Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer has filed papers to run for her old City Council seat on the Upper West Side, preparing for what would be her fourth term.
Read moreDetailsManhattan Borough President Gale Brewer has filed papers to run for her old City Council seat on the Upper West Side, preparing for what would be her fourth term.
Read moreDetailsManhattan Borough President Gale Brewer has been getting more involved in the debate over homelessness on the Upper West Side. Hotels are now
Read moreDetailsBarbara Eisberg, like many of the attendees at Bar Crawl Radio’s Special 100th podcast episode, came to make her voice heard. After reading about the planned interview
Read moreDetailsForty years ago, Upper West Siders Rebecca McKean and Alan Winson became partners in marriage. One hundred episodes ago, they became
Read moreDetailsUWS Save Our Stores, a grassroots organization aimed at reducing the number of long-term vacant storefronts
Read moreDetailsBy now it isn’t news that there are 23 statues of historical figures in Central Park and not one of them is of a woman. (Alice, Mother Goose and Juliet are fictional.) That’s
Read moreDetailsSmall businesses have shuttered at an alarming rate on the Upper West Side and throughout the city, inspiring proposed solutions ranging from commercial rent control to a vacancy tax.
Read moreDetailsIt’s been a long time coming, but the Bull Moose Dog Run, located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, next to the Museum of Natural History, is finally getting a full renovation.
Read moreDetailsGale Brewer sees no quick fixes for two of the Upper West Side’s most pressing problems: street homelessness and retail vacancies.
Read moreDetailsIt was the late 1970s, early 1980s, the dawn of the “crack era.” “Crack was everywhere,” recalled Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, in
Read moreDetailsStraining her voice to be heard over the clamor of construction, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer delivered the lead-off message to a crowd of about 50 people
Read moreDetailsOn Tuesday, April 9th, at 11:15 am, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, City Council Member Helen Rosenthal and community advocates will speak
Read moreDetailsPoliticians are asking a local landlord to rent a vacant storefront on 68th Street and Broadway to a new supermarket-operator, because
Read moreDetailsOn Sunday afternoon, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer delivered her State of the Borough address to a packed auditorium
Read moreDetailsOn Saturday, January 26th, family, friends, and donors gathered to celebrate the revival of Westsider Books. Guests sipped rosé champagne, ate bacon-wrapped
Read moreDetailsIn a letter addressing the New York City Charter Revision Commission, Community Board 7 expressed opposition to a proposed City Charter amendment
Read moreDetails“It used to be a community. Now it’s just a neighborhood.... It’s not about the politics, it’s about the people, the residents, the families that get affected
Read moreDetailsBy Anya Schiffrin Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer unveiled on Monday a new raft of proposals aimed at helping small businesses maintain their foothold on the Upper West Side
Read moreDetailsCommunity boards get the first crack at reviewing some of the neighborhood's most important issues, from development to pedestrian safety to public safety
Read moreDetailsCommunity 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
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