Editor’s Note: As part of a regular West Side Rag series, artist Michelle Hill interviews and draws Upper West Siders. This is the fifteenth installment in our Portrait of a Neighbor series.
Read moreEditor’s Note: As part of a regular West Side Rag series, artist Michelle Hill interviews and draws Upper West Siders. This is the fifteenth installment in our Portrait of a Neighbor series.
Read moreWe were sooooo ready to have The Greatest Picnic Ever in Central Park on Saturday to celebrate the West Side Rag's three-year anniversary. But the sky isn't cooperating
Read moreA long-running battle between owners of the Wine & Roses bar on Columbus Avenue between 73rd and 74th appears
Read moreBanks may be taking over many of the Upper West Side's choicest corners, but there's at least one corner that will soon lose a bank.
Read moreA police officer and two Upper West Siders chased down a man who police say was stealing packages from a building on West 76th street. It all went down around
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Read moreA brand-new Marshalls opened on Broadway between 77th and 78th street on Thursday, and they were handing out free hot dogs to customers.
Read moreBorn and raised in the Bronx, Greg has been working as a doorman/security guard in a building in the 70's between Columbus and Amsterdam for the past 14 years.
Read moreThe Pet Health Store is being priced out of its current corner space at 81st street and Amsterdam Avenue, according to a manager we spoke to this week.
Read moreAfter a petition and an uproar by some residents and artists, Community Board 7 is reconsidering a previous vote to recommend that Crafts on Columbus be shut down.
Read moreLooking Northeast from West 106th street, Harlem almost looks like a European village. Photo by Scott Matthews, taken
Read moreThe Upper West Side will get a crucial new middle school and high school starting in 2015 in the building at 227 West 61st street that now houses the Beacon School. Upper West Side
Read moreGotham Food, a beloved grocery store and deli on Columbus between 72nd and 73rd street that opened in 1970, is closing in the next few
Read moreOn Tuesday, Community Board 7 will hash out several issues, from a proposed rehabilitation to a small park called Septuagesimo Uno on 71st street, to a series of liquor licenses for new restaurants
Read moreHearings are set for this week over a 20-story nursing home set to rise on West 97th street. Jewish Home Lifecare, a nursing and rehab center now on 106th street, swapped land with a developer so that
Read moreCafe Blossom, the vegan restaurant on 82nd and Columbus, is closing in a week and the owners recently sent a note saying
Read moreJuilliard has several major concerts and plays going on this week.
Read moreA few restaurants and retail locations have either just opened in the neighborhood or will open in the coming weeks.
Read moreStarting in July, Broadway from Columbus Circle northward will soon get a new speed limit, and signals will be re-timed to dissuade speeding, as Mayor de Blasio works
Read moreThis Saturday Symphony Space on West 95th street is putting on a very special event. Its annual Wall to Wall festival will feature cabaret performances, hosted
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