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 question started Charlie Duff on an exploration of the world’s row house cities. He shares his discoveries in his marvelous book, The North Atlantic Cities, […]
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! Monumental Women is unveiling their statue of Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Literary Walk at the Mall in Central Park […]
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 this adventure — architect and photographer Robert Arthur King, who is the eye and the lens behind the books Faces in Stone; Animals in Stone; […]
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 the 20th century with a lush presentation on how the mass media of the day–newspapers, trade cards, fashion magazines–first turned actresses into internationally known and […]
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 Scandal That Launched the Progressive Movement found them all in 1890’s New York City. Prof. Czitrom brings us directly into the fascinating world he found while […]
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 rock stars- of their era. Christy both lived and painted in the famed UWS studio building, the landmarked Hôtel des Artistes. Many are familiar with […]
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 ceiling of the new New York Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center. In 2019, Lincoln Center announced plans to (again) make extensive changes to the hall. […]
Don’t miss this special program by history fan favorite Tom Miller (aka the “Daytonian in Manhattan” blogger) for a time-bending online tour of West 72nd Street from Riverside Drive to Central Park. Historic photos and fascinating details of the past help us understand what was built and who lived along the “Queen of Streets” of […]
On Zoom - FREE for LW! Members Built in 1895, the St. Andoche on West End Avenue is a little building with a big name. Its solid construction is thanks to the fortune that bankrolled it — one amassed by Maggie Mitchell, powerhouse of the American stage in the Civil War era. Caitlin Hawke shares […]
Join LW! for a new spin on “writer’s block”! Lucie Levine leads us on a (virtual) wander along the UWS streets where scores of writers have lived, worked or set literature, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Dorothy Parker, Nora Ephron & Jack Kerouac. So grab your notebook and join in this […]