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Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster filming Taxi Driver. Photo: Steve Schapiro When Juliet Taylor arrived on the steps of the East 30th Street brownstone owned by “queen casting director” Marion Dougherty, her new boss was working on Midnight Cowboy, the 1969 Oscar-winning buddy drama of “I’m walking here!” fame. Taylor,…

AP Photo/Hassan Ammar Formula One star Lewis Hamilton made a hefty profit after reportedly selling his New York City penthouse. Per TMZ Sports, the sale price for the 12,000-square foot property was $49.5 million.  The Briton originally bought the property in 2017 for almost $44 million.  According to TMZ, the…

The Hammer remembers the guerrilla style of director Larry Cohen and how New York City provided a neighborhood full of free extras. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection In 1973, former NFL defensive back Fred Williamson, also known as “the Hammer,” starred in director Larry Cohen’s blaxploitation film Black Caesar…

Even if it could never happen. Photo: Columbia Picutres It’s December 2002. Barely a year has passed since 9/11. George W. Bush has just given a speech about “faith-based initiatives” at a Marriott in Philadelphia, in the same year Donald Rumsfeld uttered the phrase “There are known knowns.” And in…

A large number of New York City residents who haven’t gotten their COVID-19 vaccines yet will soon be required to, according to a new mandate from city mayor Bill de Blasio. He announced the move, which requires employers to implement a vaccine mandate by December 27, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe…

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced a major vaccine mandate expansion including the first in the nation for private-sector workers. In an announcement today, the outgoing de Blasio said the mandate, which will take effect on Dec. 27, will apply to roughly 184,000 businesses. His “Key to…

Author of the article: Reuters Peter Szekely and Brendan O'Brien NEW YORK — New York City declared on Monday that all private-sector employers must implement COVID-19 vaccine mandates for their workers, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant has spread to at least one-third of U.S. states. The biggest U.S. city…

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December 03, 2021 - 04:49AM Storyful Police officers in Manhattan engaged in a standoff with a man outside the United Nations headquarters on the morning of Thursday, December 2. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) instructed people to avoid the immediate area of 42nd Street and 1st Avenue, where…

NewsNationalNew York Police Evacuate Streets Near UN Building During Standoff December 03, 2021 - 04:07AM Storyful Police officers engaged in a standoff with a man outside the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan on the morning of Thursday, December 2. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) instructed people to avoid…