Advocacy, Individual Landmark
It is hard to imagine that the ongoing aggressions of Russia have continued for a year. Following up on our earlier share of the Ukrainian Church of St. Volodymyr, we bring you another UWS Ukrainian site, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences. You can...
Black History Month, Central Park
By Megan Fitzpatrick In 1825 African Americans began to migrate upwards to the West 80s between Seventh and Eighth Avenues to settle down at a time when the Upper West Side was mostly rural and Central Park had yet to be carved out. Over the next 30 years the...
Black History Month, Urban Renewal
By Megan Fitzpatrick Today we are bringing you a little known story about a community of Black artists that took place in the West 90s of the Upper West Side. The image on the left shows West Park Village which was built in the spot where previously sat six blocks of...