Dangerous, 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: kinder and meaner, richer and poorer, higher, but less like what it had always been. New York, New York, New York, Thomas Dyja’s sweeping account of […]
Pulitzer 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 every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, and who as much as any single figure helped make the 1920s roar. […]
LW! 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, will share--in one fun-filled evening-- his unique trove of Central Park secrets. Hidden messages, secrets of the sculptures, winks from the past, little known heros, […]
In 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 the Carriage Houses of West 58th Street. We'll visit buildings constructed in the 1890s along Amsterdam Avenue's “Stable Row”, which provided horses and carriages for […]
Join 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 and around Columbus Avenue. You won’t want to miss one family’s extraordinary journey from newly arrived immigrants to running a business during the Depression all […]
Wednesday, 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, trained at New York’s Art Students League, chafed against art world rules that favored men, wrote thousands of pages about her travels and work, taught […]
The 20 years following the end of WWII marked a profound period of synergy and exchange between sculpture and architecture in the U.S. Leading modernist architects such as Gordon Bunshaft and Eero Saarinen turned to sculptors including Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, Richard Lippold, and Isamu Noguchi, to produce site-determined, large-scale commissions tailored for their buildings’ highly visible atriums, lobbies, plazas, and […]
Climb aboard for a history of the Hudson River and its local environs from Dr. Leslie Day, a 36-year resident of the 79th Street Boat Basin. As a young woman, she moved into the water-based community alone, eventually meeting her husband and raising their child at “the Basin.” She’ll share with us recollections and observations that are part of her soon-to-be-completed book River: Living on the Hudson – A Natural History. Leslie Day shares it all: from […]
Our FRIENDS on the Upper East Side have invited LANDMARK WEST! members for an evening with historian Lucie Levine and a virtual tour of many of Frederick Law Olmsted’s fabulous green spaces, both in New York and beyond. In addition to highlighting Prospect Park, Riverside Park and Fort Greene Park, she will dig deep into Olmsted’s life. She'll also […]
LW! is doing a little time traveling to explore the darker side of the development of Central Park. It is somewhat miraculous that the park even exists, as back in the 1850s real estate developers and politicians were just as cozy as today. Add in the nefarious reign of William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, notorious leader […]