PK Mahanandia will speak at the United Nations on Monday, and will after appear at the book signing alongside the author at 1 p.m. at the United Nations Bookshop, GA building, Visitors' Concourse. It is International Happiness Day. Maybe people aren’t very happy these days. They need some help. I haven’t prepared anything, but I will talk about what is happiness.

Tuxedo-clad Gria Jacobs has been a chauffeur in NYC for three years, she said from behind the wheel of her Mercedes. For her, looking good while driving is easy. Parking is hard. Every year, Jacobson has to shell out $3,000 to $4,000 in parking tickets, the painful price of doing business. And she fears a new DOT program designating public parking spaces to car-share and rental companies means fewer legitimate spots for her — and possibly more tickets.

On the same day that the FBI director confirmed the agency is investigating possible Russian interference in the presidential election, the New York attorney general said he has hired two special prosecutors to scrutinize the Trump administration. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman hired Howard McMaster from the office of former U.S.

A dream that seemed unfeasible a few months ago — to close the troublesome Rikers Island jail — apparently will be realized because of the unrelenting advocates who turned a remote possibility into a priority in the space of a year. A new report about the jail’s ills released Sunday coincides with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s commitment on Friday to initiate a 10-year plan to shut the place down, reduce the jail population by half, and house inmates at jails in each borough.

The last guest will check out of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel at noon on Wednesday, and the Manhattan landmark will not host another for an indefinite amount of time. The1,412-room hotel is closing for at least two years while it is transformed into a mostly-residential building by its new Chinese owners, Anbang Insurance Group, which bought the property for $2 billion in 2014.

It’s been a hard day’s work. Your legs manage to carry you to the subway station where suddenly live music greets you. Is that “Norwegian Wood”? Your blood pressure drops. Isn’t it good? “The people need music and music needs the people,” said Matt Doe, the trumpet player from Too Many Zooz, the three-man busker band turned viral hit turned big act playing at Brooklyn Bowl on April 28-29.

Residents at themammoth West Harlem apartment complex have suffered through a Dickensian winter. Tenants in about 1,200 apartments at 3333 Broadway weren’t able to boil water on their stoves, let alone bake a Christmas ham. Someliving at Riverside Park Community even went without heat and hot water intermittently during the four months their gas was, and still is, off.

Donald Trump has filed a $10 million lawsuit against a former campaign adviser, Sam Nunberg. The presumptive presidential Republican nominee is alleging that Nunberg, who was fired last August for racially offensive Facebook posts, may have violated his confidentiality agreement in statements to the media, an unnamed source confirmed to Mic on Wednesday.

Wake up and get your tickets to The New York Coffee Festival 2016, which will be twice as big and robust as its first show last year – and indicative of the huge growth in New York’s coffee market. According to Jeffrey Young, the festival’s founder and an industry veteran who has been analyzing trends for 18 years, coffee is showing unprecedented growth in New York City.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday dramatically undoing many of the nation'sclimate-change regulations that former President Barack Obama had implemented or supported. The previous measures had promoted clean energy and worked to reduce carbon emissions. The new Trump ordersareintended to limit dependence on foreign oil, while bolstering job creation in thecoal-miningand fossil fuel sectors domestically.

On any given Sunday, Jamila Hooker will be in her Harlem apartment with a magic marker in hand, making black swooping marks on postcards that she will mail to dozens, hundreds, thousands of people across the globe. All she wants in return is a photo of the recipient holding the postcard on which she scribed their name in a mysterious script — Arabic.

Yet another train derailment on Monday at Penn Station has experts' wheels turning aboutthe apparent uptick in commuter train issues in the New York region recently, with four crashes occurring in six months. At around 9 a.m. on Monday, aNJTransit train carrying 1,200 passengers derailed at a slow speed while entering Penn Station.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama re-learned a lesson about foreign diplomacy: speak softly and make sure your microphone is turned off before you bad-mouth Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and call him "a liar." After holding a presser at the G20 conference in Cannes Thursday, Obama and Sarkozy retreated to another room for a private conversation that turned out to be a very public faux pas.

Pierre Francillon has a dream to fill the outer walls of Prospect Lefferts Gardens with building-sized flashcards to catch the eyes of the area’s fastest growing population: kids under 10. And with the help of a team of emerging and established artists, he hopes to have all 26 letters of the alphabet, each linked to a landmark or idea associated with the surroundings, glinting in the sunlight by mid-summer.

You might be able to get some fresh air in Manhattan — if you hang out in Central Park all day. Otherwise, the hazards of breathing city air change just about as quickly as it takes for your Uber to arrive at your destination, according to a new study from MIT Senseable City Lab. The MIT team came up with a new tool for determining the air-quality conditions and exposure hazards of different areas of the city: cellphones.

Officials at major medical marijuana companies are rejoicing in the dramatic policy changes to New York’s Medical Marijuana Program that Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday, which aim to improve business for the fledgling nine-month-old industry. The policy changes focus on improvements to patient access, such as home delivery to patients too ill to travel, and allowing nurses to prescribe the drug, changes which may be implemented as early as the end of September, according to a statement from the Governor’s office.