Backlog 95, IRT Powerhouse, Landmarks, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission, McKim Mead and White, Robert W. Gibson, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Wish List
After years of being deferred, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has been in the process of reviewing 95 of its “Backlog” items that have languished on the LPC calendar for more than five years. Although they initially wanted to...
Advocacy, architecture, intern, Landmarks, Manhattan, NYC, preservation
My name is Melissa Doherty and I just completed my sophomore year at Franklin & MarshallCollege in Lancaster, PA.I am currently an Art Major and I have a great passion for architectural preservation and architectural history. I grew up visiting Manhattanon a...
architecture, Historic District, Landmarks, Landmarks Law, Landmarks Preservation Commission, New York City, Riverside Drive, Riverside Park, Upper West Side, West End Avenue
A picture is worth a thousand words. Question: How could this out-of-context building get built? Answer: These 4 rowhouses were not designated NYC Landmarks when the then-owner of 2 Riverside Drive built on this site. The moral of the story?...
Advocacy, Historic District, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Landmarks, LPC, New York City, Riverside Drive, Upper West Side, West End Avenue
If Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis could do it, so can you. Please SIGN LW’s PETITION to the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) Chair Tierney and ask for the designation of the extensions to Manhattan’s West End Historic Districts (HDs). Here’s...
architecture, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Landmarks, Landmarks Law, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Manhattan, New York, New York City, Riverside Drive, Upper West Side, WEA, West End Avenue
In 1985, when LANDMARK WEST! was founded to advocate for more widespread protection of our neighborhood’s architectural heritage, the Upper West Side only had 337 designated landmarks.With the recent Riverside-West End HD Extension I designation, approximately...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Landmarks, landscape architecture, Louis Kahn, Manhattan, memorial, Moderism, monuments, NY, NYC, Roosevelt Island, skyline, Tram, Upper East Side, Upper West Side
LANDMARK WEST’s First Roosevelt Island Visit: FDR Four Freedoms Memorial Park Kyle Johnson leading LW! and friends beneath theQueensboro Bridge, en route to the MemorialYou read...
