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The Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that had the Upper East Side checking rooftops all month has stopped spreading, the city announced Friday. Investigators still can’t say which cooling tower caused it, and the system that drew more violations than any other is one the city didn’t know existed until this month.

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A 23-year-old autistic man who had been reported missing from his Bronx home nine days earlier was found stabbed on an Upper East Side sidewalk Wednesday afternoon. The attack was unprovoked, and the person who stabbed him fled.

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Isaac Davis was found unconscious and bleeding at Second Avenue and East 96th Street at around 3:30 p.m. H...

Yes, those are free. Next Tuesday is a national food holiday, and one Upper East Side institution is marking it by handing out 1,000 of them across its two neighborhood shops. There’s a catch for anyone planning to stroll over whenever, though. The whole thing runs in timed waves, and once a wave runs dry, that’s it until the next one.

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The Upper East Side’s Legionnaires’ outbreak has claimed a sixth life, even as the city insists the worst of the cluster is over.

City Health Commissioner Dr. Alister Martin announced the death Tuesday evening, saying 90 people have now been sickene...

Inside the Fellini Coffee on the Upper West Side. Photo by Jessica Sherif.

Franco Noriega has exactly one more café to open before the year runs out, and he’s giving the Upper East Side a second one. His Italian coffee-shop-by-day, cocktail-bar-by-night brand arrived in the neighborhood for the first time in April. The follow-up is already signed, sitting more than a ...