The Paterno Family: Chronicling an Architectural Legacy

The Paterno Family: Chronicling an Architectural Legacy

One of Manhattan’s—and the Upper West Side’s– most successful real estate family dynasties of the 1900s was the mighty Paterno clan. Incredibly, nearly all of their buildings still stand generations later. Carla Golden, great-granddaughter of Dr. Charles V....
The Opulent Apartment Houses of The Boulevard

The Opulent Apartment Houses of The Boulevard

The Ansonia, the Belleclaire, the Dorilton, the Belnord, the Apthorp: five of the finest apartment hotels of “The Boulevard” on the Upper West Side. It was the turn of a new century and people like William Waldorf Astor and William Earl Dodge Stokes had a vision for a...
Only Murders In The Building: Staging The Scene Of The Crime

Only Murders In The Building: Staging The Scene Of The Crime

A Werk Wmarkest murder. A trio of neighbors-turned-crime investigators-turned-podcasters. A landmarked building. A perfect evening! If you’ve been pulled into the whodunnit world inside the luxe Arconia building (aka the Belnord on the UWS), you can’t miss this...

Mr. Green and the Making of Central Park

Incredibly, much of what we all think of as quintessential New York City–Central Park, the NY Public Library, the Zoo, the American Museum of Natural History–is due to the Herculean efforts of one practically unknown man: Andrew Haswell Green. A. H. Green is best...