Month: June 2011

Almost every public space on the Upper West Side will be jam-packed with musicians on Tuesday (the first official day of summer), as the Make Music New York festival comes back for its fifth year. It's part of a global festival celebrating music and the beginning of summer. Our neighborhood ...

June 20, 2011 Weather: Mostly Cloudy, High of 77 Degrees. Notices: This week is filled with great local events, including a ton of outdoor concerts, an evening with talk-show legend Dick Cavett, the Human Rights Watch film festival, and much much more. Check out our list of This Week's Events. ...

The New York City Department of Health is tackling the issue of unprotected post-menopausal sex head-on with an ad campaign that has now hit the Upper West Side. An illuminated bus stop poster with a comely picture of a nude woman tells baby boomers who think that being over 50 means ...

In honor of Father's Day today, Landmark West highlighted a few of the most famous Upper West Side dads in history. Babe Ruth: The Babe lived at the Ansonia Hotel and adopted two daughters. Duke Ellington: The great jazz musician (pictured with his son Mercer above) lived on West 106th ...

By Harriet Flehinger Sing for Hope, the non-profit organization that brought street pianos to New York in 2010 is back...with extra added trills and keyboards. Sixty brightly hand-painted uprights and, for the first time this year, 28 grand pianos will be on the streets, beginning Saturday June 18, for two ...

Copper the cat creeped out onto the landing of her owners' 14th floor apartment at West 64th Street and West End Avenue, and plummeted to a parking garage more than 100 feet below, MYFoxNY reported. The owners convinced the building supervisor to get ahold of a forklift and ride it ...

June 17, 2011 Weather: Scattered thunderstorms, High of 77 degrees. Notices: The Film Society of Lincoln Center's new Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center opens tonight with the screening of its first film, "Page One: Inside the New York Times," including a Q&A with the director and Times reporter Brian Stelter. ...

'Twas a very sad day when Niko's Mediterranean Grill & Bistro closed earlier this year. The Greek restaurant, which had held down its corner at Broadway and 76th Street for more than a decade, was forced to relinquish its lease in February. But now we can turn our collective grief ...

June 16, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 84 Degrees. News: The opera singer Marcella Caprario who slapped Dr. Catherine London at Trader Joe's on 72nd Street was found not guilty in criminal court yesterday. Caprario had gotten into an argument with London after London's son blocked her husband's way ...

The Wild Bird Fund has signed a 10-year lease to open a wild bird sanctuary at 565 Columbus Avenue between 87th and 88th Streets, former home of the 88 Noodle House. Yes, actual wild birds will be getting rehabilitated on Columbus Avenue. In fact, the new storefront is in a ...

June 15, 2011 Weather: Mostly sunny, High of 82 Degrees. Notices: The city is working with Housing Works to recycle textiles. Someone will even pick up your items if you sign your building up here. News: Joshua Ruiz, substitute teacher who taught at two Upper West Side schools, PS 199 ...

An amateur opera singer is facing criminal charges for slapping a doctor whose family got between her and some frozen pad thai at Trader Joe's on 72nd Street and Broadway. Yes, what you just read is apparently true, courtesy of the New York Post. The Post came out with a ...

June 14, 2011 Weather: Showers (although it doesn't look like it this morning), High of 63 Degrees. Notices: It's Malaysian Restaurant Week, with Penang, Fatty Crab and potentially Malaysia Grill participating. Lunch and dinner deals for about $20. (My Upper West) News: Now Mayor Mike wants to put cameras on ...

This just in for the folks in the southern end of the Upper West Side, courtesy of CityBiz Real Estate: Pawsitively Love, a pet store that sells pet accessories and offers services like grooming, will be moving into a 1,580 square foot space at 229 West 60th Street, just off ...

June 13, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 74 Degrees. Notices: An Upper West Side teacher is going off to get married this summer, but she doesn't know what to do with the little classroom mouse her students took care of for the past two years. The mouse has mites ...

By Maria Gorshin When was the last time you heard the words, "bridge and tunnel"? I’m guessing the term began fading into New York City history at least 10 or 20 years ago. But think back to the days before Manhattan moved to Brooklyn, long before Hoboken was cool, before ...

Police are looking for a man they say sexually assaulted a 20-year-old woman on West 75th street and Broadway at 2:30 am on Thursday. The man threw the woman to the ground, and shoved his hands  down her underwear, according to MyFoxNY. She fought off the attacker and he ran ...

The Black Eyed Peas concert in Central Park that was canceled Thursday night due to thunderstorms could be rescheduled, the Robin Hood Foundation said in a statement released late last night. So hold on to your tickets, all 60,000 of you! I know people who waited as long as 8 ...

June 10, 2011 Weather: Isolated thunderstorms, High of 83 degrees. Notices: The JCC Manhattan (344 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th Street) is sponsoring it's Annual Wellness Day for Women with Breast and Ovarian Cancers on Sunday. All activities are FREE for women in treatment within the last 2 years. Activities include ...

The city and the Central Park Conservancy are making few friends with their crackdown on musicians in Central Park who dare to make music in one of the park's "quiet zones". The city says it's trying to balance "competing interests" in the park, basically cordoning off spaces where people don't ...