Tom Miller Talk on The Original West Sider: Cyrus Clark

Learn the story of “The Father of the West Side” as only Tom Miller (internationally known for his “Daytonian in Manhattan” blog of fascinating social and architectural histories of NYC) can tell it....
The Belnord, Beresford and Barney G: West Side Stories

The Belnord, Beresford and Barney G: West Side Stories

Journalist, editor, publisher and now memoirist Peter Osnos is joined by journalists Walter Shapiro and Meryl Gordon for a fascinating discussion on the Upper West Side of the 1950s and 1960s. The Osnos family, fleeing the Nazis, settled first in the Blenord and then...
Ghost Stories of the UWS

Ghost Stories of the UWS

Shadowy forms that fly through a dark library, raucous unearthly music in Central Park, a bicycle bell that rings itself, a mysterious seamstress — these spectral tales and others will be our winter fare for a dark February evening. Writer Maria Dering has collected...
UWS Women and the Long Fight for Suffrage

UWS Women and the Long Fight for Suffrage

From the Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848 to the national ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, the women of New York played an important role in the long battle for women’s voting rights. But did you know that many significant figures in the Suffrage...
Batter Up! The UWS’s World Series Pitcher

Batter Up! The UWS’s World Series Pitcher

by Claudie Benjamin It’s autumn and baseball thoughts are turning to playoffs, wild cards and an eventual World Series.  Did you know that the Upper West Side has its own local baseball star–a starting pitcher in the World Series? True, it was a few...