West Side Rag

UWS heroes, crossing the street. Photos by Yvonne Vávra By Yvonne Vávra This week, you've all been heroes. Because I made you heroes. You might be thrilled to know that I'm always out here looking at you. I walk around getting excited about who I imagine

It was like theater. Photo by Allan Ripp. By Allan Ripp "Oh no," I called out to my wife upon spotting a work crew atop the building next door. Our Upper West Side apartment has good orientation toward Central Park, offering a pleasant rooftop sightline a

Michael Zheng hitting a serve on Thursday night. Photo by Tracy Zwick. By Tracy Zwick Michael Zheng, the two-time NCAA tennis champ who graduated from Columbia University in May, has made it to the third round of the US Open. This is the first time Zheng

By Bob Eckstein About the cartoonist: Bob Eckstein is a writer, illustrator, author, and contributor of cartoons to The New Yorker and West Side Rag. Check out his popular newsletter, The Bob, and Read the Rag's Q & A with him - HERE. See all WSR Cartoons

Sponsored Content Fall on the Upper West Side has a way of making people want to start something new. A new class. A new routine. A new way to get moving. A new activity for the kids. Or maybe just a reason to finally walk into that building you've passed

The front of the shuttered Trader Joe's at West 72nd Street and Broadway. Photo by Gus Saltonstall. UPDATE: Thursday, September 3 at 8 p.m.: In a possible major development, Trader Joe's website for the West 72nd Street and Broadway store states "Regular

Painting and essay by Robert Beck Not to go full back-in-my-day on you, but in the pre-plastic era, trash cans were galvanized steel. Everybody had them. Part of the morning garbage-collection sonata was the clatter-crash of those cans being tossed back o

Michael Zheng playing in his first round match at the U.S. Open on Wednesday. Photo by Isabelle Tietbohl. By Tracy Zwick Former Columbia Lions tennis star Michael Zheng defeated Hungary's Fabian Marozsan in his first U.S. Open main draw appearance Wednesd

The M7 bus. Photo courtesy of Adam E. Moreira. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. By Gus Saltonstall The city broke ground earlier this week on a major redesign of 116th Street in Manhattan, which will affect buses on the Upper West Side. The r