The absurdity of being sad about rat death while living in NYC is substantial, and subversive, and oh-get-over-it, and yet.

A Hudson River exhibit; jazz; more of the New York Film Festival: October 7th remembrance and the High Holy days.

Hopefully, that's all she'll have.

He danced off, waving his hand over his head, not quite blending in, walking on the sunny side of Broadway.

Through their faces, I hoped to capture the look and feel of those days, which I knew were going to vanish.

We are here for you and will continue to be so, even if we have emigrated to Mustique by mid-November.

One Upper West Side eatery is offering free scones this week. Here's where.

"I did feel a strange sense of guilt when the March of Dimes enclosed a dime in the window of their envelope."

We’ve got the perfect one...

Everyone had a unique look and character and a palpable dignity and humanity that I tried to capture with my camera.

Plants, psychedelics, Persian/Mediterranean food; pizza (mysteriously closed).

I asked a variety of Upper West Side couples: "How did you know?"

Lucine Amara, the longtime Met soprano and Upper West Sider, died earlier this month at 99.

It was funny at the beginning — some days, I'd receive the same pitch twice, one to me and another to him.

Here's a sampling of those photos -- scenes from the neighborhood -- in chronological order from last year to last week.

Extraordinary sculpture on West 86th Street; reading, conversation, movies, and the annual Morningside Lights parade.

It's obvious...

More of Robert Beck's exquisite art and observations.

More nostalgic images of the UWS in the 1970s and 80s by world-class photographer Stephen Harmon.

3 openings emphasizing community and family; a reopening and a move; no closings!

A bi-weekly column (once every two weeks, not twice a week, we have lives) dedicated to offering honest, no-holds-barred advice.

Family members born in three different centuries have lived in one Upper West Side rent-controlled apartment.

Wait, there's more...

"I’ve been living in a Boomer bubble. Truthfully, many of my musical faves are headlining the obituary pages these days.

Jets and Giants football, with a lot of time left over for theater, books, and baseball.

Indeed, the jitters lasted for days.

Into the massive files of photographer Stephen Harmon, who has been documenting the Upper West Side since 1978.

Read the responses and submit your own love, dating, and relationship questions.

The inaugural Juilliard Fall Festival will take place in the neighborhood starting on Thursday.

I did an awful lot of "pre-worrying" about the MTA putting a subway elevator across the street from my building.