Tag: history

Twilight has just settled in, enveloping the Upper West Side in a cool embrace. Even for a Sunday evening the streets seem emptier than usual, the roar of city traffic faded to a dull white noise. A yellow crescent of a moon hangs above to complete the portrait like the ...

You’ve walked past it a million times but you might have been too busy with Upper West Side concerns like maneuvering a stroller, poop-scooping or hurrying to sunset yoga at Riverside Park to notice. It’s “Manhattan’s most mystical and intriguing building,” yet it’s familiar to hardly anyone in New York ...

Would you like to ride in a subway car with ceiling fans, no air conditioning, and windows that are wide open? You can achieve that very dream this weekend and for the rest of September, as the HBO show Boardwalk Empire puts authentic 1920's-era subway cars on the 2,3 line ...

After 27 years on 81st Street and Columbus Avenue, Maxilla & Mandible closed its doors for good on Sunday night, stuffing brown paper into the display window where skulls and fossils used to sit and slapping a tiny sign on the front saying simply "Gone Digging."

The dig, along with other historic documents, has uncovered a middle class village of over 260 people, a thriving community with a school and three churches. Records indicate that two churches were black and one was integrated.

Landmark West, the Upper West Side historic preservation group, started a very cool little project a couple of weeks ago, asking readers to send in their photos of people playing in Central Park through the ages. So far they've gotten a nice smattering of snapshots, including this one above shot in ...

The famous P&G Bar, perhaps the best-known dive bar on the Upper West Side, will shut its doors for good on August 16, the owners just announced on their Facebook page. Two years ago, P&G left its original location at the corner of West 73rd Street and Amsterdam, a space ...

By Marjorie Cohen Imagine I.M Pei designing a homeless shelter. Or Frank Lloyd Wright drawing plans for a community center. Not likely. But in the 1880's, when the women who ran the Association for the Relief of Respectable and Indigent Females, needed an architect for the charity home they were ...

After a week of uncertainty about when exactly H&H would close, city marshals seized the building on Wednesday, and the landlord slapped a sign on the front proclaiming "Store for Rent". Just like that, a neighborhood fixture since 1972 was gone. West Side Rag reader Gavan sent us photos of ...

June 28, 2011 Weather: Afternoon Thunderstorms, High of 82 Degrees. Notices: The proposal to extend West End Avenue 's historic district from 70th to 79th Streets will get a public hearing today at about 1:45 p.m. in front of the Landmarks Preservation Commission at 1 Centre Street. (Landmark West) Openings: ...

In honor of Father's Day today, Landmark West highlighted a few of the most famous Upper West Side dads in history. Babe Ruth: The Babe lived at the Ansonia Hotel and adopted two daughters. Duke Ellington: The great jazz musician (pictured with his son Mercer above) lived on West 106th ...