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This Granola Brand Started in an Upper West Side Apartment Kitchen. Now Nutella’s Owner Is Buying It

Mike Mishkin August 21, 2026 Community No Comments

A nutrition counselor who started baking out of her Upper West Side apartment in 2009 just agreed to sell the granola brand it became to the company behind Nutella, in … Read More...

Youman Wilder, the Coach Who Stood Between ICE Agents and His Players in Riverside Park, Has Died at 63

Mike Mishkin August 20, 2026 Community No Comments

Last summer he spent half an hour on the phone with us explaining why he put himself between six armed agents and a dozen kids in Riverside Park. Read More...

A Mayoral Candidate Is Coming to the Upper West Side This Month. She’s a Very Good Girl.

Mike Mishkin August 20, 2026 Sponsored No Comments

The campaign trail swings through the Upper West Side on Monday, Aug. 31, and the candidate has no intention of giving a speech. She’ll spend Read More...

A Famous Upper West Side High School Just Dropped More Than 160 Spots In The State Rankings

Mike Mishkin August 18, 2026 Community No Comments

U.S. News & World Report published its annual Best High Schools rankings on Tuesday, and a school that sits a block from Lincoln Center and turns out working actors, musicians … Read More...

This Upper West Side Subway Has Now Been Shut Down Twice in Six Weeks

Mike Mishkin August 17, 2026 Food & Drink No Comments

City health inspectors walked into an Upper West Side Subway (the sandwich shop) on Aug. 13 and left after ordering it closed. It was the Read More...

She Spent Three Decades Dressing the Upper West Side. Now She’s Suing ICE.

Mike Mishkin August 14, 2026 Community No Comments

A masked ICE agent sprayed her in the face on a sidewalk in Inwood. This week she stood next to Governor Hochul as the plaintiff in a case against the … Read More...

Good Enough to Eat Is Closing After 45 Years, But “It’s Not Really a Goodbye”

Mike Mishkin August 14, 2026 Food & Drink No Comments

Good Enough to Eat, the Upper West Side brunch institution that’s been drawing sidewalk lines for 45 years, is closing. Owner Jeremy Wladis told ILTUWS Read More...

Shots Fired at 71st and Central Park West Friday Morning

Mike Mishkin August 14, 2026 Community No Comments

An argument between three people escalated into a physical fight on the Upper West Side Friday morning, and one of them pulled out a gun Read More...

The 59th Street Shelter Opened in May. Some Neighbors Say the Block Hasn’t Been the Same Since.

Mike Mishkin August 14, 2026 Real Estate No Comments

Gertrude Ederle Playground has a new neighbor. Since the spring, the building beside it (at 537 West 59th Street) has been a 200-bed, dorm-style shelter for single women, and the … Read More...

Encore Creativity’s Fall Chorales Are Open for Registration, and Adults 55+ Don’t Need to Audition

Mike Mishkin August 13, 2026 Sponsored No Comments

For a lot of us, singing in a choir sounds like something that requires an audition, years of training, or at least the ability to Read More...