NYC nail salon Glosslab files for bankruptcy
The celebrity-backed Manhattan nail salon chain, which was put on alert after the newspaper exclusively reported on rent arrears, has filed for bankruptcy, according to court filings. Grosslove, who has raised $20 million from investors including model Olivia Culpo, musicians from The Chainsmokers, former Knicks star Ammar Stoudemire and Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff, announced […]
McDonald’s wants ex-StreetEasy CEO to demolish NYC penthouse
StreetEasy's co-founder and former CEO is embroiled in a bitter legal battle with McDonald's for building an illegally luxurious penthouse on top of a Manhattan apartment complex – Fast It's a rooftop space that a major food company claims ownership of. Michael A. Smith, who sold the popular real estate website to Zillow for $50 […]
Man Pleads Guilty in Case of Secret Chinese Police Station in NYC
In April 2023, one of two men arrested for running an illegal Chinese police station persecuting anti-communists in New York City. begged The Department of Justice confirmed Wednesday that he was guilty of one of two charges in the case. Chen Jinping and “Harry” Lu Jiangwan were arrested on charges of conspiracy as agents of […]
NYC plastic surgeon cuts back at ‘sex slave’ claims by model ex, contends Instagram posts show she’s lying: court docs
A Manhattan plastic surgeon has hit back at a model's ex-girlfriend's explosive claims that he turned her into a “sex slave” and performed surgeries without anesthesia to hide the abuse. Maya Willow Sias' own texts and Instagram posts disprove her bombshell statements about Fifth Avenue surgeon Ammar Mahmoud, his lawyers said last week. argued in […]
Woman, 47, fatally stabbed in NYC home, 15-year-old son hurt trying to intervene: cops
A 47-year-old woman was stabbed to death and her son, who intervened to help his dying mother, was injured during a domestic confrontation inside a Brooklyn home late Sunday, authorities said. Police say Antoinette Stewart-Gordon was stabbed in the neck and abdomen during a vicious attack inside a home on East 81st Street near Flatlands […]
NYC comptroller asks feds to decide whether Cuomo violated health rules during deadly COVID pandemic
As Andrew Cuomo seeks a return to politics, one of his Democratic rivals is now asking federal officials to review a controversial edict the former governor imposed on nursing homes at the height of the pandemic. City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander said Cuomo's infamous March 25, 2020 order requiring nursing homes to accept […]
Weekend violence — including a sleeping woman burned to death on Brooklyn train — propels NYC subway murder tally to 25-year high: cops
The number of murders in the city's subways this year has reached 10 as 2024 draws to a close, matching the previous 25-year high set in 2022, authorities said. The tragic milestone came as part of a weekend of violence on the Big Apple's transit system, when an undocumented immigrant allegedly burned a woman to […]
Critics say bystanders stood by while illegal migrant burned woman to death on NYC subway: ‘Daniel Penny effect’
Bystanders did nothing, but New Yorkers protested en masse on Monday, a day after an illegal Guatemalan immigrant was suspected of burning a hanging leather bag while he was sleeping on a Brooklyn subway car. Horrifying video footage of the incident shows at least three lifeguards, one of whom was seen filming the shocking death […]
Border czar Homan slams Hochul over NYC subway safety boast
President-elect Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan, the New York governor who boasted on the X show about improving subway safety hours after an illegal immigrant allegedly burned a sleeping passenger on the F train Blamed Kathy Hochul. “Governor Hochul, I'm sorry. There's nothing you can say to make this right in New York,” Hochul […]
Alt-rock Indiana Jones uncovers long-lost Ramones guitar case in NYC home
Brian Gorsegner may seem like an average punk rocker-turned-New Jersey dad, but he's actually the Indiana Jones of alternative rock, bent on retrieving the long-lost relics of rock 'n' roll that changed his life. He is an urban archaeologist working on. A music booking agent by day, Mr. Gorsegner has spent nights and weekends for […]