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About 9,000 city workers did not comply with a new vaccine mandate, but Mayor Bill de Blasio said the first day went smoothly.

ROBERT De Niro's former New York townhouse has been sold for an eye-watering $12 million.A dramatic cut from the asking price had to be made to get th

Robert De Niros former West Village townhouse, where the legendary actor lived for nearly 37 years until 2012, has been sold for $11.98 million, almost $10 million less than its initial 2019 listing price.

℘℘℘ My father, Michael Rogers, was a bartender at New York’s legendary Astor Bar from 1936 to 1965. The photo above was taken for the N.Y. Daily News series, “The Correct Thing,” on tipping bartenders. It’s not a good shot of him, as it doesn’t do justice to his hair, wavy and deep black, a color he likened to “the inside of a raven’s wing.” He was born in Drumlish, County Longford, in 1900 or 1903 (accounts vary) and, in 1926, he and his Longford mate, Hughie Prunty, havi...

Share Preparing for a busy day at the ‘21’ Club’s popular Bar Room, which is festooned with “toys” from its famed clientele. In 1931, Ernest Hemingway was caught in its kitchen having sex with gangster Legs Diamonds girlfriend. Holly Golightly dined there in Breakfast at Tiffanys, as did the books author, Truman Capote. Grace Kelly had its food delivered to an incapacitated Jimmy Stewart in the movie Rear Window. Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Elizabeth Taylor...