Nearly 80 FDNY Personnel Respond to Late-Night Fire at Cherokee Apartments

Mike Mishkin May 14, 2026 NYPD + FDNY No Comments

Dozens of FDNY personnel converged on a four-story building near the East River late Wednesday night after fire broke out inside the Cherokee Apartments. Manhattan Read More...

Upper East Siders Just Decided How Nearly $2 Million in Public Funding Will Be Spent in Their Neighborhood

Mike Mishkin May 14, 2026 Politics No Comments

The votes are in, and five Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island projects are about to get a major infusion of cash. More than 6,200 Read More...

Japanese Grocery Chain Yamadaya Opening Upper East Side Store

Mike Mishkin May 14, 2026 Shopping No Comments

Just months after a popular Japanese market signed a lease near East 93rd Street, a second Japanese grocery chain has quietly added an Upper East Read More...

Two Upper East Side Restaurants Make Coveted List of NYC’s Best — Including A First-Time Honoree

Mike Mishkin May 13, 2026 Food & Drink No Comments

Two Upper East Side restaurants — one a longtime fine-dining heavyweight, the other a Sri Lankan and South Indian relative newcomer making its first-ever appearance Read More...

Debra Messing Lists Her Upper East Side Apartment for $6.495 Million

Mike Mishkin May 12, 2026 Real Estate No Comments

Actress Debra Messing has put her full-floor Upper East Side co-op on the market, asking $6.495 million for the residence she has owned for more Read More...

Business Openings: ID Hot Yoga, Yoga on Lex, Box and Go, Dalila’s Peruvian Bistro, Blendi, Ricee Sushi Express

Mike Mishkin May 12, 2026 Food & Drink No Comments

Make sure to sign up for our free email newsletter for more UES openings. ID Hot Yoga has leased a space at 163-165 East 86th Street (between Read More...

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...