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A Brooklyn taxi operator who got his first medallion in the 1970s has filed for bankruptcy as the coronavirus ravages an already struggling industry, The Post has learned. Joe Pross, who started driving a taxi in 1975 and now runs a fleet of 42 cabs, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for his Crown Heights-based …
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The best leaders know when to use power and when to rescind it. Perhaps it’s natural and understandable for most people to think that things like “leadership” and “character” are forged and evidenced in response to crisis. It’s quite apparent in the present moment that judgments about public figures are being shaped by how they’re …
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The commercial real estate industry is adapting to the coronavirus quarantines by renegotiating sales and leases, pausing physical tours and having frank negotiations with lenders — when they can be reached. Tenants still searching for their next office space — coronavirus be damned — can only do it through flyers and virtual tours, while tenants …
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Savannah Guthrie returned to the “Today” show studio Tuesday after almost two weeks working from home after a coronavirus scare. “This is studio 1A — I haven’t been here in a while!” the 48-year-old host said as she opened NBC’s breakfast show having been given the all-clear after self-isolating with “a little sore throat” and …
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ngOf course, when James Dolan finally inspires the cheers of Knicks fans it is for the wrong reason. The Knicks announced Saturday that Dolan tested positive for COVID-19 and the team’s owner remains in self-isolation, while experiencing little to no symptoms. That news brought unrestrained glee to countless fans — who posted memes and GIFs …
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New York — always, forever, no matter what — the greatest city on Earth. Greatest talents, greatest population, greatest attractions. Plus, The Hand That Feeds Us Is Divine gave us the planet’s greatest cardinal. Timothy Cardinal Dolan — who usually works St. Patrick’s Cathedral — is also temporarily unemployed. His workplace is empty. Forget sinners, …
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Christie Brinkley is terrified for her daughters who have self-quarantined in New York City where the coronavirus death toll reached 1,218 Monday afternoon. Brinkley’s daughters, 21-year-old Sailor Brinkley-Cook and 34-year-old Alexa Ray Joel, are both self-quarantining in the Big Apple while she has been staying in her Hamptons home with 24-year-old son Jack Brinkley-Cook. “My …
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Lady Gaga turned 34 on Saturday, but got an unexpectedly embarrassing surprise by her dad, Joe Germanotta. Sources told us the singer was caught off guard when she learned Joe set up a GoFundMe account asking the public to donate $50,000 to pay for his staff’s wages at family restaurant, Joanne Trattoria, amid the coronavirus …
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Even Anna Wintour is getting emotional over the fashion industry’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. “Positivity is such a precious commodity right now, but I felt something close to pure joy in recent days,” the famously stoic editor-in-chief, 70, began in a piece posted on Vogue’s website on Monday. Wintour was partly referring to designer Ralph …
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In recent weeks designer Christian Siriano announced his staff would make surgical masks to help medical pros fighting the coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, the fashion designer shipped 1,500 off to healthcare workers in New York. He posted a video lugging a box of masks down a stairwell, and captioned it, “Wow, we are so proud …
A Brooklyn taxi operator who got his first medallion in the 1970s has filed for bankruptcy as the coronavirus ravages an already struggling industry, The Post has learned. Joe Pross, who started driving a taxi in 1975 and now runs a fleet of 42 cabs, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for his Crown Heights-based …
