Tag: upper west side

By Marjorie Cohen What's the quickest way to get to an English country village? Take the 1, 2 or 3 train to West 96th Street. Exit the train, walk west for half a block on 95th Street, and there it is -- Pomander Walk, one of New York City's best ...

By Robin Koo Greg Hunt, who tried to open a wine bar at 25 Central Park West last year but was stymied by opposition from litigious building residents, has now set his sites on a new neighborhood space. Hunt now wants to open his wine bar on the corner of ...

July 6, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 91 Degrees. Notices: Beacon Paint & Hardware wants to hold a blood drive on Tuesday, July 26 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. But they need to sign up at least 25 more people to get nurses to come. The summer is ...

Project Nim, a documentary that won raves at Sundance and is coming out in New York theaters this Friday, tells the story of Columbia University graduate student Stephanie Lafarge, who tried to raise a chimpanzee as a child in her Upper West Side apartment as part of a professor's experiment. ...

The city marshals have been getting awfully familiar with the Upper West Side, as they recently shut down another shop around the same time they locked the doors at the famous H&H Bagels last week. Café St. Honore, the quaint little cafe next to Bomboloni at 189 Columbus Avenue between ...

If you're stuck in the city like me for this July 4, don't despair! There are tons of things to do, and the weather is supposed to be gorgeous all weekend (though there's a chance of rain Sunday). Also, the great Laura Koo Nicholas made us a special patriotic banner ...

July 1, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 83 Degrees. Notices: Release your inner beast! Planet of the Apes is showing tonight. Check out our calendar. News: Amsterdam Video, the last sex toy/adult video shop on the Upper West Side on Amsterdam Avenue between 73rd and 74th Streets, has closed ...

I was worried for awhile there that all the gay marriage fun might be happening in other parts of the city, particularly the West Village and Brooklyn. But it looks like the celebration will be coming uptown too, as a group of young New Yorkers is planning to create a ...

After a week of uncertainty about when exactly H&H would close, city marshals seized the building on Wednesday, and the landlord slapped a sign on the front proclaiming "Store for Rent". Just like that, a neighborhood fixture since 1972 was gone. West Side Rag reader Gavan sent us photos of ...

June 30, 2011 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 80 Degrees. Notices: There are free movies, concerts and plays tonight on the Upper West Side. Check them out on our weekly calendar! News: First H&H implodes, and now we could lose Jerry Seinfeld? The Post reports that the funnyman was seen ...

By Maria Gorshin What was it like yesterday at the Landmarks Preservation Commission, where a highly-anticipated public hearing was held for the West End Avenue historic district extension? It could have come down to a long day of Us vs. Them; corporate greed mongers vs. local sentimentalists; The Man in ...

June 29, 2011 Weather: Partly cloudy, High of 80 Degrees. Notices: Someone left two pairs of Prada sandals, size 5, in a purple Bergdorf Goodman bag on an an M86 bus traveling from the Upper West Side to the Upper East Side. The person is offering a $50 award for ...

This month, we have plenty of openings and closings to report, but first, a moment of silence for H&H Bagels... Okay, now that that's over with, let's talk new wine bars, shirt shops, food markets, luggage stores, and doggie and human pampering businesses. As for closings: tea, pizza and makeup ...

H&H bagels is slated to shut its doors Tuesday, but one local resident isn't taking the news sitting down, with a hot cup of coffee and some lox and cream cheese. He is standing up to fight the transformation of our neighborhood into one giant waiting room for Duane Reade ...

Upper West Sider Daniel Friedman specializes in turning cramped so-so apartments into places you're not embarrassed to show your friends. His friend Allison sent me photos of a bunch of his work, and agreed to write about how Upper West Siders can spruce up their apartments without hiring a contractor, ...

Things get stolen in New York City. People will steal your iPad. At the pimply age of 14, I had my backpack ripped right off my back as I cried "But all I have in there is my HOMEwork!" So we take precautions. We lock things up, we put the ...

June 24, 2011 Weather: Scattered Thunderstorms, High of 77 Degrees. News: Proposed zoning rules backed by Community Board Chairman Mel Wymore and City Councilwoman Gale Brewer could limit the amount of storefront space that banks take up on Broadway, Amsterdam and Columbus. (In one 26-block stretch of Broadway, there are ...

June 23, 2011 Weather: Scattered Thunderstorms, High of 76 Degrees. News: Two muggers beat up a jogger and stole his iPad in Central Park around 110th Street and 5th Avenue. A few hours later, robbers stole someone's cell phone at 70th Street and Central Park West. (DNAinfo) Eight endangered skinny-billed ...

July 22, 2011 Weather: Thunderstorms, High of 77 Degrees. Notices: The photo above was sent to us by Upper West Sider Paul Katcher of a woman playing piano on a pier off of Riverside Park as part of yesterday's Make Music NY Festival. News: An Upper West Side physics professor ...

The great Upper West Side photographer Glark, or "David" as his parents call him, has put together a hilarious photo essay about the misspellings at fruit stands throughout the Upper West Side. He's thankfully given us permission to post a few of them below. Check out the rest on his ...