A group of boys look at a diorama at the Museum of Natural History. Photo by Scott Matthews.
March 7, 2016 Weather: Partly cloudy, with a high of 58 degrees.
Notices:
A free Judy Garland tribute and many more local events on our calendar.
A deceased house cat was found in a yard on 82nd street: “We found a deceased white cat in our UWS yard 82nd between Amsterdam and Columbus. It has a red collar and bell and would hate for someone to have lost their cat and not know.”
Community Free Democrats are holding their 47th Annual Gala on Sunday, April 3, from 1 to 4 p.m., at Bella Luna Restaurant, 584 Columbus Avenue (between 88th and 89th Streets). Direct any questions to Suzanne Jacobson at cfdweb@cfdnyc.org. You can pay online at https://cfdnyc.org.
Our friends at Beacon Paint & Hardware on Amsterdam and 77th are working on their latest philanthropic project, ‘Paint the Town’, to get people to donate latex paint and distribute it to needy organizations. To learn more about how to donate paint, click here.
News:
A stranger once threw dog poop into Tina Fey’s stroller. “(The stroller) was parked and I saw him throw trash in my stroller and I was like, ‘Hey what are you doing throwing trash in my stroller?'” she recalled. “And I picked it up and it was a paper towel full of dog sh-t and I was like, ‘Hey!'”
The Old Guard building on West 91st street, home to one of the city’s oldest veterans group, may be sold. “Chock-full of historic items, the West 91st Street building needs an elevator to accommodate aging members, Sikorski says, as well as new wiring, climate-control systems and broken plaster and floors repaired. ‘Stuff is rotting,’ he said of old photos, letters from Eleanor Roosevelt, military medals and muskets.”
At Redeemer Church on the Upper West Side, a new kind of evangelism. “Mr. Ellis, 39, welcomed the dozen men and women seated before him. ‘This is a space,’ he said, ‘for people who consider themselves non-Christian and are coming in from the outside.'”
Learn the backstory behind the Upper West Side apartment from the movie “Black Swan”. “In it, ballerina Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) lives in a creepy Upper West Side apartment where the demons she attempts to keep on lockdown start to come alive.”
A fascinating fact about the multimillionaire snowbirds who own New York properties but don’t wish to brave our winters: “New York’s peak millionaire population is in June, when the city is home to 32,500 people worth $10 million or more. In February, the low month, the population of deca-millionaires plunges by nearly two-thirds, to 11,700.
What luxury housing slowdown? The penthouse at 221 West 77th street between Amsterdam and Broadway, asking $22.5 million, has sold. “The five-bedroom, 5.5-bathroom condominium was sold off of floor plans. The 6,005-square-feet duplex has four bedrooms downstairs while upstairs features a living room with a fireplace, a dining room, kitchen, den and another bedroom. It also boasts a 1,344-square-foot rooftop terrace.” (No word yet if it sold for the asking price.)
An Upper West Side psychiatrist was nearly beaten and stabbed to death in 2012. His wife’s cousin is on trial for the act.
New York City’s economy is thriving: “the city added more jobs in Mr. de Blasio’s first two years in office — 248,000 — than in any two-year period in the last half-century, according to data released last week by the State Labor Department…Wages too have begun to surge, said James Parrott, chief economist with the Fiscal Policy Institute, a union-backed research group, and not just for white-collar workers at the upper end of the pay spectrum. Mr. Parrott said that average wages for workers at all levels of pay had risen faster than inflation in the last two years, after being flat for the previous three years.”
Kosher restaurants are also thriving. Who knew?
That NYT story can’t possibly be right, because commenters here keep telling me De Blasio has turned New York into a postapocalyptic hellscape.
UWS-er: Both can be true!
Here, I’ll save them all time and just say it for them:
“The New York Times is a liberal rag.”
DeBlasio had as much do with adding private sector jobs in NYC as my son’s stuffed polar bear. Nothing. Frankly if it were not for him, the private sector would have probably added more jobs! People and businesses are tired of seeing the city wasting away. But hey, lets get back to focusing on what matters – central park horse drawn carriages.
thank you number 2
Except the city isn’t wasting away, David. At all. That’s the point.
Why is the Reddemer church get a plug? Is it the new agenda being pursued by WSR? Hope not. Slowly but surely WSR becomes something other than it used to be. I miss the old version.
“Bravo”, in comment #5, wrote,
“Why is the Reddemer [sic] church get a plug? Is it the new agenda being pursued by WSR?”
Plug? Agenda?
It’s a link to a New York Times article about a new program/approach being offered at a church located here on the Upper West Side, along with a (very) brief excerpt from said article. How is that any less appropriate or topical, or any more indicative of an “agenda” than any of the other local news announcements on the page?
Do you object to the notice about the charity drive being conducted by Beacon Paint & Hardware? After all, who says that’s not just a veiled “plug” for the store?
What about the notice for the Community Free Democrats event? Couldn’t that be seen as little more than the advancement ofs a political agenda?
Maybe the piece about the City’s economy is nothing more than a plug that was paid-for by the Chamber of Commerce and/or the tourism promotion board, and/or any other of number of commercial entities that stand to potentially benefit from the propagation of such news.
And what about the link to the article in Crain’s New York about kosher restaurants in the City? Maybe that was just a plug, too, perhaps for Le Marais, the particular upscale kosher eatery that dominated the article. (Incidentally, I read most of the article and found it interesting, informative and well-written.)
I just quickly counted the number of news announcements in this WSR entry: thirteen. Yet, out of thirteen stories, you singled-out just one for censure and aspersions: the one concerning a Christian church practicing a new form of evangelism. If anyone here has an agenda…
(For the record, I am not affiliated in any way with the church described in the article, or, for that matter, with any other Christian church.)
I love how people try to blame DiBlasio for shit that the state senate is responsible for!!! Really?
He has nothing to do with anything except public services management.
And how they say the city is crumbling.. They obviously were not here in the 60s and 70s and early 80s!!
Fucktards
Let’s review..shall we?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_New_York_City