Here’s what’s new at NYC’s freshly reopened 5-star hotels
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The bellhops are back this summer.
Nearly every hotel in the New York City shut its doors last year. While some of the city’s most iconic rooms for rent — like Rosewood’s tony Carlyle Hotel, as well as the Mark and the Pierre — where quick to reopen (notably the Lotte Palace Hotel never closed), others — like the resplendent St. Regis on Fifth Avenue and the trendy Gramercy Park Hotel — have yet to indicate when New York cans check back in. Meanwhile the Waldorf Astoria, which is in the midst of condo conversion, was already shuttered, missing the pandemic completely. It won’t reopen until 2023.
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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.