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An Upper East Side Private School Wants to Expand — and a Beloved Madison Avenue Fixture Would Disappear for Good

Mike Mishkin July 16, 2026 Real Estate No Comments

One of the Upper East Side's most prestigious private schools went before Community Board 8's Landmarks Committee this week with an ambitious plan to grow its lower school — and … Read More...

Two Upper East Side Battery-Swapping Stations Just Cleared a Key Vote

Mike Mishkin July 3, 2026 Odds and Ends No Comments

A city plan to install two e-bike battery-swapping cabinets on Upper East Side sidewalks cleared its first hurdle with the neighborhood this week Read More...

A Familiar Second Avenue Corner Is About to Look Completely Different

Mike Mishkin June 24, 2026 Real Estate No Comments

One of the larger residential projects the eastern stretch of the neighborhood has seen in years is now moving toward construction — and in a Read More...

21 Inches of Trouble at the ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ Townhouse

Mike Mishkin June 16, 2026 Real Estate No Comments

169 East 71st Street has spent more than six decades as one of New York’s most recognizable addresses — the Tiffany-blue door where Audrey Hepburn’s Read More...

Two Upper East Side Locations Made the City’s E-Bike Charging Shortlist — and the Clock Is Ticking to Weigh In.

Mike Mishkin June 10, 2026 Odds and Ends No Comments

The lithium-ion battery fires that have rattled New York apartment buildings for the past few years are poised to reshape a couple of Upper East Side sidewalks Read More...

A Stretch of East 69th Street May Soon Look Very Different

Mike Mishkin June 4, 2026 Odds and Ends No Comments

For about two years, a length of curb outside Hunter College's North Building has sat under construction staging, all but unusable to the thousands of students, residents, and theatergoers who … 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...

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...

The Unusual Trick a Developer Is Using to Supersize a New UES Condo

Mike Mishkin April 23, 2026 Real Estate No Comments

The boutique luxury condo planned for the corner of 79th and Lexington has a new wrinkle, and it’s one that Community Board 8 isn’t thrilled Read More...

An Upper East Side Playground Is Getting a Major Overhaul 

Mike Mishkin March 13, 2026 Odds and Ends No Comments

A neighborhood playground is in line for its most significant upgrade in years, thanks to a substantial infusion of federal funding that was quietly announced in recent days. Read More...