August 10, 2000
OFFICE CONDO CONVERSION OK'D NEAR UN
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amA United Nations-area office building is being turned into an office condominium by Stahl Real Estate and AEW of Boston. The 160,000-square-foot 3 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza on East 47th Street...
WILEY BOOKS HOBOKEN VENUE - 800 EMPLOYEES TO VACATE 605 THIRD FOR NEW HQ
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amGlobal publisher John Wiley & Sons is packing up more than 800 employees and abandoning the City for a new world headquarters on the Hoboken waterfront. Wiley nailed down its...
EU TIES UP SEAGRAM, VIVENDI LINK
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amRemember to dot the "i's" and cross the "t's" next time you submit a proposal. Sloppy paperwork forced merging media giants Vivendi, Canal Plus and Seagram to go back to...
UMP AND ARCHITECT SUE DISNEY FOR $1.5B
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amWalt Disney Co. is on trial again. Two businessmen have complained the House of Mouse stole their idea for a sports-theme entertainment complex at Disney World in Orlando. The plaintiffs...
DOE VS BILLIONAIRE - TECH TITAN SUED BY ANON. VC
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amBeing rich sure can bring 'em out of the woodwork. Billionaire high-tech titan Gary Winnick has been sued by an anonymous venture capitalist who identifies himself only as "John Doe"...
JANUS' NO. 2 QUITS AMID INFIGHTING, SLOWING GROWTH
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amThe No. 2 executive at fast-growing mutual fund firm Janus is quitting. Jim Craig, who spent 17 years at Janus and until late last year managed its flagship Janus Fund,...
CLUB'S A DRAG FOR RALPH - MONACO SALES SLUMP IS NIPPING VOLUME GROWTH AT LAUREN'S POLO
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amClub Monaco fashions may not be the right fit for Ralph Lauren after all. Sales at the trendy Canadian retail chain fell in the latest quarter, Standard & Poor's analyst...
THE MENU: FISH AND COMPUTER CHIPS
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amLucent Technologies has found a way to make a computer nearly 1,000 times faster - powered by salmon DNA. In a breakthrough right out of science fiction, scientists at Lucent...
REPORT SHOWS THE DOT-CARNAGE IS SPREADING
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amThe Internet fire sale is official. Forty-one Internet companies have gone belly-up this year - and 83 others have withdrawn their initial public offerings, according to a report by webmergers.com....
UNIVISION ROCKED - STOCK DROPS 17% ON LOW UPFRONT-AD SALES
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amIt's been a bad week for Univision. Shares of largest Spanish-language television network were clobbered yesterday on the news its upfront advertising sales - the ads it sells for the...
NAUGHTON'S BEEN CODING FOR FEDS
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A federal judge revealed yesterday that a former Internet executive, convicted of cybersex crimes, has written a series of programs aimed at busting other online predators. U.S....
EN GARDE, CAMPERS! KIDS LEARN BROADWAY'S SHTICKS OF THE TRADE
August 10, 2000 | 4:00am'I HATE you!" she shrieked, pulling the hair of a girl who writhed in pain.Scenes from a reformatory? Outtakes from "Girls Behind Bars"? Nope. Just a class at Camp Broadway,...
BUSH SNIPER 'JOKE' WENT TOO FAR: CBS
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amCRAIG Kilborn's show is in hot water over an offensive George W. Bush joke last week. On last Friday's "The Late Late Show," a graphic reading "Snipers Wanted" appeared briefly...
THE STARR REPORT
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amNYPD goes to 'Court' Here's your first look at Anthony Pasquin, an NYPD veteran who will serve as Court Officer on this fall's new court show, "Curtis Court," starring James...
E-BOOK AUTHOR IS CERTAIN 'MIRACLES' DO EXIST
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amLAURA Lewis and the coauthors of a new e-book, "A Glimpse of Heavenly Miracles," know plenty about their subject. They recently completed their fifth book - about guardian angels and...
WIRELESS IN PHILADELPHIA ; SLAMMED WITH LOTS OF TECH DIFFICULTIES
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amFOR the road trips to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, I wanted to get wired to surf the Web from the convention floor. As I found out, wireless Web...
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S GIRLFRIENDS
August 10, 2000 | 4:00am"Running Mates" Sunday at 8 p.m. on TNT 1/2 THE most frightening thing about "Running Mates," a movie about a presidential election starring Tom Selleck as James Reynolds Pryce, presidential...
'WE TRIED TO KEEP IT SECRET': REGIS' LOVER
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amTHE busty blond ex-cheerleader who claims she had a steamy fling with TV host Regis Philbin is urging Joy Philbin to "forgive and forget." Maria Majerek, 39, whose bombshell claim...
COLLEEN IS LATEST CAST-AWAY ; 'SURVIVOR' RIVALRY GETS MEANER
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amCOLLEEN HASKELL, the cutest and least-threatening member of the "Survivor" cast, was booted off the island last night in a surprise ouster sure to upset her many male admirers. "Play...
IN NEW YORK, THERE'S LIFE AFTER DEATH ROW - KILLERS WHO WERE SET TO DIE BEFORE REPEAL NOW WALK THE STREETS
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amIN A small plastic bag in the dark recesses of a police evidence room, a .32-caliber slug is buried among the city's tools of infamy. For one family, that slug...
AT ANY RATE, LOWER BILLS ARE COMING FROM CON ED
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amThe good news for sticker-shocked Con Ed customers is that they'll be paying noticeably less - about 22 percent - than the bill they got hit with last month. The...
'RAPE A WEAPON' IN BOSNIA, FED JURY HERE IS TOLD
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amFemale victims of the Bosnian genocide held each other and wept in court yesterday as their lawyer described the harrowing sexual torture and abuse they endured in Serb-run concentration camps....
AMERICAN KID SURVIVED TERROR BLAST IN MOSCOW
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amA 13-year old American boy was among 93 people wounded in Tuesday's terrifying bombing of an underground walkway in Moscow, the State Department said last night. News of an injury...
REFORM PARTY HAVIN' A BRAWL - 'NOMINEE' BUCHANAN BLASTS FOES
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amLONG BEACH, Calif. - Pat Buchanan strutted into a political firestorm yesterday and declared himself the Reform Party nominee, even as combative delegates vowed to hold separate conventions. Chaos ruled...
UNION BLASTS VERIZON'S VANDAL RAP AS PHONE-Y
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amTalks to settle the strike by more than 87,000 telephone workers against Verizon Communications dragged on yesterday - as union officials lashed out at company charges of vandalism. "We go...
COLLEGE SETS UP PROGRAM TO TRAIN SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amCity school officials are turning to Baruch College to help train teachers to become principals. Complaining about a shortage of qualified applicants, school district superintendents have tapped the CUNY branch...
'DROUGHT' AT PAT'S FARM - HE'S FINDING NO BUYERS AT $1.1M
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amSen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's farm retreat has his Pindars Corners neighbors gasping at the $1.1 million price tag. "It's a lot of money for an individual around here," said dairy...
RICK: VEGA$ DONORS BETTING ON MY VIRTUE
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amRick Lazio said yesterday that scandal-fatigued donors are reaching for their checkbooks because they believe his Senate race against Hillary Rodham Clinton is about "our national character." "They think it's...
REPRIEVE FOR HOSPICE THAT 'LOST' PATIENT
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A Bronx nursing home facing closure for letting a senile patient wander off repeatedly has gotten another chance - but the woman and others will have to wear...
'FREAKED OUT' COUPLE SECONDS FROM DEATH
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amEd and Cathy Trzaskawka can measure the difference between life and death in inches. The New Jersey couple were getting ready for work yesterday morning when they heard a strange,...
PORN-AGAIN LOSERS USE PREZ-STAFF COMPUTERS
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amMaybe they should rename it the Blue House. White House officials admitted yesterday they've discovered a problem with staffers downloading porn from the Internet. "Like any workplace, we have occasional...
TIRE SCARE HAS SUV'ERS RUSHING FOR RECALL
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amDozens of panicked owners of the oversized Ford Explorer rushed to a Firestone tire dealership in The Bronx yesterday, demanding their potentially deadly tires be replaced on the spot. "I'm...
A MOCKERY OF THE UPSTART PEROT MOVEMENT
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amIF, AS the saying goes, the Republicans are the Daddy Party, and the Democrats are the Mommy Party, what does that make the Reformers - the Disturbed Child Party? Something...
WALL ST. WHIZ PUT 'HIT' ON JUDGE: D.A.
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amA Wall Street honcho hatched a jailhouse plot to kill the fearsome judge handling his multimillion-dollar swindle case, prosecutors charged yesterday. Tough-talking Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Leslie Crocker Snyder was...
AGE BRINGS GUYS 'SIRE-IOUS' TROUBLE
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amBiological clocks are not just for women any more, a new report says. British scientists, in a first-of-its-kind study, say men have them too - and increasing trouble procreating after...
QUEENS CLUB STABBING COULD TRIGGER MOB WAR
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amA mob war could erupt over a nightclub stabbing that nearly killed the son of a top crime-family boss, The Post has learned. Nineteen-year-old Anthony Federici Jr. - the son...
MIDAIR COLLISION KILLS 11 IN JERSEY - BODIES RAIN DOWN ON SUBURB AFTER 2 PIPERS COLLIDE
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amInvestigators began hunting last night for clues to a terrifying midair collision between two small planes that killed 11 people and showered a southern New Jersey suburb with bodies and...
AL WON'T BE VOUCHER GROUCH - DOWNPLAYS SPLIT WITH LIEBERMAN
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amCARTHAGE, Tenn. - Vice President Al Gore yesterday painted over his disagreement with running mate Joe Lieberman on the issue of school vouchers - even as he conceded the issue's...
ONE TOUGH COOKIE IS A BAD CHOICE FOR A TARGET
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amManhattan Supreme Court Justice Leslie Crocker Snyder recently snarled at a convicted murderer, "I hope you will suffer every day of your life" - then sent him away for 75...
RETARDED MAN 1 OF 2 EXECUTED IN TEXAS
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amTexas executed two convicted killers last night - including one who death-penalty opponents said was mentally retarded and shouldn't have faced capital punishment. The back-to-back executions by lethal injection again...
NAACP BIG QUITS AFTER ANTI-JEWISH GIBES AT JOE
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amThe head of the NAACP's Dallas branch quit yesterday after he was suspended for making an anti-Semitic rant on the radio about Democratic veep nominee Joe Lieberman. "If we get...
DEMS FEAR BILL WILL HOG THE SHOW
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amIT MUST be excruciating for the attention-loving Bill Clinton to realize a lot of Democrats - most notably Al Gore - want to sprinkle him with fairy dust and turn...
COP'S KIN: HE LIVED TO FLY
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amThe New Jersey police officer killed in yesterday's midair collision was never happier than when he was at the controls of a plane. Craig Robinson, 28, the married father of...
FIRED DA STAFFER SUES HYNES
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amA fired Brooklyn prosecutor has slapped District Attorney Charles Hynes with a $5 million lawsuit for accusing her of stealing a colleague's wallet - and his spokesman for saying she...
KIN OF TRAGIC COP: 'FLYING WAS HIS LIFE'
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amThe New Jersey police officer killed in yesterday's midair collision was never happier than when he was at the controls of a plane. Craig Robinson, 28, the married father of...
DID AGENT BREAK RULES? FLEISHER CASE INVOLVES MONEY, MEALS, MODELS
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amSports agent Eric Fleisher, who's embroiled in a bitter $30 million lawsuit with Andy Miller, one of his former employees, plus NBA athletes, business associates and Wilhelmina Models Inc., allegedly...
'APPEAL' CAPTURES VANDERBILT AFTER DQ
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The stewards have had to make some tough decisions here the past week, and whether to take down Intidab in yesterday's Grade 2, $200,000 A.G. Vanderbilt Handicap...
NOT MUCH TALK, NOT MUCH ACTION ; SCOWLIN' JOE LOSING OUT TO DAYNE
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - He stomps around as if he's mad at the world, which might be true, or it merely might be Joe Montgomery being, well, Joe Montgomery. He can be...
RAGING FEVER IS HOT STUFF
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amThe Mark Hennig-trained Raging Fever, winner of the Astoria Stakes at Belmont in her last start, worked four furlongs in :49 1/5 yesterday on the main track. She is being...
CAPERS A REMINDER OF COLLINS' BAD DAYS
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - The lowest point in the career of Kerry Collins as a quarterback came in October of 1998, when he emerged from a heart-to-heart meeting with his head coach,...
BIG BLUE KEEPING CAMP IN ALBANY
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - The Giants yesterday made official what this summer had become a poorly kept secret. Despite the club's desire to move training camp back to New Jersey,...
AMAZIN'S GET INFUSION OF PIAZZA AND ALFONZO
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES HOUSTON - The Mets got even bigger additions than Darryl Hamilton last night. Mike Piazza and Edgardo Alfonzo returned to the starting lineup. "It feels good to be...
GROH SET ON WARD AS NO. 2 RECEIVER
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES Al Groh made it clear yesterday that there's no competition for the No. 2 starting receiver spot. Dedric Ward is the man alongside Wayne Chrebet, regardless of how...
ANDERSON DOES IT ALL FOR GANG GREEN
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amThe question was posed to Vinny Testaverde. The answer wasn't as easily retrieved as it might have appeared. "What position do you think of when you think of Richie Anderson?"...
DARRYL OFF DL, ONTO BENCH ; HAMILTON KNOWS IT'LL BE HARD TO GET BACK INTO STARTING LINEUP
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amHOUSTON - At 35, Darryl Hamilton, the Mets' Opening Day center fielder, understands Derek Bell, Jay Payton and Benny Agbayani all have played well and he knows he must be...
KNICKS EYE FORTSON
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amWith Brian Grant apparently headed to the Miami Heat, the Knicks continue to try to trade for back-up power forward Danny Fortson of the Celtics. But as of yesterday, it...
BARROW, GOD & THE GRIDIRON
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amNEW YORK POST SPORTS WEEK Linebacker Micheal Barrow speaks frankly about his religion, his arrival with the Giants and his relationship with former teammates Rae Carruth and Fred Lane in...
WAITING TO EXHALE; CONE HOLDS BREATH WITH LOAD ON HIS MIND
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amHIS pitching coach and friend from way back to his Mets days left the team on Monday to undergo treatment for bone cancer and will be out at least through...
LOBO'S NOT ON LIBERTY ROSTER FOR THE PLAYOFFS
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amThe Liberty have decided not to include Rebecca Lobo on their playoff roster. Lobo, a 6-foot-4 center, has missed the entire season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament of her...
SOJO MAKING THE MOST OF YANKEE CURTAIN CALL
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amPut Joe Torre and Luis Sojo side by side and ask a non-baseball fan unfamiliar with both men to name which is the retired player well into his managing career,...
PETTITTE'S GEM IS EXACTLY WHAT YANKS NEEDED
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amWhat David Cone would give to be Andy Pettitte for just one day. The embattled Cone, who will try to pick up just his second victory of the season today,...
CHAMP FOR ALL TIMES
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amMOST days, it's still fun. Keep in mind, the free ticket I get doesn't come with a beer, rather with a clock ticking towards the next deadline and a long...
ZEILE'S NIFTY FOOTWORK
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES HOUSTON - It was the best slide this side of Rye Playland. In the second inning of last night's 12-5 romp over the Astros, Todd Zeile, who had...
MET BATS EXACT REVENGE: PIAZZA'S MOONSHOT CAPS ROUT OF ASTROS
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amMets 12 Astros 5 HOUSTON - The Mets returned to action last night. A night after being blasted, 9-3, by the worst team in baseball, the Mets dominated the Astros,...
HAMILTON HOMERS, BUT WILL MOSTLY WATCH
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amHOUSTON - As Darryl Hamilton ran in the tunnel in preparation for his return last night, he didn't cry, but he did feel emotional about his career continuing. "I got...
DEREK WANTS TO FIND HIS OLD POWER STROKE
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amIf you want to know how spoiled the Yankees have gotten, look no further than Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera. While both of them explain why they are struggling and...
MATT FRANCO, ANYONE?
August 10, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES HOUSTON -The Mets are trying to shop pinch-hitter Matt Franco in a trade. If they can't get anything for him, they are hopeful Franco will clear waivers so...