Board of Standards and Appeals, Congregation Shearith Israel, Landmarks at Risk, Preservation Under Fire, Watch List
LANDMARK WEST! has filed an Article 78 to challenge the BSA approval of special permits allowing Congregation Shearith Israel to build a community house with a stack of luxury apartments atop–luxury apartments which break with contextual zoning and are much...
preservation, Upper West Side, UWS
Come rally Tuesday to fight the supertall skyscraper planned for 200 Amsterdam Avenue. At 668′, this would be the tallest building in Manhattan north of Midtown. 8:30am at 69th Street at Amsterdam. BRING A...
200 Amsterdam, Watch List
LW! has secured a $5,000 challenge grant to help bring community legal counsel on board to fight 200 Amsterdam, which (if built) would be the tallest tower in Manhattan north of 60th Street. Matching funds are needed by May 25! Please help!...
200 Amsterdam, CENTRAL dARK, Watch List
THE PROBLEM Towers soaring to 600 feet and more are creeping beyond Midtown Manhattan into residential neighborhoods like the Upper West Side, threatening the balance between preservation and development that makes communities like ours so beautiful,...
200 Amsterdam, Watch List
Hundreds of Upper West Siders flocked to a Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, May 3, to learn about plans to develop the tallest building in Manhattan north of 60th Street – right here on the Upper West Side – at 200 Amsterdam Avenue. Zoning...
architecture, Authors, Tours and Events
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Justin Davidson, an uber-fan of the UWS, (shown with Landmark West! President Kate Wood) drew scores of readers to Book Culture last night for another successful LW! authors night. The standing-room only crowd enjoyed Wood...
Landmarks at Risk, Preservation Under Fire
And although Central Park is a “big” 843 acres of a Scenic Landmark, there always seems to be new ways to fill it! Pre-dating the park was a reservoir which is being summoned from the ashes as justification for a wide path to the Belvedere Castle Folly....
Landmarks at Risk, Pay to Play
Quarter two revealed some of the highest prices on record for Manhattan condos and coops: $1,759 per SQUARE foot. Now, imagine for a moment how many more of those square feet would be available if a developer could scale up multiple extra stories laden...
