How to Have an Offbeat Valentine’s Day

Written by Alissa Fleck on February 6, 2013. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, News OTDT, News Our Town, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Shun the conventional dates this Feb. 14 Whether you’ve been with your significant other for a while or you’re spending Valentine’s Day with someone you just met on the train—or even if you’re single but ready to mingle—you don’t want to go on the same old boring dates year after year. If you’re into committing
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Crime Watch: Broadway Apple Bank Branch Robbed

Written by Megan Finnegan Bungeroth on June 13, 2012. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

Bank Robbery of the Week Continuing a pattern of small-time bank robberies in the 20th Precinct, a man robbed an Apple Bank branch on Broadway in the middle of the day last Monday. The perpetrator wrote on a deposit slip and handed it to a teller, but instead of the standard account info, the slip
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Crime Watch

Written by Allen Houston on April 12, 2012. Posted in Crime Watch our town, Crime Watch West Side Spirit

iPhone Bandit Still on Prowl Keep your cell phones in your pockets. The iPhone “Lone Ranger” is still on the loose, working the 90s between Third Avenue and Riverside Drive. The thief rides up to people on a bike while they are chatting on the phone and snatches it out of their hand mid-conversation, making
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Scamming Seniors: How sharks in the water are targeting older Upper East & West Siders

Written by Megan Finnegan Bungeroth on March 14, 2012. Posted in Breaking News, Crime Watch OTDT, Crime Watch our town, Crime Watch West Side Spirit, Dwell OTDT, Family, Lifestyle, News & Features West Side Spirit, News OTDT, News Our Town, Seniors, West Side Spirit

New York is a city with a booming elderly population—there are over 3.4 million people over the age of 65 living here. With that aging population come the predators who single out older victims for their nefarious swindles. In an age of small-time Internet scams and big-time Ponzi schemes, everyone is a potential victim of
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MARY WHEELER poured coffee for a year and a half and no, she doesn’t care how you take it

Written by admin on December 28, 2011. Posted in 8 Million Stories, Breaking News

By Mary Wheeler My alarm would go off every morning at 5:20 a.m. I would throw on a grimy brown T-shirt, often still stained from the night before, dingy Nike sneakers and too-tight jeans. My blonde hair was carelessly thrown into a ponytail or braid, I wore no makeup and usually chipped nail polish. To
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‘Chirp’ Your Property Price

Written by admin on February 17, 2010. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

If you have ever taken a cab in New York City, chances are you have seen advertisements for Bid on the City, a real estate service that lets you bid on high-end commercial and residential properties in New York City. If the owner accepts your bid on a property, which is typically worth hundreds of
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8 Million Stories: Craigslist and Cranberry Sauce

Written by Royal Young on November 24, 2009. Posted in 8 Million Stories, Posts

ROYAL YOUNG couldn’t even guess who was coming to dinner (until it was too late)
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