Tour: Art Deco 42nd Street (Itinerary No. 5)
Tour: Art Deco 42nd Street (Itinerary No. 5)
A walk along midtown Manhattan’s major boulevard of Art Deco skyscrapers. Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society – reservations required.
A walk along midtown Manhattan’s major boulevard of Art Deco skyscrapers. Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society – reservations required.
Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.
Bus tour of Art Deco in the Bronx, sponsored by the Art Deco Society of New York.
This walk begins with a cluster of modernistic residences ranging from River House to Southgate apartments to the former Panhellenic Tower. It then pushes westward into the commercial heart of Midtown, ending at Rockefeller Center.