Motorcycles Stolen from West Side

Written by admin on April 28, 2010. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

In recent weeks, thieves have been lifting motorcycles parked on Upper East Side streets into vans and driving off. Now motorcycles are starting to disappear on the Upper West Side as well
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Man Violently Assaulted, Robbed

Written by admin on April 28, 2010. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

A 52-year-old Upper West Side man was attacked with a baseball bat in a mugging near his home. Police said that April 21 at 2:25 p.m., the man was fighting with two other men in front of 119 W. 71st St. and Columbus Avenue, across the street from his apartment
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Four Arrested for Subway Stabbing

Written by admin on April 28, 2010. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

Four people were arrested and charged with gang assault for an April 20 stabbing on a train along the Central Park West subway line. The victim, a 21-year-old Brooklyn man, told police he was at the West 72nd Street stop, at Central Park West, when a group of teens surrounded him. He said the group
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Son Attacks Father, Doorman

Written by admin on April 28, 2010. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

A 38-year-old man was arrested and charged with assault for hitting his father and the building’s doorman. Police said that April 24 at 9 a.m., an intoxicated Hamed Siljkovic was arguing with his 61-year-old father in his West End Avenue apartment, on the corner of West 84th Street. Siljkovic then allegedly punched his father and
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Bagel Store Burglarized

Written by admin on April 28, 2010. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

A bagel shop, 72nd Street Bagels, was burglarized April 18. Police said an employee opened up the store to find that the front door’s cylinder was popped. The register, containing approximately $800, was cleaned out. There was also damage to the office’s doorframe in the basement, though nothing was stolen
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Purse Snatching on Wheels

Written by admin on April 28, 2010. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

A woman was targeted by a purse-snatcher on two wheels. April 21 at 2:30 p.m., the 24-year-old Queens woman was on the northeast corner of West End Avenue and West 72nd Street when a man on a green bicycle approached her from behind. Cops said he swiped the bag she was holding in her hand
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Lofts Ain’t What They Used to Be

Written by admin on April 28, 2010. Posted in Arts & Film, Lifestyle, Music

Time was a Manhattan jazz loft, a downbeat, drafty, dingy, semi-dangerous place, was where you might hear anything, meet anyone and afterward end up anywhere. That’s why you dropped by. Today the Manhattan jazz loft is different: renovated, formalized, upscale. But drift back to the Jazz Loft, a bohemian hangout in the flower district from
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Lofts Ain’t What They Used to Be

Written by admin on April 28, 2010. Posted in Uncategorized

Time was a Manhattan jazz loft, a downbeat, drafty, dingy, semi-dangerous place, was where you might hear anything, meet anyone and afterward end up anywhere. That’s why you dropped by. Today the Manhattan jazz loft is different: renovated, formalized, upscale. But drift back to the Jazz Loft, a bohemian hangout in the flower district from
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Manhattan Moolah

Written by admin on April 28, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Money may not grow on trees, but in Manhattan I keep finding it at my feet. A native Californian, I now live and work on the Upper West Side as a full-time nanny. My workday is spent pushing a bright pink stroller, passing strangers I will probably never meet. Still, I didn’t give a second
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Fried Chicken with Buzz

Written by admin on April 28, 2010. Posted in Eat & Drink

On the sidewalk outside the Manhattan branch of Kyochon (there are 1,000 in Korea, seven in L.A.), I felt like I was both in an airport check-in line and entering a new Apple store. You stand in a cordoned off queue, and when you finally make it to the doorway, a pert female with a
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