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...

Taco Mahal Has Officially Opened on the Upper East Side

Mike Mishkin July 9, 2026 Food & Drink No Comments

There’s a new taco spot on Lexington Avenue, and it doesn’t look like any other in the neighborhood. The family-run fusion restaurant held its grand Read More...

Legionnaires’ Cluster Climbs to 36 Cases; First Impacted UES Building Identified

Mike Mishkin July 9, 2026 Odds and Ends No Comments

The Upper East Side’s Legionnaires’ disease cluster has grown to 36 confirmed cases and 22 hospitalizations, with still no deaths reported, and for the first Read More...

The Upper East Side Is Getting 5 New Restaurants — Here’s Where

Mike Mishkin July 8, 2026 Food & Drink No Comments

Community Board 8 held its Street Life Committee meeting on Tuesday evening. Restaurant owners and their reps attended via Zoom in order to further their liquor license applications, and Read More...