Year: 2011

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 ...

June 9, 2011 Weather: Oh LORD it's hot. High of 99 Degrees. Notices: A group supporting musicians' rights to play in Central Park's quiet zones has a facebook page and a petition site. News: Bedbugs were found in the men's executive locker room in Reebok Sports Club/NY on 67th  Street ...

By Maria Gorshin If you call the Upper West Side home you had eight reasons to celebrate last night when Landmark West! honored, awarded and even serenaded The Unsung Heroes of the Upper West Side. The lively event took place within one of the most vibrant, elegantly-designed public spaces in ...

June 8, 2011 Weather: Humid, Hot as Hell. High of 96 degrees. Notices: The newly renovated Tavern on the Green is hosting FREE movies this summer, starting tonight with "Entre Nos", a 2009 film about a Colombian mother's fight for survival in New York, at 7:30 p.m. News: A hit-and-run ...

June 7, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 86 degrees. Notices: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival runs June 16 to June 30 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. You can get tickets now! News: State Senator Tony Avella introduced a new bill to ban horse-drawn carriages in Central ...

By Harriet Flehinger Aging In Place is a key buzzword of the Baby Boom generation. This is especially true of urban areas where it is possible to live without a car, and in certain large buildings which have been dubbed NORCs (Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities.) A friend of mine recently ...

June 6, 2011 Weather: Isolated Thunderstorms, High of 79 degrees. Notices: Shakespeare in the Park starts tonight! Get in line (or online)! And check out more events in our weekly calendar. News: Dovetail owner Jon Fraser plans to  up a cafe in the by the Bethesda Fountain Terrace, where the ...

By Harriet Flehinger Whither goest TeaGschwendner, a high end retailer of rare and fancy teas. Barely six months old, the store is now marked "closed for renovations." When we called the Chicago store, they said the New York shop had sent all its tea to them and the store wasn't ...

June 3, 2011 Weather: Sunny, High of 77 Degrees. Notices: The JCC is holding a donor registration drive for Ayelet Galena, a little girl from the Upper West Side with a rare life-threatening disease who needs a bone marrow transplant. It's at 334 Amsterdam Avenue from 10 a.m. to 6 ...

By Malcolm Carter Gazing at water -- an ocean, a lake, a river has its manifold virtues. Views of water may suggest variations of tranquility, power, beauty, faith and myriad other shades of human emotion. Even rain, whether an evening shower or a threatening thunderstorm, has the same potential as ...

June 2, 2011 Weather: Mostly sunny. High of 75 degrees. News: The chairman of the New York Historical Society bought an original set of notes to the Constitutional Convention by New York delegate John Lansing and donated it to the society. It is planning to show them starting Nov. 11 ...