Council Member Keith Powers said he was told the tower was nixed, but the city says that's not the case.
Schools, trees, lighting, security camera and bathrooms all made the list of 10 projects on which residents in Council District 5 can vote.
Council Member Julie Menin is asking Upper East Side residents to help design a new visual campaign urging dog owners to clean up their act.
Some say instead of fighting over a limited resource, the neighborhood should create more areas of open space for all to use.
Council Member Julie Menin asked P.S. 183 students if they wanted to cover longtime construction fencing with art. And they did.
Elected officials told the Park Avenue crowd that "we need to tax the rich and invest in New York.”
Residents have enlisted their local Council member to fight back against a rising tide of... you know what.
The beleaguered Yorkville shelter is dealing with yet another problem. Meanwhile, Eli Zabar took the stand in a messy court case about it.
The American Irish Historical Society is dropping plans to sell its historic Fifth Avenue townhouse after the state stepped in to stop it.
The Upper East Side board nearly unanimously rejected the 32-foot-tall transmitting towers — but the city may well install them anyway.
Just two years after the city spent $875,000 to repair it, a pesky sinkhole has reappeared on the East River Esplanade, sparking questions.
The 32-foot-tall wireless towers are being eyed for 18 blocks across the Upper East Side, the city revealed in a letter. Here's where.
A new plan would lump part of the Upper East Side into a Queens-based Assembly district, in an eerie repeat of a recent City Council fiasco.
The Knickerbocker Greys could soon be displaced from the Park Avenue Armory after 120 years, but a state lawmaker is threatening to step in.
Carolyn Maloney may have broken House ethics rules and the law by improperly soliciting an invitation to the Met Gala, investigators say.
The Democrat swept the Upper East Side, but Republican Lee Zeldin performed strongly on a few neighborhood blocks — here's a breakdown.
The Upper East Side will have new representation in Washington and Albany next year: here are the full results from Tuesday's elections.
According to reports, Hochul stopped at an Upper East Side diner to quote Taylor Swift lyrics to tourists.
More than 40 rodent-resistant bins were installed in the neighborhood Friday, the latest effort to tame the city's restless rat population.
For the second time in a month, President Joe Biden is on the Upper East Side — this time, reportedly to attend a memorial at the Met.
Early voting started Saturday: here's what's on the ballot on the UES, from an open Assembly seat to the redrawn congressional district.
Maloney, the longtime East Side lawmaker who lost re-election this summer, is facing an unspecified ethics probe.
A much-criticized plan to lump part of the Upper East Side together with a Queens-based City Council district has finally been scrapped.
Traffic is already a mess as the commander-in-chief prepares to stop by the Upper East Side for an event Thursday evening.
Blood-red spray paint coated the Russian Consulate near Fifth Avenue Friday amid an escalation in the Ukraine War. Police are investigating.
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.
Sewer repairs that have blighted York Avenue for six years are slated to drag on, but a new art project may help ease the eyesore.
As rat complaints surge, an Upper East Side Councilmember says new funding will increase garbage collection and keep sidewalks clean.
A rapid UES grocery-delivery center hired guards to police its own workers following complaints, according to a report and a local lawmaker.
Jerry Nadler dominated the "Only Murders" block and even won Carolyn Maloney's East Side home turf in his sweeping win. Here's a breakdown.
Jerry Nadler has defeated Carolyn Maloney and Suraj Patel in the 12th Congressional District primary, according to an AP projection.
The restaurateur insists his opposition to the Yorkville Safe Haven shelter centers on its construction plans. Advocates aren't buying it.
Julie Menin became the highest-profile official to come out against the proposal to move dozens of UES blocks to a district based in Queens.
We asked Jerry Nadler, Carolyn Maloney and Suraj Patel about neighborhood issues ahead of their contentious primary. Here's what they said.
After a pandemic ban caused evictions to nearly vanish, dozens of Upper East Siders are being displaced from their homes again, data shows.
Amid reports that Carolyn Maloney had opposed a bike lane on the street where a young woman was killed, her parents are backing a rival.
Want to run the Central Park Boathouse? With its longtime owner closing up shop, the city needs a new operator for the $13 million business.
Proposed changes to the Upper East Side's City Council districts would slice up local institutions and imperil key projects, residents fear.
Mourners gathered Wednesday for the funeral of Ivana Trump.
Thousands of Upper East Siders would be gobbled up by a district based in Queens under a new map of the City Council's proposed districts.