September 28, 2006
Baseball, Bruce and Beetle Boy
September 28, 2006 | 9:32pmHere's what's floating around my brain today.1. These are the days when the baseball cable package pays for itself. It was incredible last night watching both the Phillie-Nationals game and...
LIVEBLOG - Day 5, Thursday
September 28, 2006 | 6:21pmAnyone who has ever ordered room service on a cruise ship will know that the idea is far more exciting than the actual event itself.It is par for the course...
HUNTER LEAVES AMARANTH; INVESTORS ON HUNT
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amBrian Hunter, the 32-year-old trader who brought high-flying Amaranth hedge fund to the brink of collapse with his ill-timed natural gas bets, has departed the fund. An Amaranth spokesman confirmed...
PRISON TIPS FOR BERNIE
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amMEMOTo: Bernie EbbersFrom: John CrudeleSubject: How to Behave in Prison Bernie, You probably don't remember me, but we once used adjacent urinals down at the federal courthouse during your trial...
HEDGE LOSES EDGE - DIRECTOR GOES SURFING
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amA week after Amaranth lost $6 billion on natural gas, another billion-dollar hedge fund is closing its doors after investments turned sour. New York-based firm Narragansett Asset Management, run by...
AD FIRM BOSS WANTS SOME STAKES WITH HIS FIRM'S SIZZLE
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amMiles Nadal, the outspoken chief executive of ad firm MDC Partners, wants his agencies to put their money where their mouths are. Nadal is calling on his shops to become...
GIMME SHELTER
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amMVP'S TD IN NYC NEW ENGLAND Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has just scored a massive Manhattan bachelor pad. The two-time Super Bowl MVP has gone to contract to purchase a...
ON THE MARKET - THE HOTTEST NEW BUILDINGS RISING IN N.Y.C.
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amBRIARWOOD TERRACE CONDOMINIUM At 142-41 84th Road in Queens comes Briarwood Terrace Condominiums, an eightstory building with 14 one-bedrooms, 20 two-bedrooms and one studio, which has already sold. Ranging between...
SIX IN THE CITY - TIME IS ON SIDE OF BUYERS IN CALMER MARKET; HERE'S WHERE TO LOOK FOR MANHATTAN DEALS NOW
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amMAYBE you haven't heard, but there's been something of a downturn in the nation's real-estate scene. From Westchester to Walla Walla, prices are lagging and properties are languishing on the...
FALL DESIGN EVENTS
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amSEPT. 28-OCT. 1 ART(212) This inaugural art fair starting today features more than 70 leading contemporary art galleries from the U.S., Canada and Europe offering prints, paintings, sculpture, installations and...
EXERCISE YOUR OPTIONS - GYM DANDIES: NEW BUILDINGS GET RIPPED WITH TRICKED-OUT, STYLISH FITNESS CENTERS
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amTHERE was a time, and not so long ago, when an apartment building's fitness center was a relatively straightforward affair. There were some barbells, a couple of weight machines, a...
CROWD LEAVES ITS HEART IN TONY
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amSIMPLY put, Tony Bennett was charming and in excellent voice at Madison Square Garden's Theater, the latest stop on his never-ending tour through the American Songbook. The master saloon singer...
RUN'S BABY DIES
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amA daughter born to rap pio neer Joseph "Rev Run" Sim mons and his wife, Justine, died shortly after delivery this week. Simmons issued a statement through MTV, which airs...
MOON DANCE - 'DANCING' MISHAP FLASHES REAR VIEW
September 28, 2006 | 4:00am'DANCING with the Stars" contestant Monique Coleman gave viewers an eyeful of her backfield in motion Tuesday night. The "High School Musical" star, wearing a frilly, flimsy yellow dress, was...
MEETING OF MINDS FOR CELEB 'PARDY
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amTHIS ain't your grandfather's edition of "Celebrity Jeopardy!" The once-stodgy quiz show has booked headline-grabbing stars, including CNN's embattled talk-show host Nancy Grace, loudmouth Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and...
'LOST' EKO'S ARREST TOSSED
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amHAWAII police have dropped charges against Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, the actor who plays the mysterious Mr. Eko on ABC's "Lost." The 39-year-old actor became the latest cast member of ABC's hit...
INFLUENCE, CUBED - PABLO'S SWAY SEEN IN TOP U.S. ARTISTS AT WHITNEY
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amWILL the real Picasso please stand up? Figuring out which work was made by the master and which is an homage is one of the biggest kicks of the Whitney's...
STARR REPORT
September 28, 2006 | 4:00am'Adult' reading Don't look now, but Geraldo Rivera and his show, "Geraldo at Large" (Ch. 5), are making big strides in the demo department. The show continues to beat Katie...
'MY NAME IS' MUD - ONCE-SWEET 'EARL' STOOPS TO STRIPPERS
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amDISAPPOINTMENT, thy name is "Earl." It was once one of the most promising and original comedies on network TV, but tonight, in just the second episode of the brand-new TV...
TAMING OF THE FLU - 12 SURPRISING, EASY WAYS TO STAY HEALTHY; TIPS TO STAY OUT OF THE COLD
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amA roll in the hay keeps the doctor away? It wasn't what your mother taught you - but it turns out that regular sex can prevent illness. Since it's the...
CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT - PROVES ACTRESS IS QUEEN OF QUEENS
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amALL hail the great Helen Mirren, who after her triumph in HBO's "Elizabeth," delivers the performance of a lifetime as that monarch's frumpy, 20th century namesake in Stephen Frear's witty,...
POTTER'S PLOTTERS
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amHERE'S your first look at Dumbledore's Army (the DA) practicing defense against the dark arts in the Room of Requirement from "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," out...
OTHER FEST BETS
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amWONDERING where the prestige films have been hiding all year? The industry's been storing them for this moment: the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. Last year, it was...
COPS BAG 200G BROOKLYN 'BURGLAR'
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amA 30-year-old Brooklyn man was awaiting arraignment last night on charges of breaking into the home of a Borough Park couple, tying them up, and fleeing with more than $200,000...
FUTILITY IN LEBANON
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amISRAELI troops will likely be out of Lebanon by the end of this weekend as Israel fulfills its part of the U.N.-brokered cease-fire. Some 15,000 soldiers of the Lebanese Army...
S.I. HIPPIE GUN GAL BACK
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amCrazed hippie-shooting suspect Rebekah Johnson has resurfaced in the Big Apple, brazenly withdrawing $2,000 recently from a Midtown bank, sources said yesterday. Johnson walked into Commerce Bank Sept. 20 on...
MISTRIAL TEARS OF JOY FOR 'JR.' - 3RD JURY GIVES UP
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amIt was strike three for prosecutors in the John "Junior" Gotti case yesterday as a federal judge declared a third mistrial - a stunning development that could mean freedom for...
EXTENDED DAY FOR CITY HS'S
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amNearly three-quarters of the city's high schools next month will extend their day for struggling students looking to pick up credits or prepare for Regents exams, The Post has learned....
MAFIA-COPS STOOLIE FREED
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe truth has set him free. Stool pigeon Burton Kaplan, the key witness against mob cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, was sprung from prison yesterday after serving just over...
DON'T DRAG US GALS INTO YOUR MESS
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amJEANINE Pirro marched to the podium looking like 10 million bucks in a tailored blue suit, TV-ready makeup, and sky-high spike heels that hurt just to look at. She steeled...
KILLER 'LEFT HER FOR DEAD' - TRIAL IN SLAY OF ACTRESS BEAUTY STARTS
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amOn a freezing January night in 2005, on a snow-swept Lower East Side street, a beautiful 28-year-old actress named Nicole duFresne, furious that she and her friends were being mugged...
PIRRO'S FURY AT CHEATING AL - FEDS PROBE HER PLEA FOR KERIK TO WIRETAP HUSBAND
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - In a devastating blow to her campaign, Republican attorney-general candidate Jeanine Pirro admitted yesterday she is under federal investigation for discussing with former city Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik...
A MOM DIES - FORGIVING SON OF SAM
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amSHE survived the death of her husband and all three of her children - includ ing Stacy Moskowitz, the last person gunned down by David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz. Neysa...
POLS FACE TERM-LIMIT DILEMMA
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amCity Council members face an uphill battle in trying to persuade voters to change term limits, according to a private poll that Speaker Christine Quinn shared yesterday with her members....
LETHAL DRUG COMBO - ANNA SON AUTOPSY
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amAnna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son died from a deadly combination of methadone and two antidepressant drugs, a forensic pathologist who conducted a private autopsy said yesterday. Daniel Smith had methadone,...
FOE MOCKS CLINTONS' 9/11 'ACT'
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's upstart Republican rival charged yesterday that the former first couple's theatrical attack-and-defend "act is getting old" in the wake of the uproar over who...
L.I. TEACH A 'CANNIBAL FETISH PERV'
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amA teacher at a Long Island school for gifted students - who boasted about having a "fetish for young boys, slavery and cannibalism" - was busted for having child-pornography videos...
A FATHER WHO 'MARRIED' HIS DAUGHTER - HEDGE-FUND HONCHO 'TIED KNOT' - KNOWINGLY - WITH HIS LOVE CHILD
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amShe was Daddy's little girl - and also his trophy wife. The rarified world of hedge-fund millionaires was stunned yesterday by the bizarre saga of 67-year-old Bruce McMahan and his...
SCHOOLS' LONG-DAY OPTION
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amNearly three-quarters of the city's high schools next month will extend the school day for struggling students looking to pick up credits or prepare for Regents exams, The Post has...
DETECTIVE PROMOTIONS
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Kelly will promote 80 detectives tomorrow, officials said yesterday. Twenty will be promoted to detective first-grade - the highest rank a detective can achieve. Sixty others will be...
HILLARY FLIRTED WITH '04 PREZ RUN: MAG
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton toyed with the idea of running for president in 2004 - and even commissioned a clandestine poll to see if she could get away...
'CON MAN' COLLARED IN REV. THEFTS
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amA Lower East Side con artist used a sympathy scam to dupe dozens of priests across the country out of more than $200,000, telling them his mother was facing eviction...
7-ELEVEN'S KICK IN GAS FOR CHAVEZ
September 28, 2006 | 4:00am7-Eleven Inc. announced yesterday said it was dropping Venezuela-backed Citgo as its gasoline supplier - after more than 20 years - in the wake of the anti-Bush rant by Venezuelan...
TRANS TASTE TEST
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amTrans-tastic! New Yorkers may say they support the Health Department's proposal to ban trans fats from city eateries, but their taste buds staunchly disagree. In an informal taste test conducted...
POLS TO 'TEND' BARS - CLUB RULES ON TABLE AT TODAY'S NIGHTLIFE SUMMIT
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe City Council will convene the first-ever "nightlife summit" today, a day after introducing a slew of bills aimed at improving safety at bars and clubs. The summit, at John...
'IF ONLY WE COULD BELIEVE HIM' IS A BIG 'IF'
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amIF WE'RE all lucky, this will simply be one silly day in the middle of a lifetime of silly days for Terrell Owens. If Owens is correct, if the suicide...
RADIO-SCANDAL CLUB PAYS 625G
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe scandal-plagued Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club has agreed to repay the city $625,000 of taxpayer money it lent to lefty radio network Air America - but the club's...
40 YRS. FOR GI'S KILLER
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amA frustrated widow who emptied her bank account to fly to Brooklyn three times for the sentencing of her war-hero husband's killer, only to see the hearing adjourned each time,...
NIXZMARY MA'S 'ILLEGAL' CHATS
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amThree of Nixzmary Brown's surviving siblings have spoken to their jailed mother by phone during unsupervised visits with their grandmother - a violation of court orders - prosecutors charged yesterday....
EX-WISEGUY'S WISDOM: I LIVE FOR MY KIDS
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amTHE Teflon had abandoned the tough old guy, and he died a painful death in a prison hospital. But the man known as the Teflon Don died as he lived,...
PAINKILLER-SUICIDE BUZZ BLITZES NFL'S RECORD-BREAKING PAIN IN THE NECK
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amDALLAS - Loudmouth Dallas Cowboy star Terrell Owens swallowed a bottle of painkillers in an apparent suicide bid that's rocked the football world, cops said yesterday. The brash wide receiver,...
LOVE AND TEARS - EMOTIONS FLOW AT FUNERAL FOR ROOKIE DWI-CRASH OFFICER
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amLove filled a Brooklyn church yesterday as hundreds of mourners gathered to say farewell to Marlene Rivera, the rookie cop killed in a DWI crash with a policewoman buddy behind...
NOW, YOU CAN SELL YOUR HORSE AFTER DARK
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amSotheby's can stop fretting. A rickety law banning nighttime auctions of certain goods - including books, horses and fruit - moved toward removal from the city's administrative code yesterday as...
GARSON SPURNS PLEA-DEAL OFFER
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amDisgraced ex-judge Gerald Garson yesterday rejected a final-offer plea deal that would have settled bribery and corruption charges and put him in a county jail for just 16 months. "Sixteen...
POLS: ALL ABOARD RAIL YARDS DEAL
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe city, the MTA, the governor, and the likely future governor are all behind a plan to sell the Hudson Rail Yards to the highest bidder. MTA board members vote...
JUDGE JAILS PREGNANT PUB THIEF
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe four-months-pregnant ex-bookkeeper for the popular Gramercy Tavern was led off to jail in tears yesterday after a Manhattan jury convicted her of pocketing $275,000 over the course of two...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amQUEENS * A Long Island man was arrested after approaching two elderly women and snatching their purses in separate Howard Beach incidents, authorities said yesterday. Thomas Powderly, 41, of Commack,...
MIA NAOMI IS DRESSED DOWN
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amShe snubbed a show during Fashion Week, and yesterday Naomi Campbell was a no-show in criminal court - an offense that almost landed the supermodel in the slammer. Manhattan Judge...
COMMUTE NIGHTMARE ON HUDSON
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe mother of all traffic jams left thousands of motorists in a holding pattern for nearly five hours early yesterday, backing up the morning rush across the Hudson River. A...
VILLAGE CORPSE TWIST - 'HALLOWEEN' SHOCK
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amOnly in the West Village, kids . . . The body of a man clad in a kinky black leather mask and decked out head to toe in S&M gear...
GOT MONEY? MILK SOARS
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amYou'll need more mooo-la at the market next week when New York-area milk prices mooove up 25 cents a gallon. The state-set threshold price for a gallon of milk will...
CANNIBAL-OBSESSED PERV 'SLAVER' BUSTED
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amA teacher at a Long Island school for gifted students - who boasted about having a "fetish for young boys, slavery and cannibalism" - was busted for having child-pornography videos...
LEFTY RADIO $LAP - CLUB REPAYS NYC 625G
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe scandal-plagued Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club has agreed to repay the city $625,000 of taxpayer money it lent to lefty radio network Air America - but the club's...
WANG'S THE 1 - TORRE NAMES ACE FOR ALDS OPENER; MOOSE, UNIT NEXT
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amYankees 16 - Orioles 5 There was no big shock when Joe Torre announced his playoff rotation yesterday afternoon. Truth is, the torch was passed to a new Yankee ace...
GIAMBI RETURNS WITH A BANG
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Due to a sore left wrist, Jason Giambi hadn't played the previous six games and hadn't homered since Aug. 20. Both spells ended last night. With Giambi's return,...
GIVE 'EM HELL, HOKIES
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amNO school is ranked in the AP Top 10. Four teams are below .500. All told, the 12 league members are an underwhelming 28-18. The ACC sure isn't what it...
SECOND OF JUNE EUTHANIZED
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amTrack was fast, turf firm. Second of June, 5-year-old who was runner-up in Sept. 2 Woodward Stakes, fractured right rear ankle yesterday at Churchill Downs working for Oct. 7 Jockey...
TORRE TRIES TO DEFEND LINEUP
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amJOE Torre managed his seventh All-Star team last night, writing out a lineup card that would hold its own, or even outstrip, anything the fans would vote in for mid-July....
MERRY-GO-MOUND - FOR OPENERS, START DECIDES PEDRO FATE
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amATLANTA - Two months after an important start in Atlanta, Pedro Martinez had another critical one last night at Turner Field. In July, Martinez returned from the disabled list with...
JUNIOR ACHIEVER - RANGERS' TOUGH CHOICE ON STAAL
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe skate was on the other foot when Tom Renney coached the WHL Kamloops Blazers in 1991-92 and was able to ride Scott Niedermayer and Darryl Sydor to the Memorial...
LINEUP LOADED AS JASON RETURNS
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES With Jason Giambi's return last night, the Yankees put out their juggernaut lineup for the first time. Giambi DH-ed and batted fifth, behind Johnny Damon, Derek Jeter, Bobby...
KNICKS' TAYLOR SEEKS BUYOUT
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amMaurice Taylor probably wouldn't make the best witness tomorrow for the Knicks in their lame case against Larry Brown violating his $50 million contract last season. Taylor, hoping to have...
LITTLE DEFENSE IN JOE'S LINEUP
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amJOE Torre managed his seventh All-Star team last night, writing out a lineup card that would hold its own, or even outstrip, anything the fans would vote in for mid-July....
LAVAR'S OK IN SUPPORT
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES After three games, Giants linebacker LaVar Arrington has 12 tackles, no sacks and admits, "Right now I'm finding my way." He also said he won't mind if he...
DEVS' ELIAS: NO SIGN OF HEPATITIS
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amThere actually is some good news in this Devils training camp that is overshadowed by Lou Lamoriello's salary-cap quandary. Likely captain Patrik Elias said his first blood test since last...
NETS BEEF UP BENCH
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amRichard Jefferson swears it's not just an Arizona thing. "Hassan Adams is going to help us a lot," Jefferson said of the rookie from Arizona, now his Net teammate. "He...
BARLOW FEELS FOR EX-MATE
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amThe reaction out of the Jets locker room yesterday upon hearing initial reports that enigmatic Dallas receiver Terrell Owens attempted to take his own life varied from disbelief to sadness....
IT'S BETTER TO KNOW NOW, RATHER THAN LATER
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amTHE TIME for teardrops is long past, the time for self-pity having zoomed away long ago. We should have realized what a longshot it was really going to be for...
HELLO, AGAIN - RAMON RETURNS FOR PLAYOFF RUN
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - Ramon Castro rejoined the Mets yesterday and said he doesn't have any restrictions. The backup catcher is the last Met from the disabled list who could...
REASON TO WORRY - COULD BE TOAST SEASON FOR ACHY PEDRO
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amBraves 13 - Mets 1 Pedro Martinez said last night that if he were the manager, he would not be tabbing him as the NLDS Game 1 starter, adding comments...
REASON TO WORRY - PEDRO LOOKS READY FOR TOAST SEASON
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amBraves 13 - Mets 1 ATLANTA - It was a catastrophe that didn't even make it into the fourth inning last night. In the third inning, Pedro Martinez couldn't even...
DUNGY EXPECTS WAYNE BACK FOR JETS CLASH
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amJET NOTES Colts coach Tony Dungy said yesterday he expects receiver Reggie Wayne to rejoin the team in time for Sunday's game against the Jets at Giants Stadium. Wayne, the...
NO PAT ANSWERS - JETS WON'T DISCOVER SECRETS TO STOPPING MANNING ON VIDEO
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amIf you're a defensive player and you're lined up across from Peyton Manning on a football Sunday, you might do yourself a favor by taking an aspirin and even an...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 28, 2006 | 4:00amA man wearing only a thong and carrying a knife videotaped himself after he broke into a woman's apartment - and then fled when she saw him. He was nabbed...
Ron Darling: Start Pedro in Game 3!
September 28, 2006 | 12:39amBy ANDREW MARCHANDSNY's Ron Darling thinks that Pedro Martinez should start the third game of the playoffs for the Mets."I think it is really obvious Pedro needs some more work,"...