State of NY Wants to Remove Building Height Limits
UPDATE: As of June 15, 2018 Success! S. 6760 will not be acted on and the Assembly will not take up the issue! Many thanks to all who contacted their State Assembly Members and Senators to push back against efforts to remove the existing cap on height...
Passing of Lee Harris Pomeroy
On February 18th, architect and LW! friend Lee Harris Pomeroy passed away. His full obituary is available in the New York Times. For many years, Mr. Pomeroy was an Upper West Sider, and he did great things for our local landmarks. He left his mark...
Dan Wakin Captivates with Stories of Riverside Drive
A crowded house of Upper West Side enthusiasts soaked up the fascinating stories Dan Wakin brought to life last night–tales of industrialists, showgirls, and even hoodlums who inhabited Riverside Drive in the early 20th century. In conversation with Connie...
LWers @ The Chew
If you’re watching ABC’s “The Chew” today (1pm) you might catch sight of the LW crew in the studio audience! It was crazy fun to see how many people make a daily show happen-from the hosts to the prep cooks to the comedian who pumps up the...
Kalikow: Cat’s Out of the Bag!
Big things are happening in NYC–and they are not all good. LANDMARK WEST! has teamed with various community groups across the city to curb the creep of the supertalls into our residential districts. One of our partners is ERFA, the East River Fifties...
The IRT Electrical Substation No. 14: A Report from Daytonian in Manhattan
Today, as on every Tuesday, an exploration of a fascinating Upper West Side building was published by Tom Miller–LANDMARK WEST’s good friend who runs the blog “Daytonian in Manhattan”. This...
Victor’s Cafe, Penang, Cafe Tallulah, Oxbow Tavern…just keep the relief mural!
Wide eye’d pedestrians may have noticed earlier this week when signs went up on the glass of 240 Columbus Avenue at 71st Street announcing the closure of Cafe Tallulah, wanting to “thank all of our guests for five years of merriment, laughter,...
Author Seeks Photos of Former Eclair Bakery on W. 72nd
An author researching German-Jewish immigrants in New York from the 1930s to 1980s has reached out to LW! in hopes that our membership can help him with photos–inside or outside–of the Viennese inspired Eclair Bakery, an UWS icon at 141 W. 72nd Street...
