A 100-year-old retired Tuskegee Airman and his great-grandson, an aspiring Air Force Academy cadet, were lauded by President Donald Trump during his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Trump pointed to Iain Lanphier, a 13-year-old from Arizona studying at an aviation academy, as a potential recruit for the new Space Force. “As Iain says,...
A new boutique office building is getting ready to rise in West Chelsea. The Moinian family is slated to break ground on Feb. 13 on its new, $200 million Hudson Arts Building at 220 Eleventh Ave. The project will take up the entire blockfront between West 25th and 26th streets and has views across a...
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó attended Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night — receiving an extended ovation when recognized by President Trump. “Here this evening, is a very brave man, who carries with him the hopes, dreams and aspirations of all Venezuelans,” Trump said before naming Guaidó. Trump referred to Guaidó, who was...
President Trump interrupted his State of the Union address on Tuesday to award conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The honor — the highest civilian award in the country — comes one day after Limbaugh announced he has advanced lung cancer and is undergoing treatment for the disease. “Almost every American...
Casper’s celebrity investors may not be sleeping so well over the next several months. Wall Street’s orders for the fledgling mattress company’s planned stock debut have been soft, but good enough for the stock to price as soon as Tuesday night, sources told The Post. An IPO price at the low end of Casper’s target...
Dumbo Heights is going to pot. Cannabis marketing compliance technology platform Fyllo, which ensures advertising conforms to government regulations, has moved to its own space in Brooklyn’s Dumbo Heights. Chicago-based Fyllo had 10 employees in a co-working space at 55 Broad’s Bond Collective and will hire another 10 now that it’s in the new Brooklyn...
There will be dueling special issues on Kobe Bryant hitting this week, one from Sports Illustrated and one from ESPN. In order to rush out its special, ESPN — which had given up publishing a regular print magazine last year — had to team up with Meredith to handle the production. That is more than...
D’Angelo Russell reportedly unfollowed Spencer Dinwiddie on Instagram last summer shortly after it was revealed that Dinwiddie had served as an influential recruiter for free-agent superstars Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. Still, the former Nets teammates dismissed any suggestions of a rift between them ahead of Wednesday’s reunion in Brooklyn. Barring a trade before the...
Alexandar Georgiev won’t get a showcase in front of a potential trade suitor Wednesday night. The Rangers will go back to Igor Shesterkin between the pipes to face the Maple Leafs at the Garden, instead of giving Georgiev a shot against a team that may be looking for goaltending help before the NHL’s Feb. 24...
Snap’s streak of strong earnings reports ended Tuesday, with shares sinking more than 10% on a fourth-quarter revenue miss. The parent company of messaging app Snapchat, popular for its gender-bending face filters, brought in $560.9 million in revenue. Wall Street, meanwhile, had been looking for $563 million. The decline came amid tough competition from digital...
Alice Mayhew, the longtime Simon & Schuster editorial director who eschewed the spotlight while ushering through some of the biggest nonfiction blockbusters of the last 50 years, is dead at 87. She died peacefully at her home on Feb. 4, according to S&S. Mayhew joined the publisher in 1971 and developed a specialty in page-turning...
Target is coming to Union Square — but not for several years. While Target has just signed a lease for 32,579 square feet at 10 Union Square East, the space is still occupied by the Food Emporium until the end of April in 2023. Target is not expected to open before the holiday season at...
He's very serious about not being seen without his mask.
A high school principal from Washington who suggested in a Facebook post that Kobe Bryant deserved to die the day he was killed in a helicopter crash issued an apology on Monday. Camas High School Principal Liza Sejkora made the remarks in a since-deleted post on Jan. 26 — when Bryant, his daughter Gianna and...
The Islanders began Tuesday night’s matchup with the Stars the same way they have several other games this season. Outshooting their opponent by a gaping margin, controlling the pace of play and still emerging from the first period in deadlocked game. But as Islanders coach Barry Trotz has recently said, nothing has been coming easily....
Staten Island Chuck predicted a quick end to winter — but it feels as if it never arrived in the first place. The mercury cracked the 50s for a second straight day on Tuesday, continuing an alleged winter of higher-than-average temps and virtually nonexistent snowfall. “This winter has definitely been mild, no doubt,” said AccuWeather...
"The wine is key to everything,” Bush Hager quipped.
A Long Island man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to running a sex “dungeon” in his parents’ basement — where he plied more than 20 women with narcotics and forced them to turn tricks. Raymond Rodio III, 48, was busted in August 2018 by Suffolk County Police during a routine traffic stop when officers noticed a...
For the second year in a row, Democratic women lawmakers — including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — wore white Tuesday night to President Trump’s State of the Union address. The effort was organized by the Democratic Women’s Caucus as a nod to the suffrage movement of the early 20th century that culminated with the ratification...
President Trump snubbed a handshake offer by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the start of his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Trump walked into the House chamber to raucous applause from GOP members of Congress and handed copies of his speech to Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence, who was seated next to...
The Yankees’ path to a World Series just became a lot easier, but winning it might be a bit more challenging. In a blockbuster, long-awaited move Tuesday, the Boston Red Sox traded superstar Mookie Betts and pitcher David Price to the Los Angeles Dodgers as part of a three-way deal that also includes the Twins....
A county Democratic Party chairman said election workers had problems with the glitchy app at the center of the Iowa caucus debacle from “day one.” “They only put the new app out a month ago, just four weeks ago, and we had issues from day one. It was very hard to activate,” Dan Callahan, 58,...
Marcus Morris shook hands with the three traveling Knicks beat writers, saying goodbye as he left the visitor’s locker room in Cleveland on Monday night. Just in case it was the last time he sees the group for a while. Morris, in what could have been his Knicks’ swan song, went out with a bang,...
Asa Akira, Marica Hase and Jade Kush are walking in Sunday’s show for Berlin design duo Nan Li and Emilia Pfohl of Namilia.
Thanks for the bill, governor. The City of New York will be forced to foot a massive healthcare bill and won’t even be in the room to haggle down the price tag under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Medicaid savings plan, city officials charge. City budget officers estimate the five boroughs will be on the hook for...
