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These photos were taken on the UWS, sometime in the past. Do you know where, when, and what they show?

A bicycling craze swept America (and the Upper West Side) in the 1890s, with bike clubs, biking clothes, bicycle parades, and speed limit laws for bicyclists.

When “slum clearance” became the mantra of national, state, and local governments, this thriving community was declared a “slum” and wrecking balls moved in.

The story of the House of Mercy reflects the lives of young women in patriarchal mid-19th century New York City.

The history of the precinct features guest appearances by Mayor LaGuardia, J. Edgar Hoover, and a notorious cop killer named Two-Gun Crowley.

The Upper West Side is famous for being the site of the first motor vehicle fatality in the United States.

The bucolic Upper West Side provided an excellent location for an orphanage in the early-to-mid nineteenth century.

The women who founded the Association were profoundly religious in their mission but were not from any particular Protestant church.

The enslavement of African Americans was prevalent in colonial New York, where 40% of Europeans owned slaves,

So many historians have written about the Battle of Harlem Heights on September 16, 1776

New York City’s colonial history provides a context for Bloomingdale’s history before the American Revolution.

At the age of 34, in her Lockheed Vega, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic without stopping, a feat

The Upper West Side has a long and fascinating connection with the movies, and a local history group plans to examine that history in a series