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Last Call coming for City Winery
GOTHAMIST is back (thankfully!) and reporting on some of the displacement from the ABC move to Hudson Square. The casualty of note today is City Winery, which will be displaced from its flagship. Per the City Winery website, their intent is: The core target audience...
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Breaking News
The news picked up on our original reports from April. Today's West Side Rag as well as The New York Times followed up about the sale of ABC's UWS holdings to Larry Silverstein. The latest news: ABC is selling BOTH of its UWS campuses. The one between West 66th and...
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T-minus 5 years
VARIETY reports that the sale of the American Broadcasting Company due to close this week (week of July 9th, 2018) will include a clause for ABC to lease-back space for up to five years. Given the quick pace of events it would take any owner time to prepare new...
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It’s About TIMES CAPSULE
New York Times Capsule needs to move for AMNH expansion project LANDMARK WEST! reviews and comments on every Certificate of Appropriateness (C of A) item from the Upper West Side that goes before the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). When items come up for...
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ABC deal to close next week!
The The Real Deal reports that Silverstein properties has attained $800M in loans from Deutsche Bank (which itself has been in the news lately) towards the over $1 billion price tag for his purchase of the 2.6 acre assembly of ABC properties on the Upper West Side....
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Architectural Firm Profiles: Gaetan Ajello
Gaetan (Gaetano) Ajello – 1883-1983 Gaetan Ajello was considered a visionary architect within his lifetime. The Sicilian immigrant took the New York City architecture scene by storm, contributing hundreds of buildings to the city, and particularly to the west side....
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99 Problems…but height ain’t one
Call it the ultimate first world problem...only it's about being surpassed by the third world...literally.* In a media landscape dominated by children stuck in a cave, attacks on the free press and growing monopolies, it is always nice to turn to the real estate...
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A Marvelous Night at the Milbank!
What a Wonderful Night! A sold-out crowd enjoyed the first in a new Landmark West! series offering our members exclusive, limited-access “tours and more” of the finest historic properties of the Upper West Side. Guests entered to the strains...
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Celebrating Penn Central Day!
Last week, LANDMARK WEST! co-sponsored a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Penn Central v. City of New York -- the U.S. Supreme Court case that helped protect Grand Central Terminal -- and upheld New York City’s (at the time recently minted) Landmarks Law as...
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What Happened at the Town Hall
Last night's town hall meeting saw the community pushing Mayor Bill de Blasio on some issues close to our hearts--the impending rise of the supertall CENTRAL dARK Tower. Below is the press release from our neighbors, which shows de Blasio administration members giving...
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