# The West Sider

> Free weekly Upper West Side newsletter covering UWS news, schools, events, parks, restaurants, and weekend plans for Manhattan neighbors.

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## Posts
- [Issue #19:  Hardware, Halftime, and a Health Inspector](https://www.thewestsidernyc.com/p/issue-19-hardware-halftime-and-a-health-inspector): Good morning, West Siders. We're the neighbor who can tell you where to take the kids this weekend, how to land a free seat at a sold-out Lincoln Center show if you move before noon, and whether the Health Department's doubleheader on Broadway counts as a win. Let's Go!
- [Issue #18: Bananas, Blue Angels, and the Big 2-5-0](https://www.thewestsidernyc.com/p/issue-18-bananas-blue-angels-and-the-big-2-5-0): Good afternoon, West Siders. We're the neighbor who can tell you where to watch the World Cup indoors, where to survive the heat with the littles, how to crack the code for getting a wheelchair into a Broadway show, and exactly where our own council member is celebrating the Fourth this weekend. Half the building's gone upstate for the weekend, and everyone still here is negotiating with a single window unit under a 100-degree sky. So we packed it full and draped it in red, white, and blue, because the country turns 250 on Saturday and the tall ships are sailing straight past Riverside to make sure you know it. Pour something cold. We did the running around so you don't have to. Let's Go!
- [Issue #17: Caps, Gowns, and a Handbag at the Guggenheim](https://www.thewestsidernyc.com/p/issue-17-caps-gowns-and-a-handbag-at-the-guggenheim): Good morning, West Siders. We're the neighbor who knows which of the five Greenmarkets has the best peaches, passed the tissues to the graduates, read your Citi Bike receipts, and pre-ordered the championship handbag, obviously. Gowns off, summer on! Let's go!
- [Issue #16: A Title, a Tribute, and a Woman in a Brown Dress](https://www.thewestsidernyc.com/p/issue-16-a-title-a-tribute-and-a-woman-in-a-brown-dress): Good evening, West Siders. We're the neighbor who likes a weekend with some weight to it: a little history, a lot of sun, and more free things to do than any reasonable person can get to. We already toured the new Aldi, have feelings about a $12 bike ride, and read every last comment on that Trader Joe's missed connection, so you don't have to. Plus a championship fifty-three years in the making, and the World Cup, three ways. Let's go. (Sunscreen first; the UV's been showing off all week.)
- [Issue #15: The Buzzer, the Bracket, and the Branch](https://www.thewestsidernyc.com/p/issue-15-the-buzzer-the-bracket-and-the-branch): Good morning, West Siders. We're the neighbor who found the World Cup playing under a blue whale, knows Sunday's parade is coming for your crosstown bus, and started hoarding pennies the day they killed them. Always Knicks! Let's go. 
- [Issue #14: The Clutch, the Current, and the Coin](https://www.thewestsidernyc.com/p/issue-14-the-clutch-the-current-and-the-coin): Good morning, West Siders. We're the neighbor who still has every penny in the change jar, just in case, knows the difference between a London plane and a Callery pear, and reads every Appellate Division ruling so you don't have to. PS: Today is National Donut Day. Krispy Kreme hands out a free donut (the closest brick-and-mortar is in Times Square at Broadway & 48th, but the UWS delivery is fast). Dunkin' gives one with any drink purchase. 😬 Bonus: NYC named the donut. Washington Irving wrote "dough-nut" down first in 1809, in his History of New York: "balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat." We kept the name. Lost the hog's fat.
- [Issue #13: The Sun, the Sweep, and the Zingone Bros Cat](https://www.thewestsidernyc.com/p/issue-13-the-sun-the-sweep-and-the-zingone-bros-cat): Good morning, West Siders. We're the neighbor who mapped every sports bar on the west side, got you a private Raphael viewing before the museum opens, and reminds you the World Cup lottery closes tomorrow. Manhattanhenge, tonight, 8:13 PM. After that, we've got ballerinas, bobbleheads, and a $10,000 lightbulb the city still hasn't screwed in. Let's go. (Westward.)
- [Issue #12: Sunscreen, Stonehenge, and a Nine-Game Streak](https://www.thewestsidernyc.com/p/issue-12-sunscreen-stonehenge-and-a-nine-game-streak): Good morning, West Siders. We're the neighbor who knows when the sun lines up with the grid, why Princess Jasmine painted a piano and left it on Broadway, and what Hoda told the Class of 2026 that made everyone cry.Memorial Day weekend. Rain's coming Saturday, but tonight there's Top Gun on an aircraft carrier, Shakespeare in the park, and a Dutch airline handing out tiny gin-filled houses on Central Park West. And the Knicks [REDACTED].Grab your morning beverage and your sunscreen. Let's go.
- [Issue #11: Gold Medals, Gold Stars, and the Sturgeon King](https://www.thewestsidernyc.com/p/issue-11-gold-medals-gold-stars-and-the-sturgeon-king): Good morning, West Siders. We're the neighbor who knows which restaurants the New York Times loves and which ones it ghosted. Jesse Owens's Olympic gold is at AMNH. The Knicks swept Philly. There are two comedy clubs three blocks apart running six shows each this weekend, fresh sand hitting the playgrounds, and a circus at Lincoln Center. And May is Bike Month, which on the UWS means everyone's a cyclist, a critic, or both. Scroll to the bottom for a live music hot list you can walk to. Grab your morning beverage. Let's go.
- [Issue #10: Chopped Cheese and Ten Dollar Knicks Tix](https://www.thewestsidernyc.com/p/issue-10-chopped-cheese-and-ten-dollar-knicks-tix): Good morning, West Siders. We're the neighbor who knows Gale Brewer's favorite cooking show and where to find a balloon inside a Staples. It's May. The parks are programmed. The bodegas are ready. And this newsletter just turned ten 🥳. Let's go.