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On any other Friday evening in mid-April, “The Loopy Doopy” rooftop bar at the Conrad Hotel in Battery Park City would be abuzz with Goldman Sachs bankers wrapping bright blue blankets around their shoulders while sipping overpriced happy-hour drinks. But this year, the bar is closed, and there are no bankers checked into the luxury …
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George Soros is directing more than $130 million in funds from his Open Society Foundations toward helping vulnerable communities globally amid the coronavirus pandemic. The funding package includes $37 million to support workers and their families across New York City, the U.S. epicenter of the outbreak and home to Open Society’s largest office, according to …
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Shakespeare in the Park is the latest major New York event to fall due to the coronavirus pandemic. The annual summertime festival, typically running May to August, was canceled Friday by its operator, the Public Theater. This marks the first time the popular free event won’t be held at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park …
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Contemporary artist WhIsBe has teamed up with friends at a Brooklyn-based 3D printing company to manufacture thousands of face shields for healthcare heroes working to fight the coronavirus pandemic. “It makes me happy to be part of [the art] community and help people out,” WhIsBe, known for his popular Vandal Gummy artwork, told Page Six …
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Tyler Cameron took a break from TikToking with Hannah Brown to help teach middle school students forced to take online classes while quarantined during the coronavirus pandemic. The former “Bachelor” contestant, 27, surprised a class of sixth graders when he hopped on their Google Meet lesson Thursday to help teach a lesson about advertising on …
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Louis C.K. appears to have donated $30,000 to help the wait staff at the Comedy Cellar. And he’s just one of a host of famous funny people to rally around the workers at the Greenwich Village comedy mecca while it’s closed because of the pandemic. According to a GoFundMe set up by stand-up star Mike …
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You better know what to do when circumstances change, when you are confronted with crisis. Coaching the New York Football Giants —whether you are champions such as Bill Parcells and Tom Coughlin or a rookie such as Joe Judge — in the midst of a pandemic is not exactly miraculously landing a plane in the …
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he is hoping baseball can return soon and made his feelings known to Mets COO Jeff Wilpon. But with one caveat. “I said why can’t we talk about a baseball season with nobody in the stands? Why can’t you play the game with the players,” Cuomo told his …
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Martha would be very proud of her grand baby. Michael Che is paying homage to his grandmother, Martha, who recently died of coronavirus complications, in the kindest way possible. The “Saturday Night Live” star will pay one month’s rent for 160 residents in his grandmother’s public housing complex in NYC. “It’s crazy to me that …
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The city that never sleeps has been silenced by the coronavirus epidemic. But inside their homes, as a recent viral competition has made clear: New Yorkers and their accents lie in wait, eager to once again fill the void with dropped Rs and a tough attitude. Filmmaker Nicolas Heller usually spends his days roving the …
On any other Friday evening in mid-April, “The Loopy Doopy” rooftop bar at the Conrad Hotel in Battery Park City would be abuzz with Goldman Sachs bankers wrapping bright blue blankets around their shoulders while sipping overpriced happy-hour drinks. But this year, the bar is closed, and there are no bankers checked into the luxury …
