September 2, 2008, 5:27pm
Stop the Presses: Ha’aretz Discovers Jews on Upper West Side (But the Times Beat Them to It)
By Daniel Treiman
Writing in Ha’aretz, Marco Greenberg offers an ode to Jewish life on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and drops the following bombshell: “Even the New York Times has recently picked up on the UWS-Jewish connection.”
Greenberg goes on to observe that the “Upper West is perhaps the last spot on earth where people walk rather than drive.” Clearly, he has never been to the Upper East Side.
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