June 20, 2007
Street spirit
Considering how awash in hedge fund money Wall Street is these days, it's surprising more luxury retails haven't trekked to downtown. But that changes this Friday, when Hermes opens a...
Scene
Paper magazine writer Nicole Davis works a monochromatic look, wearing an ivory satin minidress from Calypso with a cozy Ralph Lauren long sweater and Ralph Lauren saddle colored knee high...
More Yankee Rumors
The nearer we get to July 31, the more Yankee rumors fly.Baseballthinkfactory reports that the Yankees have inquired about free agents to be Torii Hunter, and injury-prone Eric Gagne. Hunter...
To Bee Or Not To Bee
I saw Jerry Seinfeld yesterday at the Museum of Modern Art, where he was trying to build up some buzz for "Bee Movie,'' an animated flick he wrote, produced and...
LIVEBLOG/NEW ORLEANS: Hurry up and wait
Lord willing and the bridge don't rise, we'll be there/Rob Mangione When coming to New Orleans, I always remind myself to relax. I practice relaxing on the plane. I practice...
Kobe couldn't hack Rucker
By MARC BERMANHeard a great story in the Knicks press room in Westchester today about Kobe Bryant at the EBC Rucker League from three years ago.Kobe showed up with a...
Cavalli at H&M
Following in the wildly successful steps of Stella and Karl and the mildly successful ones of V & R and Madonna (actually, I think that stuff is still on the...
Plastic Oh-no
Racked is reporting that 20 people were lined up this morning to buy Anya Hindmarch's "I Am Not a Plastic Bag" bag. As Marina Vataj reported Tuesday in The Post,...
Deal of the Day
Overall jumpers are adorable, but most of the decent ones are pretty pricey.So I was pretty excited to find these adorable twill Skirtails at Old Navy.The bulky pockets and a...
AWARDS WEDNESDAY: A-ROD HOLDS ON, BARELY
Week 11 of Awards Wednesday:AL MVP1. Alex Rodriguez, Yankees. 2. Magglio Ordonez, Tigers. 3. Vladimir Guerrero, Angels. As great as A-Rodâs season is, this is not a runaway because Ordonez...
'Sicko' Opening in NYC on Friday
With the film widely available over the Internet and reviews having already run in The Post and a lesser NYC tabloid, the Weinsteins are bowing to the inevitable and opening...
ARIZONA - THE GRAND CANYON STATE
Our nation's 48th state is the fifth largest, covering 113,642 square miles. Arizona joined the union on Feb. 14, 1912, and its capital is Phoenix. The first Europeans to arrive...
HERMÈS BULLISH ON WALL STREET
WALL Street traders won't have to walk far to spend their bonuses. Hermés, the 170-year-old French saddle maker turned purveyor of "It" items, will bring its famous handbags and silk...
SPACEY 'MOON' LANDING
THE critics slammed him and the Tonys snubbed him, but give Kevin Spacey his due: He's still a Broadway star. "A Moon for the Misbegotten" ended its run June 10...
NEW TAKE ON TIMELESS TALE IS A NEAR MYTH
WHAT is it about the Or pheus and Eurydice myth that inspires such tomfoolery these days? A few months ago, choreographer Mark Morris' opera production at the Met featured a...
CITYWIDE SONGS
COME tomorrow, the first day of sum mer, music's in the air - and on the sidewalks, plazas, parks and bridges. Introducing Make Music New York, a free, alfresco and...
FAT CHANCE
HBO is worried that Emmy voters who were angered by the open-ended "Sopranos" finale will take it out on the show. Ballots are due back this Friday and the network...
MYSPACE STARTS A SHORTIES NETWORK
GET ready for the first network devoted to those with only three minutes to spare. MySpace and Sony Pictures are launching the Minisode Network, an online network comprised of severely-edited...
CRASH COURSE
'LOST" may not be on the air right now - but it's defi nitely in the air. A 10-minute "Lost" video that re-edits scenes from three seasons of the hit...
PRINCES' ROYAL RATINGS
THE sons of Princess Di lifted NBC's "Date line" to princely ratings Monday night. Matt Lauer's interview with British princes William, who will be 25 tomorrow, and Harry, 22, attracted...
'NIP TUCK' STARS RAI$E
'NIP Tuck" stars Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon renewed their deals yesterday - nearly doubling their salaries. The co-stars, negotiating as a team, inked a deal to shoot 22 episodes...
STARR REPORT
Kyra nightly Monday's third-season opener of TNT's "The Closer" became basic cable's most- watched se ries telecast ever, aver aging 8.8 million viewers to beat last season's then-record season opener...
INDUSTRIAL-STRENGTH DOCU
WHO said industrial waste couldn't be beautiful? Certainly not Jennifer Baichwal and Peter Mettler, director and cinematographer, respectively, of "Manufactured Landscapes." The two tagged along when respected Canadian stills photographer...
A FEW GOOD MENUS
DELIVER us from evils - of the calorie- and fat-laden foods that arrive from guys on a bike. While countless delivery options are one of the perks of living in...
HELL'S KITCHEN
EVERY night at Suba, young diners feast on creamy rice with crispy pork belly unaware of the nightmare that attended the contemporary Spanish restaurant's recent rebirth. Things go wrong at...
$HORT SHRIFT ON VIOLENCE
The city shelled out almost $230 million directly on domestic violence in the 2005 fiscal year, with a small fraction going toward preventive services, according to a report released yesterday....
COMPTROL BID
City Councilwoman Melinda Katz is campaigning to become the city's next comptroller. The Queens Democrat has launched a campaign Web site, melindakatz.org, and held a $1,000-a-head fund-raiser Monday night. She...
TRAGIC FLOWER GIRL SPURS DWI-JAIL BILL
Inspired by a distraught Long Island mother's emotional plea after the death of her 7-year-old daughter in a horrific drunken-driving accident, lawmakers agreed yesterday that booze-fueled motorists convicted in a...
ASSEMBLY OKS GAY-MARRIAGE MEASURE
ALBANY - The Assembly last night became the first legislative body in New York to pass a bill to legalize gay marriage. "My colleagues stood up and did the right...
BRONX CLERK JERKS
A pair of belligerent bureaucrats - who once slammed the door on couples waiting to wed because they were throwing an office party on the clock - have proven again...
MIKE'S AUTO-CRATIC PLAN 'DEAD FOR GOOD': POLS
ALBANY - Mayor Bloomberg's controversial congestion pricing plan "is likely dead for good," numerous Assembly Democrats told The Post yesterday following a lengthy meeting. Assembly Democrats met privately late Monday...
LIGHTEN UP, ISRAELIS - I'M KOSHER
The Israeli bikini babe whose racy picture has set tongues wagging from Tel Aviv to Turtle Bay insisted yesterday that she was just using her assets to improve Israel's war-torn...
GAY SLAY NOT HATE: ATTORNEYS
It can't be a hate crime if there's no hate. That's what lawyers for three Brooklyn men accused in the deadly robbery-gone-wrong of a gay interior designer told a judge...
DUMB THIEF ENDS ON A SORRY NOTE
He's the sorriest crook in Brooklyn. A boneheaded burglar who left his résumé behind when he robbed the home of Brooklyn's deputy borough president apparently believed that a simple "I'm...
VINNY VICIOUS
Bonanno crime boss Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano was a double-threat mobster - an "earner" who brought in big bucks, and a "shooter" unafraid to kill in pursuit of profit, prosecutors...
CHEF RAN A FAKERY: SUIT
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay cooked up phony restaurant catastrophes for his reality show "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" and made life a living hell at a struggling business he was claiming to...
HIPPIE SHOOTER HID WITH ARSENAL: COPS
The hippie reject busted for gunning down a Staten Island commune leader spent part of her year on the lam in a tiny Philadelphia studio - with an AK-47 assault...
SOPRANOS SCHLOCK THERAPY
A "Sopranos" warehouse sale was a hit with fans yesterday. The cash-and-carry event was first listed on Craigslist as a "movie-company warehouse sale," but word spread and a steady stream...
A LOUSY 'PLOT'
A movie producer who fell prey to the "JT LeRoy" literary hoax told jurors he bought screen rights to the novel "Sarah" based on the sham author's notoriety - never...
BOOM! FLATIRON FIREBALL
Flames blast through the window of a building in the Flatiron District last night, leaving firefighters in harm's way as they battle to contain an inferno on East 17th Street...
STUDENT FLUENCY PROGRESS
Test scores for children struggling to learn English are still low but showing steady improvement, the city's Department of Education said yesterday. This year for the first time, English-language learners...
WANTED MAN IN DEATH PLUNGE
A man jumped four stories to his death from his Bronx apartment last night after cops knocked on his door to serve him an arrest warrant, police said. The 43-year-old...
BRONX MOM PLEADS GUILTY IN SON SLAY
A 27-year-old mother pleaded guilty yesterday to first-degree manslaughter in the beating death of her 4-year-old son in The Bronx last year, authorities said. Aleisha Smith will get 2 ½...
JUDGE SCORCHES HOT-TOT MA
A no-nonsense judge yesterday slapped an order of protection against a Park Slope mom who left her baby in a hot car to go shopping - but then reversed himself...
BELL FIANCÉE LAUDS COP BREATHALYZERS
The fiancée of Sean Bell, who was killed by cops in a hail of bullets outside a Queens strip club last November, yesterday said the move to test officers for...
BLACK DRIVER'S 'BIAS' ORDEAL
State troopers on Long Island pointed a gun to the head of a 19-year-old black Queens man driving his mom's Mercedes, and threatened to kill him because he was speeding,...
BRONX COURT DECKS CARD SHARK WHO BIT
Up to 15 years behind bars may be in the cards for a Bronx woman who lured a construction worker into a three-card monte game last year and robbed him...
DOUGH DILEMMA CLOSES LANDMARK BAKERY
New Yorkers will be sitting shiva for Gertel's Bakery on the Lower East Side this Friday. The beloved institution will serve its last rugala at 2 p.m. after being in...
WHAT A BOOB!
The state suspended the license of an Upper East Side plastic surgeon yesterday, accusing him of medical misconduct with 10 patients - including sharing drugs and having sex with one...
FLIGHT OF FANCY COSTS $300M - AND THEN SOME
My private jet is bigger than your private jet. A mystery mogul earned the right to make that boast to any billionaire who thinks his is bigger - by purchasing...
BRIT MAYOR: DON'T FEAR THE FEE
LONDON - New Yorkers have no reason to fear the congestion-pricing plan and should look to London for proof of how well it works, Mayor Bloomberg's London counterpart said yesterday....
EHUD JOINS BUSH TO HAIL ABBAS
WASHINGTON - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with President Bush over lunch at the White House yesterday to discuss Hamas' takeover in Gaza and how to bolster Palestinian President...
HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN: VATICAN SETS ROAD RULES
Thou shalt not flip the bird to the driver who cut you off. That's one way to interpret a surprising new "Ten Commandments" for motorists that was handed down by...
'RECORD' BIAS VS. MUSLIMS
Last year was the worst ever for anti-Muslim bias in the United States, according to a report released yesterday by the Council on American Islamic Relations. Complaints of anti-Muslim civil-rights...
DADDY'S LITTLE PRINCESS
She's a chubby-cheeked cutie who loves bouncing on her daddy's knee - and when Larry Birkhead shows his baby daughter, Dannielynn, cellphone pictures of her mom, Anna Nicole Smith, the...
CLINTONS SCORE MOB HIT
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton never looked so tough as boss of the "family." The New York senator and Democratic White House front-runner yesterday unveiled her much-anticipated campaign theme song...
GIULIANI'S TOP MAN IN S.C. HIT WITH COKE RAP
The state chairman of Rudy Giuliani's campaign in South Carolina was indicted yesterday for peddling cocaine, authorities said. South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel - a rising star elected to the...
FRED LEADS RUDY IN NEW SHOCK POLL
Newcomer Fred Thompson tops Rudy Giuliani in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, according to a shocking poll released yesterday. Thompson received support from 28 percent of likely GOP...
PROS CALL HIM STRONG LEADER - & SURE LOSER
LOS ANGELES - Wherever he went during his two-day jaunt in California, Mayor Bloomberg was hailed for his accomplishments at City Hall and for what supporters described as his visionary...
BOO YORK: HILL, RUDY SEE MOVE AS BACK STAB
No one is more unhappy about Mayor Bloomberg's declaration of independence than fellow New Yorkers Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, sources told The Post last night. The two front-runners...
SURPRISE PARTY SWAP FOR MIKE
Mayor Bloomberg took his biggest step toward a White House run - and potentially plunged the 2008 contest into chaos - when he announced yesterday he's quitting the Republican Party...
9 FIREMEN PERISH IN S.C. BLAZE
Nine firefighters lost their lives in a blaze at a South Carolina furniture store Monday night, in what was the deadliest day for American firefighters since Sept. 11, 2001. People...
NANTUCKET BOOZE EXCUSE
NANTUCKET, Mass. - Decades of hard drinking and drugs scrambled a Wall Street banker's brain so severely that he couldn't stop himself from butchering his ex-girlfriend in a booze-fueled fury,...
'BLOODY' BRUTAL
A twisted O.J. Simpson describes being soaked in blood after furiously plunging a knife into Ron Goldman for trying to kung fu-fight him, according to gruesome excerpts leaked from the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn* An East New York man stabbed his friend after the victim took away his alcohol, authorities said yesterday. Horace White, 60, was drinking with his 49-year-old buddy in the...
'POOR' JUDGMENT
KA-CHING, kids! It's time for Mom to quit her job. And Dad might as well be in jail. As for you kids, better bone up on your cheating skills. Because...
ALL THE RATS ARE VYING TO BE BIG CHEESE
IF the Mafia isn't dead, then it certainly has one foot in the grave - and the other stepping on a banana peel. Yet another mob trial, and one might...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Tue.: 533; Lucky Sum: 11 / Midday Win-4 Tue.: 8165; Lucky Sum: 20 / Evening Nos. Tue.: 211; Lucky Sum: 4 / Evening Win-4 Tue.: 7625;...
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
The Muslim world is offended - and is responding with characteristic violence and threats of murder. What's got its goat this time? Britain's Queen Elizabeth had the temerity to extend...
. . . AND PAYING THE POOR
Meanwhile, back in Gotham, suddenly it pays to be poor. Literally. Never one to be bound by custom, Mayor Mike has decided to write checks - much of it from...
MIKE'S NEXT RACE . . .
Is the 2008 presidential race big enough to hold the Three Amigos of New York politics - Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani and, so it now seems, Mike Bloomberg? Sure it...
GAZA: TEHRAN'S GREATER GAME
WHO sets Hamas strategy? As the radical Palestinian movement braces itself for what could be a long struggle against its rival Fatah, if not a full-blown civil war, the question...
SATANIC CURSES
Jihadi's Guide to Etiquette Rule 11: Never leave home without your matches, effigy-hanging sticks and death-threat placards. You never know when they'll come in handy. IN Pakistan, dutiful followers of...
WORKER RIGHTS, UNION WRONGS
DEMOCRACY is rule by persuasion, but the unpersuasive often try to coerce the unpersuaded. Recent days have pro vided two illustrations of this tendency, both of them per taining to...
FILM POLICE
THE indie documentary "Indoctrinate U" takes a look at the politics of today's colleges and finds that, from coast to coast, conservative undergraduate newspapers are stolen en masse, professors lose...
MAMADOU'S MALI-CIOUS SUIT
THE ISSUE: Mamadou Soumare's threats to sue the city over a fatal fire in his Bronx home. Mamadou Soumare says he doesn't want to sue, but that he has to...
HANGING 'EM HIGH: DUKE PROFS & NIFONG
THE ISSUE: Mike Nifong's resignation after rape charges against Duke students were dropped. Is this the treatment a family can expect when a young person is sent off to college...
BAD NEWS BEAR
The end came yesterday for a Bear Stearns hedge fund that had been teetering on the edge of solvency for a week, when Merrill Lynch announced that an $850 million...
SUBPRIME STREET IS FEELING THE HEAT
As a Bear Stearns internal hedge fund begins collapsing, all of Wall Street is wondering if other funds might follow suit. One hedge fund portfolio manager at a $4 billion...
ROBERTS RULE: NO PHOTO AUCTION OF NEWBORN SON
ALTHOUGH Julia Roberts just gave birth to a new bouncing baby boy named Henry, don't expect the celebrity-obsessed magazines to engage in a high-stakes auction for the baby pictures. Roberts,...
VIVE LE DIFFERENCE
CHICAGO - Conrad Black's lead lawyer accused the prosecution of recounting tales of the dethroned press baron's lavish lifestyle - including thousands spent on heated towel racks, caviar and champagne...
NO BULL, PEORIA IS PLAYING AT JAVITS
Red state brands are piling up some blue-blooded licensing deals. Once pigeonholed to regions in the south or Midwest, so-called heartland brands, names like the Grand Ole Opry, hillbilly TV...
CABLE NETWORKS GETTING THEIR FEET WET WITH UPFRONTS
With the major broadcast networks close to wrapping up their "upfront" TV ad sales, the cable networks are now striking deals for the upcoming fall season. Discovery Networks announced a...
YANG'S YAHOO! GOES IN REVERSE
Wall Street doubts whether the shake-up at troubled Yahoo! will really bring any improvements - and quickly dumped shares yesterday. Just a day after the Yahoo! board kicked CEO Terry...
EBAY'S TRAFFIC INTACT
Ebay's decision to pull its ads from Google's U.S. Web site has had little impact on its total traffic, a sign the search giant's grip on Internet advertising isn't ironclad....
DEAL WORTH WAITING FOR
JOSEPH Moinian has signed a contract to buy the towering 295 Madison Ave. for around $180 million. The 300,000-foot Art Deco building on the southeast corner of East 41st Street...
DEPOT'S $10B SUPPLY SALE
The Home Depot said yesterday that it had reached an agreement to sell its professional supply business to a group of private-equity firms for $10.3 billion, reversing a strategy set...
STAY IN L.A.
Jeanie Buss, a Los Angeles VP and daughter of the Lakers owner, predicted yesterday the organization will heal their wounds and ultimately make amends with Kobe Bryant. Buss told The...
COURT TOSSES SPREWELL SUIT
The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court yesterday dismissed Latrell Sprewell's long standing, $40 million libel suit against The Post and its Knicks beat reporter Marc Berman. The...
SHOT BY J.R. LIFTS CYCLONES
J.R. Voyles wasn't in the starting lineup for the Brooklyn Cyclones' season opener last night, but the 23-year-old left his mark on the scorecard in his professional debut. Voyles, who...
DEOSSIE OFFICIALLY IN THE FOLD
The Giants, under the direction of first-year general manager Jerry Reese, are getting their draft choices locked up to contracts earlier than in the past. Yesterday, the team came to...
SANTANA FIGHTS TONIGHT
Edgar Santana (21-2, 13 KOs) of Spanish Harlem tonight will battle Harrison Cuello (12-5, 9 KOs) in the 10-round junior welterweight main event on DiBella Entertainment's Broadway Boxing Presented by...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: Schilling hurting After getting roughed up in two straight starts, Red Sox starter Curt Schilling was sent back to Boston yesterday to get an MRI exam on his right...
HONDO THE BIRD MAN
Hondo, who put the swoon in June, did a full- gainer into the red last night when he double- flushed with the Metamucils and Orioles - the best of '69...
FREE-AGENT LEWIS LOVES N.Y.
Good news Knicks fans: Seattle's Rashard Lewis is indeed a free agent and plans to visit New York for a recruiting trip if Isiah Thomas invites him July 1, according...
MISERABLE METS MAULED
The Mets have had plenty of frustrating moments in this long, protracted slump, but they had never suffered through a humiliation as complete and thorough as last night's four-error, 9-0...
AMAZIN'S HOPE PEREZ CAN BE THEIR SANTANA
THE REAL ace of the rotation, whom the Mets are paying $14 million this season, threw 55 pitches in a bullpen session yesterday in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Pedro Martinez...
DAMION HANDED SECOND CHANCE
For the most part, the Met lineup is set, leaving manager Willie Randolph reasonably few decisions to make on a daily basis. That is, except for second base. Damion Easley...
BLUESHIRTS BRACE FOR NYLANDER TALKS
Kept in a state of suspended animation by prospective free agent Michael Nylander for the three weeks since he fired agent Paul Theofanous, the Rangers will get an idea of...
COORS BLIGHT
DENVER - Lost in a Rocky Mountain Fogg was an apt way to describe the Yankees last night at Coors Field. If you told Mike Mussina he would notch a...
DAMON PAINS BOMBERS
DENVER - Two swings in the indoor batting cage at Coors Field yesterday told Johnny Damon all he needed to know about his abdominal muscle problem that had been listed...
BOSS QUIET ABOUT TORRE
DENVER - On April 30 the Yankees were 9-14 and Joe Torre's job was in jeopardy. Would Don Mattingly take over? Or Joe Girardi? Some had Larry Bowa as the...
SURVEY FISHES FOR INFO
NEW York's Bureau of Fisheries will be conducting a statewide survey designed to get input from anglers on the state fisheries resource and the state's efforts to effectively manage it....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A bizarre burglar kicked in the door of a Somerset, Pa., man's apartment, stuck a knife in the door and stole a salad - only a salad - from the...