In with the old: NYC’s hottest trends are freshly reimagined comforts — eateries, galleries and more
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Hey, we’re evolving here!
New Yorkers know that the only constant in local life is change — but in 2025, some of the most exciting new additions to the city are sounding comfortingly familiar.
Beloved institutions may come and go in the fast-paced Big Apple, but a spate of preservation-driven progress is lately warming the hearts of even the most jaded nostalgists.
Those whose job it is to monitor Gotham’s unstoppable growth say they welcome the recent wave of reinvention — while reminding that the trend shouldn’t come as a complete surprise.
“We’re continually growing and changing, but we also preserve a lot of what makes this city architecturally distinct and unique, from different periods over literally hundreds of years,” Moses Gates, author of the urban exploration bible “Hidden Cities,” told The Post.
Gates, also a vice president of the Regional Plan Association, pointed out that a city like New York has no choice but to move forward — and praised the many projects over the years that have helped historic structures find new relevance.
These sham-rock stars are raising the bar.
Cynthia Marie Franco was finally able to catch her breath as she frantically ran into her private spa studio in the Hollywood Hills, after finishing a lengthy facial at a top actor’s home, which backed up her tight schedule.
When it comes to investing, Jill Silverstein’s got it in the bag.
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.