Free and cheap events in the neighborhood on Sunday, November 20th, 2011…

It’s cold and wet outside — why not warm up with free coffee from Starbucks?
From now through Sunday, Starbucks is offering a “buy 1, get 1 free” deal on their holiday beverages from 2:00 - 5:00 pm.

Well here’s a nice little story to start off your morning…
Apparently there’s a man going by the name of “Mister PeePee” who is planning to masturbate in every New York City Starbucks. Of the 187 throughout the city, 18 are located on the Upper West Side. So we’ve got that going for us…

I’m not a coffee drinker and my visits to Starbucks are limited to when I’m with the MyUpperWest Gal and she wants a cup (does Starbucks even call them “cups” or do they have an obnoxious fancy word instead? Do they even still call it “coffee”?). If I were a regular customer, [...]

DNAinfo reports that a wrap-up of last year’s crime statistics in the 20th precinct shows both good news and bad news about Upper West Side thefts.  While crime appears to have dropped in the area from 2009 to 2010, with a 7% drop in property thefts and an 8% drop in overall crime, there are [...]