LW Public Program, McKim Mead and White
Everyone starts somewhere-even lauded Starchitects McKim, Mead & White. Individually, they were rather undistinguished as young men. How did they become the gold standard of American architecture of their era? Architectural historian Prof. Mosette Broderick takes...
C of A, Individual Landmark, IRT Powerhouse, Landmark West, McKim Mead and White, New York City, Powerhouse, preservation, Save the Powerhouse, Upper West Side, UWS, When the Process Works, Wish List
Full Steam Ahead! Undoubtedly, 2017 has been a year of change, both for the nation and the Upper West Side. Despite strong undercurrents, LANDMARK WEST! is focused on the positive. After a decades-long battle, hundreds of letters and mailed post cards, and four...
IRT Powerhouse, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Wish List
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. ~ Virginia O’Hanlon (age 8), September 21, 1897 Virginia, sometimes we’re not so sure either. But New Yorkers could use some good news, so here goes… Dear Santa: It’s a tough...
Advocacy, Backlog 95, Beaux Arts, IRT Powerhouse, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LPC, McKim Mead and White, NY Times, Powerhouse, Robert W. Gibson, Save the Powerhouse, St. Michael's Episcopal Church
New York Times Architecture Critic Michael Kimmelman makes a timely case for NEXT TUESDAY’S BACKLOG HEARING at the LPC (1 Centre Street, 9th FL, N). In today’s column, linked HERE, Kimmelman notes the pressures which pushed the backlog into effect in...