Tag: throwback thursday

I am often asked why I refer to my photos of people from the 1980s as photos from a "vanished time." My answer is, please look at them.

"...the clientele was considered by non-bettors to be unattractive, lazy or just unsavory. I, however, did not see it that way..."

I think most people thought she was a crazy old lady, but I knew that was not true, because

A few months ago, a new website developed by John Jay College caught my attention. Like many institutions of higher education, the College

Macy's started holding a Christmas parade through the city starting in 1924, and switched it to a Thanksgiving parade three years later.

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

Our tipster Debra was throwing some old matchbooks out when she decided to line them up and snap a photo. "Remember these?" she wrote in an email to us.

Doc Rich Weiss found some old menus and sent us a photo of them, writing a little about what makes those memories special. The restaurants featured include

The New Yorker Theater at 2409 Broadway at 88th Street was one of the great Upper West Side movie houses of the 20th century. Woody Allen also

Mark Futral has photographed Upper West Siders for decades, and he sent us some of his shots from the 1970s and 80s, along with some

The photo and hand-coloring above are by Joan Menschenfreund, who has lived on the Upper West Side for 51 years. The women were sitting in the Broadway

Stephen Harmon took hundreds of pictures of the neighborhood in the 70's and 80's and thankfully he still has many of them. Check out some

Way back in the day, people would take a dip on a hot day in the swimmin' holes in Central Park. This photo from the Museum

Stephen Harmon sent in the photos below of people hanging out on local benches back in the mid-1980's.

The southeast corner of Broadway and 85th Street is being readied for demolition, the latest two-story building on the avenue

There hasn't been much snow yet this winter, but some could be coming this weekend, and it's worth a look back at how some previous generations

The city recently digitized 720,000 photos that were taken taken for tax purposes between 1939 and 1941, and made them available on the internet.

Stephen Harmon took this photo sometime in the late 70's or early 80's at 72nd Street and Broadway. "Old John the accordion player was

At risk of sounding like the Ancient Mariner, I remember how Book Culture’s block looked when I moved to New York City in 1970 to take

West Side Rag reader David saved receipts and business cards from some iconic Upper West Side businesses and sent us the photo