Hey Alec. Honey, we all know off-the-cuff situations involving recorded audio aren't exactly your forte. We've talked about this in our last meeting, remember? About how you were going to call your publicists before you got that urge to say something moroni—sorry, creative—anywhere near a mic? So what is this I'm…
Lazy uptown "Sex and the City" devotees will no longer have to pack little Charlotte and Gingerly into the double-wide stroller and head downtown for their Magnolia Bakery cupcakes, the aroma of which whisks them immediately back to what they believe were their carefree single days of the late 90s but were actually…
Moby, America's favorite tea-loving vegan and sometime musician, recently fled the Lower East Side for the more staid Upper West Side. According to Luci On Tour, his apartment once belonged to an opera buff and was "painted floor to ceiling in pastels, depicting jesters with bells on their toes, elephants with frilly…
The news that the Upper West Side's Claremont Riding Academy, a stable and horseback riding school at 89th and Amsterdam, is closing imminently after being sold to a developer—perhaps as soon as this Friday—is a blow not only for uptown riding princesses (just think how much more painful their virginity-losing will…
Not everyone is pleased by the news that the Hampton Jitney will be making stop(s?) in Brooklyn this spring. Upper West Siders, usually a restrained, voiceless group, are complaining that they lack similar service, even though they live in Manhattan. The downtrodden residents of the better borough sing of their…
Living the life of a socialite can be rather taxing—so many benefits, so many designer dresses to keep track of, so many manicures, etc.—that we can't say we were surprised to see this ad for a personal assistant for an "UWS socialite." She's looking for
The Park Royal is a fancypants co-op on the Upper West Side — built in 1926 as an "apartment hotel," neighbor to the Dakota, and, according to its website, twice named one of the city's top ten co-ops. So you'd expect it would have fancypants residents with fancypants manners, right? Wrong. According to buildingwide…
Bonnie Fuller — she's just like us! She has a kid!
A brand-new mom we know recently paid a visit to Upper Breast Side, which describes itself as "New York City's first breastfeeding boutique," and she filed this intriguing report:
The view down Broadway from 116th Street.
In any horror movie worthy the of name, the unexplained, unexplainable, force-of-nature evildoer is never really gone when all the innocent victims first think it's gone. So when the inexplicable Syrupy Smell That Swallowed New York came and went about a month ago, why did we all assume it was gone for good?
We're thrilled to see that NYC IS EDGY has made it to the domesticated precincts of the Upper West Side, where now even ladies who lunch might be confronted by a hail of bullets while getting their midday manicures.
When paramedics dug through the rubble of the collapsed building on the Upper West Side last Thursday, they found 7-month-old Abby Lurensky. Lurensky was initially "unresponsive," but quickly determined to be in good health because of her stroller, which folded around her and protected her from the debris:
