Posts Tagged ‘shopping’

The West Side’s Quirky Shops Still Live

Written by West Side Spirit on June 21, 2012. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

By Helen Matsumoto and Amanda Woods The Upper West Side’s retail landscape is always changing. Big stores edge out smaller ones on some blocks, while mom-and-pops thrive on others. We set out to find some of the quirkiest shops in the neighborhood. Granny-Made 467 Amsterdam Ave., 212-496-1222, grannymade.com A little girl peered into the window
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A Guide to the Rare and Quirky Shops of NYC

Written by Our Town on June 7, 2012. Posted in Breaking News, News Our Town, Our Town

Shopping for hidden treasures on the Upper East Side By Amanda Woods and Megan Bungeroth Chain stores, traditional gift shops and well-established brand stores are easy to come by on the Upper East Side, but we set out to find something different: quirky, unusual shops selling something new and different. The stores we discovered range
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Not All Is Fair in Street Fairs, Some Say

Written by Megan Finnegan Bungeroth on May 10, 2012. Posted in Breaking News, News & Features West Side Spirit, News Our Town, Our Town, West Side Spirit

Every summer, a string of events hit the city that provide, depending on your perspective, either a fun-filled, leisurely day of shopping, eating and entertainment or a hellish, traffic-jamming, noise-making, government-sanctioned takeover of public places. To many, they are just street fairs. Some love them, many enjoy them, and some scratch their heads with wonder
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Beads of Paradise offers more than you’d expect

Written by admin on January 13, 2012. Posted in Business

I had a shocking admission to make to Joe, who manages the absolutely magical Beads of Paradise shop at 16 E. 17th St.: “I’m not really a ‘bead person.’” As soon as it was out of my mouth, I wondered if I had been unspeakably rude—Beads of Paradise is, as its name strongly suggests, a
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Magic Carpet Ride

Written by admin on July 7, 2010. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Shopping on Ambien reaps unexpected rewards By Susan Braudy Gentle reader, I’m a late night shopper. The computer’s a magic carpet that flies me to Osaka, Kyoto and other parts of the faraway country of Japan. I can almost hear Joe Weintraub snoring next to me as I journey. He’s thankfully unable to protest my
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RETAIL REPORT

Written by admin on November 5, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Although many of the “mom-and-pop” stores that previously lined the West Side’s commercial strips have closed, some new chain stores have opened up in the neighborhood. Michaels Arts and Crafts and discount clothing store TJ Maxx recently opened in the new mixed-use residential development Columbus Village, on Columbus Avenue between West 97th and 100th streets.
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A Few of My Favorite Things

Written by admin on July 8, 2009. Posted in On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

I love summer, a time when I forcibly inject hedonism into my hectic life. I desert John Stuart Mill and even Woody Allen, who believe pleasure is merely the absence of pain. Afternoons I enter Central Park at Sixth Avenue and start breathing pure air deeply. A cardinal and his red-crested wife fly by. A
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Extreme Grocery Shopping

Written by admin on July 8, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

“You can get through life with bad manners, but it’s easier with good manners.” I can’t remember who said this, but I know one thing: they never shopped at Fairway Market at 6 p.m. on a Sunday. I’ve lived on the Upper West Side, off and on, for nearly 15 years. And I’ve always thought
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Attacked While Shopping

Written by admin on May 21, 2009. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

A man was attacked on the northeast corner of Broadway and West 79th Street on May 3 at 1:50 p.m. Police said the 22-year-old man, who lives on Amsterdam Avenue, was shopping near that corner when someone stabbed him twice in the face with an unknown object. The perp fled
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GIFT GUIDE!: BUY IT ON BROADWAY

Written by admin on December 12, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

My family uses the German word “stadtbummel” (city stroll) to mean “We’re wandering in and out of stores on a whim.” Whatever you choose to call it, a stroll along Broadway at this time of year is a handy way to pinpoint gift ideas for every man, woman and child in your life. Let’s bummel
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