1+ day, 15+ hour ago (1149+ words) Hey, NYC "want to sleigh the gift game this year? Well, you can definitely jingle all the way past the Big Apple's tinsel-choked tourist trap holiday marketsthose copy-paste Manhattan traffic-attractors where the cocoa costs $12 and the vibes are as mass-produced as the merch. For festive grinches who'd rather shop really local, there are scores of smarter, cooler maker events getting ready to pop up across the city "offering handmade one-of-a-kind items from artists and artisans, and zero peppermint-scented pandemonium. Ready to shop smart? Check out these five markets "the ultimate antidote to corporate Christmas chaos. St. John the Divine " the world's largest Gothic cathedral "becomes one of the Big Apple's most jaw-dropping backdrops for holiday shopping at this time every year, when the annual Crafts at the Cathedral turns 1047 Amsterdam Ave. into a holy grail of handmade goods. For three…...

20+ hour, 7+ min ago (395+ words) This may be the most New York City tree you'll see this Christmas. A Greenwich Village couple trimming their tree last week realized that they don't need an angel or a star because the Empire State building magically appears as its over-the-top topper. The bright lights of the iconic Manhattan skyscraper manage to rest perfectly above Regina Molina and her boyfriend Ryan Snyder's spectacular spruce, which sits in front of the window of their West 8th Street fifth-floor apartment. "It organically happened. We set up the tree just in the middle of the window because we thought it looked the best, and then we realized that if you walked to the right, dead on, it just perfectly lined up that way," Snyder, 30, told The Post. When Molina, 31, posted their New York City Christmas miracle on her TikTok page, it immediately went…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago (454+ words) Oscar winners'Russell Crowe'and'Rami Malek'star in "Nuremberg," a Sony Pictures Classic thriller about the trials that prosecuted the Nazi high command's World War II war crimes. Malek plays Douglas Kelley, the psychiatrist analyzing the mentality of Hitler's second-in-command, Hermann G'ring. Nuremberg was November 1945. Malek was born in 1981. My bracelets are older. "What's that mean," he asked me. "Like I'm not supposed to understand history? "The location is exact. We didn't use personal perspectives. The area was devastating. Exact replica. No beltway seats, no cardboard walls, no toilet. Same style elevator, lights. Scary. It was exactly what happened " trying to keep them alive so we could kill them. "Kelley had an ambitious side. He was geared toward proving his worth. Confident in his strengths and capabilities, he wanted appreciation for them. He was an obsessive to match Hermann G'ring's narcissist. "I watched…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago (597+ words) Olivia Rose spent most of Thursday morning knee-deep in Red Delicious apples." The Manhattanite, an artist, was busy engraving 80 pieces of the produce with iconic New York Post front-page displays " from the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy to Zohran Mamdani's mayoral crowning on Nov. 4 " for a Tribeca exhibition she called "Apple Stand." Carving The Post's covers into the crops, harvested from an apple orchard upstate, is simply Rose's way of honoring New York City " and its favorite tabloid " with the"fruits"of her labor." "There are millions of different stories that have happened in this city," the millennial, a landscape architect, told The Post of the showcase, which debuted to 200 spectators at Blankmag Books, 17 Eldridge St., early Thursday evening. "This is my way of collecting those stories and giving them back to the city through my artwork." To make exact…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (304+ words) Follow along on our election results map as the race for New York City mayor between Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa nears the finish line. A record number of New Yorkers made their voices heard in the heated, historic election that pegged a socialist as the Democratic candidate against a three-term former governor running as an independent " and a Republican candidate who just wouldn't call it quits. As of 6 p.m., 1.01 million voters had cast their ballots on Election Day, in addition to the 732,000 who voted early " a massive turnout of more than 1.7 million, more than any since the 1993 mayoral race. Some 124,000 mail-in ballots also already came in, the city Board of Elections said. The 1993 mayoral race saw 1.898 million votes, and turnout in such elections dwindled until 2001, when about 1.5 million New Yorkers cast their ballots, electing Mayor Mike Bloomberg, in…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago (264+ words) PornHub traffic plummeted in the Big Apple on Tuesday night as nervous New Yorkers watched the election count come in, new data from the website reveals. Visits to the X-rated site were down a staggering 41% at 10 p.m., around the time Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani took to the stage to make his victory speech. Given Mamdani's popularity in certain Brooklyn neighborhoods known as "the commie corridor," it's no surprise the traffic drop was most pronounced in that borough, down 35% on average for the entire evening (6 p.m. to 12 a.m.). Voters in Staten Island appeared to be the least invested in the election outcome, with that borough seeing the smallest drop in traffic, down just 15% in the same time period. Meanwhile, young voters were more likely to swap porn for politics on Tuesday, with viewership dropping most acutely among those aged between 18 and 35. Meanwhile, the dirty data…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago (413+ words) Election night is finally here. After months of debates, rallies, and a race that's captured national attention, New York City will make its decision about who will become the city's next mayor on Tuesday. The Post and 2WAY will be covering this election " a contest that keeps tightening between Democrat nominee Zohran Mamdani and independent candidate Andrew Cuomo " and other significant races across the country, including the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia that have even drawn in Barack Obama and President Donald Trump. Beginning at 8PM on Tuesday, sign on to NYPost.com'or'youtube.com/@nypost where I and fellow Post columnist Rikki Schlott will join 2WAY's Mark Halperin to parse the latest data and report on election results as they come in. We'll also be joined by City Hall Bureau Chief Craig McCarthy, members of The Post Editorial Board and…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (216+ words) Infamous friend of felines Curtis Sliwa showed up to his Upper West Side polling site in a cat tie and with the book "Pawverbs for a Cat Lover's Heart" on Tuesday. Wearing his signature red beret, the Guardian Angels founder and Republican mayoral nominee accompanied his wife, Nancy, as she voted on Election Day after he cast his ballot during early voting. "Hopefully by the time the ballots are counted tonight when all is said and done, I'll be the next mayor of the city of New York," Sliwa " who is polling third, and in the low double-digits,toldreporters. "And you know, animals throughout the city will be partying hardy because they'll have a friend both in Grace Mansion and in City Hall." Sliwa and his wife are known for their animal advocacy work, and he created a third-party line…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago (1804+ words) Shop like your city depends on it. In an ever-evolving New York, one thing remains the same, against all odds "we've got some of the greatest, most unique independent businesses on earth. And Small Business Saturday is one of the biggest days on the calendar for these cornerstones of Big Apple life "a full-on celebration of neighborhood hustle. Falling on the Saturday after Thanksgiving each year, the event was first created by American Express in 2010, to shine a spotlight on mom-and-pop retailers, restaurants, and service providers amid the start of holiday shopping frenzy "steering more than $200 billion in revenue their way since, according to data. A decade and a half on, the day has become as iconic as Black Friday "and all over Gotham, shops will be rolling out special deals, festive events, and exclusive finds, whether you're strolling the…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago (410+ words) This uptown Manhattan neighborhood continues to go up and up. A penthouse duplex on Central Park North in Harlem " one crowned by a private roof terrace " has listed for $11.5 million, making it the priciest presently for sale in the area, according to StreetEasy. It's a big price, but it's deeply discounted from its $19.5 million ask in 2021. The seller: real estate and entertainment entrepreneur Mike DePaola. DePaola, who chairs Art Walk NY for Coalition for the Homeless, also runs the pop up Art Bodega on the Lower East Side, which runs to the end of the year " and'TW Fine Art gallery in Palm Beach. The modern, and beautifully designed, penthouse boasts more than 50 feet of direct Central Park frontage. At 3,557 square feet, it comes with four bedrooms, 3.5 baths and nearly 1,700 square feet of outdoor space.' DePaola bought the glassy nest at…...