Every block has its secrets. Travel up(town) and back (in time) with master storyteller Anthony Bellov, who takes us behind the façades and deep into the provocative stories and nitty gritty tales of life above 96th Street. Historic buildings link us to an earlier era and the people who headlines–and sometimes made history. Enjoy an evening […]
Don't let them cut the public out of the process! The Landmarks Preservation Commission plans to change their rules so that applications regarding landmarked buildings and those in historic districts will no longer have a transparent, public review. Proposed changes will not have to go before the local Community Board, and neighbors and others will […]
JOIN LW! & SPEAK OUT AGAINST 200 AMSTERDAM Attend the BSA to speak against 200 Amsterdam Avenue, a development that even the Department of Buildings doesn't think is legal Tuesday, March 27th! at The Board of Standards and Appeals Hear opposition and applicant testimony and add your own voice! CITE from our linked precedents, COMMEND the DOB for seeing the light, and […]
Historian Nina Harkrader leads a discussion of "all the single ladies" who bravely forged new paths for women in early-20th-century New York City. We'll explore the women's only homes designed to offer "good moral surroundings" for young ladies, the hotels that provided independence and lady-like comforts for “business women,” and get a taste of what […]
Keeping Up with What Matters: Changing Approaches to Heritage Protection in England Roger Bowdler, Director of Listing, Historic England (formerly English Heritage) Thursday, April 5, 6:30 pm New York University Department of Art History Silver Center, Room 300 100 Washington Square East (entrance on Waverly Place) It has been a time of change in the […]
Below you will find an announcement from our neighbors at the 65th and 66th Street Block Association: Please join us at 6:30pm this evening at our Block Association Kick Off meeting at the Pastor House of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 3 W. 65th Street. City Council Member Helen Rosenthal will join us and address her many community initiatives and […]
BROKERS: This course approved for 3.0 hours of continuing education credits! Tuesday, April 17th, 9:30am-12:30pm Macaulay Honors College, 35 W. 67th Street 2nd Floor Screening Room What was it REALLY like on the UWS in the 1970s? Award-winning architect and preservationist Joseph Pell Lombardi knows, and will share his exciting tales of revival and rejuvenation from the […]
Neighborhood Explorer's Free Family Workshop LANDMARK WEST! has teamed up with the Children’s Museum of Manhattan to offer a FREE workshop this Saturday. Kids will survey the neighborhood, then return to the museum to build their own 3-D neighborhood out of art supplies. Saturday, April 21st 10-11:30 AM or 12-1:30 PM Sign-up at: cmom.org/neighborhood-explorers Meet […]
The first of two tours exploring the architectural and historic riches of the UWS’s northernmost historic districts. Enjoy a guided walk along the gracious blocks of West End Avenue and Riverside Drive to view examples of the late 19th and early 20th Century architecture that define this beautiful area. North of 100th Street, you’ll be […]
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 […]