Upper West Side restaurant news keeps oozing into our mailbox, like fake cheese on a huge plate of Super Bowl nachos.
Read moreUpper West Side restaurant news keeps oozing into our mailbox, like fake cheese on a huge plate of Super Bowl nachos.
Read moreA pedestrian was seriously injured in a crash on 70th street and Amsterdam Avenue around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, and was rushed to St. Luke's Hospital. We got the photo above from Mel Wymore, who arrived just after the crash and said it looked "pretty bad." FDNY tells us the ...
Read moreJanuary 31, 2013 Weather: Partly Cloudy/Wind, High of 45 Degrees.
Read moreA long-awaited forum on Wednesday about a controversial 400-person homeless shelter on 95th street got very heated, with Borough President Scott Stringer and other politicians saying that the city Department of Homeless Services had lied to them and had used misleading tactics to keep a massive contract from getting a ...
Read moreSome news on the retail front: Laytner's Linens & Home, a bedding store on 82nd and Broadway, has decided to shrink by half "by March." The store is holding a consolidation sale, offering 20% to 70% off. They want to "improve your shopping experience while bringing you higher standards at ...
Read moreJanuary 30, 2013 Weather: Few Showers, High of 59 Degrees.
Read moreTavern on the Green is getting a big makeover as it prepares to open later this year. But figuring out how to make the historic upscale restaurant into a more mid-priced neighborhood spot is already proving complicated. The Central Park Conservancy and
Read moreNew owners have taken over Sushi Hana at 466 Amsterdam Avenue (82nd) and have turned the restaurant into a fusion spot called Amaze, serving Chinese and Thai food as well as Japanese cuisine like sushi. The restaurant opened today. Sushi Hana closed a little over a week ago, telling customers ...
Read moreJanuary 29, 2013 Weather: Mostly Cloudy, High of 48 Degrees.
Read moreThe low 70's, particularly around Columbus Avenue, has become a haven for wine bars. There are, depending on your definition of "wine bar," as many as 10 in a six block radius between 69th and 74th Streets from Central Park West to Broadway.
Read moreThere isn't much peace in the city, but here's 10 seconds of snow falling through the subway grate at 72nd Street, set to the song
Read moreSaigon Grill can't seem to get rid of its little critters. We first reported nine days ago that the Vietnamese restaurant on 90th Street and Amsterdam Avenue had been closed by the city because of health violations. But the place remains closed more than a week later, as inspectors again ...
Read moreJanuary 28, 2013 Weather: Wintry Mix, High of 36 Degrees.
Read moreThe people responsible for placing a homeless mega-shelter on 95th Street off of Riverside Drive will finally come to the neighborhood to explain the decision and the future of the shelter on Wednesday. The move comes as the shelter, which was allowed to open without review
Read moreA man stopped his Mercedes-Benz in front of Fairway on Sunday night and popped the hood. That's when the engine apparently exploded and flames shot up about two feet in the air, said Sachin, who was standing across the street when it happened and took the pictures below. Someone ran ...
Read moreIt's been so long since it actually snowed, that Upper West Siders rushed out to enjoy it this morning. One person had clearly been waiting months for it to snow so he could express his feelings
Read moreNo surprise here. Apartments in new developments on the Upper West Side are selling fast, but they don't look like they're selling to teachers and firefighters. The median price for an apartment in a new Upper West Side development was $2 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to ...
Read moreJanuary 25, 2013 Weather: A few snow showers, High of 24 Degrees.
Read moreThere may not be snow on the ground, in most of the city, but a section of Central Park is covered in the stuff today as the park prepares for Winter Jam. Snow machines have been pumping out fake snow in the Bandshell area around 72nd street. On Saturday from ...
Read moreJanuary 24, 2013 Weather: Sunny, High of 24 Degrees.
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