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“The Man With the Sawed-Off Leg And Other Tales of a New York Block”: Author’s Talk with Daniel J. Wakin

Macaulay Honors College 35 W 67th St., New York, NY, United States

LW! Partner-level Members get 2-for-1 Tickets!*  Join LW! for a fascinating evening where history, crime, and architecture collide. Author and New York Times editor Dan Wakin will discuss the roots of researching and writing his first novel–set in houses he passes every day in his UWS neighborhood. Period photos and rare video and audio clips […]

The Girl on the Velvet Swing: The Murder of Stanford White

Macaulay Honors College 35 W 67th St., New York, NY, United States

An aspiring young model arrives in NYC and meets a wealthy, influential man three times her age. He initially plays the role of benefactor, then lures her to his apartment, drugs her, and all goes dark... She goes on to marry an (unstable) millionaire playboy, who, when she confides in him about the assault, shoots […]

“Manhattan’s Little Secrets” Author’s Talk with John Tauranac

Macaulay Honors College 35 W 67th St., New York, NY, United States

When John Tauranac is not busy designing maps, he turns his talents to writing intriguingly on the city’s social and architectural history. In his latest book, “Manhattan’s Little Secrets,” Tauranac leads us on a fascinating hunt for the overlooked and under-seen around every corner. Come explore history hidden in plain sight on the Upper West Side! […]

LW! Author’s Talk: “We Are Staying” by Jen Rubin in conversation with Amy Harmon of the New York Times

Macaulay Honors College 35 W 67th St., New York, NY, United States

“We Are Staying”: Author Jen Rubin in conversation with Amy Harmon of the New York Times Monday, October 15th 6:30pm-7:45pm For eighty years, Radio Clinic (R.C.I.), a family-owned and run appliance and electronics shop, was a fixture on the corner of 98th Street and Broadway on the Upper West Side. When the 1977 blackout hit […]

“Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles”: LW! Author’s Talk with Fran Leadon

Macaulay Honors College 35 W 67th St., New York, NY, United States

“Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles” A LW! Author’s Talk with Fran Leadon Wednesday, October 24th, 6:30-7:45pm  35 W. 67th Street   Partner-level Members Get 2-for-1 Tickets! Broadway, as locals all know, is much more than just the few blinding blocks of Times Square. On the Upper West Side, it is the […]

Author’s Talk: The Decorated Tenement 

Shakespeare & Co. 2020 Broadway, New York, NY

Thursday, May 9th 7:00-8:00pm  FREE! At Shakespeare & Co. on Broadway The first NYC tenements, which appear by the 1820s, were mostly ramshackle, austere buildings, barely able to contain the thousands of new immigrants arriving daily. By 1885, however, something was happening in the design of “second generation” tenements. Now built largely by immigrants from […]