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...
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 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...
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...
It was good to be a prosperous New Yorker in the late 19th century: beautiful clothing, expensive furnishings, well-kept parlors, and endless entertaining. But someone had to do the hard work of actually cooking and cleaning, and it certainly wasn’t the prosperous New...
