Posted on March 21, 2022 at 8:30 am by West Aspect Rag
“One other tribute to Ukraine appeared.” {Photograph} by Priscilla Greene.
By Carol Tannenhauser
March 21, 2022 Climate: Sunny, excessive of 60 levels.
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It’s exhausting to concentrate on neighborhood information with descriptions and pictures of the horrors in Ukraine seeping in. With recognition of that we proceed onward, with heavy hearts.
Henrietta Mantooth has lived on the Higher West Aspect for 60 years. On the age of 97, she remains to be portray and exhibiting her work — within the MOMA in Brazil and the Ford Basis Gallery. Her work have been lately displayed on the kick-off social gathering on Columbus Avenue for the Gold Commonplace Arts Pageant — which celebrates older artists. “I really love being previous,” [she] informed the NY Put up. “There may be an pleasure and a freedom in some ways. And I really feel I’m a historical past e book and all of that have affords me a information that presents itself with out acutely aware effort.”
On Thursday afternoon, one other lady in her 90s was randomly punched behind her head whereas standing outdoors studying a menu at Manny’s Bistro, on Columbus Avenue between seventieth and 71st, in line with ABC7. However bistro proprietor Manuel Colon adopted the attacker, calling 911, and pointing him out when the police arrived. The 35-year-old man was charged with one rely of assault. “The sufferer stated she was feeling okay [and] refused medical consideration.”
A townhouse on Central Park West and eighty fifth Road bought for $26 million setting a neighborhood document for townhouses, in line with the New York Put up, which teased in regards to the “thriller purchaser,” reportedly “a New York household.” What does the ten,000-square-foot mansion have to supply? Along with the “six bedrooms, excessive ceilings, oversize home windows, two skylights, 4 Juliet balconies…landscaped backyard and landscaped roof-deck overlooking Central Park…within the basement, there’s an 1,875-square-foot ‘wellness heart’ with a lap pool, Jacuzzi, sauna and hydrotherapy steam bathe.”
Jerry Zaks, “the celebrated Broadway director...whose present tasks are ‘The Music Man’ and ‘Mrs. Doubtfire,’ lives in a extra modest — photograph-filled — two-bedroom residence on the Higher West Aspect, The New York Instances reported. And he has an uncommon association. “When he needs to go to his girlfriend, Melissa Gooding (or his Tony Awards), he goes down two flights to what’s primarily his second dwelling.” Check out The Instances’ tour and Pleasure Bergmann’s profile of Zaks in WSR, together with his ideas on making it by means of the day on the UWS: “Discover the habits that may shield the potential for a cheerful ending….attempt to keep civilized whilst you’ve acquired vehicles and buses and other people asking for cash and other people being loud on their cell telephones, at all times one thing coming at you. You gotta be alert.”
New York Instances meals critic Florence Fabricant discovered her strategy to 67Gourmet on Columbus Avenue and 69th Road. “This well-stocked nook up the block [created by the owners of 67 Wine & Spirits] principally sells cheeses, charcuterie, condiments and crackers — stuff to nibble with wine. They’ve employed Martin Johnson, a cheesemonger…to supervise the shop and choose the products. Value discovering is Moser from Switzerland, whose fluent Cru Blanc Camembert begs for sauvignon blanc alongside.” By all means, fulfill the Camembert!
Lastly, information is breaking immediately about the way forward for the Metro Theater. Stick with us for the most recent stories.
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