Boulevard, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin Its most appropriate that the New York Language Center’s UWS is located in a historic former Horn & Hardart Automat at 2710 Broadway, 2nd Fl. This is because using the UWS neighborhood and the five boroughs as teaching points is...
Boulevard, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin A painting that captures the mood and cultural pride of a certain time and place? Certainly, that describes the huge, riveting work called Voice of Peace by Adi Oren highlighted at the Dagon Restaurant at 2454 Broadway. Painted in the...
Boulevard, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin An ongoing challenge confronting the dry cleaning industry is addressing the safety of the non-water chemical products used for cleaning. According to an article in the environmentalist publication, Enviro-Forensics: Turning Environmental...
Boulevard, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin If you google Stoddard Theater on Broadway at 2431 Broadway, the New York Public Library’s digital collection will yield a small black and white photo (inset) of the Upper West Side theater taken in 1933 by Wurts Bros., a professional...
Boulevard, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin Tree drove from Florida in his van and met up with Yaya in North Carolina. They continued on to NYC to pick up their gig selling Christmas trees and wreaths on the Upper West Side. The two vendors, employees of Evergreen, a large Brooklyn-based...
Boulevard, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin Even among the oldest Upper West Siders, memories are receding quickly of once omnipresent dark paneled and shelved pharmacies displaying decorative apothecary jars filled with blue, green, or amber liquid and a not-just-for-display mortar and...
