53 West 72nd Street, The Janet View to the Northeast corner of Columbus Avenue and West 72nd Street; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive Singers and Sinners by Tom Miller Leopold Friedman was a partner in the real estate firm Lespinasse & Friedman, perhaps best known for erecting the massive Navarro Apartments on Seventh Avenue between 58th and...
106-112 West 72nd Street View of 106-112 West 72nd Street taken from north along West 72nd Street; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive New York’s Most Accessible Hotel by Tom Miller On January 6, 1903 Walter Stabler delivered an address to the Real Estate Class of the Y.M.C.A. on “The Development of the West Side.” In it, he outlined...
KPF@HOME Local History Detectives Over the past 200 years, the Upper West Side has changed so much. In the past, it looked very different to your neighborhood today. Can you imagine what it must have been like before there were trains, cars, sidewalks, and apartment buildings? Look at the pictures below of your streets in the past, then move the...
Keeping the Past for the Future Teacher's KPF Portal Take me to the Programs! Keeping the Past for the Future KPF offers nine diverse programs for your classrooms, each offering a different learning experience through design, architecture and history in New York City. Our partner schools use our programs for both enrichment and curriculum...
KPF@HOME Building Detectives Our Building Detectives program helps you learn about and explore a special type of building found in New York City – the brownstone. What do you already know about brownstones? Make a quick list of things you already know. To help, check out these pictures of brownstones we find on the Upper West Side....
