23+ min ago   (106+ words) West Side Rag The Upper West Side Places No Longer With Us Gary B. Martin is an illustrator and animator who has lived on the Upper West Side for more than 30 years. His illustrations appear in the Rag on Sundays, chronicling…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1054+ words) A doctor told me I had Celiac Disease when I was 17 years old. Since then, I have never purposely consumed gluten outside of a few beers handed to me during freshman year of college when I couldn’t find the following…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (252+ words) Multiple gunshots were fired after a fight broke out Friday morning on the Upper West Side, according to police and eyewitnesses. A New York Police Department spokesperson told West Side Rag that a verbal dispute turned physical between three men…...

2+ day, 18+ min ago   (209+ words) Bob Eckstein does the WSR Cartoon that appears on Fridays. He is a New Yorker cartoonist, award-winning illustrator, and world’s leading snowman expert. He has written for the New Yorker, New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Playboy, GQ, and Wall Street…...

2+ day, 17+ min ago   (216+ words) Game night at Pier i: Friday, August 14th from 7 to 9 p.m. at West 70th Street and the Hudson River in Riverside Park; free Bring your family or friends, or both, for bingo, quiz shows, and more this evening at Pier i Cafe in Riverside…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (211+ words) Another pizzeria on the Upper West Side has closed its doors. Jet’s Pizza, at 728 Amsterdam Avenue, between West 95th and 96th streets, shuttered in the past few days. The location is listed as “permanently closed” on Google, its phone number no longer…...

3+ day, 25+ min ago   (360+ words) By West Side Rag Good Company is a new cannabis dispensary on the Upper West Side, but it’s looking to be more than that in the neighborhood. The store at 2273 Broadway, between West 81st and 82nd streets, is also a place where…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (772+ words) Workers behind the counter at Lucia Pizza’s incoming Upper West Side expansion will soon know neighbors by name, founder Salvatore ‘Sal’ Carlino and part-owner Dylan Schwartz tell West Side Rag, as they tease the new shop and its upcoming opening....

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (143+ words) A man was robbed Tuesday afternoon on the Upper West Side by a duo on a moped, a police spokesperson told West Side Rag. The 28-year-old man was walking near West 66th Street and Riverside Boulevard around 3:50 p.m., when a moped pulled…...

4+ day, 26+ min ago   (646+ words) Lisa Kava has been writing for West Side Rag since 2017 and has been an Upper West Sider for much longer. She and her husband raised their two children here, along with their goldendoodle. Her son and daughter say she asks…...