Mariners' Gate, Mariners' Playground, Plan for Play, public design commission, Scenic Landmark, Spector Playground, Watch List, West 85th Street, When the Process Works
The Central Parks Conservancy is planning to overhaul their playground near the Mariners’ Gate entrance, 85th Street and Central Park West. Designed for 2-5 year olds, the playground renovation is part of the Conservancy’s “Plan for Play”...
American Museum of Natural History, Gilder Center, Landmarks at Risk, Teddy Roosevelt Park, Theodore Roosevelt Park, Watch List
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedienceTheodore Roosevelt from “Latitude and Longitude among Reformers” (1900) Kate Wood addressed a letter to American Museum of Natural History President Ellen Futter outlining some of the...
Friends of the UES, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, Historic Districts Council, Intro. 775, landmark, Landmark West, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LPC, preservation, Preservation Under Fire, Watch List
Landmark West!, Historic Districts Council, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, and Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts wrote to Council Members to express serious concerns about Intro. 775. We share the desire for a swift,...
architecture, Board of Standards and Appeals, Carrere and Hastings, Individual Landmark, landmark, Landmarks at Risk, New York City, Upper West Side, Watch List, Zoning
Landmark West! wishes to comment on the application to the Board of Standards and Appeals for the conversion of the former First Church of Christ, Scientist (Carrère and Hastings, 1899-1903, an Individual Landmark designated in 1974) into a 39-unit residential...
Watch List, When the Process Works
Bruce Willis once said “You can’t undo the past…but you can certainly not repeat it” At LANDMARK WEST! we strive to protect the built environment and sometimes that means incorporating intel from the ground. Back in 2008, a...
Preservation Under Fire, Watch List, WEA
The Broadway Fashion Building, long a Landmark West! Wishlist Candidatewas designated in the last expansion of the district and is now protected. Today’s online and tomorrow’s print edition of the New York Times features a piece which...
