Discovering Calvert Vaux
Online via ZoomO, n Zoom LW! Members FREE! Join us for this continuing journey through scenic landmark Central Park and the creative mind of one of its unheralded creators. Ron Korcak helps […]
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Manhattan’s First ‘It’ Girl
Online via ZoomShe arrived in New York City in 1900 with “nothing but her looks.” Embodying the dynamic cultural change that was happening at the time, 16-year old Evelyn Nesbit quickly became […]
“THEY WERE HERE” Launch Event!
Online via ZoomLW celebrates the launch of THEY WERE HERE, a unique collection of architectural and social histories that tells the stories of the many immigrants who worked and lived along Columbus […]
Hidden Waters of the UWS and Central Park
Online via ZoomEver 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 […]
Notable Upper West Siders
Online via ZoomCome (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
Online via ZoomMonumental 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 […]
Row Houses of the North Atlantic Cities
Online via ZoomLive 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 […]
Unveiling of the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument – Literary Walk (The Mall, Central Park)
Central Park - Literary Walk The Mall, New York City, NY, United StatesMonumental 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! […]
Look Up! The UWS’s Faces in Stone
Online via ZoomLW! 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 […]
Staging Fashion: 1880-1920
Online via ZoomIn 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 […]