December 2, 2006
Time to make hay at Garden
December 2, 2006 | 8:43pmBy MARC BERMANThe Knicks have come home – for 13 days, a six-game homestand against mediocre teams. It is a time to make hay as long as they don’t shrivel...
OFFICE PLAN EYES CO-OP
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amA powerful developer is trying to buy the last remaining apartment house on Park Avenue between Grand Central and 57th Street in order to raze it for a new office...
SEC TARGETS TRADER'S FOLKS
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amThe Securities and Exchange Commission wants to question the parents of a Fidelity Investments trader to find out whether the couple rode the mutual fund giant's coattails to a $90,000...
PUBLICIS ON HUNT; COULD TRY TO SWALLOW ITS LARGER RIVAL INTERPUBLIC
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amPublicis Groupe, one of the world's largest advertising firms, may be gearing up for a shopping spree. Sources told The Post the company's supervisory board will consider next week whether...
CUTS DECRIED AT NEWSDAY
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amAt least 50 Newsday staffers are close to submitting a letter to Tribune Co. Chairman Dennis FitzSimons blasting him for cutbacks at the Long Island newspaper. The letter, which was...
OPERA & POP ADD UP TO PLEASING 'POPERA'
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amANDREA BOCELLI NOT since Bugs Bunny put on a white tie and tuxedo to conduct in the 1946 cartoon "Rhapsody Rabbit" has any one performer done more than Andrea Bocelli...
NO-CLASS WARFARE
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amNATIONAL LAMPOON'S VAN WILDER 2: THE RISE OF TAJ (one and a half star) Van Milder. Running time: 95 minutes. Rated R (crude sexual humor, profanity, nudity). At the 84th...
CYBER HOUSE RULES; E! TACKLES REALITY OF INTERNET HORRORS
December 2, 2006 | 5:00am"THS Investigates:Online Nightmares" Tomorrow at 5 p.m. on E! (three and a half stars) THERE is literally nothing you can't buy, play, find, investigate, watch, or learn about online these...
'IDOL'CHRISTOPSCHARTS
December 2, 2006 | 5:00am'AMERICAN Idol" contestant Chris Daughtry is now officially a rock star. "Daughtry," the self-titled debut album from the rock ensemble fronted by the chrome-domed singer, topped Billboard's charts this week...
'ROCK' TO ROLL FOR FULL SEASON
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amNBC has given a full-season order to struggling "30 Rock." The sitcom, created by and starring former "Saturday Night Live" trouper Tina Fey, has averaged only around 6 million viewers...
TINSEL TUNES - A GUIDE TO N.Y.C.'S HOLIDAY MUSIC - OF EVERY PERSUASION
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amLIKE listening to holiday music, but hate being shoved around crowded stores while listening to Christmas carols? Take heart - over the next three weeks, the city will be inundated...
THE WAY THEY WERE - STARS OF HOLIDAY SHOWS LOOK BACK
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amEven the Grinch was a kid once - or, at least, the guy who plays him was. We wondered how the stars of this season's holiday shows celebrated back in...
JUDGE GREENLIGHTS SCHOOL-BUS CUTS
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amA state judge cleared the way yesterday for the city Department of Education to move forward with a cost-cutting plan to eliminate hundreds of school-bus routes Monday - but the...
LIMO SLAY TWIST; CON'S JURY TACTIC
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amA drunken driver who killed a 7-year-old wedding flower girl and her limousine driver has filed a motion to set aside his guilty verdict because the jury forewoman admitted secretly...
KREMLIN 'DEATH SQUAD' SHOCKER
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amThe Kremlin created a death squad to execute Alexander Litvinenko and other critics of Vladimir Putin's regime, according to a jailed colleague of the former spy. Letters written by former...
N.Y. AUTO PREMIUMS FINALLY HIT THE BRAKES
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amALBANY - New Yorkers continue to pay the nation's second-highest auto-insurance premiums, behind only New Jersey, but there's good news on the horizon - years of rate hikes have ground...
CYCLIST KILLED IN 'DWI' INCIDENT
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amAn NYU student riding his bike along the West Side Highway was struck dead last night by a drunken driver behind the wheel of a BMW who smashed into him...
HILLARY SEEKS SECRET RECRUITS IN '08 ARMY
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's high command is quietly interviewing Democratic operatives to serve as campaign foot soldiers for her likely White House run, The Post has learned. The...
IT'S MAXWELL'S $ILVER GAVEL
December 2, 2006 | 5:00am"Maxwell's Silver Hammer," meet Christie's wooden gavel. A handwritten draft of the Beatles' classic - penned by Paul McCartney in 1968 - is hitting the auction block. The pricey piece...
BIG APPLE BID FOR; A CIRCUS CATCH
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amThe acrobats of Cirque du Soleil are jumping at the chance to set up a permanent show on the Hudson River. The Montreal-based circus - best known for its astonishing...
'FIREBUG' WRIST SLAP
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amA homeless Brooklyn man accused of setting the largest fire in the city since the 9/11 attacks worked out a surprise plea deal yesterday, winning himself a sentence of alcoholism...
WINTER BLASTS ON IN ; DECEMBER BALM BLOWN AWAY
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amGet ready to spring into winter. We're morphing from balmy to brisk - and there's even a chance we'll see snow showers Monday. "Our springtime temperatures are over," National Weather...
BISHOP CALLED IN RAPE SUIT
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amBishop William Murphy - the spiritual leader of Long Island's Roman Catholics - has been subpoenaed to testify in a $100 million civil case against a former youth minister by...
MIKE HOLDS FIRE VS. NYPD
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amUnder fire from police unions for prejudging the undercover cops who fatally shot Sean Bell, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday sounded a very different tune, discussing the case for 40 minutes without...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** Police are investigating the death of a man found in the basement of an East Harlem apartment yesterday, authorities said. The 48-year-old man, whose name was withheld pending...
CATHOLIC-HOSP BIGS BLAST CLOSINGS
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amSeething Catholic-hospital officials accused the downsizing commission of favoritism yesterday for preserving other troubled hospitals like New York Downtown while closing theirs. "There were several sacred cows in this process,"...
PLOT THICKENS AS SPY POISON IS TRACED TO A NUKE PLANT IN PUTIN'S RUSSIA
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amHigh-tech detective work by British scientists has traced the radioactive poison that killed ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko in London back to a nuclear power plant in Russia - further fueling the...
TEARS & CRIES FOR 'JUSTICE' ; HUNDREDS AT QNS. RITES FOR GROOM
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amA joyous wedding celebration was to take place at a Queens church a week ago - but yesterday, hundreds of tearful mourners gathered around the same house of worship to...
NEW WITNESS IDS MYSTERY RUNNER - 4TH MAN HAD GUN
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amInvestigators have located a witness who spotted the mysterious "fourth man" holding a gun outside the car that cops fired 50 shots into last week, law enforcement sources told The...
YANKS: 'PAY' BALL! '07 TICKET HIKE$
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amYankee fans will be paying the price to support baseball's highest payroll. Starting next year, ticket prices will soar as much as $40 for plum seats and $14 to sit...
WINTER BLASTS ON IN; DECEMBER BALM BLOWN AWAY
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amGet ready to spring into winter - we're morphing from balmy to brisk, and there's even a chance we'll see snow showers on Monday. "Our springtime temperatures are over," National...
TEARS & CRIES FOR 'JUSTICE'; HUNDREDS AT QNS. RITES FOR GROOM
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amA joyous wedding celebration was to take place at a Queens church a week ago - but yesterday hundreds of tearful mourners gathered around the same house of worship to...
KILLED OVER PARKING SPOT
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amA man was gunned down yesterday in a Brooklyn restaurant after a dispute over a parking spot, police said. Ricardo Sterling, 24, was killed instantly when he was shot once...
B'KLYN TEACH IN DRUG BUST
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amA Brooklyn high school teacher was busted yesterday after cops found a large stash of drugs in her apartment, police said. Investigators armed with a search warrant stormed into the...
GUARD DOWN; STEPH, KNICKS A STEP BEHIND BILLUPS, PISTONS
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amPistons 108Knicks 100 AUBURN HILLS - Isiah Thomas got a strong ovation from the Pistons fans during pregame introductions last night. They still remember Thomas' Piston point-guard heroics. But once...
SABRE RATTLED; RANGERS GORED IN SHOOTOUT
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amSHOOTOUT SABRES 4 RANGERS 3 BUFFALO - Forgive Aaron Ward for thinking he has seen enough of the Sabres. Ward, who battled Buffalo for seven games as a member of...
MAYOR MAKES PROPOSAL FOR TRANSFORMING OTB
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amOpinions on how to fix thoroughbred racing in New York are like noses: Everybody has one, including Mayor Mike Bloomberg's office, which yesterday released a five-page position paper proposing "concrete...
ARMY AIMS TO SAVE SEASON VS. BOWL-BOUND NAVY
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - It may not have the assorted athletes of the BCS conference title games, or quite the local draw of the Rutgers-West Virginia Big East bout. But when it...
PAT ANSWER; EWING OUSTS BULLS . . . MINUS JORDAN
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amMichael Jordan was off playing baseball in the spring of 1994. The Bulls, however, still were the three-time defending NBA champions, still were a 55-win team, still had Scottie Pippen...
BENCH BOOST; BOONE, HOUSE SET FOR NET DEBUTS
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amAfter staggering out of the gate to a 6-9 record - highlighted by one win in their past seven games - help is finally on the way for the struggling...
BIG DAY FOR FRONT-RUNNERS
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amSECOND RACE - First of several front-running winners on the day. The track (fast, harrowed for first five races; good, sealed thereafter) was playing to inside speed, with wind pushing...
MANN UP: ELI ON THE SPOT; QUIET QB MUST GIVE GIANT EFFORT
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amAs the Giants gathered Monday for a rare players-only meeting, the roll call of speakers contained few surprises. Michael Strahan. Tiki Barber. Antonio Pierce. Shaun O'Hara. Bob Whitfield, the aged...
RIVALRY'S FOUNDING FATHER
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amIN THE beginning, there was no way to know what was really emerging on the visiting sidelines at Texas Stadium. All that was apparent was that the new Giants coach,...
COTTO BULKS UP FOR TITLE SHOT
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amATLANTIC CITY - When Bob Arum looked around the room during a press conference earlier this week, the veteran boxing promoter saw something he had never seen before - Miguel...
LOVIN' EVERY MINUTE OF IT
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Here's a guarantee: If the Giants somehow beat the Cowboys tomorrow afternoon, the "I told you so" barrage will reach record proportions. The Giants are having a good...
YANKEES LIKELY WON'T TURN TO LILLY
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amPrior to the Yankees acquiring the rights to Japanese lefty Kei Igawa on Tuesday, Ted Lilly had hopes of returning to The Bronx and pitching for the Yankees. Now, according...
IT'S ABOUT TOM! GLAVINE FINALLY RETURNS TO METS; ONE YEAR, $10.5M
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amThe Braves never truly advanced on Tom Glavine, and the time for his decision had basically elapsed. In a sense, the Braves and Glavine eliminated each other. Glavine, who admittedly...
SABRE RATTLING; BIG-TIME TEST FOR RANGERS
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amBUFFALO - Forgive Aaron Ward for thinking he has seen enough of the Sabres. Ward, who battled Buffalo for seven games as a member of the Stanley Cup champion Hurricanes...
PENGUINS ROOKIE MAKES BIG MARK
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amIt's been 20 years since the NHL awarded consecutive Rookie of the Month honors to one player. That's how big Evgeni Malkin's start has been for the Penguins. Malkin went...
DEVILS GET 'A' ON HOME WORK
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amDevils 5Penguins 2 At their Meadowlands repair shop, so many Devils malfunctions were fixed, at least for one night. They avoided what would have been their longest winless streak in...
ISIAH FEELING PLAYOFF PRESSURE
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES AUBURN HILLS - Isiah Thomas admitted his one-year edict from owner James Dolan to make the Knicks a playoff-caliber team is the most pressure he's ever faced in...
COLD FEAT - JETS HOPE OUTDOOR PRACTICES HELP THEM MAKE THE LAMBEAU LEAP
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amThe Jets practiced outside yesterday in the rotten weather, as they often have done under Eric Mangini. The head coach wants his team to be ready for whatever conditions it...
THOMAS INKS 5-YEAR EXTENSION
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amOnce-maligned defensive end Bryan Thomas signed a contract extension with the Jets yesterday, reportedly for five years. Thomas was selected in the first round by the Jets in 2002 and...
MOVING MOUNTAINS - WIN OVER WEST VIRGINIA WOULD SWEETEN BOWL SLOT
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amMORGANTOWN, W.Va. How much sweeter can it get? Rutgers has assured itself of the best season in program history. A bowl berth was wrapped up weeks ago. A Top 10...
FRANCIS SETS NATE STRAIGHT
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Isiah Thomas revealed that Steve Francis was the one to chew out Nate Robinson on the Knicks' bench after his trick-shot dunk attempt turned...
PIGSKIN PROFIT
December 2, 2006 | 5:00amGA. TECH vs. WAKE FOR. (at Jacksonville) 1 p.m. Ch. 7 Line: Georgia Tech by 2 1/2. Angle: Imagine if in August you put a C-note on these two teams...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
December 2, 2006 | 5:00am'Tis the season to be jolly - and absent. One in three workers call in sick to work at some point during the holiday season even though they feel fine,...