• Edie Falco calls on NYC to ban live animal markets amid coronavirus

    Edie Falco calls on NYC to ban live animal markets amid coronavirus

    Edie Falco called on New York City to shut down all live animal markets and slaughterhouses amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Brooklyn-born “Sopranos” actress and PETA representative sent a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio Friday comparing the city’s live poultry shops to the wet markets of Wuhan, China, where experts believe the virus originated. …
  • NYSE opened its coronavirus-shut doors to facilitate IPO

    NYSE opened its coronavirus-shut doors to facilitate IPO

    The New York Stock Exchange quietly used its trading floor to take a company public late last month — days after it had shuttered the famous pit because of a coronavirus outbreak, The Post has learned. The Big Board took a group of people onto the trading floor of its historic building at 11 Wall …
  • Harvey Weinstein, reportedly coronavirus-free, released from prison quarantine

    Harvey Weinstein, reportedly coronavirus-free, released from prison quarantine

    Harvey Weinstein is coronavirus-free more than three weeks after being diagnosed with the deadly illness, a report said Thursday. The convicted rapist overcame symptoms of the disease, including a cough and fever, and was released from his 14-day quarantine, according to The Daily Mail. Weinstein, 68, is “being monitored for his various medical conditions” in …
  • How ‘West Side Story’ cast stays connected online during coronavirus lockdown

    How ‘West Side Story’ cast stays connected online during coronavirus lockdown

    When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet … all the way, from your first Broadway preview to your last Zoom call. Like all Broadway shows during the coronavirus pandemic, the revival of the classic musical “West Side Story” went dark March 12, just three weeks after opening night, with performances now planned to resume some …
  • Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig stage wacky quarantine soap opera

    Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig stage wacky quarantine soap opera

    This daytime soap is perfect for the young and the restless — and the quarantined. On Wednesday’s “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” the talk show host corralled fellow “Saturday Night Live” alumni Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig to lampoon our socially-distant lives in a virtual soap opera, “The Longest Days of Our Lives,” a spoof …
  • Wall Street firm offered 175% returns to investors using US aid programs

    Wall Street firm offered 175% returns to investors using US aid programs

    A New York investment firm pitched wealthy investors in recent days on a way to make returns of 22 percent to 175 percent using US government programs designed to help Americans keep their jobs and boost the coronavirus-stricken economy, according to a marketing document seen by Reuters. Following questions posed by Reuters, Arcadia Investment Partners, …
  • There may be some relief for the hospitality sector amid coronavirus

    There may be some relief for the hospitality sector amid coronavirus

    First, the good news for some workers in the hospitality business. In fact, this might be the only good news you can find these days in that industry. A relatively new company called Better.com, headquartered downtown at 3 WTC, is in the process of hiring an army of new workers. And that army is going …
  • Broadway theaters to be closed longer than expected due to the coronavirus

    Broadway theaters to be closed longer than expected due to the coronavirus

    Broadway can’t go on with the shows just yet. The Great White Way productions were initially expected to resume during the week of April 13, however, on Wednesday the Broadway League announced that theaters will remain dark through June 7 as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage New York City. The decision was made in …
  • Anna Wintour says doctor son treating coronavirus patients is ‘quite ill’

    Anna Wintour says doctor son treating coronavirus patients is ‘quite ill’

    Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour has revealed that her physician son, who works at a Manhattan hospital on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, is quite ill and under quarantine. “My son is a doctor,” Wintour said on Instagram. “He is currently quite ill and self-quarantining at home, but when he is able, he will …
  • Why NYC grocery stores that cater to the rich are struggling amid coronavirus

    Why NYC grocery stores that cater to the rich are struggling amid coronavirus

    The coronavirus has created a weird divide among the Big Apple’s grocery stores — and the supermarkets that cater to the rich have been caught on the wrong side. Initial waves of citywide binge-shopping in mid-March spurred social media posts of wiped-out shelves and empty freezer bins at Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. But since …