Zabar’s: A Family Story
Online via ZoomZabar's: A Family Story Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022 4:00-5:00pm via Zoom In partnership with the Preservation League of New York State, Landmark West! invites you to participate in a book […]
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From Martin to Moses: A History of Riverside Park
Online via ZoomRiverside Park and Riverside Drive have lived many lives. Originally Native American hunting grounds, over time they were also the site of vast farms, elegant country estates and stunning millionaire's […]
Mr. Green and the Making of Central Park
Online via ZoomIncredibly, much of what we all think of as quintessential New York City–Central Park, the NY Public Library, the Zoo, the American Museum of Natural History–is due to the Herculean […]
Home Sweet Mansion: A Peek into the Domestic Lives of Gilded Age New Yorkers
Online via ZoomIt was good to be a prosperous New Yorker in the late 19th century: beautiful clothing, expensive furnishings, well-kept parlors, and endless entertaining. But someone had to do the hard […]
Only Murders In The Building: Staging The Scene Of The Crime
Online via ZoomA Werk Wmarkest murder. A trio of neighbors-turned-crime investigators-turned-podcasters. A landmarked building. A perfect evening! If you’ve been pulled into the whodunnit world inside the luxe Arconia building (aka the […]
The Opulent Apartment Houses of The Boulevard
Online via ZoomThe Ansonia, the Belleclaire, the Dorilton, the Belnord, the Apthorp: five of the finest apartment hotels of “The Boulevard” on the Upper West Side. It was the turn of a new […]
The Paterno Family: Chronicling an Architectural Legacy
Online via ZoomOne of Manhattan’s—and the Upper West Side’s-- most successful real estate family dynasties of the 1900s was the mighty Paterno clan. Incredibly, nearly all of their buildings still stand generations […]
Holding the Safety Net in San Juan Hill
Online via ZoomPlease join Landmark West! and architectural historian Jessica Larson in this exploration of the ways in which Black charity and reform initiatives shaped the landscape of San Juan Hill, the […]
The Scandalous Hamiltons
Online via ZoomCelebrity obsession, con artists, and fake news. Long before Lin-Manuel, the 1890s public already had an insatiable appetite for all things Hamilton. By the era of Alexander Hamilton’s great-grandson, esteemed […]
A Civil Rights Tour of the UWS
Online via ZoomThe Upper West Side of Manhattan is filled with historic sites that help tell the stories of the past, both the struggles and achievements that got us to where we […]