Anti-Israel protesters scream and curse at “Zionists” outside Park East Synagogue on Nov. 19, 2025. ( Photo: Combat Anti-Semitism X) Political Blowback Follows Anti-Israel Protest Outside Synagogue Political blowback continues after raucous anti-Israel protesters set themselves up outside the Park East Synagogue on the... News 01 Dec 2025 | 12:48
The newly renovated McCabes Wine & Spirits at the corner of East 77th Street and Third Avenue features aisles wide enough to accommodate a double stroller. ( Photo: McCabes Wine & Spirits) East Siders Flock to McCabes Wine after 16-Month Renovation Welcome back, McCabes—More than 300 people came throughout the day and evening in mid-October to celebrate the grand re-opening... News 21 Nov 2025 | 01:11
P.S. 77 Lower Lab School, on East 96th Street, has topped U.S. News & World Report’s latest list of the 10 best elementary or middle schools in New York State. ( Photo: Google Maps ) Two UES Schools Make NYS Top 10 List, With P.S. 77 At No. 1 Two Upper East Side public schools have made U.S. News & World Report’s latest list of the best elementary or middle schools... News 17 Nov 2025 | 04:38
Cop from the 19th Precinct (left) firing on armed suspect Elijah Brown (right). ( Photo: NYPD) Cops Kill Crazed Gunman on Upper East Side After Multiple Threats A possibly greater tragedy was averted on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, when cops from the 19th Precinct, responding to a 911... News 17 Nov 2025 | 01:27
Regis High entrance at 55 E. 84th St., Nov. 13, 2025. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Tragedy at Regis High as Boy, 16, Falls to Death, Likely Suicide Tragedy came to a nearly idyllic block of the Upper East Side Thursday, Nov. 13, with the shocking news that a Regis High... News 17 Nov 2025 | 12:41
Yorkville birdhouse behind which is 409 E. 81st St; top-floor right apartment boarded up. The occupant of the apartment was responsible for the colorful birdhouses attached to trees up and down the block. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Yorkville Apartment Fire Leaves One Woman Dead, Others Displaced A fifth-floor apartment fire that broke out on a birdhouse-lined block in Yorkville on Wednesday, Nov. 13, has left one... News 17 Nov 2025 | 02:03
Council member Robert F. Holden speaking at Dorothy Kilgallen Way street co-naming. ( Photo: BobHoldenNYC X) Dorothy Kilgallen, ‘Girl Reporter,’ Honored With Street Naming Shout it loud and proud, East Siders, there’s a new street in town, and it celebrates one of our own: the legendary “girl... News 16 Nov 2025 | 02:20
Co-founders and cousins Kim and Tyler Malek. ( Photo: Salt & Straw) Salt & Straw: Innovative Ice Cream Delights Gotham Taste Buds Salt & Straw is almost the perfect embodiment of all the irreverent quirk and unique nostalgia of its founding city, Portland,... News 14 Nov 2025 | 06:08
Vanessa Aronson and family. ( Photo: Courtesy of Vanessa Aronson) Post-Election Musings: Future Candidates, Theater & Chinese Food So far Vanessa Aronson’s the only candidate running to fill Alex Bores’s 73rd New York State Assembly seat come 2026. He’s... News 11 Nov 2025 | 03:47
Miles Wu at the competition’s Public Day, where the projects were judged, and the general public could attend and have the projects presented to them. ( Photo: Lisa Fryklund) UES High School Student Wins National Science Prize Miles Wu of Hunter College High School, who combined origami (the Japanese art of paper folding) and physics to optimize... Home 07 Nov 2025 | 06:27
Christian Diaz, convicted in stabbing death of Yemeni deli worker Ahmed Almulaiki, Oct. 19, 2021. ( Photo: NYPD) Man Who Stabbed Deli Worker to Death Sentenced to 20 Years Slowly as the wheel of justice sometimes turns, it can be shocking when, from out of the mists of time and mourning, punishment... News 03 Nov 2025 | 02:19
Left: Wanted for robbery of car-share driver. Right: Wanted for elder assault. ( Photo: Brian Berger) East 93rd St. Robbery; Lexington Ave. Assault The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the individuals in connection with a robbery that occurred... News 27 Oct 2025 | 06:24
Alina Bonsell, a first-time candidate and the Republican nominee, says that she will be a “strong voice” opposing both “socialism and antisemitism” if elected to City Hall. ( Photo: Alina Bonsell ) CD5 Race on UES Pits Julie Menin (D) vs. Alina Bonsell (R) With early voting set to begin on Oct. 25, and Election Day on Nov. 4, the race for the Upper East Side’s City Council District... News 21 Oct 2025 | 02:03
Antiquities repatriation ceremony, Oct 3. Left to right: Elena Vlachogianni, head, Department of Documentation and Protection of Cultural Goods; Hellenic Secretary General of Culture Georgios Didaskalou; Consul General of Greece in New York Iphigenia Kanara; chief of the Antiquities Trafficking Unit Matthew Bogdanos, and Vasiliki Papageorgiou. ( Photo: Consulate General of Greece in New York) D.A.’s Office Sees Antiquities Returned to Greece The Antiquities Trading Unit (ATU) of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said on Oct. 10 that it had effected the return... News 13 Oct 2025 | 08:04
Wanted for assaulting senior woman on M15 bus, Sept. 23, 2025. ( Photos: NYPD) 92-year-old Woman Punched on Bus; Apartment Rental Scammer Indicted The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the individual wanted in connection with an elderly assault... News 06 Oct 2025 | 11:25
