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Longtime Upper East Sider and Beloved NYPD Mail Clerk Dies at 72

Ethan Harfenist March 11, 2025 Odds and Ends No Comments

The Upper East Side’s 19th Precinct is mourning the loss of a well-known NYPD mail clerk and Upper East Side resident affectionately known as “the Read More...

Upper East Side Restaurant Employee Shot, Killed in Drive-By Shooting

Mike Mishkin October 21, 2024 NYPD + FDNY No Comments

A 46-year-old man who worked at an upscale Upper East Side restaurant was fatally shot in the chest by a stray bullet during a drive-by shooting Read More...

Phil Donahue Dies at 88 at Upper East Side Home

Ethan Harfenist August 20, 2024 Odds and Ends No Comments

Daytime talk show legend Phil Donahue passed away at his home on the Upper East Side on Sunday at the age of 88. Read More...

Body Found in East River Near 78th Street

Mike Mishkin July 31, 2024 NYPD + FDNY No Comments

A body was discovered in the East River near a pedestrian walkway by 78th Street on Tuesday. Read More...

Man Jumps to Death From East 67th Street Building

Mike Mishkin December 27, 2023 NYPD + FDNY 1 Comment

A man’s lifeless body was found outside an Upper East Side apartment building on Tuesday morning; police believe he intentionally jumped to his death from Read More...

Three Men Jump on Train Tracks in Separate Monday Incidents

Mike Mishkin July 11, 2023 NYPD + FDNY No Comments

In separate Monday incidents, three men jumped on uptown subway station train tracks to end their lives. Two of these tragedies occurred on the Upper Read More...

UES Dessert King William Greenberg Jr. Dies at 97

Spencer Cain February 22, 2023 Food & Drink No Comments

Life on the Upper East Side just got a little less sweet. Legendary New York baker William Greenberg Jr., who opened his first storefront on Read More...

Jack Dorrian of Dorrian’s Red Hand Passes Away

Susanne Beck August 22, 2022 Food & Drink No Comments

Jack Dorrian, a leading fixture in the city’s bar and restaurant scene, and owner of the Upper East Side’s legendary watering hole, Dorrian’s Red Hand Read More...

Quatorze Employee Dies From Recent Attack; Restaurant Launches GoFundMe For Family

Mike Mishkin July 12, 2022 Food & Drink No Comments

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched for the family of Tiburcio Castillo — a Quatorze employee who recently passed after succumbing to injuries from an Read More...

Cyclist and Pedestrian Killed by Truck Driver

Mike Mishkin December 25, 2021 NYPD + FDNY No Comments

Two individuals, a cyclist and a pedestrian, were hit and killed by a truck driver on 61st and Third Avenue Friday morning. Read More...