My Upper West tipster @Brazil_nut (via Twitter) found a new location of Maoz, a vegetarian restaurant with falafel sandwiches, fries, and a yummy salad bar, opening soon on Broadway between 110th and 111th.  The chain currently has four locations in New York City, including one on Broadway between 70th and 71st.
Another opening is a second [...]

While details of the upcoming opening of an Upper West Side Trader Joe’s (Broadway at 72nd) have remained highly secretive, our friends at West Side Independent have been digging for info to get some clues into the store’s opening.  After a chat with City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, the initial rumored opening date was August of [...]

GINA (the Gallery of International Naïve Art, 82nd and Columbus) is presenting the works of Ben Hotchkiss, and Thursday marks the opening of the exhibition.  Hotchkiss is a self-taught artist with imagery that has been compared to cellular structures and psychological states of being.  Come to the gallery to get a glimpse of his work [...]

The Upper West Side will be getting another high-end retail shop soon when a Burberry store will open in the former location of the Reebok sportswear store on the ground level of Reebok Sports Club (Columbus between 67th and 68th).  Thanks to Jim C. for the tip.  Another UWS shakeup is the opening of a [...]

Italian ice chain Rita’s has opened a new location on the Upper West Side, on Broadway between 92nd and 93rd, and they are doing an awesome deal to celebrate their opening.  Come to the Upper West Side Rita’s for their first seven days (through Saturday, February 20th) to get a free regular ice of any [...]

Banana Shpeel, the newest production from Cirque du Soleil that has been preparing to open at the Beacon Theatre (Broadway at 74th), has delayed its opening, according to Playbill (via West Side Independent).  The show had been scheduled to open on February 25th, but was delayed to March 17th due to needing some “retooling.”  Producers [...]

Part of the $1.2-billion renovation of Lincoln Center’s campus is a glass-enclosed, sophisticated restaurant, and Per Se’s current chef de cuisine Jonathan Benno was selected to lead the high-profile endeavor as executive chef.  The yet-to-be-named restaurant is slowly nearing its September 2010 opening, so the New York Times checked in on its progress, along with [...]

The Lincoln Center Theater is presenting a great new play, with previews starting tomorrow.  When the Rain Stops Falling is a compelling family saga taking the audience back and forth in time from one generation to another from 1959 to 2039 in Australia.  With four generations of fathers and sons, their mothers, lovers and wives, [...]

Bar Boulud, Daniel Boulud’s newest restaurant at Broadway and 64th, is in the process of expanding their space to the area next door, and from the looks of it, the expansion may occur by summer.  The space next door was formerly occupied by a Chase Bank branch (several branches in the area combined to form [...]

The Filene’s Basement branch at Broadway and 79th has plans to expand, according to the New York Post.  The clothing retail store, owned by Syms Corp., signed a lease to the vacant space on the north end of the block of Broadway between 79th and 80th, previously a Circuit City.  The store’s expansion adds 22,700 [...]