Tag: columbus avenue

It wasn't just the kids who took to the hydrants on Sunday afternoon during Columbus Avenue Open Streets.

Weren’t we just arguing about whether it made sense to turn a portion of Columbus Avenue

Columbus Avenue from 68th to 77th Streets will close to traffic on Sundays starting August 29 as part of the city's Open Streets program, according

There are many empty storefronts between 67th and 77th Streets on Columbus Avenue. While most of us bemoan their demise, one Upper West Sider saw in them

New York City streets shaped Cleveland Lawson, then transformed him. He grew up in the South Bronx, in the 1980s, “with no trees just poverty,” he recalled

A 1,000 pound bear was spotted at the corner of 82nd and Columbus Avenue this week.

The Columbus Avenue protected bike lane will soon extend all the way from 110th street to 65th, instead of stopping at 96th and 77th streets. The extension was approved by Community Board 7 in February, and construction got started last week, according to a release from the community board. The ...

After ten years of collaboration, top chefs, designers, and city and neighborhood leaders cut the ribbon

The sidewalk on the West side of Columbus Avenue between 76th and 77th streets is getting a big makeover that's been eight years in the making. New trees, benches, lighting and environmental features will transform the block, where a flea market is held every Sunday. The bulk of the project ...

A fire on Columbus Avenue between 71st and 72nd Street on Saturday morning sent flames shooting from the roof of 246 Columbus Avenue and caused firefighters to close down Columbus Avenue south of 72nd.

By Shannon Ayala After debating for more than three hours on Tuesday night, Community Board 7 passed a resolution to extend the Columbus Avenue bike lane from 59th to 110th streets. For now, the lane runs from 96th to 77th streets, leaving bicyclists right back in traffic once they get ...

By Shannon Ayala An Upper West Side community board committee will once again try to decide whether to extend the Columbus Avenue protected bike lane tonight, after a vote last month on the lane ended in deadlock. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. Tuesday night at Goddard Riverside Center at ...

By Shannon Ayala A community board committee was split on whether the abbreviated bike lanes on Columbus Avenue should be extended to cover the full length of the Upper West Side, and said they needed

The Columbus Avenue Festival stretched from 66th Street to 86th Street on Sunday and was packed for much of the day.

We've already established that Columbus Avenue below 72nd Street has become a slightly downscale version of Madison Avenue in the past few years, with Helmut Lang, Burberry Brit, Theory, Paige Denim and more opening within a few blocks of each other.

As we've noted before, Columbus Avenue businesses don't tend to stay vacant for long. And two stores that recently vacated their spaces are already being filled by new stores. Paper Source, a Chicago-based stationery store that we've written about before, is expecting to open next month in the spot on ...

Columbus Avenue, which is gradually morphing into the Madison Avenue, is getting two new stores in the coming weeks. Therapie, the gifts and cosmetics store on Columbus between 74th and 75th Streets, closed after a liquidation sale a couple of weeks ago, and the landlord has already signed a lease ...

Do you think our neighborhood is simply becoming more and more homogenized, a kind of suburban strip mall of corporate chains without any hint of its former distinctiveness? Well, just wait! Here comes another 7-Eleven.

Apparently, a bully is on the loose on the Upper West Side, allowing his kid to step on people's glasses and then...not apologizing! That is the gist of a drawing that has been taped to poles around 94th Street in the last few days. You can see it above, in ...

Bicycles may be mostly peaceful instruments, but talking about bicycles is a full-contact sport on the Upper West Side. On Tuesday night, the DOT presented stats for the Columbus Avenue protected bike lanes from 77th to 96th Street, claiming that since the lanes were installed the avenue has had 34% ...