Home Sweet Mansion: A Peek into the Domestic Lives of Gilded Age New Yorkers Tuesday, March 5th 6:30-7:45pm 35 W. 67th Street 2-for-1 Tickets for Partner-level Members! It was good to be a prosperous New Yorker in the late 19th century: beautiful clothing, expensive furnishings, well-kept parlors, and tables laden with food. But someone had to do […]
Tuesday, March 5th 6:30-7:45pm 35 W. 67th Street SOLD OUT It was good to be a prosperous New Yorker in the late 19th century: beautiful clothing, expensive furnishings, well-kept parlors, and tables laden with food. But someone had to do the hard work of actually cooking and cleaning, and it certainly wasn’t the prosperous New Yorker. Esther […]
Among other business, CB7 will vote on the Department of City Planning's zoning text amendment concerning mechanical voids.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]