April 4, 2002
REDFORD SELLS HIS PENTHOUSE
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amAGING pretty-boy film icon Robert Redford has found a buyer for his Southwestern-themed penthouse apartment on Central Park. According to our source, Redford has accepted an offer to sell his...
CABLEVISION REVEALS IT'S 'BOXED IN' BY SONY CORP.
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amLUCKY for Cablevision that it gets along well with Sony. Buried in a recent Securities & Exchange Commission filing is a disclosure that Cablevision was supposed to buy over a...
VERIZON'S HANG-UP ; PROXY BATTLE BREWING OVER ACCOUNTING, EARNINGS
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amVerizon is the latest company to be accused of artificially boosting earnings by using credits from its pension fund. General Electric was pounded on the same issue last month -...
STARCK MAKES MARK WITH TARGET DESIGNS
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amTarget will be facing a "Starck Reality." The hippest of the mass merchants is introducing the long-awaited collection of everyday items designed by one of the world's leading designers, Philippe...
ANDERSEN TAPS GLEACHER TO HELP REORGANIZE
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amAndersen has tapped investment banking boutique Gleacher Partners to shepherd the embattled firm's restructuring, while its far-flung operations continue to splinter. Gleacher Partners, co-founded by Eric Gleacher, veteran mergers and...
STOCKS FALL ON FEARS ABOUT PROFITS, RECOVERY, MIDEAST
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amStocks fell to their lowest level in a month yesterday from a triple whammy of earnings warnings, slower-than-expected economic growth and concerns about violence in the Middle East. The Dow...
MILLER BEER TAPPED OUT; PHILIP MORRIS SELLS BRAND TO S. AFRICANS
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amBud is running rival Miller beer out of town. Miller, which invented "lite beer" three decades ago, is being sold by its parent Philip Morris to South African Brewers for...
MORTON'S STAKEOUT: ANGRY SHAREHOLDERS TAKE AIM AT BUYOUT
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amThe heat's getting turned up in the steak wars. Dissident shareholders of Morton's Restaurant Group are attempting to block a buyout that would give control of its steakhouse chain to...
I'D LIKE $10 OF UNLEADED TOFU, PLEASE
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amAfter seeing its plan to make fuel from corn shot down, food giant Archer-Daniels-Midland is now switching to soybeans to keep cars and trucks running. The company said it could...
STARR REPORT
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amClinton: Here's Mudd in your eye Ex-President Bill Clinton tells History Channel's Roger Mudd that he "could give a rip" about historians ranking him as only a mediocre president (20th...
ANCHOR JANE HID HER PAIN
April 4, 2002 | 5:00am'DATELINE" anchor Jane Pauley has broken her silence about the mysterious illness last year that made her face appear alarmingly puffy and kept her off the air for months. Pauley...
SCRUB THE MASKS
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amCLINIC WHEN English export Clinic took the stage at the Bowery Ballroom Tuesday, the quartet was dressed in its usual duds: scrubs, face masks and hair hoods. It struck a...
STORY BEHIND DONAHUE'S RETURN: HOW WATCHING KATIE COURIC ON 9/11 PUT ME BACK ON TV
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amNEW MSNBC talk show host Phil Donahue says the events of Sept. 11 persuaded him to return to TV after a six-year absence. "Certainly 9/11 has a lot to do...
TOUGH JEWS; TALES FROM THE KILLING FIELDS OF EUROPE
April 4, 2002 | 5:00am"Resistance: UntoldStories of JewishPartisans" Tonight at 10 on Ch. 13 MEET some of the toughest people on Earth. They're Jews, now mild-mannered senior citizens in their 70s and 80s, who...
KOREANS BIT BACK CH. 11
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amThe fur is still flying over a Ch. 11 news series from late last year that reported on the popularity of dog meat in New York's Korean community. A Korean...
PANTY RAVE - ONE MAN'S LOOK AT YOUR BLOOMERS ... AND SOME OTHER MEN'S VIEWS
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amA woman's underwear says a lot about her. There's a store on the corner of East Houston andAllen streets that sells subway memorabilia - T-shirts, token trinkets, etc. The otherday...
NOT THE SAME OLD THONG - FROM LOW-END TO HIGH-END: THE BEST GEAR TO COVER YOUR REAR
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amImagine walking down Fifth Avenue on a Saturday afternoon, and....oops, your knickers fall to the cement. The horror. Yet that's the crisis at the heart of "The Underpants," a quirky...
DOWNTOWN RENT BREAK EXPANDING
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amDowntown planners have revised a proposal for rent rebates for lower Manhattan residents in a way that would double the benefits to hundreds of apartment dwellers affected by the Sept....
TEEN BEAU SHOOK TOT INTO PARALYSIS: COPS
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn high-school dropout shook his girlfriend's year-old son so violently to stop his crying that the child was left partly paralyzed, cops said yesterday. Anthony DiBella, 16, was charged...
SADDAM HIKES TERROR WAGE - BOOSTS BONUS FOR 'MARTYR' KIN TO 25G
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has increased payments to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers from $10,000 to $25,000, in a bid to gain more clout in the Arab...
CIVIL LIBERTARIANS SILENT ON VICIOUS VINEGRAD
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amIN THE Vinegrad Villa of the Vicious, Guy Molinari, a veteran lawyer and former Staten Island borough president, was asking himself a question. "Where is the Civil Liberties Union right...
PELOSI'S COP BRO DIED WHILE UNDER PROBE BY NYPD
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amOfficer James Pelosi, the brother of Danny Pelosi, was under investigation by the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau at the time he died of an apparent heart attack last Saturday, The...
TRAITOR'S FAMILY WAGING A P.R. WAR
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amAS THEIR son plays footsie with Yasser Arafat in Ramallah, the Shapiro family of Brooklyn is doing its bit for the cause. The cause of bringing themselves maximum media exposure,...
LIVERY DRIVER ROBBED, SHOT
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amA 28-year-old livery driver was shot and wounded yesterday morning in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, after picking up a passenger who robbed him, police said. The incident occurred shortly after 3:30...
SCHWARZ WANTS 'VINDICTIVE' PERJURY CHARGE THROWN OUT
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amCalling perjury charges against Charles Schwarz a "vindictive prosecution" geared to scare off potential witnesses, lawyers for the ex-cop are mounting a fight to get the new indictment nixed. "What...
SLAY-PLOT STRIPPER FREED AFTER 4 MOS.
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amThe Swiss Miss has been dismissed. Line Grosjean, the former stripper who pleaded guilty last December to plotting the murder of her lawyer lover's estranged wife, walked out of Rikers...
SOAP STAR'S SUIT: ABC PLAYED DIRTY
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amToday on "All My Children": Lies, treachery, back-stabbing and deceit - and that's just backstage, one of the soap's former stars charges in a $30 million lawsuit. In papers filed...
GRAMMYS AND N.Y. BACK IN HARMONY
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amThe Grammys came back to the Big Apple yesterday, with officials saying the four-year standoff with Rudy Giuliani that sent the music awards packing is "water under the bridge." Grammys...
YANKS WANT SPITZER TO GRAB A BAT IN CABLE-TV WAR
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amThe Yankees are seeking a lifeline from State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to end the damaging cable-TV dispute which has outraged New York fans. YES Network chief Leo Hindery met...
FEDS REVIEW MORE LOUIMA CONVICTIONS
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amA federal appeals panel has ordered a new hearing into the case of two cops convicted of lying as part of the "Blue Wall of Silence" surrounding the torture of...
BREATH OF FRESH AIRTIME: CITY SAVING 800G ON CELL BILL
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amCell-phone users are constantly hunting for cheaper rates, but it wasn't until this year that the city talked tough in an attempt to lower its annual bill by about $800,000....
TITANIC LAWSUIT OVER CARNIVAL MISHAP
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amThe mothers of 10 children hurt when an inflatable kiddie trampoline, ominously named the Titanic, suddenly deflated are suing a Queens carnival and the city for a whopping $100 million....
SLIMMING DOWN COULD FATTEN YOUR TAX REFUND
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amIf you're overweight, a new IRS ruling could make your tax bill thousands of dollars lighter. For the first time, the tax agency has recognized obesity as a disease. That...
EX-GARDENS HONCHO A BAD $EED: DA
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amThe former comptroller of the Bronx Botanical Gardens was indicted yesterday after embezzling a whopping $350,000 in order to pay off her mounting credit-card debts, the Bronx District Attorney's office...
BUSH INTENT ON DETERRING 'NUT CASES'
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amIN President Bush's inner circle, the word for his stance on the Mideast is "resolute." The reason Bush is adamant that Yasser Arafat must renounce terror - and do it...
EGAN TURNS OVER PERV-PRIEST FILES
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amIn a major cave-in, Edward Cardinal Egan has given Manhattan prosecutors information about Archdiocese of New York priests accused of molesting children over decades. Egan, who last month said his...
COFFEE WITH MILK, SUGAR - & $45M
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amA newspaper, a coffee and $45 million reasons to smile is the way the latest Lotto winner began his lucky day. José Gonzalez, 51, of Staten Island and his wife,...
B'KLYN 'COOL GUY' PERV IN NEW 'TEEN LURE' FLAP
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amA 58-year-old registered sex offender who regularly entertained teens in his Brooklyn apartment was again busted by cops early yesterday, this time for allegedly raping a 16-year- old girl. Bernard...
SMOKERS COUGH UP 39ó MORE A PACK
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amWhat a drag. Smokers across the state began coughing up an additional 39 cents a pack for cigarettes yesterday as New York's tax on cigarettes - the highest in the...
DOG-BITTEN AUTHOR BARES 'SILENCE' PLOT
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amPity poor Upper East Side author Shaun Considine. In 1998, he needed two blood transfusions after he was attacked by three dogs in Central Park. Then, in 2000, cops told...
THE FEW, THE PROUD . . . THE NYPD RECRUITS
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amThe NYPD has landed - and the Marines are waiting for them. A standing-room-only group of 400 leathernecks - a bigger crowd than expected - will take the NYPD civil-service...
IT'S TIME DAILY CAME CLEAN, TOO
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amIT'S about time. A cornered Edward Cardinal Egan finally named the names of accused child-molester priests. Yet Brooklyn Bishop Thomas Daily is still stubbornly refusing to cooperate. This criminal silence...
SUICIDE BID AT ST. PAT'S
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amA despondent man poured his heart out to a St. Patrick's Cathedral parish house priest yesterday, saying he was broke and had given up on life - then pulled out...
PUSH TO REPORT SCHOOL CRIMES
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amThe Police Department yesterday proposed rules requiring Board of Education employees to report suspected crimes in schools in order to enforce a new city law. The law was approved as...
CARL: TAXES FUND GOV'S ADS
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amGubernatorial candidate Carl McCall yesterday called on "prime time" Gov. Pataki to stop starring in public-service ads - and to reveal how much tax money the state has shelled out...
COUNCIL EYES $50M WORTH OF BUDGET FAT
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amCity Council Speaker Gifford Miller wants to cut top brass in every city agency as part of a plan to trim the city budget, The Post has learned. Miller (D-Manhattan)...
ISRAEL UNDER FIRE WORLDWIDE - THOUSANDS PROTEST VS. CRACKDOWN
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amMassive demonstrations against Israel's anti-terror crackdown were held from France to India yesterday amid diplomatic protests and new anti-Semitic attacks. In Antwerp, Belgium, about 2,000 demonstrators shouted anti-Israel slogans and...
MORE ED BIGS EYED IN B'KLYN LION HUNT
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amInvestigators are questioning more School Construction Authority officials after indicting four supervisors for allegedly squeezing contractors, sources said yesterday. "There are certainly more interviews taking place," said one SCA source....
BILL WOULD EASE BUILDING-FAILURE PROBES
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A New York lawmaker is writing a bill to prevent any repeat of the glitches that have slowed the investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center....
AL QAEDA FIEND ADMITS STABBING GUARD
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amA high-ranking al Qaeda founder in U.S. custody pleaded guilty yesterday to stabbing a federal prison officer in the eye, nearly killing him. Mamdouh Salim, described by authorities a top...
U.S. HOLDING SECOND TALI-YANK AT GITMO
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amA second American-born Taliban fighter is being held by U.S. authorities after being captured at Mazar-e-Sharif last year along with Californian John Walker Lindh, the Pentagon said last night. Taliban...
SKAKEL LAWYER VOWS FAIR FIGHT
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amNORWALK, Conn. - There will be no "victim bashing" at the murder trial of young Martha Moxley, vowed the lawyer for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, charged with the 1975 killing...
DEATH PLUNGE AT MARRIOT MARQUIS
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amGuests at a posh Times Square hotel were stunned last night when a man plunged almost 30 floors to his death. Cops say the victim - believed to be in...
STUDENTS PIG OUT AT CITY HALL PROTEST
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amA few dozen kids held class at City Hall yesterday in a course that could be called "Protest 101." In a demonstration against education cuts, organized by the Working Families...
JUDGE KOS 'GIRLFIGHT' STAR'S BRAWL RAP
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amA Jersey City judge yesterday dismissed criminal charges against "Girlfight" actress Michelle Rodriguez, who was busted last month after her roommate told cops about a life-imitates-art brawl at their home....
VICTIM WON'T BE ON TRIAL: SKAKEL LAWYER
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amNORWALK, Conn. - There will be no victim bashing at the murder trial of young Martha Moxley, vowed the lawyer for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, charged with the 1975 killing...
LOTTO WINNER HAS A COFFEE & $45M TO GO
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amA newspaper, a coffee and $45 million reasons to smile is the way the latest Lotto winner began his lucky day. José Gonzalez of Staten Island and his wife, Louisa...
MIKE RETURNS GRAMMYS TO A NY STATE OF MIND
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amThe Grammys came back to the Big Apple yesterday, with officials saying the four-year standoff with Rudy Giuliani that sent the music awards packing is "water under the bridge." Grammys...
THIEF TAKES 150G ON GUARDS' BREAK
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amA brazen thief made his way into a parked van on a Hell's Kitchen street and walked off with $150,000 in cash while two armed guards assigned to protect the...
ON-AIR APRIL FOOL'S HOAXERS REEL IN 'PRIME' VICTIM GATES
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amMONTREAL - Bill Gates was the butt of an April Fools gag when a radio announcer posing as Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien lured the Microsoft billionaire into a 10-minute...
MO'S 300TH WAS A GIFT TO BOBBY
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amBobby Valentine was sitting alone in his office yesterday hoping to digest his postgame meal of ribs more easily than he was going to digest the Mets' first loss of...
GIAMBI 'SAVES' THE GAME
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - His swing has produced one meaningless single in eight at-bats. He is hitless in three at-bats with runners in scoring position. Last night he fanned the...
DAVID DONS HERO'S HALO IN GEM DANDY
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amBALTIMORE - These Yankees were not designed to have David Wells put them on his bad back. Heck, these Yankees were not designed to have Wells back. But all that...
YANKS ALIVE AND WELLS: VENTURA'S HR HELPS BOOMER BEAT BIRDS
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amYankees 1 Orioles 0 BALTIMORE - David Wells' return and Robin Ventura's arrival didn't cause the stir the Yankees' signing of Jason Giambi did this past off-season. Inked to a...
ISLES CLIMB A POINT CLOSER: BATES CUTS MAGIC NUMBER TO 4
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amIslanders 1 Sabres 1 BUFFALO - The magic number is four. Every little point counts a heap these days, and last night the Islanders left here with another giant one...
SCOTT: VAN HORN'S NOT MARQUEE PLAYER, YET
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES Keith Van Horn is not quite the marquee player Byron Scott envisions the Nets needing to take the next step from a good team to a really good...
NETS GET FINALS SAY: RALLY BACK AFTER BLOWING 19-POINT CUSHION TO L.A.
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amNets 94 Lakers 92 This was going to be "probably the biggest game of the season" for the Nets in the eyes of coach Byron Scott. The last time a...
BATES HAS BEEN REAL BARGAIN ; ISLES THRILLED WITH FREE AGENT'S OUTPUT
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amBUFFALO - Shawn Bates changed his diet this season. When asked if he's been eating anything different this year, Bates said, "Ice time." Going into last night's game here against...
SIX WORKING THEIR WAY TO WOOD
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amA high-octane field of six Kentucky Derby hopefuls is shaping up for the Grade 1, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on April 13: Blue Burner, Buddha, Medaglia d'Oro, Nokoma, Saarland...
SYKORA GETS SHOT AS SUB FOR SCOTT
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amRALEIGH - A bad break for one Devil meant a good one for another. Kevin Constantine said that he figured to give Petr Sykora the first shot at replacing Scott...
SCOTT: KEITH'S NO MARQUEE MAN; SAYS FORWARD'S GAME LACKING IN CONSISTENCY
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amKeith Van Horn is not quite the marquee player Byron Scott envisions the Nets needing to take the next step from good team to GOOD team. But Van Horn could...
MARTIN KNOWS HACK-A-SHAQ
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES Kenyon Martin insists he was talking about employing Hack-a-Shaq techniques if the game depended on it. He was asked, would you send Shaq to the line in a...
BIG MAC STARS FULL OF NBA TALK
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amAmare Stoudemire thinks there are too many high school players heading straight into the NBA. "I think that is true," said Stoudemire. "Guys hurt themselves by going in too early,...
BENOIT SAYS MING CAN MAKE HUGE IMPACT IN NBA
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amPORTLAND - Former Net David Benoit is still trying to get back in the NBA, possibly with the Knicks, but for now he can help GM Scott Layden with special...
VAN GUNDY'S MYSTIC-FIED BY JOB REPORT
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amHe turned on ESPN yesterday morning and suddenly saw his name appear on the news crawl moving across the bottom of the screen. Not knowing there was anything up with...
THIS ONE'S ALO-MARRED: ROBBIE'S ERROR OPENS DOOR FOR METS' DEFEAT
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amPirates 5 Mets 3 The sight shocked Mike Piazza and Mo Vaughn. When 10-time Gold Glove winner Roberto Alomar makes an error, disbelief seems appropriate. It is not supposed to...
YANKS ARE GOING, GOING . . .
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amBALTIMORE - They have back Boomer and, just maybe the Yankees will return to being Bombers, as well. David Wells made his first start in his second life as a...
KNICK LOSERS STILL HAD SHOT; SUB .500 MAY MEAN PLAYOFFS
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amSeveral months ago, Knicks coach Don Chaney predicted that winning 39 or 40 games would be enough to get his team into the playoffs in the weakened Eastern Conference. Chaney...
AMAZIN' PEN IN NEED OF RELIEF
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amPirates 5 Mets 3 LLOYD McClendon had an idea that perhaps Bobby Valentine might put to use. The Pirate manager, who has a team that won 60 games last season...
MIKE FINED 3G FOR MOTA CLASH
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amMike Piazza was fined $3,000 yesterday for his throat-grabbing "discussion" with Dodger Guillermo Mota. Bob Watson, baseball's dean of discipline, cited the Met catcher's "aggressive conduct" in Wednesday's Grapefruit League...
YANKS HIRE GIAMBI'S 'COACH'
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amBALTIMORE - The Yankees found a way to keep Jason Giambi's mind free of clutter yesterday when they hired his personal trainer, Bobby Alejo, as a batting-practice pitcher whose only...
TIRED DEVILS MORE LUCKY THAN GOOD
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amDevils 3Hurricanes 2 RALEIGH - Opportunity knocked twice, and the Devils answered each time. Now they're back knocking on the Islanders' door. The tying goal snatched from a wandering goalie,...
NETS DUNK SHAQ-LESS LAKERS; RALLY BACK AFTER BLOWING 19-POINT CUSHION TO L.A.
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amNets 94Lakers 92 The luster dimmed considerably just before gametime: The Lakers would be without Shaquille O'Neal. The planet's most destructive basketball force would rest his sprained right wrist. For...
SCOTT: VAN HORN'S NO MARQUEE PLAYER, YET
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES Keith Van Horn is not quite the marquee player Byron Scott envisions the Nets needing to take the next step from a good team to really good team....
MATTHEWS DEALT, OF ACQUIRED IN PAIR OF MOVES
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amMET NOTES Gary Matthews Jr., we hardly knew ye. The Mets traded potential for flexibility last night, shipping Matthews to Baltimore for left-handed minor-leaguer pitcher John Bale. Bale will report...
IN FINAL ANALYSIS, NETS' BEST SHOT MIGHT BE NOW
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amJASON KIDD was trying to sound realistic without being pessimistic. With last night's meeting against the two-time world champion Lakers being hyped as a potential preview of the NBA Finals,...
CORTISONE FOR FRANCO? IT'S WORTH A SHOT
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amMET NOTES Hoping to relieve the tendinitis in his left elbow, John Franco had a cortisone shot yesterday. If all goes well, he hopes to begin a throwing program Sunday....
CLEMENS BELIEVES HE'LL START ON SUNDAY
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - Roger Clemens didn't throw a baseball yesterday for the second straight day, thanks to a bruised right hand. However, he expects to start Sunday against the...
MAY NOT BE BETTER CHANCE FOR NETS
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amJASON KIDD was trying to sound realistic without being pessimistic. With last night's meeting against the two-time world champion Lakers being hyped as a potential matchup in the NBA Finals,...
GIAMBI'S SPECIAL COACH: YANKEES HIRE SLUGGER'S TRAINER TO BE HIS PERSONAL BP PITCHER
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amBALTIMORE - The Yankees found a way to keep Jason Giambi's mind free of clutter yesterday when they hired his personal trainer, Bobby Alejo, as a batting-practice pitcher whose only...
MO'S 300TH HR A REAL GIFT TO V
April 4, 2002 | 5:00amBobby Valentine was sitting alone in his office yesterday hoping to digest his postgame meal of ribs more easily than he was going to digest the Mets' first loss of...