November 12, 1985 –
On this day, the Upper West Side’s Normandy Apartments were designated as the Upper West Side’s twenty-seventh individual landmark.
Also on this day,
Actress Arianny Celeste was born in Las Vegas, Nevada,
“We Built this City” by Starship was the number-one song in America, and
On the television, all networks were new, but the ABC show “Who’s the Boss” was the top-rated show of the night with 21.1 million viewers.
The lead New York Times headline read: “U.S. Seems Puzzled by Soviet Stance on Space Weapons,” outlining a very real ‘Star Wars’ potential.
In other news, Page B4’s “West Siders Fight School on Plan to Build Tower” outlined the endowment-less Walden’s school plan to demolish their 1904 Louis Korn-designed building (pictured HERE) for a condominium development (pictured HERE).
Read the designation report of the Normandy Apartments HERE!
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