Tag: amsterdam avenue

That guy who started firing a gun in the middle of one of the most crowded blocks in the neighborhood on Friday night was a cop out drinking with some friends, according to reports in

An unidentified Hispanic man has hit by a black Lincoln Town Car on Wednesday night around 9:30 p.m. as he crossed

With construction proceeding quickly on the new building at 170 Amsterdam Avenue, it's now becoming

A community board committee voted 7-0 Tuesday night to ask the city Department of Transportation to come up with a proposal for a protected bike lane and other changes

Stretches of Amsterdam Avenue have been a concrete jungle for decades, but reader Steven Weisz says that the avenue finally got some greenery today near the corner of 81st street as the city started planting trees. He's been waiting for them since at least the early 1990's. Dogs are also ...

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about a mystery: someone was placing stickers that said things like "This is Neighborhood Decay" on the windows of empty storefronts between 78th and 79th Street on Amsterdam Avenue. We implored the "sticker bandit," as we called the person, to come forward and ...

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 ...

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, ...

Six people were injured after a three-car crash on 104th Street and Amsterdam Avenue at about 8:30 pm Sunday, and one of the cars burst onto flames after hitting a bus shelter. None of the injuries was considered life-threatening, WABC reported. Check out a video of the aftermath below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijQKF2nIzAc