Tag: upper west side

December 19, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 48 Degrees.

It's a tricky thing, drinking with small children. Even when it's a "healthy" decision -- just calmly having a cold beer with my small child on this lovely weekend day! -- there really are very few bars that allow you to drink like an adult, but not feel like an ...

Upper West Siders are surrounded by nature, but really most of the nearby natural world is tightly controlled, sectioned off, paved and fenced in (aside from some nasty exceptions like sewer mosquitoes and rats). Yet sometimes the animal kingdom announces its presence in a big way. And while we tend ...

Clearly many of you haven't done your holiday shopping, and Christmas and Hannukah both arrive in the next week. Luckily there are lots of crafts fairs in the neighborhood this weekend that will let you buy something homemade and make you look

When Hanukkah rolls around, even non-cooks are expected to haul out the frying pan and whip up a batch of potato latkes for the gang. After all, isn’t the annual pancake-making ritual part of what makes Hanukkah so special? But even enthusiastic home cooks can grow weary of the eight-night-long ...

Editor's Note: This is the first in a monthly West Side Rag series by Marjorie Cohen. Each month, Marjorie will choose an object or document from the archives of the New-York Historical Society that references the Upper West Side and use it as a jumping off point for an article. ...

December 16, 2011 Weather: Windy, High of 52 Degrees.

By Emily Baer The IRT Powerhouse located on 11th Avenue between 58th and 59th Street is a beautiful example of Beaux Arts architecture, but it's also one of the most controversial buildings on the Upper West Side. A debate that began in 1979 about landmarking the powerhouse still hasn't been ...

December 15, 2011 Weather: Showers, High of 54 Degrees.

Shortly after publishing our map of 25 Upper West Side businesses that have opened or closed (or are about to) we found out about two new food spots that just opened. One is Paninoteca, a sandwich spot on Columbus Avenue between 72nd and 73rd Street that

December 14, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 47 Degrees.

Third-grade teacher Eric Schneider bought a 450-square-foot studio on 73rd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues in 2005 for $235,000. But soon he began to feel a little, shall we say, cramped. So he asked a couple of architects, Michael Chen and Kari Anderson of Normal Projects, to show him ...

December 13, 2011 Weather: Sunny, High of 45 Degrees.

The Smith, an East Village restaurant that has another location in midtown, will open a big new restaurant at 1900 Broadway, the space vacated when Josephina and Sushi A Go-Go closed earlier this year. The Smith is known for relatively inexpensive American food, including big bacon cheeseburgers and pots full ...

This week, there are lots of great opportunities to see movies in the neighborhood, including an early preview of the new Meryl-Streep-as-Margaret-Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady. There's also a free screening of a movie that helped inspire Occupy Wall Street at Lincoln Center, and a series of short films about ...

As we scan the Upper West Side for signs of life, it's clear that the preppies are still alive and well, as J. Crew opened a new high-end men's shop in the Time Warner Center and Brooks Brothers is getting ready to open a new store on 87th. For those ...

December 12, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 39 Degrees

A 20-year-old Columbia student was hit by a Mercedes-Benz sedan at 106th Street and Broadway early Sunday morning, and the car sped away without stopping. The young man had just gotten out of a cab around 1:20 a.m. and began walking north to cross the street when he was hit ...

Amazon.com has a promotion going on today. Through a "Price Check" app you can download, Amazon will pay you 5% of the price of an item up to $5 if you go into a store and scan the barcode of the product you want to buy. In effect, Amazon is ...

Do you think our neighborhood is simply becoming more and more homogenized, a kind of suburban strip mall of corporate chains without any hint of its former distinctiveness? Well, just wait! Here comes another 7-Eleven.