Month: July 2012

By Josh Goldblatt As mentioned in my prior dispatch, there are not one, but two South Asian delis on Upper Columbus, between 106th and 107th Streets. Last time we took a look at Doaba Deli, the establishment run by a man from the Indian state of Punjab. In this episode, ...

Twelve units and 60 firefighters responded to a fire on the second floor of 112 West 74th Street in the wee hours of the morning Saturday. The fire was

Lincoln Center began showing a film today with a very unique premise: it is made up of images from films that show clocks and watches, and the minutes displayed in the film correlate to the minutes of the days we are living. "The Clock" will be on view at the ...

July 13, 2012 Weather: Mostly Cloudy, High of 88 Degrees.

This hasn't been a good month for Upper West Side Thai restaurants. A couple of weeks ago, Talé Thai on Columbus and 84th closed after just one year. And just this week

The future is here, and it's helping you check your email. The city unveiled a pilot program on Wednesday that turned 10 phone booths into wi-fi hotspots with a radius of coverage of about 100 to 200 feet. Two locations in and around the neighborhood are already hooked up: 230 ...

July 12, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 87 Degrees.

An MTA worker was injured after striking the third rail in the 72nd Street subway station around 8 p.m. on Wednesday night, NYPD tells us. The worker was taken to New York hospital. The 1, 2, and 3 lines were shut down for about an hour, and five trains were ...

There's a pretty stunning exhibit coming to Columbus Circle in September. The Public Art Fund will build scaffolding around the column in the center of the circle all the way up to the statue of Columbus, about 70 feet above the ground. In the scaffolding will be steps that will ...

July 12, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 83 Degrees.

The city released a set of more than 800,000 photos from the municipal archives earlier this year in a searchable Internet database. The archive is frankly pretty incredible -- there are photos from the NYPD, the parks department, the mayor's office, and many more agencies, as well as shots taken ...

July 10, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 85 Degrees.

The corner spot on 76th Street and Amsterdam Avenue that briefly held Burrata Bakery and Pizza Bar has been empty for well over a year. But a company has finally decided to open a new business there -- Drybar is expecting to sign a lease for the space this week, ...

For the next six Wednesdays, Riverside Park will be hosting its free annual Movies Under the Stars series at Pier 1, around 70th Street. This year's theme is "bicycles", and the series kicks off this Wednesday with the classic Cinema Paradiso, a film about love, watching movies, loss, growing up ...

July 9, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 85 Degrees.

Talé Thai, a restaurant that had been around for almost exactly one year on Amsterdam Columbus between 84th and 85th Street, has closed down. The restaurant apparently stopped serving around July 4, and the windows have now been papered over. It's unclear what caused the place to close -- the ...

By Stan Solomon On Sunday evenings this Fall, a supernatural-themed prime time drama called 666 Park Avenue is set to air on ABC. But the Upper East Side drama has a twist – and it’s not just the whole haunted-apartment-building thing. The exterior shots that claim to show

We received this notice today with the photo above: "Silver Alert issued 7/7/12 at 1:10 AM. NYPD has issued a Silver Alert for Renee Gersene, age 81. Ms. Gersene is described as a white female, 5'2, 130lbs. with blue eyes, gray shoulder length hair, and was probably wearing a beige ...

For months, David Schatsky, the operator of a website called Stop Sugar & Plumm has lambasted the restaurant and candy store "Sugar & Plumm Purveyors of Yumm" slated to open on 78th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. He's called it "offensive," ridiculed its Macorons, and said it "degrades the character of ...

July 6, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 89 Degrees.