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Succeeding on the “Wrong” Side of Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin Everyone knows, according to Danny Koch, owner of Town Shop at 2270 Broadway, that there is a good side and a bad side of Broadway on the Upper West Side. His family business was located on the “good” west side of the avenue since 1936 when in...
Priorities: Health and Sustainability
By Claudie Benjamin Emily Wang’s interest both in healthy food and maximizing sustainability in daily life goes back to her teenage years growing up in Michigan. These priorities developed through her graduation from Columbia in 2022 and remain important today. What’s...
Master Jazz Piano Player and Mentor
By Claudie Benjamin Play Jazz Piano NYC: The name of the sessions alone evokes cinematic images: In a corner of the room, there’s a piano. A person nonchalantly pulls a chair up, lightly “tickles the ivories” with one hand, and then launches into a breathtaking...
Recovery is as Important as Training
By Claudie Benjamin Sam Morjaria, DPT, owner of Park North Physical Therapy at 2804 Broadway doesn’t want to bash social media, but he said that there’s plenty to suggest, anecdotally, that the images of young sports heroes who earn hundreds of thousands or millions...
Scientist Faces off with Noise Pollution at Home and Cancer in the Memorial Sloan Kettering Labs
By Claudie Benjamin Bench to bedside, the more informal term for translational medicine as applied to cancer research, is scientist Kety Huberman’s expertise. “It’s the area in which research comes closest to patient care” said Huberman. It defines the arena in which...
Literary Imagination of Longtime UWSer Celebrated by B&N in its 1st Live-Taped Podcast
By Claudie Benjamin Writer Ed Park will be interviewed about his new book Same Bed Different Dreams, for a live taped podcast next Thursday, November 9th at 7:00pm at the Upper West Side Barnes and Noble at 2289 Broadway. Park’s work has been published in The New...
Skateboarding Cool & the Shop
By Claudie Benjamin Nothing quite like the thrill of building up speed, flipping high in the air and then landing balanced surely on your skateboard as you skate on. Christopher Vidal, a long-time skateboarder and more recent skateboard entrepreneur said, recently,...
A brief history of the lost Mineral Springs Pavilion in Central Park
by Megan Fitzpatrick The Mineral Springs building is a 1950s design which currently houses La Pain Quotidien. Its name derives from the original 19th-century pavilion that sold park goers mineral water. The immediate need for publicly accessible mineral water came...
Duplexing Penthouses: Upside-Down Plan or Not?
By Claudie Benjamin Architect Aaron Dussair, Executive VP of Pembrooke & Ives, has long mastered the challenge of working with as many as 40 stakeholders. He explained that beyond the input of the design/architectural team, those who weigh in on each and every...
The UWS shows up to celebrate Hannah Arendt on her birthday!
by Megan Fitzpatrick This past Saturday, LANDMARK WEST! was invited to attend an event at 370 Riverside Drive to celebrate not only the birthday of Hannah Arendt, but to see the recently installed medallion honoring her memory and work while she lived in the...
