Month: October 2014

If you like coffee, chocolate, and breasts, you will enjoy our latest edition of Upper West Side openings and closings.

On Wednesday night around 6, a driver smashed into the pedestrian island that the Department of Transportation just installed on West End Avenue and 97th street.

Bicyclists have hit at least 35 pedestrians in Central Park this year; two of the pedestrians died and three have sustained skull fractures, according

By Howard Freeman With pedestrian safety in Central Park getting lots of attention in the past few weeks, Monday night’s Community Board 7 Parks & Environment Committee

Upper West Side city council members are drumming up ideas for how to spend $1 million in each of their districts on capital projects.

The Allman Brothers say they will play their last shows ever over the next week at the Beacon Theatre on 75th and Broadway, where they have played 232 sold-out

Coffee, mustard, seasonal American food, Middle Eastern fare and more are on the menu at the new and upcoming Upper West Side businesses we feature below.

The new mall set to open next year in the Columbus Circle subway station has already signed tenants for more than half of the 30 spaces, including

Despite a backlash against poor doors, a second building has been proposed on the Upper West Side with a separate entrance for tenants in affordable housing.

Steven Heller moderates a panel discussion this Thursday at the Bard Graduate Center about the art and business of illustration with illustrators George Bates, Peter de Sève and Barbara Nessim.

Pandora put together a neighborhood-by neighborhood map of musical tastes, and the Upper West Side's top musical genres will probably confirm all

Editor’s Note: As part of a regular West Side Rag series, artist Michelle Hill interviews and draws Upper West Siders. This is the 17th installment in our Portrait of a Neighbor series.

Broadway will be closed starting at noon from 86th to 96th street for the 23rd annual Broadway Fall Festival, a street fair. The Avon Breast Cancer Walk will also

RCI, an appliance store on 98th street and Broadway that first opened 80 years ago, is set to close in the next few weeks after losing its lease.

Cab driver Koffi Komlani was charged with "failure to exercise due care" in the January crash that killed 9-year-old Cooper Stock, who

Nick Bazos of Q Florist made the display above in the median that separates the bike lane from the street on Columbus Avenue and 82nd street.

The Hamilton Senior Center on 71st street off of Columbus has a hydroponic garden on its roof, growing lettuce, cucumbers, basil and more.

We've got some eclectic Upper West Side openings to tell you about, from a bank, to an electronic store, to a store selling a spicy condiment.

Commercial vehicles are not supposed to travel on West End Avenue. But they do anyway, because the drivers are either confused or figure

We have chronicled too many tales of anger and frustration between bicyclists and drivers on the Upper West Side. But a "Dear Diary" in