Tag: People
The Riverside Clay Tennis Association recently announced the passing of Bob Ryland, one of its active members and the first professional Black tennis player in the country. He passed shortly …
Iconic television host and Upper West Sider, Regis Philbin, passed away at the age of 88 on July 24.
Determined to find a path to survive the pandemic, a mother and daughter both named Carolina Monterrubio are exploring different options to highlight their new laundry, dry cleaning and alteration …
Artist LeRoy Neiman’s career success likely went very far beyond his dreams. Born in Minnesota, he lived in Europe for a few years and then settled on the Upper West …
Most of our social lives have have been limited to Zoom and FaceTime over the last few months. But with things beginning to reopen, we’ll soon be able to (safely) …
Sonia Pilcer is the author of six novels including The Holocaust Kid. She has lived on the Westside since it was a dangerous neighborhood. She wrote the screenplay of her …
Meredith Bergmann’s splendid 14 foot sculpture of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth, three “monumental women” and remarkable leaders of the women’s suffrage movement, is scheduled to …
Anna Sosenko’s life was never made into a biopic, nor was her full biography ever published as a book. But, this is a good one that got away.
A tree on 79th between Broadway and Amsterdam has been “yarn-bombed” by visual artist Carmen Paulino, who collaborated with Knitty City for the project. It was designed as a tribute …
Tony Schwartz (1923-2008) was a multifaceted award-winning author, publicist, teacher and socially conscious ad man. He is particularly famous for devising the concept for the Daisy TV Ad, highlighting the threat …
