Ever wonder what lies below the Upper West Side? Landmark West dives into the hidden waters bubbling (or that once bubbled) beneath our boots, basements, and ball fields. Sergey Kadinsky, author of Hidden Waters […]
Come (virtually) tread the streets and avenues of the West 90’s and above with author Jim Mackin, who has spent years searching for traces of hundreds of fascinating residents who […]
Monumental Women Thursday, August 13th 6:30pm-7:30pm via Zoom Free for LW! This summer Meredith Bergmann's Monumental Women sculpture will take its place on Literary Walk as the first sculpture in Central Park honoring […]
Live on Zoom – FREE for LW Members! Why do Amsterdam, London, and the Upper West Side have row houses while Paris, Vienna, and Houston do not? This seemingly simple […]
Monumental Women is an all-volunteer, not for profit organization working to break the "bronze ceiling" and populate Central Park with statues of real women. Their first monument has been approved! […]
LW! 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 […]
In 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 […]
Historian 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 […]
Jim 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 […]
Join 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 […]