Tag: upper west side

Almost every public space on the Upper West Side will be jam-packed with musicians on Tuesday (the first official day of summer), as the Make Music New York festival comes back for its fifth year. It's part of a global festival celebrating music and the beginning of summer. Our neighborhood ...

June 20, 2011 Weather: Mostly Cloudy, High of 77 Degrees. Notices: This week is filled with great local events, including a ton of outdoor concerts, an evening with talk-show legend Dick Cavett, the Human Rights Watch film festival, and much much more. Check out our list of This Week's Events. ...

The New York City Department of Health is tackling the issue of unprotected post-menopausal sex head-on with an ad campaign that has now hit the Upper West Side. An illuminated bus stop poster with a comely picture of a nude woman tells baby boomers who think that being over 50 means ...

In honor of Father's Day today, Landmark West highlighted a few of the most famous Upper West Side dads in history. Babe Ruth: The Babe lived at the Ansonia Hotel and adopted two daughters. Duke Ellington: The great jazz musician (pictured with his son Mercer above) lived on West 106th ...

'Twas a very sad day when Niko's Mediterranean Grill & Bistro closed earlier this year. The Greek restaurant, which had held down its corner at Broadway and 76th Street for more than a decade, was forced to relinquish its lease in February. But now we can turn our collective grief ...

June 15, 2011 Weather: Mostly sunny, High of 82 Degrees. Notices: The city is working with Housing Works to recycle textiles. Someone will even pick up your items if you sign your building up here. News: Joshua Ruiz, substitute teacher who taught at two Upper West Side schools, PS 199 ...

An amateur opera singer is facing criminal charges for slapping a doctor whose family got between her and some frozen pad thai at Trader Joe's on 72nd Street and Broadway. Yes, what you just read is apparently true, courtesy of the New York Post. The Post came out with a ...

June 14, 2011 Weather: Showers (although it doesn't look like it this morning), High of 63 Degrees. Notices: It's Malaysian Restaurant Week, with Penang, Fatty Crab and potentially Malaysia Grill participating. Lunch and dinner deals for about $20. (My Upper West) News: Now Mayor Mike wants to put cameras on ...

This just in for the folks in the southern end of the Upper West Side, courtesy of CityBiz Real Estate: Pawsitively Love, a pet store that sells pet accessories and offers services like grooming, will be moving into a 1,580 square foot space at 229 West 60th Street, just off ...

June 13, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 74 Degrees. Notices: An Upper West Side teacher is going off to get married this summer, but she doesn't know what to do with the little classroom mouse her students took care of for the past two years. The mouse has mites ...

By Maria Gorshin When was the last time you heard the words, "bridge and tunnel"? I’m guessing the term began fading into New York City history at least 10 or 20 years ago. But think back to the days before Manhattan moved to Brooklyn, long before Hoboken was cool, before ...

The city and the Central Park Conservancy are making few friends with their crackdown on musicians in Central Park who dare to make music in one of the park's "quiet zones". The city says it's trying to balance "competing interests" in the park, basically cordoning off spaces where people don't ...

June 9, 2011 Weather: Oh LORD it's hot. High of 99 Degrees. Notices: A group supporting musicians' rights to play in Central Park's quiet zones has a facebook page and a petition site. News: Bedbugs were found in the men's executive locker room in Reebok Sports Club/NY on 67th  Street ...

By Maria Gorshin If you call the Upper West Side home you had eight reasons to celebrate last night when Landmark West! honored, awarded and even serenaded The Unsung Heroes of the Upper West Side. The lively event took place within one of the most vibrant, elegantly-designed public spaces in ...

By Harriet Flehinger Aging In Place is a key buzzword of the Baby Boom generation. This is especially true of urban areas where it is possible to live without a car, and in certain large buildings which have been dubbed NORCs (Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities.) A friend of mine recently ...

By Harriet Flehinger Whither goest TeaGschwendner, a high end retailer of rare and fancy teas. Barely six months old, the store is now marked "closed for renovations." When we called the Chicago store, they said the New York shop had sent all its tea to them and the store wasn't ...

By Malcolm Carter Gazing at water -- an ocean, a lake, a river has its manifold virtues. Views of water may suggest variations of tranquility, power, beauty, faith and myriad other shades of human emotion. Even rain, whether an evening shower or a threatening thunderstorm, has the same potential as ...

Upper West Side rents rose in May and are way up over last year's numbers -- the average one-bedroom in a building without a doorman, for instance, will cost you 11% more than it did in May 2010, according to a new report on rental rates from MNS Real Impact ...

June 1, 2011 Weather: Scattered thunderstorms, High of 87 degrees. Notices: Apply today (and only today!) to camp out overnight in Central Park on June 10. Thirty families will be chosen by lottery. There will be other similar lotteries later in the summer. (NYC Parks via My Upper West) The ...

I checked in with the NYPD today to see if they'd figured out who had gone all High Noon at the Upper West Side Apple Store over the weekend, and a detective there emailed to tell me that the store appears to have been attacked, but not by a gun. ...