A candidate for district leader failed to self-identify his gender on election filings, awarding his opponent victory by default.
"THIS IS THE BEST NEWS," wrote one neighbor on social media.
The Parks Department is holding their first input meeting on the redesign of the park and playground Thursday night.
The Upper East Side Group has long combated the gigantic towers in their neighborhood. Now they want the city to stop them everywhere.
The intersection of East 77th Street and York Avenue is now known as Patrolman John Patrick Flood Way.
The Upper East Side City Council Member announced a crackdown on two stores selling illegal weed products, her office said.
The new addition to the East Midtown Greenway may look ready to go, but its opening date is in December 2023.
The Council Member doubled to nearly $2 million in funding to go towards trees, school security systems and bathrooms, parks and more.
As of March, the city's densest neighborhood housed the fewest homeless residents in Manhattan — with only 42 people.
The money will go towards a seasonal playground worker and new landscaping at several playgrounds.
For years, the park had been a staging area for city equipment. Not anymore.
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.