As my plane prepares to taxi and the captain continues crackling indecipherable debriefs over the speakers, I’m at the point where I’d usually turn my phone off of airplane mode. A deluge of WhatsApp messages, emails and unwanted news updates would promptly begin flooding through, splintering my attention. But not this time—I’m in Bali for […]
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Based on recent headlines, you might think dumpster diving is a pretty profitable enterprise in the art market. There was the March story of the woman in Pennsylvania, Heidi Markow, who bought a drawing allegedly by French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir at an estate sale for $12. The month before, a man in Hudson, New York,
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Over the past decade, London has fully embraced brunch. While the city typically prefers to indulge in a Sunday roast over the weekend, numerous London restaurants have developed winning brunch menus that embrace global cuisines with an innovative approach. Instead of opting for a traditional full English breakfast, Londoners and visitors alike can enjoy everything
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Photo: Nathan Howard/Reuters One of Donald Trump’s most noteworthy characteristics as a president has been his robust deployment of the so-called madman theory in foreign policy. First developed during the Nixon administration, the idea is to convince potential adversaries that the man with his finger on the nuclear trigger has zero compunctions about pressing it
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The city’s public hospital system has asked state health officials to greenlight an expansion of women’s health services at its Coney Island hospital as childbirths continue to rise. South Brooklyn Health, part of New York City Health + Hospitals, filed plans to the Department of Health last week to build a nearly 20,000 square-foot obstetrics
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PHHPC MEETING: The state’s Public Health and Health Planning Council will meet in Albany at 10:15 a.m. today. Tune in to the virtual hearing here. BETH ISRAEL CLOSURE: Mount Sinai closed Beth Israel Hospital’s doors early Wednesday, according to hospital spokesman Loren Riegelhaupt. The health system’s planned closure of the Lower East Side hospital was
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A judge has dismissed for the second time an anti-trust lawsuit brought by a group of Long Island anesthesiologists against UnitedHealthcare and the data analytics firm Multiplan. Suffolk County-based Long Island Anesthesiologists alleged a branch of the health insurance giant and Multiplan, which uses software to help insurers handle medical billing claims, colluded to lower
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Public health officials were the highest paid in the state last year and among the highest overtime earners, with many collecting more than the governor. State government payroll, which includes including overtime and benefits, grew 8% to $21 billion last year, driven by salaries at SUNY, including its public hospitals, according to the conservative-leaning think
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International flights to New York and New Jersey airports slumped in February, with roughly 700 fewer foreign flights arriving at the city’s airports compared to the same month last year, according to the latest data from The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. A decrease in flights and passengers from Canada is driving
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Manhattan rents are showing more of the same — and “the same” is record-high prices. The median rent for a brokered apartment in the borough after concessions reached $4,471 in March, the highest it has ever been, according to the monthly city rental report from real estate firms Douglas Elliman and Miller Samuel. Concessions include
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