Year: 2011

Vive la crêpe, a chain of creperies that started downtown, is planning to open its first Upper West Side cafe in the spot recently vacated by the never-quite-good-enough Cafe St. Honore.

Dearest Upper West Side, You want more, I hear. Word reached me about your average rent hikes, and I’m bummed. Look, I may be playing out of your league, living half a block from Central Park, but you should be fighting for me to stay, especially with the current economy.

September 7, 2011 Weather: Showers, High of 71 Degrees. News: Congressman Jerry Nadler, Ground Zero workers, and numerous other public officials are going to City Hall today to file a petition asking the administrator of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act to consider covering cancer treatments for people ...

Crepes on Columbus, a cafe and creperie at 990 C0lumbus Avenue between 108th and 109th Streets, was forced to close -- twice -- by the NYC Department of Health for health violations.

Spike Lee shot the movie 25th Hour, which dealt with one New Yorker's attempt to make amends before he goes to prison, just months after the attacks, and the smoldering city was a major part of the movie. He was the first director to make a film on location in ...

This week's list of local events features a concert by the New York Philharmonic playing Leonard Bernstein's score for West Side Story live during the movie, a series of events leading up to the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001, and a county fair for the neighborhood. The West Side ...

September 6, 2011 Weather: Rain, High of 65 Degrees. Notices: The Riverside Park Fund is looking for people to volunteer at the 9th Annual West Side County Fair on Saturday. "Over 20 volunteers needed from 12-6pm to help with the games booths, crowd control at the animal area, and more ...

Six people were injured after a three-car crash on 104th Street and Amsterdam Avenue at about 8:30 pm Sunday, and one of the cars burst onto flames after hitting a bus shelter. None of the injuries was considered life-threatening, WABC reported. Check out a video of the aftermath below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijQKF2nIzAc

Remember Hurricane Irene? It was just one week ago, but it feels much farther away, doesn't it? We've dug up seven videos made by Upper West Siders of the scene in the neighborhood, from Blair-Witch-style films to a silly video of a woman dressing up her dogs in ridiculous yellow ...

Back to the Future, The Godfather, Mad Max and more hit the Film Society of Lincoln Center this weekend, so you can sit in the dark and forget all about the fact that summer is ending. Tickets are $10 per movie or $27 per trilogy. Check out the schedule here. ...

Aren't liquidators great? In case you didn't get the MESSAGE, Borders in the Time Warner Center is closing down, and everything is being sold at a ridiculous discount.

The standard tip at a New York bar has clearly been on the upswing in recent years, but one customer at the Empire Hotel rooftop bar recently got charged an automatic tip that nearly blew his mojito off. An unidentified tipster sent a receipt into the blog Eater this week ...

September 2, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 77 Degrees. Notices: Isn't the picture above kind of phenomenal? It was taken last night at 10:45 p.m. just North of the 72nd Street subway station looking South by Upper West Side photographer Michael Huitt, with a 15-second exposure. Click on the ...

Helmut Lang is opening its first Upper West Side store on Friday on Broadway between 70th and 71st Streets. The clothes were already in the store on Thursday and workers were just

In case your retinas aren't burning from all the news, ads, tweets, emails, texts, and facebook updates that flash before your eyes all day, ABC News just installed a wraparound news ticker on the company's offices at 66th Street and Columbus Avenue.

September 1, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 83 Degrees. Notices: Yikes, it's September! Consider playing human chess, or checking out one of the other free events on our calendar. News: Robert Redmond, a nudist who works for the NYC Parks Department, enjoys hosting people at his three-bedroom Upper West ...

Zabar's finally landed on a new name for the Lobster Salad that wasn't. As we reported a few weeks ago, Zabar's was selling a seafood salad made with crayfish as "lobster salad", charging more than $15 a pound. A columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune on a visit to New ...

A new Italian restaurant known for excellent pizza is slated to open in the spot vacated last year by The West Branch, the restaurant run by noted chef Tom Valenti.

August 31, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 85 Degrees. News: Jillian Recchi, one of the women who was hit by a speeding black Lexus on Thursday night at 70th Street and Broadway, is still in a coma. The other woman, Dana Laven, was also seriously injured and just started ...

After 27 years on 81st Street and Columbus Avenue, Maxilla & Mandible closed its doors for good on Sunday night, stuffing brown paper into the display window where skulls and fossils used to sit and slapping a tiny sign on the front saying simply "Gone Digging."