Optical Store Closes After Over Three Decades in Business

Spencer Cain November 6, 2022 Shopping 1 Comment

Longtime customers are emotional after Glasses On First, an eyewear retailer and optometrist, announced its closure after decades of serving the Upper East Side. Read More...

Mega-Developers File Plans to Build 20-Story Condo on East 72nd Street

Spencer Cain November 5, 2022 Real Estate No Comments

There’s no shortage of high-rises on the UES, but the Chetrit Group is plotting to add one more on the corner of 72nd and Second Read More...

Lester’s Closing Upper East Side Location After 30 Years

Pavita Singh November 4, 2022 Shopping 1 Comment

We’ve learned that Lester’s will be closing its Upper East Side clothing store (1534 Second Avenue at 80th Street) after 30 years at that location. Read More...

Village Square Pizza Opens on Upper East Side Next Week

Joshua Dudley November 3, 2022 Food & Drink No Comments

Pizza lovers of the Upper East Side, rejoice! Popular NYC pizza place Village Square Pizza, whose tagline is “get lost in the sauce,” is opening Read More...

Eliot Spitzer to Launch Uber-Luxury Condo Building on Fifth Avenue

Spencer Cain November 3, 2022 Real Estate No Comments

Movin’ on up to the East Side? Well, that’s about to be an even pricier feat thanks to Eliot Spitzer. The former governor of New Read More...

DOT Carshare Program Expands to UES; Will Claim 16 Parking Spots

Philip Santos Schaffer November 2, 2022 Odds and Ends No Comments

The city’s Department of Transportation sent letters out early last month notifying local community boards about the expansion of its carshare program, which offers dedicated Read More...

President Biden Goes to the Met

Joshua Dudley October 31, 2022 Odds and Ends No Comments

President Joe Biden was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday to attend a memorial service for Donald Blinken, the father of the current Read More...

M.M.LaFleur Celebrates Grand Opening on Upper East Side

Bobby Panza October 31, 2022 Shopping No Comments

This weekend, women’s workwear retailer M.M.LaFleur celebrated the grand opening of its second NYC location at 1225 Madison Avenue, between East 88th and 89th streets. Read More...

Election Lawyer Says She Was Assaulted Near UES Polling Site

Mike Mishkin October 29, 2022 Politics No Comments

Sarah Steiner – an NYC election and criminal lawyer self-described as “One of New York’s Leading Election Law Practitioners” – says she was assaulted near an Read More...

Climate Activists Arrested at 740 Park Avenue

Mike Mishkin October 27, 2022 NYPD + FDNY No Comments

A group of climate activists stormed upon the legendary and exclusive 740 Park Avenue on Thursday. Read More...