May 7, 2005
HOME DEPOT BOWS OUT ON 6TH
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amHome Depot is back to the drawing board in lower Manhattan. Sources tell The Post the home improvement store had been working for many months on a deal with Rudin...
REVLON SHARES PLUNGE ON UGLY SALES NUMBERS
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amRevlon Inc., the cosmetics company controlled by financier Ronald Perelman, yesterday reported a wider-than-expected first quarter loss, and said it lost market share to rivals. The news sent Revlon's shares...
LABOR REPORT SHOWS STRENGTH
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amOptimism over surprisingly strong jobs growth was tempered yesterday on the expectation that the uptick in the economy would bring higher interest rates from the Federal Reserve. Employers added 274,000...
AD EXEC LASHES OUT AT SAATCHI
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amFormer Saatchi & Saatchi executive Mike Burns, who has kept a low profile since his old ad agency accused him of violating his contract, is back and ready to do...
NO SALE NICOLE
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amIT didn't take long for fashion icon Nicole Miller and her husband, Kim Taipale, to realize how special their TriBeCa loft really was after they listed it for sale last...
ANTIQUES AND ARTISTS
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amAIX Interiors 462 Broome St., between Greene and Mercer streets (212) 941-7919 Sale: through May 29 Open: Sun., noon-6 p.m./Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Antique French furnishings are on sale. An...
MY MOM, MY LANDLORD - RENTING FROM YOUR PARENTS OFFERS BIG PERKS ALONG WITH THE HASSLES
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amIMAGINE coming in from a night out and finding your landlord sound asleep in your bed. How about getting a phone call one evening to ask if you'd taken care...
PAULA FIRES BACK
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amEMBATTLED "American Idol" judge Paula Abdul broke her silence yesterday - describing charges that she slept with a former contestant as "character assassination." "All my life, I have been taught...
IT DOESN'T TAKE A BRAIN SURGEON
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amA HOLE IN ONE [ 1/2] (One and one-half stars)DESCRIBED alternately as a "screwball noir" and "romantic drama," Richard Ledes' "A Hole in One" is a grim - and not...
HAPPY HOST - ELLEN DEGENERES SWEEPS INTO MAY WITH MOMENTUM
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amCRITICS and viewers alike have said from the outset of Ellen DeGeneres' talk show career that she makes it look so, well, easy. It's a sentiment DeGeneres appreciates even as...
EVERYTHING'S IN FINE ORDER
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amWITH 28 years of wear on their synths, British dance-pop trailblazers New Order had no business putting on as good a show as they delivered at the Hammerstein Ballroom Thursday....
MA-VELOUS, DARLING! - DON'T BE DULL ON MOM'S BIG DAY
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amSO, tomorrow is Mother's Day. What do you have planned? French toast in bed? Flowers? A Hallmark card? Yawn. This year, you really ought to show dear, old mom -...
HOOFING IT ALONG THE HUDSON
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amLADIES and gentlemen, get ready to . . . saunter. This morning at 7:30 - when the rest of the city is asleep or nursing hangovers - a band of...
JEST A MINUTE, MOM - STAND-UP MOTHERS - NO KIDDING
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amCOMEDIAN Jill Shely plays for some pretty tough crowds. When she does her stand-up routine, some members of the audience toss bottles or stagger up to the stage. They talk...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amCarjack or "carjerk" - you be the judge. Two weeks ago, a man in Baltimore stole a car at gunpoint from two women. This week, one of the women called...
DEADLY DRAG RACERS GET 3 YEARS EACH
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amTwo Long Island men whose 139-mph drag racing killed an engaged couple three years ago were each sentenced yesterday to three years in prison at a hearing that left even...
COKE SLAY GUILT - DAD, SON FACE DEATH
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amA father-son duo was convicted of murder yesterday for executing three men while running a New York-to- Pittsburgh cocaine ring in the 1990s - and now face a possible death...
RUDY STILL LEADS PACK OF GOP PREZ HOPEFULS
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani continues to lead the pack of Republican presidential hopefuls, topping Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, his closest rivals, a...
KNIGHT CLUBBING - HISTORIANS' JIHAD VS. 'HEAVEN'
May 7, 2005 | 4:00am"Kingdom of Heaven," the epic film account of the Third Crusade that premiered yesterday, has touched off a holy war with historians. "It's Osama bin Laden's version of history," said...
SAD WAKE FOR PLUG-PULL KID
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amTeron Francis - dressed in a white suit and a white Yankee cap - was remembered yesterday at a wake for the tragic Bronx teen who was reluctantly taken off...
DEFIANT VOLCKER'S OLIVE 'OIL' BRANCH
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The head of the U.N. oil-for-food scandal investigation demanded yesterday that Congress withdraw subpoenas and return secret documents - and offered an olive branch. Trying to avert a...
JILTED JOHN 'GROOMED' HIMSELF TO BE PURE
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amChastity didn't come easy to born-again virgin John Mason. Friends counseled him on how to stay pure as he courted runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks. Jilted John, 32, had his fun...
CLOSE-CALL PM BLAIR: I HEAR YOU
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amA chastened British Prime Minister Tony Blair told voters, "I've listened and I've learned," yesterday after winning a historic third term - but with a sharply slashed majority in a...
'FOX' CHANEL - RAP GAL GLITZES UP COURT
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe attire? Head-to-heels Chanel. The car? A shiny silver Bentley. The luncheon menu? One hot dog a la "cart" - eaten in the Bentley, ideally without getting the sauerkraut on...
'BAR' FIGHT BREAKS OUT - JACKO LAWYER, DA SEPARATED
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amSANTA MARIA, Calif. - Tensions boiled over at the Michael Jackson sex trial yesterday, as the prosecutor trying the case and a member of the King of Pop's defense team...
SLASHED KID: 'I KNEW I'D DIE'
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amA 12-year-old slashed in a vicious Cinco de Mayo attack in Brooklyn said yesterday from his hospital bed that as he lay bleeding in the street, he could barely summon...
PATAKI MUST REBUILD CAREER, TOO
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Friend and foe alike warned Gov. Pataki yesterday that the public's final verdict on his three terms in office will largely be based on how fast he gets...
NIGHT GUARD SLAIN IN HELL'S KITCHEN
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amA Pakistani man who had just moved to New York in search of a better life was found bludgeoned to death yesterday after his overnight shift as a security guard...
MYSTERY BLAZES HIT RITZY HI-RISE ON PARK AVENUE
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amResidents of a ritzy Park Avenue apartment building were spooked after a fire broke out on the 11th floor yesterday - the second blaze in only two months. Firefighters have...
GET RID OF CHAIR-BASH FIREMAN: JUDGE
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amDisgraced firefighter Michael Silvestri is facing the ax for bashing a fellow smoke-eater in the head with a chair at their Staten Island firehouse on New Year's Eve in 2003....
TEEN DIES A HERO - QNS. GIRL TRIED TO SAVE DOOMED PARENTS FROM FIRE
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amA courageous Queens teenager, who could have fled to safety when fire swept through her family's apartment, died with her parents early yesterday when she bravely tried to rescue them,...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * An Alabama man was shot several times and killed by an assailant on a Kingsbridge street, cops said. Police did not know the motive for the attack,...
JOGGER FOUND SLAIN - MOM SHOT IN YONKERS
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amA 22-year-old mother was found shot dead on a Yonkers jogging track yesterday - with her gold and diamond jewelry left untouched. Latecia Benito was not robbed and may have...
MOTHER OF INVENTION - IPODS & E-GADGETS HOT ITEMS FOR MOM'S DAY
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amPlay it on an iPod while you say it with flowers. While many will rely on time-honored favorites like flowers, brunch or a break from family feuding tomorrow, some sons...
VLAD SLAPS BUSH - WARNS DUBYA ON EVE OF VISIT: DON'T PUSH DEMOCRACY IN EX-SOVIET STATES
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amPresident Bush arrived in Latvia last night to start his third European trip this year and found a blunt message from Russia's Vladimir Putin: Stop trying to export democracy. "Democracy...
PETRA A MODEL OF STRENGTH - REBOUNDS FROM TSUNAMI
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amShe survived the wave of the century - and now she's working hard to rebuild her life. Czech supermodel Petra Nemcova is using the same sprit of survival that helped...
BROOKLYN 'BROTHER BUTCHER' BUSTED
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amPolice yesterday arrested a Brooklyn woman whose brother was found chopped up in plastic bags. Cops spent much of yesterday grilling Diane Ahmed yesterday in connection with the death of...
SUICIDAL GAL TAKES A DETOUR
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amA troubled woman who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday began her bid for suicide on the Manhattan Bridge but got spooked off when she realized that workers had spotted...
COPS SEEK 4TH BOMB WITNESS
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe NYPD is searching for a possible fourth witness who may have observed the explosion outside the British Consulate, police sources said yesterday. A senior police official said a surveillance...
FEDS PROMISE NOT TO GAS MOB CANARY
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe Justice Department has reversed itself and will not seek the death penalty against godfather/turncoat Joseph Massino, law-enforcement sources told The Post yesterday. The Bonanno family boss will be spared...
SISTER OF BUTCHERED B'KLYN BROTHER BUSTED
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amPolice yesterday arrested a Brooklyn woman whose brother was found chopped up in plastic bags. Cops spent much of yesterday grilling Diane Ahmed in connection with the death of her...
PRAYERS AID BEATEN BX. PRIEST
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amThe Bronx priest brutally attacked Monday morning by a gang of teens thanked well-wishers yesterday for their love and prayers. The Rev. Jorge Fernandez, 41, also said Edward Cardinal Egan...
KILLER COKE KIN - FATHER-SON SMUGGLERS GUILTY IN '96 TRIPLE SLAY
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amA father-son duo was convicted of murder yesterday for executing three men while running a New York-to-Pittsburgh cocaine ring in the 1990s - and now face a possible death sentence....
STILL JUST A BIG 'ZERO' - GOV: TOWER REDESIGN WILL STICK TO WTC-SITE PLAN
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amAs these disheartening photos show, there has been virtually no progress at Ground Zero over the last two years. Nonetheless, Gov. Pataki again defended architect Daniel Libeskind's plan for the...
GOTTI DIVORCE A DONE DEAL
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amPeter and Catherine Gotti's two-year divorce saga finally came to end yesterday. The reputed head of the Gambino crime family signed off on the deal at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center,...
FREAKY FRIDAY FOR E. SIDE DRIVER
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amAn out-of-control car swerved onto a Midtown sidewalk yesterday, smashed into scaffolding and then rammed into five parked cars, and finally knocking over an SUV, police said. The car was...
MAN, 19, GIVES UP IN '$40 SLAY' DOWNTOWN
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amA Lower East Side man was arrested yesterday in connection with last week's fatal stabbing of a teenager in the neighborhood in what may have been a drug deal gone...
'LEWD' HS TEACH GETS 'EXPOSED'
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan high school teacher was arrested yesterday for allegedly exposing himself to a male student inside a bathroom, police said. Miguel Fundus, 38, a teacher at Humanities HS on...
CELL-CAMERA 'PERV' NAILED
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amTalking on a cellphone in public is sometimes rude - but taking pictures up women's dresses with a cellphone is always against the law. A Long Island man found that...
SWAYNE GOOD LUCK FOR DRAGONS
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amKeep your four-leaf clover. To heck with a rabbit's foot. The only thing the Dragons need is Kevin Swayne. The wide receiver has been a good luck charm for the...
CAMERON JUMPS TO SECOND IN LINEUP
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES MILWAUKEE - Since coming to the Mets last season, Kazuo Matsui never batted lower than third. Last night, he batted eighth. Willie Randolph made an interesting lineup move...
CHAOS REIGNS AT BRONX ZOO - CIRCUS ATMOSPHERE SURROUNDS YANKS' 4TH STRAIGHT LOSS
May 7, 2005 | 4:00am10 INNINGS: A's 6 - Yankees 3 On a scale of 1 to 10, Joe Torre said yesterday afternoon the tension in the Yankees' dugout was "probably at an 8...
PIAZZA PIZAZZ - STAYS HOT WITH 2 HRS
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Doug Mientkiewicz may have re-created a monster. Two days ago, Mike Piazza was hitting .198, was in a 1-for-21 slump, and said he was close to feeling sorry...
WITNESSES FALTER IN PRINCE'S TRIAL
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amEpiphanny Prince's family sat together in a criminal courtroom in Brooklyn yesterday as the trial of the Bergtraum basketball star was set to continue when Assistant District Attorney Charles Tucker...
WORTH WEIGHT FOR GIANTS QB
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amThese opportunities come once and rarely twice, which is why Jared Lorenzen understands how fortunate he is to be here, back for a return engagement with the Giants. The biggest...
METROS GETTING DEFENSIVE
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amWith four starters out last weekend in Colorado, the MetroStars - the worst defensive team in MLS last year - had their best defensive showing of the young season in...
CORRALES BACK IN RING
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - It has been nine months since Diego Corrales scored arguably the biggest win of his career by dethroning previously unbeaten Acelino Freitas for the WBO lightweight championship....
SMOOTH 'ROAD' FOR BOSS HOSS - THEY'LL ALL GUN FOR 'BELLAMY' - AND FAIL
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The 131st running of the Kentucky Derby today at Churchill Downs will be a two-minute cavalry charge, a mile-and-a-quarter mad dash for glory, with much more than the...
MIGHT BE FASTER THAN SECRETARIAT
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Bellamy Road is likely to win the Kentucky Derby today because he goes into it after running the fastest race of any three-year-old in nearly a quarter of...
'SIS' STUNNED IN OAKS
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse for Yankees skipper Joe Torre, they did. Turning in a too-little, too-late performance worthy of the cellar-dweller Bronx Bombers,...
TORRE: BOSS CROSSED LINE - BLAME ME, NOT MEL, YANKS' MANAGER SAYS
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amAfter George Steinbrenner implied in a published report that Yankee pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre's head might be on the chopping block, Joe Torre struck back at The Boss yesterday afternoon....
JOE SHOWS TRUE CLASS TO GEORGE
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amYOU can only hope that George Steinbrenner treats his horse better than he treats his pitching coach. Steinbrenner always talks about Yankee class, but last night Joe Torre showed the...
KNICKS STAYING IN RACE FOR JACKSON
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amDon't count the Knicks out of the Phil Jackson sweepstakes just yet. Without being specific, an NBA source said there still could be some hang-ups with a Jackson-to-the-Lakers coaching scenario....
MRI CLEARS WILLIAMS FOR ACTION
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES An MRI on Bernie Williams' right arm revealed a mild triceps strain, and he was cleared to play last night. Williams took BP with his teammates and was...
CLAMORING AT 'GREAT WALL'
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK LOUISVILLE - Nick Zito's barn 36 on the Churchill backstretch has been the top destination for visitors this week, with only a select group allowed inside the "Great Wall...
SERGIO STAYS ON COURSE - KEEPS 2-SHOT LEAD IN WACHOVIA
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amCHARLOTTE - Swirling winds and slick greens prevented the leader from running away from the pack and prevented the game's big guns from making a run at yesterday's Wachovia Championship...
PIAZZA PIZAZZ - SNAPS OUT OF SKID WITH TWO HOMERS
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amMets 7 - Brewers 4 MILWAUKEE - Doug Mientkiewicz may have re-created a monster. Two days ago, Mike Piazza was hitting .198, was in a 1-for-21 slump and admitted he...
MO-JOE RISES TO DEFEND MEL
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amYOU can only hope George Steinbrenner treats his horse better than he treats his pitching coach, because things keep getting worse in Yankeeland. Regarding the chronically petulant owner taking out...
MRI CLEARS BERNIE FOR ACTION
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES An MRI on Bernie Williams revealed a mild triceps strain, but he was cleared to play last night against Athletics. Williams took BP with his teammates and was...
SECOND EFFORT - CAMERON MOVES INTO NO. 2 HOLE
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - In his short career as a Met, Kazuo Matsui has never batted lower than third. Last night, he was hitting eighth. The Mets scored seven runs and knocked...
PLAN FOR PEDRO, PIAZZA UNCLEAR
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES MILWAUKEE - Pedro Martinez is pitching tonight, which leads to the obvious question - will Mike Piazza be catching? Ramon Castro has caught Martinez in his last three...
EVERYTHING STARTS EARLY TODAY
May 7, 2005 | 4:00amPost time for the Kentucky Derby card at Churchill Downs is 11 a.m., so wagering outlets will open earlier than usual for the Derby card. Belmont Park opens the parking...