Watch-Blog
72nd Street is His Middle Name
By Claudie Benjamin When Jonah [72nd Street] Phillips, owner with his father Alan of Pastrami Queen at 138 W. 72nd, starts talking about traditional Jewish Kosher Deli foods, he turns theatrical, using the inflection of immigrants who spoke Yiddish and settled in the...
The West Side Spirt explores LW! Programs
In "Revisiting the History of the West 67th Street Artists' Colony" journalist Abigail Gruskin reports on one of our recent events--a talk by Columbia Professor Andrew Scott Dolkart, who is also a board member of LANDMARK WEST! Yes, she covers the talk, its substance...
Fred Astaire on the Upper West Side
By Claudie Benjamin Really too good, it’s like a stage set. Lights up: a 19th Century building, located right in the very heart of West 72nd Street, is entirely draped in dark, protective safety screening. Looking at the building from the curb, there are few signs of...
The Color Authority
By Claudie Benjamin For at least ten years before the Covid period, the trend in paint colors for many apartments of the Upper West Side leaned toward variations in a palette of whites and grays. Over the last months, the mood has changed and customers are definitely...
Polishing Your Outlook
By Claudie Benjamin Spa services, while not an absolute necessity, certainly make you feel better. Take massage, for example, who doesn’t have at least one ache or pain that can’t be eased by a massage provided by a skilled practitioner? Stress too, can be defused...
Ageless & Cool
By Claudie Benjamin Swatch is iconic. The brand has practically spelled durable and cool from its birth in Switzerland in the 1980s until today. Swatch watches with ever-evolving colors and bold styles, bands and faces fashioned out of fluorescent plastic green,...
Big Things Planned in 2021: We’re Going to Court for YOU
Coming through for you, and Standing TALL! Once Again YOU CAN COUNT on LANDMARK WEST! As promised, our Article 78 is now filed with the court. In our Article 78, the petitioner (in this case, LANDMARK WEST! i.e. YOU, the Community) is asking the NY State...
Styling Endures
By Claudie Benjamin Upper West Sider Scott J. Buchanan, owner of Scott J. Aveda salon at 257 Columbus Avenue, has been in the beauty business for 40+ years. Scott maintains an office above the salon, which occupies the ground floor. He is an engaging man, very...
Vietnamese Street Food served at Pho Shop on West 72nd
By Claudie Benjamin "We survived Superstorm Sandy and 9/11," says Allen Ng, co-owner of Pho Shop at 141 West 72nd Street. No question: the restrictions on restaurants, combined with escalating anxieties related to the Covid pandemic, are taking a toll on everyone. ...
Zen Medica Offers Relief Via Advice and Nutritional Medications
By Claudie Benjamin In the first hour after Zen Medica opened for the day one Sunday, customers- maintaining distance- entered just as the previous ones left. They were regulars, comfortable and eager about the visit. Coming into the big, clean shop, they briefly...
