Marlene Schonbrun: My Photographic Safari to Kenya

Last September, I got to fulfill one of the items on my “bucket list” for over thirty years—a photographic safari to Africa. Belonging to a camera club with members who travel all over the world gave me incentive and the motivation to seriously consider it. A friend and I went with a small group led … Read more

Paul Zeigler

Paul Zeigler Pianist/Composer/Teacher and New Resident on the Block Paul Zeigler moved to the block in March 2015 from East 78 Street with his husband, retired doctor Larry Stern. Giving up a much used terrace at their former residence, they see the joy in living near Riverside Park. Larry has joined the board of the block … Read more

Teresa Elwert Treks to Everest and Annapurna Base Camps

Although she wasn’t always athletic and didn’t do organized sports as a kid, Teresa Elwert, sixty-four years old and a block resident for the past twenty-two years, has always been a walker and a hiker. When she retired in 2013, she began hiking in earnest and decided it was time to fulfill a life-long desire … Read more

26th Annual Yard Sale Wrap Up

SAVE THE DATE: 2016 Yard Sale is September 24, 2016 Like last year’s Yard Sale, the Twenty-sixth Annual West 104th Street Yard Sale fell victim to mighty rain storms, despite preceding months of sunshine and cloudless skies. On the evening before its scheduled opening on Saturday, October 3, vendors, volunteers, and bargain hunters turned on … Read more