Tag: absurdity

Apparently, a bully is on the loose on the Upper West Side, allowing his kid to step on people's glasses and then...not apologizing! That is the gist of a drawing that has been taped to poles around 94th Street in the last few days. You can see it above, in ...

The Upper West Side was gentrified years ago, but a sudden proliferation of harp-playing seems to indicate that the gentrification has entered a new phase.

The people watching a Sunday afternoon showing of The Ides of March at the AMC Loews in Lincoln Square (68th Street) got a little more excitement than they paid for when water started streaming out of the ceiling onto their heads. The sudden downpour stopped the film after only about 30 ...

The experiment that began this week allowing people to use their cell phones inside four Chelsea subway stations (but not in the trains themselves, and only on AT&T and T-Mobile) will be spreading to every station on the Upper West Side south of 96th Street within a year, the MTA ...

A group of grotesque white mushrooms growing in a planter on 88th Street between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue are attracting large crowds, who constantly stop to gawk at the bulbous growths

The Blue Donkey Bar at 487 Amsterdam Avenue between 83rd and 84th Streets has closed down after the police brought a Nuisance Abatement case against it -- but the police were just one of the groups that the bar blamed for the closing. There was also the neighbor, a guy ...

There are prostitutes, and there are people who will perform maid service for you in the buff. But one Upper West Sider is looking for something just a little bit different. Perhaps it is an amalgamation of the two, perhaps it is something beyond our capacity to comprehend. Curbed came ...

H&H bagels is slated to shut its doors Tuesday, but one local resident isn't taking the news sitting down, with a hot cup of coffee and some lox and cream cheese. He is standing up to fight the transformation of our neighborhood into one giant waiting room for Duane Reade ...

The great Upper West Side photographer Glark, or "David" as his parents call him, has put together a hilarious photo essay about the misspellings at fruit stands throughout the Upper West Side. He's thankfully given us permission to post a few of them below. Check out the rest on his ...