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Luann de Lesseps called in to something of an ad hoc Zoom variety show. The “Real Housewives of New York” star and cabaret performer sang her 2010 classic “Money Can’t Buy You Class” at a remote fundraiser for her pal Jill Zarin’s Noshes for Nurses program. “Hairspray” star Nikki Blonsky did a number as well, …
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The head of Wynn Resorts wants to roll the dice on reopening the Las Vegas Strip next month if the coronavirus crisis is under control. Wynn CEO Matt Maddox called on Nevada officials to begin reopening the gambling hub in mid-to-late May — as long as the local rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths stay …
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Bethenny Frankel is so horrified by the idea that “Real Housewives of New York” will be just fine without her, we’re told, that she threw a fit after a top producer said the cast “don’t need” her. After Frankel — who quit the show last August after eight seasons on-and-off as a member of the …
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Burger giant Shake Shack plans to return $10 million it received from a government loan program meant to protect small businesses during the coronavirus crisis. The New York-based fast food chain was one of several large restaurant companies that got a multi-million-dollar loan through the Trump administration’s $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program aimed at helping …
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The vast ranks of newly unemployed are straining the capacities of food banks, soup kitchens and pop-up services across New York City. One user, Brittany, a 35-year-old Ph.D. candidate at Teachers College at Columbia University, who declined to give her full name, says she started visiting food services at Salem United Methodist Church in Harlem …
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When Adam Warren reported to the Yankees’ minor league camp in February, he recalled it had been a decade since his initial taste of something that is decidedly different from what big-league spring training is about. Warren, 32 and easily the oldest player in minor league camp, had eight years in the big leagues but …
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Don’t count on Dustin Pedroia making a miraculous return once baseball’s coronavirus-induced suspension finally ends. The Red Sox great, whose left knee has ailed him since Manny Machado famously slid into it with his spikes in 2017, isn’t “at a point where he’s thinking to be ready to come back and join us,” interim manager …
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Last week, Knicks rookie RJ Barrett went to pick up a package for his grandmother. He didn’t even get out of the car, but someone recognized him from afar. And it blew his mind. “I really forgot that I play in the NBA,” he tells The Post. “It’s such a different reality that we’re in …
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Beefed-up unemployment benefits that the US government is doling out in the coronavirus crisis are so generous they’re encouraging many recipients to stay home from work, The Post has learned. The emergency legislation, the CARES Act, which was passed last month, is aimed at helping businesses and workers hurt by coronavirus shutdowns, including through $600 …
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Neiman Marcus Group is preparing to seek bankruptcy protection as soon as this week, becoming the first major US department store operator to succumb to the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, people familiar with the matter said. The debt-laden Dallas-based company has been left with few options after the pandemic forced it to temporarily …
Luann de Lesseps called in to something of an ad hoc Zoom variety show. The “Real Housewives of New York” star and cabaret performer sang her 2010 classic “Money Can’t Buy You Class” at a remote fundraiser for her pal Jill Zarin’s Noshes for Nurses program. “Hairspray” star Nikki Blonsky did a number as well, …
