Historic District, landmark, LYL, photography
Cupid, you have competition this Valentine’s Day!Don your angel wings. Ready your quiver and bow. Grab your camera. This is your chance to tell everyone, “I Love this Landmark!” Starting today, LW! is asking you to join us in playing cupid as we...
Individual Landmark, landmark, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LPC, preservation, Upper West Side, UWS, West-Park
West-Park Presbyterian Church165 West 86th StreetWest-Park Presbyterian Church has achieved some major milestones in the last few years. Certainly one would be the Individual Landmark designation by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission in early 2010...
Historic District, Historic Districts Council, landmark, New York City, NYC, preservation, Upper West Side
Edith Wharton lives on!Today, the Historic Districts Council and the Historic Landmarks Preservation Center honored the memory of celebrated author and New Yorker Edith Wharton with the installation of a commemorative cultural medallion at 14 West 23rd Street,...
landmark, New York, New York City, parks, preservation, Upper West Side, UWS
Show some respect–Bowls is older than your great-great-great-great-great grandparents, and then some!In Central Park, the New York Lawn Bowling Club gathers regularly to play a sport more than 5,000 years old. Below, Club members put their skills to the...
landmark, New York, New York City, parks, photography, preservation, Scenic Landmark, Upper West Side, UWS
Rollerskating at the Naumburg BandshellLocated just a stone’s throw south of Bethesda Terrace is the mecca of roller and in-line skating: the Bandshell. It seems fitting that the Park’s principal formal element–the rectilinear promenade that is...
landmark, New York, New York City, NYC, playground, preservation, Upper West Side, UWS
Rachel H., you’ve been bested. Little Lila and Isabella, while your lakeside hideaway is enviable, the cuteness factor here is just undeniable.It’s refreshing to know that even as technology advances and child’s play looks more and more like a...
