One renter, eight apartments and 175 years of creaking floors: Inside Calista Hill’s unusual new home

When 24-year-old television producer Calista Hill unlocked the front door to her apartment inside a newly restored 1850 brownstone, she expected weeks of shifting boxes and setting up furniture. Instead, she found herself walking hollow hallways in total silence, the solitary occupant of an eight-unit historic property.Hill detailed her experience of moving into the empty…

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A former The North Face founder’s historic land donation turned Patagonia’s wilderness into one of the world’s largest national parks | World News

In 1991, American businessman Douglas Tompkins, who had co-founded the outdoor clothing companies The North Face and Esprit, bought a semi-abandoned plot of land in the Renihue River Valley in southern Chile, drawn by the region’s ancient, untouched temperate rainforest. What began as a personal effort to protect one threatened valley grew, over the following…

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Russo Brothers thank fans as ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ trailer crosses 500 million views in 24 hours; fails to beat ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ record |

Marvel Studios’ surprised fans around the globe when they released the ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ trailer on Monday. The clip soon took social media by storm, and registered a record-breaking debut. The first official trailer for the highly anticipated superhero epic amassed 503 million views within its first 24 hours, making it Disney’s biggest trailer launch ever…

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Robin Williams built a 640-acre Napa estate with a 20,000-sq-ft mansion; after years on the market, it sold for $18.1 million after being listed for $35 million | World News

Robin Williams’ Napa Valley estate, known as Villa Sorriso, was an extraordinary private retreat that combined a vast mountain property with a mansion of nearly 20,000 square feet. Williams commissioned the estate in the early 2000s, creating a secluded compound spread across about 640 acres in the Mayacamas Mountains between Napa and Sonoma valleys. The…

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