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Making the Grade at PS 163
Set back on the wide sidewalk of West 97th Street are the pale bricks and primary colors of a minimalist mid-century school. Though you’ll find PS 163 wrapped in scaffolding these days, it's been a cheery presence on the block since 1958, bringing with it a collection...
A New Exhibition on The Old Community opens!
by Megan Fitzpatrick A new exhibit is now on display at the Bloomingdale Library rediscovering a lost community on West 98th and 99th Streets between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West. Created by Rob Garber for the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group, the...
Ten Blocks Makes a Difference, and so does Debby Hirshman
By LANDMARK WEST! Debby Hirshman enters the diner from behind me, and arrives smiling—both of us simultaneously looking forward and back. As we lock eyes in one of the mirrored portions of the otherwise carpeted walls of Café 82 and sit in a hunter-green and dark...
A Musical Connection: Senior Cantor Shayna De Lowe
By Megan Fitzpatrick I catch Shayna’s attention in the golden-hued lobby of the historic synagogue of Congregation Rodeph Sholom, walking past a myriad of smiling children beaming with excitement on a Friday morning. She has just finished her morning Shabbat lesson at...
Succeeding on the “Wrong” Side of Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin Everyone knows, according to Danny Koch, owner of Town Shop at 2270 Broadway, that there is a good side and a bad side of Broadway on the Upper West Side. His family business was located on the “good” west side of the avenue since 1936 when in...
Priorities: Health and Sustainability
By Claudie Benjamin Emily Wang’s interest both in healthy food and maximizing sustainability in daily life goes back to her teenage years growing up in Michigan. These priorities developed through her graduation from Columbia in 2022 and remain important today. What’s...
Master Jazz Piano Player and Mentor
By Claudie Benjamin Play Jazz Piano NYC: The name of the sessions alone evokes cinematic images: In a corner of the room, there’s a piano. A person nonchalantly pulls a chair up, lightly “tickles the ivories” with one hand, and then launches into a breathtaking...
Recovery is as Important as Training
By Claudie Benjamin Sam Morjaria, DPT, owner of Park North Physical Therapy at 2804 Broadway doesn’t want to bash social media, but he said that there’s plenty to suggest, anecdotally, that the images of young sports heroes who earn hundreds of thousands or millions...
Scientist Faces off with Noise Pollution at Home and Cancer in the Memorial Sloan Kettering Labs
By Claudie Benjamin Bench to bedside, the more informal term for translational medicine as applied to cancer research, is scientist Kety Huberman’s expertise. “It’s the area in which research comes closest to patient care” said Huberman. It defines the arena in which...
Literary Imagination of Longtime UWSer Celebrated by B&N in its 1st Live-Taped Podcast
By Claudie Benjamin Writer Ed Park will be interviewed about his new book Same Bed Different Dreams, for a live taped podcast next Thursday, November 9th at 7:00pm at the Upper West Side Barnes and Noble at 2289 Broadway. Park’s work has been published in The New...
