By Christian Rowe On July 16, 2014, LANDMARK WEST! hosted a summer evening trip down the Hudson River on the retired historic Fireboat John J.Harvey. Built in 1931, the John J. Harvey was the first large modern fireboat built in America. Every fireboat before her was...
by Christian Rowe On my Central Park exploration today, I noticed things that I would not have paid much attention to before beginning my summer internship with LANDMARK WEST! The first thing I noticed was that when you enter the park at 77th Street you walk over a...
On September 6, the New York Times published a letter to the editor written by LW! President Arlene Simon responding to Professor Kenneth T. Jackson’s op-ed “Gotham’s ToweringAmbitions” published on August 30th. Arlene’s letter to...
CELEBRATE THE UNSUNG HEROES OF THE UPPER WEST SIDEThursday, Dec. 5th 2013With an admittedly contrarian mind-set, LANDMARK WEST’s honorees tend not to be media stars or mega-bankers, but real-life landmark heroes in the trenches. Usually, no one you have ever...
Empire State Building: The Making of a LandmarkAn illustrated talk & book signing by John TauranacThursday, October 17th, 2013 at 6 p.m.Macaulay Honors College, 35 West 67th Street$15, $10 for LW! members Click here to purchase...
