Watch-Blog
T-minus 5 years
VARIETY reports that the sale of the American Broadcasting Company due to close this week (week of July 9th, 2018) will include a clause for ABC to lease-back space for up to five years. Given the quick pace of events it would take any owner time to prepare new...
It’s About TIMES CAPSULE
New York Times Capsule needs to move for AMNH expansion project LANDMARK WEST! reviews and comments on every Certificate of Appropriateness (C of A) item from the Upper West Side that goes before the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). When items come...
ABC deal to close next week!
The The Real Deal reports that Silverstein properties has attained $800M in loans from Deutsche Bank (which itself has been in the news lately) towards the over $1 billion price tag for his purchase of the 2.6 acre assembly of ABC properties on the Upper West Side....
Architectural Firm Profiles: Gaetan Ajello
Gaetan (Gaetano) Ajello – 1883-1983 Gaetan Ajello was considered a visionary architect within his lifetime. The Sicilian immigrant took the New York City architecture scene by storm, contributing hundreds of buildings to the city, and particularly to the west side....
99 Problems…but height ain’t one
Call it the ultimate first world problem...only it's about being surpassed by the third world...literally.* In a media landscape dominated by children stuck in a cave, attacks on the free press and growing monopolies, it is always nice to turn to the real estate...
A Marvelous Night at the Milbank!
What a Wonderful Night! A sold-out crowd enjoyed the first in a new Landmark West! series offering our members exclusive, limited-access “tours and more” of the finest historic properties of the Upper West Side. Guests entered to the...
Celebrating Penn Central Day!
Last week, LANDMARK WEST! co-sponsored a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Penn Central v. City of New York -- the U.S. Supreme Court case that helped protect Grand Central Terminal -- and upheld New York City’s (at the time recently minted) Landmarks Law as...
What Happened at the Town Hall
Last night's town hall meeting saw the community pushing Mayor Bill de Blasio on some issues close to our hearts--the impending rise of the supertall CENTRAL dARK Tower. Below is the press release from our neighbors, which shows de Blasio administration members giving...
Tell DeBlasio What You Think about SUPERTALLS on UWS: RSVP for 6/27 Town Hall
UPDATE FROM THE MAYOR'S COMMUNITY AFFAIRS UNIT: "Thank you for your interest in our upcoming town hall with Mayor Bill de Blasio. Due to overwhelming intrest, we are no longer accepting RSVPs for this event." Council Member Helen Rosenthal, Manhattan Borough...
Hedge Fund Buyers?
Gary Stern takes a look at the (sometimes) foreign, but always MEGA money in play buying up New York Real Estate. In conversation with LW! executive director Sean Khorsandi, and our colleagues at the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation, he asks who are...
