Why was the assistant district attorney raiding UWS chop suey restaurants?

Events from St. John the Divine to Riverside Park to Central Park. Plus, homemade cookies needed for free Thanksgiving meals.

Yes and no, according to Stephen Harmon's photographs.

New York City was the first place to require licenses for dogs in 1894.

"The shooting was a horror that woke people up," Gale Brewer told West Side Rag.

A theatrical version of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian 1953 novel "Fahrenheit 451" is finishing a run on the Upper West Side this week.

We've got a new name for an old UWS museum, a new commanding officer in Central Park, and a disgruntled Jerry Seinfeld.

It feels a touch off-rhythm that this link to the past exists comfortably in an ever-forward-looking city.

"...lighting a cigarette, smoking a cigarette, holding a cigarette, or letting it dangle from their lips..."

I was trying to capture on film the look, the feel, the very essence of the time and place.

"Shifting Shorelines: Art, Industry and Ecology along the Hudson River" runs through January 12.

The streets of the UWS were awash with color and character attributable in great measure to the people who 'lived by them.'

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

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

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

"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.

The exhibit marks the 50th anniversary of the critical biography of master builder Robert Moses.

Happy Labor Day from West Side Rag.

The whole building was new and shiny and, unlike the dour darkness of PS 93, my former gothic gulag, it felt like another world.

In 1871, when Broadway was known as “the Boulevard,” a three-story wooden building emerged on the corner of 100th Street. 

"I have long viewed the abandoned Metro Theater as a storied woman of a certain age, yearning for lasting love."

"This is not a daredevil act. It is an act of poetry and art reflecting what a living cathedral should be.”

The "dog days of summer" occur between July 3 and August 11.

The profits from the store were to be used for suffrage work in the “upper part” of the city.

Sylvia Levine celebrated her 108th birthday with a party on the Upper West Side.

Now shuttered for over 50 years, the ghost platform still exists, frozen in time and camouflaged with graffiti.

"It's more than just softball to us, man, it's community.”

Theo fought two wars, combating the enemy in the South Pacific, and racism within the ranks of the U.S. military.

Here’s some background on the Stonewall Uprising and Pride March, which is taking place in New York City this afternoon.

From seaport to verdant parkland: How Hudson River Park's advocates overcame commercial interests and political opponents.