| 21.09.2023 22:06
City Council of NY can't solve problems, so they target George Washington
I wonder who they will come for next? Everyone remembers Thomas Jefferson being pulled down and carted out the back door of City Hall a couple of years back. Well, earlier this week there was another hearing at City Hall on how to remove more of the city's monuments. It came amid a longer session o...
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| 21.09.2023 21:53
NYC councilwoman reports perv performing lewd act at subway station
A man exposed himself and performed a lewd act inside a lower Manhattan subway station - in clear view of a Bronx councilwoman who then reported the perv to the cops, according to police and sources. City Council Member Pierina Sanchez told cops she spotted the sicko masturbating in front of straph...
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| 21.09.2023 09:49
Prosecutors seek life imprisonment for Brooklyn subway shooter
In 2022, Frank James injured 10 people during the height of an early morning commute in NYC. Federal prosecutors have recommended life sentences for the man who opened fire on a crowded Brooklyn subway train last year, injuring 10 people. In a memo addressed to leading Judge William F. Kuntz II on...
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| 21.09.2023 04:30
Buttigieg adviser who says all cars are bad has problem with public transit that smells like Doritos
Unmasked public transport passengers should enjoy 'extra special hell,' Buttigieg appointee says in uncovered post. An appointee on a committee advising Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg once declared "ALL CARS ARE BAD" but has a long record of complaining about public transit on social media...
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| 21.09.2023 03:07
Brooklyn subway shooter Frank James seeking 18 years in N train attack
Attorneys for a man who opened fire on a crowded New York subway train, injuring 10 and sparking an intense city-wide manhunt, are asking that he be sentenced to 18 years in prison. Frank James , now 64, has been "tormented by lifelong paranoid schizophrenia," his federal public defenders wrote in...
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| 21.09.2023 00:12
Pot stench, vagrants and a failing city - there's too much rot in NYC
New York, New York, a once helluva town. Not now. East Side, West Side, all around the town: Pot smells. Vagrants lying on the sidewalk. Females in shorts so short you can see remains of their food. Trash wherever. Roaches, rats . Empty stores. Others boarded up. Taxes, prices, everything more expe...
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| 20.09.2023 22:13
Subway rider caught googling Gov. Kathy Hochul - as she stands right there
"Siri, who is this woman?" A befuddled straphanger appeared to have no clue who New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was as she rode the subway - and had to google who she was, photos show. Hochul made a trip to the Big Apple from Albany to sign a series of voting rights bills at New York Law School in Manha...
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| 20.09.2023 19:35
Wild monkeys raid Thailand 7-11, make off with banana haul in bizarre theft: video
A group of wild monkeys raided a supermarket and made off with a haul of bananas in a bizarre hit-and-run theft in Thailand. The monkeys diverted from their normal foraging grounds in a nearby forest to hit a 7-11 and take what bananas they could. The video of the incident shows the monkeys ransack...
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| 20.09.2023 18:38
These are the riskiest housing markets in America right now
Some of the nation's largest housing markets are the most vulnerable to a potential economic downturn. The largest risks were in counties near New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia, according to a recent report from real estate data firm ATTOM. The report was based on home prices, average local...
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| 20.09.2023 14:47
Wild Monkeys Cause Chaos in Supermarket Heist, Stealing Bananas: Watch the Video
In a bizarre and audacious act of thievery, a group of wild monkeys in Thailand raided a supermarket and made off with a haul of bananas. The incident, which occurred in a 7-11 store, was captured on video and has since gone viral. The monkeys, believed to be of the macaque variety, deviated from t...
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| 20.09.2023 07:51
Monkey mayhem as wild animals wreak havoc in supermarket raid: video
The monkeys helped themselves to bananas at local store. A group of wild monkeys raided a supermarket and made off with a haul of bananas in a bizarre hit-and-run theft in Thailand. The monkeys diverted from their normal foraging grounds in a nearby forest to hit a 7-11 and take what bananas they c...
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| 20.09.2023 05:01
No, We Shouldn't Make This Meeting a Walk
A new form of social tyranny has broken out. Opposition to it seems churlish and unsporting. Refusal risks offense. Other than actual or feigned injury, or bad weather, there is truly no escape. I am speaking of the invitation that seems to arrive with ever increasing frequency from acquaintances,...
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| 20.09.2023 05:00
Fetterman dress code fail begs big question about America's steep decline
Majority Leader Schumer quietly relaxed the Senate's dress code this month presumably to accomodate Sen. Fetterman's hoodies and gym shorts. Democrat John Fetterman is not just a prime example of arrested development; he is a symbol of the dumbing down of standards and expectations that is undermin...
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| 20.09.2023 04:30
Teen kicked out of house by dad is kidnapped on streets, forced into sex slavery: prosecutor
New York City teen rescued 70 miles from home after calling Polaris, the National Human Trafficking Hotline. An 18-year-old New York City woman has been rescued from an alleged sex trafficker who met her online, drove her 70 miles from home and forced her into sex slavery for months, according to p...
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| 20.09.2023 01:57
Cat litter shortages are affecting brands like Fresh Step and Scoop Away - what you need to know
What a cat-astrophe. A kitty litter shortage is sweeping the nation as Clorox - maker of three popular brands, Fresh Step, Scoop Away and Ever Clean - suffers the fallout from a cybersecurity attack, forcing feline lovers to think outside the box. The messy business was first discovered in mid-Augu...
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| 19.09.2023 22:28
Second Las Vegas juvenile suspect arrested in intentional hit-and-run death of retired police chief: police
Andreas Probst, 64, was riding a bicycle when a vehicle appeared to intentionally fatally hit him on Aug. 14 by two teenage suspects in a vehicle who recorded the incident, police said. A second juvenile suspect has been arrested in the Las Vegas hit-and-run death of a former police officer who was...
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| 19.09.2023 22:10
Cats are being ‘tortured' in cruel TikTok trend: animal activists
Animal activists are warning against a torturous TikTok trend that has pets in extreme duress. TikTokers have been filming themselves grabbing their pets under their front legs, lifting the animals into the air and spinning them around in circles. Most of the videos show cats being twirled around,...
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| 19.09.2023 11:37
Maryland police department turns to island territory as search for recruits turns desperate
The Prince George's County Police Department is short at least 300 officers. The understaffed Prince George's County Police Department in Maryland is reportedly planning to recruit in Puerto Rico amid shortages that have rattled departments across the country following 2020's anti-police rhetoric a...
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| 19.09.2023 05:00
Why Los Angeles Has Avoided the Migrant Crisis Hitting New York
By the time the first bus of migrants from Texas arrived in Los Angeles in June, Democratic leaders who run the city were surprised it had taken so long for Republican governors to send people their way. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida had already chartered flights of asylum seekers to Sacramento and...
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| 19.09.2023 03:47
The Burberry Blues
A few days before Daniel Lee's sophomore outing for Burberry, something unexpected happened in the Bond Street subway station. The signs turned blue - Burberry blue, the new very-bright blue that Mr. Lee has decided to make synonymous with his brand - and, instead of reading "Bond Street," read "Bu...
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| 19.09.2023 02:14
Waterlogged Northeast braces for more possible flooding as coastal storm soaks millions into Tuesday
BOSTON - Flood Watches are in effect for millions of people in New England from Connecticut and Rhode Island through Boston and into Maine as a coastal storm develops and brings more torrential rain to the region through at least the first part of this new workweek. Commuters from Philadelphia to N...
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| 18.09.2023 23:39
NYC subway crime sees downturn so far this year, while arrests and summonses soar by 50%: data
Subway crime has plummeted about 5% so far this year compared to last - with arrests and summonses on the rails soaring by more than 50% during the same period, the latest NYPD statistics show. The figures, released at the MTA's monthly board meeting Monday, mark decreases in four of the six major...
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| 18.09.2023 22:54
More OMNY delays as new MTA vending machines are months late
The MTA promised to begin a widespread roll-out this summer of more convenient OMNY card-refill machines - but not a single device has been installed yet, the agency quietly disclosed Monday. The embarrassing delay is the latest headache to confront the popular but problem-plagued tap and pay syste...
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| 18.09.2023 12:07
Perelman Arts Center Opens in New York and Welcomes the World
The first public events at the new $500 million Perelman Performing Arts Center , the opulent new theater near the site of the World Trade Center, are deliberately laden with symbolism. The center is opening its doors with five shows on Sept. 19-23, collectively titled " Refuge: A Concert Series to...
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| 18.09.2023 02:00
New AI offers 'personal protection' against abductions, criminal threats
Protect is iPhone app (Android app in works) that can protect people in emergencies or from crime. An artificial intelligence -powered phone app can act like a shield to alert loved ones and first responders about emergencies like a fire or potential crimes. A woman in distress while jogging, for e...
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| 17.09.2023 22:05
Bally's betting big on free Bronx shuttle service to Ferry Point
Bally's is betting big on the Bronx, launching a free shuttle bus service beginning Oct. 1 as part of its takeover of the former Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point. "Our patrons are at the heart of every decision we make. With this shuttle bus service, we're confident of elevating their experience and...
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| 17.09.2023 20:50
MTA's backward design process puts consultants in charge, adds millions of dollars in costs
The MTA is going off the rails again! One of the biggest issues that has been plaguing its Second Avenue subway extension - a pie-in-the-sky design that already saddled straphangers with millions of dollars in extra debt for oversized stations - is set to repeat itself with two projects, a Post inv...
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| 17.09.2023 19:44
Subway's $9.6B sale could face US antitrust heat - over its own strict competition rules: sources
Subway's deal to sell itself for a whopping $9.6 billion could face more antitrust scrutiny than expected, sources said - and a major sticking point could be strict competitive rules the chain has placed on its own franchisees, The Post has learned. The struggling sandwich giant agreed last month t...
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| 17.09.2023 15:21
Whales, From Above
Sutton Lynch rises most days before the sun, arriving at Atlantic Beach in Amagansett, N.Y., for the early-morning calm. It's the same beach he's been going to since he was a child, and where he worked as a lifeguard for years as a teenager. Now 23, he spends his mornings surveying the horizon. Whe...
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| 17.09.2023 09:48
Anderson Cooper on the rise and fall of the Astor fortune
Astor Place in New York's Greenwich Village is named for John Jacob Astor, America's first multi-millionaire. "John Jacob Astor and then his son, for generations, they were just buying up parcels here and there, and then large tracts of land further north," said Anderson Cooper. Astor died in 1848...
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| 17.09.2023 04:48
Sister of Guyanese pop star murdered inside luxury Los Angeles apartment
The sister of a South American pop star was murdered inside the luxury Los Angeles apartment she had been living in for just one month, cops said. Maleesa Mooney, 31, was found dead inside her Skye at Bunker Hill unit in Downtown Los Angeles just before 4 p.m. Tuesday after the cops were called to...
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| 16.09.2023 17:28
NYC investment banker sued by MTA worker after alleged drunken assault
A veteran subway worker who was slugged while on the job at a Coney Island subway station is suing the well-heeled investment banker arrested for the drunken attack. Tanya McCray has been out of work since the December incident, in which Jean-Francois Coste allegedly punched her inside the Stillwel...
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| 16.09.2023 15:54
Dove's #FreeThePits ads expose NYC subway riders to women's hairy armpits
The subway is going to the pits. Dove launched a #FreeThePits campaign in Big Apple subways "to encourage women everywhere to reject underarm stereotypes" in time for New York Fashion Week . The bold photos - of women lifting their arms to expose hairy underarms - are plastered on the E, F, G, R, 4...
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| 16.09.2023 13:59
Subway-riding snake freaks out New Yorkers: ‘I was shaking'
It's a jungle down there. A mystery man has been strutting the streets of the Upper West Side - and the subways below - with a 6-foot snake coiled around his neck. One resident was rattled by the transit-riding reptile. "This man walked right into the subway station at West 96th and Broadway and do...
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| 16.09.2023 12:46
NYC man charged with recruiting younger brothers for robbery ring in ‘Oliver Twist'-like scam
Cops busted a Staten Island "Fagin" who allegedly forced his two younger brothers, 11 and 13, to steal from Manhattan bars and restaurants - and are searching for at least two other adult handlers running the same scam right out of "Oliver Twist," police said. Micquel Robinson was arrested Monday a...
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| 16.09.2023 12:00
Meet NYC's surprising new gun owners: Councilwoman, grocer, new mom
The number of New Yorkers legally packing guns is on the rise - and they're not necessarily who you'd expect. For a city where obtaining a license to carry a firearm was once, not that long ago, almost impossible, a surprising number of NYC residents - 17% - have bought a gun in the past year, acco...
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| 15.09.2023 23:58
Teen boy, woman pummel and kick female straphanger in NYC beatdown: NYPD
A teen boy and a woman punched and kicked a female straphanger during a clash that erupted after one of the assailants bumped into the victim on a Bronx subway platform, cops said Friday. The 42-year-old victim was waiting on the northbound Nos. 2 and 5 train platform at 149th Street-Grand Concours...
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| 15.09.2023 23:54
How 'war on terror' was fought, won in Southeast Asia - for now
Medan, Indonesia - In the early 2000s, the potential for terror attacks in Southeast Asia appeared dramatically different from today. Indonesia was rocked by the Christmas Eve church bombings on December 24, 2000, that killed 18 people. Just six days later, Metro Manila in the Philippines experienc...
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| 15.09.2023 17:39
Curtis Sliwa calls out AOC, NYC contingent 'stunned' by anti-migrant protesters: They 'allowed an invasion'
AOC, other Democrats greeted crowd protesting the migrant crisis impacting NYC, the nation. Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, who was the Republican mayoral opponent against current New York Mayor Eric Adams in 2021, called out the contingent of congressional Democrats who gathered at the Roose...
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| 15.09.2023 16:40
Men Sentenced to Life in Prison for 2016 Brussels Bombings
A jury in a Belgian criminal court sentenced seven men responsible for organizing a series of bombings in Brussels in March 2016 on Friday to prison terms ranging from 10 years to life. The sentences arrived seven years after the deadliest terrorist assault in Belgium's history, which ruptured a mu...
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| 15.09.2023 10:01
Book excerpt: "Astor" by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe
We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe, the bestselling authors of "Vanderbilt," return with a history of another American dynasty. "Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune" (to be published September 19 by HarperCo...
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| 15.09.2023 08:00
'Free-range parenting' pioneer says loss of independence causing kids anxiety: They 'need experiences'
Lenore Skenazy said childhood depression and anxiety have increased along with lack of independence. Mental health - many say it's the crisis of our time, fueled by a cocktail of culprits from COVID-era isolation to social media . Some, however, speculate it starts much earlier and reining it in be...
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| 15.09.2023 05:02
The Trials of Aurora: A Colorado City's Deep Divide Over Policing
One by one, the five men - three police officers and two paramedics - walked up before the judge one afternoon this January. Their lawyers stood beside them, and the wooden benches of the Colorado courtroom were filled with family, friends and fellow police officers and paramedics. All five faced f...
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| 15.09.2023 01:25
NYPD arrests man who shoved 74-year-old onto NYC subway tracks in ‘disgusting' attack
A man was arrested Thursday for shoving a 74-year-old straphanger onto the subway tracks during a "disgusting," unprovoked attack on the Upper East Side, cops said. Cops nabbed Derrick Mills, 49, was nabbed for the heartless assault inside the 68th Street-Hunter College station early Tuesday, which...
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| 15.09.2023
Ireland's Latest Fiscal Headache: What to Do With 10 Billion Euros
Fifteen years after a collapsed housing bubble forced Ireland to borrow tens of billions of dollars or risk going bust, the country is discovering that having too much money can also be a problem. Swollen by rising corporate tax revenue, mainly from American tech and pharmaceutical corporations, th...
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| 14.09.2023 21:07
Stunning $560M Perelman Performing Arts Center opens near NYC's ground zero
A breathtaking, giant marble cube now shines brightly near ground zero in Lower Manhattan as the curtain finally rose on the Big Apple's newest theater complex this week. The exquisite $560 million Perelman Performing Arts Center was officially unveiled Wednesday, setting the stage for the World Tr...
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| 14.09.2023 18:31
Canadian man wearing wetsuit and fins swims to Michigan, steals handgun from pawn shop: authorities
Suspect faces charges like improper entry into the US by an alien and possession of stolen firearm. An Ontario, Canada , man whose right to carry a gun in his country was revoked, allegedly swam across a river to the United States, where he stole a handgun from a pawn shop before getting arrested....
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| 14.09.2023 17:25
35M in knockoff Gucci, Louis Vuitton bags and other goods seized in NYPD raid, 18 arrested
Some $35 million in counterfeit designer goods - including mounds of knockoff Louis Vuitton and Gucci bags - were seized in a police raid, as cops busted 18 people for allegedly selling the fakes in plain sight on busy Lower Manhattan sidewalks. Video posted by NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell on so...
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| 14.09.2023 12:00
Unpacking the Impact of a Brown Paper Bag
It has made cameos in "Friends," "Gossip Girl" and "Elf." It has been reincarnated as a cake, a Limoges porcelain box and a champagne-diamond pendant. It has been rendered in chrome-plated resin as part of a sculpture of Andy Warhol by the artist Rob Pruitt. And, as other entities in the fashion wo...
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| 14.09.2023 05:00
In Rome, It's Luxury vs. Squalor
On a recent June evening, guests in the magnificent dining room of the Palazzo Vil??n feasted on a Baroque-themed dinner amid centuries-old mirrors painted with cherubs, inlaid marble floors and a ceiling so lavish, the table's surfaces were mirrored to savor the frescoes. The interior designer toa...
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