April 25, 2000
WEST SIDE STORY; GOTTLIEB HOLDINGS TO GO IN $200M BLOCK
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe land-rich estate of William Gottlieb is out of probate and about to be sold for as much as $200 million, The Post has learned. The bidding for the large,...
EQUITABLE TOWER OPENS UP
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amGAZE up at the Equitable Tower on Seventh Avenue at 53rd Street, and you'll see a granite and limestone face that looks impervious to the elements or to change. That's...
MARC ANTHONY IN MEGA-LICENSE PACT
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amLatin music sensation Marc Anthony is coming to a store near you. The popular recording artist has inked a deal to develop an entire licensed product line - from toys...
SOROS GETS SLAMMED ; TECH SELL-OFF COSTS HEDGE FUND KING $3B
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amHedge fund king George Soros hasn't had such a beating in six years. The ongoing rout in technology stocks that's ruined many small day traders has also wiped out a...
CHARRON DRESSES UP LIZ FOR WALL ST.
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amPAUL Charron has found the Holy Grail of fashion and apparel companies. The chairman and CEO of Liz Claiborne has made himself and his company welcome on Wall Street. Many...
PIXELON SUED FOR $4.85M BY EX-CEO'S VICTIMS BY JOSEPH GALLIVAN
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amNora Sue Strouth Baker of Big Stone Gap, Va., claims she is an equitable owner in the California .com because Stanley was living off money he owed her when he...
STAGEBILL'S NEW DO ; STREET BIGS BACKING ITS SECOND ACT - ONLINE
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amWall Street is going to the opera - to make money. Armed with millions from investment banker Roy Furman and other investors, including Mort Zuckerman and Wall Streeter Ken Lipper,...
FEST'S THE TALK OF THE TOWN
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amWHAT do Robin Williams, Arthur Miller, Paul Simon, Stephen King and Stanley Tucci have in common? They all have, in one way or another, contributed to the success of The...
TONI BACK ON TOP
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amTONI BRAXTON "The Heat" ½ La Face Records Along with D'Angelo and Sisqo, Toni Braxton is at the forefront of contemporary R&B. The sap and the saccharine that have been...
SCHWIMMER'S ALI BABE; HER STARRING ROLE IN 'ARABIAN NIGHTS' WILL TEST THE FRIENDSHIP
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHE long-distance call was meant for white-hot film star Mili Avital, but best "Friend" David Schwimmer answers the cell phone instead. "Oh, you're looking for Mili," Schwimmer says, mumbling over...
THE STARR REPORT
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe James gang Fox Sports personality James Brown is teaming with "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer and comic legend Bob Newhart for a sports-oriented series on Showtime. "The Sports Pages" will...
FROM HALF A DIRTY DOZEN GALS TO DOZENS OF DIRTY GUYS... TWO EXTREME LOADS OF BULL
April 25, 2000 | 4:00am"The Expendables" Tonight at 9 on USA "The Wildest Show In the South: The AngolaPrison Rodeo" Tonight at 8 on Discovery Channel IF you just can't get enough jail time...
CASE OF HAVE GUITAR WILL TRAVEL
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amLIKE any epic hero, Peter Case, a singer/songwriter traveling the path cut by Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, journeyed far beyond his roots to get back to where he started....
'RAINBOW' REVIVAL PLANS A WASHOUT
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE will be no pot of gold for "Finian's Rainbow" on Broadway next season. Producer Rodger Hess announced yesterday he was pulling the plug on the revival, which had been...
GRUMPY, DOPEY 'DWARF'
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amTALLER THAN A DWARFZero starsT he Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48th Street, 239-6200. A trip to the Longacre Theatre for the new Elaine May comedy "Taller Than a Dwarf" is...
OUT OF THE LOOP ; EAT CHEAP & HANG LOOSE IN THE WINDY CITY
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amFOUND heaven not too long ago, in the form of a little lunch counter way way west on Division Street in Chicago's West Town. Leo's, a locally popular, completely grass-roots...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amSnoop city You'll get to see private parts of the City of Brotherly Love if you sign on for one of the 39 Philadelphia Open House tours. Running this Thursday...
FLINTSTONES' TWO PEARLS
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amFORMER "Dynasty" vixen Joan Collins may finally shake the "poor man's Elizabeth Taylor" tag with her latest film role. Friday, Collins steps in as Fred's fearsome mother-in-law in "The Flintstones...
WACKY WORKOUTS:INNOVATIVE EXERCISE CLASSES PUT A NEW SPIN ON SHAPING UP
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amWe've seen them all: hip-hop and salsa step classes, water aerobics, disco boxing - anything to get away from the same old weight-machine shuffle. But what was new then is...
MOVERS & SHAKERS KICK OFF NEWS CORP'S 'FORUM 2000'
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amMore than 125 international, government, business and civic leaders - including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev - attended last night's kickoff for "Global Forum...
TWISTED TALE OF DRUGS, SEX, MONEY & MURDER ; VEGAS CASE PANS OUT LIKE A MOVIE MYSTERY
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHE woman known as "The Irish Venus" sits in court in Las Vegas with a look that speaks more of fear and defiance than love and lust. Sandy Murphy, 28,...
POLITICS ASIDE, HE BELONGS WITH HIS FATHER
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHE raid and the photos and the words of politicians change nothing. Biological destiny and family law still argue that Elian Gonzalez belongs with his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez. The...
CITY SCHOOLS WON'T GET TO RUIN THIS KID - TYCOON AIDS GIRL AFTER SEX ASSAULT
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS public-school horror story has a happy ending. A 7-year-old girl who learned some unpleasant facts of life in her out-of-control Harlem elementary school is getting a chance at a...
'HITLER' SHOW SPARKS DEBATE
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amWhat Russians claim is a fragment of Adolf Hitler's skull - kept for decades in a top-secret archive - will be put on exhibit tomorrow in Moscow. The fragment -...
RIGHTS PANEL BACKS OFF RELEASING REPORT ON NYPD
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe U.S. Commission on Civil Rights flip-flopped yesterday, and decided against hastily releasing its controversial report on the NYPD. The commission's draft report, which calls for a federal monitor to...
DA: MORGUE WORKER STOLE FROM CORPSE
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amA city morgue attendant was arrested yesterday and charged with stealing a dead man's checks and forging his signature in an alleged effort to loot the $300,000 bank account of...
HILL SLAMS RUDY FOR BLAST AT FEDS - CALLS IT EXTREME TO BRAND THEM 'STORM TROOPERS'
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton yesterday praised the seizing of Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and blasted Mayor Giuliani for his "divisive attacks" against federal agents. Ending two days of silence...
RUDY RENEWS POLICY OF RIPPING INSURANCE PANEL FOR HIGH CAR RATES
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani thumped state insurance officials yesterday for doing little to combat sky-high car-insurance rates - a complaint he also drummed during his 1997 re-election campaign, with few results. "The...
LANDLORDS 'ENERGIZED' FOR WHOPPING RENT HIKES
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amMore than 500,000 tenants face significant rent hikes because soaring fuel prices have propelled landlords' operating costs to their highest level since 1996. Sources said the Rent Guidelines Board will...
SIERRA CLUB: RUDY'S GOTTA CHANGE HIS NATURE
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe Sierra Club today is launching an attack ad against Mayor Giuliani, charging he hasn't done enough to protect the environment and the city's water supply. As the environment became...
TRAGIC, TRUE HISTORY NOW SPAWNS WILD RUMORS
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI. THE tone of the crackpot's voice on the Miami radio station was as serious as a funeral. In painstaking detail, he described every shade and light angle in the...
HOOKER SLIPS OUT OF HER CUFFS AND STEALS POLICE VAN
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amA Houdini-like hooker, left alone in the back of a police van, slid her handcuffs off and disappeared with the vehicle yesterday, officials said. Tacoma Hopps, 35, was arrested at...
TALK OF BROKEN WINDOWS $ENDS MICROSOFT FALLING
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amMicrosoft was hit with a double whammy yesterday. First, its stock plummeted as soon as the markets opened. The warning of weak future earnings had been pent up since Thursday...
NO CLOSURE FOR KIN OF MISSING AIRMEN
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe Vietnam War ended in defeat for the U.S.-backed regime in Saigon 25 years ago this month, the end of a demoralizing conflict that left its mark on all aspects...
'DEADBEAT' TYCOON PLEADS POVERTY - THEN WRITES CHECK
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe deadbeat millionaire who's been dodging his wife for five years didn't know he owed her any money, his lawyer insisted yesterday. Edward Weslock, 64, was arrested on a contempt-of-court...
BRICK-ATTACK ALIBI SHOCKER - SUSPECT: I WAS WITH COPS
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe crackhead accused of crushing a young secretary's skull with a brick is claiming an airtight alibi - insisting that at the time of the nearly fatal Midtown attack, he...
PREZ, HILL AND AL GET A BIG ; LAUGH OUT OF ELIAN
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amDemocrats laughed at Elian Gonzalez jokes last night as President Clinton, wife Hillary and Veep Al Gore teamed up - for the first time in 2000 - to raise $2.2...
DEFIANT RENO: 'NO REGRETS' OVER RAID - SENATE, HOUSE TO PROBE ELIAN GRAB
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amAttorney General Janet Reno faces a hostile grilling from Senate critics today over the pre-dawn, commando-style grab of Elian Gonzalez - for which she said she has "no regrets whatsoever."...
NEEDLE-NURSE BABY'S HEART STILL BEATING
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amDoctors are still picking up a fetal heartbeat in the pregnant Westchester nurse stabbed with a syringe filled with an abortion drug, her lawyer said yesterday. But John Mangialiardi said...
ALBRIGHT LAUNCHES GLOBAL FORUM
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amSecretary of State Madeleine Albright said last night the United States will take a leadership role when it comes to protecting its interests - with or without international support. America's...
MIAMI KIN KEPT FROM ELIAN AGAIN
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe Miami relatives of Elian Gonzalez tried to visit the 6-year-old and his father last night - and were rebuffed for a third time. "I never got the chance to...
YANKS BEAT PIRATES - N.Y. COUPLE DEFY MALAY ABDUCTORS
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amA nerves-of-steel upstate ex-Marine saved his wife and himself from being taken hostage from a lush Malaysian resort island when he dared a band of armed abductors to kill him....
OUR WEATHER IS JUST THE TICK-ET FOR LYME DISEASE
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe clock is ticking toward summer - and a bumper crop of Lyme disease-carrying ticks, health officials warn. Three mild winters and a wet spring all point to a possible...
BRONX THUGS KILL EIGHTH LIVERY DRIVER
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amA livery cab driver was shot dead in the South Bronx last night - the eighth such killing in the city this year. Four teens were being questioned in the...
NEW KILLER AVALANCHE HITS SWITZERLAND
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amOne skier was killed and two others were injured yesterday in the latest of a string of avalanches plaguing Switzerland, authorities said. The snowslide trapped 12 skiers near the Grand...
MORE VIOLENCE ROCKS ZIMBABWE
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amZimbabwe war veterans torched a white-owned farm, attacked black workers and kidnapped a black foreman as the monthlong land dispute remained violent, witnesses said yesterday. Farming leaders said the veterans,...
D.C. ZOO GUNFIGHT LEAVES BOY BRAIN-DEAD
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amAn 11-year-old boy was left brain-dead and five other children were wounded when a scuffle between feuding teens at the crowded National Zoo in Washington erupted in gunfire last night,...
THIS WEATHER'S JUST THE TICK-ET FOR LYME
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe clock is ticking toward summer - and a bumper crop of Lyme disease-carrying ticks, public-health officials warned yesterday. Three mild winters and a wet spring all point to a...
CLINTONS AND GORE RATTLE CUPS AT APPLE BASH
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amIt was three for the money last night in New York as the trio of President Clinton, wife Hillary and Veep Al Gore teamed up - for the first time...
HO, NO! HOOKER ESCAPES COPS
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amA Houdini-like hooker gave cops the slip yesterday after she was left alone in the back of a police van, slid her handcuffs off and disappeared with the vehicle, officials...
BOY BRAIN-DEAD IN ZOO SHOOTING
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amAn 11-year-old boy was left brain-dead and five other children were wounded when a scuffle between feuding teens at the crowded National Zoo in Washington erupted in gunfire last night,...
SIX KIDS WOUNDED IN D.C. ZOO GUNFIGHT
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amAt least six children were shot when a scuffle between feuding teens at the National Zoo in Washington erupted in gunfire last night, police and witnesses said. One of the...
BETTER GET USED TO IT ; GAME 1 SEE-SAW TYPICAL OF KNICKS PLAYOFF BASKETBALL
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThey are going to build leads and lose them. They are probably going to get outrebounded, likely go into momentary funks and almost definitely find themselves a handful of points...
VG DEFENDS HIS TEAM, SHOWS OFF A 'BIG L'
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Consider this full-support mode for the Knicks' Jeff Van Gundy, who never tires of defending his team from its many critics. Reminded yesterday that there's a popular sentiment...
LENNOX HAS CHANCE TO STIR SOME PASSION
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amLENNOX Lewis is beginning the second phase of his career Saturday night at the Garden, a phase that will either script his legacy as a champion worth remembering or one...
EWING TUNES OUT GARDEN GROAN, BUT JEFF CAN'T
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amIt's become as familiar a Garden sound as the chant of "Dee-fense." Call it the Patrick Ewing Groan. Whenever the 11-time All-Star misses a couple of shots in a row,...
CASEY ON BRINK, AX OVERHEAD
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe watching and waiting continues for the Nets and the expected firing of Don Casey, which could occur today. This is getting almost as exciting as the Nets' season. Sources...
PUENTE'S EXTRA WORK PAYS DIVIDENDS
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amRoosevelt 6 A.E. Smith 4 Nestor Puente couldn't wait any longer. The Roosevelt senior and the rest of his teammates hadn't played in a week. They were getting rusty, losing...
SPUTTERY ROCKET: 2 SHAKY INNINGS SINK ROG & YANKS
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amTwins 7 Yankees 3 For five shutout innings yesterday, Roger Clemens once again was The Rocket. Unfortunately for Clemens and the Yankees, those innings were the second through the sixth....
JACQUE SHAKES OFF DROP
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe play could have defined Jacque Jones for a moment, a week or even a season. On one sequence that probably felt like it took an eternity, Jones was the...
SPREWELL AIRS IT OUT ; THE REAL 'NEXT JORDAN'
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHE coronation has taken place, they just forgot to invite the right king. In its search for the Almighty Next Michael, the NBA has put crowns on the heads of...
METS POCKET 8 THE HARD WAY ; FRANCO'S FLUKE HIT EXTENDS WIN STREAK
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amMets 1 Dodgers 0 Championship teams get breaks like the one the Mets got in the ninth inning yesterday when Adrian Beltre couldn't find third base. Championship teams hit balls...
STAFF INFECTION IN BX.
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Yankees have scored just one more run than their opponents. Their on-base percentage is something out of the Alvaro Espinoza era. Their defense has not been sharp and has...
BROSIUS ALL SET TO COME BACK; KNOBLAUCH OUT
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES One infielder in, another out. Just when the Yankees get back third baseman Scott Brosius from an injury, they may lose All-Star second baseman Chuck Knoblauch, who hurt...
DAVEY TOSSED FOR CHEW-OUT OF UMPIRE
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe Dodgers weren't in a good mood when they got to Shea yesterday. And they were in a lousy mood when they left, following a controversial 1-0 loss. Forced to...
TWINS: WE'RE NOT THE WORST
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThere they were yesterday - the poor, young, inexperienced and undermanned Twins trying to keep pace with the defending World Series champion Yankees at Yankee Stadium. That's exactly the way...
'TURK, TURK, TURK' IS CALL OF THE WILD
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amTHE BOXSCORE doesn't have a "W" or an "S" or even an "H" (standing for hold, that absurd statistic invented by some nebbish who needs to get out and mingle...
GAME'S FUN AGAIN FOR HUNDLEY
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe Dodgers had just dropped a 1-0 decision to the Mets yesterday in the bottom of the ninth, yet catcher Todd Hundley was in the visitors' clubhouse expounding on what...
BOBBY OKS MINOR MOVE
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Bobby Jones understands the situation. Not only is he scheduled to be on the disabled list until next Tuesday with strained right calf muscle, but his numbers thus...
DR. J LOOKING TO FILL NETS ; LEGEND COULD BE IN CHARGE BY END OF WEEK
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amSHORTLY after getting over the shock of Lenny Wilkens resignation (J.R. Rider was fined for being late to the press conference) as Hawks' coach, it came to my attention that...
CONEY STADIUM PLAN HITS SNAG
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe Mets and City Hall have hit an unexpected bump, albeit a possibly small one, in bringing their plans for a Coney Island stadium to the public. During yesterday's 1-0...
TO MILTON, YANKS ARE OLD HAT
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amHaving watched the Yankees win two World Series championships with Chuck Knoblauch at second base, it's difficult to argue the trade that sent promising young pitcher Eric Milton to the...
MILTON TO BOMBERS: NO HARD FEELINGS
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amHaving watched the Yankees win two World Championships with Chuck Knoblauch at second base, it's difficult to argue the trade that sent promising young pitcher Eric Milton to the Twins...
BOMBERS EYEING DEAL WITH EXPOS FOR WIDGER
April 25, 2000 | 4:00amThe Yankees have expressed interest to the Expos about trading for catcher Chris Widger to back up Jorge Posada, according to industry sources. Fred Ferreira, the Expo VP of scouting...