The City Just Laid Out 23 Ways It Wants to Change How New Yorkers Rent

Mike Mishkin July 16, 2026 Real Estate No Comments

Renting in New York City could look different in the coming years if the Mamdani administration gets its way. On Thursday the city released its Read More...

An Upper East Side Private School Wants to Expand — and a Beloved Madison Avenue Fixture Would Disappear for Good

Mike Mishkin July 16, 2026 Real Estate No Comments

One of the Upper East Side's most prestigious private schools went before Community Board 8's Landmarks Committee this week with an ambitious plan to grow its lower school — and … Read More...

One of Downtown’s Buzziest Frozen Yogurt Shops Is Coming to the Upper East Side

Mike Mishkin July 15, 2026 Food & Drink No Comments

A self-serve frozen yogurt shop that’s drawn lines wrapped around the block at its two downtown locations is bringing its Australian-style froyo uptown — and Read More...

Where the Upper East Side’s Legionnaires’ Outbreak Stands: 64 Cases, 76 Buildings, and Still No Confirmed Source

Mike Mishkin July 15, 2026 Odds and Ends No Comments

Two weeks after the first cases surfaced, the Legionnaires’ disease cluster centered on the Upper East Side has grown to 63 confirmed cases — and Read More...

Home Care Workers Just Started a Two-Week Sit-In Outside Julie Menin’s Upper East Side Building

Mike Mishkin July 15, 2026 Politics No Comments

The fight over the 24-hour workday, which has spent the last four months parked outside City Hall, moved uptown this week and landed on the Read More...

Here are the 34 Upper East Side Restaurants Participating in NYC Restaurant Week

Mike Mishkin July 14, 2026 Food & Drink No Comments

Reservations have opened for NYC Restaurant Week’s Summer 2026 edition, which runs from July 20 to August 16. Participating eateries are offering 2-course lunches and Read More...

Spice Has Closed Its Upper East Side Restaurant on First Avenue

Mike Mishkin July 14, 2026 Food & Drink No Comments

Spice, the Thai restaurant that held down the corner of First Avenue and East 77th Street for years, has closed. An employee at Spice’s Upper Read More...

Ex-Boyfriend Who Killed Young Mother Pushing Stroller on Upper East Side Sentenced to 25 Years to Life

Mike Mishkin July 14, 2026 NYPD + FDNY No Comments

The man who executed 20-year-old Azsia Johnson in front of their infant daughter as she pushed the baby’s stroller up East 95th Street will spend Read More...

Marvel Is Taking Over an Upper East Side Block on Wednesday

Mike Mishkin July 13, 2026 Arts & Entertainment No Comments

The Devil of Hell’s Kitchen is heading east this week. Cast and crew for the Disney+ series “Daredevil: Born Again” are scheduled to film Wednesday Read More...

This Italian Speakeasy Is Expanding to the UES

Mike Mishkin July 13, 2026 Food & Drink No Comments

For the past two years, the only way in was to find an unmarked door inside a Long Island City warehouse, climb a flight of Read More...