{"id":184829,"date":"2025-08-29T14:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/184829\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:52:18","slug":"legendary-lines-on-the-upper-west-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/184829\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Lines on the Upper West Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96492 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Bob-Eckstein-WSR-Park-4-FINAL.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1054\" height=\"900\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Bob Eckstein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the cartoonist:<\/strong>\u00a0Bob Eckstein\u00a0is a writer, illustrator, author, and contributor of cartoons to The New Yorker and West Side Rag. Check out his popular newsletter,\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thebob.substack.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bob<\/a>. Read the Rag\u2019s Q &amp; A with him \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/2024\/07\/21\/q-the-uws-is-the-cool-table-at-school\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/18\/travel\/museum-guide-bob-eckstein-illustrator.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And our new feature, Rag Radio, talked to Bob about his work. You can listen \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/2025\/01\/17\/rag-radio-its-bob-ecksteins-job-to-make-the-uws-chuckle-every-friday-morning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>See all WSR Cartoons\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/tag\/wsr-cartoon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to West Side Rag\u2019s FREE email newsletter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westsiderag.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=5772ebf2a0a585445f1188785&amp;id=f50755d5f9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. And you can Support the Rag\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/support-west-side-rag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Bob Eckstein About the cartoonist:\u00a0Bob Eckstein\u00a0is a writer, illustrator, author, and contributor of cartoons to The New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":184830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-184829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115112625260765623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}