Tag: upper west side

September 26, 2011 Weather: Isolated Thunderstorms, High of 79 Degrees. Notices: We posted a brand-new list of events this week, with dozens of great things to do in the neighborhood. News: ABC News has fully unveiled its new ground-floor studio on West 66th Street and Columbus Avenue, complete with the ...

Momofuku Milk Bar, a savory snack and dessert spot, opened this morning on 87th Street and Columbus Avenue. The opening has gotten a ton of press (or free publicity) and we acknowledge our coverage has been a little over the top. But here's why I think people are going a ...

September 22, 2011 Weather: Thundershowers, High of 74 Degrees. News: The American Folk Art Museum will continue operating at its current Lincoln Square location, after trustees had considered disbanding the collection and closing down. The museum got a last-minute infusion of cash from the Ford Foundation and the trustees. (NY ...

Three stores that have been vacant for months on Amsterdam Avenue between 78th and 79th Streets could soon (but not too soon) be bustling with new business. That block, in the heart of the Upper West Side, has been looking a lot like Detroit: for much of the past year, ...

September 21, 2011 Weather: Afternoon showers, High of 75 Degrees. Notices: If you’d like your photographs considered for our morning bulletin, please send them to info at westsiderag dot com. And if you aren’t already, please follow us on facebook and twitter and sign up for our email newsletter in ...

Duane Reade, in an all-out push to make drug stores more friendly to the young and naïve, is now encouraging people to play beer pong and then -- as Will Smith might say, get jiggy with it.

September 20, 2011 Weather: Showers, High of 68 Degrees. Notices: Some local teachers are looking for help paying for classroom supplies. Both PS 811M and the Urban Assembly School for Green Careers have put out requests for donations to fund equipment. News: Congregation Shaare Zedek, a synagogue on West 93rd ...

The kids from Juilliard are back for the new school year, and that means that Upper West Siders have another venue to enjoy great free music and dance performances again. The music and dance school kicks off the new school year with a free jazz concert Monday at the Peter ...

Down in the East Village, the St. Mark's Bookstore is in danger of closing because it can't make rent. To try to keep the store open, Jeremiah Moss of the indispensable blog Vanishing New York has started a campaign to encourage people to buy books from the store this weekend, ...

Broadway between 77th and 78th Streets has become a blasted-out landscape of destruction after small businesses were bulldozed to make way for a gleaming new high-rise and CVS. This is the cause of much hand-wringing on the Upper West Side, as the neighborhood is losing small businesses at a rapid ...

September 16, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 65 Degrees. News: The city doesn't like boozing it in its parks, and it's illegal to bring liquor in. But one of the new food carts in the park, the Fatty Crab pullcart, is now holding a happy hour every day from ...

September 15, 2011 Weather: Afternoon Thundershowers, High of 75 Degrees. Notices: The Film Society of Lincoln Center is presenting a special screening of Breakfast at Tiffany's tonight at 7 at Alice Tully Hall to mark the 50th anniversary of the film. Julie Andrews will be making an appearance. There are ...

September 14, 2011 Weather: Isolated Thunderstorms, High of 80 Degrees. Notices: Councilwoman Gale Brewer is surveying Upper West Siders about their thoughts on the Columbus Avenue protected bike lanes. Fill out the survey here. Margaret Marrer, a 7th grade teacher from the Upper West Side, is posting to a blog ...

September 13, 2011 Weather: Sunny, High of 84 Degrees. News: Well-known Upper West Side chalk artist Hani Shihada was commissioned to draw conservatives like Margaret Thatcher and Friedrich Hayek on the streets of the Upper West Side, mostly near Columbia. The man who commissioned the art, Michael Schrage, said he ...

This month, we bring news of new cupcakes, novelties and outdoors goods on the Upper West Side, as well as the closing of two spots that were dear to locals

September 12, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 79 Degrees. Notices: Do you want to rub elbows with some of the hottest restaurateurs and chefs in the business? Both the soon-to-open Upper West Side Momofuku Milk Bar and Jean-Georges Restaurant are hiring. Check out our list of events this week, ...

Citarella on 75th Street and Broadway used shrimp, squid and starfish to create an edible American flag in its front window today, with a sign proclaiming "September 11, We Will Never Forget."

Jamie Beck, whose sumptuous romantic photography is featured on her site From Me To You, earned a special honor this year at New York Fashion Week. Jamie was one of five fashion bloggers chosen to ride in the Mercedes Benz Fashion Ranger, which is traversing the city to find great ...

The 10th anniversary of September 11 is coming up on Sunday, and events are being held throughout the city in remembrance of the terrorist attacks. We've listed 10 events below that give New Yorkers different ways of commemorating the events, almost all of them in and around the Upper West ...

The Groggers, a pop-punk band from Queens, just came out with a new album, and on it is one of the catchiest, funniest songs about the Upper West Side I've heard. The song, Upper West Side Story, is basically about being an Orthodox Jewish player on the Upper West Side: ...