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TOUR: Art Deco in Washington Heights (Itinerary No. 11)

Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society. Reservations required. High up on a hill, its streets lined with modest but attractive six-story Art Deco apartment houses, 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.

TOUR: Wall Street Canyons, Walking the Byways of the First New York

Reservations required – sponsored by the Scarsdale Adult School. Tour covers colonial-era relics and narrow Dutch streets, private banks and public squares, nineteenth-century church steeples, and twentieth-century skyscraper towers.

$55

TOUR: Art Deco tour – TriBeCa and Civic Center (Itinerary No. 2)

Reservations required. This tour begins at the edge of the financial district and continues into the Civic Center with the Federal Post Office, a WPA product of the Modern Classic, and three remarkable municipal buildings at the northern tip of the Foley Square courts district, plus three three communications-related behemoths designed by Ralph Walker.

Tour: Manhattan’s Art Deco Interiors

Visit the publicly accessible interiors of major Art Deco marvels: the Daily News Building, the Chrysler Building, and the International Building and RCA (now Comcast) tower at Rockefeller Center.

Tour: Manhattan’s Art Deco Interiors

Visit the publicly accessible interiors of half a dozen Art Deco marvels: the Daily News Building, the Chrysler Building, and the International Building and RCA (now Comcast) tower at Rockefeller Center.