Mother & Daughter Specialize: Fingertip to Shoulders

West 72nd Street

By Claudie Benjamin How is it working with her daughter?  “The best in the world” Ann Lang, MA, OTR, CHT, responds with a smile.  A pioneer in the field of hand therapy, a subspecialty of Occupational Therapy, Ann began her career at Jacobi...

Kissaki Makes Chef Table Boxes

9th Ave. Elevated, Columbus Avenue, Cultural Immigrant Initiative

By Claudie Benjamin Talk to Garry Kanfer, owner of the Kissaki restaurants in Manhattan and Miami, for just a few minutes and you want to order a Chef’s Table box immediately delivered to your apartment or brownstone for lunch or dinner.    Inspired...

News on ABC: Special Report

#isitsafe, #votersagainstsupertalls, ABC Watch, Dept. of City Planning

We interrupt your day with this important announcement: Following the July 2018 news that the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is leaving the UWS, LW! explored development potentials. REVIEW OUR FINDINGS What’s the Big Deal? ABC has been an UWS neighbor...

Three-in-One Shop

9th Ave. Elevated, Columbus Avenue, Cultural Immigrant Initiative

By Claudie Benjamin Whether nostalgia for the pre-gentrified Columbus Avenue of years ago tugs at your heart or if you’re just curious about the way it was, the shoemaker/ watch repair/ keymaker all under the name Express Shoe Repair at 549 Columbus Avenue,...

We Have Time to Burn, Let’s Burn it Listening to Records

West 72nd Street

By Claudie Benjamin Dorian Thornley is the owner of Westsider Books and Westsider Records with shops on 80th and Broadway (2246 Broadway) and at 233 West 72nd Street.  Most of the records are for sale at the 72nd Street location where Bruce Eder has been...

Honoring Barbers Everywhere

9th Ave. Elevated, Columbus Avenue, Cultural Immigrant Initiative

By Claudie Benjamin Awesome doesn’t begin to describe the remarkable NYC Barber Shop Museum at 290 Columbus Avenue.  Entering by way of a pair of red velvet roped brass stanchions, you feel you are about to encounter a special experience.  Your...

Advancing with a Competitive Edge

9th Ave. Elevated, Columbus Avenue, Cultural Immigrant Initiative

By Claudie Benjamin There’s no question that Silvya Silvany sets goals for herself and achieves them.  She’s also open to adjusting and expanding her dreams and plans and taking on the education needed to achieve them as her experience sets her view...

Kosher Butcher Shop Thriving

West 72nd Street

By Claudie Benjamin Fischer Bros. & Leslie Kosher Butcher & Poultry at 230 West 72nd Street has seen the ups and downs of the Upper West Side. It has also stayed strong over the 72 years since it was opened 1949 by Morris and Louis Fischer.  Leslie...

Artistically Designed Glasses with Class

9th Ave. Elevated, Columbus Avenue, Cultural Immigrant Initiative

By Claudie Benjamin There are certainly many eyeglass shops on the Upper West Side.  But the designs at Anne et Valentin are in a class of their own.  Mathilde Brecy is the manager of the store at 248 Columbus Avenue that opened in March 2016. Started about...

Starchitects McKim, Mead & White – How did they get started? 4/19 with LW!

LW Public Program, McKim Mead and White

Everyone starts somewhere-even lauded Starchitects McKim, Mead & White. Individually, they were rather undistinguished as young men. How did they become the gold standard of American architecture of their era? Architectural historian Prof. Mosette Broderick takes...