Tag: 1970’s

Rents were cheap for rambling apartments, which attracted book publishers and writers, as well as critics, academics and journalists.

A movie shoot on Saturday morning turned back time on 77th street and Central Park West. The movie Wonderstruck has been shootin

In the mid-1970's, Brian Moss -- a born and raised Upper West Sider -- was a student at the High School of Music & Art, and he started

By Jen Rubin In the summer of ’76 I was the kid every kid wanted to be. I spent the summer working at Radio Clinic, the business my grandfather opened forty years earlier. I would stand in the glass vestibule

Editor's note: Here at West Side Rag, we pride ourselves on telling the truth. But we're trying a new experiment today -- fiction! Inspired by the strange story of the Upper West Side glasses-cruncher we published last week, West Side Rag columnist Maria Gorshin wrote a short piece of fiction ...