From Assembly Member Daniel O’Donnell’s website: Assembly Member O’Donnell is proud to announce FREE mammograms and flu shots will be available at his 11th Annual Fall Health Fair on Saturday, November 22nd! Free mammograms will be available for extended hours from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM to women who are 40 years or older, NYC … Read more
Effective January 1, 2015, the New York State recycling laws dictate that it will be illegal to place any electronic waste in your trash. Electronics Recycling: The Lower East Side Ecology hosts recycling events during the year throughout Manhattan and also operates a permanent E-Waste collection Center at 469 President Street, Brooklyn, Tuesdays through Saturday. … Read more
Our Council Member, Helen Rosenthal, is sponsoring a symposium on the changes in the 2015 Medicare Program and how it will affect your benefits. The symposium will be held on Thursday, November 20, 2014 from 5PM – 7PM. The event will be held at the B’nai Jeshurun Synagogue at 257 West 88th Street between Broadway … Read more
Beginning Friday, November 7, 2014, the new default speed limit in NYC will be 25mph. The reduction in the speed limit will make the streets safer for our children and all pedestrians. A 5mph reduction in the speed limit should cut the fatality rate for pedestrians in half! Your help and cooperation will make the … Read more
Here is your chance to share your ideas for improving the Upper West Side by participating in a budget meeting hosted by 6th District Council Member, Helen Rosenthal. Please see Helen Rosenthal’s message below: Dear Neighbors, I’ve been having a blast hearing your ideas about how to spend $1 million to improve the Upper West … Read more
On the evening before the scheduled opening of the Twenty-fifth Annual West 104th Street Yard Sale, vendors, volunteers, and bargain hunters felt as heady as thoroughbreds rearing back to lunge though the starting gate to the cheers of the crowd and to the reverberating announcement, “And they’re off!” During the previous months, their spirits withstood … Read more
Cure Urgent Care recently opened at 2689 Broadway at 104th Street. Cure Urgent Care’s Medical Director is Jake Deutsch, MD. The urgent care center will treat any condition and accepts most insurances. There is no appointment necessary to see one of their physicians. The hours are Mon – Fri 8AM- 10PM and Sat – Sun … Read more
The Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group (BNHG) is a dynamic organization which sponsors a new lecture series each season. The BNHG’s Board consists of Win Armstrong, Peter Arndsten, Marjorie Cohen, Cynthia Doty, Hedda Fields, Alice Hudson, Ginger Lief, Paul Lindberg, Jim Mackin, Batya Miller, Gil Tauber, Pam Tice and Vita Wallace. The BNHG Fall lecture series … Read more
The Picasso Curtain is scheduled to be moved from the Four Seasons Restaurant on September 6 and 7—the first step toward its new home in The New-York Historical Society. The elaborate move will involve some twenty experts from both Art Installation Design and Auer’s Rigging. Both companies have wide experience moving artwork for museums and … Read more
The mission of the West 104th Block Association is to ensure our street is safe, secure, and beautiful. One of our block residents alerted us that a tree on the north side of West 104th Street had two very large, dead branches. The dead branches hung over the sidewalk and street where we walk and … Read more