September 27, 2007
Prediction: Isiah will be cleared tomorrow
By MARC BERMANIf you just dropped into federal court from Mars for the first time today to listen to the Anucha Browne Sanders sexual harassment trial, you would’ve come away...
Scene
Caroline Metcalfe wears amazing high-waisted jeans with a stirrup by Dwell and a Dwell top with Manolos. "The pants feel amazing because of the stretch. They fit my body perfectly".Photo...
'Blade Runner' Back, Looking Great
It didn't foresee the demise of Pan Am or the Bell System and wildly overestimated the continued prominence of Atari, but "Blade Runner,'' released in 1982, otherwise made great guesses...
Deal of the Day
Gotta love fashion chains. Banana Republic has already put its fall collection on markdown.Pays to wait umm...two weeks for deals like this Water Color Bubble Skirt.Get ready to pad the...
Pena Marks 20 Years at NYFF Helm
Congratulations to Richard Pena, who tomorrow night will open his 20th New York Film Festival as the chief programmer. Pena is only the NYFF's second chief, taking from the imperious...
Starr Report
"Cane" averaged 11.2 million viewers - still not enough to beat the season premiere of "Law & Order: SVU," which averaged 12.1 million viewers and won the coveted adults 18-49...
Cliff-hanger Notes: 'CSI'
"CSI" Last we heard: Vegas crime scene investigator Sara Sidle is left dying in the desert underneath a flipped car, an apparent victim of "The Miniature Killer" — a serial...
Future Of The Blackhawks
Bill Wirtz, the controversial owner of the Blackhawks since 1966, died yesterday from cancer. Wirtz's 41-year reign as owner and president was tumultuous to say the least, as the once...
BIG BEN - THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS TIME-KEEPER
Today's page looks at this world-famous clock which is also a landmark in London, England. THE clock famously known as Big Ben began with the destruction of the Palace of...
CAPTURED IN BATTLE
WILL photos from Baghdad and Fallujah be on exhibit at the International Center of Photography 50 years from now? No, based on the dearth of iconic images from the Iraq...
NEXT IN THE CITY
SEX is all over the city streets. From Rockefeller Center to the U.E.S. and down to the West Village, Carrie, Miranda, Samantha, Charlotte and the crew are back, filming the...
HAUTE LIST
BELIEVE the hype. Downtown skate shop and international fashion label Supreme (274 Lafayette St., [212] 966-7799) rules the streets. And now they've got decks to prove it. The store will...
PASSION GONE IN CREAKY COLLINS & CO.
YOU needed earplugs at Tuesday's Genesis concert. Not because the band had their amps cranked to the max, but to muffle the sound of creaking bones from the ancient prog-rock...
FAST AND LUCINDA
'DID you only want me for those three days? Did you only need me for those three days? Did you love me forever just for those three days?" Typical lyrics...
NETREBKO IS LUSTROUS, BUT THIS IS A TRAGEDY
SOPRANOS come and go, but great divas linger as grace notes in music history. So we'll remember Anna Netrebko fondly for her part Tuesday in the Metropolitan Opera's otherwise miserable...
STARR REPORT
'Cane'-do for Jimmy The new Jimmy Smits drama, "Cane," got off to a solid start, snaring CBS its most viewers Tuesday at 10 p.m. - for a series premiere -...
FINGER POINTING
KATIE Couric has gone from a cougar to a dove. The "CBS Evening News" anchor with a penchant for dating younger men has come out criticizing the war in Iraq...
BOYS' NIGHT OUT
CONCEPT: Wherein four big shots who run multi-national conglomerates spend an inordinate amount of time hanging around each other saying "penis." While that pretty much sums it up, you might...
ROSIE RATINGS RANT
ROSIE O'Donnell has a bug in her bonnet over ratings for "The View" - which ABC says have risen since her ugly departure last May. O'Donnell posted a note on...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Are your aims as unrealistic as some people claim they are? Or do you just see deeper and further than them? It's the latter, of course, and over the next...
ERR-LINE STALL WORST EVER
Just when you thought those endless flight delays couldn't get worse, a new government study says they are. So far this year, a record 28 percent of all airline flights...
MOST RIDERS WILL GIVE NO QUARTER TO MTA
Even if the MTA raises the bus and subway fare to $2.25, very few New Yorkers will ever have to fish for that extra quarter, officials said yesterday. Only 14...
MIKE GIVES BOOST TO COLUMBIA EXPANSION
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday embraced Columbia University's push to expand its Harlem campus, even before the city's land-use process to evaluate the controversial plan has begun. "We need to have Columbia...
TOWERING FEUD
Current and former downtown-development officials launched a bitter battle of words yesterday over whether warnings about safety concerns at the former Deutsche Bank building were ignored before two firefighters were...
ST. JOHN'S ON A 'RED' ALERT
A St. John's student, lugging a loaded rifle and wearing a creepy Hallow een mask on the campus yesterday, was wrestled into custody by a quick- thinking NYPD cadet and...
COP CADET TURNS HERO
Christopher Benson, the police cadet and criminal-justice major who helped tackle a campus gunman at St. John's yesterday, deserves straight A's for the rest of the school year. The genial...
50-SHOT VICTIM HELD AS 'BEATER'
A key witness in the sensational police killing of Sean Bell told cops after being collared for slugging his girlfriend that he doesn't work because he gets money from the...
DETECTIVE'S RACE SUIT CHARGES UNDERCOVER BETRAYAL
An NYPD detective is suing the city, claiming his sergeant is a racist who gave him assignments that endangered his life when he challenged him on his attitude toward minorities....
ISIAH IN A 'HUG' OF WAR
Knick coach Isiah Thomas told federal jurors he was blindsided when a former team executive recoiled from a friendly hug and kiss at a game - an embarrassing public move...
BALL'S GOT HIS MARC
Marc Ecko's plan to brand Barry Bonds' record ball with an asterisk could turn into a marketing home run for the fashion designer. It turns out the hip-hop fashion entrepreneur...
OPERA MAN TO STAR AT THE METS
Although some fat ladies have been known to make their debut at the Met, not many opera singers can say they've debuted before the Mets. But that will be the...
MIKE RAPS LICENSE PLAN
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday openly questioned Gov. Spitzer's decision to allow illegal aliens to get a driver's license, saying City Hall's top lawyer doesn't believe the move will pass muster with...
ANCIENT 'SNAIL' IS A REAL GEM
Look out, Tiffany! A priceless gemstone made its debut at the Museum of Natural History yesterday: an 80-million-year-old fossilized sea creature. It's a two-feet-in-diameter fossil of a marine animal called...
PLEA DEAL IS ARROW MINDED
"Stupid Cupid" insurance broker Noel Lauria has hit a bull's-eye with a no-jail plea deal for a bizarre, reckless stunt - target practice with a bow and arrow out his...
QUEENS GREEN GARDEN
The Queens Botanical Garden is getting even greener - it's opening a new building expected to be the most environmentally friendly in New York City. Outfitted with a solar-power rooftop,...
HSU ASSETS ARE FROZEN
A Manhattan judge has ordered ex-fugitive fund-raiser Norman Hsu's accounts frozen and his SoHo apartment sealed - but that might only recoup $83,000 of the $40 million a pair of...
TRASH-TIX TIME LIMIT OK'D
Homeowners hammered with $100 fines for not cleaning their sidewalks in the middle of the day got a break yesterday when Mayor Bloomberg signed a bill limiting the enforcement hours...
COP ARRESTED
An NYPD officer was arrested yesterday on a drug-related warrant from Virginia, sources said. Stephen LaBarbara, a probationary cop in Brooklyn's 63rd Precinct, was picked up at his house early...
2 1/2 YRS. FOR THIEVING CHURCH LADY
In her 20 years as volunteer treasurer for the First Reformed Episcopal Church in Midtown, Thelma Daniels Perkins never took a penny in salary. No wonder. She was plundering the...
BROOKLYN TRAFFIC HORROR
Two men died yesterday in a horrific accident when a dump truck jackknifed and flipped onto their car in Brooklyn, cops said. The victims, who died instantly, were identified as...
BACK BUCK$ FOR FREED COP
A police officer who was acquitted of charges that he killed his roommate is entitled to back pay for the year he spent in jail, a Manhattan judge has ruled....
FIEND WHO RAPED DAUGHTER GETS 25 YRS.
Goodbye, monster. A man who raped his own daughter almost daily for four years, starting when she was only 7, was sentenced yesterday to up to 25 years prison. The...
L.I. 'NAZI' GIRL IN BIAS-BASH BUST
A Long Island college student was busted for allegedly attacking three Orthodox Jewish girls, and breaking one of their noses, after proclaiming she's an agnostic Nazi skinhead. But the Hewlett...
BIZMAN: CHELSEA PICTURE STAYS UP
An Italian-restaurant owner - who's in the soup for displaying a picture of him with Chelsea Clinton outside his Village eatery - said yesterday that he won't remove the photo....
THE SCIENCE OF TEACHING
Brooklyn science teacher Steven Kaye's favorite project is opening doors. Kaye, an earth-science and science-research teacher at James Madison HS since 1984, is passionate about getting his research students a...
BUTCHER OF WIFE ON TRIAL
He didn't plan to butcher his wife on a Financial District sidewalk - it just turned out that way. That was the testimony yesterday by ex-con and admitted killer Richard...
NEW YORK DEMS MOVEOFF HER PAGE
WASHINGTON - Thirteen of New York's 23 House Democrats voted yesterday to condemn "in the strongest possible terms" an ad by the left-wing group MoveOn.org slamming Gen. David Petraeus -...
FOES HAMMER HILL
Hillary Rodham Clinton's rivals hit her from all sides last night at a New Hampshire Democratic presidential debate - slamming her performance on health care and her plans for Iraq....
BRANGELINA'S 1ST AID
Bill Clinton's global conference to help the world's needy turned into the Brangelina show yesterday - with the star couple announcing they're spearheading efforts to raise millions to educate kids...
PHIL JURY HUNG
Phil Spector yesterday narrowly avoided spending the rest of his life in prison after jurors deadlocked, 10-2, to convict him. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler said he...
$TILL ROLLING
"The Rolling Stones" still have a few geria-tricks up their sleeves. The aging rock band has entered the Guinness World Records by staging the most successful tour ever - pulling...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN The robber pictured passed a demand note to a teller at a Midtown bank and escaped with an undetermined amount of cash, cops said. The heist took place 11:15...
'ABUSIVE' BULLY HURTS CASE AGAINST BELL COPS
IF TRENT Benefield is dream ing of millions, mansions and models, he might as well buy a lottery ticket. Benefield, one of the central characters in Sean Bell's tragic fatal...
COACH PLAYS DEFENSE - VS. HIMSELF
WILL the real Isiah please stand up. Maybe the guy underwent an overnight spiritual conversion. Or perhaps he just reads this newspaper. But the Isiah Thomas who showed up at...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 693; Lucky Sum: 18 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 7981; Lucky Sum: 25 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 810; Lucky Sum: 9 / Evening Win-4 Wed.: 7070;...
CALL IRAN'S BLUFF
Now that the circus surrounding Mah moud Ahmadinejad's trip to New York has mercifully ended, the in ternational community must come to terms with the one act of defiance by...
HALL OF FAME'S FOUL BALL
At first glance, it seemed like a good idea. But a widely publicized online vote to decide what to do with Barry Bonds' home-run-record ball is looking suspiciously like a...
ALBANY'S ODD ABSTINENCE
Here's a switch: New York state is plan ning to turn down free money from the federal government. When was the last time Albany did anything like that? It's true,...
RUDY'S GUN SELLOUT
WHEN Rudy Giuliani spoke to the National Rifle As sociation last week, there was no way he could say anything remotely pleasing to the audience and remain consistent to his...
HYPOCRISIES OF THE TIMES
VISITING the Vatican in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson presented Pope Paul VI with a foot-high bust of Lyndon Johnson. Small choices can reveal the character of a person. Or of...
ANSWERING A'JAD: DISINVEST, N.Y.!
COLUMBIA University this week managed to hand a PR victory to Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It's time for another New York institution - the state Office of the Comptroller -...
SPITZER'S SAD LICENSE LUNACY
THE Department of Motor Vehicles, says Gov. Spitzer, "is not the INS" - meaning he doesn't want the DMV doing the work of granting or verifying anyone's immigration status. (He...
BOLLINGER'S BOTCHED INVITE TO IRANIAN THUG
In the mind of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust is fiction, Israel should be wiped off the map and homosexuality in Iran is nonexistent ("Lesson in Absurdity," Editorial, Sept....
NO OPEN BUFFETT
Rumors that Warren Buffett was mulling buying a huge stake in Bear Stearns sent its shares surging more than 7.5 percent yesterday, though several sources familiar with the situation said...
SALLIE TAKEOVER GROUP EYES REVISION$
The $28 billion takeover of Sallie Mae, the nation's biggest student loan provider, appears to be the latest big merger headed for a nasty court battle. "We have told representatives...
WHY I DISTRUST GOLDMAN SACHS' GOOD FORTUNE
GOLDMAN Sachs is an extraordinary company. It's the Yankees of the Babe Ruth era; the Packers in the '60s with Bart Starr, UCLA with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I know I usually...
NIELSENS COUNT TWO-TIMING ADS
NBC roiled the TV ad business by taking advantage of a new Nielsen rule that allows the network to air the season premiere of "Heroes" twice in the same week...
GIMME, GIMME
The holiday's hottest toys are still based on kids' love of things gross, shocking, noisy and somewhat messy - all in fun, of course. Toys "R" Us issued its list...
GOLDMAN SACHS TAPS FORST
Goldman Sachs yesterday named current Chief Administrative Officer Edward Forst to co-head its investment-management unit amid unprecedented losses at its flagship Global Alpha hedge fund. Forst, 46, will run the...
BURKLE TAKES STAKE IN XINHUA
Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Companies has signed an agreement to take a stake in a controversial Chinese media company and has put one of its executives on its board. Terms of...
GM'S $NAZZY NEW MODEL: VEBA
General Motors is saving its financial neck and ending a surprise strike by using a century-old shelter device originally invented to quell the labor riots of the 1920s. GM and...
CALL TO ACCOUNT
Cendant Corp.'s former chief Henry Silverman - who emerged unscathed from a $500 million accounting scandal that ultimately slashed $13 billion from the company's stock-market value - knew about certain...
ADS INFINITUM
Orville Redenbacher, the bow-tied purveyor of microwave popcorn who died more than a decade ago, lives on as an ad icon. The pitchman will be enshrined on the "Walk of...
CHILDREN'S PLACE PUNISHES ITS CEO
Showing it doesn't kid around about corporate shenanigans, The Children's Place retail stores fired its CEO for violating the company's stock-trading policies. An internal investigation revealed that Ezra Dabah failed...
RDA NAMES WELLINGTON
The Reader's Digest Association yesterday named Jeff Wellington as publisher of its flagship magazine, some five months after veteran Ben Madden was ousted in a clash with RDA's new owners....
HOOKING UP FOR $$ IN MIDTOWN
In a Wall Street twist on speed dating, big bank Dresdner Kleinwort played cupid yesterday by inviting its corporate clients and investors to hook up at a Midtown hotel. Reps...
BON VOYAGE VONAGE
Shares in Internet phone service Vonage fell below $1 yesterday amid mounting concerns the company will be run out of business by patent problems with rivals Verizon and Sprint. Vonage...
HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Riverdale, The Bronx $1.165 million Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 1/2 Square feet: 1,886 Common charges: $1,104 This neighborhood usually inspires visions of stately homes and grand prewar apartments. So this...
NEW ON THE MARKET
The Laurel The Upper East Side is getting glassier ... and greener. The Laurel, a 31-story, 129-residence, Costas Kondylis creation, has been designed for maximum daylight exposure and water-efficient landscaping....
MAD MONEY
One Madison Park is looking like a downtown version of 15 Central Park West or the Plaza. So far, Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts and Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon...
FALL DESIGN EVENTS
Sept. 28-Nov. 4 Designer Showhouse of New Jersey Why should Manhattan have a corner on the interior-design market? New Jersey has its fair share of talent, and you can check...
SHELTER ISLAND
REMEMBER the halcyon days of the Manhattan real-estate scene? That long-ago age of earlier this year, back when apartments seemed less places to live than licenses to print money? Yeah,...
DOWNTOWN WITH LOVE!
YOU'VE decided to put your home-ownership plans on hold, just for a year or so, in order to ride out the aftermath of the subprime storm. But now you need...
FINANCIAL DISTRICT RENTALS
37 WALLST. STUDIO: $2,505 Alcove studio with soaking tub, walk-in closet and 10 foot-ceilings; building has doorman, concierge, spa, gym, roof deck and screening room. Contact: Melissa Ingberg, (212) 785-8990...
DEAL OR NO DEAL
There's no doubt the outer boroughs enjoyed their share of the last decade's housing boom. From Greenpoint to Fort Greene to Vernon Boulevard, areas that once flew largely under the...
HOPE IN THE SLOPE
SOUTH SLOPE FOR years, the South Slope has played Zune to Park Slope's iPod - they were basically the same thing, only, well, they weren't. But big changes are afoot...
SAVIN' MONEY IN SUNNY
SUNNYSIDE Many Manhattan transplants are landing in Long Island City these days. But for bargain-hunters who prefer a neighborhoody feel over warehouse conversions, there's a happy alternative just a little...
PRICE POINTS
$500,000 West Village studio, $499,000 West 11th Street walk-up co-op (just one flight up but only 400 square feet) with exposed brick and stainless-steel kitchen appliances. Agent: Michael Carioti, Citi...
CAUGHT LOOKING
A lot might have changed in real estate in the last few months, but there's been one solid constant: Rents are still on crack-like highs. Matt Tepper and his girlfriend,...
DEVOUT MANHATTANITES FIND A SPACIOUS, AFFORDABLE HOME - IN BROOKLYN, NATCH
Brooklyn might have had a record number of foreclosures over the summer, but don't take that to mean the borough's real estate is getting any less desirable. Plenty of buyers...
MURPHY'S LOFT
Chef Marc Murphy should feel at home in his kitchen. After all, it's filled with the kind of brand names and gadgets most foodies would kill for, including a state-of-the-art...
RUFF RIDERS
Q: My daughter is afraid of dogs and gets nervous any time a dog gets on the elevator with us. Can I ask the dog owner to wait for the...
DEALMAKERS
Do you dream of owning a vacation home in a super-desirable place like the Hamptons but find that the prices are beyond your means? Well, you might be able to...
CLEAN HOUSE
Bold graphics & simple designs give your home a sleek look.
COD PIECE
Summer might be over, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be thinking about where to spend next year's vacation. A good bet is Martha's Vineyard, Mass., a four-hour drive plus...
WILD WILD WEST
Like Ocean Reef in Key Largo, Fla., and Windsor in Vero Beach, Fla., the Monterra development in California's Carmel Valley is a destination for well-heeled buyers looking for lots of...
A NEW OUTLET
One person's glitter is another person's fool's gold. That's how people view Secaucus these days, with opinion split on whether the New Jersey town best known for Giants Stadium is...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan GRAMERCY $1,200,000 235 E. 22nd St. Prewar two-bedroom, two-bath co-op, 1,300 square feet, with windowed eat-in kitchen; Gramercy House building features doorman, concierge, laundry and roof deck. Maintenance $1,913,...
DREAM HOMES
Mountain Lakes, N.J. $2.345 million With 220 feet of private lakefront, koi ponds, "water gardens" and lake views from every room, this custom Contemporary is something of a water wonderland....
NBA HIRES FRYER TO OVERSEE REFS
With NBA training camps opening Monday and the league's image damaged from the Tim Donaghy referee scandal, commissioner David Stern announced yesterday the hiring of Bernie Fryer to a newly...
STEWARD SEES TAYLOR-MADE KO
Jermain Taylor doesn't do a lot of trash talking, so it was up to his famous trainer, Emanuel Steward, to fan the flames for Saturday night's middleweight championship fight against...
SPORTS SHORTS
SOCCER: Germany reaches Cup final Defending champion Germany reached the final of the Women's World Cup with a 3-0 victory over Norway yesterday in Tianjin, China. Germany will play the...
POOL LAND ROLLS IN RETURN
THIRD RACE: Pool Land, 5-year-old mare who won Grade 1 Ruffian and other stakes last year for Todd Pletcher, now in Tom Albertrani barn, made her first start since Breeders'...
IT'S D-DAY FOR LANDESBERG
Holy Cross High School hoop star Sylven Landesberg will announce his college choice at a press conference today at Holy Cross, and numerous sources said he won't be going to...
U.S. SQUAD RALLIES BEHIND CAPT. JACK
MONTREAL - Jack Nicklaus had a golf club in his hand and a gallery around him, just like old times. He was checking up on his U.S. team at the...
'NOLES READY TO STEP IT UP
THE jokes have been fly ing around the Sunshine State for a while now, mostly from giddy Florida fans. But, recently, supporters from other state schools have chimed in. "Florida...
HONDO DEALS THE CARDS
Hondo, an Athletic supporter, found no jockularity in Boston last night, which negated his "if" play on the Padres and caused his earnings to tumble to 185 tenaces. Tonight, he'll...
PLAX VISITS SPECIALIST
There is concern about the availability of Giants receiver Plaxico Burress for Sunday's game against the Eagles. Burress, off to a blazing start despite a sprained right ankle, was not...
COLD, HARD SACKS
Sometimes when the rock starts rolling downhill, nothing can be done to prevent the impending avalanche, which is what happened last week when the Eagles piled on an outrageous nine...
TIKI SAYS STRAHAN'S BREAK OK
Tiki Barber can sympathize with Michael Strahan. Strahan sat out this summer's training camp with the Giants, claiming he was mulling retirement. Some criticized the 15-year veteran, saying he was...
OVERDUE BILLS
It's very easy to be seduced by the statistics when you look at the decimated and dominated Bills, the Jets' opponent Sunday in Buffalo. The Jets' message to themselves, however,...
EVERETT'S LOCKER GIVEN AWAY
The Bills have become so decimated with injuries that they were forced to do the unthinkable: Clear out the locker of their fallen tight end, Kevin Everett, who suffered a...
DUQUE COMES BACK TO BOLSTER BULLPEN
After more than a two-week absence, Orlando Hernandez finally returned to the mound last night, making his surprising comeback as a special guest star out of the bullpen. El Duque,...
METS PHILLIN' NOOSE TIGHTEN
Two homers in the first inning gave the Mets an early lead last night, and a third homer soon followed. The Mets built a big early cushion, and emergency starter...
CALL FOR EL DUQUE SHOWS DESPERATION
ORLANDO Hernandez materialized out of the Met bullpen last night, a move that felt like the whole organization right now, touched by panic and desperation. When asked if he were...
IT JUST DOESN'T ADD UP IN HUMBER'S GAME
Philip Humber made his first start for the Mets last night and he fit right into the team's dismal starting rotation, delivering four ineffective innings in a 9-6 loss to...
JAGR LINE SHAKEN UP
Tom Renney has a very enviable problem: How to deal with the boatload of talent on the Rangers' roster. After a 6-1 preseason loss to the Red Wings on Tuesday,...
TORRE'S STATUS STILL LAME-DUCK
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Though the wretched White Sox gave Ozzie Guillen a four-year extension and the awful Devil Rays picked up options on Joe Maddon through 2009, the Yankees...
YANKS PART OF 'IN' CROWD
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes, kids barely old enough to drink, drowned Roger Clemens in a sea of champagne. Hitting instructor Kevin Long traded showers with...
HERE COMES HUNT FOR ROD OCTOBER
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - There they were, the two superstars of the Yankees Universe, heading straight toward one another. Alex Rodriguez was still wearing his champagne-soaked uniform while Derek Jeter...
SUMMER OF '77
Remember the sizzling, scintillating summer of 1977 when Billy Martin's Yankees stormed past the Red Sox and went on to capture their first World Championship in 15 years by beating...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
If you can't have the whole house, maybe half will do. A Hillsboro, Ohio, man, angry that his bid to buy a house was rejected, took a power saw and...