The judge overseeing Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case said Friday that he will appoint an independent attorney to argue against the Trump administration’s controversial bid to dismiss the charges, spurning the government’s request to...
New York’s clean energy fund has inked a $60 million low-interest loan with Revel to help the Brooklyn startup rapidly grow the city’s network of speedy public chargers for electric vehicles. The financing from NY Green Bank, which is...
Goose Property Management's ideas for the Brooklyn development site it picked up last year are coming into focus. The Williamsburg-based developer, led by Yitchok Katz, recently filed plans with the city's Department of Buildings to...
By 2027, New York City will ban the use of No. 4 fuel oil in all buildings. Failure to comply could result in penalties of up to $10,000 for property owners. As of today, 3,200 buildings in NYC still use No. 4 oil, accounting for roughly...
New York City commercial real estate advisers Darcy Stacom and Wendy Silverstein are partnering to create a new property company. The pair are starting StacomSilverstein, a boutique capital markets real estate advisory firm that will be...
Prolific hotelier Sam Chang has parted ways with another asset, records show, as he appears to be winding down his portfolio in preparation for retirement. Chang, president of Long Island-based firm McSam Hotel Group, sold the 201-key...
Dynamic pricing — the controversial practice that essentially increases prices for tickets as demand for them rises — is heading to the Empire State Building , the owner of the famous skyscraper said during its fourth quarter earnings...
Two years after pulling off a creative double nomination, Charlie Kaufman joined the winner's circle with his screenplay for 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'
ABORTION LAW: Gov. Kathy Hochul has formally rejected a request from Louisiana to extradite a New York doctor who has been accused of prescribing and mailing abortion-inducing medications to a Louisiana teen via telemedicine. Gov. Jeff...
State health officials on Tuesday greenlit Northwell Health’s request to establish a pediatric heart transplant center at its children’s hospital, creating the first cardiac transplant program for kids on Long Island, the health system...
Testy campaigns for the Oscars are something of a tradition and this year is no exception. With numerous controversies surfacing around multiple films and actors, this season is a particularly rough-and-tumble affair.
The actor's work in 'The Sea Inside,' a film based on the real quadriplegic who fought for decades for the right to end his life, led to the foreign language Oscar.
We report from inside the room at Sunday's BAFTA Awards ceremony, where there were big wins for Edward Berger's "Conclave" and actor Mikey Madison of "Anora."
After his sweep of the PGA and DGA awards, we catch up with the "Anora" writer-director in the upper offices of the Aero Theatre, where things seem a little surreal.
'Anora' is the latest in a long line of Hollywood movies about sex workers. But it's rare for movies about exotic dancers to score at the box office and Academy Awards.
In the latest episode of "The Envelope" video podcast, director Coralie Fargeat explains how she prepared star Demi Moore to film "The Substance" and "The Brutalist" filmmaker Brady Corbet discusses his desire to make films that viewers...
In photographing Denis Villeneuve's "Dune: Part Two," cinematographer Greig Fraser says it was "important to create iconic images" for the sequel that sees Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) embrace his role as savior of the Arrakis people.
The indie distributor based in New York began creating DVD box sets during the company's early days. The annual disc sets have become highly anticipated in the years since.
This year's Oscar-nominated live-action shorts place viewers in the shoes of people on the front lines of thorny sociopolitical issues, including immigration and child labor.
The director believes the icon himself wanted to better understand the period in his life depicted in the film, especially the anger that greeted his going electric at a folk festival.
Paul Tazewell brought his experience creating costumes for 'The Wiz' four times, as well as 'Hamilton' and 2021's 'West Side Story,' to the massive undertaking.
'The script always had a soul, a second layer — it's not just about a plot or a story; there's something deep behind it. It just calls you,' says the film's director.
Sean Baker's freewheeling fractured fairy tale took top honors from both the producing and directing guilds, restoring its front-runner status at the Oscars.
With its 13 Oscar nominations, "Emilia Perez" adds to the scores of other laurels the filmmaker's thematically gritty, visually innovative works have collected over the years.
Demi Moore starred in a series of box-office hits in the early 1990s before going on an acting hiatus. Now she's earned her first Oscar nomination for 'The Substance.'
Production designer Craig Lathrop had plenty of time to consider ideas inspired by a gothic era. But that doesn't mean the forces of time — and nature — helped him along.
In our first episode back after the Oscar nominations, we chat with 'Nickel Boys' filmmaker RaMell Ross and costume designer Arianne Phillips of 'A Complete Unknown.'
Visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman is proud of his team's dazzling work but is quick to note that storytelling was at the heart of everything in the film, creating dynamic scenes that connect to the rising emotional journey.
Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas revisits the world of 1980s talent agencies in her debut novel, 'Climbing in Heels,' which onetime colleague Darren Star has signed on to adapt.
20 years ago, the adapted screenplay winner got the prize ahead of 'Before Sunset,' 'Million Dollar Baby,' 'Finding Neverland' and 'The Motorcycle Diaries.'
Cinematographer Paul Guilhaume used a variety of techniques to pull off the song-and-dance numbers in 'Emilia Pérez,' working closely with director Jacques Audiard.