LANDMARK WEST! was founded in the wake of WEST PRIDE, a preceding community effort which challenged Trump City and the redevelopment of the West Side Rail Yards. Seeing increased development pressures on the neighborhood and after a series of inappropriate developments along Central Park West our founders turned their attention towards greater landmarking and land use protections to ensure the neighborhood character and quality of life of the Upper West Side. These concerns are still core to our mission, even as we’ve expanded to address a wider array of issues facing our community.
Latest Positions
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Application is to legalize windows installed without LPC permit (s).
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Application is to legalize the reconstruction of the top floor, construction of the Rear yard addition and alterations to the front facade extension completed in non-compliance.
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Application is to alter signage and modify a rooftop addition.
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Application is to alter the parapet and construct a rooftop addition.
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Application is to construct a rear yard addition.
Landmarks Preservation Commission
Certificate of Appropriateness
Landmarks Preservation Commission
Landmark Wish List
Department of City Planning
ABC Rezoning
FCC & Public Design Commission
LinkNYC Towers
Mayor & Dept. of City Planning
City of Yes Proposals
Landmarks Preservation Commission
West-Park Hardship Application
Another building on Broadway slated for demolition
By LANDMARK WEST! Slated for demolition. Another non-landmarked building on Broadway is facing demolition after permits were recently filed to tear down 2160 Broadway by Brooklyn based developer Aleksandr Finkelshteyn....
NYS Preservation Organizations Speak Out
LW! and our colleagues speak out agains revisionist history in a letter initiated by the Preservation League of New York State. Full letter HERE. On February 13, the National Park Service removed all instances of the words Transgender and Queer from the Stonewall...
LW! and Landslide 2024!
By LANDMARK WEST! The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based education and advocacy non-project, released their annual Landslide report and this year they are focusing on sites of demonstration in U.S. history. Landslide 2024: Demonstration Grounds,...
2024 Year End Appeal
Dear Friend and Neighbor, Quality of life. Sustainability. Community. Preservation. Who will fight for New York’s neighborhoods? We will. When I first returned to NY in 1999 for college, an early mentor further stoked in me a fire of New York curiosity that was...
City of Yes for Housing Opportunity at the City Planning Commission
By Megan Fitzpatrick After 15 hours (yes, you heard that right) of public comments, Commissioners' pushback, and lively debate, the City Planning Commission's City of Yes for Housing Opportunity (COYHO) public hearing came to a close on July 10th, 2024. Opponents of...
