The Landmarks Preservation Commission will hold a hearing next week to remove about 100 properties from consideration for landmark status, a process
Read moreThe Landmarks Preservation Commission will hold a hearing next week to remove about 100 properties from consideration for landmark status, a process
Read morePhotographer Arthur Hosking took an amazing series of photographs from 1916 to 1921, traveling up Broadway from Bowling Green to Yonkers. He shot the
Read moreThe beautiful sagging steps of steps of St. Paul & St. Andrew United Methodist Church on 86th street and West End Avenue are
Read moreBy Nancy Novick Wednesday’s unsealing of a time capsule at the New York Historical Society may well have been a once-in-a-lifetime event for most of those present.
Read moreA grocery store on Broadway between 103rd and 104th street in front of a subway entrance closed recently, and construction workers stripped off
Read moreHappy Father's Day! Every father is special and deserving of a brightly-colored tie or work socks. But here are three Upper West Side dads who were special and also famous, with
Read moreSeveral commenters on a post about violence in the West 90's referenced West Side Story and the San Juan Hill neighborhood where some of the scenes in the movie were set.
Read moreIf you like looking at old maps (and who doesn't?) you will want to check out a trove of 20,000 old maps recently released in digitized form by
Read moreFor our Upper West Side history lesson this week we head to Sheep Meadow in Central Park, where actual sheep once grazed and lazed around. The above photo is from sometime between 1900 and 1906. The
Read moreBy 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
Read moreEvery once in a while, a renovation uncovers a sign from the Upper West Side of yesteryear. Luckily, our
Read moreThe New York Presbytery voted to rent out part of the West-Park Presbyterian Church at 86th street and Amsterdam Avenue and to sell
Read moreEditor's note: Lifelong Upper West Side resident Jeannine Jones is writing her graduate thesis on how the neighborhood has changed since she
Read moreIn the early 19th century, Columbus Circle was farmland, like much of the Upper West Side. AFter 1868, when the 9th avenue elevated train first
Read moreEditor's Note: Author Lyla Blake Ward is writing a book about growing up on the Upper West Side in the 30's and 40's, and wants to know if any of our readers
Read moreThe Town Shop put up a new sign this week at their new store at 2270 Broadway (between 81st and 82nd). As the workers were getting ready to hoist the new letters, they peeled away the layers of the signs underneath
Read moreA fearless couple bought a brownstone at 46 West 94th street in 1960 for $18,000. Little could they have imagined that it would one day hit the market for $5 million. Peggy Mann Houlton and her husband William lived in the house for decades and became famous when they began ...
Read moreSometimes history is so close to the surface, all you have to do is remove a few bricks to find it. Pioneer supermarket on Columbus Avenue between 73rd and 74th streets peeled away some of its facade because the city Buildings Department was checking out the store's structure. For a ...
Read moreBy Marjorie Cohen The members of a local history group think that the name of the area from 96th street to 110th, from the river to the park, should be known as Bloomingdale. They want to differentiate this piece of the island from the rest of the Upper West Side, ...
Read moreBy Marjorie Cohen Of all of the extraordinary material that has been collected for the New York Historical Society's new exhibit, WWII & NYC (October 5-May 27) what I found most striking is the 22-minute film
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