The supertall Central Park Tower, the latest addition to Billionaires’ Row by Extell Development, has seen a lot of sales activity in its first full year of closings, but not without deep discounts. And this continued through the holidays. An apartment encompassing the 124th floor of the steel-and-concrete skyscraper, rising 1,550 feet at 217 West…
Will passengers who booked flights on other airlines be reimbursed for those flights? They are in a more complicated category. Though Southwest said in its email that it would honor “reasonable requests” for “alternate transportation,” Southwest typically does not rebook passengers on competitors’ flights, unlike legacy carriers like Delta Air Lines and American Airlines, among…
Anand Goyal and Sabrina Zara Pervez met as teenagers, or so they first thought. Mr. Goyal attended an all-boys high school in Chelmsford, England; Ms. Pervez went to an all-girls school directly across the street. The students often intermingled, before and after each day, or when the schools hosted joint events like Valentine’s Day dances…
There was a time when having three sisters didn’t work in Neal Thomas Yakopin’s favor. For example, when he was in the eighth grade, they collectively enforced a strict one-hour limit on his basement drum practice. “It would be, ‘Hey, Neal, time is up, cut that out,’” he said. The perks of his girl-dominant childhood…
I asked him for some time to think about being friends. I wished someone would tell me what to do. My friends advised me to cut him off forever. I drafted a text that read, “It feels like I have to go back into Plato’s cave and learn to be happy there after experiencing the…
Allison Cai and Kurt William Galbraith were both part of a large friend group that would frequently go out together, though they never really connected. Ms. Cai remembers having a conversation with Mr. Galbraith in August 2017, thinking he was a friend’s cousin. He wasn’t. It was a moment Mr. Galbraith vaguely remembers. What he…
Ingrid Nickol Retzer, a police officer in Northern Texas, had the rule to never date or marry a fellow officer. But all that changed after she met Amelia Grace Ragsdale. On Jan. 9, 2020. Ms. Retzer was assigned to Ms. Ragsdale’s patrol sector crew. “I remember the moment Ingrid walked into work for the first…
Those who were born in late December are often met with well-meaning pity when they tell people their birth date. Isn’t it hard, they’re asked, to have your special day get lost in a marathon of major holidays? The short answer is, often, yes. (Disclaimer: This story was written and edited by two people with…
As Covid barrels through China, scientists around the world are searching for clues about an outbreak with sprawling consequences — for the health of hundreds of millions of Chinese people, the global economy and the future of the pandemic. But in the absence of credible information from the Chinese government, it is a big scientific…
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Thursday against AmerisourceBergen, one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical distributors, accusing the company of knowingly distributing opioids that were later resold illegally. The suit, filed by the department’s civil division in conjunction with federal prosecutors in New Jersey, Colorado, Pennsylvania and New York, is part of a growing…