July 18, 2001
PRIZED OFFICE TOWER TO HIT MARKET
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amONE of Rockefeller Center's prized office towers is about to go up for sale - and could fetch as much as $350 million. A Goldman Sachs-led ownership is about to...
SONY IS SUING DIXIE CHICKS
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amA nasty fight over record royalties has the Dixie Chicks ready to run to another label, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday. Lawyers for Sony Music are trying to get...
NEW BIKER CHIC - VESPA LAUNCHING SPORTSWEAR LINE
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe fabled world of Vespa is getting bigger. Though best known for its trendy motorscooters, Vespa is entering the sportswear arena. The Vespa collection of men's sportswear will be introduced...
DE NIRO'S NEW ACT: BARTENDER
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amRobert De Niro may soon be making a "Midnight Run" for a nightcap at his new bar. The Hollywood actor is developing the site for a bar at 116 Hudson...
STUSSY CREATING WOMEN'S WEAR
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amSkate and surf lifestyle label Stussy is welcoming women into its ranks by launching a full-fledged women's collection for fall 2001. Though the company has manufactured T-shirts and knits aimed...
MARTS WATCH ALAN - RALLY AS FED CHAIR HEADS TO CONGRESS
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amWall Street got giddy yesterday, hoisting blue chips into triple-digit gains - and hoping that bank Chairman Alan Greenspan will finally bury fears of a U.S. recession. Showing the power...
LATINA EDITOR GETS AXED
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amCHRISTIE Haubegger, president, publisher and founder of Latina magazine, has been bounced. A Latina spokeswoman told Media Ink that Haubegger "has assumed the role of founder, where she remains on...
INTEL PROFIT OFF 94% - WHAT A RELIEF!
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amIntel Corp. reported a whopping 94 percent drop in profits but still beat market expectations yesterday. "The worst earnings seasons in 10 years has taken a toll by lowering analysts'...
TOMMY, YOU GOT SO TALL; 'RUGRATS' 10 YEARS LATER
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amTHE beloved bunch of babies better known as the "Rugrats" get all grown up for their 10th anniversary special this Saturday night. Well, not all that grown up - try...
A GLASS PASSED FROM AUNT TO NIECE IS NICE
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amFRANCE'S Loire Valley may well have been Bacchus' gift to summer. It gives us great, casual, hot weather whites like Sancerre and Muscadet, as well as food-friendly reds made from...
IT'S NO WALK IN THE PARK
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amTHE PARK 118 10TH AVE. (BETWEEN 17TH AND 18TH STREETS) (212) 352-3313 'I'M sorry I disappeared," our sweat-drenched waitress at The Park gasps. "The bar is bad - don't go...
STARR REPORT
July 18, 2001 | 4:00am'Nightly,' 'World' duke it out Mark down the week of July 9-13 as yet another in the seesaw battle between NBC and ABC's evening newscasts. The "NBC Nightly News with...
CHICKEN CHECKIN' ; NOTHING FOWL ABOUT ROTISSERIE TAKEOUT
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amI'VE never met a rotisserie chicken I didn't like. Spit roasting seems to concentrate the poultry's essence into a tantalizing aroma and taste that strike a primal nerve. That the...
FIVE GUYS, LEPPARD A SPOT OF FUN
July 18, 2001 | 4:00am"Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story" Tonight on VH1 at 9 1/2 WHEN the VH1 video tape of "Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story" landed on my desk last week, I got...
SIZZLING SIBLING RIVALRY
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amKEITH McNally will be facing some major competition - this time, from his close-knit family. The Balthazar and Pastis proprietor now has to contend with brothers Brian and Peter McNally,...
'ORPHEE' A TRAGIC UPDATE OF A GREEK MYTH
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amORPHEEOntological Theater, 131 E. 10th St. Through July 28. (212) 533-4650. YESTERDAY'S scandalous plays can be a problem when staged today. Are they still outrageous, or are they merely quaint?...
SHOW'S FUTURE AT STAKE
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amJIM Steinman's "Dance of the Vampires" is making its way to Broadway - but not without a splattering of bad blood.A rift has opened between Steinman, who wrote the songs...
WHY PAUL NEWMAN CAN SEE THECYCLONES; PLAY... ...BUT MOST FANS CAN'T
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amSUDDENLY the Brooklyn Cyclones are just too popular for plain-old neighborhood cable TV. The new Mets minor league team, playing their games at a just-built stadium off the boardwalk at...
WHERE OFF-THE-RACK LUNCH IS COUTURE CUISINE
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amPRET A MANGER * * * 60 Broad Street A year after Pret A Manger arrived in town, the British sandwich impresarios who own it are expanding the chain. A...
'TONIGHT' SHOW GETS A NEW LOOK FROM NOWHERE
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amBILLY Crystal might have been speaking for many of us when he first laid eyes on the new "Tonight Show" set Monday evening. "I'm just trying to figure out where...
'SAUR LOSER: 'JURASSIC PARK' FRANCHISE DUE FOR EXTINCTION
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amJURASSIC PARK III Dinosaurs mysteriously fail to kill off dumb, stranded humans in the latest and lamest sequel to "Jurassic Park." Running time: 92 minutes. Rated PG-13 (animal violence). At...
TRIAL SHOWS MOB TURNING INTO KEYSTONE KRIMINALS
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amBeing a mobster didn't used to be a laughing matter. But now, after years of tragic-hero status during the "Godfather" era, the legend of the Mafia is nose-diving into farce....
NEW YORK POST: FROM JULY 18, 1999
July 18, 2001 | 4:00am"More Tears," was The Post's headline for a story that read: "John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. - son of the slain 35th president and heir to the legacy of Camelot -...
BRITS AX EX-MTA BOSS
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amFormer New York subway chief Robert Kiley was fired as head of London's Underground yesterday because he opposed the government's plan to partly privatize the aging mass-transit system. Kiley, who...
THE LONGEST SHOT'S THE ONLY REAL LEADER
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amWHY is it that the mayoral candidate who at first glance most seems a relic of the past is in fact the only one of the six with fresh ideas?...
THE $35 MILLION MAN - BLOOMBERG SET TO SPEND RECORD SUM ON CAMPAIGN
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amRepublican mayoral candidate Michael Bloomberg could end up spending as much as a whopping $35 million in his self-funded quest for City Hall, sources told The Post yesterday. "The number...
PARKS COPS TRASH DUFFERS DESPITE THEIR GOOD DEED
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amHARD to believe, but in this city you can be fined up to $1,000 - even if you're picking up trash from a vacant lot. It happened to Sean Bauer...
LEVYS' AGONY MOUNTING WITH NO NEWS OF CHANDRA
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The nightmare only gets worse for Chandra Levy's parents - who've turned their missing daughter's room into a sanctuary where they try to find some comfort to get...
IRS: OOPS! THE CHECK MAY NOT BE IN THE MAIL
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A big check is in the mail. Or maybe it isn't. About 500,000 taxpayers this week will get a good-news IRS notice that they can expect to receive...
TEENS CLEARED IN FIRE TRAGEDY
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amQueens District Attorney Richard Brown won't file charges against the two boys who inadvertently set the hardware-store blaze that killed three veteran firemen on Father's Day. Yesterday's decision was expected....
POPE TO BISHOP: LEAVE YOUR WIFE OR LEAVE THE CHURCH
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe Vatican has issued a public ultimatum to the maverick archbishop who got married in a Manhattan hotel - split with the woman or be excommunicated. Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo was...
REV. AL CHARGES 'BRUTALITY' BY NAVY IN VIEQUES ARREST
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton is suing the Navy for $1 million for what he calls "cruel and inhumane" treatment during his arrest for protesting the bombing on Vieques, his lawyer...
CONCORDE FLIES AGAIN
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe Concorde took off again yesterday, nearly a year after the controversial jet crashed near Paris, killing 113 people. The jet successfully completed its first supersonic flight since the fleet...
LAWYERS FIGHT FOR A CUT OF LOUIMA $$
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amAbner Louima's legal "dream team" will have to go back to court and slug it out all over again if they want their $2.9 million share of the Haitian immigrant's...
GOV: MOHAWKS A GOOD BET FOR CATSKILL CASINO
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday revealed he is negotiating to bring an Indian-run casino to the Catskills, and said a deal could come together quickly. Pataki confirmed his administration is...
ED. BOARD THWARTING CHARTER SCHOOL: POL
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amA city councilwoman charged yesterday that the Board of Education is thwarting attempts to create a charter school sponsored by a teachers-union official. Schools Chancellor Harold Levy described the claim...
MOMS' PRAYERS MAY FINALLY BE ANSWERED
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amEvery day for the past 12 years, Elizabeth Colon and Angie Montalvo have shed tears of agony and prayed their sons would be freed from jail, where they're serving 15...
'ROCK STAR' HILL KEEPS DEMS ROLLING IN DOUGH
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON. SEN. Hillary Clinton is using her fund-raising star power to hand out big-money campaign contributions to political allies from coast to coast - buying loyalty and cementing alliances. Sources...
'I'LL BEAT YOUR HEAD IN'
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amThis is Part Two of a Post investigation into the racketeering case involving John Gotti's son-in-law, Carmine "The Bull" Agnello. ------ John Gotti's son-in-law Carmine Agnello had a major headache....
VICTIM'S KIDS DON'T BELIEVE STORY
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe children of a man murdered in 1987 said yesterday they're certain the two men convicted of the crime are the true killers. "These guys are guilty as sin," said...
METS BIGS PITCH IN FOR DEMS
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amMets co-owner Fred Wilpon and his employees are covering their bases by pumping $100,000 into this year's city elections - giving campaign cash to all the Democratic mayoral candidates. Campaign...
ITALY ON EDGE FOR G-8 SUMMIT - ANARCHISTS ROUNDED UP BEFORE BUSH, WORLD LEADERS ARRIVE
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Italian police sealed off central Genoa with 13-foot iron grates and raided anarchist hideouts yesterday as new bomb scares fueled jitters in the city that will host President...
MAKE VROOOM FOR ME IN MY 'GRUB-MOBILE'
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amI've had my share of near-death driving experiences and been sued twice - so I was the obvious choice to test-drive the "Grub-mobile," a 2001 Mercedes ML55 AMG. After reviewing...
'DOORMAT WIFE' TRIUMPHS - D.C. SOCIALITE BECAME ICON OF JOURNALISM
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - No one expected big things from Kay Graham when she took over The Washington Post after her husband's suicide in 1963 - least of all Graham herself. Graham,...
CITY HISTORY'S A SNAP IN POST PHOTO EXHIBIT
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amAn exhibit celebrating the Big Apple through rare photographs from The New York Post's archives went on display yesterday in Rockefeller Center. The exhibit, titled "The Post's New York, Celebrating...
RATHER'S SILENCE STILL DEAFENING
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amCBS News insiders are split over whether Dan Rather should continue ignoring the Gary Condit-Chandra Levy case on the "CBS Evening News." "It's a touchy situation," says one source about...
LIZZIE'S GOT HER GUARD UP
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amLizzie Grubman has hired bodyguards in the wake of death threats she received after mowing down 16 people with her Mercedes in the Hamptons, The Post has learned. Grubman has...
CHENEY AIDE BLAMES GORE FOR FUEL COST
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney's steamed-up staff is pointing the finger at ex-Veep Al Gore for the embarrassingly sky-high fuel bills at the vice president's mansion. The controversy was...
NOW FBI'S LOST HUNDREDS OF GUNS
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe blunder-plagued FBI was shaken by the disclosure yesterday that hundreds of guns and computers have disappeared from their files. At least 449 weapons, ranging from pistols to submachine guns,...
SCHOOLS BOSS: WE'RE NEARING A $$ DISASTER
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy warned yesterday the troubled city school system is lurching toward a train wreck - and accused politicians of sleepwalking through the crisis. "Look out, folks. There's...
JAIL NOTES LED TO REVELATION - REV. WAITED 12 YEARS TO BARE SLAY CONFESSION
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amA series of heartfelt letters convinced a Bronx priest to break an agonizing 12-year silence and tell of a teen's confession that could clear two men long imprisoned for murder....
KATHARINE GRAHAM DEAD AT 84
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amKatharine Graham, the shy socialite who steered The Washington Post to a Pulitzer Prize for its relentless coverage of the Watergate scandal, died yesterday. She was 84. The former publisher,...
EX-MUSEUM CHIEF'S HISTORY IS IMPEACHABLE
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe former president of the New-York Historical Society got her history of U.S. presidents in a muddle last night - introducing Bill Clinton as Richard Nixon. Clinton was impeached; Nixon...
DIRTY SMEAR: CONDIT: CHANDRA 'SLEPT AROUND'
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The smearing of Chandra Levy has begun. Rep. Gary Condit - who reportedly told cops he had an affair with the missing intern - touched off a furor...
FINGERPRINT HELPS COPS NAIL SEX-ATTACK SUSPECT
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amA fingerprint lifted from the scene of the brutal rape and robbery last month led to the arrest of a suspect in a string of Brooklyn sex attacks, police sources...
SIN OF THE FATHER WAS KEEPING SILENT
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amFATHER Joseph Towle is doing the right thing, but he's no hero. The Bronx priest has told a federal court that 12 years ago, a troubled young man named Jesus...
2 NABBED IN DEADLY E. COAST RAMPAGE
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amTwo money-hungry New York men embarked on a murderous crime spree that stretched from Connecticut to Florida, leaving two people dead and one severely injured, authorities said last night. It...
2 TEENS SHOT DEAD ON B'KLYN STREET
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amTwo Brooklyn teens were shot dead yesterday in an East Flatbush street shooting, police said. Several bullets were fired near the corner of Church Avenue and Raleigh Place at about...
NEW FIGHT ON JAVITS COSTS
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe expansion of the Jacob Javits Convention Center has been held up by Gov. Pataki's insistence that the city foot the entire bill, sources said. Debate over how to double...
UFOS 'SEEN' OVER JERSEY
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amA bizarre series of bright lights over New Jersey has residents wondering if aliens have invaded the Garden State. "It was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen,"...
FINGERPRINT HELPS COPS I.D. SEX-ATTACK SUSPECT
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amA fingerprint lifted from the scene of the brutal rape and robbery last month has led police to identify a suspect in a string of sexual attacks in Brooklyn, police...
TRACK WORKER ELECTROCUTED
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amA subway track worker was killed yesterday morning after falling onto an electrified third rail in Queens. Samuel McPhaul, 49, of Elmhurst, had been working as a flagman for a...
TAIWAN PULLS HITLER AD
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amTaiwan's ruling party said yesterday it was yanking TV ads that featured film footage of Adolf Hitler delivering an emotional speech. President Chen Shui-bian's Democratic Progressive Party - stung by...
COOK HEATS UP TRADE VALUE
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amHere's the irony for Dennis Cook: He's playing for a team that is on the brink of having to decide if there's something to make of this season or whether...
POSADA WON'T PASS ON FIXING PROBLEM
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - If Jorge Posada doesn't improve behind the plate, it won't be from a lack of trying. Standing inside a quiet Yankees' clubhouse before last night's 4-1, 12-inning win...
WIN CAN'T HIDE 'O' WOES
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The Yankees return to AL baseball for the remainder of the regular season beginning with today's double-header in Detroit. Maybe using the DH will upgrade their attack, because...
IT'S A CLEAN SWEEP: METS BAG BLUE JAYS FOR 4TH WIN IN ROW
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amMets 1 Blue Jays 0 The crowd of 26,630 had already vacated as the clock approached midnight. The rain pelted the dark stadium, but it couldn't dull the corner message...
PAYTON MAY HAVE LOST STARTING JOB
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amFor the second consecutive game, Jay Payton wasn't in the Mets' starting lineup. Bobby Valentine is putting a premium on offense. Since returning from the DL on June 26, Payton...
GOING EXTRA MILE: YANKS OUTLAST PHILS AGAIN IN MARATHON
July 18, 2001 | 4:00am12 INNINGS Yankees 4 Phillies 1 PHILADELPHIA - Randy Choate knew Joe Torre had seen him miss the bag covering first base before. He understood if he did it again...
HEALTHY HERNANDEZ KEY TO STARS' RISE
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amAfter missing the final 15 regular-season games a year ago and then losing six weeks earlier in 2001, you might expect Metro- Stars midfielder Daniel Hernandez to be content just...
THE POST'S PICKS
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amHere are The Post's picks of the top eight at the 130th British Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St. Annes:1. THOMAS BJORN: He finished second at last year's British...
LPGA WANTS SLICE OF TV PIE
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amTHE coattails of Tigermania are making a lot of people rich on the PGA Tour, where a new $850 million television contract promises larger purses, increased corporate sponsorships and continued...
SHOT'S MISSING, BUT KERRY'S HAPPY
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - In the very finest Nets tradition, Kerry Kittles shot 25 percent yesterday, missing six of eight shots. But the Nets players, coaches and Kittles himself could not have...
NOW'S THE TIME TO GET HOOKED ON PORGIES
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amWITH the waters of Long Island Sound thick with porgies, anglers from City Island to Port Jefferson have been enjoying the bounty. "Just about everyone around here has been taking...
LITTLE-KNOWN PLAYERS GET TASTE OF LIMELIGHT
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amLYTHAM ST. ANNES - A couple of lesser-known international players had their lives touched by Tiger Woods in different ways yesterday. Frenchman Thomas Levet, who qualified for the British Open...
WOODS HAS GAME FOR RUN AT OPEN
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amLYTHAM ST. ANNES - As if he didn't already live with enough suffocating pressure, Tiger Woods will step to the first tee at Royal Lytham & St. Annes tomorrow morning...
WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY! ; KNICKS CAN'T WIN WITH INVISIBLE ALLAN
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amTIME was when teams gave the kind of money the Knicks are about to give Allan Houston only to the most special of players. The kind who can take control...
TIGER BITES LIP ON NEW ZEALAND FLAP
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK LYTHAM ST. ANNES - Tiger Woods yesterday held back from criticizing the New Zealand players who are threatening to boycott next year's New Zealand Open because the tournament's prices...
HOUSTON: SIX YEARS, $100.4M
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe numbers for Allan Houston's maximum contract were determined yesterday when the NBAsalary cap was set at $42.5 million. As a result, Houston's deal will be worth six years at...
MACCULLOCH HAPPY TO HAVE CHOICE
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amHOOPS NOTES BOSTON - Todd MacCulloch loved the fact that he had a choice again. "It's great to be in a position where you have choices again," said MacCulloch, who...
WHO CARES IF IT'S LONG? V: DON'T MESS WITH THE GAME
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amYOU have to wonder about the big-shots who run baseball. Were they ever fans at any point in their snobbish lives? Did they ever once sing, "Take Me Out To...
HEILMAN CONVINCED METS WITH BAD GAME
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amAaron Heilman, the Mets' first-round draft pick, was mortified. It was about a year ago and Gary LaRocque, the team's amateur scouting director, introduced himself to Heilman and mentioned that...
YANKS ARM FOR BATTLE FROM DLS
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES PHILADELPHIA - The Yankees will drag two pitchers off different disabled lists for today's split-gate doubleheader against the Tigers in Detroit. Righthander Adrian Hernandez, who has been on...
MENDOZA HOLDS THE LINE
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Derek Jeter, Tino Martinez and Gerald Williams followed a 13-inning game Monday night with a late dinner. While eating, they noticed TV highlights of Ramiro Mendoza. "Suddenly, we...
POSADA PASSED-TIME JORGE TO SPEND OFF-SEASON IN TAMPA TO WORK ON WOES
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - If Jorge Posada doesn't improve behind the plate, it won't be from a lack of trying. Standing inside a quiet Yankees' clubhouse late yesterday afternoon at the Vet...
SLUMPING PAYTON MAY HAVE LOST STARTING JOB
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES For the second consecutive game, Jay Payton wasn't in the Mets' starting lineup. Bobby Valentine is putting a premium on offense. Since returning from the DL on June...
MISSION: IMPROBABLE : METS STILL HOPING TO MAKE PLAYOFFS
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe Mets are plotting their comeback in this NL East race. How they can do the impossible. They are dreaming about making September interesting and getting back in this thing....