Tag: linda rosenthal

The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved landmark status for a large swath of the Upper West Side on Tuesday, including much of the area between

The Humane Society has accused the Century 21 store on 66th street and Broadway of selling rabbit fur jackets and sweaters that were advertised as "faux fur." In addition, items purchased online and advertised as "faux fur" contained rabbit and "raccoon dog" fur, the Humane Society said. State assembly member ...

A long-awaited forum on Wednesday about a controversial 400-person homeless shelter on 95th street got very heated, with Borough President Scott Stringer and other politicians saying that the city Department of Homeless Services had lied to them and had used misleading tactics to keep a massive contract from getting a ...

On the first Tuesday in November every four years, Upper West Siders get to sit in front of their televisions and pray that the people in Florida and Ohio don't mess up our lives. And that day is here again. But don't think your vote doesn't matter (it arguably doesn't ...

October 17, 2012 Weather: Mostly Cloudy, High of 62 Degrees.

The Columbus Avenue Festival stretched from 66th Street to 86th Street on Sunday and was packed for much of the day.

Tired of impassioned letters and speeches that fall on deaf ears, a crowd of 100 or so people at a Community Board 7 meeting on Tuesday night called for more aggressive action to remove two homeless shelters from buildings on West 95th Street. The shelters were opened in the middle ...

We reported a few days ago that the Department of Homeless Services has approved a plan to place homeless shelters in two buildings at 316 and 330 West 95th Street. The community had no opportunity to review the plans, and they have proven very controversial. The 200 homeless families that ...

June 27, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 80 Degrees.

Angry locals convened at Goddard-Riverside community center last week to demand action from the city about the mosquito madness that has plagued sections of the neighborhood for years. A mosquito problem that began in the sewers below West 84th Street a couple of years ago has infested Upper West Side ...

Residents who live around 84th Street have been plagued by a particularly nasty and persistent mosquito infestation for more than a year now. As of last summer, people who lived on 84th between West End and Riverside were sleeping under mosquito nets, and children had to be taken to the ...

March 14, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 68 Degrees.

March 2, 2012 Weather: Mostly Cloudy, High of 44 Degrees.

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

November 2, 2011 Weather: Sunny, High of 56 Degrees.

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 ...

Borough President Scott Stringer and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal stood in the center of one of the most dangerous intersections in the city surrounded by Upper West Siders today and called for the Department of Transportation to get its act together and fix the intersection. In the past two years, 34 ...