Tag: Upper West Side (Manhattan, NY)

A NYC School Space Fight Spurred by Student Losses and Migrant Arrivals

A bitter clash over space has emerged in recent weeks at a beloved New York City school building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that two programs have shared for the past decade. It is a battle that reflects events that have caused two of the biggest demographic shifts in New York City’s recent history: the […]

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Buddy Duress, Who Came Off the Streets to Find Stardom, Dies at 38

Buddy Duress, a small-time heroin dealer living on the streets of the Upper West Side who became a sensation in the New York film scene as an actor and muse for the movies “Heaven Knows What” and “Good Time,” which launched the careers of the filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie, died in November at his […]

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New York Mourns Flaco, an Owl Who Inspired as He Made the City His Own

He had soared through Manhattan, perching on oak trees and elms in Central Park, tenements on the Lower East Side, water towers on the Upper West Side. “I feel like he was showing us how we can break free out of our cages, the mundane, the things that don’t serve us, the things that hold […]

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Emergency Brake Vandalism Led to NYC Subway Derailment That Injured Dozens

The collision between two subway trains that injured dozens of people in Manhattan last week began with what has become a routine problem in New York City’s mass transit system — pranksters pulling emergency brakes. All New York City subway cars are equipped with emergency brakes, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said, which means that most […]

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Subway Service Is Fully Restored After Derailment in Manhattan

Subway service on the 1, 2 and 3 train lines in Manhattan was fully restored on Sunday, more than 60 hours after a collision between two trains left 26 people injured, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said in a social media post. The service disruption began around 3 p.m. on Thursday when a train carrying about […]

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Upper West Side Friends Remain Close After Near-Eviction

Sheila Sullivan turned 86 this summer, and she had aging on her mind, because she was genuinely curious. What do all those old people you hear about, those poor souls, do with themselves all day? She had no idea. “I’m much too. …” and there was a pause, like in the theater, “whatever-it-is, to be […]

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How 100,000 Apartments in New York City Disappeared

About a decade ago, Timon Malloy encountered a problem familiar to families trying to raise two children in New York City: His apartment started to feel too small. Many New Yorkers, facing such a dilemma, have simply left for cheaper pastures. Mr. Malloy chose a more luxurious route. He bought an apartment below his own, […]

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Annie Leibovitz, Now an Empty-Nester, Lists Upper West Side Duplex

Annie Leibovitz is one of the world’s most celebrated and prolific photographers, with a deep portfolio of famous portraits, from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to Michelle Obama. She’s also quite busy in real estate. In addition to owning a home in Rhinebeck, N.Y., Ms. Leibovitz has bought and sold several properties in Manhattan. Among […]

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The Glamorous Stranger Next Door Knew Everyone. And She Needed Help.

Tina Dupuy was, and was going to be, a lot of different things — a standup comic, a political columnist, the host of a podcast about cults, a congressman’s communications director on Capitol Hill. But one afternoon in 2013, she was just another New Yorker who had locked herself out of her building on the […]

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