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UWS UPDATE 2:00 pm: Columbia Spectator notes that Mr. Obama just finished up his speech. He’ll likely be heading south to ABC studios soon. Posted this morning that President Obama is the commencement speaker at Barnard College today. When he’s finished over there, he’ll be heading to the West 60s to tape an episode of The [...]
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UWS UPDATE: President Obama Heading To West 60s For 3 pm Taping Of “The View” Back in March, President Obama visited the UWS as part of a major fundraising visit to NYC. A few days later, news broke that he’s be returning to the neighborhood in May as the commencement speaker at Barnard College. 2+ months [...]
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UWS The UWS and UES have long had political stigmas attached to them. If recent fundraising figured from the campaigns of President Obama and likely Republican challenger Mitt Romney are any indication, those stigmas still hold true — the UWS is blue and the UES is red.
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West 67 If you missed the news, President Obama rolled through the Upper West Side on Thursday as he attended a $5,000/person fundraiser on West 67th. MUW reader Lucien sent in this shot of the President’s limo heading the wrong way on Columbus (north rather than south) as it prepared to turn onto 67th Street. Apparently one [...]
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UWS It would be easy to walk past the “No Parking Thursday” signs posted on West 67th and surrounding streets and not give them a second thought — there’s always “No Parking” somewhere in Manhattan. However, the reason for these particular signs is anything but typical: President Obama is coming to the Upper West Side today. [...]
