Text and photographs by Stephen Harmon
I am both a contributor to and a reader of the West Side Rag. Recently, I noticed Gary Martin’s wonderful coartoon about how how WSR readers miss vanished establishments. I pulled together a series of photos, some you may have seen before, that I have taken over the years to remind us what was once here.
Steve
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While there are obviously dozens more that could have been added, the two most prominent (in my mind) are H&H Bagels and Babka, followed closely by the original Shakespeare’s Books and Loew’s 83rd Street movie theater.
Having lived here for 60+ years, I could make a list several pages long.
Anyone have a photo of Wings clothing on Broadway and 93/94? Used to buy quite a bit there in my youth
In the 1970s the Regency Theater played classic movies.
sure haven’t vanished from my memory