Building Detectives – Kids

KPF@HOME Building Detectives Our Building Detectives program helps you learn about and explore a special type of building found in New York City – the brownstone. What do you already know about brownstones? Make a quick list of things you already know. To help, check out these pictures of brownstones we find on the Upper West Side....
Nivola’s Horses

Nivola’s Horses

Stephen Wise Towers Nivola in the Naayyborhood Learn about Italian immigrant Costantino Nivola and his landscaped playground at Stephen Wise Towers between West 90th and West 91st Streets, including how you too can create his famous concrete horses! Take me to the Activities!ADVOCACY ALERT Costantino NivolaCostantino Nivola was born in rural...
261-265 Columbus Avenue The Janet

261-265 Columbus Avenue
The Janet

261-265 Columbus Avenue The Janet View to Northeast corner of West 72nd Street and Columbus Avenue; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive Singers and Sinners by Tom Miller, for They Were Here, Landmark West’s Cultural Immigrant Initiative Leopold Friedman was a partner in the real estate firm Lespinasse & Friedman, perhaps best known for...

Lincoln Center Plaza

Image Courtesy Ben Michel via Unsplash LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LINCOLN CENTER PLAZA (aka JOSIE ROBERTSON PLAZA and HEARST PLAZA) Date: 1962-1968 Architect: Philip Johnson Primary Style: Modernist   Lincoln Center Plaza History – Designed by Philip Johnson, Lincoln Center Plaza was completed in conjunction with...