September 24, 2005
STREET FIGHTS - INVESTMENT BANKS BATTLE TO STEAL RIVALS' TOP TALENT
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amAs big mergers and a hot trading market fuel a Wall Street rally, financial powerhouses are now in heated competition to poach mid-level investment bankers and traders from each other's...
DEUTSCH DONS NEW CEO
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amDonny Deutsch, the outspoken chief of the ad agency that bears his name, appointed operating chief Linda Sawyer to succeed him as CEO but said he will remain chairman. The...
NYMEX BID WAR FRENZY
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe bidding war for the New York Mercantile Exchange heated up yesterday when investment firm Battery Ventures sweetened its offer for the lower Manhattan trading floor. Battery submitted a $75...
BRITISH AIRWAYS CHIEF BLASTS 'STUPID' U.S. AIRLINES
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amAmerica's money-losing airlines exist only for "political vanity" and suck up more wasted cash than any other carriers in the world, says the head of British Airways. In a blistering...
GAS PRICES SET TO RISE AGAIN
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amMotorists are bracing for a gas-pump nightmare next week with fears of $5-a-gallon gasoline due to hurricane shutdowns of about a third of America's refineries. "It going to be a...
QUEENS OF OF CONVENIENCE - EASY COMMUTE, CHEAP PADS, UNTAPPED POTENTIAL
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amFEELING underwhelmed by Manhattan's $700,000 one-bedrooms and $2,000-a-month studios? Good news: There's a borough a quick subway ride away that offers a whole lot of bang for your buck -plus...
GIMME SHELTER
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amJay-Z is now a Roc-a-renter JAY-Z is now in the house. The urban-music and apparel the Time Warner Center. Last month, we reported the high-profile hip-hopper was perusing a penthouse...
SHAGADELIC RUGS ARE BACK - YEAH, BABY! MODERN INTERPRETATIONS OF SHAG CARPETS ARE ALL THE RAGE
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amFANCY a shag? You're in luck. The plush, 1970s-style deep pile rugs are popping up everywhere, from glossy fashion spreads to the shelves at Wal-Mart. "Shag is definitely back," says...
MARTHA CELLS OUT
September 24, 2005 | 4:00am"Martha Behind Bars" Tomorrow night at 9 on CBS/Ch. 2 (one star) ARE we sick of Martha yet? Just about. If last week's wretched premiere of "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart"...
THEY LOVE (HEART) N.Y.C. - YOUNG ACTORS KISS AND TELL ABOUT THEIR 'LITTLE' MOVIE
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amPuppy love. It's the confusing - but exciting - emotion that makes "Little Manhattan" go 'round. In the movie, opening Friday, 11-year-old fifth-grader Gabe Burton (Josh Hutcherson) is too busy...
MOM & SON SLAIN; EX-BEAU SHOT 2 IN BX.: COPS
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amA Bronx man shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and her son in their apartment early yesterday, then called 911 to report the bloody murders, police said. Gessel Cowan, 47, and...
TERROR RALLY CARNAGE ; ABBAS BLAMES KID-KILLING GAZA BLAST ON HAMAS
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday blamed the Hamas terror group for an explosion at a political rally that killed at least 19 people, including children - and the...
CHRISTO'S COLO. ROCKY ROAD
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe folks who brought "The Gates" to Central Park have one more art spectacular in mind - draping miles of fabric over a rural Colorado river. But "Over the River"...
YOU GLOW GIRL, WITH THIS BAG ; FIND KEYS WITH ILLUMINATING PURSE
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amFor every woman who is sick of rummaging for keys on dark doorsteps, there's a light at the bottom of the pocketbook. A Scottish design student developed a prototype for...
GOP FOES RIP INTO HILL ON ROBERTS
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's would-be GOP challengers are piling up on her over her opposition to the confirmation of John Roberts as Supreme Court chief justice. Clinton said...
LATEST CHAMP PLAYED CARDS RIGHT
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amLee Seligman is planning to take her husband, Dominick, out for dinner - and the $100 Post Poker winner is looking forward to picking up the tab. The meeting planner...
SHARON TELLS LIKUD BIBI IS 'SUICIDE' FOR PARTY
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned members of his political party yesterday that a vote Monday to set up a primary battle to depose him would be the...
THE IFC DISSES MEMORIAL: KIN
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amThese images show how opponents of the International Freedom Center at Ground Zero are making their point. This is what it would look like if the politically charged museum proposed...
DAVID GIVES FERRER RINKY-DINKY SUPPORT
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amThat was an endorsement? David Dinkins yesterday gave Democratic hopeful Fernando Ferrer a tepid nod yesterday - refusing to utter a critical word about Mayor Bloomberg, whom the former mayor...
DEFENSE RESTS IN GRID SLAY
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amLawyers for Mark Fisher's alleged killers rested their case yesterday without having called a single witness. The move came as no surprise, since Antonio Russo's lawyer, Jonathan Fink, had said...
ALARM OVER RABID RACCOON IN QNS.
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amHealth officials - calling last week's capture of a rabid raccoon the first in Queens since 2001- are warning city residents to be wary of animals acting aggressively. Several rabid...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amTHE BRONX *** Police are looking for Rafael Nuñez (above), who allegedly nearly beat his ex-girlfriend to death in her Belmont apartment Thursday. Nuñez, 31, brutally attacked Lillian Reyes, 25,...
WEENIE 'FLASHES' FEMALE OFFICER
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man's bizarre attempts to woo a uniformed cop by flashing his manhood at her backfired big time yesterday. Anthony Rickenbacker's strange mating ritual - which included shaking his...
CONDUCTORS BACK ON L - FOR NOW
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe MTA will return conductors to the L line full time starting midnight Monday - but vows to challenge the transit workers union over the issue. MTA New York City...
TEACH'S SWEET DEAL ; TEEN-SEX PLEA OFFER
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - The randy former upstate Catholic-school teacher accused of bedding several of her students would face less than a year in jail under a plea deal offered by prosecutors,...
BX. FIEND CAUGHT DURING RAPE: COPS
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amA brazen rapist was caught in the act early yesterday when cops arrived as he was assaulting a 20-year-old Fordham University student near her home in The Bronx, police said....
LIGHTER IN GAS TANK NOT A BRIGHT IDEA
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amA Long Island truck driver was critically burned when he used a cigarette lighter to look inside the fuel tank of his dump truck, police said. Scott Allen, 38, stopped...
COUPLE OF QUITTERS; $258M 'MEGA' LOTTERY WIN SPELLS UNEMPLOYMENT FOR N.J. FAMILY
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amHelen and Harry Lerner have quit their sales jobs. Why sell for a living when you can go on a Mega buying spree worthy of an Arab sheik, an A-Rod,...
MART SMELLS FISHY: JUDGE
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amA judge has put the Fulton Fish Market's planned move to The Bronx on ice - for now. Lawyers for Laro Service Systems claim the city's current plans to let...
JUNIOR 'HOUSE BOUND'; BID FOR HOME ARREST
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amJohn "Junior" Gotti will ask a federal judge Monday to release him on home confinement at his lavish house on Long Island's Gold Coast - secured by a proposed bail...
THE RACE FOR CITY HALL
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amFernando Ferrer's call to halt "finger-imaging" of welfare recipients could cost the city tens of millions of dollars a year to fraud, officials estimated yesterday. State law requires finger imaging...
SHE-WOLF PACK; 4 HELD IN 'RACE' ATTACK ON GIRLS
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amFour schoolgirl members of a Brooklyn wolfpack were hauled off in handcuffs yesterday, a day after a racially charged attack on two parochial-school students on a city bus, police sources...
HILL NO! NIXES 9/11 FREEDOM CTR.
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amHILLARY COMES OUT AGAINST FREEDOM CENTER WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday dealt a crushing blow to the International Freedom Center planned for Ground Zero, saying she wants the...
FRAUD BUST FOR STINKING BADGES
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amThree men were nabbed for selling bogus police badges and fake parking placards, police said yesterday. Erik Gonzalez, 23, of Hicksville, L.I.; Daniel Diaz, 19, of The Bronx; and Xavier...
WINNER PLAYED HER CARDS RIGHT
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amLee Seligman is planning to take her husband, Dominick, out for dinner - and the $100 Post Poker winner is looking forward to picking up the tab. The meeting planner...
PAINT THAT A SHAME, THIEF
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amA Staten Island truck driver admitted yesterday that he stole a $1.5 million painting by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat from a cargo area at Kennedy Airport - and is now facing...
KELLY ZAPS COP-BOP VID GAME
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Raymond Kelly yesterday lashed out at the makers of a controversial new video game that depicts NYPD cops as lawless and corrupt rogues who routinely trample upon the...
QNS. ALZHEIMER'S MAN MISSING
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amPolice are asking the public's assistance in locating an elderly Queens man with Alzheimer's who wandered from his Jamaica home. Jasper Cowan, 67, (photo, right) was last seen leaving his...
WOMAN KILLED IN QNS. CRASH
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amA woman died last night during a fiery crash in Ozone Park after the vehicle she was in slammed into a telephone pole, police said. The woman, who was not...
RABID RACCOON HAS CITY RINGING ALARM
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amHealth officials - calling last week's capture of a rabid raccoon the first in Queens since 2001- are warning city residents to be wary of animals acting aggressively. Several rabid...
COMMISH ZAPS COP-BOP GAME
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Raymond Kelly yesterday lashed out at the makers of a controversial new video game that depicts NYPD cops as lawless and corrupt rogues who routinely trample upon the...
'RACIST' SHE-WOLVES - PACK OF 4 TEENS HELD IN BUS ATTACK ON WHITE GIRLS
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amFour schoolgirl members of a Brooklyn wolfpack were hauled off in handcuffs yesterday - a day after a racially charged attack on two parochial school students on a city bus,...
L ABOARD! MTA PUTS FULL-TIME CONDUCTORS BACK ON TRACK
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe MTA has agreed to return conductors to the L line full-time starting midnight Monday - but it still plans to challenge the city's transit workers union over the controversial...
MAN BUSTED FOR FLASHINGCOP: NYPD
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man's bizarre attempts to woo a uniformed NYPD officer by flashing his manhood at her backfired big-time yesterday. Anthony Rickenbacker's strange mating ritual - which included shaking his...
DEREK, ROBBIE SET TONE IN FIRST
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amDerek Jeter and Robinson Cano delivered a 1-2 punch in the first inning last night - and the Blue Jays were down for the count. Jeter led off the Yankee...
CHACON DAZZLES AGAIN AS BOMBERS STAY ON TOP
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amWhen the Yankees scored four runs in the first inning and loaded the bases in the second without an out and Gary Sheffield at the plate, Shawn Chacon appeared to...
STRAHAN SITS OUT PRACTICE
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES For the second consecutive week, the Giants practiced on a Friday and defensive end Michael Strahan did not participate. Strahan again is struggling with back spasms. The hope...
FACING A RUN OF TOUGH DEFENSES
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amJET NOTES Curtis Martin mentally perused the landscape of the upcoming Jets schedule and winced. Tomorrow the Jets play the Jaguars and a defense that stifled the high-powered Colts a...
TY THAT BINDS ; WILLINGHAM, WEIS HEADLINE IRISH CLASH
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amSEATTLE - When Charlie Weis was Notre Dame's undefeated new coach and had spent his first few months romancing Fighting Irish friends and alumni with an amalgam of wit, passion...
OSI GLAD HE'S NOT IN CALIF.; CHARGERS WANTED GIANTS DE IN DEAL
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amOsi Umenyiora was flattered. Initially, that is. Umenyiora caught wind that the Chargers last spring were intent on making him part of the package in any blockbuster trade for Eli...
MARSHALL FOR ONE ; CHAD, BYRON IN FRIENDLY RIVALRY
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe two close friends and former college teammates who played the same position at the same school speak on the phone at least once a week. One is a mentor...
GYGISTAR RALLIES FOR 11TH WIN
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amIt's been like old times lately at Belmont Park, with longtime trainer-jockey team of Bill Mott and Jerry Bailey hitting on all cylinders, as in the days of Cigar. That...
SUCCESS NOT GOING TO A-ROD'S HEAD
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe Yankees went into last night's opener of a three- game series at the Stadium against the Blue Jays having won nine of their last 10 games and overtaken the...
SMALL'S NOW A MIDDLE MAN ; AARON SAYS HE'LL PLAY ANY ROLE FOR YANKS
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amIf Aaron Small hadn't hit a recent pothole as a starter, he wouldn't be the latest candidate to improve the Yankees' dreaded middle-relief bunch. And while Small is more suited...
GIMPY GIAMBI BACK ON BENCH
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Having spent hours in the trainer's room getting his balky back treated yesterday, Jason Giambi didn't have time to talk to Joe Torre. The Yankees' manager took that...
RANGER 'C' DOWN TO 2
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amWEST POINT - With their season opener now just 11 days away, it appears the Rangers have significantly narrowed their search for a new captain to replace Mark Messier. Or...
FANNING FLAMES OF FICKLENESS
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amMAYBE now that the Yankees are in the final home weekend of the season, their fans will actually catch up with the pennant race the way their team was able...
DEVS' MOGILNY TAKIN' HIS TIME
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amHis 43 goals in 2000-01 are the most by a Devil since 1990-91, and they burst the salary cap to bring him back last month. The Devils are counting on...
HANSEN'S TIME COMING
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Craig Hansen majored in hotel and restaurant management at St. John's because he says he liked to be thrown into the fire, solving problems on a moment's notice....
FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL ; TIGER WINS HIS FIRST IN FOUR-BALL
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amGAINESVILLE, Va. - For a while it looked like Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk would need their physical therapist yesterday more than their golf clubs. Furyk and Woods teamed in...
PEDRO'S SEASON AT END?
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The next start for Pedro Martinez is scheduled for Tuesday, but don't count on him making it. Mets manager Willie Randolph and GM Omar Minaya talked yesterday about...
'HELL' OF A WEEK - DAMON: EVERY PITCH CRUCIAL FOR BOSOX
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Johnny Damon has been there before and he's really not an Idiot. So when he was asked last night what he expects these final 10 days of the...
ALEX NOT SATISFIED WITH RECENT SUCCESS
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amThe Yankees having won 11 of their last 12 games and overtaken the AL East division lead from the Red Sox may seem like a significant thing to some, but...
FRIARS SHOW THERE'S SOMETHING LEFT
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amSt. Anthony's 47Msgr. Farrell 0 This was supposed to be the year that St. Anthony's reign atop the CHSFL was seriously challenged. The Friars were considered to be down this...
YANKEES MAKE 1ST IMPRESSION - FAST START KEEPS BOMBERS ON TOP
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 5Blue Jays 0 When the Yankees scored four runs in the first inning last night, then loaded the bases in the second without an out and Gary Sheffield at...
SMALL PROBLEMS LEAD TO 'PEN
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES If Aaron Small hadn't hit a recent pothole as a starter, he wouldn't be the latest candidate to improve the Yankees' dreaded middle-relief bunch. And while Small is...
'HELL' OF A WIN ; BOSOX BLAST BIRDS
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amRed Sox 6Orioles 3 BALTIMORE - Johnny Damon really isn't an Idiot. So when he was asked before last night's game what he expects the final days of the season...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 24, 2005 | 4:00amThis was just fuelish. Pensacola, Fla., gas station employee Pam Pease couldn't believe it when two men pulled up to pump gas into a blue 1994 Ford Escort with a...