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The Schmooze Lauren Bacall’s Swank Apartment Hits Market — For $26M
Getting tired of your windowless closet, better known as a New York apartment? Or maybe you’ve decided to give your roommate — or uninvited guests (mice I’m looking at you) — some space and are on the market for a new home. Well, if you have a spare $26 million to drop on a new…
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Fast Forward N.Y. Clinic That Treated Joan Rivers Made Mistakes, Federal Investigation Finds
The New York City clinic that treated comedian Joan Rivers made several errors, including not noticing her deteriorating vital signs during surgery, according to a federal investigation. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its report on Monday. Rivers, 81, died on Sept. 4, a week after being rushed to Manhattan’s Mount Sinai…
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Fast Forward Over 100 Jewish Groups Join People’s Climate March in New York
More than 100 Jewish organizations participated in the People’s Climate March in New York as part of the Jewish Climate Campaign. The Jewish participants in Sunday’s march were encouraged to bring and blow shofars to provide a wake-up call to governments and organizations to work to fight climate change. Among the participating Jewish organizations were…
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The Schmooze How About a Swastika With Your Uber?
JPUpdates.com, DNAInfo As if Uber hasn’t gotten enough negative press this month, the NYPD is investigating the flyers showing swastikas above the taxi app’s logo that have mysteriously appeared on Bedford Avenue, in Brooklyn. Officer’s in NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force division officers are investigating the flyers, posted Monday night, as a potential hate crime….
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The Schmooze Joan Rivers Still on Life Support, Daughter Says
Joan and Melissa Rivers // Getty Images Melissa Rivers has confirmed that her mother and “Fashion Police” co-host Joan Rivers is still on life support. “On behalf of my mother and our family, we are extremely grateful for all the love and support we’ve received. At this time, she does remain on life support,” Melissa…
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The Schmooze Turning Brownstones Green: Interview with Eitan Baron
Courtesy of Greenstone It takes a certain set of skills to make it in New York, and when Eitan Baron moved to the Big Apple in 2000, he definitely didn’t have it. Picking up a suitcase and moving from Azor, Israel, to try his luck at selling oil paintings in Florida was not quite what…
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Fast Forward Giant Palestine Flag Draped on New York Bridge Under Investigation
New York City detectives were searching on Thursday for activists suspected of unfurling a massive Palestine flag over the side of an East River bridge during a march in support of Palestinians in Gaza, police said. The flag, draped over the south side of the Manhattan Bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn, appeared during a Wednesday…
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Fast Forward Photographer Who Documented Jewish Lower East Side, Dies at 98
Rebecca Lepkoff, a photographer who documented Jewish life on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, has died. Lepkoff, who grew up in a Jewish neighborhood there, died Sunday at 98. Her series of photographs showing the Lower East Side was taken in the 1940s and 1950s. Lepkoff lived a portion of the year in Vermont,…
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