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.

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.

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.

Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin announced Monday plans to separate from husband Anthony Weiner amid new allegations of his old habit. Hours after the Post published its report online, Weiner deleted his Twitter account. Conversations between Weiner and the woman, who spoke to the Post on the condition of anonymity, began in January 2015 and continued through earlier this month.

Hugh Hefner's runaway bride Crystal Harris has apologized via Twitter – not for dumping him just days before their June 18 nups – but for making a jab at the playboy's sexual prowess. "I'm sorry," she tweeted on July 28. "I was unprepared and blurted out things I shouldn’t have said." The 25 year old playmate over-shared on a July 26 interview with Howard Stern, revealing that sex with 85-year-old her ex-fiance lasted "like two seconds."

The News of the World may be defunct, but its checks are still good. At least they are for Rebekah Brooks, who is still on the company payroll despite her arrest and resignation as the disgraced paper's editor-in-chief in July, according to a report in The Telegraph. "I am reliably informed that she remains on the company payroll," reports Tim Walker of the London paper.

Levi Johnston's first foray into publishing had him baring some skin for Playgirl. Now, he's revealing everything about why ex-flame Bristol Palin got pregnant with their son Tripp in a new tell-all book out Sept. 20. In "Deer in the Headlights," Johnston says Palin, daughter of ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, convinced him to get her pregnant so she could have a baby in revenge for her mother's surprise pregnancy with son Trig.

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump isn't waiting to be elected to start building borders. Earlier this week Trump lost Univision's support to air the pageant on July 12 after the mogul said that Mexican immigrants are "bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists." On Friday, the pageant's planned host, actress Roselyn Sanchez, resigned as Trump's employee, remarking that it would be "inconceivable" to go on hosting the show.

Fans of hit-maker Adele may have to rely on iTunes to hear “Rolling in the Deep” and “21.”. Since canceling her US tour dates earlier in October, the 23-year-old singer’s six remaining appearances in the UK have also been canceled, prompting suspicions around the Internet that the unspecified illness may actually be throat cancer.

Kate Middleton got the fairytale life, but her sister Pippa is writing the book on royally great parties--and has landed a splendid $620,000 deal. Pippa, 28, is currently inking her guide to the art of party planning, which Penguin seems to think will soon be a bible for hostesses the world over. "It is a massive amount of money, particularly in the current environment," a literary agent told the Telegraph.

When the going gets tough, Alec Baldwin goes to “Saturday Night Live.”. The “30 Rock” funnyman, who was kicked off an American Airlines flight last Tuesday for refusing to turn off his cell phone while playing the game Words With Friends, had a few words to share with his SNL friends – and fans. Dressed as pilot Captain Steve Rogers, Baldwin joined Seth Myers for SNL’s Weekend Update to extend a heartfelt apology for the incident to, well, himself.

Lindsay Lohan’s $5,000 Chanel purse that had disappeared from a car while vacationing in Hawaii was returned, TMZ now reports. But the $10,000 cash inside the purse was not. The site reports that Lohan accidentally left the precious cargo in a car while partying sober in Laie, Hawaii - and when she returned to the vehicle two hours later, it was missing.

Disney bigs chopped episodes from two hit shows after teen star Demi Lovato took to Twitter to rage about an insensitive eating-disorder joke she heard on one of the kids’ programs. Lovato, 19, who had quit her show Sonny with a Chance in the spring to seek treatment for bulimia, did not laugh at a joke casually made on Shake it Up: “I could just eat you up, well if I ate," an actor said.

The celebrated spawn of Sonny and Cher is socking away for the final phase of his genderreassignment, in which surgeons will create a fully-functional penis for the LGBT activist. “I could get a phalloplasty, which builds the phallus from a donor site on your body,” Bono, who changed his name from Chastity to Chaz, told Rolling Stone in a recent interview.

Heidi Klum and Seal are separating after seven years of marriage, the two confirmed in a statement on Sunday. "While we have enjoyed seven very loving, loyal and happy years of marriage, after much soul-searching we have decided to separate," the supermodel and Grammy-winning singer said. "We have had the deepest respect for one another throughout our relationship and continue to love each other very much, but we have grown apart," the statement said.

Gabrielle Union's hair is fly - but it almost grounded her at the airport on Wednesday. The actress said her "weave got 'flagged' by the bodyscan at security," on Twitter. TSA required a hair pat-down." The “Good Deeds” star, 39, expressed surprise that the "black female TSA agent" who stopped her was so naïve about her weave.