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Ribbon Cutting Celebrates New Media Room at Amsterdam Houses
This past Tuesday morning, LW! President Arlene Simon and summer intern Ingrid joined with our local Council member Gale Brewer, leadership from Older Adults Technology Services (OATS), leaders from the New York City Housing Authority (or NYCHA), the Macquarie Group,...
Inspiring Dreamers :: Youth education all year ’round!
Over the past few weeks, LW! has been working with the "I Have a Dream" Foundation (IHDF) at the De Hostos-Wise Community Center on West 93rd Street through Keeping the Past for the Future, our youth education program. Through IHDF, the De Hostos-Wise Dreamers (14 and...
New York Mag’s Grub Street blog highlights Landmark Feast!
Last week, New York Magazine's daily food blog, Grub Street, included Landmark Feast in its Neighborhood Watch report! Click here to read our mention!Our thanks to Grub Street for highlighting the participation and support of Upper West Side chefs Bill Telepan...
(Re)Discover Riverside Drive :: Slide lecture on August 18th
LOST RIVERSIDE DRIVE A History in Postcard ImagesSlide Lecture and Book Signing There was much hope and hype in the 1870s and 1880s that the Upper West Side would surpass Fifth Avenue in attracting the well-to-do in the area. A winding boulevard with vistas...
300 of Our Closest Friends, and Now Nick & Nora, too!
Nora Ephron & Nick Pileggi invite you to feast!They join Honorary Event Chair Ruth Reichl and fellow co-chairs Garry Trudeau & Jane Pauley and Shirley & Milton Glaser in celebrating Landmark Feast, an unprecedented outdoor farm dinner celebrating the Upper...
Down at the Archives :: Interns team up for building research, share their findings
REPORT from the FIELDJointly reported by interns Kate and IngridKate writes ...Design review: the definition of advocacy in action!As we've blogged before, our Certificate of Appropriateness (C of A) design review committee analyzes all projects on the Upper West Side...
GUEST BLOG :: From East Side to West Side, newsracks making headlines
REPORT from the FIELDA guest blog by intern Kate GilmoreEver seen these along the street?From Municipal Art Society Photo Competition, "Nasty Newsracks"Southwest corner of 1st Avenue and 51st StreetNewsracks--a common piece of New York City street furniture--often...
No Falo Portugues :: Help LW! translate interview with “unsung hero” CTA Architects
We at LW! may be multi-talented, but multi-lingual is not necessarily our claim to fame. A bit of French? We've got you covered. Basic Spanish? We'll make it work. But Portuguese? Alas, no falo portugues*! So while we were...
Public Art in Riverside Park
DID YOU KNOW: The monument dedicated to Joan of Arc in Riverside Park (at West 91st Street) was the first public sculpture in New York City dedicated to a non-fictional woman.DID YOU KNOW: The position of repose in which the woman rests at the Ida Straus memorial, in...
