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...
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...
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,...
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...
“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...
Prominently situated on Riverside Drive at 89th Street, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument was erected in memory of the New York regiments that fought in the Civil War. Designed by Charles and Arthur Stoughton and Paul E.M. Duboy, the monument was built between...
