Three Lotto Jackpot Tickets Worth $8.3 Million Sold in Same Local Convenience Store
A narrow convenience store hidden by scaffolding on 72nd Street sold three winning lottery tickets this past week, together worth $8.3 mi … Read the rest of this entry >>
Human Christmas Tree Spotted on Amsterdam Avenue
A tipster who wishes to remain anonymous spotted this illuminated figure bicycling on Amsterdam Avenue at 86th Street on Wednesday nig … Read the rest of this entry >>
SNL Asks the Big Question: What if There Were Dog Runs for Lonely Men in Riverside Park?
Saturday Night Live shot a video in Riverside Park that aired last weekend, imagining a place for men who have trouble making friends. That place is basically a dog … Read the rest of this entry >>
Trump Highway Sign at West 79th To Be Removed After 1,600 Sign Petition
The Donald J. Trump highway beautification sign -- on the southbound side of the Henry Hudson Parkway, just north of the West 79th Street exit -- is being re … Read the rest of this entry >>
‘True Ghost Stories’ Contest Winners; ‘When I Found His Tombstone, My Heart Stopped…’
Here are the winners of West Side Rag’s True Ghost Stories Co … Read the rest of this entry >>
Wedding Band Blues: Max Seeking Owner of Lost Ring
The picture he sent (above) does not reveal the full da … Read the rest of this entry >>
Contest! West Side Rag T-Shirts! All You Have To Do Is Tell Us a True Ghost Story
My mother had a print of a Degas ballerina. When she died, it was supposed to go to my dau … Read the rest of this entry >>
Chalupa Elected Riverside Park 2021 G.O.A.T.; Bo Peep Has Lost…
Chalupa, the goat representing the nose-to-the-grindstone Grand Old Goat … Read the rest of this entry >>
The Bug Was a ‘Massive, Hairy-Legged Monster,’ So Why Did He Hesitate to Kill It?
I had the presence of mind to whisper-scream since my wife was a … Read the rest of this entry >>
Community Garden Chicken Not Lost, Just Feeling ‘Broody’
Lady Sybil, an Upper West Side hen who temporarily went missing, sent her community on a two-day wild chicken … Read the rest of this entry >>
Rookie Goat Runs Negative Ad in Riverside Park’s Annual ‘Vote the G.O.A.T.’ Election; Conservancy Head ‘Deeply Troubled’
Candidates are butting heads in Riverside Park's second annual Vote the G.O.A.T. election, being baa-ttle … Read the rest of this entry >>
Goats Run to Glory In Front of Adoring Crowd
Country goats delighted the city crowd on Wednesday, as the second Running of the Goats took place in Riverside Park at 120th Street. Twenty … Read the rest of this entry >>
Help Solve the Mystery of the Columbus Avenue Footprints
For months, a stretch of sidewalk between West 74th and West 75th Streets on Columbus Avenue was under … Read the rest of this entry >>
Public ‘Running of the Goats’ Returns to Riverside Park Wednesday; Then They Feast
After a hiatus in 2020, goats are returning to Riverside Park this year to chomp their way through the park's underbrush. A ceremonial "Running of the Goats" … Read the rest of this entry >>
2 Local Restaurants Make List of City’s Most Pet-Friendly Spots
With outdoor dining having expanded throughout the neighborhood, there's more space for your pooch to join your al fresco p … Read the rest of this entry >>
Zabar’s Lox Slicer Len Berk Crowned ‘Mr. Getting Back to Normal’
Len Berk, an accountant-turned-lox-slicer at Zabar's, was given special recognition from the city and state on Monday. Both Manhattan Bo … Read the rest of this entry >>
Winners of the West Side Rag Poetry Contest: ‘There Once Was a T-Shirt I Needed’
Our West Side Rag T-Shirt-for-a-poem contest taught us several things. Number one, people like our T-shirts … Read the rest of this entry >>
Updated: Mysterious Band-Aid Appears on Local Blue Whale
What’s the story with the giant bandaid they’ve put on the blue whale at the Museum of Natural Hi … Read the rest of this entry >>
Look Who’s Baaaaa-ck
The Riverside Park Conservancy says it will be making an announcement on Thursday, and the announcement of the announc … Read the rest of this entry >>
Funny Comment T-Shirt Contest Winners, and Another Chance to Win One!
National Humor Month started -- when else? -- on April Fool's Day, coinciding with our "five-funniest-comments-of-the-week contest," in which we asked WSR commenters to be … Read the rest of this entry >>
