Tag: upper west side

September 9, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 83 Degrees. News: Fashion designer Marc Jacobs' bags are hot -- so hot in fact that people are stealing them right off the shelves. A thief with high-end taste walked into the Barney's Coop on Broadway and 76th Street yesterday and asked ...

September 8, 2011 Weather: Thundershowers, High of 75 Degrees. Notices: Fashion's Night Out is tonight, and there are tons of deals to be had throughout the city and the neighborhood, including 36 locations on the Upper West Side. Check out the list of participating stores here. Also lots of restaurants ...

Dearest Upper West Side, You want more, I hear. Word reached me about your average rent hikes, and I’m bummed. Look, I may be playing out of your league, living half a block from Central Park, but you should be fighting for me to stay, especially with the current economy.

September 7, 2011 Weather: Showers, High of 71 Degrees. News: Congressman Jerry Nadler, Ground Zero workers, and numerous other public officials are going to City Hall today to file a petition asking the administrator of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act to consider covering cancer treatments for people ...

Spike Lee shot the movie 25th Hour, which dealt with one New Yorker's attempt to make amends before he goes to prison, just months after the attacks, and the smoldering city was a major part of the movie. He was the first director to make a film on location in ...

This week's list of local events features a concert by the New York Philharmonic playing Leonard Bernstein's score for West Side Story live during the movie, a series of events leading up to the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001, and a county fair for the neighborhood. The West Side ...

September 6, 2011 Weather: Rain, High of 65 Degrees. Notices: The Riverside Park Fund is looking for people to volunteer at the 9th Annual West Side County Fair on Saturday. "Over 20 volunteers needed from 12-6pm to help with the games booths, crowd control at the animal area, and more ...

Remember Hurricane Irene? It was just one week ago, but it feels much farther away, doesn't it? We've dug up seven videos made by Upper West Siders of the scene in the neighborhood, from Blair-Witch-style films to a silly video of a woman dressing up her dogs in ridiculous yellow ...

Back to the Future, The Godfather, Mad Max and more hit the Film Society of Lincoln Center this weekend, so you can sit in the dark and forget all about the fact that summer is ending. Tickets are $10 per movie or $27 per trilogy. Check out the schedule here. ...

September 1, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 83 Degrees. Notices: Yikes, it's September! Consider playing human chess, or checking out one of the other free events on our calendar. News: Robert Redmond, a nudist who works for the NYC Parks Department, enjoys hosting people at his three-bedroom Upper West ...

A new Italian restaurant known for excellent pizza is slated to open in the spot vacated last year by The West Branch, the restaurant run by noted chef Tom Valenti.

After 27 years on 81st Street and Columbus Avenue, Maxilla & Mandible closed its doors for good on Sunday night, stuffing brown paper into the display window where skulls and fossils used to sit and slapping a tiny sign on the front saying simply "Gone Digging."

August 30, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 83 Degrees. Notices: Hurricane Irene did $200,000 worth of damage to Central Park and the conservancy that manages the park now wants your help covering the bill. Consider donating here. News: Upper West Sider Brian Rossetti created an app called Parking Auction ...

This week, there are lots of free events on the Upper West Side, including the Metropolitan Opera's outdoor screenings of some of its most popular operas in HD. The operas will show right in the middle of Lincoln Center. Also, this week marks the beginning of Human Chess in Riverside ...

August 29, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 78 Degrees. Notices: There are 37 free events in this week's events calendar, including tons of free music, movies and outdoor events. Check them out! Central Park is closed to vehicular traffic today, but is open for pedestrians and cyclists. News: In ...

The sad/happy thing about Hurricane Irene is that the worst of it hit while almost everyone was sleeping. So we all woke up and thought "Did we miss it?" But luckily, one Upper West Sider with a great view of the city pointed a camera out the window to record ...

By Melissa Cooper No animals are visible on today’s late afternoon dog walk in Riverside Park on the eve of Hurricane Irene’s arrival. Well, actually many animals are out, but only two species: humans and canines.  No wildlife. Not a single bird or squirrel.  Even the cicadas are silent, and ...

Hurricane Irene is whirling its way up the East Coast, destined for an intimate date with New York City late Saturday and into Sunday (the worst of the storm is expected to hit between about 7 a.m. and noon on Sunday), and frankly most of us aren't very prepared. So ...

A black Lexus slammed into two women walking across Broadway at West 70th Street at around 11:24 p.m. Thursday night, sending both to the hospital, the FDNY tells us. Then the driver sped away. The Post has more on the story, reporting that one of the women was knocked into ...

August 26, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 85 Degrees. News: So apparently people are taking this hurricane thing pretty seriously. The following New York City neighborhoods could be evacuated: Battery Park City; Coney Island and Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn; Far Rockaway and Broad Channel in Queens; and some low-lying ...