By Virginia Valerio Garbage has been piling up at the Frederick Douglass Houses in recent weeks, a long-term issue that was exacerbated when a trash compactor broke down.
Read moreBy Virginia Valerio Garbage has been piling up at the Frederick Douglass Houses in recent weeks, a long-term issue that was exacerbated when a trash compactor broke down.
Read moreThis coyote really gets around! After evading police on Wednesday, the Upper West Side coyote we dubbed Richard Kimball has been seen all over the neighborhood
Read moreHey Upper West Side, it's open thread time, where you can speak up in the comments about whatever topic is on your mind. By the way, West Side Rag turns 4 next month. What should
Read moreCouncil member Helen Rosenthal is holding a town hall meeting next Monday, April 27 that will bring together city officials from several agencies to answer questions from locals.
Read more50 Shades of Grey heroine Dakota Johnson is starring in a movie set to come out next year called How to be Single and they're shooting this week at Book Culture on the Upper West Side.
Read moreA coyote was spotted early Wednesday morning in Riverside Park at 87th street, causing police to close off parts of the park and go on a search for the animal.
Read moreJamal Baughan, a 22-year-old part-time worker at an after-school program at PS 191, was arrested for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl at his home.
Read moreTwo businesses with a combined 72 years in the neighborhood are closing up shop, while a new business will allow you to channel your inner Van Gogh. Oh, and there's a new bank coming, of course.
Read moreThis may not be a ghost. It could just be the soot emitted by a building burning heating oil. It could be some sort of cloud pattern. It could be viral marketing
Read moreThe building at 62nd street and Riverside Boulevard that has separate entrances for market-rate and affordable-housing tenants has reportedly drawn over 88,000 applications for
Read moreNeighbors in a housing development adjacent to the proposed site for a new nursing home development have filed suit against the state to stop the project, claiming
Read moreStephen Harmon, who has been taking photos of the neighborhood for decades, sent us some shots of the Upper West Side as seen through the window of his Nissan Maxima.
Read morePolice are asking for help solving some recent crimes in and around the neighborhood.
Read moreLike baby moles emerging from their holes to see the sun for the first time, Upper West Siders walked out of their dark apartments into a bright and beautiful
Read moreBy Dennis Paoli My wife and I woke up on a bright winter morning in 2013, and there he was: a hawk, perched on the top rail of the fire escape outside our west-looking window.
Read moreWe can all agree that parallel parking is hard. But there's bad parking and there's bad parking, and we've seen a lot of the latter on the Upper West Side lately.
Read moreBy Kimberly Conner In the wake of two recent shootings, Captain Marlon Larin and community members at a 24th precinct community council meeting Wednesday
Read moreAn agent for the state Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement was sentenced to 100 hours of community service for accidentally shooting two people on a
Read moreOllie's moved out of its space at 67th street and Broadway after a fire in January 2013, and since then the space has been vacant, with its glassed-in atrium filled with people sitting and relaxing
Read moreDozens of protesters blocked the sidewalk outside of McDonald's on 71st street and Amsterdam Avenue on Wednesday, with many of them lying down in a die-in.
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