November 9, 2002
GRASSO EASING MESS' FROM BOARD
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amDisgraced former Vivendi chief Jean-Marie Messier's hopes of increasing his profile in the Big Apple may not be working out as planned. Yesterday, New York Stock Exchange boss Dick Grasso...
SEC YA' LATER! : CHIEF ACCOUNTANT HERDMAN FOLLOWS PITT OUT THE DOOR
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amAnother one bit the dust. Robert Herdman, the chief accountant at the Securities and Exchange Commission, resigned yesterday - just three days after his boss, SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt, fell...
VALEDICTORY SPEECH IS REALLY THE PITTS
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amBOCA RATON, Fla. - Harvey Pitt had the guts to show up at the SIA conference here - but went on to blame his demise on everyone but himself. Under...
SPITZER WON'T BACK OFF BROKERS
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amREPUBLICAN landslide not withstanding, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is maintaining his hard line with Wall Street's most powerful firms, even as many of them bask in the Florida...
TRAVELER'S GOOD TRIP
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amBLUES TRAVELERPerformances today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, near 15th Street. TO jam or not to jam isn't a question for New York homeboys Blues...
NY: LET'S EAT! (OUT)
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amWHETHER you've got megabucks or just pocket change, New York ranks as the country's most incredible place to eat out. Come to think of it, it always has been. From...
BOOK A TABLE NEAR THE LIBRARY
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amAFTER browsing through "New York Eats," here's where to eat well just a library-card's toss away. * Branzini: Pescatory wizard Rick Moonen oversees the kitchen at this rustic eatery. 299...
INSIDE THE BIG TOP
November 9, 2002 | 5:00am"Look! It's Rapunzel!" one little girl squealed as a ballerina on horseback trotted into the ring. Her sister didn't agree. "No, it's Tinkerbell!" There were gasps all around the big...
HANSEL AND GRETEL AND THE PHIL
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amFollow the breadcrumbs to the Children's Museum of Manhattan, where "Hansel and Gretel" awaits. For one day only - today at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. - the New York City...
FREE FOR ALL
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amHip hop The sinister and shadowy TriBeCa Organization say their purpose is to seduce New Yorkers and tourists into visiting TriBeCa. And nothing helps the seduction process like free-flowing booze....
CABIN FEVER
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amWhat do you get when you cross a ski lodge with a Tiki hut? While the Bar Belles aren't certain (all our "research" has left us in a permanent state...
SHADES OF BLUEGRASS
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amGit yer fiddles out folks, it's time for Fifth Annual Big Apple Bluegrass & Folk Festival 2002. The strumming and humming event, held at the Baggot Inn in the Village,...
GORY DAYS : HARD-CORE HONG KONG HORROR FLICKS ROCK MANHATTAN
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amHow can anyone resist a film festival that promises "all the horrors that have come crawling, oozing, flying, screeching and hopping out of Hong Kong"? Labeled "In the Mood for...
TEAS THAT PLEASE
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amWhat does North Wind taste like? To Japanese green tea specialist Ito En, it's a combination of Granny Smith apple and peppermint. Those flavors are blended into premium green sencha...
DINNER PARTY CHEAT SHEET
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amAfter sitting down and talking to friends about the chilly economic climate in the States, Dinner Party Cheat Sheet will pack its bags and move to Romania. Why Romania? Well,...
HERMIONE TELLS ALL
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amThere's a lot of exciting stuff you'll see in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" - and then there's the stuff you won't see. Like Harry dancing the macarena....
TERRORIST SHOW OF 'DIPLOMACY'
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Top members of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction and exiled Hamas radicals meet for the first time in seven years today to seek what Fatah hopes will be an...
RED INK RUNNING WILD : BUDGET DEFICIT NOW PROJECTED AT $6B
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amTHE city budget deficit next year may be worse than anyone predicted. Mayor Bloomberg offered a preview of the dire news he'll be delivering next week to the state Financial...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amThis was truly a bungled robbery. A masked man stormed into a bakery in Munich, Germany, armed with a knife and demanded that baker Ingrid Schwarz hand over all her...
DRUNK DRIVER GUILTY IN COP'S DEATH
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amA Staten Island man faces 2½ to 7½ years in jail after pleading guilty to driving drunk and killing an off-duty cop last year. Prosecutors said Robert Verardi admitted drinking...
MARATHON MAN 'DIVES' TO FINISH LINE
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amHe may have finished the New York Marathon more than five days after he started, but Lloyd Scott still did it in record time. The former British firefighter - who...
'REV' ADMITS UNHOLY $5M TAX SCHEME
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amA former minister gave confession in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday - pleading guilty to bilking the state out of a $5 million "tax return." In a hearing before Justice Bonnie...
BRITS SPARED MADONNA MOVIE BOMB
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amMadonna's flop film is being swept away in Britain - before it even hits theaters. The sex-and-sand movie "Swept Away" was such a stinker at the box office in the...
JUDICIAL JERK'S 'JUSTICE' PUTS US ALL IN PERIL
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amPATRICIA Gonzalez said yesterday: "I am angry at the judge, I cannot figure it out. I'm amazed." Mrs. Gonzalez was talking about a king-sized idiocy in the borough of Queens....
AL QAEDA FLIES COACH : 'ECONOMY CLASS' FLIGHT OF POWS RAISES STORM
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Pentagon brass is in an uproar over the release of these dramatic photos of hooded and trussed Afghan war prisoners being transported to a military detention center...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amMANHATTAN A knife-wielding assailant has been arrested for assaulting a woman inside a Harlem apartment building, police said yesterday. The violence began at around 2:30 p.m. Thursday on Seventh Avenue...
TB ANXIETY SPREADS OVER B'KLYN SCHOOL
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amA teacher at a Brooklyn private school who was diagnosed with tuberculosis has apparently spread the less serious form of the disease to students and staff, the city Health Department...
COP UNION ADS SOUND ALARM$
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe city's police union will flood the radio airwaves during rush hour next week with ads containing the dire warning that city policies are dangerously shrinking the NYPD. The 30-...
CITY EYES BOO$T FROM MORE SUNDAY METERS
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amNow's a good time to stock up on quarters because more neighborhoods could soon get Sunday parking meters. Sources said the city Department of Transportation wants to expand the program...
HOW COLIN WON 'EM OVER
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Negotiating over Iraq on a cell phone just minutes before his daughter's wedding, Secretary of State Colin Powell cinched the deal with his French counterpart - and then...
'CARJACKER' GUNS IT IN WILD CHASE
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amA scene that could have been programmed into the video game Grand Theft Auto played itself out in Brooklyn yesterday when a man carjacked a 1980s Acura and blasted shot...
JUNK JUDGE GIVEN HELL ON COP-SHOOTING : OFFICERS VENT FURY AS SUSPECT WALKS FREE
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amProsecutors and angry cops demanded yesterday that a controversial Queens judge restore attempted murder charges against a man accused of shooting a police officer. State Supreme Court Justice Laura Blackburne...
SHUT FIRE CO. CITED IN BRAVEST INJURY
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amAs an FDNY lieutenant attempted to rally from critical burns suffered in a Queens blaze, the president of his union yesterday angrily blamed the temporary closing of a nearby firehouse...
FEDS: DRUGGIE CHOPPED UP BODIES
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amA convicted cocaine smuggler free on bail pending sentencing was back before a Brooklyn federal judge yesterday after authorities charged he spent his freedom in a rampage of mutilation and...
BUN VOYAGE: MCD OVERSEAS EXIT IS LATEST SETBACK FOR FAST FOODS
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amMcDonald's is pulling out of the Middle East and several other troubled areas - the latest bad news served up by the big three burger giants in their struggle to...
WE'VE GOT IRAQ IN A HARD PLACE : U.N. VOTE: DISARM OR FACE DOOM
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amPresident Bush yesterday warned Saddam Hussein that he risks "the severest consequences" if he defies the U.N. Security Council's unanimous order to disarm - and made it clear that means...
SOCKED WITH WRESTLING FRAUD RAP
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe former manager of a Times Square wrestling theme restaurant was busted yesterday for allegedly scamming the WWE out of more than $400,000. Kenton Jenkins, 39, of Demarest, N.J., was...
SCHOOL-BUS DRIVERS VOTE TO STRIKE
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe union that represents 7,000 school-bus drivers and attendants has scheduled a vote to authorize a strike on Tuesday. Sources at Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union said the...
COMMANDER IN CHIEF'S DEFT MOVES
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amOver the past week, President Bush has shown he's as smart and tough a politician internationally as he is at home. First, he turned the U.S. midterm election into a...
FAMILY FELLED BY FIRE : MOM AND 4 KIDS HURT IN B'KLYN
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn woman and her four children were overcome by smoke inhalation last night after flames ripped through their Borough Park apartment, fire officials said. Firefighters stormed into the burning...
CALIF. GIRL CLEANS HOUSE :LIBERAL PELOSI WINS BATTLE TO LEAD DEMS
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Rep. Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco liberal, claimed enough votes yesterday to become the next House Democratic leader, forcing her key opponent to throw in the towel. House...
SCHOOLS NEED TO GET THE LEAD OUT OF WATER: STUDY
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amNearly a quarter of the city's elementary schools contain dangerous levels of lead in their water, according to tests conducted for the Department of Education. Of the 990 elementary school...
KIM CANNED FROM 'CSI: MIAMI'
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amKim Delaney's tumultuous year continues. The sultry actress - who was arrested on drunken-driving charges last January and whose last prime-time series was canceled unexpectedly in May - has now...
SHOCKER OF BOOTED STUDENTS
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amScores of city teenage students are being illegally discharged - or "pushed out" - of public high school, an explosive report obtained by The Post charges. There were 160,000 discharges...
POUNDED 'PORKY'S' GUY CAN SUE LEO
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge yesterday gave the green light to a long-delayed Leonardo DiCaprio project - a $45 million lawsuit against the actor and a gang of his New York friends....
YEMENI YANK LINKED TO BUFFALO CELL
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A Yemeni-American killed in a bold CIA airstrike in Yemen has links to alleged members of the al Qaeda sleeper cell in suburban Buffalo that was raided in...
SNIPER UNMASKED : COCKINESS DISAPPEARS IN COURTROOM
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amOnce arrogant Beltway sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo sported sullen expressions and hooded eyes yesterday as they appeared in separate Virginia courthouses for arraignment on capital...
WINONA'S STICKY PAST : WAS NAILED SHOPLIFTING THREE OTHER TIMES: DA
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - It turns out Winona Ryder is accused of performing a prequel to the shoplifting drama that got her convicted of theft this week. New court transcripts...
BURRELL LASHES OUT AT SPENCERS
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amPrincess Diana's ex-butler Paul Burrell continued to lob bitter barbs at the Spencer family yesterday, saying the princess' relatives ignored her wishes and did what they wanted with her possessions....
BURRELL'S $CHEME : SOUGHT TO OPEN DI MUSEUM: NEWSPAPER
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe butler cleared of stealing Princess Diana's belongings proposed to cash in on her fame by opening a museum and peddling trinkets recalling her life, it was reported today. Paul...
MADONNA BOMB TO SPARE BRIT MOVIEGOERS
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amMadonna's flop film is being swept away in Britain - before it even hits theaters. The sex-and-sand movie "Swept Away" was such a stinker at the box office in the...
PRINCESS DI'S BROTHER
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amPrincess Diana's brother yesterday branded as "more hurtful lies" her butler Paul Burrell's shocking claim that her family tore the royal banner off her coffin because of a war with...
BUTLER DID IT AGAIN: DIANA 'PAL' DUMPS ON 'UNCARING' SPENCERS
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe butler cleared of stealing Princess Diana's belongings lobbed bitter barbs at her family yesterday, saying the Spencers ignored her wishes and did what they wanted with her possessions. Paul...
5-DAY MARATHON MAN WADDLES TO A RECORD
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amHe may have finished the New York Marathon more than five days after he started, but Lloyd Scott still did it in record time. The former British firefighter - who...
BX. MAN GUILTY IN SLAYING OF TRANSSEXUAL
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amMoments after a judge found him mentally fit to stand trial, a Bronx man pleaded guilty yesterday to stabbing a transsexual to death outside of the Port Authority. Dwayne McCuller,...
THE APPLE'S JUST GETTING WARMED UP
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amYesterday was a scorcher - at least by November standards. The mercury hit 59 in Central Park yesterday, which was several degrees above the season average. And even warmer temperatures...
FEDS: DRUGGIE CHOPPED UP TEENS' BODIES
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amA convicted cocaine smuggler free on bail pending sentencing was back before a Brooklyn federal judge yesterday after authorities charged he spent his freedom in a gruesome rampage of mutilation...
FRAUD RAP PINNED ON WRESTLING EMPLOYEE
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe former manager of a Times Square wrestling theme restaurant was busted yesterday for scamming the WWE out of over $400,000. Kenton Jenkins, 39, of Demarest, N.J., was charged with...
PAROCHIAL PARENTS SLAM MIKE'S SCHOOL-NURSE CUTS
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amMore than 300 parents, chanting and wielding signs at City Hall, urged Mayor Bloomberg to restore nurses to parochial schools. About 300 nursing slots have been left empty in the...
ISLES WAKE FROM COMA
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amFor at least a night, they came out strong, dominated play, got solid goaltending and held onto a lead. They even got some bounces. But it was because they bounced...
GLAVINE INTERESTED IN METS? FUHGEDABOUDIT!
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amOne day after owner Fred Wilpon declared the Mets had an honest interest in Tom Glavine, a source familiar with their plans threw cold water on their chances of landing...
BOMBERS REACH OUT TO MADDUX
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amOne day after Tom Glavine's agent said the Yankees contacted him and showed interest in his client, Greg Maddux' representative hinted strongly the club did the same for Maddux. Both...
GARDEN-VARIETY BRUISE STILL HAS HOLIK STYMIED
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amCOLUMBUS - He missed two games to injury his last six years in New Jersey, but tonight Bobby Holik, who has been nursing a hip-pointer pretty much since the start...
TURF'S UP FOR HALL : NEW SOD FIGURES TO HELP HARD-LUCK KICKER
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amWith his plant foot skidding because of the unstable turf at the Meadowlands, the Jets' John Hall really didn't have a chance as he tried to force overtime against the...
NO PLACE LIKE DOME FOR BIG BLUE'S BRYANT
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amThere is nothing more inviting to a young kicker coming off his worst NFL game than a road trip to play inside a dome. No wind. No thick grass. No...
FEDS JOIN 'PICK 6 FIX' PROBE
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amThe probe of the suspected "Pick 6 Fix" to allegedly scam $3 million from this year's Breeders' Cup got a powerful boost yesterday with the announcement that the FBI and...
GIANTS FEELING PICKY : OUT TO ADD TO VIKE TURNOVER WOES
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amSomething has to give. Usually, it is the Vikings who give, freely and repeatedly, but just as often, the Giants are unable to take. Of all the numbers and statistics...
BITTER 'CANES PUT CHIP ON SHOULDER
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amKNOXVILLE, Tenn. - First the Miami Hurricanes found themselves trailing Rutgers going into the fourth quarter. Then they were passed in the writers' poll by Oklahoma. Then Ohio State leapfrogged...
DEVS NEED POWER SURGE
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amImagine how really grand life would be for the Devils if they could ever convert a power-play opportunity. Not that there's too much complaining these days around the Meadowlands, where...
LAYDEN KEEPS EYE ON SWIFT
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Knick GM Scott Layden will likely hold onto his $4.5 million injury exception up until the Dec. 2 deadline before deciding on how to use it. But one...
WARD LEAVES WITH PAINFUL BRUISE
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amKnicks point guard Charlie Ward likely won't play tomorrow against the Hornets because of a bruised lower right leg he suffered in the fourth quarter last night. The worst was...
KIDD STUFF KOS CLIPS
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amNets106 Clippers92 Jason Kidd, who scored 35 points, gets past Clippers' Corey Maggette in second half of Nets' 106-92 victory last Well, so much for drama. For more than a...
KNICKS OUT-PACED : NYERS TINSLEY, ARTEST LEAD THE WAY FOR INDY
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amPacers107 Knicks94 The Knicks were done by then, but Bed-Stuy's Jamaal Tinsley and Queensbridge's Ron Artest were not done with the Knicks. Tinsley nailed a 3-pointer from the top and...
LUCIOUS SCORING'S LUSCIOUS
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amQuick, name the only two Nets who have scored in double figures in each of the Nets' six games. "Kenyon Martin and Kerry Kittles," Lucious Harris answered confidently. Wrong. Try...
NO TELLING WHEN CHILDS WILL PLAY
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES Chris Childs might be back from the Duke Diet and Fitness Center as soon as next week. Then again, he might not. Team president Rod Thorn spoke with...
NETS DON'T OVERLOOK HOT HARRIS
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amOnly two Nets had scored double-figure points in each of the first five games of the season. Quick, name them. "Kenyon Martin and Kerry Kittles," Lucious Harris answered confidently. Wrong....
A MATTER OF MINUTES : NAILON WON'T START BUT WILL SEE TIME
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Lee Nailon has thoroughly impressed Don Chaney with his offensive skills, but not enough to start ahead of Shandon Anderson. However, before last night's game in Indiana, Nailon...
ISLES FINALLY BRING THE NOISE
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amIslanders 4 Oilers 2 For at least a night, they came out strong, dominated play, got solid goaltending and held onto a lead. They even got some bounces. But it...
ISLES NEED DIPIETRO TO BE ACE IN GOAL
November 9, 2002 | 5:00amWhen Islanders GM Mike Milbury guaranteed a shake-up almost a week ago, he tossed in a noteworthy comment. "I'm always looking to make ourselves better," he said. "I didn't expect...