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Walking Tour: Upper West Side Pride
Wednesday, June 25, 6-7:30 pm POSTPONED DUE TO EXCESSIVE HEAT
FRIDAY, June 27, 6-7:30 pm
Celebrate Pride Month with the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project and Landmark West! on a stroll of the iconic Central Park West, from Columbus Circle to the American Museum of Natural History. We’ll uncover the LGBTQ history of The Dakota dating back to its construction in the 1880s, and highlight artists — from James Dean to Leonard Bernstein — who have called the Upper West Side home. The tour will include sites of post-Stonewall protest connected to Lesbian Feminist Liberation and the Gay Activists Alliance, two leading activist groups of the 1970s. We’ll also look at important spaces of community, including the site of a Gay Be-In in Central Park, where thousands of LGBTQ people marked the end of NYC’s very first Pride March, held in 1970.
Tour will be led by NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project Project Manager Amanda Davis with LW! staff Megan Fitzpatrick and Sean Khorsandi.
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This is a 50/50 tour. Proceeds of the tour support the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project — Celebrating 10 Years! and LANDMARK WEST — Celebrating 40 Years!
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Tapping Into the Heart and Soul of Historic West End Avenue
Tuesday, July 8th, 6-7:30 pm
Join architectural historian, Gregory Dietrich, as he leads a tour of the West End Avenue-Collegiate District, New York City’s first historic district, recognizing Manhattan’s historic West End. This tour will explore a mix of historic residences and institutions that form the heart and soul of the avenue from its early days, later evolving into one of the most popular neighborhoods for middle-class New Yorkers.
The tour will be led by Gregory Dietrich, director of Gregory Dietrich Preservation. Dietrich has over 25 years of experience in the historic preservation field, providing research and documentation, preservation planning, and Cultural Resource Management to a myriad of clients.
Select Past Events:
2025 Mayoral Candidates Forum with Preservation Organizations
When: [PAST] Monday, March 24, via Zoom
WATCH RECORDING
Landmark West! and fellow preservation organizations from across NYC are hosting a forum via Zoom with Mayoral candidates on Monday, March 24 at 6 pm. This is the ONLY Mayoral candidate forum focused on preservation and development issues, and we strongly urge you to attend — to learn more about the candidates, and to let them know that New Yorkers care about preserving our city and our neighborhoods.
This is one of the most important Mayoral elections in memory. Our city is at a turning point, and powerful forces are pushing unprecedented measures to deregulate development in our city and roll back longstanding landmark and zoning protections. The next occupant of City Hall will shape our city and our neighborhoods for generations.
Holding the Safety Net in San Juan Hill VIDEO
Wednesday, January 25th 6-7pm via Zoom
Please join Landmark West! and architectural historian Jessica Larson in this exploration of the ways in which Black charity and reform initiatives shaped the landscape of San Juan Hill, the community Robert Moses demolished to make way for the Lincoln Center for the Perforning Arts complex, in the early decades of the 20th century. Larson will focus in on the architecture of the buildings constructed to facilitate this social work, and together we will look at how the built environment of San Juan Hill was shaped by community-driven efforts to address poverty and improve the quality of life for the residents. Because charity work was deeply gendered, Larson will emphasize the significance of women to the spatial and welfare programs of the neighborhood.
Speaker Jessica Larson is a Ph.D. candidate in Art and Architectural History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation examines the architecture of charitable and reform institutions built in Manhattan for Black aid recipients between the Civil War and World War I, with a focus on how women reformers directed to these designs. She has held fellowships with the American Council of Learned Societies, the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Library of Congress. She has also worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, and the Bruce Museum. Jessica is currently a Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Museum of American History.
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