https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/our-house-nyc-is-filling-the-city-s-longstanding-grief-support-gap-AB6157165 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-02T20:47:35-04:00 Our House NYC is Filling the City’s Longstanding Grief Support Gap https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/our-house-nyc-grief-support-1_4-11060170_20260901174140.jpg Tami Schneider founded Our House NYC in October 2025 after she saw first hand the lack of grief support programs in the city following the death of her husband. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/our-house-nyc-grief-support-2-jpg-11060197_4-11060197_20260901174143.jpg Spaces are set up to feel like living rooms so that participants can feel comfortable and at home. Our House NYC has several rooms for group sessions. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/our-house-nyc-grief-support-3-jpg-11060203_4-11060203_20260901174145.jpg Sarah McCollum Williams, left, is the executive director of Our House NYC. Together, founder Tami Schneider, right, and McCollum Williams have already hit two- and three-year goals. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/our-house-nyc-grief-support-4-jpg-11060200_4-11060200_20260901174147.jpg Donated art dons the walls of Our House NYC. The art is for sale, and part of the proceeds go towards the organization. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/our-house-nyc-grief-support-5_4-11061275_20260902103557.jpg In one section of Our House NYC set up for children, small soccer balls have been marked with different emotions as part of an emotion naming exercise. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/running-for-rent-nike-holds-les-sprint-race-with-4000-prizes-EX6167431 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-03T12:40:11-04:00 Running for Rent: Nike Holds LES Sprint Race With $4,000 Prizes https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-09-03-122535_4-11071431_20260903123448.png Akinola Raymond wins the 100 meter dash and earns $4,000 in a “Who Runs NYC” race staged by Nike in which it said the winner https://www.westsidespirit.com/features/healthy-manhattan/how-to-silence-food-noise-the-urge-to-eat-even-when-not-hungry-MM6169970 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-03T18:42:11-04:00 How to Silence “Food Noise” the Urge to Eat Even When Not Hungry https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/dr-jack-mosley_4-11073126_20260903183417.jpg Dr. Dr Jack Mosley is a medical doctor and best selling author on the topic of weight-loss management. He says the new weight loss drugs can go a long way to quiet what is known as “food noise,” which are cravings not tied to physical needs. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/doctor-jack-mosley-book_4-11073191_20260903183418.jpg Dr. Jack Mosley is a medical doctor with Britain’s National Health Service who is an advocate of combining weight loss drugs with smart nutrition to help silence “food noise” cravings. https://www.westsidespirit.com/voices/25-years-after-9-11-world-trade-center-remembrances-HB6164458 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-03T19:01:36-04:00 25 Years After 9/11: World Trade Center Remembrances https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/glen-davis-photo-of-keith-kelly-and-p_4-11062355_20260903122052.jpg Forbes photographer Glen Davis captured a photo of editor Keith J. Kelly and his wife Pat Walsh on the deck of the Highlander yacht on the evening of Sept. 10, with the Twin Towers in the background. It would emerge as one of the last photos ever taken of the Twin Towers at night. A little more than 12 hours later, the towers fell. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/911rubble1-4-8128548-20240909174358_4-11071679_20260903133809.webp Photographer Peter Foley was able to capture firefighters digging on the rubble because one of the lieutenants from the West Side firehouse where Foley had lived for a year smuggled him on board a bus transporting firefighters to search for survivors at Ground Zero the evening after the towers collapsed. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/wall-of-heroes-4-8128604-202409091750_4-11071415_20260903122050.webp Photo journalist Peter Foley lived in the firehouse at West 48th St. and Eighth for a year before 9-11 and captured photos of the firefighters. Fifteen members would perish in the terrorist attack, making it the house with the largest number of fatalities that tragic day in which 343 firefighters were killed. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/missing-poster_4-11071683_20260903133810.jpg In the days after 9-11, family members made posters of missing relations, hoping against hope that they’d be found alive. In NYC, the death toll would eventually reach 2,753 out of the 2,996 who died in the terrorist attacks that day. https://www.westsidespirit.com/city-arts/debut-memoir-tells-tale-of-love-and-devotion-of-comfort-dog-IE6161956 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-03T19:44:31-04:00 Debut Memoir Tells Tale of Love and Devotion of Comfort Dog https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/anngorewitz-cover100_4-11059699_20260901145948.jpg Ann Gorewitz’s debut memoir, “You, Me, &amp; the Dog, An Unconditional Love Story,” inspires readers to embrace the second chance to build family, community, and happiness. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/ann-gorewitz-headshot-web_4-11059701_20260901145948.jpg Author Ann Gorewitz holds advanced degrees from Columbia University and NYU, and a B.A. from Queens College. She is on the advisory board of the Jewish Community Services, using her bereavement experience to help others. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/crime-watch/attempted-child-kidnapping-in-inwood-robbery-on-125th-street-LE6170692 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-04T02:20:59-04:00 Attempted Child Kidnapping in Inwood; Robbery on 125th Street https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/attempted-kidnapping-inwood-assault-1_4-11073603_20260904022020.jpg Wanted for attempted child kidnapping (left) in Inwood; and suspect (right) wanted for robbery https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/beloved-hobby-retailer-red-caboose-reaches-the-end-of-the-line-YN6168573 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-04T06:26:22-04:00 Beloved Hobby Retailer Red Caboose Reaches the End Of the Line https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/unnamed_4-11072118_20260903150556.jpg Red Caboose owner Allan Spitz has decided, after 56 years in business, to close the store. It is the last hobby shop left in Manhattan, outlasting the dozen or so that had been names known to savvy Manhattanites looking for their model railroads. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/unnamed-1_4-11072338_20260903150557.jpg For 56 years, the Red Caboose has sold model trains of all gauges, both new and used. Here, some used postwar Lionel 0-27 locomotives await the buyer that needs them to add to his or her train layout. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/unnamed-2_4-11072341_20260903150558.jpg After 56 years in business, Manhattan’s last hobby shop will vanish before the holidays. No more over the counter sales of hobby items in Gotham. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/unnamed-3_4-11072344_20260903150600.jpg Inside the vestibule at <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/23+West+45th+Street?entry=gmail&amp;source=g">23 West 45th Street</a> in Midtown West, a showcase reveals a small amount of hobby items available downstairs at the Red Caboose. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/unnamed-4_4-11072347_20260903150601.jpg On the way down the stairs to the store, display cabinets fill the stairwell with merchandise. No wasted wall space is evident. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/unnamed-6_4-11072350_20260903150603.jpg After descending the store stairs, you face the desk, visually embellished by the merchandise on hand at virtually level of vision. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/unnamed-5_4-11072353_20260903150605.jpg The Red Caboose features model trains in all sizes. This is part of the N scale stock on display, perfect for railroad empires in tiny Manhattan spaces. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/unnamed-7_4-11072356_20260903150606.jpg You are looking at the book section in the store, filled with new and used books about trains, both big and little, each encased in plastic covers to keep them in good order. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/unnamed-8_4-11072359_20260903150607.jpg As a train store in Manhattan, local subways and commuter trains are a large draw, as evidenced by the goods on display. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/unnamed-9_4-11072362_20260903150609.jpg Keeping up with the hobby demands of the 21st Century, the store has many aircraft models for sale, ranging in size from tiny to almost a small desk top. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/unnamed-11_4-11072365_20260903150610.jpg Like to assemble plastic kits? The world is yours here. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/unnamed-10_4-11072368_20260903150611.jpg If die-cast vehicles interest you, this is the right place for your purchases. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/unnamed-12_4-11072371_20260903150614.jpg Do you ride buses a lot? Here are work desk ornaments, or, perhaps you’d like to stick pins in them after an agonizing transition experience today... https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/hart-island-urban-park-rangers-offer-tours-of-gotham-s-necropolis-HM6169922 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-04T11:57:53-04:00 Hart Island: Urban Park Rangers Offer Tours of Gotham’s Necropolis https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/hart-island-urban-park-rangers-1_4-11073591_20260904014654.jpg Upon reaching Hart Island, the usual NYC Parks Department green and white signage is a somber black and white, noting the resting place of many. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/hart-island-urban-park-rangers-2_4-11073589_20260904014654.jpg Park Ranger Todaro displays an image of what one of the Hart Island buildings looked like before they were torn down in 2022, when the Parks Department over the island from Department of Corrections. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/hart-island-urban-park-ranger-4_4-11073593_20260904014256.jpg With the sky and water befitting the nature of the island, Hart Island is all about New Yorkers. Their rest is sealed forever over 130 acres of land, away from all the bustle that they knew during their lives. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/hart-island-urban-park-ranger-3_4-11073595_20260904013947.jpg One of the original headstones noting the nature of Hart Island as a burial ground for the poor. This is in a small shaded area that was built a few years ago. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/archdiocese-sexual-abuse-plaintiffs-miss-deadline-but-settlement-talks-continue-LA6165379 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-04T13:00:07-04:00 Archdiocese, Sexual Abuse Plaintiffs Miss Deadline but Settlement Talks Continue https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/dolan-and-hicks-4-10651415-2026042320_4-11065922_20260902191259.webp Cardinal Timothy Dolan (left) began settlement talks with people claiming sexual abuse at the hands of priests and lay personnel but it will be up to newly installed Archbishop Ronald Hicks (right) to try to complete a deal. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/lotto-hotel_4-11065925_20260902191301.jpg Traffic passes St. Patrick's Cathedral (far left) and the Lotte New York Palace Hotel. The Archdiocese of New York sold the land beneath the hotel for $490 million in Dec. 2025, a portion of which is going to a $300 million fund the Archdiocese established to pay for past victims of sexual abuse https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/carl-wilson-at-our-lady-of-guadalupe_4-11064278_20260902172210.jpg https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/city-council-mamdani-unveil-new-initiatives-ahead-of-9-1125th-anniversary-NM6169852 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-04T13:20:48-04:00 City Council, Mamdani Unveil New Initiatives Ahead of 9-11 25th Anniversary https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/55506288489-2d6695b2fa-c_4-11073064_20260903170232.jpg Speaker Julie Menin joins other elected representatives to reveal a $1 million funding initiative from the City Council for the 9/11 Memorial Museum and Tours exhibition. https://www.westsidespirit.com/city-arts/private-screening-of-the-final-fight-highlights-guardianship-reform-HA6165449 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-04T13:39:56-04:00 Private Screening of “The Final Fight” Highlights Guardianship Reform https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/unknown-2-4-10696769-20260507152941_4-11064463_20260902171943.webp ”The Final Fight”—written and directed by Community Board 8 member Todd Stein—is positioning itself for the festival circuit, by highlighting the issue of guardianship reform in personal terms. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/img-3119_4-11064459_20260902171657.jpg ”The Final Fight” writer-director Todd Stein attends a private screening of his short film on August 31, held at the Angelika East Theater on Second Avenue. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/img-3132_4-11064404_20260902171700.jpg (From left) City Council Member Virginia Maloney, actor Josh Davis, City Council Member Frank Morano, and Todd Stein attend a private screening of “The Final Fight” at the Angelika East on August 31. https://www.westsidespirit.com/food-drink/sarabeth-s-long-beloved-for-brunch-closes-two-restaurants-BX6154366 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-04T15:21:43-04:00 Sarabeth’s, Long Beloved for Brunch, Closes Two Restaurants https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/sarabeth-s-381-park-ave-south_4-11051629_20260831111226.jpg The 45-year-old restaurant chain Sarabeth’s that started as a jam making operation in an apartment on the Upper West Side shut down its 381 Park Ave. South location (above) and its Greenwich Village location on Aug. 16 https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/sarabeth-s-french-toast_4-11054052_20260831111226.jpg The Sarabeth’s chain serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, but it was perhaps most famous for its French toast and pancakes. It is credited with making brunch popular long before it was a NYC “thing.” Now two of its four locations have closed. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/sarabeths-sign_4-11051592_20260830135037.jpg Sarabeth’s served its last meals at two of its outlets–one at 381 Park Ave. South and aGreenwich Village location at 100 W. Houston St.–on Aug. 16 https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/cannoli-king-ready-to-celebrate-as-san-gennaro-festival-turns-100-in-little-italy-KN6168378 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-04T17:42:31-04:00 Cannoli King Ready to Celebrate as San Gennaro Festival Turns 100 in Little Italy https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/milimg-5861-4420004-8154720-202409161_4-11076975_20260904172225.webp Up to two million vistors are expected to visit the ten-day San Gennaro festival on Mulberry St. in Little Italy which kicks off Sept. 17. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/john-delutro-at-san-gennaro-4-9521586_4-11076978_20260904170531.webp John DeLutro, also known as Baby John and the Cannoli King, keeps busy at a takeaway pasta booth during San Gennaro Festival 2025. He is the owner of Caffé Palermo and Baby John’s Pizza. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/img-8003_4-11072640_20260903152754.jpg Caffé Palermo, home of the “Cannoli King,” in the days before the centennial celebration of the San Gennaro feast of Italian culture kicks off. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/fullsizerender_4-11072741_20260903154230.jpg A photo of San Gennaro could be seen outside of a Little Italy restaurant Sept. 2 in anticipation of the start of the 100th anniversary celebration built around the patron saint of Naples, Italy. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/john-delutro-in-cafe-palermo-4-820589_4-11072738_20260903154229.webp John DeLutro is hard at work during the 2024 San Gennaro Festival. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/revelers-at-feast-of-san-gennaro-4-95_4-11076981_20260904172226.webp Mulberry Street was jammed Sept. 13, 2025 for the San Gennaro Festival. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/woman-shot-dead-by-nypd-after-stabbing-two-and-killing-one-in-times-square-horror-NL6159681 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-04T17:59:42-04:00 Woman Shot Dead by NYPD, After Stabbing Two and Killing One in Times Square Horror https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/img-2321_4-11057163_20260831233641.jpg In a matter of minutes, an emotionally disturbed 49-year-old woman, later identified as Pamela Cisneros, was shot dead by cops in Times Square after she stabbed two victims, one fatally. Cops said she refused to drop her weapons when confronted by cops around 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 31. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-08-31-at-11-19-38-pm_4-11057166_20260831233642.png Detectives in Times Square on Aug. 31 after cops shot dead an emotionally disturbed woman who refused to drop two butcher knives after stabbing two people, killing one. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/the-families-a-9-11-anthology-about-resilience-gratitude-and-love-BJ6139344 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-04T18:09:01-04:00 “The Families”: A 9-11 Anthology About Resilience, Gratitude And Love https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/71rdfvp-kql-sl1500_4-11035501_20260824212541.jpg The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund has published a book of 176 personal essays written by three generations of those who lost loved ones on 9/11. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/img-5491_4-11035508_20260824212542.jpg The editors of “The Families”: Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund co-founder Edith Lutnick (l.) and Relief Fund General Counsel Caroline Aiken Koster (r.). https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/peace-on-earth_4-11036607_20260825123528.jpg This “Peace on Earth” sign was first installed in 1998 on the steps of the plaza between the Twin Towers and became a centerpiece of the holiday festivities at the World Trade Center. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/empty-chairs_4-11036610_20260825123529.jpg Chairs for the Cantor Memorial that commemorates all those lost in the World Trade Center tragedy.