https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/karen-s-quirky-ny-takes-a-tour-exploring-city-s-jazz-landmarks-EK5783633 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-04-23T07:44:56-04:00 Karen’s Quirky NY Takes a Tour Exploring City’s Jazz Landmarks https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/rempel-kqny-apr-2026-blossom-dear_4-10643045_20260422145442.jpg Karen Rempel lolls on the stoop of Blossom Dearie’s former home. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/rempel-kqny-apr-2026-kissing-on-s_4-10643064_20260422145443.jpg Karen Rempel smooches with a passerby on Blossom Dearie’s stoop. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/rempel-kqny-apr-2026-john-hammond_4-10643055_20260422145442.jpg Karen Rempel glows at former home of influential jazz impresario John Hammond, who broke the color barrier for jazz musicians and founded Columbia Records. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/rempel-kqny-apr-2026-sheridan-the_4-10643058_20260422145443.jpg Karen Rempel tipples from a bedazzled flask at St. Vincent’s Triangle, former location of the Sheridan Theatre, where Billie Holiday headlined in 1957. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/rempel-kqny-apr-2026-village-vang_4-10643061_20260422145443.jpg Karen Rempel leans against the Village Vanguard’s customary, beloved hand-lettered sign showing the names of the current week’s jazz performers. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/rempel-kqny-apr-2026-smalls_4-10643067_20260422145444.jpg Karen Rempel strikes a jazz siren pose at the cave-like entrance to Smalls Jazz Club on W. 10th St. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/rempel-kqny-apr-2026-columbia-pho_4-10643052_20260422145442.jpg Karen Rempel celebrates jazz history at the original location of Columbia Phonograph Co. on Fifth Ave, where Billie Holiday was first recorded. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/upper-east-side-rapist-convicted-for-brutal-attack-on-sleeping-nurse-LK5783872 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-04-23T10:40:12-04:00 Upper East Side Rapist Convicted for Brutal Attack on Sleeping Nurse https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/upper-east-side-rape-donovan-murphy-f_4-10651556_20260423234952.jpg Donovan Murphy in the vicinity of First Avenue and East 92nd Street, September 2024. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/donovan-murphy_4-10643652_20260423104012.jpg Surveillance photo of Donovan Murphy, convicted of first degree rape and other charges. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/upper-east-side-rape-donovan-murphy-f_4-10651559_20260423234953.jpg Donovan Murphy in the vicinity of First Avenue and East 92nd Street, September 2024. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/upper-east-side-rape-donovan-murphy-n_4-10651560_20260423234954.jpg https://www.westsidespirit.com/features/healthy-manhattan/the-new-perfect-workout-2-minutes-a-day-can-help-you-live-longer-MI5785538 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-04-23T11:43:03-04:00 The New Perfect Workout: 2 Minutes a Day Can Help You Live Longer https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/3-women-exercising_4-10644772_20260423114250.jpg Recent guidelines said you should undertake at least ten mintues of moderate exercise three times a week to gain long term health benefits. Now a noted sports medicine physician says even two minutes a day will deliver big long term health benefits. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/judge-blocks-movement-of-homeless-intake-center-to-east-3rd-street-MG5787934 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-04-23T18:27:44-04:00 Judge Blocks Movement of Homeless Intake Center to East 3rd Street https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/image-screenshot-2026-04-23-at-4-53-45-pm_4-10651210_20260423165413.png A judge has granted a temporary pause to the conversion of a homeless shelter at 8 E. 3rd St. into the system’s citywide intake center for single adult men, after a lawsuit filed by locals. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/image-tempimagecw3bba-4-10450608-2026030617_4-10651155_20260423165210.webp The movement of services was supposed to coincide with the closure of the crumbling “Bellevue” shelter on E. 30th St., which currently handles intake services. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/bathroom-goals-bill-aims-to-expand-public-toilet-access-for-world-cup-YK5783980 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-04-24T10:38:43-04:00 Bathroom Goals: Bill Aims to Expand Public Toilet Access For World Cup https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/bryant-park-restroom-2023-front_4-10643867_20260422170341.jpg A new City Council bill aims to address a public bathroom gap in New York City before the World Cup kicks off in June. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/9wlmkfal-400x400_4-10643928_20260422171712.jpg The bathroom bill has been introduced by Council Majority Speaker Shaun Abreu, who represents neighborhoods such as the Upper West Side and Morningside Heights. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/penn-station-in-run-up-to-bids-trump-makes-preference-know-FI5785869 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-04-24T12:17:10-04:00 Penn Station: In Run-Up to Bids, Trump Makes Preference Know https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/milimg-5861-5615698-10651592-20260424_4-10646214_20260424133854.png With bids from three designers due on May 4 in the Penn Station redevelopment, President Donald Trump says that he thinks moving Madison Square Garden would be impractical. In the homestretch, Amtrak, which will oversee the project, is tight lipped https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/astm-proposes-a-grand-entrance-to-pen_4-10653446_20260424133913.jpg Halmar early in the process said it proposed buying what was once called the Hulu Theater on the Eighth Ave. side of Penn Station/MSG and building a spacious new entrance on that side of the rail hub, which would seem to coincide with Trump’s latest statement. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/grand-penn-community-alliance_4-10653448_20260424133913.jpg The Grand Penn Alliance, headed by a Trump ally, proposes moving Madison Square Garden across the street to a lot where the Peninsula Hotel once stood and creating a classical architecture look to the nation’s busiest rail hub. https://www.westsidespirit.com/city-arts/three-faces-of-erwan-saunier-immigrant-soccer-coach-artist-IF5788028 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-04-24T16:49:30-04:00 Three Faces of Erwan Saunier: Immigrant, Soccer Coach & Artist https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/6803c892-9e21-46c1-b9d6-622a51b8c9d8_4-10651144_20260424161505.jpg Erwan Saunier in his element, bringing a white horse to life on canvas https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/img-0514_4-10654727_20260424161505.jpg Saunier performing a bicycle kick https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/072e04d0-108a-41b5-ae0c-71d19580522c_4-10654728_20260424162357.jpg Erwan Saunier sharing wisdom with Manhattan Kicker players https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/img-6754_4-10654743_20260424162357.jpg Manhattan Kickers against the city skyline https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/launch-the-boats-ferry-solution-floated-to-beat-150-world-cup-train-fares-DK5792410 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-04-24T17:40:03-04:00 Launch the Boats: Ferry Solution Floated to Beat $150 World Cup Train Fares https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/hgssezxxwaensbl_4-10654760_20260424174005.jpg City Council Member Shaun Abreu is pushing a new ferry service from the UWS to New Jersey during the World Cup in a bid to offset the $150 train tickets being push by NJ Transit. He appears alongsid U.S. Representative Adriano Espaillat (left) and Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal (right). https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/meadowlands-station-terminus_4-10654898_20260424174007.jpg Fan traveling by train to the World Cup who will have to pay $150 for a round trip ticket to Met Life stadium for the eight World Cup matches scheduled to be held there. Regular commuters will be barred from using NJ Transit for four hours before the start of games. Auto travel to the stadium is banned. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/4-candidates-dueling-as-chelsea-west-side-election-goes-down-to-the-wire-EN5791969 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-04-24T18:57:12-04:00 4 Candidates Dueling as Chelsea/West Side Election Goes Down to the Wire https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/city-council-district-3_4-10654909_20260424182015.jpg The four remaining city council district 3 candidates (from left) Leslie Boghosian-Murphy, Leslie Boylan, Layla Law-Gisiko and Carl Wilson. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-04-24-at-4-03-33-pm_4-10654724_20260424160643.png Mamdani shook up the CD 3 Council race by endorsing Lindsey Boylan, one of four candidates in the hunt. But it also injected controversy into the local race as City Council speaker Julie Menin is seeking to override one of his vetoes on a buffer zone bill around schools. https://www.westsidespirit.com/news/archdiocese-to-pastors-raise-millions-for-sexual-abuse-victims-or-go-bankrupt-LF5788692 hourly The Spirit - Westsider en 2026-04-24T19:13:50-04:00 Archdiocese to Pastors: Raise Millions for Sexual Abuse Victims or Go Bankrupt https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/dolan-and-hicks_4-10651415_20260423200043.jpg Cardinal Timothy Dolan (left) sold off real estate and cut staff at the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York over the past two years of his 16 year reign, but it will remain for Archbishop Ronald Hicks (right) to finally bring to a close the sexual abuse scandal. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/terrence-cardinal-cooke-building-wiki_4-10651421_20260423201305.jpg The Roman Catholic Archdiocese HQ, known as the Terrence Cardinal Cooke Building, was sold for $103 million to a developer who plans to turn it into residential housing. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/screenshot-2026-03-04-at-5-28-48-pm-4_4-10654730_20260424161239.webp St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church on E. 83rd St., once home to a weekly mass for the deaf and in the early part of the 20th century a thriving hub of Hungarian worship, was sold to a developer for $11.3 million who is tearing down the church to make way for a seven-story luxury condo. https://www.westsidespirit.com/binrepository/lotte-new-york-palace-hotel_4-10651418_20260423201305.jpg The archdiocese agreed to sell the land beneath the Lotte New York Palace Hotel to the hotel owner for $490 milion in December, one of the last big real estate deal executed by Cardinal Dolan before Pope Leo XIV accepted his resignation.