SHAKE SHACK CREATES A STIR

Written by admin on October 30, 2008. Posted in Eat & Drink, News & Features West Side Spirit

It was 3 o’clock on a Saturday afternoon, and the normally placid corner of 77th Street and Columbus Avenue was thronged. Despite a driving rain, mothers with strollers jockeyed with twenty-somethings and retired folk in a line that extended around the corner and halfway down the block to Amsterdam Avenue. A Miley Cyrus album signing?
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SQUEEZED-IN SCHOOLS FIND ROOM TO GROW

Written by admin on October 16, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

Finding space in New York City is difficult for all renters, whether they are individual apartment hunters or commercial businesses, but the task is especially hard for community organizations, including schools. Two private schools, however, recently leased space at Columbus Village, a new mixed-use development project on the Upper West Side. Columbus Village is being
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Opana: A Brief History

Written by Matt Elzweig on March 12, 2008. Posted in A Trip Through the Archives, Breaking News

Opana goes by names like "Stop Signs" "Octagons" and "Baby Blues"on the street.

Opana – a powerful painkiller that went on the market less than two years ago – is twice as strong as OxyContin, with a potential for addiction that rivals the prescription drug that has ravaged the lives of thousands of abusers. Little is yet known about the potential for Opana abuse, because of its relatively
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