Kevin P. Coughlin/New York Daily News Jay Z brings his Magna Carter World Tour home to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn Sunday night. Nothing got in the way of the words at Jay Z’s Barclays Center concert on Sunday. The show didn’t feature an innovative stage design, as on Drake’s recent tour. Neither did it include bejeweled masks, fancy dancers ...
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Lincoln Center out of fashion with designers
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 ...
Read More »Convention center headed for Queens
Fleet Architects, LLP A development group plans to build a $ 200 million convention center, hotel, apartments and retail on the site of a car dealership in Corona. A spacious convention center and 25-story hotel and apartment complex will soon rise on the site of a Corona car dealership near Citi Field. Fleet Financial Group plans to break ground on ...
Read More »Struggling Nash takes center stage in attack for Rangers vs. Islanders
Howard Simmons/New York Daily News Rick Nash moves to the front of the net in the hopes he’ll regain his scoring touch. Rick Nash is paid a team-high $ 7.8 million per season to be front and center in the Rangers’ offense, so that’s exactly where Alain Vigneault put his slumping forward for Friday night’s rivalry match against the visiting ...
Read More »Kennedy Center honors Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine and others
Kristoffer Tripplaar /SIPA USA-KT POOL/EPA Billy Joel was one of five stars to receive a Kennedy Center honor at Sunday event in D.C. The entire performance will be aired Dec. 29 on CBS. Billy Joel was bestowed one of the nation’s top awards Sunday as a star-studded crowd at the Kennedy Center in Washington let him know they love him ...
Read More »Rehab for shopping center . . . and Far Rock
Julia Xanthos/New York Daily News Community Board 14 District Manager Jonathan Gaska sees shopping center as focus of revitalization. Construction crews are hard at work at the Far Rockaway Shopping Center, marking the first major rehabilitation of the aging retail strip in decades. The Mott Ave. center — marked by the fading yet iconic blue sign — has sat mostly ...
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