Photo by Scott Matthews looking South from the Northern end of the Reservoir in Central Park.
Below, we’ve compiled about 20 stories that are relevant to the Upper West Side printed in other publications.
A rooftop addition was approved for 498 West End Avenue, between 83rd and 84th streets. “Starting at the top, there is already a single-floor appendage on the roof, but it will be built out, with a second floor built on top of it, adding about 4,000 square feet. The rooftop addition will also come with a new cornice for the building.” (Curbed)
A wealthy Chinese man took some homeless people out to lunch at the Boathouse in Central Park, but apparently fell short of other promises he had made. (NY Times)
Daniel Boulud has been sued by servers at his restaurants for allegedly stiffing them on tips. “On Monday Schaffer won a settlement for 88 other Boulud employees with similar grievances in a separate federal lawsuit. The terms of the deal, struck just on Monday, are confidential.” (NY Post)
Employees at lefty bookshop Book Culture were fired for voting to unionize. (DNAinfo)
A mansion on West 85th street may be having trouble on the market because of the furnishings that come with it. It’s “fit for Louis XVI.” (Curbed)
There’s finally been a compromise for the redesign of the playground next to PS 166 on 89th street. (DNAinfo)
A teacher at PS 87 was fined $6,000 for pushing parents to hire her daughter as a babysitter. She also admitted that she had yelled inappropriately at a student. “Investigators confirmed she held personal video chats and searched for airline tickets while class was in session, department spokesman David Pena said. She also showed a video to students in which people flipped the bird at the camera, according to Pena.” (Daily News)
The bandshell in Central Park got some new lettering, but remains in disrepair. (NY Times)
The community board was cool to expansion plans for the Trinity School on 91st and Collegiate on 77th. (DNAinfo)
HFDC apartments are “affordable” as long as you have a low income and lots of cash up front. (NY Times)
The Central Park 5 and the city agreed to a $40 million settlement. (NY Times)
Donald Trump is somehow still talking about the case, even after suggesting executing the teenagers who were wrongly accused of it. (New Yorker)
St. Michael’s Episcopal Church on West 100th street decided against developing a parcel of land next to the church, and just won a court case against the developers. “Even though litigation continues, both sides are trying to renegotiate the deal.” (NY Times)
An attempt to ban smoking at 372 Central Park West failed. “One anti-ban advocate in the building argued that the reason the motion failed was because residents viewed it as not just a nuisance or a public health issue, but also one of personal freedom.” (Curbed)
A woman used a water fountain in Central Park as a bidet for her dog and didn’t seem to realize how disgusting that is. (Gothamist)
A tenant who once lived in a building on Amsterdam and 85th street believes an apartment in the building was being used as a brothel. After tenants complained for long enough, the people were forced to move.”They renovated the apartment and the next tenants to move in were an Orthodox Jewish family with four young kids. No one told them what had gone on before them.” (Brick Underground)
A teacher’s aide at the Mickey Mantle school was arrested after allegedly trapping an 8-year-old in a locker. “He repeatedly shook the locker after putting the boy inside, the complaint alleges.” (Daily News)
The mother of Andrew Goodman, who was killed while signing up black voters in the South 50 years ago, speaks out. “In the Upper West Side apartment where she’s lived for some 50 years, Carolyn Goodman is surrounded by her work, her books and her memories. ‘Andy and other people I lost over the years who are close to me are always with me,’ she says. ‘Not in a morbid way but in a good way, in a way that strengthens me.'” (NY1)
None of the students in the first class at Success Academy was offered entrance to the city’s elite high schools. (Daily News)
Upper West Side officers helped collar a suspected bank robber. (NY Post)
The history of the obelisk in Central Park. (NY Post)
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Great job, Avi, in compiling this list! Great work!!!! Much appreciated!
My ex-wife won the Andrew Goodman prize at Manhattan School of Music back around 1978. I had not know until reading this who he was, or the significance of the link.
from NY1:
The Andrew Goodman Prize
Aside from music [“In Recognition of Excellence in clarinet”], winning this award has a special significance to me:
This Prize was created by one of my clarinet teachers at the Manhattan School of Music, Leon Russianoff, to honor the memory of his student, Andrew Goodman (November 23, 1943 – June 21, 1964), who was one of three American civil rights activists who were murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer in 1964 by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
It wasn’t until years later, when I looked at that Prize hanging in the frame near my piano, and I wandered who it was named after.
So, I googled it, and I came across this Link on Internet. I was blown away, and rented this great movie, “Mississippi Burning (1988)”, which put this Prize into a much more meaningful perspective!
A few years ago, on a gig, I ran into a young man, a roadie, who was helping set up a sound system. His father was Andrew Goodman’s brother!
This is another case of “Can’t Make It Up!!!
As I am writing this, it’s been six days since the world got President Obama! Yep, things have changed…
– Arkady, NYC, USA, Monday, November 10, 2008