July 20, 2006
CITI SCUFFLE PITS PRINCE V. PRINCE
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amCitigroup Chief Executive Chuck Prince had better start wielding the cost-cutting knife, or a certain Saudi prince is going to get really angry. Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the single...
BEN'S GENTLE TOUCH - FED BOSS CHASES WALL STREET'S BEARS AWAY
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amFINALLY, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is turning into Gentle Ben. After 17 straight interest rate hikes by Bernanke and his predecessor, the ancient Alan Greenspan, the Fed now looks...
BIG 3 WANT BMG - SUITORS JOCKEY FOR PRIZE
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amBertelsmann has whittled down the number of bidders for its music-publishing arm to a handful, including offers from the three major music companies Universal, Warner Music and EMI, according to...
SIDESTEP BY FOOT LOCKER
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amWhen the heavy hitters of the shoe industry meet in Las Vegas next month for an analyst conference, Foot Locker, the retailer said to be considering buyout offers from several...
DE NIRO BACKS OUT OF OBSERVER DEAL
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amTough-guy actor Robert De Niro won't be taking over The New York Observer after all. After months of talks and a letter of intent to buy, talks between De Niro's...
SILLERMAN LEADS $50M BET THAT ALI BRAND'S A KNOCKOUT
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amMuhammed Ali and his financial backers are betting the boxing champ's brand still packs a punch. Ali is gearing up for a new round of endorsement deals after cashing in...
GIMME SHELTER
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amMARC EYES MEIER EYEGLASSES king Robert Marc, known for his pricey frames worn by Sean "Diddy" Combs, Teri Hatcher and other celebs, has bought a fancy apartment in the West...
'ONE' IS THE LONELIEST SHOW
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amTHE two-hour premiere of "One" - ABC's heavily promoted rival to "Idol" - was a spectacular bomb. The show placed fifth in its 9 p.m. timeslot - the lowest-rated reality...
DIDDY'S GIRLS PLAY BRIDGE
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amMTV is taping the finale for "Making the Band III" on Friday night under the Brooklyn Bridge. Diddy is to emcee the concert for the girls' band - now called...
AISLE TELL-ALL - UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS MACY'S REALITY-SOAP
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amMACY'S is stocking the latest fashion this fall - its own reality show. "Unwrapping Macy's," premiering in late September on WE, will go behind-the-scenes at the fabled Herald Square department...
RIVAL 'IDOLS' INVADE HICKS' DEBUT
July 20, 2006 | 4:00am'AMERICAN Idol" Taylor Hicks just can't shake his toughest competition - even on the day he debuts his new album. "Idol" finalists Katharine McPhee and Kellie Pickler are likely to...
JOVI-AL IN MIDDLE OF STORM
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amJON Bon Jovi had just finished a hammering version of his drenched-in-sarcasm song "Have a Nice Day" at Tuesday's Giants Stadium concert. He stood at the lip of the stage...
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT DURING 'BLIND DATE'
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amTHROUGHOUT his distinguished 24-year dance career, Bill T. Jones has never been less than provocative - although there have been times when he hasn't been much more. But his latest...
SEW STRANGE - GUIDE TO NEW 'RUNWAY' CHARACTERS
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amNO Santinos or Wendys have yet emerged on "Project Runway," but one contestant is coming awfully close. She's Angela Keslar, 33, of Amesville, Ohio, who narrowly avoided elimination last night....
STARR REPORT
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amFNC's Sean Hannity goes live tomorrow with his WABC radio show from Great Adventure (Jackson, N.J.) prior to his 4th Annual Freedom Concert at the park featuring Hank Williams Jr.,...
NOT SO GOOD VIBRATIONS - POWER PLATE IS NO EASY FIT
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amFitness wonks and laggards alike are buzzing about the Power Plate, a new exercise device dubbed the "miracle machine" that takes the work out of working out. Step onto the...
MOD SQUAD - GROOVY STYLES OF '60S MUSICAL SOMETHING TO 'SHOUT' ABOUT
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amIT'S a mod, mod, mod, mod world at "Shout!" Set in the swingin' London of the 1960s, the musical coming-of-age tale opening offBroadway next week at the Julia Miles Theater,...
VIRAL, BUT NOT INFECTIOUS
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amHI, advertiser. Do I have your attention now? I know all about your bogus billboard and your fake blog, you dirty, sneaky, immoral, unfaithful, poorly endowed slimeball. Everything's been documented...
CAB SLAMS FIREFIGHTERS
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amA cab plowed into two firefighters standing behind their truck on the Upper West Side last night, pinning one and tossing the other to the ground, police said. One suffered...
KERIK PALS IN LIE RAP
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe owners of a New Jersey construction company turned themselves in yesterday on charges that they lied to a grand jury investigating disgraced former top cop Bernard Kerik. Brothers Frank...
RIP-OFF BROKER FACES JAIL
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amA former Merrill Lynch stockbroker is facing up to 4 ½ years in prison for bilking a Queens woman out of $320,000. Peter Lau, 39, of Hauppauge, L.I., pleaded guilty...
POLL FINDS BLOGGERS BIGGEST IN 'BURBS
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe person who takes to blogging is likely to be a suburban white male. A Pew Internet and American Life Project survey also found that writing about one's own experience...
JAVITS VOTE 'SUN' BURNED
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amA crucial vote to approve the $1.7 billion expansion of the Javits Convention Center was unexpectedly postponed yesterday after red-faced officials in the Pataki administration realized they hadn't publicized the...
HACKS BACK BIKE SMACK
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amLeaders of the taxi industry applauded the NYPD yesterday for trying to rein in swarms of bicycle riders who take part in monthly gatherings out of Union Square that have...
TAKE BACK THE STREETS FROM KAMIKAZE JERKS
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amGREAT! The cops have finally gotten the go-ahead to bust the political pedal pushers who under the radar call themselves Critical Mass and arrogantly claim they own our roads. But...
EVIL GROUP SCOUTS TO HIT JEWISH SITES HERE
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Hezbollah operatives have done surveillance on numerous targets in the United States - including synagogues and Jewish community centers - for terrorist attacks, The Post has learned. Law...
QUEENS FIEND CONVICTED OF BREAK-IN RAPE
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amA Queens man was convicted yesterday of raping a hard-working Chinese immigrant, who came home one night to encounter a stranger with a gun demanding money and sex. Jurors didn't...
GAL BAGS PERV - 'DIY' JUSTICE
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amA 20-year-old woman helped capture a sicko flasher this week when she used the state's sex-offender database to identify the convicted pervert - and then hunted him down at his...
JEWS FLY FROM JFK TO PROMISED LAND IN BRAVE NEW WAVE
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amWhile thousands of Americans are fleeing the Mideast war zone, 240 Jews anxiously flew there yesterday from New York to start new lives in Israel. "Everyone can be nervous. But...
HYDRANT-HORROR RAPS - COUSINS HELD IN GIRL SLAY
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amTwo coldblooded cousins were charged yesterday in the stray-bullet slaying of an 11-year-old girl as she cooled off in the spray from a fire hydrant in Queens, authorities said. Jeffrey...
HERO DOG GETS HIS DAY
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe pooch that saved his 10-year-old Long Island owner from suffocating from an asthma attack by barking to alert sleeping relatives was honored yesterday. Curley, an Irish terrier, won a...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amMANHATTAN (lcf) * A man was struck and seriously injured by a bus in Hells Kitchen last night, police said. The victim, whose name was withheld pending family notification, "ran...
20 YRS. FOR CRAZED KIN SLAY
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amA one-time Genovese bookmaker who took a hunting knife to his crazed brother-in-law outside a popular Bay Ridge eatery got 20 years to life from a Brooklyn judge yesterday for...
FDNY HEROES SAVE MAN OVERBOARD
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amTwo firefighters on an FDNY harbor boat plucked a struggling man from the dangerous waters of Jamaica Bay yesterday afternoon, authorities said. Firefighters Stephen O'Sullivan, 45, and Glenn Johnson, 36,...
BX. FARMYARD - ORGANIC MARKET BOOSTS BOROUGH
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe Bronx is budding. The borough celebrated the grand opening of its first organic farmers' market yesterday in Mott Haven. "You walk along 138th Street and you see one fast-food...
GRUESOME HIGHWAY BODY SLAM
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amA woman was found dead early yesterday after she fell or was thrown from a moving car on the Grand Central Parkway - and then run over by several other...
DEADLY HELL HIKE - 'INDY JONES' COURSE KILLS UPSTATER
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amAn upstate man died in the Utah desert, succumbing to triple-digit heat during an outdoor survival program run by a modern-day Indiana Jones, authorities said yesterday. David Buschow, 29, of...
E-Z WAY TO FIX PARKING
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amNew York's parking garages may be the most expensive in the nation, but they soon could become the E-Z-est. MTA officials yesterday approved a plan to allow drivers to pay...
BUSH'S SQUEEZE - ROOTIN' TEUTON MASSAGE
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amIt looks as President Bush is taking a hands-on approach to foreign policy - actually massaging the neck of a shocked German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G8 summit in...
'PANTY FIEND' BUSTED - HELD AS SICKO RAPIST
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amCops yesterday cracked a rape and abduction case that terrified a New Jersey community - busting a pervert who broke into the home of another woman, donned her panties and...
HEZ HELLHOLE BLOWN TO BITS - ISRAEL JETS AIM TO SLAY TERROR LORD
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel warplanes dropped a staggering 23 tons of bombs early today on an underground Beirut hideout in an all-out effort to kill Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, officials...
'3-TIME DWI' MOM KILLS PRIEST, 79 - UNLICENSED VAN DRIVER IN HAMPTONS 'HIT-RUN'
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amA beloved Long Island priest taking an evening walk was killed by a hit-run, serial drunken driver on a leafy East Hampton street, police said yesterday. Monsignor William Costello, 79,...
KILLER FAKE-COP SKIPS TRIAL
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amConvicted killer cop-impersonator Reginald Gousse was a no-show in Brooklyn yesterday for his trial on charges he used police-style sirens to pull over and rob motorists on two separate occasions....
KT'S SLIP SHOWING
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amALBANY - Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland's public family feud has taken a toll on her U.S. Senate Republican primary race against former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, a new poll shows....
FIGHT IGNITED QNS. FIRE: COPS
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe four-alarm inferno that decimated a row of houses in Queens, killing an elderly man and critically burning a woman, was an act of arson possibly linked to a landlord-tenant...
SMARTER CHARTER KIDS - SCORING ABOVE STUDENTS AT NEARBY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amCharter schools in the city are vastly outperforming public schools in their neighborhoods, according to a bombshell state report obtained by The Post. The just-released study by state Education Department...
METS FANS' TRAIN GAIN
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amMets fans could get a revamped transit hub to go with their new stadium. The MTA is setting aside $8 million to study ways to improve access to Flushing Meadows...
SCAM AHOY! IT'S THE BEER ADMIRAL - $$ BREW-BOO A CONN. JOB
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Call him "Admiral Brewski." A Coast Guard admiral who runs the service's academy in New London, Conn., has been unmasked as the suds lover who ordered subordinates to...
FEELING SHIP-SHAKE - PRINCESS PASSENGERS FLY BACK TO N.Y. AFTER SEA-SICKENING FLORIDA VOYAGE
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amAs shaken passengers flocked back to New York by plane yesterday, investigators were trying to determine what caused the Crown Princess cruise ship to tip 15 degrees on its right...
TEAM HILLARY TRIPS AND FALLS ON IOWA VISITS
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's camp threw the bookkeeping team under the bus yesterday in claiming a clerical blunder for a federal fund-raising report that showed staffers had traveled...
HOOP SCHEMES - NETS PLANNING FOR TRAFFIC 'NIGHTMARE'
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amIf you're hoping to drive to Brooklyn Nets basketball games at their planned new arena, don't expect a slam-dunk parking spot - unless you're willing to shell out big bucks....
'N.Y.' TAKE ON BLASTS IN INDIA
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amAn NYPD lieutenant said last week's bloody train blasts in Mumbai, India, were the equivalent of terrorists bombing seven MTA stations along the Hudson line between 125th Street and Tarrytown....
SHOT WOMAN SUING NYPD
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amA 50-year-old woman who was shot when she was caught in a crossfire between cops and a 16-year-old gang member intends to sue the city and the NYPD for $5...
IT'S UP FOR 'SAIL' - SHIP-SHAKE LINER HEADING HOME TO B'KLYN AFTER SEA-SICKENING CRUISE THAT INJURED 200
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe luxury cruise ship that took a sea-sickening roll, injuring more than 200 passengers, is ready to set sail today for Brooklyn. Princess Cruises said the Crown Princess would then...
BLOOD BOILING AS QNS. HEAT OUTAGE ENTERS 2ND DAY
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amAngry residents and business owners lost their cool yesterday after failed feeder cables left their Queens neighborhoods without power for a second straight day. "I've been through the blackout of...
PAINTBALL 'TERRORIST'
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amA teen terror suspect held in Brooklyn will be sent back to Georgia, where he allegedly trained for "violent jihad" by shooting paintballs. Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 19, and his friend,...
TENANT DISPUTE EYED IN FATAL QNS. FIRE
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe four-alarm inferno that decimated a row of houses in Queens, killing an elderly man and critically burning a woman, was arson possibly linked to a landlord-tenant dispute, sources said...
HILL TRIPS AND FALLS ON IOWA
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's camp threw the bookkeeping team under the bus yesterday in claiming a clerical blunder for a federal fund-raising report that showed staffers had traveled...
8 YEARS FOR 'HOT' UNDIES
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amA shoplifter who repeatedly set diversionary fires in Harlem stores so she could flee with stolen lingerie was sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday. Larcenous arsonist Savanna Johnson, 49,...
COUNCIL OKS EAST SIDE TRASH-PICKUP POINT
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe City Council last night approved a plan to truck New York's garbage to waterfront transfer stations - including an Upper East Side site that residents have bitterly opposed. Trash...
WAKE FOR S.I. COP
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amA wake for veteran Detective Richard DeGaetano, who died of cancer at 47, will be held today and tomorrow at the Hanley Funeral Home, 60 New Dorp Lane., Staten Island....
HYDRANT-HORROR TWIST - BULLET MEANT FOR BROTHER
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amTwo coldblooded cousins were charged yesterday in the stray-bullet slaying of an 11-year-old girl as she cooled off in the spray from a fire hydrant in Queens, authorities said. Jeffrey...
UNDYHANDED FIREBUG THIEF GETS 8 YEARS
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amA shoplifter who repeatedly set diversionary fires in Harlem stores so she could flee with stolen lingerie was sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday. Larcenous arsonist Savanna Johnson, 49,...
AFFAIR LAIR - CHRISTIE CAD HUBBY'S $15M, 4-ACRE, SIX-BEDROOM PLEASURE PALACE
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amHere is the secluded $15 million Hamptons mansion that Christie Brinkley's horndog hubby used as a "love shack" to get down and dirty with a beautiful 19-year-old aspiring singer. Straying...
PEDRO'S HIP CHECKS OUT FINE IN 'PEN
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - Pedro Martinez's inflamed right hip survived a second bullpen session yesterday. Martinez threw a 60-pitch bullpen session before last night's 7-4 loss to the Reds, increasing his total...
TIGER'S SHAKY TRUCE
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK HOYLAKE, England - A mild thaw took place in the icy Tiger Woods and Nick Faldo feud yesterday. After all of the attention given to the prickly relationship between...
SNOW IN JULY - WANG'S GM SHOCKER LEAVES ISLES FANS COLD
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amCharles Wang once floated the idea of sticking a Sumo wrestler in net to play goalie and many around the NHL nearly busted a gut from laughter. Yesterday Wang stuck...
'LU' REALLY COMES OUT 'SMOKIN'
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amSECOND RACE: Post 10 going 5 ½ furlongs isn't best spot, but word was out on 2-year-old NY-bred gelding Smokin Lu, bet down to 5-2 making first start for John...
KNICKS SHUN BUTLER OFFER
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe vaunted Jackie Butler Era is over! Showing fiscal restraint for once, Knicks president/coach Isiah Thomas informed Butler's agent, Keith Glass, yesterday he will not match the staggering 3-year, $7...
BALDOMIR TOUGH FOE FOR GATTI
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amArturo Gatti admits he's nervous. Really nervous. A good nervous. Saturday night, he'll challenge Carlos Baldomir of Argentina for the WBC welterweight championship at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City and...
COURSE COMING IN EXTRA CRISPY
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amHOYLAKE, England - As the temperatures inched toward 100 degrees yesterday at Royal Liverpool, this unlikely sign was posted on the scoreboard at the 18th: "Fire warning. Please be careful."...
BARBARO'S CONDITION LOOKING GOOD TO DOC
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amBarbaro was reported to be "in stable condition with good vital signs" yesterday at the New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa., according to Dr. Dean Richardson, chief of surgery....
MAJOR DRAMA ACROSS POND
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amHOYLAKE, England - After almost every major golf championship we are left with a residue of compelling drama, a topic discussed long after the event has concluded. Consider, for example,...
BOMBERS SPEED UP PAVANO REHAB SLATE
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The Yankees are accelerating Carl Pavano's rehab program, and he remains convinced he'll play by September. Pavano, who hasn't thrown a major-league pitch in more than a year,...
MOORE DEALT TO PENGUINS
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amNo Dominic. It's not forget aboot it. It's fuhgettabout it. One day after re-signing Jed Ortmeyer, the Rangers traded center Dominic Moore to Nashville yesterday in exchange for right wing...
BOONE SURGERY WORRIES NETS
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amConcerns about the Nets' depth and size surfaced again yesterday. Rookie forward Josh Boone, one of the Nets' two first-round selections last month, underwent successful arthroscopic surgery to repair a...
POUR EFFORT - METS' 4-0 LEAD WASHED AWAY
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amReds 7 - Mets 4 CINCINNATI - In the sixth and seventh innings last night, Aaron Heilman didn't give up a hit to the Reds, and the game stayed tied....
D-DAY FOR BONDS? BARRY COOL ON EVE OF GRAND-JURY SESSION
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds' fate hangs in the balance today as 23 grand jurors meet at the Philip Burton Federal Building here to discuss whether to indict the Giants...
D-DAY FOR BONDS? GRAND JURY TO MEET; TRAINER TO BE FREED
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds' fate hangs in the balance today as 23 grand jurors meet at the Philip Burton Federal Building here to discuss whether to indict the Giants...
DAMON: NO WIN - JOHNNY MAKES PLAYOFF PROMISE AFTER TOUGH LOSS
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amMARINERS 3 YANKEES 2 On a day when Alex Rodriguez took on the umpiring crew, Johnny Damon took on the rest of the American League. Although the Yankees squandered an...
'BRUTAL CALL' IS COSTLY FOR BOMBERS
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amThe venom in his voice was palpable. Alex Rodriguez was mad. Not about his sore toe, or being photographed sunbathing before a game, or grilled over that Central Park tanning...
THAT'S THE RANDY YANKS NEED FOR RUN
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amTHERE are now 69 baseball tomorrows remaining in the season for the second-place Yankees, and this is why the way Randy Johnson feels today is equally as important as the...
FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE! REDS IMPRESSED BY 1ST LOOK AT PELFREY
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amCINCINNATI - There are other pitchers who are going to fire big-time heat to the plate, according to Adam Dunn. But the Reds slugger said Mike Pelfrey's fastball is different....
PEDRO'S HIP IS 'GOOD' AFTER BULLPEN SESSION
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amMET NOTES MET NOTES CINCINNATI - Pedro Martinez's inflamed right hip managed its second bullpen session yesterday. Martinez threw a 60-pitch session at Great American Ball Park before last night's...
PAVANO RETURN FINALLY IN SIGHT
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The Yankees are accelerating Carl Pavano's rehab program, and he remains convinced he'll play by September. Pavano, who hasn't thrown a major-league pitch in more than a year,...
TRAINER MAY KEY CASE VS. BONDS
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amSAN FRANCISCO - A key figure in the possible indictment of Barry Bonds is his personal trainer, Greg Anderson, who was sent to prison earlier this month after refusing to...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 20, 2006 | 4:00amKeeping up with the Jones' will be a whole lot easier on Nov 3. That's when a Welsh town is holding a televised reunion for all people called Jones to...