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James Keivom/New York Daily News No matter what cold-weather acoutrements she’s wearing, it’s the down jacket that makes EMS employee Sara Zahedi’s outfit so great against winter. Here, she models an Eastern Mountain Sports Meridian Down Jacket ($ 179), Sorel Tofino Herringbone Boots ($ 150), EMS 3-in-1 Altitude Gloves ($ 49), The North Face Cable Minna Beanie ($ 35) and ...

Glendale Center would be built on more than 6 acres of land, owned by ATCO, which currently houses Atlas Terminals and several stores. Current zoning permits the project to move forward without approvals. There’s a strong sense of déjà vu developing among residents in Glendale. The original developers of the Atlas Park Mall, which went into bankruptcy and was later ...

Eric Gay/AP Amanda Leigh Pulte, 22, and boyfriend Matthew Gage, 29, with their daughter Zoey at their home in Austin. The couple lives together but isn’t married. WASHINGTON — No longer taboo, living together has become a more common arrangement for America’s couples who become pregnant while dating. Soon-to-be-released government figures show a major cultural shift since the days of ...

Lincoln Center is quickly going out of fashion. Top designers Tracy Reese, Michael Kors and Diane von Furstenberg have joined the parade of fashionistas leaving the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week tents in Damrosch Park, joining exiles Carolina Herrera, Tommy Hilfiger, Oscar de la Renta and Vera Wang. The high-profile departures make many in the fashion world feel uninspired about Lincoln Center ...

Jeanne Noonan for New York Daily News A gentrifying block of Franklin Ave. in Brooklyn How should Mayor de Blasio take on the affordable housing crisis? In 1986, New York made a huge commitment to an intractable problem of the 80s – our falling-apart neighborhoods. Then-Mayor Koch made an unprecedented investment of city capital and also managed to get investors ...

THE SPECIALIST: Dr. Gregory Fischer The director of adult cardiothoracic anesthesia at Mount Sinai, Dr. Gregory Fischer specializes in taking care of patients who are undergoing heart and lung surgeries, including echocardiography. Eighty percent of his patients have mitral valve problems. WHO’S AT RISK The heart’s mitral valve doesn’t get a lot of attention from the public, but doctors estimate ...

KCCI An after and Before picture of John Cisna, a science teacher at Colo Nesco school in Colo Iowa who did a McDonald’s diet for 90 days and actually lost 37 pounds. An Iowa science teacher actually supersized his weight loss by eating McDonald’s. That’s right, weight loss. RELATED: MCDONALD’S YANKS WEBSITE WARNING EMPLOYEES TO AVOID EATING FAST FOOD KCCI ...

Queens Library Hillcrest resident Chander Iyer, who bravely wrote a book about his own battle with rectal cancer, was ready to lead a recent discussion about the topic at the Queens Library’s Pomonok branch but – unlike the group pictured – only one person showed up. Turns out it takes more than a support group with a catchy name to ...

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Public health experts are concerned that e-cigarettes may encourage more young people to smoke, but a new study finds that the secondhand effects of the vapor, at least, do not present the same health hazards as tobacco cigarettes. People standing near someone using an e-cigarette will be exposed to nicotine, but not to other chemicals found in ...

Is there a restaurant anywhere with a worse name than Dirt Candy? Evoking filth or muck, the E. Ninth St. vegan eatery says its moniker is a tribute to what great veggies really are: treats from the dirt. “We were dead-set on not having a one-word name,” says Amanda Cohen, the chef and owner. So she and her husband chatted ...