Stonewall 50: Defining LGBTQ Site Preservation A Symposium at Columbia University, Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium April 6, 2019 1:00-6:00pm A key principle of historic preservation is the power of places; a conviction that extant places matter and that they can inform current generations about the lives of people and events of the past. For over […]
Wednesday, April 10th 3:00-4:15pm LW Members Only Event! A private, behind-the (literal)-scenes tour of the legendary home of The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park! If you’ve ever enjoyed a summer’s evening at The Public Theater -beneath the stars and against the backdrop of Belvedere Castle – and wondered “how do they do this?” then […]
From Farmlands to Fairway: Development of the UWS Wednesday, April 17th 5:00-6:30pm One of our city’s most knowledgeable and thoroughly engaging historians, Mosette Broderick, time-travels us back through the real estate development of the Upper West Side like few others can. Understand who built what where and when in a fast-moving, photo-packed talk that swings […]
The Once and Future Penn Station – Penn Station becomes Moynihan Station When first built, New York's Pennsylvania Station was the largest train station in the world. In 1963 the ax of progress fell transforming it into the much-maligned subterranean labyrinth of today incapable of processing the 650,000 commuters it deals with daily. Now a […]
Vaux Bridges of Central Park Walking Tour With guide Stefan Yarabek of the Calvert Vaux Preservation Association.