As one of the most expensive cities in the world, it should come as no surprise that a third of New Yorkers are forking over half their income for rent. The devastating data comes from the latest report from the nonprofit the Community Service Society of New York, which found that 55% of households, or … Read more
No one could have seen this coming — except, perhaps, those with the gift of second sight. Some New York area residents are fed up with their therapists, ditching their shrinks for psychics who give them “real” guidance instead. Aria D’Amore, 35, an artist and model living in Jersey City, was dissatisfied with therapy for … Read more
A Park Slope man is on a mission to show New Yorkers the heavens — and not even the city’s universally nightmarish traffic can get in his way. Joe Delfausse, 82, went viral on Tuesday after a large group of people gathered in the middle of Ninth Avenue in Brooklyn to peer into his telescope … Read more
It’s no surprise that NYC’s hottest summer restaurant has Big Apple eaters waiting for hours in the heat — but for an anti-beef burger? New Yorkers — many of them meat-eaters polled by The Post during a 90-minute wait — have confirmed that the stacked, quinoa-based vegan patties at Superiority Burger are indeed superior. Nah, the … Read more
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is promoting reparations in a bid to curb health and wealth disparities of black New Yorkers — but the effort is being met with accusations that it’s “sowing racial divisiveness,” The Post has learned. The proposal for federal reparations is spelled out in a bombshell report released Tuesday by the city’s … Read more
Respect your elders! Age discrimination is a serious issue that must be confronted in the Big Apple — especially as the number of residents ages 65 and up is expected to continue climbing, according to a new report. “Older adults and people of color have experienced disproportionate illness and death during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the … Read more
He was the Big Apple’s first boldface bird. Pale Male, a celebrated red-tailed hawk who made his nest on the facade of a ritzy Upper East Side apartment building, ushering in a widespread appreciation for urban wildlife, died Tuesday. He was believed to be about 33. “Pale Male was such a character and so charismatic,” … Read more
They’re moving out. A shocking 27% of New Yorkers are planning to leave the Empire State in the next five years, with 30% saying they wish they lived somewhere else, according to a poll from Siena College Research Institute released Wednesday. Affordability, ease of retirement, politics and crime and safety were among New Yorkers’ biggest … Read more
Jeremy Sisto says New Yorkers don’t always have the patience for his show “FBI,” which films on the city’s streets “You have to wait 10 seconds, but 10 seconds is a long time for a New Yorker,” Sisto, 48, told The Post. “And it’s always the young [production assistants] who have to break the news” … Read more
About one-third of metro area residents consider themselves overweight — and nearly one-quarter say they’d pop a prescription diabetes-fighting pill to shed extra pounds, a new survey shows. Ten percent of respondents from the city and Long Island are already taking, or know someone using, the drugs Ozempic, Mounjaro, or Wegovy to lose weight, according to … Read more
New York Magazine has published an exhaustive new set of “rules” that touches on everything from tipping at bodegas to making small talk with celebrities to recovering from mis-gendering a new acquaintance. I found myself nodding along to some of the pronouncements: “Don’t go into a phone vortex at dinner,” treat and tip waiters and … Read more
Here we go again. Mayor Eric Adams is urging New Yorkers to mask up indoors amid a spike in coronavirus, flu and respiratory syncytial infection cases. “When COVID-19 hit New York City almost three years ago, New Yorkers looked out for each other and followed the advice of our health experts,” Adams said Tuesday. “With the … Read more
The just-opened Wildflower Farms, an Auberge resort set on a former tree nursery in pastoral Gardiner, NY, is luring affluent urbanites with its luxurious rustic delights. “Last week, this was a loading dock. This week, it’s alive,” says general manager Manolo Sorensen, formerly of André Balazs’ Sunset Beach Hotel on Shelter Island and The Maker … Read more
New Yorkers have a reputation — and it typically has nothing to do with being overly nice. But a British transplant is now virally claiming that folks in the Big Apple are as sweet as pie compared to Londoners, who she deemed as “horrible people.” “People are friendly here,” said an unnamed woman from London, … Read more