Boulevard Encore, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin It’s not simple to clean and repair a building facade. That’s particularly true for an elaborate structure like the 1902 Dorilton coop on 71st Street. For over a year, the ornate Beaux Arts treasure has been swathed in...
Boulevard Encore, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin Plaster: on the low end of building materials? Not at all. Its use as a building material in the luxurious 1902 Dorilton at 171 West 71st Street, where apartments sell for millions, is a notable example. Realtor Ann Cutbill...
9th Ave. Elevated, Columbus Avenue
By LANDMARK WEST! The Doric order is recognized for its plain solidity and strength. The Ionic order is recognized for its graceful beauty. The Corinthian order is recognized for its detail and slenderness. The Mermaid order? I’ll have the...
Columbus Avenue (They Were Here), Legacy Business
By Claudie Benjamin Madge Rosenberg spent 30 years devoted to her passion for baking. She was so successful that today, more than a decade after Soutine, her French-style bakery at 104 West 70th Street closed in 2012, she said she can’t go...
Boulevard Encore, Broadway
By Claudie Benjamin Look through the glass walls of Apple Upper West Side. See for yourself. Holiday shoppers are browsing and shopping nonstop. Among very few things that might draw you away from the convenience of ordering anything online is the option...
Legacy Business, West 72nd Street
By Claudie Benjamin Marc Wigder is an attorney and City Councilman in Boca Raton, Florida. His parents owned the Royale Bakery at 237 West 72nd Street for more than 40 years. On the ten-year anniversary of the day that Ben Wigder passed away at...
adventure playground, Advocacy, Central Park, Richard Dattner
By LANDMARK WEST! The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based education and advocacy non-project, released their annual Landslide report and this year they are focusing on sites of demonstration in U.S. history. Landslide 2024: Demonstration...
