https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/crime-watch/nypd-makes-arrests-in-recent-harlem-shootings-one-fatal-GJ5812901 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-05-03T23:44:48-04:00 NYPD Makes Arrests in Recent Harlem Shootings, One Fatal https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/nypd-makes-arrests-recent-harlem-shoo_4-10679468_20260503164441.png Map of Grant Houses NYCHA, in the vicinity of a recent Harlem shooting. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/thousands-take-32-mile-great-saunter-around-manhattan-shoreline-KI5813693 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-05-04T00:49:09-04:00 Thousands Take 32-Mile Great Saunter Around Manhattan Shoreline https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/img-7831_4-10679509_20260503220945.jpg Volunteers hand out snacks to help participants refuel along the 32-mile route of the Great Saunter around Manhattan. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/img-7843_4-10679511_20260503220946.jpg John Wagner and Marisol Mendez (to right) wait for their friends and cheer on other participants with cow bells. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/img-7854_4-10679510_20260503220948.jpg Participants pose with their certificates of completion at Fraunces Tavern. https://www.westsidespirit.com/voices/debate-heats-up-over-push-to-require-biometric-data-on-sports-bet-sites-MG5811718 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-05-04T09:39:11-04:00 Debate Heats up over Push to Require Biometric Data on Sports Bet Sites https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/sports-betting-bill-debate-msg_4-10680445_20260504093911.jpg Madison Square Garden is ready for the Knicks 2026 playoff campaign. The New York State Gaming Commission wants to make sure only the authorized user of sports betting sites uses it and is pushing to add a biometric date requirement. https://www.westsidespirit.com/sponsored-content/what-does-digital-ownership-mean-for-everyday-new-yorkers-CN5816510 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-05-04T12:35:18-04:00 What Does ‘Digital Ownership’ Mean for Everyday New Yorkers? https://www.westsidespirit.com/sponsored-content/brighton-beach-daycare-checklist-for-working-parents-MN5816853 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-05-04T12:57:47-04:00 Brighton Beach Daycare Checklist for Working Parents https://www.westsidespirit.com/food-drink/how-queens-irish-guys-gambled-during-covid-and-built-their-dream-pub-in-midtown-LK5815962 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-05-04T14:39:13-04:00 How “Queens Irish Guys” Gambled During Covid and Built Their Dream Pub in Midtown https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-05-04-at-11-45-22-am_4-10681816_20260504114628.png Terrence Tubridy was a young pub owner when friends and relations joined up to launch the Park Avenue Tavern 15 years ago. In the dark days of COVID, they asked their landlord for new long term lease. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-05-04-at-11-50-24-am_4-10681874_20260504115123.png For over 15 years, the Park Ave. Burgers remains the upscale pub’s bestselling item. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-05-04-at-11-48-52-am_4-10681822_20260504115006.png The interior bar of Park Ave. Tavern , at 39th and Park has such a congenial bar set up that it encourages easy conversation. Many of his customers over 15+ years have met their future spouses at the bar. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-05-04-at-11-46-47-am_4-10681819_20260504114831.png Park Avenue Tavern interior is well lit and its unusual layout is such that many customers have met their future spouse while enjoying a relaxing drink at the bar. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/fire-kills-three-critically-injures-five-in-inwood-XY5818213 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-05-04T16:04:57-04:00 Fire Kills Three, Critically Injures Five in Inwood https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/hhelscuwsaayau3_4-10684128_20260504160210.jpg A fire broke out on Dyckman St. in Inwood on Monday, May 4, killing three people. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-05-04-at-3-34-14-pm_4-10684336_20260504160211.png FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said that the fire revealed the importance of closing one’s door during a fire, saying that apartments with their doors left open experienced “more impact.” https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/fire-erupts-at-broadway-s-eugene-o-neill-theater-MM5817806 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-05-04T17:22:13-04:00 Fire Erupts at Broadway’s Eugene O’Neill Theater https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-05-04-at-2-10-49-pm_4-10683536_20260504142104.png FDNY on the scene at 230 West 49th Street https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-05-04-at-2-18-14-pm_4-10683539_20260504142111.png FDNY deputy chief David Simms (center) speaks at press conference at 230 West 49th Street after the three alarm fire was extinguished on May 4. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-05-04-at-2-10-16-pm_4-10683540_20260504142118.png Firefighters arriving at the scene of the Eugene O’Neill Theater where fire erupted on the morning of May 4. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/pastors-worry-as-archdiocese-pushes-800-million-settlement-for-sex-abuse-vics-IY5818309 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-05-04T17:43:40-04:00 Pastors Worry as Archdiocese Pushes $800 Million Settlement for Sex Abuse Vics https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/st-patricks-cathedral-wikimedia-comm_4-10684607_20260504174313.jpg The Catholic Archdiocese of New York is trying to finalize a $800 million deal to pay off 1,300 past victims of sexual abuse at the hands of priests and lay people. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/bishop-hicks-at-press-conferecne-at-s_4-10684608_20260504174312.jpg Archbishop Ronald Hicks on Dec. 18 when he was announced as the replacement for Cardinal Timothy Dolan. It will be up to Hicks to finalize the deal to pay off 1,300 victims of sexual abuse at the hands of priests and lay people affiliated with the Archdiocese. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/dolan-and-hicks_4-10684346_20260504172133.jpg Cardinal Timothy Dolan (elft) whose resignation was accepted on Dec. 18, had accelerated the selloff of Archdiocesan real estate over the past two years to raise money for victims of sexual abuse by priests and lay people. But it will now be up to new Archbishop Ronald Hicks to finish raising the money to pay victims. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/st-brigid-migrant-check-in-center_4-10684576_20260504172133.jpg St. Brigid School adjacent to Tompkins Square Park was leased to the city during the migrant crisis but is now the latest property that the Archdiocese has put up for sale as its scrambles to pay past victims of sexual abuse. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/uws-residents-protest-proposed-72nd-st-bike-lane-thoroughfare-BY5818506 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-05-04T17:55:12-04:00 UWS residents Protest Proposed 72nd St. Bike Lane Thoroughfare https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-05-04-at-5-41-26-pm_4-10684606_20260504174301.png Only days before the full board of Community Board 7 is expected to take a vote on the river-to-rive bike lane that the Department of Transportation is pushing, protestors on May 2 spoke out against it. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-05-04-at-5-43-09-pm_4-10684613_20260504174342.png Protestors turned out on West 72nd St. to protest the cross town bike lane on 72nd St. that the Department of Transportation is proposing. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-05-04-at-5-42-29-pm_4-10684605_20260504174300.png Speakers criticize at plan to turn 72nd St. , a major cross town street, into one with only one lane of traffic each way and a river-to-river bike lane through Central Park. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/crime-watch/two-owners-of-mid-town-sports-bar-charged-with-stiffing-80-workers-out-of-250000-CI5813949 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-05-04T18:06:20-04:00 Two Owners of Mid-town Sports Bar Charged with Stiffing 80 Workers out of $250,000 https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/midtown-restaurantwage-theft-indcitme_4-10679485_20260503182629.jpg La Mararena Restaurant & Sports Bar under scaffolding, Sep. 2024. The bar owners stiffed workers to the tune of over $280,000 in wages over nearly three and a half years, prosecutors charged.