Tony Herbert is the community relations officer at IHI Power Services Corporation at the Ravenswood Generating Station in Long Island City. He is also president of the citywide public housing chapter of the National Action Network. He writes about the attack on his cousin, a 15-year-old girl, who was punched and kicked by a group...
Jacqueline Schnabel has sold her exquisite West Village townhouse. The stunning, five-story Italianate home at 132 W. 11th St. sold and closed for $18 million — just a half million less than its asking price — in an all-cash deal, Gimme Shelter can reveal. Schnabel’s ex-husband is the artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel, who owns...
The 25½-foot-wide townhouse at 25 W. 10th St. has eight bedrooms over 7,500 square feet of space.
Social media app TikTok is launching a content moderation center in a bid to boost transparency, the Chinese company said on Wednesday, as it faces scrutiny from US lawmakers who have accused it of sharing user data with the Chinese government. The “Transparency Center” is to be opened at TikTok’s Los Angeles office where external...
Interior designer Brad Linard has dramatically reduced the price of his two adjacent Harlem brownstones from a combined $27 million — which would have smashed the record for most expensive house sold in the area — to $11.9 million. Built in 1888, the next-door homes facing Mount Morris Park were originally part of a four-home...
After a 40-year search, astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind star that pulsates on just one side. Amateur astronomers played an important role in the discovery by trawling through data from NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The “one-sided pulsator” was spotted in the Milky Way about 1,500 light-years from Earth, according to researchers. A...
The seller is his widow, actress Shelly Burch, a former soap star on ABC's "One Life to Live."
NASA is committed to finding life in the universe and a new study suggests it “could be common,” when taking into account how life’s building blocks spontaneously form throughout the universe. The research, published in Scientific Reports, notes that RNA (ribonucleic acid) is relatively simple compared to DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), requiring approximately 40 to 100...
The New Yorker and Meredith, the nation’s biggest magazine publisher, are among the latest print outfits in Manhattan to tell employees to work from home in the face of the worsening coronavirus crisis. The New Yorker’s parent company, Condé Nast, this week made working from home optional for its employees at One World Trade Center....
The function is a way to "share fleeting thoughts" as tweets that are flushed after 24 hours.
They don't want to be lovesick.
The granddaughter of Missoni founders Ottavio and Rosita and daughter of its current creative director Angela, Margherita Maccapani Missoni is leaning into her chic roots. The 36-year-old style icon — who studied acting at Columbia University in NYC before modeling for Vogue, Vanity Fair and W and serving as the face of Missoni fragrances —...
‘Project Runway” host Karlie Kloss, 27, and her husband, 34-year-old venture capitalist Josh Kushner (brother of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner), tell pals they love their new (undisclosed) digs in the city. But that hasn’t stopped them from house hunting in the country — from Woodstock to Bedford. The enterprising couple are...
Milan’s fall 2020 shows were filled with Old World craftsmanship and new takes on throwback styles; I was on hand (@johannahmasters) to take it all in. Bold name brands presented showstopping ensembles — from head-to-toe chunky knits at Dolce & Gabbana and impressive leather patchwork pieces at Tod’s, to full-on-fringe at Prada and Bottega Veneta....
"Can a magazine for a gun fit in? If it can’t, we need to make the pocket bigger."
Despite nerves in Europe over coronavirus, Paris fashion week remained the most glamorous lap of fashion month. I was there (@anahitaglitters) to witness it all. Hedi Slimane showed a beautiful with a last-minute Yeezy show. Celebs Timothée Chalamet and Maisie Williams sat front row, while boldface names surprised on the runway (Rita Ora at Miu...
Condé Nast and Hearst are giving their NYC employees the option of working from home in light of the coronavirus outbreak, which has infected 170 in NY so far. Over at Meredith, 140 workers in its Seattle office are already working from home, while the media giant preps for more work-at-home options. “The office is...
What matters more — that Joe Biden probably put the Democratic race away tonight, or that he told a voter who accused Biden of wanting “to end our Second Amendment right and take away our guns” that said voter was “full of s–t”? Don’t answer too quickly. Of course it matters that Joe Biden, left...
Real estate organizations and companies worried about the spread of the novel coronavirus are scrubbing down offices and hotels and canceling events and cocktail parties while tenant companies are deploying workers to separate locations. This week alone, the Young Men’s/Women’s Real Estate Association canceled its monthly luncheon that was to feature Bob Knakal of JLL...
It will be easier than ever to win the 76th Annual Real Estate Board of New York Ingenious Deal of the Year award for deals completed in 2019. That’s because just two leases and three sales were nominated, with none in the finance category. Under the rules, the two leases will be combined with the...
Former Esquire Editor-in-Chief David Granger has been named to the Magazine Hall of Fame by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Granger, who ran Esquire from June 1997 to March 2016, had accumulated a basketful of awards in his 20-year run at Esquire, winning 17 National Magazine Awards, including General Excellence in 2006. He was...
The New York Times is encouraging staffers to work from home in anticipation of a coronavirus crisis that could prevent its staffers from coming into the office. “We want to be able to move quickly and seamlessly to extensive home-working as an organization if and when that becomes necessary,” said a memo from publisher A.G....
Looks like President Vladimir Putin is going Mike Bloomberg on Russia’s term-limits law: The parliament’s lower house just passed a bill to let him run for a fifth term in 2024 and even a sixth after that. Wow: Bloomberg only managed to get a third term as New York mayor. Then again, this city is...
