Nick worked at NYC Patch from 2020 to 2023, covering Harlem, the Upper East Side and Astoria-Long Island City. Follow him on Twitter at @nick_garber.
Nick grew up in New York City and went to college in Vermont, where he reported for several newspapers. He later reported for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette before spending a year with Patch in Seattle. He lives in Astoria.
Enjoy the end of summer on the 31st Avenue Open Street, which is partnering with some popular restaurants to offer special deals this month.
The Spence School will share its sparkling new gym building with two nearby public schools under an unusual deal secured by an UES lawmaker.
A 17-year-old boy from the Upper West Side died Monday when he fell from a parked trailer and was run over by a truck driver, police said.
A driver fatally struck a man on Riverside Drive over the weekend before fleeing the scene, according to police.
Health inspectors found a Manhattan sushi spot with live roaches, a Brooklyn fried chicken joint with mice, and more.
Here's a look inside the ornate Central Harlem townhouse, which the actor just sold for a record-high sum.
A world-famous caviar restaurant and dozens of clothing and jewelry stores make up the retail boom coming to Madison Avenue this fall.
Starbucks fired a longtime barista at its Ditmars Boulevard shop, days after he helped unionize the store. The city wants him reinstated.
Jonathan Martinez was crossing an East Elmhurst street with his family when a pickup driver fatally struck him before fleeing, police said.
Police are looking for a man seen on video pulling down a woman's shirt and putting his mouth on her breast as she walked in Yorkville.
A rapid UES grocery-delivery center hired guards to police its own workers following complaints, according to a report and a local lawmaker.
The family-run Astoria sandwich shop will soon open a second, bigger location in the never-opened "Astoria Slaps" storefront near Ditmars.
Police shared video showing a Harlem detective punching a 19-year-old woman as part of an investigation into claims of brutality.
A person bit a teen girl, punched her, and pulled her hair while trying to steal her phone at a Long Island city subway stop, police said.
A man randomly stabbed two young people in Hell's Kitchen within minutes of each other Wednesday, police said. A suspect was arrested.
One of Yorkville's most anticipated restaurant openings is here: see inside the new two-story Flex Mussels flagship, replacing Beyoglu.
A man says police officers pulled him over as he drove in East Harlem, falsely said he had a gun, then held him at Rikers Island for days.
A dilapidated warehouse that recently rained bricks onto an Astoria sidewalk will soon become a condo tower thanks to a $25 million sale.
The stereotypically stodgy Upper East Side is now marginally cooler thanks to the arrival of a fashionable sneaker shop: "Vaulted Laces."
The newest addition to booming Court Square will be Five Iron Golf, a rapidly-expanding chain of indoor golf-simulation venues.
