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Honoring an East Side Bridge

Patricia Youngquist March 6, 2022 Odds and Ends No Comments

The Queensboro Bridge — also known as the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge and the 59th Street Bridge — will be 113 years old on March Read More...

“A New Third Avenue Boulevard Proposal”

Mike Mishkin March 3, 2022 Odds and Ends 2 Comments

At Community Board 8′s Transportation Committee meeting on Wednesday, presenter Barak Friedman addressed the issues of narrow, crowded and unpleasant sidewalks along Third Avenue — Read More...

New to the UES: Upsilon Gallery, SkinCeuticals SkinLab, [ph7]

Mike Mishkin February 21, 2022 Odds and Ends No Comments

Broadway World reports that “Upsilon Gallery, a leading art gallery and fine print publisher specializing in International postwar and contemporary art, will open their new Read More...

Rabbi Fired from Park East Synagogue Plans Own Congregation on Upper East Side

Wendy Blake February 17, 2022 Odds and Ends No Comments

Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt, who was ousted from his position at the prominent Park East Synagogue in October amid an explosive public feud with the head Read More...

American Kennels Closes

Mike Mishkin February 16, 2022 Odds and Ends 1 Comment

In December 2021, an investigator from the Humane Society of the United States concluded a six-week undercover investigation of American Kennels, an Upper East Side Read More...

Andrew Haswell Green Park to Get Full Renovation

E.L. Danvers February 14, 2022 Odds and Ends No Comments

The grass isn’t always greener. And for a long time at Andrew Haswell Green Park, it hasn’t been green at all. But change is on Read More...

Private Upper East Side Schools Accept State Funds to Pay Teachers

E.L. Danvers January 31, 2022 Odds and Ends No Comments

Some of New York City’s most expensive private schools aroused the ire of their public counterparts after the New York Daily News revealed that they Read More...

Michael Rapaport Returns to Rite Aid

Mike Mishkin January 30, 2022 Odds and Ends No Comments

Just a few days after filming an alleged shoplifting incident at the Rite Aid on 80th and Second Avenue, actor Michael Rapaport has returned to Read More...

New and Coming Soon: Ever/Body, Pressed Juicery, The Coding Space

Mike Mishkin January 20, 2022 Odds and Ends No Comments

Ever/Body, a “haven for high-tech beauty services” with locations in Soho and Flatiron, has signed a lease at 1024 Lexington Avenue, between 73rd and 74th Read More...

A Cleaner Upper East Side, Hopefully

Daniel Golliher January 16, 2022 Odds and Ends No Comments

After long enduring Sanitation Department budget cuts and a rogue trashcan vandal, the Upper East Side can expect to see more sidewalk and less trash. Read More...