Tag Archives: Upper East Side

Gothamist reports: Three people were injured after a driver crashed into an outdoor dining space on the Upper East Side on Monday night. Police say the incident happened around 9:30 p.m. yesterday outside Delizia 92 on the southeast corner of E 92nd Street and 2nd Avenue. A driver in a Cadillac Escalade SUV heading east on the street collided with …

An update from ABC New York: Robert Trump, 72, the president’s youngest brother, was described as “very ill,” according to sources. Further details were not known, but he was said to be in critical condition at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center on the Upper East Side. “I have a wonderful brother,” President Trump said at a press briefing Friday. …

The New York Post reports: A fire tore through an apartment building on the Upper East Side early Tuesday, injuring 26 people, including a 1-week-old baby and four firefighters, officials and reports said.  The fire erupted in a kitchen on the 24th floor of the 41-story building at 515 E. 72nd St. just before 2 a.m., officials said. The residents …

Homocon Pete Holmberg is running for the New York Senate against eight-term Democratic Sen. Liz Krueger, who has represented my Upper East Side district in Manhattan since winning a special election in 2002. From the below campaign video: My name is Pete Holmberg, and The New York Republican County Committee produced this video for me to share my experience as …

I learned about this installation a couple of weeks ago and planned on reporting on it once I could take my own photos when the new subway line officially opens on Sunday. But some of you have prodded me not to wait. From the Associated Press: The sight of two men holding hands is far from uncommon, but a mural …

A 24-hour cupcake dispensing machine has opened on the Upper East Side for those late night emergencies when you can’t reach your dealer. The machine can dispense up to 20 varieties by way of a touch screen that works just like a bank ATM: You make your selection, swipe your credit card, and out comes your treat in a brown …

This afternoon Queer Nation staged a protest against Vladimir Putin outside the Russian consulate on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Via press release: Members of the gay activist group Queer Nation and others who oppose the Russian government’s continued attacks on human rights, including the rights of LGBT Russians, will mark the start of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games with a protest outside the Russian consulate in New York City at noon on February 6. “Gay bashing is not an …

After four years of blasting for the coming Second Avenue subway line, the monstrous muck house on my block is finally coming down and tenants on the first six floors of the above building again have sunlight reaching their windows. This is too late, of course, for the scores of street level businesses on the Upper East Side that long …

The MTA has posted a slideshow about the progress being made at the future 72nd Street Station of the Second Avenue subway.  Cool photos within.  The blasting has ended and the muck houses on Second Avenue started to come down this week after three years of destroying businesses and blocking apartment windows.  And only three more years (allegedly) until I’ll …

Last night’s snowstorm took out more trees on the Upper East Side than the hurricane did. There’s a chorus of chainsaws echoing up and down my block. We only got a few inches of snow and most of it’s gone already.

The top photo was taken around 8pm last night. I took the bottom photo at 11:15am today.

According to Forbes Magazine, the Upper East Side’s 10065 zip code is the most expensive place to live in the United States, with a median home price of over $6.5M.  All of the top ten are in New York or California, with the exception of Alpine, northern New Jersey’s hip-hop studded home to Sean Combs, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Russell Simmons, and …

Jesus really wanted to warn the people on my block: “This is a tiny blast compared to what is determined upon Northeast US and New York because of our sins. It behoves us to seek Christ and be on the alert.” On an equally hilarious note, watch this Fox News report on the explosion just for the woman who screeches: …

I’m pretty used to the blasting after two years of this, but today’s “errant” explosion about knocked me out of my chair. The New York Times is on it: “We were doing a controlled blast,” said Adam Lisberg, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, “when clearly something went awry and an explosion was felt at street level.” The blast …

This Upper East Side townhouse was built in 1966 by noted modernist Paul Rudolph. When Halston lived there, it was known as the Studio 54 after-party house. The Alexander Hirsch and Lewis Turner Residence, aka Halston House, 101 East 63rd Street, New York NY. Includes a private garage and rooftop deck. 7349 square feet. Sold in 1974 to designer Roy …

This morning I wandered over to Ladurée, the latest Manhattan rage where New Yorkers are at this moment lined up down the block on a corner of Madison Avenue also anchored by Tom Ford, Juicy Couture, and Prada. Lined up for cookies. Even though the shop is quite close to where I live, I’d never heard of the Paris-based chain …

Recognize these de-luxe apartments in the sky-y-y?