Daylight Savings Ends Tonight

Don’t forget to change those clocks… Daylight Saving Time in the US ends tonight at 2:00 am.  Clocks should be changed back by one hour, meaning you get an extra hour of Halloween fun tonight and you will feel like you are sleeping in on Monday morning.  This is an especially important note to marathon [...]

Tomorrow: The ING New York City Marathon

One of the events of the year in the city takes place tomorrow, the 2009, ING New York City Marathon.  The 26.2-mile race starts in Staten Island and makes its way through all five boroughs before wrapping up in Central Park on the jogger’s path near Tavern on the Green (67th).  If you are interested [...]

American Museum of Natural History’s Halloween Celebration

Happy Halloween!  Still looking for a fun holiday event in the Upper West Side?  Come to the American Museum of Natural History (Central Park West at 79th) this afternoon for their 14th annual Halloween celebration.  Get in those costumes to enjoy Halloween activities in the museum’s halls, from trick-or-treating to live performances by David Grover [...]

Today on the Upper West Side: 10/31/2009

Click through to see some events in the neighborhood for Saturday, October 31st, 2009…

Halloween at St. John the Divine

The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine (Amsterdam and 112th) has a full weekend of Halloween activities that many say top the list as some of the best of NYC’s Halloween events.  This evening’s events start with a “Procession of the Ghouls” and a screening of Nosferatu, the 1922 silent classic based on the [...]

Real Estate News: UWS Unattainable Apartment of the Week

It’s time to drool over another fabulous Upper West Side apartment… this two bedroom, three bath apartment is located in the first of the famous artist cooperatives located on West 67th Street, at 27 West 67th.  The apartment is listed at a cool $5 million through Corcoran, described as follows:
Home to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, artists, [...]

UWS Street and Subway Closings this Weekend

Central Park West between 67th and 90th will be closed Sunday, November 1st from 6:00 am to 4:00 pm for events related to the ING NYC Marathon.
90th between Columbus and Central Park West will be partially or fully closed Saturday, October 31st in the late afternoon for the West 90th Street Halloween Block Party.
67th between [...]

Halloween at the Society for Ethical Culture

The New York Society for Ethical Culture (64th and Central Park West) has a spooky and fun Halloween weekend planned to help celebrate their 100th anniversary.  Come to the building for a candlelight tour.  Experience a historical tour with theatrical reenactments using live actors as the ghosts of Ethical Culture and New York past, complete [...]

Today on the Upper West Side: 10/30/2009

Click through to see some events in the neighborhood for Friday, October 30th, 2009…

Final Week: Jazz Legend Series at Whole Foods

Each Friday, Whole Foods Market at 808 Columbus (Columbus near 97th) has hosted a free musical event called the “Jazz Legend Series.”  The store becomes a place to honor the heritage of the neighborhood and the corner it shares by telling stories of Mikell’s Jazz Club, the former resident of the corner, and featuring performances [...]