They're too dumb to know they're at a bad school," the parent, Alyson Friedman, could be heard saying at the meeting in February. Friedman, a parent at The Center School, also said, "If you train a Black person well enough, they'll know to use the back, you don't have to tell them anymore," a quote she misattributed to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Members of Manhattan's Community Board 7 yet again put car storage first when they shot down a modest request by residents of an Upper West Side apartment building to turn free parking into a loading zone for safer drop-offs and to reduce double-parking. Dwellers of the Astor condominium at W. 75th and Broadway asked the civic panel to back their push to repurpose just two spots at their entrance into a loading zone, to provide a safe space on the chaotic and busy corner.
By the time Jason Saft, an award-winning home stager and founder of New York city-based Staged To Sell Home, was called in to work his magic on this unit in The Clebourne, an Upper West Side co-op, it had been sitting on the market for an astounding 779 days. Saft describes how he "fell for it instantly," even though the walls were scuffed and the air was stale.
By Robert Pozarycki Posted on November 15, 2025 FILE Police at a crime scene Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Police in Manhattan are looking for the suspect who stabbed a man following an argument on the Upper West Side on Friday night. Law enforcement sources said the stabbing occurred just after 8 p.m. on Nov. 14 in front of 56 West 66th St., the First Battery Armory.
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I found this apartment after a long-term breakup, when I was splitting my time between Greenwich Village in NYC and Charleston, SC. I had just missed the open house (that was attended by 40 other hopeful people), but I put down a deposit sight unseen and submitted my application anyway. Once it was accepted and I finally walked inside, I knew it was exactly what I had been looking for,
By Claire Davenport Every Saturday, West Side Rag columnist Yvonne Vávra seems to have uncovered some hiding-in-plain-sight aspect of the Upper West Side that the rest of us have missed - because we were looking at our phones, or down at the sidewalk, or didn't have Vávra's sidekick Louie to make us pay close attention to our surroundings. Vávra's columns sometimes include long-lost history.
According to the NYPD, the 30-year-old man was on the tracks on the B and C line at the station at West 96th Street and Central Park West when an oncoming train hit him around 7:05 a.m. Monday. Police said the train operator saw the man on the tracks but was not able to stop the train in time. Police said the man was pronounced dead on the scene around 7:30 a.m.
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Welcome to another installment in the Rag's Historical Photo Challenge. The image above was taken somewhere on the Upper West Side, sometime in the past. Can you figure out where, when, and what it shows? Look closely; this week's challenge photo, like the others in the series, includes clues that will help you identify the scene, if you're a dedicated UWS history sleuth.
The first news accounts of squatters in New York City were published in the 1850s, as impoverished German and Irish immigrants surged into the city. Charles Loring Brace wrote about them for The New York Times, describing the rough cabins they lived in and the rough living many eked out, by picking through the streets to collect and sell anything of value.
As a reminder, the building has a supply of two-burner hot plates available for residents who may need them. These hot plates can be picked up...
