Anti-Israel protesters scream and curse at “Zionists” outside Park East Synagogue on Nov. 19, 2025. ( Photo: Combat Anti-Semitism X) Political Blowback Follows Anti-Israel Protest Outside Synagogue Political blowback continues after raucous anti-Israel protesters set themselves up outside the Park East Synagogue on the... News 01 Dec 2025 | 12:48
Cop from the 19th Precinct (left) firing on armed suspect Elijah Brown (right). ( Photo: NYPD) Cops Kill Crazed Gunman on Upper East Side After Multiple Threats A possibly greater tragedy was averted on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, when cops from the 19th Precinct, responding to a 911... News 17 Nov 2025 | 01:27
Regis High entrance at 55 E. 84th St., Nov. 13, 2025. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Tragedy at Regis High as Boy, 16, Falls to Death, Likely Suicide Tragedy came to a nearly idyllic block of the Upper East Side Thursday, Nov. 13, with the shocking news that a Regis High... News 17 Nov 2025 | 12:41
Yorkville birdhouse behind which is 409 E. 81st St; top-floor right apartment boarded up. The occupant of the apartment was responsible for the colorful birdhouses attached to trees up and down the block. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Yorkville Apartment Fire Leaves One Woman Dead, Others Displaced A fifth-floor apartment fire that broke out on a birdhouse-lined block in Yorkville on Wednesday, Nov. 13, has left one... News 17 Nov 2025 | 02:03
Council member Robert F. Holden speaking at Dorothy Kilgallen Way street co-naming. ( Photo: BobHoldenNYC X) Dorothy Kilgallen, ‘Girl Reporter,’ Honored With Street Naming Shout it loud and proud, East Siders, there’s a new street in town, and it celebrates one of our own: the legendary “girl... News 16 Nov 2025 | 02:20
Co-founders and cousins Kim and Tyler Malek. ( Photo: Salt & Straw) Salt & Straw: Innovative Ice Cream Delights Gotham Taste Buds Salt & Straw is almost the perfect embodiment of all the irreverent quirk and unique nostalgia of its founding city, Portland,... News 14 Nov 2025 | 06:08
Miles Wu at the competition’s Public Day, where the projects were judged, and the general public could attend and have the projects presented to them. ( Photo: Lisa Fryklund) UES High School Student Wins National Science Prize Miles Wu of Hunter College High School, who combined origami (the Japanese art of paper folding) and physics to optimize... Home 07 Nov 2025 | 06:27
Steuben Day preview at Foley Square, Sep. 19 (inset); and the parade proper on Fifth Avenue the next day. ( Photos: Brian Berger) 1000s of Jolly Germans March Up 5th Avenue: Auf die Freundschaft! Fifth Avenue came alive to the sights and sounds of the annual German-American Steuben Day Parade on Saturday, Sept. 20,... News 29 Sep 2025 | 09:08
The brilliant but wanted Jian Wu on the Brooklyn Heights promenade (upper Left); Above: Headquarters of hedge fundTwo Sigma at 100 6th Ave in SoHo where Wu worked before apparently absconding. ( Photos: LinkedIn, Google Maps) UES Finance Executive, Now a Fugitive, Indicted for Massive Hedge Fund Fraud Jian Wu was a brilliant but apparently flawed Ivy league computer and mathematics genius, originally from China, who lived... News 24 Sep 2025 | 08:38
Victims of stolen car wheels ring: July 24, opposite 130 East End Ave.; Aug. 14, near 418 E. 88th St. ( Photos: LanaGet Next Door; Subtantial_Zebra_14 Reddit) Cops to UES: Crime Wave Targets Auto Wheels/Tires The stories have been circulating on the internet for a couple of months now: a gang or gangs of skilled thieves stealing... News 17 Aug 2025 | 03:22
Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, who lived on the UES, was said to be planning a trip home to her native Ireland before she died. The 33-year-old fashion designer was found unconscious on board a boat at the tony Montauk Yacht Club in the early-morning hours of Aug. 5 and could not be revived. ( Photo: Facebook) Fashion Designer Found Unconscious on Boat in Montauk Yacht Club Dies Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, a 33-year-old fashion entrepreneur from the Upper East Side, was found unconscious aboard a boat... News 11 Aug 2025 | 03:43
Left: Lewis D. Reynolds, arrested for elder assault. Right: Lamont “Tip Dawg” Thornton, allegedly murdered by his son. ( Photos: NYPD, GoFundMe) Maniac Who Punched Senior at UES Apple Store Arrested; Patricide in Rangel Houses Unhinged and unhoused, a man suspected of socking a 94-year-old senior citizen in the face at an Upper East Side Apple Store... News 11 Aug 2025 | 01:01
The bathroom crack that became a crevasse. ( Photos: ByCarolynD TikTok) UES Woman Bugs Out After Bathroom Ceiling Collapse Unleashes Cockroaches An Upper East Side woman recently bugged out of her studio apartment after the collapse of wet ceiling board in her bathroom... News 10 Aug 2025 | 05:17
Wanted for attempted rape near Madison Avenue and East 109th Street. ( Photos: NYPD) Sexual Assault in East Harlem; Taxi Driver Stabbed in Yorkville The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the vicious fiend wanted in connection with a sexual assault... News 04 Aug 2025 | 11:04
Police investigate the aftermath of a tire theft on East 71st Street near York Avenue. ( Photo: Nextdoor) Wheel Bad: Tire Thefts Surge on UES and UWS A rash of tire thefts has hit both the Upper East and Upper West sides over the past several weeks, according to posts circulating... News 14 Jul 2025 | 03:58
