Three discounts to get your weekend started off: INXS is performing at the Beacon with Berlin on Thursday 8/4 at 8:00 pm. Groupon is offering two ticket deals: . For $29, you get one ticket for a seat in the upper balcony in the left, left center, center, right center, and right sections (a $45 [...]

Tennis star Serena Williams has reportedly been apartment hunting in the city lately, and her search has included a stop at one of the most talked-about UWS buildings this year.  The New York Post reports that Williams took interest in one of the three remaining apartments in The Corner, the luxury rental building on Broadway [...]

Riverside Park has some environmentally plans in the works for park improvement, according to The New York Times.  The Riverside Clay Tennis Association, with approval of Community Board 7 and the Department of Parks and Recreation, is working on raising money to construct a carbon-neutral composting public restroom near the 96th Street clay tennis courts.  [...]

DNAinfo reports that a proposal being considered by the NYC Parks Department for the Central Park Tennis Courts (mid-park, near 95th) would be a big upgrade to the courts, but might leave the not-so-wealthy in the dust, as many in the community point out.  The proposal includes a climate-controlled bubble over the 26 tennis courts [...]