Take a journey through 250 years of the amazing history and the inspiring architecture of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Follow Lillian Russell and Diamond Jim Brady as they peddle gold-plated bicycles along Riverside Drive and Washington's army as they retreat from the British in 1776. Visit one of the last forests of American Elms and the rock summit where Poe composed The Raven. Remember the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, the night Mae West was busted and the afternoon Two-Gun Crowley shot it out with the cops. A walking tour of the birthplace of Hellman's Mayonnaise and Humphrey Bogart with splendid churches and the city's grandest apartment buildings along with bordellos and speakeasies, two great parks and the mighty Hudson.
