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Love Your Landmark #2 – Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center70 Lincoln Center PlazaLincoln Center is one of my favorite areas in New York. The amazing architecture perfectly compliments the incredible cultural offerings! It's one of a kind.Love,Haruka KugaShop Assistant/Patron of the Arts
UPDATE from the FIELD: AC condensers on stilts toppled by LPC
UPDATE from the FIELDAs reported by Max Y.At public hearing yesterday afternoon, an application to legalize conspicuous white-box AC units on the historic facade of 333 West End Avenue, a Venetian Gothic Revival apartment building designed by Emery Roth in 1925, was...
Love Your Landmark #1- Bethesda Terrace, Central Park
Bethesda TerraceCentral ParkBethesda Terrace is one of my absolute favorite places in New York. It's a spot I always make time to visit--it's magical!Love,Mary NastasiGraduate Student, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation;and...
Tell the World, “I Love This Landmark!”
Cupid, you've got competition!LANDMARK WEST! is celebrating the month of love with Love Your Landmarks, an opportunity to tell that special place how you really feel--and to share your love of our neighborhood's amazing architecture with the world! All you need to...
NYC’s Landmarks Law at 45 (you look beautiful, dahling!)
Less than one month from today, preservationists from across New York City (and beyond!) will gather for the Fitch Forum 2011. Registration is now open at http://fitchforum.eventbrite.com. On Saturday, February 5, 2011 the Columbia Graduate School of...
Design review committee heads to Landmarks Commission
For LANDMARK WEST!, the new year brings with it a new crop of proposals for work to landmark buildings on the Upper West Side. That means a whole new calendar of Public Hearings before the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). Today is the first...
An APPetite for Architecture :: Launch of iPhone walking tour app for Manhattan’s Upper West Side
It's here! LW! proudly introduces the first ever iPhone walking tour app of Manhattan’s Upper West Side, using technology to offer a uniquely local perspective on NYC history, architecture and future. Click here to download the app for free, and begin your...
PHOTOS :: 25th Anniversary celebration a magical success!
It was an indescribable sensation to stand among our friends Tuesday evening, in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse in the Rose Building at Lincoln Center. In a room suspended among snowflakes, we gathered to celebrate a quarter century of an organization truly...
Roberta Brandes Gratz Removed from the Landmarks Preservation Commission
The New York Times City Room blog reported last night that Roberta Brandes Gratz was removed from the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission as of October 26, 2010. Gratz - journalist, preservationist, and most recently author of The Battle for Gotham: New York...
LW! in the Press :: West Side Spirit covers 25th anniversary
Check out this online article in the West Side Spirit, sharing a bit of info about LANDMARK WEST!'s quarter century of preservation advocacy on the Upper West Side. **Spoiler alert!** Some of our favorite lines, below ..."We don't want the Upper West Side...
