Year: 2011

The Upper West Side has some of the lowest abortion rates in the city, according to figures recently released by an anti-abortion group that is trying to get the city to do more to reduce the abortion rate.

Have you ever been to a compost party? Well, now's your chance! "The Enchantment is Back...Come to a Lamplit Celebration of Decay" says a flier for a composting demonstration and "party" on Thursday at 6 p.m. at the West 104th Street community garden. Food and refreshments will be served by ...

October 11, 2011 Weather: Mostly Cloudy, High of 71 Degrees.

  October 10, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 84 Degrees. Notices: Despite the summery weather this weekend, fall is here, and the leaves are starting to turn ever so slightly, as shown in the picture above by Upper West Side photographer Michael Huitt. Friends of Morningside Park is hosting ...

The people watching a Sunday afternoon showing of The Ides of March at the AMC Loews in Lincoln Square (68th Street) got a little more excitement than they paid for when water started streaming out of the ceiling onto their heads. The sudden downpour stopped the film after only about 30 ...

Goodfellas actor Paul Sorvino was hit by a car on the corner of 79th Street and Amsterdam Avenue on Saturday at around noon and taken to St. Luke's hospital.

The day that Apple announced Steve Jobs had died, a small makeshift memorial popped up at the Apple Store on 67th Street and Broadway. By Friday, the memorial had grown much bigger, with post-it notes, flowers, photos, partially eaten apples, candles, newspaper clippings, and handmade drawings. When I stopped by ...

It's a beautiful weekend, with clear skies and highs in the 70's and 80's. If you're not atoning for your sins (Yom Kippur), find some way to get out of the house. The photo above is from Upper West Sider Amy Aglar. If you do one thing outside this weekend… At ...

We have written about the Chinese food crisis on the Upper West Side -- the neighborhood, once a reliable destination for Chinese food, has fewer and fewer solid options available. But there's a new kind of crisis brewing. In the past week and a half, three Asian restaurants on the ...

October 7, 2011 Weather: Sunny, High of 67 Degrees. Notices: The New York Film Festival is hosting a special screening of a work in progress from a "master filmmaker" on Monday at 7 p.m. The thing is, the Film Society won't reveal anything about the film or its director, so ...

“Think,” in spite of some visually arresting features, is experienced mostly as didactic telling rather than as immersive showing, a public relations display that defines its own chest-beating in vague terms.

October 6, 2011 Weather: Sunny, High of 68 Degrees. News: People placed flowers and candles in front of the Upper West Side Apple Store to commemorate and mourn Steve Jobs' death. Someone also placed an iPhone next to the flowers with a picture of Steve Jobs on it, as you ...

In the summer of 1982, New York photographer Daniel Weeks undertook an ambitious project -- he wanted to take a street-level portrait of New York City, block by block. So Weeks took a VW bus, mounted a camera on top, and hired a few guys to drive around and systematically ...

Photo by Avi. October 5, 2011 Weather: Sunny, High of 70 Degrees. News: Upper West Side City Council Member Gale Brewer says in a letter to Police Commish Ray Kelly that she was mistreated by the NYPD while she was at the Gay Pride parade this summer. An officer penned ...

During my routine tour of open houses one Sunday, I happened upon a two-bedroom, two-bath co-op in the high 60s off of Central Park West.

A Callery pear tree that had grown on the corner of 75th Street and Columbus Avenue for 40 years was ripped from the ground on Tuesday so that Con Edison workers can repair a transformer underneath.

October 4, 2011 Weather: Showers, High of 63 Degrees. News: Scarlett Johansson hosted a fundraiser for Borough President (and mayoral candidate) Scott Stringer at the Plaza. I particularly like this line: "After more than an hour inside the tony Central Park South hotel, Johansson and Stringer, who share an interest ...

Maybe the thought of listening to a lecture doesn't exactly whet your appetite. But what if the event also included alcohol, a certain geek-chic sexiness, and covered an interesting topic? Ah, so now I've got your attention.

October 3, 2011 Weather: Showers, High of 59 Degrees. Notices: We have a new list of events up for this week, including lots of films, music and readings. News: An apartment that artist Marcel Duchamp used to sublet at 33 West 67th Street is on the market for $4.75 million. ...

I have a British relative who is crazy about hats. When she saw the exhibit Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, she raved about it. But that's what you'd expect from someone who has “madhatter” in her e-mail address and took her ...