Tag: upper west side

By Maria Gorshin When was the last time you heard the words, "bridge and tunnel"? I’m guessing the term began fading into New York City history at least 10 or 20 years ago. But think back to the days before Manhattan moved to Brooklyn, long before Hoboken was cool, before ...

The city and the Central Park Conservancy are making few friends with their crackdown on musicians in Central Park who dare to make music in one of the park's "quiet zones". The city says it's trying to balance "competing interests" in the park, basically cordoning off spaces where people don't ...

June 9, 2011 Weather: Oh LORD it's hot. High of 99 Degrees. Notices: A group supporting musicians' rights to play in Central Park's quiet zones has a facebook page and a petition site. News: Bedbugs were found in the men's executive locker room in Reebok Sports Club/NY on 67th  Street ...

By Maria Gorshin If you call the Upper West Side home you had eight reasons to celebrate last night when Landmark West! honored, awarded and even serenaded The Unsung Heroes of the Upper West Side. The lively event took place within one of the most vibrant, elegantly-designed public spaces in ...

By Harriet Flehinger Aging In Place is a key buzzword of the Baby Boom generation. This is especially true of urban areas where it is possible to live without a car, and in certain large buildings which have been dubbed NORCs (Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities.) A friend of mine recently ...

By Harriet Flehinger Whither goest TeaGschwendner, a high end retailer of rare and fancy teas. Barely six months old, the store is now marked "closed for renovations." When we called the Chicago store, they said the New York shop had sent all its tea to them and the store wasn't ...

By Malcolm Carter Gazing at water -- an ocean, a lake, a river has its manifold virtues. Views of water may suggest variations of tranquility, power, beauty, faith and myriad other shades of human emotion. Even rain, whether an evening shower or a threatening thunderstorm, has the same potential as ...

Upper West Side rents rose in May and are way up over last year's numbers -- the average one-bedroom in a building without a doorman, for instance, will cost you 11% more than it did in May 2010, according to a new report on rental rates from MNS Real Impact ...

June 1, 2011 Weather: Scattered thunderstorms, High of 87 degrees. Notices: Apply today (and only today!) to camp out overnight in Central Park on June 10. Thirty families will be chosen by lottery. There will be other similar lotteries later in the summer. (NYC Parks via My Upper West) The ...

I checked in with the NYPD today to see if they'd figured out who had gone all High Noon at the Upper West Side Apple Store over the weekend, and a detective there emailed to tell me that the store appears to have been attacked, but not by a gun. ...

Fans of the Upper West Side Apple store on 67th Street and Broadway awoke on Sunday to find that their beloved iEmporium had two small holes in the glass -- holes that looked like they had been caused by bullets, Racked reported. Police put up barricades around the damage, which ...

May 26, 2011 Weather: Partly cloudy, High of 80 degrees. Notices: City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, Congressmen Jerry Nadler and Charlie Rangel, and other top politicians are rallying today at 5 p.m. against the co-location of the new charter school Upper West Side Success Academy at Brandeis High School on 84th ...

Two black men are accusing Apple of racial discrimination, after they say they were kicked out of the Upper West Side Apple store because of their race. The two men, Brian Johnston, 34, and Nile Charles, 25, said they went into the store went into the store on Dec. 9, ...

By Katie Barry There’s a mannequin from the waist up sitting in my room, wearing an Obama mask, a bright purple wig, and a gaudy orange beach hat with a half-marathon medal and old school Polaroid camera dangling from the neck. Where did I get all this stuff and why ...

Gray's Papaya on 72nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue is famous for its kooky political signs, and it has just put up another whopper. With food prices escalating, Gray's is getting ready to raise its prices, but it doesn't want to alienate its customers. So it put up a pretty crazy ...

May 24, 2011 Weather: Thunderstorms in the afternoon, High of 81 degrees. News: Taxi slams into a bus on Central Park West and 86th Street. Three were injured and listed in serious condition. (Gothamist) PS 9 is closing its gifted and talented program, supposedly to make room for more local ...

Yikes! Gothamist has some wild pictures and a purported eyewitness account of a taxi slamming into a bus on Central Park West and 86th Street on Monday afternoon around 3:40 p.m. Three patients, all from the taxi, were taken to St. Luke's-Roosevelt and were listed in serious condition. The picture ...

May 23, 2011 Weather: Isolated thunderstorms, High of 82 degrees. Notices: An Upper West Side woman is holding a weight loss challenge for the Biggest Loser in the neighborhood. (Meetup) The Film Society of Lincoln Center is holding an film fan essay contest -- the winner gets to name a ...

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. ...

I came across this flyer at the supermarket last night. The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church is holding a festival on 91st and West End Avenue on Saturday with food, music and dancing. Just try to keep me away from that feta cheese! Seriously, try. For more events this week and ...