A LOOK AT LOCAL RACES

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

We asked each of the candidates running for Congress and State Legislature to tell us their top three priorities for the district. And, to make things a little more fun, we also asked them to pick a campaign theme song. Responses have been edited for style and brevity
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GROWING RIFT OVER P.S. 199 CROWDING PROPOSALS

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

The Department of Education’s preliminary proposals for tackling overcrowding in District 3 have led to escalating tension between parents at P.S. 199 and The Center School, whose children share a building on West 70th Street. Various factions from the two schools sharply disagree on whether The Center School should be moved to alleviate the space
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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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CRIME CHECK

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

Weekly, monthly and year-to-date crime stats from the 20th Precinct, on the West Side from West 59th to 86th streets
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GOING APE OVER HALLOWEEN

Written by admin on October 30, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Last week, students from the Goddard Riverside Head Start Program met with Curious George at the American Museum of Natural History as part of a preview for the museum’s 13th annual Halloween Celebration. During the Oct. 31 festivities, all four floors of the museum will open for trick-or-treating, arts and crafts and activities, with live
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LAST MINUTE TERM-LIMIT DECISION

Written by admin on October 30, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit, Politics

When Council Member Gale Brewer was about to explain her vote on term limits, she said she had two speeches in front of her eyes: one in support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s bill to extend term limits, and one against the measure. She eventually read from the speech that explained her “no” vote, though she
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FAMILY-FRIENDLY PARADE

Written by admin on October 30, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

The Riverside Park Fund invites families in need of a PG-alternative to the Village’s Halloween Parade to its annual Oct. 31 gathering. Lions, tigers, pirates and ghosts will follow a group of bagpipers from the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at West 89th Street to the Hippo Playground at West 91st Street. At the end of
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BARNARD’S NEW PRESIDENT

Written by admin on October 30, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Debora Spar was inaugurated as Barnard College’s seventh president on Oct. 23 at Riverside Church. Before her inauguration, Spar was the Spangler family professor of business administration and a senior associate dean for faculty research and development at Harvard Business School. After the ceremony, her inauguration was celebrated at a street party on Claremont Avenue
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YORK PREP TURNS 40

Written by admin on October 30, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

The York Prep School celebrated its 40th anniversary with a reunion on Sept. 27. Alumni, teachers and school founders Ronald and Jayme Stewart gathered in the gymnasium to reminisce about the school, which is now at 40 W. 68th Street. Anyone who graduated prior to 1997 got a chance to explore the new building that
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POLS RALLY FOR TENANT BILL

Written by admin on October 30, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit, Politics

Tenants who have fought in court against baseless charges of breaking rent-stabilization regulations may get new protections, if the State Legislature passes a pending bill. The bill would force landlords to pay up to three times the tenant’s legal fees. State Sen. Tom Duane and Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh, the bill’s sponsors, held a rally
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