Here are some soccer-adjacent activities for World Cup fans (and non-fans) this weekend, plus a bonus event: a don't-miss concert next Thursday.

Keeping cool in Central Park.

The crossroads of Broadway and 110th feels open, because both streets are very wide, and the southwest view is empty.

Janie’s Life Changing Baked Goods, a bakery specializing in “pie crust cookies,” has moved to Amsterdam Avenue at West 81st Street.

I think Taylor Swift having her wedding at Madison Square Garden was completely over the top. Are you telling me there weren’t other options? 

There, on a little wooden stand, was the richest, thickest slice of banana chocolate chip cake I’ve ever seen.

The UWS wishes our country a happy birthday!

Today feels like the perfect day to celebrate staycations as an act of independence from autopilot.

It is the heat that'll get you.

This week's historical challenge is a little different: Can you put these images (plus others in the story) in chronological order?

The burst of sweetness from the juicy tomato paired incredibly well with the saltiness of the anchovy and the creaminess of the cheese.

It's a celebration.

If you’re the UWSer missing this fabulous shopping list, please reveal yourself. We’d love to know what was for dinner.

Join experts from Gotham Bat Conservancy in Riverside Park at 8 o'clock tonight to see nighttime wildlife, including local bats.

Who's the boss?

Go anywhere that super-high rises congregate, and you won’t find anything that looks like a neighborhood.

Lady M, a luxury cake boutique with locations worldwide, celebrated the grand opening of its Columbus Circle shop yesterday.

An ice cream truck idles all day outside my ground-floor office. It's both noisy and an environmental nuisance. Help!

Meet Yana Krasnitskaya, our new Dish columnist, who says Cafe Luxembourg's grilled cheese sandwich takes her back to her childhood.

A special Lincoln Center concert series for people with dementia made news around the world last week.

I documented the sighting in a field journal.

Cyrus Clark had such a huge impact on our neighborhood that history remembers him as the “Father of the Upper West Side.”

Paul Winter's 31st annual Summer Solstice celebration will be held at St. John the Divine tomorrow at 4:30 a.m. (Yes, you read that right.)

For the dads.

A new French-American restaurant will open this fall in the space formerly occupied by The Leopard at des Artistes.

This photo was taken on the UWS, sometime in the past. Do you know where, when, and what it shows?

Meet the next generation of Barney Greengrass ownership.

Nowadays, I care more about X-rays.

There are days the city plays with me a little too passionately. It’s fine. Until it’s not, and a fuse blows.

Hudson Classical Theater Company presents “Uncle Vanya” by Anton Chekhov at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Riverside Park.