Opportunity finally knocks. I‘ve been waiting for the opportunity to write — or transcribe — this story since July 2017, when Rick Wolff told it during his father’s memorial tribute at Madison Square Garden. Bob Wolff — cherished sportscaster, essayist, broadcasting teacher and gentleman preacher of right over wrong — had died at 96. Rick...
Heartbroken East Village artist Jim Conboy could not give his brother Edd — who died of a stroke March 20 — a proper funeral due to the coronavirus outbreak, so he erected a public memorial for the world to see. Now the tribute to his 70-year-old brother — a full length mirror atop a block...
Russia’s hospitals were being overwhelmed by “a huge influx” of coronavirus patients as the country ended its second week of a Kremlin-mandate lockdown Saturday, a government official said. Ambulances lined up at hospitals in a Moscow suburb Saturday; one driver told Reuters he had waited for more than 15 hours to drop off a patient...
Issa Rae is throwing a virtual block party on Sunday to celebrate the premiere of the long-awaited season 4 of “Insecure” on HBO.
President Trump is making much of supportive quotes from Mack McLarty, President Bill Clinton’s former White House chief of staff, who appeared on Fox News Saturday to discuss Trump’s talk of reopening the economy — even as the coronavirus death toll continues to grow. “I think the president’s timing is about right,” McLarty said of...
New York’s deadliest week yet for coronavirus cases hit two Queens hospitals particularly hard. Long Island Jewish Medical Center on the Queens/Nassau County border and Long Island Jewish Forest Hills hospital had more than 70 deaths each during a seven-day stretch from April 4 through Friday, according to Northwell Health, which runs the hospitals. Deaths...
Director Nancy Meyers says she may have another movie on the way, but is not interested in making something for a streaming service.
The stepson of the MTA Triborough Bridges and Tunnels officer shot to death on Staten Island was arrested on Thursday.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is cutting all public transportation capacity by half and insisting all riders cover their faces while they’re on board. Murphy made the move Saturday after he announced that the state’s number of confirmed coronavirus cases had jumped by 3,599 in a day, to 58,151 on Friday. A total of 7,618...
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II delivered a short Easter message emphasizing the importance of continued social distancing to beat the coronavirus. In the two-minute video which showed a single candle burning and was broadcast on the Royal Family’s social media networks Saturday, the monarch, 93, spoke in a resolute voice-over, declaring that “we know that coronavirus...
Lockdown just got a lot lusher. Tanteo Tequila and The Wayland bar in the East Village are launching a new margarita delivery service — and will give part of the proceeds to the devastated hospitality industry. The $99 packages, sold on CocktailsInMotion, include a 750ml bottle of Tanteo Tequila expression (Blanco, Jalapeno, or Chipotle for week one),...
Are you looking for a present to cheer up a friend who is down in the dumps because of the coronavirus lockdown? Look no further! Maine artist Mary Winchenbach created MooseTirds.com to showcase her and her friend Deb’s “novelty artworks” made from moose (and other animal) poop. “We do our best to be kind to...
Sports writers, by nature, are a cynical lot. We are trained to be objective first and subjective second. At most every NFL game, for example, there’s an announcement shortly before kickoff directed to the media that there shall be no cheering in the press box. If that rule applied to the golf writers covering the...
President Trump’s approval rating dropped to a six-month low of 43 percent in the daily tracking poll conducted by the Republican-friendly Rasmussen Reports. The survey of 500 likely voters, released Friday, found that 56 percent of voters disapprove of Trump’s job performance. The results reflect those of the RealClear Politics polling average, where Trump hit...
Those toiling at the MTA have suffered the greatest toll, with 50 dead from COVID-19 including supervisors, bus drivers, train conductors and cleaners.
Ja Rule is donating medical masks to the homeless in New York City — and making his own line of fashionable face-coverings.
A Borough Park firehouse has been crippled by COVID-19 — with 11 firefighters testing positive and a dozen others suffering symptoms — as it responds to emergencies in a Hasidic community that largely ignores social-distancing rules, The Post has learned. Most of the coronavirus victims at Engine Co. 282/Ladder Co. 148 believe they caught the...
Luke Kuechly stunned the NFL when he announced his retirement in January at the age of 28. And after some time to let the decision sink in, the former Panthers All-Pro linebacker appears to be at peace with his choice. “As the season concluded, I really kind of sat back and thought about it: I...
Levine Toilolo does not know what it feels like to hoist the Vince Lombardi Trophy, but he does have intimate knowledge of how a team comes together to get to a Super Bowl. The towering tight end did it not once, but twice, playing in Super Bowl LI with the Falcons and in Super Bowl...
Mother Nature is not happy. As humans around the globe battle the coronavirus, the Earth is being wracked by volcanic eruptions, plagues of locusts and storms. Early Saturday, Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano — the mountain’s last great eruption in December 2018 triggered a deadly tsunami — spewed a 500-foot column of ash and kept the...
Staten Island Zoo curator Sarrah Kaye says there has been one upside to the coronavirus pandemic: letting some animals, like anteaters and armadillos, roam around like visitors.
NYC dog groomer Edward Alava, of The Dog Store, thinks the government is making a dangerous mistake by not considering animal grooming an essential business during the coronavirus pandemic.
Fostering a dog for the first time has given Noamme Elisha of Brooklyn "something to get up for in the morning" during the city's shutdown.
Health-care worker Latonya "Sassee" Walker has been taking care of Canarsie’s wild cat population for ten years. Since the pandemic, she’s nearly doubled the number of cats she cares for.
Screenshots of the seven Kansas Supreme Court justices and various attorneys huddled over computer monitors made the rounds on social media Saturday.
