Out with the Mouse, In with the Mice

ABC Watch, adaptive reuse

The New York Times has reported that Taconic and Nuveen Real Estate will convert one of the ABC properties soon-to-be-vacated from their West End Avenue campus into a life science hub.  Not only will this maintain the “bones” of what was once a...

UWSider Téa Leoni’s UNICEF Halloween

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by Claudie Banjamin Remember knocking and shouting “Trick Or Treat for UNICEF!”?  That tradition began on Halloween 1950–children could not only enjoy dressing up and amassing a huge haul of candy, but also bring along little orange cardboard...

On the UWS: A Sugar Bowl Evokes a Long-gone Era

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by Claudie Benjamin An elaborate 1892 Gorham double–lidded nickel-silver sugar bowl that was recently sold online may be among the only tangible relics that remain of the Hotel Regent-Sherman Square Hotel, once located between 70th and 71st Streets...

Batter Up! The UWS’s World Series Pitcher

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by Claudie Benjamin It’s autumn and baseball thoughts are turning to playoffs, wild cards and an eventual World Series.  Did you know that the Upper West Side has its own local baseball star–a starting pitcher in the World Series? True, it was a few...