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Free-standing ER Across From Former St. Vincent’s Poised to Open Next Week
The first floor with house the “HealthPlex.” Since St. Vincent’s hospital closed in 2010, Manhattan’s lower West Side has been without 24/7 emergency care. (Though a number of urgent care centers eager...
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Keeping Up With ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians,’ Ep. 10×5: Mud Run Fever
America’s sweethearts. (Screengrab via eonline.com) Our attention is divided between two plotlines in this week’s episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Kim and Khloé are running a race against...
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The Ugly Game
Colombia’s James Rodriguez vies with Brazil’s Fernandinho (Photo via Getty Images) Last Friday, the Nike marketing myth of Brazil’s enduring “jogo bonito” was brutally, finally and thankfully put to...
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Rizzoli Bookstore’s Neoclassical Ceiling to Be Demolished
Chandeliers hang from Rizzoli’s vaulted ceiling. (Getty) Breaking the glass ceiling? Good. Demolishing Rizzoli Bookstore’s neoclassical plaster ceiling dating back to 1919? Bad. This past April one of...
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Meng to GOP Majority Leader McCarthy: Bring Immigration Reform to Floor
Congresswoman Grace Meng (Photo: Meng campaign) Queens Congresswoman Grace Meng called on California Congressman Kevin McCarthy–who succeeded Congressman Eric Cantor as Republican Majority Leader last...
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You’re Standing in My Light: Financial Industry Heir Nabs Photog’s Pad for...
Henry and Ana Pincus. (Patrick McMullan) Ana Pincus has endured considerable hardship in the name of real estate, even by New York City standards. The wife of Henry Pincus and granddaughter-in-law of...
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Bill de Blasio Says He’ll Fulfill Horse Carriage and Living Wage Promises
Mayor Bill de Blasio. (Photo: NYC Mayor’s Office) When it comes to his promises to ban horse carriages and expand the city’s living wage law, Mayor Bill de Blasio says he’s working on it. The horse...
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Is This ‘Seinfeld’ Script Worth $18,000?
Script for ‘The Invitations.’ (Ebay) If you are still expelling Jujubes from the excitement of Seinfeld’s 25th anniversary, consider making a bid on this signed script of episode 134, “The...
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“Locks of Love” Creep Their Way Over to the Manhattan Bridge
If the City has its way, the Manhattan Bridge will never look like this (Flickr) Just one month ago, men and women confusing New York for Paris took to the Brooklyn Bridge to lock down their love. Now...
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‘MasterChef’ Season 5×7: ‘Leslie is Your Bitch’
Hug it out, bitch. (Fox)This is a heartwarming MasterChef. If you didn’t get a little misty at one point there’s a reason dogs bark at you; you’re a Terminator. There is one thing I need to address...
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Bill de Blasio Backs Jeff Klein and Tony Avella Over Rivals
State Senator Jeff Klein with Mayor Bill de Blasio. (Photo: Facebook) Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this afternoon that he will endorse State Senators Jeff Klein and Tony Avella’s re-election bids,...
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Pols Celebrate Restoration of Old Peter Vallone Scholarship
Council Speaker Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito on the steps of City Hall. (Photo: Paula Duran) Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and a slew of elected officials announced today the restoration of...
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To Do Wednesday: See ‘Sex With Strangers’
Billy Magnussen and Anna Gunn in Sex With Strangers (Photo via Jón Sigurðsson) Desire. Ambition. Jealousy (professional). Jealousy (romantic). And lots of sex featuring the stunning Anna Gunn alongside...
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Tenure on Trial
It was inevitable, and it is welcome: A group of public school parents in New York has brought a lawsuit in state Supreme Court seeking to overturn tenure. The parents hope that New York’s judiciary...
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Summer Shootings
A long, hot summer has begun in Chicago, parts of which resembled a war zone over the long Independence Day weekend. Eighty-two people were shot—and 14 died—over a five-day span. SWAT teams, aided by a...
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Rebbe To The City — And The World
New Yorkers of a certain age remember well the many weeks in which the city seemed gripped almost exclusively by the fervor — and drama — surrounding the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, as he lie...
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De Blasio: Municipal I.D.’s Will Force Congress’ Hand on Immigration
Bill de Blasio at an immigration rally. (Photo:Getty Images) Mayor Bill de Blasio tonight called for cities nationwide to follow New York’s lead by creating municipal identification cards for all...
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Giants Stir: Sources Say Hedge Funder David Ganek Is Prepared to Sell 740...
David and Danielle Ganek. (Patrick McMullan) Right about now, David Ganek, the financier and former SAC Capital partner, must be hoping that his luck in the real estate market proves better than his...
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RHONY Episode 6×18: Birdlandia
Allow me to preface this episode by talking about myself. Yesterday I had to go to the dentist to get a cracked molar removed, an experience that cannot be improved by any quantity of Vicodin or...
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To Do This Week: Smoke a Corncob Pipe, Load Up on Rillettes
Metropolitan Museum Young Members Party Photo: Joe Schildhorn Wednesday, July 9 The Esquire Society, which is having a pre-launch party tonight, calls itself “an ultra-high-end, exceptionally exclusive...
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