Move over Carrie Bradshaw: This is the hottest stoop in NYC — and yes, photos are encouraged
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Diamonds, for some, are a girl’s best friend. Other luxe lovers dig designer finery.
But Kristi Hemric, a married Upper East Side mom of four, adores décor — and you sure can’t miss it.
With the façade of her five-story townhouse on 78th Street as her canvas, she artfully beautifies the building with faux flowers, spending hours (and a small fortune) on the lavish landscapes she dreams up in her head.
To toast the dawn of spring, the millennial covered the exterior of her crib, located between Second and Third avenues, in light pink tulips, peonies and bows, bidding the grayness of winter a cheery farewell. For Easter, crochet carrots, bunny rabbit busts and rosy roses took center stage on Hemric’s ever-changing, never boring stoop sensations.
Ahead of Mother’s Day, she hit the motherlode, adorning her doorpost in toy petals, much to the delight of tickled onlookers. Over 5 million digital fans gave the pretty playthings a virtual thumbs-up, too.
Her efflorescent embellishments are public displays of affection for a community she loves. And it comes with heaps of precious perks.
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.