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In memory of Charlie Watts, the Meatpacking Business Improvement District (BID) will host a free screening of "Shine a Light" on Thursday.
The first of five lectures from the Inwood museum's "Talking About Race Matters: Join The Conversation" series was held on Wednesday.
Starting this weekend, 68th to 77th Street on Columbus will be turned into an Open Street every Sunday until Nov. 14.
A 27-year-old man was shot in the chest and killed on Friday near the corner of 10th Avenue and West 211 Street, according to police.
Here are the must-read Patch NYC stories for Thursday, August 26.
The final demolition permit for a stretch of buildings on West 96th Street was filed this week. The demolitions are making room for a tower.
Patch readers recently shared their viewpoints on whether NYC's public school students should be masked this year. Here's what they said.
A townhouse at 75 1/2 Bedford Street is considered the skinniest home in New York City, standing just nine feet six inches wide.
Recently retired Henrik Lundqvist just put his 225 West 83rd Street condo on the market for $2.99 million, reports the New York Post.
"The murals are a celebration of Washington Heights," Dominican-born artist Gaby D'Alessandro told Patch about her recent creations.
Sarita, a 92-year-old UWSer goes to the Cafe Eighty Two diner in the neighborhood nearly every day: "It's the center of her social life."
The frat brothers of Delta Sigma Phi at Columbia University were recently booted from their UWS brownstone for an unspecified transgression.
Maddd Equities has received approval to build two towers of affordable housing at 373 West 207th Street, according to RealDeal.
Sen. Brad Hoylman introduced legislation that would add COVID-19 to the list of required vaccines children need to go to school in New York.
Police sent out a video on Wednesday of the latest in a string of jewelry robberies to take place in Inwood. See it.
Greenwich House, a nonprofit that has served the community for over a century, recently opened fall registration for a variety of classes.
Dagon, an Israeli eatery that opened on the UWS in February, was just named one of the 21 best new restaurants in NYC.
The Lincoln Square area on the UWS has the most vacant housing units of any neighborhood in New York City, according to the new census.
A fish and chips spot and a Mexican joint in Greenwich Village were just named two of the 21 best new restaurants to open in New York City.