April 18, 2005
SHELL-SHOCKED INVESTORS EYE HORIZON FOR GOOD NEWS
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amWall Street will need a healthy dose of good news if it's to recover from last week's meltdown. As jittery investors eye the opening of the markets today, they will...
PYRAMID POWER - BIG RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPER BUYS 14 WALL ST.
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe downtown residential conversion boom just landed a whopper: the coveted pyramid-topped building at 14 Wall St. is being snapped up by developer Shaya Boymelgreen's partnership for around $215 million,...
NELLY'S GIFT RAP
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amEVEN though Nelly was still in mourning for his sister, who succumbed to leukemia two weeks ago, he put on a happy face and crafted one of the best rap...
TOM SNYDER DIAGNOSED WITH LEUKEMIA
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amTALK-SHOW legend Tom Snyder, who successfully battled heart disease four years ago, now has leukemia. The onetime WNBC and WABC news anchor and host of NBC's "Tomorrow" - predecessor of...
REAL LIFE IN 'DEAD' WEST
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amEVER wonder what was real - and made up - about HBO's curse-filled Western, "Deadwood"? Turns out an awful lot is true, although not all that bad language, according to...
STARR REPORT
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amVanessa Minnillo, late of MTV's "TRL," is joining "Entertainment Tonight" as the show's New York correspondent. Minnillo, a former Miss Teen USA, will cover film, television, music and fashion. "Vanessa's...
MAKE A 'FACE' - THE UGLY SIDE OF GETTING MOVIE-STAR LOOKS
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amTALK about a second cut. MTV is quietly a month into the second season of its can't-lookaway plastic surgery documentary series, "I Want a Famous Face." On the show, MTV...
HIGHER EDUCATION - DRUGS BEYOND 'AFTER SCHOOL SPECIALS'
April 18, 2005 | 4:00am'REHAB" starts with something that always makes my skin crawl - hypodermic needles. I can't watch 'em - whether they're seen on a news story about flu shots or in...
SHADY LADIES - FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: FIND THAT RIGHT LOOK; THESE SUNGLASSES ARE FIT TO BE TRIED
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amJACKIE O did it. So did Audrey Hepburn. These days, Vogue editor Anna Wintour leads the pack when it comes to making a fashion statement powered by the ultimate tool...
GEHRIG GRACES POST'S FIRST YANKEE IMMORTALS MEDALLION
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amGet ready, everybody - The Post's New York Yankees 2005 Immortals Medallion collection has arrived! The Immortals is an inspiring collection of 20 officially licensed medallions featuring some of the...
'AMITY' HAS FRIGHT $TUFF
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amLong Island's most famous haunted house scared millions of dollars out of moviegoers, as "The Amityville Horror" reigned as the nation's No. 1 movie over the weekend. The R-rated fright...
BLOOMBERG 'EIN BERLINER' TO PITCH N.Y.C. TO IOC
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amTaking a weekend break from the campaign trail, Mayor Bloomberg arrived in Berlin yesterday and vowed that New York City will market every Olympic sport - for free - in...
MIKE STUNG BY KERREY - TURNCOAT HAD AGREED TO AID MAYOR'S CAMPAIGN
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amAides to Mayor Bloomberg were shocked by the revelations that New School University President Bob Kerrey is considering tossing his hat into the mayoral race - especially since he'd just...
U.S. TO FOREIGN AIRLINES: CHECK OUR NO-FLY LIST
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Homeland Security is exploring ways to force foreign airlines to use the U.S. no-fly list after having learned that two Saudis who attended flight school with a 9/11...
TEENS HURT IN 'DWI' MERCEDES HORROR
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amA drunken Mercedes driver rear-ended an SUV on the Long Island Expressway, triggering a horrific chain-reaction collision in which two teen college students were hurled from their car, cops said...
EXES TRASH CAPE COD MURDER SUSPECT
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amHYANNIS, Mass. - The garbageman busted in the fatal stabbing of Cape Cod fashion writer Christa Worthington is a violent two-timing creep who fathered three kids by three women, two...
KILLED FOR CARING - IRAQ HOMICIDE BOMBER SLAYS AID WORKER
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amAfter two years of going into war zones in a quest to locate and document war casualties, humanitarian Marla Ruzicka became one herself. The 27-year-old Long Island University graduate was...
REBEL HONCHO CAPTURED
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amIraqi security has captured a rebel leader related to one of the most sought-after men in the country, the government said yesterday. Hashim Hussein Radhan al-Jabouri, nephew of Izzat Ibrahim,...
APPLE LOSING ITS 'ABROAD' APPEAL: STUDY
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe number of foreign tourists visiting the Big Apple has dropped 32 percent since 2000, robbing the city of $4 billion, a new report says. While international tourists made up...
RABBI SUING FDNY - FIREHOUSE WAS EMPTY
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amA prominent Brooklyn rabbi is suing the Fire Department because the firehouse closest to his home was unmanned that day, which he claims caused his wife to die in a...
BREAK-IN HORROR - 'ARE YOU GOING TO SHOOT ME NOW?'
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amAn Upper West Side couple were victims of a nightmarish home invasion yesterday when a would-be robber forced his way into their apartment at gunpoint and shot the boyfriend several...
MALL SHOOTING SPARKS PANIC
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amA vendor at the Concourse Plaza shopping center was clinging to life after he was shot last night. The unidentified victim went down in a hail of bullets in front...
FOREIGN AIRLINES WORRYING FEDS
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Homeland Security is exploring ways of forcing foreign airlines to use the U.S. no-fly list after two Saudis who attended the same flight school as a 9/11 hijacker...
'DWI' MERCEDES TRIGGERS COMA CRASH ON L.I.E.
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amA drunken Mercedes driver rear-ended an SUV on the Long Island Expressway, triggering a horrific chain-reaction collision that left a college student in a coma, cops said yesterday. Suffolk officers...
WAR ON KNOCKOFF HAVENS - VUITTON SUES LANDLORD
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amHeavyweight fashion designer Louis Vuitton - frustrated with the unrelenting stream of shifty guerrilla merchants selling counterfeit "LV" handbags in Chinatown - has declared a new war against the real-estate...
GOTTI SAYS 'YOU CAN'T TOUCH ME'
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amA Manhattan federal judge is weighing a motion to toss out the racketeering case pending against John "Junior" Gotti after Gotti claimed that the terms of a prior plea conviction...
MAN SNAPS, SHOOTS CAM FRIEND: COPS
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was shot in the face by a friend - who got angry that the victim used his camera flash to take pictures of a band performing in...
ROBBED TOURISTS SWEDE ON N.Y.
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amTwo Swedish visitors basking in Central Park yesterday had their idyllic Big Apple vacation shattered when a man snatched their backpacks with their cash, credit cards and a camera -...
JENNINGS 'SAID HE HAD POWER AND HE COULD DO ANYTHING HE WANTED'
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe never-before-seen transcripts of Councilman Allan Jennings' closed-door misconduct hearings portray a legislator whose conduct toward women staffers raged out of control - and the traumatic effect his actions had...
STRAY BULLET WOUNDS BRONX GIRL
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amAn 8-year-old girl was hit by a stray bullet while she was playing on a Bronx street last night, police said. The girl, whose name was withheld, was playing near...
TOILET TUMULT - CITY GALS PO'D BY TRANSSEXUAL
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amWhen Semaj Bogan sauntered out of the ladies' room at the mall recently, it hit her right in the face. "You don't belong in here!" bellowed an angry woman waiting...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amMANHATTAN * Police yesterday released a photo of a suspect in an attack outside an Upper West Side apartment building. Etienne Hannon (above), 24, brandished a metal walking cane when...
STUDENT, 19, DIES IN QNS. CRASH
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amA speeding driver lost control of his car in Queens last night and smashed into a building, killing a teenage passenger and injuring himself and two others, cops said. The...
W'CHESTER DA EYES BIGGER JOB
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amJeanine Pirro, the Westchester County District Attorney and a rising Republican star, says she may resign her job next year - in order to run for statewide office. But the...
SMELLY B'KLYN NABE DOWN IN THE DUMPS
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amBurdened by abandoned buildings, garbage-strewn lots and a shoreline that stinks like a sewer, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn is dumped on like no other New York City neighborhood, a...
CHORUS GAL, 101, BACK ON B'WAY
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amAt 101 years old, Doris Eaton Travis is back on Broadway. Her fingers are gnarled and crooked and her once smooth face has grown a bit wrinkled, but her feet...
HIP-HOP MURDER PROBE - FEDS EYE 'GOTTI' BROS
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe two hip-hop mogul brothers who adopted mobster John Gotti's name and turned Murder Inc. records into a hit machine are under federal investigation for the beating death of a...
FOX WALKS AGAINST PARKINSON'S
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amLooking for the secret to fighting Parkinson's Disease, actor Michael J. Fox and hundreds of others walked in Central Park over the weekend to raise money to find a cure...
SHIITE KIN PLEAD FOR CAPTIVES
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amDistraught relatives of dozens of presumed victims of a mass kidnapping near Baghdad were begging for their loved ones' lives yesterday, officials said. Shiite Iraqis said their relatives were among...
FILLING JOHN PAUL'S SHOES - SISTINE SEALED FOR SECRECY AS CONCLAVE BEGINS
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amIn a historic ritual steeped in medieval pageantry, the conclave of cardinals convenes at the Vatican today to select a new pope. The veiled and secretive election was set to...
RIVAL RIPS SILVER AS DEM TRAITOR
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amTENSIONS between Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Minority Leader David Paterson flared again last week - with Paterson privately saying Silver doesn't want a Democratic takeover of the state...
FROM GATES TO MATES - PARK PAIR READY TO TIE KNOT
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amA man who found true love while setting up a Central Park art project has presented his girlfriend with a very special engagement ring - made from The Gates itself....
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amA Utah man opened up a vent in his new home to discover a box filled with $10,000 cash. "It was kind of scary to find that much money. I...
TSUNAMI SAINT - NYER OPENS HEART AND AN INDONESIAN ORPHANAGE
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amA New York man has raised about $100,000 and opened an orphanage in tsunami-ravaged Indonesia. "These kids are the most defenseless people in the world," Jim Luce said by phone...
'70S TV ICON TOM SNYDER HAS LEUKEMIA
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amTalk-show legend Tom Snyder, who successfully battled heart disease four years ago, now has leukemia. "I have been diagnosed with something called chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Jesus H. Christ!" the 68-year-old...
GOPER READY TO DUMP DUBYA'S PICK FOR U.N.
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Maverick Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel yesterday hinted he'll vote against President Bush's pick for ambassador to the United Nations if any more negative accusations surface. "I have been...
FELLOW WISEGUY'S LOOSE LIPS SINK 'QUIET DOM'
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amA reputed Genovese acting boss whose secretiveness helped him dodge the feds for decades - earning him the nickname "Quiet Dom" - was brought down by a fellow mob leader's...
CITY VOTERS WILL HAVE TO HOLD OFF UNTIL NOVEMBER BEFORE PASSING JUDGMENT ON MAYOR BLOOMBERG ...
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amCity voters will have to hold off until November before passing judgment on Mayor Bloomberg, but Time magazine isn't waiting until then to name him one of the five best...
VERIZON HIT WITH $30M BIAS SUIT
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amTelephone giant Verizon has been slapped with a $30 million racial- and gender-discrimination suit by an employee who says she found a noose hanging in her Bronx workplace. Valencia McClendon,...
METS-LESS MSG'S A NETWORK OF GHOSTS
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amIT'S not just that Cablevision has turned Madison Square Garden into a tomb. It's not just that Cablevision is synonymous with arrogant financial self-interest, the kind that regularly deprives millions...
NO. 13 LUCKY FOR 'STEPHEN'
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amSaratoga's Oklahoma track opens for spring training week from today; Spa meet begins in 99 days, but who's counting?3RD RACE - Space Watch, Pedro Cotto Jr. up, gunned to lead,...
TWO FOR THE SHOW - AFLEET ALEX, BANDINI REBOUND LIKE CHAMPS
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amWith the Kentucky Derby just 19 days away on May 7, the adage that a horse can't win the Derby if he suffered any kind of physical setback during his...
ANSWER TO PHILLY PLAYOFF PRAYERS
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amJim O'Brien always admired Allen Iverson from afar as the 76ers' diminutive point guard consistently ranked among the league leaders in minutes per game and maintained a high level of...
PLAYOFFS OR BUST
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amFROM where the Nets have come, the mere fact they are contending for a playoff spot in the final week of the regular season should put a feel-good ending a...
KIDD: GET US SOME HELP
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amNET NOTES Jason Kidd stressed that he has been doing his job. This summer, he wants members of the Nets hierarchy to do theirs. Kidd, who spent last summer after...
GLAVINE MUST FIND ZONE ONCE AGAIN
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amWHEN the Mets signed Tom Glavine to be their stopper, yesterday wasn't exactly what they had in mind. Although he literally fulfilled the job description, the only thing Glavine stopped...
DIAZ PLANS STAY AT SHEA
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amVictor Diaz is keeping right field warm for Mike Cameron while the former Gold Glove outfielder makes his way back to the lineup from wrist surgery. Cameron was in town...
COLD GLOVE A KAZ FOR LOSS - MATSUI'S 'D' HELPS FISH SNAP MET STREAK
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amMarlins 5 - Mets 2 It was a discouraging day, and not simply because the Mets failed to run the table on a six-game homestand and saw their six-game win...
NFL STEROID POLICY DRAWS LT'S PRAISE
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amLawrence Taylor says the NFL has done a good job controlling steroid use, but he thinks Major League Baseball's policy - or lack thereof until this season - has been...
IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR FOR SNEE, COUGHLIN
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amWhile Chris Snee was hospitalized last season with a strange and rare glandular infection, Tom Coughlin would phone each morning, providing a crack-of-dawn wakeup call, and again each night, his...
ALL'S FAIR, BUT NOT TO FISH
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amThose crazy Florida relievers will try just about anything to get on the field this season. The Marlins registered their league-best fifth complete game yesterday when A.J. Burnett carved up...
JAMAL'S LEARNING
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amIn the final minute of the Knicks' razor-tight victory in Charlotte on Saturday, Herb Williams used an offense-defense rotation with Jamal Crawford and Jermaine Jackson. Suffice to say, Crawford wasn't...
DOUG GOES FOURTH
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mike Piazza was given a day off, and Mike Cameron and Cliff Floyd are still nursing injuries. So Doug Mientkiewicz was installed as the Mets' cleanup hitter yesterday,...
HERB'S A BIG KURT FAN
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amMany find it ironic that Kurt Thomas, seemingly the subject of trade rumors every summer, is the only active Knick remaining from the 1999 Finals team. They find it odd...
HELP YOURSELF - NETS TOP SIXERS TO CONTROL OWN PLAYOFF DESTINY
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amNets 104 - 76ers 83 The Nets got help. And then made the most of it. So if the playoffs started today, the Nets would be in. Going in against...
SIXERS HAVE NO ANSWER
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amThe Nets are still fighting for the final playoff spot in the East, but Sixers star Allen Iverson doesn't think of them as just another team trying to survive. Instead,...
FEELING IN-VINCE-ABLE
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amVINCE Carter doesn't get too wrapped up in scoreboard watching, so it was of little significance to him that the Pistons had done the Nets a huge favor by beating...
JEFFERSON: I'LL BE READY
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amNET NOTES The regular season still has two games remaining, but the question of his availability for the playoffs - assuming the Nets get in - is a no-brainer for...
HELM SAYS LENNY NO QUITTER
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amIf you still believed the Knicks' absurd claim that Lenny Wilkens "resigned" Jan. 21 after losing at the buzzer to Houston, here's former Knick assistant Dick Helm to set the...
HELP YOURSELF - NETS CONTROL PLAYOFF DESTINY AFTER WIN
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amNets 104 - 76ers 83 Going into last night's game against the Sixers, the Nets knew Cleveland had lost. A win would move them into eighth place in the Eastern...
FALL CONTINUES FOR PUTRID KNICKS
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amHawks 139 - Knicks 135 The Hawks are by far the worst team in the NBA. And the Knicks still found a way to blow a seven-point fourth-quarter lead and...
THE WORST TEAM MONEY CAN BUY? - BOSS BLOWS TOP AFTER 4TH STRAIGHT LOSS
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amOrioles 8 - Yankees 4 BALTIMORE - One dozen games into the season George Steinbrenner has had it with his high-priced and underachieving Yankees. Shortly after yesterday's 8-4 loss to...
GETTING BOSSY - GEORGE: EVERYONE'S TO BLAME BUT ME
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The Boss will blow when The Boss will blow, like he does money on players no longer good enough to earn it. It's never the owner's fault, only...
NEW PARK, NEW MOUND, SAME BROWN
April 18, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BALTIMORE - No matter the backdrop, Kevin Brown can't get it right. His horrid performance in Game 7 of last year's ALCS cost the Yankees a spot in...