“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 […]
Lawyer and author Robert Pigott takes us on a “hidden in plain sight” virtual tour of incredible people, places and it-happened-here events in legal history on the streets of the UWS and the City generally, drawn from his book, New York’s Legal Landmarks. We’ll find courthouses past and present that were sites of sensational trials […]
JOIN the UWS SOS for their first GENERAL MEETING to discuss advocacy efforts to save UWS small businesses and local stores. If you plan to attend, PLEASE RSVP to uwssos@gmail.com; seating is LIMITED. (Based on the enthusiasm shown at the Town Hall, we have reserved a space that we hope is adequate for regular meetings.) […]
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LW celebrates the launch of THEY WERE HERE, a unique collection of architectural and social histories that tells the stories of the many immigrants who worked and lived along Columbus Avenue. Tom Miller (aka the “Daytonian in Manhattan” blogger) guides us on a virtual tour along Columbus Avenue beginning in the 1880’s. Storefront by storefront […]
Ever wonder what lies below the Upper West Side? Landmark West dives into the hidden waters bubbling (or that once bubbled) beneath our boots, basements, and ball fields. Sergey Kadinsky, author of Hidden Waters of New York City, takes us to the river, literally. We'll (virtually) visit streams, ponds, brooks, a rivulet, and even a bay that early residents […]
Come (virtually) tread the streets and avenues of the West 90’s and above with author Jim Mackin, who has spent years searching for traces of hundreds of fascinating residents who helped shape the character of the UWS. Meet our former neighbors — some famous, some forgotten, but all deserving to be recognized and remembered. You’ll […]
From the Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848 to the national ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, the women of New York played an important role in the long battle for women's voting rights. But did you know that many significant figures in the Suffrage Movement lived on the Upper West Side of New York […]
Shadowy forms that fly through a dark library, raucous unearthly music in Central Park, a bicycle bell that rings itself, a mysterious seamstress — these spectral tales and others will be our winter fare for a dark February evening. Writer Maria Dering has collected these ‘true’ stories from both century-old and face-to-face accounts. Original and historic photographs […]
Journalist, editor, publisher and now memoirist Peter Osnos is joined by journalists Walter Shapiro and Meryl Gordon for a fascinating discussion on the Upper West Side of the 1950s and 1960s. The Osnos family, fleeing the Nazis, settled first in the Blenord and then The Beresford. Peter Osnos revisits the UWS of his youth–a place of immigrants, artists and academics, a […]
