More Than Antiques

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, News Our Town, Our Town, West Side Spirit

More & More Antiques offers surprisingly charming finds at low prices By Laura Shanahan Saints preserve us! Specifically, miniaturized versions of saints that appear to be hand-carved of an especially soothing-green translucent jade, (but are in fact “plastique”), accented with metallic gold touches. Find these approximately two-inch high Peruvian religious and cultural totems at More
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Op Ed: City Getting Greener

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in News Our Town, Our Town

There are exciting new ways that NYC is becoming more environmentally friendly – and still more we can all do. By Dan Garodnick In my tenure in the City Council, I have worked hard to push the envelope on ways to protect the environment — from authoring the City’s Green Energy Code, to requiring new
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Friendly Competition

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in News Our Town, Our Town

Upper East Side author Meg Wolizter explores friendship and jealousy in her novel set in NYC By Beth Mellow What if your childhood best friend grew up to be way more successful than you are? Would you be able to stay friends or would you let your envy destroy the relationship? It is that exact
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Residents Say “No” to Cancer Center Gridlock

Written by Joanna Fantozzi on May 8, 2013. Posted in News Our Town, Our Town

Community Board 8 task force strikes down MSK-CUNY zoning change proposal It’s no secret that some Upper East Siders are skeptical, at best, of the Memorial Sloan Kettering-City University of New York medical center and educational complex that may be going up on 73rd to 74th Streets Street and York. In fact, 136 residents have
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Nannies Under Suspicion

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, News Our Town, Our Town, West Side Spirit

After an Upper West Side nanny allegedly murdered two young children last year, parents and nannies navigate the lingering fears and tensions By Amy Eley Kyrie Vickers, 25, spends weekday afternoons playing with the 1-year-old boy she cares for in an Upper West Side apartment. Vickers and the boy play only blocks away from the
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Community Calendar

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in News Our Town, Our Town

Community Board 8 Small Business Committee Forum, Thursday, May 9, 7 p.m., Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, 331 East 70th Street (First-Second), Auditorium Community Board 8 Youth & Education Committee meeting, Monday, May 13, 7 p.m., New York Blood Center, 310 East 67th Street (First-Second), Auditorium Community Board 8 Environment & Sanitation Committee meeting, with presentation
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Kellner Touts Betting Machine Bill

Written by NYPress on May 8, 2013. Posted in News Our Town, Our Town

Upper East Side Assembly Member Micah Kellner renewed his call allow betting machines back in New York City bars. A member of the Assembly’s Racing & Wagering Committee, Kellner announced that he is introducing legislation to allow pari-mutuel betting machines at New York City bars where they were previously installed before the closure of the
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The Water is Coming

Written by Alissa Fleck on May 8, 2013. Posted in News Our Town, Our Town

The East River Blueway Plan establishes community-based framework for East River waterfront “The water is coming,” said Eric Klinenberg to community members and elected officials gathered at Cooper Union last week. Klinenberg, an NYU professor and author to one of the most famous essays about rebuilding New York City after Hurricane Sandy, went on to
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The Sixth Scare

Written by NYPress on May 1, 2013. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, News Our Town, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

In his sixth—and possibly final?—fright film Lords of Salem, filmmaker-slash-musician Rob Zombie, a onetime Manhattan resident, ventures into the dream realm. By Rachel Sokol While Rob Zombie is synonymous with the ‘90s heavy metal band White Zombie, or as a writer and director with horror movies full of gore, the eclectic former Parsons School of
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Tips for Working With Today’s Campers

Written by NYPress on May 1, 2013. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, News Our Town, Our Town, West Side Spirit

By Bob Ditter I remember when it occurred to me that working as a camp counselor was more than just having fun with campers. I was a first-year counselor at a boys’ resident sailing camp on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. One of the boys in my cabin had the unfortunate luck of being both impulsive
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