LW! e-Newsletter
April 24, 2013

 

The New York City Ballet opens at Lincoln Center on Tuesday April 29 for the 2013 spring season. The first performance of the West Side Story Suite is on Thursday, May 16. LANDMARK WEST! has a West Side [Preservation] Story of our own, illustrated by Jules Feiffer (see above). Feiffer is a West-Sider and internationally acclaimed cartoonist, playwright, author and his Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoon strip ran for forty years in the Village Voice. There is less than a week left to bid on a signed and numbered original drawing, featuring Feiffer's iconic ballerina.

 

The good news is that in 1979, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) designated the interior of the Beacon Theatre (2124 Broadway) as an Interior Landmark. The bad news is that in 1986, the LPC approved a plan from a developer to convert the interior into a discotheque, which would have destroyed this opulent Landmarked space. Jules Feiffer donated these drawings for a fundraiser hosted by Save the Beacon Theatre Committee the same year. These prints capture a moment in time when once again the feisty spirit of Upper West Siders proved a formidable force! The Beacon was not saved by chance but by years of grassroots advocacy and legal action which kept destruction at bay. Today, the Beacon remains one of the most vibrant theaters in New York City.

 

 The monies raised will fuel LANDMARK WEST's continuing advocacy efforts

as we work to preserve and protect the Upper West Side's architectural
resources and utterly unique sense of place. For more on Feiffer,
visit the Jean Albano Gallery here

Bid on a signed and numbered original drawing by Jules Feiffer!