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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 ...

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 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. ...

May 26, 2011 Weather: Partly cloudy, High of 80 degrees. Notices: City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, Congressmen Jerry Nadler and Charlie Rangel, and other top politicians are rallying today at 5 p.m. against the co-location of the new charter school Upper West Side Success Academy at Brandeis High School on 84th ...

Two black men are accusing Apple of racial discrimination, after they say they were kicked out of the Upper West Side Apple store because of their race. The two men, Brian Johnston, 34, and Nile Charles, 25, said they went into the store went into the store on Dec. 9, ...