November 4, 2006
LIVEBLOG/ISTANBUL: Crossing over
November 4, 2006 | 7:34amYesterday we finally left the new side of town, and delved in to the old. What a strange transition.Crossing the Galata Bridge is like crossing in to another city -...
L&T OUT OF LUXE ; NEW OWNER SEES $$, MULLS TEARING DOWN FLAGSHIP
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amNearly a month after its billion-dollar purchase of retail chain Lord & Taylor, the new owner is mulling replacing the flagship Fifth Ave. store with an office building or hotel....
NEW NIELSEN SYSTEM ON HOLD
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amNielsen agreed to postpone the rollout of a new commercial-ratings system, bowing to pressure from cable networks that complained about glitches. The ratings agency notified clients yesterday that it would...
JOBS CAN'T PROP STOCKS
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amAlthough hiring is the strongest it's been in five years, investors are abandoning stocks and bonds over fear that the expanding economy could cause businesses to lose the cheap credit...
SIZZLING SERVING OF LOAF
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amMEAT LOAF THERE'S nothing small in Meat Loaf's world - be it his XXL carriage, his booming voice or the huge 30-piece rock orchestra that backed him for his one-night...
KIRSTIE IN THE FLESH ON 'OPRAH'
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amKIRSTIE Alley plans to appear on "Oprah" Monday - wearing a bikini. The former "Fat Actress" star and Jenny Craig spokeswoman is making good on a promise she made last...
SPOOF GOOFS - VH1 '80S SATIRE MISSES ITS MARK
November 4, 2006 | 5:00am"TOTALLY AWESOME" Tonight at 9 on VH1 (two stars) IT hardly needs to be said that producing a TV movie spoofing the movies of the 1980s is not exactly a...
NEW YUK CITY - JOKERS ARE WILD AT N.Y. COMEDY FESTIVAL
November 4, 2006 | 5:00am'NEXT to sex, stand-up comedy is the best thing going," says Denis Leary, relaxing in Katz's Deli one week before the third annual New York Comedy Festival. "It's completely kinetic,...
VETS RUN DOWN KERRY
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amWounded war heroes who arrived in town yesterday for the New York City Marathon issued a stern reminder to Sen. John Kerry and others who make insensitive gaffes about American...
BAIL TIME NOW JAIL TIME FOR 800G THIEF
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amA Queens woman whose $800,000 embezzlement bankrupted the century-old Drake Business School tearfully surrendered to city jailers yesterday after enjoying nearly a year free on bail. Angela Sugrim, 30, was...
BALLISTIC BEAU GUNS DOWN GAL; LURES HER TO SLAY-SUICIDE
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amA caring Long Island teen concerned about her depressed ex-boyfriend was shot to death by the jilted man after he lured her to his home with threats of suicide, cops...
NEWARK'S A BIT FULL OF BULL
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amPamplona has nothing on Newark - and the New Jersey city has its own running of the bulls to prove it. A 600-pound runaway bull rampaged its way through town...
BUSH DOES A 'JOB' ON DEMS; HYPES EMPLOYMENT & TAX CUTS IN ELEX PUSH
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush touted soaring employment numbers on the stump yesterday in battleground states in a frantic final push to help the GOP hold Congress. Bush flogged Democrats with...
GIRL, 5, DIES IN BRONX FIRE
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amA fire started by a candle ripped through a Bronx apartment early yesterday, killing a 5-year-old girl and critically injuring her 6-year-old sister and their father, who raced into the...
GO FIGURE - HEVESI OWES DOUBLE LEFT 90G OFF DRIVER BILL
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - Scandal-scarred state Comptroller Alan Hevesi was hit by another bombshell yesterday when Attorney General Eliot Spitzer ordered him to pay back an additional $90,000 to the state for...
MIKE: NO FRESH FRESH KILLS HUNT
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe city won't be looking for 9/11 remains at the Fresh Kills landfill, Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday as he accused some people clamoring for a wider search of trying to...
CALLAGHAN-TASTIC IN NEW POLL
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - With just three days until the election, two new polls released yesterday show Alan Hevesi barely clinging to his once-massive lead over little-known comptroller challenger Christopher Callaghan (right)....
WHITE THUG'S 'BLOOD'Y DEFENSE IN BLACK ATTACK
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amWhen cops questioned Joseph Jirovec about his alleged role in an attack on four black youths in Brooklyn's mostly white Gerritsen Beach neighborhood last summer, he offered a highly unusual...
DITZY IVY PREXY'S H'WEEN BALL BOMBS ; SMILES WITH A PRETEND 'TERRORIST'
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe president of an Ivy League school found herself in hot water yesterday after a snapshot surfaced showing her posing gleefully with a student masquerading as a suicide bomber. The...
TIGHT LID KEPT ON EXIT-POLL 'VAULT'
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Exit-poll data will be under lock and key Election Day to help networks avoid the Bush-Gore debacle of 2000 - and prevent bloggers from trumpeting results before the...
MOB MISTRIAL FOR 'ALLIE BOY'
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn judge declared a mistrial yesterday in the murder and racketeering trial against former acting Colombo crime family boss Alphonse "Allie Boy" Persico, charged with ordering the murder of...
JUDGE EYES 9/11-PAYOUT CAP OF $1B
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amA Manhattan federal judge indicated he would cap at $1 billion the money the city must shell out to thousands of sick Ground Zero rescue and recovery workers. Judge Alvin...
CITY ASTHMA EFFORT EASES KID WHEEZES
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe number of children with emergency asthma attacks at the city's public hospitals dropped nearly 20 percent following a two-year monitoring campaign waged by the Bloomberg administration, The Post has...
'NOT SUICIDAL'; ACTRESS' MOTHER: NO WAY SHE HANGED SELF
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe mother of indie-film star Adrienne Shelly broke down in grief yesterday, insisting that she cannot accept that her beautiful actress daughter hanged herself inside a Greenwich Village apartment last...
LANCE TOURS N.Y.; CYCLIST IS GEARED FOR MARATHON
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amLance Armstrong didn't do his homework. In training for tomorrow's New York City Marathon, Armstrong said that, although he ran every day, he did not bother to study the grueling...
HIGH & LOW 'DOPE' COP ; CALLS MEATBALL AFFAIR 'NO FUN'
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amLife's a real downer these days for Anthony Chiofalo, the NYPD anti-terrorist detective who claims he tested positive for drugs and was booted from the force because his wife laced...
LIDLE'S BAD TURN; PILOT ERROR IN TIGHT SPACE & WIND
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amYankee pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor had too little space to make the U-turn they intended over the East River when their single-engine Cirrus SR20 smashed into an...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** Cops are hunting for a bungling teenage mugger preying on women in Morningside Heights and Harlem, police said. The thug threatens his victims by telling them, "Give me...
CITY SEEKS ROAD$IDE ASSISTANCE
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amCity officials - including Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn - have asked conflicts-of-interest officials to give clear guidance on repayments that elected officials should make for personal...
'NOT SUICIDAL' ; ACTRESS' MOTHER: NO WAY SHE HANGED SELF
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe mother of indie-film star Adrienne Shelly broke down in grief yesterday, insisting that she cannot accept that her beautiful actress daughter hanged herself inside a Greenwich Village apartment last...
HAIRY 'MOOSE' SENT TO HIS CAGE
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amHere is the first picture of terror fiend Zacarias Moussaoui since his infamous mug shot taken after he was arrested by the FBI in August 2001. In a video obtained...
TOT-DROWN TUB MOM GETS JAIL
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amA mother whose 16-month-old son drowned when she left him and another child alone in a bathtub will spend 3½ to 7 years behind bars after pleading guilty yesterday. Tracina...
'ALLIE BOY' WINS MOB-SLAY MISTRIAL
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn judge declared a mistrial yesterday in the murder and racketeering trial against former acting Colombo crime family boss Alphonse "Allie Boy" Persico, charged with ordering the murder of...
N.Y. HOTEL: WHY, YOU DIRTY BORAT
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amMoviegoers may have been rolling in the aisles at yesterday's premiere of the wacky comedy "Borat," but staff at a posh Manhattan hotel said the film crew's abuse of their...
'HATE' CALL ON JEWISH GANG
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amA Pakistani immigrant allegedly beaten by five Orthodox Jewish thugs said yesterday he's outraged that the attackers haven't been slapped with stiffer 'hate crime' charges. The five, Yitzi Horowitz, 15,...
SHE WASN'T SUICIDAL - ACTRESS' MOTHER: NO WAY SHE HANGED SELF
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe mother of indie-film star Adrienne Shelly broke down in grief yesterday, insisting that she cannot accept that her beautiful actress daughter hanged herself inside a Greenwich Village apartment last...
IT'S BODY VS. SOUL; PEDRO PROBLEM ISHEALTH, NOT HEART
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amFOR nearly 45 minutes on Sept. 6, I engaged in a duel with Pedro Martinez simply by invoking a subject he wanted no part of discussing: What if, like his...
ROYAL HOLIDAY ; KING'S CHRISTMAS 60 A KNICKS RECORD
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe best scoring night a Knick has ever had was watched by 10,581 at The Garden on Christmas night 1984, when truly wise men foresaw only a broken season. Bernard...
IN TODD THEY TRUST ; PLETCHER SENDING 17 HORSES TO POST TODAY
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE, Ky. - The biggest and best-oiled racing machine on the planet goes for broke in the Breeders' Cup at Churchill Downs this afternoon, threatening to break all records -...
STATE GIVES NYRA $8 MILLION LOAN
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amAfter filing for Chapter 11 protection on Thursday with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, the New York Racing Association yesterday went to court for...
ATLANTA STIFF TEST FOR ISLES
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amIf the Islanders hope to continue their recent success they must contend with one of the more prolific young scorers in the game, when they face off against Ilya Kovalchuk...
JARA BREEZES ATOP DAY PASS
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amFernando Jara sent favored Day Pass to the lead and never looked back as they won the $112,900 Grade 3 Nashua Stakes at Aquaduct by 4½ lengths. Sightseeing closed to...
BALDOMIR LOOKS TO KO FLOYD'S BIG PLANS
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - As Carlos Baldomir approached the scales yesterday, he took a deep breath, sucked in his stomach and gingerly stepped up to learn whether his year would have...
U.S. GOES THE DISTANCE FOR MARATHON SUCCESS
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amOn the eve of tomorrow's New York City Marathon, in which five of the top 16 combined seeds are American - a once unheard-of embarrassment of riches - race director...
KEY SEASON FOR ST. JOHN'S
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amSt. John's faces a defining season. It's one that will go a long way toward determining the future of fourth-year coach Norm Roberts, crystallizing the careers of seniors Daryll Hill,...
YANKS' PLANS: KEEP MOOSE, DEAL SHEFF
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe Yankees intend to sign Mike Mussina to a two-year contract and trade Gary Sheffield, sooner rather than later on both moves, to initiate an offseason plan in which they...
AMAZIN'S PLAN TO BID FOR MATSUZAKA
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe Mets anticipate trying to land Daisuke Matsuzaka's rights by offering a bid for the Japanese star right-hander, according to a person with knowledge of the team's plans. Matsuzaka hit...
TURNING POINT; RANGERS HEAD HOME ON A ROLL
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amIt's as if the Rangers have begun to channel Fleetwood Mac, as if they're harmonizing the tune about thinking ahead to tomorrow because yesterday's gone. And maybe, just maybe, if...
IT'S BODY VS. SOUL ; PEDRO PROBLEM IS HEALTH, NOT HEART
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amFOR nearly 45 minutes on Sept. 6, I engaged in a duel with Pedro Martinez simply by invoking a subject he wanted no part of discussing: What if, like his...
ISIAH WANTS FANS READY
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES ATLANTA - Isiah Thomas said yesterday the Knicks need the energy of the Garden crowd to lift his tired team in their home opener tonight. When the Knicks...
GEORGIA WRECK ; ISIAH TAKES FIRST KNICKS LOSS
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amHawks 102Knicks 92 ATLANTA - Knicks president Isiah Thomas absorbed his first loss as head coach last night and got his first technical foul. Thomas was edgy, saving his grief...
WOODSON SAYS BROWN OK WITH $
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES ATLANTA - Hawks coach Mike Woodson had dinner with Larry Brown in Philadelphia on Tuesday and said the former Knicks coach got a lot of the $41 million...
I MIGHT QUIT PEDRO: RETIREMENT COULD BE AN OPTION
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amPedro Martinez raised the possibility yesterday that he is done as a major leaguer. The Mets ace had surgery last month to repair a torn rotator cuff in his right...
I MIGHT QUIT - PEDRO: RETIREMENT AN OPTION
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amThere's a chance that Pedro Martinez is finished pitching. The Mets ace, who had surgery on a torn rotator cuff a month ago, admitted yesterday that retirement would be an...
ISIAH NEEDS YOU - THOMAS WANTS PACERS TO FEEL GARDEN ROCK TONIGHT
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amATLANTA - Isiah Thomas implored Knicks fans to fill the Garden with energy tonight when his team takes the floor in their home opener against the Pacers. The first home...
LUKE OUT FOR NO. 1 - PETITGOUT'S CHALLENGE: TOP PICK WILLIAMS
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe Punkin' Chunkin' will go on this weekend without Luke Petitgout, but his heart will be there, back in Millsboro, Del., not far from his hometown of Georgetown, Del., where...
A 'CLASS' ACT - MONEY MAY RAISE TO WASHINGTON HEIGHTS
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE - The day we've been waiting for is finally here. Time to head for Aqueduct, your local OTB, or plunk down on the couch and tune in ESPN (noon...
COUNTDOWN TO THE BREEDERS' CUP
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amThe Post continues its profiles of each of the eight Breeders' Cup races to be run today at Curchill Downs. The Countdown spotlights potential nice-price winners as handicapped by reporter...
JULIEN BATTLES OLD TEAM
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amMONTREAL - Fired from his dream job here last January, Devils coach Claude Julien is taking the high road for tonight's homecoming. "I've really turned the page. I'm not going...
THE ONES TO WATCH
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amOF THE 37,000 competitors expected in Sunday's New York City Marathon, seventime Tour de France champ Lance Armstrong is the most famous, and he's not even a pro runner. But...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amPENN STATE at WISCONSIN Noon Ch. 7 Line: Wisconsin by 7. Angle: Not only has Penn State's defense kept the Nittany Lions in games, but also it won the Illinois...
PLAX DOWNGRADED TO QUESTIONABLE
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Already battling multiple injuries on defense, the Giants might go into tomorrow's game against the Texans depleted at receiver. Plaxico Burress, slowed this week by back spasms, suffered...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
November 4, 2006 | 5:00amOrthodontist Dan Ryan of Willison, Vt., wants to root out tooth decay. That's why he's offered to buy back all the trick-or-treat Halloween candy collected by his young patients -...