Look Up! The UWS’s Faces in Stone
Online via ZoomLW! is on a quest to find the hidden-in-plain-sight faces, figures, gargoyles and grotesques that embellish so many of our historic buildings. And we’ve found just the man to lead […]
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LW! Public Programs & Events
Staging Fashion: 1880-1920
Online via ZoomIn the days before Instagram and “influencers”, who created the fashion trends and set the celebrity media abuzz? Michele Major of Bard College takes us back to the turn of […]
New York Exposed: When Any Crime Had its Price in the Gilded Age
Online via ZoomHistorian Daniel Czitrom isn’t particularly shocked by today’s headlines. Vote suppression, police violence, the influence of partisan politics on municipal services: the author of New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police […]
The Mystique of Howard Chandler Christy
Online via ZoomJim Head, author and expert on artist Howard Chandler Christy takes us back to the early 1900s when illustrators made cover girls famous and were the media darlings- and practically […]
Richard Lippold & Orpheus and Apollo
Online via ZoomJoin us LIVE ON ZOOM - FREE! Register HERE In 2014, Lincoln Center “temporarily” de-installed artist Richard Lippold’s Orpheus and Apollo a site-specific para-architectural construction that hung from the lobby […]
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West 72nd: Queen of Streets
Online via ZoomDon’t miss this special program by history fan favorite Tom Miller (aka the “Daytonian in Manhattan” blogger) for a time-bending online tour of West 72nd Street from Riverside Drive to […]
The St. Andoche and the Marvelous Maggie Mitchell
Online via ZoomOn Zoom - FREE for LW! Members Built in 1895, the St. Andoche on West End Avenue is a little building with a big name. Its solid construction is thanks […]
Literary Lights of the UWS
Online via ZoomJoin LW! for a new spin on “writer’s block”! Lucie Levine leads us on a (virtual) wander along the UWS streets where scores of writers have lived, worked or set […]
UWS Women and the Long Fight for Suffrage
Online via ZoomFrom the Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848 to the national ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, the women of New York played an important role in the long battle […]
How to Map your Subway
Online via ZoomThe New York City subway is big. It's complex. Even for the strong of heart, mapping the system and making it understood can be a monstrous undertaking. Case in point: […]