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.
Menin told Patch why she should be re-elected for the City Council's District 5 seat in the upcoming Nov. 7 election.
Robinson told Patch why he should be elected for the City Council's District 4 seat in the upcoming Nov. 7 election.
Upper East Siders can once again decide how to spend $1 million in city bucks — here's how to submit a project for participatory budgeting.
Council Member Julie Menin tweeted Friday she received a pages-long letter so disturbing that she send it to the NYPD for investigation.
Speakers called for an end to U.S. aid to Israel, Zionism, and the siege of Gaza.
Got rats? Residents can request a rodent burrow to be flushed with carbon monoxide.
Julie Menin wants the city to implement a public awareness effort to explain the potential dangers of unlicensed cannabis stores.
Among those arrested were an 81-year-old woman and former mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, police said.
It's time for the annual Community District Needs Statement, a time when the whole neighborhood can get together and kvetch.
Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom said that "everything is on the table" when asked about the idea at a Wednesday press conference.
The hockey rink at Stanley Isaacs Playground is getting a full renovation, courtesy of the New York Rangers.
It's part of the $35m Council Members Menin and Powers secured for parks, schools, community centers and transit across the neighborhood.