KPF@HOME Local History Detectives Over the past 200 years, the Upper West Side has changed so much. In the past, it looked very different to your neighborhood today. Can you imagine what it must have been like before there were trains, cars, sidewalks, and apartment buildings? Look at the pictures below of your streets in the past, then move the...
Keeping the Past for the Future Teacher's KPF Portal Take me to the Programs! Keeping the Past for the Future KPF offers nine diverse programs for your classrooms, each offering a different learning experience through design, architecture and history in New York City. Our partner schools use our programs for both enrichment and curriculum...
KPF@HOME Building Detectives Our Building Detectives program helps you learn about and explore a special type of building found in New York City – the brownstone. What do you already know about brownstones? Make a quick list of things you already know. To help, check out these pictures of brownstones we find on the Upper West Side....
Stephen Wise Towers Nivola in the Naayyborhood Learn about Italian immigrant Costantino Nivola and his landscaped playground at Stephen Wise Towers between West 90th and West 91st Streets, including how you too can create his famous concrete horses! Take me to the Activities!ADVOCACY ALERT Costantino NivolaCostantino Nivola was born in rural...
261-265 Columbus Avenue The Janet View to Northeast corner of West 72nd Street and Columbus Avenue; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive Singers and Sinners by Tom Miller, for They Were Here, Landmark West’s Cultural Immigrant Initiative Leopold Friedman was a partner in the real estate firm Lespinasse & Friedman, perhaps best known for...
