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Raise your Glass at Westland Roe
By Claudie Benjamin Linda Hopper came from Dublin, Ireland to New York City in 1995, and Carrie Galvin arrived from Abbeyfeale, County Limerick around five years later. They met and became friends working as bartenders at midtown bars. Both women loved the demanding...
New Star with a Long History
By Claudie Benjamin Kossar’s Bagels and Bialys, a new star on the block, now shines at 270 West 72nd Street. The brightly lit sparkling white walls and tiled floors provide a welcoming backdrop for an abundant array of bialys, bagels, spreads, black & whites,...
Comida China Y Criolla Bienvenido de Nuevo!
By Claudie Benjamin Miguel Yip, one of the propitiators of the family-owned La Caridad 72, has worked at the exuberantly welcoming restaurant for 40 years. Yip is the son of Chinese parents who lived in Havana, Cuba. He came to New York in the late 1960s and has...
Bite of the Big Apple
By Claudie Benjamin Look through the glass walls of Apple Upper West Side. See for yourself. Holiday shoppers are browsing and shopping nonstop. Among very few things that might draw you away from the convenience of ordering anything online is the option of...
Royale’s Son Honored Father with 1,000 Black and White Cookies
By Claudie Benjamin Marc Wigder is an attorney and City Councilman in Boca Raton, Florida. His parents owned the Royale Bakery at 237 West 72nd Street for more than 40 years. On the ten-year anniversary of the day that Ben Wigder passed away at the age of 94 in 2014,...
LW! and Landslide 2024!
By LANDMARK WEST! The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based education and advocacy non-project, released their annual Landslide report and this year they are focusing on sites of demonstration in U.S. history. Landslide 2024: Demonstration Grounds,...
Going Your Way
By LANDMARK WEST! John Tauranac has lived on the Upper West Side for most of his life, and in the same apartment building at 900 West End Avenue for over fifty years. Suffice it to say that when he leaves home and heads for the IRT at 103rd Street, he has a pretty...
Craving A Cup
By Claudie Benjamin Golden Arches identify the McDonalds at the 2049 Broadway location and at McDonalds throughout the country and the world. They might be seen as symbolic of US (omni)presence. But, that's only part of the picture. The history of coffee and coffee...
2024 Year End Appeal
Dear Friend and Neighbor, Quality of life. Sustainability. Community. Preservation. Who will fight for New York’s neighborhoods? We will. When I first returned to NY in 1999 for college, an early mentor further stoked in me a fire of New York curiosity that was...
Part of a Global Community
By Claudie Benjamin Abundance is unmistakable at the Morton Williams at 2015 Broadway as it is at all 17 Morton Williams supermarkets in the New York metropolitan area. The array of fresh fruit, vegetables, canned, frozen, and boxed foods, along with condiments and...
