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Just a little over a year go, a debate over whether to bestow landmark status upon West-Park Presbyterian Church devolved into name-calling and angry graffiti. The outside of the church on 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue was serving as an inadequate shelter for homeless people, and the congregation was holding ...

Dozens of Upper West Siders trying to attend a meeting with city, state and national politicians at the JCC on Monday were turned away at the door because the meeting room was already too packed. People started lining up for the 6 p.m. meeting at 5 p.m.

November 17, 2011 Weather: Showers, High of 48 Degrees.

October 21, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 57 Degrees.

Bicycles may be mostly peaceful instruments, but talking about bicycles is a full-contact sport on the Upper West Side. On Tuesday night, the DOT presented stats for the Columbus Avenue protected bike lanes from 77th to 96th Street, claiming that since the lanes were installed the avenue has had 34% ...

  October 10, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 84 Degrees. Notices: Despite the summery weather this weekend, fall is here, and the leaves are starting to turn ever so slightly, as shown in the picture above by Upper West Side photographer Michael Huitt. Friends of Morningside Park is hosting ...

October 6, 2011 Weather: Sunny, High of 68 Degrees. News: People placed flowers and candles in front of the Upper West Side Apple Store to commemorate and mourn Steve Jobs' death. Someone also placed an iPhone next to the flowers with a picture of Steve Jobs on it, as you ...

Photo by Avi. October 5, 2011 Weather: Sunny, High of 70 Degrees. News: Upper West Side City Council Member Gale Brewer says in a letter to Police Commish Ray Kelly that she was mistreated by the NYPD while she was at the Gay Pride parade this summer. An officer penned ...

A Callery pear tree that had grown on the corner of 75th Street and Columbus Avenue for 40 years was ripped from the ground on Tuesday so that Con Edison workers can repair a transformer underneath.

September 14, 2011 Weather: Isolated Thunderstorms, High of 80 Degrees. Notices: Councilwoman Gale Brewer is surveying Upper West Siders about their thoughts on the Columbus Avenue protected bike lanes. Fill out the survey here. Margaret Marrer, a 7th grade teacher from the Upper West Side, is posting to a blog ...

September 7, 2011 Weather: Showers, High of 71 Degrees. News: Congressman Jerry Nadler, Ground Zero workers, and numerous other public officials are going to City Hall today to file a petition asking the administrator of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act to consider covering cancer treatments for people ...

August 19, 2011 Weather: Scattered thunderstorms, High of 85 Degrees. Notices: At the barber yesterday on Columbus Avenue, I saw another customer casually reading a Playboy while he got his haircut. Beyond the initial shock, it made me feel strangely nostalgic. News: The trustee for bankrupt Tavern on the Green ...

City Councilwoman Gale Brewer is pushing the mayor to pay more attention to the explosion in the number of food trucks and carts in the city, and start to standardize enforcement. Among her ideas: track food trucks using GPS to find out where they are and where they're going; make ...

August 18, 2011 Weather: Scattered Thunderstorms, High of 86 Degrees. Notices: The voting is complete, and New Yorkers chose "A Star is Born" with Barbara Streisand as the final movie in next week's Central Park outdoor movie series. Was there really ever any doubt? News: Charles Mysak, who sells books ...

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 ...

July 19, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 92 Degrees. News: Malaysian "party boy" Taek Jho Low bought a condo at Time Warner Center previously rented by Jay-Z for $31 million. It's the most anyone has ever paid for a condo at 25 Columbus Circle, at more than $6,400 a ...

By Maria Gorshin What was it like yesterday at the Landmarks Preservation Commission, where a highly-anticipated public hearing was held for the West End Avenue historic district extension? It could have come down to a long day of Us vs. Them; corporate greed mongers vs. local sentimentalists; The Man in ...

June 24, 2011 Weather: Scattered Thunderstorms, High of 77 Degrees. News: Proposed zoning rules backed by Community Board Chairman Mel Wymore and City Councilwoman Gale Brewer could limit the amount of storefront space that banks take up on Broadway, Amsterdam and Columbus. (In one 26-block stretch of Broadway, there are ...

Friday, May 20, 2011 Weather: Isolated Thunderstorms (30% chance of rain), High of 75 degrees. Notices: Councilwoman Gale Brewer, the DOT, and Upper West Side Streets Renaissance are giving out free bike helmets this weekend. Just go to Gale's office on Columbus between 87th and 88th Streets between 10 a.m. ...