Apr 16, 2020 | #votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, ABC Watch, West End Avenue, Zoning
There is plenty to worry about these days, and we are all being bombarded with news and updates. It’s not always easy to decipher fact from speculation and definitely necessary to consider the source. We provide this message in response to the many...
Sep 6, 2018 | Advocacy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, MIH-Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, West End Avenue, ZQA-Zoning for Quality and Affordability
In 2015, LW! pressed the Landmarks Preservation Commission to maintain the original boundaries of the Riverside-West End Historic District Extension II. Unfortunately, after a vote, they did not, hence the “de Blasio Diet” where every building...
Sep 16, 2016 | brownstone, house tour, Lamb and Rich, Open House, row houses, tours, Tours and Events, Upper West Side, UWS, West End Avenue
The owners of 351 West End Avenue have spent the better part of 20 years undoing decades of damage to restore it to an elegant single-family home. Now on the market, LW! teamed with their broker, Corcoran’s Deanna Kory, for one of a new series of open...
Jul 18, 2016 | Andrew S. Dolkart, architect, architectural, architecture, brownstone, Lamb and Rich, Neo Renaissance, New York, New York City, Tours and Events, West End Avenue
On Tuesday, July 12, about 45 friends joined LANDMARK WEST! for a tour of 351 West End Avenue, a beautifully-preserved Lamb and Rich row house dating to the early 1890’s. Andrew Dolkart, professor of historic preservation at Columbia University, led an...
Jun 30, 2015 | Historic District, Straus Park, Tours and Events, Upper West Side, walking tour, West End Avenue
Straus Park, a memorial to Isidor and Ida Straus who died on the Titanic. Unfortunately this park was carved out of the new historic district extension.After being rained out last week, we had our walking tour yesterday and we couldn’t have asked for a more...
Mar 12, 2013 | architecture, Historic District, Landmarks, Landmarks Law, Landmarks Preservation Commission, New York City, Riverside Drive, Riverside Park, Upper West Side, West End Avenue
A picture is worth a thousand words. Question: How could this out-of-context building get built? Answer: These 4 rowhouses were not designated NYC Landmarks when the then-owner of 2 Riverside Drive built on this site. The moral of the story?...
