Tag: history

We're trying a new feature out today, called Throwback Thursday. It's named after a feature on Facebook in which people post old photos of themselves. But on West Side Rag we're hoping that

The East side of Broadway between 79th and 80th street has gone through many transformations over the years, but it's always been a bustling retail thoroughfare.

Developer Kaled Management filed plans to build a new 10-story building on top of a six-story building at 95th street and West End Avenue. The new building, which

The first images we've seen of the newly uncovered Automat space since its transformation into an urgent care clinic are promising.

The facade of the Automat building on 104th street and Broadway was revealed this week after the Rite Aid sign that had blocked it was taken down.

By Krista Carter Zabar's celebrates its 80th year on the Upper West Side this year, and the store and its leaders show no signs of slowing down.

After we published a series of photos of Broadway taken in 1920, several readers suggested that we take the same pictures today and compare the two. Luckily, one

Architects attempting to turn a turn-of-the-century church on 96th street and Central Park West into a luxury condo have changed the design somewhat to address

The Landmarks Preservation Commission will hold a hearing next week to remove about 100 properties from consideration for landmark status, a process

Photographer Arthur Hosking took an amazing series of photographs from 1916 to 1921, traveling up Broadway from Bowling Green to Yonkers. He shot the

The beautiful sagging steps of steps of St. Paul & St. Andrew United Methodist Church on 86th street and West End Avenue are

By 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.

A grocery store on Broadway between 103rd and 104th street in front of a subway entrance closed recently, and construction workers stripped off

Happy 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

Several 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.

If 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

For 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

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

Every once in a while, a renovation uncovers a sign from the Upper West Side of yesteryear. Luckily, our

The New York Presbytery voted to rent out part of the West-Park Presbyterian Church at 86th street and Amsterdam Avenue and to sell