NEW YORK MAGAZINE – ABRIL/2020
Justin Davidson
Now that a laptop screen serves as a porthole to a landscape of depression, with waves of demoralizing news washing in from around the world, and a physical window looks out onto a stilled city, it’s easy to feel cut off. Some of us are spending more time in our neighborhoods than ever, yet feel farther away. Others have fled but crave word from home. For a quarter-million residents of the Upper West Side, one lifeline is the West Side Rag, a suddenly indispensable online-only publication that combines up-to-date COVID-19 news with updates on a raccoon baby boom, falling trees, photos from adventures in grocery shopping, and videos of Broadway stars belting show tunes from their windows.