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Chelsea Lauren/Getty Images Former fashion designer Richie Rich is on the hook for a $ 1,800 bill at the Times Squarre Westin hotel that he allegedly failed to pay, police say, causing him to have to appear in court Friday. Looks like fashion figure Richie Rich may not be so rich after all. The 44-year-old founder of Heatherette — a ...

DAVID WEXLER FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Natasha Pogrebinsky is one of a new brand of chefs helping to burnish Queens’ culinary credibility. This plucky Queens chef began cultivating her outlandish sense of taste as a child in Ukraine, and now Natasha Pogrebinsky is putting her culinary mettle to the test on the popular Food Network show “Chopped.” When Pogrebinsky, ...

Courtesy of Distilled Chef Shane Lyons of Distilled serves up Naked Cowboy, Beau Soleil and East Beach Blonde freshly shucked oysters with his house made Korean chili cocktail sauce and bread & butter pickle relish. You don’t have to be under the sea to get a taste of some of New York City’s best mollusks. With National Oyster day coming ...

Photo Courtesy Aldi Officials celebrate grand opening of Brooklyn’s first Aldi Market, on the site of a former Pathmark on Nostrand Ave. in Sheepshead Bay SHEEPSHEAD BAY Aldi Supermarket opened its first Brooklyn branch this week, and officials and residents in Sheepshead Bay rolled out the welcome wagon. The store celebrated its grand opening in a LeFrak-owned former Pathmark site ...

Keith Bedford for New York Daily Finally, H&M fans don’t have to head to the store to shop the brand’s clothes. Budget fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz launched an e-commerce operation in the United States on Thursday, taking on rivals in the world’s biggest online market. The launch is highly anticipated and follows successive delays. But retail experts say H&M ...

Uncredited Cyclospora is a rare parasite that causes a lengthy gastrointestinal illness. Health officials in Iowa and Nebraska on Tuesday identified prepackaged salad mix as the source of a severe stomach bug that sickened hundreds of people in both states, but federal authorities said it’s not clear whether cyclospora outbreaks elsewhere in the U.S. are also linked to that produce. ...

Mike Flippo/shutterstock.com A friendly game of tennis can burn around 300 calories in 35 minutes. When it comes to weight loss, the math is simple. Burn more calories than you eat. While certainly easier said than done, here are a few easy ways to shave off a few calories this summer. The following activities can burn 300 calories*: 1. Frisbee: ...

Ken Murray/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The original cronut from Dominique Ansel’s bakery in SoHo. It didn’t take long for the cronut to make its doughy debut at Dunkin Donuts. Within just two months, Dominque Ansel’s trademarked croissant-donut has spread like wild fire around the globe from Japan to Spain and the UK, bakeries and pastry shops are now mass-producing and ...

Launched last year, the Bluebird card with direct deposit scored well when it came to value and fee clarity. American Express’ Bluebird prepaid card is flying high. Launched last year, Bluebird with direct deposit took the No. 1 spot in Consumer Reports’ first ever ranking of the country’s best – and worst – prepaid cards. Also making the top five ...

War is hell — and so are these military-inspired workouts. Boot camp-style fitness classes are taking the city by storm, and even former soldiers who were whipped into shape by real-life drill sergeants say some of these exercises are harder than the basic training they endured as recruits. Makes sense, considering the classes condense 90 days of squat thrusts and ...