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Photo-Illustration: Curbed Columbia Heights is likely one of the most famous streets in Brooklyn Heights — once home to Walt Whitman and Norman Mailer, now Matt Damon, Jennifer Connelly, and Michelle Williams. The Civil War–era rowhouses on the avenue look out over the promenade, with views extending from the East River all the way to the Statue of Liberty. Each is nicer than the next, with period-specific details, immaculate built-in bookcases, and perfectly lit art visible from the street. Then you get to 194. The massive four-story brownstone is the sickly shade of green mold, except in the places the façade…

The Disney+ website on a laptop computer in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Monday, July 18, 2022.Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDisney might be proving the world’s most famous investor wrong.Last year, Warren Buffett, “The Oracle of Omaha,” told CNBC’s Becky Quick he had no faith in the business of streaming video.”Streaming … it’s not really a very good business,” Buffett said on April 12, 2023. “The shareholders really haven’t done that great over time.”Buffett wasn’t lying. Legacy media companies such as Comcast’s NBCUniversal, Disney, Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery have all underperformed the S&P…

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It’s not about avoiding challenges, Ojo’s Chris Heller writes. It’s about embracing them as opportunities to grow, improve and lead. Whether it’s refining your business model, mastering new technologies, or discovering strategies to capitalize on the next market surge, Inman Connect New York will prepare you to take bold steps forward. The Next Chapter is about to begin. Be part of it. Join us and thousands of real estate leaders Jan. 22-24, 2025. The real estate industry is no stranger to change. Whether it’s market fluctuations, economic uncertainty, regulatory shifts or the ripple effects of election cycles, challenges are inevitable.…

Elon Musk was named by Donald Trump to cut spending with his Department of Government Efficiency.Musk reposted on Wednesday a list of cuts from Sen. Rand Paul, a longtime critic of the federal budget.Paul’s annual lists — often focused on research funding and overseas aid — could point to a direction of travel for DOGE.Elon Musk is on the hunt for federal spending to cut — and a Republican senator’s list caught his eye.Musk late on Thursday reposted part of a long-running series by Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a Republican who has devoted much of his career to lamenting…

Donald Trump’s re-election as president of the United States marks a shift in US policy – from the Joe Biden administration’s hypocritical denial of American complicity in Zionist genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity to an unapologetic endorsement of all these actions. Besides bringing Washington’s support for all of Israel’s excesses, crimes and violations out into the open, Trump’s return to the White House will also intensify and make even more overt the persecution of those who dare resist white supremacy and its Zionist incarnation. Under Biden, those who opposed American-funded and -facilitated Zionist genocide, from university students and…

Happy New Music Friday! The weekend is here, which means more streaming, new playlists, and the best that music has to offer — and ET has you covered for everything in between.Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani are celebrating new music this week with Blake’s new song and Gwen’s new album, both out today. We spoke with Blake on the set of his “Texas” music video and he shared that “Texas is way different than anything I’ve ever done before musically and it’s just a super fun song.” Blake is featured on Gwen’s album Bouquet and he joked “we wanted to…

The leadership changes at Zillow are continuing. On Thursday the firm announced that Zillow Group President Susan Daimler is stepping down. Daimler joined Zillow through its acquisition of Buyfolio in 2012. Since joining Zillow Group she has served as senior vice president and general manager of StreetEasy, and senior vice president over the Premier Agent program. She has served as Zillow’s president since 2018. Daimler’s husband, Matt Daimler, who served as Zillow’s senior vice president of product, is also stepping down from his role. “We’re grateful for both Susan and Matt’s many contributions and leadership over the last 12 years,”…

The GM logo is seen on the facade of the General Motors headquarters in Detroit on March 16, 2021.Rebecca Cook | ReutersDETROIT – General Motors laid off roughly 1,000 employees on Friday as the automaker attempts to cut costs and realign priorities amid changing market conditions, according to a person familiar with the decision.The layoffs, which were announced Friday morning to those impacted, were across the business. Some were due to poor performance, while others were part of a review to reorganize priorities by the automaker, according to the person, who agreed to speak about the decision on the condition…

Police in Romania and Hungary say they have broken up a human trafficking ring that convinced vulnerable people, many just out of foster homes, to work in slave-like conditions in Budapest.For more than a decade, traffickers brought men and women from Romania to the Hungarian capital, promising them relatively high salaries and good housing.They were instead put to work for little pay, mainly at a waste-recycling plant near Budapest, according to details of the investigation made public on Friday.Five men and three women were detained as part of the investigation, and most of them come from the same family originally…