Landmarks at Risk, When the Process Works
Community rallies for FIVE hours in support of the 117-year old individual landmark at 361 Central Park West. LPC takes No Action. Directs applicant to “take five” and reconsider plans. Echoing Community Feedback, and disapproval...
architectural, architecture, David Geffen Hall, Designation, interiors, Landmark West, Landmarks, Lincoln Center, Manhattan, Museum of Modern Art, New York, preservation, The New York Times
Public art installations seem to be on attack, not just at Lincoln Center, but also, throughout the rest of New York City. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has, for a long time, acted as a steward of Isamu Noguchi’s sculpture and other artwork. ...
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Recently, I went looking for the space I remembered as a long gone UWS Chinese restaurant. Actually, my memory was more about a large colorful mural featuring a red-sailed junk in Hong Kong Harbor that was displayed on the wall. Walking up on the east side of...
Advocacy, Children's Museum of Manhattan, Individual Landmark, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission
The Children’s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM), the latest stewards of the 117-year old individual landmark at 361 Central Park West propose significant changes to roof, windows, and entrances. View the ARCHITECTURAL PRESENTATION and the SPECIAL...
#isitsafe, #votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, 50 West 66th Street, CENTRAL dARK, Zoning
CONGRATULATIONS to our colleagues, both the Committee for Environmentally Sound Development (CFESD) and the Municipal Art Society (MAS) on their win–and to many more! Huge KUDOS to the Committee for Environmentally Sound Development...
#votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, 50 West 66th Street, Advocacy, Board of Standards and Appeals, CENTRAL dARK
New York Times Reporter Stefanos Chen brings readers “The People vs. Big Development” ticking off a litany of grass-roots efforts to curb inappropriate development in their respective communities. LANDMARK WEST! is featured for our involvement with...
Advocacy, architectural, David Geffen Hall, interiors, Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Philharmonic Hall has felt empty since 2014, when Orpheus and Apollo, the shimmering and abstracted construction that has hung from the ceiling of the “grande promenade” since the hall was opened in 1962,...
#isitsafe, #votersagainstsupertalls, 50 West 66th Street, Advocacy, Board of Standards and Appeals, CENTRAL dARK, Zoning
In his recent community update, Assembly Member Richard Gottfried reiterated his support of LANDMARK WEST! and our appeal of the permits for 50 West 66th Street. His full statement below: Board of Standards & Appeals’ Tie Vote on Upper West Side...
#isitsafe, #votersagainstsupertalls, 50 West 66th Street, Advocacy, Board of Standards and Appeals, CENTRAL dARK
There’s so much to question about how the Chair of the Board of Standards and Appeals came to vote against Landmark West’s Appeal of permits issued by the Dept. of Buildings allowing 200 feet of “mechanical void” space in a building...
#isitsafe, #votersagainstsupertalls, 50 West 66th Street, Advocacy, Board of Standards and Appeals, CENTRAL dARK
The Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) decided today that the nearly 200 vertical feet of mechanical voids at the the 775-foot Extell tower at 50 West 66th Street was just fine with two* BSA Commissioners, meaning the LW! Appeal was...
