architecture, Board of Standards and Appeals, Dept. of Buildings, Historic District, Individual Landmark, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Law, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LPC, New York, New York City, NYC, preservation, Preservation Under Fire, Testimony, Upper West Side, UWS
March 27th is a coin toss… With lots on the docket, one must prioritize… Attend the BSA to speak against 200 Amsterdam Avenue, a development that even the Department of Buildings doesn’t think is legal, or speak out...
Advocacy, architectural, architecture, Broadway, C of A, Individual Landmark, landmark, Landmark West, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LPC, Manhattan, New York, New York City, preservation
DEFENDING 827-831 BROADWAY LANDMARK WEST! will be testifying at the Landmark Preservation Commission on January 9th for the denial of a Certificate of Appropriateness in which an applicant is proposing a new and intrusive addition to a new downtown landmark. You can...
New York, New York City, Upper West Side, UWS
Dan Talbot, art house cinema legend, passed away last Friday, leaving behind a peerless legacy of film exhibition and distribution. The 91-year-old theater operator, along with his wife Toby, who survives him, profoundly shaped and nurtured the New York City film...
Andrew S. Dolkart, architect, architectural, architecture, brownstone, Lamb and Rich, Neo Renaissance, New York, New York City, Tours and Events, West End Avenue
On Tuesday, July 12, about 45 friends joined LANDMARK WEST! for a tour of 351 West End Avenue, a beautifully-preserved Lamb and Rich row house dating to the early 1890’s. Andrew Dolkart, professor of historic preservation at Columbia University, led an...
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...
museum, New York, New York City, Renaissance
Guests attend LANDMARK WEST!’s “A Wunderkammer Evening” at a private residence in the West 67th Street Artist’s Colony Historic District on December 4, 2012.During the European Renaissance, objects reflecting the genius of man as well as...
