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LW Student Detectives Hit the Streets
Spotted: Student "Preservation Detectives" hit the pavement across the Upper West Side in search of history...and discover a whole new world! Deanna Kory's Corcoran Spring 2017 newsletter features LW's "Keeping the Past for the Future" dual-language Spanish/English...
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News to the Mayor-Homelessness is an issue!
On the heels of Politico's report on the new record death statistics from 2016, far surpassing recent years, the DAILY NEWS has an exclusive report on Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen and her misaligned priorities in handling the homelessness crisis. Considered at its...
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Another chapter in “Wreck Side Story”
Karma Comes to Call In 2013, LW! alerted you to a Daily News article on the "Wreck Side story" rowhouse at 118 West 76th Street, a landmark sadly ignored and abandoned for years.* Well, negligent property owner Diane Haslett-Rudiano (who finally sold the rowhouse in...
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Rose Reading Room Protected!
PROTECTED! On Tuesday, August 8th, the LPC designated the Rose Main Reading Room, and the Catalog Room, now known as the Bill Blass Public Catalog Room on the third floor of the Beaux-Arts Individual Landmark New York Public Library. Read more coverage of this...
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MAKING MUSIC Event for 711 West End Avenue!
TAG, the Tenants' Action Group of 711 West End Avenue is presenting a special concert to focus community attention to the imminent threat to 711 WEA Tenants' safety with the proposed building of ten stories of high-priced condos on top, around and under their modest,...
read moreDeja Vu All Over Again
CONGREGATION SHEARITH ISRAEL'S W. 70TH STREET LUXURY CONDOS DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN... Back in 2003, the late Peter Jennings (a West 70th Street neighbor) wrote: The synagogue gives the impression of having worked to bypass the neighbors, to have its way whatever the...
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Community Board 7 Addresses Tall Towers on UWS
POSTPONED DUE TO OVERWHELMING PUBLIC INTEREST! Please stay tuned - the meeting will be rescheduled and held in a larger venue. On Wednesday, January 18, starting at 7pm in the CB7 office at 250 West 87th Street, Community Board 7 will once again take up the issue of...
read moreZoning Variance Agency Under Scrutiny
New legislation aims to regulate the Board of Standards and Appeals By Madeleine Thompson, West Side Spirit and Our Town Read LW's 12/14/16 testimony before the NY City Council's Committee on Governmental Operations Email City Council members sponsoring this...
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Shop LW’s Bookshelf for Great Gift Ideas
Still shopping? Give your friends and family the gift of escape into the pages of a good book from the LANDMARK WEST! Bookshelf. Enjoy special "members-only" pricing on titles exploring architecture, design, history, photography, film and - everyone's favorite - food!...
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IRT Powerhouse Remains in Landmarks Limbo
Well, Virginia... It's still a tough world out there. After 37 years on the Landmarks Preservation Commission's designation calendar, we hoped we'd be saying "Auld Lang Syne to landmarks limbo" for the former IRT Powerhouse (McKim, Mead & White,...
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