by Claudie Banjamin Remember knocking and shouting “Trick Or Treat for UNICEF!”? That tradition began on Halloween 1950–children could not only enjoy dressing up and amassing a huge haul of candy, but also bring along little orange cardboard...
Gargoyles! Walk is CANCELLED DUE TO STORM Saturday, October 27th, 1:00-2:30pm All Tickets Have Been Refunded Architectural historian Nina Harkrader seeks out the Upper West Side’s more ghoulish inhabitants: the many gargoyles and “green men” that live among us–once...
A spooky stroll with architectural historian Nina Harkrader hits favorite Halloween-inspired blocks with ghoulish gargoyles and “green men”. Stay close..tales from the Upper West Side’s darker past just might send a shiver up your...
Dead men may tell no tales, but gargoyles… Before it was an iconic New York City neighborhood, the Upper West Side was a bucolic stretch of land dotted with genteel country estates, modest wood frame homes, taverns, and goats. For generations it remained a...