education, Keeping the Past for the Future, kids, KPF, KPF. architecture, Landmark West, New York City, P.S. 163, Upper West Side, UWS
Set back on the wide sidewalk of West 97th Street are the pale bricks and primary colors of a minimalist mid-century school. Though you’ll find PS 163 wrapped in scaffolding these days, it’s been a cheery presence on the block since 1958, bringing with it...
education, Keeping the Past for the Future
LANDMARK WEST! has run Keeping the Past for the Future (KPF) our youth education program in schools for a quarter century, serving thousands. With distance learning, we are adapting to continue serving our students of all ages! Together, yet for now,...
education, Keeping the Past for the Future
Last Saturday, Landmark West embarked upon our first ever collaboration with the Children’s Museum of Manhattan in our own Upper West Side. Landmark West’s Education Director, Rudie Hurwitz, coordinated with Nellie A.V. Chaban, the Director of School...
education, Keeping the Past for the Future, kids, KPF. architecture
Look closely the next time you see a group of school kids out in the neighborhood. Are they looking up? Talking excitedly about stoops and cornices? It could be a new 2nd grade class of “Building Detectives” on the hunt! A new school year means...
education, guest blog, intern, Then and Now, West End Avenue
GUEST BLOG by LW! Interns Zack Bunin & Jason CrowleyCalhoun School 2012- Photograph by Zack BuninNOW … The Calhoun School is an eight-story glass, travertine, and concrete building located on the south-west corner of West 81st Street and West End...
education, guest blog, intern, Then and Now, WEA, West End Avenue
As guest blog by intern Jason CrowleyIntern Jason Crowley at the 2012 “Unsung Heroes” awards,with LW! Dir. of Education Debi GermannLast month — on Tuesday June 26 — the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted unanimously in favor of the...