Tag: weekend history

One hundred years ago, the residents of the Upper West Side bolted their doors in fear of a group of marauding cats that hunted

Photographer Robert L. Bracklow took lots of excellent photos of buildings in New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His photos

Three mostly black Upper West Side communities have been bulldozed over the years, to make way for other major projects, from Central Park, to Lincoln Center to Park West Village.

By 1961, Carmine DeSapio had been the boss of Tammany Hall for twelve long years, and the public had enough of his cronyism and patronage.

The Upper West Side in the 1930’s and early 1940’s didn’t lack for park benches where mothers could sit with other mothers and chat

In late August, confronted with oppressive humidity, blinding rays, and damp underarms, city folk turn to ice cream. Thoughts of deodorant and heatstroke are calmed

Now that almost all residential streets in Manhattan and many in other boroughs have trees lining the islands and streets, I realize it is fifty-two years since our efforts to

Mad Men returns for its final season tonight, and the show has several references to the Upper West Side -- perhaps most notably ad director Peggy Olson buys a brownstone on the

Are you curious about the history of your building, your church, your synagogue, your kids’ school? Or maybe that interesting­looking building down the block?

For many transported New Yorkers, the memory of corned beef or hot pastrami sandwiches on Jewish rye lingers years after they’ve moved to less ethnically oriented locations.

Schrafft's restaurants and confectioners were ubiquitous in New York through the 1960's, with more than 50 in the city and at least three on the Upper West Side.

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

The historic Stoddard Theater stood at the Southwest corner of 90th street and Broadway for 70 years.

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.

Sam Kweskin was an illustrator who gained fame at Marvel Comics starting in the 1950's. His daughter Jean sent us a series of paintings and sketches

Bicycles began to become popular in the second half of the 19th century, and historical accounts from the 1880's talked of a bicycling and tricycling craze in New York.