Two years after casting an apparent vote of confidence in Manhattan’s office market, Fox and News Corp. appear to be on the verge of partially reversing course in Midtown. Fox and News Corp. plan to abandon 330,000 square feet at 1211 Sixth Avenue in November, Crain’s reported. The impending exit, referenced in a Wednesday report […]
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Author L.J. Smith, who created the “Vampire Diaries” book series that inspired the CW drama of the same name and contributed to pop culture’s obsession with vampires, has died. Smith died March 8 in a hospital in Walnut Creek, Calif., The Times confirmed. A statement shared to Smith’s website says she died “peacefully” after “a
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– Trump slaps tariffs on autos. – Tariff noise will overshadow US GDP data. – USD dollar opens mixed to a tad softer compared to close. USDCAD: open 1.4286, overnight range 1.4260-1.4316, close 1.4265, WTI 69.43, Gold 3040.42 The Canadian dollar ignored President Trump ‘s latest tariff salvo. Late yesterday afternoon, Trump announced 25% tariff
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Rent guidelines board season kicked off Thursday with the first of many temperature checks on the state of rent-stabilized housing, an asset class drowning in distress. For landlords praying for a lifeline in the form of a rent hike, the data isn’t looking good. This year’s Income and Expense Study found buildings’ net operating income
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to slash 10,000 full-time employees across different departments, as he works to reshape the nation’s federal health agencies, the department said Thursday. Those job cuts are in addition to about 10,000 employees who opted to leave HHS since President Donald Trump took office, through voluntary
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The all-things-puppetry extravaganza that is the yearly Bob Baker Day at Chinatown’s Los Angeles State Historic Park has landed on its themes and parade-leading grand marshal for its 2025 edition, set for April 13. Animated characters SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star will launch the festivities at 10 a.m. with a parade that will span the
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Wireless network woes can follow you in and out of the classroom, interrupting an important call during your lunch break or making it difficult to access your work email after hours. And if you can’t get a good signal inside the walls of your classroom or your living room, then it might be time to
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The Sundance Film Festival will move to Boulder, Colo., beginning with the 2027 edition, a transformative change for one of the independent film community’s key annual events. Following a vote on Wednesday by the Sundance Institute’s board of trustees, the city was chosen over the other two finalists, Cincinnati and Salt Lake City. “There was
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ESPN’s “SportsCenter” is leaving L.A. The Walt Disney Co. unit’s flagship sports highlights program will have its last edition from the ESPN Los Angeles Production Center, located near the Crypto.com Arena, in May. ESPN will continue to produce the late night “SportsCenter” out of its headquarters in Bristol, Conn. ESPN’s L.A.-based studio coverage of soccer
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Rialto Capital has found a new target in its aggressive pursuit to foreclose on borrowers of Signature Bank loans. Rialto launched a foreclosure against Daryl Hagler’s Cigar Factory creative office building in Astoria. Rialto alleges Hagler defaulted on a $20 million loan in October 2024. According to the lawsuit, Hagler, a health care entrepreneur, guaranteed
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