The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission will hold a Hearing/Meeting to discuss upcoming designations and certificate of appropriateness applications. Please check our C of A page for upcoming UWS items up for consideration.
Attend so you can see your ideas on the ballot! Manhattan Thursday, May 9, at 6:00 PM New York City Hall City Hall Park Learn More: https://www.charter2019.nyc/
Thursday, May 9th 7:00-8:00pm FREE! At Shakespeare & Co. on Broadway The first NYC tenements, which appear by the 1820s, were mostly ramshackle, austere buildings, barely able to contain the thousands of new immigrants arriving daily. By 1885, however, something was happening in the design of “second generation” tenements. Now built largely by immigrants from […]
Friday, May 10th Noon-3:00pm The Leopard at des Artistes ~ 1 W. 67th Street An Affair with Beauty – The Mystique of Howard Chandler Christy: Romantic Illusions is the dynamic second installment of a three-part biographical series celebrating the illustrious career and epic life of legendary illustrator and portraitist Howard Chandler Christy. This special afternoon […]
Colleague Organization Event! Explore Pride beyond Stonewall and Greenwich Village! Guides from the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project will make their way uptown for a special Upper West Side walking tour. Beginning at Lincoln Center’s Revson Fountain, this walk will visit LGBT historic sites like writer James Baldwin’s residence, the Ansonia (which once housed the legendary Continental Baths), […]
Wednesday, May 15th 6:30-7:45pm From its inception, Central Park was designed by Olmsted and Vaux as a work of art, free from “the incessant emphasis of artificial objects” and meant to be relished “through the eye”. Author and poet Stephen Wolf takes this guiding principle to include the mind's eye, as well. Wolf is our […]