Tag: elderly

“Chances are there’s someone out there who needs you.”

The Upper West Side made the AARP's list of top neighborhoods in the country for people 50 and over, coming in second to some neighborhood

A man posing as a police officer has been scamming elderly women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars

It was another week full of curious, disturbing and intriguing news on the Upper West Side, summarized and linked here for your easy-reading pleasure.

March 28, 2012 Weather: Afternoon Storms, High of 68 Degrees.

October 24, 2011 Weather: Mostly Cloudy, High of 61 Degrees.

William Gibbs, a suspect in a string of Chelsea muggings targeting elderly men, is thought to have struck on the Upper West Side on Wednesday, assaulting and robbing an 85-year-old man at the B/C station on 72nd Street. The mugger grabbed the victim by his neck and threw him to ...

By Harriet Flehinger I’ve been writing an occasional column for two years about what I call “Aging in Action” which is  “Aging In Place” for those of us who really hate to stay still for long periods of time.  There’s a great Yiddish word for this “spilkes” which literally translate ...