UPDATE 12/13: Update On Columbia University Student Involved In UWS Hit & Run UPDATE 12/18: Columbia Student Struck By Hit & Run Driver Is Discharged From Hospital Sad news this morning… a 20-year-old Columbia student is in critical condition after being struck by a car at Broadway & 106th early Sunday morning. The driver fled [...]

Been a long day here at MyUpperWest, so I’ll make this quick. Cascabel Taqueria, mentioned on MUW  last month, is finally opening this week. A sign on their door indicated they’ll be open for business starting at 5 pm this Friday. The restaurant is located at Broadway & 108th. Thanks to reader Tom for the [...]

DNAinfo and The Columbia Spectator are both following up on the brutal attack that took place at Columbia earlier this month (covered previously here and here). Ash Sinha, a 28 year-old Columbia B-School student, is charged with allegedly punching, kicking, and biting a woman outside the Columbia campus at 116th Street and Broadway during the [...]

The Columbia Spectator has a nice piece on the Hungarian Pastry Shop (1030 Amsterdam, 110th/111th), a Morningside Heights “institution” that is celebrating its 50th anniversary tomorrow. Similar to Beacon Hardware (discussed here last night), the Pastry Shop belongs to that dying breed of family businesses that conjure up images of days past on the Upper [...]

What was initially reported as a brawl involving upwards of 20 people now appears to be an isolated incident involving a “psychotic” 28-year-old Columbia Business School student. Ash Sinha, who lives on West 109th, was arraigned from Bellevue Hospital yesterday for his alleged brutal attack on a 22-year-old woman Saturday night. He faces third-degree assault [...]