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You can take away the garbage cans but can you take away the garbage? The MTA, in expanding its no trash can pilot program last month claimed that the program would make subway stations trash can, and thereby trash, free. But Upper East Side residents, who have been left holding the coffee cup/apple core/dirty napkins, say that the policy has done just the opposite.
Amid the grand pre-War buildings on the Upper East Side, two ultra-high-end residential towers, rising within a block of each other on East 79th Street, are making their mark not by adding sleek glassy silhouettes to the streetscape but by giving nods to the old.
One of Manhattan's richest neighborhoods has seen a spike in major crimes this year, with rape and grand larceny on the rise.
Reported felonies from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30 have swelled nearly 16 percent compared to the same period last year, according to statistics recently released by the neighborhood's 19th Precinct.
Fastbreak Kids is set to open a new location on First Avenue between 84th and 85th Streets on the Upper East Side.
The sports training company will open its 14th facility in Manhattan and its first full-time dedicated indoor location. The new space, signed for 10 years, will be located at 1629 First Avenue and will span 7,000 square feet, with a scheduled opening in mid-2013.
Plans to turn a former garbage truck garage into a medical center and nursing school have residents worried that the City University of New York and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center campus will be "bad neighbors" by sapping the neighborhood of already scant open space.
In September, the City announced that an ex-city sanitation garage on FDR Drive and 525 E. 73rd St. would be revamped into a state-of-the-art, 750,000 square-foot ambulatory cancer treatment facility.