Zabar'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 talk of author Lori Zabar's homage to her family's beloved Upper West Side market, Zabar's: A Family Story, With Recipes. When you think of New […]
Riverside 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 villas—a few of which remain intact today. Later came Art Deco treasures. But such development doesn’t just happen. The Park and Drive together marked the […]
Incredibly, 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 efforts of one practically unknown man: Andrew Haswell Green. A. H. Green is best known (if he is recognized at all today) as the “Father […]
The 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 century and people like William Waldorf Astor and William Earl Dodge Stokes had a vision for a new way of living. They imagined the well-to-do […]
One 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 later. Carla Golden, great-granddaughter of Dr. Charles V. Paterno, provides a fascinating history of the Paterno family’s UWS real estate development legacy spanning from 1896 […]
In August 1967, Mia Farrow, Roman Polanski and the cast and crew of the film Rosemary’s Baby arrived in New York City for two weeks of location shooting. The famed Dakota apartment building on the Upper West Side, where most of the story takes place, was the main focus of attention. Levin’s original inspiration for […]
culptor and author John Belardo brings to LW! the fascinating story of “Piccirilli Brothers Sculptors,” a family of immigrants who gave their new country masterpieces to last a nation’s lifetime. Though their names are perhaps not familiar, we know them well through the elaborate Maine Memorial at Columbus Circle and the heartbreakingly beautiful Fireman’s Memorial on Riverside […]
Historian Kevin Baker (a real major leaguer) returns to LW! with a look at America’s national pastime in the country’s largest city. Visionaries and fixers, heroes and gangsters—both the game and the city had them all. Baker introduces us to the motley/larger-than-life crew of New York hustlers, scalawags, and dreamers who made baseball such a popular and compelling game.
Italian sculptor Costantino Nivola's 18 cast-concrete horse sculptures for Stephen Wise Towers are back! Uber conservators Mary Jablonski and Ed FitzGerald will tell the incredible story of how they recreated the beloved herd and returned it to its UWS home. May 7 via Zoom at Landmarkwest.org.