5G, Historic District, public design commission
Do You Want our UWS Street Lamps to Look like THIS? The beloved “Bishop’s Crook” and other lampposts of the Upper West Side are under attack. Often funded by resident-led initiatives like the clean up of West 72nd Street and by individual...
Calvert Vaux, Frederick Law Olmsted
Once most of the original property that would become New York’s Central Park had been acquired, the Central Park Commission called for a public design competition. A small classified advertisement was placed in The New York Times of October 30, 1857 and the...
Architectural History Spotlight, Broadway, Upper West Side
By Claudie Benjamin and Andra Moss Born in St. Louis Missouri in 1884, Sara Teasdale lived a sheltered life, but from a young age was committed to writing lyric poetry. She was also determined to one day live in New York City. Deciding to marry St. Louis...
#votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, ABC Watch, West End Avenue, Zoning
There is plenty to worry about these days, and we are all being bombarded with news and updates. It’s not always easy to decipher fact from speculation and definitely necessary to consider the source. We provide this message in response to the many...
#isitsafe, #votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, 50 West 66th Street, Dept. of Buildings, State of New York, UWS
New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has ordered all “non-essential” construction to halt statewide. This new directive, announced on Friday, March 27th, contradicts the state’s initial instruction that classified all construction as...
education, Keeping the Past for the Future
LANDMARK WEST! has run Keeping the Past for the Future (KPF) our youth education program in schools for a quarter century, serving thousands. With distance learning, we are adapting to continue serving our students of all ages! Together, yet for now,...
Architectural History Spotlight, Landmark West, West 72nd Street
In these days of staying in and laying low, we are all grateful to have a space somewhere to hunker down. A room of one’s own. Or, in the case of a very few, a tower. Central Park West is known world-wide for its iconic twin-towered Emery Roth buildings of...
#votersagainstsupertalls, 50 West 66th Street
The Commercial Observer is reporting that Extell Suspends Construction on Central Park Tower, Not Brooklyn Point. In the article of the same name, Chava Gourarie cites the Corona Virus as cause for the pause but acknowledges that other developments by the same...
Columbus Avenue, guest blog
The Fate of the 9th Avenue Elevated Train Cars? LW! History Snippet by Claudie Benjamin The 9th Avenue Elevated train line, known as the “el”, had its inaugural downtown run in 1871. By 1879 it ran all the way up to 104th Street, a large-scale urban...
