Charming Upstate NY village was just named the nicest place in the US

Charming Upstate NY village was just named the nicest place in the US

A lakeside village in central New York has been named the nicest place in America. Each year, Reader’s Digest invites readers to nominate towns and cities where people really lean into their neighborliness, coming together to affect positive change — and Liverpool, NY, anchored on the shores of Onondaga Lake, took the gold for goodwill. … Read more

LAX’s nightmare ‘people mover’ delayed again three years after scheduled opening

LAX’s nightmare ‘people mover’ delayed again three years after scheduled opening

The opening of the new People Mover train at Los Angeles International Airport has been pushed back — yet again — from October to sometime January. The 2.25-mile automated train, which would move people in between terminals, was actually supposed to open back in 2023. It’s part of a $3.3 billion project that includes transportation … Read more

Exclusive | NYC teachers slapped with pricey fines, nightmare search for parking spaces, as city caps spots

Exclusive | NYC teachers slapped with pricey fines, nightmare search for parking spaces, as city caps spots

For 10 years, Janet Elias shelled out $100 a month to an Alley Pond, Queens homeowner for a coveted amenity: a guaranteed parking spot in their driveway every day from 7:30 am to 3 pm. A New York City public school teacher since 2005, Elias was a technology instructor at nearby PS 46, where she … Read more

Exclusive | I got a high-tech $499 health scan in a basement right out of ‘Severance’ — they found a heart issue doctors had missed

Exclusive | I got a high-tech 9 health scan in a basement right out of ‘Severance’ — they found a heart issue doctors had missed

Wearing nothing but underpants, I’m standing in front of a dozen or so high-res cameras in a SoHo basement. A woman’s voice rings out above me: “A bright light will shine for a few moments. Please close your eyes.” I’m at the brand new Neko Health on Lafayette Street, where the machine (and a doctor) … Read more

Outbreak of gross medieval disease sends six people to hospital in LA neighborhood

Outbreak of gross medieval disease sends six people to hospital in LA neighborhood

A nasty flea-borne disease making a comeback in Los Angeles has hospitalized six people in a new outbreak. Health officials are investigating the latest outbreak of flea-borne typhus in the Wilshire Center area as the bacterial infection continues to resurface across LA County, FOX LA reported. The new cluster comes just months after another outbreak … Read more

Exclusive | 20-hour days, thousands of sandwiches made — the blood, sweat and tears it takes to put on the century-old San Gennaro Feast

Exclusive | 20-hour days, thousands of sandwiches made — the blood, sweat and tears it takes to put on the century-old San Gennaro Feast

People wait all year for the Feast of San Gennaro. Vendors pay thousands of dollars for the chance to be there. And then, almost overnight, Little Italy comes alive. Food stands spring up along 11 blocks, the smell of sausage and peppers fills the air, music spills into the streets and an estimated million people … Read more

Chaos at major California airport as passengers stuck in miserable lines due to mass outage

Chaos at major California airport as passengers stuck in miserable lines due to mass outage

Passengers at San Diego International Airport faced long lines and crowded terminals Tuesday morning as a technical issue slowed the ticketing process. An airport spokesperson confirmed that the airport remains open and flights are still arriving and departing despite the delays. Around 8:30 a.m., the airport posted an update on social media advising travelers to … Read more

Exclusive | New generation breathes life back into shrinking Little Italy in time for Feast of San Gennaro’s 100th anniversary: ‘Change is inevitable’

Exclusive | New generation breathes life back into shrinking Little Italy in time for Feast of San Gennaro’s 100th anniversary: ‘Change is inevitable’

There’s a red-sauce-fueled resurgence happening in Little Italy. For decades, the neighborhood seemed to be shrinking.  Once a sprawling 30-block enclave of Italian immigrants, the neighborhood has shrunk to five blocks along Mulberry Street between Canal and Broome. Astronomical rents pushed out multigenerational businesses that had been fixtures for a century. Italian families moved elsewhere. … Read more

California flight attendants erupt as ‘illegal’ new FAA plan announced

California flight attendants erupt as ‘illegal’ new FAA plan announced

California flight attendants are up in arms over a new Federal Aviation Administration plan that could strip them of their state-mandated meal breaks, with unions blasting the move as “plainly unlawful.” The FAA wants to exempt pilots and flight attendants from state meal-break laws, arguing that federal airline rules override local requirements, InsideFlyer reported. That … Read more

Samuel L. Jackson’s perfect reaction to seeing himself as Mace Windu at blockbuster Lucas Museum opening

Samuel L. Jackson’s perfect reaction to seeing himself as Mace Windu at blockbuster Lucas Museum opening

Samuel L. Jackson provided what fans are calling the “perfect reaction” after coming face to face with a life-sized figure of his beloved “Star Wars” character during opening night gala of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Saturday. In a viral clip captured by Deadline, Jackson is seen walking through one of the museum’s sprawling … Read more

Iconic Carnegie Deli reopens after 10-year absence — with noticeable differences in service, soup, pastrami

Iconic Carnegie Deli reopens after 10-year absence — with noticeable differences in service, soup, pastrami

Carnegie Deli’s back after a 10-year absence — and not a New York Minute too soon.   Historic West Midtown without pastrami on rye was like a ballpark without hot dogs.  Starbucks and contemporary eateries like Locanda Verde and high-end chocolate shop Laderach have none of Carnegie Deli’s pickle-barrel aura. I didn’t much care when … Read more

Wall Street hangout that became a post-9/11 destination is open again after major revamp

Wall Street hangout that became a post-9/11 destination is open again after major revamp

When the Wall Street elite needed a place to regroup after the devastation of 9/11, they didn’t head to a private hotel suite or some nondescript office building. Instead, many gathered at a restaurant owned by a family of Italian immigrants. San Pietro is a cozy, elegant eatery on East 54th Street just off Madison … Read more

‘You’re all insane!’: Locals baffled as line culture invades the Upper East Side — and it’s all over frozen yogurt

‘You’re all insane!’: Locals baffled as line culture invades the Upper East Side — and it’s all over frozen yogurt

Downtown line culture has officially invaded the Upper East Side — where suddenly everyone is losing their minds over frozen yogurt. On Lexington Avenue, the partition ropes are out, the branded cones are in place, and hungry daytrippers are lining the block while bewildered, curious residents brush past a snaking line forming near their multimillion-dollar … Read more

Exclusive | H&M honchos to meet with PETA after wild, caught-on-video fracas at NYFW runway show

Exclusive | H&M honchos to meet with PETA after wild, caught-on-video fracas at NYFW runway show

Executives at H&M will meet with animal rights group PETA following a wild fracas at New York Fashion Week over the weekend that included a top executive at the Swedish fashion giant’s upscale COS label, The Post has learned. During the bizarre incident, COS managing director Daniel Hermann helped to restrain a PETA protester as … Read more

Giant California homeless camp linked to disgusting disease outbreaks finally dismantled

Giant California homeless camp linked to disgusting disease outbreaks finally dismantled

A notorious homeless encampment that has clogged up streets in Berkeley since at least 2023 may finally be cleared, after advocates fought in court to keep the sprawling camp in place. The city of Berkeley on Tuesday began clearing the encampment, located at 8th and Harrison streets, with notices informing residents that tents, structures and … Read more

NYC race sends runners from gym to gym — with workouts at every stop and no set route

NYC race sends runners from gym to gym — with workouts at every stop and no set route

Eight miles, three gyms — one race through New York’s streets. A rainy Sunday morning couldn’t stop over 200 athletes from running through the Meatpacking District up to Midtown Manhattan, then across the bridge to Williamsburg. But this wasn’t your typical 5K. Instead, Urban Iron competitors ran between some of the city’s most iconic gyms … Read more

Trader Joe’s ‘busiest’ location reopens with bare shelves, long lines and hungry shoppers: ‘Don’t even have bags of salt’

Trader Joe’s ‘busiest’ location reopens with bare shelves, long lines and hungry shoppers: ‘Don’t even have bags of salt’

They need some shelf help.  As Trader Joe’s reopened its Upper West Side location after a five-month renovation this past Saturday, long lines of shoppers stretched down Amsterdam Ave. waiting to see the new and improved space.  But “space” was all they got, as both floors of the specialty supermarket — dubbed “the busiest Trader … Read more

Exclusive | Iconic NYC guitar teacher known for his no-frills flyers lands Times Square billboard after 30 years

Exclusive | Iconic NYC guitar teacher known for his no-frills flyers lands Times Square billboard after 30 years

New York’s elusive guitar legend can no longer hide in the shadows.  After 30 years of discreetly postering the city with flyers advertising his guitar lessons, Dan Smith’s grassroots campaign has earned him the most elaborate poster yet: a Times Square billboard. Since 1992, New Yorkers have seen his face and slogan plastered on telephone … Read more

NYC outskirts crowd out top 6 in America’s 20 Best Suburbs ranking

NYC outskirts crowd out top 6 in America’s 20 Best Suburbs ranking

Where do New Yorkers go after the rat race is won? While there is nowhere that compares to New York City, the call of the quaint and the quiet, not to mention the lure of lawns and leafy streets, has long drawn urbanites to the outskirts. To help city slickers choose an aspirational outskirt, HGTV … Read more

Exclusive | America’s oldest cheese shop, Alleva, reopens in Chelsea Market after 130 years in Little Italy

Exclusive | America’s oldest cheese shop, Alleva, reopens in Chelsea Market after 130 years in Little Italy

The big cheese is back in town. America’s oldest cheese shop, the famed Little Italy staple Alleva that dates back to 1892, is reopening Sunday in Chelsea Market. Alleva, which was on the corner of Mulberry and Grand Streets for 130 years, closed in March 2023 after its owner, Karen King, fell behind in rent payment … Read more