If you missed the news, President Obama rolled through the Upper West Side on Thursday as he attended a $5,000/person fundraiser on West 67th. MUW reader Lucien sent in this shot of the President’s limo heading the wrong way on Columbus (north rather than south) as it prepared to turn onto 67th Street. Apparently one [...]

Barnard College announced on Tuesday that smokers will need to find a new place to light up.  Chief Operating Officer Greg Brown announced that the entire campus, which sits west of Broadway between 116th and 119th, will become a smoke-free zone after spring break, taking place from March 12th to March 20th.  The ban will [...]

A Barnard College student was attacked in Riverside Park while jogging early Monday morning in an apparent iPod theft.  The Daily News reports that Marisa Cortright, a 19-year-old Oregon native, was awake and talking yesterday after the Monday attack had caused her to incur a head injury and lose consciousness.  Cortright was jogging in the [...]