March 7, 2005
CHELSEA'S LUXE ASTON ON BLOCK FOR $210M
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amThe building that began Chelsea's luxury residential market is being offered at a price expected to reach $210 million - a record-breaking price both for per unit and per square...
EDELMAN CROWNED P.R. KING
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amJack O'Dwyer's Newsletter - the bible of the public-relations industry - has anointed Edelman PR Worldwide as the No. 1 P.R. firm in its annual poll of top independent agencies....
J. CREW RENEWS - RETAILER PLANS CONCEPT REVIVING VINTAGE BRAND
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amMickey Drexler, the chief executive of J. Crew and architect of its revival, is quietly laying plans to develop a new retail concept, The Post has learned. The top-secret strategy...
SONY SHOCKS WITH STRINGER CEO CHOICE
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amJapan's Sony Corp. is planning today to name Howard Stringer chairman and chief executive of the world's second-biggest consumer-electronics maker, according to sources familiar with the matter. Sony's board of...
DOLANS D-DAY IN CABLE DISPUTE
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amFacing new turmoil at its first meeting today, Cablevision's new board is expected to put up a united front in hopes of smoothing over a family feud before it morphs...
WORTH THE WEIGHT; KIRSTIE ALLEY FLATTENS THE CRITICS WITH BRAVE, FUNNY 'FAT ACTRESS'
March 7, 2005 | 5:00am"Fat Actress" Tonight at 10 on Showtime ½ (three and a half stars) THE biggest problem with Kirstie Alley's wildly innovative, weep-with-laughter new show, "Fat Actress," is that Alley has...
DAN: WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amTHERE'S actually tape of Dan Rather in 1958, calling a college football game and uttering what's believed to be the first-ever folksy "Dan-ism." He describes a player as being "as...
DESCENT INTO HELL A MUST
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amPAUL TAYLORDANTE VARIATIONSCity Center, 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues. (212) 581-1212. Paul Taylor Dance Company's 50th anniversary season runs through March 20. DANTE'S vision of hell, with all...
KARAOKE GETTIN' A GOOD RAP - WHERE YOU CAN FIND YOUR INNER EMINEM
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amCAMILLE Nixon, a 23-year-old Manhattanite, never imagined hitting the karaoke nights at downtown rock clubs. Now Nixon not only checks out the brave souls onstage singing to backing tracks, but...
'ROCKY VI' - 'CONTENDER' GETS KO'D BY BOXING MYTH
March 7, 2005 | 5:00am"The Contender" Tonight at 9:30 on NBC/Ch. 4 (two stars) I love how boxing is always portrayed as some sort of en nobling pursuit when, in reality, it's just two...
STARR REPORT
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amVerdict: 'Jury' wins The newest "Law & Order" spinoff, "Law & Order: Trial By Jury," got off to a fast start last Thursday night, snaring 17.1 million viewers to win...
THE PERILS OF ARTIFICIAL INFLATION
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amI make $325,000 a year. I am an internationally renowned race-car driver, and have I told you about my Philip Johnson-designed beach house in East Hampton? Oh, sorry, that's just...
ATTACK OF THE SUPERBRAS - NEW BUST-BOOSTING BRAS TAKE OFF LIKE A ROCKET
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amVICTORIA'S Secret claims an international team of designers and engineers spent two years collaborating to create its new bra, the "IPEX." The people at Lily of France claim you don't...
THE BREAST AND THE WORST
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amCERTAIN celebs always give good cleavage. Jessica Simpson, for instance, consistently nails the art of chest-dressing. Her artfully enhanced breasts rest comfortably within whatever top she wears, and they are...
GET FIT!
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amIF your bras have you looking more like Mrs. Doubtfire than Jane Mansfield, it might be because they don't fit properly. It's a widespread problem - eight out of 10...
ZONGO COP'S TRIAL ORDEAL
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amAS HE faces a deadlocked jury today, embattled Police Of ficer Bryan Conroy wants to make one thing perfectly clear: "Of course, you have sympathy for the family [of Ousmane...
BATTLE NEARS ON SOC. SEC.
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The White House yesterday asked Congress to work out a Social Security solution by the end of the year. "We think this is the year to act. And...
KNIFE WIFE STABS MACHETE HUBBY: COPS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amA Bronx wife turned the tables on her enraged hubby and stabbed him in the groin with a hunting knife after he hacked her with a machete during a vicious...
JETS AND CABLEVISION WAR CONTINUES
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amIn the latest salvo in the war between the Jets and Cablevision, team owner Woody Johnson is reportedly considering a bid for the cable giant's sports assets, which include the...
JERSEY EXPLOITING N.Y.'S STADIUM BATTLE, MIKE SAYS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amNew Jersey is taking advantage of the fight over where to build a new stadium for the Jets by proposing a plan to build an arena there, Mayor Bloomberg charged...
MIDDLE CLASS BUYING SECOND HOMES
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amMiddle-class Americans are taking a lesson from the rich: There's no place like a second home. Sales of second homes last year made up more than a third of all...
QNS. SLAY HORROR; JEALOUS BEAU SHOOTS PREGNANT TEEN: COPS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amA jealousy-enraged Queens man yesterday blew away his pregnant teen girlfriend as her 3-year-old daughter and two young brothers slept just feet away, police and horrified kin said yesterday. "He...
JETS & CABLEVISION WAR CONTINUES
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amIn the latest salvo in the war between the Jets and Cablevision, team owner Woody Johnson is reportedly considering a bid for the cable giant's sports assets, including the Knicks,...
PERV ABUSED TODDLER: COPS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amA Long Island man was charged yesterday with sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl in her Huntington Station home - abuse that has been going on for a month, police said....
MUNCH ARTWORK STOLEN - AGAIN
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amNow here's something to scream about: Thieves in Norway have stolen three more works by famed artist Edvard Munch - the latest heists of work by the existential artist. Early...
ACCUSED KILLER HELPED BY DA DEAL
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amThe career criminal charged with posing as a cop and killing a Long Island man was on the street because the Queens DA helped him avoid deportation to Haiti in...
HARLEM HIGH HOPES ; NEW TOWER COULD CROWN 125TH ST.
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amThe commercial strip of 125th Street could be bustling as it never has before if two black developers realize their plans to convert the old Loews Victoria theater into a...
BX. TEACH HELPED US CHEAT REGENTS: KIDS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amCity education probers are investigating a Bronx teacher for allegedly helping fifth-graders cheat on their state math exam, The Post has learned. Two students at PS 91 in Fordham wrote...
LIZZIE AND THE LOSERS; 'POWER GIRLS' A P.R. DISASTER: PROS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amLizzie Grubman's reality show about public relations, "PoweR Girls," is pretty rotten p.r. for the world's second oldest profession, according to many in the industry. But while her show is...
MOM'S NEW GRIEF; DWI-BOY AUTOPSY FUROR
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amThe grieving mom of an 11-year-old Queens boy killed by an accused drunken driver says she's livid because the city medical examiner returned her son's body to her - without...
KILLER'S 'NAG' DEFENSE
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amA Bronx man claims his wife and her sister nagged him - to their deaths. Edelmiro Cesareo, 33, says he fatally shot them because his wife, Loreen Merchan, constantly called...
MTA NO SLAM DUNK FOR NETS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amOne of the most crucial agencies was MIA on an agreement between lawmakers and developer Bruce Ratner on his bid to bring the Nets to Brooklyn. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority,...
I LOVED SUICIDE-BID GAL: BEAU
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amThe despondent boyfriend of a veterinary technician who hanged herself with a leash at an East Side animal hospital denied yesterday that her suicide bid was over a failed love...
CITY HOUSING VACANCIES UP
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amThe number of vacant apartments in public housing projects has increased because the city has to renovate many of the units before they can be reoccupied, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday....
DEAD GI'S FOLKS FACE HARASSMENT
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amThe grieving family of a Muslim soldier from Queens killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq last week said his parents are being persecuted in their native Pakistan for his...
BIG APPLE PLANT STUDY TAKES ROOT
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amCan country bumpkins survive on the mean streets of New York? A botanical study is underway to find out if plants that have survived environmentally contaminated sites are ultimately better...
GOWN, BOY! OSCAR DUDS FOR DOGS - FETCHING FASHIONS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amHere's proof that this year's Oscar gowns have gone to the dogs! It's Vanilla Salt, a 1-year-old female Chihuahua, modeling canine versions of the dresses worn by Hollywood's top actresses...
TOP DEM: LOOK OUT, FREDDY
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amMEMO to mayoral hopeful Freddy Ferrer from a top state Democratic operative: "You can beat Mayor Bloomberg, but you first have to clean up your political act." "Ferrer's poll numbers...
KIM'S FANS THREATEN RAP RATS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amLil' Kim's fans are burning up the Web, threatening turncoat members of her Junior M.A.F.I.A. posse for betraying their beloved "Queen Bee." "If I was you, I'd put a hit...
$UE-NAMI HITS U.S. ; FAMILIES BLAST FAILURE TO ALERT VICTIMS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amVictims of the 2004 Asian tsunami plan to sue the United States government for failing to warn tourists of the disaster as it swept across Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and...
SUPER 'BIAS' BATTLE; SUIT VS. BLDG. BOSSES
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amLatino and black apartment supers in Brooklyn have slapped their building owners with an explosive discrimination suit - charging they were fired and replaced with younger, white Yugoslavians. The replacement...
SISTER BROKE IN FEUD OVER BIG-BUCKS WILL
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amShe's been fighting for her rightful share of her father's megabuck estate for almost 20 years, but now time is running out for Evelyn Breslaw. "I'm behind on my rent...
'GLORY' TRIP IS NEW BUZZ; L.I. KIDS HIGH ON SEEDS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amHigh-school students in East Hampton appear to have to turned to an unusual source for a buzz - hallucinogenic morning-glory flower seeds. A student at the Long Island school recently...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amJoseluis Franco has nerves of steel. Construction workers in Port St. Lucie, Fla., were stunned when Franco, 19, accidentally shot himself in the eye with a nail gun. Then they...
AXIS OF DIESEL; 'PACIFIER' A VIN WIN AT BOX OFFICE
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amDiesel power fueled the box office as Vin Diesel's family comedy, "The Pacifier," rocketed to No. 1 over the weekend. Despite horrible reviews, the PG-rated Disney flick - starring the...
SCHUMER URGES $200M TO BEAT BIRD FLU
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amThe lethal strain of avian flu that has infected scores of people in Asia could kill millions in the United States - unless the feds stockpile medications and issue $200...
ISRAEL AGREES TO QUIT W. BANK TOWN
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amIsrael has agreed in principle to start handing over the West Bank town of Tulkarm to Palestinian control tomorrow, a Palestinian commander said yesterday. The move marks the resumption of...
'DWI' CHASE ENDS IN CRASH
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amA drunken driver led Nassau County cops on a high-speed chase Saturday night before he slammed into a passing car and tore off its rear, police said. Cops spotted Keith...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amMANHATTAN *** An unruly patron being ejected from a Harlem social club pulled out a gun and opened fire yesterday, wounding the bouncer and two other people, cops said. The...
WAR ON TERROR
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amFreed Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena suggested yesterday that she may have been deliberately targeted by U.S. soldiers when she was wounded Friday just minutes after being released. She claimed the...
IRAQ ASSEMBLY SETS MEETING
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amIraq's parliamentary factions, still jockeying for position five weeks after national elections, have scheduled a meeting of the new National Assembly within 10 days - with or without a head...
GODFATHER OF SOUL SURVIVOR
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amIf Wacko Jacko gets sent to the slammer, who's going to replace him as the world's biggest bizarro music star? James Brown may be ready for the job after boasting...
'I'M NOT SADDAM' ; SYRIA'S PREZ SAYS HE WILL COOPERATE
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is scheduled to begin pulling his troops back from Lebanon today, insists he's no Saddam Hussein and wants to cooperate with President Bush...
TROTTIN' TO THE CORE; ID-SCAM SUSPECT NABBED AT RACETRACK
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amA federal fugitive, suspected of running a horse-betting fraud scheme, was nabbed with $171,000 in cash stuffed in his pockets at Aqueduct racetrack, authorities said yesterday. Ervin Caspi, 49, was...
KIN MARVEL AT CALM N.J. SLAY SUSPECT
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amUpstairs neighbor and murder suspect Edward McDonald kept his cool whenever relatives talked about the vicious unsolved slayings of four members of an Egyptian family in their New Jersey home,...
GET THEE A NUNNERY; SISTERS SELLING LUXURY L.I. RETREAT FOR $25M
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amAs Shakespeare might have put it, "Get thee to the Hamptons." The Sisters of the Order of St. Dominic are selling their nearly 15-acre estate in Water Mill, which includes...
WIFE AND CHILDREN SHUN 'BTK' SINCE ARREST: MAG
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amThe Kansas man suspected of being the feared "BTK" serial killer has not had contact with his wife and kids since his arrest two weeks ago, a new report reveals....
NEW YORK'S OT INSANITY ; PSYCH-WARD AIDE RAKES IT IN
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amALBANY - The state government's overtime king is a treatment assistant at a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane who made $90,000 over his regular salary last year, The Post...
U.S. URGED TO END WORLD POVERTY
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amMore than 8 million people around the world die every year simply because they are "too poor to stay alive," according to a book by the head of the United...
NYPD HUNTS BIG 'GAME' PALS AS HOT 97 TRAIL LEADS TO L.A.
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amNYPD detectives have gone to Los Angeles in the hunt for clues in the latest Hot 97 shooting. The detectives, armed with surveillance videos, are hoping the LAPD gang unit...
PUBLIC HOUSING VACANCIES UP
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amThe number of vacant apartments in public housing projects has increased because the city has to renovate many of the units before they can be reoccupied, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday....
CLASSROOM EXTRA - WOMEN'S HISTORY EDITION - A CHAMPION FOR VOTERS' RIGHTS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amFannie Lou Hamer was sick and tired of being denied the right to vote and she did something about it. The Democratic Party would never be the same. The woman...
NETS NOT SHOWING SIGNS OF REAL LIFE
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amThe standings and numbers say there is a chance at the playoffs for the Nets. The results and body language say differently. The Nets start a four-game road trip in...
REMEMBER HUMBER'S NUMBER
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Philip Humber's debut against major league hitters couldn't have gone much better. His postgame, however, probably could have. Humber, the Mets' eye-opening first-round pick...
WISSEH'S 38 BOOST BANNEKER
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amPSAL QUARTERFINALS Banneker lost its best weapon at the worst time - then found another. Senior Mike Davis, the Warriors' top inside presence, missed yesterday afternoon's PSAL quarterfinal game at...
HAVING THEIR SHEA ; ZAM, KAZ, REYES SET SIGHTS HIGH
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amMets (ss) 14 Nationals 5 PORT ST. LUCIE - During the offseason, the Mets acquired two sure things in Carlos Beltran and Pedro Martinez. But it's three players from last...
HEELS OUTDUKE BLUE DEVILS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amN. Carolina 75Duke 73 CHAPEL HILL - The unabashed bedlam that spilled out onto the floor of the Dean Dome at the final buzzer of yesterday's North Carolina 75-73 victory...
DEFENSIVE PRESSURE; KNICK GUARDS FALL SHORT MINUS BIG MAN
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amHerb Williams doesn't think Friday's blowout loss in Orlando exposed anything new. The Magic broke down the Knicks' guards and, with no shot-blocking presence in their way, had a clear...
RENAISSANCE MAN ; DAVIS THRILLED AT FRESH START WITH WARRIORS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amNow that Baron Davis has emigrated from New Orleans to Oakland, he feels like a new player and a new person. "To have a new beginning, a fresh start, it...
MALCOLM'S LATE EFFORT ASSURES KENNEDY WIN
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amPSAL QUARTERFINALS Johnny Mathis gripped his head in his hands in dismay when he saw Stephen Malcolm fire a 3-pointer in the final minutes of Kennedy's quarterfinal game against Grady....
OWNERSHIP FIGHT MAY FORCE SALE
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Owner James Dolan raised some eyebrows last month when he met with Knicks beat writers and had a curious response about whether he planned to remain the Knicks'...
SWEET STUFF ; BIG MEN STAND TALL IN KNICK WIN
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amKnicks 115Warriors 99 Who says the Knicks don't have the goods in the low post? Michael Sweetney, Maurice Taylor and Tim Thomas all were beasts down low last night as...
GAEL COMEBACK COMES UP SHORT
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amNiagara 69Iona 66 BUFFALO - For almost a minute after he'd lost the ball - and with it any chance for a miraculous come-from-behind upset of top-seeded Niagara - Iona...
FEUD MAY SPELL END FOR DOLAN
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amKnicks owner James Dolan was not in his customary baseline seat at the Garden last night. And by tonight, Dolan, in a raging feud with his father Charles, may not...
NO STOPPING STEPH ; MARBURY TOYS WITH WARRIORS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amWith 26 points and 16 assists, Stephon Marbury had answers for the Warriors' Baron Davis all night. That is, until Marbury was asked how he thought Davis would do with...
SWEET STUFF ; MICHAEL COMES UP BIG IN KNICK WIN
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amKnicks 115Warriors 99 Michael Sweetney was trying to leave the locker room early last night when he bumped into a gang of reporters entering at the doorway, stopping him in...
BUBBLE TROUBLE ; BIG EAST ALSO-RANS EYE DANCE
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amIf you believe in conspiracy theories, then the Big East got exactly what it needs to get precisely what it wants. Twenty years after the Big East became the only...
XAVERIAN AND RICE ADVANCE
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amCHSAA AA SEMIFINALS The last time Xaverian played at St. John's University, the Clippers were blown out by St. Mary's of Manhasset, losing by 28. "We were a mess," head...
KNICKS, METS MAY BE IN DARK
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amTime-Warner and Cablevision could leave 2.4 million viewers without Knicks and Mets games. At midnight tonight, MSG Network and Fox Sports New York could go off the air for subscribers...
GUTTY TRIUMPH FOR 'GAMBLER'
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amDoes any racehorse have more heart than Diligent Gambler? In eighth-race feature yesterday at Aqueduct, a 46G allowance at mile-and-sixteenth, "Gambler," a 4-year-old gray, with Jean-Luc Samyn riding, tracked early...
HAWKS KNOW THE FEELING
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amThe call came about three weeks ago. Bruce Weber, coach of the nation's only undefeated team until yesterday, reached out to Phil Martelli, who led St. Joseph's on the greatest...
BURRESS COMING IN FOR GIANT COURTSHIP
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amThe ongoing courtship from afar will finally turn into face-to-face wooing today when receiver Plaxico Burress arrives at Giants Stadium for a visit the Giants hope will result in a...
PLAYING RACE CARD ; DELGADO-MINAYA TALE BECAME A NON-ISSUE
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amYOU can't be a champion of equality and play by two sets of rules. You can't ignore in some folks what you'd loudly condemn in others. Last week, Carlos Delgado...
'MOON' & 'ALEX' RIGHT ON TRACK
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amIn the first major weekend of Kentucky Derby preps, 2-year-old champion Declan's Moon remained unbeaten, winning his seasonal debut in the Santa Catalina at Santa Anita, Afleet Alex won his...
HAND OF GOD WAS WITH ME: REGGIE
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - As he crawled out of his rented SUV that had flipped three times after being hit from behind, Reggie Jackson made his way to the middle of road...
BOSS GETTING EAGER FOR A WIN
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - George Steinbrenner was antsy before the Yankees blew a two-run lead in the ninth to the Reds yesterday at Legends Field. However, the third straight exhibition...
UNIT GOOD TO GO
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - For someone who hadn't thrown off a mound since Feb. 26, Randy Johnson looked remarkably sharp during his 12-minute bullpen yesterday morning. Johnson, who has been sidelined with...
GRATEFUL GARY RETURNS TO THE FIELD
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - He was part of the first Yankee group to sign autographs at the YES Network's pregame function. He mustered two dribblers that became RBI singles in three at-bats...
SOX IT TO HIM - EMBATTLED GIAMBI BRACES FOR BOSTON HECKLERS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amReds 6 Yankees 5 TAMPA - There is no way to protect Jason Giambi from the inevitable. Sooner or later he must face the taunts, the hecklers, and the personal...
CAREFREE A-ROD WON'T MAKE TRIP TO FT. MYERS
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - Alex Rodriguez could care less about an exhibition game against the Red Sox in March. A-Rod will play third base today against the Indians at Legends Field and...
READY & WAITING - GIAMBI WAITING TO TAKE HEAT FROM RED SOX FANS TONIGHT
March 7, 2005 | 5:00amTAMPA - Joe Torre isn't wasting any time tossing Jason Giambi into the deep end of the pool. And while Giambi won't be the only big-name Yankee to make tonight's...