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Monday, January 20, 2024
Sunny. High 26 degrees.

After the snow on Sunday, the beginning of this week is expected to be extremely cold. Temperatures will sit between 8 and 26 degrees through Thursday.

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Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Monday is also Inauguration Day. Sunday is Groundhog Day.

Upper West Side News
By Gus Saltonstall

Rumors are swirling that Kamala Harris, who officially leaves her job as vice president today, might be eyeing a home on the Upper West Side, as first reported by the New York Post’s Page Six.

Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, was spotted earlier in January touring a $20,000-a-month three-bedroom apartment in the Park Loggia building on West 61st Street between Broadway and Columbus, according to the Post.

The new Upper West Side luxury building has 24/7 doorman service, security, a rooftop and outdoor terrace with Central Park views, a fitness center, golf simulator, music practice rooms, and more.

According to the Post, citing an unnamed source, “the soon-to-be-former VEEP and Second Gentleman intend for Los Angeles to continue to be their base when they leave Number One Observatory Circle [in Washington, D.C.] this week.” But the same source “conceded that Emhoff has indeed been casting his eye over some homes in the Big Apple on the couple’s behalf.”

Emhoff’s daughter also lives in Brooklyn.

You can read more — HERE.

Actor Mark Ruffalo visited City Hall this month in an effort to help preserve the West-Park Presbyterian Church on the Upper West Side.

Ruffalo met with First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer and City Councilmember Gale Brewer to discuss the ongoing dispute between preservationists and a developer over the fate of the church at the corner of West 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, sources told the New York Post. The church congregation says it can’t afford needed repairs and has asked to sell the property to a developer who would build condos in the space.

Brewer, who has sided with those who want to preserve the church, said it “is not falling apart,” according to the  Post. “I was there two nights ago. Beautiful, not falling apart,” said Brewer. “It does need money for the roof, which we have, and then we can take the scaffolding off.”

The last update in the long-running West-Park Presbyterian Church saga was that the church was withdrawing its request to the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission to grant a “hardship application” that would have cleared the way for the 133-year-old church to sell the property and have it demolished.

The congregation issued a statement at the time saying that it would resubmit the hardship application, when the ongoing litigation around the building was resolved. That litigation is still ongoing.

On Saturday, a mist rolled into Central Park with the warmer weather and rain.

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