May 10, 2004
DICK'S NEW DEMAND: $48M OR APOLOGY
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amWould 'sorry' be the hardest word if it were worth $48 million? Ask the gang of Wall Street honchos who approved former NYSE chief Dick Grasso's astronomical pay package. The...
INBOX INQUIRIES - SEC SIFTING THROUGH NYSE E-MAIL HAYSTACK
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission has asked the New York Stock Exchange to use keywords to search NYSE employee e-mails dating back to 2000, hunting for evidence tied to its...
LAST DANCE - 'DICK VAN DYKE' 40 YEARS LATER
May 10, 2004 | 4:00am"The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited" [] (two stars) Tomorrow night at 9 on CBS/Ch. 2 --- WHEN I was a kid and my family sat around every week to...
CNN FIGHTS UNION OVER CONVENTION
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amA union battle is brewing with the all-news cable channel over the Republican National Convention later this summer at Madison Square Garden. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is...
FOUNTAINS MAKE SPLASH - CATCHY, CLEVER & COOL AT ROSELAND
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amFOUNTAINS OF WAYNE POP is a dirty word in music. It has been sullied by bland, manufactured bands hyped and forgotten like yesterday's gum. On Friday, the Fountains of Wayne...
'STORM': FLASH OF GENIUS
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amSPRING STORMAt the Theatre at St. Clement's, 423 W. 46th St. Through May 29. Call Ticket Central.com (212) 279-4200. --- THE very early works of great playwrights are interesting, even...
CITY BALLET LETS GEORGE DO IT ALL
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amNEW YORK CITY BALLETAt the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center; (212) 870-5570. Through June 27. ---- IN a unique gathering of the clans, all the various performing elements of...
HEARTY HELLO FOR 'BYE BYE BIRDIE'
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amBYE BYE BIRDIEAt City Center, West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues. Call CityTix, (212) 581-1212. Ends today. ---- 'BYE Bye Birdie," revived at Encores! this weekend, is pure...
IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT - NASCAR RATINGS HAVE LEFT NBA NUMBERS IN THE DUST
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amNASCAR has quietly replaced the NBA as one of the nation's top-rated televised sports. "NASCAR is a television game," says Fox Sports executive vice president Bill Brown. "The cars are...
STARR REPORT
May 10, 2004 | 4:00am'Players' club in D.C. "Jeopardy!" kicks off its "Power Players Week" tonight (7 p.m./Ch. 7), pitting TV-news personalities and Beltway insiders against each other - with all winnings going toward...
KERRY-AL LOVE FEST - TERESA'S SHARPTON HUG A WARNING TO JESSE
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amTERESA Heinz Kerry's weekend em brace of the Rev. Al Sharpton hints at a behind-the-scenes struggle between John Kerry and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Democratic insiders told The Post. The...
HELI-HAMPTONS - CHOPPERS ALL THE RAGE AS HIGH FLIERS BEAT TRAFFIC
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amIt could make the Hamptons Jitney obsolete. More and more well-heeled weekend warriors are using helicopters to squeeze every precious moment of R&R out of Long Island's East End. "We...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amVote first - get medical help later. That's the motto of 74-year-old Laurel Scott, who began suffering from blurred vision and leg problems - signs of a possible stroke -...
EX-JUDGE DARES TO RUN VS. MORGY
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amFRIENDS told her not to do it. Foes warned her not to dare. But retired Judge Leslie Crocker Snyder tells me she plans to run next year for Manhattan district...
MAMA DENIES SLAY - BREAKS JAIL SILENCE
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island mother of five and her 21-year-old daughter spent Mother's Day together - behind bars. Marie Arena, 49, and her daughter, Marie Cannata, are at the Nassau County...
'VAN HELSING' A MONSTER $MASH
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amDracula, Frankenstein and the Wolf Man teamed up to batter the Olsen twins as "Van Helsing" kicked off summer-blockbuster season by rocketing to No. 1 at the box office. The...
BROOKLYN MOM'S DAY 'MIRACLE'
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amIt took an infant's lost Pinocchio toy - and a "miracle" - to make Mother's Day special for Parizia Bordoni. The Brooklyn mom launched a Herculean hunt for the doll...
JACKO IN $7M PAYOFF - SETTLED CONCERT SUIT
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The day prosecutors filed molestation charges against Michael Jackson, he secretly agreed to pay $7 million to end a longstanding court battle over his moonwalking out of...
FINEST FIND QUEENS MOM'S MISSING TOT
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amAfter the worst possible morning, Sandra Gomez got the best Mother's Day gift of her life yesterday when two cops found her missing 3-year-old son, Ivo, and his dog, Puffy....
GANG FIGHT AT NEW N.J. JAIL
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amRival gang members battled each other yesterday at a just-opened New Jersey jail, leaving 15 prisoners wounded - four critically, sources said. Joe Amato, president of the correction-officers union, said...
CHUCK DEMANDS FED 'RENT' AID
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amThe federal government should give New Yorkers unused housing subsidies earmarked for other states, Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has threatened to cut...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * Three teenagers were shot on a Morris Heights street early yesterday, but none was seriously injured, police said. The three were walking home from a house party...
BACK IN THE GAME - SOCCER KIDS' FIRST MATCH SINCE TRAGEDY
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amAs he ran down the soccer field yesterday, 13-year-old Rafael Alvarez instinctively tried to pass the ball to teammates José Hernandez and Fermin Bravo. "I looked for them, but they...
MONKEY-WRENCHING ORDEAL ENDS
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amOrlando Lopez didn't waste any time monkeying around. The Washington Heights man will be reunited with his beloved monkeys in the next few weeks, after begging the city to give...
CELLPHONE GIZMO PROVIDES SOUND EXCUSE
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amIt just got a whole lot easier to be deceitful. A software company has invented technology that can add background noises to your cellphone conversation in order to provide a...
B'KLYN SON ARRAIGNED AFTER KNIFED MOM DIES IN HOSP
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn mom viciously stabbed - allegedly by her deranged son - has died of her injuries at Brookdale Hospital, where sources said the knife-wielding man had been treated for...
MAN LOSES EAR IN BAR BRAWL
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island man celebrating his 21st birthday - and the legal right to booze - had his head bashed with a beer bottle and his right ear bitten off...
THUGS FIRE ON ISRAELI MOURNERS
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amA pair of bullet-spraying Palestinians dressed as women were killed by Israeli soldiers yesterday after trying to smuggle themselves into a memorial service for a pregnant settler and her four...
TEEN IN BMW DEATH CRASH
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amA Long Island teenager being tailed by police was killed early yesterday morning when his BMW slammed into a tree and burst into flames, Nassau County cops said. A Highway...
BAGHDAD BLAST HURTS FOREIGNERS AT THEIR HOTEL
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amA bomb went off last night at a central Baghdad hotel used by foreign workers, ripping through the bar and wounding six people. The bomb struck the Four Seasons Hotel,...
ANOTHER BATCH OF TWISTED PICTURES
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amChilling new photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse by U.S. soldiers - including ferocious dogs terrorizing and even biting one naked inmate - have emerged, as lawmakers from both sides yesterday...
STILL NOT SAFE - WHAT THE 9/11 COMMISSION HAS LEARNED SO FAR
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amPART of the reason we suffered such a horrific attack is that we were not prepared. We were not prepared intellectually. Those of us in the national-security field still carried...
DAVE'S GOON HIT ME - FURY AT MATTHEWS POSSE
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amA guitar with Dave Matthews' autograph? $700. Getting even after being assaulted by a member of Matthews' entourage? Priceless. A Brooklyn teen - whose mother helped create the popular "priceless"...
WASCALLY WABBITS - TIMES SQ. AD LETS ITS HARE DOWN
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amTimes Square tourists are blushing over a controversial new Swatch billboard that depicts six pairs of cute little rabbits in X-rated poses. "Touch your swatch, pick your position" states the...
ATTACK ON ISRAELI MOURNERS
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amA pair of gun-toting Palestinians dressed as women were killed by Israeli soldiers yesterday after spraying bullets at a memorial service for a pregnant settler mom and her four daughters...
7 DIE IN BLAST AT BAGHDAD MARKET
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amA bomb hidden in a box of bananas exploded yesterday in front of a crowded market in western Baghdad, killing at least seven Iraqis and wounding more than a dozen...
'SURVIVOR' WEDDING SHOCKER
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amAnd the winner is: Amber - twice! Amber Brkich won $1 million and her man as "Survivor: All-Stars" came to a dramatic close last night on CBS. Brkich, 25, narrowly...
SCHOOL TUTORS' EASY 'A' - ED. BIGS GRADE SELVES
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amThe city's top educators gave all their after-school tutoring programs passing or excellent grades last year - even though a small percentage of students participated in the sessions and most...
TUNNEL MAY SINK MTA PLANS
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amA proposed East River tunnel that would connect the AirTrain to lower Manhattan has raised concerns from transit advocates that funding will run out for two MTA projects already in...
'9/11' PHOTO FRACAS
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amCamera buff Ram Porat didn't think twice about snapping pictures of an Upper West Side housing complex - until he was surrounded by security guards with post-9/11 jitters who put...
PATIENT SUES CITY OVER HOSP PERV
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amA Queens woman has accused a hospital technician of turning a standard X-ray procedure into an X-rated peep show - and she's asking the city to cough up $2 million...
MANHATTAN GETS TOP NOD IN LANDMARK APPROVALS
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amThe city's Landmarks Preservation Commission has protected more buildings in Manhattan than in all four other boroughs combined, a study by The Post shows. "There's no question," said City Councilman...
CHURCH CHARITY 'BILKED' - PAIR STOLE $2.4M: SUIT
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amA Florida couple has been charged with swindling $2.4 million from a Catholic housing charity in Brooklyn - and now the church is fighting to get its money back. Lawyers...
TOUGH TO GET OUT OF MOB-TRIAL JURY PANEL
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amIt won't be so easy for potential jurors to slip out of duty in the three-month trial of reputed Bonanno boss Joseph Massino. Judge Nicholas Garaufis has called 208 possible...
TA IDLES AS BUSES GET MORE CROWDED
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amWhile ridership has skyrocketed since the start of free MetroCard transfers in 1997, bus service has not kept pace with the increased demand, a new study has found. The Straphangers...
CITY SPRINTS TO AWARD $2.5M PACT
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amThe Department of Education has signed a no-bid $2.5 million contract with Sprint Corp. to provide long-distance phone services - declining to entertain proposals from other companies in one of...
B'KLYN MOTHER'S DAY 'MIRACLE'
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amIt took an infant's lost Pinocchio toy - and a "miracle" - to make Mother's Day special for Parizia Bordoni. The Brooklyn mom launched a Herculean hunt for the doll...
QUEENS DEATH FALL
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amA 39-year-old man died after plunging from a balcony of a Queens building yesterday, police said. Kenneth Adams fell 12 feet from the balcony at 5725 Rockaway Beach Blvd. at...
KNIFED MA DIES IN HOSP - DOCS FREED 'STAB' SON
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amThe Brooklyn mom viciously stabbed - allegedly by her deranged son - has died of her injuries at Brookdale Hospital, where sources said the knifewielding man had been treated for...
MONSTER $MASH - 'VAN HELSING' FRIGHTFULLY GOOD AT BOX OFFICE
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amDracula, Frankenstein and the Wolf Man teamed up to batter the Olsen twins as "Van Helsing" kicked off summer-blockbuster season by rocketing to No. 1 at the box office. The...
THIS MOB HAS WILL TO WIN
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amTHE NETS have long blanched at the notion that they should be defined by their two best players, that their all-universe point guard and their all-Milky Way power forward together...
RJ TURNS SERIES AROUND
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amIt was that kind of night for Richard Jefferson. With three minutes to go in the third quarter, Jefferson ran into heavy coverage just inside the 3-point arc with his...
UP & DOWN PISTONS - BEN SOARS AS RASHEED SULKS
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amIt was the tale of two Wallaces. Big Ben showed up and rebounded. Rasheed showed up to talk, during and after the game. Rasheed spent more time yapping to fans...
KINSHIP TO COACH WON'T SLOW SNEE
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amThe two students at Boston College have a unique arrangement. By day, Katie Coughlin watches little Dylan, her eight-month old son, while the father is at school. Come evening, when...
THERE'S NO PLAN TO STIFLE SHOCKEY
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES At first, the hiring of Tom Coughlin seemed to portent trouble ahead for Jeremy Shockey, the sometimes wild, often controversial and frequently demonstrative tight end who would feel...
TIME TO GET TESTY
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amTHE only good thing about the Vince McMahon/Dick Ebersol XFL was that, unlike America's mainstream sports leagues, it was devoid of virtuous social pretenses. And proud of it. The XFL...
BIG BEN CHIMES IN - SHOOTS DOWN IDEA HE'S ONLY ABOUT 'D'
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Ben Wallace is out on the practice court, he's forever shooting. He's the last Piston trudging to the locker room after Larry Brown's long practices. "He shoots more shots...
'SMARTY' IS RARIN' TO GO
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amBENSALEM, Pa. - Once more into the breach! Five times in the previous seven years, the Kentucky Derby winner won the Preakness two weeks later, then headed to the Belmont...
TESTY KENYON: IT'S TOO LATE FOR TALKING
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES Kenyon Martin was in an ornery and sour mood. Two days after the Nets had suffered a bitter defeat, Martin still seethed about losing Game 2 on Friday...
ZITO LIKES HIS CHANCES
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amPREAKNESS NOTES BENSALEM, Pa. - Trainer Nick Zito finalized plans to ship his Preakness runners The Cliff's Edge and Sir Shackleton to Pimlico this morning after both colts turned in...
AFTER BAD START, YANKS GET RELIEF - HRS, PEN SINK MARINERS
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amYankees 7 - Mariners 6 SEATTLE - The Yankees posted a Tylenol victory yesterday over the Mariners at Safeco Field. Down by a half-dozen runs early, the Yankees rode homers...
TATTOOED TYLER SENT TO MINORS
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets couldn't wait for Tyler Yates - or James Baldwin. With Jae Seo, they figured waiting was the best option. A poor start by Yates on Saturday...
AS USUAL, TRACHSEL GIVES METS CHANCE
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Art Howe came to pull Steve Trachsel in the midst of yet another quality start yesterday, the pitcher was visibly upset, a rare sight this season. The fact that...
METS HAVE KAZ TO CELEBRATE - MATSUI HIT IN 11TH AVOIDS SWEEP
May 10, 2004 | 4:00am11 INNINGS: Mets 6 - Brewers 5 After two straight dreadful efforts this weekend, the Mets were on the verge of a humiliating sweep by the Brewers yesterday. They had...
NETS CAN'T SURVIVE UNLESS KIDD IS KIDD
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amLET'S FACE it. Jason Kidd has spoiled us. Spoiled us rotten. The previous two playoff seasons, the No. 5 on his jersey looked more like a crooked S - Superman...
NETS CAN'T MATCH PISTONS' PROGRESS
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amIT HAPPENS a lot in box ing. One fighter comes out strong, dominates the early rounds, seems to be landing everything he throws and looks as if he's on his...
FRANK-LY, NO THAW IN THORN VS. BROWN
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amPISTON NOTES The Larry Brown/Rod Thorn/Lawrence Frank hate triangle continued last night. First Thorn and Brown had an icy staredown before the game. And afterward, Brown complained that Frank is...
PIAZZA'S BACK-UPS HAVE BIG IMPACT
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amKaz Matsui wasn't the only weary regular out of the Mets' starting lineup yesterday. After holding together the Mets' injury-riddled offense, Mike Piazza was scheduled to get his first day...
FINISH JUST WHAT AMAZIN'S NEEDED
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amTHE season had reached Mother's Day and the redesigned middle infield the Mets had envisioned as the fast and the furious had instead devolved into lame and lamer. Jose Reyes...
SINDELAR ENDS LONG DROUGHT
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amCHARLOTTE - They were undoubtedly going wild in Horseheads, N.Y., last night. How long the party lasts is anyone's guess. Joey Sindelar, the pride of Horseheads, a small town nestled...
JOE'S JUGGLING TOUGHER IN CF - TABS BERNIE (0-FOR-5) OVER LOFTON VS. M'S
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - Joe Torre is used to juggling plates in left field, since that has been the most unsettled position in the Torre Era. Now, Torre has the...
THORN VS. BROWN: THERE'S NO THAW
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amPISTON NOTES The feud between Nets president Rod Thorn and Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown was evident before last night's Game 3. As Brown came out of his office...
FRANKLY SPEAKING - NETS ARE WAY PAST BIG-SPEECH TIME
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amLawrence Frank could have dressed in a kilt, painted his face blue and asked his Nets, "Are you ready for a war?" Or he could have delivered a heartfelt speech...
LARRY UNLEASHES HIS LIP
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amLARRY Brown returned to New Jersey last night as a man with a target on his back and a foot in his mouth. Twenty-one years after bailing on the Nets...
WOODS COMES UP ONE SHORT
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amCHARLOTTE - When his round was over, his last putt drained to leave him tantalizingly close to the lead at 10-under par, Tiger Woods stood on the green and stared...
WALLACE BIG PAIN FOR JERSEY
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amIt should come as no surprise that Big Ben Wallace is a force in the paint with few peers under the basket and on the glass. He is simply dynamic...
SCALABRINE PUTS IN SOME QUALITY TIME
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES Brian Scalabrine had made a few cameos. But nothing significant for a while. Until last night. "It's all you can ask for as a player: the opportunity to...
BACK IN BUSINESS - JEFFERSON, DEFENSE BOOST DESPERATE NETS TO VICTORY
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 3: Nets 82 - Pistons 64 Lawrence Frank could have gone the "Braveheart" or the "Patton" route and given the Nets some flowery, emotional speech. But the situation was...
YANKS KNOW MORE ARMS ARE NEEDED
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - The spanking Donovan Osborne took from the Mariners yesterday underlines two things about the Yankees' rotation: 1.) Jose Contreras' downfall hurts and, 2.) they will be...
BOMBERS THINK DEEP THOUGHTS - THREE HRS OVERCOME PITCHING SHORTCOMINGS
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amSEATTLE - When your shovels are powered by bulging muscles, no hole is too deep. In other years, the Yankees didn't have the biceps to regularly erase early deficits. They...
COLLINS COMES UP BIG WHEN IT COUNTS
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amNET NOTES Jason Collins went into the Nets' desperate Game 3 last night with one overriding thought in mind: control Ben Wallace's rebounding. "Obviously, we've got to keep him off...
CALL HIM PRINZ OF THE 'PEN - YANKEE UNKNOWN MAKES MOST OF CHANCE
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Mariano Rivera is family. Tom Gordon and Paul Quantrill are trusted newcomers. Gabe White you know from last year. But who is Bret Prinz? Yesterday, the 26-year-old right-hander...
THIS BATTLE FAR FROM OVER
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amTHEY got back into it in a way nobody believed possible. The supporting cast stepped forward. The other guys cleared their throats and announced their presence. On a night when...
BACK IN BUSINESS - JEFFERSON, BENCH BOOST DESPERATE NETS TO VICTORY
May 10, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 3: Nets 82 - Pistons 64 Lawrence Frank could have dressed in a kilt, painted his face blue and asked his Nets if they were ready for the challenge....