A group of friends enjoying a chess match. A new city survey has found that many older New Yorkers are reporting issues with finding adequate socialization opportunities. ( Photo: NYC Aging Dept. ) Affordability & Stable Housing Are Top Issues for Older NYers A fresh survey by the NYC’s Department of Aging, known as a Service Needs Assessment, has determined what older city residents... News 19 Aug 2025 | 04:33
This was the scene of a collision between two bikes on Aug. 16 during the Summer Streets road closure. A social media campaign is underway to find the hit and run rider who slammed into the back of another e-bike causing the 35 year old woman to slam into the pavement and dislocate her shoulder. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Bid to Find Hit-and-Run Biker Who Slammed into Another Biker During Summer Streets It was Aug. 16, the final weekend of the popular Summer Streets program that Department of Transportation was staging. One... News 19 Aug 2025 | 06:02
Northwell Health’s $2-billion plan to overhaul Lenox Hill Hospital has been signed off on by the NYC Council. ( Photo: Northwell Health ) Lenox Hill Hospital Overhaul Gets City Council Sign-Off Northwell Health’s proposed $2 billion overhaul of Lenox Hill Hospital is on the brink of being realized, after the New York... News 18 Aug 2025 | 03:32
It took several major price cuts, but Rudy Giuliani finally sold his East Side co-op apartment, which was the last residence the former-mayor-turned-Trump-henchman owned in New York. ( Photo: Beau Matic) Giuliani Takes Big Hit but Finally Unloads UES Co-op Rudy Giuliani, the man once dubbed “America’s Mayor” is severing his last tie to the city he once led and unloading his Upper... News 18 Aug 2025 | 02:07
Alleged rapist Anthony Smith on Aug. 10, 2025. ( Photo: NYPD) Alleged Hell’s Kitchen Rapist Arrested on Lower East Side A suspect in the recent assault and attempted rape of a 21-year-old woman in Times Square has been arrested. To the surprise... News 17 Aug 2025 | 06:27
Victims of stolen car wheels ring: July 24, opposite 130 East End Ave.; Aug. 14, near 418 E. 88th St. ( Photos: LanaGet Next Door; Subtantial_Zebra_14 Reddit) Cops to UES: Crime Wave Targets Auto Wheels/Tires The stories have been circulating on the internet for a couple of months now: a gang or gangs of skilled thieves stealing... News 17 Aug 2025 | 03:22
With the 4, 5, and 6 facing disruptions, the MTA is directing riders to take N, Q, R, W. S, 2, 3 and 7 trains to reach their various destinations. ( Photo: MTA) Another Weekend of Subway Chaos Due to Track Work on 4, 5, and 6 Lines For the second weekend in a row, subway riders taking downtown 4, 5 and 6 line trains will face chaos as the busy Grand Central... News 18 Aug 2025 | 02:24
Announcing the “Too Tough To Die” resolution at Foley Square, in front of the Lorenzo Pace sculpture “The Triumph of the Human Spirit.” ( Photo: Carmen DeLaRosa X) City Council Resolution Backing Daily News Union Introduced The three-years-long battle between the Daily News union and the newspaper’s hedge fund owners, Alden Global Capital, took... News 18 Aug 2025 | 06:42
Parts of the UES were enveloped in thick black smoke the morning of Aug. 15 as firefighters worked to extinguish a rooftop blaze at 305 E. 95th St. ( Photo: FDNY) Three Firefighters Injured Battling Rooftop Blaze on UES A massive rooftop fire tore through three penthouse apartments atop a luxury seven-story rental building on the morning of... News 16 Aug 2025 | 03:16
Painting is entitled “Some People Feel the Rain, Others Just Get Wet.” Scientists now say it is more than folklore, that some people can indeed “feel” a coming rain storm in their bones. ( Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Weather Alert: Feel It in Your Bones? Grab Your Umbrella! As Erin, the season’s first named hurricane, churns across the Atlantic, some New Yorkers won’t need a weather report to... News 15 Aug 2025 | 12:04
The Caesars Palace Times Square casino would be built in this property in the heart of Times Square. ( Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY) Times Square Casino Bid Faces Public—It Was ‘Union Against Union’ Will a new Times Square casino bring a lot of new jobs to Midtown, or will it displace existing workers? That debate was... News 18 Aug 2025 | 01:12
Council Member Gale Brewer sent a team of interns to discover the true state of UWS and Central Park water fountains. ( Photo: Wikimedia Commons) The Truth about UWS Water Fountains? Disheartening “It’s one thing to have the resource and another to be able to access it,” said Council Member Gale Brewer in her most recent... News 14 Aug 2025 | 04:56
Signs for a new app-controlled parking system went up in the dead of night on the UWS (76th Street and Columbus Avenue shown above). The new metering system abolishes the all-day parking allowed under the city’s traditional alternate-side-of-the-street parking rules. ( Photo: Hudson Burrows) New UWS Parking System Installed in Dead of Night Residents off Columbus Avenue went to sleep in rowhouses lining meterless streets on Sunday night, Aug. 10. But on Monday... News 15 Aug 2025 | 03:35
Hand on heart: Pols and VIPs during pre-parade ceremony for the Dominican Day parade on Aug. 10. ( Photo: Darren McGee/Office of Governor ) Dominican Day Parade Delights Midtown Multitudes — Loudly! Hundreds of thousands of red-white-and-blue-adorned spectators and participants crowded Sixth Avenue from the 36th to 55th... News 16 Aug 2025 | 01:46
Karen Rempel gazes at the Hudson River from Pier 57 rooftop. ( Photo: Philip Maier) Karen’s Quirky New York Peers at Pier 57 with Rosé-Colored Glasses Pier 57, jutting into the Hudson River between Chelsea Piers and Little Island, has an extensive outdoor public space, though... News 13 Aug 2025 | 05:13
New UWS Parking System Installed in Dead of Night