Duane Reade, which has closed 90 stories in New York City since 2019, recently closed another one of its largest Manhattan stores on Second Ave. between 45th and 46th Street. Photo: Keith J. Kelly Duane Reade Closes UES Store on 2nd Ave, says prescription info sent to 3rd Ave. store Another big Duane Reader store on the east side of Manhattan has shut down. The latest is a fairly large Duane Reade on Second... News 21 Mar 2023 | 11:47
After nearly a 40 year career in the Episcopal ministry, the Rev. Brenda Husson, the rector of 200-year-old St. James Church on the UES will soon be retiring once a replacement is found. Photo: Karen Camela Watson Sharing Her Love for the Bible and Parishioners at St. James’ Episcopal Church For 27 years, Rev. Brenda Husson, the rector of St. James’ Church on Madison Avenue at East 71st Street on the Upper East... People 03 Mar 2023 | 12:59
Scott Reisinger will be presiding over his last graduation at Trevor Day School at the end of the current academic area as he heads to retirement, capping a 42 year career. Photo: Courtesy Trevor Day School Scott Reisinger Wraps Up Long Education Career...and He’ll Probably Shed a Few Tears Scott Reisinger has always shed tears during every graduation ceremony in his over four decades as an educator. However, for... People 02 Mar 2023 | 03:41
David Boulud, who left the upper East Side two years ago, plans a return with a new Cafe Boulud that he told the NY Post he hopes to open this fall. Photo: Cafeboulud.com Celeb Chef Boulud Plans Return to UES on E. 63rd Street Celebrated chef Daniel Boulud will be opening a revamped iteration of beloved Cafe Boulud on the Upper East Side. The new... News 13 Feb 2023 | 03:17
Protesters lined the entrance to the public library on East 96th Street. Photo via video footage posted by Talia Jane to Twitter Protesters Swarm UES Drag Story Hour With Profanities And Slurs On Wednesday, Feb. 1, protesters posted themselves outside the public library on East 96th Street, between Lexington and... News 06 Feb 2023 | 11:57
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on of world’s top cancer treatment centers, just laid off 1.8 percent of workforce. Photo: Sloan Kettering web site ( Kenneth C. Zirkel) Sloan Kettering Lays Off Over 330 Workers, 1.8% of Workforce Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a world renowned cancer hospital on the UES, said it laid off 337 employees in mid-January,... News 29 Jan 2023 | 09:34
There are plans afoot reimagining the Yorkville area once known as Germantown—which boasted a over a dozen movie houses and live theater venues—as a new cultural center. Photo: Greendougherty /Pinterest Reimagining the Former Germantown as New Cultural Haven In 2019, when Jeremy Schaller turned down a real estate developer’s offer of $24 million dollars to buy the two low-rise... News 27 Jan 2023 | 05:58
The pre-war apartment building at 160 East 91st Street has a three-foot-wide light well — all that will be left when a church is built up to the property line next door. Photo via Google Maps Church Plan Draws Heat, East Side Residents Urge: ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ Plans to erect a church at 150 East 91st Street would do away with a generous gap that used to exist between the building... News 24 Jan 2023 | 10:07
122 East 82nd Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues was scene of an apparent suicide on Sunday. Photo via Google Maps Girl, 17, Dies In Jump From UES Building In the middle of the day on Sunday, Jan. 15, a 17-year-old girl died after jumping from a “luxury apartment building” on... News 16 Jan 2023 | 03:29
Nurses are returning to work after ending strikes at Mount Sinai on the Upper East Side and Montefiore in the Bronx. Photo: Kay Bontemp Nurses Settle at Mount Sinai and Montefiore After 3 Day Strike Striking nurses at Mount Sinai in Manhattan and Montefiore in the Bronx reached a tentative agreement on Jan. 12, ending... News 12 Jan 2023 | 06:05
Todd J. Stein is campaigning as a community advocate. Photo courtesy of Todd J. Stein For Men Only, District Leader Race in the 76th AD Political potpourri – Welcome 2023 and all the politics that comes with it. The most hyperlocal of the political races this... Voices 30 Dec 2022 | 09:52
At the 2022 Top Dog Gala, with (at center) CEO Kathryn Coyne, Stephen and Christine Schwarzman with FDNY K-9 unit. Photo: Brian Dorsey Studios AMC Honors Schwarzmans – and FDNY’s K9 Unit The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center (AMC) honored Stephen and Christine Schwarzman at its annual Top Dog Gala in recognition... News 20 Dec 2022 | 12:24
West Side Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal (right) and Queens State Senator Michael Gianaris advocated for a new bill banning the sale of animals in pet stores. Photo via Linda B. Rosenthal on Twitter Quart Takes the Bench ... No More Dogs for Sale ... NY Reads Taking up the gavel – UES Assembly Member Dan Quart is moving on. While still a resident of the 73rd AD, which he’s represented... Voices 19 Dec 2022 | 07:58
Jimmy Mulzet at home with his book. Photo: Zachary Weg Jimmy Mulzet’s Improbable Life of Adventure As he shows in his recent uplifting memoir, “Facing the Challenge, Beating the Odds: The Jimmy Mulzet Story” (Archway Publishing,... News 15 Dec 2022 | 12:11
403 East 65th Street, in June 2022. Photo via Google Maps A New School Building For Tots On the Upper East Side, a former garage will be transformed into a new school building — for the neighborhood’s youngest... News 07 Dec 2022 | 02:26