200 Amsterdam, CENTRAL dARK, Watch List
THE PROBLEM Towers soaring to 600 feet and more are creeping beyond Midtown Manhattan into residential neighborhoods like the Upper West Side, threatening the balance between preservation and development that makes communities like ours so beautiful,...
200 Amsterdam, Watch List
Hundreds of Upper West Siders flocked to a Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, May 3, to learn about plans to develop the tallest building in Manhattan north of 60th Street – right here on the Upper West Side – at 200 Amsterdam Avenue. Zoning...
architecture, Authors, Tours and Events
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Justin Davidson, an uber-fan of the UWS, (shown with Landmark West! President Kate Wood) drew scores of readers to Book Culture last night for another successful LW! authors night. The standing-room only crowd enjoyed Wood...
Landmarks at Risk, Preservation Under Fire
And although Central Park is a “big” 843 acres of a Scenic Landmark, there always seems to be new ways to fill it! Pre-dating the park was a reservoir which is being summoned from the ashes as justification for a wide path to the Belvedere Castle Folly....
Landmarks at Risk, Pay to Play
Quarter two revealed some of the highest prices on record for Manhattan condos and coops: $1,759 per SQUARE foot. Now, imagine for a moment how many more of those square feet would be available if a developer could scale up multiple extra stories laden...