Central Park West | Upper West Side - Central Park West Historic District West 70th Street 270 Columbus Avenue 115 Central Park West 124 West 72nd Street 129-133 West 69th Street 101 West 81st Street 106 West 70th Street 48-54 West 94 Street West 74th Street & Columbus Avenue 34 West 89th Street 47-51 West 89 Street Upper West Side – Central Park West...
Central Park West | Central Park West - 76th Street Historic District Central Park West – 76th Street (1973) This was one of the first areas of the Upper West Side to receive landmark protection. Rowhouse construction began on 76th Street in 1887; by 1900, 44 had been built in the district. The district retains examples of four building types common to the...
Central Park West | Central Park West - West 73rd-74th Streets Historic District Central Park West – West 73rd-74th Streets (1977) This square block contains some of the finest residential design on the Upper West Side. The earliest buildings in the district are 18 rowhouses on 73rd St., which survive from a row of 28 designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh in...
As reported by LW! graduate intern Kate Gilmore Thanksgiving is one of the busiest travel holidays. We all move to and fro at a frenzied pace and rarely do we stop to appreciate the fantastic structures that facilitate such rapid transportation.This past Wednesday, as I waited for my train in New York’s Penn Station, every corner was...
The scale of the city is changing. Why is that and what can you do? A Resource Guide for New Yorkers LW! offers this page as a resource for the everyday New Yorker, as an easy-to-digest guide for better understanding what is happening to our skyline, and why this phenomenon is proliferating now. We hope it is a useful tool for other...
