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Gay Community's Rosa Parks Faces Death, Impoverished and Alone

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Jim Luce

I know dementia. My father and grandmother both died with it. But they had both resources and families to protect them - and neither were living cul...

Allure of the Hive: Experts on Connectivity, Social Networking and Social Change

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Jim Luce

A distinguished panel of experts gathered Saturday at the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination for a standing room-only r...

PETA Names Chapin One Of The Country's Most Vegan-Friendly Cafeterias

dnainfo.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

The gourmet vegetarian offerings at the Chapin School -- one of the crown jewels of Upper East Side girls education -- have made the private school on...

Living Like A "Gossip Girl"

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Not everyone can be as genetically blessed as Serena and Blair. But with a little help you too can live the life of one of "Manhattan's elite." Firs...

Co-Op Board Cancels Sale After Seeing Kid's Facebook Page

BrickUnderground | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

A reliable source tells BrickUnderground that a posh Upper East Side co-op quashed a sale after running a Facebook check--on the buyer's children. "T...

Brearley School Vs. Upper East Side Residents In Expansion Bid

nypost.com | LOIS WEISS and LORENA MONGELLI | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

A posh private girls school that has been trying to expand for years is about to get into another battle with its Upper East Side neighbors after purc...

Survey: Upper East Side Top Retirement Spot In Country

nydailynews.com | By Bill Egbert and Erin Durkin | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

New York's Upper East Side is a great place to retire - as long as you're filthy rich. Manhattan's 10021 zip code is among the top retirement spots i...

School Bus Crash Sends 11 Kids To Hospital

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

UPDATE: 1010WINS now reports that 11 elementary school students were injured in the crash. The students were on a field trip to Lincoln Center when t...

The Animal Building on East 67th Street

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Nick Carr

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Ones to Watch: The Boys of Paper Street Films

Melissa Berkelhammer | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Melissa Berkelhammer

To hear Paper Street founders Austin Stark and Benji Cohen tell it, these tough times have worked greatly to their advantage.

Meet the Amazing Aroon Shivdasani of NYC's Indo-American Arts Council

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Jim Luce

Indo-American Arts Council founder and executive director Aroon Shivdasani has lived all over the world but has called New York home for about half he...

NYC Crane Collapse: Manslaughter Charges Expected In 2008 Upper East Side Accident

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

NEW YORK — A crane company owner is expected to be charged with manslaughter in a 2008 accident that killed two workers as the top of a 200-foot...

The Geography of Good Coffee in New York

Alex Henry | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Alex Henry

I first got to know certain New York streets and neighborhoods from my espresso-scouting missions. A mental map started to emerge, illuminated as if by a caffeinated glow in each of these spots.

Edmond Alma CHARGED With Stolen Gems From Jewelry Heist At R.S. Durrant

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

NEW YORK — Authorities have arrested a 46-year-old man who they say ended up with more than $1 million worth of gems stolen in a deadly New York...

Alfred R. Kahn, 4Kids CEO, Buys Bernie Madoff's Apartment (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

After nearly five months on the market, Bernie Madoff's penthouse apartment has gone into contract. The swanky Upper East Side pad was originally l...

New York Center for Children Offers Hope after Child Abuse

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Jim Luce

The next benefit for the New York Center for Children is Tuesday night, Feb. 2. Called "A Toast to The New York Center for Children," the travel auc...

U.S. Congressmember Carolyn Maloney on Abhorrent Anti-Gay Legislation in Uganda

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jim Luce

On Thought Leaders and Global Citizens. U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, representing Manhattan's Upper East Side, Roosevelt Island, and Wester...

Brazen Madison Ave Jewel Heist Leaves One Dead

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

NEW YORK — A jewelry store worker was shot to death in a brazen midday robbery Wednesday in a shop on posh Madison Avenue, police said. Two peo...

Police Surveillance of Parents Protesting Bloomberg's Privatization of Public Schools

Leonie Haimson | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Leonie Haimson

On Thursday, hundreds protested across the street from where Mayor Bloomberg lives against his proposals to force mass closings of public schools. Members of the NYPD were taking pictures.

Upper East Side's Air Pollution Levels Some Of City's Highest: Survey

nydailynews.com | Adam Lisberg and Kathleen Lucadamo | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

The upper East Side, a posh neighborhood known for luxury buildings and even Mayor Bloomberg's home, has a disturbing level of dangerous pollutants in...

Under Stimulated: Building Trains and Other Stuff We Need Rather Than What Wall Street Dictates

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Joel Epstein

I'm making real investment in fast trains that run where people live and want to go my wish for the New Year.

A Museum, A Community, A Festival

Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Liz Neumark

How interesting to embark on a project developing the menu for a museum whose surrounding neighborhood -- El Barrio -- has been described as a food desert.

Mystery Illness Shuts Down Upper East Side School

ny1.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

A school on Manhattan's Upper East Side has been shut down after more than two dozen students came down with a mystery illness this morning....

Shake Shack To Hit Kuwait, Theater District, Upper East Side

ny.eater.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Next year Shake Shack will open locations in Kuwait, the Upper East Side, and Midtown Manhattan....

El Museo del Barrio: Fifth Avenue on Fire

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Jim Luce

Forty years ago, El Museo del Barrio was a dream contained in a single classroom so far north that “sophisticated” Manhattanites would not...