Central Park Secrets: The Odds ‘n Ends Edition
Online via ZoomLW! is excited to welcome back one of our favorite guides to all things Central Park: Ron Korcak. Ron, a tremendously popular guide-of-guides and fount of knowledge about the park, […]
LW! is excited to welcome back one of our favorite guides to all things Central Park: Ron Korcak. Ron, a tremendously popular guide-of-guides and fount of knowledge about the park, […]
In this virtual tour with historian Lucie Levine, we’ll wind back the clock to when horses and horsepower reigned on the Upper West Side. We’ll discover Broadway’s Automobile Row and […]
Join Landmark West! for this very special evening celebrating a truly landmark UWS institution. Herb Grosinger, in conversation with his daughter Liz Samuel, remembers more than half a century on […]
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 6:00-7:00pm via Zoom Revolutionary artist Mary Rogers Williams (1857—1907), a baker’s daughter, biked and hiked from the Arctic Circle to Naples, exhibited from Paris to Indianapolis, […]
The 20 years following the end of WWII marked a profound period of synergy and exchange between sculpture and architecture in the U.S. Leading modernist architects such as Gordon Bunshaft and Eero […]
Climb aboard for a history of the Hudson River and its local environs from Dr. Leslie Day, a 36-year resident of the 79th Street Boat Basin. As a young woman, […]
LW! is doing a little time traveling to explore the darker side of the development of Central Park. It is somewhat miraculous that the park even exists, as back in […]
What do the credit card, Oreo, and crossword puzzle have in common? All originated in New York City. From colonial times through the present day, first-of-their-kind achievements occurred in New […]
There is no book on San Juan Hill, the Westside neighborhood that was essentially erased in the 1950s by a sweep of urban renewal. For the past half-century, there has been little acknowledgment of it outside of references in “West Side Story,” the film that used the area's final days as a backdrop. The eastern and northern boundaries shift. The demographics are generalized. Various accounts describe this neighborhood of tenements, factories, shops, clubs and churches as “Hells Kitchen North” or “The Tenderloin.” It was also called a “Red Light District” or, most commonly, a “slum.” Regardless of the reality, the last epithet is the one that stuck, because after designating it a slum, the City of New York was allowed to take possession and "clear" San Juan Hill under the 1949 Housing Act. This maneuver displaced thousands of families in exchange for several internationally-renowned institutions. LANDMARK WEST! is proud to rebuild, block by block, the buildings and stories of the San Juan Hill community. The online San Juan Hill project has been launched with the support of a growing list of stakeholders. LW! especially thanks New York State Senator Brad Hoylman, former New York City Council Member Ben Kallos and the City Council’s Cultural Immigrant Initiative, who generously stepped in to support this body of research. We hope this project will serve as the foundation for a fuller history of San Juan Hill in the coming years, and we eagerly welcome community participation to more fully tell this story. We further hope that this effort will daylight the rich immigrant past of this once vibrant neighborhood and inform discussions about community, transparency, process, eminent domain and urban renewal across our resilient city. As preservationists, we recognize that once something is gone, it is gone for good. Hopefully, with this project, San Juan Hill will at least not be lost. Please be our guest as architectural historian Sarah Bean Apmann guides us through San Juan Hill, a neighborhood that there is only one way to visit...via history. LANDMARK WEST! will be joined for this special project launch by officials: New York State Senator Brad Hoylman City Council Member Gale Brewer This project for the Cultural Immigrant Initiative is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Special thanks, as well, to the NYC Municipal Archives. TICKETS - FREE
Zabar's: A Family Story Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022 4:00-5:00pm via Zoom In partnership with the Preservation League of New York State, Landmark West! invites you to participate in a book […]