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Share Your Stories: Remembering 2012’s Unsung Heroes of the Upper West Side
On Thursday, June 12, 2012, LANDMARK WEST! will celebrate a band of worthy New Yorkers whose legacies live on. These are our Unsung Heroes of the Upper West Side. Their impressive works for historic preservation outlive them, continuing to shape the Upper...
Powerhouse News, via Save the Powerhouse blog
Seven to Save cocktail partyMonday, April 23, 2012 / 6PM to 8PMThe River Club, 447 East 52nd StreetClick here to purchase your tickets In one week, the Preservation League of New York State will reveal its entire Seven to Save list of endangered sites for 2012-2013....
Our Views on Architecture Take to the Sky
New York from the AirAn illustrated talk & book signing by John TauranacTuesday, April 24, 2012 at 6 p.m.Macaulay Honors College, 35 West 67th Street$25, $15 for LW! membersClick here to purchase tickets or email landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org for more...
A Tribute to West Siders Isidor & Ida Straus
Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic: The History of Straus Park andUpper West Siders Isidor and Ida StrausSunday, April 15, 2012 at 2 p.m. at Straus Park$12, free for LW! MembersClick here to RSVP or email us at...
Preservation in the Papers: More news on Save St. Vincent de Paul
Sanctuary of St. Vincent de Paul"A French Church Nears Its End, but Not Without a Contretemps" By David W. Dunlap, April 5, 2012, 6:16 pm Tossing a gauntlet as he delivered an Easter sermon in 1841 to the people of New York, Charles Auguste Marie...
Spotlight on Education: Upper West Side-Inspired Poetry!
One of the ways in which LW! engages UWS elementary students to become more aware of the architecture in their neighborhood is through the exploration and creation of poetry. In our popular program Neighborhood Poetry, third-graders spend time outside to write down...
Join the Committee; Protect the Neighborhood!
The Tavern on the Green, in Central Park, soon to be restored and modified with a glass pavilion. An example of a recent preservation issue focused on by our C of A Committee (learn more below!).In landmarks preservation, designation is just the beginning! ...
Stanford White: The original “starchitect”
This week marks New York Magazine's 2nd Annual Yesteryear Issue. Many in the LW! office are already regular NY Mag readers, but an issue focused primarily on history, with glimpses of architecture to boot? Count us in!via New York MagazineThe subject of...
That’s Our Arlene!: LW! President and Founder shares inside look at West 67th Street
As Elizabeth Harris writes, "It's all very upstairs, downstairs -- except that it's upside down." In today's New York Times online, take a peek at a former maid's room on West 67th and learn a bit about these tiny spaces, courtesy LW! president and founder Arlene...
Preservation Across the Globe: Inspired reuse in Holland
Since LW's Program Coordinator Sarah Sher brought this to our attention, the ladies at LW! haven't been able to stop scrolling through the pictures and marveling in awe at this inspired adaptive reuse of a 13th-century church for a new bookstore. Landmark-protected...
