Watch-Blog
A Window into the Certificate of Appropriateness Process
At yesterday’s Landmarks Preservation Commission meeting, the vigilance of LANDMARK WEST! and our fellow preservation advocates paid off! An applicant was seeking a Certificate of Appropriateness for 100 West 72nd Street, a McKim, Mead and White beauty on...
Tribeca Clocktower to Remain!
Sometimes the beauty (and the ingenuity!) is not always visible on the surface! One of the great things about the Former New York Life Insurance building at 346 Broadway is its clocktower, part of a landmark designated by the LPC in 1987. Attributed to McKim Mead and...
The IRT Powerhouse is Designated!
(revised) It is with great excitement that LANDMARK WEST! can report that the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to designate the IRT Powerhouse, McKim Mead and White's 1904 city-beautiful Beaux-Arts style edifice on Eleventh Avenue between West 58th...
Decades in the making: IRT at LPC
IRT Powerhouse: At Long Last There have been various reports circulating about completion of the Backlog 95, a Landmarks Preservation Commission initiative to settle landmarking decisions for 95 sites across the five boroughs. Those proclamations come with an...
ERFA Progress-HUGE Community Win
The East River Fifties Alliance (ERFA) has the extraordinary news that the City Planning Commission has adopted their rezoning efforts. The East River Fifties is the area from East 52nd Street through East 59th Street, east of First Avenue. Their goal was to update...
CPW Skyline Alert: 50 West 66th Street
Snohetta's intention for the revamped CPW skyline viewed from south east. Image from Snohetta website. Design Intent for 50 West 66th Street Revealed UPDATE: Read further coverage in WEST SIDE RAG, ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER, DEZEEN This afternoon, news...
100th Anniversary of 50 West 67th Street–Guest post by Anthony W. Robins
Guest post by Anthony W. Robins -- 50 W. 67th Street, the “Musicians’ Building”, celebrated its 100th anniversary this year, and in honor of the occasion I took the opportunity to put together a history of the building, including its many interesting residents during...
Oh What a Night!
Cheers to the Belnord and LW! Celebrating 51 years as an Individual Landmark & 33 years as a Neighborhood Institution LANDMARK WEST! thanks everyone who joined us at The Belnord last night for an elegant and fun event. It was wonderful to see so many...
Money & Politics: Extensive News Coverage UPDATED
FIND MOST RECENT UPDATES HERE The past few months have brought wave after wave of news about real estate deals involving developers, their lobbyists, political contributions, and the de Blasio administration. Sometimes, the little guy wins, but too often...
200 Amsterdam Avenue: Good News
200 Amsterdam Avenue: GOOD NEWS! WE DO NOT GET ENOUGH GOOD NEWS THESE DAYS BUT HERE IS SOME. DAVID ROSENBERG, LW!'s crusading lawyer has filed the LW! Challenge to the Department of Buildings (DOB)'s shameful and wrongful approval of the seriously flawed plans of SJP...
