The Piccirilli Family: A Stone Carving Dynasty

The Piccirilli Family: A Stone Carving Dynasty

culptor and author John Belardo brings to LW! the fascinating story of “Piccirilli Brothers Sculptors,” a family of immigrants who gave their new country masterpieces to last a nation’s lifetime. Though their names are perhaps not familiar, we know them well through...
This is No Dream: Making Rosemary’s Baby

This is No Dream: Making Rosemary’s Baby

In August 1967, Mia Farrow, Roman Polanski and the cast and crew of the film Rosemary’s Baby arrived in New York City for two weeks of location shooting. The famed Dakota apartment building on the Upper West Side, where most of the story takes place, was the main...
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....