A walk along Midtown Manhattan’s major boulevard of Art Deco skyscrapers. Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society – reservations required.

A pleasant stroll along Central Park West for a closer look at the buildings that form Manhattan’s major residential skyline. Sponsored by the Art Deco Society of New York – reservations required.

A walk in the East 50s, from posh apartments to major skyscrapers. Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society – reservations required.

Art Deco 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. Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society – reservations required.

A walk along Midtown Manhattan’s major boulevard of Art Deco skyscrapers. Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society – reservations required.

The annual Municipal Art Society Christmas morning tour of Rockefeller Center, New York’s urbane urban wonderland. Reservations required.

A walking tour looking at some of the earliest cast-iron buildings in New York City. Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society – reservations required.

This course traces the brash new style of Art Deco, which transformed New York into a modern metropolis. Follow the style’s impact with two lectures (including audio clips from interviews the author held with three architects active during the 1930s) and walks through three Manhattan neighborhoods.

This course traces the brash new style of Art Deco, which transformed New York into a modern metropolis. Follow the style’s impact with two lectures (including audio clips from interviews the author held with three architects active during the 1930s) and walks through three Manhattan neighborhoods.

Washington Heights has more in common with West Bronx neighborhoods just across the Harlem River than with the rest of Manhattan. We will see work by Horace Ginsbern, Jacob Felson, Israel Crausman, Miller and Goldhammer, Charles Kreymborg, H. Herbert Lillien and Boak and Paris.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.

This course traces the brash new style of Art Deco, which transformed New York into a modern metropolis. Follow the style’s impact with two lectures (including audio clips from interviews the author held with three architects active during the 1930s) and walks through three Manhattan neighborhoods.

This course traces the brash new style of Art Deco, which transformed New York into a modern metropolis. Follow the style’s impact with two lectures (including audio clips from interviews the author held with three architects active during the 1930s) and walks through three Manhattan neighborhoods.

This course traces the brash new style of Art Deco, which transformed New York into a modern metropolis. Follow the style’s impact with two lectures (including audio clips from interviews the author held with three architects active during the 1930s) and walks through three Manhattan neighborhoods.