It’s time to buy a New York minute. After getting pounded by the pandemic, the city’s timeshare industry is rebounding with two new, high-end developments arriving this year as visitors return to the city. The Central at 5th by Hilton Club, a 34-story, new-construction tower at 12 E. 48th St. (which is, in fact, closer … Read more
Some equate loneliness with being a loser, unenthusiastic, hard to get along with, not personable, yet none of those labels fit actor, social media evangelist and COVID-19 investigator Samantina Zenon. Consider that during the pandemic she not only worked a full-time job, she also wrote a book, started a TikTok channel with almost 11,000 followers … Read more
In Zoom meetings, I’ve noticed that people feel free to check their phones and do e-mail. Others turn off their cameras, so who knows if they are paying attention? I find this distracting and rude when I present. Can I say something even if I’m not the boss? When meetings took place in the office, … Read more
What’s in a name? For one Utah resident who wrote a letter to Gov. Spencer Cox, quite a bit. “I do not know if you know this, but when people say your surname it sounds like the word c–k. It’s obscene!” the Aug. 5 letter stated. The unidentified writer demanded the 46-year-old governor change his … Read more
Maid Marion, hide your eyes! Robin Hood’s former hideout is now a haven for nude hikers. A group of “naked ramblers” have taken to roaming Sherwood Forest in the nude, infuriating locals who have started a petition to have the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) which runs the park to “stop promoting … Read more
It was Iole Lucchese’s smile that first won over Richard “Dick” Robinson, the powerful head of Scholastic, when the lithe brunette met him at a Canadian booksellers’ conference in 1992. Lucchese, then 25, was an ambitious junior book-club editor at the Toronto branch of the New York-based company that would go on to earn massive … Read more
A woman in Britain recently reunited with her son – 52 years after she unwillingly surrendered her newborn boy for adoption. Lynne Oakes was just 14 in 1968 when she became pregnant during a relationship with an older man, according to reports out of the UK. She was shipped to a home for single mothers … Read more
Mike Novogratz’s wrestling days at Princeton prepared him well for the rough-and-tumble world of Wall Street. “Wrestling’s a very tough sport,” investment banker Andy Rosen, who met Novogratz in college, told The Post. “When you are on the mat it’s just you. There are no excuses, no way out. Mike loves the fight. He also … Read more
Are you … the problem? A California-based personality assessment company, Truity, has developed a Toxic Person Test that helps people find out what bad behaviors they may have and if they’re actually the toxic person everyone is trying to avoid. The test uses principles of the Big Five model of personality and commonly loathed behaviors … Read more
It was 1945, and warehouses in Birmingham, England, were filled with millions of pieces of undelivered mail. As the Allied forces swept across Europe, mail delivery had become difficult, but the lack of care packages and letters from back home was hurting morale. Enter the 6888: The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, a part of … Read more