Month: May 2019

A celebrity hairstylist whose clients have included everyone from Kate Moss to Richard Gere is suing his Madison Avenue landlord for not fixing his moldy, leaky office, according to new court papers. Julien Farel — whose flagship Restore Salon & Spa is in the Loews Park Avenue Regency New York — has been forced outRead moreRead more

“My son. He’s nuts, but I didn’t know he was this nuts.” That’s what stricken Shelley Gilbert told a 911 operator when asked who shot her hedge-fund-manager husband in their Manhattan apartment in 2015. Audio of the phone call was played in Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday as Gilbert’s son, Tommy Jr., went on trialRead moreRead more

Godzilla has long been served with a side of preachiness. The big lizard’s origin story in the 1950s was that it was awakened by nuclear explosions to wreak havoc on Japan. Makes sense, right? Then in the 1998 Matthew Broderick film, nuclear tests don’t just wake ’Zilla up, they create him — by affecting theRead moreRead more

Mayor Bill de Blasio is giving Amazon the cold shoulder, saying the e-tailing giant won’t get any help from the city if they close on plans to move to Manhattan’s West Side. “Look, if Amazon decides — as Google did and as many other tech firms have — that they’re going to expand their presenceRead moreRead more

A mysterious prehistoric forest has risen again on a Welsh beach thanks to Storm Hannah. The collection of ancient tree stumps had been buried under water and sand more than 4,500 years ago and now people are connecting it to an ancient legend about a “sunken civilization.” The forest is being associated with a 17thRead moreRead more

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza’s crusade against “toxic” whiteness at the city Department of Education created an “Us vs. Them’’ culture that saw three longtime officials demoted in favor of less-qualified persons of color, a blockbuster $90 million lawsuit claims. Click Here: Sports Water Bottles “If you draw a paycheck from DOE … get on boardRead moreRead more

The day after the federal government indicted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on 18 charges related to his publication of secret Pentagon and State Department documents, San Francisco’s police chief apologized for raiding the home of freelance videographer Bryan Carmody. Carmody had obtained a police report, about the death of a former city public defender, whichRead moreRead more

The contentious relationship between Kawhi Leonard and the San Antonio Spurs has, quite definitively, become the Toronto Raptors’ gain. Leonard, the two-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year, has keyed the Raptors’ charge into the NBA Finals, the first time in franchise history the team will play for the league title. It wasn’t that longRead moreRead more

A commercial flight in China was nearly forced to make an emergency landing when massive hunks of hail shattered the jumbo jet’s windshield, according to reports Monday. China Southern Airlines flight CZ3101 was headed from Guangzhou to Beijing when the hailstorm struck and badly cracked the Airbus A380’s front window as it soared at 37,000Read moreRead more

The New Jersey family involved in a fatal car crash near Niagara Falls had nine people, including three 4-year-olds, packed into a minivan without any car seats, authorities said Monday. Two of the dead were identified as Ondina Castro De La Cruz, 47, and Mayelin Brito-Castro, 32. Both women were in the van along withRead moreRead more