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30th Anniversary! Help LW! pass on the torch in 2015!
June 2015We're known for being obstinate. And we're known for being fighters.This is no time to lose that reputation. Dear Friends of LANDMARK WEST!:…And now is no time to let your LW! membership lapse! We need you more than ever. If you’ve...
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty…and landmarks preservation too!
Bruce Willis once said "You can't undo the past...but you can certainly not repeat it" At LANDMARK WEST! we strive to protect the built environment and sometimes that means incorporating intel from the ground. Back in 2008, a neighbor spotted a suspiciously...
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NYT Features District Exclusions
The Broadway Fashion Building, long a Landmark West! Wishlist Candidatewas designated in the last expansion of the district and is now protected. Today's online and tomorrow's print edition of the New York Times features a piece which examines the...
read moreCandle Bar Now Closed!
Candle Bar - the Upper West Side’s oldest gay bar - closed permanently earlier this week. According to a West Side Rag article, it had been in its location on Amsterdam Avenue between 74th and 75th streets since 1958. The building that Candle...
read moreRiverside-West End Historic District Map Available!
While the City Council has 120 days to amend or disprove the Historic District Extension, the LPC has made the map of the revised boundaries available. See above. Landmark West! will keep you posted with any news! To see other Media coverage, read West Side...
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Can you see the differences in these two images?
Left: District Map from 2010, Right: District Map post-de Blasio Diet on June 23, 2015Image by Landmark West!This morning, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public meeting to consider designation of the third, and as they emphasize, "final" segment of the...
read moreDEFEND the proposed Riverside-West End Avenue Historic District Extension II
This Tuesday, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission will vote on Riverside-West End Historic District Extension II Please join us at 9:30 am the Commission, 1 Centre St, 9th Fl. to DEFEND the boundaries as-set in 2011 (please allow time for security...
read moreTime Lapse of 2 Columbus Circle’s Destruction
Back in 2005-2006, we set up a "shame cam" to capture and live-stream the facade destruction of 2 Columbus Circle. Now, ten years later, we created a time lapse of the process as Edward Durell Stone's quirky piece of modernism was scaffolded, cocooned, and sliced up...
read more50 Sites for 50 Years of NYC Landmarks
Photograph: Andrew KaplanLandmark West! Celebrates on Google Field Trip AppThis year marks the 50th Anniversary of the passing of New York City’s Landmark Preservation Law (1965-2015) and also Landmark West’s own 30th Anniversary (1985-2015). Back then, our...
read moreSaving Places at MCNY
"Saving Place establishes landmarks as a key to urban dynamism, not as some fuddy-duddy concept. These are living, vital buildings.” — Susan Henshaw Jones, director of the Museum of the City of New York, quoted in The New York Times.Saving Place: 50 Years of New York...
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