architectural, tours, Tours and Events, Uncategorized, Upper West Side, walking tour
Dead men may tell no tales, but gargoyles… Before it was an iconic New York City neighborhood, the Upper West Side was a bucolic stretch of land dotted with genteel country estates, modest wood frame homes, farms, taverns, and goats. For generations it remained a quiet, rustic scene. Then, in a frenzy of development in the 1880s, Queen...
Advocacy, First Church of Christ Scientist, Pay to Play
On March 8, the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals gave a proposal to convert the landmarked former First Church of Christ, Scientist at 361 Central Park West to residential use another chance, a decision that allowed the project’s sponsors to avoid a widely expected negative vote on their application. LW! President Kate...
