Charter Revision Hearing
Attend so you can see your ideas on the ballot! Manhattan Thursday, May 9, at 6:00 PM New York City Hall City Hall Park Learn More: https://www.charter2019.nyc/
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Author’s Talk: The Decorated Tenement
Shakespeare & Co. 2020 Broadway, New York, NYThursday, 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 […]
Book Launch: “An Affair with Beauty-The Mystique of Howard Chandler Christy” with author James Philip Head
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 […]
Upper West Side PRIDE: Walking in LGBTQ Footsteps, beyond Stonewall
Lincoln Center Revson Fountain 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NYColleague 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), […]
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Poetry of Central Park Walk with Stephen Wolf
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 […]
CANCELLED DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER FORECAST: Central Park West Art Deco Walk
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 […]
West 64-67th Street Block Association
Church of Latter Day Saints 125 Columbus Avenue, New York, NYWhen: Wednesday, May 29, 6pm Where: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 125 Columbus Ave (between 65th and 66th Streets) Agenda: 36 W. 66th Street Development Update NY State Multiple Dwelling Law
CANCELLED! Rain Date is now June 19th Vaux Bridges of Central Park Walking Tour
Central Park West 72nd Street & Central Park West, New York CityThe walk scheduled for Wednesday, June 5th 6:30-7:45pm has been moved to Wednesday, June 19th 6:30-7:45pm due to rain. with guide Stefan Yarabek of the Calvert Vaux Preservation Association.
Central Park West Art Deco Walk with Anthony Robins
Tuesday, Aug 6th 6-8pm 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 of the 1920s brought color and Jazz to the formerly sedate Boulevard. TICKETS
Especially Special Blocks: W. 73rd/74th Streets Walk with Francis Morrone
Thursday, June 6th 6:30-7:45pm Join the illustrious guide Francis Morrone for a walk along the blocks of West 73rd and 74th Streets between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. From Neo-Georgian to Moorish Revival, Beaux-Arts to Moderne, these blocks contain some of the finest residential design on the Upper West Side.