LW! e-newsletter
| June 17, 2010
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Raise Funds (and a dessert spoon)
for West-Park Presbyterian Church
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Please join your neighbors for a dessert party celebrating the recent landmark designation of West-Park Presbyterian Church. This event, organized by Council Member Gale Brewer, kicks off community-based efforts to raise funds for bricks-and-mortar work on the landmark building.
Read on for Council Member Brewer's invitation!
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6.17.2010
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2010 from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm: FUNDRAISER FOR THE RENOVATION OF WEST PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Desserts provided.
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Location: The Community Room of the Belnord, enter at 225 West 86 Street, Manhattan, and you will be directed across the courtyard past the fountain to the entrance on Hall 5 where the Community Room is located on the ground floor on the west corridor. No steps; all accessible.
Checks: Make checks out to the New York Landmarks Conservancy att: WPPC (West Park Presbyterian Church). If you cannot attend the fundraiser and want to donate, send a check to the New York Landmarks Conservancy, One Whitehall Street, New York, NY 10004 att: WPPC. All donations are tax deductible, and the Landmarks Conservancy has kindly created an account just for the WPPC. All monies raised go directly to the repair of the church; they are for external work only. The staff of the Landmarks Conservancy will manage the repairs. Under their Sacred Sites program, staff at Landmarks Conservancy has great expertise in this kind of restoration. www.nylandmarks.org. Contribute as much as you are able to. I have already donated $1000.00. The account is open!
Update: The West Park Presbyterian Church will remain as a church. The congregation may decide to find a non-profit partner to work with inside the building but we in the community are working to fund the repairs to this now-landmarked building. Rev. Robert Brashear will join us at the event and share his willingness to work with the community. Landmark West!, Friends of West-Park and other groups are also participating in this event. RSVP: gab@pipeline.com if you wish.
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PHOTO: West-Park Presbyterian Church's original chapel was designed by Leopold Eidlitz
and built in 1884. In 1890, a church addition was designed and built by Henry
F. Kilburn. West-Park is located at 165 West 86th Street (at Amsterdam
Avenue). For more historical background on the West Side's latest Individual
Landmark, click here to read the Landmarks Preservation Commission Designation Report.
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Central Park Walking Tour with Andrew S. Dolkart
Wednesday, July 7th at 6:00PM
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Join LW! for a walking tour of the People's Park with Professor Andrew S. Dolkart, Director of the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia University's School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 at 6:00PM
Meeting Location: TBA
**SPACE IS LIMITED**
Tickets are $25 and must be purchased in advance.
Call 212-496-8110 or email landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org
*As quoted in Central Park's Scenic Landmark Designation Report
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105th Season of Free Classical Music in Central Park's NAUMBURG BANDSHELL
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All concerts given at 7:30PM at the Naumburg Bandshell, Concert Ground, Central Park, south of the 72nd Street cross-drive. No rain dates. 212-501-7809. Admission is Free. Programs subject to change. For full details on music please consult WWW.NAUMBURGCONCERTS.ORG
Tuesday June 22, 7:30PM The Knights
Eric Jacobsen, Conductor; Jan Vogler, Cello. Playing music by Felix Mendelssohn, Antonin Dvorak, Franz Schubert, and Morton Feldman.
Tuesday, July 6, 7:30PM Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players
Stefan Milenkovich, Violin/Leader, performing in all pieces; Stephen Beus, Piano. Playing music by Friedrich Dotzauer, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Felix Mendelssohn.
Tuesday, July 20, 7:30PM Time for Three
The program shall be announced from the stage. The repertoire ranges from Bach to the Beatles to Amazing Grace and original compositions. Time for Three's program has something for everyone.
Tuesday, August 3, 7:30PM The Knights
Eric Jacobsen, Conductor; Vera Beths, Violin. Playing music by Giochino Rossini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Dmitri Shostakovich, Claude Debussy, and Joseph Haydn.
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