August 16, 2002
BROOKLYN WINS MAJOR LEASE- TRANSIT AUTHORITY MOVES UNIT TO LIVINGSTON ST.
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amWhile downtown Manhattan continues to struggle, Brooklyn is getting its second major lease this summer. In a consolidation of its human resources departments, the New York City Transit division of...
MARTS SEARCH FOR DIRECTION, END UP
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amCall it the market dance. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped all around yesterday - dipping below the previous day's close eight different times, and jumping above seven times. At...
IMCLONE, MARTHA REBOUND - WALL ST. BARGAIN HUNTERS SNAP UP SHARES
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amIt was a good day for scandal plagued stocks. Shares of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia spiked up $1.09, or 15.5 percent, to close at $8.11, its highest close in nine...
MAXIM-UM MUSIC IN MAG'S CD DEAL
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amMaxim is all about beer, babes and . . . music? Looking to branch out and build on its brand, the magazine has inked a deal with Universal Music to...
NASD NAILS CSFB - TECH IPO BROKERS ARE FINED, SUSPENDED
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amRegulators fined two CSFB staffers a whopping $400,000 and suspended them and four former employees for their roles in the IPO scandals that rocked the big Swiss-owned investment bank last...
MONEY-GRUBMAN - DISGRACED SOLLY ANALYST GETS $32M FOR QUITTING
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amCitigroup has hung up on former star telecom analyst Jack Grubman - but is handing him millions as they show him the door. Under investigation by regulators and lawmakers, the...
MORRIS & CHORUS - GETTING A HANDEL ON MILTON
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amMARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP Through tomorrow. New York State Theater, Lincoln Center; (212) 875-5399. --------- LINCOLN Center's mostly canceled Mostly Mozart Festival took a turn for the theatrical Wednesday night...
COURT & SPARK
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amPOSSESSION [] "The French Lieutenant's Woman" for dummies - and fairly satisfying at that. Running time: 104 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sexual references). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Chelsea,...
BOUNCE LEADEN CZECH
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amALL MY LOVED ONES [1/2]In Czech with English subtitles. Running time: 92 minutes. Not rated (sexual situations). At the Quad, 13th Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. ------ PRAGUE looks...
BOYS YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE, ITALIAN STYLE
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amTHE LAST KISS [ 1/2] A rage-against-aging comedy. In Italian, with English subtitles. Running time: 115 minutes. Rated R (language, sexuality and some drug use). At the Sunshine, Houston Street,...
FILM FOOD FOR THOUGHT FROM GERMAN KITCHEN
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amMOSTLY MARTHA [1/2] A satisfying dish. In German with English subtitles. Running time: 107 minutes. Rated PG (thematic material and mild language). At the Angelika and the Paris Theater. ------...
SIMPLY DIVINE - JOHN WATERS' 'HAIRSPRAY' THE NEW 'PRODUCERS'
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amHAIRSPRAY []At the Neil Simon Theatre, 250 W. 52nd St.; (212) 757-8646. -------- YEP, it's a hit - a great big fat gorgeous hit. For the second time in recent...
BECK BECKONS AT ALICE TULLY
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amBECK ------ ANTI-FOLK coffeehouse singer Beck has waited his whole life for a gig like his Alice Tully Hall debut at Lincoln Center Wednesday night. Taking the revered stage for...
STARR REPORT
August 16, 2002 | 4:00am7-up: Plotnik gets his shot at glory ABC-owned Ch. 7 has named Kenny Plotnik as news director. Plotnik had worked as Ch. 7's assistant news director for the last three...
SURFER GIRL PEARL
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amBLUE CRUSH [] Surf's up! Running time: 103 minutes. Rated PG-13 (adult themes). At the E-Walk, the Union Square, others. -------- FEW human activities are as photogenic as surfing. And...
SWEET SPOT - JAMES TAYLOR ON SECOND CHANCES, COUNTING BLESSINGS
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amSOMEWHERE in New York, there's a thief James Taylor would like to thank. A couple of years ago, Taylor's notebook - containing the original lyrics to his latest album, "October...
GIMME SOME SPACEY
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amOSCAR winner Kevin Spacey will narrate "America Rebuilds," PBS' look at the aftermath of Sept. 11 - and the rebuilding efforts still underway at Ground Zero. The 90-minute movie, produced...
'GYPSY' STRINGS - BRIT SNIT THREATENS BROADWAY REVIVAL
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amA battle behind the scenes pitting the creators of "Gypsy" against their London-based producer is threatening to scuttle the upcoming Broadway revival. The creators - bookwriter Arthur Laurents, lyricist Stephen...
COP TAKES THE 'FIFTH' ; NEW YORKERS GO ISLAND HOPPING FOR 'SURVIVOR 5'
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amA HERO New York cop and a Manhattan recruiter are among the 16 contestants who will vie for $1 million on "Survivor: Thailand," the fifth installment of the CBS reality...
STROKES SOAR, STRIPES BORE
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amTHE STROKES and THE WHITE STRIPESAt Radio City Music Hall ------- WHEN indie acts such as the White Stripes and the Strokes start playing mainstream auditoriums like Radio City Music...
VATICAN TO NIX PERV PRIEST PLAN
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe Vatican will reject U.S. bishops' plan to discipline priests guilty of sex abuse, a Catholic news service said yesterday. The policies adopted by the bishops during a June meeting...
GORED AGAIN . . . FOR GOOD REASON
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amI INTENDED to get out of the political-prognostication business after my prediction that John McCain would be the GOP presidential nominee in 2000 made me look like an idiot. But,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe umbrellas and beach chairs went flying on a packed beach in southeastern Italy recently. The reported cause: A U.S. military helicopter on a NATO mission had buzzed the beach...
CARL PULLS AWAY FROM ANDY BY 16 POINTS
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - Carl McCall has opened a huge, 16-point lead over Democratic gubernatorial rival Andrew Cuomo, an explosive new poll showed yesterday. The Quinnipiac University survey found state Comptroller McCall...
GROUND ZERO REBUILD CZAR BOO$TING GOP
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amHE'S supposed to be above politics, but Ground Zero rebuilding czar John Whitehead this year gave $22,700 to the state GOP and three candidates. Whitehead - who already gave Gov....
$100T SUIT TIES SAUDI BIGS TO 9/11
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Three influential members of Saudi Arabia's royal family and Osama bin Laden's family construction business were named yesterday in a $100 trillion lawsuit filed by relatives of Sept....
DOWNTOWN SCOFFLAW SITE NOW A CONE ZONE
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amBright-orange traffic cones popped up on Chambers Street yesterday to stop privileged parkers from blocking a main exit off the Brooklyn Bridge. But right around the corner, motorists with official...
THESE GRIEVING COMRADES NEVER STOOD PROUDER
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amTHE next time I hear some moron talk about "the blue wall of silence," I will refer them to Aug. 15, 2002. If we had been in Paris, we would...
YANK FANS FILE NEW TV-BLACKOUT SUIT
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amA new group of diehard Yankee fans is taking a legal swing at Cablevision in a bid to end the Bomber blackout. Three Westchester residents, William Tepper, Herbert Rosenberg and...
'BACKPACK BETSY' UNVEILS CRISIS KIT
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amPublic Advocate Betsy Gotbaum visited the apartment of a World Trade Center evacuee yesterday armed with flashlights, compasses and other must-haves for her proposed emergency "evacuation kit." Gotbaum urged New...
EX-FOE RUDY HAILS PATAKI IN NEW TV AD
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amGov. Pataki yesterday played one of his powerful political trump cards, releasing a testimonial ad from former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who calls Pataki "a real man who really cares about...
THOMPSON TO BE JUDGE FOR MEDALS
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amCity Comptroller Bill Thompson has joined the prominent panel of judges who will select 10 unsung heroic New Yorkers as winners of the Post's Liberty Medals. "I am honored to...
VIDEO SHOOT AIDS VICTIMS
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amLifting their voices, singers shot a music video yesterday in honor of those lost in the terror attacks. Poised in front of the "Sphere" - the battered sculpture that once...
A DESIGN FOR A MEMORIAL AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER SITE
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amA design for a memorial at the World Trade Center site could be chosen by the second anniversary of the terror attack in September 2003, officials said yesterday. Even as...
ISRAEL'S NUKE REVENGE - MIGHT ERASE IRAQ AFTER BIO-STRIKE
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amA massive Iraqi strike against Israel with non-conventional weapons could trigger a devastating nuclear response that would end Iraq's existence as a country. That chilling assessment was presented last week...
PLEA BARGAIN EYED BY JAYSON'S CO-DEFENDANT
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amAnother of ex-NBA superstar Jayson Williams' co-defendants may be eyeballing a plea bargain in the alleged cover-up of a limo driver's shotgun killing. John Gordnick, 44, of Rochelle Park, N.J.,...
RENT BREAKS TAKE FORM
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amDowntown residents can finally start filling out applications for the rent subsidies promised by development officials. The forms can be found on the Web site for the Lower Manhattan Development...
DUBYA PUTS $QUEEZE ON EGYPT
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush is telling Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak he'll oppose any extra aid for Egypt to protest the prosecution of a human-rights activist, U.S. officials said. Bush's move...
JUDGE REJECTS FEES FOR USE OF CITY PARKS
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amA federal judge yesterday struck down a controversial Parks Department policy of charging fees up to $100,000 to groups seeking permits to stage events in city parks. The practice was...
PROF PORN STUNNER - STAFF FINDS XXX KID PIX ON HIS OFFICE COMPUTER: COPS
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amA law professor who collected dozens of old photographs for a celebrated book on copyright law has been accused of keeping another private stash of pictures no one knew about...
MOB PICTURE PUZZLE - FANS HUNT FOR CLUES IN NEW 'SOPRANOS' PHOTO
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amIs Paulie Walnuts gonna get whacked on the new season of "The Sopranos"? Is the marriage of Tony and Carmela doomed? Fans of the popular mob opera are in such...
COUNCIL BLASTS 'TERRORISTS'
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe Palestinian Authority was branded a terrorist organization yesterday by the City Council, which demanded the feds padlock its U.N. mission. The council, by a voice vote, passed three Israel-related...
KIDS' TERROR CAMP - PALESTINIANS LEARN TO BE LITTLE KILLERS
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amSummer camp is deadly serious business for these Palestinian youngsters. They've been spending the past three weeks being trained in guerrilla warfare and other military and terrorist tactics by members...
TOWERING AMBITIONS - TOP ARCHITECTS WOULD LOVE SHOT AT WTC DESIGN
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amIf you let them build it, they will come. Rem Koolhaas, Robert A.M. Stern and several other top architects told The Post yesterday they'd like a chance at designing the...
ARE COPS IGNORING STREET BUMS?
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amLAST Saturday afternoon I went to 40th Street and Third Avenue to catch a bus out to Long Island. It was a beautiful day, and the city streets were full...
'CRITICAL' W. NILE CASE IN QUEENS
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amAn 84-year-old Queens man has become the first city resident to come down with the deadly West Nile virus this year. The city Health Department said the man, who lives...
IT'S CHECKOUT TIME: DAYS INN BOOTS 'BIAS' MOTEL
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - The Days Inn company has yanked its franchise agreement with an upstate hotel that allegedly kicked out an Orthodox Jewish family from Brooklyn on the Sabbath. "They are...
LEVY & UNION BIG TRADE PARTING SHOTS
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amOutgoing Schools Chancellor Harold Levy's 30-month tenure ends today with a slam, not a whimper. The head of the principals union yesterday blasted him for threatening to fire high-school principals...
MADMAN GETS 22 TO LIFE IN LOVER SLAY
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amA former mental patient who terrorized his girlfriend for years, before knifing her 16 times in what his own lawyer called a "mad frenzy," was sentenced to 22 years to...
TOP BUSH AIDE: U.S. MUST REMOVE 'EVIL' SADDAM
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Top Bush foreign-policy aide Condoleezza Rice yesterday said the United States must act against Iraq and kick out "evil" Saddam Hussein before he can "wreak havoc" on the...
HEROES ROAR FOR THEIR RAISE - 15,000 COPS, FIREMEN JOIN PROTEST
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amChanting, "Give the heroes a raise," more than 15,000 off-duty city cops and firefighters descended on Times Square yesterday to demand better pay in the wake of sacrifices their colleagues...
TENANTS' TERROR - TELL COURT OF 'HELLISH' LANDLORD'S OUTRAGES
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amThey call him "the landlord from hell." Tenants who claim they were terrorized for years by Queens apartment owner George Subraj faced off against their alleged tormentor yesterday. During an...
MURDER RAP FOR 'VIGILANTE' TEEN
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amA Bronx teen who chased and allegedly stabbed to death a suspected gun-toting bodega robber has been charged with murder. The robbery occurred at 11:30 p.m. Monday at the grocery...
WOMAN MUGGED AT CATHEDRAL
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amAs cops and security guards handled the case of two people having sex live on the radio in St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday, a Queens woman was mugged outside, police said....
ST. PAT'S SHOCK-JOCK INTER-LEWD
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amA Virginia couple was arrested yesterday for public lewdness after allegedly having sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral as part of an "Opie and Anthony" radio stunt that outraged parishioners and...
COPS: SANITMAN IN DWI GUN SPAT
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amA drunk off-duty sanitation worker threatened a motorist with a loaded shotgun in a parking dispute, police said. Robert Cannet, 44, was double-parked near 94th Street and Fourth Avenue in...
$1T SUIT TIES SAUDIS TO SEPT. 11
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Three influential members of Saudi Arabia's royal family and Osama bin Laden's family construction business were named yesterday in a $1 trillion lawsuit filed by relatives of Sept....
HEROES ROAR FOR THEIR RAISE: 15,000 COPS, FIREMEN JOIN PROTEST
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amChanting, "Give the heroes a raise," more than 15,000 off-duty city cops and firefighters descended on Times Square yesterday to demand better pay in the wake of sacrifices their colleagues...
JETS LOOKING GOOD: OFFENSE TAKES OFF IN ROUT OF RAVENS
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amJets 34 Ravens 16 BALTIMORE - Half full or half empty? Elated or agitated? Encouraged or discouraged? Such was the Jets' dilemma after they shellacked the 2001 Super Bowl-champion Ravens...
CHREBET SPARKS SHARP OFFENSE
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amJET NOTES BALTIMORE - There was a Wayne Chrebet sighting last night. The Jets' receiver, who wasn't utilized the way he should have been last year, was actually the star...
RAUL ROCKS ROYALS: YANKS SWEEP ON MONDESI HR IN 9TH
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amYankees 7 Royals 5 KANSAS CITY - As it climbed through the muggy Midwest night the Yankees jumped in the third base dugout. From the padded bench they bolted to...
YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING! LITTLE LEAGUE SHOWBOATING A BIG HIT ON ESPN
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amMAYBE it's time to depart the denial stage. Perhaps it's time to admit that I'm crazy and everyone else is sane. Tuesday night on ESPN2, I watched an 11- or...
SALTWATER ACTION STILL PROVES HOT STUFF
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amSALTWATER fishing continues at about the same pace as the temperature here in the Northeast - hot. Inshore fishing has not let up, with fluke, porgies, sea bass and bluefish...
PRADO MAKING RUN TO DETHRONE BAILEY
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - It happens every summer in the race to be leading rider at the Old Spa. Jerry Bailey, who's won seven of the last eight titles, breaks fast...
STRETCH TINKERING WON'T BE BIG DEAL
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES KANSAS CITY - When the Yankees go from 12 to 11 pitchers and add a position player shortly, it won't be through a trade where GM Brian Cashman...
ANOTHER HOME-LY LOSS ; WILD-CARD HOPES BOOTED
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amPadres 5Mets 3 It's over. There's nothing more that can be said or written, nothing else that can be taken from the three-game sweep at the hands of the NL...
CORNER GURU HAS THE WILL TO INSTRUCT
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amALBANY - There are times - more often than they care to admit - when young, athletically-gifted players want to filter out all the commands and just do their thing...
ESTES TO REDS
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amIn a clear sign the Mets are already preparing for 2003, the club yesterday traded pitcher Shawn Estes and cash considerations to Cincinnati for two minor-leaguers and two players to...
SHOCKEY CAN'T WAIT TO RUMBLE
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - Let's get on with it. That about sums up Jeremy Shockey's feelings about his first NFL training camp. Shockey, yesterday, expressed frustration and admitted "it's boring"...
WILPON OWNS UP TO TEAM'S FATE
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amFRED WILPON had just watched his team commit two errors plus lose a ball in the sun in one 1962 of an inning, and he cannot conceal his dismay, disappointment...
ANDY STILL ACE OF AUGUST ; MAINTAINS GROOVE DESPITE SWEENEY SWIPE OF HOME
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Allowing the heavy-legged Mike Sweeney to swipe home was inexcusable. Yet in the big picture, Andy Pettitte's overall performance Wednesday night against the Royals was a huge...
LOVABLE GIANT ROTE DIES AT 74
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amThere were more prolific players in the annals of Giants football history, but perhaps none more respected than Kyle Rote, who died Wednesday night at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore at...
BECHT & BAKER BECOME BUDDIES DESPITE TE BATTLE
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amJET NOTES BALTIMORE - When the Jets selected TE Chris Baker in the third round of the draft last April, some cynics took that as a sign that they were...
FEVER MIGHT PUT HEAT ON LIBERTY
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amIt's time for WNBA playoff fever. For the Liberty, it's time for the Indiana Fever. Their best-of-three first-round series tips off tonight in Indianapolis and Liberty coach Richie Adubato is...
THOMSON ERROR OF HIS WAYS
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amAny time a pitcher allows 10 hits in 42/3 innings, it is not a good start. John Thomson, in his second outing as a Met, did that yesterday, so you...
PIAZZA'S WRIST GETS MRI TODAY
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mike Piazza will have a preliminary MRI on his sore left wrist before tonight's game with the Dodgers. Piazza, who missed Tuesday's and Wednesday's games and grounded out...
BAD WOODS VEX TIGER ; ERRATIC DRIVING LEADS TO 1-UNDER ROUND
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amCHASKA, Minn. - Tiger Woods struggled to find the fairway with his driver, hitting the ball way left at times and way right at others. But the rest of his...
PLAYERS BACKING V VS. JONES
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amA little more than two weeks ago, Jersey Bobby Jones was a Met. Now a Padre, the man who once called Bobby Valentine "a joke" said yesterday some Mets might...
FURYK FIRES AHEAD ; TIED WITH FUNK AFTER 4-UNDER FIRST ROUND
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amCHASKA, Minn. - It already has been a special year for Jim Furyk. He earned his seventh PGA Tour victory at the prestigious Memorial Tournament last May and welcomed the...
STANTON WARY OF LABOR PAINS
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - According to Mike Stanton, it's getting late when it comes to avoiding a work stoppage. "It's getting down to the 12th hour and we have to wait...
RONDELL'S BAT IN DEEP FREEZE
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amYANK NOTES KANSAS CITY - Being hitless in 27 at-bats, the longest slide of his career, hasn't robbed Rondell White of his confidence. "Right now I am not doing the...
ROSE SMELLING SWEET AFTER SOLID OPENER
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK CHASKA, Minn. - If Justin Rose was nervous playing his first professional round in America, he didn't show it. The 22-year-old from South Africa, fired a 3-under 69 and...
FURYK FIRES AHEAD: TIED WITH FUNK AFTER 4-UNDER FIRST ROUND
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amCHASKA, Minn. - It already has been a special year for Jim Furyk. He earned his seventh PGA Tour victory at the prestigious Memorial Tournament last May and welcomed the...
K-MART SPECIAL TIME; MARTIN TO GET TOUCHES AS OPENER APPROACHES
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The completion of last night's Jets-Ravens preseason game at Ravens Stadium left the Jets' exhibition schedule halfway complete and yet there are still so many questions to be...
MAJOR DOMOS: TIGER AND ELS SET FOR HAZELTINE DUEL
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amThis is the weekend to ponder what could've been. What if Tiger Woods had won the British Open last month, and were competing in this week's PGA Championship with a...
MARCHAND ON ARRINGTON'S PEEL: TO POSE OR NOT TO POSE?
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amFirst some context: When some major league players are away from home they refer to women or groupies that they get to know well as "road beef." Welcome to the...
5 QUESTIONS FOR JOE BUCK
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amThis week, The Post's Andrew Marchand caught up with Joe Buck, Fox' lead baseball - and now, football - play-by-play man. Tonight, the 33-year-old Buck begins his NFL duties as...
STOCKTON, PAPA EYED FOR NET GIG
August 16, 2002 | 4:00amThe YES Network's short list for the Nets' play-by-play position features some big names. Joining incumbent Ian Eagle are NBA veteran Dick Stockton and the voice of the Giants, Bob...