UWS Photo Of The Day: Columbus Circle & TWC From Overhead + 66 Other Great NYC Aerial Photos

Interesting perspective (photo taken from a helicopter) of Columbus Circle and the Time Warner Center that you don’t get to see every day (credit: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg).
This is just one picture in a massive 67-photo gallery of fantastic aerial photography shots of various NYC landmarks (from the Denver Post of all places) — definitely worth clicking [...]

Love Your Landmarks Gets Some UWS Love in 2011

From February 1st on, Landmark West! is inviting anyone with a digital camera to join them in identifying favorite Upper West Side landmarks.  The “Love Your Landmarks” project doesn’t necessarily restrict you to landmarked buildings… “Landmark” can mean different things to different people.  It could might mean the Pioneer Supermarket (above right), an Upper West [...]

Dilapidated Hudson River Pier Removed

The Hudson River pier at 64th Street which spent years slowly falling apart into the water was removed last weekend, according to City Room.  Pier D, a twisted mass of iron that served as a loading and unloading site for New York Central Railroad boxcars from barges moving down the Hudson River, was originally built [...]

Tonight: Caroling and Cookies

Get in the Christmas spirit tonight and join others at the First Church of Christ, Scientist (Central Park West at 68th) for caroling and cookies.  The 8th Annual “Singing on the Steps” features a lively celebration of Christmas carols while seeing for yourself First Church’s spectacular restoration (First Church was the recipient of Landmark West!’s [...]

Upper West Side Walking Tour App Now Available

Now we can explore our neighborhood in a way that hasn’t been possible before… a new app that offers a self-guided walking tour of the Upper West Side is now available through iTunes.  The tour, created by a neighborhood resident, begins at 72nd and Riverside to get to know the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument and ends [...]