Olympic Village vendor slams claim athletes found worms in their food at 2024 Paris Games
A catering company hired to feed thousands of world-class athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics has slammed reports that parasites have been found in their meals. Earlier this week, Britain’s silver medal-winning swimmer Adam Peaty claimed several athletes had found parasites in their fish dishes, adding that the standard of food in the Olympic Village […]
Disabled veteran food vendor sues NYC for $8M after arrest
A disabled U.S. Army veteran and longtime street vendor has filed an $8 million lawsuit against the city, alleging he was wrongfully arrested while trying to make a living, according to court documents. Food vendor Armando Crescenzi was operating a food cart at West 34th Street and Broadway in February when he was arrested and […]
Disgraced ‘Crash’ director Paul Haggis owes stiffed trial vendor in NY rape suit $115K: judge
Judge, add it to his account. Paul Haggis, director of the disgraced film “Crash,” was ordered by a Manhattan judge on Monday to pay $115,000 to his rape accuser, on top of the $10 million he owes her. The former Hollywood A-lister has refused to respond to a lawsuit filed against him by a court […]
Trump’s ex-fixer Michael Cohen admits stealing $60K from him after Trump stiffed vendor in bizarre scheme to rig popularity poll
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-adversary, calmly confessed Monday that he stole $60,000 from his former boss as he finished testifying in the former president’s hush-money trial, calling the theft “self-help.” “It was a form of “. The convicted liar confessed while being questioned by defense attorney Todd Blanche about his bizarre plan to sway the […]
Hot dog vendor, William Woods, furious with police after false imprisonment as victim of identity theft
A wrongly imprisoned former hot dog vendor who was the victim of a 30-year identity theft case is speaking out and threatening to sue the city that imprisoned him. William Woods spent 428 days in prison and 147 days in hospital after being found unfit to stand trial because a judge ruled he had a […]
Elite NYC school with super star alums cuts theater program as vendor and city point fingers
A much-lauded theater program at Manhattan’s prestigious performing arts school has come to an end, leaving the city and its vendors to point fingers at each other. The news sparked outrage at the Hell’s Kitchen School of Professional Performing Arts, whose alumni include actors Claire Danes, Jesse Eisenberg and Jeremy Allen White, and musicians Alicia […]
NYC newsstand vendor attacked in broad-daylight lotto ticket, cash heist
Three beasts hit a Manhattan newsstand owner in the afternoon in an afternoon robbery, leaving him “covered in blood” and robbing him of lottery tickets and cash, the owner said. Masked men burst into Abul Hossein’s Upper East Side newsstand around 2:30 p.m. and peppered the unassuming 67-year-old owner with punches. “I was eating lunch […]