Year: 2011

September 16, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 65 Degrees. News: The city doesn't like boozing it in its parks, and it's illegal to bring liquor in. But one of the new food carts in the park, the Fatty Crab pullcart, is now holding a happy hour every day from ...

The Eastern Mountain Sports on the corner of Broadway and 76th Street is already open, but it's going to really really open this weekend, with giveaways, deals, and raffles.

September 15, 2011 Weather: Afternoon Thundershowers, High of 75 Degrees. Notices: The Film Society of Lincoln Center is presenting a special screening of Breakfast at Tiffany's tonight at 7 at Alice Tully Hall to mark the 50th anniversary of the film. Julie Andrews will be making an appearance. There are ...

Before Hurricane Irene, Cascabel on Broadway at 108th Street was one of the few restaurants in the area that was open. That was also true immediately after the storm had sped north to New England. So I wound up eating there twice in two days. The tiny place was a ...

On the front page of this weekend's New York Times opinion section, columnist Frank Bruni wrote a love letter to the city's transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Kahn. In it, he refuted critics of protected bike lanes -- without talking to a single one of them -- and proceeded to lionize Sadik-Kahn ...

September 14, 2011 Weather: Isolated Thunderstorms, High of 80 Degrees. Notices: Councilwoman Gale Brewer is surveying Upper West Siders about their thoughts on the Columbus Avenue protected bike lanes. Fill out the survey here. Margaret Marrer, a 7th grade teacher from the Upper West Side, is posting to a blog ...

The new Century 21 in Lincoln Square is feeling so generous that it is letting special VIPs (anyone willing to give them their email address) start shopping at the discount clothing a full week early as it prepares a "soft" opening on Thursday. The new five-story megastore opens for regular ...

People in the industry will try to tell you that Fashion Week is not all that glamorous, but they’re lying: it is. Not for me necessarily, though

September 13, 2011 Weather: Sunny, High of 84 Degrees. News: Well-known Upper West Side chalk artist Hani Shihada was commissioned to draw conservatives like Margaret Thatcher and Friedrich Hayek on the streets of the Upper West Side, mostly near Columbia. The man who commissioned the art, Michael Schrage, said he ...

A theater group called the Dark Lady Players is putting on a performance at the West-Park Presbyterian Church (above) starting this week that allows the audience to walk around the theater.

This month, we bring news of new cupcakes, novelties and outdoors goods on the Upper West Side, as well as the closing of two spots that were dear to locals

September 12, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 79 Degrees. Notices: Do you want to rub elbows with some of the hottest restaurateurs and chefs in the business? Both the soon-to-open Upper West Side Momofuku Milk Bar and Jean-Georges Restaurant are hiring. Check out our list of events this week, ...

Citarella on 75th Street and Broadway used shrimp, squid and starfish to create an edible American flag in its front window today, with a sign proclaiming "September 11, We Will Never Forget."

This morning at about 8:30, Jacqulyn Buglisi directed dancers from Buglisi Dance Theatre, the Juilliard School, the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, the Ailey School and Ballet Hispanico in a performance in Lincoln Center's central plaza to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. More than 100 ...

Jamie Beck, whose sumptuous romantic photography is featured on her site From Me To You, earned a special honor this year at New York Fashion Week. Jamie was one of five fashion bloggers chosen to ride in the Mercedes Benz Fashion Ranger, which is traversing the city to find great ...

The 10th anniversary of September 11 is coming up on Sunday, and events are being held throughout the city in remembrance of the terrorist attacks. We've listed 10 events below that give New Yorkers different ways of commemorating the events, almost all of them in and around the Upper West ...

The Groggers, a pop-punk band from Queens, just came out with a new album, and on it is one of the catchiest, funniest songs about the Upper West Side I've heard. The song, Upper West Side Story, is basically about being an Orthodox Jewish player on the Upper West Side: ...

September 9, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 83 Degrees. News: Fashion designer Marc Jacobs' bags are hot -- so hot in fact that people are stealing them right off the shelves. A thief with high-end taste walked into the Barney's Coop on Broadway and 76th Street yesterday and asked ...

Alec Baldwin threw a fit yesterday after an encounter with "Jay", a barista at the Starbucks on Broadway and 93rd Street (2521 Broadway), posting to his twitter feed: "Starbucks on 93 and B'way. Uptight

September 8, 2011 Weather: Thundershowers, High of 75 Degrees. Notices: Fashion's Night Out is tonight, and there are tons of deals to be had throughout the city and the neighborhood, including 36 locations on the Upper West Side. Check out the list of participating stores here. Also lots of restaurants ...