New York City is a better place to party than it has been in almost 20 years.

That's right. I said it. Call your older cousin who used to party at The Tunnel every night and gives you "man-you-should-have-been-there" stories every time he sees you.

Dig out your old pictures of made-up club kids freak dancing at Limelight back in '92. I don't care.

Saying the past was better than what we have now is easy. It excuses you from finding killer parties, and New York City has them — more than it's had in a long time.

"If I go out and I'm not working the next day, I'm out til 6 or 7 am," said Bruce Tantum, editor of Time Out New York's nightlife section. "There are more illegal options too." (Not that we'd sell them out here.)

A brief history lesson for those of you who don't know what the old-timers have been complaining about. It all started with Mayor Giuliani. You wouldn't know it to look at the guy, but he was basically a 19th century school marm when it came to partying. If there was joy, he found it and killed it. Strict cabaret laws made it harder to dance, higher rents made it harder for clubs to find space.

That's when bottle service took over NYC clubs.

And you probably know about that bottle service stuff: Throw down a couple hundred for a bottle that you can get at your local liquor store for $30, wait in line with a bunch of girls you may or may not have recruited down the street because there are too many guys in your group, kiss a promoter's butt. Get in. Be crowded.

Or don't get in, get rejected.

At this point in 2014 New York City's club scene has evolved beyond that. DJ culture has created segments of dance music for everyone from your sorority 'woo-girls' in heels and band-aid dresses to your genuine club kids wearing sneakers and tees because they want to get down.

"The scene's really diverse now," said Sascha Lewis, CEO of culture site Flavorpill. "You can have a night out where you can hear Questlove play a great hip-hop soul funk set. You can go to Output and hear some dirty techno from Europe ... and you can go to an amazing underground house music party."

The list goes on. Don't want to stand in line for a meatpacking club but you want to hear music from Top 40 charting DJs? Fine. Pay a fee and get into Marquee or Pasha, no problem.

For the music snobs — the real heads — last year, New York City got Output, a 436-person club with one of the best sound systems in the country located in Williamsburg. More recently, Output got a (weirder) little sister in Verboten— a club just down the street that promises much of what Output does: long nights, internationally respected DJs, open parties, and lots of dancing.

For the real warriors, there are the sweaty dance parties taming Bushwick, like Bossa Nova Civic Club and Tandem.

And what if you want to party at some weird hour? Flavorpill has your back for that. Want a dance party at noon? Go to a Lunch Break party. How about one right after Happy Hour ends at 7:00 p.m.? Then you should check out The Get Down.

Part of the reason for all of this is because the Brooklyn scene grew up. The guys who 8-10 years ago had just gotten out of college or moved to the city from bubble-wherever have grown up. They have bills to pay, so they've started amazing venues like Brooklyn Bowl.

"It lends more legitimacy to the scene than the sweaty one-off parties in warehouses that used to dominate it," said Lewis. "The whole Burning Man meets Brooklyn barrage of before was edgy for what it was, but everyone had to grow up."

This isn't to say that the underground scene is dead. Quite the contrary. It's still humming along, throwing bigger, later parties. Yes, sometimes they get busted — but isn't it worth it to see a French kid who doesn't speak a word of English happily dancing on a trampoline next to a do-or-die New Yorker who just drove over with his friends from Bayside, Queens?

Like I said, the scene's diverse.

For most people, night time is the most free time they have crammed together in one go. Days are often full of drudgery — of phone calls, appointments, and small-time conversation. At night, though, you can go out and find whatever makes you happy. Night belongs to you.

That's what makes all this worth reading about in the first place.

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The weather might feel miserable right now, but it's spring and that means the fairways will begin to turn green and golf season will be start.

Golf is one of the favorite hobbies of the Wall Street crowd, and when it comes to where they play, they'll accept only the best.

We have compiled a list of some of the courses where the biggest heavy-hitters on Wall Street like to play. 

Blind Brook (Purchase, New York)

Wall Streeters Who Have Played There: Lloyd Blankfein, James Gorman, Stanley Druckenmiller, Jimmy Lee and Jimmy Dunne III.

Location: Purchase, New York

About: It's a private, members-only golf club that was established in 1915. The course features 18 holes, 6,385 yards and a par of 72.

Course Designer(s): Charles Blair Macdonald and Seth Raynor

Source: GolfLink.com, Source: GHIN.com, Source: Golf Slope

Sebonack Golf Club (Southampton, New York)

Wall Streeters Who Have Played There: Lloyd Blankfein, Gary Cohn, Feroz Dewan (Tiger Global), Daniel Och, Henry Kravis, Jimmy Dunne III (Sandler O'Neill) and Bob Prince (Bridgewater Associates). 

Location: Southampton, New York

About: The gorgeous 300 acre course, which opened in 2006, is located right on the water in Southampton.  It's close to neighboring golf courses, Shinnecock Hills and National Links. According to a 2006 Bloomberg News article, membership just to golf at Sebonack costs $500,000. The course features holes, 7,286 yards and a par of 72.

Course Designer(s): Jack Nicklaus and Tom Doak

Source: GolfLink.com, Source: GHIN

Shinnecock Hills Golf Course (Southampton, New York)

Wall Streeters Who Have Played There: George Herbert Walker IV (Neuberger Berman), Henry Kravis (KKR), Stan Druckenmiller (Duquesne), Eric Gleacher, Jimmy Dunne III and Chase Coleman. 

Location: Southampton, New York

About: The course features 18 holes, 6,996 yards and a par of 70. Shinnecock is scheduled to host the 2018 U.S. open.

Course Designer: William Flynn

Source: GHIN

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A new luxury hotel, the Shangri-La at the Shard, is set to open inside The Shard, one of London's most talked-about buildings. 

The 5-star hotel will be home to two restaurants, an impressive collection of artwork, an indoor infinity pool, and London's highest bar, GŎNG, located on their 52nd floor. 

The Shangri-La at the Shard is currently accepting reservations, though it doesn't officially open until May 6th. Rates start around $740 per night, and go as high as $3,700 per night for a deluxe suite. 

The Shangri-La hotel will occupy the 34th to 52nd floors of Renzo Piano’s iconic building, making it the tallest hotel in Western Europe.

The hotel will have 202 rooms and 17 suites, which will include personal butler service.

Guests will take an elevator up to the 34th floor to enter the lobby.

Researchers at Northumbria University recently released a study revealing what makes someone a good dancer.

It was a neat idea, but resulted in some pretty strange advice for guys on the dance floor, including elongating their necks, wiggling their right knees, and “us[ing] larger, more variable movements in bending/twisting.”

Not exactly the easiest advice to remember (or follow) up in the club.

So we reached out to Brooklyn-based dance instructor Ben Weston, who has his own dance tutorial called Dance Floor Arsenal that helps rhythmically challenged men find their groove.

“For most guys, they're completely nervous and in their head,” Weston told Business Insider. “Their arms are clenched to their sides, they're clutching onto their drink for dear life, and their whole body is stiff.”

If that sounds familiar, don't fear. Weston has two basic moves all men should master and rely on: the two-step and the bounce.

“I drill the guys in my classes 'Mr. Miagi' style,” Weston joked. “Over and over and over again so that if I woke them up in the middle of the night with a bucket of cold water, they could do these moves.” 

Here's a quick primer.

THE TWO-STEP

This is a simple move that will be your bread and butter when you’re not sure what to do on the dance floor. Simply step your right leg to the right and have your other leg step to meet it. Then step to the other side, and have your other leg comes to meet it. Pretty basic.

You can switch this up with the triangle two-step, where instead of having your foot meet your other foot, it will step back to form a triangle:

Another variation is the heel two-step, where you reach the heel of your foot out to the front, leaning back slightly.

THE BOUNCE

The bounce is even easier than the two-step, because you literally just bounce to the beat. “Most guys complain about rhythm, but the only rhythm you need is the base and snare, boom and clap,” Weston said. “Just bounce to it.”

Keep your shoulders relaxed, groove with the beat, and let your arms sway. Don’t overthink it. “The goal is to find a simple groove that you you can always fall back on so you're not constantly wondering what to do next,” Weston explained. “Once you have the moves down, you can start adding style and flair by changing height, intensity, and swaying from side to side.”

WHAT ABOUT MY ARMS?

“Every guy asks what to do with his arms,” Weston said. “I tell them to have one arm up and one arm down and just switch them back and forth. Just remember to keep space between your arms and your body — that’s key.”

You can also do a shoulder roll where you simply roll your shoulders with the beat. Keep your hands and fingers relaxed while you do this, not clenched.

Weston said there are a ton of other variations (check out Dance Floor Arsenal for more advanced dance moves), but the key is to have confident body language with an expansive chest and broad shoulders while taking up space. “The body language of an alpha male or a confident person is expansive,” Weston explained. “Literally try to take up space and have a broad open chest while you’re dancing.

AND IF ALL ELSE FAILS... JUST SMILE

“Most straight guys on the dance floor are biting their lip, looking down, and seem nervous, scared, or embarrassed,” Weston said. “If you’re the guy there who just wants to have fun and enjoy the music, that makes you more attractive. I've had women push across the dance floor to dance with me just because I was the one dude smiling and having fun.”

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When Lieutenant Colonel Richard (Dick) Cole participated in the first American bombing raid on Japan in World War II, his plane was destined not to return to the U.S.

That plane, along with 15 others that were part of the raid, was destroyed behind enemy lines.

More than 70 years later, Reddit users asked Cole about the legendary Doolittle Raid, named after its leader Lt. Col. James (Jimmy) Doolittle.

Cole, Doolittle's co-pilot, described the terror of bailing out of his airplane. He also explains the sense of patriotism that compelled him to join the incredibly dangerous mission, which came in response to Pearl Harbor.

In order to reach distant Tokyo and other cities, the B-25 bombers that took part in the mission had to take off from the USS Hornet aircraft carrier in the ocean, 650 miles from Japan. However, it was impossible to get back to the carrier after the mission. Instead, they planned to land on airfields in friendly areas of Japanese-occupied China.

Some users asked Cole how he viewed his role in such scary mission.

Others asked him about the thoughts that went through his mind before the one-way mission.

The crew members replaced guns on board the aircraft with painted broomsticks in order to lighten the planes’ loads, Cole confirmed. “It certainly had a few quirks after we essentially gutted it prior to the raid,” Cole wrote of his plane. “We had to make sure they would be the right weight to take off from the Hornet.”

The toughest and most memorable part of the April 18, 1942 raid was “looking at that black hole [the escape hatch] when we had to jump out of a perfectly good airplane,” according to Cole.

The bomber that Doolittle flew ran out of gas over China behind enemy lines, forcing the gunner, bombardier, navigator, co-pilot, and pilot to bail out, according to Cole’s own account. The plane was flying at 9,000 feet, 166 miles per hour, putting a wide distance between each crewman as they parachuted into the rainy nighttime countryside.

Cole’s parachute caught in a tree where he spent the night, before roaming in a westerly direction over steep terrain. He eventually stumbled upon an outpost of pro-American Chinese guerrilla fighters, who reunited him with the rest of his crew and smuggled them past Japanese forces to a location where American aircraft retrieved them.

At 98 years old, Cole shared some simple life advice for much younger Reddit users.

Click here to read his full AMA.

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Fifteen Central Park West — the massive, limestone-covered ultra-luxury apartment building on the edge of Columbus Circle — has become an icon on the skyline of Manhattan's West Side and a star of city gossip and real-estate columns.

The building has been in existence for less than a decade, but its roster of current and former residents is a who's who of titans from the worlds of finance, real estate, retail, and entertainment, from Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein to Yankees star Alex Rodriguez.

In a new book, "House of Outrageous Fortune," Michael Gross goes behind the scenes to tell the complete story of Fifteen, as it's affectionately known. From the building's inception in the minds of developers Arthur and William Lie Zeckendorf to the battle over its unusual facade to the sparring among its strong-headed tenants, Gross makes the case that the building is deserving of its description as the world's most powerful address.

Anyone fascinated by the history of luxury real estate in New York City — or the lives of the city's richest and most powerful people — should find the time to read Gross' book. We pulled out some of the most outrageous facts, figures, and records set by 15CPW.

1. Five developers were invited to bid on the lot at West 61st Street and Central Park West. The Zeckendorfs won the property with a bid of $401,050,000 — more than twice the going rate for land in Manhattan at the time.2. The building broke records even before construction could start. A final holdout tenant from the hotel that previously occupied the land was eventually paid about $17 million to vacate, according to a source. It's likely the highest price ever paid to relocate a tenant in New York.

3. The developers spent an incredible sum on the property, anticipating sky-high returns. All told, "they'd paid about $690 per buildable square foot for the land, they spent about $750 per square foot on their 886,000-square-foot two-tower behemoth," Gross writes.4. The lowest price for a unit at 15CPW in the initial 2005 offering was $1.78 million, far above the $1.479 million average price for a Manhattan condo at the time. The priciest condo was initially listed for $41.25 million (it would later resell for far more).

5. Servants' quarters were initially listed for between $650,000 and $1.74 million, and storage units for $35,000. The building's 30 wine cellars ranged from $50,000 to $80,000.6. Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein was among the first people to buy an apartment at 15CPW. His duplex was priced at $29 million, but he paid just $25.73 million, a significant discount, according to Gross. Eight other former and present "Goldman bigwigs" were among the building's first purchasers, and musician Sting later took the apartment next door to Blankfein's.

7. Hedge-fund tycoon Daniel Loeb set an early record at Fifteen, "dropping $45 million for his penthouse in what was then a hole in the ground," Gross writes. He famously outbid investor Carl Icahn for the then nonexistent pad.8. 15CPW has also been nicknamed "hedgie hive," with residents representing some 36 hedge funds. Gross estimates that the aggregate assets managed by hedge funds and boutique investment firms whose executives own or rent at 15CPW amounts to $437 billion. 

9. Shortly after stepping down as CEO of Citi, Sandy Weill spent $43.69 million on the biggest apartment at Fifteen. According to a source, he surprised his wife with the penthouse on Valentine's Day.10. Actor Denzel Washington's purchase of a $13 million apartment coincided with a major milestone for the developers — passing the billion-dollar mark in sales. They held a "Billion Dollar Bash" to celebrate, Gross writes.

11. Spanx founder Sara Blakely claimed to be so terrified of heights living in her 37th-floor apartment that she and her husband, Marquis Jet's founder Jesse Itzler, hired a former Navy SEAL to suggest emergency escape plans. Another SEAL later moved in with them to give them cardio workouts, according to Gross.12. Russian potash tycoon Dmitry Rybolovlev made headlines when he bought the Weill's penthouse for $88 million in 2011, ostensibly for his 22-year-old daughter. But it wasn't his first offer at Fifteen: Rybolovlev offered $75 million for another penthouse in 2008, but the owner got cold feet.

13. Speaking of Rybolovlev's record-setting penthouse: According to Gross, aside from a few short stays at the end of 2012, Ekaterina Rybolovleva never used the apartment, preferring to spend time in Monaco.14. In 2009, 54 people were on Fifteen's payroll, including seven concierges and eight white-gloved lobby attendants.

15. Employees of 15CPW can make bank during "tip season." In 2011, a typical staffer made $22,500 during the holidays, and one employee told Gross he thought the building's resident manager made $600,000 before tips.

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Anyone who has ever smoked cigarettes knows that smoking is a far cheaper activity in North Carolina than in New York.

One of the biggest reasons for the differences in cigarette prices across states is state cigarette taxes. The taxes, in addition to generating revenue for the state government, act as deterrents to smoking in an attempt to improve public health.

This map shows state cigarette taxes, based on information from the Tax Foundation. Darker green indicates higher per-pack taxes:

New York has far and away the highest cigarette taxes in the United States at $4.35 per 20 cigarette pack — 84¢ more than the next highest state tax of $3.51 in Massachusetts.

The map above only includes state taxes, and not any additional local taxes. Add in New York City's tax of $1.50 per pack, and the $5.85 combined tax goes a long way in explaining why cigarettes cost over ten dollars a pack in the city.

Meanwhile, taxes are far lower in the south and midwest — Missouri smokers pay the state only 17¢ for each pack of cigarettes they buy, and six other southern and midwestern states have taxes below 50¢.

Here are the per pack cigarette tax rates, ordered from highest to lowest:

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Fashion houses span the globe, so it makes sense some cultures have trouble pronouncing brand names such as Moschino (mos’kee’no) or Fausto Puglisi (fao’sto poo’yeezy).

Fashion magazine i-D created an awesome video that teaches you how to speak the language of supermodels with the “international fashion alphabet. We first saw it at New York Magazine's The Cut.

The video goes from A to Z, starting with Parisian fashion house Azzedine Alaïa (ah’ze’deen ah’lai’ah) and ending with Milan's Zegna (zen’ya).

With a pair of detached red lips pronouncing each word and gorgeous models posing throughout, the video is also pretty entertaining to watch.

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Bern's Steakhouse is an opulent Tampa, Fl. institution that boasts of having the "world's largest wine cellar." Business Insider visited Bern's last week, and wine steward Chris Lewis gave us a tour of the facilities where the restaurant claims to store more than 600,000 bottles of vino. 

On the way into the wine cellar there are shelves for wine that's available by the glass. 

There are separate storage areas for the reds, whites, and Madeiras that are sold by the glass. Lewis showed off this Madeira from 1839.

Lewis said the aisles in the cellar at the restaurant are "set up like your local library" and numbered from one to 10,000. The entire collection has never been catalogued and staffers sometimes find surprises in the stacks. 

According to Lewis, there are about 100,000 bottles in the cellar at the restaurant and another 500,000 in this building next door. Louis described the collection as "about a 70-30 split" between red and white wines. He said there are more reds since they are more commonly paired with steak. 

This is the locked "rare room" where Bern's keeps its priciest bottles individually wrapped in plastic. "There are a lot of last bottles on Earth in this room," Lewis said. "The oldest in this room is an 1815 Port."

Lewis went into the "rare room" to get us a picture of what he said were the two most expensive bottles "by far" — a $15,000 2007 magnum of Romanée Conti and a $30,000 1947 double magnum of Chateau Latour that was found in the cellar in 2010. 

The champagne shelves are kept a few degrees cooler than the rest of the cellar. 

Since Tampa is on the water and isn't elevated, the cellar at Bern's is at the street level. Because of this, the walls are covered with insulation made from newspaper to keep the temperature controlled. 

Here's Lewis showing off the wine list, which, as you can see, is quite extensive. An abridged copy sits on each table. 

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Last week we were given a special opportunity to try new, soon-to-be-released breakfast items by Taco Bell. We ate and devoured the Waffle Taco, A.M. Crunchwrap, and Cinnabon Delights.

The verdict? In a word — "Mmm."

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The website Total Frat Move offers a style of collegiate humor that recalls the golden age of the National Lampoon.

The site's parent company, Grandex, earns the majority of its revenue through the apparel brand Rowdy Gentleman.

The brand's top-selling item is a patriotic tank top that features an American flag accompanied by a simple slogan: "Back to Back World War Champs." The success of the tank top spurred Grandex to slap the slogan on a plethora of items including koozies, hats and posters.

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Baselworld, the world's biggest watch and jewelry show, kicks off in Switzerland tomorrow. Hundreds of major watch and jewelry brands will be on hand to show off their latest designs and innovations.

Globally, interest in luxury watches is up, with sales hitting record levels at recent trade shows. And despite a slowdown in luxury-watch sales in Asia, global consumer demand for luxury watches grew by 5.7% this year, according to the latest WorldWatchReport from Digital Luxury Group.China bucked the trend of decreased interest in Asia, with Internet searches for luxury watches up nearly 60% from last year, according to the report, which analyzed the performance of 60 high-end watch brands across major markets by looking at more than a billion watch-related Internet search queries.

Omega, Cartier, and Rolex are particularly popular brands in China. And while sales within China have declined this year, interest has not waned, data from Chinese search engine Baidu showed. "Watches are part of the fastest-growing luxury segments in China right now,” Baidu Vice President Liang Zeng told Digital Luxury Group.

Russia and India also showed increased interest in luxury watches this year, with 20% and 12% bumps year-over-year, respectively, the report said.

Brazil, on the other hand, showed diminished interest in luxury watches. Related Internet searches were down 2.9% in 2013, a disappointing number given that Brazil is hosting two high-profile sporting events in the near future. "Despite growing international attention and key events driving important brand-related investments, the market predicted to become the next big thing fails to deliver on its promises," Digital Luxury Group wrote of Brazil.

Globally, Rolex is the most-searched-for luxury-watch brand, followed by Omega and Tag Heuer.Luxury brands Ulysse Nardin, Glashütte Original, and Vacheron Constantin saw the most year-over-year growth in terms of popularity.To see the full report from Digital Luxury Group, click here.

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If you think hiring a traditional photographer just won't be enough to capture all of the big moments on your wedding day, have no fear: W Hotels in New York City are offering the services of a "Social Media Wedding Concierge," who will create hashtags and live tweet your wedding for just $3,000, according to The Cut. 

Among the consultant's important job responsibilities are uploading filtered wedding photos to Instagram, pinning your registry items and dream honeymoon destinations to Pinterest, and making sure your guests are all tweeting using the correct, unified hashtags. 

They'll even put a Shutterfly book together afterward so that you can reminisce over all of the social media milestones from your big day. 

Social media wedding concierges are available at all four W Hotels in New York City — W New York, W Union Square, W Times Square, and W Downtown — now through Dec. 31. 

Huffington Post tech editor Bianca Bosker first tweeted the details, which she received as a press release via email: 

$3,000 "social media wedding concierge" will come up with a #hashtag for you. please stop. pic.twitter.com/EttzK0L8Vk

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For years, the United States deemed these foreign cars off-limits. Because they were never here in the first place, they didn't conform to our safety and emissions standards.

Drivers who wanted to import their own rare classics risked losing their insurance and even doing jail time if they were caught — and the cars would be confiscated and crushed. There's a little-known red-tape workaround, though, called the 25 Year Rule: It simply means these models are officially of age.

1. Porsche 959

Only about 330 were built in the late eighties to conform to the rules of Group B rally racing, a short-lived and raucously dangerous off-road competition.

Lust-worthy Feature:

Speed. Made from carbon fiber and Kevlar, this was once the world's fastest street-legal ride.

"You'd never know you were driving in a 27-year-old car," says dealer Bruce Canepa, who brought one to the U.S. for Bill Gates. The car starts at $700,000.

2. Mercedes G-Wagon

The Cabrio, like all versions of this rectilinear SUV, boasts an over engineered all-wheel-drive system; it can traverse almost any terrain.

During its 35-year run, the company also added leather seats, wood trim, and twin turbocharged V8 and V12 engines.

Lustworthy Feature:

Exclusivity, says Russ Leabch, who's been importing hard-to-find Mercedes SUVs since the eighties: "People who buy these cars want something no one else has."

It starts at $130,000.

3. Lancia 037

This hard-to-find early-eighties classic epitomizes a look common among expensive Italian sports cars of the period. Its style is low and wide, with subtly integrated scoops and vents to feed air into its supercharged engine.

Lustworthy Feature:

Pedigree: "It's Italian, with all the proper noise and passion," says Tom Papadopoulos, who has gotten his hands on two out of only 207 ever made and is always on the lookout for more. The starting price is $400,000.

4. Ford Falcon XA GT/XB GT

In Australia as in the U.S., the late-sixties/early-seventies muscle-car era was all about getting the biggest possible engine into the smallest possible space, and the angular design evokes its American heritage.

Lustworthy Feature:

Celebrity. After star turns in "Mad Max" and "The Road Warrior," these became "the coolest 'anti-hero' movie-star cars ever," says Dee Vyper of Mad Max Cars, which has been importing and refurbishing them since 1997. The car starts at $60,000.

Still forbidden, but not for long

In one or two years, these rides can land on our shores.

1992 BMW M5 Touring

This benchmark of high-powered sports sedans is the first of the "M" cars to be offered as a station wagon. It also features the brand's signature straight-six engine, which purists appreciate.

1991 Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evoluzione

Your standard economy hatchback—with a turbocharged engine, an off-road-inspired all-wheel-drive system, and giant wheels tucked under outrageously flared fenders.

1990 Citroën XM

Twenty-four years after it won European Car of the Year, this long, low, aerodynamic executive sedan—descended directly from the groundbreaking Citroën DS of the 1950s—still looks, and drives, like nothing else on the road.

1990 Toyota Century Limousine

The 1967 sedan was used by dignitaries as well as the Japanese Mafia. When demand spiked during the economic bubble of the late eighties, Toyota introduced this new, even longer version.

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While getting into Cornell alone is an impressive accomplishment, there are a number of students who stand out at this Ivy League institution.

These 19 students are building schools, companies, and new technologies that are shaping the future.

Whether it's in fashion, philanthropy, tech, or sports, students at "Big Red" are doing some really big things.

Adarsh Jayakumar is an internationally-ranked competitive chess player.

Class of 2017

Jayakumar had an untraditional gap year after high school, visiting 15 countries in pursuit of the International Chess Master title. Previously ranked No. 2 in the U.S. Juniors circuit, he solidified his status as a global threat when he defeated former World Championship candidate and Grand Master, Ivan Sokolov. 

Now ranked No. 5 in his age group, Jayakumar maintains a FIDE rating (the chess world’s mathematical system for ranking tournament players) of roughly 2300, only 100 points shy of gaining International Master status. Since entering Cornell, where he studies environmental engineering, he has put tournaments on hold.

His training never stops, although it has been refocused. While he still analyzes top games and researches new opening trends, Jayakumar primarily teaches the game to others in and outside the Cornell community — a strategy that has cemented his own knowledge of chess fundamentals.

This summer he plans to travel to South India to install solar panels on top of village roofs, and compete in chess tournaments to bring him closer to the coveted title. Jayakumar is pursuing a career in the design and implementation of clean energy systems.

Ahmed Elsamadisi develops algorithms to teach robots to navigate land and tell when someone's lying.

Class of 2014

Elsamadisi is a project leader at Cornell's Autonomous Systems Laboratory, working to make robots smarter.

In his second year, Elsamadisi created an algorithm to help a robot localize itself, essentially preventing it from bumping into things. Later, he applied it to the design of a robotic system that gives campus tours by using a rolling Segway that can read QR code-like tags around campus to navigate and play auditory recordings along the way. The system can also adjust its behavior depending on what it encounters, like a group of students walking by.

Now Elsamadisi is teaching robots to tell when someone is lying. The robot is tasked with finding a unique object on campus by playing "20 Questions" with humans. It sends a text message to the players, asking Yes/No questions about the object's location, and learns which humans are telling the truth and which aren't. The robot usually finds the item in its location in fewer than 10 questions.

Elsamadisi, a mechanical engineering major, wrote the data fusion algorithm, the controls, and the server that managed sending and receiving text messages.

After graduation he will work with WeWork, a co-working space for startups, on an "Internet of things" endeavor: to make smart buildings.

Ali Hamed went from sleeping in Starbucks to investing in more than a dozen new companies this year.

Class of 2014

Hamed co-founded CoVenture, a firm that builds software for early-stage startups in exchange for equity. After sealing $500,000 of its own funding in a jaw-dropping six weeks, CoVenture plans to partner with and invest in 15 companies this year.

CoVenture worked with six startups in 2013, all of which managed to raise additional capital. They also collectively gained revenues of around $10 million after working with Hamed and his team. 

Hamed employs about 40 developers and designers (all of whom are full-time professionals, not students) to create solutions for companies with non-technical founders and big ideas.

For Hamed, who originally went to Cornell to play baseball, it was a bumpy ride to success. After an injury forced him to quit sports, he taught himself to code. He moved nearly full-time to New York City to launch CoVenture, and for seven months was basically homeless as he alternated between couch-surfing with friends and living and sleeping in Starbucks or Union Square Park.

Now in his last semester at Cornell, Hamed spends half the week in Ithaca and half the week at his New York City office. (Thankfully, he's made enough from CoVenture to now afford an apartment.) He plans to focus on running his business after graduation.

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Keeping up with the Joneses on Park Avenue must be exhausting.

More details have emerged about a new residential building at 520 Park Avenue on the Upper East Side, whose plans include "triplex" penthouse that will cost "considerably more than $100 million," a source told The Wall Street Journal.

The 51-story condominium will include 30 additional units with asking prices starting at $27 million. The building will also house a two-story health club featuring an exercise room, pool and locker rooms, a 1,800-square-foot ground floor garden, a wine cellar, and a library.

“520 Park Avenue will set a new standard for elegant design on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and we are certain this luxury residential building will become a landmark in a treasured city neighborhood,” said developer William L. Zeckendorf. 

The building is just the latest in a string of trophy properties for Zeckendorf Development Group, who have been spinning New York real estate into gold for years. The Zeckendorf duo is behind 15 Central Park West, dubbed "the world's most powerful address," and a new ultra-luxury building on Gramercy Park. 

For their latest Park Ave. endeavor, they spent $30.4 million for air rights from the neighboring Christ Church in order to achieve their desired 51-story height. Robert A.M. Stern, the architect behind 15CPW, will also design 520 Park.

Construction is expected to be completed in early 2017. 

The building will join a corridor that's come to be known as "billionaire's row" and stretches from Broadway to Park Avenue, on and around 57th Street.

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Here's a new way to order your eggs: emu style.

Instead of sunny side up or over easy, Chef David Santos of West Village restaurant Louro put a scrambled emu egg on his dinner and brunch menus a few weeks ago. The result? A hefty price of $90 and a lot of curious customers, according to Hailey Eber in an article in the New York Post. 

“It’s something that people have never tried, something that people have never seen,” Santos told Eber.

The high price tag is eliciting quite a few raised eyebrows. However, an emu egg (weighing in at roughly two pounds) is the equivalent of about a dozen chicken eggs — making it a whole lot of egg. And according to Louro's menu, it's meant to be shared between two to six diners. 

Additionally, Santos told the Post that he shells out $30 for each egg from D’Artagnan, "a major gourmet food purveyor that works with a New Jersey emu farmer." 

Santos has some big plans in April for the unlikely ingredient. To honor the HBO show “Game of Thrones," he's going to host a BYOB supper-club series every Monday, serving courses in theme with different characters. With the emu egg, he'll create a dish as homage to Daenerys Targaryen, the queen of dragons.

We'll dine to that.

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