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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 Niro's 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 it's 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, having never visited Dublin, were on their way to New York. They walked from Longford to Cork to travel ...