Sal and Tony joked that they could go to work in boxer shorts but life in a Midtown office is not what they

Sal and Tony joked that they could go to work in boxer shorts, but life in a Midtown office is not what they had planned.”It’s a tragedy for the owners and for the neighborhood,” said Ariel Hyatt, a music publicist who has shopped at NYCD since it opened. industrial preeminence, is getting out of the business of manufacturing. Takahashi, an associate professor in UCLA’s department of urban planning, said Venice and Santa Monica were already doing a lot to help homeless people.”We have to think about the broader context here,” Takahashi said. 2 would save the state $2.7 billion over five years.To gauge the administration’s progress, The Times examined 39 specific recommendations the task force made. The Mets assigned him to triple-A Norfolk.*The Cincinnati Reds finalized their opening day roster by purchasing the contracts of Rich Aurilia and Jacob Cruz from triple-A Louisville and assigning utility infielder Luis Lopez to their minor league camp.*The San Diego Padres put center fielder Dave Roberts, who has been bothered by a lingering groin injury, on the 15-day disabled list.

CHICAGO In the online betting world, gamblers can lay their money down on everything from the fifth race at Belmont to the Little League World Series.Now they can bet on — or against — the housing market.Pinnacle Sports (pinnaclesports.com), an online oddsmaker, has rolled out betting options for U.S. Claire Van Vliet’s accordion book of bright patterns is accompanied by a CD.The biggest problem with the show is that visitors can’t touch the books, much less thumb through their pages. Then he and his partner Gene Dippel stretched their finances to purchase a tiny studio in the 32-story Bunker Hill Tower near the Music Center. The News Corp.-NBC Universal partnership has deals with Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp., Time Warner Inc.’s AOL and News Corp.’s MySpace to place videos in front of their collective audience of hundreds of millions.Despite Hollywood’s dismal track record in creating successful joint ventures, these players see little choice but to band together to compete against Google and Apple Inc., which are becoming powerful distributors of entertainment.News Corp.

Add another item to the list of Lute Olson’s gripes with the Pacific 10 Conference.Already a vociferous critic of the conference tournament, the Arizona coach on Thursday said it was “embarrassing” that the all-conference team included only nine players when there were several others deserving of inclusion.Conference rules dictate that a player must be included on 50% of the coaches’ ballots to attain All-Pac-10 status, league spokesman Dave Hirsch said, and only nine players met that criteria.Olson said Oregon’s Maarty Leunen, Arizona’s Ivan Radenovic and USC’s Lodrick Stewart and Gabe Pruitt were additionally worthy.”I think it’s embarrassing to our league that we have the best conference probably in the country, the best this league has probably been, and we can’t find 10 guys that deserve to be all-conference,” said Olson, who repeatedly paused and at one point appeared to be on the verge of tears. The ailing and stressed-out bring their troubles to the tea bar at this West Hollywood shop, where they can order from a short list of potions with names such as Chi Devil, Blues Buster and Mind Over Muddle and a very long list of teas, most from China, with a couple of Indians and Africans thrown in. How am I going to get to the station when the bridge is down?*Wednesday: Will Kate make it to the railroad station in time to save the crew and stop the next train?This is a Kids’ Reading Room Classic that first appeared April 1-5, 2002 It will be on The Times’ website at latimes.com/kids.. Midcentury armchairs reupholstered in contemporary fabrics are half off, and vases, boxes and bowls in ceramic, lacquer, leather and painted mango wood are 70% off 2811 W. 24.The commission rejected the group’s application on the grounds that it would raise public safety problems because the annual Golden Dragon Parade sponsored by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce is expected to bring 150,000 people to downtown on that same Saturday.Commissioners said the immigrant rights rally could move to Feb.