From the runway to real estate — 3 fashionistas who ditched glam gigs to sell NYC
NY Post
For richer or broker, Briana Siaca is married to NYC real estate.
But closing multimillion-dollar deals on Gotham’s finest addresses wasn’t her first love. Instead, it’s become the former Miss New York USA’s glitzy second act.
“Pageantry gave me a tough skin, it boosted my confidence and taught me tenacity,” Siaca, 30, a first-year realtor with luxury brokerage The Corcoran Group, told The Post.
“With all those tools,” continued the brunette, “transitioning into New York City real estate just made sense.”
Siaca’s far from the only glamour gal to ditch a life in the limelight for the hustle and bustle of hawking haute homes.
In fact, real estate is fast becoming a choice career change for business belles throughout the US, per a 2023 report from the National Association of Realtors.
It was a flashback to NYC in the 1990s.
The killing of Iran’s tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday in an unprecedented joint military attack by the US and Israel called Operation Epic Fury set off widespread celebrations from Iranians around the world — as President Trump said it would give them their “greatest chance” to “take back the country.” Meanwhile, in Iran, a lack of internet has made it impossible for Iranians to easily communicate daily conditions. Over a period of three days, with limited VPN connection, an eyewitness currently in Tehran — who, for her safety, is concealing her identity — shared her account of life under a country in the midst of battle with The Post’s Natasha Pearlman.
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night.