agencies

Agency sues model for joining competitor

A model who’s walked the runway for Marc Jacobs and Alexander McQueen is facing a $450,000 lawsuit after walking out on her agency to join a competitor. Sarah Abney, a...

Outage leaves hundreds of state workers without phone and Internet service for a day

Hundreds of state workers lost a day of work on Sept. 21 when a Verizon outage cut phone and Internet service to their New York City offices. Staffers at the...

Pension-system head leaving amid probe into her hiring ex

The head of the city’s largest pension system is leaving her $219,771-a-year job amid an investigation into the hiring of her former live-in girlfriend. Diane D’Alessandro, executive director of the...

86 private agencies make millions helping city's vulnerable kids

Eighty-six private agencies rake in millions of taxpayer dollars to help the city’s Administration for Children’s Services care for New York’s most vulnerable kids — and their CEOs get big...

Chinese investors want to take over Hollywood's talent agencies

Yuan a piece of Hollywood? Deep-pocketed Chinese media executives are circling Hollywood firms looking for more movie-industry deals, and the next one could involve an investment in a major talent...

Ad king attacked with 2-by-4 after his company went under

David Lipman revealed years after his company went belly-up that he was attacked by a mysterious man one day after they closed shop.