By Gus Saltonstall
A stretch of the Upper West Side saw two gunshot incidents this weekend, according to the New York Police Department.
Both of the incidents, neither of which resulted in any gunshot victims, took place between West 87th and 90th streets between Amsterdam and Columbus, an NYPD spokesperson confirmed.
First, around 11 p.m. on Friday, multiple shots were fired near West 87th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, according to police. There are no details related to why the shots were fired as of Monday afternoon, and there have been no arrests, NYPD said.
Then, on Sunday around 4:30 p.m., four rounds of gunshots were fired opposite 110 West 90th Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus, police said. Shell cases were recovered from the scene, and there have been no arrests, according to police.
Multiple readers reached out to the Rag this weekend asking about both incidents, including a person who wanted to remain anonymous, but was in the Sol Bloom Playground on West 91st Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus, when the Sunday afternoon gunshots took place.
West Side Rag will update this story if we receive any further information on either incident.
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Mamdani will save us!
Don’t we have a cop as mayor right now? How is that going for you? News flash: these shootings are happening when he is in office
I fail to see the logic of this comment. If even a cop mayor, who was trying to reason with Albany, failed, why would the pro-defund-the-police kid du jour be any better?
Adams was hated within the NYPD, now that he is mayor, he appointed corrupt and incompetent people. I am actually ashamed of what has happened to the NYPD. Promotions for sale disgusting.
It’s going pretty well, shootings are at a historic low.
Just like de Blasio did.
Excuse me but who is our mayor? Are you guys seriously blaming Mamdani and deBlasio?
Do you really suppose he’ll be worse than Adams has been regards shootings?
The difference with Mamdani will be that the shootings will be directed AT the NYPD, from within City Hall.
Right. /s
Probably much worse. Adams has been good.
No, Adams has been horrid.
Why do you suppose that he had no chance of winning the Democratic Primary? It wasn’t just the Turkey thing.
The question was about shootings and Adams has been great in that regard.
Adams was terrible for years regards shootings.
Unless you’re using “great” ironically.
https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/pr013/nypd-record-low-shooting-incidents-shooting-victims-the-first-seven-months-the
Probably… even if just regression to the mean
Um, that’s just 2025 so far.
Adams has a horrid shootings record.
Yes.
We can still vote for Cuomo
Ha ha! No.
Good luck with that. He couldn’t even fix a subway.
Yes
Why would Mamdani be worse regards shootings than Adams?
open your eyes, of all the bad choices mambani is the worst. consider sliwa, he is a real NYer
So you want someone who has staged assaults on himself as mayor?
The idiocy about social workers tending to crimes and overall insane utopia.
Man P:
Citation?
I don’t think it’s appropriate for social workers to put their lives on the line.
Ideally we would like to see some improvement but it likely won’t happen with the communist who wants to defund the police as mayor.
To quote Dino Mercotti in a somewhat different context: “Your comment and attitude [are not]…rooted in reality. No program is going to get every gun off the street 100% of the time.” Not to say we shouldn’t try….
Furthermore, you know that socialism is NOT communism, especially not the deliberate Soviet-era distortions of communism.
McCarthyist paranoia and self-serving propaganda were divisive, disingenuous, and destructive then, and must not be perpetuated in 2025, on any scale. Certainly, the term “defund” (for demilitarizing / humanizing police) is misleading and unhelpful.
I look forward to having a mayor who is not a criminal in the pocket of other criminals.
DUDE THERE IS A LITERAL COP IN OFFICE RIGHT NOW
There’s a cop, yes, but I’m not sure how literal he is. And why are you shouting??
Those NYPD gun seizures paying off. Oh, wait.
I’d be furious with the NYPD were I a store owner or resident in the area.
Your comment and attitude is neither mature nor rooted on reality. No program is going to get every gun off the street 100% of the time.
Yes, makes sense, blame the NYPD for criminal behavior. How about being furious at the criminals who put people’s lives in danger by firing guns? Can we at least START there??? Jeez.
Adam,
Except shootings were much fewer when De Blasio was mayor, so I have to conclude that the NYPD was doing a better job at getting guns off the streets — at least until Covid.
Stop, Question and (sometimes) Frisk worked. The problem was Bloomberg made it a number, The NYPD during Bloomburg pushed Cops to bring in Stop reports aka 250s Boss would say bring in 5 250s. Cops did not like it public did not like it, but perps were used to getting stopped so they did not carry guns on them they had them hid nearby, but not on them. Today criminals carry guns on a regular,they have no fear of the Police but the fear all the other criminals who have guns.
What was also going on is that the NYPD harassed minorities by stopping, questioning and frisking people they didn’t like and then not even recording them or downgrading 250s to Level 1 stops on written reports. Sometimes NYPD has been known to even lie on 250s. It is the bad apples in the NYPD that spoiled everything.
Totally agree. If Bloomberg had toned it down a bit, stop and frisk would have been excellent. All of the rich white know-it-all do-gooders hated it, but many of those in the impacted areas actually liked it as it made them feel safer when it was done properly. No different than TSA. I have nothing to hide so I wouldn’t mind occasionally being stopped if I’m walking through an area with lots of crime.
Very different from the TSA.
If you have a problem with TSA procedures, there’s an easy solution: Don’t fly on commercial flights. If a detainee didn’t like the NYPD’s stop and frisk tactics, there’s wasn’t anything they could do about it; they’re getting searched against their will.
See the difference?
That area has always been sketchy!
90th between Columbus and Amsterdam? Hmmmmmm why is it “sketchy” exactly? Whats there? We’re talking about a mere block away from Trinity School.
No worries Mamdani will send some social workers and deal with it
“Gunshot shells were recovered from the scene”
Pardon? Do you mean “empty shell casings”? “Spent shotgun shells”?
How does this affect the stats? Least gun crimes since 1970
It’s time to rethink how we structure public housing in NY. Where there are big blocks like on 90th between Columbus and Amsterdam crime seems inevitable: police arrives at the projects every other night, the Duane Reade on the corner is robbed literally ever day and now gunfire on the streets.
Of course public housing is needed. But there are better ways of interacting it into the neighborhood. E.g. allow more new high-rise development but set a aside a minimum percentage of units to be rented out to NYCHA and/or force/incentivize existing buildings to rent apartments to NYCHA. This way we truly integrate low income people into society and improve their standard of living, instead of facilitating crime ridden slums in the middle of our neighborhoods.
Could low-income residents not be integrated into public housing developments in say….. Staten Island? Brooklyn? Queens? Bronx?
Is the standard of living in those boroughs not high enough?
Disperse the poverty, disperse the pathology.
BTW, the only time I have come close to being mugged in 20 years in NYC was on W 90th, between Columbus and Amsterdam. I have good reason to believe that the young men may have been “locals”. VERY local.
This has been tried.
https://www.westsiderag.com/2025/07/25/teenage-boy-slashed-multiple-times-in-luxury-uws-building-nypd
Weren’t you bashed by do-gooders just for suggesting that the building was mixed income? Neither the do-gooders nor WSR clarified the fact that it actually was.
Many tenants in market rate rental buildings, even white progressives, do not want neighbors on housing vouchers. Trust me, white progressives are known to call UWS management companies to complain about minority neighbors in the building. Then when confronted, they will say that it is nothing to do with race and that they have minority friends.
I’m confused. Do they call management companies because they object to the presence of minority neighbors or because particular neighbors break building rules, and in some cases, those neighbors who break building rules can be called “minority”?
I believe the Sol Bloom Playground is between Columbus and CPW, not Amsterdam and Columbus. It is between an elementary school and a NYCHA building.
We need more cops and cameras. Please arrest criminals and jail them.
Remarkable and innovative suggestion, thanks for your comment Bill
Bill’s comment expressed frustration with a system that doesn’t jail criminals, whereas yours is your usual snark
On Sunday (8/5) afternoon, somebody also flashed a gun during a fight on the Sol Bloom Playground’s basketball courts. What is going on…
“Raise the age”
Pretty this is the same Sunday dispute that is mentioned here.
Not surprising. The neighborhood takes a noticeable nose-dive once you go above 86th St.
There was a shooting at 79th and Columbus last year, as well as recently near 72nd CPW. The “nothiing is good above 86th street” is so 1990s UWS bigotry. Tell that to Trinity and Dwight schools.
All one needs to do is look at his or her surroundings once they cross over. Accept reality and move on.
I clearly fail to recognize my nose-diving surroundings on 92 street. Looks the same as it has for 20 years
Expect only more of this.
Vote better at state and local levels.
You mean vote for cop republicans like Adams?
I already voted against him.
‘Vote better’ is the most vague and empty possible comment. It says nothing, you can make it at any time and on any article… if there were any specifics it would be vulnerable to being refuted…
I am not sure how it is vague.
Elected officials enact laws.
Our current laws as enacted by elected officials are not protecting us.
We need new elected officials to enact laws that will protect law-abiding citizens,
Thusly, vote better,
“Oh hey” below me sums it up also.
The UWS gets what it votes for… and not talking abt the mayor specifically (but just wait for Mamdani), but mostly Albany reps
The odds are better that you will die by crossing with the light, in a crosswalk, and getting hit by a bicycle. So chill out already.
I’m not sure I prefer either way for my family. Not sure what you are trying to say – we couldn’t fight crime?
This is too close to home. Why haven’t police stepped up foot patrols of these blocks?
As suggested below in other comments, I suspect that proximity to NYCHA housing is a factor. That seems to correlate with gunshots. “Progressives” who may well not live near “gun-activity” blocks don’t want a gang registry, but I think we need one.
How about if the police get out of the patrol cars? I rarely, rarely, I mean, RARELY, see them out of the car. Generally, they are sitting inside looking at their cell phones.
Does anyone know the names of any of the police in their area? Do they introduce themselves to store owners, or the local denizens?
Getting out of the car would mean pausing Candy Crush.
I can’t understand how some peopke still want Bragg. Bragg in combination with any mayor is a threat to the city’s safety, but with Mamdani we need to brace ourselves.
Gird your loins.
Aren’t there cameras? Hard to tell where they even originated. Really scary. On Columbus, dog attack – now bullet shots?
Becoming a hot spot over there.
I think most people on here will agree that crime was worse in the 70s and 80s. But this is now. There is far too much homeless encampment, open drug use, crime, unlicensed peddling, and general dysfunction. I walked through Washington Square Park, as I often do, and once again was struck by how much seedier it is than 10 years ago — colorful personalities notwithstanding. A society can’t be healthy without civic order. Bullets whizzing by children in playgrounds call for those families to move out of the city. If we want to save the gem of a city that we have, we have to protect it.
Well, housing was cheaper relative to income in the 70s and even the 80s.
Washington Square Park from 10 years ago, or today, contrast with WSP in the 80s or 90s.
True, bullets whizzing by children anywhere is not good thing, the NYPD needs to do a better job.