September 19, 2000
C&W GEARING UP FOR BATTLE
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S a New World Order at Cushman & Wakefield, the global real estate powerhouse. In a strategic corporate move, CEO Arthur J. Mirante II just promoted superstar deal-maker Bruce E....
PILEVSKY DISCOVERS $78M 'BARGAIN' ON RECTOR ST.
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amBryant Park Hotel developer Philip Pilevsky is scooping up another Downtown Manhattan office building, for $78 million. With a London-based investment group as his partner, Pilevsky is in contract to...
COLE'S PC PITCH IN THE PARK
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amKENNETH Cole's politically correct bent was on full display at his show yesterday. He left "Rock the Vote" pamphlets on attendees' chairs. Funnyman Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" delivered...
DYNAMIC DUO DEALS A NOHOTEL
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe duo that brought you the Mercer Hotel and soon The Chambers is bringing a new hotel to NoHo. Richard Born told The Post that he and Ira Drukier are...
EU TAKES ON TW-AOL ; STAFF DRAFTS A REJECTION OF DEAL
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amEurope is hurling a tricky new curveball at Time Warner - threatening to block its merger with AOL as well as its pact to meld its music operations with EMI....
WB-EMI TO SACRIFICE PUBLISHING
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amTime Warner and EMI have offered to sell off some of their music-publishing operations to appease the European Commission, which is opposed to the deal, said sources close the talks....
PELTZ & MAY'S 21/2-YR. PROFIT IN SNAPPLE: $1.15B
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amSnapple is finally Nelson Peltz's billion-dollar dream. The jet-setting investor is selling the beverage company for $1.45 billion to Cadbury Schweppes PLC only three years after he and his partner,...
PSEUDO GONE FOR REAL ; 200 TOLD TO CLEAR OUT BY END OF DAY
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe End. Pseudo.com finally pulled the plug yesterday. CEO David Bohrman told staff at lunch time that the company had failed to find a buyer and could no longer meet...
VETERAN IS KAPLAN'S CNN U.S. SUCCESSOR
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe man succeeding CNN's ousted news boss Rick Kaplan won't have as much power. Veteran CNN news executive Sid Bedingfield, 42, was promoted to take over the domestic all-news network...
A SLING'S THE THING
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN Adele Kandel broke her arm last summer, the cast pained her more than the fracture.For a self-described "Armani girl," the orthopedic look was just plain ugly: The plaster cast...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amPost toast Hillwood Museum and Gardens, the former estate of philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post, is renowned for its collections of 18th- and 19th-century Russian imperial art and 18th-century French decorative...
BUZZ
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe nose knows If you've wondered about all those Olympian athletes sporting adhesive strips across their noses, you're not alone. Researchers have wondered, too - and some say the strips...
GRAY CLIMBING "LADDER" TO SUCCESS
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amDAVID Gray, a singer/songwriter from Manchester, England, is no overnight success by any means. But he must be nearing worldwide fame because his legend is beginning to build. After three...
THE TRIUMPHS OF TRIESTE - HERE YOU'LL FIND GOOD SEAFOOD, A BEAUTIFUL COASTLINE, FRIENDLY LOCALS AND GREAT BARGAINS
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amMY initial tip-off that Trieste wasn't what is generally considered "typically Italian" came during my first lunch there, a $20 meal at Da Pepi S'Ciavo. Rather than being handed a...
THE STARR REPORT
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amA coming-out party on 'All My Children'? Erica Kane's (Susan Lucci) daughter on ABC's "All My Children," Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel), will be coming out as a lesbian in a...
DEAD RINGERS; HECHE TO STAR AS KILGALLEN?
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amANNE Heche - who has not always had the best relationship with the press - is in talks to portray 1950s gossip columnist Dorothy Kilgallen in a TV movie. Kilgallen,...
NO SONIC BOOM ON 'MUSIC' [[
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amMadonna "Music" ½ Maverick/Warner Bros.Just because you're Madonna doesn't mean you've got a smash hit. It helps - but only a little. On her latest collection, "Music," Mama Madonna, now...
'CONFESSIONS' AXED ; CONTROVERSIAL SHOW YANKED BY COURT TV
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amTHE controversy over Court TV's "Confessions" ended yesterday with the show's cancellation after just two weeks on the air. The decision to yank "Confessions," Court TV's weekly showcase of real...
A RUN OF BAD LUCK ; HENTON CRASH LATEST SETBACK FOR 'HUGHLEYS'
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amARE "The Hughleys" cursed? Just a week after the sitcom moved to UPN from ABC, "Hughleys" co-star John Henton was seriously injured in a car crash last Friday in Los...
NOTHING TO CHEER ABOUT: DELAYED OLYMPIC RATINGS SINCE '70S
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amRATINGS for NBC's Olympic coverage fizzled by the second day of the Sydney games, according to early Nielsen estimates. In an era when the games' results are broadcast over the...
DRUGS FOUND NEXT TO BODY OF GELDOF EX
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amTraces of heroin and marijuana and an empty vodka bottle and pills were found next to the naked body of Paula Yates, who was found dead Sunday, it was revealed...
BUSH TRIES TO TAKE 'MIDDLE' GROUND - RENEWS BID FOR TAX CUT
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge W. Bush went to an Arkansas baby hospital yesterday and said he'll give everyone a fair middle-class tax cut right from birth - while rival Al Gore plays favorites...
ATTACK WAS RACIAL: COPS
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amLong Island police are investigating an apparent bias attack on two Hispanic immigrants by two men who pretended they wanted to hire the men for the day. The 19- and...
GOP RIPS AL'S FAR-FETCHED STORY ON POOCH'S DRUG PRICES
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe Bush camp yesterday accused Al Gore of telling yet another shaggy dog story - this one about his mother-in-law having to pay more for the same drug that the...
CAMPAIGN SNAPSHOT
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amBUSH Catch phrase of the day: "My plan gives people options, not orders." Where he went: Little Rock hospital maternity ward; Kansas City, Mo., town-hall meeting; Chicago, police endorsement. What...
SHAKY LADY GYMNASTS HARDLY GOOD AS GOLD - U.S. TEAM TUMBLING IN 1ST PLACE CHASE
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amThey are not the Golden Girls this time around. The only hope for the USA's women gymnasts is in the upcoming individual competitions - and the bronze may be the...
DISH FROM DOWN UNDER
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amYellow (str)eek! COUTURE conundrums have shaken up the women in Australia's Olympic contingent. Sprinter Melinda Gainsford-Taylor says she's unhappy with the yellow competition shorts issued to female team members. She...
FASHION FOR ALL: DESIGNERS SHOW SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN it comes to spring 2001 fashion, the designers of New York fashion week have something for everyone. Like to show off your well-toned stuff? Carolina's rompers and Diane von...
CHARLIE'S A SELF-PROCLAIMED SEX MA-SHEEN
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amCharlie Sheen says he's slept with at least 5,000 women - and boasts he's so good in bed that his partners call him "The Machine." The new star of TV's...
BARAK SAYS NO TO MUSLIM RULE OVER 'TEMPLE'
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak yesterday publicly rejected a Palestinian proposal for Islamic control of Jerusalem's Temple Mount. PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat quickly responded: "It's not up to...
JUDGE: REFUND UNFAIR TO CON ED?
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A federal judge questioned yesterday whether a new state law requiring Con Ed to refund $162 million to its customers is unjustly "punitive." The law seeks to prohibit...
HUNDREDS FLEE COLO. FIRE
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amBOULDER, Colo. - A wildfire raging just eight miles from Boulder has forced the evacuation of hundreds - and caused a dangerous blanket of smoke to envelope this tony mountain...
UNDERCOVER COP FOILS ESCAPE PLAN
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amA man awaiting trial for a brutal Staten Island double murder hatched a plot to shoot his way out of custody - but his gun supplier turned out to be...
WHY OIL IS SADDAM EXPENSIVE
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amOil prices skyrocketed to their highest levels in 10 years yesterday as mischief-making by Iraq's Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf sent shockwaves through already volatile markets. Despite desperate efforts...
U.S. NABS BIN LADEN'S TERROR-TRAINING TOME
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amU.S. intelligence agencies have gotten hold of a six-volume, 1,000-page training manual that teaches followers of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden how to be a terrorist. The manual, which includes...
RUSH-HOUR LABOR PAINS STOP TRAFFIC
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amTwo NYPD traffic agents got to deliver some good news when they helped a woman give birth during rush hour yesterday morning. Agents Dennis Barrett and Paula Stewart were directing...
TEEN FACES 15 YEARS IN DEADLY STABLE FIRE
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe pot-smoking teen charged with setting a fire in a century-old Brooklyn stable that killed 21 horses faces up to 15 years in prison after being indicted on multiple arson...
PC DOES IT AS COMMISH RENAMES OFFICE
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - In a rare move, Gov. Pataki distanced himself yesterday from a "politically correct" name change imposed by the state health commissioner. Dr. Antonia Novello, a Pataki appointee, recently...
N. IRELAND CAR BOMB HURTS FOUR
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amFour people were hurt, one seriously, when a booby-trap bomb went off in the center of Northern Ireland's seaside town of Bangor yesterday, authorities said. "There was just a cloud...
DRUGS FOUND NEXT TO BODY OF GELDOF'S EX
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amTraces of heroin and marijuana and an empty vodka bottle and pills were found next to the naked body of Paula Yates, who was found dead Sunday, it was revealed...
LAZIO ON BOARD WITH LIRR UNION
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amRick Lazio grabbed a transportation-workers union endorsement yesterday, while Hillary Rodham Clinton needled her Republican rival for getting thisclose to her at their debate. "I knew I was going to...
LEVY EXPELS BOARD'S CHIEF PARENT LIAISON
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy - upset the Board of Education isn't doing enough to help parents - booted the director of the office of parent advocacy, The Post has learned....
DID AL DO HOMEWORK, OR DID THE DOG EAT IT?
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S a fine moment in the political season to belong to one of four categories of sentient creature. They are, in no particular order: Senior citizens, dogs, children and women....
MURDER-CASE JURORS FACE SIX-WEEK TRIAL
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amProspective jurors for the murder trial of Dr. Robert Bierenbaum gasped aloud in a Manhattan court yesterday - not as they heard they might sit on a wife-killer case, but...
HILL RUN HATCHED DURING BILL'S TRIAL: BOOK
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton's secret plan to move to New York and run for Senate was hatched in the middle of her husband's impeachment trial, according to a new book....
CHINA TRADE BILL IS CLOSE
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate today is set to give final OK to a historic China trade deal, angering critics who say it will cost American jobs and reward a repressive...
RUDY VOWS TO BE STRIFE OF THE PARTY FOR BRATTON
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani launched an all-out offensive yesterday against Bill Bratton, warning he would "do everything" in his power to stop his former police commissioner from becoming mayor. "Stay out of...
HILLARY'S CRASH PAD - SOMETIMES STAYS AT SPIELBERG CONDO
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amSOMETIMES, Steven Spielberg's condo in Trump Tower beats out Chappaqua for Hillary Rodham Clinton. The first lady has overnighted several times at the Oscar-winning director's lavish home on Fifth Avenue...
'COKE' ADDS 4 YEARS TO LIFE FOR DRUG RING
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amSeven drug dealers face long prison terms after pleading guilty yesterday to running a massive, citywide home-delivery cocaine ring. The ring made ordering drugs as easy as ordering pizza. The...
ALZHEIMER'S HITTING AT A YOUNGER AGE
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe number of young people in Great Britain afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, including people as young as 30, has doubled over the past decade, doctors said yesterday. Cases among the...
. . . AND HE OUGHTTA KNOW! - SUPERBRAT MAC: WILLIAMS' SISTER ACT IS CLASSLESS
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amTennis-tantrum king John McEnroe has taken a backhanded swipe at the superstar Williams sisters - blasting the court queens as disrespectful, coldhearted and easily beatable by lesser talents. "What they...
JOE POSES HOLY DILEMMA FOR THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amPAUL WEYRICH, the Washington activist who pretty much invented the Religious Right, could hardly believe his ears. "My own mother, a former Protestant and now a very traditional Catholic, was...
ROCKER'S THE VICTIM, SAYS DAD
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amBad-boy Braves relief pitcher John Rocker could wind up dead if conspiring media and black groups have their way, his enraged dad says. "The media and special-interest groups are furthering...
REV. AL IS THINKING ABOUT TOSSING COLLAR INTO MAYORAL RING
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton is "seriously considering" running for mayor next year - pulling a surprise switch that could upend an already crowded and hotly contested race. "He and I...
NEW SCHOOL WOULD TEACH KIDS HOW TO BE TEACHERS
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe Board of Education plans to build a new $89 million high school in Queens for kids who want to become teachers. The proposed 1,182-seat HS for Math, Science and...
COPS: NO SIGN OF WATER-TAMPERING
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe water scare is fizzling. City officials who summoned the FBI to investigate possible tampering with bottled water said yesterday not a single suspected container has shown signs of puncturing....
SHAKY LADY GYMNASTS HARDLY GOOD AS GOLD
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe only hope for the USA's women gymnasts is in the upcoming individual competitions - and the bronze may be the only medal any of the women can win. "They...
SUBWAY-SLASH SUSPECT NABBED
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amOne suspect was arrested yesterday in the horrifying subway slashing of a Queens woman, and cops were on the trail of four other suspects. Randi Barber, 19, was charged with...
OUTRAGE OVER 'THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY' ; JEWISH WRITER CONDEMNED AS A 'TRAITOR'
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amTHE son of concentration-camp survivors has enraged America's Jewish establishment by accusing its top leaders of exploiting the Holocaust to pocket millions. In an explosive new book, "The Holocaust Industry,"...
AMAZIN'S NEED TO END THE DREAD AT THE TED
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - Each baseball game is a vacuum, to be played and analyzed on its own merit. Or so Mets manager Bobby Valentine would have us believe. Never mind that...
PATIENT METS IN NO RUSCH TO GET EVEN - GLENDON MORE RELAXED FOR MATCHUP VS. ASHBY
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - Glendon Rusch learned from the horrible experience. He thinks tonight will be different. Having pitched in one Mets-Braves matchup, he is more prepared. "I have a little bit...
YANKEES RIDING RETRO ROCKET TO OCT. ORBIT
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amSEPTEMBER, for the Yankees, has a melody all its own. There is a sense of finishing a job while putting it together for the bigger task at hand, winning a...
BELL'S A-POPPIN' AGAIN FOR METS
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - The swelling in Derek Bell's left knee had gone down enough yesterday for the Mets' right fielder to return to his spot after missing two games....
ASHBY HAS BEEN STEADY FOR BRAVES
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - Andy Ashby doesn't have a Cy Young Award like John Smoltz, or Smoltz' sterling postseason record; but Ashby has given the back end of Atlanta's rotation a much-needed...
ROGER GIVES HIS THANKS TO POSADA
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe Rocket does not have to go around thanking people for helping him, but he does. Roger Clemens, one of the best pitchers of all time, takes the time to...
YANKS WILL TAKE LONG LOOK AT LEFTY LILLY FOR PLAYOFFS
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The Yanks will take a good look at Ted Lilly in hopes he might be a candidate to become a second lefty in the postseason pen. The 24-year-old...
THERE'S NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT KICKING UNITS
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES One consistently troubling ingredient in the Giants' 3-0 start is the special teams play, which has operated far below the standards set by the offense and defense. There...
'PEGASUS' EYES RETURN IN JEROME
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amKentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus, who hasn't raced since finishing second in the Preakness May 20, will make his eagerly awaited return Saturday at Belmont Park going a mile in...
GIANTS CAN'T WAIT TO TANGLE WITH 'SKINS
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amEven before his team left Chicago, prior to boarding the flight and barely moments after a narrow but decisive road conquest, Jim Fassel started coaching for the next game as...
SEEING IS BELIEVING FOR SWIMMER QUANN
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Megan Quann visualizes her entire race. She holds a stopwatch in her hand and, stroke by stroke, goes through the 100-meter breaststroke. With her eyes closed, she says,...
DAMN THE THORPEDO! IAN SINKS: DUTCHMAN UPSETS AUSSIE IN THE 200-METER FREESTYLE
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - The unthinkable happened to the unsinkable. In a titanic surprise, Ian Thorpe could not muster the killer kick he had unleashed as the anchorman in a stirring Australian...
FORDHAM PREP RECEIVER COMES UP BIG
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amWhen he isn't playing football for Fordham Prep, David Bailey is usually playing football video games. "My favorite is NFL 2K1," said Bailey. "I just bought it and I can't...
JETS SAY KEYSHAWN'S PRESENCE IS NO FACTOR
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe 3-0 Jets' great "Downplay the Keyshawn Johnson factor" machine was humming yesterday as the hype for Sunday's potentially contentious showdown with Johnson and the 3-0 Buccaneers in Tampa began...
TAEKWONDO 'SISTER' WRITES POE-TIC LINE
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Here is a different Olympic ring. One not interlocked with four others and also - too often - interlocked with jingoism, cronyism and corruption. This is a ring...
SAD END FOR GYMNAST
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - All great warriors have to wave goodbye, sooner or later. Some, like Jordan, Elway and Gretzky, have their swan songs set to music and broadcast around the world....
PARENTS ARE KRAYZELBURG ABOUT LENNY
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - He was 15 and the balancing act had become too difficult. So Lenny Krayzelburg told his parents he was quitting swimming. It was just too hard to juggle...
AGING WARD WORKING FOR DEVILS SPOT
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amThings were tough enough for Ed Ward while fighting for a job with Atlanta and Anaheim, then the Stanley Cup champs went and traded for him. "What New Jersey does,...
AL'S NOT WORRIED ABOUT VINNY
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES Vinny Testaverde set the bar pretty high in 1998, throwing 29 touchdowns and only seven interceptions and playing his way all the way to Honolulu for the Pro...
RACISM BURNS WHITE-HOT
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - A perpetual flame, ignited thousands of miles away and transported laboriously, by hand and foot, to this Olympic City burns brightly in Victoria Park, but it has nothing...
WOMEN CAGERS SMOKE CUBANS
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - The USA women's basketball team smoked Havana's finest yesterday, beating a talented Cuban team with hard work, crisp passes, hustle and pinpoint execution. The hard-fought 90-61 win, saw...
OPEN-AND-CLOTHES CASE FOR BENNETT
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - U.S. gold medal winner Brooke Bennett, the fastest middle-distance swimmer in the world at the last two Olympics, worked part time, about four hours a day, at an...
LOMAS BROWN REBORN WITH BIG BLUE
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amLOMAS Brown always has enjoyed being a football player. He enjoyed the competition, he enjoyed his teammates and he enjoyed the fans. Whether he was blocking for Barry Sanders or...
RUSCH IS RELAXED THIS TIME
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - Glendon Rusch learned from the horrible experience. He thinks tonight will be different. Having pitched in one Mets-Braves matchup, he is more prepared. "I have a little bit...
RANGER ROOKIES FACE TEST
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amTwo weeks sit between Broadway and Moose Jaw. Less than a month will determine if Pavel Brendl and Jamie Lundmark will be playing in the "World's Most Famous Arena," or...
NIEDERMAYER DISGUSTED WITH DEVILS
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amLast time, he surrendered. This time, his back against the same wall, Scott Niedermayer stands disgusted with the Devil way of saying 'Thanks.' And he says he'll remember when he...
FOR METS, TED-ACHE JUST WON'T GO AWAY: TURNER FIELD IS STILL.... HOUSE OF HORROR-BALL
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - This was a game that followed the course of last season's National League Championship Series. The Mets didn't start playing until the outcome had been all but decided....
FOR METS, TED-ACHE: SAME OLD STORY AS BRAVES DROP METS FOUR GAMES OUT
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amBraves 6 Mets 3 ATLANTA - They are tight. This what Mike Piazza thinks when the Mets enter Turner Field. This is how he explains last night's 6-3 loss to...
CHIPPER STEPS UP TO KNOCK DOWN METS AGAIN
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - Chipper Jones has always thrived in these sort of games, the kind that change momentum and help decide pennants. Most of all, he seems to thrive on beating...
MADDUX ZEROS IN ON METS
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - It was the last pitch of Greg Maddux' night, but it might have been the best. When his two-strike curveball came inside on Daryl Hamilton and broke back...
COLON'S PERFORMANCE SHOULD WEIGH HEAVILY ON YANKEE MINDS
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amTHE day that Bartolo Colon showed up in spring training this year, a no-hitter was the last thing on his mind. The first goal was no food. Colon weighed in...
BRIAN HAPPY TO BE HEALTHY, BEAT METS
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - He didn't know the ball was gone when he hit it, which made it all the sweeter when right fielder Brian Jordan watched his home run clear the...
HAMPTON'S OK FOR NEXT START
September 19, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - The Braves bruised Mike Hampton's ERA and his right wrist, but the tough left-hander said he will be fine for his next start Saturday against the Phillies. "As...