June 26, 1999
DEUTSCHE BANK SAYS GOODBYE TO NEWMAN
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe bad news for Frank Newman - the former Bankers Trust chief who just can't seem to play nicely with his new German friends - is that he's probably going...
HEAVEN'S GATE EXEC IS 'NET MILLIONAIRE
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amAn ex-felon and central figure in the Heaven's Gate cult suicide is the latest Internet millionaire. He's Nicholas Matzorkis, 36, founder of US Search.com, a five-year-old company that began trading...
FOUR ON THE FLOOR: ARTISTS BAND TOGETHER
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amSUCCESS in music is a 50/50 formula, with the bag of gold always falling to those who have as much talent as they have luck. While ticketless hip-hop fans stormed...
ZAHN PERFECT FOR 10 AT FOX
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amPAULA ZAHN is inheriting Catherine Crier's 10 p.m. anchor slot at Fox News Channel. Zahn, who currently hosts "The Fox Report with Paula Zahn," will anchor a prime-time show airing...
SHAKESPEARE IN LUXE : THE NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL BEGINS IT'S SUMMER SEASON TOMORROW IN CENTRAL PARK'S RENOVATED DELACORTE THEARTER
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amTHEY'VE spruced up the Bard's digs. This week, the New York Shakespeare Festival opens its newly renovated Delacorte Theater in Central Park with a production of The Taming of the...
SOAP'S LAST EPISODE TURNS INTO THE BIGGEST TEAR-JERKER OF ALL : GOODBYE ; 'WORLD'
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amA 35-year-old bubble burst yesterday for fans of "Another World" when NBC's longest-running soap went off the air. At an Upper West Side bar, members of the show's cast and...
FUN FOR THE KIDS AT CONEY ISLAND
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amHAVING A HARD TIME KEEPING THE KIDS AMUSED THIS SUMMER? THNE TAKE THEM TO AMERICAS MOST FAMOUS BEACH-SIDE AMUSEMENT PARK- HISTORIC CONEY ISLAND. IF YOU'RE NEW YORK, OR HAVEN'T BEEN...
POLS PREMATURE TO CELEBRATE THE 'END' OF TERM LIMITS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amM ULTIMILLIONAIRE Ron Lauder is prepared to spend whatever it takes to keep term limits intact - which means that elected officials facing a political death sentence in 2001 can...
PROM KIDS HAVE DRIVER BUSTED FOR DWI
June 26, 1999 | 4:00am"He was no longer a nice guy. He was loud and mean. Uncle Bob turned into nasty Bob."TIM McINTYRE Prom night is supposed to be unforgettable - but not because...
'PAYDAY' LOANS ARE RIPOFF: SUIT
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amA bank offering "payday" loans has socked New York City's working poor and minorities with loan-shark-like interest rates of 1,400 percent, a federal lawsuit charges. County Bank of Rehoboth Beach,...
FRED TRUMP, DAD OF DONALD, DIES AT 93
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amFred Trump, who ran an apartment empire in the outer boroughs and inspired his son Donald to change Manhattan's skyline, died yesterday at the age of 93. Fred Trump had...
LEGAL WEASEL GUILTY, MAY GET 7 YEARS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amA fake lawyer who bilked immigrants of $350,000 faces up to seven years in jail after a Manhattan jury convicted him of grand larceny and fraud. Bogus barrister Curtis VanStuyvesant...
SEDUCED HS STUDENT GIVES NOTE TO PROBERS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amA Manhattan high school student who says a teacher got her pregnant has told investigators the instructor sent her a forged letter designed to scare her into silence about their...
WIDE-AWAKE JURY NAILS 'SLEEPWALKING' WIFE-KILLER
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amAn Arizona man who claimed he was sleepwalking when he stabbed his wife 44 times, dragged her to the backyard pool and held her head under water was convicted yesterday...
TENSE PEACE IN NEW ISRAEL BORDER 'WAR'
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas exchanged threats - but not bombs - yesterday while a controversy flared over how the latest Lebanese border war began. Officials in Beirut said...
CABLEVISION PITCH FOR METS COULD ZING BOSS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amA sale of the Mets to Long Island's Cablevision would put the heat of a 90-mph fastball on Yankee boss George Steinbrenner, sports insiders said yesterday. And if a deal...
SHARP SPIKE'S 'SUMMER' FLICK TELLS IT LIKE IT WAS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amCritics claim the film is insensitive to Italians, which is absurd. Spike grew up with Italians in Cobble Hill. He clearly has a special feeling for them. SPIKE LEE is...
MARINES IN NEW GUNFIGHT WITH KOSOVO SNIPERS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Snipers took aim at U.S. Marines in Kosovo yesterday, leading to the second gunfight in three days in the increasingly perilous region. Marines on the city streets of...
VIEWERS MAY FOOT BILL FOR BUILDING BETTER TEAM
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amIf Met fans are willing to pay more for the chance to see a better team, they should root for Cablevision to buy the Amazin's. Better suited to absorb red...
JUDGE WHACKS COMMUTER TAX : ALL OUT-OF-STATERS NOW GET FREE RIDE
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amA state judge yesterday dashed New York's last hope of hanging on to some form of a commuter tax - declaring a new law unconstitutional and giving a free ride...
PAROLEE FACES RAP ON 1-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF SOCIALITE SLAY
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amOfficials say they're finally sure who committed the year-old rape and murder of an 81-year-old Harlem socialite: a crack-addicted, paroled career criminal who once lived nearby. Elbert Mitchell, 34, a...
BILL: AIR HILLARY MANDATED BY SECRET SERVICE
June 26, 1999 | 4:00am"We've wanted to take the train to New York, for example, and haven't been able to do it."PRESIDENT CLINTON WASHINGTON - President Clinton blamed the Secret Service yesterday for making...
THEY'RE STILL WINNERS, SAY KNICKS' FANS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00am"They have nothing to hang their heads about because they made history anyway."TONY PHILLIP Wait 'til next year. The Knicks played their hearts out - and fans screamed their lungs...
FEDS ARE MAN'S BEST FRIEND IN DOG FIGHT
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe feds sued a major city landlord yesterday for trying to evict a 62-year-old Manhattan man and his dog from a rent-stabilized apartment. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White took...
HITLER'S HOLOCAUST 'BLUEPRINT' ON DISPLAY
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe original manuscript of the infamous Nuremberg laws - which vanished after World War II - will go on display in a California museum next week after having languished in...
TERROR FEAR FORCES STATE DEPT. TO SHUT SIX EMBASSIES IN AFRICA SUSPECTS ANOTHER BOMB PLAN IN WORKS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Six U.S. embassies in Africa were shut down yesterday - and others around the world were put on alert - after word that terrorist Osama bin Laden was...
COPS COMB BRONX FOR RAPIST AFTER NEW ATTACK
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amA 12-year-old Bronx girl was raped in her building last night- the second such rape in two days, cops said. Investigators are not sure if the same person is responsible...
SALE MAY MEAN VIEWERS FOOT BILL FOR BETTER TEAM
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amIf Met fans are willing to pay more for the chance to see a better team, they should root for Cablevision to buy the Amazin's. Better suited to absorb red...
NEW YORKERS POWERBALL HUNGRY FOR $100M
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amNew Yorkers are power-hungry again they're heading to Connecticut to buy tickets for tonight's $100 million Powerball jackpot. A steady stream of wannabe multimillionaires from the Big Apple crossed the...
DUNCAN ONE OF A KIND IN TODAY'S NBA
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe NBA's youth-movement players generally are depicted as unfocused, ego-driven knuckleheads, surrounded by legions of more knuckleheads. But not all of the league's young players should be grouped in that...
THREE RING PICK IN GOOSE
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amEveryone likes to beat the favorite, and so nearly everyone will be trying to beat Three Ring in today's Grade 1, $250,000 Mother Goose Stakes at Belmont. Three Ring, the...
A CRASHING FAILURE KNICKS MUST DO BETTER ON BOARDS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe math is simple, even though the execution is not. It did not take the Knicks long in their pre-series film study to determine that the Spurs do not exactly...
BLUESHIRTS CAN'T KEEP TAMER FROM THRASHERS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Rangers GM Neil Smith did everything he could the last three days to dissuade Atlanta GM Don Waddell from sweeping up defenseman Chris Tamer in yesterday's expansion draft....
DRAFT-STANDOUT STEFAN TESTING ISLES' PATIENCE
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - The status of Patrik Stefan's head has become the dominant issue of today's NHL draft. Is he a "marshmallow head," as Islander GM Mike Milbury announced was a...
VAN GUNDY: MEDIA IS UNFAIR TO LARRY
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amWhen not being embarrassed by Tim Duncan, this is what Larry Johnson has been up to during the Finals: He cursed at a female NBA media official, he proudly called...
DETERMINED KNICKS PUT UP BRAVE FRONT
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amLarry Johnson was asked, point-blank, if at the very least, the Knicks did not want to see the Spurs celebrating on the Garden floor. "At the very least," Johnson replied,...
JEFF CONTINUES TO MAKE CHECKETTS LOOK BAD
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amYOU get the feeling that the NBA Finals can't end soon enough for Garden president Dave Checketts. Sure, it would be great from an organizational standpoint to force Games 6...
SPREWELL IN JEFF'S CORNER
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amWith his name in the starting lineup, and his team in the championship, Latrell Sprewell said he was happy to learn that Jeff Van Gundy has been asked to return...
VAN'S PAT ANSWER: EWING WON'T PLAY
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amJeff Van Gundy is tired of reporters continuing to ask him if the injured Patrick Ewing will make a dramatic return for the Finals. Van Gundy has said repeatedly, since...
PERRY, MAGGERT TAKE ROUTE 66
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amWith a stronger-than-expected field here at this week's post-U.S. Open Buick Classic, organizers were tantalized by visions of a star-studded leaderboard. Through two rounds of this week's Buick, though, the...
FINALE SAVES MIKE SMITH'S DAY
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amMike Smith was originally announced as one of 12 participants in the NTRA All-Star Jockey Championship that was held at Lone Star last night. But he bowed out of the...
STRAW, BOSS TO POWWOW IN COMING DAYS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The meeting in Tampa between George Steinbrenner and Darryl Strawberry in which The Boss will accept the troubled slugger back into the Yankee family won't take place until...
SEAVER REMEMBERS FIRST TIME AS METS AWAIT OCTAVIO DEBUT
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Octavio Dotel, if your heart begins to sprint like Carl Lewis and you feel as if you could get the tap in a center jump against Michael Jordan...
ADMIRAL'S SHIP IS FINALLY COMING IN
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Admiral has become the Rear Admiral in what has become Tim Duncan's flotilla. But with his ship finally about to come in last night after 10 NBA seasons, David...
DON'T LOOK NOW, BUT NETS REHIRE CASEY
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amWell, the Nets could have picked a worse time to announce Don Casey is returning as head coach. They might have waited until the third quarter of last night's NBA...
'WHIPLASHED' PIAZZA GETS ANOTHER DAY OFF
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Saying he felt like he had been in a car accident, Mike Piazza took last night off because of a stiff neck and Todd Pratt caught for him...
WIN OR LOSE, THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT : PLAYOFF SUCCESS EXCITES KNICKS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe fight began months ago. The Knicks went into last night still battling in the playoffs, still fighting the good fight, trying to get back to San Antonio, trying to...
NEW STRIKES, BALLS BRAVE 'SOAR' POINTS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - When looking at the earned-run averages of Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux, one feels like an art lover looking at a painting that some lunatic has slashed. They...
HOBBLED O'NEILL DELIVERS AGAIN IN SPITE OF PAIN
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - If Paul O'Neill could find a way to concentrate with his father Charles battling severe heart problems in a Columbus, Ohio, hospital, a bruised little toe on his...
VAN REPEATS PAT ANSWER ON PATRICK
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amJeff Van Gundy was tired of reporters continuing to ask him if the injured Patrick Ewing would make a dramatic return for the Finals. Van Gundy said repeatedly, since Ewing...
JOE WOULD TAKE BELLE
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - There was a time last November when Joe Torre felt like every other member of the Yankees' brass about Bernie Williams' future in The Bronx: There wasn't one....
DARRYL, GEORGE TO TALK IT OVER
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The meeting in Tampa between George Steinbrenner and Darryl Strawberry in which The Boss will accept the troubled slugger back into the Yankee family won't take place until...
HEY, IT WAS NICE WHILE IT LASTED : KNICKS' TITLE HOPES ARE CRUSHED IN 5 BY TEXAS TOWERS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amGAME 5 Spurs78 Knicks77 There was silence when it ended. But only for a few seconds. The moment Latrell Sprewell's final shot came down to earth and into Sean Elliott's...
SPENCER ENDS A SLUGFEST SHANE, TINO LIFT YANKS OVER BIRDS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amYankees9 Orioles8 BALTIMORE - Given his choice, Joe Torre will take a well-pitched game every time instead of relying on his bat rack to have more hits than the one...
'WHIPLASHED' PIAZZA TAKES ANOTHER DAY
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Saying he felt like he had been in a car accident, Mike Piazza took last night off because of a stiff neck and Todd Pratt caught for him...
REED, BIG BATS BURY BRAVES
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amMets10 Braves2 ATLANTA - This was the win the Mets wanted on a Friday night late last September. The Mets came to Turner Field in for the final three games...
THE ADMIRAL'S SHIP FINALLY COMES IN
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Admiral has become the Rear Admiral in what has become Tim Duncan's flotilla. But with his ship finally coming in last night after 10 NBA seasons, David Robinson seemed...
KNICKS GET BEATEN UP ON BOARDS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amThere is no greater expression of a team's effort on the court than how it attacks the glass. Aggressiveness can be measured in many different ways, but one of the...
'FINAL' CURTAIN DESCENDS ON A DREAM T
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amHE Knicks threw everything they had at the Spurs last night at the Garden. This was no time to hold back anything. Lose and the season was over. Win and...
SPREE FALLS 1 SHOT SHORT CHAMPS SMOTHER LAST PLAY
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amSean Elliott did a double take in the huddle with what turned out to be the final 2.1 seconds of the NBA season remaining. San Antonio assistant coach Mike Budenholzer...
PATRICK CAN ONLY WATCH ... & WONDER
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amPatrick Ewing didn't get his ring. "I wish I could have been out there to play with them," the injured franchise center said quietly after the Knicks lost the NBA...
VANQUISHED KNICKS TOUCHED BY CHEERS
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amThere were so many diverse and disjointed emotions erupting inside the Garden that it was difficult to comprehend what exactly was taking place. The shocking conclusion, a 78-77 Spurs victory,...
MVP DUNCAN DIRECTS WIN
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe Garden floor was a tornado of activity. Players hugged and mugged for cameras. Friends and well wishers, well, acted friendly and wished the Spurs well. David Stern said a...
FUTILE FINAL ATTEMPT OFF TARGET, TOO LATE
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amAs it turned out, the last shot at first looked to have a great shot until it became evident it had no shot. The Knicks had 2.1 seconds to make...
HOUSTON HAS EMPTY FEELING VANISHES IN FOURTH QUARTER
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amSo many times during the playoffs, Allan Houston had seemed to emerge as a true superstar. There was the shot to beat the Heat in Game 5. The 32 points...
SPREWELL: IT'S ALL FOR NOTHING
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amWhen he was able to exhale, barely removed from his brilliance and his ultimate frustration, Latrell Sprewell was able to decide this: "I'm sure it was a fun game to...
HAPPY NIGHT FOR ELIE'S MOM
June 26, 1999 | 4:00amOdette Elie lives in an apartment on 97th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam, so it was only a short drive down the West Side to see her son play at...