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This photo was taken on the UWS, sometime in the past. Do you know where, when, and what it shows?

Historical research will become more fraught and less fun when you don’t know what you can trust.

This photo was taken on the UWS, sometime in the past. Do you know where, when, and what it shows?

This photo was taken on the UWS, sometime in the past. Do you know where, when, and what it shows?

This photo was taken on the UWS, sometime in the past. Do you know where, when, and what it shows?

This photo was taken on the UWS, sometime in the past. Do you know where, when, and what it shows?

In honor of Marty Reisman, UWS table-tennis legend and inspiration for the movie "Marty Supreme," here's an historical ping-pong challenge.

This photo was taken on the UWS, sometime in the past. Do you know where, when, and what it shows?

This photo was taken on the UWS, sometime in the past. Do you know where, when, and what it shows?

This photo was taken on the UWS, sometime in the past. Do you know where, when, and what it shows?

This photo was taken on the UWS, sometime in the past. Do you know where, when, and what it shows?

This photo was taken on the UWS, sometime in the past. Do you know where, when, and what it shows?

Restoration and preservation are underway at the historic rail transfer bridge in Riverside Park South.

This photo was taken somewhere on the Upper West Side, sometime in the past. Can you figure out where, when, and what it shows?

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.

"The UWS is so iconic, if not 'the' image of a NYC neighborhood to a wide segment of the larger public."

Born from a curse of broken eggs and a stroke of good fortune during the dark days of the Great Depression

Last week's blizzard may have fallen far short of expectations, but the city has been walloped with the real thing before. In 1996, Central Park got 20 inches of snow and the MTA kept running subways and buses. Check out the video below from Eyewitness News, which shows some great ...

On November 3, 1913, eight steers broke through a gate in stockyards near West 60th street, setting off a wild chase that claimed the life of a night watchman and one of the animals too.

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