It feels a touch off-rhythm that this link to the past exists comfortably in an ever-forward-looking city.
Read more"...lighting a cigarette, smoking a cigarette, holding a cigarette, or letting it dangle from their lips..."
Read moreI was trying to capture on film the look, the feel, the very essence of the time and place.
Read more"Shifting Shorelines: Art, Industry and Ecology along the Hudson River" runs through January 12.
Read moreThe streets of the UWS were awash with color and character attributable in great measure to the people who 'lived by them.'
Read moreLucine Amara, the longtime Met soprano and Upper West Sider, died earlier this month at 99.
Read moreMore nostalgic images of the UWS in the 1970s and 80s by world-class photographer Stephen Harmon.
Read moreInto the massive files of photographer Stephen Harmon, who has been documenting the Upper West Side since 1978.
Read more"There were many people who thought they were too big or architecturally uninteresting, even ugly," but Stephen Harmon was a big fan of the Twin Towers.
Read moreThe exhibit marks the 50th anniversary of the critical biography of master builder Robert Moses.
Read moreHappy Labor Day from West Side Rag.
Read moreThe whole building was new and shiny and, unlike the dour darkness of PS 93, my former gothic gulag, it felt like another world.
Read moreIn 1871, when Broadway was known as “the Boulevard,” a three-story wooden building emerged on the corner of 100th Street.
Read more"I have long viewed the abandoned Metro Theater as a storied woman of a certain age, yearning for lasting love."
Read more"This is not a daredevil act. It is an act of poetry and art reflecting what a living cathedral should be.”
Read moreThe "dog days of summer" occur between July 3 and August 11.
Read moreThe profits from the store were to be used for suffrage work in the “upper part” of the city.
Read moreSylvia Levine celebrated her 108th birthday with a party on the Upper West Side.
Read moreNow shuttered for over 50 years, the ghost platform still exists, frozen in time and camouflaged with graffiti.
Read more"It's more than just softball to us, man, it's community.”
Read moreTheo fought two wars, combating the enemy in the South Pacific, and racism within the ranks of the U.S. military.
Read moreHere’s some background on the Stonewall Uprising and Pride March, which is taking place in New York City this afternoon.
Read moreFrom seaport to verdant parkland: How Hudson River Park's advocates overcame commercial interests and political opponents.
Read moreThe idea was first raised by the founder and original owner of the site, a man who hides his identity behind the pen name West Sider.
Read more"The reality of life is that 99.999% of all the people who ever live are completely forgotten 50 years after they die."
Read moreThanks to readers like you, the Rag now has more than 22,000 subscribers, and, in 2023, it garnered more than 10 million views.
Read morePost-COVID book parties can and do include cosplay (dressing up), bike rides, huge cakes, decorated tattoos, and even botox injections.
Read moreFalafel, Sushi, and Jazz Arrive; Alexis Bittar Leaves; Jacob's Pickles Moving.
Read moreWhat would Tom Hayden do?
Read more“Bialys are not a commonly known thing anymore, so we have a responsibility to educate."
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