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If anything reflects long-range faith that the city will recover from the pandemic crisis, it’s the counterintuitive commitment to new eating venues even though nobody knows when indoor dining will again be permitted. The latest example: RXR Realty just landed a 13,000-square-foot lease for a sprawling food hall at the Starrett-Lehigh Building. Tenants of the …
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Nearly five months after shutting their doors, some of the Big Apple’s fanciest hotels are starting to take reservations again, buoyed by signs of pent-up demand from cooped-up New Yorkers. Gone are the tourists and business travelers, and in their place are bored suburbanites looking to celebrate a birthday or spice up a staycation — …
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MLB was forced to postpone games Saturday and Sunday between the Reds and Pirates in Cincinnati after an unidentified Reds player tested positive for the coronavirus a day before, The Post’s Joel Sherman reported. The development comes as baseball was in the process of recovering from two separate coronavirus outbreaks on the Marlins and Cardinals …
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COVID-19 is hitting home for employees of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s production company, Westbrook Inc., as at least 10 have tested positive for the virus. LA County’s public health website lists nine staff members with laboratory-confirmed coronavirus cases at the company’s Calabasas office, The Jasmine Brand reported. In a moment of transparency, Westbrook Inc. …
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor for the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, said this week that he sees “no reason” Americans should avoid voting in-person as long as social distancing guidelines are followed. “I think if carefully done, according to the guidelines, there’s no reason that I can see why that not be the …
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Shares of German biotechnology firm CureVac nearly tripled in their Nasdaq debut Friday, marking the first stock market debut of a company developing a potential vaccine to combat the novel coronavirus. The stock opened at $44 per share, up from the initial public offering price of $16 per share. CureVac, backed by Microsoft founder and …
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Filming amid the coronavirus pandemic isn’t cheap. “It was kind of weird shooting the video in the age of corona,” Cardi B said in an i-D interview Thursday of making her new music video “WAP,” which features Megan Thee Stallion as well as a host of celebrity cameos, including Kylie Jenner and Normani. “We had …
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US health insurance giants doubled their profits as the coronavirus pandemic killed thousands of Americans — sparking a federal investigation. Three of the nation’s largest health insurers raked in a collective $10.7 billion in profits from April through June with the virus raging across the country, up from just $5.3 billion in the same period …
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The 2020 Billboard Music Awards, postponed in April due to the coronavirus pandemic, has set a new date. It’s now set to air live at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, October 14, on NBC. The format is still to be determined. The awards ceremony was initially scheduled to air live on NBC from Las Vegas on …
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Reliving the past is one way to briefly escape the mess we’re all in, and so without much else going on, Yankees minor leaguer Ben Ruta dug through boxes from his childhood when he came across a dream he had written about in 2004 and his mother had saved all these years. The fantasy had …
If anything reflects long-range faith that the city will recover from the pandemic crisis, it’s the counterintuitive commitment to new eating venues even though nobody knows when indoor dining will again be permitted. The latest example: RXR Realty just landed a 13,000-square-foot lease for a sprawling food hall at the Starrett-Lehigh Building. Tenants of the …
