Month: March 2012

Cafe Tallulah, the wine bar coming to 71st and Columbus, has decided to keep a mural that was initially put up by the founders of Victor's Cafe decades ago. Owner Greg Hunt had initially wanted to take the mural down because he said its cows-and-half-naked-man motif didn't fit into his ...

March 12, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 68 Degrees.

By Kara Rota I was wandering around the 97th Street Whole Foods on Saturday, during my bimonthly pilgrimage for tofu spare ribs and nuts in bulk, when I came across an event: "The Crack Heard 'Round the World." Whole Foods stores globally cracked open 300 wheels of 24-month aged Parmigiano ...

DSW's corporate office has finally confirmed what we first reported more than a month ago: the discount shoe store is opening a 32,000 square foot store on 79th Street in the old Filene's Basement spot. A reader recently reported to us that construction has already begun, and a store rep ...

Nancy Novick, an Upper West Side writer, plans to write an occasional column for us on books, particularly those with relevance to the neighborhood. This first column is about Alexandra Styron (above), a one-time Upper West Sider who wrote a memoir about her father, the writer William Styron. By Nancy ...

Editor's Note: We just had a baby daughter! In her honor, columnist Maria Gorshin reminisced about growing up in the neighborhood. (The Rag will be updated a little less frequently for the next few days.) By Maria Gorshin I loved growing up in this part of New York. I look ...

By Malcolm Carter On a clear day, you can. . . climb up forever. Selling an apartment is hard enough these days.  Selling one in a building without elevators is a challenge that can be overwhelming. The photo above (looking up from the bottom of the stairwell) nicely illustrates the ...

March 6, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 42 Degrees.

Shortly after Jeremy Lin started tearing up the NBA, people began to dream up ways to make money off of his stardom. The most obvious solution was to sell t-shirts with his face or the word "Linsanity" on them. After an initial shortage of merchandise, the market now seems to ...

March 5, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 42 Degrees.

This is the second article in a West Side Rag series about the most essential eateries on the Upper West Side. Spurred by the sudden closure of H&H Bagels last year, we asked ourselves the question: what other restaurants, markets, and bakeries are absolutely essential to the neighborhood? This is ...

Frank Bruni, the masterful New York Times food writer (and now columnist), recently shared his favorite local eating spots with

Irving Farm Coffee just hung a sign outside 224 West 79th Street alerting the neighborhood that a new coffee shop is about to open in the neighborhood. Irving Farm coffee gets roasted in Millerton, New York, 90 miles from the city. I've been to the location at 71 Irving Place, ...

Wake me, for I must be dreaming. Sprinkles Cupcakes, a Los Angeles-based cupcake company with a location on East 60th Street, is supposedly going to install a cupcake ATM machine on the Upper West Side this year! According to the Daily News, the machines will be restocked numerous times throughout ...

March 2, 2012 Weather: Mostly Cloudy, High of 44 Degrees.

A store filled with housewares and preppy clothes has signed a lease to take about half of the space of the old Borders store on the second floor of the Time Warner Center, the Observer, Racked, and Women's Wear Daily reported. C. Wonder, which also has a SoHo location, sells ...

By Clare Marash One of the fastest growing churches in New York is about to open a new home in the heart of the Upper West Side. This Sunday, March 4, the Redeemer Presbyterian Church will open its new Ministry Center at 150 West 83rd Street. Senior Pastor Dr. Timothy ...

March 1, 2012 Weather: Morning Showers, High of 43 Degrees.