September 11, 2001
DURST'S WAR FOR W. 42ND
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amDOUGLAS Durst, pressing his quest to control the entire block of West 42nd Street where he plans a giant office tower, is turning up the heat on his long-time nemesis,...
WHY WAS THE JOBLESS RATE SUCH A SURPRISE?
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amREALITY really does bite. The government announced Friday that the unemployment rate soared to 4.9 percent in August from 4.5 percent the month before. The stock market choked on the...
LIZ INKS A DEAL TO DISH ON GEMS & MEN BEHIND THEM
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amLiz Taylor will finally dish it out - on her jewelry and the men behind it. Hollywood's reigning diva will pen a book about her famous jewelry collection for Simon...
'TWEEN MARKET IS IN STYLE WITH RETAILERS
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amIt's all well and good that fashion designers show their wares on the runways at Bryant Park, but the real retail action is at the mall. Teen and 'tween consumers...
EEOC RIPS MORGAN STANLEY
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe head of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission blasted Wall Street yesterday as a haven for sexual discrimination and filed a lawsuit charging Morgan Stanley mistreated as many as...
PPR, LVMH END SPAT FOR GUCCI
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amIt's over. The bloodiest battle the luxury goods industry has ever seen has come to a whimpering close as Bernard Arnault's LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and Francois Pinault's Pinault-Printemps-Redoute...
HIGH-FLIER SUES ; GE JET ENGINE FAILURE SCARES CMGI CHIEF
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amOnline mogul David Wetherell is suing General Electric and others because his brand new $22.5 million corporate jet nearly crashed twice over mystery bugs. "He's parked it in the hangar...
DEBT DOGS TOWER RECORDS: S&P WARNS OF A DEFAULT IN DOWNGRADE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amTower Records could soon be toppled. Standard & Poor's downgraded its rating on Tower's parent company, MTS Inc., on Friday, saying the company could default on its debt repayments. The...
YANKEES' NETWORK ON DECK
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amLeo Hindery raised the curtain yesterday on the Yankees' new TV network only to reveal a lot of question marks about the venture. The baseball club is making history by...
STARR REPORT
September 11, 2001 | 4:00am'Tooning into Fashion Week with 'Dexter' How big is Fashion Week here in New York? Even "Dexter's Laboratory" is being represented. Illustrated designs from Genndy Tartakovksy's Cartoon Network series will...
ALLABOUTSTEVE: MULTI-TALENTED MARTIN HEEDS WRITER'S MUSE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - No longer the wild and crazy guy, Steve Martin these days is more like a mild and literary guy.At 56, Martin is as much an author as he...
HBO HAS LOST ITS 'MIND'; YES, WOMEN WILL HATE THIS SERIES - AND SO WILL ANYONE ELSE WHO SEES IT
September 11, 2001 | 4:00am"The Mind of theMarried Man" Tonight on HBO at 10 HBO was bound to detonate one stinker. Their record was too good. I'm here to report that when HBO goes...
BUZZ
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amA boomer marathon You don't have to be young to be a triathlete. Witness the Tri-Umph! Classic, billed as the first national multisport event series for the 50-and-over set. This...
ANOTHER CNNER HEADING HOME
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amCNN's Washington bureau chief, Frank Sesno, is the latest to bolt the cable news network during its continuing shake-up. In a memo to CNN staffers and obtained by The Post...
CITY SUPERIOR: FALL COLORS AND UBIQUITOUS LAKE VIEWS IN A QUIRKY MINNESOTA TOWN
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHE fact that Duluth has a highway called the Central Entrance should clear up a thing or two regarding the dramatic location in which this Minnesota port city rests. Just...
HUGHES BROTHERS WIN ONE FOR THE RIPPER
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - The hottest ticket at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend was for the premiere of "From Hell," a stylish thriller about the hunt for Jack the Ripper,...
MAN OF MYTH: HUGHES, THE BILLIONAIRE KOOK
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHE mythology around enigmatic billionaire Howard Hughes has relied heavily on an absence of facts. But Richard Hack's extensively researched biography, "Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters" (New Millennium...
YOUR CABIN OR MINE? 'LOVE CRUISE' NEXT WAVE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00am"Love Cruise: TheMaiden Voyage" Tonight at 9 on Fox/Ch. 5 THE decline of Western civilization can literally be traced through the history of the S/V Mandalay. Once, this magnificent, hand-crafted,...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amSunnyside up Help yourself to hot jazz at the Sunnyside Jazz Festival this Saturday and Sunday. The outdoor fest takes place rain or shine on the rolling lawns of Washington...
DON'T THINK TWICE: DYLAN CD POSITIVELY 1ST RATE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amBOB DYLAN "Love and Theft" Columbia Records In 1997, Bob Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" - a moody introspection on growing up, growing old and the randomness of life -...
BIG CONCORDE BOOSTER DIES
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amHans Hollander, a Westchester businessman who had flown the Concorde more times than anyone, has died of a heart attack. He was 73. Hollander, a semi-retired aerospace-industry executive, crossed the...
FERRER'S GIFT TO GREEN ; FREDDY'S LEFTY ASSAULT LETS MARK PLAY LIKE RUDY'S HEIR
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHERE are two winning scenarios for mayoral candidate Mark Green today, as voters go to the polls. The first and most obvious scenario is that Green gets more than 40...
AIR WE GO AGAIN
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amAll that is missing is the final confirmation from Michael Jordan that he is returning to the NBA. And yesterday, His Airness, considered by most sane thinkers as the greatest...
VALLONE STRIVES FOR KINDER, GENTLER CITY HALL
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amTHE soundtrack of "Rocky" - the national anthem for the underdog - reverberated from the Vallone campaign truck across Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge. Peter Vallone was talking over an...
BETSEY BARES SPANISH SIZZLE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amBetsey Johnson went full out for her Munequita (Spanish for "little doll") spring 2002 collection at Tavern on the Green - the first time a fashion show has ever been...
'PATIENT' LIZZIE AWAITS HER FATE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amPublicity princess Lizzie Grubman is "waiting patiently" to see if a Long Island grand jury will indict her for backing into 16 people with her dad's Mercedes-Benz SUV outside a...
HERMAN MIGHT SHOCK THE CITY WITH AN UPSET
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amNOBODY gives Republican Herman Badillo much of a chance today against the Michael Bloomberg Goliath. But every likely Badillo voter I've talked to is passionate about their man, and most...
SURGEON: COLLEGE CAN HAVE XXXTRA CUT OF MY NUDIE-CLUB EARNINGS
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amA renowned heart doctor has discovered a new cure for research-funding woes: nude dancers. Stanford University cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Simon Stertzer - who performed the first angioplasty at New York's...
RUDY: I'LL BE HAPPY TO GET OUT OF HERE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani said yesterday what few might believe - that he's happy to be leaving City Hall after two terms because that gives the city "a chance to try something...
REFUND REV. ALSO DUPED THE IRS: D.A.
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe former minister who allegedly received a $5 million refund from the state by claiming he made a quarter of a billion dollars last year didn't flee the country because...
MICK'S KID GOES FROM DISASTROUS TO DAZZLING
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amElizabeth Jagger's got her mother's long, slim legs, her father's oversized lips, and nobody's fashion sense. Or at least that's how it seemed when she was spotted - dressed like...
75 YEARS OF KISS AND MAKE UP
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amAn upstate couple who walked down the aisle 75 years ago say the key to a lasting marriage is never walking away after a spat. "Today, someone gets angry and...
DEAD E-ZPASS BATTERIES ARE $HOCKING DRIVERS
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - The tiny batteries that were supposed to keep on going and going in millions of E-ZPasses have been failing and failing. The result has been unjustified fines and...
ANDY ALLY HITS 'UNETHICAL' HUD PROBER
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amThe GOP congresswoman probing a scandal-scarred housing program that Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo oversaw as federal HUD secretary was hit with an ethics complaint yesterday - from one of...
BUSH TRIES TO EDUCATE FLORIDA
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday returned to Florida, scene of last year's five-week election-recount fiasco, to promote his education plan and meet with the state's governor, brother Jeb Bush. Dubya's...
POLITICAL 'MACHINE' IS IN TIP-TOP SHAPE: PRIMARY OFFICIALS WORK TO PREVENT A FLORIDA FIASCO
September 11, 2001 | 4:00am"This isn't going to be Florida," vowed the head of the city Board of Elections yesterday, proclaiming his troops are fully prepared to tackle today's primary elections throughout the city....
LANDLORD COMES CLEAN IN SLAY: D.A.
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amA year ago today, millionaire Upper East Side landlord Louis Hubrecht climbed the stairs, as usual, to collect the trash in his Madison Avenue apartment building. Nothing would get in...
B'KLYN GIRL HIT BY MINIVAN
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amA minivan slammed into a 13-year-old girl in Crown Heights yesterday, sending her to the hospital. The accident happened at Franklin Avenue and Montgomery Street as Josie Dossou, 40, was...
GOD FORBID! TEACHERS RIP 'PERMISSION' FOR HOLY DAYS
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn high-school principal started a holy war by ordering teachers to provide a letter from a spiritual leader to get a day off for religious observance - but her...
ENDORSEMENTS DON'T AD UP
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amPublic-advocate hopeful Willie Colon has some explaining to do after touting big-name political endorsements - including Al Gore - in an ad, even though he doesn't actually have them. In...
'QUIT'-NEY HOUSTON IN JACKSON JILT
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amAn emaciated-looking Whitney Houston pulled out of last night's Michael Jackson concert at the last minute - refusing to say why she wouldn't take the stage with the self-proclaimed King...
COP RAID HELLI$H FOR CITY
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amA group of Hells Angels has won a $200,000 settlement from the city after cops - led by a scandal-tainted police official - improperly raided their hog-heaven clubhouse. The deal...
GREEN'S PRIMARY COLORS: HE'S THE CANDIDATE TO BEAT AS VOTERS GO TO THE POLLS
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amMark Green yesterday capped off his wire-to-wire front-running mayoral campaign with a prediction of victory - but Fernando Ferrer had him clear in his sights for a Democratic showdown in...
B'KLYN VOTERS REACHING A SPLIT DECISION
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amAmong the brownstones of Baltic Street, talk is finally turning to the mayoral race. But on the Cobble Hill street where high-tech professionals rub shoulders with elderly Italians, and young...
MONICA ON COLLISION 'COURSE' WITH BILL
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amMonica Lewinsky is heading uptown, close to the new haunts of her old paramour, Bill Clinton. The ex-White House intern will be taking a once-a-week psychology class at Columbia University,...
CATHOLIC HS TEACHERS COULD WALK OUT TODAY
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amTeachers at 10 Catholic high schools in the New York Archdiocese could strike as early as today to break a stalemate with the church over salary and benefits. The high...
ISRAELIS SHELL BOMBERS' TOWN
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli armored vehicles last night began shelling a Palestinian town believed to be a center for suicide bombers, even as diplomatic efforts intensified yesterday to bring about a...
POLICE QUIZ SLAIN EX-COP'S GAL PAL
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amPolice yesterday were interviewing the only witness to the murder of an ex-cop during a push-in robbery: his girlfriend. Michael Brown, who left the NYPD to fulfill his dream of...
LIDDY DOLE IS REVVED UP TO RUN FOR SENATE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Liddy Dole plans today to announce she's running for Senate in North Carolina, Republican Party sources said yesterday. Dole, who planned to run in the 2000 GOP presidential...
TEACHER BUSTED IN '71 HIJACK
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amA slight, graying former New York City teacher was unmasked yesterday as a fugitive hijacker who robbed banks 30 years ago as part of a black radical group, authorities said....
CONDIT DODGES A BULLET: CALIF. GRAND JURY WON'T PRESS OBSTRUCTION PROBE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A grand jury in Rep. Gary Condit's California district rejected a request to investigate him for allegedly asking an ex-girlfriend to lie about their affair, it was revealed...
TOP DESIGNERS WILL JUNK PUNK ; YOU'LL SEE SOFTER LOOK THIS SPRING
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amGET ready for a kinder, gentler spring. Instead of the punky, streetwise looks that rule fashion this fall (everyone who's anyone in the Tents is sporting slashed, ripped and redone...
NEW YORK POSTFROM SEPT. 11, 1940
September 11, 2001 | 4:00am"London - An exploding German time bomb damaged King George's study and Queen Elizabeth's drawing room in Buckingham Palace and wrecked the swimming pool on the palace grounds used by...
POSADA STILL PLANS ON FIGHTING SUSPENSION
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Considering he is understandably concerned about his hospitalized son and the Yankees have an insurmountable lead in the AL East, it makes some sense for Jorge Posada to...
BIG BLAZE AT AIRPORT FIREHOUSE BURNS UP NEWARK'S SCHEDULE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amNewark Airport's huge new firehouse went up in smoke yesterday after a raging blaze broke out on its roof, halting air traffic for about a half-hour, officials said. The site...
CHANGES ARE ON 'D' WAY
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amJET NOTES Help is on the way for the Jets' beleaguered defense, and the byproduct might even be Shaun Ellis moving back to his natural position at defensive end. The...
IMPROVED ISLES SHOULDN'T NEED MIRACLE ON ICE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amLAKE PLACID - If the Islanders are to become winners, there is no better place in the world to hold training camp. The Isles open camp here today at the...
METS: REALISTIC DREAMERS ; WON'T BE DISTRACTED BY BRAVE CHASE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - The Mets are more realists than dreamers. They are so aware of the seemingly impossible numbers - eight games back with 18 to go - they refuse to...
INELIGIBILITY BLUES ; JEFFERSON H.S. FORFEITS; SEASON IN DANGER
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amNineteen days. That's how long it took for Jefferson H.S. to discover that the majority of its football players were ineligible. Scheduled to play Campus Magnet on Saturday morning, the...
HARD TO FINGER IF FONZ CAN PLAY
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES PITTSBURGH - Manager Bobby Valentine won't know if Edgardo Alfonzo will be able to play tonight, in the opener of a three-game series against the Pirates, until the...
SKATING FOR DOLLARS ; DOZEN DEVILS BEGIN CONTRACT YEARS
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amStarting their 20th season in New Jersey, the Devils report today for what will come to be known as The Contract Campaign. While GM Lou Lamoriello settles further in to...
JETS: THERE'S NO REASON TO PANIC
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amEverything is going to bejust fine. That was the clear and distinct message delivered by the Jets yesterday at Weeb Ewbank Hall in the wake of Sunday's unsightly 45-24 season-opening...
SOX: ROCKET BETTER WITH AGE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amEvery time Roger Clemens throws against his former Red Sox team, the joke plays on about "the twilight of his career." It was a foolish comment Boston general manager Dan...
ONLY YANKEE DRAMA IS IN TRAINER'S ROOM
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amFIGHTING to restrain tears - and ultimately losing - Jorge Posada explained that his priority is his ill son and he will not give up a moment in the hospital...
O'NEILL GETS THE BOOT: PAUL OUT 7-10 DAYS WITH FOOT IN CAST
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amYou didn't need a calendar to tell you it was September yesterday. One look at Paul O'Neill's left foot in a walking boot while he sat at his locker instructed...
RAIN POSTPONES ROCKET'S RECORD CHASE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Roger Clemens' chance at winning 20 games and becoming the first pitcher to cop 20 of his first 21 decisions wasn't the only thing lost to a drenching...
A DOZEN DEVILS IN SALARY DRIVE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amStarting their 20th season in New Jersey, the Devils report today for what will come to be known as The Contract Campaign. While GM Lou Lamoriello settles further in to...
IMPROVED ISLES WON'T NEED MIRACLE ON ICE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amLAKE PLACID - If the Islanders are to become winners, there is no better place in the world to hold training camp. The Isles open camp here today at the...
SEHORN SIDELINED FOR JINTS' SEASON OPENER
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES DENVER - The Giants started their season last night. Jason Sehorn did not. After a week of speculation that began with extreme confidence that Sehorn would play, the...
MICHAEL, GET A LIFE! AIR'S COMEBACK IS ALL ABOUT EGO
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amOK, so now it's (just about) official: Michael Jordan has no life. No life outside of the basketball court, at least. Within the next 10 days, a news conference will...
FOR OPENERS, JINTS ANYTHING BUT SUPER
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amDENVER - The goal, Jim Fassel claimed, was to learn. "I wanted to find out about ourselves," he said. The verdict? "Most of what I found out was positive." Obviously...
WHERE THERE'S A WILL: ROOKIE CB PETERSON ANXIOUS FOR NFL BAPTISM BY FIRE
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amDENVER - Isn't this all too much? Isn't it too much for a rookie who was fairly unheralded coming out of college to make his NFL debut on Monday Night...
JESSIE: TERRELL'S CUT ABOVE THE REST
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES DENVER - All the talk here was about how there was no difference in all three Broncos running backs, but the Giants begged to differ. While no team...