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Community boards get the first crack at reviewing some of the neighborhood's most important issues, from development to pedestrian safety to public safety

Community Board 7 will hold its first full-board meeting of the year on Tuesday, with liquor licenses, street fair permits and some development issues on the agenda.

On Tuesday, the Upper West Side's Community Board 7 will review and vote on the proposed changes to West End Avenue, the demolition of the building at 207 West 79th street, a handful of liquor

Community Board 7 meets on Tuesday night, and some hot-button issues are on the agenda. The Trinity School on West 91st street wil

By Timothy Sandoval Community Board 7 voted this week to downsize Crafts on Columbus from six weekends a year to three weekends, ending

Community Board 7 has a packed agenda on Monday, with votes planned on changes to the intersection at 72nd street and Riverside Drive, and the Columbus Avenue crafts fair, among others.

After a petition and an uproar by some residents and artists, Community Board 7 is reconsidering a previous vote to recommend that Crafts on Columbus be shut down.

On Tuesday, Community Board 7 will hash out several issues, from a proposed rehabilitation to a small park called Septuagesimo Uno on 71st street, to a series of liquor licenses for new restaurants

Some of the hottest new restaurants on the Upper West Side want to open sidewalk cafes this spring, and a community board committee

Community Board 7 will discuss a plan to make Riverside Drive more pedestrian and bike-friendly at 72nd and 79th street, hear plans for new restaurants and

Community Board members receive very little fame and adulation, but they're an important of New York City democracy. From deciding how to make the intersections

Three pedestrians have died this year near West 96th street, and several leaders have talked about changing the streets to

Community Board 7 meets on Tuesday at 6:30 at the Museum of Natural History. The agenda is below, with several

Community Board 7 meets on Wednesday night at Rodeph Sholom on 83rd street, and there are a few items on the agenda that could draw a crowd

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

Now that Columbus Avenue has a southbound protected bike lane from 110th street to 65th, the community board is considering where to put a northbound lane. Bike lane advocates are pushing for a lane that runs on Amsterdam Avenue from 59th

Community Board 7 meets Wednesday night at 6:30 at Goddard Riverside Community Center to consider a bunch of issues, including a proposed rooftop addition to the Apthorp on 79th street and a resolution dealing with the proposed 10-cent charge for plastic bags at supermarkets, a proposal supported by local Councilwoman Gale ...

By Shannon Ayala After debating for more than three hours on Tuesday night, Community Board 7 passed a resolution to extend the Columbus Avenue bike lane from 59th to 110th streets. For now, the lane runs from 96th to 77th streets, leaving bicyclists right back in traffic once they get ...

By Mark Diller The historic preservation movement, the Upper West Side, and indeed the City of New York, lost a determined and gracious leader with the passing on December 21st of Lenore Norman. Lenore’s professional career was remarkable and inspiring. She rose in three years from an intern to the ...

By Shannon Ayala A community board committee was split on whether the abbreviated bike lanes on Columbus Avenue should be extended to cover the full length of the Upper West Side, and said they needed