A group trying to make people experiencing homelessness feel welcome gathered outside The Lucerne Hotel on 79th Street on Saturday starting around 6 p.m.
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A group trying to make people experiencing homelessness feel welcome gathered outside The Lucerne Hotel on 79th Street on Saturday starting around 6 p.m.
Read moreDetailsSince becoming commanding officer of the 24th Precinct in January, Deputy Inspector Naoki Yaguchi has led policing between West 86th and 110th Streets amid protests, a pandemic and an unnerving increase in shootings.
Read moreDetailsSam Domb, the owner of The Lucerne hotel, on West 79th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, has put his nearby townhouse on the market,
Read moreDetailsA fourth private hotel on the Upper West Side has been quietly housing people who are homeless for the city since April; it is the Park West Hotel
Read moreDetailsThe relocation of hundreds of homeless men to hotels on the Upper West Side has alarmed local residents, and led to a split between those
Read moreDetailsA 41-year-old woman was stabbed in the upper right shoulder while standing at a MetroCard kiosk inside the 72nd and Broadway subway station
Read moreDetailsSome Upper West Siders have been perplexed about why in recent weeks the 20th police precinct has blocked off the entire street and sidewalk on 82nd Street between
Read moreDetailsPledging to “prioritize the safety and well-being of Upper West Siders,” City Councilmember Helen Rosenthal sent an email blast to her constituents on Wednesday
Read moreDetailsA protest wound through the Upper West Side around 2 a.m. on Wednesday, calling out Black Lives Matter chants. "They were playing messages over a bull horn and DJ noises
Read moreDetailsEmergency fire and rescue vehicles took over West End Avenue between 74th and 75th Streets Sunday afternoon around 1:40pm, answering an "all-hands" call for a fire at 305 West End Assisted Living.
Read moreDetailsOn Saturday evening around 8:55 pm, a 38-year-old man was stabbed in the upper chest while inside an apartment
Read moreDetailsOn Tuesday morning at approximately 2:35 a.m. a gunman robbed a taxi driver of $500 and an iPhone
Read moreDetailsFor over a month, multiple NYPD metal barricades have blocked pedestrian access to the sidewalks lining West 82nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues
Read moreDetailsWe wanted to see how curfew-ignoring locals and the NYPD were doing after a tumultuous week and a wearying three months of Covid-19 isolation.
Read moreDetailsOn Saturday afternoon, Tayllor Torres stood outside 868 Amsterdam Avenue, staring at the makeshift memorial for two men who were stabbed to death there on Thursday evening. “We just want somebody to tell us what happened.”
Read moreDetailsNYPD detectives are asking for the public's assistance in identifying the two individuals pictured here. According to NYPD, the individuals were in the vicinity of 868 Amsterdam Avenue
Read moreDetailsDozens of people have checked into the Hotel Belleclaire, on 77th and Broadway, in the last couple of days. According to city records and
Read moreDetailsOn Monday, Jashawn Gorham, 18, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree manslaughter in the January stabbing murder of Tony McClain, 20,
Read moreDetailsThere were two stabbings this past week in the neighborhood, and arrests have been made in both of them, according to Deputy Inspector
Read moreDetailsA playground and plaza expected to open a year ago in Riverside Park South should open in the next month, the parks department tells us.
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