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Gus Saltonstall

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Gus Saltonstall

@GusSaltonstall

Managing Editor at West Side Rag | Former Patch News | [email protected]

New York, NY

Joined September 2018

Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstall
Jul 10, 2025
A local baseball coach says he fended off ICE agents talking to kids during a recent practice in Riverside Park. "I was just focused on how can I get these kids to where they need to go, when they are in my care."
A Baseball Coach Says He Fended Off ICE Agents Questioning Kids on the Upper West Side
From westsiderag.com
Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstall
Mar 3, 2021
NYC moment of the day: Just had an 83-year-old tell me in an interview that she and her seven friends are chipping in on a salami from Katz's Delicatessen to give to the volunteer that helped them all sign up for vaccine appointments. NYC is unkillable.
Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstall
Oct 23, 2025
Bit of an odd ongoing situation on the Upper West Side. People keep emailing in that a popular bar has been defaced with anti-semitic graffiti, but the business has repeatedly clarified it's just their own Halloween decorations.
Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstall
Jun 29, 2025
Gasp worthy. A rare No. 9 train sighting in Manhattan.
Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstall
Sep 29, 2023
The Central Park Zoo Sea Lion enclosure/pool has flooded and the sea lion's are swimming around the entirety of the space.
Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstall
May 24, 2024
Somebody is waging war against the Riverside Park pickelball courts at W. 110th Street. Cutting up the nets, putting it in trash bags, dismantling the equipment and then scattering it randomly throughout the park. A vandal struck the courts 3 times in the past 7 days.
Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstall
Nov 4, 2025
Just bumped into Al Franken coming out of an UWS polling site, who said he voted for Mamdani. “I voted for Mamdani. I like him. He was the first to jump on affordability and the rest of the country kind of followed him. This city needs to get more affordable for people.”
Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstall
Feb 1, 2024
Flaco the Owl on a fire escape on West 85th Street on Thursday morning. "He's magnificent" @BirdCentralPark Video Credit: MJ Ansbro
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Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstall
Oct 24, 2024
For the first time, the American Museum of Natural History will serve as an Early Voting site. You'll get to vote in the new Richard Gilder Center and also get a custom I Voted early sticker. The museum stepped up after an UWS school voiced concerns about serving as site.
Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstall
Jun 2, 2025
An upsettingly cute large brown rabbit spotted in Central Park this weekend near 110th Street and the Meer Lagoon.
Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstall
Jul 10, 2025
Replying to @GusSaltonstall
“Then they (the agents) started to talk about cuffing me, and that if the kids were here legally, what do they have to lose by answering. I told them that they still have their fifth and fourth amendment rights, and that they don’t have to speak to you” - the coach
Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstall
Aug 24, 2024
The 7 train not running from Manhattan to Queens the first weekend of US Open events is preposterous.
Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstall
Oct 23, 2025
Accidentally took a haunting but still beautiful photo of Richard Kind on the Upper West Side for a vacant storefront story.
Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstall
Mar 14, 2022
An RV in Washington Heights that a family has lived in for the last five years was recently spraypainted in the name of needing the parking.