An actor jumped off the 40-story West End Towers residential building (West End Avenue at 63rd) yesterday morning but miraculously survived, reports The New York Post. Tom Magill, 22, jumped off the roof of the building at 10:44 am and fell over 400 feet before landing on a parked Dodge Charger. The roof and back [...]
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Olde Good Things, an antique, decor, and housewares store, has opened in a permanent Upper West Side Location. The store, which has locations in Union Square and Chelsea, moved from a location at the GreenFlea market at 76th and Columbus to a storefront on Amsterdam between 81st and 82nd early last week, according to [...]
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Kelsey Grammar is starting to look for a new home, according to The New York Post’s Page Six. The article reports that the actor, who currently lives in the posh 15 Central Park West (near 62nd), has been house-hunting with his pregnant girlfriend, British flight attendant Kayte Walsh (he divorced his wife, Camille Donatucci, in [...]
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A major change to the Upper West Side retail landscape is rumored. My Upper West tipster Jim C. reports that the Lincoln Triangle Barnes & Noble (Broadway at 66th) will be closing its doors by the end of the year. The closing, which was confirmed with the customer service representatives at the store, is allegedly [...]
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Upper West Siders, rejoice! It’s only a matter of days until one of the most anticipated openings in recent Upper West Side history. The Trader Joe’s at 72nd and Broadway will officially open its doors on Monday, September 20th, exactly three weeks from today, giving the neighborhood an excellent new option to fulfill their grocery [...]
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Riverside Park has some environmentally plans in the works for park improvement, according to The New York Times. The Riverside Clay Tennis Association, with approval of Community Board 7 and the Department of Parks and Recreation, is working on raising money to construct a carbon-neutral composting public restroom near the 96th Street clay tennis courts. [...]
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Above, check out the space that used to be O’Neals (64th between Broadway and Central Park West). This recent photo, taken by My Upper West tipster @whitneyhess, shows just how much work they are doing on the space to transform it to an Atlantic Grill. O’Neals’ closed on June 28th after Stephen Hanson’s B.R. Guest [...]
Actor Liam Neeson had a lightning-fast NYC real estate experience when he sold his Upper West Side apartment after only five days on the market. The two-bedroom, two-bathroom home at 91 Central Park West (between 69th and 70th) sold to Alan and Jill Holtz for $1.352 million, slightly under the $1.375 million asking price, according [...]
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Mel’s Burger Bar (Broadway between 110th and 111th) is getting very close to opening, with a grand opening scheduled for tomorrow, and we are getting some sneak peeks of what the eatery will have to offer. Earlier this month, we previewed the milkshake menu, and now, we are getting some info on the beer. Rather [...]
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Air Force Week kicked off yesterday, with Air Force demonstrations, events, and celebrations of its members continuing through Friday. To help get the festivities going, the Air Force did a six-ship flyover around Manhattan (including the Upper West Side) yesterday morning as opening ceremonies took place at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (Hudson [...]