Tour: Art Deco East 42nd Street

Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society. Reservations required; click here for information and registration. ($35, $25 for MAS members).

This tour focuses on three of the finest Deco monuments in Midtown: the Daily News Building by Raymond Hood (1929), the Chanin Building by Sloane & Robertson (1927), and the Chrysler Building by William Van Alen (1930). Also included: the former American Radiator Building (Hood’s first in New York), the artsy East 44th Street cluster of the Beaux-Arts Institute and Beaux-Arts Apartments (Art Deco in style despite the names), and a look at nearby Tudor City, a classic example of what the city was building just before Art Deco hit town.