Tough to look at crime scene this Saturday morning on the corner of W. 73rd Street on the Upper West Side.

Major restaurant news for the Morningside Heights/UWS/Columbia University area. Raising Cane's will replace the now-shuttered, longtime popular Mel's Burger Bar on Broadway between W. 110th and 111th streets. 5th Manhattan Raising Cane's location. Opening expected fall of 2025

West Side Rag has learned that a new plan to reopen the legendary, long-shuttered Metro Theater is in the works. westsiderag.com/2024/07/25/lat…

Looks like a car destroyed multiple benches last night along Riverside Drive near the Eleanor Roosevelt statue at West 72nd Street.

We've got a big one. It appears that Chick-fil-A will be opening on the Upper West Side at 795 Columbus Ave. (near West 98th Street). The new location will be Chick-fil-A's first in the neighborhood.

A West Side Rag commenter got impressively close to uncovering the truth in 2014 about the dead bear cub in Central Park. A mention of RFK Jr. as a suspect would have put it in the Hall of Fame of comments.

The Upper West Side rules of the sidewalk. westsiderag.com/2024/08/17/wal…

A roughly 160-year-old Elm Tree within Tavern on the Green in Central Park will be cut down in the immediate future after it was found to have Dutch Elm disease. It’s among the oldest in the park.

Law & Order SVU is filming on the Upper West Side today and tomorrow within the popular local spot Malachy's Irish Pub off the corner of West 72nd Street and Columbus.

The giants of the NY political world are headed to the Upper West Side on Sunday to rally voters for November. Kathy Hochul, Jerry Nadler, Adriano Espaillat, Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Letitia James, Antonio Delgado, Mark Levine, Gale Brewer, Shaun Abreu and many more.