October 30, 2002
DOG MAY BID ON WARHOL FACTORY
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amIvana Trump, Henry Kissinger, and a dog named Gunther are among those coveting the late Andy Warhol's former Factory building at 158 Madison Ave. We warned you in February that...
BAD NEWS RIPS MARKET; 22ND DECLINE FOR S&P 500 IN OCT.
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amConsumer confidence fell to a 10-year low and investor optimism fell to an all-time low - causing the S&P 500 index to drop for the 22nd time this month. The...
UNITED MAY BRING BACK THE SHUTTLE
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amTroubled United Airlines is considering a plan to ramp up revenues by bringing back its low-cost United Shuttle unit. United Shuttle, which specialized in short trips, was closed after the...
A FINE MESS-IER - VIVENDI FACES PROBE INTO EX-CEO'S REIGN
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amVivendi can't seem to escape disgraced former CEO Jean-Marie Messier's legacy. The news yesterday that Paris prosecutors have opened a probe into the company's financial disclosure practices under Messier sent...
EX-ROSIE EDITOR SHOPS BOOK
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amSUSAN Toepfer, the former editor of Rosie magazine - who became ensnared in a now-infamous feud with comedian Rosie O'Donnell - is now peddling a novel about a fictionalized magazine...
SHOPPING-BAG PEOPLE - CONFIDENCE PLUNGES AS CONSUMERS BUY LESS
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amShoppers have sworn off saying "I'll take it." Concerns about unemployment, potential war in Iraq and general economic uncertainty have consumers holding on to their dollars instead of spending on...
NBC NEARS DEAL TO BUY BRAVO FOR $1.25B
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amCablevision is closer to finalizing a deal to sell its Bravo cable channel to NBC in a deal valued at about $1.25 billion, said people close the matter. The two...
IN DEEP TRUFFLES - GOURMETS CELEBRATE THE FUNGUS AMONG US
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amNOT all diamonds are forever. The fresh white truffles from Italy known as "white diamonds" have a season, which has finally arrived. This has been a banner year for the...
STARR REPORT
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amChange in the weather over at Ch. 2 John Bolaris, who toiled as Ch. 2's weekend weatherman from 1987-90, is returning home to become the station's 4:30, 5, 6 and...
FORK IN THE ROAD
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amDOS CAMINOS [] 373 PARK AVE. SO. (BETWEEN 26TH AND 27TH STREETS); (212) 294-1000 ----------- 'THE trouble with black napkins," my stylishly dressed friend chuckles over lunch at Dos Caminos,...
POTENT IRISH 'RUM & VODKA'
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amRUM & VODKAAt the Ohio Theatre, 66 Wooster St. Call SmartTix, (212) 206-1515. Through Sunday. ------ CONOR McPherson takes journeys into the dark corners of Irish life. In plays like...
TONIGHT TAKE HOME SOME LITTLE SHAVERS
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amDOING it yourself at home will shave a bit off the price of a truffle dinner. At Citarella stores ([212] 874-0303), the going price for fresh white truffles is $69...
FORBIDDEN 'SEINFELD'; PUERTO RICAN FLAG BURNING EPISODE SLIPS BACK ON AIR
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amA CONTROVERSIAL 1998 "Seinfeld" episode about the Puerto Rican Day Parade, missing on the airwaves here for nearly five years, has quietly been put back into circulation. The episode so...
SHERIFF SHOOTS DOWN ABC'S BLAKE CHAT
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County sheriff yesterday canceled Robert Blake's interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, killing the jailhouse chat that cost the troubled actor his lawyer. Blake, accused...
MAI KIND OF PLACE
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amO MAI [] 158 NINTH AVE. (BETWEEN 19TH AND 20TH STREETS) (212) 633-0550 ------------ 'HOW are you supposed to eat that with chopsticks?" my friend asks about hefty caramelized shrimp...
DON'T VOTE FOR STERLING (HE DOESN'T EVEN EXIST)
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amNBC is behind a potentially confusing political ad campaign to promote its new Washington-based drama "Mister Sterling." The show, set to debut in January, is about an improbable politician (played...
JACKIE THE RIPPER - MAD-AS-HELL MASON TRASHES TIMES REVIEWER
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amAS a rule, Broadway performers don't tangle with critics. They take their lumps, then salve their wounds in private. Not so Jackie Mason. Here's what the comedian has to say...
IT WILL BE 'AMOUR' NO MORE
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amIT'S curtains all over the city: "Amour," the new Michel Legrand musical, and uptown's "Harlem Song" have both posted closing notices. "Amour," which was first produced in Paris and won...
HANSON ON THE SQUARE
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amUNION Square could be called "Hansonville," now that restaurateur Stephen Hanson is beginning construction on his fourth eatery in the restaurant-heavy area. The CEO of the B.R. Guest group will...
GOODNIGHT, 'GIRLS'
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amFOX has yanked David E. Kelley's legal drama "girl's club" after only two low-rated episodes. In its place next Monday, Fox will air a repeat of "Boston Public" from last...
AT BOSSTONES' BASH, THE SKA'S THE LIMIT
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amMIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES ------- PUNK-SKA is one of the strangest yet most appealing hybrids in music, and Boston's Mighty Mighty Bosstones is among its best purveyors. Just back from its...
'DEBBIE' DOESN'T DO IT
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amDEBBIE DOES DALLASAt the Jane Street Theatre, 113 Jane St. Telecharge, (212) 239-6200. -------- IN the 1979 porn flick "Debbie Does Dallas," a bunch of young women do just about...
THERE'S NO REASON TO 'CHEAT'
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amCHEATAt the Women's Project Theatre, 424 W. 55th St. Through Nov. 3. TeleCharge, (212) 239-6200. ----- AS Julie Jensen's new play, "Cheat," would have it, Rosie the Riveter - the...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amMANHATTAN * A knife-wielding man sodomized a woman near Central Park yesterday, police said. The attack occurred at about 3:30 a.m. on West 108th Street and Central Park West, where...
MCNAMARA'S GHOST - RUMMY'S HALLOWEEN COSTUME
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amDEFENSE Secretary Robert S. McNamara was our most destructive public official in living memory. Convinced that the only difference between the business world and the military was that civilian management...
'COPY CAT' ADMITS TO BX. MURDERS: DA
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amA former Marine has confessed to killing two cabbies, a Bronx prosecutor said yesterday. Roberto Mayen, 26, of Woodbridge, Va., was held without bail on murder, manslaughter and weapons possession...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amIt seems like udder madness, but a California community may change its name to "Got Milk?" Officials in Biggs will meet Nov. 18 to discuss the proposal from the California...
PATAKI'S LUCK - GOV'S BIGGEST STRENGTH IS HIS FOES' FUMBLING
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amWith less than a week to go until Election Day and his re-election safely in the bag, comparisons between Gov. Pataki and Yankees legend Lou Gehrig come to mind. No,...
LAUTENBERG PAINTED SOFT ON TERROR IN AD
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - In a haunting new ad, New Jersey Senate hopeful Doug Forrester uses issues of terrorism mixed with images of playing kids to paint opponent Frank Lautenberg as a...
KIDS WILL FIT INTO TWEED NEXT SPRING
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amThird-graders will begin trooping through the Tweed Courthouse next spring, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday, making good on a promise to mingle students with top school administrators. "It will send a...
GRIDDER IN RAPE BUST
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amA Hosftra University football player was freed on bail yesterday after being charged with raping a fellow student on the Long Island campus. Peter Martocci, a 19-year-old sophomore, was arrested...
BUBBA ON THE 'SPOT': EX-PREZ'S APPEARANCE ON CARL AD IS A FIRST
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amCarl McCall yesterday released a new television commercial featuring Bill Clinton - believed to be the first time the former president has appeared in an ad for a political candidate...
DON'T SCARE THE KIDDIES
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amSo many real-life scares haunt us these days that parents tomorrow should steer their kids to Halloween costumes that are more fanciful and funny than frightening, childhood experts say. "We've...
PRIEST: I HAVE $INNED
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amAn embezzling priest, accused of lavishing stolen funds on a gay lover, walked out of a Queens courtroom yesterday with five years' probation, forced restitution and a sermon from the...
GOOD SAM 'KILLERS' PARTIED
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amThey came to New York to party, and party they did - shortly after killing a good Samaritan who had given them a lift from the Belt Parkway after their...
GOLISANO RAPPED ON 500G 'LOAN'
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amALBANY - Independence gubernatorial candidate Tom Golisano could face criminal charges after a judge ruled yesterday that he illegally funded the campaign of a former running mate. Albany State Supreme...
MINORITY REPORT: BLACKS FLEEING DEM FOLD
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Experts predicted black turnout in next Tuesday's election - a key to Democratic success - will be "uneven" after a new poll found that the share of blacks...
PILOTS' FINAL AGONY: FLIGHT 587 CREW DIDN'T KNOW TAIL HAD COME OFF
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amThe pilots of doomed Flight 587 were unaware the tail had snapped off as they desperately battled to control the plane before it made its death dive in Queens, chilling...
PARENTS UNITE FOR BX. SCHOOLS
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amFed up with a history of failing schools, a coalition of parents groups in the South Bronx are proposing an "Education Bill of Rights" to turn them around. "We understand...
WORKER INJURED IN LADDER PLUNGE
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amAn immigrant working a construction job to support his family in Bangladesh was in critical condition last night after falling from a ladder at a Brooklyn home and plunging headfirst...
FINAL INSULT TO 9/11 HERO
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amA Pace University student was busted yesterday for stealing the FDNY parking permit of a legendary firefighter who died on Sept. 11, officials said. Fire marshals nabbed Vadim Reznikov, a...
COUNCIL CONSIDERS IFS, ANDS & BUTTS
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amCity Council members are quietly floating modified proposals to Mayor Bloomberg's tough indoor-smoking bill in hopes of reaching a compromise, The Post has learned. Sources said that while most council...
U.N. INSPECTORS MEET WITH BUSH
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The top U.N. weapons inspectors today are coming to huddle with President Bush at the White House as the administration tries to prod the United Nations toward a...
TALE OF THE TAPE IS BAD NEWS FOR BIRTHDAY GIRL WINONA
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amBEVERLY HILLS - Winona Ryder celebrated her 31st birthday in humiliating fashion yesterday , witnessing a videotape of store security guards swarming all over her after she allegedly shoplifted from...
J.LO: I WANT BEN'S BABIES
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amA beaming Jennifer Lopez gushes that she wants studly beau Ben Affleck to father her children as she flashes a gigantic sparkler on her finger and cryptically answers questions in...
KIN REVEAL SHOOTER'S 'TERRIBLE' INNER TORMENT
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amStill-stunned kin of alleged sniper fiend John Allen Muhammad last night revealed their own theories on what may have caused the control-freak ex-vet to snap. "Terrible childhood" and losing child-custody...
BUSH INKS VOTE OVERHAUL
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday signed an election-reform yesterday that aims to avoid a repeat of the 2000 Florida fiasco. The law gives states $3.9 billion to improve equipment, voter...
MONDALE'S OFF & RUNNING IN MINN.
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The frantic last-minute Minnesota Senate race kicks off today - with Walter Mondale slated to officially replace the late Sen. Paul Wellstone and Republicans predicting President Bush will...
NICKNAME, SICK NAME - MD. SUSPECT CALLED HIS TEEN COHORT 'SNIPER'
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amJohn Allen Muhammad gave his teen sidekick, Lee Malvo, the nickname "Sniper" months before they began their killing spree, court papers charged yesterday. An affidavit filed with the federal complaint...
HOFSTRA GRIDDER IN RAPE BUST
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amA Hosftra University football player was freed on bail yesterday after being charged with raping a fellow student on the Long Island campus. Peter Martocci, a 19-year-old sophomore, was arrested...
QNS. COUPLE FOUND DEAD
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amA Queens couple were discovered dead in their home yesterday - apparently from carbon monoxide fumes. Everett and Greta Gibson - both 72 - were pronounced dead in their home...
DEATH ROW LOOMS : SNIPER FACES EXECUTION ON FED CHARGES OF EXTORTION
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amThe federal government yesterday hit accused Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad with murder and extortion charges that could land him on death row. The 20-count complaint filed in federal court...
POLICE TIP LINE TURNED OUT TO BE A HINDRANCE
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amFREDERICKSBURG, Va. - Federal investigators, unhappy at the length of time it took them to crack the sniper case, say the cornerstone of their investigation, the tip line which received...
BUSH INKS POST-FLA. ELECTION OVERHAUL
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush signed an election-reform law yesterday that aims to avoid a repeat of the 2000 Florida fiasco. In a signing ceremony at the White House, Bush never...
'COPY-CAT' SNIPER ADMITS BX. MURDERS
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amA former Marine has confessed to killing two cabbies, a Bronx prosecutor said yesterday. Roberto Mayen, 26, of Woodbridge, Va., was held without bail on murder, manslaughter and weapons possession...
CROOKS MAY GET A BOO$T
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amDRUG users. Wife beaters. Child killers. Guess what these criminals have in common? They may be among the first New Yorkers to benefit from budget cuts, under hush-hush plans cooked...
BRITS HONOR 9/11 HERO
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amA brave New York City cop who saved dozens from falling debris on 9/11 will be honored in London tonight. When the South Tower collapsed, Lt. Timothy McGinn and about...
REMORSELESS THUG GETS LIFE FOR MURDER
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amThe leader of a vicious jewelry gang that killed a retired NYPD cop and maimed dozens of robbery victims was sent to prison for life yesterday after the judge heard...
STAY OF EXECUTION FOR JIGGLE JOINTS
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amThe city's porn palaces got a nudie lease on life yesterday when a Manhattan judge blocked new regulations that would mean their demise from going into effect until at least...
MONDALE OFF AND RUNNING
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The frantic last-minute Minnesota Senate race kicks off today - with Walter Mondale slated to officially replace the late Sen. Paul Wellstone and Republicans predicting President Bush will...
MINORITY REPORT: BLACKS ARE FLEEING DEMS' FOLD
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Experts predicted black turnout in next Tuesday's election - a key to Democratic success - will be "uneven" after a new poll found that the share of blacks...
HELP RATE 'TALKING' TAXIS
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amWhen Elmo or Paul O'Neill tells you to "buckle your seat belt for safety" in a city cab, do you listen? The Taxi and Limousine Commission wants to know. It's...
WILD CAR 'CHASE' : 4-BORO TREK TO RECLAIM VAN FROM THE SHERIFF
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man who thought he was lucky after finding his stolen minivan intact the day after it was snatched last August got a rude awakening last week when the...
WORDS WOUND TRAGIC LOVED ONES
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amTHE prosecutor's words were like razor blades ripping apart the old wounds. Painfully, one by one, the family members of the May 2000 Wendy's massacre began to fall apart yesterday...
MAYOR MONEYBAGS TOPS RICH-POLS LIST
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amNot only has Mayor Bloomberg been named the richest politician in America by Forbes Magazine - he's worth more than everyone else on the list combined. With a net worth...
STRAPHANGERS PROTEST HIKE
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amA transit riders' advocacy group staged a Halloween-themed protest at MTA headquarters yesterday to say "boo" to the prospect of a fare hike. "Riders don't want to be tricked into...
PALESTINE PARLIAMENT OKS ARAFAT CABINET
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amYasser Arafat won a rare political victory yesterday from a skeptical Palestinian parliament that approved his new 19-member Cabinet. After a stormy debate in Ramallah, the legislators voted 56 to...
'TEE' IS FOR 'TAX' IN MIKE'S GOLF TRIP
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amMayor Bloomberg and the state's top two legislators spent their whirlwind weekend in Bermuda discussing "revenue enhancers" - higher taxes - possibly on a temporary basis, the lawmakers said yesterday....
HOMELESS CRACKDOWN NYPD'S 'SECRET' SWEEPS TARGET CRISIS
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amThe city is so worried about the growing homeless problem that NYPD supervisors have been secretly hitting the streets at night, checking up on cops to see if they are...
MAYOR'S HOMELESS POLICY
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amWhen Rudy Giuliani was mayor, his policy toward the homeless could be summed up in two words: tough love. Mayor Bloomberg, however, has shown himself to be "more compassionate, less...
DOLAN: HEAT'S NOT ON SATHER
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amTHE question has been posed hypothetically by people around the league since the summer: Do the Rangers have to make the playoffs in order for Glen Sather to retain his...
GOING NOWHERE
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amPaul Schwartz' Giant Report CardQUARTERBACKSKerry Collins (20 of 34, 251 yards) sure looked jittery and nervous, didn't he? Was wild high, low and side-to-side in a poor throwing night.RUNNING BACKSThings...
HUNTERS LOSE EVEN MORE GROUND
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amIT appears that Governor Pataki has been unable to keep his promise of protecting critical lands and protecting natural resources when New York State abandoned thousands of acres that had...
GIVE ABRAHAM SOME CREDIT ; WILLING TO TAKE JETS' HEAT
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amGOOD for John Abraham. The Jets' Pro Bowl defensive end deserves applause both for his passionate outburst after Sunday's unforgivable loss to a Browns team that was half-dead by halftime...
HOLIK HAS EXCUSE FOR SLOW START
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amWho is that impostor wearing No. 16 on the Rangers? It couldn't possibly be the highly coveted free agent and former Devil Bobby Holik. If so, where's his trademark rough-and-tumble...
NO TURNING BACK FOR KNICKS, NETS ; CHANEY'S PACT EXTENDED DESPITE ROCKY PRESEASON
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - The Knicks figure to be dead ducks once the real season begins tonight against the Pistons. Despite the imminent crash, Don Chaney is no longer a lame...
GIANT SETBACK: IKE OUT FOR YEAR
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amWhat does a head coach do when his entire offense, which now will be without receiver Ike Hilliard for the remainder of the season, is crumbling around him, with no...
NAILON DEAL OPENS DOOR FOR SPREE TRADE
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amLooking to get younger and bigger at the small-forward position, the Knicks yesterday agreed in principle on a one-year deal with 6-foot-9 former Hornet Lee Nailon, The Post has learned....
SCOTT IN NEED OF HOTSHOT
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amNET NOTES Defense. Check. Inside presence. Check. Running game. Check. So, besides universal health concerns, what is there to worry about for the Nets? "The thing I wanted last year:...
HILLIARD'S FUTURE PROBABLY NOT IN BLUE
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES The prognosis for Ike Hilliard - who the Giants learned yesterday is lost for the season with a dislocated right shoulder and a tear in both his labrum...
FREE AGENT CLEMENS TAKES CASH
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amIt's a formality that surprised nobody, but Roger Clemens is a free agent after informing the Yankees he exercised a $10.3 million option which was an option only in writing....
LATRELL'SDEBUT DATESTILL IFFY
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - Latrell Sprewell hopes to be back playing exactly when his five-game stint on the injured list ends. But that may be unrealistic after he was told by...
NETS' MINDSET: IT'S FINALS, OR FAILURE
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amSo much has changed. In years past, "expectations" for the Nets meant getting through a season with a minimal amount of major surgery and finishing in reasonable lottery position. The...
RUNYAN SET FOR HER 1ST MARATHON
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amMarla Runyan's striking gray-green eyes dart to the side, focusing just a little off-center to compensate for the disease that has robbed her of most of her sight. But she...
BOBBY V: HOWE WILL BE FINE AS MET BOSS
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amThe manager's office at Shea Stadium was filled with Met beat writers, a new manager and very few remnants of the Bobby Valentine Era yesterday. Art Howe sat in a...
WALLY: I'D COACH AT SHEA
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amWally Backman, who spent nine years with the Mets as a player and spent last season managing the White Sox' Double-A team in Birmingham, said yesterday he'd be interested in...
ISLANDERS LET ONE GET AWAY
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amCoyotes 3Islanders 2 They were a team the Islanders should have beaten last night. The Coyotes were tired, coming off a game the night before. They were without Vezina finalist...
DEVILS NO-CANE DO ; FEEBLE JERSEY WILTS AGAIN VS. CAROLINA
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amHurricanes 2Devils 1 It's not the shots. It's the shooters. The Devils haven't lost to anyone but Carolina since the end of the last regular season, but they've lost to...
NO MAN'S AN ISLAND ... BUT GOALIES CAN SINK TEAM: COACH
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amWhen you hear the Islanders talk about how they're playing better hockey this season than they did at the start of last year, when they began the schedule 11-1-1-1, you...
WILD, WILD WEST: SACRAMENTO NOT AFRAID OF LA'S TWO-HEADED MONSTER
October 30, 2002 | 5:00amROBERT Horry may be the NBA's greatest prime-time playoff performer not named Shaquille O'Neal or Kobe Bryant, and Phil Jackson may have coached teams to more titles than anyone not...