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Walking Tour: Conjuring Up the Architectural Ghosts and Long-Lost Villages of the UWS
Dead men may tell no tales, but gargoyles... Before it was an iconic New York City neighborhood, the Upper West Side was a bucolic stretch of land dotted with genteel country estates, modest wood frame homes, farms, taverns, and goats. For generations it remained a...
Testimony on proposed AMNH Expansion (UPDATED)
Although the Community Board overwhelmingly approved the American Museum of Natural History's proposed expansion, there are still many valid concerns that the Community has voiced over the past eleven months since this proposal concept was made public. Knowing what...
Congregation Shearith Israel: No Bending the Rules
CONGREGATION SHEARITH ISRAEL'S W. 70TH ST. MIDBLOCK CONDO PROJECT UNDER SCRUTINY COME TO THE PUBLIC HEARING FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, starting at 10am NYC Board of Standards & Appeals 22 Reade Street, Manhattan (map here) SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION Please join LANDMARK...
Remembering John Yang: Capturing Gazes of Stone
Noted New York photographer John Yang, who passed away on this date in 2009, used his photography to look deeply into into the row houses and tenements of the UWS...and found that they looked back. Over the course of three years, he photographed the ornamental carved...
We’re not alone in the Universe
No, it's not a Dr. Who reference... New Yorkers have been beleaguered by incessant construction noise and the the city's mid-section has had the worst of it with large development plans not only on Central Park South and 57th Street (Billionaire's Row) but development...
These Heroes are Unsung No More!
Tavern on the Green was the place to be Monday night. Throngs of supporters turned out in celebration of LW!'s 2016 “Unsung Heroes of the Upper West Side”—or, as LW! President Kate Wood described them: "the spectacular constellation of longstanding, independent, local...
Peek Inside Lovingly Restored 351 West End Avenue
The owners of 351 West End Avenue have spent the better part of 20 years undoing decades of damage to restore it to an elegant single-family home. Now on the market, LW! teamed with their broker, Corcoran's Deanna Kory, for one of a new series of open houses featuring...
“I just have very, very little contact with lobbyists”
The New York Post reports that the mayor is off the proverbial sauce. After MONTHS of reports about his ties to lobbyists and pay-to-play politics, Mayor de Blasio claims he "was" a friend of James Capalino but that they are no longer in contact. Reporters are...
A “Materially Incomplete Submission” by Congregation Shearith Israel
On Sunday, August 28, 2016, LW! attorney (and board member) David Rosenberg emailed Community Board 7 (CB7) to call for Congregation Shearith Israel's application to construct an inappropriate new building on the midblock of West 70th Street (in the Upper West...
Back to the Future: LW! celebrates “Mom & Pop” shops and the rejuvenation of West 72nd Street!
"Nothing on the Upper West Side slipped as dramatically as 72nd Street, from a prestigious parkway of private houses in the 1880s to little shop fronts and commercial buildings in the 1920s...but in recent years the block has taken on a honky-tonk air." - Christopher...
