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

In these challenging times of the pandemic, I reflect back on what life was like for me on the Upper West Side, my favorite place in the world

I miss the city. I’m 71 years old and my husband is 75, so we, our dog, and our pre-existing conditions rushed out of Manhattan more than two months ago, urged on by surprisingly insistent younger people.

I drive in New York City like everyone is trying to kill me, scanning the road "Mission- Impossible" style. It has this illusion of fearlessness when really, fear is my mental fuel.

My wife and I have lived in the Apthorp apartments for over 25 years. In the world of rent control and rent stabilization, when

Remember your elementary school? Remember being escorted out for P.T. (Physical Training) in that fenced-in schoolyard?

By Dennis Paoli My wife and I woke up on a bright winter morning in 2013, and there he was: a hawk, perched on the top rail of the fire escape outside our west-looking window.

By Allan Ripp As someone who walks around New York A LOT - some days more than 20 miles between pre-dawn loops of Central Park, exercising my dog or commuting by foot

Editor’s note: Tessa Abrahams profiles the Upper West Side’s doormen for the West Side Rag. This is the second in her series.

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

By Logan Lo There are hundreds of date spots in Manhattan, but I’ve always enjoyed going out on the Upper West Side.

Editor’s Note: As part of a regular West Side Rag series, artist Michelle Hill interviews and draws Upper West Siders. This is the eleventh installment in

Editor's Note: Malcolm Carter, a columnist for West Side Rag and real estate broker who specialized in Upper West Side properties, is about to depart the Upper West Side for a

Editor’s Note: Upper West Side personal chef Elyse Prince writes an occasional column for West Side Rag about recipes using ingredients you can buy locally. By Elyse Prince

Editor's Note: Upper West Side personal chef Elyse Prince plans to write an occasional column about recipes using ingredients you can buy locally.

By Meg D'Incecco Have you ever walked past the corner of Amsterdam and 77th Street and noticed sweaty people streaming out the door of Soul Cycle and wondered, 'what the heck is that place?' At its most basic, Soul Cycle is a gym filled with stationary bikes. But as one ...

By Marisa Olsen Legend Bar & Restaurant in Chelsea, a cult favorite Sichuan restaurant, now has a new sister spot on the Upper West Side. Legend Upper West, located at 109 Street and Broadway, which opened its doors in early December. The word has definitely

By Emily Baer On Monday night, the Lincoln Square BID hosted the 13th Annual Winter Eve's Festival. Streets from Columbus Circle to Broadway and 68th Street were packed with locals and tourists alike, all with one

It's Sunday afternoon. Sandy is looming. I haul out the flashlights and batteries, consider filling up the bathtub with water. I make a mad dash to Westside Market to get a bag of chocolate chips. If the electricity

By Melissa Cooper After spending the better part of September on eastern Long Island, I’m home in NYC, where fall has thinned the trees in Riverside Park. Home in the city, where the peacocks roam. Our first day back, the dog and I visited the grounds of Saint John the ...