Not even the coronavirus pandemic could stop Texas’ annual “Go Topless Jeep Weekend” — a wild party that resulted in nearly 200 arrests and raised eyebrows on social media. A viral local news report about the boozy beach bash in Galveston showed maskless revelers drinking, twerking and driving around in ATVs, as resigned cops admitted...
Air pollution in China has rebounded rapidly from welcomed lows observed during the country’s coronavirus lockdown — even exceeding pre-crisis levels, worrying data shows. The Asian nation recorded a spike in air pollution levels in April which surpassed what was recorded for the same time last year, according to a report from Finland-based Centre for...
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A Manhattan steakhouse has redesigned its restaurant for a post-coronavirus world — setting up Plexiglass table dividers between tables to keep germs from fellow diners contained. Stratis Morfogen from downtown’s Brooklyn Chop House unveiled the changes on his Instagram account and said guests can expect full body temperature scanners at the entrance, hats with plastic...
Time to roll up the red carpet.
Coronavirus-induced cutbacks at Condé Nast, which resulted in 100 US layoffs last week, appear to have stirred labor unrest at the glitzy but struggling publisher. Wired’s editorial union has fired off a letter to Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch blasting the company for its coronavirus severance packages after a majority of editorial staffers last month...
Five McDonald’s workers in Chicago filed a class-action lawsuit against the chain on Tuesday, accusing it of failing to adopt government safety guidance on COVID-19 and endangering employees and their families. McDonald’s failed to provide adequate hand sanitizer, gloves and masks and has not notified its staff when an employee has become infected with the...
Emily Gerteis is a nurse practitioner, but she’s not toiling away at Big Apple hospitals -- she’s a primary care medical provider for homeless New Yorkers.
New England media has officially entered the vilification stage of the Tom Brady grief cycle. In a column published by the Boston Sports Journal on Saturday, founder Greg Bedard claims that former Patriots signal-caller was “largely checked out” during the tail end of the 2018 season in spite of a successful Super Bowl 53 campaign....
City building inspectors are running speed trap-style operations to catch contractors violating a coronavirus ban on “non-essential” construction work — and to slap homeowners with maximum, $10,000 fines, The Post has learned. A Department of Buildings inspector spent at least 45 minutes Tuesday morning staked out at the intersection that leads to the ritzy Douglas...
With three weightlifters allegedly wanting to fight him late one snowy night in Milwaukee in 1991, Charles Barkley had to think quickly. So he did what only Barkley could do. “I started taking off all of my clothes,” the Hall of Famer recently told ESPN’s Zach Lowe on “The Lowe Post” podcast. “I take off...
City health workers have begun delivering free methadone to opioid addicts amid the coronavirus crisis — sparking outrage from officials who called it “disgusting” and a “recipe for disaster.” The program was announced Tuesday by the city’s Health Department, which said it began with a “soft launch” last month and was expanding the initiative by...
The actress revealed that she contracted coronavirus before the shutdown began.
Sonja Morgan left a vibrator to marinate in a plate of chicken cacciatore after a debauched night in the Hamptons.
Analyst: Dems Can’t Count on ‘Angry Voters’ Joe Biden and other Dems “looking to replicate Barack Obama’s multiracial coalition” can’t count on anti-Trump fury to bring victory in November, warns Matt Grossmann at FiveThirtyEight: Because “the voters most energized by anger are white.” Political scientist Davin Phoenix notes that nonwhites turn out when moved by...
Sean Stanton, 58, of the Upper West Side, was driving an orange 2003 Suzuki motorcycle north on the parkway, just past West 120th Street, around 8:30 a.m. April 19 when he struck the right rear bumper of a black Lexus sedan, according to police.
Employees of fashion mogul and accused sex trafficker Peter Nygard allegedly destroyed evidence on their computers and “cleaned up” records on the same day the FBI raided his New York office and California home, his accusers charge in a new court filing. Lawyers for Nygard’s alleged victims, who have accused the 78-year-old Canadian businessman of...
It brought a hug to her doorstep and a smile to her face.
A fraudster trying to dupe a Singapore woman in a banking scheme via a WhatsApp video call admitted he was a scammer. Vanessa Mittman said her 10-year-old son initially received the May 5 call in which a man on the other end said he was from Singapore’s DBS Bank, according to Storyful. A fast-thinking Mittman...
More than a quarter of Americans “definitely would not” feel comfortable sending children back to school within the next few weeks, a new poll found. The survey, conducted in 16 countries by Ipsos over a four-day span earlier this month, found that 46 percent of Americans polled said they’re not comfortable with allowing their kids...
Twenty-one years after her husband’s death, Martha Hart insists she doesn’t hold any grudges. But she will never not point the finger at WWE. Owen Hart died May 23, 1999 at a WWE (then WWF) pay-per-view in Kansas City after falling to the ring from the rafters while performing a stunt. Hart’s death at the...
The family of Shad Gaspard has released a statement after the former WWE star disappeared on Sunday, saying that Gaspard is a “warrior” — and they’re still hoping for his safe return. Gaspard went missing over the weekend while swimming at an LA beach. The Brooklyn native was reportedly swimming with his young son when...
A popular muralist who has gussied up plywood boards on a shuttered Manhattan shop plans to give the works to charity when the store reopens -- if thieves don't pick apart the work first.
A blaze on the roof of an Upper East Side high-rise sent massive plumes of smoke billowing into the air Tuesday afternoon, according to fire officials and photos. The fire was reported just before 2 p.m. at the 21-story building on E. 66th Street near 3rd Avenue, fire officials said. Smoke can be seen pouring...
Newly released police bodycam video shows Georgia slay victim Ahmaud Arbery being handcuffed and arrested for shoplifting in 2017. The video, dated Dec. 1, 2017, shows Arbery and three teenagers being confronted by police in the parking lot of a Walmart shopping center, according to the footage posted on YouTube on Tuesday. “Tell me about...
