March 7, 2000
MERGED 'NET CO. INKS PARK AVE. S. LEASE
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amNo sooner did Whittman-Hart announce its merger with Internet architects USWeb/CKS than word came of the company's agreement to lease 225,000 square-feet at 225 Park Avenue South. Sources tell The...
GREENSPAN TALKS DOW DOWN 196
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amThe stock market took a tumble yesterday after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the economy is still growing too fast. Greenspan's warning -- which came on the day he...
LEVER HOUSE LEASE FOR PRADA DIVISION
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amA new cosmetics division of Prada is coming to Park Avenue, The Post has learned. The new division, called Cosmetics International, will pay an average of $70 per square-foot for...
CITI FAT CATS REAPING RICHES
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amWall Street is proving much more lucrative to Robert Rubin than government ever was. The former U.S. Treasury Secretary received an option to buy a whopping 1.5 million shares of...
IT'S NO WONDER DESIGNERS FAIL
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amWANTED: Chief Executive Officer for multi-million dollar business; little or no control over product line. Not many CEOs would sign on for that job -- except in the fashion biz....
KIRK BIDS $6.4B TO WYNN MIRAGE 4 REAL
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amFlamboyant casino showman Steve Wynn is selling his glitzy gaming empire to archrival billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's casino group -- and is walking away $531.6 million richer. The deal strengthens Las...
SONY LURES VIOLATOR CEO TO LOUD RECORDS
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amSony's Loud Records has quietly raided the ranks of rival Universal's Def Jam Records -- scoring one of hip-hop's rising young music moguls to beef up their rap roster. Chris...
JOURNEYMEN JOURNAL-ISTS: BRAIN DRAIN AS TOP WSJ STAFFERS FLY COOP
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amThe Wall Street Journal was rocked by another high-level departure yesterday when editorial board member Amity Shlaes said she was leaving to go to archrival Financial Times as a senior...
DEAL COULD UP THE ANTE FOR HIGH-ROLLERS
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amCasino high-rollers such as Roger King, -- head of King World, which produces "Wheel of Fortune" -- who drop millions a night, could suddenly find their gambling habits more costly....
NEW TROVE OF PAPA'S PROSE AT CHRISTIE'S
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amThey were in her trunk. If you liked Hemingway's short story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," the original can be yours for $200,000. A previously unknown stash of...
EYESORE NEEDS A VISION
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amTHE city has decided it's now or never to finally do something about the infamous white elephant known as 2 Columbus Circle. The city's Economic Development Corp. has issued a...
DOUBLECLICK BEEFS UP POLITICAL CONNECTIONS
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amDoubleClick is firing back with both barrels. The embattled Internet ad company has hired Jules Polonetsky, the head of New York City's Consumer Affairs Department, as its bolsters its lineup...
UNCOVERING NEW STARS
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amNO, it's not Vanity Fair's version of the famous Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. But the nine young hotties posing in their beachwear on the magazine's coveted "Hollywood Issue" cover have...
A MATTER OF STYLE - DESIGNER MICHAEL KORS TELLS WHAT MAKES FRENCH WOMEN LOOK SO DISTINCTIVE
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amPARIS -- The real differences between French and American style have little to do with berets and baseball caps. So says designer Michael Kors, who knows a great deal about...
THE YOUNG & THE TUNEFUL
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amLAST week, we featured veteran music-makers releasing new discs. This week, we look at some fresh faces and new sounds. All of today's bands have singular sounds that show great...
THE STARR REPORT
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amHe's Tyne one on "The Starr Report" has learned that veteran actor Richard Crenna is joining the cast of "Judging Amy" for a two-episode arc airing during May sweeps. Crenna...
THE VINEYARD'S 'ALTRUISTS' NO LAUGHING MATTER
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amTHE ALTRUISTSVineyard Theater, 108 E. 15th St., (212) 353-0303. 'THE Altruists," Nicky Silver's short, new comedy at the Vineyard, is a social satire with little on its mind but lots...
TAD TIRADE A 'POP-UP' PRANK
March 7, 2000 | 5:00am'POP-Up Video" co-creator Tad Low, who disrupted Sunday's live "TV Guide Awards" telecast on Fox with a wild rant, was escorted out by five men who threatened to break his...
THIS CHAT AIN'T PAT; LIFETIME'S NOON TALK SHOW JUST NEEDS TO LIGHTEN UP BIT
March 7, 2000 | 5:00am"Lifetime Live" Noon daily on Lifetime 1/2 NO one did crafts. No one promoted a new movie. No one cooked. No one got made over. No one tipped the scales...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amChew on this Gatorland in Orlando just celebrated its 50th anniversary last Wednesday. The self-proclaimed "Alligator Capital of the World" has been bringing in crowds, supplying "talent" for film and...
YOLK'S ON ALBRIGHT AFTER CZECH EGG ATTACK
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amThe first day of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's "listening tour" of her native Czech Republic didn't go eggs-actly the way she planned. A picture-perfect event, designed to help boost...
SUPER TUESDAY SCORECARD
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amResults should come in pretty quick from most of today's Super-Tuesday votes. Most are in the Eastern time zone though not, of course, the biggest vote of all on the...
PLAYING THE SHAME GAME ; AREN'T WE SICK OF CANDIDATES DEMANDING WE BE OUTRAGED?
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amIF there's one thing that has come to characterize this presidential season, it's the constant demand that we voters be "outraged" by some campaign tactic or that a candidate ought...
MOZAMBIQUE RIVERS GIVE UP THE DEAD
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amReceding Mozambique rivers yielded dozens of new corpses yesterday as relief workers began shifting their focus to feeding the estimated 250,000 flood victims who reached refugee camps. U.N. officials said...
CRUSH-HOUR CRITICS RAIL AS MTA NIXES AD
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amAdvocates for the city's straphangers yesterday threatened to haul the MTA into court over the agency's decision to censor a subway ad that lampoons rush-hour crowding. The ad, which includes...
ANTI-STALK POL STALKED ME: EX
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- A state lawmaker who is sponsoring anti-stalking legislation is being accused of the bizarre harassment of her former lover, The Post has learned. Republican Assemblywoman Nancy Calhoun, 55,...
JOEL: JERRY DIDN'T PAY ANYTHING LIKE $40M FOR MY PAD
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amThe Piano Man says the Master of His Domain got a Hamptons bargain -- paying a lot less than $40 million for his stunning oceanfront estate. "We're not talking $40...
FINALLY! A CANDIDATE I'M PROUD TO VOTE FOR
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amTHIS is not the Super Tuesday any of us expected to see. Like many Republicans, I slouched toward the primary season with bored resignation, assuming that George W. Bush, that...
GARBO'S LESBIAN LETTERS COMING OUT OF CLOSET
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amThe secret lesbian life of Greta Garbo is about to be bared in steamy letters the Hollywood legend wrote to one of her many female lovers. The legendary Swedish actress...
ANTI-SOCIAL? 'NET SO FAST! WEB'S NOT CYBERIA ; 'GEEKS': WE'VE GOT AN ACTIVE LIFE ONLINE
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amIS THE Wired Generation a Loser Generation -- lonely outcasts roaming cyberspace? In a new survey by the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society, political scientist Norman Nie...
DON'T BURY THAT BODY YET -- GORE COMES BACK FROM THE DEAD
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amIF BILL Clinton had said it, audience members would have gasped and reached nervously for their daughters. Instead, it was Al Gore, the candidate formerly known as deceased, who skipped...
AN OUTRAGE PERPETRATED UPON THE INNOCENT
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amWHAT happened on the sixth floor in a so-called palace of justice called the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse yesterday was an abortion. We had three cops who wouldn't spit on a...
'TEAR DOWN BLUE WALL' - LOUIMA KIN HAIL LATEST VERDICT
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amThe conviction of three cops in the Abner Louima cover-up case is another vindication for the Haitian immigrant -- and a blow to the infamous "blue wall," his supporters said...
FED JUDGE DELIVERS DYNO GYNO MISTRIAL
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amA federal judge declared a mistrial yesterday for the "Dyno Gyno" -- a celebrity Park Avenue gynecologist accused of tricking HMOs into paying for expensive fertility treatments. The Manhattan jury...
SAFIR: HILL NEEDS HER HEAD X-RAYED
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Howard Safir yesterday scoffed at Hillary Rodham Clinton's proposals for reforming the NYPD, saying her plan won't cut crime -- or improve community relations. Suggesting Clinton ought to...
SCHWARZ'S STORY DIDN'T SOUND RIGHT
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amCharles Schwarz's conviction in the Abner Louima conspiracy case doesn't really have much bearing on his legal avenues in trying to overturn his earlier guilty verdict for assaulting the Haitian...
MOYNIHAN SAYS BRADLEY IS GOING DOWN A WINNER
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amAs Bill Bradley aggressively tried yesterday to keep his presidential hopes alive, his biggest New York booster, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, already began talking about him in the past tense....
BRONX KILLERS JUST COULDN'T STOP: COPS
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amTwo men suspected of slaughtering five people in a Bronx bloodbath allegedly targeted just one of them for death, but executed the rest because they were "in the wrong place...
FEDS PLEDGING DIALLO DECISION IN MATTER OF WEEKS
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amTop Justice Department officials said yesterday they will decide within weeks whether to prosecute the four white cops acquitted of murdering West African immigrant Amadou Diallo. Deputy Attorney General Eric...
COGNAC CHARGES DROPPED
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amAll charges were dismissed yesterday against three Manhattan courthouse workers and a fourth man accused of taking $5 and a bottle of cognac in a gunpoint robbery. Police said they...
NYPD OFFERS NO PRAISE FOR THESE JURORS
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amTHE tables were turned yesterday. Cops had nothing but praise for the jury system after the four officers who killed Amadou Diallo were cleared in Albany. They told anybody who...
POL: 'PASS' RATE ON MATH REGENTS BELOW 50%
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amLess than half of city high-school students eligible to take the Regents math exam passed it last year, a key state lawmaker said yesterday. "The number of students passing the...
WHO'S IT GONNA BE FOR THE GOP? YOU DECIDE! - NEW YORK VOTERS HOLD KEY TO THE NOMINATION
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amThe Republican presidential race is riding on New York today as underdog John McCain battles for survival -- and front-runner George W. Bush aims for a knockout. McCain must win...
FEDS NAIL AGNELLO AND 6 'COHORTS' IN RACKETS INDICTMENT
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amThe feds yesterday slapped John Gotti's son-in-law, Carmine Agnello, with a racketeering indictment that included arson, extortion and tax-fraud charges. In all, seven defendants were charged, including Agnello's bookkeeper, Debra...
PARALYZED COP BLASTS JUDGE
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amHero cop Steven McDonald lashed out at yesterday's guilty verdicts in the Abner Louima trial -- and said the judge will "have to answer to God" for anti-defense rulings. "I'm...
3 LOUIMA COPS GUILTY OF COVER-UP - THEIR ATTORNEYS VOW TO APPEAL 'UNTIL DOOMSDAY'
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amDefiant lawyers for Charles Schwarz and two other cops found guilty of conspiracy in the Abner Louima police torture case vowed to appeal the convictions "until doomsday." "It ain't over,"...
BUSH BACKER SORRY SHE DID CANCER AD ; ACTIVIST MAY STEP DOWN IN POLITICAL FLAP
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amThe Long Island breast-cancer activist who appeared in George W. Bush's controversial attack ad against GOP rival John McCain yesterday said she's "sorry" she used the issue to play politics....
SHOCK AND ANGER FOR COPS' FAMILIES
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amEchoes of the final "Guilty" were still in the air when the tears, grief -- and anger -- erupted. Wails of anguish quickly spread through the sixth-floor hallway among the...
FOXY BROWN HURT IN B'KLYN SMASH
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amSexy rapper Foxy Brown was treated at a hospital last night after she smashed her sports utility vehicle into a fence in downtown Brooklyn, police said. Cops said the brakes...
ROCK 'N' ROLL HALL INDUCTS OLD 'HAND' FOR THE THIRD TIME
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amIt was deja blues at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony last night as Eric Clapton was inducted for an unprecedented third time. "Slowhand" shared the spotlight with...
'SURFERS' HURT IN SUBWAY SPILL
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amTwo "subway surfers" were badly hurt last night after falling from the top of a Jamaica-bound E train in Queens, cops said. The men, Irish nationals in their 20s, had...
JAYSON WARMING TO MARBURY: READY TO RUN TODAY WITH TALKATIVE MATE
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amSAN ANTONIO - Jayson Williams wants to practice. And he wants to play with Stephon Marbury. Both of those statements not always were true. Williams in past years often reacted...
RULAND'S GUTTY GAELS TRULY YOUNG AT HEART
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY - A good point guard is supposed to be an extension of his coach, a conduit that brings the calm of the bench into the chaos of the court....
CORUNA'S JOYRIDE HITTING BUMPS IN SPANISH LEAGUE
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amLONDON - Romantic though the notion sounds of Deportivo de la Coruna winning the Spanish championship, it appears to be functioning as nothing more than a pacesetter in a long-distance...
JUMBO'S JET CAREER OVER
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amThe end of Jumbo Elliott's career as a Jet was inevitable. There were flashing neon signs indicating it since the end of the season. Yesterday, it became official when the...
TAKING IT ALL FOR GRANT-ED: METS WANT PROSPECT ROBERTSTO CHANGE HIS WORK HABITS
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amExpos 11 Mets 6 JUPITER, Fla. -- The bait threw here yesterday. In two innings, he walked two, gave up three hits, which led to two runs (both earned) in...
WILSON TAKES BIG STEP FORWARD
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amMET NOTES JUPITER, Fla. -- The former first pick in the 1994 Draft felt as if he were playing in the World Series. After missing all of last season due...
FASSEL HIGH ON NEW LINEMEN
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amThe Giants yesterday officially introduced the two newest members of their revamped offensive line -- center Dusty Zeigler and tackle Lomas Brown. "These two guys are professionals with high-level personalities,"...
FINLEY: YANKS SHOULD GO FOR ERSTAD, NOT EDMONDS
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amWINTER HAVEN -- According to several sources close to the situation, Jim Edmonds will be a Yankee because the Bombers will pressure Angels GM Bill Stoneman into moving a player...
GREENWOOD LAKE OUT OF TRIPLE CROWN
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amGreenwood Lake, the winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby, was knocked out of Saturday's Florida Derby and the entire Triple Crown yesterday morning when he returned from a workout...
D.A. SEIZES FIGHT RECORDS
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amManhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's office has seized the State Athletic Commission's records from the Saturday, Feb. 26, boxing show at the Garden that featured Oscar De La Hoya, The...
BARK'S GOT SOME BITE LEFT
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amErick Barkley was walking out of the locker room in Alumni Hall back in October, boasting about the 10 pounds of muscle he had added over the summer. "Check this...
JEFF'S JUGGERNOT GOING SOFT
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amJEFF Van Gundy, not the same since designing defensive schemes for the East All-Stars, refuses to use the prolonged absence of Marcus Camby and Charlie Ward as an excuse for...
MT. STEINBRENNER STARTS TO RUMBLE: BOSS FEELING CROSS AS YANKEES FALL TO 0-5 IN SPRING
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amIndians 15 Yankees 1 WINTER HAVEN -- Only in the Yankees' galaxy can it be getting late with the start of the regular season still almost four weeks away. Five...
MT. STEINBRENNER STARTS TO RUMBLE:IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY FOR FURIOUS GEORGE
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amWINTER HAVEN -- As the Yankees continue to get hammered in this Grapefruitless League season, the only contest yesterday was not between them and the Indians. It was to see...
JETER TRYING TO PUT SOME ZING IN HIS SWING
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES WINTER HAVEN -- While poor pitching has become the focus of the Yankees' camp, Derek Jeter's swing could use some life. "You can work out all winter long...
COACH K'S SWEET SELL
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amWhen Andre Sweet first heard that Duke was interested in him, he didn't believe it. "I thought I was good, but that's Duke. They're the best," Sweet, a 6-6 forward...
BLUE DEVILS SET FOR STATE TOURNEY
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amPoly Prep 64 Collegiate 52 Poly Prep had already qualified to go to Glens Falls to play for the state Federation Tournament championship, but the Blue Devils still had one...
RIGHTY JONES IS ALL WRONG
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amJUPITER, Fla. -- Pitching coach Dave Wallace described it as "very important." GM Steve Phillips called it "of the utmost importance." Bobby Valentine chose "paramount." The question was how integral...
GUTTY GAELS GOIN' DANCIN' ; IONA LOSES KIRKSAY BUT HOLDS OFF SIENA
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amMAAC CHAMPIONSHIP Iona 84 Siena 80 ALBANY -- When Iona's Tariq Kirksay crashed to the Pepsi Arena floor in the first half of last night's MAAC Championship game against Siena,...
WILSON SPORTS GOODS FOR GAELS
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- With their team captain and emotional leader sidelined, and their hopes of a MAAC Championship and NCAA Tournament hinging in the balance, the Iona Gaels desperately needed offense....
KENNY GLAD TO FORGE ON WITH ISLES
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amWith rumors sprouting last week that he was being linked to a possible deal with Florida, defenseman Kenny Jonsson remained firm that he wanted to stay with the last-place Islanders....
'OUT' PATTERN FOR KEY? JETS MAY SHIP WR TO RAVENS FOR PICK
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amIncredible as it might seem, the Jets are shopping Keyshawn Johnson for a high pick in next month's NFL Draft, a Ravens' source confirmed last night. The Ravens own the...
NET PRAYER GOES UNANSWERED : STEPHON HITS FOR 34, THEN HITS NOTHING
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amSpurs 108 Nets 104 SAN ANTONIO -- Last time, the Nets went for the tie. They didn't get it. This time, they went for the win. They didn't get that,...
SHARP WILSON TAKES A BIG STEP FORWARD
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amMET NOTES JUPITER, Fla. -- The former first pick in the 1994 Draft felt as if he were playing in the World Series. After missing all of last season due...
IRABU LACKS TOADAL RECALL
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amJUPITER, Fla. -- Hideki Irabu sat in the Montreal clubhouse surrounded by reporters yesterday. They wanted to know two things after he earned the win for the Expos in Montreal's...
MALHOTRA NOT KEEN ON JUNIORS
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amSAN JOSE -- Manny Malhotra says he understands the value of playing for Hartford in the AHL playoffs. Still, he does not believe the experience would be meaningful enough for...
VAN RYN MESS PUTS LAMORIELLO IN TOUGH SPOT
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amPity poor about-to-be-rich Lou Lamoriello. He needs another half-dozen arms to juggle all the balls he has in the air. It's all coming down at once -- the sale of...
AMAZIN'S: YOUNG ARM NEEDS MORE MET-TLE
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amExpos 11 Mets 6 JUPITER, Fla. -- The bait threw here yesterday. In two innings, he walked two, gave up three hits, which led to two runs (both earned) in...
RANGERS GO INTO THE TANK ; DISMAL LOSS A RICCI HORROR SHOW
March 7, 2000 | 5:00amSAN JOSE -- Maybe now Neil Smith will rethink his stated position that the Rangers don't really need much help in their quest to make the playoffs for the first...