Month: January 2012

January 23, 2012 Weather: Rain, High of 56 Degrees.

Sledders in Riverside Park. Photo by Ernie Fritz. Given how long we've waited for snow, it's definitely time to celebrate, and one of the best ways to do that is to hop on a sled! Luckily, Upper West Siders live near some excellent sledding hills, as well as some good ...

Upper West Siders lose things all the time, but usually the items are phones or other replaceable devices. In the past week, people have put ads on craigslist looking for extremely sentimental items that they lost in the neighborhood. Grandfather's Tefillin: Tefillin are small black boxes that are used in ...

January 20, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 35 Degrees.

Most major city elections aren't for more than a year, but the politicking and fundraising has already begun in a big way on the Upper West Side. Two Democratic community board members are already in the running to replace Gale Brewer as the Upper West Side's representative in the City ...

January 19, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 39 Degrees.

For all you two-wheeled warriors out there in the neighborhood (and those who love and hate them), there's a lot of news you should know about. Let's review:

January 18, 2012 Weather: Windy, High of 39 Degrees.

There may be a lot of boutiques, wine shops and candy bodegas on the Upper West Side, but people have their favorites, and it's a bummer when the stores close. Some well-loved  local shops have closed recently. Nonetheless, lots of new stores are either open or on the brink of ...

The city has drafted new zoning rules to address the single biggest complaint among Upper West Siders: that small stores keep disappearing while banks and drug stores seem to proliferate like mad. The rules, requested by Councilwoman Gale Brewer, limit the amount of sidewalk space used by businesses on Amsterdam ...

January 17, 2012 Weather: Rain, High of 47 Degrees.

I found this film, by Thomas Edison, on the Central Park Conservancy's website, via the Library of Congress. It was taken on Winter Drive, on the west side of the park.

Photo by Amy Aglar. There were a few flurries of snow on Friday, but not enough snow stuck in the city to make even a single snowball and throw it at someone who doesn't believe in global warming. This weekend, there is a very small chance of snow (10% chance ...

By Emily Baer A quiet controversy was brewing this week on West 69th Street. Friends and colleagues of Matthew Sapolin, the city’s first commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, proposed renaming two blocks of West 69th Street between Broadway and Central Park West after him. But some ...

A Columbus Square apartment building. Photo by rbs10025 via flickr. January 13, 2012 Weather: Windy, High of 41 Degrees. News: UDR, a Colorado-based real estate company, and insurance company MetLIfe just bought Columbus Square, the massive glassy five-tower rental apartment complex that also houses Whole Foods and other big retailers ...

Joannie Galindez, a 13-year-old girl who lives on 102nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, was reported missing on Wednesday night and still had not been found as of late Thursday afternoon, the NYPD tells us. Update: The girl returned home, an NYPD spokesman said on Friday morning. The info from NYPD ...

The NYPD is reporting that a car broke through a guardrail on 96th Street this morning around 10 a.m. and plunged into the Hudson River. Two police detectives pulled a 42-year-old woman out of the water about two blocks from where the car fell in and she was sent to ...

The photo above, by Malcolm Carter, is of a dryer fire in a fifth-floor apartment at 46 West 96th Street that was reported at 12:43 p.m. on Wednesday. A firefighter suffered minor injuries and was taken to St. Luke's Roosevelt hospital. The fire was out by 1:11 p.m. January 12, ...

Elderly housing project residents, particularly at Amsterdam Houses in the West 60's off of Amsterdam Avenue, are being told that they have to move because they live in apartments with more bedrooms than they need. Some seniors are being told they have to move out of their developments -- and ...

January 11, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 43 Degrees.