Exclusive | Fir-geddaboudit! Meet the New Yorker behind the Rockefeller Center tree — who scouts 100 hopefuls across 6 states each year

Exclusive | Fir-geddaboudit! Meet the New Yorker behind the Rockefeller Center tree — who scouts 100 hopefuls across 6 states each year

He’s a real conifer-sseur. A visit to the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree — dizzyingly tall, dazzlingly lit — is one of NYC’s most treasured holiday rituals. And behind every sky-high stunner chopped down and brought into the Big Apple to make spirits bright at Christmastime stands just one man with an eye for perfection — most likely … Read more

Exclusive | Father of Navy SEAL Michael Murphy has spent the last 20 years keeping hero son’s legacy alive: ‘A higher sense of purpose’

Exclusive | Father of Navy SEAL Michael Murphy has spent the last 20 years  keeping hero son’s legacy alive: ‘A higher sense of purpose’

It’s been nearly 20 years since Daniel Murphy was told his son Michael, a Navy SEAL Lieutenant from Long Island, had been killed in action in Afghanistan — along with two team members and 16 other military personnel. While the Medal of Honor recipient’s heroics were memorialized in the 2013 film “Lone Survivor,” his proud dad … Read more

I was sad and overweight at 47 — now I’ve lost 66 lbs and do bodybuilding competitions

I was sad and overweight at 47 — now I’ve lost 66 lbs and do bodybuilding competitions

Meet the super fit 52-year-old online star who went from an overweight middle-aged lady to a bodybuilding champion in just a few years. Five years ago, Brazilian Claudia Oliveira decided to make a dramatic change to her lifestyle when she got tired of being sad and having low self-esteem. Claudia Oliveira lost over 66 pounds … Read more

Grandpa throws rave-funeral for late grandson: ‘I felt that he wanted me to dance with him’

Grandpa throws rave-funeral for late grandson: ‘I felt that he wanted me to dance with him’

He was raved from the dead. An Italian grandfather, Gino Gentilin, celebrated the tragic loss of his grandson’s life in a usual way. Gentilin, 66, lost his grandson Kevin Gentilin, 15, in a car accident from riding his vintage Vespa scooter to school when he was hit by a car as he rode through rush … Read more

Exclusive | What a kick! Rockettes welcome fresh talent ahead of ‘Spectacular’ season: ‘My little American dream come true’

Exclusive | What a kick! Rockettes welcome fresh talent ahead of ‘Spectacular’ season: ‘My little American dream come true’

Meet the new dancing queens. This Friday, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular returns for another magical holiday season — with a slew of fresh faces joining the show’s famed Rockettes this year. Following open-call auditions in the spring, which saw more than 800 women kick their way into Midtown to show their best tap, jazz … Read more

Family’s 100-year-old gold coin collection worth millions more than they thought

Family’s 100-year-old gold coin collection worth millions more than they thought

Kudos to the shrewd keeper of this collecting family’s purse strings. A rare collection of gold coins dating back over a century has been appraised at a staggering $2 million — which is about $1.9 million more than the family who owns the set anticipated. The lineup of 51 Liberty Head and Indian Head gold … Read more

Man dismissed as ‘fat’ and given Ozempic before doctors find 60-pound tumor in his belly

Man dismissed as ‘fat’ and given Ozempic before doctors find 60-pound tumor in his belly

Doctors were convinced that a Norwegian man was simply fat for 12 years — but his growing belly was actually expanding with a 60-pound malignant tumor. He was diagnosed with obesity and even got prescribed Ozempic before they discovered the growth, leading to a 10-hour surgery for its removal. Thomas Kraut, 59, had the operation … Read more

Alexander The Great’s tunic uncovered at ancient burial site — a few millennia after the fact

Alexander The Great’s tunic uncovered at ancient burial site — a few millennia after the fact

What a Great find. New archeological research has uncovered a piece of cloth with a “physical description [that] exactly fits” a tunic worn by the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great. It consists of “a cotton textile dyed purple which sandwiches one or two layers of a whitish material made mainly of the mineral huntite,” according … Read more

Sorry, Gen Z, but you’re too old to trick-or-treat in these age-limited towns

Sorry, Gen Z, but you’re too old to trick-or-treat in these age-limited towns

This might sour your Halloween. In some US towns, there are age restrictions for trick-or-treaters, meaning kids of a certain age may be ineligible for candy canvassing tonight. According to Fox News, one town in New Jersey has a law that ban anyone 14 years or older from trick-or-treating. Yes, you can be too old … Read more

Wild art show has visitors tripping out and staring into strangers’ eyes: ‘It’s amazing’

Wild art show has visitors tripping out and staring into strangers’ eyes: ‘It’s amazing’

What are you looking at? A mysterious art show is tricking New Yorkers into tripping out — and staring into each other’s eyes. The wild exhibit, “Bobby Anspach: The Beautiful Nothing,” features a pair of kooky contraptions — tangles of wires, lights and colorful pom-poms — that look like something a mad scientist built with … Read more

Skateboarders pay touching tribute to dead friend by building him a unique headstone

Skateboarders pay touching tribute to dead friend by building him a unique headstone

It’s a skate-way to heaven. Skateboarders in Mexico honored their deceased buddy’s wishes by making his headstone a quarter-pipe ramp so mourners could skate with him instead of praying. A viral YouTube video, posted by Storyful, shows a visitor performing a tail grind on the ramp-inspired gravemarker, which is located in La Paz, Baja California … Read more

Retiree who finished dead last in 2023 NYC Marathon back for more — ‘just warming up’

Retiree who finished dead last in 2023 NYC Marathon back for more — ‘just warming up’

When Joel Kaufman of Queens walked across the TCS New York City Marathon finish line last year past 8 p.m., after most runners and spectators had long since left Central Park, he earned an unusual honor. “I got a call the next day from New York Road Runners,” Kaufman told The Post about the organization … Read more

I disappeared into the woods for 30 days — what I experienced before rescue took years off my life

I disappeared into the woods for 30 days — what I experienced before rescue took years off my life

A long-distance runner was lost for 30 days in the wilderness of Washington state before his rescue from the brink of death. What was supposed to be a day-long excursion for Robert Schock, 39, became a month-long fight for his life with no food, shelter, clothing or cell phone service. “[The ordeal] has taken its … Read more

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel are all smiles in sweet, new photo shared by husband

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel are all smiles in sweet, new photo shared by husband

And hubby makes three.  Smiling cheek-to-cheek-to-cheek are conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel, 34, and Abby’s husband Joshua Bowling in his new Facebook profile pic.  The cheery trio, who united as one during Abby and Bowling’s 2021 nuptials, is seen saying “cheese” for a rare selfie while enjoying a fall night in the outdoors.  Bowling … Read more

I was paralyzed a decade ago — here’s how I run the NYC marathon

I was paralyzed a decade ago — here’s how I run the NYC marathon

Michael Ring was organizing a 100-mile bike tour in Putnam County in 2014 when he started falling, dropping things and tripping over stuff — it was happening so often that his then-boss took notice. “He took me aside and said, ‘I don’t talk about this, but I’m a cancer survivor. I’m saying that to scare … Read more

Student with Down Syndrome becomes first to join fraternity: ‘The joy and light that we were missing’

Student with Down Syndrome becomes first to join fraternity: ‘The joy and light that we were missing’

Charlie McGee wanted the full college experience — and he wasn’t going to let living with Down Syndrome get in his way This fall, the Clemson University junior accepted his bid to Phi Kappa Alpha, becoming one of the first students with intellectual disabilities to enlist in Greek life at the school. McGee, pictured, was … Read more

Identical twin brothers speak 26 languages each — including one they invented as toddlers

Identical twin brothers speak 26 languages each — including one they invented as toddlers

Identical twins Matthew and Michael Youlden can speak 26 languages — one of which can’t be found in the annals of etymology. Inspired by the multicultural landscape of their hometown of Manchester in the UK, the polyglots who now run their own language learning company became interested in foreign language studies from an early age. … Read more

Exclusive | The good, bad and ugly: New Yorkers share most memorable subway moments as rail system turns 120

Exclusive | The good, bad and ugly: New Yorkers share most memorable subway moments as rail system turns 120

The subway changed Rick McGuire’s life. No, he didn’t meet his forever person on the uptown A train like fiancés Anastasia Gregory and Spencer Seabaugh, nor did he find “American Idol” fame after launching a crooning career on station platforms like singer Just Sam.  Instead, the subway system, which celebrates its 120th anniversary Sunday, gave … Read more

Exclusive | Meet 3 Timothée Chalamet doppelgängers entering NYC’s mysterious look-alike contest: ‘Everybody’s talking about it — it’s a big deal’

Exclusive | Meet 3 Timothée Chalamet doppelgängers entering NYC’s mysterious look-alike contest: ‘Everybody’s talking about it — it’s a big deal’

Would you call them by his name? Throngs of lanky, mop-topped boys — and their admirers — will converge in NYC from near and far this weekend for a decidedly outré event: a Timothée Chalamet look-alike competition with a $50 prize for his most convincing, doe-eyed doppelgänger. London student Octave Cusinberche, 22, is considering flying … Read more

Exclusive | I got the newest, most trendy breast implants — everyone in NYC wants a pair

Exclusive | I got the newest, most trendy breast implants — everyone in NYC wants a pair

Dayanara Perez is very mindful about what she puts in her body. So when the self-professed “health nut” was tapped to be one of the first women in the US to get silicone Motiva breast implants, her ears — and a few other body parts — perked up. “My boobs are so perky and natural … Read more