{"id":277654,"date":"2025-10-04T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/277654\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:35:12","slug":"walking-the-upper-west-sides-streets-with-yvonne-vavra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/277654\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking the Upper West Side\u2019s Streets With Yvonne V\u00e1vra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97305 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Yvonne-Vavra-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\"  \/>By Claire Davenport<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every Saturday, West Side Rag columnist Yvonne V\u00e1vra seems to have uncovered some hiding-in-plain-sight aspect of the Upper West Side that the rest of us have missed \u2014 because we were looking at our phones, or down at the sidewalk, or didn\u2019t have V\u00e1vra\u2019s sidekick Louie to make us pay close attention to our surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e1vra\u2019s columns sometimes include long-lost history (there\u2019s the story of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/2025\/03\/08\/finding-our-power-channeling-the-upper-west-side-moms-who-took-on-moses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UWS moms who defeated Robert Moses\u2019 plans<\/a> to expand a parking lot in Central Park) and often are filled with sage advice (abandon your usual path <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/2025\/06\/07\/upper-west-side-unexplored-the-blocks-we-never-walk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to explore some new things<\/a> on the UWS).<\/p>\n<p>Rag Radio took a walk with V\u00e1vra recently, starting at the Ansonia at Broadway and West 73rd Street. Among our discoveries was a beautiful vintage mail box \u2014 the kind of thing you notice, says V\u00e1vra, when you walk by yourself and pay attention to the neighborhood. Listen at the link below.<\/p>\n<p>Music courtesy of Blue Dot Sessions. And for earlier installments of Rag Radio segments with West Side Rag contributors, listen to our interviews with artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/2025\/09\/18\/capturing-life-on-the-upper-west-side-brushstroke-by-brushstroke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Beck<\/a>, Weekend columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/2025\/08\/01\/rag-radio-tracy-zwick-shares-whats-happening-on-the-uws-every-friday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tracy Zwick<\/a>, cartoonist<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/2025\/07\/27\/rag-radio-gary-martins-cranky-cartoon-alter-ego\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Gary Martin<\/a>, photographer<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/2025\/03\/13\/rag-radio-steve-harmons-throwback-images-keep-the-old-uws-in-focus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Steve Harmon<\/a>, the authors of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/2025\/02\/11\/local-comedy-duo-has-plenty-of-advice-for-uwsers-listen-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Ruthless Advice<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/2025\/01\/17\/rag-radio-its-bob-ecksteins-job-to-make-the-uws-chuckle-every-friday-morning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rag cartoonist Bob Eckstein<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/2024\/12\/31\/rag-radio-wsr-senior-reporter-gus-saltonstall-on-how-he-covers-the-uws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WSR reporter Gus Saltonstall.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. And you can Support the Rag\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/support-west-side-rag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Claire Davenport Every Saturday, West Side Rag columnist Yvonne V\u00e1vra seems to have uncovered some hiding-in-plain-sight aspect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":277655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,127076,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5717],"class_list":{"0":"post-277654","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-rag-radio","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-yvonne-vavra"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115317107846714171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277654","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=277654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}