Oct 23, 2020 | West 72nd Street
Cultural Immigrant Initiative of Landmark West This Exhibit is made possible with generous support from the Cultural Immigrant Initiative. LANDMARK WEST! especially thanks New York City Council Member Ben Kallos and Council Member Helen Rosenthal for their generous...
Oct 23, 2020 | West 72nd Street
100 West 72nd Street View of 100 West 72nd Street and Columbus Avenue taken from west along Columbus Avenue; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive A Grocery or a Work of Art? by Tom Miller, for They Were Here, Landmark West’s Cultural Immigrant Initiative In 1840...
Mar 27, 2020 | Architectural History Spotlight, Central Park West, Landmark West, West 72nd Street
In these days of staying in and laying low, we are all grateful to have a space somewhere to hunker down. A room of one’s own. Or, in the case of a very few, a tower. Central Park West is known world-wide for its iconic twin-towered Emery Roth buildings of the...
Apr 13, 2018 | McKim Mead and White, Stanford White, Tom Miller, UWS, West 72nd Street
A recent blog post by the Daytonian in Manhattan, reveals that a prominent “alienist” -an early criminal psychologist -practiced out of 143 West 72nd Street. After playboy millionaire Harry K. Thaw murdered starchitect Stanford White (Come learn more at...
Dec 13, 2017 | Columbus Avenue, Landmark West, Landmarks Preservation Commission, legalization, LPC, McKim Mead and White, preservation, Upper West Side, West 72nd Street, When the Process Works
At yesterday’s Landmarks Preservation Commission meeting, the vigilance of LANDMARK WEST! and our fellow preservation advocates paid off! An applicant was seeking a Certificate of Appropriateness for 100 West 72nd Street, a McKim, Mead and White beauty on the corner...
Nov 10, 2016 | Columbus Avenue, West 72nd Street
On November 15th, 72nd Street will come alive for the holidays when the switch is flipped on several eight-foot shimmering snowflakes floating above 72nd Street. LANDMARK WEST! is proud to continue the tradition started over 15 years ago to celebrate the completion of...
