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Andrew Ross Sorkin Pays More Than Asking Price For New Apartment

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Hopefully Andrew Ross Sorkin did his research before buying his new apartment. The New York Times reporter recently paid $2.315 million for an apa...

When Manholes Explode, New Yorkers Shrug

Tom Bisky | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Tom Bisky

As audio-visual phenomena, the volcanic blasts from manhole-accessed underground pipes are nothing short of spectacular -- but we New Yorkers are getting used to them.

NYPD Bomb Squad Smashes Windows Of Suspicious BMW Parked In Front Of Museum Of Natural History

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

The New York Police Department's bomb squad smashed out the passenger side windows of an idling SUV in front of the American Museum of Natural History...

Groundbreaking Speech by Ban Ki-moon on Eve of NPT Review

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Jim Luce

In a Huffington Post exclusive, Peace Action organizers of the "Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World" Conference at Riverside Church -- ...

Man Behind "Soup Nazi" To Reopen Soup Shop

nytimes.com | FLORENCE FABRICANT | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Get in line, make your choice and have your money ready. Or else! Al Yeganeh is back....

Calling All Lincoln Square, Upper West Side Celebs

Marta Hallowell | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Marta Hallowell

We need affordable housing so that the actors, musicians, singers and ballerinas who work all along Broadway, and who delight our eyes and ears and hearts, can live near where they work.

Fighting the Noise Wars -- One Blog at a Time

Jeremiah Moss | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Jeremiah Moss

In the East Village, bar "noise wars" have become epic smackdowns. For a decade at least, bar owners have had the upper hand. But the atmosphere began to change in the summer of 2009.

Steve Jobs is a Nine-Year-Old Child

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Steve Rosenbaum

Steve Jobs has the personality, temperament and behavior of a nine-year-old. I've suspected this for a while, and now I can prove it.

Pick-up Lines That Haven't Worked In My Upper West Side Bikram Yoga Class

John Bobey | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
John Bobey

1. Are you in Sasangasana pose, or are you just glad to see me? 2. I write for Glenn Beck. 3. Is it hot in here, or is it you? ...

Friday Odds & Ends: Umbrella Graveyard, Batman, Dutch Kills, & More!

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Nick Carr

Here's my Friday assortment of random pictures I took during the past week. Including what can only be described as an umbrella graveyard at Mulberry & Prince.

The First Manhattan-Born Justice Since Cardozo; Barney Greengrass Goes to the Supreme Court

Adam Hanft | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Adam Hanft

Like Manhattan itself, Elena Kagan is far more complex than her simple-minded opponents make her out to be.

Nostalgia for Noodles: Pearl's, the Best Chinese Restaurant in New York City, Is No More!

Jacquelin Carnegie | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Jacquelin Carnegie

Pearl's was unique. Not only was it the best Chinese restaurant in New York City -- it had become a celebrity itself, a hotspot.

Artie's, Upper West Side Jewish Deli, Has New Owners

Crain's New York Business | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Artie's, the 10-year-old Upper West Side deli known for its overstuffed pastrami sandwiches, has been sold to an investor who plans to open more of th...

Hector Quinones Claimed Four Lives Before Plunging To His Death

nypost.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

The holiday-season cheer of the trendy Upper West Side was shattered yesterday when a career criminal slaughtered three members of a family in their a...

Michael Ronis, Carmine's Chef, Dead At 60

nytimes.com | DOUGLAS MARTIN | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

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Elaine Stritch -- An Evening of Fire and Wisdom

Adam Hanft | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Adam Hanft

You go to cabaret for an impossible alchemy of exposed emotion, phrasing, the occasional clink of a champagne flute, an evening of enriched uranium. You go to cabaret for Elaine Stritch.

Garry Kasparov To Upper West Side

The New York Observer | Chloe Malle | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Chess champion Garry Kasparov who has retired from chess, and taken up politics in its stead as a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin recently bought a $3...

BREAKING: Upper West Side Shooting Leaves Four Dead

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

NEW YORK — A rampaging gunman killed an elderly man, his son-in-law and grandson in their apartment Thursday, then fell off a fire escape to his...

DWI Murderer Carmen Huertas Contemplates Suicide; Victim's Father Lenny Rosado Would Rather Her Rot In Jail

but victim's dad says that's not enough | Katie Nelson, Matthew Lysiak and Larry Mcshane | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

The despondent driver blamed in the DWI death of an 11-year-old girl wants to kill herself - a fate the victim's dad says is far too good for her. ...

Water Main Break Disrupts Subway Service And Leaves Hundreds On Upper West Side Without Running Water

ny1.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

A 12-inch, 120-year-old water main broke around midnight between 105th and 106th Streets and Central Park West, quickly flooding into the subways. The...

Bait a Geek, Beta Style: The New Apple Store Takes a Bite Out of the Upper West Side

Doree Lewak | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Doree Lewak

The fourth NYC Apple retail store is launching this weekend, this time on the UWS, raising the unavoidable question: has anyone actually gotten laid from the launch of an Apple store?

Jim Carroll Dead: 'Basketball Diaries' Author, Poet, Punk Rocker Dies

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

NEW YORK — Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries," died Friday. He was 60. He died from a heart attack at his...

Apple Store To Open On Upper West Side

New York Daily News | News Wire Services | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Despite a sour economy and a strong retail presence already in New York, Apple is preparing to make its mark in another city neighborhood: the upper W...

Saving Small Businesses, The Brooklyn Way

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Jim Luce

Bob Zuckerman does not want to wait for the economic stimulus package to drip down to Brooklyn's quickly emptying storefronts.

Duane Reade Rebrands. New Yorkers Rejoice.

Val Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Val Brown

Personalized service at the pharmacy is one area where they can really differentiate.