February 7, 2004
SAL UNDER SIEGE: AMEX TRADERS DEMAND SODANO STEP DOWN
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThe American Stock Exchange's leading associations of traders, and at least one board member, have asked Amex Chairman Sal Sodano to resign when a deal to sell the exchange is...
CABLEVISION AXES 80 AT MSG
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThe Garden is sending 80 of its employees to pasture. Officials at Madison Square Garden said the layoffs, which will come mostly in administrative and corporate areas, represent about 3.5...
STOCKS JUMP AS JOBS REPORT CALMS RATE FEARS
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amWall Street went on a stock-buying spree yesterday on a jobs report that fueled hopes that interest rates will stay at 45-year lows a bit longer this year. Stocks rallied...
AUSSIES RAID KAZAA OFFICES
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amAuthorities in Australia are trying to succeed where their American counterparts have failed - by targeting "peer to peer" networks that largely traffic in music protected by copyright. The Australian...
HELP, IT'S A MADHOUSE: AS BUYERS PILE UP, OPEN HOUSES BECOME SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThis winter, it's open season on open houses. On a bitter, snowy Sunday last month, Douglas Elliman broker Suzanne Schein held an open house for a one-bedroom co-op on West...
GIMME SHELTER: WILL'S RECORD RENT
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amGIMME SHELTER Call it sixty-thousand degrees of separation. Will Smith has finally found a Manhattan rental and is paying just shy of $60,000-a-month rent for it. The rapper-turned-actor star of...
SUPER SAMPLES
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amHOME SHOPPING CLUB Cassina 155 E. 56th St., between Lexington and Third avenues (212) 245-2121 Sale: Feb. 7 and 8 Open: Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m./Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Floor samples...
MAX YOUR SPACE: CHRISTOPHER LOWELL HELPS YOU DECORATE SMALL ROOMS
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amWhen you compare your apartment to a shoe box, do you fear giving the shoe box a bad name? Design diva Christopher Lowell can help. "There are no small spaces,...
FAB 40: THE BEATLES' 1964 LANDING HERE SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amGO ahead, sing it: "It was 40 years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play!" This weekend, New York commemorates Feb. 9, 1964, the date The Beatles kicked...
'SEX' AND THE BOROUGH: DON'T FRET, MIRANDA! BROOKLYN IS FULL OF SPOTS YOUR PALS WILL LIKE.
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amBrooklyn is a cultural wasteland - or at least that's what you would have to conclude after watching recent episodes of HBO's soon-to-be-history "Sex and the City," in which the...
JOHN WATERS IS IN A MUSEUM NOW
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amHe's a Broadway hitmaker now, but "Hairspray" creator John Waters has spent most of his career as the wacked-out director of mondo-trasho movies like "Pink Flamingos" - the movie in...
PLEASE TOUCH THE EXHIBITS
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThere she stood - Candace Memoli of P.S. 71 in the Bronx - inside a giant kaleidoscope. "It looks like there's a double of you all around," she reported, ducking...
DATE WITH DISASTER; POLLS: WISCONSIN MAY HAMMER DEAN
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amHoward Dean's do-or-die vow to win Wisconsin is looking like Mission Impossible, according to a poll released yesterday. Dean has retreated to Wisconsin - which votes on Feb. 17 -...
HOLY FUROR EXPECTED AT SECT'S B'KLYN WEDDING BASH
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThere will either be mazel tovs or Molotovs flying in the air tonight as the city's bitterly divided Satmar sect throws a giant engagement party expected to draw nearly 20,000...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amAn Oregon scientist says he's bringing to life a version of the "tomacco" - Homer Simpson's infamous tomato-tobacco hybrid. Rob Baur, 53, a Simpsons fan from Lake Oswego, Ore., says...
BLOOMBERG: CITY'S BEEN 'LEAD' ASTRAY
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amDenouncing a new lead-paint law, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday said the city is often not at fault because many immigrant children already have lead poisoning before they ever set foot here....
WAR ON TERROR ; W. PICKS WMD PANEL; TAPS EX-POL & EX-JUDGE TO HEAD INTEL PROBE
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday moved to quell Democratic attacks on intelligence failures in Iraq by naming a panel to investigate the issue that will be headed by former Sen....
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amBrooklyn A Bedford-Stuyvesant thug was arrested yesterday in the vicious shooting of a man last month, authorities said. Ronnie McMillan was charged with assault after being nabbed by cops in...
JACKO IN THE SWIM WITH CROCS
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - A playful Michael Jackson swam with crocodiles at his Neverland Ranch over the summer, says a business partner who came "close to a heart attack" while witnessing...
BA'ATHIST THUGS NABBED
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. forces nabbed six Ba'athist thugs "closely tied" to Saddam Hussein yesterday as part of a continuing roundup of the last remnants of his evil regime. The regime...
MOSCOW BLAST SPURS NYPD TERROR MISSION
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amNew York cops are headed to Russia to learn how to avert the kind of terrorist bombing that killed 39 people yesterday aboard a Moscow subway train. More than 120...
ABUSED WOMAN HELD IN BEAU'S DEATH
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amA petite Bronx mom was arrested yesterday for stabbing to death her abusive boyfriend, a strapping 6-footer, during a furious fight inside her apartment, said cops. Deborah Moses, 37, the...
GAZA ISRAELIS MAY MOVE TO W. BANK
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThe Jewish settlers who will be moved out of the Gaza Strip may end up in the West Bank, an aide to Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday, touching...
'PILL PUSHERS' BUSTED IN QNS.
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amAn aide at a group home for the handicapped was among 13 people arrested for pushing pills, pot and cocaine on a bustling Bayside, Queens thoroughfare, police said yesterday. Cops...
SHOWING HEART
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amFASHIONISTAS are like mailmen - neither snow nor rain nor gloomy skies stopped the fashion flock yesterday from descending on the tents at Bryant Park for the first day of...
HERO GI CITIZEN-TO-BE BURIED
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amPfc. Luis Moreno was laid to rest in a rain-swept Bronx cemetery yesterday - an American hero killed in Iraq, but not yet an American. As 21 gunshots rang out...
ANGRY WIDOW RIPS 'SHOCKING' SILENCE OF GETAWAY GIRL
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThe grieving widow of murder victim Anthony Battaglia lashed out yesterday at the woman who allegedly helped four gang thugs kill her husband on his way home one night last...
FAMILY GETS 100G FOR RAID BLUNDER
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amFour members of a Bronx family who claimed they were terrorized a dozen years ago when narcotics cops mistakenly raided their apartment settled their lawsuit against the city for $100,000...
PARIS NAILS WEB FIRM IN SEX-VID SUIT
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Hotel heiress Paris Hilton yesterday sued a Panamanian Internet company for $30 million for allegedly putting her infamous sex tape on the World Wide Web without permission....
DAVE'S INTREPID SNOWBOARD BABE LEAVES HOSP
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amA champion snowboarder who fell 25 feet off a ramp while performing a stunt for "The Late Show with David Letterman" was released yesterday from the hospital, vowing to return...
MAN TRASHED EX-FLAME'S BODY: COPS
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amCops sifted through tons of Brooklyn garbage yesterday searching for the strangled body of a 28-year-old mom allegedly murdered by her jilted lover in his apartment, trussed in a trash...
DATE WITH DISASTER; POLLS: WISCONSINMAY HAMMER DEAN
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amHoward Dean's do-or-die vow to win Wisconsin is looking like Mission Impossible, according to new poll yesterday. Dean has retreated to Wisconsin - which doesn't vote until Feb. 17 -...
TESTY TEACHERS SLAM CITY CONTRACT BID
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amA labor war erupted between Mayor Bloomberg and teachers union president Randi Weingarten yesterday after City Hall proposed a bare-bones contract Weingarten charged eliminates cherished protections such as seniority rights...
3 DOGS MAUL BX. KIDS
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThree family dogs, two of them pit bulls, attacked two Bronx toddlers in their home yesterday, badly disfiguring the face of one of them, police said. Cops had to use...
CARLIE FOUGHT FIEND TO THE END
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThe adorable 11-year-old Florida girl whose kidnapping was caught on camera put up a desperate fight against her abductor before being killed, a source close to the investigation told The...
BANK BANDIT HAS LONG HEIST-ORY
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amAn aging ex-con notorious for his role in a hold-up team that preyed on bar owners a dozen years ago was nabbed anew yesterday for a string of bank heists,...
FIRE-BRAWL CAPT. WAS BOOZING
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amAn FDNY captain accused of trying to cover up the Staten Island firehouse brawl that left a firefighter's face mangled was "very definitely involved" in the booze fest that led...
MARTHA HAS TO TESTIFY: PUNDITS
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amMartha Stewart has no choice but to testify at her sensational trial, veteran defense lawyers said yesterday - but sources in the domestic diva's camp say hopes are rising that...
RED IN THE FACE; ST. JOHN'S RAPE SCAMMER: I'M NO HOOKER
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThe woman charged with falsely claiming members of the St. John's basketball team raped her says she's not "the hooker of Pittsburgh" - and insists instead that she's the hapless...
BRAWLERS FALL DOWN ELEVATOR SHAFT
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amTwo brawling men crashed through a fourth-floor elevator door in Midtown yesterday, causing one to land atop the elevator car on the ground floor and the other to become wedged...
THE SMOKING GUN; BLOOMBERG IGNORES PUFFING GUESTS AT RITZY BASH
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amIt's hard to imagine - butt-banning Mayor Bloomberg sitting passively at his table during a black-tie dinner while all around him smokers puff away on stogies. But that's exactly what...
COWARD GANG: CREW KILLED COMMUTER TO SAVE FACE AFTER HE FLOORED THUG
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amLIRR commuter Tony Battaglia was murdered because he knocked down one of his Latin King gang attackers - and the humiliated attacker allegedly shot him in revenge, The Post has...
INTREPID SNOWBOARD BABE LEAVES HOSP
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amChampion snowboarder Tara Dakides, who fell 25 feet off a ramp while performing a stunt for "The Late Show with David Letterman," was released from the hospital yesterday, vowing to...
KIDNAP-SLAY SUSPECT'S VILE PAST
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amLong before Joseph Smith was arrested and charged with the kidnapping and killing of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia, the tattooed thug was living a deeply troubled and turbulent life. Aside from...
TRAFFIC LIGHTS KO'D IN CITY
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amA power surge at a Queens traffic facility knocked out traffic lights in Manhattan for 30 minutes last night. The Traffic Management Center in Long Island City was on back-up...
DOGS MAUL SIBLING TOTS IN BRONX
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThree family dogs, two of them pit bulls, attacked two Bronx toddlers in their home yesterday, badly disfiguring the face of one of them, police said. Cops had to use...
PARIS NAILSWEB FIRM IN SEX-VID SUIT
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Hotel heiress Paris Hilton yesterday sued a Panamanian Internet company for $30million for allegedly putting her infamous sex tape on the World Wide Web without permission. In...
A STACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amAn Oregon scientist says he's bringing to life a version of the "tomacco"- Homer Simpson's infamous tomato-tobacco hybrid. Rob Baur, 53, a Simpsons fan from Lake Oswego, Ore., says he's...
MOM'S BODY IN TRASH
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amCops sifted through tons of Brooklyn garbage yesterday searching for the strangled body of a 28-year-old mom allegedly murdered by her jilted lover in his apartment, trussed in a trash...
BRAWL CAPTAIN 'BOOZED'
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amAn FDNY captain accused of trying to cover up the Staten Island firehouse brawl that left a firefighter's face mangled was "very definitely involved" in the booze fest that led...
MARION TURNS ON JETS IN MILLROSE COMEBACK
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amWith the rust of a year off and plagued with doubts for the first time in seven years, Marion Jones started her 60-meter race at last night's Millrose Games at...
STAKES ON MENU THIS WEEKEND
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amWhile it seems we're still in the throes of winter, there's a whiff of spring in the air, thanks to thoroughbred racing's first significant weekend of the year. Gulfstream Park...
BIG A CANCELED
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amRacing and simulcasting at Aqueduct were canceled yesterday because of the winter ice storm. The Big A is expected to resume live racing today with a Pick 6 carryover of...
GOING OUT ON TOP ; LENNOX LEWIS RETIRES ON OWN TERMS
February 7, 2004 | 5:00am"If you can't have the same kind of . . . hunger that you had in the beginning, you shouldn't step back in the ring,"LENNOX LEWIS Saying, "Let the new...
YANKS SEE DUENAS GOING TO COLUMBUS
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThe Yankees went to San Salvador to look at Cuban pitcher Maels Rodriguez and wound up with Yobal Duenas, who will likely play third base for Columbus (Triple-A). According to...
JINTS' 'HAMMER' CALLS IT A CAREER
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amFew players get to spend their entire career with one team, establish a lasting legacy and then exit on their own terms. Keith Hamilton accomplished all three. The rugged, outspoken...
JARVIS: I WARNED PLAYERS
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amFormer St. John's basketball coach Mike Jarvis told The Post he tried to warn his former players about the type of sexcapades that resulted in forward Grady Reynolds being expelled...
BUSY STRETCH WILL TEST KNICKS' METTLE
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThe Knicks have four games in five days before the All-Star break. With three of them on the road, their minds and bodies will be working overtime. "It's mental fatigue,"...
FIASCO'S ON MIND OF RECRUIT
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amTheo Davis is one of the top high school junior recruits in the nation, so the fact he was considering going to St. John's even before three players were kicked...
REFOCUSED MARION HAS NEW-BORN GOALS
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThere was a time when Marion Jones' goals were grand and far-reaching to the point of being philosophical, back when she was young, the 28-year- old says with a toothy...
HARD-WORKING BARON RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amIT didn't take long for St. John's' miseries to buzz their way across the country yesterday, for the university to officially morph into a punch line. It was priceless material....
FRANK TO NETS: STAY FOCUSED
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThe Nets have gone from a stagger to a swagger. Seven games ago, the two-time defending Eastern Conference champs were reeling after a franchise sale and rumors concerning Byron Scott's...
JOHNNIE STUDENTS VOICE OUTRAGE
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amAppalled St. John's students reacted with outrage yesterday after hearing that members of their basketball team were once again in trouble with the law. "They might as well hold open...
A DARK DAY UNDER RED STORM CLOUDS ; ST. JOHN'S TRYING TO CLEAN UP ITS MESS
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amThe worst day in the history of the St. John's basketball program began with the team - whatever's left of it - crammed into coach Kevin Clark's office in Alumni...
SWIMMER: REYNOLDS SCANDAL NO SHOCK
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amRachel Seager says Grady Reynolds appearance in the eye of the Red Storm sex scandal comes as no surprise to her - she's already seen the kind of bad behavior...
MIGRAINE CAN'T STOP K-MART
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amNET NOTES While Orlando's Tracy McGrady was sitting one out, Kenyon Martin battled through severe migraines that forced him to miss yesterday's morning shoot-around. Martin called in sick in the...
SURGING NETS KEEP ON ROLLIN' FRANK NOW 6-0 AT HELM
February 7, 2004 | 5:00amNets 120Magic 99 Without Tracy McGrady, the Magic are a machine gun without bullets. So the Nets predictably routed them, 120-99, in one of New Jersey's better performances of the...