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 construct a rear yard addition.
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Application is install two flagpoles on the site.
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Application is to construct rear yard and rooftop additions, and alter the main entrance and areaway.
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Application is to establish a master plan and the installation of a ramp and a boardwalk
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Application is to legalize the installation of doors and cladding of the stoop w/o LPC permit(s), and installation of windows and modification to the rear façade in non-compliance with CofA
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
An ‘artful manipulation of the rules’ to inhibit the community
A local community board is the first set of boots on the ground calling out developer Wolkoff for trying to sneak in additional units and floors at the 11th hour of a standing application. The resounding sense that developers do not need to follow the rules that apply...
The Development Driving a Wedge Through the UWS
We've told you about how A new breed of skyscraper threatens to devastate the fabric of New York* and now, after over four years of following West 66th Street, a home-grown "E.T.," we have our first opportunity to publicly speak out at a city agency hearing regarding...
LW! Board Members Put the FACTS first
In what has become the top trending article on the ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER for the second day in a row, LW! Board Members Peter Samton, Page Cowley and independent architect Daniel Samton speak matter-of-factly about the impact the out of scale development is having on...
The Right Rights
As reported in the New York Times, neighbors of an Extell Properties owned corner lot on West 17th street banded together to purchase and "bank" air rights over the neighboring development in order to protect their views. In "How Much is a View Worth in Manhattan? Try...
Belvedere-Beautiful View Looking Beautiful!
The Belvedere "Castle" (actually a Victorian Folly) is set to reopen after a lengthy renovation. Its current incarnation, still capping Vista Rock is the closest it has been to the Calvert Vaux, Frederick Law Olmstead and Jacob Wrey Mould version first envisioned in...
