Rachel Wetzsteon, a talented poet with critical acclaim for works that often juxtapose the love lives of women with the urban setting of the Upper West Side, died around Christmas Day at 42.  Wetzsteon was found in her Morningside Heights apartment last week after an apparent suicide.  Her work has been praised for turning “Morningside [...]

Michael Ronis, the founding chef of Carmine’s (the Upper West Side location is on Broadway between 90th and 91st), passed away on Thursday.  Ronis also helped found the Alicart Restaurant Group, which includes Carmine’s, Virgil’s (Times Square), Artie’s Delicatessen (Broadway at 83rd), and Gabriela’s (Columbus between 93rd and 94th), and wrote a book, Carmine’s Family-Style [...]