April 15, 1999
NORTH FORK BANK CATCHES 'NET FEVER
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe seduction of the Internet hit investment circles once again yesterday, this time taking the stock of tiny North Fork Bancorp on a thriller of a ride. In its quarterly...
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS' PROFITS OFF 17% IN '98
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amFidelity Investments, the nation's biggest mutual fund company, posted an annual profit that was 17 percent lower than in the previous year, despite a bull market that brought new money...
LACKLUSTER QTR. NOT PAUSING BLOCKBUSTER IPO
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amSumner Redstone is defiantly pushing ahead with his Blockbuster IPO. Despite weaker-than-expected first quarter cash flow from the 6,400-store video rental chain, Redstone's Viacom Inc. plans to register for an...
MECKLER BUYS @NY, THEN READIES AN IPO
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amAlan Meckler worked overtime yesterday at Internet World. Meckler purchased @NY and SiliconAlleyJobs.com to add to Internet.com, his e-business and Internet technology network. Then he filed to take the company...
FAO SCHWARZ TOYING WITH THE SALE OF THE CHAIN
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amFAO Schwarz could be on the auction block. Vendex, the Dutch company that bought the upscale toy-store chain in 1990, says its profits dropped "sharply" last year, and that a...
HILLARY PENS HOW-TO OF HOSTESSING
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - First Lady Hillary Clinton is writing another book - this time on how she and her husband entertain guests (but not Monica Lewinsky) at the White House. This...
LEVIN KO'S QUICK BUCK FROM 'NET
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amTo spin off Internet assets or not to spin off Internet assets? That's the quandary facing Time Warner execs, as they put together their strategy for the online future. While...
A TABLE FOR THREE - NEW RESTAURANTS ON ROCK CENTER MENU; EXCLUSIVE
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amRockefeller Center is recovering from a food famine. Two high-profile restaurant groups are in negotiations and another has already signed with the Center's landlords to help bolster the landmark's appeal,...
THE INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN CAR
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amOKAY, you're still fantasizing about cars you saw in all their gleaming glory at the New York Auto Show, which just closed. Yea, we all can picture ourselves, smiling, of...
HIS ROBOT PARTS R2 MUCH FUN
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amKENNY Baker still scratches his head over how he landed the part of the mischievous robot R2-D2 in the "Star Wars" movies. For years Baker - who stands at just...
TV TICKER
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amHe's Mancow! Nationally syndicated radio personality Mancow Muller is joining the crew of Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" (7-9 a.m.) beginning Monday. Muller, based at WKQX in Chicago, will...
A TRULY STRANGE 'CINDERELLA' IS BOURNE
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: LOS ANGELES - Matthew Bourne's dance company, Adventures in Motion Pictures, is oddly named. But its real oddity is in not specializing in dance as such but in "high-concept...
IT'S 'EXACTLY' BRAINLESS
April 15, 1999 | 4:00am'EXACTLY Like You," the new musical comedy at the Theatre at St. Peter's Church, is a curious exercise in buck-and-wing nostalgia. Its book and lyrics amount to an anthology of...
'DIVA' FEVER OVER? - VH1 MUSIC SUPERSTARS MIGHT HAVE SEX CHANGE
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amLAST Tuesday's "Divas Live" show could be the swan song for VH1's budding music franchise. Network officials say they don't believe they can duplicate the superstar rosters of the last...
SOAP FANS PROTEST END OF THE 'WORLD'
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHIS year's annual fan luncheon for ''Another World" - set for next week - is now the soap's last supper. NBC's decision to cancel the low-rated soap earlier this week...
A TALE OF TWO KIDDIES: OLSEN TWINS ABC FUTURE IN DOUBT
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: ABC may be getting ready to tell the Olsen twins they're unfit for Friday nights. Their freshman sitcom, "Two of a Kind," quietly finished its season almost two weeks...
'SOPRANOS' MOBSTER A HIT MAN IN EUROPE
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Sopranos," the most talked-about show of the season, is suddenly a hot property overseas with Britian, France and several other countries scrambling this week to buy rights to the...
THE BARFLIES OF BROADWAY
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe setting of Eugene O'Neill's 'The Iceman Cometh'' is Harry Hope's bar. The grimy saloon is populated by a dozen or so dipsomaniacs, all nursing 'pipe dreams'' about the day...
IRISH EYES ARE CRYING AT RYANS' HEARTBREAK
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amIN THE Bainbridge section of The Bronx, the thick brogues of places like Clare, Tipperary and Kerry fill the air with the music of laughter. But the music had withered...
COMMISH SHOULD USE, NOT ABUSE, HIS POWER
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amFORMER Los Angeles Police Chief Darryl Gates tensed up when his security detail warned him about the armed man heading to his house. "The information we got was that this...
BROTHERS CHARGED IN SLAYING OF A KID WITNESS
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amTwo Connecticut brothers were charged yesterday with blowing away an 8-year-old boy and his mom - days before the youngster was to testify against one of them in a murder...
APPLE WIDENS LEASH-LAW NOOSE
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe city is stepping up its war on dogs. Parks Commissioner Henry Stern announced yesterday that increased leash-law enforcement - which resulted in a whopping 768 summonses in Central and...
LAWMAKERS PAY FOR BUDGET JAM
April 15, 1999 | 4:00am"We're not going to pass a budget just to get our own salaries." MANHATTAN ASSEMBLYMAN RICHARD GOTTFRIED ALBANY - New York's 211 lawmakers paid the price of a late state...
EX-JANITORS UNION HEAD IN FOWL PLAY: DA
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe former union head for city custodial workers was cleaning up on bogus turkey giveaways and fraudulent picnic and party bills, the Manhattan district attorney charged yesterday. The grand larceny...
MASSIVE MARCH MIGHT CLOSE BROOKLYN BRIDGE
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amMore than 1,000 cops are bracing for a mammoth demonstration today to protest the police shooting of Amadou Diallo - one that could shut the Brooklyn Bridge and wreak havoc...
UPROAR AS N.J. TEEN GETS 70 YEARS IN SLAYING OF NEIGHBOR BOY
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amTOMS RIVER, N.J. - Courtroom fireworks erupted yesterday as New Jersey teen killer Sam Manzie was sentenced to 70 years for murdering 11-year-old Eddie Werner. Superior Court Judge Peter Giovine...
GNAWING INFLATION EATS AWAY AT HUNGRY MAN'S BEST FRIEND
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE are some very dark clouds on the economic horizon. The evidence comes not from some Alan Greenspan pronouncement, a new Y2Katastro- phe or the over-valued, hair-trigger Dow. The evidence...
SEX IS HOT WAY TO BEAT COLDS, SAYS NEW STUDY
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amMore sex may be the way to kiss off the flu and avoid catching colds. A new study by a Pennsylvania psychology professor found that making love once or twice...
PRISON SAYS DR. DEATH'S HUNGER STRIKE IS NO SKIN OFF THEIR APPLE
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amDr. Jack Kevorkian has pledged to launch a jailhouse hunger strike immediately - and prison officials say they won't stop him. "I know they are going to force-feed me, but...
WHEN IT RAINS, MISERY POURS DOWN IN ALBANIA
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amTIRANA, Albania. AND then came the rain. For the third straight day this dysfunctional capital city of the poorest and most backward country in Europe was deluged by thunderstorms and...
STARR: I HAVE THE POWER TO GO AFTER CLINTON
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr said publicly for the first time yesterday he believes he has the power to indict and prosecute President Clinton despite the failure of impeachment....
EX-NYER SNARES $197M LOTTO
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amA former Staten Islander who babysits for a millionaire's kids can now afford to hire her own help. Maria Grasso of Boston yesterday claimed the $197 million Big Game jackpot...
GOP GROUNDSWELL OF SUPPORT FOR GROUND TROOPS
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amMAYBE the Vietnam Syndrome is finally ending in Kosovo - but one-time anti-war protester Bill Clinton doesn't get it. Because one intriguing sidelight to Kosovo is the growing chorus of...
MILITARY'S ON ALERT FOR SERB TERROR IN U.S. - CHURCHES RECEIVE FAXED THREATS ON GIS
April 15, 1999 | 4:00am"The threat letter requested that all Serbian nationalists living in America take action . . ." FBI MEMO Military bases and law-enforcement agencies across the country are on alert against...
COUNCIL TO EASE UP ON CABBIES
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe City Council intends to pass legislation bailing out more than 22,000 cabbies in danger of losing their hack licenses if convicted of one more serious traffic offense. The bill...
ANOTHER OUT-OF-TOWN TRIP FOR SAFIR TO EXPLAIN
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amBeleaguered Police Commissioner Howard Safir defended another out-of-town trip yesterday - a three-day stay at a swanky hotel on Palm Beach. Safir said he spent three nights at the famed...
FEARS OVER BREAST-IMPLANT SAFETY WON'T FADE AWAY
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe safety of breast implants has dogged manufacturers for more than a decade - and left women in a quandary. A court-appointed panel of scientists reported last year it found...
LIDDY GOES HUNTING FOR VOTES IN BALKANS
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - In a dramatic move, GOP presidential wannabe Elizabeth Dole today flies to Kosovo's borders for a firsthand look at the war zone - after saying she'd back ground...
MORE METROCARD MACHINES ON WAY
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amTransit officials proposed buying 580 additional MetroCard vending machines to cover all the major subway stations by the end of next year. The 580 vending machines are on top of...
HOLOCAUST-$ CRUSADER DIES
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amHolocaust survivor Estelle Sapir, who successfully sued a Swiss bank over money deposited by her father before his death in a Nazi death camp, has died at age 72. A...
DEMONS STILL PLAGUE TROUBLED SUPERSTAR
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amIf the charges brought against him by Tampa police last night are true, Darryl Strawberry hasn't shaken the drug demons that have plagued his life. Strawberry, 37, was thought to...
DARRYL'S LAST STRAW? - YANK SLUGGER ARRESTED ON DRUG, SEX CHARGES
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amYankee slugger Darryl Strawberry was busted last night in Florida on charges of soliciting sex from an undercover police officer and possessing a small amount of cocaine. Strawberry, who is...
STATE PROBERS EYE WARDEN IN SCANDAL OVER CAPTIVE LABOR; EXCLUSIVE
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - The longtime warden of an upstate prison is under investigation for having inmates make welcome signs for the exclusive private housing development where he lives, The Post has...
DRYDEN: NO MORE BUMPS IN ROAD
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - The record has stood 22 years, but one of the men who set the NHL mark of 27 road victories in a season doesn't think the Devils will...
DOSAGE PUTS FOUR IN HUNT
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amA full starting gate of 20 3-year-olds appears almost certain for the May 1 Kentucky Derby, and it's likely the earnings rule will be invoked to cull several horses and...
'GREAT' EXPECTATIONS - DEVILS WANT GRETZ ENCORE
April 15, 1999 | 4:00am"If they'd had Gretzky in his prime, I would feel differently, but it was still Messier's team." BOBBY HOLIK BUFFALO - They interviewed reporters, these Devils. They have strong feelings...
JINTS ESCAPE FREE-AGENT LOSS
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The deadline for signing offer sheets for restricted free agents came and went Monday, and no news was good news for the Giants, who were eager to keep...
A DAY OF MOURNING IN CANADA - NATIONAL HERO GRETZ BIDS FAREWELL TONIGHT; OTTAWA BRACES FOR GRETZKY'S CANADA FINALE
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amOTTAWA - The most famous Canadian who has ever lived, the most popular native son in his country's history, Wayne Gretzky takes the ice at home here tonight for the...
AMAZIN' PEN STRONG LIKE BULL; PEN GIVES BOBBY A TACTICAL EDGE
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amASSEMBLING a consistent bullpen is as easy as doing a jigsaw puzzle in which the pieces routinely change shape. The cornerstone or corner piece may not be what you think....
PRATT'S ALL THAT FOR METS - DOING JOB IN PIAZZA'S ABSENCE
April 15, 1999 | 4:00am"[Pratt's] worked extremely well with our pitchers, he's stuck to the game plan to the T." BOBBY VALENTINE Until six-time All-Star Mike Piazza comes off the disabled list on April...
FAR EAST TO WEST? - YANKEES TALKING IRABU FOR MARINERS' FASSERO; EXCLUSIVE
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amGetting Fassero would give the Yanks a second lefty starter to go along with Andy Pettitte. Hideki Irabu's biggest contribution to the Yankees could be as bait to land lefty...
PHENOM ESCOBAR HAS SPINAL INJURY
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets' unlucky string of injuries to their top minor-league prospects continues, and the latest casualty is highly touted outfielder Alex Escobar. The 20-year-old, considered to be the...
ANKLE SPRAIN MIGHT BE PAIN FOR BROSIUS
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Scott Brosius' swollen right ankle not only gave Clay Bellinger his first major league start last night, the sprain may extend Bellinger's stay in pinstripes. Bellinger, a veteran...
HOPIN' TO PAL AROUND AGAIN - JINTS EYE AFRICAN CONNECTION
April 15, 1999 | 4:00am"He was one of the friends I looked up to. I have five sisters. I looked up to him more as a big brother." EBENEZER EKUBAN They spent their formative...
SPREWELL AND RICHMOND RENEW HOSTILITIES
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES WASHINGTON - There was a smile on Latrell Sprewell's face before the game against the Wizards last night at the MCI Center because he was prepared to renew...
KNICKS SITTING PAT ACHILLES INJURY SHELVES EWING
April 15, 1999 | 4:00am"It didn't feel any better tonight. I'm going to sit it out and hopefully I can go on Friday." PATRICK EWING WASHINGTON - The Knicks have been down this road...
SMITH'S GOTTA PAY FOR WAYNE FIASCO
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amOTTAWA - When the Wayne Gretzky retirement decision broke on these pages on Tuesday, Dave Checketts was in a courthouse, serving as a juror. Somehow, that's perfect. Because the Garden...
DANGLE IRABU FOR M'S FASSERO; YANKS USE IRABU AS TRADE BAIT; EXCLUSIVE
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amHideki Irabu's biggest contribution to the Yankees could be as bait to land lefty Jeff Fassero from the Mariners. According to multiple sources, The Post has learned Yankees GM Brian...
PROUD DEVILS KINGS OF THE ROAD
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amDevils 2 Sabres 1 BUFFALO - Finally, the Devils puffed up, button-bustin' proud for the first time since their humbling ouster last spring. They had tried to keep a lid...
KNICKS SNOOZE & LOSE - WIZARDS SCORE LAST 9 POINTS OF O'TIME
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - You would think that someday, some way, the Knicks would learn to embrace the good life instead of fighting it at every turn. This is a team that...
BIG NIGHT TESTAMENT TO FRANCO'S HEART; FRANCO CLIMBS SAVE MOUNTAIN
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amJOHN Franco is New York's tortoise. Slowly and with doubt filling every step of the way, Franco has crept to 400 saves. No hare here. Last night, he reached another...
JOHNNY STORMS TO 400TH - MET CLOSER 2ND TO HIT MILESTONE
April 15, 1999 | 4:00am"It feels good. I'd be lying if I said it wasn't in the back of my mind. I'm glad to do it here at home in front of my wife...
EWING HOPES TO RETURN TOMORROW VS. PISTONS
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES WASHINGTON - The Knicks have been down this road before, minus Patrick Ewing, who was out again last night nursing his aching left Achilles tendon. We'll see how...
CHEERS & 'IRABOO' - YANKS SURVIVE HIDEKI HORROR
April 15, 1999 | 4:00amYankees 14 Orioles 7 The Yankees are going so good that even a one-eighth of a ton amphibian strapped to their backs doesn't level the playing field for the World...