Tag: NYC City Life

Busy Philipps Shares Video of Her Falling Down Front Steps of NY Home

Busy Philipps took to Instagram on New Year’s Eve to share a security camera video showing her falling down the front steps of her New York City home back in October. The 43-year-old actress, known for her roles in “White Chicks” and “Dawson’s Creek,” said 2022 “broke her heart in multiple ways” but was glad…


Manhattan Apartment Sales Tumble, as Prices Drop for First Time Since Early 2020

Manhattan apartment sales plunged in the last quarter, as prices dropped for first time since the pandemic in 2020. Brokers are becoming concerned that buyers and sellers are holding back because of economic fears and higher interest rates in one of the largest real estate markets in the United States, according to a report from Douglas…


Biden Sending Federal Aid as New York Digs Out From Huge Snowstorm

BUFFALO, N.Y.—President Joe Biden is sending federal aid to western New York to help state and local authorities clean up from the massive storm that dumped as much as 6 feet (1.8 meters) of snow in western and northern New York, the White House announced Monday. The emergency declaration authorizes the Department of Homeland Security…


Winners Announced for NTD’s 6th International Piano Competition

NTD announced the winners for its International Piano Competition in New York on Wednesday. Antonii Baryshevskyi from Ukraine won the Gold Award and Jiusi Zhang from China won the Best Rendition Award of the Commissioned Composition. Dozens of contestants from around the world competed at the Merkin Concert Hall of the Kaufman Music Center in New York from…


News Veteran Anastos to Host ′Positively America′

Ernie Anastos, a 44-year veteran of television news in New York City, will launch a national, syndicated series in the fall called “Positively America with Ernie Anastos.” The weekly show will be exactly what the title says: stories that illustrate America in a positive way. “I’ve been doing, call it ‘positive news,’ for a long…


Gotham City Band Keeps Ragtime and Jazz Alive in the Big Apple

The scene in the jazz club was “The Great Gatsby” meets “Sultans of Swing.” It didn’t play out in “London Town,” but on a summer night in New York City’s Greenwich Village. There was actually a “group of young boys” (well, they were 23) who were there to see a “trumpet-playing band.” The venue was…


College Students Get Free Recycled Dorm Essentials

NEW YORK—College freshmen picked up recycled linens, blankets, and other dorm essentials in Manhattan on July 28 from a program run by two moms who realized how much can be reused after their children finished college. Liz Gruber and Tara Smith Tyberg created the Grad Bag organization in 2012. Grad Bag volunteers collect comforters, blankets,…


Joey Chestnut Is Chomp Champ Again in July 4 Hot Dog Contest

NEW YORK—Frankfurter-munching phenom Joey “Jaws” Chestnut gobbled his way to a 15th win Monday at the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, powering down 63 hot dogs and buns at the annual exhibition of excess. In a decisive chowdown comeback, women’s record-holder Miki Sudo downed 40 wieners and buns to win the…


Feinstein, Midori, Perlman Headline Carnegie Ukraine Benefit

NEW YORK—Singer Michael Feinstein, violinists Itzhak Perlman and Midori, and pianist Evgeny Kissin will perform at a Carnegie Hall benefit concert for Ukraine on May 23. Soprano Angel Blue, mezzo-sopranos Denyce Graves and Isabel Leonard, jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, singers Jessica Vosk and Adrienne Warren, and mandolinist Chris Thile also will perform along with…


Manhattan Residential Real Estate Sales Hit $7.3 Billion in Q1 2022.

High-end real estate sales in Manhattan reached $7.3 billion in the first quarter of 2022, a marked improvement after the industry was hit hard during the two-year pandemic, according to the latest sales reports. The positive data is one of the strongest starts to a year on record as the NYC market accelerates upward, with no…