One of my biggest pet peeves of city living is sharing clothes dryers with people who neglect to clean out the lint filter after each use. Seriously, it take like five seconds and it’s just common courtesy. If you’re one of those “lint-leavers” and courtesy isn’t a good enough reason to change your ways, here’s [...]

It’s a  little outside the borders of the Upper West Side, but close enough to note… A massive fire ripped through the North River Wastewater Treatment plant, at 725 W. 135th St, around 12 pm today, forcing the evacuation of Riverbanks State Park and the temporary closure of the West Side Highway from 125th to [...]

DNAinfo reports there was an early-morning fire today at a homeless shelter on Broadway near 105th. 14 people were hurt and two, including a teenage girl, were taken to the hospital. Initial reports from witnesses and people trapped in the building claimed that several emergency doors were locked. The FDNY was unable to find corroborating [...]

The Hudson River pier at 64th Street which spent years slowly falling apart into the water was removed last weekend, according to City Room.  Pier D, a twisted mass of iron that served as a loading and unloading site for New York Central Railroad boxcars from barges moving down the Hudson River, was originally built [...]

Above, Ben Fractenberg of DNAinfo catches the damage done to a van that caught fire outside Lincoln Center on Thursday afternoon.  The van, belonging to electrician Gill Wilson, just started smoking while Wilson was driving north on Broadway between 63rd and 64th.  After Wilson got out, the van became engulfed in flames, and firefighters from [...]