Christmas and Hanukkah share the same night this year, begging the question, What'll it be, latkes or lo mein?

The Winter Solstice takes place on Saturday. Here's what to know.

See "Elf" live in concert; hear Big Band holiday classics; bake and donate cookies; ride in a vintage subway car.

They all had a palpable sense of confidence, dignity, and, often, humor. Many were pleased to pose for a photo.

Not only because they aided mobility or guarded against falls, but because they were symbols of determination, resilience, and confidence.

Pleasant memories of this place or that or somewhere I ate or shopped come to mind and make me smile.

Can you identify these cartoon figures that flew in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade back in the 1970s and 80s?

Why was the assistant district attorney raiding UWS chop suey restaurants?

Events from St. John the Divine to Riverside Park to Central Park. Plus, homemade cookies needed for free Thanksgiving meals.

Yes and no, according to Stephen Harmon's photographs.

New York City was the first place to require licenses for dogs in 1894.

"The shooting was a horror that woke people up," Gale Brewer told West Side Rag.

A theatrical version of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian 1953 novel "Fahrenheit 451" is finishing a run on the Upper West Side this week.

We've got a new name for an old UWS museum, a new commanding officer in Central Park, and a disgruntled Jerry Seinfeld.

It feels a touch off-rhythm that this link to the past exists comfortably in an ever-forward-looking city.

"...lighting a cigarette, smoking a cigarette, holding a cigarette, or letting it dangle from their lips..."

I was trying to capture on film the look, the feel, the very essence of the time and place.

"Shifting Shorelines: Art, Industry and Ecology along the Hudson River" runs through January 12.

The streets of the UWS were awash with color and character attributable in great measure to the people who 'lived by them.'

Lucine Amara, the longtime Met soprano and Upper West Sider, died earlier this month at 99.

More nostalgic images of the UWS in the 1970s and 80s by world-class photographer Stephen Harmon.

Into the massive files of photographer Stephen Harmon, who has been documenting the Upper West Side since 1978.

"There were many people who thought they were too big or architecturally uninteresting, even ugly," but Stephen Harmon was a big fan of the Twin Towers.

The exhibit marks the 50th anniversary of the critical biography of master builder Robert Moses.

Happy Labor Day from West Side Rag.

The whole building was new and shiny and, unlike the dour darkness of PS 93, my former gothic gulag, it felt like another world.

In 1871, when Broadway was known as “the Boulevard,” a three-story wooden building emerged on the corner of 100th Street. 

"I have long viewed the abandoned Metro Theater as a storied woman of a certain age, yearning for lasting love."

"This is not a daredevil act. It is an act of poetry and art reflecting what a living cathedral should be.”

The "dog days of summer" occur between July 3 and August 11.