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...

Ultimate Neighborhood Grocery

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

By Claudie Benjamin Pioneer Supermarket at 289 Columbus Avenue goes way back.  And, Steve Vasilikos, a long-time partner of Lenny Franzblau the original owner, has been managing the store for 53 of the businesses’ 70+ years. Steve’s father immigrated...

Thrifting and Community Service

West 72nd Street

By Claudie Benjamin The Goodwill store that opened at 157 W. 72nd Street in 2013 highlights a curated concept first piloted at an earlier Goodwill shop at 217 West 79th Street. The curated look?  Mostly gone is the old-time jumble, catch as catch can style...

Parisian Classics

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

By Claudie Benjamin It’s hard to imagine a more spectacular plum tart than the one Sami Baker has just produced.  Many other fresh sweet and savory items are still on trays in a rack ready to go into the small, charming front room of the bakery.  The...

Lippold books a ticket to LGA

Advocacy, Lincoln Center

Richard Lippold’s Orpheus and Apollo, a site-specific piece designed for the grand foyer of the Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center, where it hung from 1962-2014 has spent the past 7 years in a box in New Jersey.  First reported by the New York Times, read...