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Fundraiser Started for Delivery Worker Killed in Hit and Run; 'My Brother's Dream Was to Build a ...

Fundraiser Started for Delivery Worker Killed in Hit and Run; 'My Brother's Dream Was to Build a ...

West Side Rag — Days after a 29-year-old delivery man was killed in a hit-and-run at the intersection of 99th & Amsterdam, a neighbor has organized a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for the repatriation of his remains.

As Columbia's New Climate School Opens, A Professor Talks Extreme Weather, Inequality and (Not) C...

As Columbia's New Climate School Opens, A Professor Talks Extreme Weather, Inequality and (Not) C...

West Side Rag — It's Climate Week in NYC, "a time to showcase leading climate action," its organizers, the Climate Group, say. To that end, WSR reached out to Columbia University, which recently established its first new school in 25 years.

¡Si se pudo! City Council Passes Legislation Package Granting Food Delivery Couriers Basic Worker...

¡Si se pudo! City Council Passes Legislation Package Granting Food Delivery Couriers Basic Worker...

West Side Rag — On Thursday, September 23, dozens of food delivery workers cheered outside New York's City Hall as the legislation package granting them basic worker's rights was passed by the City Council.

UWS Parents 'Freaking Out' After Hundreds of Students from P.S. 87 Sent Home to Quarantine

UWS Parents 'Freaking Out' After Hundreds of Students from P.S. 87 Sent Home to Quarantine

West Side Rag — Hundreds of students at PS87 William Sherman, on 78th between Columbus and Amsterdam, were forced into quarantine after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19, leaving parents scrambling to find alternative accommodations.

New Stats Show More People Being Injured in Traffic Crashes

New Stats Show More People Being Injured in Traffic Crashes

West Side Rag — The number of crashes with injuries is rising on the Upper West Side this year, and block associations are hoping to get police and community organizations to focus more on the issue.

Columbia Graduate Students Threaten Strike After Change in Payment Timing

Columbia Graduate Students Threaten Strike After Change in Payment Timing

West Side Rag — A change in how graduate students are paid is the latest point of tension in an ongoing struggle between Columbia University and the union representing graduate students who work there - and it could lead to a strike.

Community Group Makes New Push to Bring Back the Metro Theater as 'Major Tenant' Is Interested

Community Group Makes New Push to Bring Back the Metro Theater as 'Major Tenant' Is Interested

West Side Rag — The Metro theater, on Broadway between 99th and 100th Streets, has been closed for 17 years, showing its last movie in 2005. Its facade is landmarked, but its insides have been gutted — for “imminent” occupancy by a tenant who is “very special,” longtime Metro owner Albert Bialek has told the press many times over the past decade and a half (at least). Each time, the deal fell through.

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