Free & Cheap Upper West Side Events: 9/11/11

If you missed the post yesterday, the official FDNY 9/11 Memorial Service is being held in Riverside Park this morning: New York City Fire Department 9/11 Memorial Service Firemen’s Memorial, Riverside Park (Riverside Drive & 100th) 9:30 am Open To The Public Free and cheap events in the neighborhood on Sunday, September 11th, 2011… 9/11 [...]

Free Screening Of “25th Hour” Tomorrow At UWS FilmLinc; Spike Lee, Edward Norton & Philip Seymour Hoffman Appearing In-Person

Great event taking place tomorrow night at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. They’re offering a free screening of 25th Hour — the first major film shot on location in New York after 9/11 — and director Spike Lee and actors Edward Norton and Philip Seymour Hoffman will be in attendance.

Free & Cheap Upper West Side Events: 8/24/11

A baker’s dozen of free and cheap events in the neighborhood on Wednesday, August 24th, 2011… Open House At The Seneca Village Excavations Central Park (near West 85th) 10:00 am – 3:00 pm FREE Film: Capote (2005, Philip Seymour Hoffman) Riverside Branch, New York Public Library (127 Amsterdam, between 65th & 66th) 11:00 am FREE [...]

Upper West Side Filming Locations

Law & Order: Criminal Intent is filming in the neighborhood today.  On Location Vacations reports that filming is scheduled to take place in the vicinity of 9th/Columbus between 58th and 60th today. Also filming in the area is A Late Quartet.  The new movie starring Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Catherine Keener was doing [...]

Upper West Side Filming Location

A Late Quartet, a new movie starring Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Catherine Keener, is filming on the Upper West Side for several days this week.  The production has parking signs up around Columbus between 68th and 69th indicating filming that started over the weekend and continuing through Wednesday, February 16th. Did you spot [...]

UWS Celebrity Sightings

Kate Gosselin was in her ex’s new stomping grounds (Jon Gosselin is currently renting a two-bedroom pad at 72nd and Broadway) on Thursday when she made an appearance at the premiere of Life, a documentary airing on the Discovery Channel, at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall (65th between Broadway and Amsterdam).  The mother of eight [...]