CB7 Full Meeting and Vote on AMNH Landmarks Application
CB7 Full Meeting and Vote on AMNH Landmarks Application
Community Board 7 will vote on the American Museum of Natural History Landmarks Application.
Community Board 7 will vote on the American Museum of Natural History Landmarks Application.
Fast-paced, interactive, and exciting: this one-day symposium will look at the work of interior designers today and in the future, making the case that interior design is unarguably essential to organizational and human health, wellness, and happiness. Tickets: $200 general public; $150 NYSID faculty and alumni; $25 Non-NYSID students. Attendees will earn .7 CEU’s (IDCEC) […]
The NYC Landmark Preservation Commission will hold a public hearing on the Landmarks Application of the American Museum of Natural History Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation. The public hearing provides an opportunity for applicants to present proposals to the Landmarks Preservation Commission and to explain why they believe their proposed work is appropriate. […]
The LPC will hold a public hearing on a range of open Certificate of Appropriateness items. On the docket for 10/11 are several items in the Upper West Side. Consult our Certificate of Appropriateness page for current applications and background.
Congregation Shearith Israel, 6-10 West 70th Street, Manhattan Extension of Time to Complete Construction of a previously approved Variance (72-21) permitting a nine (9) story residential/community facility building contrary to regulations for lot coverage (24-11), rear yard (24-36), base height, building height and setback (23-633) and rear setback (23-663) which expired on January 22, 2016; Amendment […]
Six Upper West Side buildings are open for viewing during Open House New York! Saturday, October 15 and Sunday, October 16 Open House New York is this weekend and the Upper West Side is offering up a handful of beauties to be explored. LW! helped organize three of the six Open Access sites, which will […]
Don't miss two of LW!'s most renowned walking tour guides as they share favorite UWS sites for the 2016 Open House New York annual weekend. "Quintessential Upper West Side," led by Francis Morrone Central Park West's twin-towered skyline. Classic- and Renaissance-inspired institutional buildings. Tree-lined brownstone blocks. A world-renowned entertainment palace. These are some of the iconic landmarks […]
George McAneny Since the publication of Robert Caro's The Power Broker over 40 years ago, public discussion of the shaping of New York has been dominated by the impact of that book's subject, Robert Moses. But during much of Moses's lifetime, the City's most celebrated planner was a man who is little remembered today: George […]
New Policies for a Human-Scale City: A Conference for Neighborhood Leaders, Boards, and Activists Saturday, October 22, 50 East 7th Street (Middle Collegiate Church Social Hall) 10-5 p.m. Reserve seats in advance at the link above. Schedule 9:30: Check-in 10:00 Welcome: Mario Messina 10:05 Panel 1: Affordable Housing in the Big Picture: Part 1 - Moderator: Alison Greenberg - Jeffrey Kroessler: Upzoning: The […]
WE'VE ALL grown up in the age of the automobile. For Archtober 2016, CNU NYC Chair John Massengale, co-author of Street Design, The Secret to Great Cities and Streets, will lead a discussion on how to make New York City streets better for pedestrians and cyclists. Not just safer, but places where we want to […]
Dead men may tell no tales, but gargoyles... Before it was an iconic New York City neighborhood, the Upper West Side was a bucolic stretch of land dotted with genteel country estates, modest wood frame homes, taverns, and goats. For generations it remained a quiet, rustic scene. Then, in a frenzy of development in the […]