300 Central Park West

300 Central Park West

300 Central Park West View of 300 Central Park West from south east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The El Dorado by Tom Miller At the turn of the last century Central Park West saw the rise of fashionable residential hotels and apartment buildings like the 1901 El Dorado between 90th and 91st Streets.  But their Victorian designs quickly...
Boss Tweed and 19 Months that Changed Central Park

Boss Tweed and 19 Months that Changed Central Park

LW! is doing a little time traveling to explore the darker side of the development of Central Park. It is somewhat miraculous that the park even exists, as back in the 1850s real estate developers and politicians were just as cozy as today. Add in the nefarious reign of William Marcy “Boss” Tweed, notorious leader of New York...
los ABCs del parque central (¡en español!)

los ABCs del parque central (¡en español!)

CENTRAL dARK

In honor of Keeping the Past for the Future’s Spanish language initiative, launched September 2015, we offer this blog post translation. The goal is to translate and provide access to Spanish dominant families about what their children are learning in the classrooms. Thank you Lourdes Davila for your beautiful...
93rd, 94th and 95th Streets Study Area – Central Park West to Amsterdam Avenue

93rd, 94th and 95th Streets Study Area – Central Park West to Amsterdam Avenue

93rd, 94th and 95th Streets Study Area - Central Park West to Amsterdam Avenue 93rd, 94th and 95th Streets Study Area Central Park West to Amsterdam Avenue   These blocks offer a virtual catalogue of architectural styles from Queen Anne to renaissance Revival to Art Deco. The low-scale rowhouses lend a sense of cohesiveness to the mid-blocks,...