A Rapidly Expanding Greek Chain Just Confirmed Plans for a New Upper East Side Location

Mike Mishkin May 11, 2026 Food & Drink No Comments

A fast-casual Greek concept with a growing tri-state footprint is bringing its hand-stacked, spit-roasted gyros to the Upper East Side this summer — and it’s Read More...

The Upper East Side Could Soon Be a 20 MPH Zone

Mike Mishkin May 8, 2026 Odds and Ends No Comments

The Upper East Side could soon become one of the slowest neighborhoods in Manhattan to drive through. At a Community Board 8 Transportation Committee meeting Read More...

Subway Shover Learns His Fate Nearly Three Years After UES Attack

Mike Mishkin May 6, 2026 NYPD + FDNY No Comments

The Queens man who shoved a young woman into a moving E train at the Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street station — leaving her paralyzed Read More...

A London Private Members Club Has Its Eyes on this Partially-Occupied, Five-Story UES Townhouse

Mike Mishkin May 6, 2026 Real Estate No Comments

A British hospitality group behind some of London's most discreet private clubs is preparing to take over an entire Upper East Side townhouse currently home to one of the neighborhood's … Read More...

Demonstrators, Counterprotesters, and Police Converge Near East 67th Street Synagogue

Mike Mishkin May 6, 2026 NYPD + FDNY No Comments

A Tuesday night demonstration on the Upper East Side ended with one NYPD officer hospitalized, pepper spray deployed into a crowd, and a stretch of Lexington Avenue blocked off for … Read More...

New UES Restaurant Featured in ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’

Mike Mishkin May 5, 2026 Food & Drink, Arts & Entertainment No Comments

Free Upper East Side News, Delivered To Your Inbox A buzzy newcomer to Lexington Avenue has landed a starring role in one of the year’s Read More...

Smash Burger Chain Skinny Louie to Open UES Location May 8

Mike Mishkin May 5, 2026 Food & Drink No Comments

Upper East Siders with a soft spot for a thin, crispy-edged patty have a new option opening this week — and the first hundred people through the door won't pay … Read More...

Isaacs Center Merger is Good News for Upper East Siders

Mike Mishkin May 5, 2026 Sponsored No Comments

“You never stop learning.” Those are the words of an older adult who recently went on one of the Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center’s museum Read More...

A Viral Plea, 200,000 Cheek Swabs, and a Decision Max’s Family Couldn’t Put Off Any Longer

Mike Mishkin May 5, 2026 Odds and Ends No Comments

It started with a father's TikTok video back in February. Read More...

Major Change Coming to Upper East Side College After Long-Awaited Federal Approval Nears

Mike Mishkin May 4, 2026 Odds and Ends No Comments

A two-year wait is finally drawing to a close for a small Upper East Side college, with a long-pending change of hands now expected to wrap up within weeks. Read More...