Two restaurants closed without much warning in the past few days.
Read moreTwo restaurants closed without much warning in the past few days.
Read moreThe OTB on the North side of 72nd Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues has been replaced by a business whose purpose couldn't be more different: an East Asian health and wellness shop that sells vitamins and offers hot stone treatments. A space that once held desperate souls praying for ...
Read moreJuly 31, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 82 Degrees.
Read moreKTCollection, a handmade jewelry business started by designer Katie Thompson, will open its first New York store in September in the space at the corner of 75th and Columbus recently vacated by a Verizon dealer (at right). KTCollection has sold items at holiday fairs and other events in the past ...
Read moreA tipster tells us that the NYPD's bomb squad taped off an area in Central Park just West of the Great Lawn this afternoon and has been telling people to avoid the immediate area. An officer yelled "Bomb Squad" at him and told him to walk away from the Bridle ...
Read moreA few years ago the city passed a law that makes stores close their doors when they have the air conditioning on. Leaving the doors open wastes energy and puts the city at higher risk for a blackout. But stores leave their doors open anyway, and there is almost no ...
Read moreJuly 30, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 78 Degrees.
Read moreWe reported a few days ago that the Department of Homeless Services has approved a plan to place homeless shelters in two buildings at 316 and 330 West 95th Street. The community had no opportunity to review the plans, and they have proven very controversial. The 200 homeless families that ...
Read moreA week after the manager of a shelter on West 95th Street was stabbed and died, a resident of a nearby SRO on Broadway has met a similar fate. An unidentified 56-year-old resident of 2508 Broadway
Read moreUpper West Side native and Columbia University student Nicole Ross is representing the United States on the fencing team at the Olympics in London, which start tonight. She'll be fighting in the women's foil competitions. Ross, who went to Columbia Prep on 93rd Street, got into fencing after watching the ...
Read moreJuly 20, 2012 Weather: Afternoon Thunderstorms, High of 88 Degrees.
Read moreBy Cheryl Wischhover There are all sorts of innovations in retail now—flash sales sites, special shopping apps, JC Penney trying to become cool — but a grocery store on the Upper West Side is targeting that much-maligned, mostly-ignored demographic : The man. It’s a well-known fact that men hate to ...
Read moreA company run by the city's former Commissioner of Homeless Services is planning to put homeless shelters into two buildings on West 95th Street, but nearby residents are fighting to keep the shelters out. Using a rule that allows emergency shelters to be placed in communities without a full public ...
Read moreJuly 26, 2012 Weather: Scattered Thunderstorms, High of 91 Degrees.
Read moreDelivery bicyclists want to get you your food fast, because you demand speedy sustenance. But in the process a lot of them are breaking the law by riding in the wrong direction down the street, not wearing proper gear, or otherwise endangering pedestrians. The NYPD doesn't really enforce the rules, ...
Read moreJuly 25, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 86 Degrees.
Read moreNora Ephron, the writer and filmmaker who died last month, was an Upper West Sider. She was born here, lived much of her life here, and made the neighborhood the setting for some of her most acclaimed films. The JCC on 76th and Amsterdam is honoring Ephron next Tuesday (July ...
Read moreThe line for the first showing (technically a preview) of Into the Woods stretched almost to the Central Park Reservoir on Tuesday. Some of the hundreds of people who waited outside on a hot day said it was the longest they'd ever seen (yes, that's an air mattress in the ...
Read moreJuly 24, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 90 Degrees.
Read moreThe Body Shop on the corner of 76th Street and Broadway is closing on Saturday after being open for decades. It's not clear why the shop is shutting its doors -- an employee there didn't know the details when we called. According to one of our tipsters, Jeff, the store ...
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