The local celebrityAstoria spotted on April 16th in a tree on E. 66th St. ( Photo: @BirdCentralPark on X) Wild Turkey Roaming Streets of Manhattan Since Sunday morning, a turkey is walking and flying accros the East Side of Manhattan. The turkey in question isn’t a random... News 16 Apr 2025 | 05:01
Principal Max strikes a pose. His energy and effervescence are completely unfeigned. ( ccourtesy Maximilian Re-Sigiuara) Motivation 101 with Maximilian Re-Sugiura, Principal of High School of Art & Design So your kid wants to be an artist, eh? Before piling on the discouragement—but how will you make you living?!— as many loving... News 07 Apr 2025 | 02:13
Peter Costiglio (third from left) and wife of 54 years, Barbara, to his right with their nine grandchildren at a family gathering in a restaurant in White Plains, NY, following a high school graduation ceremony for one of his grandchidren in June, 2023. ( Photo: Courtesy Paul Costiglio) Farewell to Peter Costiglio, PR Giant and True Gentleman The news came with a jolt. Peter Costiglio, veteran PR maven that I had dealt with for 40 years covering the media industry... News 24 Mar 2025 | 02:31
Suspect in Blue Mercury store robbery, 1566 Third Ave., Feb. 11, 2025. ( NYPD) Bodega Stab Suspect Caught, Blue Mercury Store Robbed; Ex-Regis Teacher Pleads Guilty East Harlem Bodega Clerk Survives Stabbing, Cops Nab Perp A brutal attack on an East Harlem bodega clerk on March 19 in the... News 23 Mar 2025 | 01:15
Keith Powers (rear), the term-limited City Council District 4 member, has not endorsed anyone in the Council race, but is instead spending time on the campaign trail with five of six of them. Here he campaigns with Ben Wetzler on the Upper East Side. ( Photo: Ben Weltzer campaign) Petitioning Underway by Six for Open East Side Council Seat The Power’s on: In 2017 Keith Powers, CD4’s current Council member, ran in a primary against a crowded field of eight candidates,... Voices 03 Mar 2025 | 04:02
Left and center: Herald Square Puncher, Jan. 17. Right: 86th Street Slasher, Feb. 10. ( NYPD) MTA Workers Attacked at Herald Square & E. 86th St. Subway Stations, Maniacs Still on Loose THE 34th STREET - HERALD SQUARE PUNCHER... News 17 Feb 2025 | 02:11
Lily Tuck, an UES resident who is a past winner of a National Book Award for fiction, has at 86 years old, just had her latest novel, “The Rest is Memory” published by an imprint of W.W. Norton & Co. ( Photo: National Book Foundation) Award Winning Author Reveals New Novel Was Sparked by a Single Image of Young Girl Tragically, it happened: the holocaust that killed eleven million innocent people in World War 11. From “Schindler’s List”... City Arts 02 Jan 2025 | 12:43
St. Catherine’s Park will receive $3.6 million to improve infrastructure, particularly the construction of a multi-use pickleball court. ( Photo: NYC Parks Department) City Council Allots Over $25M to Improve 29 UES Projects from Parks to Museums Over $25 million worth of city funding will go to improvements and programming on the Upper East Side, announced Council... News 03 Jul 2024 | 04:01
Outside Caffe Aronne, a long line of supporters that stretches across the block. (Priyanka Rajput) ( Priyanka Rajput) People rally to support a Jewish-owned UES Café After Pro-Palestine Baristas Quit A line of customers stretches down the block from the northeast corner of 71st St. and Lexington Ave. outside the UES coffee... News 09 Nov 2023 | 07:03
Outside the 2nd Ave Deli. Photo: Instagram/2ndavedeli Jewish Deli on 1st Avenue Vandalized with Hate Symbols When Jeremy Lebewohl walked into his Deli on October 17, he was shocked to see three hate symbols–a swastika, a text scribbled... News 20 Oct 2023 | 03:35
A UPS cargo bike in Rome, Italy. How would their bigger cousins change New York? ( Photo via NYC DOT) CB8 Considers DOT’s Cargo Bike Rules, With Public Comment Period Coming to a Close As the one-month public comment period on DOT’s full authorization of cargo pedal-assist bikes comes to a close on September... News 08 Sep 2023 | 10:22
Giuliani’s Co-Op in a landmarked building at 45 E.66th St. went on the block in late July from Sotheby’s seeking $6.5 million. Photo: Beau Matic Giuliani’s UES Co-Op Listed For $6.5 Million Could Take Up to a Year to Sell Rudy Giuliani, who put his Upper East Side co-op on the market laate last month for $6.5 million amid mounting legal woes,... News 18 Aug 2023 | 04:30
Woman “instantly paralyzed” from attack by subway fiend is a graphic artist fighting for her life A 35-year-old woman who was attacked by a crazed subway shover is fighting for her life. Suspect Kamal Semrade was arrested... News 25 May 2023 | 02:41
PS 267 on E. 63rd St. where former PTA co-treasurer Marc Haynes was sentenced to 2 1/2 to 5 years in prison for stealing nearly $186,000 from the school’s PTA fund between Oct. 2020 to July 2021. Photo: NY Post/Google Maps. Former PTA Co-President Heading to Prison for Stealing $$$ from UES Elementary School Fund A former co-president of the PTA at an Upper East Side elementary school was sentenced to 2 1/2 to five years in prison after... News 19 Apr 2023 | 04:44
Powerhouse gallerist Isabelle Bscher now co-runs a gallery on the upper East Side that is carrying on the art world tradition started by her grandmother who founded the first Galerie Gmurzynska in Cologne, Germany. It is now has three galleries based in Switzerland and one in NYC. Photo: Gilles Bensimon Art in her DNA: UES dealer traces roots to grandma’s gallery in Germany Gallerist Isabelle Bscher jokes that she learned to walk at Art Basel, the international art show in Miami where her family... News 10 Apr 2023 | 03:47
