Police are looking for a man who snuck up behind a woman last Sunday just before 5 a.m. and choked her, CBS reported. Around 4:55 a.m. this past Sunday, the 23-year-old woman was walking near the Collegiate School at 260 W. 78th St. – between Broadway and West End Avenue ...
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For months, David Schatsky, the operator of a website called Stop Sugar & Plumm has lambasted the restaurant and candy store "Sugar & Plumm Purveyors of Yumm" slated to open on 78th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. He's called it "offensive," ridiculed its Macorons, and said it "degrades the character of ...
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It's no secret that the Upper West Side has been rocked by the Recession, at least in relative terms (we're not Florida or Las Vegas). Dozens of stores have closed, and some entire blocks have the air of ghost towns. One of those blocks, on Amsterdam Avenue between 78th and ...
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Three stores that have been vacant for months on Amsterdam Avenue between 78th and 79th Streets could soon (but not too soon) be bustling with new business. That block, in the heart of the Upper West Side, has been looking a lot like Detroit: for much of the past year, ...
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Broadway between 77th and 78th Streets has become a blasted-out landscape of destruction after small businesses were bulldozed to make way for a gleaming new high-rise and CVS. This is the cause of much hand-wringing on the Upper West Side, as the neighborhood is losing small businesses at a rapid ...
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The wrecking ball has done its work to Manhattan Diner, the beloved Greek spot that held down the corner of 77th Street and Broadway for 11 years.
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