Posts Tagged ‘Upper West Side’

Woman killed in Motorcycle Crash

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A woman was killed and two people were injured when a van crashed into a motorcycle on Saturday around 10:30 p.m. The motorcycle, carrying a man and a woman, was traveling north on West End Avenue, while the van was heading south on West End Avenue and they met at 65th Street, according to police
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Sparrows Signal New Home

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When nature is sparse, street signs and schoolyards make the perfect nest—at least on the Upper West Side. A family of house sparrows has joined the latest slew of animals to find shelter in the neighborhood
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New Anti-Landmark Graffiti

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Anti-landmark graffiti is back on the church that is pitting neighborhood preservationists against the congregation’s leader. The message “Stop Gale Brewer’s Forced Landmarking” was painted on the sidewalk shed that hugs West Park Presbyterian Church, on West 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue
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Who Gets In?

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District 3, which encompasses the Upper West Side and most of Harlem, currently has no high school that gives special consideration to area students—and the local parent council doesn’t like it. On June 17, the district’s Community Education Council and Presidents’ Council approved a request asking the Department of Education to give local students priority
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PUBLIC GETS FIRST LOOK AT RIVERSIDE SOUTH

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Upper West Siders got their first glimpse of the size and scope of Extell’s Riverside South development at an Oct. 30 meeting of Community Board 7’s Riverside South Working Group. About 100 citizens gathered to see Extell’s 8.2-acre proposal to build four residential glass towers and one commercial tower, plus 3.2 acres of public open
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