Year: 2022

All New York City public school families regardless of income will receive $375 per child in food benefits to help cover the costs of meals from last summer during the pandemic —whether they attended summer school or not.

Sponsored Story: Well-Paid Maids is New York City’s new accredited living-wage home cleaning company.

A Blackburnian Warbler is more vibrantly colored and tinier in real life than you could ever imagine -- like a flying jewel!

While the school year is quickly winding down, there is a group of high school students in New York City gearing up for summer school with their new classmates...

They call themselves “Smoke Shops” or “Convenience Stores” … and you’ve probably noticed a new wave of them opening on Broadway, Amsterdam and Columbus.

Sponsored Story: The company boasts a personalized mortgage experience with easy access to a team of loan originators that live locally...

Community Board 7 on Tuesday will consider the future of the landmarked West Park Presbyterian Church at Amsterdam and West 86th Street.

“After years of advocacy and numerous false starts at every level of government, this is the first state legislative effort to reduce helicopter noise in New York State”…

A lottery for a new, fully affordable senior housing development at the former Park 79 Hotel, on West 79th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, was launched on Friday by Fairstead, the developer…

WSR took to the streets yesterday to talk to Upper West Siders about the historic Nadler-Maloney face-off in the upcoming Democratic congressional primary, taking place on August 23rd.

New York is the only modern Western city without a residential parking permit program. The lengthy list of cities with such programs includes London, Paris, Boston, and Philadelphia, as well as Hoboken, New Jersey, and Rye, New York.

I used to think I had to go to the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx or the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to see roses, but I realize now that roses are everywhere on the Upper West Side!

“Over the past two years, there has been an increase in mental health problems in our community and across the city,” said Co-Chair Sheldon Fine at a recent meeting of Community Board 7’s Health & Human Services Committee.

Although generally trending lower, the Upper West Side continues to show higher COVID-19 positivity rates than the city as a whole, according to the latest weekly data released by the Department of Health.

Members of the West 104th Street Garden closed out Memorial Day weekend with a sweet surprise. Four kittens were rescued from a yard adjacent to the garden along with the mother cat who had eluded rescue efforts last winter.

The piers along the Hudson River were once existentially critical to life in New York City.

Only openings here! Celebrate and eat well!

Sponsored Story: The final meeting of 2021-2022 of the NYC chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America will be held on June 7 at 6:00-7:30PM.

I am often asked why I refer to my photos of people from the 1980s as photos from a "vanished time." My answer is, please look at them.

"All I have is that someone stole the tip jar," an NYPD spokesperson told WSR at around 10:45AM on Wednesday. "At 2245 Broadway. Isn't that Zabar's?"