Month: May 2013

Dozens of police officers came out to Riverside Park this morning around 119th street after finding a bloody knife and several pools of blood by the tennis courts. Helicopters were flying over the neighborhood around 8 a.m., and police streamed into the park. NYC Parks Advocates, a blog run by ...

Editor’s Note: As part of a regular West Side Rag series, artist Michelle Hill will interview and paint/draw an Upper West Sider. This is the third in that series. To see the full series, click here. Marian Rivman was born in the Bronx. When did you move to the Upper ...

If it's clear by Wednesday night, you might get to see a spectacular sight. Manhattanhenge is back!

We received this today from authorities looking for a man named Thomas Murphy, who has gone missing: "Alert issued 5/28/13 at 6:55 PM. NYPD has issued a Silver Alert for the disappearance of Thomas Murphy, male, white, 79 years old, 5'10" tall, 160 lbs., from West 89th Street and Broadway ...

Here are the top articles from other media outlets that were published last week about the Upper West Side.

There's some good news and some bad news about the Upper West Side dining scene below.

The New Taste of the Upper West Side, a food festival in which dozens of chefs cook small plates under a tent on Columbus Avenue between 76th and 77th streets, returns next week. The festival includes three events this year. Tickets range from $105 to $250, depending on the event ...

It's been more than a year since 90' Nuts, the candy store on Broadway between 90th and 91st streets, shut its doors. About two months ago, a bodega opened there, but closed after about a week. Now the space may be getting a more permanent tenant. A new ice cream ...

The Brood 2 Cicada, which only comes 'round once every 17 years, has begun to emerge from the ground in Central Park, according to a map of cicada sightings put together by WNYC's Radio Lab. The bugs are expected to come out en masse in the next month or so ...

Mariah Carey will kick off the Good Morning America concert series on Friday morning at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park. To get free tickets, you have

Metro-North trains to and from Westchester could be coming to a train station on the Upper West Side in the next few years, and politicians are starting to line up behind the plan. The first part of the train extension would take riders from Penn Station up through Queens and ...

As toxic chemicals spewed from light fixtures at Upper West Side schools over the past couple of years, the city Department of Education essentially told parents that they'd deal with it, eventually. The chemicals, called PCBs, were used in light fixtures until the 1970's, but they have been shown to ...

By Nancy Novick Letty Cottin Pogrebin advocates telling the truth, which is why I’d like to share my first impression of her new book “How to be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick”: What a good idea for a magazine article.  How, I wondered, could even this accomplished author, ...

There's finally some action in the old Georgia's Cafe & Bakery space at 89th street and Broadway, which closed last year after a fire. A restaurant tentatively called Cibo e Vino is seeking a

It was only a week or two ago that we published a photo of a new rooftop addition to a townhouse built in 1900 on West 71st street, and our readers gasped. The comments were almost unanimously negative toward the two-story addition, which stands out in the line of townhouses ...

This is the last week of the season at Juilliard and the school will be thrumming with activity. Check out the events below! For Juilliard’s

Check out the news from last week from around the neighborhood that we've summarized from other media outlets.

Upper West Sider Jane McIntosh has been visiting a statue in Riverside Park at about 60th street for almost a year and taking pictures with it in various outfits. The statue, called Watching Upon the Present was built out of stainless steel, aluminum, iron and stone by Sequoyah Aono, an ...

The weather is supposed to be gorgeous this weekend (high of 71 degrees on Saturday, 68 on Sunday), and luckily there are lots of great events for adults and kids. Here are a few, and there

Two men were stabbed this week. In the first reported incident, a 23-year-old man was working at a kiosk on 60th street and Amsterdam Avenue at 3 a.m. on Tuesday when two other men approached him, the Daily News reported. They stabbed him multiple times in the face before grabbing ...