try Japan, for example, where female characters in movies often exist just to be abused. A leading perpetrator is Takashi...
STABBED KID'S KIN TO SUE ED. BOARD
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe family of a Brooklyn teen stabbed Tuesday in one of the city's most violent high schools plans to sue the Board of Education, charging it ignored warnings about the...
DEMS' 'TEENAGE MUTANT' MONEYMAN
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amJUST call it the Teenage Mutant Ninja Democratic Headquarters. Dems wanted to keep it secret, but the moneyman behind their high-tech new headquarters - being built with soon-to-be-illegal "soft" money...
FIRST VICTORY, THEN MEMORIALS
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amSPURRED on by an emotional appeal Tuesday from Lisa Beamer - whose husband, Todd, led the passenger revolt against the hijackers of Flight 93 - members of Congress unveiled their...
BITTER GOP VOWS LAZIO'S THROUGH AS HE OPTS OUT
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Rick Lazio, best known for losing the 2000 U.S. Senate campaign to Hillary Rodham Clinton, has decided not to run again for his former Long Island congressional seat....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amA controversial exhibition featuring real human corpses has been cleared to open in London - and exhibitors hope to eventually bring it to New York. The "Body Worlds" exhibition includes...
THE GOV CAMPAIGNS ON THE PUBLIC DIME
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amWhat a kidder, that George Pataki. He says he's against public financing of political campaigns, but there he was Tuesday morning, wearing a wide grin while taking title to his...
STATE LOBBYISTS BAG RECORD $80M TO PEDDLE INFLUENCE
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - A successful campaign for higher wages by the powerful health-care workers union last year helped push spending on lobbying in New York to a record $80.4 million. "Lobbying...
HOW LAW FAILED SLAIN PRIEST
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe Nassau County mental health commissioner admitted yesterday that a mentally ill man charged with killing a priest and a parishioner fell through the cracks - but insisted loopholes in...
CAMPAIGN REFORM NOW UP TO BUSH
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate yesterday approved a sweeping campaign-finance bill, sending the historic legislation to President Bush to be signed into law. The bill, the biggest change to campaign-money laws...
'PUFFY' WITNESS FACES SEX RAP - HE HEADED BIG-BUCKS CALL-GIRL RING: DA
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amHe swore under oath at Sean "Puffy" Combs' guns-and-bribes trial that he ran a "no sex" escort service. But yesterday, escort honcho Anthony Nastasi, a 49-year-old Long Islander, went from...
PAM: TOMMY GAVE ME HEPATITIS
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Blond bombshell Pamela Anderson revealed yesterday she has hepatitis C, and accused her estranged husband, rock star Tommy Lee, of giving it to her. In a...
ODDFATHER, PART 2 - NEW SANITY HEARING AS 'CHIN' FACES FED MOB CHARGES
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amProof of Vincent "the Chin" Gigante's sanity lies in a sentimental "merry Christmas" tape and other recorded phone calls with family in which the mob boss chats, exchanges "I love...
YATES' BEST PAL RAGES AT HUBBY
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe best friend of Andrea Yates has come out swinging against the killer mom's husband - saying he repeatedly ignored his severely disturbed wife's pleas for help. "There are times...
EX-COP CLAIMS PREGNANCY BIAS IN SUIT VS. NYPD
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amA former high-ranking female cop filed suit against the NYPD yesterday, charging she was passed over for a promotion because she was pregnant. A police chief told her, "Hey, it's...
BRONX PARENTS INSIST SCHOOL CLEAR THE AIR
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amParents at a South Bronx high school charge their kids are getting sick because of unacceptable levels of dust and mold. "It's not fair that we, as students, are forced...
BLOOMBERG BASH THE POLITICAL PARTY
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Mayor Bloomberg is presiding over an era of austerity at City Hall, but his media company is still planning one of the hottest, glitziest parties in the nation's...
UNION BLAMES STAFF CUTS FOR MT. SINAI WOES
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe president of the city's health-care workers union blasted Mount Sinai Hospital yesterday, saying personnel cuts are the reason "the reputation of this hospital remains in dispute." "We want to...
THE MUCK $TOPS HERE, SEWAGE OFFICIALS VOW
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amCity officials pledged yesterday that the cost of upgrading a Brooklyn sewage-treatment plant won't climb much more than $2.2 million higher - after its budget already ballooned by nearly $1...
'I CRACKED MY KID'S RAPIST IN THE FACE'
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amA man who lived through every dad's nightmare told The Post yesterday about his frantic race through Brooklyn streets to rescue his terrified 14-year-old daughter from the clutches of a...
SMOKE & IRE: CITY MAY BURN GARBAGE
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amFacing a mammoth deficit, the Bloomberg administration yesterday floated a proposal to re-start municipal garbage incinerators. "You can go to cities around the world - even in the United States...
9/11 KIN GET TIMETABLE ON DNA TESTS
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe identification through DNA testing of the thousands of pieces of human remains collected from the World Trade Center will be largely finished by next February, the medical examiner's office...
STRAW'S WIFE LAUNCHES TV CAREER
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe long-suffering wife of Darryl Strawberry has been hired as a TV reporter, covering women's issues. But don't expect Charisse Strawberry to dish the latest dirt on her cheating, drug-abusing...
GOV AIRS RIDGE PROMISE JETS WILL STAY OVER CITY
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Gov. Pataki said yesterday that he has been assured the protective fighter-plane patrols above New York will continue. Pataki, who is seeking re-election, said he was given the...
SUBWAY WORKER DIES AFTER LOSING ARM
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amA construction superintendent overseeing track repairs in a Brooklyn subway station died early yesterday morning after a train severed his right arm and pinned him underneath the first two cars....
ED BOARD MOVE HAS HIGH PRICE
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amA top aide to Mayor Bloomberg yesterday conceded it will cost the city several additional million dollars to turn Tweed Courthouse into an education mecca - on top of the...
BIZARRE DRUG TWIST IN AMMON SLAY CASE
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amAs Long Island cops continue their investigation of millionaire Ted Ammon's murder, The Post has learned that his wife's personal assistant filed a bizarre police report last year saying someone...
MORGY CLASHES WITH EGAN ON REPORTING
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amPriests in New York would be forced to report all sex-abuse allegations under tough new laws being drafted by the Manhattan district attorney in a clear rebuff to Edward Cardinal...
WHITEWATER PROBERS: WE HAD A BILL ON HILL
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton was spotted by two construction workers and a White House witness carrying a box of old rolled-up papers just a month before her missing billing...
VICTIM HAS NO MEMORY AT WEAPONS TRIAL OF 'NO SOCKS'
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amAnthony Falsone testified yesterday he didn't hear or see anything when he got shot in the arm more than 10 years ago - allegedly by a reputed Luchese crime-family associate....
DOG-MAUL JURY NEARS DECISION
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Jurors reached verdicts yesterday in four of five charges against two dog owners, whose bloodthirsty canines fatally mauled a Long Island woman last year. The panel will...
RARE VEIN INJURY KILLED PUCK KID
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amSchoolgirl Brittanie Cecil, the first spectator to be killed by a flying puck at an NHL game, died from a rarely seen arterial injury that was caused when her head...
LAWYER RIPPED OFF PALS: DA
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amFrank Gangemi's family has long been a respected political presence in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn - but yesterday, the 38-year-old lawyer was called a "disgrace to humanity" for allegedly bilking more...
POLICEWOMAN FOUND - AMONG FIVE HERO OFFICERS RECOVERED AT GROUND ZERO
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe remains of five uniformed officers, including the only female city cop to die at the World Trade Center, were recovered yesterday in rubble that appeared to be from the...
LIZA & HUBBY HINT AT ADOPTION
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amLiza Minnelli has just gotten married - and now, she wants to start a family. Minnelli, who wed Broadway producer David Gest on Saturday, told CNN's Larry King that they...
N.Y. TO BIZ: YOU STAY, WE PAY
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe city and state are offering $500 million in cash grants to lower Manhattan's largest firms - just to stay put for at least seven years, officials said yesterday. Dan...
NYPD BIG TAKES L.I. COMMISH GIG
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amJames Lawrence - currently chief of personnel for NYPD - has been named new Nassau County police commissioner. Lawrence, a Vietnam veteran, will be sworn in as commissioner after current...
MCCALL: AUDIT REFORM KEY
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Comptroller Carl McCall yesterday urged Congress to pass sharp new restrictions on accounting firms to prevent a repeat of the Enron scandal. "Auditor independence is critical to long-term...
PUCK GIRL NEVER GOT TO SEE HER NEW ROOM
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amWhile Brittanie Cecil was with her dad at a hockey game Saturday night for an early birthday celebration, her mom and stepfather were preparing their gift for her - a...
LADY COP, 4 OTHERS PULLED FROM RUBBLE
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe remains of five uniformed officers, including the only female city cop to die at the World Trade Center, were recovered yesterday in rubble that appeared to be from the...
MIKE CALLS DINKINS' TENNIS DEAL A SMASH HIT
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amA sports deal that former Mayor Giuliani attacked repeatedly was hailed yesterday by Mayor Bloomberg as one of the best ever. Bloomberg praised the contract signed by former Mayor David...
STAB BOY'S PARENTS SUE SCHOOL
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amThe family of a Brooklyn teen stabbed Tuesday in one of the city's most violent high schools plans to sue the Board of Education, charging it ignored warnings about the...
JERSEY JOE OFF TO GOOD START
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amCHICAGO - This was what Joe Nieuwendyk is supposed to do, now, this year. This was why the Devils mortgaged more of their future for this 35-year-old who said yesterday,...
RIDERS KO BIG A CARD
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amHeavy rains yesterday, the first day of spring, brought a nasty surprise to Aqueduct, where the remaining eight races were canceled after a disastrous opener that saw one horse suffer...
PHILLIPS ON HOT SEAT
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - For the Mets, the man with the most pressure on his shoulders will not wear a number on his back. He won't have a single AB,...
NETS MIFFED, BIG TIME - STAND BY CLAIM THAT REFS BLEW CLOCK CALL VS. CAVS
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amStu Jackson knew the call was coming. Jackson, the league VP of operations, is accustomed to receiving evening calls at home from team officials with a problem. As Jackson watched...
FORGET THE FAIRY TALES - CINDERELLA SLIPPERS DON'T FIT KENT, PITT
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amLEXINGTON - The surprising part of tonight's South Region semifinal between Pittsburgh and Kent State isn't that these two squads reached the Sweet 16. The shocking part is that teams...
VAN IMPE FINALLY SUITS UP FOR ISLES
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amDarren Van Impe never got the chance to pull on an Islander jersey when the team chose him in the 1993 Entry Draft. Tonight, he'll finally get that opportunity as...
TIGER'S BACK ON THE PROWL - WOODS IS STRIKING FEAR INTO HEARTS OF PLAYERS
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amPONTE VEDRA BEACH - A relaxed and confident Tiger Woods is the most dangerous Tiger Woods of all. That's what the rest of the field at this week's Players Championship...
VAN GUNDY MAY LAND IN TORONTO
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES With Portland's Maurice Cheeks going from the firing line to Coach of the Year candidate, the likeliest landing spot for Jeff Van Gundy now is north of the...
HE COULD BE DAJUAN - KNICKS EYE FROSH PHENOM WAGNER
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amMEMPHIS - If all goes right for Memphis freshman Dajuan Wagner, he will end his college career at the Garden next Thursday with an NIT championship. And if all goes...
LEITER, TRACHSEL TO START 1ST TWO GAMES
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The Mets' starting rotation has been set, and there's one mild surprise: Steve Trachsel will pitch the second game of the season. Staff ace Al Leiter...
LUCIOUS' RETURN DATE STILL IFFY
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES When Lucious Harris returns to the Net lineup, he will wear a mask to protect a broken right cheekbone that was surgically repaired yesterday. Question is, when will...
TIKI ON GIANT-BASHING STRAHAN ... GIVE ME A BREAK!
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amHe is outraged and disgusted by so much of what Michael Strahan said regarding the Giants, but most of all, Tiki Barber feels sickened about the way Strahan's rip job...
ACHY BERNIE (AND YANKS) HAMSTRUNG
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - Bernie Williams has had it with his body breaking down. "I would be playing during the regular season, but I am just getting tired of this [garbage]," said...
DUKE-INDIANA A CLASSIC SWEET 16 MATCHUP
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amSOUTH NOTEBOOK LEXINGTON - While tonight's Pittsburgh-Kent State matchup at Rupp Arena includes two schools with little NCAA history - Kent State has won just three Tourney games in its...
RAGGED ANDY: NO PAIN, JUST A LOT OF GAIN
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - To the uninformed, it would seem the lefty on the mound at the Yankees' minor league complex yesterday would be wise to pursue another profession. Giving up four...
VANCE JUST NEEDED A CHANCE
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Vance Wilson can't remember to take out the trash, but he can remember Mike Bacsik's out pitch. Wilson has an elephant's memory when it comes to...
DAWN BRINGS HOPE TO ST. FRAN
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amPete Gorynski gets pretty animated when he's on the sideline coaching the Fordham Prep football team. But he is quick to admit that guiding the Rams is far from the...
SINGH QUESTIONS MICKELSON'S GAMBLE
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amPONTE VEDRA BEACH - Much of the talk around this week's Players Championship was still about Phil Mickelson's go-for-broke 4-iron under and through the trees and into the water on...
STERLING'S ROTATION BID RUNS INTO A HITCH
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - The much talked about three pitchers for two spots might have been just that: words. With less than two weeks until Opening Day, Sterling Hitchcock's back...
THIS TIME, NETS GET THEIR HAPPY ENDING
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amNets 97 - Blazers 82 Lamond Murray's disputed 3-pointer that gave the Cavaliers a controversial win Tuesday, was burned in the Nets' minds. The incessant replays of the shot annoyed...
STERLING'S ROTATION BID HITS A HITCH
March 21, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA -All that "three pitchers for two rotation spots" talk might have been just that -talk. With less than two weeks until Opening Day, Sterling Hitchcock's back is...