Central Park’s Early Statues
Online via ZoomDo statues "belong" in historically important landscapes like Central Park? Did Vaux and Olmsted expect statues in the park? NYC public art and monuments expert Michele Bogart says "Yes!" To prove […]
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Celebrating 150 Years of Emery Roth, Architect of our City
Online via ZoomEmery Roth, born in 1871, was an architect and Hungarian-Jewish immigrant to New York. Roth designed many of the definitive New York City hotels and apartment buildings of the 1920s […]
Tom Miller Talk on The Original West Sider: Cyrus Clark
Online via ZoomLearn the story of “The Father of the West Side” as only Tom Miller (internationally known for his "Daytonian in Manhattan" blog of fascinating social and architectural histories of NYC) can tell it. Miller rewinds the clock to 1880s Manhattan, when Clark pushed for the creation of Riverside Drive and staunchly protected the Hudson River waterfront for the public. He organized the community for action and lobbied for critical infrastructure and improvements for the UWS. There will be history and politics and tales of UWS shenanigans. Of course there will be fabulous architecture. But most important, there will be an incredible person, the city he envisioned and the very special neighborhood we know today. TICKETS
Hustling Hitler: The Jewish Vaudevillian Who Fooled the Führer
Online via ZoomWalter Shapiro takes us along on a magic carpet ride of his great-uncle’s ever-crooked trajectory through show business, from his early schemes as the loudest talking vaudeville agent on Broadway […]
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
Online via ZoomDangerous, filthy, falling apart, garbage piled on its streets, yet somehow fabulous – this was New York in 1978. Over the next 30+ years, though, it became a different place: […]
MADAM: Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
Online via ZoomPulitzer Prize-winning author Debby Applegate gives LW! an inside look at her jaw-dropping biography Madam about the life of Polly Adler, the notorious "queen of vice" who played hostess to […]
Central Park Secrets: The Odds ‘n Ends Edition
Online via ZoomLW! is excited to welcome back one of our favorite guides to all things Central Park: Ron Korcak. Ron, a tremendously popular guide-of-guides and fount of knowledge about the park, […]
From Horses to Horsepower: The Bygone Worlds of Carriage Houses and Car Dealerships on the UWS
Online via ZoomIn this virtual tour with historian Lucie Levine, we’ll wind back the clock to when horses and horsepower reigned on the Upper West Side. We’ll discover Broadway’s Automobile Row and […]
Grossinger’s Bakery and the Family That Built It: An Evening with Herb Grosinger
Online via ZoomJoin Landmark West! for this very special evening celebrating a truly landmark UWS institution. Herb Grosinger, in conversation with his daughter Liz Samuel, remembers more than half a century on […]
The Forgotten Impressionist: Mary Rogers Williams
Online via ZoomWednesday, March 23, 2022 6:00-7:00pm via Zoom Revolutionary artist Mary Rogers Williams (1857—1907), a baker’s daughter, biked and hiked from the Arctic Circle to Naples, exhibited from Paris to Indianapolis, […]