https://www.westsidespirit.com/home/mayor-mamdani-signs-on-year-round-outdoor-dining-is-now-officially-back-DD6162342 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-01T20:42:09-04:00 Mayor Mamdani Signs On: Year-Round Outdoor Dining is Now Officially Back https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-09-01-at-5-03-48-pm_4-11060178_20260901172931.png Outdoor dining will now officially become an entirely year-round operation again, after Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a City Council bill on the matter into law. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-04-06-at-4-34-34-pm-4_4-11060212_20260901175156.webp Roadside sheds are now allowed to return to year-round operations, after two years of seasonal-only rules. Sidewalk dining sheds are now allowed to be enclosed during the winter, as well. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/55462897587-64515df140-c-4-11013172-2_4-11060187_20260901172939.webp City Council Members celebrated the passage of their now-enacted outdoor dining bill last month. Pictured above: Justin Sanchez, Lincoln Restler, Kamillah Hanks, Julie Menin, and Shanel Thomas-Henry. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/upper-west-side-neighborhood-event-calendar-sept-3-9-EB6164042 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-02T12:08:33-04:00 Upper West Side Neighborhood Event Calendar: Sept. 3 - 9 https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/met-fifth-avenue-via-www-metmuseum_4-11062066_20260902120835.jpg met fifth avenue via www.metmuseum.org https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/museum-of-arts-design-via-www-madmu_4-11062071_20260902120835.jpg Museum of Arts & Design via www.madmuseum.org https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/meta-axes-over-1000-workers-across-3-manhattan-offices-BC6163892 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-02T17:07:49-04:00 Meta Axes Over 1,000 Workers Across 3 Manhattan Offices https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/image_4-11056918_20260902120403.jpg Meta has axed over 1,000 workers across Manhattan but Mark Zuckerberg (above) is still CEO. 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/news/city-council-secured-9-11-funding-that-aims-to-educate-next-generation-NM6169852 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-03T17:04:22-04:00 City Council Secured 9-11 Funding That Aims to Educate Next Generation 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/news/archdiocese-sexual-abuse-plaintiffs-miss-deadline-but-settlement-talks-continue-LA6165379 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-03T17:07:48-04:00 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/voices/25-years-after-9-11-world-trade-center-remembrances-HB6164458 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-09-03T17:09:59-04:00 25 Years After 9/11: World Trade Center Remembrances 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/glen-davis-photo-of-keith-kelly-and-p_4-11062355_20260903122052.jpg Forbes photographer Glen Davis captured a photo of 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/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/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.