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, I wouldn’t be [...]

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 [...]

Former NFL star and current Fox NFL Football Sunday correspondent Michael Strahan was spotted in the neighborhood last week.  My Upper West tipster Mary R. spotted the athlete where else?  At the gym… he was reportedly working out at the Equinox at 76th and Amsterdam on Thursday evening. Another recent neighborhood celebrity sighting is one [...]

An English professor was booted from the Starbucks at Columbus and 86th after an argument with the barista over vernacular, according to The New York Post.  Lynne Rosenthal started the scuffle after ordering a toasted multigrain bagel and being asked, “Do you want butter or cheese?” “I just wanted a multigrain bagel,” Rosenthal later stated.  [...]

Apple released the iPhone 4 in stores around New York City this morning, and our friends at Racked braved the crowds to report from the line at the Upper West Side Apple Store (Broadway at 67th).  Store employees reported that the line formed around noon yesterday, with most making their way to the line around [...]