Macy’s will shutter five of its nine New York City locations this year as the retail chain moves to massively reduce its brick-and-mortar footprint. The closures will hit Macy’s stores in Downtown Brooklyn and the Queens Center Mall, its discount “Backstage” locations in Sheepshead Bay and The Bronx and its furniture gallery on Staten Island. […]
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Starting Tuesday, a series of uncontainable wildfires have torn through the L.A. area, driven by ferocious winds and bone-dry conditions. The blazes, which ignited in Pacific Palisades, quickly engulfed neighboring Malibu and raced onward with alarming speed, defying all efforts to contain them. Videos of apocalyptic skies and flaming horizons have flooded social media, showing
The developer and architect behind the plan to turn New York’s original Barneys department store into luxury condos has a project in store for Astoria. The new development from Flushing-based Raymond Chan would rise at 23-04 32nd St. between 23rd and 24th avenues in the Queens neighborhood. It would span about 35,000 square feet and
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Sonia Landy Sheridan’s “Drawing in Time,” showing a seated person holding a pen while colorful digital overlays in blue, red, and orange lines intersect the image, blending analog and digital art.” width=”970″ height=”715″ data-caption=’Sonia Landy Sheridan, <em>Drawing in Time</em>, 1982-83. <span class=”lazyload media-credit”>The Daniel Langlois Foundation Collection of the Cinémathèque Québécoise. Sonia Landy Sheridan fonds.
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Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. Late October of last year saw the passing of John Kinsel Sr., one of the last of the Navajo Code Talkers, who helped
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The U.S. economy in December added the most jobs since March and the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell, capping a surprisingly strong year and supporting the case for a pause in Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts. Nonfarm payrolls increased 256,000, exceeding all but one forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists. The unemployment rate fell to 4.1%,
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Atop Wall Street’s largest investment banks, executives are locking in plans to award traders and dealmakers their biggest bonus increases since the pandemic, with 10% hikes — or more — coming for many desks, according to people briefed on the plans. At Bank of America, that’s the average increase in store for investment bankers and
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Whether you’re an art lover, history buff, or pop culture enthusiast, New York State’s world-class museums are guaranteed to leave a lasting impression. What better way to warm up during the winter months than by spending the day exploring an exciting exhibit? From the first ever exhibition dedicated to Long Island native Billy Joel to an
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Look, the “whatever’s on sale at the department store” approach to underwear isn’t cutting it anymore. The underwear industry has gotten smarter—maybe too smart, with terms like “moisture-wicking zones” and “targeted compression” being thrown around like spacecraft engineering specs. But here’s the thing: some of these innovations actually make sense. Modal fabrics (a type of
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Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images For a good portion of the 2024 general-election contest, the big choice for voters was between a very old but very normal Democrat with a questionable record on inflation and immigration, and a somewhat younger but erratic Republican who never accepted his 2020 defeat and tried to overturn it with
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