Thursday, October 3rd 6:30-7:45pm 45 W. 67th St. Special 2-for-1 Tickets for LW! Partner+ Members! Incredibly, much of what we all think of as quintessential New York City–Central Park, the NY Public Library, the Zoo, the American Museum of Natural History–is due to the Herculean efforts of one practically unknown man: Andrew Haswell Green. It […]
Please note that this event has been CANCELLED due to speaker family emergency.
Wednesday, October 23rd 6:30-7:45pm 45 W. 67th St. Special 2-for-1 Tickets for LW! Partner+ Members! Do you have a history mystery? If you really want answers, you need to tap into the 400 years of City history found in the collections of the NYC Municipal Archives. We’ve lured long-time archivist Kenneth Cobb to the Upper […]
Tuesday, October 29th 6:30-7:45pm 35 W. 67th St. Special 2-for-1 Tickets for LW! Partner+ Members! Dr. Bob Brier, one of the world’s foremost experts on mummies and Egyptology, excavates the events that fanned the flames of Egyptomania from the late 1800s through the 1930s. He’ll dig deep into New York’s own “Nile style” in fashion, […]
Sunday, November 17th 1:00-3:00pm Fall is in the air, and Landmark West is hitting the streets of the Lower Upper (West Side). Guide Leigh Hallingby winds us along the blocks of the west 60s and 70s to discover neighborhoods past and present, magnificent architecture, a bit of building trivia, favorite movie sites, and so much […]
Tuesday, November 19th 6:30-7:45pm 35 W. 67th St. 19th-century New York City was ruled by a turbulent combination of money and politics that came together, notoriously, in the infamous Tammany Hall and William M. “Boss” Tweed. His very name has become synonymous with the stereotypical political fat-cat. His corruption was total. His takings were immense. […]
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission will hold a Hearing/Meeting to discuss upcoming designations and certificate of appropriateness applications. Please check our C of A page for upcoming UWS items up for consideration.
PUBLIC HEARING of the PRESERVATION COMMITTEE of Community Board 7 Thursday December 12th CB7 Office, 250 West 87th Street Hearing starts at 6:30pm The Children’s Museum of Manhatta (CMOM) is applying for a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) for proposed changes to the former First Church of Christ, Scientist, a 120 year […]
Lawyer and author Robert Pigott takes us on a “hidden in plain sight” virtual tour of incredible people, places and it-happened-here events in legal history on the streets of the UWS and the City generally, drawn from his book, New York’s Legal Landmarks. We’ll find courthouses past and present that were sites of sensational trials […]
Lawyer and author Robert Pigott takes us on a “hidden in plain sight” virtual tour of incredible people, places and it-happened-here events in legal history on the streets of the UWS and the City generally, drawn from his book, New York’s Legal Landmarks. We’ll find courthouses past and present that were sites of sensational trials […]