March 25, 2002
$30M GOTHAM EXPO - 'N.Y. TIME EXCHANGE' PLANNED FOR DOWNTOWN
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amLive from New York, it's Peter Stuyvesant. If two founding fathers have their way, Downtown will soon host a new $30 million tourist attraction celebrating the history of New York...
SOME RETAILERS FLUSH WITH DROUGHT CASH
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amThe drought is proving to be flush with sales for some businesses. Retailers of home appliances, such as Home Depot Inc., Lowe's Cos. and Sears Roebuck & Co., are reporting...
V-DAY AT APOLLO - STAR-STUDDED CAST TO HELP HARLEM VICTIMS OF ABUSE
March 25, 2002 | 5:00am'THE Vagina Monologues" is getting even more colorful, thanks to actress Lisa Gay Hamilton. She's the driving force behind bringing the show to the Apollo Theatre this Saturday where a...
STARR REPORT
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amPost gets action - 'Survivor' joins Ch. 5 As The Post reported exclusively on Feb. 19, ex-"Survivor 2" contestant Alicia Calaway will join Ch. 5's 10 p.m. newscast as a...
SUPREMELY QUEENS - A NEW SERIES SET IN QUEENS IS ONE THING A QUEENS SHOW HAS NEVER BEEN BEFORE, A REAL DRAMA
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amMANHATTAN has "Law & Order" - three versions, in fact. Boston has "The Practice." Isn't it Queens' turn for a legal drama? Now shooting in and around New York's most...
EARS ARE RINGLING
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amRINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUSAt Madison Square Garden through April 7. Call (212) 465-MSG1. --------- THE Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, which opened at Madison Square...
WHAT A PAN! - 'THE BACHELOR' IS ENOUGH TO DRIVE ME TO A NUNNERY, BUT I DON'T TRUST THE CLERGY THAT MUCH ANYMORE EITHER.'
March 25, 2002 | 5:00am"The Bachelor" [minus ]Tonight at 9 on WABC/Ch. 7 ---------- MAY I wax poetic for a second about ABC's premier tonight of "The Bachelor?" Thanks. How do I loathe thee?...
'PRODIGAL' PRAISE
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amPRODIGALAt the York Theatre at St. Peter's Church in the CitiCorp Center, 619 Lexington Ave. at 54th Street, Call Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. --------- LET'S transfer the biblical story of the...
'BOY' NOT 'GOLDEN'
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amGOLDEN BOY ENCORES!, in its concert revival of "Golden Boy," at least proves that "Sweet Smell of Success" is not the first time the musical stage has flubbed a script...
HALF-MILLION $ PRIZE TO CELEB 'DOG FACE'
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amFOX is gunning to enlist a platoon of pampered celebrities as the next class of recruits for "Celebrity Bootcamp." The show is in development at the network for the 2002-2003...
HELLO, PLEASE GET LOST
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amWANT payback on the leech who harassed you all night at the bar? Let a recording do the dirty work for you at the official New York Rejection Line, a...
POLS SET TO DEFY GOV BY OKING OWN BUDGET
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amTOP state lawmakers plan to pass their own version of a new state budget if a last-ditch effort to reach agreement with Gov. Pataki fails today, The Post has learned....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amA 14-year-old boy says two teachers at his Florida school forcibly cut his hair after telling him it was too long. He says the pair summoned him to an empty...
PHONE BILLS HAVE WRONG NUMBER$
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amAnd you thought your little $89 telephone bill was a bit on the high side. Some residents of Harlem say they are being billed thousands of dollars for calls they...
WHITE POLS BACK MIKE'S 'RACE' CRITIC
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amTwo white City Council members yesterday weighed in on the side of a black councilman who charged Mayor Bloomberg with making a racist comment. The brouhaha began after Charles Barron...
MIKE BACKS WHITEHEAD
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg yesterday defended John Whitehead, chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., who was forced to drop out as headliner of a GOP fund-raiser. The Post revealed over the...
MSG A 'CAPITOL' IDEA
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg is so confident that Congress will accept his invitation to convene in the Big Apple on Sept. 6 that city officials will soon begin scouring possible locations. "You...
COEDS HIT BOTTLE INSTEAD OF BOOKS
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amSugar and spice and Budweiser on ice, that's what college girls are increasingly made of, a new survey reveals. More college women than ever are getting bombed and they're imbibing...
AMMON SUSPECTED A SCAM - TOLD PAL WIFE AND BEAU WERE BLOWING HIS $$
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amBefore his murder, millionaire Ted Ammon told a friend he suspected he was being scammed by his wife, Generosa, and her boyfriend, Danny Pelosi, The Post has learned. Ammon first...
MIKE: CHURCH BOUND BY LAW
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg weighed into the Catholic child-abuse scandal yesterday with a blunt message: The church is not above the law. As Edward Cardinal Egan told parishioners at St. Patrick's Cathedral...
WIDOW'S CRUSADE - FIGHTS TO HALT LIVER OPS AFTER HUBBY DEATH HORROR
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amVickie Hurewitz calls the ninth floor of Mount Sinai Medical Center a "killing field." That's where she frantically watched her husband vomit blood and "gurgle" on it. "He's dead! They...
THE SAUDIS' BAD SHOW
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amEARLIER this month, Saudi Arabia's Mutaween religious police reportedly were responsible for the agonized deaths of 14 teenaged girls in a fire at a school in Mecca. The fleeing girls...
STARS SEARCHED - EVEN CELEBS GET PAT-DOWN AMID TIGHTEST SECURITY
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amOscar made his triumphant, red-carpeted return to Hollywood last night under the watchful eye of an unprecedented security force that left no one beyond suspicion - even the stars themselves....
GOY WONDER LANDS THE SHMALTZIEST GIG
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amDID you hear the one about the Jewish steakhouse on the Lower East Side that hired a non-Jewish tummler? What's the punch line? That is the punch line! Sammy's Roumanian...
'BULL' HOPES TO GORE FEDS
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amSalvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano sharpened his skills on the stand while taking down powerful godfathers. But this week, he may turn his horns on the feds to try to...
AL QAEDA STILL LOOKS TO ATTACK GIS: VEEP
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amAl Qaeda fighters hiding out in Afghanistan may still try to mount attacks against U.S. troops, Vice President Dick Cheney said yesterday. Cheney compared the situation to the circumstances that...
AILING N.J. PROSECUTOR GETS RARE FOURTH KIDNEY
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amA top New Jersey prosecutor - who already had three kidneys in his body - has received a fourth in an unusual second transplant operation. Ike Gavzy, 48, suffers from...
FEELING BLAH-BLAH-BLASÉ ABOUT PRE-SHOW GAB
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amTHE only annual event on TV bigger than the Oscars is the Super Bowl - but yesterday, it seemed as if Oscars Sunday had begun to give Super Bowl Sunday...
SOMEONE SAY, 'CUT' - BLOATED SHOW IS ONE LONG AD
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amSOMETIME during the fourth hour of last night's epic Oscar telecast, it occurred to me that this bloated show is little more than a big fat infomercial for the movie...
PIPE BOMB JOLTS BROOKLYN - BIZMAN BADLY HURT MONTH AFTER HE WAS ARSON VICTIM
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amA well-known Brooklyn businessman lost part of his leg yesterday when a pipe bomb exploded next to his rental van - a month after another car he was using was...
PIPE-BOMB BLAST ROCKS BROOKLYN
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn businessman lost part of his leg yesterday when a pipe bomb exploded next to his rental van - a month after another car he was using was destroyed...
ACADEMY HONORS WERE BLACK & RIGHT
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amOSCAR finally did the right thing last night. Halle Berry's win as the very first black Best Actress was one of the academy's proudest moments - and her emotional acceptance...
OH, WHAT A 'BEAUTIFUL' NIGHT - 'MIND' GRABS BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR
March 25, 2002 | 5:00am"A Beautiful Mind" won Oscar's top honor on a night in which Denzel Washington and Halle Berry made history by winning awards for Best Actor and Best Actress. The pair...
WHAT REFORM? - CAMPAIGNS CAN COUNT ON CASH - SOMEHOW
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amLONGTIME Republican political strategist Rich Galen likens money in politics to water in the ocean: "You can put up dams all you want. Nothing will change the amount; you can...
WINNERS GET 'BEST' BOO$T - ACADEMY AWARD VICTORY MEANS A BOX-OFFICE WINDFALL
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amOscar means gold in more ways than one. Last night's Best Picture winner can expect a huge uptick in box-office sales - and big bucks later at the video store...
DAD DIGS SO OTHERS, TOO, WILL FIND THEIR SONS
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amJack Lynch's search didn't end when the body of his firefighter son, Michael, was found at Ground Zero last week - he was back in the pit yesterday, helping sift...
COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS GO BY THE BOARDS
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amBorn during the political activism of the 1960s, the city's community school boards have become powerless relics known best for the antics of their members, while costing taxpayers $4 million...
HUD BUILDER BOO$TED ANDY
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amA year after getting approval to receive $5 million from the federal agency overseen by Andrew Cuomo, a real-estate developer hosted a campaign fund-raiser and donated $21,000 to Cuomo, The...
VEEP: NO WAY I'LL MEET ARAFAT UNLESS . . .
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney said yesterday that he's not yet ready to meet Yasser Arafat, but urged Israelis to let the Palestinian leader attend a critical Arab summit...
U.S. PUSHES ISRAEL TO 'FREE' YASSER
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - The United States has been strongly lobbying Israel to let Palestinian chief Yasser Arafat attend the Arab League summit in Beirut later this week. Deputy Assistant Secretary of...
FUNDS ARE FERRY BAD NEWS
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amGreatly expanded commuter ferry service to lower Manhattan will begin today - but the federally subsidized initiative has taken some wind out of the sails of a proposed water-taxi fleet....
SCHOOL DISTRICTS GO BY THE BOARDS
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amBorn during the political activism of the 1960s, the city's community school boards have become powerless relics known best for the antics of their members while costing taxpayers $4 million...
MIKE RAPS CHURCH'S SEX POLICY
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg weighed into the Catholic child-abuse scandal yesterday with a blunt message - the Church is not above the law. As Edward Cardinal Egan told parishioners at St. Patrick's...
WASHOUT WHOOPI - HOSTESS VANISHES AS REAL STARS SHINE
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amWHOOPI Goldberg's role at last night's Oscars was so minimal that the telecast was practically hostless. Not that it mattered much. With the usual parade of movie stars acting as...
FUNNY THING IS, THEY 'LEAD' THE WAY
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amTHE first two big winners at the Oscars last night certainly deserved their awards - even if they benefited from the notorious practice of nominating lead actors for supporting roles....
FASHION WINNERS AND LOSERS
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amPRETTY in pink? You bet. Leading fashion icons Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez - not to mention ascending style star Kirsten Dunst - led the red-carpet pack at last night's...
PILLS KEEP STARS PHARMA-PSEUDO-COOL
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amHow did all those Oscar glamour-pusses manage to look so cool under pressure last night? Many of them accessorized their dazzling couture gowns with anti-anxiety drugs - and a little...
ISLES LOOK TO DELIVER CRUSHING BLOW
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amThey should be playing this game in a dark alley rather than on a sheet of ice. And while you can usually throw the standings out for this one, when...
INDY HOPING IT HASN'T LOST ITS COVER
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amMIDWEST LEXINGTON - Sophomore Jared Jeffries is Indiana's unquestioned star, but he didn't mind helping hobbled teammate Tom Coverdale up the ladder to cut down the first pieces of the...
WELCOME TO THE SHOW - IT'S OFFICIAL: NICK JOINS YANKS AS DH
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - He has secured a Manhattan apartment but isn't convinced he will sleep in it. Joe Torre revealed yesterday that he has made the team and he arches eyebrows...
ESTES STRUGGLES WITH ROUGH STUFF
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - So far this spring, Shawn Estes has worked on his curveball, change-up, two-seam fastball and four-seam fastball. While Estes is pleased he's getting a...
MAKE OR BREAK FOR VALENTIN
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amOrioles 6 - Mets 2 PORT ST. LUCIE - The first time John Valentin came to a fork in the road was the spring of 1997. A young upstart had...
BANGED-UP BOMBERS ON HEALTH KICK
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amTAMPA - The Yankees have been injured this spring, but not hurt. Sterling Hitchcock will not be ready to open the season due to a strained back ligament, removing -...
IT'S NOW OFFICIAL: KNICKS ARE LOSERS
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Even before another loss here yesterday, Don Chaney conceded his club is not making the playoffs despite the math. "Actually, for the rest of the way, it's all...
AMAZING FINISH WORKS FOR PERKS - SIZZLING LAST 3 HOLES STUNS PLAYERS
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amPONTE VEDRA BEACH - Why not? Why couldn't unknown New Zealander Craig Perks win the Players Championship? * Because he entered the week as the 203rd- ranked player in the...
TERPS' BLAKE CALLS THE SHOT
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amSYRACUSE - Maryland coach Gary Williams called the timeout with 34 seconds left. Junior point guard Steve Blake took over the huddle. As Williams was drawing up a play, Blake,...
WRONG CLUB, RIGHT RESULT
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amNOTEBOOK PONTE VEDRA BEACH - Craig Perks' improbable victory didn't come without some unnecessary drama. Perks, sitting on a two-shot lead en route to the 18th tee, inexplicably hit driver...
K-MART STRIKES AGAIN! - COMMITS 6TH FLAGRANT FOUL AS NETS HAMMER HAWKS
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amNets 116 - Hawks 102 After five months of success and excitement, the Nets thought they would clinch a playoff spot with a victory last night. But then tie-breaking scenarios...
JARVIS: NO INTEREST IN WASH.
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amSYRACUSE - St. John's coach Mike Jarvis is coveted by the University of Washington to replace its fired head coach Bob Bender, sources have told The Post. Jarvis, who is...
CONCUSSION KOS RICHTER FROM CLASH AT COLISEUM
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amAs if the Rangers needed another roadblock to the playoffs, they found out yesterday that goalie Mike Richter will miss tonight's game against the Islanders at the Coliseum. Richter didn't...
DEVILS WAIT FOR WORD ON HOLIK BAN
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amThe Devils are likely to witness a little preview, starting tonight against Florida, how life would be without Bobby Holik next season. The upcoming unrestricted free agent faces a league...
'DUBAI', 'DRIFT' DELIVER
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amEssence of Dubai and Perfect Drift crashed into the "Derby Dozen" for the first time Saturday with stakes victories half a world apart. In the United Emirates Derby, on the...
NCAA GAME IN A FREE FALL
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amIT's the only shot that can't be defended. It makes for the purest box score stat in all of sports. It's the free throw. And, like homemade soup, it's a...
MACCULLOCH GETS BACK IN LINEUP
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES The Nets got added help at center last night as Todd MacCulloch returned to active duty. And that meant they didn't need to bring in help at shooting...
MAY BE SORIANO FOR STARTERS
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES Yankees 8 - Blue Jays 7 TAMPA - The assumption was wrong. When camp opened it was assumed Derek Jeter would take over as the Yankees' leadoff hitter....
KERRY READY TO CHEER - KITTLES SAYS NET TRIP TO PLAYOFFS WILL BE BIG DEAL
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amFor weeks and weeks now, it has been apparent that the Nets would be a playoff team this post-season. So landing a berth became accepted fare, about as stunning as...
IVERSON TO MATES: JUST DO IT!
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES PHILADEPHIA - Allen Iverson, admitting he likely will miss the rest of the regular season with a broken left hand, urged his teammates to "put or shut up,"...
J-HAWKS DROWN DUCKS - KU ROLLS OVER OREGON INTO FINAL FOUR
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amMIDWEST: Kansas 104 - Oregon 86 MADISON, Wis. - The lead had been whittled and Roy Williams was steaming. As he gathered his Kansas club around him during a timeout...
BADGER BACKERS GIVE ROY BOO-TIFUL RECEPTION
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amNOTES MADISON - Whenever Roy Williams stepped onto the Kohl Center court during the Midwest Regional, he was greeted by a chorus of boos. Williams, it seems, last year made...
UCONN'S BUTLER WEIGHS NBA JUMP
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amSYRACUSE - Caron Butler took a giant leap towards the NBA last night. Butler made his case for being a lottery pick with a 26-point second-half explosion that nearly carried...
SAD FINISH FOR GALLANT HUSKIES - TOP-SEEDED TERPS PROVE TOO TOUGH FOR UCONN
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amEAST: Maryland 90 - UConn 82 SYRACUSE - Jim Calhoun thought he was going back to the Final Four. It didn't matter that Maryland heavyweight center Lonny Baxter was pounding...
TIGER, TOP GUNS MISFIRE
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amPONTE VEDRA BEACH - What happened to all the top seeds in this star-studded field with the Players Championship up for grabs in yesterday's final round? They all flamed out....
KENYON'S OUT OF CONTROL
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amWHEN Kenyon Martin raises an elbow, NBA referees won't lift a finger to give him the benefit of the doubt. Not that he has earned one. Six times this season...
MACCULLOCH GETS BACK TO WORK
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES And in related Nets news, Todd MacCulloch played again. The 7-foot Nets center, who last played on Feb. 21, did not play in 16 straight games, 17 of...
BIG DANCE COMES TO SAD END FOR HUSKIES - MARYLAND PROVES TOO TOUGH FOR UCONN
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amMaryland 90 - UConn 82 SYRACUSE - It was March Madness at its best. Maryland and Connecticut, the No. 1 and 2 seeds in the East, put on a regional...
NETS' RIDE'S BEEN WILD
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amWITH 13 games to play and one game to win to clinch the Nets' 10th playoff berth in their 27-season history, mathematically, it was hard to like their chances. Calculate...
ROY GETS BOO-TIFUL RECEPTION
March 25, 2002 | 5:00amNOTES MADISON, Wis. - Whenever Roy Williams stepped onto the Kohl Center court during the Midwest Regional, he was greeted by a chorus of boos. Williams, it seems, last year...