Monday Bulletin: Harrison Ford Spotted on UWS Subway Platform; Best Places to See Cherry Blossoms in the Neighborhood; Celeb Selling UWS Home for $7.84M

Monday, April 7, 2025
Rainy. High 47 degrees.

Expect more rain this week, with showers forecast for Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Notices
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Saturday is Passover Eve. Sunday is Palm Sunday and the first day of Passover.

Last week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that he will skip the Democratic primary in June and run as an Independent in his re-election bid. “Although I am still a Democrat, I am announcing that I will forgo the Democratic primary for mayor and appeal directly to all New Yorkers as an Independent candidate in the general election,” Adams said during a six-minute video about his decision.

You can read more — HERE.

Upper West Side News
By Gus Saltonstall

Celebrity sightings are not uncommon on the Upper West Side, but Harrison Ford waiting for the 1 train at the 72nd Street subway station would be enough to take anybody by surprise.

And that was exactly the case last week when Ford, 82, was spotted waiting for the train with his wife Calista Flockhart. To add to the Upper West Side connections, Flockhart, who is currently part of an off-Broadway show on West 42nd Street, was photographed earlier in the day with a Citarella bag.

Ford proceeded to take the 1 train to 59th Street/Columbus Circle, and, according to the New York Post, told a fellow passenger that it was the first time he had taken the subway in years.

Ford, who starred in “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones,” and “Bladerunner,” lives on a ranch in Wyoming, but previously lived on Central Park West between 70th and 71st streets.

You can check out more — HERE.

Cherry blossom season has arrived once again on the Upper West Side.

Spring has sprung in New York City and the Central Park Conservancy has once again put together its Cherry Blossoms Tracker.

“There’s no better way to welcome spring than by stepping outside and soaking in the beauty of NYC’s cherry blossoms,” said NYC Parks Director of Tree Planting Navé Strauss, in a press release last week about the parks with the best cherry blossoms in the city.

The Central Park Conservancy recommends the following places in the park for best cherry blossom sightings.

• West Side of the Reservoir
• East Side of the Reservoir
• Great Lawn
• Cherry Hill
• Pilgrim Hill
• Sheep Meadow

The Riverside Park Conservancy also posted its own list of the best places to see its cherry blossoms, which includes the 72nd Street Waterfront, the park entrances between 79th and 83rd streets, and more. You can check out the full list — HERE.

The Parks Department recommends Sakura Park in Morningside Heights, near West 122nd Street and Riverside Drive, as the single best place in Manhattan to see cherry blossoms.

“Sakura means cherry blossom in Japanese, so what better place to experience cherry blossom season in New York City than at the park named for them!” the Parks Department wrote. “The cherry trees in this park were gifted from Japan in 1912. Dozens of Yoshino cherry trees blossom here, usually in early April.”

Returning to celebrities on the Upper West Side, Ellie Kemper, the star of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and “The Office” is looking to sell her Central Park West apartment for $7.49 million, as first reported by the New York Post.

The apartment, at 320 Central Park West, near the corner of West 92nd Street, has four bedrooms, five bathrooms, and views of Central Park. Kemper bought the apartment with her husband in 2021 for $7.84 million, which means the couple is all right with taking a small loss on the sale.

This is the second Upper West Side home that Kemper has sold in recent years, as she sold a neighborhood co-op in 2022 for $3.3 million.

You can read more and see photos of the newly listed apartment — HERE.

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