The New York City subway is big. It’s complex. Even for the strong of heart, mapping the system and making it understood can be a monstrous undertaking. Case in point: There are over 470 subway stations, with 25 separate lines. Some lines don’t operate all...
From the Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848 to the national ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, the women of New York played an important role in the long battle for women’s voting rights. But did you know that many significant figures in the Suffrage...
Join LW! for a new spin on “writer’s block”! Lucie Levine leads us on a (virtual) wander along the UWS streets where scores of writers have lived, worked or set literature, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Dorothy Parker, Nora Ephron...
On Zoom – FREE for LW! Members Built in 1895, the St. Andoche on West End Avenue is a little building with a big name. Its solid construction is thanks to the fortune that bankrolled it — one amassed by Maggie Mitchell, powerhouse of the American stage in the...
Don’t miss this special program by history fan favorite Tom Miller (aka the “Daytonian in Manhattan” blogger) for a time-bending online tour of West 72nd Street from Riverside Drive to Central Park. Historic photos and fascinating details of the past help us...
