education, Keeping the Past for the Future, KPF. architecture, monuments, Riverside Park
One of the ways in which LW! engages UWS elementary students to become more aware of the architecture in their neighborhood is through the exploration and creation of poetry. In our popular program Neighborhood Poetry, third-graders spend time outside to write down...
architecture, landmark, New York, New York City, parks, photography, preservation, Riverside Drive, Riverside Park, Scenic Landmark, Upper West Side, UWS
LOST RIVERSIDE DRIVE A History in Postcard ImagesSlide Lecture and Book Signing There was much hope and hype in the 1870s and 1880s that the Upper West Side would surpass Fifth Avenue in attracting the well-to-do in the area. A winding boulevard with vistas...
landmark, New York City, NYC, parks, preservation, Riverside Drive, Riverside Park, Scenic Landmark, Upper West Side, UWS, walking tour
DID YOU KNOW: The monument dedicated to Joan of Arc in Riverside Park (at West 91st Street) was the first public sculpture in New York City dedicated to a non-fictional woman.DID YOU KNOW: The position of repose in which the woman rests at the Ida Straus memorial, in...
