To Restore, or Not To Restore? That is the Equestrian!

Advocacy, Costantino Nivola, Public Art

Never before have stone horses caused such an uproar. Ever since 1965, many Upper West Siders have long been familiar with the landscaped playground at Stephen Wise Towers, located between West 90th and 91st Streets and cheerfully dotted with modern concrete animals....

LW! loses Appeal

#votersagainstsupertalls, 50 West 66th Street, Advocacy, CENTRAL dARK

Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, First Judicial Department rules against the community on 50 West 66th. The brief decision is HERE.  The court upheld the May 6, 2021 decision by Justice Rakower. LW! has been following the development of...

Every Building Has HIS Story

West 72nd Street

Interstate 70 crosses nearly the width of the continental US, but it also takes a lesser-known route–from Dayton, Ohio, to West 72nd Street. As a child visiting his granddad, a budding urban explorer Tom Miller investigated the east end of Dayton, a neighborhood...

The Upper West Side Beat

West 72nd Street

Claudie Benjamin jokes that she’s ‘probably been in every building on the Upper West Side’ and after speaking to her, you are likely to believe it!   Benjamin, whose parents relocated the family here while she was in second grade, was...

Smile Starts with Tooth #1

West 72nd Street

By Claudie Benjamin   The time for the first dental visit comes “with a child’s first tooth or by their first birthday,” says Dr. Robert Goldsmith. A specialist in pediatric dentistry and owner of West Side Kids Dental, Robert Goldsmith, DMD,...