MODEL TRAIN STATION

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Grand Central Terminal will become the home of Lionel’s Electric Train this holiday season. From Nov. 24 through Dec. 19, a display at the Transit Museum next door to Grand Central will feature nine of Lionel’s trains, including the popular Polar Express and brand new models of Metro North’s M7 and New York City Subway’s
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CIGARETTE BREAK-IN

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

A witness heard a man breaking into a news kiosk on the southeast corner of Broadway and West 80th Street. On Oct. 30 at 4 a.m., a man dressed in a black hat and raincoat allegedly entered the stand and left with a big plastic bag. Police said the thief stole 10 cartons of Marlboro
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OUT OF TIMEPIECES

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

Police said a man had all three of his pricey watches swiped by two women he and his brother invited to his West 73rd Street apartment. On Oct. 25 at 2 a.m., one of the guests asked for an unsupervised tour of the apartment. About 10 minutes later, the guests left the apartment, and the
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IN AND OUT BANK HEIST

Written by admin on November 21, 2008. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, News & Features West Side Spirit

Police said a man robbed an HSBC bank on 2025 Broadway at West 70th Street with nothing more than a note. On Oct. 29 at 2:45 p.m., the man simply walked into the branch and handed a teller a folded piece of paper. The teller promptly handed over $3,600 to the robber, who ran out
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THE DISAPPEARING CITY

Written by admin on November 13, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

For once, I had some time to kill the other day, so I wound up at the Museum of Natural History, looking for the old Indian canoe in the south entrance hall. It’s just one of those things you expect will always be there if you grow up in the city. I remember peering over
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PROUD PROF

Written by admin on November 13, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Capt. John Walsh, a veteran of the U.S. Army Military Police Corps and the New York City Police Department, watches the annual Veterans Day Parade along Fifth Avenue. Walsh is also a professor at John Jay College. Photo By: Andrew Schwartz
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CEC BACKS SCHOOL MOVE

Written by admin on November 13, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

District 3’s Community Education Council has drafted a recommendation endorsing a controversial plan to remove the Center School, a small middle school, from the West 70th Street building it currently shares with P.S. 199. The move is intended to alleviate crowding in P.S. 199. The tentative plan, as described in the drafted resolution endorsed by
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RIVERSIDE SOUTH MEETING PUSHED BACK

Written by admin on November 13, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

The City Planning Commission’s scoping meeting for the Riverside South development has been tentatively pushed back to Jan. 15, 2009. The original date was planned for Dec. 11, but Council Member Gale Brewer asked for the meeting to be delayed until the holiday season had passed, giving more time to inform the West Side community.
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STRINGER FOR BP, AGAIN

Written by admin on November 13, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit, Politics

After weeks of speculation that Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer would run for either public advocate or comptroller, he announced on Nov. 6 that he would seek re-election in 2009. Stringer, in his first term as borough president, shelved his citywide ambitions when term limits were extended by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a move he supported
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G&T PROGRAMS

Written by admin on November 13, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Two City Council members have penned a letter to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein criticizing Department of Education policies that they argue have decreased the diversity of the city’s gifted and talented (G&T) programs. “Despite being forewarned by academics, parents, advocates and other stakeholders that the proposed changes would not have the desired effect, DOE proceeded
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