I recently paid what I expect to be my final visit to the Emerald Inn, the small but sweet Irish pub on Columbus Avenue on the Upper West...

It's a bit a of given in my universe that shoe repair shops often make for perfect storefronts—because they are compact; because they...

Some City landmark businesses don't get a lot of attention from the press, simply because they're not that flashy and don't d...

The horrific news spreading through the metropolis last Friday was that the Subway Inn, grand old dive of Lex and 60th, had given up the f...

I don't get off at the 96th Street stop of the Broadway line much. Which is a shame. Because I find the stark, modern, new ceramics of ...

So, the Amsterdam Ale House. It's a kind of annoying self-conscious Yuppie beer emporium on 76th and Amsterdam on the Upper West Side. ...

The Times bring good news that the the Upper West Side landmark restaurant Cafe des Artistes, which shuttered last year among a sea of mon...

A newly arrived immigrant could learn English standing outside Big Nick's Burger and Pizza Joint on Broadway in the Upper West Side, th...

During the reigns of Herren Giuliani and Bloomberg, the Upper West Side has become pretty well sanitized. It's streets have been wallpa...

On Amsterdam and 110th Street, in Morningside Heights.

Oy. H&H Bagels gives me tsuris. Last year, the famous Upper West Side bakery was seized by the tax man and the place closed down for a f...

What hope is there for New York's more modest restaurants and bars when a chi-chi institution like Café des Artistes can't hack it? ...

H&H Bagels, seized by the Feds for non-payment of taxes this morning, was back in business this afternoon. Seems the tax thing was seri...

Sweet Mother of God, how can these things happen?! Eater reports that the Tax Man has laid a knock-out punch on iconic Upper West Side inst...

A helpful reader recently alerted me to a large painted sign that, with the destruction of a building, was revealed at the southeast corner ...

If you want to understand the toll the last 16 years of short-sighted City Hall governance has taken on the City's soul, the quickest wa...

The Day-O restaurant, long vacant on W. 12th, has finally been repossessed. [Eater] Some guys from Austin bought the interior of the old Ce...

Curbed reports that the beautiful, 116-year-old, Upper West Side West-Park Presbyterian Church at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 8...

Reader Daniel Roberts sends along this mournful, but amazing picture of the P&G Cafe neon sign being carted away to its new home in a s...

A watchful reader sent me these sad pictures of the Upper West Side's classic tavern, the P & G Cafe, which closed on Jan. 31. It ha...