architecture, C of A, Dutch Revival, Landmark West, NYC, preservation, Rick Cook, Robert W. Gibson, West End Collegiate Church, West End Collegiate School
While buildings in NYC seem to come and go–and with increasing expedience–it is very rare for major alterations to take place within an historic district. The Upper West Side has 12 such districts, and when word first came of demolition plans, our...
Fourth Universalist Society, Tours and Events, Uncategorized
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Gene A. Norman testifying in 1984 to protect the NYC Landmarks Law. Credit: Albany Press, January 1984 It’s not every day the mail brings a letter from a four-star U.S. General… let alone a former Secretary of State!...
architecture, Gene A. Norman, Historic District, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Landmarks Law, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LPC, NYC, preservation, Upper West Side, UWS
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Gene A. Norman testifying in 1984 to protect the NYC Landmarks Law. Credit: Albany Press, 1984. In 1988, Gene presided over a 16-hour marathon public hearing at the Fourth Universalist Society, which led to the 1990 designation...
architecture, CENTRAL dARK, Congregation Shearith Israel, Watch List
Are there new towers in the future of this skyline? This is the important and pressing question LW’s study by WXY architect Claire Weisz seeks to answer. .. The urgent need to study Central Park West emerged out of a series of proposals to alter the...
