West Side Highway News

Heidi Klum and her mother Erna were having fun with Henry and Johan walking along West Side Highway Park in New York City, she has to be one of the best celebrity mums.

New York City is expanding the nation's biggest July 4 display from a new vantage point - the Hudson River.

New York 4th of July celebrations will feature fireworks on the Hudson River for the first time since the 9/11 attacks.

Forty pyrotechnicians have wired more than 40-thousand fireworks shells. That mean 1500 bursts every minute for the half hour long display.

Coast Guard lighthouse tender will serve as the stage next month for a staging of a Mark Twain-inspired play " The Report of My Death ." The one-man docudrama by Adam Klasfeld draws out a " darker and more political " Twain, as portrayed on stage by actor Michael Graves.

Expect the city to be awash in Gay Pride this weekend: It's the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots that launched the modern gay movement.

Extell Development filed plans this month to construct a 500-plus unit residential tower at 40 Riverside Boulevard, the highest number of units in the long-running West Side development known as Riverside South, records with the city Department of Buildings show.

We've waited a long time to suggest a walk on the High Line ! Food, Inc. director Robert Kenner will be on hand at four Film Forum shows: 6/12 and 6/13, 6pm & 8pm.

Iris Cantor , the major philanthropist and art-collecting widow of Cantor Fitzgerald founder Bernie Cantor, has just closed on a turn-of-the-century townhouse at 11 E. 74th St.

While we little people struggle to earn enough to pay our taxes during these dismal economic times, Comrade Obama and his bride took a little time off from nationalizing industries to go out on a date : President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama landed in New York Saturday afternoon, and after taking a helicopter from JFK into Manhattan, drove up ...

Walking on a bridge over the roar of traffic on the West Side Highway, it's hard to believe that the U.S. remains in the grip of its worst recession in years.

S till don't own a bike? You can borrow one for free from now through the end of September.

Tribecans and their buddies up in Hudson Square are back on the offensive against the area's trashy menace: the three-district garbage truck garage the Department of Sanitation wants to build near some fancy condos between Canal and Spring Streets along the West Side Highway.

Check out events commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. This year's 40th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion adds more significance to an already action-packed New York City Pride Week, when even the iconic Empire State Building swings into the spirit by turning its nighttime lights to lavender.

I am lying on my back on the grass, listening to the intermittent chirping of nearby birds; my eyes are closed, the better to savor the warmth on my face.

There are plenty of labels you could tack on to Ryan Nevins to better understand him - artist, grassroots political activist, bipolar patient - even a former draft pick for the Anaheim Angels - but a criminal? Not a chance, he says.

When the economy was on fire, high-end towers started going up on the West Side Highway.

Brave Newser Carrie Melago goes for a spin in an 'experimental' PUMA, a battery-operated car for city streets.

Far West 12th Street is one of the few remaining hot beds of Manhattan development, but the block between the West Side Highway and Washington Street-where three luxury buildings are rising within steps of one another-is finally showing a bit of weakness.

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