EVENT: Unprotected Landmarks of the Upper West Side, a walking tour with Andrew Dolkart, May 31, 2006
Wednesday, May 31, 20066:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
$15.00 per person in advance, $20 on the day of the tour
**Please meet at 6 p.m. at Straus Park, at the intersection of 106th Streetand Broadway.**
Landmark West! invites you to join us for a walking tour with architectural historian and author Andrew Scott Dolkart. LW’s “wish list” of buildings deserving landmark review will guide us as we take a trip back to pre-WWII New York, starting with the elegant townhouse blocks north of Straus Park, between Broadway and Riverside Drive, which the Landmarks Preservation Commission has considered but never officially designated. We will cross Broadway to look at P.S. 165, designed by master school architect C.B.J. Snyder and built in 1904, as well as the former Horn & Hardart automat, designed by F.P. Platt & Brother and built in 1930 (recently calendared for a public landmarks hearing). Our tour will take us down West End Avenue, which boasts one of New York’s most coherent, harmonious streetscapes of grand apartment houses by some of our city’s most prolific architects. Ansche Chesed Synagogue and side streets full of unspoiled brownstones round out the story of the upper Upper West Side.
Come learn more about your neighborhood and landmarks preservation! While the Upper West Side between 59th and 96th Street has more than 2,500 officially protected landmarks, the blocks above 96th Street have only a handful.* This tour is part of an effort to build public awareness of the special character of this neighborhood and the vital need to preserve it.
Space is limited. Advanced registration required.
Call Landmark West! at 212-496-8110 or email [email protected]
to reserve your place today!
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Andrew Scott Dolkart is an architectural historian, writer, the James Marston Fitch Associate Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University and a founding Board member of LW!. His book, Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development, won the American Association of Publishers Scholarly Book Award for best book in Architecture and Urban Design in 1998.
*LW! is a non-profit award-winning community group working since 1985 to preserve the best of the Upper West Side’s architectural heritage from 59th to 110th Street between Central Park West and Riverside Drive. Owing in large part to our advocacy, there are a total of 2,606 designated landmarks in this area (up from only 337 in 1985).