July 4, 1999
MICKIE'S NEWEST MANTLE : AFTER CAREER OF FIRST, SIEBERT OPENS ONLINE TRADING CAFE
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amABBY Joseph Cohen was still in diapers when Muriel Siebert set out to make her name on Wall Street in 1954. Just 13 years later Siebert took on the old...
AND THERE'S NO BACKSIES ON THE STREET
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amSOMEBODY goofed - big time. On Wednesday, the biggest gainer of all stocks in all U.S. markets was a small gambling concern called Capital Gaming International Inc. It went from...
URNING YOUR WAY IN THE CYBERDEATH BUSINESS
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amWATCHING a creaky old analog industry debuting on the web is like watching your great-grandmother getting ready for a ball. It's hideous - but it's fascinating nonetheless. And industries don't...
FRANK NEWMAN'S SIMPLE METAL ERROR
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amTHE secretary of ex-Bankers Trust chairman Frank Newman has had a tough few weeks. With the financial press keeping a round-the-clock Resignation Watch after Newman was dissed by Deutsche Bank,...
ADER IS TWO OF A KIND
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amTHE folks over at First Call have a bone to pick with the Ader family. As they go about sifting through analysts' earnings estimates, the name Jason N. Ader breeds...
'ANTIQUES ROAD SHOW' TWINS INK $1M DEAL
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Keno brothers, stars of the PBS hit "The Antiques Road Show" have found a hidden gem of their own in the publishing world. Warner Books is believed to have...
HEAVY HITTERS BET BIG ON BRIDAL BIZ ON THE WEB
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe next stampede on the web is going right down the aisle. Big money is betting the Internet can siphon off a chunk of the $50 billion-a-year U.S. wedding business....
BRILL GETS CREAMED IN VANITY FAIR; MAG DISHES DIS-CONTENT
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amVANITY Fair editor Graydon Carter finally let fly with the magazine's long-awaited attack on media watchdog Steve Brill. While Brill's crusade to monitor the press with a new magazine "started...
THIS WEEKS WINNERS ... AND LOSERS
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amWINNERS: ROBERT WRUDEL If you haven't heard of Robert Wrudel, Ask Jeeves. The president and CEO of the ask-and-learn web site took home more than $68 million for his six...
MEALS & DEALS
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amWhile Cookies & Couscous hardly sounds like an appetizing combination, the restaurant of the same name is quite pleasing to the palate. The 3-week-old Village storefront houses both a cafe...
GO FOURTH - A GUIDE TO ALL INDEPENDENCE DAY DOINGS
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amCongratulations! You were smart enough to stay in town this weekend, sparing yourself hours of traffic and all the other hassles of holiday travel. You are a true New Yorker....
TABLE HOPPER
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amBaseball and matzoh balls have always gone hand in hand - at the Stage Deli. On the last day of the regular season in 1961, Yankee slugger Roger Maris had...
DUE CAUSE TO TRASH 'BASH'
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amIt is regarded as bad form for critics to be shocked: It reveals a telltale lack of sophistication, perhaps implying that they may be too naive for the job. The...
THE BEST OF JOHN FORD'S WEST
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Ford directed more than 100 movies.John Ford rides again! An interviewer once asked Orson Welles to name the directors who had influenced him the most. His reply: "The old...
MIA TYLER STYLE & SUBSTANCE
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amMia Tyler, daughter of Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler and half-sister of actress Liv, is living proof that you don't have to be stick-thin to be sexy - and a...
INDIAN SUMMER-WEAR
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amYOU don't have to go to the Far East to find on of the summer's hottest fashions. In fact, you don't have to go far at all - it's all...
CENSUS COUNTS ON $16/HR.
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe Census Bureau has 20,000 good-paying temporary jobs about to open in New York - but with unemployment at such a low, it could be tough finding bodies to fill...
WHAT'S ON TV? MAYBE YOU
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amCouch potatoes, don't touch that dial - or remote control, or satellite dish, or mouse ... Stay tuned for the next millennium, when viewers won't be slaves to network schedules,...
CREW, BADILLO SKIPPED SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe city's two top education officials - Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew and newly minted City University board chairman Herman Badillo - finally have something in common. Neither cast a ballot...
STATE PROBES SUICIDE OF A DRUG TESTER
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amThis is the latest installment in an ongoing Post investigation into drug experiments on the mentally ill and disabled at state-run psychiatric facilities. ALBANY - State officials are investigating the...
AMERICAN DREAM COMES TRUE AT 102
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amThis Independence Day is special for 102-year-old Emma Ferailleur: After 30 years in New York, the Haitian immigrant will celebrate her first July 4th as a U.S. citizen. "It's a...
FLAG DEALER CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH AS BETSY
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amLittle did seamstress Betsy Ross know, as she cut out stars and stripes from red, white and blue cloth by candlelight, that more than 200 years later a young relative...
HAMM SCORES ON $1M AD DEAL
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amHamm is bringing home the bacon - but can she continue to sizzle? That's the question the sports-marketing world is asking about Mia Hamm, the 27-year-old star of the U.S....
CITY TO SHUTTER GOTTI KIN'S OLD BIZ
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe city is poised to shut down a Queens auto salvage business once linked to jailed mob boss John Gotti's son-in-law, Carmine Agnello, The Post has learned. Tomorrow, the padlocks...
WOMEN HAVE WORLD AT THEIR FEET : SOCCER STARS GAIN RESPECT
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amForget the Spice Girls - this summer's girl-power superstars are the kicking, slamming and scoring heroes of the U.S. women's soccer team. The bodacious booters, who face Brazil in the...
CARD CROOK IS KING OF CRIME CITY'S MOST-BUSTED HUSTLER SAYS HE'LL FOLD AND MOVE ON
July 4, 1999 | 4:00am"I've got my mother on my back. She's tired of me going to jail."KEITH JACKSON Three-card-monte dealer Keith Jackson, who's been arrested 158 times, says he's planning to end his...
GORE'S BIG GUNS ARE MISSING TARGET
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amVice President Gore's troubled campaign now has four pollsters, three media men (including ex-partners who didn't speak for seven years), five senior press spokesmen, a speech coach and four top...
LEGAL THREAT HANGS OVER HARLEM CHARTER SCHOOLS
July 4, 1999 | 4:00am"If we're going to follow the law, there's no way a charter school can be opened up in September." ASSEMBLYMAN STEVEN SANDERS The pioneers behind the city's first charter schools...
SEX CHANGE DIDN'T SUIT COLLEAGUES, SUIT CLAIMS
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amA Queens transsexual says she's getting the runaround in an unusual sex-harassment suit in which she claims that while she was still a man, a female boss grabbed her newly...
BKLYN'S MISSING LINK - LONG-CLOSED DRAWBRIDGE DRAWS NEIGHBORHOOD IRE
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amFor a short bridge over a skinny ribbon of canal, Brooklyn's Ninth Street Bridge to nowhere has been one giant headache. Rebuilding the 80-foot-long, 45- to 50-foot-wide drawbridge over the...
REVENGE DAD INSURED BABY FOR 100G
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe Indiana man who confessed to cops he got his wife pregnant just so he could kill the child to torment her reportedly had a $100,000 life-insurance policy on the...
FREEDOM FOR RENEGADE TRADER WHO BROKE BANK
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe rogue trader who brought down Britain's oldest merchant bank with $1.4 billion worth of bad bets was sprung from a Singapore prison yesterday - just after a London court...
ALL-AMERICAN SHOWDOWNS ARE THE TALK OF WIMBLEDON
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amA blockbuster all-American men's tennis final pitting Andre Agassi against Pete Sampras marks today's dramatic Fourth of July climax to a controversial Wimbledon. And the women's final will feature American...
HILLARY'S COMING TO TOUR WHILE BILL VISITS THE POOR
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - As Hillary Clinton launches her exploratory committee for a run for the U.S. Senate and starts her "listening tour" of New York this week, President Clinton will be...
HATE-CRIME SUSPECTED IN HOOPS COACH'S SLAY
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amFormer Northwestern University basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong was killed and six Orthodox Jews were wounded in drive-by shootings that Chicago police are investigating as hate crimes. Another Orthodox Jew and...
POLL FINDS 4 IN 5 CAN'T WAIT FOR THE FUTURE TO GET HERE
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amBring on the fireworks! A whopping 80 percent of Americans are casting aside angst and feeling optimistic about the future, a new Post poll found. Maybe it's the rip-roaring economy...
MASS GRAVE INCLUDES 7 YOUNGSTERS SEARCH ON FOR MORE BODIES IN KOSOVO VILLAGE
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amOn a day of fresh bloodshed in Kosovo, British war-crimes investigators yesterday discovered the bodies of seven Albanian children and five adults shot in the back of the head and...
ATM BANDIT CAUGHT: COPS
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amTwo alert cops teamed up yesterday to nab a bandit suspected of stalking victims outside Upper East Side ATM machines and stealing their cash withdrawals at riflepoint, police said. Officers...
THE HEAT'S ON FOR A FIERY FOURTH - HOLIDAYMAKERS TRY TO STAY COOL
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amBaby, it's hot outside! Sun-scorched New Yorkers are flocking to area beaches and pools to beat the stifling heat this weekend - while others are looking to have it made...
'ROYAL' TREATMENT FOR SPICE BRIDE
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amPosh Spice plans to sit on a red velvet throne in a $95,000 Vera Wang dress when she marries her soccer-superstar beau today at an Irish castle. Their 4-month-old baby,...
B'KLYN MAN KILLS DAD IN GORY HOSP ATTACK: COPS
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man fatally slit his ailing father's throat, slashed his sister and beat a bedridden man close to death with a hammer during a bloody hospital rampage yesterday, police...
SON SLITS ELDERLY DAD'S THROAT IN HOSP: COPS
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man fatally slit his ailing father's throat, slashed his sister and beat a bedridden man with a hammer during a bloody hospital rampage yesterday, police said. Joseph Raineri...
1 DEAD, 2 'CRITICAL' IN HOSPITAL HORROR
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man fatally slit his ailing father's throat, slashed his sister and bludgeoned a bedridden man with a sledge hammer during a bloody hospital rampage yesterday, police said. Joseph...
HERE'S THE SORT OF GREATNESS AMERICA USED TO CELEBRATE:THE FORGOTTEN HALL OF FAME
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amEVEN on a steamy late June afternoon, a cool East River breeze floats along the 630-foot walkway known as the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.As usual, this array of...
1 HELD IN VICIOUS CAR ATTACK ON PA COP
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amA suspected drug dealer is being held on $5 million bail in the hit-and-run attack that left a decorated Port Authority detective fighting for his life, police said. Anthony Wilson,...
IT'S A BOY FOR CINDY CRAWFORD
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe superfit supermodel is now a supermom. Cindy Crawford has given birth to her first child and her publicist says she's deliriously happy. Presley Walker Gerber was born Friday at...
2 THUGS STAB B'KLYN TEEN FOR HIS BIKE
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teen was critically injured and robbed of his bicycle after two knife-wielding teens attacked him at a street corner in Parkville last night, cops said. Police said the...
MET PROSPECT HAS LOTS OF GROWING TO DO
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amBY SELECTING 6-foot-1, 170-pound outfielder Jason Tyner with their 1998 first-round draft pick, the Mets ultimately will be judged as brilliant or stupid. No in between. They saw something in...
ERROR-PRONE KNOBBY OUGHTA LISTEN TO SAX
July 4, 1999 | 4:00am"I wish he would come to me. I think I could help him."STEVE SAX ON CHUCK KNOBLAUCH STEVE Sax, baseball analyst for Fox Sports News, knows better than anyone what...
REMEMBERING HAROLD ROSENTHAL
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amHAROLD Rosenthal, a popular New York sportswriter during an era when New York was loaded with newspapers, legendary sportswriters and readers with multiple newspaper habits, died last week. He was...
THEO DOING ALL HE CAN TO AVOID THE GARDEN
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amNEIL SMITH and Dave Checketts seem at this point the only individuals in hockey who believe that Theo Fleury belongs on Broadway, and this includes Fleury, himself. How else to...
NORWAY YEARNS FOR RESPECT DEFENDING CHAMPIONS TOUGH TEST FOR CHINA
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amFOXBORO - They smirk and shrug, these Norwegians. And then they smile. They have somehow become an almost forgotten semifinalist in this Womens World Cup. They don't seem to mind....
IRONY OF MLB TOUR NOT LOST ON AARON
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amWith Atlanta in town for a huge series against the Mets, the greatest Brave of all was on hand to throw out the ceremonial first pitch of yesterday's game at...
FRANCO'S PUT ON DL
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe Mets got the bad news they were fearing yesterday when it was determined John Franco had to go on the disabled list. Franco strained the flexor tendon in his...
RIVERA REIGNS SUPREME :YANKEE CLOSER'S BEST IN THE GAME
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amThere are closers with more saves and closers with deeper arsenals. But nobody has Rivera's 95 mph fastball that cuts into lefties or away from righties. Nobody has Rivera's control....
FOR SUCKERS ONLY HOLYFIELD-LEWIS II ISN'T WORTH THE TROUBLE
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amE IGHTY years ago today, a former hobo kid named Jack Dempsey pummeled Jess Willard into submission in a ring pitched under a broiling sun on the banks of Maumee...
PUT YOUR TRAINING ON TRACK
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amI COULDN'T get to the gym Thursday. So I worked out on the subway. That's right, the subway. MTA, and Equinox fitness trainer David Rosenbaum, were going my way so...
NO KIDDING: FOOL PICKS WILL ACHIEVE LATE PICK 3
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amTWO of the fastest guns in the East square off again today in the shootout at the Belmont Park corral when Affirmed Success and Artax run in the Grade 2,...
HOW TO DO THE COMMUTER SQUEEZE
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amHere are some simple exercises you can do while riding the rails. BICEPS - Straphangers do this almost every day and don't know it. Grab onto the horizontal bar and...
LOSS OF FRANCO DRAINS METS' PEN
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amTHROUGH changes in coaches, Rey Ordonez's hair color and Bobby Bonilla's weight, the bullpen has remained a pleasant constant for the Mets. Without a complete game, the Mets have nevertheless...
MANTO LIVIN' DAD'S DREAM
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amHalf a lifetime ago Jeff Manto could have been a Yankee but he acknowledges he wouldn't have appreciated it then. Manto, now 34, was a high school senior in 1982,...
LITTLEBITLIVELY TOPS MONMOUTH'S ISELIN
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amWhen the National Thoroughbred Racing Association announced that, as part of the "NTRA Champions on Fox" series of stakes for older horses, the Iselin Handicap at Monmouth Park and the...
LEDEE GETS BIG CHANCE - AGAIN
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amTHE truth is out there somewhere way out in left field, and conspirator theorist Joe Torre is almost ready to call Mulder and Scully onto the case. "Sure makes you...
SHANE HAS HEART PROBLEM; SPENCER HOSPITALIZED AFTER IRREGULAR BEATS
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amWhile the Yankees took batting practice yesterday afternoon, Shane Spencer was at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center undergoing tests to find the reason his heart started to beat very fast during...
'GIN' TRUMPS POKER
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amA hard-luck bridesmaid in his first three starts this year, losing the Makers Mark Mile by a neck, the San Francisco Mile by a half-length and the Red Bank Handicap...
ANTLEY BEGINS THREE-DAY BAN
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amChris Antley, who came in to ride the two D. Wayne Lukas 2-year-old first time starters yesterday, today starts serving a three day suspension. He was disqualified on Goldfame in...
ZIPPITY DOO-DAH BRAVES SHUT OUT METS FOR THIRD GAME IN A ROW
July 4, 1999 | 4:00am"Head-to-head, they're playing better than us. Does that mean we can't play with them? No. It doesn't lessen our confidence as club. It just makes us know we have to...
EX-MET WATSON OKS PACT
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amQueens product Allen Watson could be on his way back to New York but not to the Mets, the team he started the season with and was rumored to be...
MILLWOOD COMES UP ACES AGAIN
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amBobby Valentine grudgingly tipped his cap to one of the best pitching performances anybody had thrown at his Mets all season. And Atlanta manager Bobby Cox called it the best-pitched...
IRREGULAR HEARTBEAT KOS SHANE
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amWhile the Yankees took batting practice yesterday afternoon, Shane Spencer was at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center undergoing tests to find the reason his heart started to beat very fast during...
IRONY OF MLB TOUR
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amWith Atlanta in town for a huge series against the Mets, the greatest Brave of all was on hand to throw out the ceremonial first pitch of yesterday's 3-0 Atlanta...
FORMER MET WATSON SIGNS MINOR-LEAGUE DEAL
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amQueens product Allen Watson could be on his way back to New York but not to the Mets, the team he started the season with and was rumored to be...
STRAW SET TO RESUME WORKOUT
July 4, 1999 | 4:00ams Darryl Strawberry will receive George Steinbrenner's blessing to begin workouts at the Yankees' minor-league complex, starting Friday morning, according to sources in and out of the team. Steinbrenner has...
CHILI SPICES UP ATTACK WITH SOME HOT SAUCE
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe way Chili Davis began the season, visions of another 114-win season were dancing through the heads of unstable, if not unrealistic Yankee fans. Davis missed most of last year...
FOR NOW, JOE'S LEFT WITH LEDEE
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amTHE TRUTH is out there in left field. So far out there, in fact, Joe Torre may soon call for both the left-hander Mulder and the right-hander Scully to solve...
SCOTTIE DOODLE DANDY! BROSIUS 3-RUN HR LIFTS YANKS IN 9TH
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amYankees6 Orioles5 As Scott Brosius' three-run, ninth-inning homer started to climb toward a Bronx sky the color of cement, the Yankees' dugout began a rush to the top step. And...
BROSIUS' 3-RUN HR IN NINTH STUNS O'S
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amScott Brosius watched his game-winning home run climb toward a cement Bronx sky last night and suddenly he was transported from Yankee Stadium to Hillsboro, Ore. Long before Brosius was...
NO RUN OF THE 'MILL' - LONG ISLAND TRACK'S A WELCOME ADDITION
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: New York is positively starved for more quality public-access golf courses. You need only try to secure a tee time at Bethpage on Long Island, Richter Park in Connecticut...
AN INSIDE LOOK AT AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS
July 4, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: PALO ALTO - They have a magical, unspoken bond that allows 11 players to work like a wondrous, churning unit on the field and off it, leaving everyone grateful...