Oppenheimer and the Upper West Side

Oppenheimer and the Upper West Side

UWS Highlight, walking tour

By Megan Fitzpatrick J. Robert Oppenheimer is credited with being the founding father of the American School of Theoretical Physics and the creation of the Atomic Bomb that decimated two cities in Japan during the Second World War. He was very much an Upper West...
The Bloomingdale Asylum: A New Vision

The Bloomingdale Asylum: A New Vision

19th-century asylums are often portrayed as sinister, but the Bloomingdale Asylum in upper Manhattan was different. Architectural historian Dr. Nina Harkrader reconstructs the site and buildings that from 1815 to nearly the end of that century were an important part...
This is No Dream: Making Rosemary’s Baby

This is No Dream: Making Rosemary’s Baby

In August 1967, Mia Farrow, Roman Polanski and the cast and crew of the film Rosemary’s Baby arrived in New York City for two weeks of location shooting. The famed Dakota apartment building on the Upper West Side, where most of the story takes place, was the main...
The Lost Buildings of Seneca Village

The Lost Buildings of Seneca Village

Black History Month

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...