Tour: Art Deco in Washington Heights
2025-11-02 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society. Reservations required. Reservations required; click here for information and registration. ($35, $25 for MAS members).
High up on a hill, its streets lined with modest but attractive six-story Art Deco apartment hoses, Washington Heights has more in common with West Bronx neighborhoods just across the Harlem River than with the rest of Manhattan. Many of the same architects who worked on the Grand Concourse also designed apartment buildings on or near Fort Washington Avenue – we will see work by Horace Ginsbern, Jacob Felson, Israel Crausman, Miller and Goldhammer, Charles Kreymborg, and H. Herbert Lillien. Two taller apartment buildings, by Boak and Paris, offer a more idiosyncratic take on the modernism of the 1930s. This walk with Anthony W. Robins will also include a one-story taxpayer, and one of the city’s few frankly Deco subway entrances. But the star attraction is the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist (now the Hebrew Tabernacle of Washington Heights), one of perhaps a dozen or so Art Deco houses of worship anywhere in the city.

Tour: Art Deco East 42nd Street
2025-11-30 11:00 - 13:00
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.

Tour: Rockefeller Center
2025-12-25 10:00 - 12:00
Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society. Reservations required; click here for information and registration. ($35, $25 for MAS members).
Annual Christmas morning tour of Rockefeller Center, the private real-estate venture that has evolved into the public square of midtown Manhattan, and an urban wonderland during the holiday season. Discover the surprising history, remarkable art and stunning architecture of the development conceived as a new home for the Metropolitan Opera, but built instead as Radio City.
