August 21, 2006
METLIFE EYES RETURN TO MANHATTAN DIGS
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amMetropolitan Life Insurance may be giving up on Long Island City - its home for the past five years - for the allure of Manhattan despite its skyhigh rates. The...
J&R STORE TO OPEN IN MACY'S FLAGSHIP
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amDowntown electronics emporium J&R Music and Computer World is plugging into Herald Square with a 35,000-square-feet J&R Express location within Macy's. It opens Wednesday. "It's a branded store within a...
STATES' REPORTS QUESTIONED FAIRFAX UNITS' RECORDS
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amState regulators in New Jersey and Delaware raised questions about stock ownership and disclosure at two subsidiaries of Toronto-based insurance giant Fairfax Financial in 2005, according to documents reviewed by...
CLOUD OVER UBS - BANKER WAS GO-BETWEEN FOR SCRUSHY BRIBE: DOCS
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amUBS, one of Wall Street's largest investment banks, helped conceal the paper trail of a $250,000 payment that wound up getting ex-HealthSouth chief Richard Scrushy and the governor of Alabama...
BILLION DOLLAR BABY
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amNew position: Buy 500 S&P Sept. 1,290 puts @ $11.70 The play: Remains overbought Unrealized gains: 0 Realized gains: $3.9M
'SCRUB' IN WITH A SONG
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amTAKING a page from the "Buffy" playbook, "Scrubs" is staging a full-blown musical episode this season, according to reports. The show, which stars Zach Braff, has hired the songwriters behind...
'MINORITY REPORT' TV
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amAGAINST the backdrop of the president's wiretap program, ABC has ordered a show called "Murder Prevention Unit" - about a group of cops who don't solve crimes but stop them...
WAR OF THE ROSIE - UPSET SHE'S NOT THE BIG BOSS AT 'VIEW'
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amSINCE the news broke last spring that "The View" had hired Rosie O'Donnell to co-host, the question was: Who would show for work, good Rosie or bad Rosie? If Rosie's...
'24' FOR MISSING PERSONS - NOTHING LIGHT ABOUT THIS DRAMA
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amGRIM is in. Grimaces, frowns, scowls - whichever word you prefer, they are now the standard facial expressions seen on Fox dramas, ever since Kiefer Sutherland clenched his teeth to...
BOURDAIN COOKS UNDER (GUN) FIRE
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amIT ain't easy being caught between a schwarma and a war, but that's just where New York celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, who ratted out celeb chefs in his best-selling "Kitchen...
GOING, GOING ... GONE - HOW TO GET FALL'S BEST SOLD-OUT LOOKS; HOT FALL LOOKS HAVE A WAIT PROBLEM
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amAS if this summer hasn't been rough enough - with the sweltering temperatures and stifling humidity - here's something new to freak out about: fashion's preseason panic. If you've been...
CUNY'S CLASSY TACT-IC - TO TEACH GRACES
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amBaruch College plans to sink millions of dollars into polishing its scrappy Big Apple business students beginning this fall, with a program emphasizing the "soft skills" inherent among blue-blood Ivy...
'GREEN' GOV: JUICE AS I SAY - NOT AS I DO
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amElectricity deregulation and green power are good for everyone, the state says - except, apparently, for Gov. Pataki, who doesn't take advantage of them in his own home. He juices...
SMOKE & HORRORS - STRESS STALKS 9/11 RESCUERS
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amAbout one in every six cleanup workers at Ground Zero suffered from major depression after toiling amid the rubble, bodies and toxic dust, a grim new mental-health study has found....
CITY TAKING POLL ON FLU
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration - with the help of Local 1199 - plans on conducting a poll to determine how many city health-care workers don't get flu shots each year, The...
LONE RIDERS OF THE ROCKAWAYS - 256 A DAY USE SLEEPIEST SUBWAY STOP
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amCall it a tale of two turnstiles. Each day, nearly 170,000 straphangers swipe their MetroCard at the city's busiest subway station, Times Square. Meanwhile, 26 stops away on the A...
INSURERS 'PROFIT' OFF 9/11
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amInsurers refusing to pay out World Trade Center policies five years after 9/11 are wrongly profiting from the holdup, Rep. Anthony Weiner charged yesterday at Ground Zero. "They are investing...
LIEN TIMES HIT STATE SENATOR
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amState Sen. Martin Connor - an election-law expert - had a six-figure federal tax lien against him two years ago, The Post has learned. The lien, for $135,521, was filed...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * One man was killed and another injured when bullets started flying in Brownsville yesterday. Anthony Graves, 33, was shot dead and a 23-year-old man was wounded at 5:16...
OLMERT'S NEW TRUCE HURDLE
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday threw a monkey wrench into the truce effort in Lebanon, saying that his nation would not accept peacekeepers from countries that do not have...
LAST MAN OUT OF WTC - JANITOR'S HEROIC TALE H'WOOD-BOUND
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe next 9/11 tale to hit the silver screen could be that of a World Trade Center janitor whose heroism helped save hundreds of lives. William Rodriguez says he is...
BX. POL RINGS UP 2G - PHONE-BILL SHOCKER
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amA Bronx councilwoman proved that talk isn't cheap - for the city's taxpayers. Democrat Maria Baez, who heads the borough's City Council delegation, ran up a bill of nearly $2,000...
PATAKI PILLORIES 'POLARIZING' HILLARY
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Gov. George Pataki has slammed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as a "polarizing personality" who spends too much time on the attack - an unusually sharp jab at his...
'SNAKES' HI$$ES AND SELLS
August 21, 2006 | 4:00am"Snakes on a Plane" slithered slowly out of the box-office gate this weekend, barely creeping past the competition to nab the No. 1 spot. The heavily hyped, mid-air-scare flick starring...
FIX AIRPORT SECURITY: KING
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Kennedy, La Guardia, Newark and other airports need beefed-up security to protect against shoulder-fired missiles, Rep. Peter King (R-Long Island) warned yesterday. "We have to decide what we're...
BAD EIRE DAY
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amWhen Mayor Bloomberg arrives in Ireland tomorrow to dedicate a Civil War monument, he will find waiting for him protesters who oppose his support of Israel. The protesters are calling...
RAPPER'S YAPPER IS SEALED - BUSTED RHYMES STONEWALLS COPS OVER GUARD SLAY
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amUnless he's on a stage or in a studio, Busta Rhymes lets his lawyers do all the talking. The latest attempt by cops to get the "Big Bang" performer to...
5 WOUNDED IN B'KLYN GUNPLAY
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amIt was 2 ½ hours of bloody mayhem in one Brooklyn neighborhood over the weekend, when five people were wounded in two wild shootings. A crazed gunman fired seven to...
PERV'S SEX-OP MOTIVE - TO LURE KIDS: DOC
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amJohn Mark Karr may have been seeking gender-bender surgery in Bangkok because he thought it would make him a more effective pedophile, a shrink said yesterday. "It would allow him...
SHOT BY BX. COPS - WOUNDED MAN FLED ROWDY PARTY
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amA man was critically wounded yesterday after being caught in the middle of a shootout with cops while fleeing the scene of a wild birthday party, police and witnesses said....
L.I. 'KIDNAP' GAL ESCAPES
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amA young woman frantically rushed out of an ill-kept Long Island bungalow yesterday morning, wailing to neighbors, "I'm being held hostage!" witnesses and police sources said. The woman ran up...
OL' COLLEGE PRY: POL PROBES SCHOOL PORK
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A powerful U.S. senator is demanding five New York colleges justify millions in federal pork-barrel funds sent to their campuses and reveal whether they've hired political muscle to...
KID KARR HOPED DELOREAN WOULD MAKE HIM A 'PICKUP' ARTIST
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amHAMILTON, Ala. - John Mark Karr got a pricey, space-age DeLorean for his 16th birthday because he wanted a car that would be a "chick magnet." Karr got the $25,000...
BOROUGH PARK CROWDING GETS MESHUGA
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amOrthodox Jews with large families are so intent on living in Borough Park, Brooklyn, it's the neighborhood with the most crowded households in the city, a new report states. The...
DRAGSTER THUG KILLS CYCLIST IN HIT & RUN
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amA hit-and-run thug drag-racing in a stolen car killed a man riding a bicycle in Brooklyn yesterday, then brazenly hopped into a car driven by his speedster buddy and fled,...
KERRY DEALS BLOW TO JOE
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - John Kerry yesterday slammed his Senate colleague Joe Lieberman as "dead wrong" on Iraq. Kerry (D-Mass.) accused now-independent Lieberman, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2000, of parroting the...
BX. CROSSFIRE - SHOT AS POLICE BREAK UP PARTY
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amA man was critically wounded yesterday after being caught in the middle of a shootout with cops while fleeing the scene of a wild birthday party, police and witnesses said....
JEWS IN A 'JAM' IN BORO PARK
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amOrthodox Jews with large families are so intent on living in Borough Park, Brooklyn, it's the neighborhood with the most crowded households in the city, a new report states. The...
DRAGSTER IN DEADLY HIT-&-RUN
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amA hit-and-run thug drag-racing in a stolen car killed a man riding a bicycle in Brooklyn yesterday, then brazenly hopped into a car driven by his speedster buddy and fled,...
CRIMEBUSTER KID - 9-YEAR-OLD FOUGHT THUG - AND WON
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amHeroes come in all sizes - but rarely are they as small as Toni Lysaith. The feisty 9-year-old went toe-to-toe with a hulking career criminal last June after the thug...
RUBBER SOUL'S WEBBED FEAT
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amMove over, Spider-Man, there's a new web slinger in town. An East Village artist is hitting the streets of Manhattan by night to weave multicolored rubber-band "webs" on stairs, parks,...
THE 5TH ANNUAL LIBERTY MEDAL AWARDS - CITY HEROES ONE & ALL
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amThere are men, women and young people all over our town who lead lives of quiet humility - all the while improving the lives of those around them. And if...
HOME SHE NEVER HAD - FOR SIBS OF NIXZMARY
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amNixzmary Brown's grandmother wants the slain little girl's five siblings to enjoy the happy childhood that their sister never had. Maria Gonzalez long ago cleared out of the squalid Brooklyn...
DEMS RIP PIRRO 'COP COVER-UP'
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amSTATE Democrats are accusing GOP attorney-general hopeful Jeanine Pirro of committing the same kind of ethical violation that led New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber to resign last week. "In...
ELECTIVE $URGERY - 118 HOSPS EYE STATE CASH TO CUT BEDS
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amOf the 900 hospitals and nursing homes in New York state, one in nine has filed to downsize or restructure dramatically in exchange for millions of dollars in funding, The...
TRAVERS SPOTLIGHT IS ON BERNARDINI
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Can Bernardini emerge from under Barbaro's shadow to become thoroughbred racing's newest matinee idol? While the Derby champ continues to recuperate at the University of Pennsylvania's New...
GLAVINE, METS HOLD BREATH - TOM MAY HAVE BLOOD CLOT; COULD BE DONE FOR YEAR
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amWhile the Mets don't know yet if Tom Glavine's next start will be next weekend, next year or never again, they appear settled on handling this season's worst-case scenario by...
OMAR GETS MOTA; GREEN MAY BE NEXT
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amWhile Omar Minaya added another power bullpen arm, yesterday, trading for the Indians' Guillermo Mota, the Mets' GM has also made progress in importing Shawn Green from Arizona to play...
ROTATION SPINNING OFF AXIS
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amONCE was the time that the stomachs of Mets fans tightened at the prospect of Billy Wagner being called upon to nail down an October game. If only that were...
PAVANO OUTING IS BIG STEP FORWARD
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - The Yankees may get something out of Carl Pavano yet this year. While Pavano has teased the club before making progress in rehab games, the right-hander...
DUQUE FIRES BLANKS - ZIPS ROCKIES FOR SHORT-ARMED METS
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amWith Pedro Martinez on the disabled list and Tom Glavine facing the prospect of season-ending surgery, Orlando Hernandez came into yesterday's game on the heels of the worst outing of...
REFUNDS ON 'JOHANNE'
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Overnight rains forced all turf races, including John's Call Stakes, to main track, labeled good at start of day, fast by sixth race. Mile grass races (sixth,...
TIGER IS LOADED FOR BEAR
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amMEDINAH, Ill. - Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 major championships is starting to look like a speed bump in Tiger Woods' pursuit toward immortality. Yes, a speed bump. That may...
ROBERTO LENDS EAR TO GLAVINE
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES It was 1991 and Roberto Hernandez was only 26. He had yet to pitch in the majors when he was diagnosed with a blood clot in his right...
NO STOPPIN' TIGER - WOODS ROMPS TO 12TH MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amMEDINAH, Ill. - When Tiger Woods rolled in a 30-foot putt for birdie at the par-4 sixth hole yesterday, the outcome of the 88th PGA Championship became a formality. That...
LIVE BAIT - TAPED INTROS CHEAT FANS
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amIMAGINE a network joining a World Series game in progress, then, instead of quickly showing what's going on, it launches a long, windy and taped come-on, a sell designed to...
SOX GM: WE'RE NOT THE YANK$
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Boston front office is keeping one eye on 2006 and one eye on the future, and they've become the equivalent of a distracted driver. Entering yesterday, the...
RODRIGUEZ AT DH JUST PART OF TORRE'S PLAN
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Alex Rodriguez drama took another interesting turn yesterday just before 6 p.m. when the Yankees lineup was posted. Rodriguez was written in at the No. 5 spot,...
GROIN PAIN KO'S MOOSE
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Mets are not the only team in town with an injured pitcher. Mike Mussina left last night's game with the Red Sox after four innings because of...
RYDER CUP PICKS STILL UP FOR GRABS
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK MEDINAH, Ill. - The final results of the PGA Championship yesterday didn't change the Ryder Cup standings. The 10 players who automatically qualified for the U.S. team are Tiger...
S.I. SLIDES TO BRINK
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amIllinois 1 - Staten Island 0 WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - It's all falling apart at the seams for the Staten Islanders at the Little League World Series. They were nearly no-hit...
RELIEVE IT OR NOT - YANKEES' PEN STILL GOING STRONG
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - Mike Mussina walked gingerly through the Yankee dugout en route to the clubhouse, his night's work complete. Joe Torre was erring toward caution, since the 37-year-old righty felt...
LIDLE OUT TO EARN STRIPES
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - Cory Lidle's first three weeks in pinstripes have not been smooth. The pitcher has dealt with criticism from a former teammate, an illness that caused one ineffective start...
YANKS GET THE BROOMS READY - GIAMBI'S TWO HRS KEY 4TH IN ROW OVER SOX
August 21, 2006 | 4:00am10 INNINGS: Yankees 8 - Red Sox 5 BOSTON - When it comes to the AL East the Red Sox are 3-D. That's cop morgue talk and stands for "Definitely...
A GAME 4 THE AGES
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - For so long, we started to wonder if all we were going to get out of this five-game series was an endless loop of slo-pitch softball games, four-...
SCHILLING'S START GOES FOR NAUGHT
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - There was no bloody sock this time. Only bloodied Sox. Curt Schilling took the hill last night with his team reeling and his bullpen in tatters, with the...
ALEX AT DH JUST A PART OF THE PLAN
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Alex Rodriguez drama took another interesting turn yesterday just before 6 p.m. when the Yankees lineup was posted. Rodriguez was written in at the No. 5 spot,...
BOSOX NEED A BIG GAME FROM WELLS
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amDavid Wells walked by a media throng surrounding Theo Epstein and giving the Red Sox GM an oldfashioned grilling during batting practice yesterday. Wells leaned in for a listen before...
WALK THIS WAY - PATIENCE PAYS OFF FOR YANKS
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - While it's impossible to argue the point after watching the Yankees draw 28 walks in three games against the Red Sox and score 39 runs, there are those...
RELIEVE IT OR NOT - TORRE'S PEN WRITES WINNING TALE
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - It is the seventh inning Saturday. Randy Johnson is tiring and has just committed an unpardonable act. With two outs and the Yankees leading the Red Sox 10-5,...
COUGHLIN: CLOSE BATTLE FOR REMAINING QB SPOTS
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - Following his first game action in 2 ½ years after elbow surgery, Rob Johnson was hard on himself in the aftermath of last Friday's 17-0 preseason...
NERVE RACKING - EMMONS INJURY A GIANT CONCERN
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Back on Aug. 1, Brandon Jacobs barreled into the end zone on a live goal line drill and linebacker Carlos Emmons came away from the collision holding his...
SAN FRANCISCO TREAT - JETS FILL RB NEED WITH A TRADE FOR NINERS' BARLOW
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amThe Jets' pursuit of outside help at running back stretched to San Francisco, where they plucked Kevan Barlow yesterday. The Jets traded an undisclosed draft pick (likely from 2007, when...
GIAMBI: LET'S GO, KIDS
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amWILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -The Staten Island Little Leaguers finally heard from the Yankees. Jason Giambi called the kids from Boston during Staten Island's batting practice last night at the cages near...
HARD TO BE A-ROD
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - At some point, life has to get simpler. Logic tells you that. Reason tells you that. At some point, Alex Rodriguez is going to be separated from the...
LIDLE GETTING USED TO LIFE IN PINSTRIPES
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amBOSTON - Cory Lidle's first three weeks in pinstripes have not been smooth. The pitcher has dealt with criticism from a former teammate, an illness that caused one ineffective start...
STANDING PAT: RAMSEY SO-SO
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES Though he hardly looked awful during his chance to play with the first team, Patrick Ramsey didn't look all that much in command in his start against his...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 21, 2006 | 4:00amYou gotta know when to fold 'em. John Young, 32, of Slough, England, bested about 200 people to win the World Strip Poker Championship in London over the weekend. Young...