Karolina Geits, 29, said the sign started as a joke after dating apps didn’t work for her
A woman has made waves on social media after she posted a video of herself walking around the streets of New York City with a sign that said, “Looking for a husband.”
Karolina Geits is a 29-year-old living in New York City who recently went through the streets holding the self-made, cardboard sign signifying her wishes.
Geits told Fox News Digital on Tuesday the idea for the sign was originally a joke between her and her friends.
“We had a discussion with friends that dating apps [were] not working because it takes a long time to chat,” she said.
“As a joke, I said that I’ll go outside with a sign.”
Karolina Geits walked outside on the streets of New York City with a “looking-for-a-husband” sign — and got quite the reaction from others. (Karolina Geits)
The next day, she did just that.
She took a cardboard box she received in the mail, ripped off a piece of it, wrote the words, “Looking for a husband” — and took to the streets, she said.
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The TikTok video of her moment has over 10 million views and 1.2 million likes since it was posted on September 3.
The influencer and model said it was funny to her to see the response from people passing by.
She said she was shocked by how many supported the action.
“I didn’t expect such a reaction,” she said. “People began to support me.”
Geits said people were sending her their dating profiles for potential review — although she said she’s still looking for “the best.”
Disastrous immigration policies are crushing New York City with over 10,000 migrants continuing to arrive monthly demanding shelter, meals and services, new statistics show.
Despite the Biden administration claiming it is reducing the number of asylum seekers flooding into the country, figures seen by The Post show no sign of a slowdown.
In the first six months of this year, 66,117 migrants entered the country and gave their destination as New York to the border guards arranging hearings for them in immigration court — more than double the number arriving at the next most popular destination.
That equates to almost 10% of the total 671,721 migrants let into the US so far in 2023, per figures compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, which uses data obtained from the Executive Office for Immigration Review.
Mayor Eric Adams says the city has received over 90,000 migrants in total since spring 2022.
The mayor’s office says 57,200 migrants are still in 194 shelters set up by the city as of this week, leaving 8.4 million NYC taxpayers — just 2.5% of the US population — to foot the bill to feed, shelter and provide for an outsize number of asylum seekers, many of whom are staying in the shelter system for months on end.
The bill for meeting the demands of the crisis is set to reach $4.2 billion according to Adams, who has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for $300 million but received less than half to date, and repeatedly expressed his frustration at the lack of help at the federal level.
According to the mayor’s office, there are about 57,200 migrants in 194 New York City shelters.
Biden has allocated just $142 million in relief aid for the city so far.
“New Yorkers have stepped up tremendously throughout this crisis … Let us be very clear: This is both disappointing and woefully insufficient,” mayoral spokesperson Fabien Levy said in a statement in May.
The second most popular destination within the US for migrants, per immigration court filings, is Los Angeles but it has seen an influx less than half of that of New York in 2023 with 29,883 people.
The Biden administration has repeatedly claimed it has got tough on immigration since the end of Title 42 measures in May and repeats how 45,000 people a month are allowed into the country through its cell app-based CBP One scheme.
However, the data compiled by the TRAC shows a much different picture with 1,989,942 migrants admitted to the country since Biden took office in January 2021.
New York City has been the top destination for migrants in the past six months.
That number grows significantly when those estimated to have made it over the border illegally and undetected is factored in. That figure is set to top last year’s estimate by the Department of Homeland Security of 600,000, meaning at least 2.6 million migrants have made it into the US under Biden.
Those numbers have skyrocketed in recent months. As Title 42 ended and chaos reigned at the border, the largest number of migrants since at least 2001 were allowed to flood into the US, with 147,783 cases recorded in May 2023, according to TRAC figures.
The Biden administration even touted a 70% drop in border crossings since the end of Title 42, but that’s not borne out by the TRAC data, which recorded 118,520 cases referred to immigration courts across the nation in June – the fifth highest number recorded since 2001.
Migrants getting processed by Border Patrol after crossing the border in Yuma, Arizona on August 6, 2023. Go Nakamura for New York Post
The TRAC data monitors the number of new filings with immigration courts for cases in any given month.
These reflect the number of people who have been screened by Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs and Enforcement and let into the country with a Notice To Appear at an immigration court in the county of their final destination.
In New York, the number of immigration cases filed has tripled in the last four years. In one month of 2019 the number surpassed 5,000 cases across the entire state for the first time.
By 2022 between five and seven thousand cases were regularly being filed per month.
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list was just released in Valencia, Spain. Here are the restaurants that took the top spots — start scouting reservations and booking flights.
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At a ceremony in Valencia, Spain, Central in Lima was today named the best restaurant in the world by 1,080 restaurant industry experts in the annual World’s 50 Best Restaurants rankings.
Central, by chefs Virgilio Martinez and Pía Léon, edged out Barcelona’s Disfrutar and brought the top prize down to South America following Copenhagen’s recent claims to the crown with Noma, in 2021, and Geranium, in 2022.
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Copenhagen only showed up once in the top 50 this year, with Alchemist at No. 5, known for lengthy meals served in what feels like an immersive art exhibit.
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Spanish restaurants had a strong showing on the list, including the introduction of Valencia’s own Restaurante Ricard Camarina at No. 96, and the re-addition of chef Albert Adria’s Enigma at No. 82. Since Enigma first opened in 2016, with the idea of taking diners on a culinary journey between futuristic cooking stations serving oysters in Iberico pork fat and barnacles with barnacle juice, it’s repeatedly reinvented itself throughout COVID-19, now refocused on seasonal tapas. Although the crown for the country’s finest tapas belongs to Barcelona’s Disfrutar, which ranked No. 3 last year and today moved one place closer to perfection. Total perfection was achieved by chef Antoni Luis Arduiz who received the Icon Award for his lifetime of work at San Sebastian’s Mugaritz and Madrid’s Diverxo. The latter restaurant ranked No. 3 in the world, and in-house sommelier Miguel Angel Millan took home the prize for Best Sommelier in the World.
Other notable additions to this year’s full list include Mauro Colagreco’s Ceto, which only opened two years ago at the new Maybourne Riviera in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, just east of Monaco. Colagreco’s Le Mirazur, in nearby Menton, claimed the top slot on the list in 2019. Not every chef wants the pressure of climbing the list for a second time with a completely new concept, but Colagreco tells Travel + Leisure he was eager for the challenge.
“It was very important for me to propose another vision of fine dining, and highlight a more creative way to cook fish and pay tribute to the Mediterranean Sea,” he says. “It’s also a source of pride for me and for my team to be awarded such a recognition after two years. When we decided to create Ceto, it was a risk because of the geographic proximity of the two restaurants, but Ceto is a totally different concept than Mirazur even if it highlights the same terroir.”
Ceto is one of the few hotel restaurants on the list, in addition to a new entry at No. 36, Sezanne, at the Four Seasons Tokyo at Marunouchi; their inclusions today may foreshadow those properties appearing on the inaugural World’s 50 Best Hotels list, which will be revealed later this year in London. So might this week’s appearance of the legendary chef Alain Ducasse, who in the days leading up to this year’s World’s 50 Best ceremony, joined his executive chef, Jean-Philippe Bondet in a collaborative dinner at Valencia’s La Salita. The pair is representing, among other things, their new collaboration restaurant at London’s newly revamped The Dorchester.
Of course, there is plenty of room on the World’s 50 Best list for restaurants that defy the most identifiable trappings of old-school white tablecloth haute cuisine, and no city better represents that casualness than Berlin. Here, the intentions of restaurants like the eight-seat counter Ernst, ranked at No. 55, and Nobelhart & Schmutzig, at No. 45, focus all their efforts on playfully elevating hyper-local ingredients from lobsters to lard.
At Nobelhart, the communal dining counter is anchored by a record player where owner Billy Wagner feels comfortable listening to whole albums of his choosing while handing out stacks of vintage books for customers to read between nightly specials of unpretentious decadence. (That means chef Micha Schafer’s plump pork fat schnitzel, sourced from milk-fed pigs at a nearby family farm, and paired with a spread made of even more pork fat.) There’s also an inches-thick award-winning wine list to distract, just one of the lo-fi charms that makes the restaurant’s strict no-phone policy seem less enforced.
“Today’s greatest luxuries are time and the ability to savor true craftsmanship undisturbed. That is why we have decided to ban photos and videos inside the restaurant,” Wagner explains to T+L, explaining that he got the idea from Berlin’s nightlife culture where phone and photo bans continue to be enforced at venues like the infamous Berghain.
The most ambitious American asterisk to the list was Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi, which opened late last year at New York’s Lincoln Center and has already received three stars from The New York Times. Onwuachi received the special One To Watch award, for his menu highlighting the down-to-earth flavors of Onwuachi’s childhood in the Bronx. It features decadent reinterpretations of dishes like Hot Pockets, here stuffed with pepperoni cacciatore and smoked mozzarella, and the Bodega Special, a dessert inspired by Little Debbie brownies and donuts.
Donald Trump has been told he can testify before a grand jury in New York City as part of an investigation into hush money paid to an adult film star who said she had slept with the former president, according to two of his attorneys.
Trump was not subpoenaed and is not being forced to appear in the Manhattan district attorney’s office’s probe, the defense attorneys said Thursday. They did not indicate whether he would testify.
The New York Times reported Thursday that Trump was told he could appear before the grand jury next week and cited sources saying the DA’s office had signaled to Trump’s lawyers that he could face criminal charges.
A spokesperson for the DA’s office declined to comment.
In a statement Thursday, a spokesperson for Trump blasted the office, casting any potential indictment as a political attack.
“The Manhattan District Attorney’s threat to indict President Trump is simply insane. For the past five years, the DA’s office has been on a Witch Hunt, investigating every aspect of President Trump’s life, and they’ve come up empty at every turn — and now this,” the spokesperson said. “The fact that after their intensive investigation the DA is even considering a new political attack is a clear exoneration of President Trump in all areas.”
Chuck Rosenberg, an NBC News legal analyst, said in an interview that the invitation to appear indicates that the investigation is near its end and that prosecutors are “seriously considering charges.”
“If the Manhattan district attorney was simply shutting the case down, that’s easy to do without inviting Mr. Trump to testify,” said Rosenberg, a former federal prosecutor.
