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Course (Columbia U.): Architecture and Development of New York City

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. An on-the-ground introduction to the great American metropolis – the physical city – as it has evolved over the past three centuries. Libraries are overflowing with accounts of New […]

Tour: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby

Woolworth Building 233 Broadway, New York

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.

$45

Tour: Art Deco on the Upper East Side

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.

$20 – $30

Tour: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby

Woolworth Building 233 Broadway, New York

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.

$45

SOLD OUT Tour: Central Park as a Work of Art

Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society. Reservations required ($20; $15 MAS members). To register, call 212-935-3960, or click here to register on-line. Perhaps best-known of New York’s official “Scenic Landmarks,” Central Park offers New Yorkers refuge, recreation and rejuvenation; a temporary haven from a city of brick and steel, concrete and glass. And yet this park which […]

$20 – $30

Tour: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby

Woolworth Building 233 Broadway, New York

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.

$45

Tour: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby

Woolworth Building 233 Broadway, New York

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.

$45

Tour: Art Deco Long Island

Reservations required – click here for information and registration. Just a few seats left for Sunday’s all-day bus tour of Art Deco Long Island, sponsored by the Art Deco Society of New York. We’ve found some amazing things: See a Ralph Walker telephone mini-skyscraper, rarely seen WPA murals in a volunteer fire house, a fabulous […]

$90 – $115

Tour: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby

Woolworth Building 233 Broadway, New York

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.

$45

Tour: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby

Woolworth Building 233 Broadway, New York

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.

$45

Tour: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby

Woolworth Building 233 Broadway, New York

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.

$45

Tour: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby

Woolworth Building 233 Broadway, New York

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.

$45

Tour: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby

Woolworth Building 233 Broadway, New York

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.

$45

Tour: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby

Woolworth Building 233 Broadway, New York

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.

$45