Amazon is shelling out $1.15 billion in cash to acquire the former Lord & Taylor flagship in Midtown Manhattan, The Post has learned. The Fifth Avenue landmark, which spans 11 stories and 660,000 square feet, will serve as Amazon’s New York City headquarters, housing several thousand employees in the coming years, a source close to...
A Park Slope elementary school will remain open after a parent tested positive for coronavirus Thursday, The Post has learned. PS 107 Principal Eve Litwack told parents in an email Thursday that the father pulled his kids out of class on Tuesday as a precaution after feeling ill with what he thought was jet lag....
Ridership across the MTA’s commuter rails, subways and buses dropped dramatically as New Yorkers avoid close-quartered of buses and trains in a bid to halt the spread of coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office revealed Thursday. Total subway ridership Wednesday was down a whopping 18.5 percent from the same Wednesday last year, MTA spokeswoman Kayla Shults...
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday declared a state of emergency over the spread of the deadly coronavirus and predicted that New York City would have 1,000 confirmed cases by next week. “It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better,” he warned during a City Hall news conference. The city currently counts...
Airlines bore the brunt of a dramatic expansion of the coronavirus crisis on Thursday, as President Trump’s US travel curbs on much of continental Europe deepened the sector’s misery and piled more pressure on governments to offer emergency support. The 30-day restrictions will badly disrupt transatlantic traffic key to the earnings of major European carriers...
City doctors and public health officials wrote a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio Thursday urging him to shut down public schools and convert them into emergency aid centers amidst the coronavirus outbreak. “Suspend classes at public schools, while keeping schools open for emergency childcare for essential workers and vulnerable families,” the unnamed municipal employees...
Due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus, Live Nation is telling its touring shows — both domestic and international — to return home, according to Billboard. The company told employees Thursday that current arena shows will be postponed through the end of the month as large gatherings around the world are being canceled...
March Madness 2020 has been hit with the ultimate upset. The NCAA tournament for men’s and women’s basketball has been canceled, the NCAA announced Thursday, as concerns over the spread of coronavirus continued to rise across the country. The NCAA was slow in making its decision. It announced Wednesday that it would play the tournament...
ATLANTA — The Knicks filed out of their hotel at 2:45 p.m. Thursday to board a bus to the airport with signals all their players and staff are doing OK. For now. With the NBA season suspended, the Knicks did not take their scheduled flight to Miami late Wednesday after their overtime victory over the...
The Dow Jones industrial average fell by almost 10 percent on Thursday as fears of the coronavirus escalated — it’s biggest decline since the stock market crash of 1987. The Dow lost 2,352,27 points at the close, down 9.98 percent, to 21,200 — despite a $1.5 trillion rescue plan by the Federal Reserve. That’s the...
There's no cure for a flashy fashion sense.
Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus (“The Farm: Angola, USA,” “What Happened, Miss Simone?”) turns to dramatized true crime with a grim story many New Yorkers will know: the string of murders of young women on the south shore of Long Island, whose bodies were uncovered between 2010 and 2011, and whose killer has yet to be...
Two NBA players have already tested positive for coronavirus. Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer believes it’s only a matter of time before the same can be said for MLB. “I think we’d be kind of naive to think that there’s not one player in any one of the camps across MLB right now that has not...
This movie release won't be so fast or furious.
The Manhattan sex assault trial of a former Park Avenue neurosurgeon went on Thursday — despite three jurors calling out due to coronavirus. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ruth Pickholz told the court Thursday morning that three jurors — one who works in the Midtown WeWork-occupied building where an employee tested positive for coronavirus, one who...
Seven weeks after the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the US, the outbreak is now classified as a pandemic and it’s doing widespread damage to critical economic sectors of the global economy. Airlines are dropping routes because people are not flying, workers are staying home, public events that raise millions of dollars for...
"It's kind of a blessing and a curse," he says.
Stocks continued their freefall on Thursday even after the Federal Reserve tried to console Wall Street with $1.5 trillion in funding to prop up financial markets. The central bank said it would flood the markets with short-term funding “to address highly unusual disruptions” related to the coronavirus outbreak. The announcement helped pare back losses in...
MONTPELIER, Vt. — The state of Vermont is suing a data broker that it says uses facial recognition technology to map the faces of Vermonters, including children and then sells access to the data to private businesses, individuals and law enforcement. New York-based Clearview AI has drawn attention following investigative reports about its practice of...
Broadway will shut down four to six weeks beginning tonight, due to the coronavirus outbreak, several sources told The Post.
Apple has sealed multi-year licensing deals with major music labels like Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music in recent months, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing four people familiar with the matter. The new contracts, however, do not include an agreement to bundle Apple Music with its television service, the report said, adding...
It’s high times for holistic medicine. Just ask Gwyneth Paltrow, whose company and its Netflix show, “The Goop Lab,” is raking in viewers and dollars. But what about your pets? Renegade veterinarian Dr. Marty Goldstein has been arguing for decades that dogs and cats can benefit from alternative treatments like acupuncture, nutritional supplements, changes in...
This is not the red-carpet treatment he was expecting. A Queens man working at a star-studded Plaza Hotel Fashion Week bash is suing because he hurt himself on “defective” red carpet pole, according to a new lawsuit. Omar Elnewishy was managing the VIP section of Harper Bazaar’s glamorous ICONS party — attended by the likes...
Writer Kevin VanHook calls it “science faction.” When he, Don Perlin and Bob Layton dreamed up the comic book character Bloodshot back in the 1990s, they wanted it to be a little bit different than other superheroes whose powers were sometimes rooted in the he-was-bitten-by-a-radioactive-badger school. “We always tried to have that grounding in reality,”...
Jamie Dimon was released from the hospital on Thursday following emergency heart surgery last week. An acute aortic dissection, a condition in which the inner lining of the aorta has torn away from the outside wall, necessitated the operation on the JPMorgan Chase chief executive. Reports earlier in the week said the 63-year-old Dimon felt...
