Columbus Avenue, Landmark West, Landmarks Preservation Commission, legalization, LPC, McKim Mead and White, preservation, Upper West Side, West 72nd Street, When the Process Works
At yesterday’s Landmarks Preservation Commission meeting, the vigilance of LANDMARK WEST! and our fellow preservation advocates paid off! An applicant was seeking a Certificate of Appropriateness for 100 West 72nd Street, a McKim, Mead and White beauty on the corner...
Individual Landmark, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission, McKim Mead and White, When the Process Works
Sometimes the beauty (and the ingenuity!) is not always visible on the surface! One of the great things about the Former New York Life Insurance building at 346 Broadway is its clocktower, part of a landmark designated by the LPC in 1987. Attributed to McKim Mead and...
Backlog 95, Individual Landmark, IRT Powerhouse, Landmarks Preservation Commission, McKim Mead and White, When the Process Works
(revised) It is with great excitement that LANDMARK WEST! can report that the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to designate the IRT Powerhouse, McKim Mead and White’s 1904 city-beautiful Beaux-Arts style edifice on Eleventh Avenue...
IRT Powerhouse, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LPC, McKim Mead and White, Powerhouse, Save the Powerhouse, Wish List
IRT Powerhouse: At Long Last There have been various reports circulating about completion of the Backlog 95, a Landmarks Preservation Commission initiative to settle landmarking decisions for 95 sites across the five boroughs. Those proclamations come...
#votersagainstsupertalls, Upper East Side, urban planning, When the Process Works, Zoning
The East River Fifties Alliance (ERFA) has the extraordinary news that the City Planning Commission has adopted their rezoning efforts. The East River Fifties is the area from East 52nd Street through East 59th Street, east of First Avenue. Their goal was to update...
#votersagainstsupertalls, CENTRAL dARK, shadows, skyline, Upper West Side, Zoning
Snohetta’s intention for the revamped CPW skyline viewed from south east. Image from Snohetta website. Design Intent for 50 West 66th Street Revealed UPDATE: Read further coverage in WEST SIDE RAG, ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER, DEZEEN ...
Anthony Robins, Architectural History Spotlight
Guest post by Anthony W. Robins — 50 W. 67th Street, the “Musicians’ Building”, celebrated its 100th anniversary this year, and in honor of the occasion I took the opportunity to put together a history of the building, including its many...
Congregation Shearith Israel, First Church of Christ Scientist, Landmarks at Risk, Pay to Play, Preservation Under Fire, Watch List
FIND MOST RECENT UPDATES HERE The past few months have brought wave after wave of news about real estate deals involving developers, their lobbyists, political contributions, and the de Blasio administration. Sometimes, the little guy wins, but too...
200 Amsterdam, Watch List
200 Amsterdam Avenue: GOOD NEWS! WE DO NOT GET ENOUGH GOOD NEWS THESE DAYS BUT HERE IS SOME. DAVID ROSENBERG, LW!’s crusading lawyer has filed the LW! Challenge to the Department of Buildings (DOB)’s shameful and wrongful approval of the seriously flawed...
