Travel Diamonds and White Tunics Wear Well in Winter

Boulevard, Broadway

By Claudie Benjamin Winter is on the way, and the prospect of chilly winds, ice, and snow brings a longing for warmer destinations: the Caribbean, Mexico, or perhaps Greece. And, if you pursue that train of thought and book flights and hotels, next may come the...

Making the Grade at PS 163

education, Keeping the Past for the Future, kids, KPF, KPF. architecture, Landmark West, New York City, P.S. 163, Upper West Side, UWS

Set back on the wide sidewalk of West 97th Street are the pale bricks and primary colors of a minimalist mid-century school. Though you’ll find PS 163 wrapped in scaffolding these days, it’s been a cheery presence on the block since 1958, bringing with it...

A New Exhibition on The Old Community opens!

Amsterdam Avenue, Arturo Schomburg, Central Park West, Columbus Avenue, Robert Moses, UWS

by Megan Fitzpatrick A new exhibit is now on display at the Bloomingdale Library rediscovering a lost community on West 98th and 99th Streets between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West. Created by Rob Garber for the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group, the...

Ten Blocks Makes a Difference, and so does Debby Hirshman

Amsterdam Avenue, West-Park

By LANDMARK WEST! Debby Hirshman enters the diner from behind me, and arrives smiling—both of us simultaneously looking forward and back. As we lock eyes in one of the mirrored portions of the otherwise carpeted walls of Café 82 and sit in a hunter-green...

A Musical Connection: Senior Cantor Shayna De Lowe

Central Park West, Spirit of the City, Upper West Side

By Megan Fitzpatrick I catch Shayna’s attention in the golden-hued lobby of the historic synagogue of Congregation Rodeph Sholom, walking past a myriad of smiling children beaming with excitement on a Friday morning. She has just finished her morning Shabbat...