Fireworks on Friday for the marathon, seen from the West 90’s.
Read more below about an Ebola freak-out at a fancy local gym, a homeless sweep and other news items related to the Upper West Side.
At the Equinox gym on 67th and Columbus, some people are worried about Norman Siegel, who represents the Maine nurse who tussled with Chris Christie over an Ebola quarantine. They’re worried because they think he’s going to sweat on the machines and give them Ebola! “An argument broke out,” one gym-goer said, “when two regulars fought over whether Norman, who is a regular, should be allowed in.” (NY Post)
The Department of Homeless Services plans to remove homeless people who are sleeping in Verdi Square at Broadway and 72nd street. There will be considerable outreach before the sweep, officials said. Homeless people in the square appear to be more aggressive than in the past, some say. “There’s been “a whole change in demeanor and tone, with people harassing people coming in, stuff all over the place, people playing loud music,” said Penny Ryan, CB7’s district manager.” As we wrote last year, one man presumed to be homeless died on a bench in Verdi Square. (DNAinfo)
Two guys, sitting on a Central Park bench, talking about stuff. (NY Times)
Emily Kessler, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, will soon make her Lincoln Center debut. “Although she moves at a crawling pace to retrieve old black-and-white pictures, when she sits down to play the mandolin, her fingers work just fine.” (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A battle is brewing at 360 Central Park West, where developers are attempting to deregulate apartments. (The Real Deal)
Looks like subway fares are going to go up again. (WNYC)
A school therapist, suspended from the Manhattan School for Children, has returned. (Daily News)
Civil rights workers killed during the Freedom Summer were honored at a memorial. “Last Sunday, a coalition of black and Jewish groups, organized by the Lincoln Square Synagogue, held a commemoration of those events and a memorial to the three young men, one black and two white, who lost their lives, but whose deaths were a catalyst for the growth of the civil rights movement, and the passage, one year later, of the federal Voting Rights Act.” (Tablet)
The Urbani store on the UWS just got 150 pounds of white truffles, which seem to be in everything these days. (Huffington Post)
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Well for the Equinox (formerly Reebok) on 67th this is probably a step up from the alleged cruising that was going on in the men’s locker rooms about 10 years ago.
i’m sure that ebola is more afraid of catching lawyer than the lawyer is of catching ebola.
Since about 2010 (following the opening of Trader Joe’s) there seem to be many more homeless people on the West Side who are young (in their 20s) and from out of town.
Trader Joe’s has changed 72nd Street & Broadway into a “destination” – it was quieter prior to Trader Joe’s.
Those young white homeless people are called Travellers or Crusties. They have been in NY for years, mostly in warmer weather months, since they usually travel to warmer places in the winter. They have nothing to do with Occupy Wall Street, but when they found out that Ocuupy was feeding people for free they set up a small camp down there. They can be mostly seen in the East Village, usually in groups and with pet dogs. They don’t have Ebola but are almost as hard to get rid of. Once they are in your neighborhood you cannot get rid of them, they will never leave until they get tired of the area and move along. They probably like the UWS because it’s affluent, easy to panhandle and because the East Village is turning into a boring, gentrifed crappy Bro Town full of generic chain stores and NYU students, which is why the Village is now also known as BroHo.
Actually that population popped up right after the demise of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Um, Trader Joe’s has attracted homeless people? Because it’s a “destination”? This makes zero sense.
Iisa are you saying Trader Joes is to blame for the arrival of young clearly drug addicted out of town caucasion vagabonds?
Not sure I see the connection.
However this new group really must be dealt with. I am sorry, but clearly they come to our community because of the generosity and the fact that they are not asked to move or leave. They are NOT new yorkers, not truly “homeless”. are we really responsible for the country’s problems? we are already are under court order to house everyone who asks for it. WE cannot pay for everyone.. the good news is they appear to find enough money to leave town when it gets cold – so until next spring.
Not new Yorkers? You realize that the majority of people residing in nyc aren’t actually from ny, right? And these traveling types are all over the city, not just in our precious, untouchable upper west side. If you don’t want any homeless people in your neighborhood, move to Westchester.
There are also many more homeless people soliciting contributions along Broadway in the Financial District.
It just might have something to do with the fact that the economy is much worse in other parts of the country than it is here.
I hope they take the homeless guy who sleeps in the middle of the Broadway island on the south side of 74 Street