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New York City schools scramble to enroll migrant children
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I’m In New York For Fashion Week—These Are the 5 Hotels Everyone’s Talking About
New York is known for many things—the energy, the diversity, the entertainment, the food—but the hotel scene makes this city stand out among the rest of the world. Hotels in New York City are more than just places for travelers to rest their heads. Instead, thanks to the unmatched ambiance, high-profile chefs, and Instagram-worthy décor, they are considered the It spots for locals, tourists, and celebrities alike. Per usual, the hotels of the moment are constantly changing, but throughout my time so far at NYFW, I was able to catch wind of the hotels that everyone is talking about this season.
Some of the establishments listed below are basically institutions in this city while others are the newest on the scene. What unites them all is the fact that if someone were to ask you where they should go drink, eat, or stay in New York, you would appear insanely in the know if you mentioned any of the five hotels listed below. These hotels are specifically beloved among the celebrity and fashion crowd—two groups of people who love nothing more than being seen at the most-talked-about spots, period.
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F-16 pilots recall their mission to intercept Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001
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Two 9/11 victims identified more than two decades after World Trade Center attacks
Smoke pours from the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack in New York City, Sept. 11, 2001.
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Two victims who perished in the World Trade Center have been identified more than two decades after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, New York City’s chief medical examiner said Friday.
The names of the victims, a man and a woman, are being withheld at the request of their families, officials said. They are the 1,648th and 1,649th victims whose remains have been identified since 2001.
The remains of 1,104 victims, or 40% of those who died in the attacks, still have not been found nearly 22 years after al-Qaida terrorists hijacked commercial airlines and crashed them into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan.
The towers were destroyed in the attacks, leaving more than 2,700 people dead.
Dr. Jason Graham, New York City’s chief medical examiner, described the painstaking effort to identify the victims’ remains as “the largest and most complex forensic investigation” in U.S. history.
Investigators have spent decades using DNA testing to identify tens of thousands of remains recovered from the Ground Zero disaster site. More than 30% of the remains recovered are still unidentified, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Graham said in a statement Friday that the medical examiner’s office has made a “solemn pledge” to return the remains of those who perished to their loved ones.
The identification of the man was confirmed through DNA testing of remains recovered in 2001. The woman was identified through the testing of remains recovered in 2001, 2006 and 2013.
The announcement that two victims were identified comes three days before the anniversary of the attacks. The man and the woman are the first new identifications since September 2021.
Less than an hour after the attacks on the Twin Towers, al-Qaida terrorists crashed a third commercial airliner into the Pentagon, killing 184 people.
Passengers in a fourth hijacked airliner heading for the nation’s capital fought for control of the plane. United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all 40 people on board.
In the wake of the attacks, the U.S. went to war in Afghanistan, where the leader of al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden, was sheltered by the Taliban. The Bush administration subsequently invaded Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, who had no connection to the attacks.
More than 6,700 U.S. troops died in those wars.
Bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces during a raid in Pakistan in 2011. The Biden administration withdrew the U.S. military from Afghanistan in 2021 and the Taliban returned to power after the collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Kabul.
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The Armory Show Enters a New Era in an Uncertain Art Market
On Wednesday night, The Armory Show held a small, exclusive cocktail party for its collectors in the rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, one of New York’s more opulent venues for a party. For hours, guests such as the collector Nicolai Frahm, the actor and Meryl Streep–scion Grace Gummer, and Powerhouse Arts director Eric Shiner mingled, nibbling on fluke crudo and mini truffle burgers.
On paper, it could be billed as the final touch of the fair’s glow-up, seeing as a few years ago, The Armory Show occupied a pier next to the stretch of West Side Highway, a location that forced visitors to enter as the Hustler Club floated ominously across the street. One year, the pier collapsed. Now, the fair is held in the shiny Javits Center, a few blocks from Chelsea. And the pregame is on Museum Mile.
“Yeah, it’s just some little shindig right,” Nicole Berry, the director of The Armory Show, as she flung her wrists toward the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda.
This little shindig had a surprising number of Europeans who chose this art hoopla over the trip to Frieze Seoul, which is happening halfway across the world at the same exact time. Brussels-based art-world fixture Alain Servais, a collector and investment banker known for his ever-present cravat affixed to his collar, shook his head thinking about the fact that an identical merry-go-round of gallery fêtes and fair vernissages was happening in South Korea.
“I’m just so interested in the industrialization of the art world,” he said. “I invented the phrase ‘Grow or Go’ years ago and now I use it every day. The art world cannot stop growing. One day it might be the NFL.”
And now the Armory itself has become part of the ever-expanding industrialization—earlier this year, Frieze scooped up the fair for $24.4 million, and last month, also acquired Expo Chicago. (The seller of Frieze was Vornado Realty Trust, the behemoth Gotham building company chaired by billionaire Steven Roth, while Art Expositions LLC sold Expo Chicago.) In the face of an Art Basel that quite successfully expanded its empire to Paris, Frieze is now aggressively expanding its footprint in the States by acquiring two solid fairs that had been somewhat lacking the hip factor of, well, Frieze.
While the two events will retain their independence, Frieze’s chief executive Simon Fox said at the time the deal was announced, the expos in Chicago and New York are clearly thrilled to be brought into the fold by a fair group that seems to always burst with Mayfair chic at Frieze London and Hollywood glamor at Frieze Los Angeles. Tony Karman, the longtime Expo Chicago director who’s long acted as the Energizer Bunny of the windy city art world, has been telling people at parties that he recently got a phone call from Ari Emanuel, the cofounder of Frieze’s parent company Endeavor, and loved every second of it. The love is presumably mutual. The super agent grew up in Chicago, and his brother Rahm served as the mayor for eight years. Fox, the British media vet, was spotted in Chicago during this year’s fair, months before the deal closed, checking out the city’s famous architectural boat tour and basically having the time of his life.
And after making my way through the reams of Europeans quaffing negronis under the rotunda, and enduring an Italian furniture designer who insisted I was an actor—“What is that show, with the attorneys? Suits? Are you on that show?”—I ran into Christine Messineo, the director of Frieze New York and Frieze Los Angeles, who stayed in New York to oversee Frieze’s new acquisition while her colleagues manned the ship in Seoul. She insisted that The Armory Show was going to operate independently under Frieze, but let slip that she had been given early access to the fair a full day early.
“And I can tell you, honestly, it looks amazing,” she said.
Amid all this, should one be concerned about, say, the ever-shrinking art market? Auction sales are down considerably in the last year compared to the relative boom times of the immediate post-pandemic. The collapse of China’s real estate infrastructure has led the country into a recession, eliminating the sell-side’s most reliable buyer of the last decade. And China isn’t just not buying, they are actively unloading—the announcement that Shanghai’s Long Museum would be selling off a large chunk of their collection has deeply spooked the market. The first wave of casualties has started. Jasmin Tsou made the shock announcement that she would close her gallery JTT just a little over a year after moving to a splashy new space in Tribeca. Across the pond, one-time triple continental powerhouse Simon Lee went into court-ordered administration (similar to bankruptcy in the US).
But for those still standing, sitting out a fair week is not an option once the collectors return to New York after a long period of Hamptons obsolescence. On Tuesday, The Independent fair had a cocktail hour at Casa Cipriani, where, despite the sweltering heat, the bar room was filled with men in Loro Piana suits. There’s some great tennis happening in Flushing Meadows, and plus, lest we forget, it’s fashion week. J. Crew’s 40th-anniversary party featured a performance by The Strokes. I left after they played “The Modern Age,” which honestly sounded great despite the subtle hints of My Super Sweet 16 that came with the whole affair. After the band finished, Julian Casablancas said, “It’s been real… and a little bit fake.”
There was also a dinner for the artist Chase Hall, in celebration of his exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery, at Ignacio Mattos’s restaurant Altro Paradiso. Each table was studded with collectors from Miami and Dallas and Los Angeles, while Gagosian’s Antwaun Sargent was holding court at the same table at the same restaurant he sat at exactly a year ago to fête Rick Lowe. The following night there was another dinner hosted by Kasmin Gallery in honor of its shows for the artists Elliott Hundley and Bosco Sodi—and it was at the same restaurant, Altro Paradiso, as if the art world knows exactly one place to eat dinner on earth, and they happen to like it.
On Thursday, I made my way to Independent’s fall fair, which has the advantage of taking place at the Casa Cipriani’s beaux-arts Battery Maritime Building, its windows framing perfect views of an endless stream of helicopters depositing banking execs on the helipad next door. In other words, a perfect spot for Vito Schnabel to stage a booth of Andy Warhol’s society portraits—Liza Minelli, Jack Nicklaus, Giorgio Armani—curated by Bob Colacello (a former contributor to VF), who wrangled many of the subjects while he was editor of Interview in the ’70s, when the magazine was the Pravda of the Factory. Painter Peter Nadin was at the Off-Paradise booth to guide one toward a landscape that’s off to join the collection of an important European institution. This booth’s view included no airborne rotor-churning “Succession”-like portraits of Manhattan power, but instead the modest vista of the Red Hook docks, the epitome of working-class Brooklyn. Nadin loved it. He’s from Liverpool.
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Beyond Class A: Winning Investment Strategies In The New York City Office Market
Taconic Partners repurposed a 325,000-square-foot office building it owned in Manhattan’s West 50s … [+]
On the surface, the news from the New York City office sector may look grim: vacancy rates nearing 20%, occupancy rates stubbornly stuck at around 50%, interest rates rising, values dropping, anemic investment sales activity and owners giving keys back to lenders.
Fortunately, that isn’t the full story. As I discussed in my previous Forbes article, landlords are holding onto Class A, well- tenanted buildings even as they let go of others. Additionally, four other strategies show long-term health for the office sector:
- Repriced assets are attracting investors to properties with current weak fundamentals but strong potential.
- Entities such as Hyundai, NYU and Enchanté are snapping up buildings for their own use.
- New York City’s housing crisis has prompted developers to consider office to residential conversions, which I explored in a March 2023 Forbes article.
- Also, while office finds its footing, there is another workplace and innovation asset class that continues to see strong demand citywide: life sciences. In fact, this demand is leading a number of owners to explore activity in this appreciating sector.
Life Sciences: Its Own Category
New York City-based developer Taconic Partners, through its subsidiary Elevate Research Properties, is an example of a firm that has seized the opportunity to build life sciences centers after seeing a market gap for options available both to growing innovators and major research institutions and hospital systems. This gap, along with the specialized expertise needed to bridge it, led to the formation of Elevate Research Properties in the first place.
“New York receives the highest amount of National Institute of Health research funding in the country but lags far behind other major cities when it comes to real estate space suitable for life sciences tenants,” said Chris Balestra, President and Chief Investment Officer of Taconic Partners, who was a panelist at Ariel Property Advisors’ July Coffee & Cap Rates event and a recent podcast guest.
New York City has around 2 million square feet of life sciences space compared to 60 million square feet in San Francisco and 40 million square feet in Boston.
And yet, New York City is well-positioned to be a powerhouse in life sciences. The sector already contributes $3.1 billion to the City’s gross metropolitan product and offers unique assets such as:
● Nine major academic medical centers and over 50 hospitals
● 10+ incubators to support early-stage life sciences companies
● New York City research centers that receive over $2 billion in annual funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
● 5,100 life sciences companies, with industry-leading firms attracting more than $1 billion in annual venture capital investment
● 150,000 related jobs
● 7,000+ graduate students and postdocs at universities
“The research is happening here, but then the tenants have to leave to go elsewhere for lab space,” Balestra said. “The vacancy rate for completed and occupiable lab space is practically zero in New York City, so obviously we saw an opportunity to create more space. The imbalance between supply and demand is extreme here.”
The scarcity is showing up in the numbers with the average asking rent for lab exclusive space in Manhattan rising to $122.23/SF NNN in the first quarter, up 19% from 1Q 2022, according to CBRE. In contrast, the overall average asking rent for office space in Class A & B buildings in Manhattan was $74.42/SF gross in 1Q 2023, Colliers reported. There are, however, a range of factors in pricing lab space, including an extensive specialized building infrastructure.
The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) recognizes the potential of the life sciences sector and is committed to seeing it flourish. Through LifeSciNYC, NYCEDC is making a $1 billion investment in life sciences research and development, allocating $430 million for lab and incubator construction and $450 million to spur new research.
Repurposed Buildings vs. New Development
Taconic Partners, which has developed and repositioned over 12 million square feet of office, mixed-use, and retail space, and close to 6,500 units of multifamily housing in the last 25 years, ventured into the life sciences sector after the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute approached the firm about five years ago with a request for lab space.
The Research Institute was specifically interested in a 325,000-square-foot office building Taconic owned in the West 50s that was built in the 1930s as a film-editing house for Warner Brothers Pictures. Taconic agreed to repurpose space for the Research Institute and then constructed additional turnkey lab space and upgraded the building infrastructure to support life sciences tenants, creating what is now called the Hudson Research Center.
Balestra said Taconic Partners and Elevate Research Properties have since expanded their life sciences projects into three additional developments, including the following:
● West End Labs, New York’s newest Class-A research facility, was recently completed and announced its first tenant: Graviton Bioscience. Located at 125 West End Avenue, the $600 million, 400,000-square foot development features a state-of-the-art lab infrastructure, prebuilt lab suites, a 300-person conference and event space and a 15,000-square foot landscaped roof terrace with views of the Hudson River. Originally built by Chrysler as an auto service center and showroom, the property served as part of the New York City headquarters for Walt Disney Company/ABC from 1985-2021.
West End Labs, a $600 million, 400,000-square foot development at 125 West End Avenue, features a … [+]
● A third site, Iron Horse Labs at 309 East 94th Street on the Upper East Side, will combine ground-up construction with an existing structure and stitch the two together to create a brand new 200,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art, purpose-built research laboratory. The building will be near world-class research institutions on the Upper East Side including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mt. Sinai, The Rockefeller University, and Weill Cornell Medicine.
Iron Horse Labs will be a brand new 200,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art, purpose-built research … [+]
● Finally, Elevate Research Properties is the designated developer for a 550,000-square-foot, new ground-up facility in Kips Bay near the planned Science Park and Research Campus (SPARC), a 1.5 million-square-foot, state-of-the-art jobs and education hub that is being developed by the City and State in partnership with The City University of New York (CUNY). These new developments will join the premier research institutions in the area including NYU Langone Medical Center and NYC Health + Hospitals Bellevue, as well as lab space at the Alexandria Center for Life Sciences and CURE at 345 Park Avenue South.
Candidates for Conversion
So, is every half-empty commercial building in New York City a candidate for conversion to life sciences use? Not really. There is a more specific set of requirements that make these projects viable.
According to Balestra, the list of must-haves for life sciences buildings includes:
● Proper zoning
● The ability to support the addition of a robust infrastructure that includes adequate power, backup power and a sophisticated HVAC system
● Significant floor load ratings, far greater than what is needed for a typical office floor
● Ceiling heights that are in the 13- to 15-foot range
● Ideally, a building that is vacant
● A sufficient budget to cover buildout costs that are far greater than for traditional offices, and on top of that, higher expenses for installing supplemental systems
Decentralized Network
Unlike Cambridge, MA, or San Francisco where life sciences facilities are centralized, new or repurposed buildings in New York City are scattered throughout Manhattan and the boroughs. In addition to the West Side, Upper East Side and Kips Bay locations cited above, I’ve listed a few additional sites below:
● West Harlem has a growing cluster that includes over 500,000 square feet at three private developments: the Taystee Lab, Sweets and Mink buildings.
The 350,000-square-foot Class A, new construction Taystee Lab Building in West Harlem.
● The New York Genome Center’s headquarters at 101 Avenue of the Americas just north of Canal Street, offers over 170,000 square feet for research and development, including 30,000 square feet of sequencing lab space.
● Innolabs, Alexandria Bindery and additional new projects will bring a total of 1.25 million square feet of lab and office space online in Long Island City, Queens, by 2024.
● The Montefiore-Einstein Accelerated Biotechnology Research Center (EMBARC), a bio-manufacturing operation focused on cell, gene, and antibody therapy production is planned for the Bronx; as well as the Einstein Incubator, which will offer premier lab space for early-stage life sciences and biotech startups.
● A new 50,000-square-foot biotech incubator is planned for the Brooklyn Navy Yard that will be supported by a $20 million contribution from the LifeSci NYC initiative.
Evolving Sector
No doubt, the New York City office market is undergoing major structural changes because of post-pandemic occupancy declines and interest rate hikes. However, these challenges are bringing opportunities to investors and owner-users as the basis of the assets are well below replacement costs, and they are forcing owners and developers to see office buildings through a new lens, one that could lead to future conversions to life sciences or residential use.
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Invasive species cost the global economy over $423 billion annually, according to a new report from the United Nations
A lanternfly is seen on the roof of an apartment in New York City, United States on August 8, 2022. NY State Department of Agriculture is encouraging residents to kill the invasive spotted lanternfly.
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The carcasses of spotted lanternflies that now litter the streets of New York City are not just gross, they are expensive.
The annual cost of invasive alien species now exceeds $423 billion annually, according to a new report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, an organization that is a part of the United Nations.
The report claims over 37,000 so-called alien species have been transported due to human activities around the world. Over 3,500 of those are invasive, meaning they are harmful in that they threaten nature and how people benefit from nature.
Invasive alien species, as defined by the report, are species that are known to “have become established and spread, which cause negative impacts on nature and often also on people.”
The costs of invasive species have quadrupled every decade since 1970, according to the report.
Coordinating lead author for the report Martin Nuñez said the $423 billion estimate is a gross underestimate and the true cost is more likely in the trillions, with human health complications taking up a large part of that price. He cited mosquitos in developing world, which carry diseased like malaria, Zika and West Nile Fever. They are spread by alien mosquito species like Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegyptii.
In the case of the spotted lanternflies plaguing New York, the state estimates the flies, which arrived from China, could cost at least $300 million annually, mainly to the grape and wine industry.
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Kicked off Facebook for two years, Trump now leans on Meta to help fund his presidential run
Former U.S. President and Republican candidate Donald Trump makes a keynote speech at a Republican fundraising dinner in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. August 5, 2023.
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Ever since Meta lifted its two-year ban on former President Donald Trump earlier this year, its Facebook and Instagram platforms have emerged as a key element of Trump’s presidential campaign fundraising plan, according to data from Meta’s archives and interviews with campaign strategists and Trump advisors.
Meta’s platforms offer Trump a vital resource that he can’t get from his own social media site, Truth Social, or via his countless mass emails: Access to millions of potential donors who may not be part of his traditional political base of supporters.
A big audience
Meta boasts 202 million daily active users on Facebook in the U.S. and Canada, according to its latest quarterly report. That’s a lot of eyeballs for a catchy political ad.
Starting in April, when it was announced Trump was first indicted in New York City, the number of overall impressions that Trump’s campaign ads rack up via his Facebook and Instagram accounts has skyrocketed, according to company data.
Trump’s Aug. 24 mugshot in Georgia, the first ever for a former president, has been a top draw in his recent posts.
The photo is used in at least 18 different versions of the same ad, spots that together racked up over 1 million impressions in the past week, according to the archive’s data.
The ads allow viewers to click a link to a fundraising page for the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee that helps raise money for the Trump campaign and a leadership political action committee called Save America that’s spending millions of dollars on the former president’s legal fees.
The Trump camp has said that it’s raised over $9 million since he was booked in Georgia.
The Trump campaign did not say how much of the fundraising was through Facebook, but a Trump digital fundraiser told CNBC that the boost is likely due at least in part to the former president’s renewed efforts to raise money on the Meta-owned platforms. This person declined to be named in order to speak freely about internal campaign strategy.
Social media impressions are considered one of the most important metrics, especially for digital ad buyers, since it counts as “the number of times any content from your page or about your page entered a person’s screen,” according to Facebook.
Andrew Arenge, the director of operations for the University of Pennsylvania’s program on opinion research and election studies, told CNBC that higher impressions can be a key factor in helping bring in waves of campaign cash. Arenge’s team studies digital ad spending for both Democrats and Republicans.
“The value of running fundraising ads on digital versus say television, is that there is less friction between when an individual sees the fundraising appeal and when they can actually donate the money,” Arenge said in a message to CNBC over X, formerly known as Twitter. “So getting an ad in front of more eyeballs should provide more opportunity for the campaign to see more people click on the ad thus an opportunity to raise more money.”
Return on investment
Trump’s Facebook ad impressions have come with very little cost to his political operation, making it a cheap way for the former president to raise money for both his campaign and legal defense efforts.
Trump’s team only spent just over $77,000 on Facebook and Instagram ads the week he was charged in Georgia, according to data from digital ad tracker FWIW. The Meta ad archive shows that since early June, the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee spent more than $500,000 on digital Meta ads.
There is no public data showing how much the Meta ads have directly raised for the Trump campaign.
Political strategists say that Trump’s regaining access to Facebook is key to him raising money through online donations and acts as a lifeline to his 2024 campaign, regardless of his legal struggles.
“Online donations are the lifeblood of Trump’s campaign. Without access to those donors, he’d struggle to raise sufficient resources,” Alex Conant, a partner at Firehouse Strategies and former advisor to Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., recently told CNBC when asked about Trump’s resurgence on the platform.
Trump’s campaign outraised all of his Republican primary opponents in the second quarter, according to Federal Election Commission records.
And while many of his rivals struggled to collect donations from 40,000 people in order to qualify for the first Republican debate, Trump has booked online contributions from 10 times that many individuals — at least 400,000 donors — from the launch of his campaign last year through June, according to NBC News.
Brad Parscale, who was Trump’s initial 2020 campaign manager and a key architect of the former president’s digital fundraising platform during their successful 2016 White House run, told CNBC that many of his company’s clients saw major digital fundraising success post the mugshot becoming public.
Parscale founded and is now a partner at digital fundraising firm Campaign Nucleus, which has recently counted the Trump campaign and Make America Great Again Inc., a super PAC backing Trump’s run for president, as clients, according to FEC records.
“Since President Trump posted his mugshot, Campaign Nucleus has witnessed substantially increased activity, and many of our clients have seen an increase of up to 3x their normal fundraising,” Parscale said.
In the months since Trump regained access to his personal Facebook and Instagram accounts, he has steadily ramped up his presence as his legal troubles mount.
Trump and 18 other co-conspirators were indicted in Georgia in August for alleged illegal efforts in overturning the 2020 election in the state. In New York, Trump faces criminal charges of falsifying business records tied to a scheme that directed hush money payments to two women.
Special counsel Jack Smith has charged Trump in two federal cases: One over his handling of classified government records after he left office and another case charging him with trying to overturn President Joe Biden‘s win in the 2020 election.
Christian Ferry, a veteran Republican strategist who used to work for the late Republican Sen. John McCain and Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said that Trump’s Facebook ads represent a “desperate need” to raise money both for his campaign and legal fees.
“Trump is in desperate need of small-dollar donations to feed both his campaign and growing legal fees, so the more platforms the better,” Ferry said. “But impressions do not equal contributions and his polarizing nature ensures his posts get impressions from and detractors alike.”
Different Facebook, same Trump
The content of the ads has changed very little since his last presidential campaign in 2020 and the deadly, pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that initially prompted his ban from Meta’s sites.
While he was banned, Trump’s political team kept advertising on the platform through at least August 2021, as evidenced by the archived ads.
Facebook’s 2019 decision allowing political ads that have false information to remain on the platform without any repercussions has given Trump the ability to freely use falsehoods in his posts.
Some of the recent Trump ads falsely claim, for instance, that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, “lets violent murderers and TRUE criminals run wild in her city.” Willis is leading the case against Trump for his alleged illegal efforts to overturn the 2020 election in the state.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that violent crime in Atlanta is down 20% compared with this time last year.
A representative for Trump’s campaign did not return a request for comment. A spokesman for Meta declined to comment on Monday when asked about the Trump advertisements on its platforms.
Trump’s return to Meta platforms will put his messaging in front of a changing landscape of users, as more kids are using Instagram, according to recent polling.
About 62% of teens from the ages of 13 and 17 are turning to use Instagram, according to Pew Research polling conducted in 2022. Facebook’s use by that age group, on the other hand, has dropped to 32% just last year, according to the poll.
Facebook’s age demographic has started to grow in recent years, according to research done by Insider Intelligence. The data firm expects by 2026 only about 28% of Facebook’s users will be between the ages 18 and 34 years old.
Cash-strapped political network
Trump’s return toward utilizing Meta as one of his digital fundraising platforms comes as his overall political network has, at times, struggled to raise enough funds to cover both his run for president and coinciding legal fees.
Trump’s leadership PAC, Save America, raised more than $15 million and spent over $20 million on legal fees in the first half of the year, according to FEC records. Save America was down to only $3 million on hand going into the second half of the year.
The Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, which represents the bulk of the Meta ad spending for Trump, raised more than $53 million over that same time period and transferred over $31 million to affiliated committees, including Save America.
The joint fundraising committee went into the second half of the year with just over $5 million on hand.
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It’s The Summer Of Noah Kahan
Everyone is proud of Noah Kahan. You can ask the fans I met before his concert, my friends who are devout listeners, his publicist, and myself. If you’re a Noah Kahan fan, you undoubtedly feel an overwhelming sense of love and affection towards his skyrocketing success.
Because if you watch and listen to Noah, you feel overwhelmingly connected to him. His deluxe version of
Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever) has turned any lax listener into a devout fan. It’s a flawless album (in my top 5 of all time alongside the likes of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours and The Killers’ Hot Fuss) from top to bottom.The deluxe version includes more of Noah’s complex lyrics and honest storytelling ability. It’s a mix of alternative folk, with genre-bending elements met with haunting vocals and a unique way of bringing hometown woes to light.
My father grew up dabbling in the banjo and mandolin, so I know how difficult it can be to master. However, Kahan and his band make it look effortless. The concert itself is a symphony of strings, drums, and Noah’s voice. His voice is transcendent — gentle and forgiving, raw in the right places, and always angelic.
It’s the kind of no-frills experience that everyone should enjoy at least once in their lifetimes. Not a ton of lights and production, no backup dancers, just Noah Kahan, his kickass band, and 6,000+ fans.
Radio City Music Hall is iconic in its own right. Home of The Rockettes, this venue has housed some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry. On August 31, Noah Kahan gave New York a piece of Vermont.
Radio City is a more intimate venue than Madison Square Garden. You get better views of the artist, and the acoustics are insane. It makes for clear-sounding videos, but it also means you get to hear the crowd screaming the lyrics back to him. Before a sold-out crowd, Noah Kahan was able to bear his heart and soul and receive all of the love right back.
Bursting onto stage, Noah immediately attempts to jump off a surface and takes a quick fall.
“New York, I almost tore my ACL for you.” He quips after. He then launches into the hard, unkind exterior of New Yorkers, delivering a line that sticks with me still: “I consider the successes of others as threats to myself.”@noahkahanmusic #duet with @Marlo #lalapalooza2023 im too impulsive #fyp ♬ original sound – Marlo There were multiple times throughout his set when I was overwhelmed with emotion. It was admittedly my first concert alone, so already I was filled with nerves. However, I was more amazed that there was not a moment where I felt alone in that room.
In fact, it was almost like Noah knew — asking the crowd who came here alone and assuring us that we weren’t. He even let everyone know that there is apparently nothing he loves more than going to hibachi alone.
With his mother in attendance, he thanked her for sending him to therapy at the age of 8. He laughs at how she recognized he was a weird kid, and thinks everyone should go to therapy. A perfect intro to his heart-wrenching song, “Call Your Mom,” prioritizing your mental health is a major theme of
Stick Season.The theme of taking care of yourself and others is ever-present. Kahan himself has raised over $860,000 for The Busyhead Project which he launched only this summer, supporting mental health and Vermont flood efforts.
For over two hours, Noah Kahan played hits like “All My Love,” “She Calls Me Back,” “Orange Juice,” and more. Time flies when you’re listening to great music live, anyone can tell you that. You never want it to end.
This wasn’t Noah’s biggest show after playing to a huge crowd at Lollapalooza and following it up with huge Syracuse and Saratoga Springs shows. Yet, anyone can tell you how huge it is to perform at the iconic New York City venues. Noah looked back to a time a few years ago when he played to a crowd of 45 people, and you can’t help but think that will never be an issue for him again.
He’s touring in the United States until October before going to the UK and Europe through February. And yet, he still posts on social media about how excited he is to start a whole new album. A sign of how dedicated he is to his fans and his music.
It’s been a massive year for Noah Kahan: releasing the deluxe version of
Stick Season, a collab with Post Malone on “Dial Drunk” that hit within the Top 25 in the Billboard Hot 100, “Dial Drunk” itself reaching #1 on the AAA Radio Chart, and was the fifth artist in history to have 18 songs on the Billboard Hot Rock & Alternative Charts in one week. The other names on that list include none other than David Bowie and Taylor Swift.He’s always tweeting his gratitude, saying he will never not be baffled by the love, support, and success he’s receiving. And it’s all deserved. Unsurprisingly at this point, Noah is garnering buzz for GRAMMY nominations this year in the Best New Artist and even Album Of The Year categories.
If you haven’t taken the time to listen to Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever), do yourself a favor and take a listen:
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Airbnb Limits Some New Reservations In NYC As Short-Term Rental Regulations Take Effect
NEW YORK (AP) — Home-sharing giant Airbnb said it has had to stop accepting some reservations in New York City as new regulations on short-term rentals went into effect Tuesday that will mean big changes for travelers hoping to avoid the high cost of a Big Apple hotel.
The new rules are intended to effectively end a free-for-all in which city landlords and residents have been renting out their apartments by the week or the night to tourists or others in town for short stays.
Under the new system, rentals shorter than 30 days are only allowed if hosts register with the city. Hosts must commit to being physically present in the home for the duration of the rental, sharing living quarters with their guest. More than two guests at a time are not allowed, either, meaning families are effectively barred.
Platforms such as Airbnb, VRBO and others are not allowed to process rentals for unregistered hosts — and as of early this week, few had successfully registered. The city says it has approved just under 300 of the more than 3,800 applications received.
Officials and housing advocates who had pushed for the restrictions said they were necessary to stop apartments from becoming de facto hotels.
“In New York City, residential apartments should be for residential use,” said Murray Cox of Inside Airbnb, a housing advocacy group that collects data about the company’s presence in cities around the world.
Airbnb has fought the rules in court, arguing they were essentially a ban, and that they would hurt visitors looking for affordable accommodations.
But since Aug. 21, the company — which had 38,500 active non-hotel listings in New York City as recently as January — said it had stopped accepting new short-term reservations from any host who hadn’t provided either a city registration number or documentation that it was in process. It said once the city’s verification system was fully up and running, no short-term listing would be allowed on its site without a registration number.
Some hosts of smaller homes said they were being unfairly targeted and lumped in with larger apartment buildings.
“I think this is a huge indication that our elected officials have let us down,” said Krystal Payne, who lives in a two-family home in Brooklyn and had been renting out one of the apartments to help pay her mortgage.
The regulations were adopted by the city in January of last year but were held up by legal action until last month.
While online rental listing services gave travelers more options in New York — and were a financial windfall to residents who rented out their homes while away on vacation — they have also led to complaints about scarce housing in residential neighborhoods being gobbled up by tourists.
Regular tenants complained about buildings that suddenly felt like hotels, with strangers in their hallways and occasional parties in rented units. Investors snapped up units in condominium buildings, or whole townhouses, then made a fortune doing nightly rentals prohibited by law.
“Registration creates a clear path for hosts who follow the city’s longstanding laws and protects travelers from illegal and unsafe accommodations, while ending the proliferation of illegal short-term rentals,” Christian Klossner, executive director of the city’s Office of Special Enforcement, said in a statement.
In guidance posted after the legal decision last month, Airbnb told New York City hosts that they should either register with the city or convert to hosting long-term stays if possible. The company also said any existing short-term reservation with a check-in by Dec. 1 would be allowed to go forward, with processing fees refunded, while those with check-in dates after that would be canceled and refunded.
Airbnb’s global policy director, Theo Yedinsky, called the rule changes a blow to “the thousands of New Yorkers and small businesses in the outer boroughs who rely on home sharing and tourism dollars to help make ends meet.”
“The city is sending a clear message to millions of potential visitors who will now have fewer accommodation options when they visit New York City: ‘You are not welcome,’” he said.
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I Sell Luxury Real Estate—These Are the Fashion Items I Can’t Live Without
What fashion brands do you love that you have been wearing for years? And which brands do you have a newer love for?
For years I’ve been wearing Bottega Veneta, Loewe, Levi’s jeans and Saint Laurent.
Do you feel like the way you dress can impact your job as a realtor and in what way?
For sure, 100%. I think the way you dress is very much an expression of who you are. I dress differently depending on what I’m selling. Whether it’s a Brooklyn townhouse or a Park Avenue condo, I dress to match the vibe of the occasion. When I’m working in interior design, I always choose fashionable comfort, such as Proenza Schouler boots and vintage Levi’s jeans, because I like to be very hands-on, and there are many moving parts.
How would you describe your personal style?
Timeless with a touch of trends! I love to mix vintage, classic pieces with a modern trend. I never shy away from an eclectic, unexpected statement piece but can also be caught in neutral outfits 5 days in a row. Think, practical Carrie Bradshaw.
If you had a fashion holy grail list, what items would be on it?
A chic yet practical everyday bag, a classic pair of sunglasses, my favorite vintage Levi’s jeans, a cashmere sweater, pumps, timeless gold hoops, and a little black dress.
Where do you pull inspiration from for your wardrobe?
I love to read print copies of fashion magazines. I also like to reference runway shows. Both archival and new seasons bring so much inspiration to my closet.
As a chic New York Relator turned Real Housewife, how would you advise someone looking to level up their personal style?
Instead of spending money on fast fashion, invest in pieces you’ll have for a long time. It’s better for the environment to own fewer high-quality items than to constantly purchase trendy pieces that will be thrown out after a few washes. For example, the leather jacket I wore on episode 1 of RHONY Season 14, is a jacket I’ve had since high school!
What trends are you most excited about for Fall 23?
I love fall because you can start layering again. And I love boots!
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New York Woman Pleads Guilty To Fatally Shoving Broadway Vocal Coach
A New York woman has pled guilty to fatally pushing a renowned Broadway vocal coach to the ground last year in what was described as a random act of violence.
Lauren Pazienza, 28, entered her plea to first-degree manslaughter Wednesday in Manhattan as part of an agreement that will see her serve eight years in prison and five years of post-release supervision.
She is scheduled to be formally sentenced on Sept. 29.
Pazienza admitted to shouting obscenities at Barbara Maier Gustern, 87, and shoving her to the ground after crossing a street to approach her on the evening of March 10, 2022. Gustern hit her head and died in a hospital five days later.
Lauren Pazienza, 28, appears in court with her lawyer on Wednesday in New York. “Today’s plea holds Pazienza accountable for her deadly actions,” Manhattan District Attorney Bragg said Wednesday in a statement. “We continue to mourn the loss of Barbara Gustern, a talented musical theater performer and vocal coach who touched so many in New York City and beyond.”
Pazienza left Gustern bleeding on the pavement without assistance. She stayed in the surrounding area for approximately 20 minutes before returning to her apartment in Queens with her then-fiancé, authorities said.
Later that night, authorities said, she told her fiancé that she had pushed someone. She subsequently deleted her social media accounts, removed her wedding website and fled to Long Island to stay with family.
Pazienza had just had an argument with her fiancé in March 2022 when she shoved Broadway vocal coach Barbara Maier Gustern, 87, causing her to fall and hit her head. Pazienza faced up to 25 years in prison if the case had gone to trial, according to The New York Times.
Prosecutors had said that the violence followed a volatile evening between Pazienza and her fiancé.
The two were celebrating their upcoming nuptials with an impromptu meal in a Manhattan park when they were told that the park was closing and they needed to leave. Pazienza allegedly threw her meal onto her fiancé and stormed away before encountering Gustern.
“She had had drugs, she had maybe two bottles of wine, and a ton of marijuana [at the time],” Pazienza’s attorney, Arthur Aidala, told the New York Post last year, arguing that she didn’t know what she was doing when she accosted Gustern. “We have very viable defenses about whether someone in her state was able to possess the intent, the intent to commit crimes.”
Gustern was well-known in the theater world. She was a vocal coach for cast members of the 2019 Broadway revival of “Oklahoma,” which won a Tony for best musical revival. She also offered private lessons, including for Blondie singer Debbie Harry.
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Seeing superstar soccer player Leo Messi’s debut in the New York area could cost you as much as a steak dinner at Peter Luger.
Saturday’s Inter Miami CF match marks Messi’s first regular season Major League Soccer game, and demand to see it is sending ticket prices nearly 1,000% higher than they usually are for the New York Red Bulls.
Ticket reseller VividSeats told CNN that the average price for this weekend’s game is averaging $483. That’s well above the usual $46 it costs to snag a ticket to the MLS team, which plays in Harrison, New Jersey (a half hour away from Manhattan).
A search on VividSeats reveals that some seats are costing as much as $3,600 for the first-row, but you have to buy all four, totaling nearly $15,000. Of course, there are plenty of cheaper seats, with some as “low” as $345.
For the New York Red Bulls, Messi’s appearance is “trending as the Red Bull’s hottest ticket in over a decade,” a VividSeats spokesperson told CNN. The second costliest game for a ticket was a friendly with FC Barcelona in July 2022, when a ticket cost about $270.
Prices for MLS games where Messi is playing have surged since the 36-year-old entered American competition. He’s also been on a hot streak since his American arrival last month. Last weekend, he helped Inter Miami capture the Leagues Cup title and scored the club’s first trophy. The Leagues Cup is an annual tournament between MLS and Mexico’s Liga MX.
The pressure is only intensified for Messi this weekend, when Inter Miami tries to climb out of last place in the MLS standings and possibly into playoff contention as the season nears its ending in October.
“Messi mania” extends beyond the pitch, too. Apple said that subscriptions to its soccer streaming package have soared since Messi joined in July. And Adidas said that demand for Messi’s jersey has been “truly unprecedented,” sparking an order backlog until October.
Retailer Soccer.com told CNN on Tuesday that top eight-selling jerseys on its website are Messi related, including his Argentina kit and Inter Miami shirt. The Florida team is now the top-selling MLS club kit in all US states, except Vermont. Previous to him joining, the Inter Miami jersey was the only top-selling jersey in Florida.
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By Design: NYC Gilded Age townhouse
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Dealer who sold fatal drugs to
A New York City drug dealer was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for providing “The Wire” actor Michael K. Williams with fentanyl-laced heroin, causing his death.
Irvin Cartagena, 40, of Aibonito, Puerto Rico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams. Cartagena had pleaded guilty in April to conspiring to distribute drugs. As part of a plea deal, Cartagena agreed that some of the drugs he sold resulted in the death of Williams.
Williams overdosed in his Brooklyn penthouse apartment in September 2021, a day after purchasing the drugs. Authorities said he bought the heroin from Cartagena on a sidewalk in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood in a deal recorded by a security camera.
Williams famously portrayed Omar Little, the rogue robber of drug dealers, in HBO’s “The Wire,” which ran from 2002 to 2008. In addition to his work on the critically acclaimed drama, Williams also starred in films and other TV series such as “Boardwalk Empire.” He was nominated for five Emmys throughout his career, including three for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
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Cartagena faced a mandatory minimum of five years in prison and could have faced up to 40 years behind bars.
“I am very sorry for my actions,” he said before the sentence was announced. “When we sold the drugs, we never intended for anyone to lose their life.”
Abrams noted that those who knew Cartagena said that he was “helpful and humble and hard working” when he was not using drugs himself.
“I’m hopeful that with treatment, … it will help you move forward on a more productive and law-abiding path,” the judge said.
In a statement, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams noted that those who participated in the sale of drugs to Williams already knew that someone else had died from drugs they were peddling. CBS News previously reported that the drug trafficking organization had been identified by authorities and had been operating in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn since August 2020.
Prosecutors said Cartagena and others continued to sell fentanyl-laced heroin in Manhattan and Brooklyn even after Williams died, although Cartagena eventually fled to Puerto Rico, where he was arrested in February 2022. Three other men were arrested in Manhattan in February 2022.
In a defense submission prior to sentencing, Cartagena’s lawyer, Sean Maher, said his client was paid for his street sales in heroin to support his own use.
“In a tragic instant, Mr. Cartagena was the one who handed the small packet of drugs to Mr. Williams — it easily could have been any of the other men who were there or in the vicinity selling the same drugs,” Maher wrote. “Sentencing Mr. Cartagena to double digits of prison time will not bring back the beautiful life that was lost.”
Prosecutors in a presentence submission had requested a sentence of at least 12 years while the court’s Probation Department had recommended a 20-year term after citing Cartagena’s 14 prior convictions for drug-related crimes, including burglary, robbery and prison escape.
Abrams, though, said the recommendations were “simply too high.”
“This sentence, while severe, is sufficient but not greater than necessary,” she said.
