Tour: Art Deco on the Upper East Side

Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society. Reservations required. To register, call 212-935-3960 or register on-line.

The Upper East Side – Manhattan’s gold coast – maintains an aura of conservative respectability, and perhaps as a result never attracted as much Art Deco flash as its counterpart on the west side of Central Park. Nevertheless, tucked among the Beaux-Arts town houses and sedate neo-Georgian apartment buildings, the neighborhood has some remarkable examples by some of the city’s best architects of the period, including an apartment house by Raymond Hood (built for the owner of the Daily News); one of Manhattan’s very few Art Deco town houses, by Harry Allen Jacobs; the elegant Carlyle Hotel; and apartment houses by Sloan & Robertson (of the Chanin Building), Horace Ginsbern (of the Park Plaza and other West Bronx wonders), Henry S. Churchill, and George and Edward Blum – the latter being among the very first Art Deco apartment buildings anywhere in the city.