Patch posed five questions to candidate Alina Bonsell ahead of the Upper East Side primary election this June. Here are her replies.
Patch posed five questions to candidate Luke Florczak ahead of the Upper East Side primary election this June. Here are his replies.
Patch posed five questions to Julie Menin, one of the candidates in the Upper East Side primary election this June. Here are her replies.
Patch posed five questions to Kyle Athayde, one of the candidates in the Upper East Side primary election this June. Here are his replies.
Upper East Siders will have the chance to make their voices heard in city elections on June 24.
Seven new capital projects are coming to the Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island.
Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil was arrested last month in a Trump administration crackdown on pro-Palestinian protestors.
Applications for community boards are live now.
Virginia Maloney, daughter of former Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, announced her campaign for an East Side City Council seat on Monday.
The 2025 race to replace Keith Powers, who currently represents District 4, is shaping up to be one of the city’s most competitive.
Mayor Eric Adams pleaded not guilty to five federal charges on Friday. What did the Upper East Side have to say about it?
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center could begin work on a new 31-story medical facility on the Upper East Side later this year.
It's part of the $25m Council Members Menin and Powers secured for parks, schools, community centers and transit around the neighborhood.
Amid the city's "Operation Padlock to Protect," over 70 illicit cannabis dispensaries have been closed down throughout the five boroughs.
All selected projects must benefit the public, cost at least $50,000 and have a lifespan of at least five years.
As part of "Operation Padlock to Protect," a total of 75 illegal weed shops were shut down across the five boroughs.
Officials have announced that construction for the proposed renovation plan is scheduled to commence either in late 2025 or early 2026.
Upper East Side Council Member Julie Menin is taking action against the plague of dog feces with a new law to keep sidewalks clean.
Nearly 120,000 people were told to vote at Robert F. Wagner Middle School in 2020. Julie Menin and others are asking for a better solution.
Libraries, schools and the local police precinct all made the list of 12 projects on which residents in Council District 5 can vote.
Wetzler served as District Leader for nearly six years in the neighborhood. Now he looks to take over for term-limited Keith Powers.
It's a busy time for Upper East Side parks.
If the city agrees with a state historic preservation opinion, only one tower steps from Asphalt Green would remain as proposed.
Emails obtained by the New York Times revealed that a conservative writer is alarmed by the sight of "nannies of color" in the neighborhood.
Before her election to City Council, Julie Menin was the commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection from 2014-2016.
"This is how it starts," said a grandchild of Holocaust survivors outside of the Bohemian Hall Thursday night.
But the Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association's president said he was opposed to "book banning, thought, and expression controls."
"They should just go away," said one leader of a major LGBTQ politcal group.
"We all love it," one person shouted on the opening day of Manhattan's newest parkspace.
The much-anticipated project is confirmed to be ready for walks, stolls, sits and bike rides on a beautiful mid-week December day.
Elections were held last week for key seats on the Upper East Side's Community Board — including for the board chair.
The long-anticipated extension to the East River Esplanade got rave reviews at a recent meeting, but may not open in December as promised.
Brian Robinson, who won just 26 percent of the vote in Tuesday's race, says that a "Nazi machine machine [sic]" had "killed a great city."
Powers, a Democrat, held a consistently strong lead to maintain his District 4 City Council seat.
Menin, a Democrat, held a steady lead in her re-election race for District 5 throughout Tuesday night.
Local, state and federal elected Upper East Side reps gathered at city hall on Monday to call for an alternative to the huge towers.
Over 250 East Side leaders and residents signed a letter decrying the mailer sent by Republican challenger Brian Robinson.
"There is no place for hate and explicit threats of violence," said Julie Menin. "Children walk by this residential building every day."
Here's what you need to know about voting in the 2023 general election if you live on the Upper East Side.
Powers told Patch why he should be re-elected for the City Council's District 4 seat in the upcoming Nov. 7 election.