Honeybee Hotel Tuesday, March 12th 6:30-7:45pm 35 W. 67th Street 2-for-1 Tickets for Partner-level Members! Spring is just around the corner! Think rooftop gardens, urban apiaries, and millions of bees traversing the city in search of new blooms. Leslie Day, author of Honeybee Hotel: The Waldorf Astoria’s Rooftop Garden and the Heart of NYC, is our guide […]
Wednesday, March 13th 5:30-7:00pm 170 Central Park West New-York Historical Society $5 Tickets for LW! Join LW! at the Center for Women’s History to salute “all the single ladies” who bravely forged new paths for women in early 20th-century New York City. We’ll explore the women-only homes designed to offer “good moral surroundings” for young ladies, […]
Wednesday, March 27th 6:30-7:45pm 35 W. 67th Street Encore! New Date Added! Anthony Bellov (a LW! fan favorite) explores Rosario Candela’s Upper West Side architectural roots. We’ll enjoy gorgeous photos of our own local Candela treasures – many landmarked – and discuss the signature design features that typify Candela’s work, all told in Mr. Bellov’s inimitable […]
Wednesday, April 10th 3:00-4:15pm LW Members Only Event! A private, behind-the (literal)-scenes tour of the legendary home of The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park! If you’ve ever enjoyed a summer’s evening at The Public Theater -beneath the stars and against the backdrop of Belvedere Castle – and wondered “how do they do this?” then […]
From Farmlands to Fairway: Development of the UWS Wednesday, April 17th 5:00-6:30pm One of our city’s most knowledgeable and thoroughly engaging historians, Mosette Broderick, time-travels us back through the real estate development of the Upper West Side like few others can. Understand who built what where and when in a fast-moving, photo-packed talk that swings […]
Vaux Bridges of Central Park Walking Tour With guide Stefan Yarabek of the Calvert Vaux Preservation Association.
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 […]
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 […]
Due to forecasts of a severe storm this evening, this walk is rescheduled to Monday, June 17th. Art Deco expert and architectural historian Tony Robins leads a captivating walking tour along Central Park West for a closer look at the Art Deco gems that form Manhattan’s major residential skyline. We’ll explore how major architectural projects […]
