December 27, 2003
CABLE OVERTIME ; TW-CABLEVISION DEAL KEEPS TEAMS ON AIR FOR NOW
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amThe threatened cable TV blackout of Knicks and Rangers games starting New Year's Day is officially off - at least for a while. A simmering public dispute that would have...
MORE RETAILERS ARE MAKING A POINT OF NO RETURNS
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amThis may be the season of many happy returns - but not for harried holiday shoppers looking to exchange unwanted Christmas gifts. Retailers have been steadily ratcheting up restrictions on...
HOME SHOPPING CLUB
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amThrill Of The Chaise Terence Conran Shop 407 E. 59th St., between York and First avenues (866) 755-9079 Sale: through Jan. 18 Open: Sat., 11 a.m.-7 p.m./Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-8 p.m./Sun.,...
GIMME SHELTER: RYAN'S RETREAT
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amYOU'VE got sale. Meg Ryan, who's selling her two penthouse apartments in SoHo for a total of $9.7 million, isn't planning to stray too far from the neighborhood. Sources say...
AMENITIES OF THE YEAR
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amCALL 2003 the year of the amenities. As a topsy-turvy of luxury apartments, developers this year have practically broken their backs providing the latest, greatest and highest-end products available. True,...
OFF YOU GO! NINE DAYS OF FAMILY FUN
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amSo many days free from school - and so many ways to grow restless, especially if there's no snow for testing new sleds. No worries: There's always something to do...
INDOOR FUN
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amJust because someone's sick doesn't mean you have to spend the whole week watching DVD's (although we hear very good things about "Spongebob Squarepants: The Complete 1st Season"). Here are...
WE'RE SHOPPING AT . . . FROCK
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amFrock: 307 West 38th Street, Suite 1710, between 8th and 9th avenues, (212) 594-5380. For years, the Garment District has been home to private showrooms full of vintage clothes that...
SUBWAY SEVERS MAN'S LEG
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amAn uptown No. 3 train lopped off a man's leg last night when it ran him over at the 110th Street and Lenox Avenue station in Harlem, officials said. The...
BUSH EATS BEEF
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush, who admits he has a weakness for cheeseburgers, isn't going to let one domestic case of mad-cow disease scare him away from beef. "He's continued to...
YOUR TICKET MAY BE WORTH $125M
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amSix magic Mega Millions numbers were picked last night, and lottery players in 11 states were praying they added up to a post-Christmas miracle. All or a share of the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amWhen cops in Minneapolis checked out a report of a man's screams heard coming from a store chimney early Christmas morning, they didn't find a plump Santa stuck inside. They...
DEAN'S STUNNER: I WON'T PREJUDGE BIN LADEN
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Democratic front-runner Howard Dean says he would never "prejudge" whether Osama bin Laden is guilty of the 9/11 attacks and other terror crimes against Americans. "I've resisted pronouncing...
20,000 DIE AS CITY CRUMBLES ; ANCIENT CITADEL TURNS TO RUBBLE IN 6.5 TREMOR
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amSome 20,000 people died - and one of the world's great tourist attractions was destroyed - when a vicious earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale leveled the southeastern Iranian...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amBrooklyn A 23-year-old man was arrested after he tried to beat his niece for dissing her mother in Park Slope, authorities said yesterday. Juan Tenezaca, his 17-year-old niece and her...
'I HAVE LOST EVERYONE'
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amThe bodies were lined up on the road, blood seeping through the bedsheets in which they'd been hastily wrapped. Mechanized diggers carved out narrow trenches in the debris and the...
S.I. FERRY TO GET HIJACK-PROOF DOORS
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amThe city is planning to tighten security on the Staten Island Ferry with more secure doors for the pilothouses to thwart attempted terror hijackings. The Department of Transportation is now...
FEDS RAISING GUARD AMID NEW YEAR FEAR
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. counterterrorism officials are turning their attention to New Year's celebrations with bioweapons monitors in place and special disaster-response teams activated. "People have their antennas up," said Brian...
TWO FENCE FOES SHOT
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Two peace activists, one of them American, were wounded by Israeli troops yesterday when they tried to sabotage the controversial security fence Israel is building along the West...
TOT-KIDNAP HOSP FAULTS MOM: KIN
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amA woman whose baby was kidnapped from a New Jersey hospital is being blamed by the hospital for the abduction, family members charged yesterday. Officials at Newark Beth Israel Hospital...
BEDTIME FOR JACKO: DEFIANT ONE INSISTS HE'D STILL HOP IN SACK WITH BOYS
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amAccused child molester Michael Jackson has broken his silence, defiantly maintaining his innocence - and still insisting there's nothing wrong with sleeping in the same bed as children. The disgraced...
DECK THE MALL$; DAY-AFTER CHRISTMAS SALES A HIT
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amHo, Ho, Ho - Merry Shopping! Shoppers flocked to local malls and stores yesterday to hunt for post-Christmas bargains, return unwanted presents and redeem gift cards. The Manhattan Mall at...
SLAIN IN MEX FEUD
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amFour men were charged yesterday with stabbing to death a 24-year-old Mexican-born dishwasher and critically slashing his two pals after the victims refused to admit they hailed from south of...
LAWYER KILLED IN YULE DWI HORROR
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amA young lawyer was killed in a horrific car crash early yesterday when the drunken man driving her home from a party was hit by another drunken driver at a...
'RINGS' THE KING OF CHRISTMAS BOX OFFICE
December 27, 2003 | 5:00am"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" continued its box-office sorcery on Christmas Day, according to preliminary estimates released yesterday. The latest in the trilogy raked in...
FAO BACK IN PLAY; INVESTORS PAYING $20M TO FLOAT SINKING TOY EMPIRE
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amCall it a miracle on 58th Street. FAO Schwarz has narrowly averted a shutdown of its flagship New York store with an agreement announced yesterday to sell the store's lease...
COP IS PROMOTED FOR 'ROGUE NARC' BUST
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amThe NYPD has given a rare two-step promotion to one of the detectives who helped bring down renegade detective Julio Vasquez, who was busted for allegedly stealing $169,000 during a...
FATAL CORONARY FELLS PRIEST AT YULE MASS
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amA beloved New Jersey priest who collapsed during Christmas Eve Mass as he conducted the church choir died yesterday after a hospital stay in which he never regained consciousness. The...
WAKE FOR RAO'S SLAY VICTIM
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amA stream of well-dressed mourners filed into a Bronx funeral home yesterday for the wake of reputed mobster Albert Circelli, 37, who was gunned down at famed Italian eatery Rao's...
ANOTHER SUSPECT FLEES COPS
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amA 30-year-old man escaped from police custody in The Bronx yesterday after he jumped out of a police van and ran away while cops were trying to arrest another man,...
SUBWAY SEVERS MAN'S LEGS
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amAn uptown No. 3 train lopped off a man's legs last night when it ran him over at the 110th Street and Lenox Avenue station in Harlem, officials said. The...
F.A.O. BACK IN PLAY: INVESTORS PAYING $20M TO FLOAT SINKING TOY EMPIRE
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amCall it a miracle on 58th Street. FAO Schwarz has narrowly averted a shutdown of its flagship New York store with an agreement announced yesterday to sell the store's lease...
ISIAH STARTS SHAKEUP SPOON'S A GONER; DICE OUT AS STARTER
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amMEMPHIS - The Isiah Thomas shakeup continued yesterday, and the effects of Monday's management coup rocked the Knick universe with these developments before last night's surprising win in Memphis: *...
FRANKLY, WILLIAMS MAKES HIS POINT FOR STARTING JOB
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amKnicks 98 Grizzlies 94 MEMPHIS - Isiah Thomas got his first win as Knick president and, just as important - and ironically - the Knicks may have their new starting...
FASSEL HOPES HE'S EARNED RESPECT
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Asked yesterday what he hopes his legacy with the Giants will be, Jim Fassel at first said he did not have an appropriate answer. After reflecting for a...
INGRAM HAS NOSE FOR TOUGHNESS
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amAt 5-foot-11, 166 pounds, the adjectives usually associated with St. John's point guard Elijah Ingram are quickness, poise and moxy. Now we can add toughness to the list. It turns...
WINNING BY LOSING ; FALLING TO PANTHERS COULD EARN GIANTS NO. 3 DRAFT PICK
December 27, 2003 | 5:00am"I would welcome an impact player on any part of the team."MICHAEL STRAHAN At long last, something good might come out of this miserable season, which comes to a merciful...
HAPPY DAYS FOR NETS
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - Paint-ball guns and bowling shoes all around if the Nets keep winning. The Nets, who just a few short weeks ago acted and played as if they...
BRODEUR WON'T DUCK ALL-STAR INVITE
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amThe NHL's best goalie also is the NHL's workhorse, and he isn't impressed when other stars beg off the All-Star Game for a rest. "I never understood why guys who...
BROWN: ISIAH GOOD FOR N.Y.
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - Larry Brown liked what Isiah Thomas did in Toronto as an exec and in Indiana as a coach. And he's confident Knick fans will feel the same...
ISIAH STARTS SHAKEUP 'SPOON LIKELY GONE; DICE MOVED TO BENCH
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amMEMPHIS - Even if the Knicks aren't winning, at least Isiah Thomas has struck fear into his players. "Everyone's worried,"one Knick said. And on edge. Yesterday, Monday's management coup continued...
PECA SAYS ISLES WILL SURVIVE
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amImagine the calamity that would befall the Islanders if, in addition to Alexei Yashin being out for three months, they lost Michael Peca, too. For a few brief seconds in...
'JEALOUSY' NEARLY DESTROYS JUDGES
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amH.S. HOOPS Vic Morris was hoping to play Lincoln tomorrow to see which was the best team in the PSAL. Reality nearly got in the way, as Morris and his...
LEVINE'S 'SONG' MAY RUN AWAY WITH FOX
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amThey don't have Coyote Lakes to kick them around anymore in today's $75,000 Gallant Fox Handicap, the Big A's annual year-end marathon at a mile-and-five-eighths over the inner dirt track....
NETS, KNICKS EYEING GRIF
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES AUBURN HILLS - Talent usually is the bottom-line consideration, and so both the Nets and Knicks are interested in Eddie Griffin, league sources say. The Nets and Knicks...
ISLES EARN CHAMPS' RESPECT
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIMEIslanders 4Devils 3 The competing salvage operations each dredged up something in the swamp. In reclaiming a nearly-blown victory, however, the Islanders also hauled away some additional respect from the...
OVER & DUNHAM ; RANGER GOALIE SHAKY AGAIN IN OT DEFEAT
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amOVERTIMEMaple Leafs 6Rangers 5 It was a tumultuous night of hockey at the Garden: old-time, up-and-down hockey replete with odd-man rushes, glorious scoring chances, and major-league collisions between players arriving...
NO TALKING TO SPREE
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES MEMPHIS - Allan Houston says because of the state Latrell Sprewell was in Tuesday night, the Knicks did the right thing in not trying to confront him during...
NETS' PROMISE KEPT
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amNets 82Pistons 79 AUBURN HILLS - Back on Nov. 9, after the Nets had blown a 13-point lead here and simply withered down the stretch, Alonzo Mourning uttered a promise....
FALCS' LESLIE STILL MAKIN' THE GRADY
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amHS HOOPSGrady 52 All Hallows 50 Their longtime coach just retired and one of their best players, Jamel White, is academically ineligible until at least February. Nonetheless, the Grady Falcons...
ISLES SEEK SUPER SUB FOR YASHIN
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amWhile losing Alexei Yashin for three months is a horrible circumstance for the Islanders, perhaps the gaping hole at the top of their lineup for the next three months will...
HOU: DON'T MESS WITH 'MAD' SPREE
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES MEMPHIS - Allan Houston says that in the state Latrell Sprewell was in Tuesday night, the players did the right thing in not trying to confront him during...
RHEAUME'S READY: CARTER INJURY OPENS DOOR FOR EX-DEVIL
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amThe pace always picks up after Christmas. Pascal Rheaume is hoping he can stay with it. For while just about everyone else is moving up on the halfway point of...
GRIF EYED BY NETS & KNICKS
December 27, 2003 | 5:00amNET NOTES AUBURN HILLS - Talent usually is the bottom-line consideration, and so both the Nets and Knicks are interested in Eddie Griffin, league sources say. The Nets and Knicks...