Year: 2013

West Side Rag reader Carla Fisher took the video below of bagpipes belting out "Amazing Grace" Wednesday morning the annual commemoration of New York City firefighters who have died in the line of duty. The event is held at the Firemen's Memorial on 100th street and Riverside Drive. (The sound ...

We are a little behind in our frozen dairy news, as it seems like new ice cream and frozen yogurt spots open on an almost weekly basis. But recently frozen yogurt and ice cream shops have actually been closing too. Does this signal the beginning of the end of the ...

On Tuesday, Democratic mayoral nominee Bill De Blasio answered questions on Reddit, a website that allows users to chat with each other and with guests. One question he answered was from Jeremiah Moss, who runs the excellent blog Vanishing New York. It dealt with the loss of small businesses in ...

Rooftop additions are the hot new accessory in Upper West Side real estate. The Apthorp on 79th street and Broadway may be the most famous building looking to add more apartments on the roof, but it's certainly not the only one. Here are a few of the buildings where owners ...

Promoters for CBS Films are offering West Side Rag readers a chance to attend a free screening of the upcoming star-packed movie Last Vegas, a new comedy starring Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline. The screening is at 7:30 on Wednesday night at the AMC Loews ...

Drama, concerts and more will fill the performance spaces at Juilliard this week.

Check out some stories about crime, real estate, lawsuits and the parks that we saw in other news outlets in the past week.

"People here like to eat Chinese food," said Ed Schoenfeld, the co-owner of new Chinese restaurant RedFarm, which is located on Broadway between 76th and 77th streets. That was evident from the packed crowd at the restaurant, which just opened on Saturday but was already packed to the point of ...

It's craft fair season on the Upper West Side, and two fairs this weekend will have more than enough to fill your craft-bag.

Editor's Note: Upper West Side personal chef Elyse Prince plans to write an occasional column about recipes using ingredients you can buy locally.

When an employee at the Blockbuster that closed on 93rd street and Broadway told us the store would be replaced by Applebee's, it set off a panic among our readers. The Upper West Side really is turning into a strip mall! Well, here's the good news for Applebee's-haters: the chain ...

There has been all sorts of action on Columbus Avenue in the past few months, with stores changing locations or closing and others moving in. There's also a big new redesigned Hugo Boss in Columbus Circle. Bang & Olufsen, the television, music and gizmo shop on Columbus between 75th and ...

Since people first started staring at screens, the Upper West Side has gotten more than its share of screen time. The newest show to feature the neighborhood is the Michael J. Fox show, which airs on NBC on Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. So far it's pretty enjoyable. Fox, Betsy Brandt ...

Locals have recently put up some intriguing art shows in the neighborhood. Here are two that might be worth checking out.

The fancy-pants food reviewers at Michelin spent some time slumming it this year, and found three local "value" restaurants that they think are worth checking out.

Community Board 7 meets Wednesday night at 6:30 at Goddard Riverside Community Center to consider a bunch of issues, including a proposed rooftop addition to the Apthorp on 79th street and a resolution dealing with the proposed 10-cent charge for plastic bags at supermarkets, a proposal supported by local Councilwoman Gale ...

Several victims remained in the hospital after the attacks this morning in Riverside Park, in which police say a deranged homeless man identified as Julius Graham randomly stabbed five people with scissors. Graham first stabbed a female runner around 65th street in the park, then he stabbed a man walking ...

One of the men suspected of being involved in a chase on the West Side Highway Sunday that ended with a 33-year-old man getting beaten has been arrested, and another man is being held, although he hasn't been charged. Christopher Cruz, a 28-year-old from New Jersey, was charged with reckless ...

Sigh. The Alamo Drafthouse company will not be opening up a new movie theater in the former Metro Theater after all. The Texas-based theater company announced this morning that the project to create a new five-screen moviehouse in the historic theater on Broadway between 99th and 100th streets was simply ...

At least five people were slashed or stabbed by an emotionally disturbed man in Riverside Park around 8 a.m. Tuesday morning.