Crime Check
Weekly, monthly and year-to-date crime stats from the 19th Precinct, on the East Side from 59th to 96th streets.
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Antique Cocktails to Usher in the New Year
Holiday drinks with a twist
By Josh Perilo
When most people think of New Year’s Eve, they conjure up images of chugging cheap, fizzy alcohol straight from the bottle while wearing glasses in the shape of the New Year’s number. I, on the other hand, have a much more romanticized dream of what New Year’s Eve could be: Ladies in long gloves sipping on Krug in bowl-shaped glasses (true, while Marie Antoinette glasses aren’t as good for holding the effervescence of Champagne, they look damn sexy) and gentlemen in tuxedos smoking cigarettes in holders, sipping on arcane cocktails made with muddled whatnots and long-ago-produced bitters and extracts.
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An Age-Old Problem, Alcoholism, Also Hits the Aged
By Fred Cicetti
Q. My wife and I recently moved into a retirement community. I’ve noticed a lot of people I’d call alcoholics in this community. Do seniors drink more in these places?
Notes From The Neighborhood
Compiled by Megan Finnegan Bungeroth
With the help of artist Ron Agam, Upper East Sider Andrew Scharf lights the giant menorah on 59th Street and Fifth Avenue in celebration of Hannakah. Photo by Andrew Schwartz
STAY UPTOWN ON NEW YEAR’S EVE
You don’t have to drag yourself downtown or, heaven forbid, to Times Square on New Year’s Eve to have a blast. Here are just a few ways to ring in 2012 in the comfort of the Upper East Side.
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Holiday Store Social
Rediscovering the benefits of shopping solo
At first, I was shaking in my boots. I had been about to plunge into my usual last-minute holiday shopping when the friend I was going with bailed on me. Who wants to negotiate the teeming hordes alone or try to make quick decisions on items without another eye to help? It’s like running a marathon all by yourself. But then I reminded myself that solo shopping can also be the best shopping.
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It’s Just Another Night
A quiet New Year’s can be the perfect way to usher in 2012
By Josh Rogers
Why is this night different from all others? If we’re talking about New Year’s Eve rather than Passover, the answer is that it shouldn’t be.
Community Soapbox – The Best Comments From OurTownNY.com
Trash Debate Heats Up
Thanks for getting the truth out there (“Don’t Trash the Upper East Side,” Dec. 22). Citizens need to realize that the city has fed them propaganda about the Marine Transfer Station and it will be far larger and more dangerous than they are letting on, The city is also proposing to PRIVATIZE the MTS—that means have it run for profit. What do you think will happen then?
—Yorkville Human
The Magic of Macy’s—and I’m Actually Not Kidding
In crowded Herald Square, trying to learn to love the chaos again
Jump in, I tell myself. Jump into the crowd and the excitement and the noise; that great big mass of humanity. In another lifetime, when you lived—or at least existed—in the suburbs of New Jersey, you said you thrived on this and took a Midtown Direct train to get to the center of everything. Don’t shrink now from the drama. Live a little. Just jump in.
Getting the Mind to Listen to Resolutions
Yoga & meditation can help make your New Year’s pledges stick
Staying healthy requires more than an impulsive New Year’s resolution and a spanking new gym membership. To nix bad habits for good and maintain positive changes to your body in 2012, fitness experts argue that the first and biggest change starts with the mind. Read more
Top five Stories of the Year
Any year-end list will of course leave off some deserving entries, but here’s our list of a few of our favorite, most memorable or noteworthy cover stories throughout 2011.
