Tag: upper west side

Overall, Manhattan rents dipped slightly in November from the month before, but not on the Upper West Side, according to a new report. Rentals are getting much more expensive, even eclipsing prices during the height of the real estate boom. Demand for rentals is high, and some people who would ...

November 30, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 52 Degrees.

By Emily Baer Throngs of people turned out for the annual Winter’s Eve Festival at Lincoln Square. The unseasonable balmy late November evening began with folk legend Arlo Guthrie singing classic songs like “This Land is Your Land” and “Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer” as organizers lit the sparkling tree. It is ...

November 29, 2011 Weather: Showers, High of 64 Degrees.

This could be the last week of Fall, so make it count. I don't know what that means, but maybe it will inspire you to do that thing you were going to do. This week, there are jazz events, a reading by Joan Didion, a crafts sale at the cathedral ...

It's no secret that the Upper West Side has been rocked by the Recession, at least in relative terms (we're not Florida or Las Vegas). Dozens of stores have closed, and some entire blocks have the air of ghost towns. One of those blocks, on Amsterdam Avenue between 78th and ...

November 28, 2011 Weather: Morning Clouds, Afternoon Sun, High of 65 Degrees.

On Monday starting at 5:30 p.m., the Upper West Side will be brimming with entertainment and food for the Winter's Eve festival, a celebration put on every year by the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District. The festival starts with a Christmas tree lighting and continues for hours with musical performances, ...

Today is something called "Small Business Saturday," which is supposed to encourage people to spend money at small businesses. We wholeheartedly support the sentiment and hope that it can be extended to Sunday and, you know, every day after that. Also, the GreenFlea Market is open on Saturday this weekend ...

Lady Gaga gave her father the best advertising a restaurant owner can possibly receive -- she mentioned his new Upper West Side restaurant to millions of people in a televised special on ABC with Katie Couric on Thursday. "My dad, it was always his dream to open a restaurant," she ...

Thousands of people mobbed stores to get their hands on cheap Black Friday merchandise today, with one shopper in L.A. even pepper-spraying other people to get to the goods first. Does that mean Americans are insane? Yes! But the students at the private Calhoun School (with locations on 74th Street ...

November 25, 2011 Weather: Sunny, High of 59 Degrees.

I took these photos on 70th street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West. Click to enlarge.

Thanksgiving officially happens on Thursday, but it's really a three-day affair -- or six days if you eat turkey leftovers for as long as I do. Here's a day-by-day guide to celebrating on the Upper West Side: Wednesday: Watching Macy's Thanksgiving balloons getting blown up is a spectator sport. The ...

November 23, 2011 Weather: Showers, High of 51 Degrees.

The Gap store on the corner of 86th Street and Broadway won't be renewing its lease, according to the realtors now advertising the 12,300-square-foot space for rent. That means it could close anytime between now and February, when the lease runs out. Gap has one other location in the neighborhood, ...

November 22, 2011 Weather: Afternoon showers, High of 49 Degrees.

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.

Thanksgiving is special on the Upper West Side, if only because the first scene of Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters is set in an Upper West Side apartment on Thanksgiving (depicted above). Oh, and there's also your family, turkey and the parade that starts on 77th Street and winds ...

Beefy the Upper West Side bulldog is either a testament to the marvelous talents of dogs, or the deep psychosis of dog owners. Local blogger Rebecca Baust videotaped Beefy skateboarding in Central Park around 96th Street and sent us the video (below). In addition, Beefy's owner Patrick Clemens created a ...