A UPS cargo bike in Rome, Italy. How would their bigger cousins change New York? ( Photo via NYC DOT) CB8 Considers DOT’s Cargo Bike Rules, With Public Comment Period Coming to a Close As the one-month public comment period on DOT’s full authorization of cargo pedal-assist bikes comes to a close on September... News 08 Sep 2023 | 10:22
Giuliani’s Co-Op in a landmarked building at 45 E.66th St. went on the block in late July from Sotheby’s seeking $6.5 million. Photo: Beau Matic Giuliani’s UES Co-Op Listed For $6.5 Million Could Take Up to a Year to Sell Rudy Giuliani, who put his Upper East Side co-op on the market laate last month for $6.5 million amid mounting legal woes,... News 18 Aug 2023 | 04:30
Woman “instantly paralyzed” from attack by subway fiend is a graphic artist fighting for her life A 35-year-old woman who was attacked by a crazed subway shover is fighting for her life. Suspect Kamal Semrade was arrested... News 25 May 2023 | 02:41
PS 267 on E. 63rd St. where former PTA co-treasurer Marc Haynes was sentenced to 2 1/2 to 5 years in prison for stealing nearly $186,000 from the school’s PTA fund between Oct. 2020 to July 2021. Photo: NY Post/Google Maps. Former PTA Co-President Heading to Prison for Stealing $$$ from UES Elementary School Fund A former co-president of the PTA at an Upper East Side elementary school was sentenced to 2 1/2 to five years in prison after... News 19 Apr 2023 | 04:44
Powerhouse gallerist Isabelle Bscher now co-runs a gallery on the upper East Side that is carrying on the art world tradition started by her grandmother who founded the first Galerie Gmurzynska in Cologne, Germany. It is now has three galleries based in Switzerland and one in NYC. Photo: Gilles Bensimon Art in her DNA: UES dealer traces roots to grandma’s gallery in Germany Gallerist Isabelle Bscher jokes that she learned to walk at Art Basel, the international art show in Miami where her family... News 10 Apr 2023 | 03:47
Nurses are returning to work after ending strikes at Mount Sinai on the Upper East Side and Montefiore in the Bronx. Photo: Kay Bontemp Nurses Settle at Mount Sinai and Montefiore After 3 Day Strike Striking nurses at Mount Sinai in Manhattan and Montefiore in the Bronx reached a tentative agreement on Jan. 12, ending... News 12 Jan 2023 | 06:05
Todd J. Stein is campaigning as a community advocate. Photo courtesy of Todd J. Stein For Men Only, District Leader Race in the 76th AD Political potpourri – Welcome 2023 and all the politics that comes with it. The most hyperlocal of the political races this... Voices 30 Dec 2022 | 09:52
West Side Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal (right) and Queens State Senator Michael Gianaris advocated for a new bill banning the sale of animals in pet stores. Photo via Linda B. Rosenthal on Twitter Quart Takes the Bench ... No More Dogs for Sale ... NY Reads Taking up the gavel – UES Assembly Member Dan Quart is moving on. While still a resident of the 73rd AD, which he’s represented... Voices 19 Dec 2022 | 07:58
Jimmy Mulzet at home with his book. Photo: Zachary Weg Jimmy Mulzet’s Improbable Life of Adventure As he shows in his recent uplifting memoir, “Facing the Challenge, Beating the Odds: The Jimmy Mulzet Story” (Archway Publishing,... News 15 Dec 2022 | 12:11
Flyer for the East 67th Street Market The East 67th Street Market’s Back! To Market, To Market to Buy – as the old nursery rhyme goes, contemplates going to market to buy and sell produce. But that... Voices 04 Dec 2022 | 10:04
Guests view exhibit at Beyond the Bricks launch at Ryan’s Daughter on the Upper East Side. Photo: Karen Camela Watson Beyond the Bricks: An Art Collaboration The pub was full – the latest hotspot-on-a-Saturday-night kind of full. But this was Wednesday, and there was no dancing,... News 19 Nov 2022 | 04:26
Governor Kathy Hochul and William Hochul with Mirso Lekic (center) at Tudor City Steakhouse. Photo courtesy of Tudor City Steakhouse Highlights of a Political Season Mother knows best – Congratulations to Russell Squire who was re-elected to a second term as Chair of Community Board 8.... Voices 18 Nov 2022 | 09:34
Governor Kathy Hochul with Rep. Carolyn Maloney (right) on the Upper East Side on Election Day. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Manhattan’s Blue Tsunami Early in the morning on Election Day, Governor Kathy Hochul addressed what was shaping up to be a competitive race between... News 10 Nov 2022 | 04:17
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, after his primary win in August. Photo via Nadler’s Twitter Midterm Election Races To Watch After a long summer with not one, but two primary elections, the November 8 midterm election is now around the corner. There... News 21 Oct 2022 | 02:59
Madame Rouillé, by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr. A Gift That Keeps Giving It’s literally the chance of a lifetime to see a collection of drawings in a history-making promised gift. The Frick Collection,... City Arts 19 Oct 2022 | 11:10
