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- Star-Studded Debut of New UWS Film Center: ‘We Are Creating A New Public Theater on 86th Street’
- A Much-Improved, UWS Starbucks Reopens
- Friends of the Upper West Side: An Occasional Series About the Friendships of Upper West Siders
- WSR Cartoon: Advice for an Untenable Situation
- Man Hit With Rock After Israeli Flag Is Ripped From His Hands and Set on Fire Near Columbia: Police
- Wall to Wall Prince, a Free, Day-Long Celebration of the Icon and the Work He Created, Championed, and Inspired; May 4 at Symphony Space
- Upper West Side SRO Tenants Sue New Owner for Allegedly Turning Their Building Into a ‘Slum’
- UWS Police Officer Cleared of Assault Charges in 2021 Apple Store Incident
- Huge Pickleball Complex Returning to Central Park on a 3-Year Deal
- Elegantly Restored Brand-New Pre-War Penthouse Now Available at The Astor
- A New App Policy on Tipping Erodes What Deliveristas Gained With Minimum Wage
- Openings & Closings: Salt & Straw; MalaTown; YSJ Nail & Spa; The Migrant Kitchen; Shakespeare & Co.
- Japan Day Parade and Festival Returning to the Upper West Side on May 11: What To Know
- Work from Home? The Benefits of Booking a Cleaning with Well-Paid Maids
- After NYPD Crackdowns, Campus Protests for Gaza Persist at Columbia and NYU
- 18 New NYPD Security Cameras Installed on UWS Thanks to Participatory Budgeting: Here’s Where
- Open Streets Season Begins Again: Here Are the UWS Locations for 2024
- Manhattan Real Estate Update: “Embrace the Boredom”
- Central Park Birding Report: It’s Officially Spring; Central Park is Ducky
- Meet Some Upper West Side Volunteer Earth Tenders and Learn How to Become One
- Thank You, DOROT Volunteers!
- ‘Large’ Coyote Spotted In Central Park Near West 72nd Street: See Video
- Rarely Seen Baby Pigeons Born on UWS Terrace: Video Proof
- Monday Bulletin: Sammy’s Law Passes; Woman Commutes From North Carolina to UWS; Guide to People Watching; Local Deli Celebrates 30 Years
- Homeless Individual Rousted from Riverside Park by Contingent of Officials on Saturday Morning
- Bobby on the Street: 50 West 66th Street (The Future Tallest Building on the Upper West Side)
- Why the Upper West Side: Gary Greengrass; ‘It’s the Hand I Was Dealt’
- After Arrests, Pro-Palestine Protest Continues on Columbia Campus
- Eric Adams Eyes Lawyer at Center of UWS Lucerne Shelter Saga for City’s Top Legal Position
- WSR Cartoon: It’s a Matter of Taste
- Earth Month UWS Explainer: ‘CSAs’ Bring Farm-Fresh Food for Upper West Siders
- Columbia University Pro-Palestine Protest: NYPD Clears Out ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ From Campus, More Than 100 Arrested
- West Side Canvas: Why WSR’s ‘Openings & Closings’ Column Is So Popular and Important
- Is Now the Right Time to Consider Memory Care for a Loved One?
- Music of Vivaldi, Monteverdi, & Haydn at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Saturday, April 20, 7PM; Tickets
- Vandals Throw Pier i Chairs and Table into the Hudson
- Openings & Closings: Poppie; Broadway Pest Services; Cafe Aroma; Green Lane Coffee; Starbucks Coffee; Kossar’s Update
- UWS School Continues To Fight Unwanted Relocation Ahead Of Final Vote
- Why Well-Paid Maids is Committed to Using Safe Cleaning Products
- Summer on the Hudson 2024 Kicks Off May 1: Lots of Free UWS Events
- UWS’ Absolute Bagels Line Changes Direction
- UPDATE: Suspect Named In Teenage Girl UWS Attempted Rape Case, NYPD
- First Warm Days Brought Out Bodybuilders and Buskers in Central Park
- 90-Year-Old Upper West Side Juilliard Professor Brings Bach Virtuosi Festival Home in May; Tickets Here
- Meet the Man Who’s Been Living in James Dean’s UWS Apartment for 50 Years
- Monday Bulletin: Controversial UWS Townhouse Hits Market For $85M; Brewer’s Battle with Zaza Waza; Pushing Back Against the Mayor’s New Request Forms; Boathouse Restaurant Fails NY Post Review
- Forum: UWS Councilmembers Split on Approach to Regulating E-Bikes; 71st Street Deliverista Hub ‘Not Going to Happen’
- Weekend Column: What Bunny?
- Fire in Columbus Avenue Basement; ‘Huge Response’; No Injuries
- 12-Year-Old Girl Missing Since Tuesday
- Owners of an UWS Building With Checkered History Selling 324 Units for $375M
- Protect Your Legacy With Ligh Law: Your Trusted Partner in Estate Planning; Free Zoom Webinar April 18
- WSR Cartoon: Something to Bring a Smile on Another Gloomy Day
- Earth Month UWS Explainer: How to ‘Compost’ Food Scraps and Why It Matters
- Wild Bird Fund’s Rita McMahon is April’s Upper West Sider of the Month
- The Universal Tool for People with Hearing Loss
- UPDATE: Oil Leak From UWS Con Ed Steam Plant Reaches Hudson River
- Guilty Plea in Multiple UWS Summer Sexual Assaults
- Openings & Closings: Gertrude; Pier i Café; Maya Kron Wellness; Han’s Fruit and Vegetable Market
- What Recent Reviewers Say About Well-Paid Maids (Including a 5-Year-Old)
- Firefighter Goes Extra Mile to Help After Man in Wheelchair Hit By Car on Upper West Side
- ‘Houston: WESS Is Coming!’ Small UWS School Makes It to International Robotics Championship
- UPDATE: MTA Works To Reroute Water From UWS Broadway Median Following Mysterious Water Flow On 3-Block Street
- American Museum Of Natural History Will Serve As Early Voting Site Instead of UWS School Complex
- UWS Store Goes Viral For Quick-Thinking Earthquake T-Shirt: In the Window Within 15 Minutes
- How Was Your UWS Eclipse Experience? Tell Us in the Comments
- UWS Major Crime Decreases 6.2% in 1st Quarter of 2024 – Citywide Major Crime Decreases 2.4%
- Monday Bulletin: Corner Store Closure; Eclipse
- A ‘Luminarium’ at Lincoln Center; ‘This Dreamy, Sensory Experience…Is Like No Other’
- ICYMI*: Many Eclipse Legends Invoke Tragedy or Fear; One New York Native American Tale Flips That Script
- West Side Canvas: On the Rocks in an Earthquake; ‘Otherwise, A Pretty Normal Day’
- ICYMI*: Total Solar Eclipse Coming April 8; Watch It at the Museum of Natural History (or Someplace Else)
- Participatory Budgeting is Happening Now in NYC; Here’s How to Vote on Local Ideas
- WSR Cartoon: Taking the Eclipse Casually
- Earthquake Shakes New York City and Upper West Side
- Tolerance and Capitalism; Slavery and Swindle: the Mixed Legacy of the Dutch in New Amsterdam
- Rookie Robotics Team from Small UWS High School Joining the Giants in Robotics Competition
- UPDATE: Metro Theater Will Not Reopen as Upscale Dinner Cinema: ‘Back to the Drawing Board’
- Tree Uprooted on UWS Following Storms; Another Seemingly Hit by Lightning
- Friends of the Upper West Side: An Occasional Series About the Friendships of Upper West Siders
- UWS Restaurant Named Best in NYC by NY Times; Barney Greengrass Also Surges in Ranking
- Many Eclipse Legends Invoke Tragedy or Fear; One New York Native American Tale Flips That Image
- Is Now the Right Time to Consider Memory Care for a Loved One?
- Beloved Upper West Side Family Grocer Closing After 46 Years
- Openings and Closings: Utsuwa Botanical Design; Just A Little Higher; Boisson; L’Artigiano
- Attempted Knifepoint Robbery During Midday UWS Train Ride, Ethnic Slur Also Used: NYPD
- How to Start Birding on the UWS This Spring When Songbirds Will Stop By in Large Numbers
- Well-Paid Maids is More Than an Ethical Cleaning Company
- More UWS, Morningside Heights Projects Revealed For City Funding: Riverside Basketball Courts, Happy Warrior Playground; New Turf Fields
- Earth Month UWS Explainer: Answers to Common Recycling Questions
- Two People Attacked In Central Park: One Hit By a Rock, Another With a Hammer
- Great Lawn In Central Park Reopening On Saturday Following Damage From Global Citizen Festival
- Japan Festival Coming To Morningside Heights: What To Know
- Monday Bulletin: Emotional Support Dog ‘Terrorizing’ UWS Building; Long-Lost Friends Reunited With Help From Locals; ‘Real Housewives’ Star Says She Was Punched On UWS
- Remembering the Upper West Side ‘When Housing Was a Human Right’
- Finalist UWS Projects Revealed For City Funding: Intersection Redesign; Verdi Square; Riverside Park Water Fountains
- Before Citibike, E-bikes, and Grubhub, the Biking Craze of the 1890s Swept the UWS
- How the Rent Guidelines Board Sets the Hike on Your Next Lease
- WSR Cartoon: The Myth of the Easter Bunny
- Volunteer & Connect with an Older Neighbor This Passover
- Two UWS Smoke Shops Part of String of Robberies: Police Put Out Call For Help
- UWS Pols Set to Address E-Bikes in the Neighborhood at Upcoming Forum: Join the Conversation
- Congestion Pricing Gets Final Approval From MTA Board: Here’s What It Will Cost Drivers
- 2nd Central Park Knifepoint Robbery Occurs in a Span of 24 Hours: NYPD
- New York Piano Society: New York’s Preeminent Nonprofessional Pianist Community at Carnegie Hall, April 14th, 1 PM
- West Side Canvas: Silhouettes and Profiles, Alterations and Restorations
- Openings & Closings: Garden of Eden; SLT; EA Dumpling; Relive Health; Mrs. McCarthy’s Mercantile
- 2 Men Robbed at Knifepoint in Central Park: ‘Hurry Up or I’ll Cut You’
- Why the West Side (Still): Susie Essman Talks About Changes in the Neighborhood and the End of Curb
- Book Office and Building Cleanings Online with Well-Paid Maids
- The Race for Danny O’Donnell’s State Assembly Seat Is On: Endorsements, Fundraising Totals
- Flaco’s Death Was Related to Rat Poison and Pigeon Herpes in His System: Test Results
- Step into Spring with the Central Park Conservancy
- It’s About Time You Knew More ‘About Us’
- Museum of Natural History Might Serve as Voting Site Amid Complaints From UWS Schools
- Give a Little Time, Make a Big Impact!
- UPDATE: No Arrest Tuesday After Random UWS Stabbing At 96th Street: NYPD
- Monday Bulletin: UWS Pizzeria Named One of NYC’s Best; Second Shuttered by Health Department; Loan Secured to Construct 18-Story Building on West 84th Street; UWS Schools Fight for Space
- UWS Wine Geek: An Insider’s Guide to Navigating Your Local Wine Shop
- Weekend Column: A Guide to ‘New Yawk Tawk’; Accent, Attitude, and Humor
- UWS Women Welders Show Their Work at an Exhibit in Long Island City
- Total Solar Eclipse Coming April 8; Watch It at the Museum of Natural History (or Someplace Else)
- WSR Cartoon: Gives ‘Smoked’ a Whole New Meaning
- Voting Season in New York is Here: A 2024 Elections Guide
- Consignment on 72nd is the Upper West Side’s New Luxury Consignment Boutique
- UPDATE: Dramatic Video Released Of NYPD Officers Saving Woman Who Jumped Into Hudson River Near 72nd Street
- Historic UWS Club for Women Artists Nominated For National Register of Historic Places
- 19-Year-Old Attacked and Robbed by 13 People Within UWS Subway Station: Police
- Is Now the Right Time to Consider Memory Care for a Loved One?
- ‘Road House’ Remake Starring Jake Gyllenhaal Premieres in NYC at Jazz at Lincoln Center
- Man Sentenced in Riverside Park South Sexual Attack
- Openings & Closings: Yumiko; Sempre Oggi; Abigail’s; Chanel; Equinox; Yasouvlaki
- UWS Smoke Shop Robbed After Trio Jumps Counter and Punches Employee: NYPD
- It’s Easier Than Ever to Schedule a Home Cleaning
- UWS Middle School Girl’s Basketball Team Wins City Championship: ‘Super Proud of This Team’
- The Latest on the 79th St. Boat Basin Dock House: Back to the Drawing Board
- UPDATE: The 2 Orthodox Jewish Men Were Fired At By Pellet-Gun On UWS
- Do You Know This Parakeet? Green Bird Found On Upper West Side
- Volunteer & Connect with an Older Neighbor This Passover
- Goodbye Lady In Red: Massive Illegal West End Avenue Building Advertisement Comes Down
- Small Business Focus: The Sunshinery Makes the UWS Feel Like a Resort Town
- Protect Your Legacy with Ligh Law: Your Trusted Partner in Estate Planning; Free Webinar March 20
- Effy’s Café, Popular UWS Israeli Restaurant, Vandalized With Gaza Message and Red Paint
- Manhattan Real Estate Update
- Monday Bulletin: Central Park’s $64M Sidewalk Restoration Project; UWS Barnes & Noble Unionizes; Changes to NYC’s Right-to-Shelter for Migrants; Thoughts From Florida and Learning to Drive
- New Park Space Opens on the Hudson at 57th Street This Summer
- ICYMI: Sprucing Up the UWS for Spring
- ICYMI: ‘March’s Lion and Lamb’ by Mildred Alpern
- ICYMI: Rites of Spring by Robert Beck
- ICYMI: Bird’s Beak Points to Spring: ‘Beak by Beak. Here Comes the Sun’
- WSR Cartoon: It’s Not All Treats and Belly Rubs for UWS Dogs
- Protect Your Legacy with Ligh Law: Your Trusted Partner in Estate Planning; Free Webinar March 20
- Weekend Street Closures: St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Half Marathon Will Snarl Manhattan Traffic
- West Side Canvas: A Gig on an Off-Night at Blondie’s Sports Bar
- UPDATE: Gale Vs. Zaza Waza Continues — Number of UWS Unlicensed Pot Shops Doubled Since 2022: Zaza Waza on 84th Street Defies Padlock
- Ukrainian Teens, Refugees in NYC, Bring Their Stories to the Stage—This Weekend at the JCC Manhattan
- Succeeding in the Workplace with Hearing Loss; March 19, 6-7:30 PM on Zoom
- Throwback Thursday: Awaiting the April 8th Solar Eclipse; Remembering the Eclipse of 1925
- Openings & Closings: Capital One Café; The Chelsea House; Marine Layer; Qahwah House; Starbucks Coffee; Shake Shack; Flower Shop
- Upper West Side Rents Drop 5th Most in Manhattan Last Month: STUDY
- 24 Hours Only: Get $25 Off a Professional Home Cleaning
- Hippopotamus Injured on the Upper West Side: See It
- Brewer Pushes for More Laundry Machines in UWS Schools Amid Uptick of Students in Shelters
- First Legal Cannabis Shop Will Open on the UWS Within a Month: What To Know
- For Your Viewing Pleasure: A (Very) Short Film Featuring Richard Kind — and the Upper West Side
- Movie About UWS Man’s Work Wins Best Picture at Oscars
- Monday Bulletin: Central Park Rally to Free Hostages; Subway Guards Lose Big Guns; Actor Who Struggled With Addiction on UWS Dead at 38; Cold Murder Case Reopened After 40 Years; Rag Comments Make News, Twice
- UWS Major Crime Rates Rise This Year, as Citywide Major Crime Rates Fall: NYPD
- Daylight Saving Time Begins on Sunday, March 10; Turn Your Clocks Forward at 2 AM
- Comedians Act Out West Side Rag’s Comments Section in Comedy Club Finale: See It!
- Police Seek Suspect in Sexual Assault Incident in Central Park
- Upper West Sider of the Month: Roberto Herrera, From Farmer to Framer Extraordinaire
- Looking for a Fun Family Event This Weekend?
- WSR Cartoon: The Woes of UWS Offspring
- Central Park Boathouse Restaurant Fully Reopens: What to Know
- American Museum of Natural History to Open an Exhibit of Hip-Hop Jewelry
- 4 Injured After Fire Breaks Out at UWS Residential Building: ‘They Have Lost Most of Everything’
- Is Now the Right Time to Consider Memory Care for a Loved One?
- A 93-Year-Old UWS ‘Accidental Artist’: Deliberately Countering Negative Stereotypes
- Openings & Closings: Heatwise; Van Leeuwen; Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center; The Fashion Class; Westville; Cologo Nails & Spa; Kossar’s Update
- Foursome Steals $4K Worth of Sunglasses From UWS Store: NYPD
- A Smart Strategy to Help Curb Allergies This Spring
- Lincoln Center’s Push to Reimagine Amsterdam Side of Campus: First Phase to Focus on 62nd Street Park
- WSR Explainer: Are The Still-Standing Outdoor Dining Sheds Allowed To Be There?
- Anya Johnston Convicted of Murdering Susan Trott; Expert Calls Her a ‘Psychopath’
- 4 UWS Schools Get New Trash Bins Through DSNY Pilot Program Aimed At Alleviating Rats
- Upper West Siders Enjoyed an Early Spring on Sunday; Is the Sky Falling?
- Woman Hit And Killed by 1 Train at West 72nd Street Station: Police
- Pedestrians Struck by Car Again on Problem Stretch of Riverside Boulevard
- Monday Bulletin: Gale Brewer Talks ‘Wazoo Zazoo’ Smoke Shops; Jerry Nadler Wants 10 More Years; Gristedes Heiress Dating A Reality TV Prince; New Outdoor Dining Shed Designs
- Sonia Delaunay, a Founder of Abstractionism, in New UWS Exhibition: Haute Couture, Furniture, Merch, and More
- UPDATED: Scooter Driver Killed in Collision With Truck Saturday Morning Was a Woman: NYPD
- Setting the Record Straight on ‘Rats With Wings’
- The Ruthless Comedy Hour: ‘Snarky Meets Schlumpy’; Tuesday, March 5
- UWS Uptown Train Stop Will Be Out of Service Until End of March; 50th Street Stop Also Shutters
- WSR Cartoon: Woes of Temporary Closures
- Letter From Ft. Lauderdale; ‘Why I Miss the UWS’
- Sham Construction Safety School Connected To Worker’s Death on Upper West Side
- West Side Canvas: Gargoyles, Grotesques, Chimeras, Green Men, and a Glorious Decade
- ‘Inhumane Displacement’: How a Bustling Upper West Side Residential Building Gets Emptied Out
- Openings & Closings: Abigail’s; Züri-Coffee; One Bite Omakase; Starbucks; Savory Marketplace
- Former UWS Calhoun School Building Will Be Women’s Shelter For At Least 9 Years: CB7 Meeting
- Get a Spring Cleaning that Matches Your Values from Well-Paid Maids
- UPDATE: Leaning Tree of Columbus Avenue is Structurally Sound and Asphalt Debris Removed After Months
- UWS State Senator Renames Bird-Safety Bill FLACO Act: ‘Feathered Lives Also Count’
- What to Give a Neighborhood That Has It All? A Free Noontime Concert Series!
- Teen Living at UWS Stratford Arms Indicted for Attempted Murder of NYPD Officer: Bragg
- Flaco’s Cause of Death Confirmed; a Central Park Memorial; and an Ode to the Eurasian-Eagle Owl
- Protect Your Legacy with Ligh Law: Your Trusted Partner in Estate Planning; Zoom on February 29
- Man Robbed at Gunpoint at Upper West Side McDonald’s: NYPD
- Monday Bulletin: 200 Amsterdam Penthouse Sells for $20M; It Took Two Decades and a TV Camera to Get a NYCHA Tenant Heat; Shakespeare in the Park Is Going Mobile; Robert Frost and a Bad Decision
- Pigeons, Part IV: Gender on the Agenda
- The Upside (Mostly) of Urgent Care: ‘Why Did It Take Me So Long to Figure This Out?’
- NYC Has Lost a Symbol of Freedom and Resilience; Flaco the Eagle-Owl Has Died
- WSR Cartoon: Goings On at the AMNH
- Morningside Heights Politician Calls Out Columbia University Over Lack of Elevators at Local Station
- Rep. Jerrold Nadler, UWS Leader and Senior Jewish Member of Congress, Calls for Temporary Ceasefire in Gaza
- UWS Wine Geek: A Guide to Natural Wine, With Some Recommended Bottles
- Annie Leibovitz Sells UWS Apartment for More Than $10M to Creator of Kindle
- Is Now the Right Time to Consider Memory Care for a Loved One?
- UPDATE: Majority of Service Restored After AT&T Network Goes Down Across The Country, Including On Upper West Side
- Rover the Bald Eagle, Central Park Celebrity, Killed By Vehicle On West Side Highway
- Openings & Closings: Stand Up NY; Play Street Museum; Dragon 89; Le Labo; L’Occitane; Consignment on 72nd
- Bird’s Beak Points to Spring: ‘Beak by Beak. Here Comes the Sun’
- UWS Barnes & Noble Workers Launch Unionization Effort: ‘We Deserve Agency Over Our Working Conditions’
- How An Artist Gave Back to Her Community Through 30 Sketches of the Upper West Side: See the Series
- UWS High Schooler Creates App Allowing Users to Connect Homeless People With Resources
- Here’s the Dish: Poulet Sans Tête’s Chicken Baguette Au Jus
- Monday Bulletin: Debut of West Side Rag Cartoons
- Special Report: Time Is Up for Some Migrant Families at UWS Shelter as 60-Day Limit Is Reached; Reactions
- I Have Pigeons, Part III: Dug in for the Winter
- On President’s Day Weekend: Love Letters To and From the Oval Office
- Upper West Side Puzzles
- You Can Buy Liam Neeson’s Upper West Side Apartment
- Manhattan Real Estate Update
- Meet the Central Park Bagpiper
- 4 Injured After Flames Break Out on First Floor of 44-Story UWS Building: FDNY
- ‘Only Murders in the Building’ to Leave the Upper West Side and Travel to…You Don’t Want to Know
- What’s New in Hearing Aids, Including Over-the-Counter: February 20, 6:00 PM-7:30 PM on Zoom
- West Side Canvas: Murray’s Sturgeon Shop
- Local Police Commanders Address Anxiety About Two-Wheeled Vehicles at Community Forum
- Openings & Closings: Naya; Brown Harris Stevens; Bank of America; Uptown Dermatology; Upper West Spa; Street Taco
- What Exactly Is a Sanctuary City and What Does That Mean for NYC?
- Snowstorm Recap: UWS Photos; Total Inches Fail to Reach Forecast; Remote Learning Lags; Central Park Giant Snowman
- Strawberry Fields For Sale
- Popular Wegmans Grocery Store Eyes Possible UWS Opening, But Details Remain Murky
- Well-Paid Maids Is For Real
- Snow Days Past
- UWS Wine Geek: Three Ways to Enjoy Wine on Valentine’s Day
- Public Schools Will Go Remote on Tuesday Due to Expected Snowstorm: Mayor