Tag: mysteries

Today in unexplained phenomena: What is this statue of a boy doing in Riverside Park next to the Westside Highway near 76th Street?

For months, a stretch of sidewalk between West 74th and West 75th Streets on Columbus Avenue was undergoing

Mysteries abound on the Upper West Side, even at a time when people are indoors. In fact, people seem to be contemplating even more mysteries than usual given that they...have the time to.

NYPD detectives tracked down the family of Rose Roy Weiss, the Floridian whose headstone was left in a planter under the West Side Highway.

Police are now in custody of a mysterious headstone found in a planter under the West Side Highway by an Upper West Sider out for his daily walk.

A keen-eyed Upper West Sider, who wishes to remain anonymous, spotted something unusual and a bit macabre on his daily walk from West 93rd to 45th Street earlier this week.

Stones that appear to have been sculpted in the shape of a toe, or perhaps a finger, were found on "a hidden patch of a stairway" in Riverside Park this weekend.

It's been a few years since a coyote was spotted in the neighborhood, but on Friday morning we got a tip from Jody Sherman saying

Somehow a couch has become lodged some 20-25 feet up in the branches of a tree on West 95th Street near Amsterdam Avenue. Ed Park

Someone has been spray-painting a ice-cream-looking shape on buildings throughout Columbus Avenue in recent days. What's the deal? Is it

Mysteries abound on the Upper West Side, and there are two new ones in our case file.

Technicians have been installing gray boxes on light poles and street signs throughout the neighborhood in recent weeks, raising

A yacht has been moored in the middle of the Hudson River around 76th street since the weekend, and a helicopter even landed on it on Monday.

Someone stripped the bark off of a tree on the East side of West End Avenue at 103rd street, and neighbors and city officials are now seeking an explanation.

The Upper West Side has its very own version of crop circles: "snow circles!"

Sometimes, mysterious things happen on the Upper West Side and no one sends out a memo about why. So we investigate.

A grocery store on Broadway between 103rd and 104th street in front of a subway entrance closed recently, and construction workers stripped off

Sometimes, mysterious things happen on the Upper West Side, shaking the very foundation of our staid and predictable neighborhood. In these cases, we turn to you for help.

Sometimes history is so close to the surface, all you have to do is remove a few bricks to find it. Pioneer supermarket on Columbus Avenue between 73rd and 74th streets peeled away some of its facade because the city Buildings Department was checking out the store's structure. For a ...