Year: 2011

The American Folk Art Museum's midtown headquarters has closed, making the Upper West Side location at 2 Lincoln Square on 66th Street the new headquarters. And events that used to be held at the midtown branch, like Free Music Fridays, are moving to the Upper West Side. The museum sent ...

August 5, 2011 Weather: Isolated Thunderstorms, High of 83 Degrees. News: Fairway is selling a new kind of bread dedicated to Simon & Garfunkel. "Scarborough Fair" bread is made with "parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme..." Unfortunately, it's only available at the new Upper East Side location for now even though ...

When the Upper West Side Apple store was unveiled two years ago, it was heralded as a true architectural achievement -- "a composition as austerely purposeful as a classic Greek temple," said one particularly excited reviewer. The clean lines of the glass temple and the sweeping curve at the top ...

So you want to know how the other half lives? You sometimes imagine yourself living an apartment with a view more expansive than that alleyway you gaze into all day? Well, brokers at Brown Harris Stevens gave people a peek at the view you'd get if you were willing to ...

August 4, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 82 Degrees. News: The unidentified body of a man in his 30's or 40's was pulled from the Hudson River after it was seen floating around 86th Street (DNAinfo) A bus and a cab collided on 66th Street and Broadway, and the ...

August 3, 2011 Weather: Afternoon thunderstorms, High of 82 Degrees. Notices: Fairway is hosting a blueberry pancake eating contest on Saturday from 9:30 to 10 a.m. in the cafe. Do you have what it takes? (Food and Things) Remember to follow us on twitter and like us on facebook. News: ...

Somehow, a peacock escaped the Central Park Zoo this afternoon and made it to the fourth story of a building on 5th Avenue and 65th Street, where it preened for onlookers. Things predictably started to get silly down on the street below. Then it threatened to jump unless the zoo ...

I'm going to try out a new feature on the Rag that will allow folks to broadcast what they've lost or found to their neighbors. If you lose or find something (aside from your mind), please let us know. Here are some recent items people have reported lost or found ...

August 2, 2011 Weather: Sunny, High of 92 Degrees. Notices: Local police precincts are holding a National Night Out tonight to build better relationships in the community. The 26th precinct will raffle off bikes and put on performances from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Claremont playground directly behind Grant's ...

Dozens of couples tied the knot in Central Park on the first full weekend of same-sex marriage in New York, with marathon wedding extravaganzas on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, the Pop-Up Chapel group we wrote about took over the area around Merchant's Gate at the Southwest Corner of Central ...

In the past month, we learned of the demise of Borders and some other well-loved or kinda-loved Upper West Side haunts. But tons of new stores and restaurants are coming to the neighborhood (match the numbers in the map to the numbers in the story). Read on! 1. West Side ...

August 1, 2011 Weather: Afternoon Thunderstorms, High of 92 Degrees. Notices: I was away last week, but I'm grateful to the West Side Rag columnists for keeping the site rocking in my absence, and for Maria Gorshin for manning the twitter and facebook feeds. I hope you enjoyed their original ...

A tiny Upper West Side restaurant with critically acclaimed burgers racked up so many health violations last week that the city stepped in and shut the place down. Harriet's Kitchen at 502 Amsterdam Avenue between 84th and 85th Streets has just two tables, but it's a well-known spot for take-out ...

The Upper West Side has had its taste of mayhem this weekend. On Friday night, a manhole exploded on West 76th Street between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue around 9:20 p.m., a local resident told blog My Upper West. The air was "thick with the smell of burning rubber ...

Estelle's Antiques, a shop on Broadway between 93rd and 94th Streets that had operated for nearly 20 years, has closed its doors, the latest antiques store casualty in the neighborhood. Estelle's sold crystal glasses and other bric-a-brac, as well as some very unique pieces like suspended airplane lights. "We will ...

By Maria Gorshin Is Riverside Park Manhattan’s best park, or is it forever second to New York’s fabled Central Park? The answer depends on whom you ask. But what is certain is that there always seems to be something more to discover about Riverside. It seems everyone has a certain ...

By Malcolm Carter In the course of my open house rounds, I see properties that are listed for as little as $300,000 and as much as many millions, well into the double digits. You might expect me to go gaga (sorry, Lady) over the most expensive ones.  And they obviously ...

For everyone sweating through the hot New York days and nights in late July and early August, Lincoln Center is putting on one hell of a festival over the next three weeks to cure your summertime blues. The Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival kicks off tonight at 7:30 in ...

By Marjorie Cohen Imagine I.M Pei designing a homeless shelter. Or Frank Lloyd Wright drawing plans for a community center. Not likely. But in the 1880's, when the women who ran the Association for the Relief of Respectable and Indigent Females, needed an architect for the charity home they were ...

By Maria Gorshin Living in a boredom-free zone is one of the perks of city living that I’m especially grateful for when friends and relatives come to visit. In a quieter setting I have to rely on my iffy skills as a hostess and activity planner to keep my guests ...