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NEW YORK (AP) - “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda joined New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday at the grand opening of a Times Square COVID-19 vaccination site intended to jump-start the city’s entertainment industry. “We want to gather again, and we want to tell stories in the dark,”…

WASHINGTON - A pair of Kanye West's first Nike Yeezy sneakers, which he debuted on stage at the Grammys, are to be sold, with Sotheby's predicting the shoes could fetch in excess of $1 million. The Nike Air Yeezy 1 sneakers are part of a private sale -- which means neither the final price nor the buyer will be released unless the individual comes…

A concerned Brooklyn mother on Friday called into a radio interview with Mayor Bill de Blasio to ask "what's being done" to fight crime in New York City. The mother, identified only as Nicole, said she lives near Prospect Park. She said she was outside with her 4-year-old son around 4 p.m. Tuesday…

Rat and mouse sightings made up the majority of the complaints in Brooklyn, followed by Manhattan and Queens Commercial areas in the city are also seeing more rodent activity as people begin returning to offices Published: 12:45am, 11 Apr, 2021 Updated: 12:45am, 11 Apr, 2021 Read More

Apple will soon open a new retail store The Bronx, New York City’s northernmost borough. On Friday, Apple publicly posted job openings for the new location on its Jobs website, inviting candidates to apply. Apple operates seven stores in Manhattan, two in Brooklyn, and one in both Queens and on…

Amy Thurlow is “in way over her head” as president of Golden Globes producer Dick Clark Productions, an insider tells TheWrap Lionsgate, which owned TV Guide Network, said it would not comment on a personnel issue. Through a DCP spokesperson, Thurlow declined to address these allegations or complaints about a…

A team of Mount Sinai surgeons in New York City earlier this year performed the world's first human tracheal transplant surgery, the health system announced this week. News of the procedure's success already has other patients taking note. To date, surgeons have been unable to transplant the trachea -- an…

Democracies depend on law; authoritarian systems prefer legal theater. In recent cases having to do with religion, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court has shown a distinct preference for the latter. This unsubtle turn in the direction of performative justice is among the more disturbing developments in American politics…

An office and shopping complex in Beijing. (AP) Mumbai featured in the Forbes list with 48 dollar billionaires as it added 10 billionaires last year.Beijing replaced New York City as home to highest number of dollar billionaires, according to a new list by the prestigious Forbes magazine. Bouncing back from…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Emblazoned with the outline of a masked Statue of Liberty flexing a formidable bicep, the first COVID-19 mobile vaccine clinics rolled into New York City on Wednesday to make vaccinations more easily available for underserved communities. The first buses set up in the Sunset Park community…