Do 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 it, she takes us inside the social and financial networks of the late 19th century to meet some of the players of the day—August Belmont, […]
Emery 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 and 1930s, including the UWS's Beresford and San Remo, incorporating Beaux-Arts and Art Deco details to create the decorative streetscapes we know and love. Historic […]
Learn 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
Walter 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 to his days producing silent movies (with his show-girl wife as the star) before the unfortunate insurance fire. Of course, all of Freeman Bernstein’s cons […]
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 […]