Chez Nick, one of the glories of Restaurant Week on the Upper East Side. ( Photo: Chez Nick Instagram) Restaurant Week Takes Upper East & West Sides—for 23 Days! What’s big, brassy, beauteous, and a no-holds-barred invitation to strap on the ol’ feed bag? That’s right, gastronauts and... News 19 Jan 2026 | 02:38
Siblings Shawn (left) and Frank Gorelik opened Brothers Guitar Shop on East 84th Street in 2020. It’s one of three local businesses the entrepreneurs own and operate on the Upper East Side. ( Photo: Lorraine Duffy Merkl) Brothers Guitar Shop Brings Strength of Strings to Upper East Side “Lay down your weary tune,” Bob Dylan wrote, and the Byrds echoed, “Lay down the song you strum. And rest yourself ’neath... News 01 Jan 2026 | 12:43
The Book Cellar, located within the NYPL’s Webster branch, is dedicated to selling pre-owned books at incredible prices to the casual book reader and collectors alike. ( Photo: Lorraine Duffy Merkl) The Book Cellar at Webster Library Is an Underground Hit! The Book Cellar in the basement of New York Public Library Webster Branch in Yorkville is it: a truly underground, as in... News 15 Dec 2025 | 11:44
Convicted “Hazmat Killer” Kimond Cyrus. ( Photo: NYPD) ‘Hazmat Killer’ Sentenced to Prison for East Side Deli Clerk Murder Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. recently announced the sentencing of Kimond Cyrus, 42, to 24-years-to-life... News 08 Dec 2025 | 10:45
Anti-Israel protesters scream and curse at “Zionists” outside Park East Synagogue on Nov. 19, 2025. ( Photo: Combat Anti-Semitism X) Political Blowback Follows Anti-Israel Protest Outside Synagogue Political blowback continues after raucous anti-Israel protesters set themselves up outside the Park East Synagogue on the... News 01 Dec 2025 | 12:48
The newly renovated McCabes Wine & Spirits at the corner of East 77th Street and Third Avenue features aisles wide enough to accommodate a double stroller. ( Photo: McCabes Wine & Spirits) East Siders Flock to McCabes Wine after 16-Month Renovation Welcome back, McCabes—More than 300 people came throughout the day and evening in mid-October to celebrate the grand re-opening... 21 Nov 2025 | 01:11
Cop from the 19th Precinct (left) firing on armed suspect Elijah Brown (right). ( Photo: NYPD) Cops Kill Crazed Gunman on Upper East Side After Multiple Threats A possibly greater tragedy was averted on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, when cops from the 19th Precinct, responding to a 911... News 17 Nov 2025 | 01:27
Regis High entrance at 55 E. 84th St., Nov. 13, 2025. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Tragedy at Regis High as Boy, 16, Falls to Death, Likely Suicide Tragedy came to a nearly idyllic block of the Upper East Side Thursday, Nov. 13, with the shocking news that a Regis High... News 17 Nov 2025 | 12:41
Yorkville birdhouse behind which is 409 E. 81st St; top-floor right apartment boarded up. The occupant of the apartment was responsible for the colorful birdhouses attached to trees up and down the block. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Yorkville Apartment Fire Leaves One Woman Dead, Others Displaced A fifth-floor apartment fire that broke out on a birdhouse-lined block in Yorkville on Wednesday, Nov. 13, has left one... News 17 Nov 2025 | 02:03
Council member Robert F. Holden speaking at Dorothy Kilgallen Way street co-naming. ( Photo: BobHoldenNYC X) Dorothy Kilgallen, ‘Girl Reporter,’ Honored With Street Naming Shout it loud and proud, East Siders, there’s a new street in town, and it celebrates one of our own: the legendary “girl... News 16 Nov 2025 | 02:20
Co-founders and cousins Kim and Tyler Malek. ( Photo: Salt & Straw) Salt & Straw: Innovative Ice Cream Delights Gotham Taste Buds Salt & Straw is almost the perfect embodiment of all the irreverent quirk and unique nostalgia of its founding city, Portland,... News 14 Nov 2025 | 06:08
Miles Wu at the competition’s Public Day, where the projects were judged, and the general public could attend and have the projects presented to them. ( Photo: Lisa Fryklund) UES High School Student Wins National Science Prize Miles Wu of Hunter College High School, who combined origami (the Japanese art of paper folding) and physics to optimize... Home 07 Nov 2025 | 06:27
Left: Wanted for robbery of car-share driver. Right: Wanted for elder assault. ( Photo: Brian Berger) East 93rd St. Robbery; Lexington Ave. Assault The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the individuals in connection with a robbery that occurred... News 27 Oct 2025 | 06:24
Steuben Day preview at Foley Square, Sep. 19 (inset); and the parade proper on Fifth Avenue the next day. ( Photos: Brian Berger) 1000s of Jolly Germans March Up 5th Avenue: Auf die Freundschaft! Fifth Avenue came alive to the sights and sounds of the annual German-American Steuben Day Parade on Saturday, Sept. 20,... News 29 Sep 2025 | 09:08
The brilliant but wanted Jian Wu on the Brooklyn Heights promenade (upper Left); Above: Headquarters of hedge fundTwo Sigma at 100 6th Ave in SoHo where Wu worked before apparently absconding. ( Photos: LinkedIn, Google Maps) UES Finance Executive, Now a Fugitive, Indicted for Massive Hedge Fund Fraud Jian Wu was a brilliant but apparently flawed Ivy league computer and mathematics genius, originally from China, who lived... News 24 Sep 2025 | 08:38
