Flower paparazzi, 72nd street entrance to Central Park.
We haven’t posted a “weekly” news bulletin in so long that this is more of a monthly news bulletin. Below, check out a long list of news relevant to the Upper West Side that was published in other outlets.
Jiwon Lee, a 29 year old Columbia dental student who went missing last month, was found dead in the Hudson River last Sunday. (Columbia Spectator)
A management company that’s been accused of locking rent-stabilized tenants out of amenities is also having problems with workers. “Laborers at the Windermere West End, a 23-story apartment complex on West End Ave., claim Stellar Management is trying to replace them with low-cost nonunion workers.” (Daily News)
A nine-room apartment at the San Remo is hitting the market after its previous resident, hedge fund manager and philanthropist Robert Wilson, committed suicide last year. (NY Times)
The five-story brownstone at 121 West 81st street is about to go on the market asking $12 million. “The five-story, six-bedroom five-and-a-half-bath house has 5,500 square feet of interior space and four distinctive working fireplaces, one that warms a palatial master bathroom that takes up nearly half of the fourth-floor living space.” (NY Times)
A West End Avenue rental building on 101st recently sold for $67 million. (Observer)
After complaints about the new nursing home proposed for West 97th street, politicians are considering introducing a bill that would require extra reviews for developments within 50 feet of schools. (DNAinfo)
Sephardic Jews on the Upper West Side are reviving an old chanting tradition (Times of Israel)
Some New York City community gardens have disturbingly high levels of lead. (NY Post)
Some chefs are planning to protest a Mississippi fair in Central Park over what they say is an anti-gay Misssissippi law. (NY Times)
At 207 and 209 West 107th street, tenants say they are being bullied by their landlord GPS Realty, who they say allows rats to run rampant. They claim the owners are anti-immigrant. “A GPS manager flatly denied the residents’ stories, noting that 70% of GPS’ tenants are non-Americans.” (Daily News)
In September, a new bus line — the M12 — will run from Columbus Circle to the West Village. (NY1)
Some people have been protesting Zabar’s for selling Sodastream products. Saul Zabar’s not budging. (Weekly Standard)
A Q&A with Laura Benanti, an actress on the UWS who loves Patsy’s pizza. (NY Magazine)
No words for how low this is: “Police are still searching for the heartless hoodlum who posed as a Meals on Wheels worker earlier this month, talking his way inside an Upper West Side residence and robbing a 103-year-old woman of $250…Detectives in the 24th Precinct are combing through footage from surveillance cameras in and around Strycker’s Bay Apartment, a 21-story building at 66 W. 94th St. filled with seniors and the disabled — most who live on a fixed income.” (Daily News)
Al Franken sold his Riverside Drive co-op for $4.05 million. Hey, I thought he was the senator from Minnesota! There ain’t no cows on Riverside Drive. (Observer)
Demi Moore is about to sell her San Remo apartment, reportedly for a cool $75 million. (NY Post)
The Helena on W. 57th Street, developed by the Durst Organization, is not accessible to people with disabilities, the U.S. attorney charged. (Daily News)
Local Law 11, which governs inspections of building facades, now includes more stringent inspections of balconies, fire escapes and terraces. (Habitat Magazine)
Cesar Lucas, a 17-year-old pizza delivery boy, admitted to raping a woman in her 61st street apartment after delivering a pizza in the building in 2012. (Daily News)
Court documents show that Anthony Powe, the disturbed man who is accused of killing his father and injuring his mother with scissors in their 97th street apartment, allegedly confessed to the crime. He was quoted as saying he had a“bitter and sour relationship” with his father. (NY Post)
An arrest has been made in an alleged hate crime against a Columbia professor: “Christian Morales, 20, has been charged with second degree aggravated harassment for being part of the group of young men who kicked and beat Dr. Prabhjot Singh as he walked on West 110th Street near Lenox Avenue.” (Gothamist)
Art was vandalized at a gallery at the NY Institute of Technology. (Artnet)
Please keep these news updates coming, they are so valuable and appreciated!
Keep a watch on the happenings at 838 west end. things are about to get ugly and highly litigious between tenants, the previous owner and the new owner…
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