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Upper West Side Firsts

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What do the credit card, Oreo, and crossword puzzle have in common? All originated in New York City. From colonial times through the present day, first-of-their-kind achievements occurred in New […]

The Many Lives of San Juan Hill

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There is no book on San Juan Hill, the Westside neighborhood that was essentially erased in the 1950s by a sweep of urban renewal.  For the past half-century, there has been little acknowledgment of it outside of references in “West Side Story,” the film that used the area's final days as a backdrop.  The eastern and northern boundaries shift.  The demographics are generalized.  Various accounts describe this neighborhood of tenements, factories, shops, clubs and churches as “Hells Kitchen North” or “The Tenderloin.” It was also called a “Red Light District” or, most commonly, a “slum.” Regardless of the reality, the last epithet is the one that stuck, because after designating it a slum, the City of New York was allowed to take possession and "clear" San Juan Hill under the 1949 Housing Act.  This maneuver displaced thousands of families in exchange for several internationally-renowned institutions. LANDMARK WEST! is proud to rebuild, block by block, the buildings and stories of the San Juan Hill community. The online San Juan Hill project has been launched with the support of a growing list of stakeholders.  LW! especially thanks New York State Senator Brad Hoylman, former New York City Council Member Ben Kallos and the City Council’s Cultural Immigrant Initiative, who generously stepped in to support this body of research.  We hope this project will serve as the foundation for a fuller history of San Juan Hill in the coming years, and we eagerly welcome community participation to more fully tell this story.  We further hope that this effort will daylight the rich immigrant past of this once vibrant neighborhood and inform discussions about community, transparency, process, eminent domain and urban renewal across our resilient city. As preservationists, we recognize that once something is gone, it is gone for good. Hopefully, with this project, San Juan Hill will at least not be lost. Please be our guest as architectural historian Sarah Bean Apmann guides us through San Juan Hill, a neighborhood that there is only one way to visit...via history.  LANDMARK WEST! will be joined for this special project launch by officials: New York State Senator Brad Hoylman City Council Member Gale Brewer This project for the Cultural Immigrant Initiative is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Special thanks, as well, to the NYC Municipal Archives. TICKETS - FREE

Zabar’s: A Family Story

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Zabar's: A Family Story Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022 4:00-5:00pm via Zoom  In partnership with the Preservation League of New York State, Landmark West! invites you to participate in a book […]

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From Martin to Moses: A History of Riverside Park

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Riverside Park and Riverside Drive have lived many lives. Originally Native American hunting grounds, over time they were also the site of vast farms, elegant country estates and stunning millionaire's […]

Mr. Green and the Making of Central Park

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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 […]

Only Murders In The Building: Staging The Scene Of The Crime

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A Werk Wmarkest murder. A trio of neighbors-turned-crime investigators-turned-podcasters. A landmarked building. A perfect evening! If you’ve been pulled into the whodunnit world inside the luxe Arconia building (aka the […]

The Opulent Apartment Houses of The Boulevard

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The Ansonia, the Belleclaire, the Dorilton, the Belnord, the Apthorp: five of the finest apartment hotels of “The Boulevard” on the Upper West Side. It was the turn of a new […]

The Paterno Family: Chronicling an Architectural Legacy

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One of Manhattan’s—and the Upper West Side’s-- most successful real estate family dynasties of the 1900s was the mighty Paterno clan. Incredibly, nearly all of their buildings still stand generations […]

Holding the Safety Net in San Juan Hill

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Please join Landmark West! and architectural historian Jessica Larson in this exploration of the ways in which Black charity and reform initiatives shaped the landscape of San Juan Hill, the […]