Below you will find an announcement from our neighbors at the New York Preservation Archive Project: Glimpses of 1960s NYC Join us as the New York Preservation Archive Project teams up with Carnegie Hill Neighbors to present a screening of La Vie Elegante and A Fantasy of Forgotten Corners. Award-winning producer Gordon Hyatt created these documentary films about New […]
FREE Jane’s Walk! RSVP via Municipal Art Society Website. The East River Fifties Alliance’s (“ERFA”) Lisa Mercurio joins Save Central Park NYC to explore megatowers in development and invading our skyline. Casting shadows on residential blocks, landmark designated buildings and Central Park, it’s a creep-like phenomenon with strong implications. Walk and explore how and why cities need to grow, why […]
Floor area ratio, R8B, and POPS, oh my! Zoning is one of the fundamental factors that shapes the look and feel of our city, but NYC's zoning resolution weighs in at nearly 4,000 pages - not exactly light reading. Led by urban planner George Janes and longtime advocate Ronda Wist, this walk will translate abstract land use concepts […]
Another Side of the Upper East Side: A Walking Tour This walking tour visits some of the Upper East Side's less examined landmarks, including impressive structures associated with horses, health, and affordable housing. Led by architectural historian Matt Postal, we'll head east from the area that was originally planned as Hamilton Square to John Jay Park, […]
Person Place Thing: Adi Shamir-Baron Adi Shamir-Baron Architectural historian and NYC Landmarks Commissioner Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen is an interview show based on this idea: people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that […]
HHuman-Scale NYC has organized colleague neighborhood organizations to protest over-development and the real estate lobby's control of NYC. "Bring your Signs, Outrage & Friends!" Saturday, October 13th at 12 noon to City Hall Park. Rain or Shine. RSVP for this Free Event HERE. Color Event Poster HERE.
Stonewall 50: Defining LGBTQ Site Preservation A Symposium at Columbia University, Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium April 6, 2019 1:00-6:00pm A key principle of historic preservation is the power of places; a conviction that extant places matter and that they can inform current generations about the lives of people and events of the past. For over […]
The Once and Future Penn Station – Penn Station becomes Moynihan Station When first built, New York's Pennsylvania Station was the largest train station in the world. In 1963 the ax of progress fell transforming it into the much-maligned subterranean labyrinth of today incapable of processing the 650,000 commuters it deals with daily. Now a […]
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), […]
An interactive live event hosted by New York Institute of Technology featuring Esmeralda Santiago (author of When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Mike Wallace in conversation with LW's Sean Khorsandi and musician Bobby Sanabria, who will share the monumental impact of the film on their lives, their […]