by ThisEastSide | Jul 31, 2026 | Doings, Safety
Share This Article:Bears are roving wild around populated areas, some not far from us. No roving bears have been reported on the Upper East Side. There was that dead bear cub, dumped in Central Park by our bizarre Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Leaving an...
by Froma Harrop | Jun 26, 2026 | Livability, Safety
Share This Article:Doctors! The doctors are here! One thing we have around here are doctors. Craig was sitting outside Birch Coffee on E. 62nd Street, drinking the brew, enjoying the fine UES spring, when an older gentleman arrived with a long-haired German Shepherd....
by Froma Harrop | Oct 17, 2025 | Politics, Safety
Share This Article:Zohran Mamdani’s alleged zinger in last night’s debate was a claim that he had “integrity” and Andrew Cuomo did not. Actually, his endless flip-flops exemplify opportunism in the extreme, a direct contradiction to integrity. Start with the New York...
by Froma Harrop | Jun 30, 2025 | Politics, Safety
Share This Article: Zohran Mamdani said a dumbfounding thing over the weekend. He told a gathering in Harlem that he would raise taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods.” That, he explained, would bring relief to “overtaxed...
by Craig McLaughlin | Jan 31, 2025 | Doings, Safety, Style & Culture
Share This Article: I was at the Morton Williams on Third Avenue and 63rd, sitting at the little coffee area, drinking orange juice and going through my phone when this nicely dressed woman approached me. She was young, early 30s I’d say. She might have had a...
by ThisEastSide | Jan 10, 2025 | Livability, Safety
Share This Article:New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center can’t be knocked for quality of doctors, nurses or other medical providers. But its customer service borders on dismal. First time I came to see a patient still in recovery after major...
