UWS City Council member Gale Brewer (at mic) was invited by Governor Kathy Hochul (far right) to join NYC Mayor Eric Adams (left) and NYC Sheriff Anthony Miranda (rear) and other officials announcing new law designed to curb illegal weed shops. Photo: Office of City Council member Gale Brewer State to Pull Lotto, Liquor Licenses From Bogus Weed Shops as City Given Padlock Power New York City will have more power to crack down on illegal cannabis shops, the governor announced Friday, in a deal that... News 25 Apr 2024 | 04:55
In February, zoning modifications were introduced that would make it easier for Related Co. to build a Hudson Yards casino. On April 1, West Side’s Community Board 4 issued a blistering condemnation of the changes. ( Rendering via Related Co. & Wynn Resorts ) CB4 Letter Blasts Proposed Zoning Changes For Possible $12 Billion Hudson Yards Casino As Related Co. seeks to earn the rights to operate a casino complex in Hudson Yards, it is drawing the ire of a local community... News 25 Apr 2024 | 06:23
In one of the alleged punch attacks, suspect Daquan Armstead was said to have struck an assistant NYU professor on a street at the rear of Washington Square Park. The attack was being investigated as a hate crime. Photo: Slippy Hollow/Wikimedia Commons Serial-Puncher Arrested for 8 Random Attacks on Women is Remanded on $20,000 Bail A 30-year-old Bronx man was arrested on April 23 and charged with eight random punching attacks on women in Tribeca, the... News 24 Apr 2024 | 06:06
Samir Lavingia ended up as the unlikely interim chairman of CB 5 in March, but is facing a contested election when board members vote on a new chair in June. Photo: courtesy Samir Lavingia. CB5 Chairman Heads Toward Contested Election Contested elections are rare at the city’s community boards. But Samir Lavingia, interim chair of Community Board Five, appears... News 25 Apr 2024 | 04:19
Pro-Palestine NYU students and faculty on April 22 protest and demand NYU divest from holdings in Israel. ( (Photo: Tehsin Pala)) Claims and Counter Claims Fly as “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” Gets Crushed at New York University Tensions remain high at New York University.after hundreds of students who had set up a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” in Gould... News 24 Apr 2024 | 08:03
Wollman Rink’s Pickle Courts Will Now Be A Summer Staple The fourteen courts that replaced the Central Park ice-skating facilities at the Wollman Rink last summer–which made them... News 24 Apr 2024 | 05:21
The progression of 319-321 W. 38th St, which will now be a Best Western hotel. The former residential space has been cited as as improperly demolished building in a Special Zoning District, a practice which a new City Council bill hopes to crack down on. ( Photo via Google St. View, Community Board 4, Gene Kaufman Architect) As CB4 Fears Loss Of Affordable Housing On West Side, Bill Would Tighten DOB Oversight Of Demolitions Two City Council Members representing Manhattan’s West Side, Erik Bottcher and Gale Brewer, have introduced legislation to... News 03 Mar 2024 | 08:28
The Port Authority Bus Terminal, where a man reportedly stabbed a commuter nine times on April 22. Michael McCloskey, 42, has been arrested in connection with the attack. ( Photo via HBB on Wikimedia Commons) Man Arrested After Knife Stabbing At Port Authority; Victim Expected To Live A commuter was stabbed nine times at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in the wee hours of April 22, in what appeared to be... News 22 Apr 2024 | 08:35
Summer on The Hudson in 2023 will stretch from 59th St. to 181st St on the UES thanks to increased funding. ( (Riverside Park Conservancy)) Summer On The Hudson Returns With 300 Events, Stretching into Northern Portion of 6-Mile Long Park on West Side Summer on the Hudson is back this year offering the largest-ever season to date. The outdoor arts and culture festival now... News 22 Apr 2024 | 05:45
Protestors gather outside the gates of Columbia. (Photo: Andrew McDonald). As Campus Is Roiled by Protests, Arrests and Threats, Columbia Makes All Classes Remote Columbia University moved to make all classes remote on April 22 after the Ivy League campus was roiled by clashes tied to... News Alert 24 Apr 2024 | 02:25
The cover of ”The Lincoln Zoo.” Co-author Larry Belling died before completing the book, prompting lifelong friend and co-author Art Twain to finish on his own. The book hit on Feb. 29. Photo: Vargoice He Turns His Innate Appreciation for Animals into a Children’s Book As a teen in Oakland, California, Art Twain had over 25 animals in his garage zoo, and always stopped to save creatures that... News 22 Apr 2024 | 06:39
Construction inside the former Ascension School where the Department of Education wants to move West Prep middle school is well underway the West Side Spirit found during a recent visit even though a final vote on the pending move by the DOE won’t come until May 22. Photo Credit: Alessia Girardin. Controversy Rages as DOE Plans to Move West Prep Academy into Shut Down Catholic School Controversy is rocking West Prep Academy, an Upper West Side Middle school that the Board of Education plans to move to the... Home 22 Apr 2024 | 05:15
Madison Square Garden will be rocking this playoff season with both Knicks and Rangers in the hunt for a championship. Photo: Wikimedia Commons As Rangers and Knicks Start Post Season Journey, Can Either Win a Championship? New York sports fans haven’t experienced this kind of rapture from their hockey and basketball teams since 1994. That year,... Voices 19 Apr 2024 | 01:27
It’s all in the shorthand. Just as a baseball player would used RBI instead of “run batted in” after a hit enabled a runner on his team to cross home plate, nutritionists also have a language all their own. Photo: Wikimedia Commons How to Make a Nutritionist’s Word Salad a Little More Digestible Every profession has its own verbal shorthand. Cops abbreviate unknown suspects to “perps” short for “perpetrators.” Sportswriters... News 19 Apr 2024 | 01:15