Paradise Lost and Found in Off-Broadway Musical

Written by admin on April 22, 2010. Posted in Blog

F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, those soaring phoenixes of twenties-era prohibition America, who ended their days in something straight out of The Great Gatsby author’s own novels (he drinking himself to death and she locked away in a mental institute) are now the subject of an off-Broadway musical at the Theatre at St. Clements on
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Fighting Back Against Landmark Efforts

Written by admin on April 20, 2010. Posted in Blog

The West Park Presbyterian community held a protest April 17, just days before a City Council subcommittee was scheduled to hold its first hearing on the church’s landmark designation. A member of the church’s governing board, Hugo Meneses, was arrested for attempting to paint, “Stop Gale Brewer’s Forced Landmarking,” on the sidewalk shed around the
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Central Park Tennis Bubble Like ‘Post-it Note on a Picasso’

Written by admin on April 16, 2010. Posted in Blog

Mel Wymore, chair of Community Board 7, told East Side community board members April 15 that more time was needed to review a controversial proposal to cover the Central Park tennis courts with bubbles during the winter. “It is about the taking of public property and making it private, and that is a consideration that
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A Sporting Attitude About Children's Education

Written by admin on April 12, 2010. Posted in Blog

Batter up! Our sister publication New York Family Sports has this cover profile on the Public School System’s year-old Business of Sports School
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Ansonia Left Out of Census Database

Written by admin on April 8, 2010. Posted in Blog

The Ansonia—one of the Upper West Side’s most well-known, architecturally significant buildings—does not even exist according to the Census Bureau. On April 1, New York 1 reported that residents of the 17-story, approximately 450,000 square-foot building, at 2109 Broadway between West 73rd and 74th streets, never received a census form because of a mailing error.
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Parking Garage Wall Collapse

Written by admin on April 7, 2010. Posted in Blog

The wall of a parking garage on West 68th Street and Freedom Place near Riverside Drive collapsed, a fire department spokesperson said. The two-story wall collapsed in the afternoon. The fire department was on the scene at 4 p.m. There are no reported injuries. New York City news blog Gothamist.com has photos from the scene
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Nadler Sells Health Care Bill to West Siders

Written by admin on April 7, 2010. Posted in Blog, Politics

Across the nation, Democratic members of Congress are defending their support for health care reform to constituents during the Easter recess. But while many Democrats in more conservative districts stuck their necks out by voting for the historic bill, Rep. Jerrold Nadler is defending the legislation to liberal Upper West Side voters who believe it
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Taste of Brooklyn

Written by admin on April 1, 2010. Posted in Blog

The Brooklyn Flea vendors who peddle haute foodie fare, like Asian-inspired hotdogs, pupusas and lobster rolls, are headed to Central Park this summer, the New York Times recently reported. Six Brooklyn Flea regulars will be providing food at the free Central Park SummerStage concert series, now celebrating its 25th anniversary
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Down Under on the Upper West Side

Written by admin on March 31, 2010. Posted in Blog

Earlier today, an odd package arrived at our offices. Inside was a plush orange spray-painted cow named Bruce, who brought news of a new Upper West Side eatery: the Sunburnt Calf, at 226 W. 79th St. (former home to Indian restaurant Bagicha)
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West Side School Picked for PCB Removal

Written by admin on March 31, 2010. Posted in Blog, News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

P.S. 199 will be part of a study to target and remove PCBs, a cancer-causing substance, throughout public schools in the five boroughs. Two years ago, the man-made chemical was found in the Upper West Side school, at 270 W. 70th St. between West End and Amsterdam avenues. An investigation revealed that the school was
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