Where the Upper East Side’s Legionnaires’ Outbreak Stands: 63 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...

City Releases List of 31 Buildings With Legionella-Positive Cooling Towers as Cluster Grows to 59 Cases

Mike Mishkin July 10, 2026 Odds and Ends No Comments

The city has published the addresses of 31 Upper East Side buildings whose cooling towers tested positive for Legionella, the most detailed public accounting yet Read More...

Council Speaker Julie Menin Marks Reopening of 71st Street Esplanade Ramp

Mike Mishkin July 9, 2026 Odds and Ends No Comments

Council Speaker Julie Menin has officially marked the reopening of a pedestrian ramp connecting Yorkville to the East River waterfront, weeks after the access point Read More...

Whole Foods Is Opening Another Upper East Side Location

Mike Mishkin July 9, 2026 Food & Drink No Comments

The Upper East Side is getting another Whole Foods Market — and it’s moving into a corner storefront that’s sat dark since the end of Read More...